Prometheus 2: 10 Questions The Film Needs To Answer

7. Will Shaw Survive Her Caesarian?

One of the most gruesome scenes in Prometheus didn't involve menacing assaults or the murder of the ship's crew and all but confirmed Shaw's role as badass survivor heroine; it involved Shaw, after being impregnated with the alien spawn of her unwittingly infected boyfriend rushing into a bio-pod and extracting the foetus in excruciatingly gory detail. This self-performed Caesarian-meets-abortion stood out as a horrific highlight of the film and helped allay moviegoers' fears that the deeply religious, scientific and sweet Elizabeth was nothing more than a bit of a wimp. In the original script, the scene actually plays out in an even more gruesome fashion with the lead heroine wrenching the alien out of her womb, only to collapse due to blood loss and to find the newly-grown creature tearing the spaceship apart hours later once the bio-pod has finished reassembling her organs and patching her up, as it had to crack her chest open to extract the foetus. One rough labour and a half. The real question for Elizabeth, however, is whether or not her still-healing injury will play a role in her survival. Given that she managed to run across hard stone to escape the exploding Prometheus vessel as it crashed, fight off an Engineer, and was mobile at all, it seems as though Shaw is pretty indestructible; however, a massive injury like that needs to be referenced at some point, as well as the possibility that being an alien incubator has done something to her body.