Dark Liquid (Prometheus) vs T-Virus (Resident Evil)

[droidbull]

Which one do you find more dangerous, The T-Virus was responsible for the creation of the majority of Umbrella Bio-Organic Weapons, while The Dark Liquid was a pathogen manufactured by the Engineers for war and genocidal purposes.

As seen in Prometheus, Once exposed to another organism thats been splashed or covered with a heavy amount, the virus begins mutating its host. The host becomes extremely aggressive and seemingly mindless as it attacks any living thing in sight. Geologist Fifield was exposed to the liquid during the expedition of LV-223, mutating his appearance and causing him to attack his fellow crewmembers. He was also extremely resistant to physical injury, being able to withstand multiple gunshots. It took several shotgun blasts and being scorched with a flamethrower to finally kill him, many puddles of Dark Liquid also mutated several worms found in the Engineer ship, turning them into the aggressive Hammerpedes. The Hammerpedes exhibited acidic blood and the ability to regenerate lost body parts. When David used a tiny bit of the Dark Liquid on Holloway it made him very sick and weak.

It appears the larger the amount, it makes the creature or human into a powerful monster.

[Siriel]

Well, seeing as one drop of the T-Virus in an uncontained environment kills everything on the planet, I'm going with "T-Virus is more dangerous".

[Balto]

Well, seeing as one drop of the T-Virus in an uncontained environment kills everything on the planet, I'm going with "T-Virus is more dangerous".

If we're going by the movies then that's hardly fair. How did you get one drop in an uncontained environment killed everything on the planet? Because I remember one vial getting busted in a locked down facility with no means of escape. Things grew exponentially from there after Umbrella's topside guys opened The Hive up. I see no reason why that's not a similarly applicable assessment of what the black goo would do based on what we know about it. If The Hive was full of black goo monsters they could infect the rest of the world with the same rapidity the zombies did? If Joe Badguy had black goo to work with he could have splashed a little in the water supply like he broke the airborne T-Virus in front of ventilation shaft.

And I don't remember the T-Virus being able to go from airborne to zombies to airborne again. That's a one-shot deal for it unless it gets brought up in the later movies, in which case, can't really beat airborne.

[Siriel]

Games are enough. The instant the T-Virus gets dropped somewhere where there's, you know, life, it can't be stopped because it can infect insects, plants and animals.

It's basically pure PIS (or crazy impossible luck, if you prefer) that the Raccoon City incident didn't end with the entire planet dead in the games, because all it would have taken was one landbased animal or bird or pollen from the plants to spread it outside the containment zone.

Monsters are one thing - they can be exploded or contained. But the T-Virus can infect all forms of life. That's the real reason why it's so much worse than a 'normal' zombie infestation, not because it occasionally creates mutant monsters.

[Siriel]

To give an example:

Let's say we have a zombie in the middle of a field.

Someone slices the zombie's head off.

The zombie's blood flow into the earth.

From then on, it infects the plants around as the blood is absorbed through their roots.

The plants then spread the infection, be it through pollen, seeds or the animals that eat those plants.

This continues exponentially, with all newly infected lifeforms spreading it through the food chain.


In fact, it doesn't even need to be somewhere where there are plants, just somewhere there are scavengers.

EDIT: That said, I have no clue how the movie T-Virus ended up leaving the planet a desert. If anything, it should have covered it with infected plant life.

[Balto]

You've described black goo. Heck, it created all life on Earth. Double heck, technically the T-Virus would be a descendant of the black goo so I would imagine goo would be able to affect it if the actual base substances interacted. That is, I'd put money on black goo infecting the actual T-Virus.

[Siriel]

Hey, if it's more efficient than what you said in the OP, I can't help there. I don't know anything about it's source material.

[MorphyVSFischer]

You've described black goo. Heck, it created all life on Earth. Double heck, technically the T-Virus would be a descendant of the black goo so I would imagine goo would be able to affect it if the actual base substances interacted. That is, I'd put money on black goo infecting the actual T-Virus.

We see virtually nothing of this in Prometheus beyond the ability it has to infecting people, nothing
Furthermore its the Engineers created all life, the black goo was never really explained one way or another other then the captain of the ships speculation that it was a weapon they made that turned on them.

[Balto]

Well, the Engineer drank the goo, which broke him down and disseminated his DNA.