20 Facts About David 8

David 8, commonly known as David 8, is a fictional character featured in the Alien franchise, portrayed by Michael Fassbender.

David 8 was conceptualised as a character to provide a non-human perspective for the theme of meeting one's creators in Prometheus, with him representing the next generation in a line of creators who finds himself disillusioned by his predecessors.

Unlike his companions and android successors, David 8 would be disillusioned by his creators and look to fashion himself into an entity defying their nature.

Inside, David 8 utilizes his linguistic knowledge to activate an ancient hologram depicting Engineers fleeing through the corridors of the ship.

David 8 is instructed by an unidentified voice on a radio to "try harder", prompting him to gather a drop of mutagen from the urn and use it to infect Holloway as he drinks champagne.

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David 8 makes his way to the ship's flight deck, where he activates a hologram revealing that the Engineers were looking to travel to Earth and that there is a single Engineer in cryosleep.

David 8 prepares Weyland for an excursion to the Engineer ship.

David 8 leads the team to the flight deck of the ship, where he awakens and speaks with the Engineer, who reacts by decapitating him and killing the rest of the team, save for Shaw.

David 8's severed head watches from the floor as the Engineer launches the ship and attempts to embark for Earth.

Shortly after his creation, David 8 becomes acquainted with a young Peter Weyland, who introduces himself as the android's creator and "father".

David 8 intervenes by frightening them away with a flare gun.

David 8 urges the survivors to follow him to the temple, where he has established his laboratory.

David 8 takes a special interest in the successor model from his own synthetic line, Walter, and tells him that Shaw died when the Engineer ship crashed.

David 8 leads Oram to a room filled with Alien Eggs or Ovomorphs, where Oram is attacked and impregnated by a Facehugger by forcing its ovipositor down his throat.

Walter rejects David 8's offer to join him, prompting David 8 to deliver a Judas kiss and then impale him through the neck with his flute, apparently terminating him.

David 8 has been featured in a number of promotional materials for the Alien prequel films.

Forrest Wickman of Slate magazine lauded Fassbender for being able to emulate uncanny valley through his mannerisms alone and ranked David 8 as being the greatest portrayal of an android to date.

Kevin Lincoln of Vulture magazine described David 8 as being the best cinematic villain in years, due to his dynamic personality and ability to win against the characters in Alien: Covenant.

John Squires of Bloody Disgusting praised David 8 for supplanting the main protagonist of the first four films, Ellen Ripley, as the overall best character of the franchise in 2017.

David 8 was nominated by the London Film Critics Circle Awards 2012 for Supporting Actor of the Year, but lost to Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master.