# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**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 10, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/41 "2005-08-10T17:09:30Z")
[Species 8472](http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/aliens/article/119943.html) [Full body shot](http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/stmagazine/species8472.jpg) ---
**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 10, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/42 "2005-08-10T17:12:09Z")
[Really weird looking alien](http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/stmagazine/delancie.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/43 "2005-08-10T17:32:46Z")
Re: the Fifth Element Mila Jojovich wasn’t the 5th Element, she was the Perfect Being, basically designed so that she woudl be easy to fall in love with (presumably by our protaganist, Bruce Willis). Basically, love itself was the 5th element, and she was only a means to an end. Re: Bipedal aliens: I seem to recall reading somewhere that self-balancing bipedal things have the easiest time negotiating variable terrain compared to more-than-bi-pedal and wheel-pedal and tread-pedal type things. Presumably because, when needed, a bipedal thing can stand straight up, such as when negotiating something steep, whereas anything with more legs would probably fall over backwards when it tried (goats notwithstanding). Plus, if the alien wasn’t bipedal, he’d have a hard time getting around on the human space ship/space stations and vice versa in the movies. Can you imagine a sci-fi movie with humans exploring a giant derelict space ship built by super-intelligent quadrapedal space dogs? That’d be hard on the actors’ knees, lemme tell ya. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/44 "2005-08-10T20:55:41Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Hellboy the movie (I haven’t read the books) seems to be channelling H. P. Lovecraft’s inventions pretty deliberately. Mike Mignola, in the comic, wears his Lovecraft influence right out on his sleeve. ---
**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 10, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/45 "2005-08-10T21:09:13Z")
Re Hellboy Mignola is a huge Lovecraft fan. He even did a Batman Elseworlds, based on the Cthulhu mythos. For those unfamiliar with Mignola or Lovecraft, Mignola makes frequent use of very thinly disguised names, concepts, creatures etc from Lovecraft’s work. He is however, using these things as part of original creative works, and not ripping off Lovecraft. Were Lovecraft alive today, he would say “Help! Help me! Ye gods! I’ve been interred alive!”. Seriously, Lovecraft would have been thrilled by the tribute. ---
**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 11, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/46 "2005-08-11T15:17:17Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > [Really weird looking alien](http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/stmagazine/delancie.jpg) **NoClueBoy** , this and your \*Full body shot \* links don’t work, alas - thanks for the Species 8472 link, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/47 "2005-08-11T16:52:57Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Were Lovecraft alive today, he would say “Help! Help me! Ye gods! I’ve been interred alive!” Actually, it would be more like, “It is with great and dawning horror that the unfathomable enormity of the weight of irriguous loam pressing down upon my uncadaverous form breaks into my consciousness with the brutish spirit of an abyssally-belched breaker, a wave of stygian malevolence, crushing hope and rational thought before it…” ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/48 "2005-08-11T20:04:47Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Seriously, Lovecraft would have been thrilled by the tribute. I recently found out that Babylon 5: Thirdspace was apparantly just a big Lovecraft reference, set in space. 🙂 ---
**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 11, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/49 "2005-08-11T22:10:36Z")
> [@William V.](#): > > **NoClueBoy** , this and your \*Full body shot \* links don’t work, alas - thanks for the Species 8472 link, though. Hmmm… I just now clicked on them again just to be sure and they work fine for me. Still, let me list them unlabled: [![](https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/stmagazine/species8472.jpg) ](https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/stmagazine/species8472.jpg) [![](https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/stmagazine/delancie.jpg) ](https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/stmagazine/delancie.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/50 "2005-08-12T00:53:05Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Hmmm… I just now clicked on them again just to be sure and they work fine for me. The site has disabled direct linking. Highlight and copy the link here, open a new window, paste the URL, and hit Enter. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010/51 "2005-08-12T05:57:28Z")
> [@Small Clanger](#): > > Several weirdos in **Galaxy Quest** , the Rock Monster maybe? Verignak ROCKED! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierdest-looking-alien-in-a-movie/316010.md?page=2)