Corporal Colette Ferro was a Cheyenne dropship pilot for the United States Colonial Marines and was dispatched as part of a squad to investigate the sudden loss of communication of the Hadley’s Hope colony. She was killed after a Xenomorph stowed away on board the dropship and killed her and Spunkmeyer. Ferro appears in the 1986 film Aliens and is played by Colette Hiller.
In 2179, after contact is lost with the Hadley’s Hope colony, a team of Colonial Marines is dispatched to investigate LV-426 along with Carter Burke and Ellen Ripley. When the Sulaco reached LV-426, they exited hypersleep. Ferro listened to Ripley outlining the mission. Ferro was joined by Spunkmeter in the dropship cockpit.
The other Marines boarded the APC and into the dropship and dropped down into Hadley’s Hope. While the other Marines secured the complex, Spunkmeyer and Ferro stayed in the air to provide air cover. Once the complex was secured, Ferro landed the dropship and Spunkmeyer delivered supplies to Bishop who was studying the Facehugger specimens.
The squad realised that all the colonists had been taken to the Atmosphere Processing Plant and the squad set off in the APC to investigate. Spunkmeyer and Ferro remained in the complex. After the chaos battling the Xenomorphs in the hive, Corporal Hicks and the other survivors escaped the hive in the APC. Hicks called on Ferro to pick them up in the dropship. They were planning to evacuate Acheron and nuke the site from orbit.
Ferro ordered Spunkmeyer back into the dropship. As he came aboard, he discovered some slime on the cargo ramp. Spunkmeyer never made it to the cockpit. The cockpit doors open and Ferro thinks it’s Spunkmeyer. When she turns around she sees the Xenomorph. She immediately reaches for her sidearm but it quickly kills her. The dropship then crashes onto the surface destroying the survivors’ APC.
Like other members of the squad, Ferro remained sceptical about Ripley’s presence as an advisor on the mission. Ferro was an experienced dropship pilot and remained confident when she was descending onto LV-426.
Ferro wore a standard-issue USCM flight suit and helmet and she had customized the front of the helmet with the words “Fly the Friendly Skies”. In terms of weapons, she had a standard issue Heckler & Koch VP70. When she reaches for her weapon, you can see she has a rabbit’s foot on a chain.
In Alan Dean Foster’s novelization of Aliens, Ferro appears like in the film.
Aliens: Newt’s Tale is a 1992 comic book adaptation of Aliens. You only hear Ferro’s voice in the comic.
