> That's because the Ellen Ripley character was originally a man named Martin Roby. That doesn't make sense to me. Martin Roby was the original character for "

> That's because the Ellen Ripley character was originally a man named Martin Roby. That doesn't make sense to me. Martin Roby was the original character for "Alien" and in the first movie, for the most part Ripley wasn't the bad-ass character she would be throughout the second movie. But the OP was anyway talking about "Aliens" and there Roby could no longer have been an influence for her character.