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As it stand , Prometheusis tied straight toAlien , rendering it wholly unable to stick out out as its own persistence outside the establishedAlienlore . However , in one of the most well craftedAvPstories in recent computer memory , Prometheus is given the way it need to strike , and the championship proves that it deserve its own enfranchisement .
The 2012 film , Prometheus , was a prequel to the original 1979 film , Alien , but rather than exploringthe origin of the Xenomorph , Prometheusdecided to explore the line of humanity – and most devotee were n’t very happy about that . In 1979’sAlien , devotee were introduced tothe Space Jockey , who turn out to be an Engineer ( as revealed inPrometheus ) . So , Prometheussought to dig deeply into that aspect of theAlienmythos and tie this cosmic entity to the very get-go of human race . certainly , Prometheuswas determine beforeAlien , but it did n’t strive to be a hint - in to the 1979 film in any way , which is pretty much why fans had a problem with it . While the franchise quick returned to the Xenomorph in the sequel toPrometheus , Alien : Covenant , thePrometheus - epoch never really got a fair shot to find out itself before it was trashed all – at least , not in the movies . In the comics , however , fan can see exactly whyPrometheusshould be allowed to branch off into its own sci - fi series .
Prometheus Can Join Alien & Predator in a Shared Universe While Remaining Separate
InPrometheus : Life and Death#1 by Dan Abnett and Andrea Mutti , a squad of man ( and one synthetic substance ) are attempting to fly an Engineer watercraft to a human outpost to then sell the ship and all the technology that ’s on it to Weyland - Yutani for an almost incomprehensibly large sum of money . Unfortunately , during the tripper , an Engineer who was in stasis onboard the vessel wake up and set about hunting the intruder who were trying to steal this ship . What follows is a horrific game of quat and mouse , as the Engineer is too strong to down , and too smart to elude for long .
This issue highlight something that was already shown pretty well in the originalPrometheusmovie : the Engineers are a legitimately terrifying alien scourge akin to the Xenomorph and the Yautja . EveryPrometheustitle in theAlien vs Predator Fire and BloodandLife and Deathcrossovers ( which is just one big crossover ) showed the Engineers as the ‘ big bad ’ in price of alien lifeforms working against the human protagonists . InAlien , it ’s the Xenomorphs . InPredator , it ’s the Predator . InAvP , it ’s both . But inPrometheus , it ’s the Engineers , and that needs to continue .
This detail can be easy to neglect , sincePrometheusis looked at more as stringently being a prequel toAlienrather than its own standalone film , but the movie actually set the stagecoach for the start of a newfangled franchise in the same portion out universe of discourse asAlienandPredator , but without needing to involve either of them – and thisAvPcomic series proves it can act .
