Drifter (They Live)

The Drifter is the secondary antagonist of the 1988 sci-fi satirical film They Live. He is a collaborator of the main antagonists, the Blue Aliens, who rewarded him with money to aid them in enslaving his own kind.

Drifter was not very fond of the aliens himself, but being a greedy coward he sided with them so that he won't end up as another human bullied and impoverished by the aliens.

Background
In They Live, it turns out that for some time now aliens had already arrived on earth and assimilated the human race into doing their bidding by forcing humans to produce both quality women and luxurious items (through hard labor) for the aliens, and in return the aliens gave them insufficient pay and removed their free will. Humans are also forbidden by the aliens to have any political or financial power, and the aliens took over the governments, banks, press, television, police, military and to control the human race. Poverty arose among humans for these reasons. A terrorist underground network led by human rebels had attempted to overthrow the aliens and it turns out they were the ones who were hacking the TV signals and created the sunglasses for Nada. The blue aliens were intergalactic and very capable of space colonization, and maybe not just Earth and her humans but also a variety of planets in the galaxy and their native life forms have also fallen victim to the blue aliens' jingoist invasion.

Biography
Drifter was a homeless bum who used to live a poor lifestyle since he had no money on him. He lived in a shantytown that housed a homeless settlement camp where it is implied that Drifter could eat only food out of trash, wore dirty clothes everyday and had nowhere to sleep except for a soft arm chair. Drifter was seen trying to watch TV, but the signal is continuously interrupted by hackers who want to get out a message from a bearded man asking that humans living in poverty rise up against the tyrannical rich.

As the movie progressed, sometime off-screen the aliens had recruited the Drifter as one of their new human collaborators. Frank and Nada discovered the aliens' secret base and entered, making the Drifter think the two were also collaborators, first finding the two when they were listening to the speech an alien delegate was giving out to the aliens' human collaborators who were made a rich elite class. Drifter gave Frank and Nada a presentation of how aliens arrived: a space link port that aliens built (presumably on their own home planet) to teleport to other planets.

Drifter's fate is unknown, although it can be assumed that even if a war were to break out between the aliens and humans, Drifter won't be affected since he was already handed over lots of wealth by the aliens.