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| rdfs:comment | - Shaw is a firm believer that the Engineers not only created humanity but can offer them answers to mankind's very existence. A belief shared by her lover Charlie Holloway.
* An Axe to Grind
* Badass: She manages to take out two people whilst in crippling pain and likely suffering the side effects of a sedative. Shaw then takes it upon herself to personally remove the thing inside her womb with some self-surgery using inadequate anesthetic. Everything else she does (ie. taking down the Engineer) is whilst carrying the pain of having just cut herself open and removing her own womb. If that's not badass, I don't know what is.
* Be Careful What You Wish For: Elizabeth wanted to meet her creator, she comes to learn they are evil and believes it was a mistake for the crew to have ever
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| abstract | - Shaw is a firm believer that the Engineers not only created humanity but can offer them answers to mankind's very existence. A belief shared by her lover Charlie Holloway.
* An Axe to Grind
* Badass: She manages to take out two people whilst in crippling pain and likely suffering the side effects of a sedative. Shaw then takes it upon herself to personally remove the thing inside her womb with some self-surgery using inadequate anesthetic. Everything else she does (ie. taking down the Engineer) is whilst carrying the pain of having just cut herself open and removing her own womb. If that's not badass, I don't know what is.
* Be Careful What You Wish For: Elizabeth wanted to meet her creator, she comes to learn they are evil and believes it was a mistake for the crew to have ever come to the planet.
* Broken Pedestal: The Engineers. They go from awe inspiring to the stuff of nightmares.
* But I Can't Be Pregnant: In the most horrifying way imaginable. Shaw immediately knows the child is not human and is suitably disturbed. David's lack of tact doesn't help either.
* Crisis of Faith: Averted. Despite the horrors she and the crew faces, her faith in a higher power never wavers. In fact when things have really hit the fan she still makes sure to get her father's cross back, after she was forced to hand over it due to quarantine procedure. David even lampshades this, intrigued that she still believes after all that's happened.
* Determinator: She performs emergency surgery on herself whilst conscious in order to ensure the creature inside her is removed. She also beats two people off her to get to the operating machinery. And to put this into perspective, she is the only person in the Alien Universe to have survived being infected with a chestburster, which is supposed to be the death sentence event for a character in this setting. David tells her afterward that her survival instincts are very impressive.
* Despair Event Horizon: After ensuring the Engineer is dead and the Earth is safe, she breaks down crying out to the deceased Charlie that she isn't strong enough to go on. However, David snaps her out of it when he tells her he can get them off planet in a space jockey vessel.
* Expy: Her character has been compared favourably to Ripley due to being a strong female character in the Alien universe. Though Noomi Rapace believes that despite some similarities there are clear differences.
* Fetus Terrible: She gives birth to what is possibly the first facehugger.
* Hot Scientist
* Law of Inverse Fertility: She's sterile, something Holloway accidentally reminds he of when he says that creating life is no big deal, and she asks what it means that she can't do it. The fact that she's sterile is also her first big blue that she her pregnancy is not natural, not to mention that she's already 3 months along.
* Summon Bigger Fish: She does this to the surviving Engineer trying to kill her. Opening a near-by door unleashing a giant proto-facehugger on him. It's not pretty.
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