10 Movie Characters Pointlessly Forced Into Sequels
5. Elizabeth Shaw - Alien: Covenant
Elizabeth Shaw was supposed to be the next Ellen Ripley. She was the hero of Ridley Scott's new Alien spin-off series, Prometheus and was going to be the one who fought the monsters and journeyed through space - fundamentally, the one we followed throughout the films.
Then Prometheus didn't exactly go to plan at the box office and plans for the next film - Alien: Covenant - changed from the original script, which saw Shaw alive.
It quickly established that she had died between the films and then shows, multiple times, Shaw's dead body, cut open, raw and exposed as one of David's
It's a bit much to see the next feminist hero slit open on a tray. We get that she was killed, you don't need to show us the autopsy.