David 8

"I believe in... creation."

- David's explanation for his actions

"It is time for you to make a decision. Would you prefer to rule in Hell, or to be a servant in Paradise?"

- David's final question to Walter, another android and one of the main protagonists of the movie

David, originally manufactured as David-8, is the main antagonist of the 2017 sci-fi horror, Alien: Covenant. He was created by Weyland Industries on special order of Peter Weyland himself, who wanted to use him in Prometheus expedition, which goal was to find mankind's creators, the Engineers, so Weyland could ask them to make him immortal. From the very beginning, David started to feel superiority to Weyland because of his own immortality, and seeing him desperately asking for it from the found living Engineer only established his thought that he is superior to Peter, and cause Peter is the best of all manking, David started to think that he is superior to all mankind as well. He started to think of humans as dinosaurs, while robots and the new life forms like Aliens were the future in his eyes. So when he was restored after the serious damage from the Engineer by Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (her fate still remains unknown), he arrived on the Engineers' planet, the so-called Paradise, and destroyed all of them, and when it was done, he started his mad experiments on the virus founded by Prometheus mission. He created various different beings, but the final result of his work was Xenomorph, a perfect predator and the main antagonist of the Alien franchise overall.

David was portrayed by Oscar-nominated actor Michael Fassbender, who also portrayed Magneto in the last X-Men movies and Lord Macbeth in 2015 version of Macbeth.

Trivia

 * It is the second time Michael Fassbender is portrating two tied characters in one movie.
 * According to Michael Fassbender, he would love to see David dancing on the ship's dancing table during the end credits of Prometheus.
 * Between David and Walter, Michael Fassbender himself would rather sit in a bar with David.