Considerable Similarities Between Alien vs. Predator and Prometheus (including Requiem and Covenant)

Introduction

According to many people in the fanbase, it would appear that Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Prometheus (2012) are designed in a manner that they could be described as virtually the exact same movie, and that a similar case could be made for Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) and Alien: Covenant (2017). Lets delve into it and see just how similar they actually are to each other.

Similarities between Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Prometheus (2012)

Movie begins with aliens being revealed in a cold location to hint at what's coming.

The title card is assembled in pieces of lines against a mysterious background of weird shapes.

Main female character is introduced engaged in her outdoor passion in a frozen climate as she meets another male character discussing the future of her work.

Main characters discover a hidden cave at the start of the film.

Movie lets you know there's a large ship on a classified mission to a cold, remote, hostile location.

A team of experts, unfamiliar with each other, are being briefed by a member of the Weyland family and one of their experts using a projector.

Mysterious similarities between archaeological discoveries are pointed out.

Female main character questions use of weapons to which the other person smirks and disagrees.

Weyland is old and sick and looking for eternal life.

Female main character relates lighthearted yet tragic backstory involving her father.

Team departs in a group of terrain vehicles to reach pyramid structure located in an inhospitable cold desert environment.

Alien pyramid structure covered in shadows is revealed as the camera pans around and the main characters watch in awe.

Team discovers religious chamber meant for harboring alien containers which eventually release their contents into the room to produce dangerous alien creatures.

Team discovers hieroglyphs with their flashlights and are read by main translator.

Team discovers various murals depicting aliens.

• Team trips security alarm which triggers physical and biological responses in the structure.

Main characters steal alien artifacts against the advice of experts.

Characters find themselves caught in a violent storm.

Two stupid comedic members of the team end up lost and infected by aliens only for one of them to return later in a chaotic death scene.

Main character is secretly impregnated with an alien.

Main translator presents a visual exposition explaining alien relationship with Earth.

Partner of main character suffers alien infection and is killed after requesting the other character to do so.

Alien "god" kills Weyland inside the alien structure as the main character escapes.

Female main character jumps across a large crevice and almost falls to her death.

Female main character motivates another character to explode alien structure to prevent annihilation of mankind.

Female main character runs from chaos in a straight line.

Climactic battle to the death occurs between two a humanoid alien and an insectoid alien with female main character caught in the middle and assisting the other alien before the humanoid is killed by the insectoid which is put into an eternal sleep.

Female main character is left the sole survivor holding on to some leftover artifacts as she takes a terrain vehicle and departs towards a ship.

Cliffhanger with massive alien ship departing towards space sets up future sequel.

New type of alien with extended second jaws bursts out of another humanoid alien lying down in a small room of a spaceship before final smash cut.

Box office and critical reception turned out better than the sequel.

Similarities between Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) and Alien: Covenant (2017)

Movie begins in space with new title card and subtitle being slowly revealed.

Movie is thematically and visually darker and grittier than its predecessor.

Movie prominently features a country theme and setting.

Main female character dreams of beginning a new life with her husband.

Movie features aliens being dissected and put on display in a lab of cultural significance to an alien race.

Unwelcome passenger causes alien ship, containing canisters with alien cargo, to crash in a mountainous forest area on an inhabited planet and unleashes alien infestation upon local citizens.

Hologram distress signal is sent out into space by the last survivor and receives a response from main characters who decide to leave their main planet and depart to foreign planet to investigate.

Main female character tragically loses her husband early on.

Main characters land their spaceship on a lake and begins exploring the desolate forested area.

Main characters investigates crashed abandoned ship with clues to past events and the players involved.

Small aliens running around in the brush being hunted by armed humans.

Male character loses his left arm to alien acid after being attacked and fending off the alien to protect a loved one.

Armed male character in blue shirt is infected by alien in a forest, after which an alien erupts from his screaming body in front of terrified friends who also soon dies because of an alien.

Main character destroys ship after alien is set loose and they're left stranded on the planet.

Main character uses canister with dark gooey substance to dissolve biological bodies.

Main characters are rescued and promised safety by a mysterious character with a sinister agenda whom is distrusted by main characters and interested in the aliens.

Main characters contact outside male authority figure and await incoming airborne rescue vessel while being surrounded by heavy rain.

Two family members find themselves amongst graves while recalling tragic events involving a lost loved one.

Female partner of main character is cut in half by an alien and the camera focuses on her dead face as male character shoots the alien.

Female in a medical setting has her womb viciously opened up to be used as host for aliens.

Main characters reach centralized spot for rescue vessel to fly them out of the compromised location while being hunted by aliens.

Alien attempts to attack the pilot of the rescue vessel through the glass of the cockpit.

Final conflict has the alien prevented from getting the main characters and is defeated by being impaled by a steel object as it screams in pain.

Sinister character drops a bomb and eliminates entire civilization who joyfully awaited his coming.

Movie ends with triumphant scene with the shot focused on main character with their lit-up gaze looking forward to future events.

Sinister character acquires and preserves alien artifacts for future use.

Movie introduces Yutani Corporation following absence from previous movie.

Intro or outro of the movie features an expressionless member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation conversing on the future of humanity with an associate in a cold concrete environment while looking out through a wide window before smash cut.

Planned sequel got cancelled indefinitely and left the movie with a cliffhanger.

Conclusion

After careful examination, it appears that Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Prometheus (2012) are indeed designed in a manner that they can essentially be described as the same movie, and a similar case can indeed be made for Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) and Alien: Covenant (2017). It certainly makes you wonder if Ridley Scott and company were inspired by Paul Anderson and the team behind the AVP films, so much so that he felt he needed to rip them off, or perhaps somebody on the crew made sure these aspects were included. Although these similarities are almost certainly coincidental, at the same time it's suspiciously incredible. Details and various other aspects vary of course but it's still rather strange and fans quickly picked up on it.