Deacon Alien / Alien Explained

The Deacon is an alien that didn't get much screen time in Prometheus, but when I took a look at explaining them, there was alot to delve into. Is it a proto xenomorph? Does it fit into the xenomorph family tree at all? There is a ton of extra information on these aliens in the Dark Horse Fire and Stone comics, so we'll go there too for a look at their expanded universe history. The Deacon alien explained!

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#deacon
#prometheus
#alienfranchise

[Codoxnz]

The one, unifying constant across all of these mediums, stories and iterations of the Xenomorph are real life executives that probably shouldn't have meddled in the development of the series, the lore and it's art.

[SurelyYewJest]

12:35 I really like that art piece of the deacon walking up the mountain with the expanse of valley landscape behind. Imagine being out in a place like that on some kind of off-grid backpacking hike and seeing that wandering in your direction.

[SkullKid-irpo]

As much as people hate on this thing, I do like it’s design. I know it’s a “not-xenomorph” that they used to associate with Alien, but I like the idea of the sharpened head and the Goblin Shark mouth.

[michaeltheophilus]

A moment of silence for the engineer who was asleep for 2000 years only to die by being mouth humped 😆

[Johnsmith]

"why was it blue? I don't know"

Perfectly summarizes everything about the Prometheus movies

[MichaelGerrard]

I wish Covenant had explored this evolution rather than explain away the Alien by saying David made it. In my mind the Alien already existed when we see Prometheus, is at this due to the mural. This makes the Alien more mythical and foreboding. The Deacon is a clue to the origin of the Alien, nothing more.
The comic book mountain idea is far out! I think it could work as a film but remove the Deacon from the story. The goo mutated a mountain, or perhaps the vegitation. Exploring how the goo alters living matter is interesting. Maybe if the mountain organism touched a mechanical object this is where the biomechanical creature concept could emerge.
It is a shame Covenant didn't go in this direction. I still want a sequel though!

[surtaandume_psykermystyk]

I was an instant fan of the Deacon, as soon as I first saw his adorable faces. I love the goblin shark aspect

[rachelveer]

Still one of the most interesting and underrated creatures to me.

[timothybabcock]

I love how the movie tapped into evolutionary concepts. The giant mother of all "face-huggers" when it attacked the engineer near the end of Prometheus. Later the deacon is born from the engineer's torso. I loved it. The Deacon's appearance was dead on in my opinion. It was exactly the way it should have been.

[Jeff-Vader_head_of_catering]

Ugh... what a mess. This is what happens when you get too many "creative minds" coming into a universe that they (think) they know, and then trying to be different.

You wind up with a storytelling nightmare (not in a good way).

Everyone thinks their "new twist" to the Alien universe is better and more "edgy", when all they're really doing is diluting the DNA of the original story, and convoluting and confusing the timeline and ancestry of the xenomorph.

Even Ridley Scott has changed so much that he decided that the idea of Artificial Intelligence out of control was a scarier concept than the xenomorph.

I have all the respect for Ridley Scott in the world, and I understand that he thinks that the Xenomorph has been done ad nosium. But look at where we are; it wasn't the idea of androids that put butts in theater seats. Once again, it was the idea of knowing MORE about the Xenomorph and it's origins that brought people back to the franchise in droves.

That said, while Ridley is a phenomenal film maker, and his expert grasp on cinematography is unmatched, I really think he's lost touch with the franchise and why audiences return again and again to be terrified by the Alien creature.

[SKM_Freal]

I really wasn't impressed with how the Deacon ended up, it had so more much potential, I wanted Prometheus Paradise not Alien Cov.👍

[irishdivajeffries]

I was on the golf course riding beside my hubby in a cart when we both saw a perfectly constructed alien from spare parts on someone’s back patio! Almost had a cardiac incident is how real it looked!

[mismismism]

They overcomplicated this so much. I like the idea of different forms of Xenomorphs but they went overboard when they're all, functionally, basically the same, it did not need to be this complicated unless there were going to be some massive differences in abilities from the Deacon vs a regular Xenomorph with traits of whatever it birthed from. The black goo was such a cool concept, sad they dropped the ball in the movies, I even like the idea of giant mountain deacon, like make the goo create crazy variations we don't expect, coulda been really scary and cool.

[vgernyc]

There was also concept art where the Deacon seemed to be transforming into either a Neomorph or Xenomoprh as if its genetic material was still unstable.

[sv]

At this point, the alien franchise needs a massive reboot, highlighting the personal horror of the first film and escalating it over the films (or series), explaining us the origins of the aliens and the human race in a coherent, well connected and not disjointed way.

[Ground_Dirty]

I think it would have been interesting if the deacon was the predecessor to the xeno lineage as a whole, only producing actual xenomorph-like quallities when it grew into the mountain, and became a hive that produced the first legitimate facehuggers. That is to say, the surrounding fauna and flora would be directly derived from the deacon, as it became the environment. To put me idea simply, after having grown into a mountain, the deacon would produce a cloud of mutating spores that would go on to develope traits based on their new biome. The Spores that lingered in the in the deacon's interior latched back on to their still mutating progenitor like a parasite, developing into the first eggs, only awakening when a new source of genetic material was present. In short: The Xenomorphs as we know them are the decendants of the deacon that evolved to be parasitic, as apposed to the rest of the life on the planet that evolved into their own forms of hard to kill plant life, and harder to escape animal life.

[toawing]

The Deacon is an amazing creature. I would love for it to have a film of its own, something like alien where it's the only mature one.

The mountain idea is crazy, and I think it wastes the deacon a little but it's base idea is brilliant.

[DylanHiggins-qvjg]

I really like the idea of the mountain deacon it’s very creative and even makes you feel kind of bad for this monster that’s been forced to be in complete pain for over a century

[DuskyLore]

Holy crap...the idea to emulate that iridescent blue of the Deacon's skin after a horse placenta was _indeed_ scary and beautiful. How the hell do people come up with this stuff lol.

[Ally]

I really like the design at 10:20 it seriously looks really adorable. The proportions are just right and I love its big tail.