# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**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 20, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/62 "2014-07-20T19:54:58Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Have to admit, that chick was hot. Into _PAIN!_ too ! ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/63 "2014-07-21T23:36:42Z")
Poochie. But seriously, the Consu from [Old Man’s War](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man%27s_War) by John Scalzi. I wouldn’t have heard of his books if it weren’t for the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/64 "2014-07-22T03:32:44Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > Ditto. Followed by Zaphod and pretty much most of the main Farscape cast. But if I am forced to choose, Aeryn. Hey, hold on a moment, I believe YOU’RE the one who stole my nick! I’ll be having a few words with you, you…you…rank impostor. _looking around_ Where’s my towel? _shakes fist_ ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/65 "2014-07-22T12:54:17Z")
The behind the counter diner guy (3 eyes) from that old Twilight Zone episode. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/66 "2014-07-22T21:31:23Z")
The Ballchinians from MIB. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/67 "2014-07-22T22:09:25Z")
Stitch Galaxoid & Nebular (Calvin & Hobbes) Fix-Its (\*batteries not included) Marvin the Martian ToeJam & Earl Flatwoods Monster ---
**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:** [July 23, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/68 "2014-07-23T14:46:49Z")
Just off the top of my head: Wookies from _Star Wars_ Andorians, Vulcans and Tellarites from _Star Trek_ Species 8472 from _Star Trek: Voyager_ Ray Bradbury’s elegant, doomed Martians John Scalzi’s eerie, lethal Obin George R.R. Martin’s warring pets, the Sandkings > [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > The aliens in **Liquid Sky**! They’re invisible, their spaceship is the size of a dinner plate, and they travel the universe looking for hallucinogens while Kraftwerk style music plays behind them. I must respectfully disagree. That is my least favorite movie of all time. I hated hated _hated_ it. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/69 "2014-07-23T15:38:05Z")
I have to go with the Tines from A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. Very well presented in the book. But Vinge does tend to “humanize” his aliens, but, maybe that’s reasonable. It could be that self-conscious thought would be somewhat similar no matter the species. ---
**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 23, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/70 "2014-07-23T16:27:10Z")
The Who!s from **Horton Hears a Who!** Any species that initiates contact with the outside by sending up a “Yopp!” is alright with me. A person’s a person, no matter how small. ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/71 "2014-07-23T23:20:49Z")
The [aliens](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9RO_z91kRs) who kidnapped Bert in the TV series **Soap**. ---
**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 23, 2014, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/72 "2014-07-23T23:31:07Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Q > Khan (The one played by Ricardo Montalban) > Chewbacca Missed this earlier. Khan wasn’t an alien. He was from Earth. Does anybody remember the aliens on “Married With Children” who came to Earth to collect Al’s socks for fuel for their spaceship? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/73 "2014-07-23T23:35:08Z")
The **Amnion** , from Stephen R. Donaldson’s _Gap_ series. ---
**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 24, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/74 "2014-07-24T00:19:41Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Missed this earlier. Khan wasn’t an alien. He was from Earth. But, he was: Rhythmic, systemic and world control Magnetic, **genetic** , dement your soul Again I say, Khan maybe counts as an alien _from_ Earth, because he was: Rhythmic, systemic and world control magnetic, **genetic** , dement your soul ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/75 "2014-07-24T19:49:26Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > But, he was: > > Rhythmic, systemic and world control > Magnetic, **genetic** , dement your soul > Again I say, Khan maybe counts as an alien _from_ Earth, because he was: > > Rhythmic, systemic and world control > magnetic, **genetic** , dement your soul But he **could** pass a blood test. Fail. ---
**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 24, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/76 "2014-07-24T19:59:48Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > But he **could** pass a blood test. > Fail. Only after studying. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/77 "2014-07-25T02:26:28Z")
CarnivorousPlant: Chee Lan and Adzul were in the Poleseotechnic League series. I would nominate Poul Anderson’s Ythrians. He also came up with the tripartite Didoians, Aycharchaych, the Ice People, the Mersians, and many others. ---
**Author:** ![HyacinthBucket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hyacinthbucket/32/3063_2.png) [@HyacinthBucket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HyacinthBucket)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/78 "2014-07-26T11:27:20Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > So you’re saying cleaning and doing maintenance on a boat is having sex with the boat? For some human boat owners, yes. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321/79 "2014-07-26T17:52:52Z")
One more: The aliens from the “Kids in the Hall” sketch. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6tZar4wRP40/hqdefault.jpg "Kids in the hall - Aliens probing") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tZar4wRP40) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-aliens/693321.md?page=3)