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.
Mike Mignola, in the comic, wears his Lovecraft influence right out on his sleeve.
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.
NoClueBoy, this and your *Full body shot * links don’t work, alas - thanks for the Species 8472 link, though.
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…”
I recently found out that Babylon 5: Thirdspace was apparantly just a big Lovecraft reference, set in space. 
Hmmm… I just now clicked on them again just to be sure and they work fine for me.
Still, let me list them unlabled:
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Verignak ROCKED!