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* HypercompetentSidekick: He's this to Gorman, who's way above his head in the situation they're in. At the same time, he's perfectly polite towards Gorman and deferent to military hierarchy.
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[[caption-width-right:308: Ripley and the Colonial Marines.[[note]]Hudson, Burke, Wierzbowski, Dietrich, Vasquez, Crowe, Hicks, Ripley, Drake, Frost, Spunkmeyer, Bishop, Gorman, Ferro, Apone.[[/note]]]]
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* AssholeVictim: Burke is killed by an alien when they break through. Nobody mourns. Not even Paul Reiser's mother.
* FearInducedIdiocy: What ultimately does him in. After locking the others in with the Xenomorphs in sheer blind panic, with zero weapons or protection, he ends up being steathily ambushed by one.
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* TooDumbToLive: Cowardice aside, what is Burke thinking when he separated himself from the group of trained and armed soldiers and locked himself inside a room without any other way out? Even if the Aliens couldn't enter, he would have died from the meltdown. Unfortunately for him, an Alien was already inside the room and killed or captured him.
** He had probably been overtaken by sheer panic at that point, considering his utterly terrified body language before he encountered the Alien that took him to his ultimate fate. If there was any rationality in his decision-making he may have been attempting to [[LetsYouAndHimFight wait out the Marines and Aliens killing each other]] before making a break for it to reach Bishop and the dropship where he could make up any excuse he wanted for what transpired.
** He had probably been overtaken by sheer panic at that point, considering his utterly terrified body language before he encountered the Alien that took him to his ultimate fate. If there was any rationality in his decision-making he may have been attempting to [[LetsYouAndHimFight wait out the Marines and Aliens killing each other]] before making a break for it to reach Bishop and the dropship where he could make up any excuse he wanted for what transpired.
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* TooDumbToLive: Cowardice aside, what is Burke thinking when he separated himself from the group of trained and armed soldiers and locked himself inside a room without any other way out? Even if the Aliens couldn't enter, he would have died from the meltdown. Unfortunately for him, an Alien was already inside the room and killed or captured him.
** HeSince he had probably been overtaken by sheer panic at that point, considering his utterly terrified body language before he encountered the Alien that took him to his ultimate fate. If there fate, it was any rationality in his decision-making he may have been attempting probably more a matter of him wanting to [[LetsYouAndHimFight wait out the Marines and Aliens killing each other]] before making a break for it to reach Bishop and the dropship where he could make up any excuse he wanted for what transpired. be anywhere but there.
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: He appears to have this opinion on male Arcturians, who are either a highly sexually attractive alien race, or just extremely attractive humans. Apparently, gender doesn't matter with Arcturians, at least for Frost.
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* FreudianExcuse: According to his focus story in ''Bug Hunt'', Burke's parents were also extraordinarily greedy (his mom would use plastic surgery to make herself appealing to the rich and powerful, either seduce them or let them ''rape her'', which her husband recorded and used as {{Blackmail}}) and both treated him as an annoyance, meaning he never really had a chance to be a good person.
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* PetTheDog: Probably the only time he is not an absolute monster is when he consoles Ripley after telling her about the fate of her daughter. This however is likely to gain her trust. However he does help Ripley rescue the Marines from the atmosphere processing station, fight the fire in the APC, try to give Hudson first aid and aid in fortifying the colony against the bugs.
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** Probably the only time he is not an absolute monster is when he consoles Ripley after telling her about the fate of her daughter. This however is likely to gain her trust. However he does help Ripley rescue the Marines from the atmosphere processing station, fight the fire in the APC, try to give Hudson first aid and aid in fortifying the colony against the bugs.
** As revealed in ''Dark Mother'', he assumed that Ripley would be compensated generously if she agreed to his plan, unaware that ''regardless'' if she had seen things his way, being impregnated by a facehugger is fatal.
** Probably the only time he is not an absolute monster is when he consoles Ripley after telling her about the fate of her daughter. This however is likely to gain her trust. However he does help Ripley rescue the Marines from the atmosphere processing station, fight the fire in the APC, try to give Hudson first aid and aid in fortifying the colony against the bugs.
** As revealed in ''Dark Mother'', he assumed that Ripley would be compensated generously if she agreed to his plan, unaware that ''regardless'' if she had seen things his way, being impregnated by a facehugger is fatal.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: If she was the one who laid all those eggs in the first movie, then by default she's also this for the first movie.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: If she was the one who laid all those eggs in the first movie, then by default she's also this for the first movie. She's also this for the third movie, as the egg she smuggled onto the ''Sulaco'' is the source for the film's conflict.
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* TooDumbToLive: You see evidence of an Alien in your ship, you do '''not''' seal yourself in. Granted, he wasn't with the team that first went in, so it doesn't seem very likely he knew what the secretion in the dropship actually was.
** He actually was warning Ferro that something had entered the ship, only for Ferro to override him and to ignore it.
** He actually was warning Ferro that something had entered the ship, only for Ferro to override him and to ignore it.
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* NonIndicativeName: His name "Hicks" invokes the [[SouthernFriedPrivate martial hillbilly archetype]], but Hudson is the one who fits the role better, while Hicks himself is quite collected and proper.
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* SouthernFriedPrivate: He fits the profile, up to a point, being a LargeHam somewhat obnoxious, primal and opinionated grunt and played by an actor from Texas.
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The smartgunning partner of Vasquez. The two Marines shared a special bond. [[spoiler:During the first encounter with the xenomorphs he is fatally wounded after being splashed by the creatures' acid blood.]]
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The smartgunning partner of Vasquez. The two Marines shared a special bond. [[spoiler:During During the first encounter with the xenomorphs he is fatally wounded after being splashed by the creatures' acid blood.]]
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* CastTheExpert: Al Matthews was a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps and saw combat in Vietnam.
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* HiddenDepths / KnowWhenToFoldEm: When he recovers from his head injury, he seems to realize his failure as an officer and defers to Hicks from then on, never once trying to reassert command.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Along with Gorman, they blow themselves up when bocked off in the air-ducts instead of facing death by Xenomorph.
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* GratuitousSpanish: Slips into her native tongue when angered, but also in general conversation -- "Hey, ''mira'' (look), who's Snow White?" She also calls Gorman a "''Pendejo'' jerkoff" at one point.
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**"Hey, ''mira'' (look), who's SnowWhite?" She also calls White?"
**Calls Gorman a "''Pendejo'' jerkoff" at onepoint.point.
**As she's sealing off the tunnel that Bishop is using to get to the uplink tower, she wishes him "Vaya con dios" (go with God).
**When Hicks assigns her and Hudson to patrol the perimeter, she says to him "vamanos" (let's go).
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**Calls Gorman a "''Pendejo'' jerkoff" at one
**As she's sealing off the tunnel that Bishop is using to get to the uplink tower, she wishes him "Vaya con dios" (go with God).
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* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: After being overpowered by Ripley in her mech and ready to be ThrownOutOfTheAirlock, the queen suffices with just forcing the mech into dispatch too and trying to [[TakingYouWithMe drag Ripley to her death with her]] as she's sucked into space.]]
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* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: After being overpowered by Ripley in her mech and ready to be ThrownOutOfTheAirlock, ThrownOutTheAirlock, the queen suffices with just forcing the mech into dispatch too and trying to [[TakingYouWithMe drag Ripley to her death with her]] as she's sucked into space.]]
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* StarterVillain: He's the first antagonist that Ripley encounters and has to overcome during the initial segment on Earth.
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* {{Yuppie}}: He's a yuppie in space, a young junior executive[[note]]His actor Creator/PaulReiser was 29 at the time of filming[[/note]] who turns out to be one of the biggest scumbags in the whole movie, somebody motivated by classic yuppie greed.
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--->'''Burke''': Now if I go and make a major security decision out of it, everybody steps in. Administration steps in, and there's no exclusive rights for anybody, ok, '''noboby wins'''.
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--->'''Burke''': Now if I go and make a major security decision out of it, everybody steps in. Administration steps in, and there's no exclusive rights for anybody, ok, '''noboby '''nobody wins'''.
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-->'''Hudson''': [''After the Facehugger attack and Ripley telling them it was Burke, Hudson puts his rifle against Burke's head''] I say we grease this rat-fuck son-of-a-bitch right now!
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hudson is obnoxious, overbearing, immensely arrogant, and can come across as a coward who crumbles under pressure. Despite all this, he's a good, loyal man at heart.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hudson is obnoxious, overbearing, immensely arrogant, and can come across as a coward who crumbles under pressure. Despite all this, he's a good, loyal man at heart. Of the marines, he's the most visibly enraged at Burke's attempt to get Ripley and Newt impregnated, even before learning he was also planning to orchestrate the deaths of him and his comrades.
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* CastTheExpert: Al Matthews was a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps and saw combat in Vietnam.
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* TruthInTelevision: Al Matthews was a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps and saw combat in Vietnam.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Of the Marines Hicks is the friendliest, if a bit dour, but he'll also shove a shotgun into a xeno's mouth and blow its head clean off. When it's revealed Burke let some facehuggers loose to attack Ripley and Newt Hudson wants to "grease the rat-fuck" right away, but Hicks holds off enough to get the full story. Once he ''gets'' the full story, though...
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Of the Marines Hicks is the friendliest, friendliest of the marines, if a bit dour, glum, but he'll also shove a still stick his shotgun into up a xeno's xenomorph's mouth and blow its head clean off. brains out. When it's revealed Burke let some facehuggers loose to attack Ripley and Newt Hudson wants the marines want to "grease the rat-fuck" right away, but Hicks holds off enough to get the full story. Once he ''gets'' the full story, though...
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Hudson may be right."]]
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-->'''Hudson:''' Maybe it's like an ant hive...
-->'''Vasquez:''' ''Bees'', man, ''bees'' have hives.
-->'''Hudson:''' You know what I mean. It's like one female that runs the whole show.
-->'''Bishop:''' Yes. The queen.
-->'''Hudson:''' Yeah the mama. She is badass, man. I mean '''big'''.
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-->'''Hudson:''' Maybe it's like an ant hive...
-->'''Vasquez:''' ''Bees'', man, ''bees'' have hives.
-->'''Hudson:''' You know what I mean. It's like one female that runs the whole show.
-->'''Bishop:''' Yes. The queen.
-->'''Hudson:''' Yeah the mama. She is badass, man. I mean '''big'''.
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-->''"All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I '''love''' the Corps! "''
-->''"All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I '''love''' the Corps! "''
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-->''"I'm Burke. Carter Burke. I work for the company. But don't let that fool you, I'm really an okay guy."''
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* ReEntryScare: [[AllThereInTheManual According to the novelization]] the Queen was pulled back towards LV-426 by its gravity, where she'll be inevitably [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill roasted by the re-entry friction before being utterly destroyed by the impact of the fall]]: "''The Queen tumbled slowly back toward the inhospitable world she'd recently fled. Ripley stared as her nemesis faded to a dot, and was then swallowed by the rolling clouds.''"
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* ReEntryScare: ReentryScare: [[AllThereInTheManual According to the novelization]] the Queen was pulled back towards LV-426 by its gravity, where she'll be inevitably [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill roasted by the re-entry friction before being utterly destroyed by the impact of the fall]]: "''The Queen tumbled slowly back toward the inhospitable world she'd recently fled. Ripley stared as her nemesis faded to a dot, and was then swallowed by the rolling clouds.''"
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* BoobsOfSteel: Jeanette Goldstein had to strap herself down, and Vasquez still manages to look stacked. In real life, Goldstein even went on to found a famous clothing company that makes bras in extra large cup sizes.
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* PetTheDog: Probably the only time he is not an absolute monster is when he consoles Ripley after telling her about the fate of her daughter. This however is likely to gain her trust. However does help Ripley rescue the Marines from the atmosphere processing station, fight the fire in the APC, try to give Hudson first aid and aid in fortifying the colony against the bugs.
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