Sigourney Weaver's Ripley is one of the all time best heroes, let alone heroines. She's more badass, more courageous, and more of a leader than almost anyone else in movie or TV history. When we first meet her, she's just part of this salvage team. Sure she seems cool, and reacts intelligently to the events, but the awesomeness doesn't show itself until people start dying.
The other thing I've always loved about Ripley is that she's not superhuman. She's really part of that group of heroes that includes John McClaine. A regular person, thrown into a crazy and dangerous situation and they just rise to the top, and become the ultimate protector. At the end of Alien she defeats a giant monster while being almost naked, that's gotta be worse something.
In Aliens she's the veteran, and for some reason no one listens to her when she tells them the shit is about to hit the fan. Her best line in that movie clearly is "Get away from her you bitch!". We all know Molly Weasley was quoting Ripley when killed Belatrix.
After Aliens the movies kind of fall off a cliff, but Ripley remains awesome in all forms, and scripts.
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