- "You have to laugh, right?"
"Oh yeah, I'm yukking it up, lady." - ―Chris Hanlock and Azzopardi (from Alien vs. Predator: Life and Death)
Azzopardi was a member of the United States Colonial Marine Corps. He was part of a 31-Marine platoon under the command of Captain Paget, aboard the combat ship Hasdrubal that landed on the planet LV-797, kick-starting a massive series of events that led to an all out battle for survival against a clan of Yautja, mutated Xenomorphs and the godlike Engineers.
He was killed during the Xenomorph's final assault of the Engineer temple.
Biography
Azzopardi was part of the combat ship Hasdrubal on a mission to prosecute any potential illegal prospectors on the planet, LV-797, nicknamed Tartarus. The Hasdrubal was serving the interests of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, which had scheduled the planet for terraforming.
After the Marines landed on Tartarus, they were soon attacked by a clan of Yautja, who were protecting a recently discovered Engineer Juggernaut, resulting in devastating losses. Eventually, the Marines managed to lift the ship, with Singer intending to send it to the nearest USCM facility, Ganymede Station. Azzopardi was presumably part of Paget's squad during the mission.
The squad returned to the Hasdrubal, but were forced to follow the Juggernaut for six days to an unspecified destination after an Engineer, unbeknownst to them had awoken within the ship and taken control of it. After landing on LV-223 and picking up Sergeant Roth's squad, who had previously infiltrated the Juggernaut, Roth confirmed to the Marines that fellow survivor Chris Hanlock had been left behind on the moon, and wanted to return. As a result, Paget organised an operation to rescue Chris, to which Azzopardi volunteered for.
The squad landed back on LV-223 and began exploring the terrain, before Chris' wife, Jill suddenly picked up her signal. Following the revelation that Chris was impregnated with a Queen, Azzopardi and the squad were ambushed by a horde of Xenos, and later the Second Engineer, which had awoken to purge all life on the planet.
However, the squad managed to retrieve Chris after the hive's current Queen erupted from the ground and assaulted the Engineer, impaling it with her tail. In the ensuing chaos, they returned to their dropship, only to see it in ruins (previously destroyed by the Engineer). Paget attempted to contact the Hasdrubal, but with no reply, the squad unaware that it had been boarded by the Tartarus Predator clan.
Stand-off at the temple
As Paget concluded that they had lost contact with the ship, the group decided to retreat back to the Engineer temple that Roth and his squad initially encountered. The squad returned to the temple to set up camp, and waited for one of the Hasdrubal's automatic freight buses to pick them up.
The Tartarus Predator clan soon arrived, seeking revenge from their previous encounter with the Marines. After a confrontation between Ahab and the clan leader, the clan sided themselves with the Marines against an upcoming army of Xenomorphs approaching the temple, hellbent on retrieving Chris.
Death
- "I need a reload -- AAIIIGHHHHH!"
- ―Azzopardi before being killed (from Alien vs. Predator: Life and Death)
The Marines and Predators both put up a tremendous effort against the Xenomorph army, but the horde began seeping through. With Azzopardi out of ammunition, a Xenomorph suddenly pounced on him from behind and headbit him.
Trivia
- Azzopardi's name implies that he is of Italian descent.