User blog:Sppople/PE Proposal: Carter J. Burke

Carter J. Burke is pure evil.

What's the work
Aliens is a 1986 sci fi action film directed by James Cameron and a sequel to the 1979 sci fi horror, Alien. It follows Ellen Ripley and her experiences battling against the alien race, Xenomorphs.

Who is he
He is an executive of the corrupt Weyland-Yutani corporation, who convinces Ellen Ripley to return to LV-426 to destroy the Xenomorphs alongside a group of trained Colonel Marines and save the colonists on their. However, he actually wants to obtain and weaponize a Xenomorph for his company and get rich off of it.

Heinous factor and crimes
Carter was willing to do anything at the expense of other lives in order to get what he wanted for himself and his company and get rich off of it. Ellen Ripley says of him that he is even worse than the Xenomorphs because "you don't see them f**king each other over a god*amn percentage." Throughout the film, in order to achieve his goals, he:
 * Knowingly sends 157 colonists, consisting of families and children, to their doom on a planet where they would come in contact with and be wiped out by the Xenomorphs (as they all are except the Newt).
 * Attempts to have the facehuggers impregnate Ellen Ripley and Newt (a child) by locking them in a room with them in order to smuggle a xenomorph through quarantine.
 * To prevent the Colonel Marines from getting in his way of his plan, he would sabotage their cryotubes which would kill them all.
 * Leaves Ripley, Newt and the remaining Marines to die at the hands of the Xenomorphs as they attack, locking them in with them, shortly before his death.

Redeeming factors
None. He's purely motivated by greed and cares about no life being affected if it gets in his way. He acts kind to Ripley in the beginning, but this is just a ruse. You could make the argument he is helping his superiors, but he is only doing so to profit off of it.

Conclusion
He is arguably the second most evil James Cameron villain, behind Skynet.