the deacon must be huge.

haha yeah, that Bodyhugger is definitely made for Colonial Marines game. =D

How do you know the deacon is not already full grown....

no one said they did know for sure :) we are all just coming up with theories.

The Deacon alien was only there so that people could say, "Hey look, guys, an alien!" LAME! It would have been much more tasteful to just show a hole in the Engineer's chest and maybe indirectly show that the alien got on board the other Juggernaut with Shaw.

how is that more tasteful? that is the same thing they did in alien and aliens, both ideas seem the same to me.

I'm referring to the Deacon emerging and the cut to black at the end of the movie. This is different from Alien and Aliens because Shaw wouldn't actually kill the alien; the movie would only imply that it followed her. Actually, the scene was very similar to the end of AvP and it was only there as a "thanks for your money, now wait for the sequel" kind of a shot. It would have been more tasteful because it would have left the ending open to interpretation and would have created more anticipation to see what the creature looked like. As it stands, we have the Deacon alien stranded on LV-223 while Shaw is flying off elsewhere. The Deacon has no consequence on the story or the sequel.

@Svanya Maybe, but Deacons' hats differ depending on the religion they serve. The etymology of the word "Deacon", is very interesting. One can read about it [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon]here[/url]. Maybe the Xenos, serve as a service to a religion, they incarnate the demons from hell maybe, because the metaphorical meaning of hell and its demons and sinful people is not enough? A punishment from a higher intelligence to the unfaithful?

That would only make sense if anyone in the movie would actually call it a "Deacon". It probably only refers to the design and nothing else. On second thought, they have to call it that because other names like "Newborn" are already taken.