10 Iconic Horror Movie Characters Done Dirty

Taking the chilling sci-fi horror of its predecessor, and dumping in a healthy dose of action, James Cameron's Aliens is viewed as one of the all-time great sequels. So much so, some would actually class Aliens as being even better than Ridley Scott's Alien.

As part of Cameron's movie, two great characters introduced were traumatised young orphan Rebecca 'Newt' Jorden and badass Colonial Marine, Corporal Dwayne Hicks. With Aliens revealing that Ellen Ripley had been in stasis for so long that her daughter Amanda was now dead, the addition of Newt in particular worked so well in how it spotlighted Ripley as a mother; Ellen becoming the protector of the girl.

By the time Aliens comes to a close, Ripley, Newt, Hicks, and the battered remnants of android Bishop set a course for Earth, with hypersleep the order of the day as the end credits roll. Not only did the much-maligned Alien 3 go back on that promise to take the franchise to Earth, it ridiculously, lazily killed both Newt and Hicks off-screen as part of an opening sequence where our survivors crash-landed on the Fury 161 foundry.

Despite's Neill Blomkamp intention to bring Hicks back for his scrapped Alien 5, and the adult Newt being shown as a Predator Killer in a deleted scene from 2018's The Predator, the lasting legacy of both characters is forever tarnished by that awful Alien 3 opening sequence.