The fate of the first xenomorph Prometheus was too terrible for film

Xenomorph iconic monster Stranger franchise, but chronologically it was not the first, since Prometheus introduced a creature incredibly reminiscent of the classic Xenomorph before quickly forgetting about it. But Prometheus actually quietly explained what happened to his “first xenomorph”, commonly known as Deacon.

Deacon, also known as the “Proto-Xenomorph”, made his debut in the 2012 film. Prometheusand its origins are more than complicated. When the Prometheus lands on LV-223 (in search of the Engineers), the crew discovers an ancient temple filled with canisters of the mysterious Black Goo. PrometheusBlack Goo is a mutagen designed to destroy life on a planetary scale while planting seeds to form new life – and psychopathic synthetic David is quickly making sinister plans for it.

David uses the Black Goo to mutate one of the Prometheus’ crew members, Holloway, who then gives the mutagen to his wife Elizabeth Shaw. As a result, Shaw becomes pregnant by a squid-like alien, which she has to have surgically removed. After this, it quickly grows to the size of an entire medical compartment. By the end of the film, this grotesque creature infects the Engineer (as if it were a Facehugger), causing the Deacon to burst out of his chest, just as a Xenomorph would. But he was never seen again. At least until the sequel to the comic comes out.

In the sequel to The Forgotten Prometheus, Deacon is revealed to have become a mountain

The black mutagen has gone haywire in the deacon’s body.

IN Prometheus: Fire and Stone – Omega Kelly Sue DeConnick and Agustin Alessio, a team of space explorers, find themselves trapped on the moon LV-223 after their mission to find out what happened to the missing crew of the Prometheus goes horribly wrong. After a shocking encounter with a horde of xenomorphs and a clan of Predators (not to mention a lone engineer killing lifeforms on sight), half the crew abandoned the team as soon as they had the chance, leaving the remaining members to die on the spot. LV-223. However, the survivors still have one glimmer of hope: Prometheus.

The ship itself was still on the moon, and researchers soon learned that it was located inside a mountain. Although after some minor digging, the humans (plus one Predator and one synthetic with a Black Goo mutation named Elden) realized that this mountain wasn’t a mountain at all… it was alive.

After Deacon was born, he began to grow exponentially as the Black Slime mutagen in his system went haywire, and just kept creating and mutating mass on top of himself until Prometheus‘ the very first “Xenomorph” essentially became a motionless mountain. This all happened around the ship “Prometheus” (since Deacon was born inside it), so the surviving people believed that the ship was buried inside the “mountain”, when in fact it was simply swallowed up by the formless mass that became Deacon.

This fate of the first chronological “Xenomorph” in Stranger The universe is equal parts terribly tragic and extremely disappointing. When Prometheus ended with a shot of the newly born Deacon screaming, seemingly leaving the cliffhanger unfinished for the creature’s eventual return. Perhaps as the first representative of a new type of xenomorph with a fresh design and other characteristics. Instead, he just quietly turned into a mountain, no doubt confused and scared – if he was even capable of such emotions – and most likely never to be explored again.

Prometheus secretly created the largest xenomorph of all time

The “largest xenomorph” of aliens is also the least lethal

While turning Deacon into a mountain significantly squandered his potential, the franchise achieved one goal: Alien created its largest Xenomorph of all time. This franchise is based on cosmic horror and is the basis of the cosmic horror subgenre (which Stranger doesn’t really touch upon) is the idea of ​​incredibly huge beasts. Almost every corner of Lovecraftian horror bears this claim out, with major standouts being Cthulhu and Azathoth, to name a few. Now, Stranger Along with Deacon, he has his own incomprehensibly gigantic alien creature.

Unfortunately, Deacon also became the least lethal “xenomorph” in the entire franchise. Of course, if someone were to find themselves inside “Deacon Mountain”, they could end up trapped in its fleshy caves and eventually die. But at the same time, all you have to do is stay away from the mountain. Not only that, but it’s locked away on the relatively dead moon LV-223, meaning it’s more than likely that it won’t have any more visitors anytime soon, making Deacon Mountain’s threat level virtually nil.

For something to be truly terrifying in the cosmic sense, it must not only be absolutely gigantic, but also terrifyingly deadly. In Deacon’s case, it’s just a mountain, making it almost comically safe, especially in contrast to its terrifying potential that was teased at the end of the film. Prometheus. Of course, the nature of the Black Slime is still a mystery. Stranger canon, and the only thing fans know for sure about him is that he can not only modify life, but also create it himself – and that’s an exciting prospect.

Alien has a chance to create new xenomorph life thanks to Deacon

Deacon can continue to mutate, giving birth to entirely new horrors in the world. Stranger Universe

In itself, “Deacon Mountain” does not pose a threat in principle. Stranger of the Universe, which essentially makes it nothing more than wasted potential. But this is not necessarily the case. The only reason Deacon is a mountain at all is because the Black Goo kept mutating the creature, adding layer upon layer of lifeless tumors to the top of Deacon until it grew to the size of a mountain. Who said Black Slime would ever stop? And who said that these “tumors” will remain lifeless?

Stranger has the chance to turn Deacon into some kind of supermassive “Xenomorph Queen”, since it is possible that the mountain can create new life forms from itself. Stranger fans have seen the Black Goo infect entire moons to create life on Earth itself (as in Alien: Covenantand even in this Fire and stone history), so it stands to reason that a mountain of Black Slime-infested alien flesh could produce life – perhaps the most terrifying Stranger fans have ever seen.

If “Deacon Mountain” could create terrifying xenomorphic creatures (which is quite possible for Black Slime), then it would become the most terrifying entity in the world. Stranger myths. A pulsating mass of flesh the size of a mountain, creating unparalleled cosmic horrors like a living portal to Hell itself, is a nightmare and could be an epic way to use Deacon in the future of the franchise. But for now Prometheus“Deacon is literally a mountain, and while it’s a little disappointing, it’s still an incredibly terrible fate for Stranger‘first Xenomorph‘.