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Why was the Engineer so angry?

This is a 4chan screenshot meme that jokes about the contradictory plot point in the sci-fi movie Prometheus. The image shows a scene from Prometheus where the Engineer, an ancient alien that created humanity, is violently decapitating a human character. The accompanying greentext lays out the confusing contradiction: the Engineer species created humans, left breadcrumb clues so humans could find them, then when humans finally arrived at their location, the Engineer flew into an uncontrollable rage and killed the human visitors, and the anonymous poster asks why he acted this illogically.
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invent humans
leave clues for humans so they can come find you
humans come and find you
chimp the fuck out and kill humans because they found you
Seriously, what the fuck was his problem?

Overview

This is a 4chan screenshot meme that jokes about the contradictory plot point in the sci-fi movie Prometheus. The image shows a scene from Prometheus where the Engineer, an ancient alien that created humanity, is violently decapitating a human character. The accompanying greentext lays out the confusing contradiction: the Engineer species created humans, left breadcrumb clues so humans could find them, then when humans finally arrived at their location, the Engineer flew into an uncontrollable rage and killed the human visitors, and the anonymous poster asks why he acted this illogically.

Origin notes

This is an anonymous post made on 4chan on February 17, 2024, later reposted to 9Gag under the original title 'Why was he so angry?'. The movie still used in the meme is taken from Ridley Scott's 2012 sci-fi film Prometheus, part of the Alien franchise.

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