Dwayne Hicks

Dwayne Hicks, also known as Corporal Hicks, is one of the main characters from the Alien series.
== Charactah Account ==
Corporal Dwayne Hicks was a member of the United States Colonial Marine Corps, part of 2nd Battalion Bravo Team. He was a member of the combat unit deployed to LV-426 aboard the USS Sulaco in 2179, to investigate the sudden loss of contact with the colony of Hadley's Hope. He was subsequently involved in combating the Xenomorph infestation at the colony.
Hicks was part of Second Squad's gun team, along with Private Drake, and was also the squad's leader and Motion Tracker operator. When the unit's commanding officer, Lieutenant Gorman, was incapacitated, Hicks took overall charge of the mission as the ranking Marine. He was the only Marine to survive the incident, alongside two civilians, Ellen Ripley and Rebecca Jorden, and the USCM android Lance Bishop, who was badly damaged.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Aliens
* Aliens 3
* Aliens Omnibus
* Aliens: Earth War
* Aliens: Fire and Stone
* Aliens: Newt's Tales
* Aliens: The Essential Comics
* Aliens: The Original Comics Series
=== Literature ===
* Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay
=== Movies ===
* Alien 3
* Aliens
=== Video Games ===
* Aliens
* Aliens: Colonial Marines
== Trivia ==
* Hicks actor Michael Biehn also starred in several other films written and directed by Aliens director James Cameron in the 1980s and 90s, playing the part of Kyle Reese in The Terminator and the Special Edition of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, and that of Lieutenant Hiram Coffey in The Abyss. More recently, Biehn was in talks to play Colonel Miles Quaritch in Avatar (also written and directed by Cameron), but was ultimately dropped due to fears that the inclusion of Biehn, Sigourney Weaver and a military force greatly resembling the Colonial Marines in a Cameron film would invite too many comparisons with Aliens. Ironically, the actor who ultimately played Quaritch, Stephen Lang, had unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Hicks in Aliens.
* Contrary to popular belief, Biehn did not have a problem with Hicks dying in Alien 3, but he did strongly object to callousness of his death in the opening of the film. He was, however, initially apprehensive with the news that Hick's character would be killed by a Chestburster, and got into a confrontational phone call with David Fincher. The actor has since proposed that his character should have appeared alongside Ripley in the movie so that their relationship could be further developed, before he was killed later in the film. Biehn later went on to demand substantial compensation for his character's likeness in the film
* Due to a goof, the name tag on Hicks' locker aboard the Sulaco in Aliens reads "Cpl.J.HICKS", not "Cpl.D.HICKS" as it should. Given that James Remar originally played the character, it seems likely that Hicks originally shared his first name with the actor playing him, as is the case with all the other Marines in the film. Presumably the name Dwayne was thought up later, but the prop was never changed.
* In Cameron's original treatment for Aliens, Hicks is only a Lance Corporal in rank (and therefore subordinate to Hudson, Vasquez and a Marine named Lydecker, who are all Corporals). The treatment also had Hicks die at the end of the story — he is impregnated inside the Hive and orders Ripley to leave him there. He then either shoots himself or dies in the explosion of the Atmosphere Processor; the screenplay does not make it clear which.
* A figure based on Hicks was released by Kenner Products as part of the company's Aliens toy line. The Corp. Hicks toy was shipped with the Aliens: Space Marines mini-comic Aliens: Showdown.
* NECA produced an action figure of Hicks in 2013, along with Hudson and a Drone. There is also a two-pack that comes with Hicks and a battle damaged Drone.
* The pump-action shotgun that the player uses in the video games Doom and Doom 2 was allegedly based on the shotgun that Hicks carries, although the shotgun was imaged after a Strombecker Corporation of America "TootsieToy Dakota" toy shotgun.
* In William Gibson's unproduced script for Alien 3, Hicks and Bishop became the series' main characters in lieu of Ripley, and they, along with another group of Colonial Marines, are involved in a Xenomorph outbreak on a massive space station, where the Aliens are being bred and studied for use as a bio-weapon. The screenplay ended with a cliffhanger setting up a fourth movie that would take place on Earth. The script was eventually rejected, although it is widely available to read online.
* In at least one draft of the shooting script for Alien 3, Hicks is killed when a Chestburster erupts from him while he is still in stasis aboard the Sulaco. However, Michael Biehn refused to give the filmmakers' permission to use his likeness, and even threatened to sue if they did, and so the idea was dropped.
* In addition to his appearance in the single-player story, Hicks is also a multiplayer skin in Aliens: Colonial Marines. Hicks' Shotgun appears in the game as a "Legendary Weapon".
* One of the messages at the bottom of the main menu in Aliens: Colonial Marines is "Welcome to Aliens: Colonial Marines! - Stay frosty, Marine! Remember: short, controlled bursts". This is an obvious reference to Hicks' dialogue in Aliens.
** In addition to this, Weyland-Yutani PMC dialogue and Gorman's Pistol's quote seen in the Special Projects menu also quotes his latter statement about controlled bursts, despite Gorman's Pistol being unrelated to his character or the weapon's characteristics.
** In Aliens: Fireteam Elite, the M41A2 Pulse Rifle's description also directly quotes his "short controlled bursts" quote.
* In the novelization of Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay, Hicks is mentioned to have had a sister named Zelda, whom he considered petitioning to give her custody over Newt if they didn't find any surviving relatives for her to live with.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Dwayne Hicks at Xenopedia
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