3. Prometheus - Meredith Vickers Decides Not To Run Sideways
The stupidest mistakes it seems, are always made by the most intelligent people. Meredith Vickers is the captain of a giant spaceship heading to an unknown, possibly hostile planet in search of the progenitor of the human race. The team she has on board certainly end up making some interesting discoveries too. Aside from little black slugs that turn half of the ship's crew into highly aggressive monsters, Vickers and her colleagues also discover an Engineer, the race that they presume seeded Earth with life. Chaos ensues though, as it turns out the Engineer isn't particularly friendly to humans, killing most of the ones that remain alive. As the two remaining survivors, Vickers and Elizabeth Shaw shoot down the Engineer ship as it tries to depart the hostile planet, bringing it crashing down to the ground flattening Vickers in the process. The ship's disc-based shape makes it roll in a straight line towards its inevitable resting place, but Vickers, instead of simply running sideways, tries to outrun its huge vertical length, becoming a mushy stain beneath it.