Re-analyzing the Prometheus Alien mural and what clues it offers.

CHRIS PICARD - Now this is a very compelling notion! I can certainly see what you have described within the mural! Thank you so very much for sharing this with us! :)

Yes that is very true. However to each side of the mural there are representations of the classic eggs, fachuggers, hosts and a chest burster. Als even more intreguing is the other mural showing an Engineer in a classical pose with its arm touching the head of some other creature......

The area around the figure, especially the top part of the figure look similar to Pelvic bones. The whole mural is full with suggestions of impregnation and Xenomorphs being carried in a womb. The Xenomorphs near the lower part of the figure seemed to be more like the traditional Xeno.

Maybe the black goo will react differently to Male and female eg, with a male you will get a Deacon style creature and with a female you will get a facehugger style creature. Just a thought.

That last point is exactly the route I was going pulserifle187. There were early theories which suggested the Deacon could eventually grow to become a King Alien - only previously referenced in comics. However I don't quite think that's the case, I definitely think there are differences to how the bio-altering agents in the Engineers' tech will work based on the genetic and reproductive makeup of those whome it infects.

The way I see it, the Black Goo effects currently elicit the following:

Male = Transformation into aggressive / Xeno-like zombie creature.

Female = Facehugger

Infected Male + Non-infected Female = Proto-Facehugger

Facehugger + Engineer = Ultramorph

Facehugger + Human = Xenomorph (or close to)

Proto-Facehugger + Engineer / Human = Deacon

It's a rough mock-up but given what we've currently seen, seems to be how it works.

This theory I shared above can also be further solidified by examining the other sections of the mural that brego mentioned above. Looking at Giger's artwork (both are referenced) of the Facehuggers, one seems to insert into the host's mouth (Facehugger) while the other seems to encase and almost lay on top of the host, while inserting through the mouth. (Trilobite / Proto-Hugger)

The H.R Giger artwork I'm referencing above are these two:

This is why I liked the original Prometheus script before it was de-xeno'd by Ridley and co. Before the re write there were different types of eggs and creatures within the silo type pyramid or dwelling. The first face hugger dribbles down from a wall mounted egg like cocoon and impregnates an unconcious Holloway, who fell down a shaft into some kind of strange chamber. His helmet is knocked off during the fall. He awakes unaware that he has been impregnated.

This script seems to have suggested that the black goo (or insects in its origin ) were a delivery system designed to produce life depending on the host. I much prefer this to the final confused and simply unintelligent script.

I did enjoy the original script as well, but I'm not opposed to the introduction of the Black Goo. I think it opens more doors as to what the material can actually do. The problem with the original script is it didn't explain what the different creatures were and how they got there. The Black Goo however, offers more of an explanation for that. It also showed us it could alter the DNA of any living thing, not just Humans or Human-like species.

Reminds me of Dan Obannons original design for the alien but then given to Giger with creative freedom.  Maybe Ridley wants to still keep Obannons original idea that the xenomorphs were a species that had a civilizations.   The engineers could of stumbled upon the planet and fucked around with the aliens Dna and used it as "genetic biological" warfare.     

     The Deacon is a Queen before it's develop, it comes from a genétic exchange, .......the Queen births the eggs,where are the facehugger,and the facehugger create the Xeno.

Trilobyte isn't a protofacehugger, no,it is the facehugger of a Queen.

@UFOANAUT, the prospect of the Xenomorphs being originally a pre-exosting society is certainly interesting and could play into the expansion of this universe. Perhaps that's why they refer to the mural as "just another tomb"? They captured and extracted DNA from the Xenos to, like you said, develop biological weapons. But the big question would remain - why?! It's a completely different way of looking at the Xenomorph, or at least it's origin species. I'll have to think more about this... Could be a good second topic for discussion.

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"the prospect of the Xenomorphs being originally a pre-exosting society is certainly interesting and could play into the expansion of this universe. "

I think that it would be interesting if they would be connected to the Engineers in the way that the Engineers would have something to do with its creation.

Canova. Yes there is a resemblance, however the only way this Queen theory could have repeated on LV426 is for a Woman (possibly Newts Mum) to be impregnated by a Man who had come in contact with Black Goo. Also we never saw a dead (ridiculously huge)  dead trilobite or a dead, bursted, Engineer lying around in Aliens. For me this is another disappointment in Prometheus. A total departure from the origin Xeno creatures in Alien.