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6This is a page listing characters in ''[[Film/{{Alien3}} Alien³]]''.
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8For recurring characters in the entire series, [[Characters/{{Alien}} see the main characters page]].
9
10'''Warning: here be heavy spoilerage.'''
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12[[foldercontrol]]
13
14!Fiorina-161 Staff
15
16[[folder:Andrews]]
17!!Superintendent Harold Andrews
18[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Andrews_Harold_405.jpg]]
19[[caption-width-right:350:''"This is rumor control, here are the facts..."'']]
20!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BrianGlover
21
22The warden of Fury 161. He often begins his addresses to the prisoners with the line "this is Rumor Control, here are the facts...". Andrews often mocked the prisoners behind their backs, calling them "Dillon's God Squad". He becomes increasingly annoyed with Ripley as she leaves the infirmary, and also takes this frustration out on Clemens, who he has never trusted.
23----
24* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Subverted. While no one particularly likes him, due to his position as Superintendent his death causes some problems.
25* CharacterCatchphrase: "This is Rumor Control, here are the facts..."
26* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly just with this line:
27-->''"It's an eight foot creature of some kind, with acid for blood... And it arrived on your spaceship. [[AlwaysChaoticEvil It kills on sight and is generally unpleasant]]."''
28* DeathByIrony: Dragged up into the ventilation shaft and torn apart by the Dragon in front of everyone just as he is in the middle of vehemently denying its very existence to Ripley and calling her hysterical.
29* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite how much of an asshole he is, he has the unenviable task of being the Warden of a prison of convicted rapists and murderers where a woman just arrived to, potentially riling them all up, a fear proven true true when a gang of them attempt to assault Ripley. Also from his perspective there is no solid evidence of Ripley's outlandish claim of an AlwaysChaoticEvil eight foot tall Alien with acid for blood stalking the corridors of his prison, [[YouHaveToBelieveMe beyond her seemingly hysterical word]].
30* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Doesn't believe in Ripley's tale, but his SurprisinglySuddenDeath quickly convinces everyone else.
31* PetTheDog:
32** In the novelization, he gives the oration at the funeral of Newt and Hicks.
33** He's also always cordial and polite to his subordinate, Aaron, even outright consoling him by telling him that it wasn't his fault when Murphy's remains are discovered.
34* WardensAreEvil: Downplayed; he's something of a {{Jerkass}}, but given the unique circumstances of the prison is hardly in a position to abuse his power.
35[[/folder]]
36
37[[folder:Aaron]]
38!!Francis Aaron AKA 85
39[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Aaron_Francis_3130.jpg]]
40[[caption-width-right:350:''"Don't call me that."'']]
41!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RalphBrown
42!!!'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/PatrickFloersheim (European French)
43
44Superintendent Andrews's assistant who serves as a prison guard. He is not a religious man because he believes that so long as he has a job he does not need faith, although he seems to have a lot of faith in Weyland-Yutani. At his arrival, several prisoners catch a glance at his personal file, discovering his IQ is only 85, which they began using as a nickname for him. Aaron will often respond by telling whoever said it to not do so again, but this is always ignored. He usually acts as Andrews's parrot, echoing his opinions without stating any of his own.
45----
46* DeathEqualsRedemption: While it does nothing but get him killed, him attacking Bishop with a pipe over one of his men shooting Morse argueably counts as him finally standing up against the Company.
47* EmbarrassingNickname: The inmates call Aaron "85", which is his IQ.
48* MaliciousMisnaming: Calling Aaron "85" despite his dislike of the nickname.
49* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The Prisoners don’t care for him (hence his nickname 85) and feeling is mutual is he considers them stupid and thinks their religion is stupid.
50* MultipleGunshotDeath: He is shot several times by a Weyland-Yutani soldier after he attacks Bishop.
51* NumberTwo: He has this role early in the film to Andrews, acting as his muscle and being his intended successor.
52* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Attempts to give one to the inmates regarding their plans to kill the xenomorph, but since none of them care what he thinks, it doesn't take.
53* TooDumbToLive: Attacking the guy leading a team of heavily-armed mercenaries with a pipe? Not a good idea.
54%%* YesMan: For Andrews.
55* YouAreInCommandNow: He doesn't want the job, and nobody wants him for the job. So he quietly doesn't take the job.
56[[/folder]]
57
58[[folder:Clemens]]
59!!Dr. Jonathan Clemens
60[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Clemens_Jonathan_8159.jpg]]
61[[caption-width-right:350:''"So, do you still trust me with a needle?"'']]
62!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CharlesDance
63
64->''"I really appreciate your affections. But I am aware that they deflected my question. In the nicest possible way, of course."''
65
66The medical doctor of Fury 161. When Ripley crashes into the oil sea, he nurses her back to health and begins showing her around. He even starts a personal relationship with her, much to the annoyance of Andrews.
67----
68* TheAtoner: Part of the reason he remained on Fiorina even after the company shut the prison down (the other, more obvious reason being that nobody else would hire him).
69* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: Does this to, and has this done to him by Ripley.
70* DarkAndTroubledPast: Went to work in an ER stoned out of his gourd on morphine, and accidentally killed eleven accident victims with an overdose of painkillers.
71%%* DeadpanSnarker
72* MyGreatestFailure: Considers seven years in jail and a reduced medical license a light punishment for what he did.
73* PullingTheThread: When Ripley tells him she needs to check Newt’s body because it might have Cholera, he simply tells her there hasn’t been a case of Cholera in 200 years.
74* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:His amicable relationship with Ripley indicates he will play a large role, which is why his SurprisinglySuddenDeath by the Dragon is a real indicator that things are getting serious.]]
75* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:The Alien suddenly shows up and kills him in the midst of a conversation with Ripley with little build up.]]
76* StepfordSnarker: Clemons tends to use sarcasm to maintain boundaries with other people.
77* TheStoic: He maintains a calm composure in the face of the inmate’s LargeHam tendencies. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when the Alien attacks him, as he rightfully freaks out.
78* SympatheticMurderer: The "murderer" part is an exaggeration, but he was sent to Fury 161 for prescribing the wrong dosage of painkillers while he was drunk, indirectly killing eleven people. But he definitely counts as sympathetic, since what happened was mostly an accident and he's not proud of it at all.
79* WithFriendsLikeThese: Admits that he's grown to like the "motley crew" of inmates.
80[[/folder]]
81
82!The Mysterious Lifepod Crash Survivor
83
84[[folder:Ripley]]
85See [[Characters/AlienMain Main characters]]
86[[/folder]]
87
88!Fiorina-161 Inmates
89
90[[folder:Dillon]]
91!!Leonard Dillon
92[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Dillon_Leonard_6456.jpg]]
93[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like losin' a fight. Not to nobody, not to nothin'. That damn thing out there's already killed half my men, got the other half scared shitless. As long as it's alive, sister, you're not gonna save any universe."'']]
94!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CharlesSDutton [[labelnote:Other Languages]]Creator/PascalRenwick (European French)[[/labelnote]]
95
96->''[[BrutalHonesty You're all gonna die]]. The only question is when. This is as good a place as any to take your first steps to heaven. [[FaceDeathWithDignity The only question is how you check out]]. [[DareToBeBadass Do you want it on your feet... or on your fucking knees... begging?]] I ain't much for begging! Nobody ever gave me nothin'! So I say, fuck that thing! [[DefiantToTheEnd Let's fight it!]]''
97
98The man who is unofficially in charge of the Fiorina-161 prison, Dillon holds his own against others and manages to take charge when the situation with the Xenomorph goes south.
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100* TheAtoner: He’s clearly not proud of his past life or crimes and steers himself and his fellow prisoners towards the righteous path so they will never sin again.
101* BadassPreacher: In spirit, if not in actuality.
102* BaldOfAuthority: He unofficially becomes the leader of the inmates, directing them in their final attempt to kill the Alien.
103* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Agrees to this with another character that is... [[ChestBurster pregnant]].
104* CelibateHero: Dillion is the religious leader of the inmates, and it's mentioned early on in the film that the members of the religious sect have to take a vow of celibacy.
105* CurbStompBattle: When he stops his fellow inmates from raping Ripley, he's outnumbered five to one. He goes through them like a tornado through a trailer park. None of them so much as lay a hand on him.
106-->'''Dillon''': (To Ripley) ''Get out of here. I need to re-educate my brothers.''
107* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the novelization, he doesn't sacrifice himself in the forge and instead makes it to safety alongside Ripley... only for the alien to leap out of the molten metal and drag him back down.
108* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Goes out with a HeroicSacrifice physically grappling with [[TheDreaded the Dragon]] in a lead smelter, and lives long enough to keep it down there until the lead is poured on them.
109* FaceDeathWithDignity - His penultimate speech on this subject in the above quote.
110* HeelFaceTurn: By his own admission, he was a rapist and murderer. However, he found religion at some point, and even [[spoiler: saves Ripley from being raped at one point.]]
111* HeroicSacrifice: He fights the Xenomorph to a draw single-handedly before they're both doused in molten metal.
112* OffscreenVillainy: His past crimes are discussed, but by the time of the story he seems past all of that.
113* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Despite being a past rapist and murderer himself, he considers it a ''serious'' breach of the prisoners' philosophy to do so anymore. He saves Ripley from a rape attempt by the other convicts and bashes them with a crowbar to do some 're-educating'.
114* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Its ironic that he would die this way and is probably the only way he felt he could ever fully redeem himself in the eyes of God.
115* ReligiousBruiser: When he interrupts the attempted rape of Ripley, he proceeds to beat multiple other inmates into submission without even breaking a sweat.
116* RousingSpeech: Delivers an epic one to the terrified, demoralized remaining prisoners, rallying them to fight the Dragon.
117* SympatheticMurderer: Granted, this is only because we haven't seen the crimes he committed to end up on this prison planet in the ''first place''...
118* ThinkNothingOfIt: A belligerent example:
119-->'''Ripley''': ''I just wanted to, um, say thanks for what you said at the funeral. My friends would have appreciated it.''
120-->'''Dillon''': ''Yeah, well you don't wanna know me, lady. I'm a murderer and rapist of women.''
121* TookALevelInKindness: Toward Ripley as they get to know one another more, sort of.
122* WithFriendsLikeThese: Even after stopping some of them from attempting to rape Ripley, Dillon is still close to his prison buddies.
123[[/folder]]
124
125[[folder:Morse]]
126!!Robert Morse
127[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Morse_Robert_6032.jpg]]
128[[caption-width-right:350:''"How about if I sit here on my arse?"'']]
129!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DannyWebb
130
131-> ''"...we ain't got no entertainment center, no climate control, no video system, no surveillance, no freezers, no fucking ice cream, no rubbers, no women, no guns. All we got here is shit!"''
132
133A loud and argumentative prisoner.
134----
135* AtomicFBomb: After Andrew gets killed by the Alien, Morse blurts out the only appropriate response left.
136%%* TheCynic
137%%* DeadpanSnarker
138* DissonantLaughter: In the middle of a tense chase, he collides with Gregor, and they both share a laugh thinking the other was the Alien.
139* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He is the most hostile to Ripley early in the film (to the point that he even suggests that Ripley should be killed for bringing the xenomorph to Fury 161), but tells her how to kill the Dragon and helps her [[spoiler: kill herself before Bishop could take the Queen inside her.]]
140* HiddenDepths: Wrote a book on his experiences with the Dragon, which despite being banned by Weyland-Yutani, still had at least one copy preserved even ''two centuries'' after his death.
141* SirSwearsALot: Of all the inmates, he peppers his speech with the most profanities.
142* SmallRoleBigImpact: He is initially set up as a DeadpanSnarker (with few lines), who doesn't want anything to do with the fight against the xenomorph, but ends up being the SoleSurvivor of the inmates by the end of the film. [[ChekhovsGunman Then the next film]] explains that his writings indirectly inspired Call to fight against Weyland-Yutani.
143* SoleSurvivor: Although wounded, he ends up being the only non-company person who makes it off the planet alive.
144* SpannerInTheWorks: ''Film/AlienResurrection'' reveals that he wrote about the incident that still exists two centuries later. The ExpandedUniverse (for instance, ''TabletopGame/AlienTheRoleplayingGame'') reveals that his book ("[[MythologyGag Star Beast]]") was banned but circulated in samizdat form.
145%%* TookALevelInBadass
146[[/folder]]
147
148[[folder:Golic]]
149!!Walter Golic
150[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Golic_Walter_6809.jpg]]
151[[caption-width-right:350:''"In an insane world, a sane man must appear insane."'']]
152!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PaulMcGann
153
154->''"It was a dragon! Feeds on minds. It was- nobody can stop it!"''
155
156A strange, unpredictable prisoner who is something of an outcast.
157----
158* AxCrazy: Was originally sent to prison for multiple violent murders. He mentions that he "knew lots of pretty girls, back home" and that they liked him [[FridgeHorror "for a while"]].
159* ApologeticAttacker: Apologizes (a little frantically) after slitting another prisoner's throat to get to the alien.
160* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Well, sort of. He winds up splattered with a hell of a lot of blood through no fault of his own, so he's technically innocent. In that, at least.
161* CassandraTruth: Nobody believes him about the alien but Ripley. The rest think he murdered the others on his crew.
162* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: And is proven right in a really gruesome way.
163%%* InsaneEqualsViolent
164* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Many of the other prisoners keep their distance from Golic and think he’s nuts due to his unpredictable nature. Considering the rest of the population are a bunch of mass murderers, serial murderers, rapists, serial rapists, kidnappers, child murderers and child molesters-rapists???? That says a LOT. The only one are even remotely nice to him and treat him with any respect are Dillon, Murphy and Morse.
165* NiceJobBreakingItHero: in the Assembly Cut, the prisoners actually ''did'' manage to trap the alien. Unfortunately Golic, who worships the thing as a kind of dragon, kills the guard and lets it out again. Oops.
166* PsychopathicManchild: He's easily excited, easily upset, and apologizes frantically to his murder victim like a misbehaving child.
167* TalkativeLoon: Halfway. He doesn't say a lot, but when he ''does'' speak, he tends to babble.
168[[/folder]]
169
170[[folder:David]]
171!!David Postlewaite
172!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PetePostlethwaite
173
174An older, more educated inmate.
175----
176* AffablyEvil: Despite being a rapist, he is respectable to Ripley and cooperates with the plan despite his fears.
177* EnemyRisingBehind: The Alien travels through the vents to get past the door he’s watching, dropping down behind him, which leads to his death.
178* NoodleIncident: When collecting chemical barrels with Ripley, he mentions witnessing the chemical's explosive properties firsthand. He doesn't go into much detail, but the blast was big enough to put a ship in dry dock for 17 weeks.
179%%* OnlySaneMan
180[[/folder]]
181
182[[folder:Junior]]
183!!Ted 'Junior' Gillas
184!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HoltMcCallany
185
186A younger and more silent prisoner, sentenced for aggressive sexual crimes. He is easily recognizable via the teardrop tattoo he has below his right eye and the welding goggles he often wears.
187----
188* AttemptedRape: He's the leader of the group that attempted to rape Ripley when she went to get Bishop.
189%%* BaldOfEvil
190* BewareTheQuietOnes: Junior’s silence might make him appear harmless but as Ripley finds out later in the scrap heap, that this man is in prison for life for very good reason.
191* DeathEqualsRedemption: In the Assembly Cut, he sacrifices himself to lead the xenomorph into the waste vault, allowing the other inmates to seal it in.
192* TheQuietOne: Has like two lines total throughout the theatrical cut and in the assembly cut only three.
193* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He's a sex offender and one of the people who attempt to gangrape Ripley.
194* TattooedCrook: His aforementioned teardrop tattoo.
195[[/folder]]
196
197[[folder:Arthur]]
198!!Arthur Walkingstick
199!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DeobiaOparei
200
201A large, muscular inmate.
202----
203* SlashedThroat: How Golic kills him in the Special Edition.
204* ManOnFire: How he dies in the theatrical cut, being killed by the explosion of the quinitricetyline.
205[[/folder]]
206
207[[folder:Murphy]]
208!!Thomas Murphy
209!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChristopherFairbank
210
211An inmate sentenced to life for the death of four people in a vehicle hijacking, and the first victim of the Dragon.
212----
213* DeadlyRotaryFan: How he dies, falling into one after the Alien attacks him.
214* EvenEvilHasStandards: He takes good care of his dog, and is appalled when he sees he has scars, thinking an inmate was to blame.
215* FacialHorror: His face is spit on by the acidic Dragon, causing him enough pain to blindly flail and fall to his death.
216* LudicrousGibs: He has to be identified by his boot after he falls into the DeadlyRotaryFan.
217* TooDumbToLive: He sticks his head deep into a strange hole, and keeps going even when it’s obvious something else was inside.
218[[/folder]]
219
220[[folder:Boggs and Rains]]
221* {{Expy}}: Of [[Characters/Alien1 Parker and Brett]], being [[ThoseTwoGuys a pair made up of a white man and a black man]] who provide comic relief to an extent, and end up being killed by the Xenomorph.
222* TattooedCrook: Boggs has a a distinctive cross and snake tattoo on his forehead.
223* ThoseTwoGuys: Usually seen together.
224[[/folder]]
225
226!The Alien
227[[folder:"The Dragon"]]
228!!The Runner '''"AKA The Dragon."'''
229[[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aliens_1992___alien.jpg]]
230[[caption-width-right:218:''"The Dragon did it! Slaughtered them like pigs!"'']]
231!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Tom Woodruff Jr.
232
233->''"I haven't seen one exactly like this before. Moves differently."''
234-->--'''Ellen Ripley'''
235
236A Xenomorph spawned from a quadrupedal animal.
237----
238* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Regardless of its origin, it's shown being born at the exact same moment of [[spoiler:Hicks and Newt's cremation]].
239* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: As displayed multiple times in the film, it refuses to attack or even harm Ripley -- [[spoiler:due to her carrying a Queen inside her]] -- instead running away or shrugging off her attacks. This is then defied at the end of the film when it ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness breaks its own ingrained instincts]]'' in an attempt to kill her after it gets doused in molten lead.
240* FragileSpeedster: Its quadrupedal stance enables it to move with great speed -- and in spinoffs it's presented as being faster than other castes, but less durable as a tradeoff. Ultimately averted though; see trope directly below.
241* AMoltenDateWithDeath: Subverted; the big push of the third act (to trap it in the leadworks and douse it in molten lead) doesn't work... but it ''does'' superheat the Runner's body enough that, when Ripley douses it with cold water, the creature's structure becomes brittle and explodes from thermal shock as a response.
242* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: It is the first creature in the series (from a production/release standpoint) to display properties characteristic of the species it infects. As it result, it displays the ability to run much faster than normal xenomorphs and spit acid, properties it didn't show in previous entries.
243* POVCam: The first xenomorph in the series whose personal viewpoint is shown, including its perspective as it runs along corridors and up walls.
244* PrimalStance: It's quadrupedal and lacks dorsal spines.
245* RageBreakingPoint: The Dragon spend the entire movie refusing to harm Ripley, on the account of being [[spoiler:able to smell the Queen, the future of its race, gestating inside her body]]; not even being goaded and beaten on the head by her with lead pipes and burning flares was enough to make it raise a single clawed-finger against her. However, the sheer '''agonizing''' pain of being drowned in molten hot lead was enough to make it spectacularly '''snap''', leap out of said metallic deluge, ''break inprogrammed-instinct'' and charge Ripley in a blind rage with every intent of tearing her [[spoiler:and the Queen inside her]] to pieces to avenge this painful insult.
246* SuperToughness: It shares every adult Alien's immunity to fire, shown most disturbingly by it '''surviving''' having been drowned in '''molten fucking lead''', full of rage and '''very''' much alive.
247* VillainousBreakdown: It turns out that having multiple people attempt to drown you in molten lead ''really hurts'', and that enough to send the Runner scrambling after Ripley in a rage, ''breaking its own inherent genetic instinct in the process'', in an attempt to kill her.
248* WhyIsntItAttacking: As part of the scene where it [[spoiler:kills Clemens in the infirmary]], it's refusal to kill Ripley is a major tipoff that it either senses something in her or has another unexplained reason for wanting to keep her alive. This comes before TheReveal that [[spoiler:Ripley is carrying a Queen chestburster inside her -- essentially, the Runner's future]].
249* YourHeadAsplode: Having ice cold water added to its superheated body is what finally finishes it off.
250[[/folder]]
251
252!Weyland-Yutani
253
254[[folder:Bishop]]
255!!Michael Bishop II
256!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LanceHenriksen
257
258->''"Think of all we could learn from it!"''
259
260A Weyland-Yutani executive that the Bishop model was based off of, who approaches Ripley at the climax of the film to offer her a chance to begin a new life free of the xenomorph menace.
261----
262* AffablyEvil: He was chosen to approach Ripley since he's a familiar face, and he's rather pleasant to her. When one of his men shoots Morse through the leg, he seems rather genuinely distraught that things have turned violent.
263* AmbiguousRobots: Depending on the interview, Henriksen can't decide if Bishop is a human or an android pretending. According to ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines'', [[spoiler:he may or may not have switched himself with an android double after leaving Fury 161.]]
264* BigNo: As part of his VillainousBreakdown, he lets one out.
265%%* BitchInSheepsClothing
266* BlatantLies: He assures Ripley he'll kill the alien queen she's carrying. She meets this claim with well-founded skepticism.
267-->'''Bishop II:''' Can't let it live. Everything we know would be in jeopardy.
268-->''[[five minutes later]]''
269-->'''Bishop II:''' You must let me have it. It's a magnificent specimen.
270* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's a high-ranking Weyland-Yutani executive, which makes him corrupt by default. [[spoiler:His men open fire on poor Aaron, although that was against his orders.]]
271* JustThinkOfThePotential[=/=]ForScience: He's an untrustworthy fellow and everything he says should be taken with a grain of salt, but this is what he pitches to Ripley.
272-->''"Ripley, think of all we could learn from it. It's the chance of a lifetime! You must let me have it. It's a magnificent specimen."''
273* NotSoStoic: He begins to lose his composure after Aaron hits him, telling Ripley that the xenomorph is "...a magnificent specimen... you must let '''me''' have it." In some versions of the film, he then yells at a scientist filming Ripley that he wants, "NO PICTURES!"
274* RoboticReveal: Subverted. While he tells the other people he's human, Aaron hits him in the head calling him a robot... causing him to bleed red.
275%%* VillainousBreakdown
276[[/folder]]

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