The Deacon Xenomorph (Ultramorph) - Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2021
- A look at the Deacon Xenomorph, as seen in Prometheus, as well as its other (possible) inclusions in the extended Alien Universe.
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2:23 'Hold on guys!, I just have to inhale these spores from this unknown species of flora!'
God, that movie realy is stupid, at least this theatrical cut, sadly the only cut, but another version probably wouldn't have saved it
Your pfp fits this almost too perfectly
God it really HAS been almost 10 years, 10 years since i've been horribly cynical yet hopelessly addicted to Aliens.
So you're pretty new to it.
Then there are those of us that have been in the univers for 30 years or more. Depending when you first watched one. Preteen around 1990 or so for me with Aliens.
Same dude. Except it’s been 30 years for me too.
Heh, I've been hooked since the 90s but kind of hate this movie. Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 are the only ones I can rewatch.
9 years ya dope
I always really liked the Deacon. At the time it felt like it was left as a clue to the big Xenomorph mystery at the end of Prometheus. After Covenant though, the Deacon felt like an abandoned plot point that no one really wanted to acknowledge or explore further. And this is probably because Scott wanted to explore David and AI more instead of the Xeno. Looking at the whole Alien prequel arc now, I like the idea of the mural being of a Prime Xeno that the Engineers encountered and the Deacon is closer to this Prime species than David's Neomorphs and the eventual Xenomorph which would be the result of extensive experimentation. That being said, I still prefer the mystery of the first few movies where the Xenomorph was just this creature with no clear beginning and no motive other than procreation and survival. The ultimate nihilistic organism.
I kinda wonder if David will ever go back to this planet and finds the deacon and splices it's DNA with the other alien he created in covenant and then possibly whatever creature that spawns might be the Xeno OR closer to the xeno
Well they hoped-for Fans to see enough DNA via the Hammerpedes, the Trilobite and the Deacon as well as the Mural to see that the Engineers and LV-223 are connected to the Xenomorph without giving us the exact connection or which came first.
While RS wanted to move away from ALIEN and the Xenomorph in sequels, it seems that we would have seen more Monsters we could trace some DNA to the Xenomorph but it was not to be the actual showing of the Origins of the Xenomorph like Alien Covenant has began to indicate.
Some fans were not to impressed with the Deacon. But we have to remember that the Deacon was a Hybrid which had a lot of Human DNA. If we look at a Typical New Born Mammal inc Humans vs the Adult. Then the Deacon would likely have grown to a impressive 12-16 Foot Tall Specimen. That would have surely been something very Deadly compared to the Xenomorph
I like the deacon but thats because its presentation is the most mysterious. Similar to the big chap.
What's the big chap? I think I heard a similar name for the alien in the first movie but I imagine your referring to a different alien.
@@notbop9744 you are correct sir. The Big Chap is the alien from the first film. For lack of an actual name the crew on set referred to him as The Big Chap
Wretchard Kimball ah ok, thanks. I wish they had kept the design for the big chap, the warrior aliens with their knobbley heads just aren't as cool imo
What's the"big chap"?
@@anthonyselgas9143 Horrifying life-form that poses an existential crisis for humanity and reproduces in a nightmarish fashion using living creatures as cocoons:
-'The Big Chap'
That's the most British thing I've ever heard
Imagine taking a drink and seeing the squiqqly things in your eye actually moving
Story of my life
MD 20/20 will do that to ya. 😆
There's an episode of "monsters inside me" about that. It can happen in real life.
@@CariDMM parasites
Someone tried that one on me-/ punching him in the face. I found out it was mescaline. I said “oooh my bad “. I’ve had genetic growth alright. I’m blaming the Tequila curse.😂🤣
Deacons are my daughter’s favorite alien of the alien franchise. She’ll always rush in when i say there is one…such a alien nerd, she draws the deacon a lot! And REALLY WELL…..😅
Your daughter has good taste in sci-fi! The deacon is so interesting
@@SegularRpork Yeah, The Deacon is Badass!!!!!!!
It was pretty strange what they did with the Deacon in Fire and Stone/Life and Death. Those comics were really the best Prometheus/Aliens/AVP/Predator crossover. It would certainly make a satisfying film
I know! When I was watching this, and it got to the Predator fighting a frickin' Deacon, I was like:' That would have been badass!' This comic series would have made a amazing movie, maybe a trilogy if they did it right!
@@marystone860 Now with Disney in charge and Marvel comics taking the rights, I feel like the franchise may be doomed. I hope I'm wrong!
@@FrankFrankly711 I say we take off and nuke Di$ney from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!
@@marystone860 we already had that dreadful crossover "AVP" films we don't need another one in film form lol
@@shawnhall9792 AVP is a great underrated film
Exploring Fire and Stone would be great!
5:48 I actually like the design a lot. It looks cool, dangerous, enormous and mysterious at the same time. I wish a complete new Alien Saga. First we need a scary movie with the atmosphere of Alien Isolation. Then we need an action movie, with concepts of Aliens Colonial Marines with all type of new Xenomorphs. Like the Raven, Spitter, Preatorian, Deacon and so on. (Maybe a scene like in the sewers of Aliens Colonial Marines or a club fight scene between Xenos and Marines like in the Aliens VS Predator Game). Just some new concepts, I hope you guys know what I mean
I love your ideas! Sort of a reboot/remake/sequel set of films that follow A and AS ...
I’m literally playing Isolation on my Switch because I’ve had very bad insomnia and I’m in bed with headphones on and I can’t get over how amazing the game is. In every single way.
Alien Isolation is the movie we need !
The nature of the Substance that Created the Xenomorphs & the Xeno's themselves make me think that the Deacon could evolve a means to reproduce, like morphing into a Queen of sorts.
I wanna know where they get the black goo
it would of been a menace due to higher IQ and 11 metre height due to stronger host
We can only Speculate as to how the Dr Shaw Deacon would have procreated... we have to Bare in mind that the Trilobite was a Human/Facehugger of sorts Hybrid.
While it may retain some Procreation methods we acocoated with a Xenomorph, it also has Human DNA.
So we can only Speculate.... but it would appear that a Adult Deacon like we saw in Prometheus would stand at least 12 Feet Tall. Maybe it has some of the Reproduction of a Human?
So maybe it would give Birth to Live, Trilobite like Creatures, or bypass that by being able to Give Birth to Baby Deacons itself.
This would by-pass the requirement of a Host, which was one of the best things about the Xenomorph that made it Horrific. On the Flip side the requirement of a Host is a Flaw to the Xenomorph.
If this Deacon could give Birth to say 6-10 Baby Deacons a Day, which can grow to Adult within a few Days. The Deacon would be a Great Threat.
If its off spring grew as fast as the Neomorph then we have a Bigger Threat than the Xenomorph
I'm honestly not a fan of the newer lore of the creation of the xenomorphs, but I'm old and grew up around the time of the Dark Horse AVP comics.
It would bother me if David straight up created the Xeno however i think he was following a recipe of the Engineers.
I do prefer the xenomorph being a product of nature with their own homeworld even though the Prometheus origin doesn’t upset me either. I feel like enough retconning and head cannons can connect the two together.
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 At this point it can literally be anything since nothing is stated explicitly.
David could be the creator, though it looks more like he was following a blueprint or something, and the black goo’s aspect that makes a deacon/xenomorph could just be because the engineers wanted to recreate the xenomorph they could have found on some planet, maybe to weaponize it or for other reasons, we don’t know for sure just yet.
I hope they don’t fuck it up in the next film. I loved Prometheus but I thought Covenant was quite rubbish.
@@qcdoomqc The novelisation states that he is recreating the alien. The movie implies (but does not state) that he is the originator.
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 I feel that having the xenomorph behave more like an animal is what's diminishing it's terror.
It acting more like an ant colony in Aliens and it having a homeworld loses the mystery and the unnatural feel it had in the original Alien and in Prometheus/Alien Covenant.
The creature was originally created to feel as unnatural as possible, to be a perversion of nature. I mean, it is "birthed" from a man and kills it in the process, it has acid for blood, it can survive the vacuum of space, it does not need to feed and it's instinct is not to survive, but to kill. It not being a creature of nature, but a weapon is what's so terrifying about it.
Even with new films flaws they have yet to break my spirit over the franchise. Unlike predator, star wars, and game of thrones. Im still into the lore
Poor baby Deacon, no one to socialize with, burst a skull or drop saliva on to. 😭 I cried.
Do more comics voiceovers. I love the way u make them!!
Nothing on TH-cam makes me happier than a comic voice over from this channel.
No matter what story he does he always makes it so damn Immersive!
Yes, he does an awesome job, I don't really even watch, I just listen like it's an audiobook.
I would like to know what happened to the "creature" that came out of Millburn's mouth in the egg chamber. That is never addressed.
The Millipede? it just scurries away to other part of the Engineers ship, probably to be in peace
Pretty sure that was just counted as a random occurance for the film rather than a prime story moment.
@@rezkid16 I think so too, since some of that material was to create meaning restructure the DNA in a species, and I THINK the derelict Elizabeth and David hi-jacked was a destroyer ship of some kind completely different material than the first ship they explored
@@rezkid16 true I guess, but still a question I have had since the movie came out.
I always imagined it either escaped and is still on LV-233 or it was just forgotten about to become some future thing.
Just curious about what it was and where it went/became.
Since we are talking about Xenomorph variants, one of the questions we asked when we were kids in the 80's is what is the Xenomorph endgame? is it just to survive? Spread themselves across every world? Follow its programming as a biological weapon?
Another thing to I was thinking about just recently about Xenomorph variants. If the Xenomorph infected and subdued a civilization that uses living technology instead of machine technology like we do would that grant them the ability to spread across the galaxy or universe like the Zerg from Strarcraft or Tyrannids from Warhammer 40k? Imagine if Xenomorph facehugger successfully implanted its embryo in a living ship would the resulting Xenomorph be able to fly like the living ship? or perhaps the facehugger implants into embryo into a living creature that eats Iron ore and spits out Steel pellets would the Xenomorph coming out be able to do the same?
I always thought about it as if it were bees or ants, they just do what they need to do to survive, but they have a virus like mentality.
I've always thought they were just intelligent bio weapons, the derelict in alien was probably a weapons carrier which would explain why theres thousands of them inside with stasis fields to keep them alive during the travel time
@@bigwhopper6501 they were carrying them for the predators
To ensure the survival of it's species
Please bring us more from The Earth Wars.
Yeah i really do miss that story line
@@timothywarren3748 read it. It’s a good series
I second that, one of my favorite videos from Alien Theory!
But maybe there just isn't more material available?
@@Hallo1248574 there are two different versions of earth war. They both are very similar but have slight differences. I got one as the novels and the other as the comic series omnibus
I commented above. I'd love for him to turn Prometheus the Complete Fire and Stone into an audiobook/motion comic like he's done for other Aliens and Predator comics... It'd be a massive undertaking, but I for one would appreciate it!
YES YES EXPLORE MORE PLEASE! That is EXACTLY what I want!! The rest of Machiko’s Story, Fire & Stone, Tartarus, basically the older dark horse crossovers
I have always liked the design of the deacon. I hope it does show up again in the comics.
@AlienTheory, thank you for clearing up the information around the Deacon’s inspiration!
So the Xenomorph’s pharyngeal jaw was inspired by moray eel’s, given what the Goblin Shark’s influence in the Deacon.
Since the original "infection" seemed to morph with every generation, it makes sense that the xenomorph is its own form and will change according to the next host's DNA. That's what I've thought about the ever-changing form with each generation; it takes on characteristics of its new host and becomes a hybrid of the two.
I've always suspected this. That the resulting lifeform was a derivative of the host.
The scientist behind the Alien franchise. Good stuff. 👍🏽
The Deacon becoming the fully grown "Ultramorph" is the only Xenomorph we really need to see in the next film wether it's a sequel to Alien: Covenant or a sequel to Alien Resurrection!!!!! Preferably Alien Covenant because the Deacon is in the prequel series not the original series!!!!! If Ridley Scott does still decide to make Alien : Awakening (the third film in the prequel series) I will be completely content with the entire franchise as a whole & don't care of seeing another Alien film as long as this next & final prequel film is done perfectly!!!!! We honestly don't really need another Alien film after Alien : Awakening as long as it ties the prequel series directly into the original 1979 Alien film unless they remake a AVP film properly 💯
I have been meaning to submit a comment on your channel. Mainly because I wanted to share my appreciation and respect for your diligence with regards to the vast Sci-Fi / Horror genre of Films, TV shows, Comics, Novelizations and other mediums as well.
But my main accolade, would be your Voice Overs and Narrations. The timbre and cadence of your voice is highly appreciated as a YT content surfer. I am sure you have had someone point this out before. Personally, there are only a couple of YT Channels I can stomach and follow for any real entertainment; based on that fact. Most YT content creators sound either robotic, unenthusiastic or straight-up monotone with a never-ending drone that would easily break anyone's Willpower and restraint down and give up the location of a stashed Pulse Rifle, while a PoW on a bug world. well done sir! Please keep the content coming in 2021!
It'd be cool to see some videos on the territories in the alien universe, like the UPP, The United Americas, and The Three World Empire.
I can't believe it's been almost 10 years since Prometheus came out.
~*"Don't drink the water, don't breathe the air."*~
And always keep your bio-mask on...
@@skepticalmagos_101 Except when you're smoking.
@@skepticalmagos_101 to be fair a helmet didn't do John Hurt all that much good
I would be interested in the channel exploring both the Fire & Stone and Life & Death comic lines!
I hated the designs of the half-finished creatures in Prometheus and Covenant.
I personally think the deacon was terrifying. I would love to have seen it really come to play as a major antagonist... I was hoping the follow up to prometheus was going to feature it in a more direct role... From what I've read and seen in sketches.. prometheus was originally a much much darker and horror themed movie than what we got.. Scott seems to have a thing for having these great ideas, but going a more conservative route.. the amount of material he tends to cut is almost an entire movies worth alone. What could've been won't be...
Where is david Attenborough when you need him.
Halfway through he would start reading whatever global warming script they put in front of him & how endangered the Xeno is. Yawn.
Want some fun speculative trivia? The scene where the Engineer wrestles with the Trilobite closely resembles a scene from a 1976 comic written by Dan O'Bannon and illustrated by Moebius entitled "The Long Tomorrow". In said comic, there is a species of alien shapeshifters called Arcturians. And in Aliens, Frost brings up the marines having relations with Arcturians only to be ribbed because the one he had a liaison with was a male. To which he responded, "It don't matter when it's Arcturian."
Love this channel. Your delivery and pace are superb. Well done and keep up the great work mate 😁👍
I really loved the concept of the various permutations of the pathogen creatures and the concept art that accompanied it. I wish we had gotten to see more of it in the actual films.
One of the earlier ideas for a Prometheus Sequel was to showcase various Organisms that David had Engineered from the Black Goo. Had we got a Sequel to Alien Covenant i am sure we would have seen David creating more Creations which would not have been Xenomorphs
7:18 YES PLEASE, THAT WOULD BE FREAKIN SWEET!!!!! I'd love to see an exploration of the fire and stone series along with the life and death series as well. Those are my favorite comic books ever.
Please do a series on Fire and Stone!! The implications in Fire and Stone change so much of how the prequel films are understood, it's incredible.
The neomorph is cool for certain but do think i would have rather seen more deacons! Especially after seeing the fire and stone concept art. Figuring out their behavior and relation to the xenomorph is a story worth exploring! Also the kenner style deacon toy is neat!
Can you do a lets play of Alien: Isolation ?
no way neeeeeeerd
I suggest the run of "Certifiably Ingame" Its primarly a Star Trek channel but Rick did a great job with this game!
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I've been playing isolation and I finished it so many times but have you ever noticed some of the doors that say device invalid some of these doors can't be opened until you have the third actual card which is right by the ambulance bay so after getting that card I didn't go to the ambulance to the Inn Isadora I went back to the Scimed Tower and Lorenz systec spire And you'll find some androids in the garbage bag the orange one you know and a few people still wandering around but it is cool to get into all those rooms that you couldn't get into before
yeah you know this Prometheus stuff just doesn't wash with me it might've been a cool movie but I feel it definitely was not part of the alien universe one bit
I absolutely would like to see more videos from you about the Fire and Stone comics!!!!
DEFINITELY would love to see more videos on that comic. Love this channel!
Fire and Stone would be s great series for you to cover, but then again I hope you cover all available material on the channel!
This fire and stone series sounds interesting too. Would love to hear more
The theory of the engineers wanting to irradicate humans in order to break the cycle of the deacon is a interesting idea. It's something that I hadn't thought of and haven't heard anywhere else until now. I love the universe they've created and would be willing to watch more about the comic version
I guess now would be the best time to say that like a year ago, I needed to drive across the country ( around 30ish hours and the beginning of the outbreak) and your videos kept me amazing company and sane. So thank you for being there and here now.
Would love to watch a series of you doing a reading of fire and stone similar to your Earth War series. Love all your videos but your story narrations are my favourite to put on and do some modelling dioramas or drawing. In fact they have helped keep me sane over the last year of the worlds weirdness, so a big thankyou for that too.
I hope we get to see deacons in upcoming comics
Hey Alien Theory! I love the Fire and Stone comics! Please do more videos on it and the sequel series Life and Death! I really want to see a similar story to this on screen!
I definitely would love to see more prequel related material. Prometheus is kind of my guilty pleasure of the series along with Alien 3.
It would be so awesome if you covered the fire and stone series!! There’s so little about it out there and it’s such a fascinating tie in for so many of the stories
Well done again, Alien Theory! I would like an in-depth review of FIRE AND STONE and LIFE AND DEATH. Also, I admire your dedication. There is a lot of ALIEN and PREDATOR content. It's dizzying.
The Deacon and Neomorph are just TOO good a design~
I would love to see more from the Fire and Stone storyline! I havent heard much about it until now, so Im excited.
Loved this indepth look. Excellent video.
Yes!! Please do a piece on the Fire and Stone. That series is a treasure trove of stuff to talk about :D
I’m still trying to figure out why the writers of Prometheus did not have the engineer get up, go back to the ship, and climb back up in that chair to try an restart that ship. Then the creature bursts out of the engineers body. Instead of a “Deacon” xenomorph, it’s an alien queen. That would have accurately connected Prometheus to Alien and Aliens. In Alien, the engineer was found fossilized in the chair. Ridley Scott should have made the Prometheus ending that way.
Oh Hell yeah I love Fire and Stone definitely cover it!!! Ahab is awesome!!!
If you listen closely to the hologram recording, you can hear Deacon Roars, so the Deacon(s) were what they were running from. (Or something similar at least)
Love these types of videos!
I’m 2 minutes in and I’ve never seen a better explanation video. Well done sir. Thank you 🫡
I love these videos by Alien Theory! I wish they had expanded on the Deacon more only because it went through to intelligint hosts both capable of speaking. It would be amazing to find out if this thing was smart could use tools or had a semblance of intellect that wasn't based solely on hunting and killing.
I enjoyed this video. The Deacon could be used to interesting ends. Keep up the good work.
I would absolutely love it if you did a reading of fire and stone. I have always been a fan of the films, but watching your videos of accounts of the earth war started off a whole Alien obsession for me that has helped stave off lockdown boredom.
I would love to see more of the deacon and maybe difference type of forms.
Please do more on Fire and Stone, is a really fun story and would love to see/hear your interpretation and feelings of it!
Yes to covering that comic. I can't get enough of your reading the alien universe comics.
I would love Love LOVE more exploration into this 👍
I’d love to see videos exploring the aliens universe more!
Deacon is cute. I’d like to see it take a large and sleek alien form due to its host being bigger. But also would love a further series on on anything else extended. 😻😻
Regarding your question in the video, would love to see videos covering those comics. Didn't even know they existed till now. They sound fascinating.
Always Looking forward to your narrations it’s like the only reason I click on TH-cam.
more Fire and Stone videos would be great. Really bummed they didnt continue with the Deacon
Deacon is born...
Vickers: what's that?
Cap'n: it's an ultra morph. Happy New Year
The fire and stone comics were a great addition to the Prometheus story. I liked that you got to see what happened to predators and androids that were exposed to the back goo as well
Yes, we would like to see more, well every minute detail of this universe.
The Deacon is my favorite creature of the franchise
Design wise its really cool! But for it to in the favorites category i’d probably have to see it do something within a story personally.
Yes please explore Fire & Stone
I luv the look of the deacon horrifying yet beautiful at the sametime, especially that dark shiny blue tint it has. It's just unforgivable that they've done nothing with it since in live-action. Imagine a sequel or interquel set between Ridley Scott's prequels that explores another crew who head to LV-223 and come across the fully grown Deacon.
Or better yet, a deacon hive
Cause that mountain shit from the comics is unacceptable
@@s.nifrum4580 oh yeh lol that android character get molded in2 the wall or something
The mural could also be a representation of something that the Engineers are proud of, like an accolade. Veterans, (myself included) usually have a wall dedicated to military career.
Yes, please explore this further. I hold out slim hope that a third instalment will be made, and it will feature more of the Engineers and be more like Prometheus than Covenant.
I love these mini documentaries
I could listen to you talk about Alien all day, a graphic novel covering all those movies, do it.
Great video, you should talk about the Life and death and fire and stone cómics!
I definitely would like to see you do the ENTIRE Fire and Stone series just like with how you did the Earth War series 👍👍
Would love to hear more about this comic.
The Fire and Stone comics were really good. Would like to hear more of you take on them; “Hi, I’m Eldon.”
It might make for a cool video game where the company sends a team to investigate the Engineer's homeworld and a Deacon infestation breaks out. The player would then have to survive against the Deacons as well as the enraged Engineers.
Would be interesting if the deacon had a high intelligence, maybe able to communicate and take a leading roll over xenos. Maybe even like father in the dark horse comics.
I would love to see the Deacon return, especially as originally envisioned for Fire & Stone, so here's hoping for Marvel to do something.
I would love to see you cover the fire and stone comic books. personally would have loved to have seen the Deacon and the neomorph in action.
Fire and Stone/ Life and Death is a fantastic series, I'd very much like to see some more of your take on it all.
I thought it was interesting that David left/didnt know about the deacon and perused his own bastard alien where it seems the engineers understood and valued a deacon much more highly and he was so close to what may have been the most sought after and unique version
I hope more gets done with in the future
YES bring to the channel more about Fire and Stone comic collection
I like the neomorphs but i really miss the deacon, a very underrated alien design, one of My favorites actually
Id love to see a video on the comic!
I wanna see more of the deacon. I think it’s my favourite alien in the franchise because we don’t know much about it
teh Fire and Stone comics were awesome. would love to hear your take on it
I love this channel.
I loved the Fire & Stone and Life & Death crossover series'.
I really hope that although marvel has taken over that they keep within the continuity established from Fire & Stone onwards.
Loved the design of The Deacon he was so cool but the neomorphs were much more eery in their appearance.
First comment! I hope to see The Deacon real soon. It was stated in fire and stone that The engineer alien is so strong it can play with the engineers who were compared to godlike beings and as a fan of injustice comic series, I can see one fully armored with its special weapon going against superman one on one evenly who had punches along with darkseid to shake the entire planet.
Individual videos of characters would be cool. Like a video for hicks or Hudson