In true Aliens fashion, the only main characters to survive are Ripley, Newt and the marine/s that made it to the dropship. If you watch the cinematic back, the marines are laying down suppressive fire as Cass and Maeko escape, and then they get jumped on and killed.
At the end of the film as it is now, Ripley is the only survivor in the last act, along with the ship's cat, Jones. Ripley sets the Nostromo to blow up and escapes to a smaller shuttle. The Nostromo explodes, and the alien is dead. Movie over — or so it seems.
Set in the far future, it stars Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of an alien attack on her ship. When communications are lost with a human colony on the moon where her crew first saw the alien creatures, Ripley agrees to return to the site with a unit of Colonial Marines to investigate.
Following their landing, an unknown creature infiltrates the ship, and kills every other member of the crew. Ripley is the only member to escape from the Nostromo prior to its explosion, which she deliberately commenced to kill the monster.
The alien manages to hang on, but Ripley fires a grappling hook gun to push it out and then fires the engines, blasting it away into deep space. After recording her final log entry, she places Jones and herself into stasis for the trip back to Earth.
Hudson's ultimate fate is unknown, though it was likely that he was cocooned and impregnated with a Chestburster; the Chestburster later killed him when it reached maturity and birthed. Hudson was posthumously decorated for gallantry under fire for his actions on LV-426.
Aliens introduced the beloved characters of Hicks and Newt, and while they both survived the film, Alien 3 unceremoniously killed them off. Whereas Ridley Scott's original Alien was basically a haunted house movie in space, James Cameron's sequel Aliens became a blend of action, sci-fi, and horror.
Ripley soon learns that during her cryostasis aboard the escape pod, she was attacked by a Face Hugger, and impregnated with a Xenomorph embryo. A scan using the escape pod's barely functioning medical apparatus reveals this baby is none other than an Alien Queen.
During the chaos, Newt's mother and brother were killed but she managed to escape through a vent. Newt managed to survive by hiding in the air ducts to avoid the monsters which came mostly at night to take people away.
Hicks took a romantic interest in Ripley from the start, although it seems Ripley was initially intimidated by this. He also respected Ripley's intelligence, courage and ability to stay calm and think straight during a dangerous situation.
Yes, Ridley Scott originally had Ripley die at the ending of Alien, but the studio execs disagreed with Scott, marking one of the rare times studio execs did the right decision.
Unfortunately Ripley was carrying a Queen Alien embryo inside of her, which the company, Weyland Yutani, wanted to preserve to produce biological weapons. Ripley kills herself to avoid this. Centuries after the death of Ripley, scientists were able to clone her using DNA acquired from the incidents in Alien 3.
Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley (officially designated as Ripley 8), reprising her role from the previous three Alien films. After having sacrificed herself to kill the Alien queen gestating inside her in Alien 3, Ripley has been cloned using blood samples so that the military may extract the queen embryo.
Carrie Henn was unable to reprise her role as Newt as she was too old for the part so Danielle Edmond took over the role in this installment for the brief autopsy scene with Newt's corpse.
She dives into the furnace, destroying both herself and the embryo inside her. In doing so, she hopes to prevent Weyland-Yutani from using the Xenomorph as a biological weapon. It's a powerful decision by Ripley, one which finally sees her break free of Weyland-Yutani's hold.
Upon her reunion with Ripley 8 (now exhibiting Xenomorph traits) the Queen had moved past the egg laying stage and developed a massive womb, Ripley's genetic "gift", according to the maddened Dr. Gediman. The Newborn emerges from the womb, the Queen's first live birth.
The alien-fighting warrant officer revealed her shaved head in the third instalment of the successful franchise, which had her stranded on a prison spaceship. “I think it brings out the faces and the vulnerability of these actors very much,” she said of her and her fellow cast mate's shorn locks.
In Alien 3, Ripley gets infected with a Xenomorph embryo by a Facehugger and lands on a prison planet following the unceremonious deaths of Hicks and Newt.
Two possibilities immediately present themselves: She was infested with an embryo that was eventually meant to become a queen. It's possible the gestation time for that particular xenomorph form is longer, to allow for more complex brain development or the like. She was infested while she was still in hibernation.
In Alien, the android Ash betrays Ripley and her crew under orders from the company to bring a live alien specimen back to Earth at all costs. In Aliens, Ripley believes the same about Bishop, but she quickly learns that he is much different than Ash—he's even selfless—and she begins to trust him.
In the movie "Aliens" (1986), Newt, Hicks, and Ripley are the main characters who survive until the end. They manage to escape planet LV-426 before it explodes, along with Bishop, the android.
Carrie Henn is a former American child actress, who rose to prominence at the age of ten (10) after co-starring with Sigourney Weaver in the movie "Aliens," the 1986 sequel to the 1979 hit, "Alien." She has been married to her husband Nathan Kutcher since July 2, 2005. They have one child together.
He is also appreciated by fans due to the fact that he is the only major character in the franchise that lived a full and long life, having survived facing the Alien on multiple occasions. Meghan Cook of Insider listed Jonesy as one of the top 15 best movie cats of all time, calling him a "survivor".
