What would be a proper ending for David?

[Immortan Jonesy]

If we are lucky to see the last prequel, what would be a proper ending for David?  there are some options in the poll, but feel free to suggest new ones 

[Scorpio]

He ends up like the titan Prometheus, tortured for eternity.

[Immortan Jonesy]

He ends up like the titan Prometheus, tortured for eternity.

Added to the poll.

[OpenMaw]

I can't see how you'd be able to torture David in anyway similar to Prometheus. He doesn't feel pain. The physical suffering of Prometheus would not translate to his android persona.

Unless they(engineers) go Pinocchio and make David a real boy somehow.

For me the only proper way for his charater to end is death.

[SM]

In a final battle on LV-426, David infects the Engineer flying the Derelict - and the Derelict lands on David.

[Immortan Jonesy]

In a final battle on LV-426, David infects the Engineer flying the Derelict - and the Derelict lands on David.

Sounds interesting. Added.

[Highland]

Had to go motor cycle accident. Maybe outside of a shop called Williams Potter's.

[SM]

Nah a motorcycle crash in the desert.  David went in search of Weyland's 'nothing'.  And there is nothing in the desert.

[Scorpio]

I always thought this is a hint to David's eventual fate:

'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[Huggs]

I'd rather we never see David's death. We go back to making Alien movies again. At some point in a future film, one of the teams that lands on LV-426 or some other planet can run across the "mutilated remains" of an unknown synthetic. After realizing it is not a human, since it has not completely rotted, the audience can infer the manner of death from the severe damage done to the body. And, the destroyed surrounding and remains of whatever cave, ship, or structure the body was found in can relate the details of what went wrong, and what David ultimately was up to after Covenant.

Think of it like Walters death, or the destroyed hallways of Hadley's Hope when the marines arrived. We could tell where the last stand was made, where the fighting had taken place, and it was far more eerie than showing the events themselves. We never saw what happened to Walter, but I think he had his head cut off (kind of like david) and was left to sit there alone for eternity. Maybe David will come back for him once he's "learned". But the fact that we don't really know what happened, makes it more frightening, sad, and effective.

I'd rather leave David and his horrible experiments and fate to the histories. Floating off into the dark unknown, like the space version of the titanic, is the best conclusion I could imagine for him. Maybe they could pull an Alien 3 Bishop move, and temporarily reactivate a part of him, and see something horrible he was doing, or see his death. I say use him for an Easter egg, and move on.

[SM]

Finding a mutilated David would need some explanation, or you don't include it.  You can't just leave the audience to infer it.

[Huggs]

Finding a mutilated David would need some explanation, or you don't include it.  You can't just leave the audience to infer it.

They would infer the manner of death, (mutilation by a xenomorph or he was the first synthetic to chestburst). I didn't mean they would need to infer his identity. That could be explained by the characters. It worked well enough for shaw.

I suppose I'm just the kind of viewer who would rather not see too much. The engineers would've been scarier and more interesting to me had they only been seen in the holograph, body pile and lab scene from Prometheus. But along came covenant and 10,000 Elmer Fudds for cannon fodder. The jockey from the first movie and it's story feel more interesting and frightening simply because we see the wreckage of this immense thing, and can only wonder what awesome events brought it to its end. Sometimes less is more. I'd rather David was left to his fate alone, far from our sight.

[Scorpio]

I still want to know what happened to Shaw, that's like having a missing chapter.

[SM]

Finding a mutilated David would need some explanation, or you don't include it.  You can't just leave the audience to infer it.

They would infer the manner of death, (mutilation by a xenomorph or he was the first synthetic to chestburst). I didn't mean they would need to infer his identity. That could be explained by the characters. It worked well enough for shaw.

Shaw was a victim of David's already well documented experiments (precisely how can be left up in the air).

You would need more than someone stumbling across a dead robot and wondering what happened to it.  It would need greater context in whatever story they're telling.

[Huggs]

I still want to know what happened to Shaw, that's like having a missing chapter.

I know he killed her, but I'd have much rather her death been truly accidental. She awoke during the goo event, was severely injured in the crash, and David fought to save her. Maybe the table and all that stuff growing into her head was some engineer medical technology. She is beyond damaged and in severe pain, and doesn't want to live. David becomes truly alone, marooned possibly for all eternity. Her death finally pushes his fractured mind into madness. He harvests her parts, and we have the events of covenant. I think, for all his evil, David really did have feelings for Shaw, and there was some genuine emotion there.

Finding a mutilated David would need some explanation, or you don't include it.  You can't just leave the audience to infer it.

They would infer the manner of death, (mutilation by a xenomorph or he was the first synthetic to chestburst). I didn't mean they would need to infer his identity. That could be explained by the characters. It worked well enough for shaw.

Shaw was a victim of David's already well documented experiments (precisely how can be left up in the air).

You would need more than someone stumbling across a dead robot and wondering what happened to it.  It would need greater context in whatever story they're telling.

Sounds like a good job for the writers room. It could be done, and tastefully so.