Alien: Romulus Offspring Discussion - Gender specific effects of Black Goo Accelerant?

Well I think Shaw didn't suffer any mutations due to the black goo altered Holloway's sperm.

Also Holloway was undergoing a different transformation then Fifield. Holloway was disintegrating because he ingested the black goo, while Fifield inhaled the black goo.

Kay I believe was having a slower transformation due to being larger than the mouse and her fetus. We see that she was lactating a black goo-like substance instead of breast milk.

Good hypothesis though, I would like for the filmmakers to explore this further in a sequel.

Via Variety:

“The black goo is the root of the whole thing that was introduced in ‘Prometheus’,” Álvarez explains. “It’s the root of all life, but also particularly the xenomorphs come out of that thing, which means it has to be inside them. It’s the xenomorphs’ semen, almost. So we thought, if it affects your DNA, and the Engineers clearly came out of the same root of life, it made complete sense to me that [the offspring of a human and a xenomorph] was going to look like that.”

If Kay survived....would her future babies be offspring monsters?

Maybe Kay would have become a Queen. Mutating into some sort of Offspring birther. 

Did Andy and Rain destroy the Accelerant ? 

Where is BigDave?

No matter how you slice it, the goo does whatever is necessary for the story. 

Elizabeth gives birth to an anime tentacle monster after having intercourse with Holloway who on the other hand started to decompose. 

Fifield somehow turned into the toxic avenger  after faceplanting into a pool of the goo, much more than the tiny amount Holloway received, yet the Engineers on Planet 4 (Covenant) died after being sprayed with the goo. Why didn't they mutate? The worms bathing in the goo turned into hammerpedes (snakes) considerably larger than their original form. 

Two colonists got goo spores into their bodies and gave birth to identical Neomorphs, while

***Romulus Spoilers***

Kay in Romulus gave birth to the happiest Engineer that ever lived.

*End of spoilers*

Nothing's consistent. It follows no logic other than being plot magic. 

@neomorph So true,  But that's not any fun!

I wonder If they put Kay in Cryo? Or jettisoned her body. Ground burial on the next planet would be cool scene...with spores escaping her corpse.

Andy/Rain still have the accelerant? I'd absolutely read a book about their adventures.

With or without the accelerant. Rain is probably pissed at Weyland Yutani and wants some sort of revenge for the death of her friends. Expose them or something. Thorn in their side.

She must be silenced! 

There wasn't much left of Kay, I guess she was sucked out the airlock along with happy emojineer (some say he's still smiling while floating around in space) 

Yeah what happened to that goo cylinder? Hopefully Romulus does well enough at the box office only for Fox/Disney to greenlight a potential sequel or a new Alien film at least, preferably a sequel without fan-service every other scene. 

There's also a few loose ends like David's intentions when heading to Origae 6 at the end of Covenant, if any director cares to bother with his character arc. 

Until then, Alien After Earth series next! 

Yeah, it's nearly 2025 and nothing published ( novel, comic book ) about David/Daniels/T or Origae 6 so it follows, nothing but fan fiction for Romulus.

But Rain and Andy are likable characters ( compared to David and even Daniels/T ), so I'll give it much better odds.

The chemistry between Rain and Andy worked really well! I was strangely enough more worried about Andy than any other character in the film lol. 

Supplementary material suggests the black goo does different things based on its environment.

Holloway ingested the black goo/accelerant, so he was destined to become Black Goo primordial soup.

Fifield inhaled it, becoming an enraged mutant or xenomorph hybrid (deleted scene version)

The Planet 4 Engineers were bombed with the accelerant, perhaps since the canisters dissolved/exploded in midair may have caused a different reaction in the pathogen.

Also the accelerant/black goo/black liquid/pathogen was a refined version in Alien Romulus don't pretend it was the exact same formula as it was in the Prequels.

The Accelerant from the prequels came directly from the canisters that the engineers made. The Accelerant in Alien Romulus was extracted from Big Chap/Kane's Son and then further refined into Z-01.

Crap forgot to include one more thing and correct something. Yes the Pathogen/Black Goo/Black Liquid/Chemical A0-3959X.91–15 in Alien Romulus is the same pathogen from Prometheus and Covenant. But what we see that mutates the mouse and Kay's baby was the refined version, Z-01. Which came from a secondary source of the original pathogen, a xenomorph rather than its primary source, the urns.

*The reason that the Offspring looks like an engineer,* is that the original xenomorphs were spawned as the end result of engineers being infected with the black goo (as shown in the huge mural in the engineer temple, in Prometheus).
Thus, xenomorphs have a recent DNA relationship to engineers. This latent engineer DNA was then manifested in the xenomorph-human hybrid Offspring creature, seen at the end of the Romulus movie. It's not because "Engineers are related to humans". That wouldn't work at all, because engineers started ALL LIFE on Earth, not just humans. Humans would be very distantly related to engineers. We're more related to apes, rats, frogs and goldfish than the very starting point of
life, billions of years ago.

I think there could be a genetic handshake going on, between the engineer DNA within the Xenomorphs and the minimal Engineer DNA still left in humans after all this time, but it would mostly be coming from the Xenomorph's recent engineer
relationship.