10 Exact Moments That Made Fans Hate Movie Franchises

9. Newt & Hicks Are Killed Off - Alien 3

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One of the reasons James Cameron's Aliens is so great is that its wide cast of characters don't all blur together, with the likes of Hicks, Vasquez, Newt, Bishop and Hudson all getting a moment (or two) to shine.

Sadly, out of the human characters, only Newt and Hicks - two massive fan favourites - survived the movie, along with protagonist Ripley. On the plus side, this perfectly set up Alien 3 for a story involving three characters that fans adored a great deal.

Or so you'd think.

Instead, Newt and Hicks were killed off right as Alien 3 started, dying in an escape pod crash. This felt like a massive middle-finger to fans who'd spent years waiting for a sequel to Aliens, a movie that spent over two hours building up the relationships between Ripley, Newt and Hicks, only for Alien 3 to throw all that work away in a matter of seconds.

It's maddening that two amazing characters were killed off in such a flippant fashion, and the already-mediocre Alien 3 seems even worse as a result. Even actor Michael Biehn (Hicks) made his displeasure known, only agreeing to let the Alien 3 team use his picture if he was paid a lot of money. You can't blame him, really.

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