Not a Zombie

i think he was the result of a very injured or dead person coming into contact with the black ooze--remember the snake-thing attacked hi, and he was maimned by its acid blood before he fell into the ooze... similiar to the decapitated engineer head being effected by ooze.

HOWEVER... The ooze has the ability to DE-EVOLVE what it touches...

the decapitated head was too old and didn't react very well to their trying to keep his brain active for a little while and as of the first day i saw the movie, i felt Fifield II moved like a monkey (after his crazy legs over back the exorcist style)

Neanderthals, nor any other human ancestor have the ability to survive gunshots from two different sidearms, being run over by an APC and set on fire repeatedly. Also, they're not strong enough to throw grown men in space suits dozens of feet into the air. It wasn't just a zombie or just a "devolved" human, it was space Superman. They also never explained why Fifield went back to the ship and attacked them? Was he sapient at the tie? Did the Engineer send him? Do black ooze monsters simply seek out and kill humans on impulse? Why does Shaw's black ooze baby and the black ooze worms look and act completely alien while black ooze Fifield is still recognizable as humans? Maybe we'll get our answers in two years for another 16$ when Prometheus 2: The Patching of the Plot Holes, is released.

i just saw him looking rather ugly...that face was hideous.....and that pose with him standing all contorted like that....HECTIC!....IMO the scariest moment in Prometheus!!...the goo turned a earthworm into a big ugly aggressive earthworm and turned Fifield into a raging monster...never got the idea that he DE-evolved?

The only time we see de-evolution is the initial engineer who is sacrificing to create life--perhaps that goo is different, or altered, to a different effect---we don't know.

Fifield was very much a zombie IMO... He existed outside the ship without the protection of his helmet, big hole in front of his face and did you notice his eyes where white? As if he was already dead, just reanimated... Without the use of his eyes, he still somehow could see, kind of like a zombie as well. I didn't see him go for brains however, but he did go berserker for sure. Not really sure we can describe his transformation as a de-evolution, but maybe more like re-animation. Just my thoughts...

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I thought (as follows with the Alien, Facehugger, Hammerpede) that the black goo produces a very aggressive individual/beast (Look at what became of those tiny worms). Fifefield's has his helmet melted to his face which would put a "crimp" in my day... so facial damage is understood. I can't fathom how Fife can sit outside the "garage" door the way he does other than I can see it as a visual device... its wrong, Human joints don't fold like that and it makes an audience realize that character is different somehow, makes them feel uncomfortable and so sets up the adrenaline surge! Crazed I'm sure... Neanderthal I prefer to differ maybe half-evovled... remember that the evolution of other species is different from our own. That's my twopennith anyhow!

Tetrarch42... you're that " " close to the answer. You observed corrrectly the things it could do and survive... You ask does it seek out humans. Not specifically, but there was no other life form around at the time that it could detect. Fifield wasn't impregnated. He was immersed. Perhaps if it happened to a space jockey the process might be clearer. Dudes, look on the roof of the domes...

Fifield was following the inherit DNA programming of the Black Ooze (Destroy all Life). Let me expand on this... the Black Ooze bio-weapon is designed to kill (humans only?) and to alter whatever life form it comes into contact with. These new configurations thus become a viable weapon and one that can parasitically be controlled by it. There is fungus that does the same thing to ants (spread the fungus to greater regional areas). That's what makes it so dangerous, also why it got out of control 2000 years ago on LV-223 (Engineers might be smart but arrogance does not mix well with toxic lifeforms). Then our explores happen upon the Bio-weapons facility and reintroduce it to the environment again, with the results that follow... Fifield first got sprayed with Acid for Blood, his helmet disintegrated and he fell head first into the Black Ooze, thus sealing his fate.

[u] Without the use of his eyes, he still somehow could see[/u] - Bingo! [u]a very aggressive individual/beast[/u] - Yup. Any of this sounding familiar?

@Hadley's Hope Oh my god... Sir, I think it is your time to do a thread...

But if that is the case Hadkey's Hope--and I certainly see the indication--why such a different reaction for Holloway....the amount?

We have animals and creatures here on earth that do not use eyes per say, but sensory organs that do map their environment extremely well. The eyes can be fooled very easily...

I would not say he is neither Neanderthal or Zombie... He is simply mutated and thus more in common with this guy... [img]http://www.trailershut.com/movie-posters/The-Toxic-Avenger-Movie-Poster.jpg[/img] Again some chemical that mutates a normal guy into a disfigured but more powerfall being.

Yeah at first I was really confused by a zombie being thrown into the mix. @patch I actually really like the idea of that black ooze being an anti-life liquid. It turns everything (fifield, worms, holloway+cuddles) into a killer. It would make sense since Xeno is the perfect predator. Also the engineers were sending it to earth to destroy humans. @hadley's and freeze yeah the blind/aggression(xenomorph) thing is very likely as I just proclaimed with the liquid. Fifield was wounded but not killed by the acid, and the ooze morphed him. If Holloway hadn't been killed, he may have shown similar zombie-symptoms too. Chestburster victims look normal not infected. Unrelated to this thread, I think David predicted that Holloway and Shaw would have sex, and that's why he infected him.

I think the answer may be very simple. At the beggining the engineer ingested the ooze and decomposed or w/e and holloway also ingested it and appeared to be having the same reaction. Fifield and the worms however were exposed in a very different way, thus, possibly the different results? Then again Shaw was impregnated with the ooze in an enitrely different way then everyone else too. So, the perfect killing organ---er... oooze?