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"Doesn't mean we're engaged or anything."
-Hicks, commenting on his giving a locator bracelet to Ripley

Corporal Dwayne Hicks was a marine, 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 charge of the mission as the ranking Marine. He was the only marine to survive the mission to Acheron.

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.

Originally, Hicks was not played by Michael Biehn but by actor James Remar. However, Remar was caught in possession of illegal substances and consequently fired from the production after just two weeks of shooting. The part of Hicks was hastily recast with Biehn. As a result of his late casting, Biehn did not get to personalize his combat armor like the other actors/actresses playing the Marines, as this customization had already been done by Remar. Biehn was dismissive of the padlocked heart motif that he ended up with, stating it was effectively a giant bullseye directly over his chest. Despite the recasting of the role, Remar in fact still appears as Hicks in the finished version of Aliens — specifically, in the wide shot where the Marines first encounter the Xenomorph Hive. However, as he is wearing his armor and only seen from behind, it is impossible to tell the difference.

A long time ago I started a series of stamps for the Alien movies. I started with the characters of Aliens, but only posted Vasquez and Newt. I subsequently went back not long ago and finished a series of all the Nostromo crew apart from Ripley, but now I finally decided to go back and finish what I started a long time ago by finishing up the Colonial Marines.

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"Doesn't mean we're engaged or anything."
-Hicks, commenting on his giving a locator bracelet to Ripley

Corporal Dwayne Hicks was a marine, 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 charge of the mission as the ranking Marine. He was the only marine to survive the mission to Acheron.

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.

Originally, Hicks was not played by Michael Biehn but by actor James Remar. However, Remar was caught in possession of illegal substances and consequently fired from the production after just two weeks of shooting. The part of Hicks was hastily recast with Biehn. As a result of his late casting, Biehn did not get to personalize his combat armor like the other actors/actresses playing the Marines, as this customization had already been done by Remar. Biehn was dismissive of the padlocked heart motif that he ended up with, stating it was effectively a giant bullseye directly over his chest. Despite the recasting of the role, Remar in fact still appears as Hicks in the finished version of Aliens — specifically, in the wide shot where the Marines first encounter the Xenomorph Hive. However, as he is wearing his armor and only seen from behind, it is impossible to tell the difference.

A long time ago I started a series of stamps for the Alien movies. I started with the characters of Aliens, but only posted Vasquez and Newt. I subsequently went back not long ago and finished a series of all the Nostromo crew apart from Ripley, but now I finally decided to go back and finish what I started a long time ago by finishing up the Colonial Marines.