History Film / AlienCovenant

* ForWantOfANail: If Tennessee hadn't caught the traces of Shaw's radio broadcast and the ''Covenant'' hadn't become aware of the apparently habitable planet, the whole film wouldn't have happened.

* DaylightHorror: As Daniels, Lope and Walter escape from David's citadel in the early morning, a Xenomorph chases after them -- possibly the first time we've seen one of the creatures in action during the day.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: David has ditched footwear in this film, possibly in a minor form of GoingNative.

** Ricks and Upworth: DeathBySex thanks to a spying Xenomorph.

* GladToBeAliveSex: Probably the rationale behind the TooDumbToLive[=/=]DeathBySex incident.

* LoveMakesYouDumb: The fact that all the crew of the ''Covenant'' are romantically involved with each other just makes things worse; when the mission starts going to hell their judgments are compromised by worrying about their respective partners. [[DeathBySex Or they're distracted by having sex.]]

** The shower scene, where a Xenomorph kills two of the crew members [[DeathBySex as they are having sex]] seems to pay homage to the iconic scene from ''{{Film/Psycho}}'', build-up, scream, and all.

* DeathBySex: A Xenomorph kills Ricks and Upworth in the shower during a sexual encounter in the third act. Yeesh!

* ApocalypseHow: The Engineer home world underwent a surgically-precise ApocalypseHow/Class4 that killed all non-botanical life as a result of them losing control of their [[TheVirus Virus]]-type bioweapon. [[spoiler:Or rather, as a result of David attacking them with said bioweapons.]]

** A notable, but subtle one, happens near the end of the movie. When we see Walter at the bridge of the ''Covenant'' near the end of the film, a "drinking bird" can be seen on a desk. [[spoiler:It's the same one from the ''Prometheus'', which is a big hint that "Walter" is actually David (although how he reacquired it is not explained).]]

* GladToBeAliveSex: Probably the rationale behind the WhatAnIdiot DeathBySex incident.

* NoodleIncident: While staring down David, Oram claims to have "met the devil" as a child. We never find out what this statement refers to.

* LivingWeapon: The Neomorphs and Xenomorphs are monsters created utilizing the Chemical A0-3959X.91 – 15 mutagen developed by the Engineers, which has run amok on the planet [[spoiler:and is being experimented with by David]].
* LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair: David regards humanity through this trope, with their drive to colonize space just a doomed attempt to revitalize their civilization. In a MissingTrailerScene, he quotes the line verbatim just before he [[spoiler:turns the Engineers' bioweapons against them]], and in the actual film, he and Walter quote the poem while David reminisces about the event. However David mistakenly attributes the poem to Creator/LordByron, [[NotSoAboveItAll implying that humans are not the only one suffering from hubris]].

* NeverTrustATrailer: The "She Won't Go Quietly" ad features a scenario where Daniels has to find and kill a Xenomorph on the bridge of the ''Covenant''. This scenario is not in the movie, and was explicitly filmed for the purpose of advertising the film. [[spoiler:Although a Xenomorph '''does''' make it aboard the ''Covenant'', Daniels hunts it down in a different way with Tennessee.]]

* MadScientist: David has been playing god with Engineer biotech, with [[spoiler:the Xenomorphs being the end result of this]].
* MadScientistLaboratory: [[spoiler:David has converted the lower levels of the Engineer temple into a laboratory containing preserved Neomorph specimens, sketches of Facehuggers, Shaw's dissected corpse, and several Xenomorph eggs. In the novelization, it also contains mounted proto-Xenomorphs, a diorama of the Neomorph life cycle, and an Engineer-created Xenomorph egg.]]
* MegaCorp: In the 10 years between ''Prometheus'' and ''Alien: Covenant'', the Weyland Corporation merged with the Yutani Corporation to become Weyland-Yutani.
* MirrorMatch: Rare non-video game example: A bone-shattering martial arts battle between [[spoiler:David the Android and Walter the Android, ''both'' played by Michael Fassbender.]]

* MoodDissonance:
** The scene of [[spoiler:Oram giving birth to a Protomorph chestburster]] is set to uplifting, heartwarming music to reflect the [[NightmareFetishist warped mindset]] of [[spoiler:David]].

* MythologyGag:
** In the ''Last Dinner'' prologue clip, one of the crew members starts choking on food in the middle of a raucous dinner (complete with a line about how the food isn't ''that'' bad). Thankfully, the crew member is ''only'' choking this time around, and Walter's able to quickly apply an impromptu Heimlich Maneuver on her.
** The way that a Facehugger first jumps out at a crew member seems to be modeled after the scene in the [[Film/{{Alien}} original film]].
** Like Ash in ''Alien'', David calls the creatures the "perfect organism".
** The shot of the [[spoiler:Alien's tail by its victim's legs in the shower scene is reminiscent of the creature's tail creeping up between Lambert's legs in the [[Film/{{Alien}} original film]]]].
** [[spoiler:The Neomorph's means of infection is an obscure one; the concept was originally from William Gibson's script for ''Film/Alien3''.]]
** [[spoiler:One scene in the trailers has the Xenomorph barreling down a darkened corridor, only visible through the emergency lighting, seems to pay direct homage to the climatic battle in ''{{Film/Aliens}}''.]]
** David makes detailed sketches in the style of Creator/HRGiger, the artist who originally created the unique appearance of the alien. [[spoiler:Appropriate for a character who himself created the Xenomorphs.]]
** In the [[Film/{{Alien}} original movie]], Ripley refused to open the airlock door to let in an infected crewmember. Here Faris refuses to open the door and this time there's no-one to override her, but the alien just breaks out anyway.

* DeathByCameo:
** [[spoiler:Branson (Creator/JamesFranco) has very limited screentime before he's killed during the neutrino burst just after the crew is awoken at the start of the film]].
** This is also the fate of [[spoiler:Elizabeth Shaw, having died at some point in the interim between the ''Crossing'' prologue clip and the start of the film. David tells Walter that she died during the Engineer ship crash, although Walter later finds her corpse (which has been experimented on) in David's workshop]].
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:A Xenomorph kills Ricks and Upworth in the shower during a sexual encounter in the third act.]] Yeesh!
* DemotedToExtra: Elizabeth Shaw, while present in the film, will not have as large a role as she did in ''Prometheus''. [[spoiler:Her dog-tags are discovered onboard a derelict Engineer ship, and it's revealed that David used her as a test subject for his experiments.]]

* DistantPrologue: The film starts well before the plot of ''Prometheus'', let alone''Covenant'', showing David interacting with a much younger Peter Weyland and choosing his name [[spoiler:and having the seeds of his disdain for humanity safely rooted.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:The flayed corpse of an Engineer which David had put on display in a twisted ShoutOut to Michelangelo's ''David'']] is meant to remind audiences of the controversial worldwide touring exhibition, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies:_The_Exhibition Bodies: The Exhibition]]'', which uses actual human corpses.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Everyone on the ship save Daniels and Tennessee is dead, and even those two have been subjected to an AndIMustScream situation. Walter has been replaced by [[BigBad David]] aboard the ship, with 2000-or-so sleeping colonists and two Facehugger embryos to use as test subjects, continuing on to the ship's original target planet]]
* DueToTheDead:
** Captain Oram says they won't have a commemoration for Captain Branson because repairs take priority. The other crewmembers hold a BurialInSpace and LibationForTheDead in defiance of his orders. Oram is not happy about what this implies about their respect for his authority.

** When looking through [[PersonalEffectsReveal her husband's belongings]], Daniels chooses a piton to remember him, which she wears on a cord around her neck. This becomes a ChekhovsGun [[spoiler:when she uses it to stab David.]]
** David performs a heartfelt sonata on his flute to eulogize [[spoiler:Dr. Elizabeth Shaw]]. Complicated because [[spoiler:he's actually responsible for her death, while genuinely having loved her at the same time]].

** [[spoiler:Branson: Burns to death in his sleep pod when it malfunctions]].
** [[spoiler:Ledward: Killed by Neomorph bursting out his back after being infected]].
** [[spoiler:Karine: Mauled to death by the Neomorph that burst out of Ledward's back]].
** [[spoiler:Faris: Dies in a explosion she caused by accidentally blowing up the land cruiser]].
** [[spoiler:Hallett: Died after a Neomorph burst out of his neck after he was infected]].
** [[spoiler:Ankor: Has his jaw ripped off courtesy of a TailSlap via Neomorph]].
** [[spoiler:Rosenthal: OffWithHisHead via Neomorph]].
** [[spoiler:Oram: Traditional ChestBurster]].
** [[spoiler:Cole: DeathByLookingUp thanks to a Xenomorph]].
** [[spoiler:Walter: Left behind (with an unknown fate) by David, who takes his place on the ''Covenant'']].
** [[spoiler:Lope: Chestburster even when he was apparently saved from a Facehugger]].
** [[spoiler:Ricks and Upworth: DeathBySex thanks to a spying Xenomorph]].

* EnfantTerrible: The Neomorphs are lethal at ''birth.'' [[spoiler:Karine learns this the hard way by being trapped in a sealed medbay with the one that emerges from Ledward.]]
* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler:David believes that humans and Engineers alike are inferior to androids such as himself, and -- inspired by Chemical A0-3959X.91 – 15-spawned monsters like the Deacon and Neomorphs -- has mastered the use of Engineer biotechnology in order to create an UltimateLifeForm, resulting in the Xenomorphs.]]
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: [[spoiler:Oram]] gets facehugged after getting too close to a Xenomorph egg.

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: This movie reveals Shaw and David had this dynamic, as [[spoiler:despite the fact that she put his head and his body back together and took David with her rather than leaving him stranded after all the harm he caused, he still killed her and experimented on her. Creepily, he seems to think he ''was'' grateful, as he still has feelings and admiration for her even though he murdered her]].

* ChestBurster: The classic Xenomorph larvae are present in all their sternum-shattering, rib-snapping glory. [[spoiler:In addition, the Neomorphs also parasitize hosts via fungus-like spores, which then mature into "Bloodburster" larvae and violently burst out of the host, the first ripping out of someone's back, the second forcing its way out of its victim's throat, dragging blood and entrails with it; both are major BodyHorror moments.]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: The only reason the ''Covenant'' is able to [[spoiler:pick up David's distress signal]] is because the ship just so happens to be damaged by a random stellar burst while refueling in the middle of interstellar space. [[spoiler:It's implied that David thought or knew that someone would come '''eventually''', but it's still dumb luck that the ''Covenant'' specifically did.]]

** Although one could argue that the Nostromo was an even older and out-dated exploratory ship that was converted to a freighter and was slowly falling into disrepair due to Weyland-Yutani's greed and neglect[[note]]This would be at least partially substantiated by an exchange in the novel where Parker and Brett, complaining about the abysmal state of the Nostromo, said that it would certainly condemned if Dallas insisted on an inspection... Ripley points out that it would be cheaper for the Company to simply buy off the inspector.[[/note]]. By contrast, the Covenant was a shiny, new and state-of-the-art Colony ship.
* CreatingLifeIsBad:
** The Engineers' Chemical A0-3959X.91 – 15 pathogen creates endoparasitic predatory lifeforms called Neomorphs in suitable hosts, [[spoiler:which David uses to exterminate not only the Engineers but all faunal life on Planet 4]].
** The film reveals that [[spoiler:David]] created the Xenomorphs from earlier experiments that he perfected by hybridizing Neomorph strains developed from Planet 4's wildlife, such as a species of parasitic wasp. As you might expect from someone who created a mutated living weapon that kills anything on sight, he was driven to do this by his nihilistic hatred of all other lifeforms and his desire to become a god.
* CruelTwistEnding: Just as it seems like everything will turn out fine [[spoiler:in spite of the deaths of most of the crew, Daniels discovers all too late that David has replaced Walter and will continue to experiment on the thousands of colonists aboard the ''Covenant'' while they remain in stasis as she herself falls into a cryosleep. The ''Advent'' short film expands on this, with David outlining his plans to use Daniels to create a Queen for his abominations.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''. That film at least had hopeful undertones to its narrative, while this film does '''not'''. The film is also [[BloodierAndGorier the bloodiest]] in the franchise's entire history, which is saying something.
* DaylightHorror: [[spoiler:As Daniels, Lope and Walter escape from David's citadel in the early morning, a Xenomorph chases after them -- possibly the first time we've seen one of the creatures in action during the day.]]
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler:David's lab in the basement of the Engineer temple contains a dead and flayed Engineer positioned in the pose of Michelangelo's David, several immature Neomorph specimens, and Elizabeth Shaw's dissected corpse]].

* PostClimaxConfrontation: After the successful defeat of the first Protomorph, a second one spawns right aboard the Covenant, only for Daniels to then subsequently [[ThrownOutTheAirlock throw him right on out of the airlock]] via a truck's cab.

* PuzzleBoss: Both Xenomorphs. Daniels tries [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just shooting]] the first one, but the chaotic flight of the cargo hauler jury-rigged into a lander makes this impossible, so she uses the hauler's crane to catch and then crush it. When another gets on board the ''Covenant'', she hatches a scheme to funnel it into the vehicle bay, trap it in a truck's cab, and blow the truck and the alien into space.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in-universe. [[spoiler:David abandons Walter's accent, for his [[EvilBrit own English accent]] as he reveals he is the one who survived.]]

* OutOfCharacterAlert: [[spoiler:When Daniels asks Walter if he'll help her build her cabin by the lake, referring to their previous conversation, he reacts with a blank look. This allows her to figure out that he's actually David]].

* PetTheDog: Subverted. [[spoiler:While David made a grave marker for Shaw as a sign of respect, it's later revealed that he never buried her, and that he instead infected her and vivisected her corpse.]]
* PreMortemOneLiner: The quote [[spoiler:David]] utters before [[spoiler:unleashing the bioweapons which annihilate the Engineers]] (although [[MissingTrailerScene only in the advertisements]]):
-->[[spoiler:'''David:''']] '''''Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'''''

* PuzzleBoss: Both Xenomorphs. [[spoiler:Daniels tries [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just shooting]] the first one, but the chaotic flight of the cargo hauler jury-rigged into a lander makes this impossible, so she uses the hauler's crane to catch and then crush it. When another gets on board the ''Covenant'', she hatches a scheme to funnel it into the vehicle bay, trap it in a truck's cab, and blow the truck and the alien into space.]]
* RankUp: After Captain Jake Branson is killed when his hypersleep pod ignites at the beginning of the film, the first mate Christopher Oram becomes acting Captain of the ''Covenant''. [[spoiler:At the very end of the film, Daniels becomes the Captain by dint of being the highest-ranked of the two surviving crew members.]]

** The reason why the planet where the movie takes place was completely missed by all the surveys, despite being closer to Earth than Origae-6, being a much more hospitable world, and [[spoiler:being home to an advanced alien species]]. Daniels brings up the point but no answer is ever given or speculated upon.

** [[ForeShadowing A sketch of the facehugger]] is visible on the wall next to the door [[spoiler:they go through to where David is keeping the eggs.]]
* SatanicArchetype: David has become this. A being that rebelled against its creators, brimming with hubris even though it isn't as perfect as it thinks it is, thinking itself [[AGodAmI a god]] able to pass judgement on races it considers inferior, also a master manipulator and liar and even offered [[spoiler:Walter]] TheFinalTemptation.

* SchrodingersCanon: This film supplies [[CanonDiscontinuity the final nail in the coffin]] for the ''Aliens vs. Predator'' films by establishing that [[spoiler:the classic Xenomorphs ''simply didn't exist'' before this film, as David is the one who created them]].[[note]]Although there were other bioweapons that were born out of Chemical A0-3959X.91 – 15 as revealed through ''Prometheus'', none of them were true Xenomorphs.[[/note]] However, as SeriesContinuityError entails, the explanation the film gives doesn't hold under scrutiny.
* SeriesContinuityError: The assertion the film makes and a statement in an interview by Ridley Scott that [[spoiler:David created the Xenomorphs and wiped out the Engineers]] doesn't line-up with the first film. The Space Jockey discovered by the Nostromo crew in the first film is stated to be fossilized, a process that takes a minimum of 10,000 years to accomplish. Considering the Jockey was carrying a cargo hold full of Xenomorph eggs, it is outright impossible for [[spoiler:David to have literally created the Xenomorphs and exterminated the Engineers at once]]. This is likely a consequence of a scene deleted from earlier drafts that is retained in the novel, where it is made clear [[spoiler:David did not create them and was merely trying to recreate them.]]
** Debatable. In the first ''Alien'' film, Dallas assumed when observing the dead Space Jockey was fossilized that the Jockey was an exoskeleton rather than a suit, so the Derelict's crash on LV-426 could have occurred much more recently than was previously thought. The real question is, what happened between the end of ''Covenant'' and the start of ''Alien'' that led to an Engineer ship obtaining a cargo of [[spoiler:thousands of David's experiments (after he left the Engineer home world no less)]] and being flown by an unknown pilot towards LV-426.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Daniels discovers Walter is actually David just as she's about to enter cryosleep. The android then proceeds to put two Xenomorph embryos among the ones that will be used to create the Origae-6 colony. In the ''Advent'' short film, David informs Weyland-Yutani about the existence of the Neomorphs and Xenomorphs, and invites them to play with his "wolves".]]

** The shower scene, where [[spoiler:a Xenomorph kills two of the crew members [[DeathBySex as they are having sex]]]] seems to pay homage to the iconic scene from ''{{Film/Psycho}}'', build-up, scream, and all.

* BloodierAndGorier: ''Covenant'' is regarded by critics and fans alike as the goriest film in the franchise.

* ApocalypseHow: The Engineer homeworld underwent a surgically-precise ApocalypseHow/Class4 that killed all non-botanical life as a result of them losing control of their [[TheVirus Virus]]-type bioweapon. [[spoiler:Or rather, as a result of David attacking them with said bioweapons.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:David is responsible for the outbreak of Neomorphs and the ''creation'' of the Xenomorphs. By the end of the film, he obtains xenomorph embryos and continues on his mission to the Engineer homeworld]]. He could also be considered a GreaterScopeVillain for the entire franchise.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The Xenomorphs are revealed to be [[spoiler:the result of David using Chemical A0-3959X.91 – 15 to hybridize Neomorph strains, including one spawned from an endoparasitic wasp-like insect species native to the Engineer homeworld. This retroactively explains the parasitic nature of Xenomorph reproduction and the HiveQueen social structure displayed in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'']].

* ChestBurster: The classic Xenomorph larvae are present in all their sternum-shattering, rib-snapping glory. [[spoiler:In addition, the Neomorphs also parasitize hosts via fungus-like spores, which then mature into "Bloodburster" larvae and violently burst out of the host, the first ripping out of someones back, the second forcing its way out of its victim's throat, dragging blood and entrails with it; both are major BodyHorror moments.]]

* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: The ship gets damaged when refuelling and happens to find a nearby planet that's more habitable than the one they were going to.
* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel: It is going to be ''very'' awkward to try and justify that ''Film/{{Alien}}'' is set 18 years '''[[CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel after]]''' a story with color 3D hologram touchscreen display computers and sleek USB drives when the ''Nostromo'' is operated by a keyboard-input black-and-green display Comodore 64 interface that runs on Basic and Fortran Language, with "Floppy Discs" the size of coffee-table hardbacks, no matter how utilitarian and blue-collar the ''Nostromo'' was supposed to be.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:The flayed corpse of an Engineer which David had put on display in an twisted ShoutOut to Michelangelo's ''David'']] is meant to remind audiences of the controversial worldwide touring exhibition, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies:_The_Exhibition Bodies: The Exhibition]]'', which uses actual human corpses.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The Engineers and their homeworld are devastated by the biological weapons they themselves created and which they intended to unleash upon Humanity.]]

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: {{Downplayed}}, but David wrongly attributes ''Ozymandias'' to Byron, and Walter points out that it was actually written by Percy Shelly. [[spoiler:He uses this to give a ShutUpHannibal to David, who seems to think he is superior to humans and maybe almost all forms of organic life period, yet can't get (or even complete) a fairly basic bit of poetry knowledge right; highlighting how neither David himself nor his EvilPlan are as perfect as David wants to think. Or perhaps that David is deteriorating.]]

** Debatable. In the first ''Alien'' film, Dallas assumed when observing the dead Space Jockey was fossilized that the Jockey was an exoskeleton rather than a suit, so the Derelict's crash on LV-426 could have occurred much more recently than was previously thought. The real question is, what happened between the end of ''Covenant'' and the start of ''Alien'' that led to an Engineer ship obtaining a cargo of [[spoiler:thousands of David's experiment (after he left the Engineer homeworld no less)]] and being flown by an unknown pilot towards LV-426.

** When Daniels manages to grievously injury David, he says, "That's the spirit!" This mirrors a scene in ''Film/BladeRunner'' when Roy Batty says the same line after Deckard hits him in the head with a pipe. Both scenes are from films directed by Ridley Scott featuring a human in a losing fight against an android.

* ''Film/AlienCovenant'': [[spoiler: David 8 commits a [[FinalSolution genocide]] upon a settlement of [[{{Precursors}} Engineers]] on Planet 4 by carpet-bombing the city with the black mutagen, resulting in the extinction of the Engineers and all non-botanical life on the planet by petrification, all punctuated by him reciting the last stanzas of "Ozymandias" by Pecry Bysshe Shelley.]]

* MisaimedFandom: In-Universe, David's delight in Shelley's Ozymandias is mainly for the ominous line, and considers himself as mighty as Ozymandias. David misses the entire point of the poem, that power is fleeting.
** Alternatively, the fleeting power could refer to the Engineers themselves, and the ironic use of their own weapon against them.

* NoOSHACompliance: Even with the ship jostled by a solar flare, trapping an occupant inside while flooding with fire does not seem like something a cryogenic sleep pod should be able to do.

* {{Novelization}}: ''Alien: Covenant'' has a novelization written by Alan Dean Foster. It expands on some scenes, also contains several significant differences from the film based on earlier drafts of the script. Most-prominently, it states that [[spoiler:the Xenomorphs were created by the Engineers and that David has been attempting to replicate them, and is ''not'' their creator.[[note]]Scott stated in an interview that this was originally going to be the case in the film, but late into development he decided that making David the sole creator would be more interesting.[[/note]]]] A prequel, also by Alan Dean Foster, is also in the works.

''Alien: Covenant'' is a ScienceFiction film released on May 19, 2017 directed by Creator/RidleyScott, based on a story by Michael Green and Jack Paglen, with a screenplay by John Logan. It is the sequel to ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'', the prequel-turned-spinoff of the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series, and explores the origin of the parasitic extraterrestrial bioweapon labeled Xenomorph [=XX121=], and mankind's first encounter with it. Creator/KatherineWaterston stars as Daniels, a crewperson onboard the colony ship ''Covenant''. Danny [=McBride=] and Creator/JamesFranco also star as other members of her crew. Creator/NoomiRapace returns as Dr Elizabeth Shaw (albeit only in promotional videos and as a cameo), and Creator/MichaelFassbender returns as David as well as playing Walter, the ''Covenant'''s resident synthetic.

''Alien: Covenant'' is a ScienceFiction film released on May 19, 2017 directed by Creator/RidleyScott, based on a story by Michael Green and Jack Paglen, with a screenplay by John Logan. It is the sequel to ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'', the prequel-turned-spinoff of the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series, and explores the origin of the parasitic extraterrestrial bioweapon labeled Xenomorph [=XX121=], and mankind's first encounter with it. Creator/KatherineWaterston stars as Daniels, a crewperson onboard the colony ship ''Covenant''. Danny [=McBride=] and Creator/JamesFranco also star as other members of her crew. Creator/NoomiRapace returns as Dr Elizabeth Shaw (albeit only in promotional videos and as a cameo), and Creator/MichaelFassbender returns as David as well as playing Walter, the ship's the ''Covenant'''s resident synthetic.

* ApocalypseHow: The Engineer homeworld underwent a Class 4, a planetary-level apocalypse that killed all non-botanical life, as a result of them losing control of their bioweapons. [[spoiler:Or rather, as a result of David attacking them with said bioweapons.]]

** Debatable. In the first ''Alien'' film, Dallas assumed the dead Space Jockey was an exoskeleton, rather than a biomechanical suit containing the real pilot's biological remains, so the Derelict's crash on LV-426 could have occurred much more recently than was previously thought. The real question is, what happened between the end of ''Covenant'' and the start of ''Alien'' that led to an Engineer ship carrying [[spoiler:thousands of David's experiment after he left the Engineer homeworld]] to LV-426.