Who is the Beardyman?

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Krak Fox

MemberOvomorph01/13/2012

Ok so this Beardyman guy is absolutely key to the film I bet - but who is he and why does he look so bizarre? Here he is in one of the teaser trailers: [img]http://garrick.lesniakswann.com/beardyman1.png[/img] You can see his odd mohican style hair - and someone's trying to kill him with a flamethrower… so he scrambles up one of the APC in an in-human manner if you watch the trailer. Here he is, i presume only a second or two after the last screenshot - he's leaping off the APC he's just climbed up seconds before: [img]http://garrick.lesniakswann.com/beardyman2.png[/img] Here he is with fire damage BUT minus the helmet and chest/back carapace of his space suit. The top portion of his head is swollen and possibly mutating. this is taken from another of the teaser trailers: [img]http://garrick.lesniakswann.com/beardyman3.png[/img] I did think at first that the mutant was Holloway mutating after he'd been sprayed in the face with the substance as per the main trailer: [img]http://garrick.lesniakswann.com/halloway.png[/img] - but then i noticed the beard… so who is the mutant? I'm pretty sure he's gonna be the main protagonist here. The 'Engineer' seen in the below shot could still be a mutated human (Holloway). But I don't think 'Beardyman' and the 'Engineer' are the same creature at different points of mutation, like i once thought till i saw the beard - cuz the beard seems an odd addition to the mix….unsightly even. [img]http://garrick.lesniakswann.com/whodis.png[/img] I think a few theories on the origin/identity of the Beardyman are needed to get to the bottom of who/what he is…..

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Biomechanic

MemberOvomorph01/13/2012

You know if you look at the [url=http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/7324067/img/prometheus/agonyman.png]high resolution image[/url] of Holloway he looks like he is rapidly growing some strange peach fuzz.

Frantz

MemberOvomorph01/13/2012

i dont think he will be a key role ... he also appear in the RED LASERS scene ...getting something from a bag ..still normal .

Davi4078

MemberOvomorph01/13/2012

I think there is a relationship between this role and alien because his action is quite fast and similar to alien's. Maybe it's the punishment by Space Jockey to the crews .

Biomechanic

MemberOvomorph01/13/2012

Hey why is there no hair in that part of space? The biomechanoid doesn't have hair, The facehugger doesn't have hair, the bald guy when the chair rises doesn't have hair, I think the key to the movie is the foreign introduction of human hair into the their genetics lab.

jujutsuka

MemberOvomorph01/13/2012

With all those ampules, can we assume that they're not all full of the same stuff? There's the green goo (the maybe-proto-facehugger) we see in the trailer, but what if the ampules contain various biological matter? The bearded guy might well be exposed to something other than what Holloway is exposed to. Perhaps several characters meet several unique, grotesque fates. For all we know, someone could be exposed to some substance and (painfully?) mutate into a carnivorous plant. (Unlikely, I know, but you get what I mean.) If the engineers are bioformers, it doesn't necessarily make sense that every ampule would contain the same stuff.

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

CBT1979

MemberOvomorph01/13/2012

Who says that only one of the prometheus crew Will be infected and mutating? i believe there will be many becoming something else after the exposure with the green goo. and it is not clear whethee tge bold guy is a mutated human crew member or a space jockey.

Jeffomorph

MemberOvomorph01/13/2012

I agree Jones. Look at some of the Ampule room photos and you can see that there are different size urns. If you find a hi rez version, you can also see that there is writing on the side of the urns. Be very interesting to be able to read that writing, heh.

Biomechanic

MemberOvomorph01/13/2012

I don't remember seeing any writing on the urns anywhere. Can you point me to where to look?

Krak Fox

MemberOvomorph01/13/2012

Im pretty much on board withe whole more than one kind of mutant/more than one kind of bioform in the ampules. But the question remains - if the Beardyman ain't Holloway, then who is he and how did he come to be able to breath without a helmet (in the leaping from the APC shot, the guy he's jumping on is one of the crew wearing a helmet, indicating that a normal human cannot breath at that location without his suit. But Beardyman can! Cuz he's double hard!! ) .. If he can breath without space suit then it goes to show he is mutating into something alien and at home in the atmosphere of that particular planet

jujutsuka

MemberOvomorph01/13/2012

Beardman seems like he'd be one of the mercenaries (not necessarily Holloway) judging from his haircut, unless the hair has fallen out as part of the mutation. One thing I'm thinking is that not everyone who's exposed to one of these substances mutates and goes aggro like Beardman. I could see someone mutating and dying (horribly/painfully) due to crossed genetic wires. The resulting lifeform simply hits a genetic brick wall. Yet another might mutate into some "purer" (than human) form. The horror doesn't have to come from being attacked or chased, but from seeing someone who was once human have that humanity disrupted and stripped away through the mutation process.

Fall down seven times, get up eight.