10 Movies Totally Ruined By Fan Service

4. Alien: Covenant

Granted, the Alien franchise was boxed into a fan-serving corner as far back as Alien 3, which pissed off most of the fanbase after killing heroes Newt (Carrie Henn), Hicks (Michael Biehn) and Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the former two off-screen no less.

Alien Resurrection infamously went full-tilt fan fiction by bringing Ripley back to life via cloning, but even more so than that film, the Alien vs. Predator movies or even Prometheus, Alien: Covenant was a soulless and pandering attempt to "give the fans what they want."

After many complained about the lack of xenomorphs in Prometheus, Ridley Scott violently swerved in the other direction, by literally nuking the Engineers out of the franchise and throwing a fleet of xenos at the screen in the film's sloppy third act.

"You want xenos? You got 'em," is basically Covenant's mission statement, and because that's not enough, Scott also implies that the aliens were created by evil android David (Michael Fassbender), the logic of which is massively dubious and just invites an avalanche of questions.

Alien is a classic example of a franchise that did better when it didn't really explain anything, but after Prometheus received flak for being too vague, Scott's over-correction with Covenant just turned a lot of fans off.

It didn't help that the movie's human characters had the collective IQ of a baked potato, either.

Covenant ended up grossing barely half of Prometheus' box office haul, seemingly putting the entire series on ice, even if Fox recently confirmed that they're exploring options for a new Alien film.