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  • Captain Janek, after receiving an invitation to Vickers' room, plays "Love the One You're With" on his concertina.
    • Arguably, their whole exchange ("You know, if you wanna get laid, you really don't have to pretend to be interested in the pyramid scan. You could just say, 'Hey, l'm trying to get laid.'") is pretty funny.
  • Ravel telling Janek "frankly, you're a shit pilot", as his reason to along with Chance, stay behind and help him crash the Prometheus into the the Engineer's ship, sacrificing all three of their lives in order to save earth. Also is a Heartwarming Moment.
  • "Vickers...are you a robot?" Not just the question, but the way he's smiling and pointing at her when he says it.
    • Never actually answered. I could still believe it.
      • Albeit one who must be fully functional and anatomically correct, presumably.
  • Fifield making a bong in his helmet.
    • Fifield's declaration once they find all of the dead bodies.
  • Charlie mentioning he never had to speak after a ghost, when the Weyland hologram finishes, before presenting his and Shaw's findings.
  • Depending on your view of it, David being a disembodied head for the last quarter of the film. Probably more so when he gets zippered up into a bag.
    Shaw: I'm sorry.
    David: It's quite alright.
  • Before Fifield's and Milburn's descent into movie-genre-blind insanity, the exchange the two have with Captain Janek when they come across a pile of dead bodies and get told there's a life sign reading about one mile to the west of them...
    Captain Janek: Just got a ping about one click west of you.
    Milburn: Wh-What do you mean a ping?
    Captain Janek: Well, whatever that probe is picking up, it's not dead. It's reading a lifeform.
    Fifield: What?
    Milburn: Okay, what do you mean, "a life form"?
    Fifield: Is it- Is it moving?
    Captain Janek: No, I don't think so.
    Fifield: Captain, you're obviously not seeing what we're seeing here. (points flashlight at pile of dead bodies) If you were, you wouldn't be talking about a bloody ping.
    ...
    Fifield: Is it—is it moving? Are these thing moving?
    Captain Janek: No. No, it just disappeared, actually. Must be a glitch.
    Milburn: What do you mean, "a glitch"?
    Captain Janek: Alright, boys. Sleep tight. Try not to bugger each other.
    ...
    Fifield: He said one click west, yeah?
    Milburn: Yeah.
    Fifield: Where are we gonna go?
    Milburn: East.
    Fifield: Yeah, east.
    Milburn: A fucking glitch, man. "Pings, glitch, lifeform." What the fuck?
  • David's "Didn't know you had it in you." remark. It is really, really Black Comedy.
    • Which he then lampshades and apologizes for, making it funnier somehow.
  • David's basketcycling and the shot with him carefully peroxiding his hair while watching Lawrence of Arabia.
    • Which strays into Tearjerker territory if you consider T.E. Lawrence's character, fate, and the quote from the film that is played.
      T.E. Lawrence: Certainly it hurts.
      Officer: What's the trick then?
      T.E. Lawrence: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
  • Vickers angrily face-smooshing David. Even funnier after you learn they're essentially brother and sister.
  • This outtake.
  • This fan-made animation that parodies the alien birth scene is a real hoot.

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