plot explanation - Did the black goo affect life forms in different ways in Prometheus?

In Prometheus, the black goo appears to affect life forms in five different ways.

1. At the very beginning of the movie, the Space Jockey drinks the black-goo, and it kills him and makes the body decompose very quickly.So it creates human life on earth.




2. While watching the worm attack, the black-goo mutates into a "cobra-hugger" and it attacked on Milburn's throat.




3. When Fifield falls into the goo, he later returns as a mutated monster version of himself.




4. When David spikes Holloway’s drink with a tiny amount of black goo, Holloway appears to follow the same pattern of cell breakdown as the sacrificial Engineer, only at a slower rate.




5. Also, Shaw impregnate because of black-goo infected Holloway.

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Did the black goo affect the different people in different ways? If so, why?

Answer

The black goo does not affect its victims in different ways. It consistently causes organisms to mutate into bizarre killing-machine versions of themselves:

1. At the very beginning of the movie, the Space Jockey drinks the black-goo, and it kills him and makes the body decompose very quickly.So it creates human life on earth."
   -Actually "Space Jockey" consumes something other than the black goo -- what he consumes is a brightly colored, congealed substance (which does have different effects than the black goo).




2. While watching the worm attack, the black-goo mutates into a "cobra-hugger" and it attacked on Milburn's throat."
   -the "cobra-hugger" is the result of the worms coming in contact with the black goo.




3. When Fifield falls into the goo, he later returns as a mutated monster version of himself."
   -like the worms turned into "cobra-huggers," humans turn into mutated monster humans.




4. When David spikes Holloway’s drink with a tiny amount of black goo, Holloway appears to follow the same pattern of cell breakdown as the sacrificial Engineer, only at a slower rate."
   -Actually Holloway is not suffering the same fate as the sacrificial engineer -- instead, Holloway begins to mutate slowly into the same thing as Fifield, though Holloway gets himself killed before he mutates all the way.




5. Shaw impregnate because of black-goo infected Holloway."
   -Shaw has sex with Holloway when Holloway has begun to mutate, so what she is pregnant with is some kind of mutant offspring.