The fate of Prometheus’ first xenomorph was too gruesome for the movie

The Xenomorph is the iconic monster of the Alien Franchise, but chronologically speaking, it is not the first, like Prometheus Introduced a creature incredibly reminiscent of the classic Xenomorph before promptly forgetting about it. But Prometheus In fact, quietly explained what happened to his ‘first xenomorph’, known as the Deacon.

The Deacon, also known as a ‘proto-xenomorph’, made his debut in the 2012 film, PrometheusAnd its origin is more than a little complicated. When the Prometheus lands on LV-223 (in search of the Engineers), the crew discovers an ancient temple filled with canisters of a mysterious black goo. Prometheus‘Black Goo is a mutagen designed to wipe out life on a planetary scale while simultaneously planting the seeds for new life to form – and the psychopathic synthetic, David, quickly makes evil plans for it.

David uses the Black Goo to mutate one of the Prometheus crew members, Holloway, who then passes the mutagen to his wife, Elizabeth Shaw. The result is that Shaw is pregnant with a squid-like alien that she has to surgically remove. Then, it quickly grows to the size of an entire medical bay. At the end of the movie, this grotesque creature infects an engineer (as if it were a facehugger) to send Dean bursting out of his chest just like a xenomorph would. But it was never to be seen again. At least, not until the comic book sequel.

Prometheus’ forgotten sequel reveals the deacon became a mountain

The black goo mutagen went haywire in Deacon’s body

in Prometheus: Fire and Stone – Plot By Kelly Sue DeConnick and Agustin Alessio, a team of space explorers are trapped on the moon LV-223 after their mission to find out what happened to the missing crew of the Prometheus went horribly wrong. After a shocking run-in with a horde of xenomorphs and a clan of predators (not to mention a lone engineer killing life forms on-sight), half of the crew left the second they had the chance, leaving the other members to Die on LV-223. However, the remaining survivors had one glimmer of hope: the Prometheus.

The ship itself was still on the moon, and the investigators soon learned that it was in a mountain. Although on some minor excavation, the humans (plus one Predator and one Black Gu-mutated synthetic named Elden) realized that this mountain was not a mountain at all… it was alive.

After Deacon was born, it began to grow exponentially, as the Black Go Mutagon in his system mutated, and just kept creating and mutating masses upon itself. PrometheusThe first ‘xenomorph’ essentially became a motionless mountain. All this happened around the Prometheus ship (since the Deacon was born inside it), which is why the human survivors believed the ship to be buried inside the ‘Mountain’ when in fact it was just consumed by the formless mass that became of the Dean.

This fate for the first chronological ‘xenomorph’ in the Alien Universe is equal parts horribly tragic and vastly underwhelming. when Prometheus Ending with a shot of the newborn Deacon screaming, it seemingly left an open-ended cliffhanger for the creature’s eventual return. Perhaps as the first of a new type of xenomorph species with a fresh design and different characteristics. Instead, it just quietly grew into a mountain, undoubtedly confused and scared—if it was even capable of those emotions in the first place—and will probably never be explored again.

Prometheus secretly created the biggest xenomorph of all time

Alien’s ‘biggest xenomorph’ is also least deadly

While turning the Deacon into a mountain greatly squandered his potential, the franchise accomplished one thing by doing so: Alien created its greatest ‘xenomorph’ of all time. The franchise is rooted in cosmic horror, and a staple in the cosmic horror subgenre (that Alien does not really touch) is the idea of ​​impossibly massive beasts. Almost every angle of Lovecraftian horror backs up that assertion, with the main standouts being the likes of Cthulhu and Azathoth, just to name a few. now, Alien Has his own incomprehensible giant alien creature with the Dean.

Unfortunately, the Dean also became the least deadly ‘xenomorph’ in the entire franchise. Of course, if someone finds themselves in the ‘Deacon Mountain’, they can be trapped in its fleshy caverns and eventually die. But, at the same time, all someone has to do is not approach the mountain. Not only that, but it’s trapped on the relatively dead moon of LV-223, meaning it’s more than likely not going to get any more visitors anytime soon, making the threat of the ‘Deacon Mountain’ almost nil.

For something to be truly terrifying in a cosmic sense, it not only has to be absolutely gigantic, but also terrifyingly deadly. In the Deacon’s case, it’s just a mountain, which makes it almost comically non-threatening – especially in contrast to its terrifying potential, as teased at the end of Prometheus. Of course, the nature of the Black Gu is still very much a mystery Alien Canon, and the only thing about it that fans know for sure is that it can not only mutate life, but self-sufficiently make it – and this is an exciting prospect.

Alien has the opportunity to create new species of xenomorph life from the Dean

The deacon can continue to mutate, giving life to all-new horrors in the Alien Universe

The ‘Deacon Mountain’ itself is basically a non-threat in these Alien universe, which essentially makes it nothing more than wasted potential. However, this does not have to be the case. The only reason Deacon is a mountain is that the Black Goo would not stop mutating the creature, adding layer upon layer of lifeless tumors to the top of Deacon until it became the size of a mountain. Who’s to say the Black Goo will ever stop? And who says that those ‘tumors’ will remain permanent?

Alien had the opportunity to turn the deacon into a supermassive ‘queen xenomorph’, as it is possible that the mountain could create new life forms of its own. Alien Fans have seen the Black Goo infect entire moons to create life from Earth (as in Alien: CovenantAnd even in that Fire and stone story), so it stands to reason that a mountain of black goo-infected alien flesh could produce life of its own—perhaps the most terrifying Alien Fans have ever seen.

If the ‘Deacon Mountain’ could create terrifying xenomorph-like creatures (which is well within the realm of possibility for the Black Gu), then it would become the most terrifying entity in Alien Myth. A pulsating mass of mountain-sized flesh births cosmic horrors beyond compare, as if a living portal to hell itself, is a thing of nightmares, and would be an epic way to use the deacon in the franchise’s future. But now, Prometheus‘ Deacon is literally just a mountain, and while a little underwhelming, it’s still an incredibly cruel fate for AlienIt’s first Xenomorph‘.