Alien is a broad, subjective term, which can be applied as both a noun and an adjective, for any entity, object, place or practice which is not familiar. When referring to entities, this can be used to describe both sentient and non-sentient organic creatures, as well as robots. In most occurrences, this means entities which are not native to Earth and thus are considered "alien" from the viewpoint of the human race. However, to any species not native to Earth, a human would be considered alien.
The Third Doctor referred to the Silurians as alien beings even after he discovered they had ruled the planet Earth millions of years ago. This might imply that they are actually not native to Earth (which is unlikely, as their native planet is often said to be Earth) or what the Doctor was saying was that they were alien to the Brigadier, who had just ordered their destruction with no reason other than his mistrust of them. (DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians)
Exology or xenology is a term which refers to the scientific study of any type of subject matter or phenomena that is alien to an observer's homeworld or frame of reference. A scientist of this field is an exologist or xenologist.
Notable subsets of this field are exobiology, astrobiology or xenobiology (the study of alien biology), exozoology or xenozoology (the study of alien animals) and exogeology or xenogeology (the study of alien geology).
In the 24th century, Eric Baldwin was one of the Federation's most important exologists. (TNG novel: Boogeymen)
Doctor Kila Marr was a xenologist, and the foremost expert in the Crystalline Entity. (TNG episode: "Silicon Avatar")
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An Absorbascon is a Thanagarian device that enables its user to telepathically read the minds of other sentient life forms. An Absorbascon is only effective against non-Thanagarians. A Thanagarian can also use this device to interpret the vocal patterns of lower order animals such as birds. Used primarily as an educational tool, it can also be used as a weapon or a tool of espionage. Hawkman and Hawkwoman used the Absorbascon to learn about Earth's cultures and languages. This device is also the reason why the Hawks can communicate with birds.
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Created by the mad scientist Professor Anthony Ives, Absorption cells are devices that he implanted within the robot known as Amazo. These cells enable Amazo to replicate the superhuman abilities of any individual within scanning proximity.
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The AK-47 is a 7.62 mm assault rifle developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov.Design work on the AK began in 1944. In 1946 the rifle was presented for official military trials, a year later the fixed stock version was introduced into service with select units of the Red Army. It was also used by U.S. marines such as Captain Phillip Hunter and his brother Nick Hunter during the Vietnam war.
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An alien is a being or animal who originates from another planet, or dimension. The term also applies to people living in a country that is not their place of birth. Lex Luthor uses the term in a derogatory manner when referring to Superman.
(See Also: Extraterrestrial, The Aliens Category)
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Full title Altered Egos: The Mystery Men of World War II was a book written by Jonathan Law, published sometime in the 1970's.
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A world resembling Earth in physical characteristics, natural phenomena, life forms, and, to some extent, history, which exists in the equivalent space to Earth's in another dimension. An alternate Earth may either be a divergent Earth or a parallel Earth.
(See Also: Hypertime; Multiverse)
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One of the possible future realities deriving from the present reality through a specific sequence of events. One cannot tell which alternate future will become one's present reality until the point of divergence has been passed. At that point, one's reality diverges into more than one, and versions of one's self will exist in each resulting alternate future. Hence, one's divergent self will experience one of the alternate futures as his present reality, while another of his divergent selves will experience a different alternate future as his.
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In the Pre-Crisis Golden Age period, Amazonia was the name of the original Greek Island home of the Amazons. After their subjugation by the God, Hercules, the Amazons relocated to Paradise Island.
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In the Pre-Crisis Golden Age period, Amazonium was the name of a mineral used for the construction of various wondrous artifacts on Paradise Island. The winged Sandals of Hermes worn by Wonder Woman were reputed to be made by this material.
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The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. From 1966 to 1968, ABC aired the popular live-action Batman television series. During the 1970s, ABC also aired the Super Friends, a campy, yet popular animated series featuring a core roster of DC's more infamous super-heroes. Note: ABC is not to be confused with America's Best Comics, which has also been identified by the acronym, ABC.
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An artificial being designed to resemble a human being in as many ways as possible, and whose physiology and life functions replicate and mimic those of human beings as closely as possible. An android has all the same organs, tissue, bone, flesh, and blood as a human being, except they are synthetic. Compare with clone, cyborg, robot, and synthozoid.
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The Ankh is an Egyptian hieroglyphic symbolizing life. Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop, or bearing one in each hand, arms crossed over their chest. Ironically, it is also the chosen sigil for the essence of Death. Sorcerer Doctor Fate often projects mystic blasts which take the form of flying ankhs.
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An anti-hero has widely come to mean a character who has some characteristics that are antithetical to those of the traditional hero. An anti-hero in today's comic books will perform acts generally deemed "heroic," but will do so with methods, manners, or intentions that may not be heroic.
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Lex Luthor once tricked Superman into wearing a specially designed belt that leaked Kryptonite.
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Antimatter is an alternate form of matter comprised of antiparticles. It functions in direct opposition to positive matter and contact between the two will ultimately destroy the particles of both. In terms of dimensional reality, an entire universe composed of Antimatter exists and is the birth place of the Anti-Monitor and the Thunderers of Qward.
(See Also: Antimatter Universe)
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Also known as Super-Breath, this is a super-power usually attributed to Superman. It involves not only being able to generate hurricane level winds through the act of blowing, but can also lower the temperature of said winds to below zero.
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In the continuity of New Earth (Atari Force), the Armstrong was a space shuttle that transported personnel from Space Station One to the Atari Institute.
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An alternate universe in an equivalent space to our own where all matter is composed of ectoplasm. On the astral plane, the life energies and consciousnesses of other beings are discernible to adepts. Adepts can reach the astral plane by psionic or magical means. The astral plane is also sometimes called astral dimension, astral realm, or spirit world.
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In Earth-One continuity, Professor Egglehead once created an atomic Krypton ray, which briefly transformed a field mouse named Fuzzy into the super-powered Krypto Mouse. The device was only used once and was never seen again.
(See Also: Superboy (Earth-One))
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Aliens are creatures indigenous to planets other than Earth. They have crash-landed or been crash-landed upon in various Muppet productions, where they have always fit, due to their naturally bizarre and unfamiliar nature.
Most notably, Gonzo was revealed to be an alien in Muppets from Space, although due to his conflicting storyline in previous Muppet productions, his backstory is up for debate.
On The Muppet Show, most of the aliens hail from the planet Koozebane, from which Kermit the Frog frequently reported. In other productions, aliens have hailed from Gorch, Mars, and other planets, both real and fictional.
Aliens have also been featured prominently in Creature Shop productions, where they have taken on more realistic forms. These aliens have been portrayed both by Creatures as well as human actors in make-up and prosthetics.
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While there always was some evidence of the existence of alien life forms, it is very scarce. Until the events of the Fallout 3 add-on Mothership Zeta, there was no record of direct contact between humanity and the creatures. Despite this, it is apparent with evidence found on Zeta, that the aliens have quite possibly been watching Earth and Humanity evolve for nearly a thousand years.
The Brotherhood of Steel[1] and Shi[2] have encountered the bodies of alien life forms or their spaceships, as did the pre-War United States government, which kept its alien specimens mostly in Area 51. By extension, the Enclave and Brotherhood Outcasts also have access to alien technology; Alien Power Cells can be found at Fort Independence and in the armory of the Enclave's Mobile Base Crawler. They can also be found in the Citadel's armory (if you choose to destroy the Citadel during Who Dares Wins).
Finally being encountered in Mothership Zeta, they are small, greenish humanoids that are presented as malevolent creatures that seem to view humanity with contempt and will gladly vivisect their test subjects or keep them in cryogenic storage after torturing them for their scientific pursuits. The aliens themselves seem to have their own language and cannot be understood by the player in any way.
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When engaging the aliens for the first time in your holding cell, Somah tells you to hit their heads, implying that this area is largely unprotected. They are very skinny, implying reliance on technology, without which they are easily defeated. The aliens have no visible teeth, possibly limiting food sources. While their hands lack thumbs completely, the fingers are so long they can wrap around objects, potentially eliminating the need for thumbs. The design of the fingers is reminiscent of the iconic Martians, seen in the War of the Worlds movies. Their feet appear to be similar in shape to human feet.
Their bodies cannot be lifted off the ground by the player. This might mean that either they are heavier than their size and shape imply, they are being influenced by some sort of artificial gravity system, or that it could be an overlooked bug in the game.
The Aliens speak with clicks, high-pitched squeaks and wails. The sounds can sound strange and incomprehensible, but patterns may be detected in their language, and Holly Barrisford is capable of reproducing the sounds they make - showing that they have vocal chords similar to ours. This implies they do not communicate telepathically. Strangely, the alien distress signal speaks in a language unique to that of the mothership - a kind of warble, suggesting multiple alien languages, such as for example, English to French. It is also possible the signal from Theta is distorted by the machinery, or it is some form of code.
Four alien ships are known to have crashed in the United States:
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Alien Troopers are a deleted Covenant species seen in the Halo 2 Collector's Edition disc. It is unknown exactly what this seems to be. The only data known is that it carries its weapon under its belly, and was a precursor to the Hunter in this aspect. It bears a small resemblance to Elites.
Alien Trooper is part of the Deleted Material cut from the Halo game.
When developing the Halo games, Bungie and other developers such as Ensemble or Wingnut Interactive had to cut some content from the final games. As such, many aspects of the story, such as vehicles, gameplay, design, and even story elements, didn't make it into the final versions. Many of the elements have been confirmed by such material as videos and commentary on the Halo Limited Edition Special DVD, interviews with developers, and released concept art.
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| Deleted Weapons | EMP Rifle · Machete · M179 Projectile · Gravity Rifle · Gravity Wrench |
| Deleted Vehicles (UNSC) | UNSC Shield Ship · Kestrel · Aardvark · AirCare Ambulance · Strike Fighter · Falcon · Fox Cannon · Cougar · Grackle · Rhino (Aircraft) · Doozy · Scorpion (Lash) · Scorpion (Venom) · 2 Tickets to the Gun Show |
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| Deleted Species | Alien Trooper · Arctic Beast · Arctic Ice Hound· Drinol · Special Purpose Sniper · Stalker · Psion · Rogue · Keelbug · Sentients · Blind Wolf · Jaggmaw Sawtail · Doberman Gator · Harvest Whale · Eel-snake creature |
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The following are a list of relatively popular but clearly debunked theories, listed along with the sources of the debunking.
Lost has generated a huge number of interesting and diverse theories to explain the mysteries of the show. Some are more plausible than others, but some are clearly (and at times, repeatedly) refuted or discredited by Lost's writers and producers.
The head writers and executive producers have also said repeatedly that they already have an "end game" and larger story arc in mind for how to wrap up the entire series. From the Comic Con transcript: "We have at least, four, probably five awesome seasons planned out… and from that point, obviously after that, we’d have to start tap-dancing. Which is something that we just don’t want to do."
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A clone is a new, identical organism grown from a cell; to suggest that a character in Lost is instantly cloned into a duplicate full-grown individual is a contradiction. The rabbits numbered "15" in the Orchid video are not examples of cloning, but of time travel gone awry.
The Mapinguari as an explanation for the Monster first appeared on the ABC website oceanic-air.com, but is not valid or canonical since the site was created by ABC's marketing department rather than Lost's creative authorities.
Theory: States that the Island is not on the planet earth. The survivors of Oceanic 815 were the last humans on earth and then placed on the Island. Since there was never a plane crash, the flashbacks we see are implanted memories.
Debunked by: Season 4 and Season 5 show an outside world in existence, off the Island.
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An artificially created alloy of iron that is the most impervious substance known on Earth, with the exception of the unknown Steel-Vibranium alloy of which Captain America's Shield is composed.
(See Also: Adamantium)
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(aka Epinephrine) is a hormone and a neurotransmitter. It is secreted by the adrenal medulla. When released into the bloodstream it increases heart rate and stroke volume, dilates the pupils, and constricts arterioles in the skin and gut while dilating arterioles in leg muscles. Often listed as being the source of abnormal feats of strength or agility, or the trigger of super-human powers.
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(1.) A being who originates elsewhere than Earth. (2.) Of or having to do with a place other than Earth.
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An alien (or "extraterrestrial") is a being that originates outside of Earth. The universe is teeming with alien life forms, the number of which is incalculable. Because the denizens of Earth have not yet perfected a practical faster-than-light stardrive enabling interstellar travel, the majority of the alien races encountered by Earth people are those races who have mastered interstellar travel themselves and have visited Earth. Due to the fact that the Earth's solar system is near a natural warp-space access point, there has been a high incidence of alien visitation since before human life first appeared. Indeed, numerous advanced civilizations left outposts on Earth during prehistory, including the Kree, the Lumina, the Arcturans and the Celestials. In the 20th Century, alien visitation reached epidemic proportions with well over eighty different alien races dispatching exploratory parties and, in some cases, armadas to Earth. The Earth has been of particular interest to the warring Kree and Skrull Empires, since the Earth would be a strategic military outpost from which to launch attacks on the other. One of the main factors accounting for the increase in the extraterrestrial investigation of Earth is the explosive growth of Earth beings who through mutation or transformation have demonstrated superhuman capacities. No other races of beings have manifested such a vast variety of powers as Earth people, and many races are curious to determine why. (The human race's capacity for benevolent mutation is a legacy of the alien Celestials who examined the genetic material of human beings at the dawn of man.) It is these superhuman beings who have been so phenomenally successful thwarting the selfish designs of the scores of alien invaders. Virtually every superhuman champion on Earth has had at least one extraterrestrial encounter. The majority of the alien races documented here have humanoid configurations (bilaterally symmetrical, upright posture, two arms, two legs, brain located in head). Some are astonishingly similar to the human race, being virtually indistinguishable until the cellular level. Other races resemble humanoid versions of other Earthly animals, such as lizards, skunks, insects, fish, and so on. The reason for this staggering similarity in phenotypes among races evolving on countless worlds separated by millions of light years is not known. A being called "Xorr the God-Jewel" once claimed that the "seeds" of all humanoid faces were contained within Xorri, the now-extinct race that formed the jewel. The validity of this claim is questionable, but it is also unlikely that the vast similarities among certain races can be attributed to parallel evolution. There must something to account for so many coincidences among these alien races, but as yet there is no indication what it is. It is possible that humanoid races do not dominate the universe as it would appear, and that it is mere happenstance that the majority of the alien races Earth has encountered are humanoid. |
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An alter ego (from Latin, "other I") is another self, a second personality or persona within a person. The term is commonly used in comic books, for the secret identity of a superheros and supervillains.
An alter ego is usually used by superheroes to conceal their identities in order to protect their friends and family from harm at the hands of their enemies, whereas supervillians usually have an alter ego to make sure they don't get arrested.
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A world resembling Earth in physical characteristics, natural phenomena, life forms, and, to some extent, history, which exists in the equivalent space to Earth's in another dimension. An alternate Earth may either be a divergent Earth or a parallel Earth.
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One of the possible future realities deriving from the present reality through a specific sequence of events. One cannot tell which alternate future will become one's present reality until the point of divergence has been passed. At that point, one's reality diverges into more than one, and versions of one's self will exist in each resulting alternate future. Hence, one's divergent self will experience one of the alternate futures as his present reality, while another of his divergent selves will experience a different alternate future as his.
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A world in another dimension which exists in the equivalent space to a world in this dimension. Some alternate worlds which are not alternate Earths may exist in the equivalent space to Earth's in other dimensions.
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A person who was born in America.
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Capable of breathing and existing in air or in water.
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An artificial being designed to resemble a human being in as many ways as possible, and whose physiology and life functions replicate and mimic those of human beings as closely as possible. An android has all the same organs, tissue, bone, flesh, and blood as a human being, except they are synthetic. Compare with clone, cyborg, robot, and synthozoid.
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Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan becomes fixed as they develop, usually early on in their development as embryos, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile - they can move spontaneously and independently. Animals are heterotrophs - they are dependent on other organisms (e.g. plants) for sustenance.
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An anti-hero has widely come to mean a character who has some characteristics that are antithetical to those of the traditional hero. An anti-hero in today's comic books will perform acts generally deemed "heroic," but will do so with methods, manners, or intentions that may not be heroic.
(See Also: Superhero, Supervillain)
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A theoretical particle carrying a force that repels gravity.
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Matter composed of particles that are the counterparts of the particles composing positive matter (the matter of which this universe is composed), but have opposite charges; e.g., anti-protons instead of protons, and positrons instead of electrons. Should positive matter come in contact with an equal amount of antimatter, both will be annihilated and converted to energy.
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A universe composed of anti-matter rather than matter (as in our universe) existing in another dimension. The only one known to date is the Negative Zone.
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Any type of being who holds prejudice towards mutants.
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Simply put, artistic license means an artist is accorded leeway in his or her interpretation of something, and is not held strictly accountable for accuracy.
For example, the director of your local theater group might decide it's high time Shakespeare's Hamlet was staged with the entire cast walking on stilts. Obviously, this was not how they did things back at the old Globe, but the director has been seized with an artistic vision and must be indulged.
A poet is granted artistic license to rhyme something with the word "orange", even though "orange" has no rhyming word in English.
Music sampling is a relatively new discipline, in which bits and pieces of other works are taken and compiled into a new piece. The sampler has taken (sometimes wild) artistic license with other musicians' works. In many cases, the sampling community will rate new pieces, and one of the judging criteria is entitled "Artistic License".
Writers of fiction are allowed to take all sorts of liberties with facts, in the interest of crafting a good story. It should go without saying that "fiction" is the operative word here.
This means it either should be noted or not used at all since the 90% of the time the character does not exhibit that ability very often. For example the Hulk during the Secret Wars broke his leg, Spider-Man once defeated Firelord, the Black Panther put the Silver Surfer in a hammer lock. All of this was done with artistic license from the writer and are not considered typical of the characters.
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The sheath or form that contains a living being's life essence, consciousness, spirit or soul. The astral body is a manifestation of the life essence composed of ectoplasm, an invisible, intangible substance whose source and properties remain unknown. While all living beings have astral bodies, certain adepts using psychic, psionic, or magical means, can separate their astral bodies from their physical bodies without harm. The astral body is also sometimes called astral form, astral self, and spirit form.
The astral form is the non-corporeal manifestation of beings that have the ability of astral projection. The majority of people capable of creating an astral form are psychics, and they usually appear on the Astral Plane. The astral form enables beings to exist within the mind, without a body and transcend through space and time as pure mental energy.
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Astral projection (or astral travel) is a paranormal interpretation of an out-of-body experience achieved either awake or via lucid dreaming or deep meditation. The concept of astral projection assumes the existence of another body, separate from the physical body and capable of traveling to non-physical planes of existence. Commonly such planes are called astral, etheric, or spiritual. Astral projection is often experienced as the spirit or astral body leaving the physical body to travel in the spirit world or astral plane. Often a form of telepathy or magic.
For a list of characters who use astral projection, see Category:Astral Projection
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Atmokinesis is the ability to control or mentally affect the weather.
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For a list of characters who can control the weather, see Category:Atmokinesis.
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Alien refers to any being that is foreign to your own homeworld. The term can be used affectionately or as xenophobic slang.
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Alien was a Humanocentric biological—and sometimes political—term to describe a sentient species or a person of a species other than a Human or near-Human. It is often used interchangeably with the term Non-Human. The term may have been derived from the first impression of early Humans, when they had their first contacts with species from other planets. However, it seems to have been prevalent even in subsequent millennia. An equivalent, if less politically-correct term, was "monster."
Since Humans were the most common and prominent sentient species in galactic affairs and history, they were often considered to be a standard or average to which the biology, psychology, and culture of other species were compared.
Species with a body type roughly similar to Humans were often referred to as humanoid, since Humans were the most common example.
"Aliens" were sometimes victims of speciesism, being derided and avoided by Humans in certain societies, like Taris during the blockade of the Sith.
The word alien originally meant "stranger," and came from the Latin word alienus of the same meaning. The word was directly borrowed into English, and frequently used in the sense of "foreigner" (as in the legal term for a person who is not a native or naturalized citizen of the land where they are found.) It was also used in biology to describe plant or animal species which were not naturally found in a given part of the Earth, but had been introduced there.
In the twentieth century, the term was adopted to describe extraterrestrial intelligent life, whether in fiction or in a more scientific context.
An alien, in the broadest sense, is someone or something not native to where they currently are. In the common sense of most fiction, though, it means anything originating from an extraterrestrial source.
For example, a tiny, inferior, squishy creature may consider a giant, talking robot to be an alien, while at precisely the same time the robot could find the fleshling to be the alien.
Contrary to Hollywood, not all aliens have long heads and mouths on their tongues. Although some will scare the ever-loving crap out of you anyway.
In many Transformers continuities, in addition to humans and Cybertronians, there are both organic aliens and robotic aliens. Many of the organic ones look very human, and an awful lot of the robotic ones have the ability to transform like Cybertronians. The extent to which these similarities are coincidence varies from species to species, when it's explained at all. Aliens (besides Autobots and Decepticons) popped up infrequently during the second season of The Transformers, but played a far larger role in the third and fourth seasons. The Beast Era saw the introduction of the Vok, a species of energy-based creature. Depending on your point of view, Botanica's beast mode (mobile plant-creature) is an alien as well.
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The Aliens are a series of Reptile-Type cards introduced in "Power of the Duelist", with further support added in "Cyberdark Impact", "Strike of Neos", "Force of the Breaker, "Tactical Evolution, "Gladiator's Assault", "Crimson Crisis" and "Raging Battle". Alien decks focus heavily on exploiting "A-Counters", which weaken opposing monsters battling against "Aliens" and permit "Alien" users to activate a variety of specific theft, revival, and destruction effects. This is the first true Reptile archetype and one of the only archetypes, along with "Reptilianne", that focuses heavily on manipulating the opponent.
"Aliens" have a variety of lower-level monsters, such as "Alien Warrior" and "Alien Grey", that generate essential A-Counters. However, prior to "Crimson Crisis," they suffered from a distinct lack of effects to exploit these counters once they have been created. Cards like "Alien Telepath", "Alien Hypno", and "Alien Mars" have potentially disruptive, yet situational, effects. By contrast, the powerful field-clearing effect of "Cosmic Fortress Gol'gar", as well as the revival provided by "Code A Ancient Ruins", now give the deck a more reliable means of converting A-Counters into Card Advantage. "Crimson Crisis" also introduced "Planet Pollutant Virus", a card which doubles as mass-removal and lingering A-Counter generation. Cards like "Alien Overlord" from "Crimson Crisis" and "Alien Dog" from the subsequent "Raging Battle", also gave Aliens a newfound ability to Swarm the field.
"Crimson Crisis" and "Raging Battle" have indeed added a variety of needed support for "Alien" monsters, and as such there are now several different builds and play styles for the archetype. The "Alien" cards prior to "Crimson Crisis" emphasized lower-level effect monsters like "Alien Psychic" and "Alien Hunter", and monster manipulation, such as "Brainwashing Beam" and "Mass Hypnosis". While such a strategy is still possible, it is distinctly suboptimal when compared to modernized builds that emphasize Gol'gar and the easy destruction and revival (through its quick counter generation for "Code A Ancient Ruins") that it supplies. Gol'gar can further be paired with powerful Continuous Spell Cards, like "Prohibition" or "Burden of the Mighty", along with cards like "Ancient Forest" and "Swords of Revealing Light" to create a strong Control archetype that excels at A-Counter generation via Gol'gar's effect.
No monster in the archetype has over 2600 ATK, a value shared by Gol'gar and its underpowered predecessor, "Cosmic Horror Gangi'el", together the so-called "boss monsters" of the "Aliens". Neither of these monsters counts as an "Alien" per se, and hence does not weaken opposing monsters burdened with A-Counters. This drawback is largely irrelevant, however, especially in the case of Gol'gar, which is the highest ATK Level 5 Monster Card in the game and able to eliminate most threats from the field either by its effect or said disproportionately high ATK.
All "Alien" decks ultimately rely on A-Counters to operate. A swarming "Alien" deck needs ample A-Counters to Special Summon Overlord and activate Ruins. "Alien" decks that manipulate opponent's monsters via Hypno, Beam, and Hypnosis require A-Counters to maintain control of the pilfered monsters. Gol'gar control variants obviously exploit Gol'gar's ability both to generate A-Counters and to instantly convert those counters into free removal.
"Aliens" are weak against decks with superior speed, such as "Lightsworns" or "Zombie". The deck itself has little drawpower outside of Grey. Accordingly, it often suffers in its quest to draw into its power cards and convert them into a superior setup before losing the race to decks like the ones above. Specialized Searchers such as "Gold Sarcophagus", "Oshaleon", "Snake Whistle", and "Damage = Reptile" can partially alleviate this problem by letting you retrieve your combo pieces more efficiently, but not all of them fit comfortably into the archetype and many of them can be situational as draws.
"Aliens" also have no native, major offensive threat outside of Gol'gar. Although Warrior and Shocktrooper boast high ATK scores for Level 4 Monster Cards, they quickly lose value after the few first turns of the game, when Synchro Monsters, Fusion Monsters, and other massive cards begin hitting the field. Gol'gar helps to keep "Aliens" in the race. Other Synchros like "Ally of Justice Catastor" (instantly Summonable by Ammonite and useful against "Lightsworns" in particular) also help the deck to keep a solid footing against more explosive decks.
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| English: | Alien | |
| Attribute: | LIGHT  |
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| Type: | Other Worldly | |
| Level: | 1  |
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| ATK/DEF: | 250/100 | |
| Card Lore: | A being from another planet, it upgrades with "Alien Armor". | |
| Card Limit: | Unlimited | |
| Other Card Information: | Gallery - Rulings Appearances Tips - Errata - Trivia Lores - Artworks - Names |
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| Level | 1 + |
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