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Encyclopedia > Corporal Dwayne Hicks

Corporal Dwayne Hicks is a fictitious character in the 1986 science fiction movie Aliens. Michael Biehn plays Corporal Hicks, a member of the USCM Sulaco (United States Colonial Marines) deployed to LV-426 to investigate the sudden loss of contact with the colonists on the moon. Aliens in the plural may refer to more than one of several types of aliens, such as extraterrestrial beings or those foreign to a place The Aliens was the name of Roky Ericksons backing band Aliens is a 1986 film starring Sigourney Weaver and the sequel to Alien Aliens... Michael Biehn in The Terminator Michael Biehn (born Tuesday, July 31, 1956 in Anniston, Alabama) is an American actor who starred in several movies including The Terminator (1984) as well as Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Tombstone (1993), and The Rock (1996). ... This article needs cleanup. ... (From left to right) USCM Pvt. ... LV-426 as seen in Aliens LV-426, also known as Acheron, is the name of the fictitious moon (frequently but erroneously referred to as a planet) where the Alien was first encountered by humans in the movie Alien (1979) of the Alien Series. ...


Corporal Hicks is the highest ranking soldier on the moon after his fellow Marines are slaughtered by the Xenomorphs present on LV-426. Lieutenant Gorman, his commanding officer, is knocked unconscious after a Xenomorph attacks their transport. Sergeant First Class Apone is wounded in action and thought to be captured by the Xenomorphs for impregnation. The Xenomorph is a deadly fictional monster from the Alien universe, designed by the Swiss painter H. R. Giger. ...


As the leader of his fellow Marines, Corporal Hicks made the decision to use thermonuclear war heads to obliterate the moon from orbit in order to eradicate the Xenomorphs. On his escape from LV-426 Hicks was severely burned with the acid-blood from an attacking Xenomorph. Upon clearing the moons orbit Hicks was put into stasis. He was killed off, though, and wasn't present in Alien³. Alien³ is a science fiction/horror movie that opened May 22, 1992. ...



 
 

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