Dr. Elizabeth Shaw tripped a genocide.

Rating: 1/10 (17 January 2020)

Both Lt. Ellen Ripley and Dr. Elizabeth Shaw were written as protagonists and heroes by their writers, but they both actually tripped genocides.
Female heroes wronged by their writers...
Ripley was celebrated by movie fans for going toe-to-toe with company man Carter Burke, who wanted to sneak two Alien embryos past quarantine by smuggling them in Ripley's and another character's body while they were in hibernation. Burke was then going to kill the rest of the crew by sabotaging their hibernation units on the trip home. Ripley swore to him she was going to tell the company everything he tried to do, and make sure that they nailed him, "right to the wall!"
The reality is, Carter Burke is actually the hero of the story who would have prevented a genocide. He is the one who sent the family (Newt's) out to investigate, and they are the ones that found the spaceship. The spaceship that was filled with hundreds, if not thousands of eggs, and if this hadn't happened this way (as seen in the movie, with the unfortunate number of a few hundred people), the station/colony would have continued to grow in size, with hundreds or thousands more of the human colonists...
And, eventually, one day, someone would have found that spaceship, and those eggs, and those hundreds (or thousands) of humans would all be killed by the Aliens. That would have been the genocide, but Carter's greedy actions prevented this eventuality. Carter is the hero. Ripley, our supposed hero, is shouting-down the actual hero, threatening to nail him, "Right to the wall!" for his illegal actions which hadn't even happened yet (so far, he is an innocent man).
Once the company that was trying to terraform the planet found out about the Aliens and how they had killed a few hundred of their colonists, and that there's an Alien ship there with thousands more eggs, the company would have quarantined the whole planet and moved on.
(Although, why the original explorers BEFORE the terraformers didn't find the spaceship is beyond me. It's apparently really close to base. But, I have to let it go...)

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As for, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, she is quite the hero of the story in movie "Prometheus". Sole survivor, except for an android, like Ripley. Tough, like Ripley. And, she tripped a genocide, just as Ripley had.
In a case of profound misjudgment, she chose to actually believe that the homicidal android she needed to fly her off the planet, would get her safely to her next destination.
She did this out of selfishness, "I want to know where they came from."
She should have stayed, and died, on the planet.
Not only was she stunningly unable to correct her errors but she probably wasn't even aware that the smiling David android we see in the next movie, "Alien: Covenant", flushed the gorgeous green planet below with death and doom causing genocide to its humanoids or, as the name we've come know them as, the Engineers. But it wasn't just the Engineers, David killed every single animal on the entire planet; untold ecological billions died and left landmines to kill any living thing that might visit the beautiful planet in the future.
And, he killed Shaw.
For such a smart protagonist, the writers sure made her bafflingly stupid. At the end of the movie, David has commandeered another spaceship filled with thousands of hibernating colonists, A VERY SMART FEMALE CAPTAIN, a new identity, fresh Alien eggs, and he's still wildly homicidal. That's still Dr. Shaw's fault. She, literally, put his head back on his body, got into an Alien ship with him and took off, when she should have just stayed and died on that planet.
Or, had better writers.
THESE FEMALE HEROES WERE WRONGED BY THEIR WRITERS!
Am I the only one who sees this?