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* 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.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He has this reaction when he sees the results of the alien rampage in the Wey Yu facility.
* NumberTwo: Cruz sees Winter as this, and he assumes command of the marines upon Cruz's death.
* OhCrap: He has this reaction when he sees the Alien Queen.
* OhCrap: He has this reaction when he sees the Alien Queen.
* BrokenPedestal: He turns fiercely against Cruz when he deduces that he knew Bella was gonna die, and loses his respect for him.
* OhCrap: Has one along with Winter and Cruz when he sees an Alien Queen.
* 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.
* 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.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Cruz sacrifices himself at the end of the final mission to kill the Queen xenomorph that's attacking Winter in the cargo bay of Michael Weyland's personal ship.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Cruz sacrifices himself at the end of the final mission to kill the Queen xenomorph that's attacking Winter in the cargo bay of Michael Weyland's personal ship.]]
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GoodIsNotNice: He did not hesitate to use O Neil's desire to save Bella for the greater good.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: When Cruzsacrifices himself at is trapped in the end of dropship, and knowing that Bishop cannot open the final mission to kill door with the Queen xenomorph that's attacking Winter 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 cargo bay of Michael Weyland's personal ship.process.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: When Cruz
* OhCrap: Hard to tell since he is on the radio, but his voice is visibly shaken when informed there is an Alien Queen.
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* MissionControlMissionControl: Serves as this for the rest of the Marines, going by the codename of "Actual".
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* 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.]]
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* 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.
* 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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* ShipTease: He and Reid share a hug at the end of the game.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Her outfit exposes a sliver of skin between her shirt and pants. The pants themselves are also unusually tight, and she wears earrings and has an impractical-but-cute hairstyle.
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* TheBigGuyTheBigGuy: A big, tough Colonial Marine who wields the biggest weapon: a smart gun.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:She's black and the first main character to die.]]
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* SpottingTheThread: [[spoiler:The reason why he knew Michael Weyland was ActuallyADoombot? Weyland never breathed.]]
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! CaptainJeremy Captain Jeremy Cruz
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* 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 ''Crew Expendable'' DLC.
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* HeartbrokenBadass: As shown in the ''Crew Expendable'' DLC and offhandedly referenced to O'Neal in the main game, [[spoiler:Ripley's death]] has affected him, although he's had several months to come to terms with it.
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* HeartbrokenBadass: As shown in the ''Crew Expendable'' ''Stasis Interrupted'' DLC and offhandedly referenced to O'Neal in the main game, [[spoiler:Ripley's death]] has affected him, although he's had several months to come to terms with it.
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* ShaggyDogStory: The majority of the first mission involves Winter being sent in to rescue him from the hive in the bowels of the ship, and later, Keyes conscripts him to help find the flight recorder against Cruz's orders. [[spoiler:It's all for naught, as he and the recorder get sucked out of the umbilical when the chestburster comes out of him.
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* ASpaceMarineIsYou: A given as he's the PlayerCharacter in a game named Colonial Marines.
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* ASpaceMarineIsYou: A given given, as he's the PlayerCharacter in a game named Colonial Marines.''Colonial Marines''.
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* BashBrothers: With O'Neal who fights beside him for the majority of the campaign.
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* AudienceSurrogate
AudienceSurrogate: He often asks obvious questions, ostensibly for the audience's benefit. However, this is also lampshaded at a couple points when he asks Cruz what's happening, and the latter refuses to answer.
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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.
* BashBrothers: WithO'Neal O'Neal, who fights beside him for the majority of the campaign.
*LateToTheTragedyLateToTheTragedy: 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.
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* MilitaryMaverick: Shades Has shades of this. Winter does ignore direct orders from superiors in order to do what he feels is right on several occasions.
*NoOneGetsLeftBehindNoOneGetsLeftBehind: 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.
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* LeeroyJenkins: He is reckless and endangers everyone. Its not hard to imagine that this could be the reason he ended up captured in the first place.
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* 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 chestbuster, which proves even more disastrous for all involved.]]
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* 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 chestbuster, chestburster, which proves even more disastrous for all involved.]]
* ShaggyDogStory: The majority of the first mission involves Winter being sent in to rescue him from the hive in the bowels of the ship, and later, Keyes conscripts him to help find the flight recorder against Cruz's orders. [[spoiler:It's all for naught, as he and the recorder get sucked out of the umbilical when the chestburster comes out of him.
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: When a chestbuster 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.]]
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: When a chestbuster 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.]]
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*BackFromTheDead
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 ''Crew Expendable'' DLC.
*BadassNormalBadassNormal: Having been tortured for several months does nothing to slow him down, and he helps Winter and the others fend off the Queen at multiple points.
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* DeadpanSnarker: (after [[spoiler:executing Michael Weyland]], to Bishop) "I just killed your God."
* HeartbrokenBadass: As shown in the ''Crew Expendable'' DLC and offhandedly referenced to O'Neal in the main game, [[spoiler:Ripley's death]] has affected him, although he's had several months to come to terms with it.
* HeartbrokenBadass: As shown in the ''Crew Expendable'' DLC and offhandedly referenced to O'Neal in the main game, [[spoiler:Ripley's death]] has affected him, although he's had several months to come to terms with it.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: A few months being tortured by Wey-Yu mercs has left him less kinder person than in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.
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SoleSurvivor: As of the end of the game, he is the only survivor of the original mission to investigate LV-426.
* TookALevelInJerkass: A few months being tortured by Wey-Yu mercs has left him a less kinder person than he was in''Film/{{Aliens}}''.
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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.
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* [[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 Bishop informs her she's going to die and might only have hours to live.
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** 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.
* [[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.
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** 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.
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**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.
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* [[spoiler: TeamKiller: 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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* AFatherToHisMen: Even if his version is ''[[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.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Even if his version is ''[[StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan ''[[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.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Even if his version is ''"The ''[[StarTrekTwoTheWrathOfKhan "The Needs of the Many Outweigh The Needs of the Few",'' Few",]]'' he really does love the men and women under his command like one.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Winter's takes to mockingly calling him "Nugget" after a throwaway comment by Cruz. O'Neal is not impressed.
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! Cpl. Christopher Winter
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* ASpaceMarineIsYou: A [[CaptainObvious given]] as he's the PlayerCharacter in a game named Colonial Marines.
* ActionGenreHeroGuy
* AnimalMotif: He has a wolf painted onto his armor with "[[TheBigBadWolf Big Bad]]" above it.
* AudienceSurrogate
* BadassNormal
* BashBrothers: With O'Neal who fights beside him for the majority of the campaign.
* LateToTheTragedy
* MeaningfulName: Winter [[StayFrosty stays frosty]] under pressure.
* MilitaryMaverick: Shades of this. Winter does ignore direct orders from superiors in order to do what he feels is right on several occasions.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind
* 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.
--> '''Winter:''' "No Marine left behind."
* SpaceMarine
* 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.]]
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! Peter O'Neal
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: [[spoiler: He doesn't succeed.]]
* [[spoiler: BadassInDistress: Gets abducted by Xenomorphs which prompts Winter and Bella to ignore the fact Reid outranks them and go after him aginst her wishes.]]
* BadassBeard
* BadassNormal
* BashBrothers: With Winter.
* TheBigGuy
* EmbarrassingNickname: Winter's takes to mockingly calling him "Nugget" after a throwaway comment by Cruz. O'Neal is not impressed.
* SpaceMarine
* TakeMyHand: O'Neal manages to grab Winter's hand when the umbilical bridge between the Sulaco and Sephora is destroyed in the first mission.
* 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.]]
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! Bella Clarison
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* ActionGirl
* BadassNormal
* ChestBurster: She's infected with one. [[spoiler: And it ends up killing her.]]
* [[spoiler: CruelAndUnusualDeath: Bella is eventually killed in typical gruesome fashion by the ChestBurster, despite the efforts to try and save her.]]
* [[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 Bishop informs her she's going to die and might only have hours to live.
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Comes round to find herself choking on a dead facehugger.
* FetusTerrible: She becomes increasingly fearful of the monster inside her, especially when she begins to ''feel it move''.
--> '''Bella:''' "I can...I can feel it moving..."
* 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.
* 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.]]
* SpaceMarine
* [[spoiler: VasquezAlwaysDies]]
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! Capt. Jeremy Cruz
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* BadassNormal
* [[spoiler: Heroic Sacrifice: Cruz sacrifices himself at the end of the final mission to kill the Queen xenomorph that's attacking Winter in the cargo bay of Michael Weyland's personal ship.]]
* 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
* 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 the true goal of 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.]]
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Says this almost verbatim when [[spoiler: the Sephora explodes.]]
--> '''Cruz:''' "It's been an honor serving with you. God speed."
* TheLeader
* MissionControl
* RealMenLoveJesus: ''"I wake up in the morning thanking baby Jesus for every day I'm in the corps."''
* 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.]]
* SpaceMarine
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! Lt. Reid
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* 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.
* ActionGirl
* BadassNormal
* BadassInDistress: The Xenomorphs try to abduct her but fortunately Winter knows were they're headed and spares her [[spoiler: Keyes and Bella's]] fate.
* TheChick
* CoolShades
* ComingInHot: When crash landing on LV-426.
* TheEngineer: Manages to get communications up and running armed with nothing but her smarts.
--> '''Reid:''' ''"Who's a badass?! I ran an illegal Comm Tower bypass with my bare hands!"''
* 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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! Keyes
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* BadassInDistress: Found by Winter after he'd been captured by Xenomorphs and has to be cut free from the wall.
* [[spoiler: ChestBurster: He's killed by one after completing his mission to retrieve the flight recorder. He does take it with him though.]]
* [[spoiler: DeadManWalking: 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 chestbuster, which proves even more disastrous for all involved.]]
* [[spoiler: SenselessSacrifice: 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.
* SpaceMarine
* [[spoiler: TakingYouWithMe: When a chestbuster 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.]]
* [[spoiler: TeamKiller: 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]]
* BackFromTheDead
* BadassNormal
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Or at least a more ruthless person, especially regarding the people who tortured you.
* LoopholeAbuse: ''"You didn't specify which direction to drive the APC in, sir."''
* MilitaryMaverick: It's even lampshaded by Captain Cruz.
--> '''Cruz:''' "Looks like you'll fit right in you insubordinate son of a bitch."
* NotQuiteDead
* SoleSurvivor
* TookALevelInJerkass: A few months being tortured by Wey-Yu mercs has left him less kinder person than in {{Aliens}}.
* WalkingSpoiler
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