Ricco Frost

"I hate this job."

- R. Frost

Ricco Frost is a fictional soldier and a supporting character in the Aliens film series. Played by actor Ricco Ross, he appeared in the 1986 film, Aliens.

Overview
Ricco Frost was a young black man who served in the United States Colonial Marines. He was part of a search-and-rescue operation to the planet Acheron in the year 2179, but lost his life to literal friendly fire.

Biography
Ricco Frost was born in the year 2179. As an adult he became a member of the United States Colonial Marines Corps where he held the rank of Private. In the year 2179, members of the 2nd Battalion Bravo Team embarked upon a mission on the USS Sulaco to restore communications to the Hadley's Hope colony on the planet Acheron. Based on the advice of consultant Ellen Ripley, it was believed that a viable alien threat ("bug hunt") may have existed on the planetoid, which was also known as LV-426.

The crew members of the Sulaco took a drop-ship to the planet's surface and Frost was armed with a pulse rifle. They investigated the seemingly abandoned atmospheric processing center, which had been partially converted into a hive for deadly xenomorph aliens. In the initial attack, Private Cynthia Dietrich panicked and accidentally ignited Frost with her incinerator. As he spun-about in pain, he toppled over the edge of a maintenance shaft down into the hive, where he died.

Notes & Trivia



 * Ricco Frost was born in the same year as fellow Colonial Marine Jenette Vasquez.


 * Actor Ricco Ross also played a character named Lieutenant Nathanson in the 1997 horror film Wishmaster.


 * Many members of the Colonial Marines had first initials that were the same as the actor who portrayed them. The Aliens: Field Report by Dark Horse Comics used the actor's full first name as the character's name.


 * Ricco Frost is one of three black characters featured in Aliens. The others are Sergeant Al Apone, played by Al Matthews, and the Med Tech, played by Alibe Parsons.