10 Stupid Decisions Made By Characters In The Alien Franchise

5. Ripley Asks To Be Executed - Alien 3

Alien Covenant
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The first two films in the Alien franchise made Ripley one of most iconic protagonists in all of cinema. The Alien film showcased her intelligence and determination to survive against a deadly alien lifeform, while Aliens took this one step further by having Ripley fight the aliens and even going toe to toe with the alien queen.

But fans of Ripley were shocked and angered to see what she did in Alien 3. After crash landing on a prison colony, Ripley learns that another alien is loose on the colony and that she has a Xenomorph forming inside of her.

But instead of showing the bravery and determination to survive that we saw from her in the past, Ripley asks one of the prisoners to kill her and the alien inside her.

It is understandable that Ripley would accept her inevitable death at the hands of the alien within her, but doing so without first trying to help take down the living Xenomorph was seen as a really out of character decision for her.

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