7. Colonial Marines - Aliens
They might - wrongly - be considered mere alien fodder, glorified slasher bait without the big tits and dizzy heads of more conventional stalking horror flicks, but the Aliens crew packed a major punch. Far more adrenaline-fuelled than the crew of the first movie, the marines of the exceptional sequel faced an impossible situation - a day trip to Hell - and showed enough swagger and bravado to power the engines of their ship alone. Obviously, they didn't know the extent of the problem or the threat of their foe and believed their own hype rather fatally, thanks to Ripley's silence, but even when they discovered what faced them, they never flinched in their duty or the grim task at hand, despite probably knowing their fate. They took on an alien enemy they had very little chance of beating, on its own planet and took to it with morbid gusto, dropping like flies as the story unfolded (despite the ability of a child to survive alone on the colony) but going down in most cases in a hail of bullets. And most importantly, what they lacked in actual ability to kill aliens and stay alive, they more than made up for in pithy and sometimes openly hostile anti-hero charisma. I'll leave it to the "ultimate bad-ass" himself to confirm the marines' worthiness in this list... http://youtu.be/qrjFuTbl_SA Bill Paxton's finest moments, right there.