2. Ellen Ripley
James Cameron’s Aliens took the character of Ellen Ripley and made her even stronger than the first movie, something which was helped in part by her serving as a mother of sorts to Newt. With something to fight for, this action-packed sequel essentially became a fight between two “mothers” as Sigourney Weaver’s fan-favourite character battled it out with the Queen Alien who herself was trying to protect her own brood.
Mothers do a lot for their children, but suiting up in commercial mechanized exoskeleton to battle an Alien while screaming “Get away from her, you bitch!” has to be considered above and beyond the call of duty!
