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Alien fans know Alien 3 killed Newt off-screen and showed her mangled corpse during the opening credits, and one comic proves why that was a mistake.
Fans of the Alien franchise are painfully aware of the mistreatment suffered by the characters Hicks and Newt in the third installment of the Alien film series–and while fans may have felt robbed by their deaths, one comic series proves that they were, specifically when it comes to Newt.
1992’s Alien 3 directed by David Fincher picks up almost immediately after the events of James Cameron’s Aliens, with a few horrifying twists. Aliens ends on a high note, the heroes of the film–Ripley, Hicks, and Newt–survive the Xenomorph swarm on the human settlement of Hadley’s Hope on LV-426 and make their way back to Earth in the safety of their hibernation pods. At the beginning of Alien 3, however, it is revealed that a few Facehuggers made their way onto the ship and caused it to crash after one of them incubated Ripley herself. The result was the gruesome and unceremonious deaths of Hicks and Newt, ending their promising storylines within the series right then and there.
In the Dark Horse Comics series Aliens by Mark Verheiden and Mark A. Nelson, fans are thrown into an Alien universe unencumbered by the proposed mistakes made by Alien 3 while still being set after the events of Aliens. In this series, Hicks is back in the Colonial Marines, though he is something of a pariah due to his facial scars from the acid burns he suffered in Aliens as well as because of his fellow marines’ ignorance about the Xenomorphs species itself, sparking fears that Hicks contracted some sort of weird virus after making contact. While Hicks’ situation doesn’t seem ideal, Newt’s is a far cry worse. Newt has been admitted into a psychiatric hospital, one that doesn’t actually care about its patients and only seeks to keep them as docile as possible even if that means issuing unwanted lobotomies.
At this point it seems like killing Hicks and Newt off in Alien 3 was actually a service as it kept them from living this hellish existence once they returned to Earth, though as the comic book series progresses, it becomes clear that that couldn’t be further from the truth. Newt and Hicks suffered immense trauma together on Acheron, with the fallout of that experience showing itself as debilitating scars worn by Hicks and Newt both physically and mentally. However, when Hicks rescues Newt from the mental facility, they begin their journey of healing–which isn’t devoid of classic Xeno-killing violence. While Hicks’ character more-or-less reverts back to the badass Colonial Marine fans recognize him as, Newt actually goes through some significant changes–ones that aren’t unlike the journey Ripley goes on herself.
In Aliens, Ripley is just as traumatized as Newt is in the comic series. Ripley was the sole survivor of a Xenomorph attack only to wake up in a world she doesn’t recognize. Rather than rolling over and dying, however, Ripley decides to fight and conquer the subject of her worst nightmares–becoming one of the most iconic Sci-Fi characters to date in the process. Newt does exactly the same thing in this comic. Newt faces off against Xenomorphs and comes out of the situation victorious. In a way, Ripley passed the torch to Newt which allowed the Alien franchise to evolve and shine the light on a whole new protagonist worthy of fans’ attention–something that was robbed of the franchise with Newt’s death in the third Alien movie.
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