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Most disturbing/scary aliens in sci-fi
madmopar
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Curious as to what people find frightening about certain sci-fi aliens.
My votes are Aliens from "The fourth kind". They seem at first to be traditional abduction type aliens but get a bit more mysterious.
Also found the Elachi in this game disturbing, mostly what they do to the romulans they capture.
My votes are Aliens from "The fourth kind". They seem at first to be traditional abduction type aliens but get a bit more mysterious.
Also found the Elachi in this game disturbing, mostly what they do to the romulans they capture.
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Speaking of TNG, I always found the Borg to be quite scary, simply because they were so utterly inhuman despite using human bodies. This, of course, was before Voyager wussified them.
For other series, Babylon 5 had two very creepy species in the Shadows and the Drakh-- I wish I could find a clip of Delenn's first meeting with a Drakh ambassador, as that twitchy, phasing-in-and-out-of-reality masked alien that spoke through a weird voice box really creeped me out. And as for the Shadows...well, everything about them, from their appearance to their ships, to their absurdly powerful technology and their stealth capabilities, was downright terrifying.
The Necrons from Warhammer 40,000 were pretty scary, up until they got retconned to have actual personalities. The Tyranids also deserve an honourable mention, as do the Weeping Angels, the Vashta Narada and the Silence from Dr. Who, and the Reapers and their repurposed servants from Mass Effect.
But the creepiest thing is how they treat human dead. According to one Human soldier who observed them for some time they had no concept of an afterlife or life after death until they learned it from humans; and they took it literally and assumed that humans could come back to life after being killed and that half of the human army was made up of zombies. So they butcher any humans they kill and cut out their heart so they can't come back to life.
Probably one of the most "alien" mentalities for an alien species I've ever seen on a TV show.
I dont really find the borg scary though. They seem like the Terminator's dumb cousin.
As for others?
Tyranids. They are basically the ugly love child of the borg and Ripley's original alien. Because shooting exploding tumors is just plain nasty.
Of course, if we think about it, the most scary alien is Q.
Because he has Unlimited Power the likes of even Palpatine can only dream of.
But luckily for Picard, he is a rather friendly alien.
The problem with the Shadows is that they were so alien, the only way they could be shown was with CGI. Unfortunately the CG of that era was so crude, JMS and his crew quickly learned *not* to show the Shadows.
That, and the revelation that they and the Vorlons were just spoiled children fighting over whose idea was better, took a lot of the mystery and freakiness out of the Shadows.
(In the third one, they actually seemed to be a little weaker, probably because the intent in there was to emphasize fighting the Gravemind, and the Elite-less Covenant.)
Wait for it....
The Doctor.
As if he wasn't scary enough to the Daleks and the Cybermen and the Who's it's and what's its of the universe, he up and decides he "likes" humanity. Which makes all of our lives complicated and turns the Earth into one massive target. How can anyone not be absolutely terrified when he shows up. And look at how he brainwashes all those poor women into following him. And then he "accidentally" destroys their lives one way or another. He's absolutely the scariest alien of all time. Well either him or Furby. Furby is an alien right?
Here we can see a Gelf female while she intends to marry Lister:
http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/gelf_wife_ech_ech_ech.jpg
That guy is still alive, his brain is still conscious, that insectoid... thing is more closely reated to a fungus, flying intelligent space fungus... and your neighbor might be one of them, wearing the surgically removd hands and face of your former neighbor
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The deeds of men remain the same..."
The best parts of 40k are the least explained. The aliens in the grendel and ghoul stars are probably a bit scarier because of their unexplained nature. They formed a chapter, the death specters, just to monitor that one area. Then there is the story in the space wolf codex of some wolf lord and his crew that venture out to that area.
What he did, he did without choice. In the name of peace, and sanity
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But not in the name of the Doctor.
Signs is also a candidate I think, with this and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djP1DGxQiHM.
Cowboys & Aliens have a few disturbing scenes too actually, though the movie is not scary overall.
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The Horta terrified me as a kid. Now they're possibly my favorite Star Trek race.
I think, perhaps, John Carpenter's The Thing would rank pretty close to the top for most disturbing/scary aliens.
Okay, I'm sorry, I just can't be afraid of anything that curls up and dies when I spit on it.
As for creepy, no love for the Vorlons? I know they're technically good-ish guys, but those weird looking helmets, echo-y voices, constant secrecy, and penchant for manipulating other races for their own purposes makes them very spooky.
The "aliens" from Vandread are scary as TRIBBLE, particularly considering how they [spoilers]breed and butcher humans for their body parts[/spoiler]
And how come no one remembers the Visitors from V? (that poor guinea pig.
The Vorlons weren?t really good, more orderly I guess. And I never found them creepy, just cool !
1) Xenomorph- if they take you alive, you are guaranteed a slow and very painful death
2) Elachi- damn scary in Enterprise and TNG, STO raises the fear factor to a whole new level
3) TNG Borg- they were scary, especially the death is irrelevant quote
4) The Thing- You wouldn't even know if it was there or not
5) The Flood- Very hard to stop, and the horde just gets bigger
6) The Predator- You wouldn't know where it was, very intelligent and it packs enough weapons to make Sunday roast out of the best trained soldiers as well as hunting you just as sport.
7) The bugs from starship troopers- they are a horde who are uncompromising with different species for different tasks
8) The Wraith- to them, humans are just food.
9) Replicators, adaptive, can gain more numbers and it took an ancient super weapon to eradicate them.
10) The Ori- They were the puppet masters in a crusade to convert every human to origin, human worship fed them.
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
I would have ranked the Borg up there, but honestly... First Contact kind of took all the scary out of the Borg for me.
First time I watched it I was about 12years old... needless to say since then i've drunk over 10,000 bottles of evian..Has to be the only movie thats scared me during a scene that was set in daylight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGtC2S22Z0
Followed closely by whatever built this.
For aliens I've actually seen that scared me the most, The Thing wins, hands down. Ridley Scott's eponymous Alien would be a distant second, with those city-vaporizing critters from Independence Day coming in third.
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Now, after the developments in the beginning of The Gripping Hand...