Characters / Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

Humans

Dallas Howard

Played by: Steven Pasquale

Dallas is one main characters of Requiem and infamous for uttering "People are dying, we need guns"

• Big Brother Instinct: Towards Ricky. When the latter is impaled by the Predalien's bladed tail, Dallas immediately opens fire in a rage and actually makes the monster retreat.
• Odd Friendship: With the local Sheriff. He's an ex-con and the Sheriff is of course a lawman.
• Noodle Incident: Just got out of jail, but his crime is unrevealed. Judging by comments made throughout the film, it's likely he was caught breaking into someone's property to rob them.
• Sole Survivor: Averted. He's one of only four townsfolk to survive the Xenomorph infestation.

Buddy Benson

Played by: Kurt Max Runte

Father of Sam Benson.

• Cruel and Unusual Death: As per usual, attacked by facehuggers.
• Chest Burster: A fast example as it only takes two "pushes" for it to pop out, and the blood goes flying to a tree opposite him. One of the many over-compensating gore used in the film.
• Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: Manages to avoid the first at the cost of his arm. He doesn't manage to stop the second.
• Major Injury Under Reaction: His reaction to getting his arm melted off by alien acid is closer to the sound someone would make when suffering from a stomach ache.
• Too Dumb to Live: Investigating the spaceship that crashed did not end well for him or his son. They stop running well before they could conceivably be out of danger.

Sam Benson

Played by: Liam James

The son of Buddy and is killed off brutally by a chestburster.

• Cruel and Unusual Death: As per usual from being facehugged, with the added bonus of seeing it happen to his father first.
• Death of a Child: He's a pre-teen boy and one of the first victims of a facehugger in the film, as it impregnates him with an alien that later bursts through his chest and kills him. He's also the first child to have this happen to him onscreen in an Alien film.
• Facefull Of Alien Wing Wong: While it was stated to have happened to the colonist kids in Aliens, Sam is the first child to suffer this onscreen. Some people view this as having been done for pure shock value.

Harry

Played by: Lloyd Berry

A homeless man living in the sewers.

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Offscreen, his body is found later by Wolf.
• Chest Burster: Offscreen.
• Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
• Hope Spot: When the facehugger comes after him, he manages to catch it before it attaches to his face. Unfortunately, an Alien warrior startles him, causing him to lose his grip on the parasite, which wastes no time in clamping onto his face.
• Instant Sedation: Its takes just a few seconds for Harry to fall unconscious the moment the creature attaches to him.

Homeless Man

Played by: John Wardlow

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Offscreen, his body is found later by Wolf.
• Chest Burster: Offscreen, but what is seen is very large gaping hole, larger what is normally seen, the same can be said for Harry too.
• Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
• Too Dumb to Live: Yes, it really is a good idea to stick your head out when you hear a strange noise coming from the water below you. Mind you living in the filthy sewers in the first place was not smart.
• Instant Sedation: See above.

Homeless Woman

Played by: Nesta Chapman

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Offscreen, but ends up being the host to four "bellybursters".
• Chest Burster: Technically bellybursters — embryos implanted by the Predalien result in the Aliens coming out from the stomach instead of the chest, and usually more than one at a time.
• Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: Is impregnated by the Predalien, who was (according to Word of God) a young Queen.
• Gory Discretion Shot: What happens to her is not seen as the Predalien blocks our line of sight.

Ricky Howard

Played by: Johnny Lewis

• Attack! Attack! Attack!: He recklessly tries to avenge his girlfriend by charging at Wolf with an assault rifle (since it was one of Wolf's Predator weapons that skewered Jesse, albeit unintentionally). Lucky for him, he survives because a Xenomorph Warrior charges Wolf, which not only causes both falling down an elevator shaft, but stops the Predator from killing him.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Jesse and Ricky talk about how they hung out together once and did stuff like sneak into the school pool "before you had a boyfriend." In the present, Ricky has a crush on Jesse which he clearly hasn't voiced before, indicating that their past interactions were playful shenanigans from before they were old enough to feel attracted too each other. Jesse easily notices Ricky's new feelings for her and proposes a Relationship Upgrade after she dumps her Jerkass boyfriend.

Kelly O'Brien

Played By: Reiko Aylesworth

• Cassandra Truth: Played With as Darcy and Morales refuse to believe her claims that the government is lying about the evacuation and split off from the rest of group. This seals both of their fates. Dallas, Ricky and Jesse believe her, however.
• Expy: Of Ripley.
• Properly Paranoid: Quickly realizes that Colonel Stevens was lying about the evacuation as the government would want to contain the Alien infestation. Sure enough, the whole thing was a ruse to have the survivors gather at a certain point where all the Aliens would be lured to so the government can nuke them all.

Molly O'Brien

Played by: Ariel Gade

• Expy: Of Newt.

Tim O'Brien

Played by: Sam Trammell

• Too Dumb to Live: When his daughter claims that there's a monster outside her bedroom window, he goes to the window like any normal parent would to show her that nothing is there. However, he pronounces, "See, no monster," before turning to look out the window, and is almost immediately killed by the xenomorph crashing through it.

Colonel Stevens

Played by: Robert Joy

• Necessarily Evil: He orders the nuclear bombing of an entire town in order to prevent the Xenomorph infestation from spreading any further, rather than risk anymore death or one of the creatures escaping by trying to evacuate anybody first. It's made clear that he knows what he's doing is awful, as he lies to a man he knows will be dead in a few minutes, and looks completely eaten up with guilt while he does it.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He drops a nuclear bomb on an American town to contain the spread of an alien infestation, lying to the survivors that help will come to evacuate them in the center of town. He does this possibly to make sure as many Xenomorphs are caught in the middle of the blast. Using these poor people as bait may seem awful, but his intentions are ultimately noble, as he needs to ensure none of these creatures (that have already reduced a town made up of thousands of people down to a handful of survivors) manage to survive the blast.

Jesse

Played by: Kristen Hager

• Establishing Character Moment: In her first scene, Jesse invites a pizza boy (her classmate Ricky) inside to have something to drink, confides her relationship issues to him, and yells at her jealous boyfriend to stop hitting Ricky, but doesn't do anything else besides give Ricky an apologetic look once Dale stops. In her future scenes she's warm-hearted, but more of a bystander during both Ricky and Dale's next scuffle and the xenomorph attacks.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Female variant. In the Unrated version, after Wolf's boomerang pins her to the wall, her body splits in two at the abdomen, spilling her guts everywhere.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A fairly nice blonde girl.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She is killed in the crossfire between Wolf and the Xenomorphs when Wolf's bladed boomerang hits her in the torso and pins her against the wall where she quickly bleeds out.
• Love Interest: Her only real significance to the film's plot is being the girl that Ricky has an obvious crush on.

Dale Collins

Played by: David Paetkau

• Asshole Victim: He's the local high school's resident bully and ends up being killed in the crossfire between Wolf and the Xenomorphs.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He gets one of the more gory on-screen deaths when his face is melted off by acidic Xenomorph blood getting poured on him.
• Death by Pragmatism: When the aliens attack them in the gun store, Dale grabs the keys to the Sheriff's car in the ensuing panic and attempts to make a run for it. Unfortunately, a Xeno is waiting for him by the exit, and it ambushes him before he can escape and pins him to the floor. Wolf appears and blasts said Xeno with his plasma caster, but the blood spray hits Dale in the face and gruesomely kills him.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Falls in with the main characters after witnessing an alien kill Nick and Mark, although this is more out of convenience and proximity than any repentance.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the group is attacked in the gun shop, he says "fuck this" and attempts to make a break for the Sheriff's car in order to escape town. Unfortunately for him, a waiting alien has other plans...

Nick and Mark

Played by: Matt Ward (Mark), Michal Suchánek (Nick)

• Asshole Victim: The two beta members of Dale's jerk-tourage who antagonize Ricky and Jesse; they're both killed off by a Xenomorph at the high school.
• Black Dude Dies First: Nick is white and Mark is black. When a Xenomorph ambushes them at the school, it kills Mark first.

Sheriff Eddie Morales

Played by: John Ortiz

• Nice Guy: He is a friendly sort if completely in over his head.
• Too Dumb to Live: Chose to believe the government.

Kendra

Played by: Shareeka Epps

Darcy Benson

Played by: Chelah Horsdal

• Outliving One's Offspring: Darcy's son dies early in the movie, while she lasts until the penultimate scene.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: During a quarantine situation, Darcy believes that the government will save them instead of slaughtering them.
  Darcy: The government doesn't lie.

Carrie

Played by: Gina Holden

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Was mercifully unconscious when it happened.
• Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: A victim of the Predalien.
• Gory Discretion Shot: Not the death itself (at least in the unrated edition) but the attack that resulted in her carrying bellybursters is cut away before anything is seen.

Sue and other pregnant mothers

Played by: Victoria Bidewell (Sue), Jay-Lyn Green, Lili Wexu

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Bellybursting is just as painful and gruesome as Chestbursting. The other women are forced to witness both the attack and the result before being attacked themselves.
• Death of a Child: Their unborn (but ready to be) infants are devoured by the gestating bellybursters.
• Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: More victims of the Predalien's bellyburster impregnation.

Predators

Wolf

Wolf is the primary Predator character in the movie who came to Earth to investigate a crashed ship from his people, and attempt to clean up a large Xenomorph infestation.

• Cleanup Crew: Throughout the movie, he kills as many humans as he does xenomorphs. When you're especially targeting humans that catch you in the act and getting rid of the bodies, you definitely qualify as one.
• Dual Wielding: Not only does he have dual wrist blades, but he also uses twin plasma casters
• Due to the Dead: When Wolf first arrives at the crashed Predator ship on Earth, he places his hand on a dead brethren (Bull) and bow his head.
• Honor Before Reason: Natch for his race. He slowly takes his mask off when there is a Predalien standing in front of him. Would be considered material for being Too Dumb to Live for anyone unfamiliar with how the Predators work, but consider for a moment that it's a silent challenge from the Predalien (who was waiting for him to do so).
  • Debatable, as while Predaliens do inherit some instinctual behaviors such as taking trophies without necessarily knowing why, fans are still split as to whether the Predalien was issuing a challenge or not.
• It's Personal: Judging by his growls and body language reacting upon seeing the Predalien in a biomask recording (recovered from Bull Predator's corpse) of it killing his fellow Predators, and infesting Gunnison with its brood, it is indicative enough that he considered this unique Xenomorph an abomination that needed to be exterminated. And while Wolf was gradually being overwhelmed in his and the Predalien's final battle, he spared no quarter when he ripped the hybrid's inner jaw out and stabbed it through the head with his wristblades.
  • Wolf obviously has no personal history with this particular Predalien (given that it's only a couple days old at most when he arrives on Earth), but his reaction is consistent with the way that Predators in other AvP media typically react when confronted by a Predalien. The Predator and Xenomorph species have such an innate hatred of each other that Predators regard the mere existence of a Xenomorph born from one of their own race to be the ultimate abomination and something that must be wiped out at any cost.
• Nightmare Face: Hidden under his mask. He has suffered acid burns on half his face, taking out the mandibles on that side.
• No Body Left Behind: As a one-man Cleanup Crew, he carries a blue liquid that dissolves organic tissue. This actually works pretty quickly to dissolve xenomorph corpses, and was used as an improvised weapon. When added to a body of water, it can vaporize any organic tissue therein.
• One-Man Army: Between him and the Predalien, he's scored the highest number of kills in Gunnison, granted those kills don't mean anything as everyone and everything other than these two were Red Shirts and Cannon Fodder.
• Power Fist: Mostly used like a sledgehammer.
• Retractable Weapon: He has the customary retractable wrist-blades.
• Rugged Scar: Half his face is burned by Xenomorph acid from a previous hunt.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: Improvised from a plasma caster, but it still applies.
• Shout-Out:
  • Does his name and purpose in the movie remind you of a certain Harvey Keitel movie?
  • His Nightmare Face is one to Dachande (known as Broken Tusk) in the AVP novelizations.
• Spared By Adaptation: He survives the PSP video game adaptation, and escapes in a spaceship before the town is incinerated.
• Villainous Rescue: His main goal is to exterminate the Xenomorphs, so he mostly just ignores humans unless they're directly in his path, but his actions in eliminating Xenomorphs do result in him inadvertently saving humans from being killed by Xenomorphs a few times (though he also inadvertently kills just as many humans as he saves when they get caught in the crossfire).
• Walking Armory: Truly armed to the teeth.
• Whip Sword: And seemingly one made from Xenomorph Tail by the looks of it.
• Would Not Hurt A Child: Not clearly seen (due to the movie's poor lighting), but heavily implied.
  • He took a while to disintegrate the corpses of the first two human casualties, presumably because he lamented the fact that one of them was a child, who was hunting with his father.
  • In the Unrated Edition, he shot a man with his plasmacaster after seeing him threaten a young girl (Molly) while she and her mother were hiding at a cemetery.

Bull

"Bull" is the nickname of a Predator seen during the film's prologue when his ship crashed and he and his comrades were killed by the Predalien.

• Ambiguous Situation: It was the shot from his plasmacaster that caused his ship to crash. Was it intentional, or was it accidental?
• Oh, Crap!: How he discovered the Predalien: by hearing and seeing the death of two of his comrades.
  • Likely his reaction when he saw the facehuggers escape his crashed ship.
• Prop Recycling: His biomask is near-identical to that of one of the ancient Predators from the first film.
• Small Role, Big Impact: It was his distress signal that brought Wolf to Earth, hence kicking off the Predator's storyline.
  • Heck, his plasmacaster shot that crashed his ship jumpstarted the whole movie.
• Too Dumb to Live: For what brevity his final moment was, it is curious why he didn't activate the self-destruct system in his wrist gauntlet.

Xenomorphs

Gunnison Predalien

A unique Xenomorph spawned from Scar, one of the Predators from the first film.

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• Bad Boss: It violently shoved a fellow Xenomorph aside to impregnate a homeless woman.
• Battle Trophy: It inherited more than its mandibles and dreadlocks from its host, with a deleted scene showing it skinning several of its Predator victims.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of the film.
• Dirty Coward: Sort of. It has retreated from its enemies on two occasions when it could have easily killed them, and the only reason it fled was because both of those occasions involved physical harm being inflicted upon it by different weapons.
  • During Wolf's infiltration in the hospital Hive, it had the chance to kill the Predator then and there, but it recoiled from being hit by his wristblades and fled before letting its other Warrior-Drones attack him, only for them to be overwhelmed shortly afterwards.
  • It returned shortly to stab Ricky Howard through the shoulder only to flee again when his brother Dallas shot at it with his assault rifle.
• Honor Before Reason: Likely due to inheriting the Predator Honor Before Reason as an instinct; when Wolf takes his mask off in front of it, it patiently (and surprisingly) stands and waits for him to finish doing so instead of taking the opportunity to attack him. This is as controversial as it is debatable considering that Aliens are essentially animals with neither a sense of honor nor ability to take daily habits from their hosts.
• Hybrid Monster: Subverted actually because while it is a Predalien, a Xenomorph incubated using a Predator as its host, it's completely normal for Aliens to take physical traits from their hosts to better adapt, so it is no more a hybrid than a Alien that gestated in a human or dog. It quickly matures into a Praetorian, giving it the ability to impregnate hosts by vomiting Xenomorph embryos down their throats.
• Mutual Kill: It and Wolf mortally-wound each other before being vaporized by the nuke.
• Retcon: In its cameo in the stinger of the first Alien vs. Predator movie, it has an inner mouth. When the decision was made to turn it into a Praetorian for Requiem, the scene was redone showing it without an inner jaw.
• Super-Strength: Would qualify given it is stronger than a Predator (its host species), whose strength is much greater that of a human's. It has effortlessly flinged Wolf over a short distance during their first encounter in the sewer and during their final battle on the hospital's roof.
• Warrior Princess: Word of God is that its ability to impregnate hosts is due to it being a young Queen, despite Praetorians never having been shown to be capable of doing so in other Alien vs. Predator media. It’s also strong enough to fight Wolf - a veteran hunter - one-on-one which is not really that notable considering that Aliens are always stronger and bigger than the hosts they come from.invoked
• Would Hurt a Child: It's not shown onscreen, but it's heavily implied that it eats the babies in the hospital's nursery. That's not even mentioning when it deposits the bellybursters inside pregnant women to eat their unborn children.

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