Ripley, the protagonist of Alien, is hard to separate from Ripley the protagonist of the Alien franchise. The character has changed with each new movie, but we're going to do our best to put away R...

Ash is the science officer aboard the Nostromo, and he ticks all the right boxes for a movie scientist. Humorless? Check. Intelligent? Double-check. Able to science any science regardless of field...

Dallas is the captain of the Nostromo and might as well be the poster boy for awesome science fiction captain. He's brave, intelligent, and he's handsome in that late-70s manly kind of way. The act...

Honestly, we didn't give Lambert much thought the first time we watched Alien. She was whiny and cried a lot. Her death could only have been more inevitable if she had come with a tattoo on her for...

Parker is the chief engineer aboard the Nostromo, and he's the type of guy who will tell you how he feels—and then back it up with his fists. Even before the alien shows up, we can tell that Park...

Kane's dominant character trait is his curiosity and willingness to boldly go where no one has gone before. Unfortunately for Kane, it turns out he's more Redshirt than Captain Kirk's crew.Curiosit...

Brett is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Nostromo crew—the man gets no respect, no respect at all. As an engineer, he's a member of the Nostromo's "lower class" along with Parker, meaning he gets p...

In keeping with a long tradition of ship's cats, Jonesy is the Nostromo's cat—a ginger tom to be precisely precise—and he lives his life by the words of one of the great philosophers of our day...