# Wierdest looking alien in a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010 "2005-08-07T17:54:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/21 "2005-08-08T20:49:35Z")
Small Clanger got my choice. Upside-down-human-head-spider-leg-Thing creeps the everlovin’ shit out of me every time I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/22 "2005-08-08T21:26:52Z")
> [@LostGoals](#): > > …URL=http://www.gunghoscifi.com/images/store/mondoshawan/mondo\_splash.jpg]these aliens known as Mondoshawan… Hey, he looks like [Obelix](http://members.aol.com/PeSchmit/Obelix/Obelix2.gif). ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/23 "2005-08-08T21:27:25Z")
> [@Max Carnage](#): > > Small Clanger got my choice. Upside-down-human-head-spider-leg-Thing creeps the everlovin’ shit out of me every time I see it. [It’s an action figure!](http://www.spawn.com/toys/product.aspx?product=1890) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/24 "2005-08-08T22:05:16Z")
_Explorers_ - [Neek](http://llwyd.tripod.com/alien/explorers.htm) and [Wak](http://www.starland.com/autograph/images/aupica02.jpg). These two are supposed to be the same species? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/25 "2005-08-08T22:26:54Z")
I’ve always thought the choices for the Predator alien were…let’s say “interesting.” Rasta-like locks and a mouth which was, to be polite, something from a freudian nightmare. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/26 "2005-08-08T23:26:32Z")
> [@LostGoals](#): > > After watching “The Fifth Element” last night (Not the best movie but I was to tired to leave my desk to look for the remote) I got to say [these aliens](http://www.gunghoscifi.com/images/store/mondoshawan/mondo_splash.jpg) known as Mondoshawan are probably the wierdest aliens I have seen. And that includes the MIB aliens! Not to mention they were supposed to be the \*perfect \* being. All those years of evolution, and Nature comes up with a giant bell. :smack: And I loved the movie. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/27 "2005-08-08T23:48:14Z")
Too many of the aliens presented to us are simply reworked humanoid(ish) figures, or some other erect biped. _The Thing_ (both versions) had the right idea, and the Kurt Russle version actually was able to show us. Flat out weird. I would like to see some of Doglas Adams’ ideas come to life. No, not the things we saw in the movie or BBCTV show. I mean something like a Hooloovoo, a superintelligent shade of the colour blue. Stuff like that. Sure, in the past, we had to put guys in rubber suits, or use puppets, or stop motion cinematography. But now, with ever advancing CGI, we should be able to get some of the neglected aliens from written fiction. I would even settle for seeing the different classes of Moties or a Puppeteer. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/28 "2005-08-09T01:23:01Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > _Explorers_ - [Neek](http://llwyd.tripod.com/alien/explorers.htm) and [Wak](http://www.starland.com/autograph/images/aupica02.jpg). These two are supposed to be the same species? :dubious: I meant to make a followup post saying that I had a picture of their father, not Wak but my connection kept timing out. Wak’s picture can be found on [Robert Picardo’s website](http://www.robertpicardo.com/filmography/filmography.html). ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/29 "2005-08-09T02:51:05Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Not to mention they were supposed to be the \*perfect \* being. All those years of evolution, and Nature comes up with a giant bell. The Mondoshawans are not the perfect being, they are simply its guardians.They retrieve the Fifth Element, i.e. the perfect being, from the pyramid during the movie’s opening scene. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/30 "2005-08-09T03:13:35Z")
> [@Cerowyn](#): > > The Mondoshawans are not the perfect being, they are simply its guardians.They retrieve the Fifth Element, i.e. the perfect being, from the pyramid during the movie’s opening scene. But a piece of them is used to create the perfect being? Or so I understood? ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/31 "2005-08-09T04:37:14Z")
As I also understood, I thought it was a piece of them as well. \*no0b question how to make the spoiler box? ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/32 "2005-08-09T04:39:06Z")
:smack: I **meant** to just leave “As I also understood.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/33 "2005-08-09T04:43:17Z")
> [@LostGoals](#): > > As I also understood, I thought it was a piece of them as well. > > \*no0b question how to make the spoiler box? Click on reply with quote to a post with one and you’ll see the code. A quick primer: (spoiler) stuff (/spoiler) - replace ( & ) with [&] stuff ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/34 "2005-08-09T04:43:19Z")
> [@LostGoals](#): > > \*no0b question how to make the spoiler box? {spoiler}spoiler{/spoiler} Replace curly with square ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/35 "2005-08-09T04:44:19Z")
The beach ball with feet from [Dark Star](http://www.badmovies.org/movies/darkstar/). ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/36 "2005-08-09T05:02:15Z")
I missed a part and caught it again when It looked like a part of a Mondoshawan was in the glass and they where discussing how perfect the DNA was before they started building the fifth element Or did I miss something? P.S. Thanks for the help it was appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/37 "2005-08-09T05:03:26Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#): > > The beach ball with feet from [Dark Star](http://www.badmovies.org/movies/darkstar/). Yes now that is what I define as a wierd alien! ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/38 "2005-08-09T21:49:58Z")
**Lost Goals** Re The Fifth Element When they take the Super Being, it looks like a screaming statue. When the army uses the DNA from a Mondochuwan hand to reconstruct that person, they end up with Mila Jojovich. IMHO, this means that Mila, or at least her DNA were stored in the statue taken from the pyramid. Much like Han Solo in carbonite, she was safely stored for later revival. The Monduchuwans do this before leaving their planet, and disguise her as one of them. Remember that they also send an empty chest as a decoy and hide the stones in the body of diva Plavalaguna. So, the Fifth Element was never Monduchuwan. She was simply wearing armor to look like one. Considering a few other things about them, I wonder whether the Mondochuwans all wear armor and have a true appearance entirely different from the brass bell thingies, or if they are actually artificial beings. The Mondochuwans seen at the pyramid appear to have an exterior of actual metal. One uses a key which is connected to his finger and can retract into it. ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/39 "2005-08-10T02:25:56Z")
[spolier]Jeez, I always thought the Mondoshawans were wearing their equivalent of space suits or armored exoskeletons.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/40 "2005-08-10T14:41:09Z")
Not in a movie (yet), but the critters of Species 8472 in \*Star Trek: Voyager \* are pretty weird and interesting-looking. Maybe some helpful Doper can provide a good link or two? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010.md?page=3)