As AVP-R chest-bursts onto DVD today, Obscure Character of the Day revisits the franchise at a time when it was still worth watching.

1986's Aliens provides us with what may be our most obscure (literally) character yet: Colonial Marine. He is best known for really taking the whole "silence is golden" thing to heart, as he is the only Marine without any dialogue...unless his blood-curdling death rattle counts. This guy is the "Where's Waldo" of Marines sent to LV-426 for a little bug hunt and a lot of death.OCD Wierzbowski, a balding, back-hair enthusiast, was one of two Marines armed with a flame thrower when his team arrived to investigate the Hadley's Hope colony. After a cocooned colonist surprised the team with an alien coming out of her chest, things got FUBAR'd. Fast.Marine Dietrich, the other grunt armed with an incinerator, was victim to an alien's surprise attack, which caused her to knee-jerk reaction fire her flame thrower into Marine Frost, who just so happened to be carrying all of the team's ammo. As a lit-up Frost tumbled over a railing, Wierzbowski ran to investigate, apparently wanting to confirm with his own two eyes that there was indeed a flaming sack of ammo where his buddy once stood.Corporal Hicks saved the dim private just in time, as the ammo exploded and knocked Hicks, - Ski and Crowe backwards. The private is best remembered at the time of his death, a demise that occurred (naturally) off screen. Corporal Hicks shouted Wierzbowski's name and only heard the private's scream in return.As Apone once boasted about Colonial Marine life: "Every meal is a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade." And every "bug hunt" to a colony full of acid-bleeding xenomorphs is a bad idea. It was another glorious day in the corps for everyone except for Wierzbowski. And Apone. And Hudson. Crap, forgot Dietrich. And Drake. Spunkmeyer, sh*t, who could forget Spunkmeyer?! Or Vasquez...?If you have an idea for an OCD,