History Characters / AliensColonialMarines

* BadassInDistress: The Xenomorphs try to abduct her, but fortunately, Winter knows where they're headed and spares her [[spoiler:Keyes and Bella's]] fate.

* AFatherToHisMen: Even if his version is ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan "The Needs of the Many Outweigh The Needs of the Few",]]'' he really does love the men and women under his command like one.

* ASpaceMarineIsYou: A given, as he's the PlayerCharacter in a game named ''Colonial Marines''.

* TheLostLenore: Having witnessed [[spoiler:Ripley's swandive into the furnace at Fury 161 (averting JustInTime)]], he considers her to be this.

* JustInTime: Averted - both he and [[spoiler:Hicks make it to Fury 161... just in time to see Ripley swan-dive into the furnace after she defeated the xenomorph]].

* JustInTime: Averted -- he, along with Stone, spend two days travelling on a ship to reach [[spoiler:Fury 161 and rescue Ripley, only to arrive ''just as'' she throws herself into the molten furnace, having already learned she had a chestburster inside of her]].

[[folder: Winter]]

->Voiced by: Creator/DerekPhillips

->Voiced by: Creator/TravisWillingham

->Voiced by: Nisa Ward

->Voiced by: Creator/JasonDouglas

->Voiced by: Creator/AshlyBurch

!! Keyes
->Voiced by: Creator/MatthewMercer

-> Voiced by: Creator/LanceHenriksen

!! [[spoiler: Cpl. Dwayne Hicks]]
->Voiced by: [[spoiler:Creator/MichaelBiehn]]

-> Voiced by: Creator/LanceHenriksen

->Voiced by: Creator/LiamOBrien

->Voiced by: Creator/StephanieLemelin

-> Voiced by: Creator/KharyPayton

%%* TheChick

* DeadManWalking: [[spoiler:Though he's unaware until the chestBurster starts exploding out of him]].

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Ignores orders to abandon his mission to retrieve the ''Sulaco'''s flight recorder, on the grounds he won't let allow his squadmate's deaths to have been for nothing. Winter agrees and tags along to aid him.

* OhNoNotAgain: [[spoiler:When Hicks is found by Winter and O’Neal, the first thing out of his mouth is “Great. Back here again.”]]

A very large (10 feet +) Xenomorph dwelling in the lower levels of Hadley's Hope.

* NamesTheSame: Despite being named (and sounding) the same as [[Film/{{Aliens}} his predecessor]] stationed onboard the ''Sulaco'', he is a different character. Invoked when [[spoiler:Corporal Hicks]] asks him, upon meeting him in person, if he's the same Bishop he knew several weeks earlier. Bishop points out that he's a different copy.

->Voiced by: Liam O'Brien

->Voiced by: Stephanie Lemelin

->Voiced by: Derek Phillips

* LateToTheTragedy: At the beginning of the game, Winter is sent in alone to reinforce two other groups of Marines who had previously boarded the ship. When he arrives, he finds O'Neal struggling to save a fellow soldier who's bleeding out, carnage everywhere and the remnants of Ripley's fight with a Queen.

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: He, in addition to O'Neal, he refuses to let Reid be impregnated by the xenomorphs, and rescues her as she's being dragged to the hive. He does the same thing later to rescue O'Neal.

* GoodIsNotNice: He did not hesitate to use O'Neal's desire to save Bella for the greater good.

* {{Rewrite}}: [[spoiler:Unlike his appearance at the end of [[Film/{{Aliens}} the second film]], Hicks is wearing different clothing and no bandages over his chest, making it a ContrivedCoincidence when a ''Legato'' colonist (Turk) is thrown into his cryopod after he is awakened]].

* ForegoneConclusion: The DLC begins with her (similarly to Bella) pulling a facehugger off of her face, signalling that she is doomed to die via chestburster. [[spoiler:The end of the first act shows this happen just after she completes the self-destruct sequence for the ''Legato'']].

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: In the early part of the level where Winter has no gear, he's mainly unbeatable; the only way to survive is to keep to the shadows since the Raven attacks from above

* ImmuneToBullets: Basically impossible to beat without a powerloader.

* SpikesOfVillainy: The Raven has a set of spines adorning the top of its head to add to its' more intimidating appearance, plus a pair of tusk-like protuberances on its lower jaw.

* BackFromTheDead: Despite being presumed dead ([[spoiler:and seen on-screen in a death pose in the third film]]), he is NotQuiteDead, and was replaced in his cryopod by a wounded crewman from the Legato in the 'Stasis Interrupted'' DLC.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Unlike its' typical higher-pitched Xenomorph brethren, the Raven makes a deep, guttural roar.

* BadassBeard: TheBigGuy of the squad focused on in the gameplay and he has a full beard.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He has this reaction when he sees the results of the xenomorph queen rampage in the Wey-Yu facility.

%%* BadassBeard

* TookALevelInJerkass: Goes through a nasty one [[spoiler:after Bella dies]]. He has utterly no qualms about shutting off all the power in the Wey-Yu research facility, despite knowing the xenomorphs will overrun and massacre the station. While Winter expresses remorse for having to do it, O'Neal doesn't.

* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:When Hicks is found by Winter and O’Neal, the first thing out of his mouth is “Great. Back here again.”]]

* OhCrap: Hard to tell since he is on the radio, but his voice is visibly shaken when informed there is a xenomorph queen.

* {{Rewrite}} In the "No One Left Behind" one-shot comic, Cruz is made aware ''very'' early on that Wey-Yu mercs have taken over the ''Sulaco'' and are engaging the Marines he sent in to investigate. Come the main game, he has no idea who or what is attacking the Marines, and only sends Winter in to ascertain what happened to the two platoons he sent in.

* BadassNormal: She's a pilot, not a ground-pounder. In fact, she's equipped with a civilian-issue submachine gun instead of the standard Colonial Marine pulse rifle. Despite this she still manages to survive through a fair share of on-foot combat against the Xenos.

* MrExposition: Hypothesizes frequently about the role of the xenomorphs on LV-426, the team's capabilities and what exactly is affecting Bella when they arrive on the planet. Given that none of the Marines appear to know what they're up against, Bishop's comments are just as much for the Marines as they are for the audience (who may not have seen [[Film/{{Aliens}} the source material]] that leads into the game.

* BackFromTheDead: Despite being presumed dead (and seen on-screen in a death pose in the third film), he is NotQuiteDead, and was replaced in his cryopod by a wounded crewman from the Legato in the 'Stasis Interrupted'' DLC.

Appears in the ''Stasis Interrupted'' DLC. A scientist working for Weyland-Yutani, Levy ultimately [[HelpFaceTurn betrays them]] to help a certain prisoner escape, and decides to aid in his quest to broadcast a DistressCall and destroy a hidden hive located on the surface of LV-426.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Along with Winter in their doomed attempt to save Bella. O'Neal quickly works out that rescuing the prisoner and finding an FTL ship were the only things Cruz was interested in.]]

-> Voiced by: Stephanie Lemelin

!! Marines

! Corporal Christopher Winter

The PlayerCharacter for the game.

* ActionGenreHeroGuy
* AnimalMotif: He has a wolf painted onto his armor with "[[TheBigBadWolf Big Bad]]" above it.

* BadassNormal: Despite being a standard U.S. Marine, he survives an increasingly-absurd number of situations, including a close encounter with a xeno in the bowels of the Sulaco, nearly getting sucked out of the umbilical when [[spoiler:another Marine blows him up after a chestburster comes out]], escaping from the hive underneath Hadley's Hope, and finally taking on the Alien Queen herself mano-a-mano.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He has this reaction when he sees the results of the alien rampage in the Wey Yu facility.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: He, in addition to O'Neal, refuses to let Reid be impregnated by the xenomorphs, and rescues her as she's being dragged to the hive. He does the same thing later to rescue O'Neal.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tells Reid she can court martial them afterwards if she wants but they're going after [[spoiler: O'Neal]] regardless of her outranking them.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Cruz uses Winter and O'Neals desire to save Bella to send them after a manifest. The true goal all along being it reveals the location of the marine Wey-Yu forces have kidnapped and a means of getting off planet. The captain was well aware Bella couldn't be saved and was gambling their lives on a longshot.]]

! Private Peter O'Neal

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: [[spoiler: He doesn't succeed.]]
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: Gets abducted by Xenomorphs which prompts Winter and Bella to ignore the fact Reid outranks them and go after him aginst her wishes.]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Bella and younger marines.

* BoomHeadshot: What he does to [[spoiler:the chestburster that came from Bella]]
* BrokenPedestal: He turns fiercely against Cruz when he deduces that he knew Bella was gonna die, and loses his respect for him.

* MadeOfIron: He gets mauled by the [[GiantMook Raven]] at one point and is perfectly fine afterwards.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Goes through a nasty one after Bella dies. He has utterly no qualms about shutting off all the power despite knowing the Xenomorphs will overrun and massacre the station. While Winter expresses remorse for having to do it, O'Neal doesn't.

* TakeMyHand: O'Neal manages to grab Winter's hand when the umbilical bridge between the Sulaco and Sephora is destroyed in the first mission.

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! Private Bella Clarison

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:She's black and the first main character to die.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Bella is eventually killed in typical gruesome fashion by the ChestBurster, despite the efforts to try and save her.]]
** Worse, O'neal could have spared her such a death with a mercy kill but was content to keep talking while it was bursting out of her body.
* [[DeadManWalking Dead Woman Walking]] / YourDaysAreNumbered: When we're introduced to her it's clear she's been infected with a chestburster and time is not on her side. Though initially denying that's there's any problem due to not knowing about what Aliens do, Bishop informs her she's going to die and might only have hours to live.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Upon finding out that even if the monster within her is removed there would be no hope of survival, Bella gracefully accepts her fate and bravely endures the agony of its birth as she is promised the survival of her remaing comrades by O'Neal.]]
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Comes round to find herself choking on a dead facehugger.

* GenreBlind: Wakes up gagging on a dead facehugger and believes she's fine. Though it's strongly implied to be denial due to fear than actually being that naive.
** Actually its neither, well maybe a bit of naive there but the marines do not have knowledge about the threat, its only weeks after Aliens and Xenomorphs are not public knowledge (at the time if one includes the comics) and while its possible the marines could have read Ripley's report, fact is, Bella may simply have not known at all what happened to her.
* HopeSpot: There's a slim chance they can save Bella from her fate. [[spoiler: It turns out even removing a ChestBurster isn't enough, the damage to the hosts organs are fatal regardless.]]
* MilitaryMaverick: More so than Winter. Not only does she ignore direct orders from a superior officer but later threatens said officer with a gun with no punishment. Of course [[spoiler: Cruz knows shes already certain to die and needs her to help Winter and O'Neal on what amounts to a suicide mission.]]

* VasquezAlwaysDies: She's explicitly based on Vasquez (in fact she's in the game because Sega wanted Gearbox to add an {{Expy}} of Vasquez to their cast), and, well...

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! Captain Jeremy Cruz

* TheChainsOfCommanding: There are several instances when he makes tough calls that do not sit well with his Marines and he freely admits they were not pleasant choices to make. But in the end many of his decisions are arguably the only reason any of them stand a chance of getting out alive.
* GoodIsNotNice: He did not hesitate to use O Neil's desire to save Bella for the greater good.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:When Cruz is trapped in the dropship, and knowing that Bishop cannot open the door with the Queen still inside, he urges the Marines to take control of the ship before ramming into the Alien Queen and sending it plummeting to Acheron's surface, killing himself in the process.]]

* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Says this almost verbatim when [[spoiler: the Sephora explodes.]]

* OhCrap: Hard to tell since he is on the radio, but his voice is visibly shaken when informed there is an Alien Queen.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He quickly calms the situation between Bella and Reid whilst also telling Reid her call was the right one. Even if she was ignored. Furthermore when Winter and O'Neal ask to go on a dangerous mission with Bella in an attempt to remove her ChestBurster he allows it, on the condition they gain intel of military value on the way. [[spoiler: Though this turns out to be subverted in that he knew Bella was doomed. Cruz was actually interested in acquiring Weyland-Yutani's prisoner and a way off the planet for his surviving Marines.]] When Winter and O'Neil confront him over it, he fully admits they have a reason to be mad. When O'Neil screams at him about it, he fully admits he did not want to have to do it that way, and he doesn't reprimand O'Neil afterward.
* The Captain: He is the man in charge, and unlike the inexperienced Gorman, he manages to get his marines off the planet with not many casualties.

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! Lieutenant Lisa Reid

* AcePilot: The fact she's able to get Winter and company onto the surface LV-426 in one piece takes some pretty nifty flying, some luck and a crash landing good enough not kill them all.

* BadassNormal: She's a pilot, not a ground-pounder. In fact she's equipped with a civilian-issue submachine gun instead of the standard Colonial Marine pulse rifle. Despite this she still manages to survive through a fair share of on-foot combat against the Xenos.
* BadassInDistress: The Xenomorphs try to abduct her but fortunately Winter knows were they're headed and spares her [[spoiler:Keyes and Bella's]] fate.

* WhatTheHellHero: Bella calls Reid out on not wanting to risk [[spoiler:going after O'Neal]] when he was the one who wanted to save her ass in the same scenario.

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[[folder:Keys]]
! Keyes

A Marine who was captured early on and has to be helped by Winter.

* BadassInDistress: Found by Winter after he'd been captured by Xenomorphs and has to be cut free from the wall.
* ChestBurster: [[spoiler:He's killed by one after completing his mission to retrieve the flight recorder. He does take it with him though.]]
* DeadManWalking: [[spoiler:Though he's unaware until the ChestBurster starts exploding out of him.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Didn't really do his fellow marines any favors by blowing up the umbilical bridge they were still crossing. Telling them to shoot him was a more logical solution. Somewhat understandable given the pain he was in at the time likely didn't allow much thinking on his part. He was also carrying the flight recorder that they went to so much trouble to get.]]
* RecklessSidekick: Destroys an entire dropship with a grenade because there's a few Xenomorphs near it. [[WhatTheHellHero Much to Winter's annoyance]]. However he goes one step further when [[spoiler:blowing himself up to kill his chestburster, which proves even more disastrous for all involved.]]
* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Keyes going back for the flight recorder proved to be for nothing as he blew himself up whilst in possession of it.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Ignores orders to abandon his mission to retrieve the Sulaco's flight recorder on the grounds he won't let allow his squadmate's deaths to have been for nothing. Winter agrees and tags along to aid him.
** He personally ends killing more marines, and even more indirectly, first he blew up a dropship ( a possible escape for survivors) and then there's the senseless sacrifice, noted above.

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: When a chestburster begins bursting out of him Keyes decides to blow himself up with a grenade. Unfortunately he's in the middle of crossing between the Sulaco and Sephora over an umbilical bridge, thus ends up killing a fellow marine and narrowly avoiding killing even more (including Winter) in the process.]]
* TeamKiller: [[spoiler: Not intentional on his part but he does kill one of his fellow marines and endangers the lives of several more.]]

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! [[spoiler: Cpl. Dwayne Hicks]]

* WalkingSpoiler: Shows up two-thirds of the way through the game, and is the prisoner Winter and O'Neal are sent to rescue from Weyland-Yutani.

* SpaceMarine

* BadassBeard
* BadassNormal

* SpaceMarine

* ActionGirl
* BadassNormal

* SpaceMarine

* TheLeader

* SpaceMarine

* TheChick
* CoolShades

* SpaceMarine

* NotQuiteDead

[[folder: Marines]]

* BrokenPedestal: Nowhere near as bad as ONeil, but he was not happy that Cruz was aware that Bella was doomed and hid it from them.

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* TookALevelInJerkass: Goes through a nasty one after Bella dies. He has utterly no qualms about shutting off all the power despite knowing the Xenomorphs will overrun and massacre the station. While Winter expresses remorse for having to do it, O'Neil doesn't.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Along with Winter in their doomed attempt to save Bella. O'Neal quickly works out that rescuing the prisoner and finding an FTL ship were the only things Cruz was interested in.]]

* ChestBurster: She's infected with one. [[spoiler: And it ends up killing her.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Bella is eventually killed in typical gruesome fashion by the ChestBurster, despite the efforts to try and save her.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: When Cruz is trapped in the dropship, and knowing that Bishop cannot open the door with the Queen still inside, he urges the Marines to take control of the ship before ramming into the Alien Queen and sending it plummeting to Acheron's surface, killing himself in the process.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: His justification for misleading Winter and O'Neal about their chances for saving Bella. He also admitted it was a miracle they even succeeded in their true goal and he hadn't expected them to return at all. In the end he weighed the slim chance of saving dozens of his marines against the likely loss of two and decided it was worth the deception.]]

* BadassInDistress: The Xenomorphs try to abduct her but fortunately Winter knows were they're headed and spares her [[spoiler: Keyes and Bella's]] fate.

* WhatTheHellHero: Bella calls Reid out on not wanting to risk [[spoiler: going after O'Neal]] when he was the one who wanted to save her ass in the same scenario.

* ChestBurster: [[spoiler: He's killed by one after completing his mission to retrieve the flight recorder. He does take it with him though.]]
* DeadManWalking: [[spoiler: Though he's unaware until the ChestBurster starts exploding out of him.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Didn't really do his fellow marines any favors by blowing up the umbilical bridge they were still crossing. Telling them to shoot him was a more logical solution. Somewhat understandable given the pain he was in at the time likely didn't allow much thinking on his part. He was also carrying the flight recorder that they went to so much trouble to get.]]
* RecklessSidekick: Destroys an entire dropship with a grenade because there's a few Xenomorphs near it. [[WhatTheHellHero Much to Winter's annoyance]]. However he goes one step further when [[spoiler: blowing himself up to kill his chestburster, which proves even more disastrous for all involved.]]
* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: Keyes going back for the flight recorder proved to be for nothing as he blew himself up whilst in possession of it.]]

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* BadassNormal