# Your Favorite Fictional Aliens **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321 "2014-07-17T00:56:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/42 "2014-07-18T23:17:14Z")
Fredric Brown’s **Martians** from _Martian, Go Home!_ – the original wise-cracking smart-ass aliens **Tweel** from Stanley G. Weinbaum’s _A Martian Odyssey_ **Micromegas** from Voltaire’s story of the same name. The original commenting-on-the-0human-condition alien. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/43 "2014-07-18T23:17:52Z")
Mork from Ork. He always cracked me up. Odo from Deep Space Nine. Kif Kroker from Futurama. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/44 "2014-07-18T23:56:47Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Skizz > Nemesis the Warlock > Cthulhu I’ll see your Skizz and Nemesis and raise you an Ace Garp, Feek the Freek and G.B.H. {dead}: I always really wanted to see an Ace Trucking Co. and Nemesis the Warlock crossover, with Ace and crew vs. Torquemada. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/45 "2014-07-19T01:55:23Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Fredric Brown’s **Martians** from _Martian, Go Home!_ – the original wise-cracking smart-ass aliens Author if the Ed and Am Hunter mysteries! He was very, very good! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/46 "2014-07-19T02:01:53Z")
[Poul Anderson’s alien](http://poulandersonappreciation.blogspot.com/2012/03/aliens-in-anderson-and-niven.html)s. Particularly [Chee the Cynthian and Adzel, the dragon centaur](http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/141655520X/141655520X.htm), thoughI do not recall the name of his species. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/47 "2014-07-19T02:14:58Z")
The Fithp from _Footfall_ by Niven. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/48 "2014-07-19T02:28:23Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Cthulhu Cthulhu was fhtagn in R’lyeh. R’lyeh was under the Pacific Ocean. On _Earth_. It is not evident that he was any more alien than Gojira, Mothra or the big turtle. Personally, I am rather fond of the Arakeen sandworms. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/49 "2014-07-19T02:47:00Z")
A [Hooloovoo](http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Hooloovoo) I’ve met one ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/50 "2014-07-19T02:47:04Z")
Ferengi Pierson’s Puppeteers Oankali (Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/51 "2014-07-19T02:51:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Cthulhu was fhtagn in R’lyeh. R’lyeh was under the Pacific Ocean. On Earth. It is not evident that he was any more alien than Gojira, Mothra or the big turtle. Though this is an imprisonment, yes? Not necessarily a place of origin. What about the “star-spawn of Cthulhu”? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/52 "2014-07-19T03:33:06Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Though this is an imprisonment, yes? Not necessarily a place of origin. What about the “star-spawn of Cthulhu”? It looks like a difficult question. Was Gandalf from (middle-)Earth? His actions and fortune seem to be closely tied to it, in much the same way as Cthulhu, who fundamentally seems to be Terran, even if that is not his origin. What about C’Mell? I think she was born/made on earth, from Terran creatures, but she is almost strange enough to be viewed as an alien. By contrast, Rod McBan was born on Old North Australia, making him a _de facto_ alien, but his ancestors came from Earth. So we have an Earthling who is not a human meeting a human that is an alien … oh, my head hurts ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/53 "2014-07-19T04:15:12Z")
You raise important questions, on which possibly our fates depend. I am still thinking about whether the Sandman counts as an alien. He and his kind are of this world, but of other worlds as well. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/54 "2014-07-19T05:47:00Z")
Marklar. And Marklar. And Marklar. And Marklar. And Marklar. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/55 "2014-07-19T06:02:10Z")
Uncle Martin was so grandfatherly. Slartibartfast is talented and has me pining. Zaphod Beeblebrox because who wouldn’t want that. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/56 "2014-07-19T08:03:58Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Cthulhu was fhtagn in R’lyeh. R’lyeh was under the Pacific Ocean. On _Earth_. It is not evident that he was any more alien than Gojira, Mothra or the big turtle. From At The Mountains Of Madness: Another race—a land race of beings shaped like octopi and probably corresponding to the fabulous pre-human spawn of Cthulhu—soon began filtering down from cosmic infinity and precipitated a monstrous war which for a time drove the Old Ones wholly back to the sea—a colossal blow in view of the increasing land settlements. Later peace was made, and the new lands were given to the Cthulhu spawn whilst the Old Ones held the sea and the older lands. New land cities were founded—the greatest of them in the antarctic, for this region of first arrival was sacred. From then on, as before, the antarctic remained the centre of the Old Ones’ civilisation, and all the discoverable cities built there by the Cthulhu spawn were blotted out. Then suddenly the lands of the Pacific sank again, taking with them the frightful stone city of R’lyeh and all the cosmic octopi, so that the Old Ones were again supreme on the planet ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/57 "2014-07-19T13:38:28Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Marklar. And Marklar. And Marklar. And Marklar. And Marklar. That reminds me: I forgot Zathras! But then Zathras is used to being forgotten. Very sad. . ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/58 "2014-07-20T18:07:32Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > That reminds me: I forgot Zathras! > > But then Zathras is used to being forgotten. Very sad. > > . Zathras have very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least, there is symmetry. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/59 "2014-07-20T19:28:22Z")
For erotic purposes, the Horta! ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/60 "2014-07-20T19:33:40Z")
Ford Prefect, hands down. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/61 "2014-07-20T19:41:36Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > For erotic purposes, the Horta! Have to admit, that chick was hot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321.md?page=4)