History Characters / AlienIsolation

** [[spoiler:When the Androids go berserk and start killing everyone, Waits' goes down fighting them to save the people left, expressing anger and horror at the Androids as they do so]]. Say what you will about him, but he still wanteds to protect people, even if he was not really nice about it.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Becomes increasingly obsessed with eliminating the Xenomorph threat aboard the station, to the point that everything and everyone has become expendable.

* JerkassHasAPoint: As callous as his decision to [[spoiler:detaching the Gemini Lab module and leaving Ripley stranded with the Xenomorph was, it ''did'' succeed in getting the Alien off the station... unfortunately for him, that wasn't the only Xenomorph aboard the station.]]

* WrenchWench: She is a skilled mechanical engineer by profession.

The bad-ass daughter of ''the'' bad-ass herself, Ellen Ripley, and the main protagonist. Amanda became a mechanical engineer and began taking jobs in the same sector of space her mother disappeared in. She is approached by Samuels, a representative from Weyland-Yutani, who claims that the flight recorder from her mother's ship, the Nostromo, has been recovered and is being stored at Sevastopol, a space station orbiting the gas giant [=KG348=].

* ActionSurvivor: What starts off as a simple mission to retrieve the Nostromo's flight recorder takes a turn for the worse for Amanda when she becomes separated from her fellow crew members and is forced to use her wits to survive and evade dangerous threats. She progresses into ActionGirl territory once she gets some better weapons, allowing her to fearlessly confront Working Joes, armed survivors, and even the Alien itself. [[spoiler:Later on, she has to deal with Facehuggers and yet more xenomorphs.]]

Samuels is in the employ of Weyland-Yutani. After the USCSS Nostromo's destruction in 2122, he offers Amanda a spot aboard the ''Torrens'' on a retrieval mission on Sevastopol as he thinks it might help Amanda in finding her mother's whereabouts. He's also a synthetic.

An Executive working for Weyland-Yutani. Along with Samuels and Ripley, she is tasked with retrieving the Nostromo's flight recorder.

* NotSoDifferent: After listening to several of the personal recordings from the Nostromo, he comes to believe that [[spoiler:Amanda's mother, Ellen Ripley, would likely have aided him in destroying Sevastopol. No matter the cost. And, apart from murdering the innocent, he's right -- Ripley would nuke the place to dust, having learned that obliterating the goddamn things ''is'' the way to deal with them.]]

!Crew of ''The Torrens''

Samuels is in the employ of Weyland-Yutani. After the USCSS Nostromo's destruction in 2122, he offers Amanda a spot aboard the Torrens on a retrieval mission on Sevastopol as he thinks it might help Amanda in finding her mother's whereabouts. He's also a synthetic.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: As an executive with Weyland-Yutani she certainly has the potential to be this. [[spoiler:Ultimately this is only [[PlayingWithATrope played with]]. While she does attempt to [[JustThinkOfThePotential secure a xenomorph for study]], she does not try to betray anyone while doing so. Even then, her attempts are more about gathering information about the alien shipwreck and the creature than trying to persevere them at the expense of anyone's life. And, as soon as she learns what the hell is going on and that Marlow intends to kill innocent people, she works with Ripley to stop the Anesidora from exploding - at the cost of her own life.]]

The captain and owner of the Torrens in 2137. She agrees to transport Ripley and the other Weyland-Yutani representatives to Sevastopol station.

* TheCaptain: Of the Torrens.

!Crew of ''The Anesidora''

The captain of the Anesidora, the ship that found the Nostromo's flight recorder. When Ripley meets him, he is locked in a cell in the Colonial Marshals' office for an unknown crime. But he seems to know a lot about what's happening on Sevastopol...

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Marlow was willing to overload the Anesidora's reactor in order to destroy Sevastopol, killing the remaining survivors and himself in the process, just to ensure the Aliens wouldn't escape and possibly make it to Earth. To be honest, [[JerkassHasAPoint can't say we blame him!]]]]

Crewmember aboard the Anesidora, and Marlow's wife. She was part of the exploration team that discovered the derelict ship on LV-426. Foster was facehugged and impregnated. They fled the planet and in search of help came across Sevastopol, which ultimately lead to the outbreak.

* PosthumousCharacter: She's long dead by the time the Torrens arrives, being the first to die.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female crewmember onboard the Anesidora.

One of the crewmen aboard the Anesidora. Meeks was strongly against breaching quarantine rules to bring Foster to Sevastopol, confronting Marlow directly, but his protests were angrily rebuked.

One of the crewmen aboard the Anesidora. Heyst attempts to distance himself from his boss Marlow after Foster's death, believing that he did not sign up the trouble they've just landed in.

* NotYourProblem: He tries to encourage Meeks to lay low and keep their connection to the Anesidora secret. When Meeks is distraught after Foster's grim fate, Heyst is the one dragging him from bars when he's drunkenly confessing too much and then stating they need to give those people a wide berth in future.

* AdaptationalExpansion: In the novelization of the game, we learn considerably more about Amanda's life prior to her arrival on Sevastopol, and it's... not pleasant. Her mother, for all her many virtues, had ''terrible'' instincts about men: her father, Alex, was a wastrel who disappeared from her life while Amanda was still a toddler. Her stepfather, Paul Carter, was an alcoholic who spent most of his life passed out drunk. Such was Amanda's luck that he became her sole parent once her mother disappeared. Despite having prodigious mechanical skills, she couldn't afford to attend a trade school and was forced to take menial jobs far below her aptitude level. Throughout her life, she was continuously swindleed, conned, betrayed and lied to by pretty much everyone she trusted. As such she developed a deeply misanthropic outlook.

* DisappearedDad: Amanda's father is never mentioned.

** A single Xenomorph that is able to survive almost anything and it takes literally being thrown into a sun, directly refers both to the original Alien in the 1979 film, and the Alien Queen in ''Aliens''.

** A Xenomorph personally targeting Ripley out of an actual anger towards them, in this case, out of pride, occurs in ''Aliens'', when the Queen goes full MamaBear, the Dragon, after Ripley angers it enough to ignore the Queen inside her, and in the ''Aliens vs Predator'' game series, Specimen Six specifically spares Doctor Groves out of personal anger towards him.
** The Xenomorph showing pride and anger about Ripley managing to outwit and escape it so many times alludes to their rivalry with the Predators, who would usually kill humans out of pride if a human managed to best a Predator in combat.

* ImplacableMan: Absolutely '''nothing''' will kill it. Pistol shots? Nope. Shotgun rounds? A a perfect headshot will stun it for a second, but won't do any lasting damage. Fire from a flamethrower or molotov? Well, it can disorient the Alien and drive it off, yeah, but it won't hurt it, and it's still only a temporary asset, since it can still bulldoze through you even with the fire in its face. A ''pipebomb''? It'll just come back mad.

* ChestBurster: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen This was originally his fate in the early concepts of the game]], [[spoiler:Ricardo would have been facehugged like he was in the final version, only to wake up and wonder what happened to him. He would have been getting constantly worried up until the coup de grace.]] It was scrapped as the implantation time would have been too fast. [[spoiler:In the final version of the game, it's likely Ricardo had a quick death courtesy of Sevastopol burning up.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: He is selfish, untrustworthy, and viciously paranoid, but is still among the more reasonable survivors that Ripley encounters aboard the station.
** JerkassHasAPoint: Given that most of the station's survivors attack strangers on sight, avoiding contact with other people or killing them in self-defence are not unreasonable methods for survival. Moreover, it is all too likely that Ripley [[NotSoDifferent will resort to the same methods herself]] later on.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Subtle, but he comforts Ripley after he kills someone with Ripley's help, and is concerned with her well-being, though that may just be because she's leading him to her ship.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: The closest person to being an ally to Ripley (at least not killing her on sight), [[spoiler:yet the first victim of the Alien.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: It’s extremely subtle, but some of the lines from his VillainousBreakdown (see below) have shades of this. Besides screwing him over, he’s repulsed that W-Y is leaving the entire station to die and has no plans to rescue them.

** Rescuing a civilian in his DLC.

* TheDanza: Possible example -- Ransome’s first initial is B and he's voiced by Ben Cura.

* WrongGenreSavvy: As indicated above, he thinks he’s the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Wesker when, at best, he’s the Excella]].

* DrJerk: He pities the psychologically troubled who have difficulty coping with living in space, but also feels that the doctor in charge of their treatment coddles them too much. He also has no problem using Amanda to further his own goals.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Pragmatic he may be, but Sinclair looting and shooting civilians for supplies clearly disgusts him.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Waits's obsession with eliminating the Alien led him to impose extreme security measures, all the while denying the existence of a Xenomorph aboard the station. His actions made the station's residents paranoid and mistrustful of authority, which ultimately led to a complete breakdown of civil order on Sevastopol. Had he been a little more open about what was going on with his fellow Marshals and station workers, they could have been better prepared to actually handle the crisis.

* UnnessecarilyCreepyRobot: The androids of Weyland-Yutani, as seen starting with ''Film/{{Alien}}'', are extremely humanlike, except when cut and bleeding milky white fluid. The Working Joe androids of Seegson, on the other hand side, start in the UncannyValley and are programmed to dig it into an Uncanny Mariana Trench with their waxy appearance and bad AI that can barely deviate from its standard functions (but will still merrily try to strangle you while asking you to remain calm). It's fully acknowledged in-universe: The Seegson marketing department tries to spin their faults as features, claiming [[ParanoiaFuel no one would want an android]] that [[TheyLookLikeUsNow you can't tell from a human]]. Considering that, for quite some time, the Working Joe was the face of the [[NightmareFuel/AlienIsolation Alien: Isolation Nightmare Fuel page]] rather than the titular creature, it may come as little surprise that Seegson is in the process of going belly-up.

* ImplacableMan: Absolutely '''nothing''' will kill it. Pistol shots? Nope. Shotgun rounds? Nope. Fire from a flamethrower or molotov? Well, it can disorient the Alien and drive it off, yeah, but it won't hurt it, and it's still only a temporary asset, since it can still bulldoze through you even with the fire in its face. A ''pipebomb''? It'll just come back mad.

* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Amanda considers him this [[spoiler:moments before his death.]]

* OrganicTechnology: {{Subverted|Trope}}, as usual. Weyland-Yutani synths use artificial materials arranged in a way that closely mimics organic structures.

* FlatCharacter

* ImmuneToBullets: No man-portable kinetic-energy impact weapon aboard the station will harm this thing. At worst, it will just piss it off.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Marlow was willing to overload the Anesidora's reactor in order to destroy Sevastopol, killing the remaining survivors and himself in the process, just to ensure the Aliens wouldn't escape and possibly make it to Earth. To be honest, [[VillainHasAPoint can't say we blame him!]]]]

* HeroicBSOD: Seems close to a breakdown at several points of the game. Always pushes through anyway.

* AntiVillain: Is eventually revealed to be an executive who also attempts to capture the Alien for the company, but she's otherwise not malicious, doesn't screw over Ripley, and is [[AdmiringTheAbomination largely ignorant of just how dangerous the Xenomorphs really are]]. Nevertheless, she does put everyone in danger by [[spoiler:releasing Marlow from captivity]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:''Evil'' might be pushing it, but Taylor tells Marlow to "leave Ripley out of [it]" because she just wants closure as is stuck in the middle of it all.]]

* TheLoad: Contributes very little to the team other than [[spoiler:releasing Marlow from his cell and getting killed.]]

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* AIIsACrapshoot: The Working Joes have such primitive artificial intelligence, continuing to mindlessly perform their duties, even as Sevastopol burns around them (sometimes literally), and occasionally reacting with deadly force to the presence of humans. In chapter 11, they start going on a homicidal rampage and APOLLO can't be made to call them off. [[spoiler:[[RoboticPsychopath The corporation has reprogrammed them to not only avoid harming the xenomorph so it can be captured and studied, but to actively protect it, including by killing humans.]]]] However, this also works in your favor; Working Joes walk slow enough that you can outpace them at a crawl, they won't chase Ripley very far, and have rather poor senses due to their primitive brains. [[HardModePerks The latter two are downplayed on higher difficulties, though]].

* {{Expy}}: They seem to draw inspiration from the protocol droids in VideoGame/SystemShock2, being robotic enemies who spout [[FalseReassurance polite greetings]] before moving in for the kill. Thankfully, they're not MadeOfExplodium.

* NoSell: Working Joes can block melee attacks; you need to either hit them with an EMP attack first or make hit and run stealth assaults if you want to melee them to death. The latter scores you the My Turn achievement. In certain late levels, there are Working Joes wearing protective environmental suits which allow them to NoSell EMP attacks as well. These need to be burned (ineffective), blown up, or shot to pieces.

* PersonalSpaceInvader: Working Joes that get their hands on Amanda will attempt to strangle her, if she cannot struggle free from their grasp quickly enough. The creature itself will often knock her to the floor with a DeadlyLunge before it moves in for the kill. [[spoiler:Not to mention the [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong facehuggers]].]]

* RedEyesTakeWarning: A Working Joe with EyeLightsOut is completely inactive, one with white eye lights is active but currently benign, and those with red eyes kill on sight.