Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver)And three others from the previous film:Cpl.Dwayne Hicks12 year-old Newtsynthetic humanoid Bishop 341-B)Their 337 Model E.E.V.escape pod was ejected and crash-landed on the bleak and windy planet of Fiorina or "Fury" 161, a Weyland-Yutani outer-veil mineral ore refinery - and a maximum security correctional facility populated by 25 hardened, violent sex criminals (with double-Y chromosomes) who also had "apocalyptic, millenarian, Christian fundamentalist" beliefs - only female protagonist Ripley survived.The John Alvin poster for the film with E.T.""s glowing, heavenly fingertip also presents a religious theme, recalling Michelangelo""s ""Creation of Adam"" painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.Queen, the raunchy, mock-opera rock band in the mid-70s with charismatic lead singer Freddie Mercury, named heir fifth album after this film."The fearless, flamboyant, pugnacious and self-confident maverick Gen.Patton ran out of a meeting mid-stream in a headquarters building during an air raid (right after an Allied Air Force officer had bragged: "You will see no more German planes").