Dwayne Hicks (Earth-5875)

"I wanna introduce you to a personal friend of mine. This is an MA5B assault rifle, ten millimeter, with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher."

- - Corporal Dwayne Hicks to Ellen Ripley

Corporal Dwayne Hicks (service number: 41202-86017-DH) was an enlisted officer in the UNSC Marine Corps, attached to the 2nd Battalion Bravo Team under the command of Lieutenant Scott Gorman, aboard the Conestoga-class destroyer UNSC Sulaco. In 2536, he and his battalion participated on the Battle of Paraíso, an engagement on the Outer colony Paraíso against xenomorphs which saw the deaths of most of his allies.

Mission to Paraíso
"It's a bug hunt."

- - Corporal Dwayne Hicks After being assigned to work under Lieutenant Scott Gorman's 2nd Battalion Bravo Team, Dwayne Hicks found himself being more of a leader than his actual commanding officer. He was promptly dispatched to Paraíso alongside many other UNSC Marines under the command of Master Sergeant Al Apone alongside Colonel Carter Burke, an Office of Naval Intelligence operative and the civilian consultant Ellen Ripley, the only survivor of the massacre on the Nostromo in 2528, where she discovered a xenomorph that killed all of her crewmates. Much like the rest of his battalion, Hicks believed that their mission to Paraíso was a waste of time, and that no Covenant presence would be found. Upon his landing on the planet aboard the Bug Stomper, Hicks still managed to sleep.

When they arrived on Hadley, Hicks and the other Marines started investigating the settlement's ONI building, clearing its upper floor where they discovered a laboratory under damage, and as they explored deeper, they discovered multiple Facehuggers stored within the installation, alongside many notes about John Marachuk, a colonist that was being studied by ONI with a xenomorph within. While investigating, they heard a noise, discovering a little girl, Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, who had been hiding within the installation's ventilation ducts, leading the Marines to deduce she was the only survivor of what had happened on the planet prior to their arrival.