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6. Carter Burke - Aliens
While the greater 'big bads' of the Alien franchise are the titular Xenomorphs, those toothy blighters have absolutely nothing on Carter Burke of the series' second outing.
Played by Paul Reiser, Burke is a Weyland-Yutani executive whose charisma convinces Ripley to join him and a group of Colonial Marines on a mission to investigate alien eggs on the LV-426 moon. As Carter famously tells Sigourney Weaver's franchise lead, he's really an "okay guy".
Of course, in reality Burke is a two-faced, self-serving sack of sh*t whose sole aim was to use Ripley and the Marines to gain possession of these eggs and use the species as a biological weapon. Unbeknownst to our core crew, this is very much a suicide mission, with Ripley and Co. expendable assets to serve the greater good of Weyland-Yutani. To paraphrase a certain other fan favourite franchise of cinema, if they die, they die.
Even worse, another element of Burke's masterplan called for Ripley to be impregnated by a Facehugger, which would subsequently allow for Welyand-Yutani to bring the alien presence into Earth's borders undetected.
Fortunately for audiences, Burke does finally meet his end at the hands of a Xenomorph, although the full extent of this demise sadly takes place off-screen. Still, so satisfying was this result, Paul Reiser famously noted how even his own mother was applauding when Burke bit the bullet.