Is Vickers a Synthetic?

I believe so. Ridley has said "there could be two" synthetics in the movie...

I'm guessing she is. Very cool! I want one!

no kidding, Ghaim...no kidding...yum.

I'm beginning to believe she actually is a synthetic from the way she is shown in the IMAX trailer(she's shown standing alone in a corridor, her posture is much like that of a robot. Then there's the scene where she slams David against a wall in the same corridor, apparently trying to stop him from helping the good guys or escaping, maybe??

I think the "Vickers" model would be a high sale item...just for looks.

If she is a synthetic, then surely David would know this simply by observation, especially when they are in hypersleep on the way to the planet, when he is left in charge of monitoring the crew. But I'm sure she is human. The way she shows emotion and stress when running and getting to the escape pod (before the ship crashes in the space jockeys craft) would point toward this. An android would surely just unemotionally follow any programming instruction in its system to calmly and quickly get the hell out of there.

I think Vickers as a red herring when it comes to being a Synth. If we have a 2nd synth, my bet is someone who has a name starting with E....

Yeah I said that may be the case a while back ... she looks shifty ... as well as sexy ... :) ... BUT ... if that is the case is SHE in CryoSleep with the others? ... David isn't ... he's roaming around the ship, for 2yrs, pi$$ing about ... He deffo has an urge for Vickers though ... someone else, on here, said about the blue tinted scene, with both of them in it, that he's dreaming ... I reckon that too ... Vickers is just standing there in the corridor, then they have a little 'tiff' ... has he got synthetic testosterone? ...

The way she says "If you're going down there..you're going to die" doesn't remind me of the way any normal human being speaks that's for sure. Not to mention judging from the clip (if Shaw and Holloway turning around is indeed in response to her speaking) they don't particularly seem to care what she's saying as if her opinion isn't very valued (a non human opinion).

Vickers standing motionless in the corridor could be seen as her trying to blend with the lifeless objects around her to evade detection from alien life form that has burst out from the infected crew (or the crew themselves mutating into something else)? The swooping camera move looks to mimic the gliding movement of a snake-like organism. Or she IS the second robot.

@jasonlee- yum indeed! @Lord Ennio- I agree. In that shot as the camera moves around the curving corridor you see David there. I think that shot might be the "big reveal" of her synth nature. Or at very least a final confirming indication. @ Gromster and Zedwardson - Mayhap. Actually I hope she is a red herring. I want to be suprised . Yeah I thoght about the 'E' thing too. The lack it could be a red herring itself. A more subtle misdirection, if you will. @Gem]n[- "... shifty ... as well as sexy ..."! No 'shift' Sherlock!!! That should be her official character description!

@zedwardson- 'I think the "Vickers" model would be a high sale item ...' I've got to get a bigger piggy-bank! ;-)

Definitely. Vicker's an android. Suspected it right from the beginning. Would be the first pic in the franchise with 2 of them, wouldn't it?

I also just recently realized she has blonde hair like David, but because it's pulled back it's not as noticeable as his. Blonde hair must be a trait of androids. Vickers IS an android!

Well, the androids in Alien and Aliens were not blonds (brunettes, I believe).

I'm leaning towards yes she is - but then again, that might be a little too predictable. She's probably just a cold company bitch.

Theron described the character as "a suit who slowly sheds [her] skin through the film." http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2011/07/22/20th-century-fox-comic-con-panel-and-footage-description/

I remember [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/news/48]this[/url] interview, along with another (which I cannot find right now) in which Theron speaks about the humanity and emotionality of her character as the story evolves. Everything we've seen so far seems to be screaming "ANDROID", so I really hope she is not one, and anyway, it is not going to be this much anticipated "surprise" about Vickers. I don't think Ridley Scott & co. had something so cheap in mind. Maybe she turns out to be Mr Weyland, or a man, or Hello Kitty, whatever. But if she's the "secret" android then I would expect in the final scene all the survivors being murdered by a SJ butler... Unless she is a secret "David 9", but still...

Who believes interviews? I don't.

How about Janek being an android?