8 Sequels That Killed Off Heroes In Minutes
4. Alien: Covenant
Ridley Scott's Prometheus ended on a big cliffhanger, as Elizabeth Shaw, the only survivor of the Prometheus, set off for the Engineers' homeworld with David's decapitated and still living head in a knapsack at her side.
So logically, the follow-up doesn't even feature Shaw as a character.
By the time the crew of the Covenant receive David's John Denver broadcast, ten years have passed and Shaw is already dead. Eventually, David reveals what happened to her in full, as Daniels stumbles upon her dead and mutilated corpse.
Shaw did get a more expanded role in some of the online prologues which were released, in which we see her stitching David's head back on to another body and even sharing a bit of a romance with the Fassbender's android, before being put into cryosleep. It is heavily implied that this is when David murdered her and used her body as a guinea pig for his Xenomorph-breeding experiments.