This is a list of extraterrestrial species that have appeared in various works of fiction, sorted by type. Some aliens fit into more than one category, and so appear on the list twice. Most aliens are humanoid if not human-like, especially in live action TV series, because the actors are human and only require make-up or masks to appear alien. The Greys described in UFO folklore match this body type. Humanoids include: | | | - Mangalores, the mercenary race of shapeshifter humanoids from The Fifth Element
- Manicoid (The Middleman)
- Minbari (Babylon 5)
- Misha (Battlelords of the 23rd Century)
- Mondoshawan (The Fifth Element)
- Moroks, (Doctor Who)
- The Moxx of Balhoon, (Doctor Who)
- Mri (C. J. Cherryh's Faded Sun trilogy)
- Mutzachans (Battlelords of the 23rd Century)
- Naglon (Doctor Who)
- Narn (Babylon 5)
- Namekian (Dragon Ball)
- Nebari (Farscape)
- Neptunians (Futurama)
- Neutrals (Futurama)
- Nox (Stargate SG-1)
- Oans (DC Comics)
- Oannes (Stargate SG-1)
- Ocampa (Star Trek)
- Oculons (Ascendancy)
- Ogrons, (Doctor Who)
- Orks (descendants of the Krork that grow from fungus) (Warhammer 40,000)
- Ortheans (Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed) androgynous until puberty
- Phagors (Brian W. Aldiss's Heliconia series)
- Planet Alpha aliens from Kin-dza-dza!
- Planet Uzm alien from Kin-dza-dza!
- Plukanians (Kin-dza-dza!)
- Porquinhos (Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead)
- Psychlos (Battlefield Earth)
- Quadrainian (Extreme Dinosaurs)
- Re'ol (Stargate SG-1)
- Relgarians (Farscape)
- Rigellians (Marvel Comics)
- Rigelians (Bravestarr)
- Romulans (Star Trek)
- Ryoko Asakura (Haruhi Suzumiya).
- Saiyan (Dragon Ball)
- Scarrans (Farscape)
- Scorvians (Farscape)
- Séroni (Space Trilogy)
- Shi'ar (Marvel Comics)
- Simians (Thundercats)
- Snotlings (another of the green races collectively known to man as Orks) (Warhammer 40,000)
- Sontarans (Doctor Who)
- Spirits (Stargate SG-1)
- Squigs (as snotlings) (Warhammer 40,000)
- Surrakin (Stargate SG-1)
- Suliban (Star Trek)
- Sykarians (Farscape)
- Sycorax, (Doctor Who)
- Syreen (Star Control)
- Taelons (Earth: Final Conflict)
- Taiidan (Homeworld)
- Talaxians (Star Trek)
- Tarkans (Farscape)
- Tatanga (Super Mario Land)
- Tau (Warhammer 40,000)
- Tavleks (Farscape)
- Tectonese (Alien Nation)
- Tellarites (Star Trek)
- Terrians (Earth 2)
- Time Lords/Gallifreyans (Doctor Who)
- Trabe (Star Trek)
- Traskans (Farscape)
- Trolls (Elfquest)
- Tusken Raiders (Star Wars)
- Twi'leks (Star Wars)
- Utwig (Star Control)
- Vasudans (Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War)
- Venek (Farscape)
- Viltrumites (Invincible)
- Vineans (Yoko Tsuno)
- Vorc (Farscape)
- Vorcarian (Farscape)
- Vorta (Star Trek)
- Vorticon (Commander Keen)
- Vortigaunt (Half-Life)
- Vulcans (Star Trek)
- Weevils (Torchwood)
- Wraith (Stargate Atlantis)
- Wookiees (Star Wars)
- Xandarians (Marvel Comics)
- Xindi (Star Trek)
- Yuki Nagato (Haruhi Suzumiya).
- Yuuzhan Vong (Star Wars)
- Zabrak (Star Wars)
- Zenetan (Farscape)
- Zen 'Kethi (Star Trek)
- Zenn-Lavians (Marvel Comics)
- Zentradi (Macross), adapted as the Zentraedi in Robotech
- Zen Rigeln (Battlelords of the 23rd Century)
- Zen-Whoberis (Marvel Comics) - see also Gamora
- Zygons (Doctor Who)
| [edit] Near-relatives, ancestors or descendants of humans In these stories, these aliens are descended from the same ancestors as humanity, or are themselves ancestors. Some are descended directly from humanity: - Abh (Crest of the Stars)
- Adeptus Astartes (Space Marines) (Warhammer 40,000)
- Ancients (Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis)
- Ankharans (Crossgen)
- Androsynth, highly intelligent Homo sapiens clones. (Star Control)
- Beastmen (Warhammer 40,000)
- Darrians (Traveller RPG) known for their small, high-technology polity
- Eloi (The Time Machine)
- Futurekind from Doctor Who.
- Gethenians (Ursula Le Guin's Ekumen stories) and other HILFs.
- Haemovores, vampiric creatures descended from humans, mutated by millennia of pollution (Doctor Who)
- Jaffa (Stargate SG-1)
- Kromaggs (Sliders) killer apes who survived early evolution in a parallel Earth. Also considered Aliens From Another Dimension.
- Ludens (Noon Universe)
- Morlocks(The Time Machine)
- Mutants - human beings that have mutated either through natural development or because of radiation (Futurama, X-men, and various others)
- Nebish (Half Past Human and The Godwhale by T.J. Bass (The name is not used in the second novel)).
- Neosapiens (Exosquad)
- Nietzscheans (Andromeda)
- Orion Rogues (Battlelords of the 23rd Century)
- Ogryns (Warhammer 40,000)
- Pak (or Protectors) (Larry Niven's Known Space books) the superintelligent adult form of homo habilis; human Protectors are even more intelligent.
- Primords, humans mutated into ape-like beasts (Doctor Who)
- Ratlings (Warhammer 40,000)
- Sebaceans (Farscape)
- Second through Last Men (Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men)
- Squats (now extinct - Warhammer 40,000)
- Spaceballs (race from a movie of the same name)
- Terra Novans (Star Trek)
- Toclafane (Doctor Who)
- Underpeople - animals that have been modified to appear and act human. (Works of Cordwainer Smith)
- Vilani (Traveller RPG) known for their bureaucratic tendencies and empire building
- Zhodani (Traveller RPG) known for their psychic abilities
- in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the episode "The Chase" revealed that all the humanoid races in the galaxy are the result of genetic tinkering by a single humanoid race in the distant past.
- similarly, in Marvel Comics' The Eternals, it was revealed that many species were genetically tampered with by the alien Celestials.
[edit] Feline humanoids This form has been popular (see Cat-like aliens). They are usually warrior-like as well: [edit] Canine humanoids [edit] Insectoid and arachnid aliens - Arachnids (Battlelords of the 23rd Century)
- Brood (Marvel Comics)
- Bugs from Klendathu (Starship Troopers)
- Bugs (Men in Black)
- The Colony (Final Days of the Planet Earth)
- Cinnrusskin of James White's Sector General series
- Drak (Farscape)
- Driel (Dark Planet)
- Drone (Halo 2)
- Antlion swarm (Half Life 2)
- Empress of the Racnoss from Doctor Who.
- Formics (Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card)
- Gaim (Babylon 5)
- Grue (Pitch Black)
- The Inibit from Genesis Climber Mospeada (called "Invid" in the Robotech american adaptation)
- Insects (The History of the Galaxy by Andrey Livadny)
- Insects in Steph Swainston's Castle series.
- Ilwrath - (Star Control)
- Klackons (Master of Orion)
- Klicks (Star*Drive)
- Klikiss (Saga of Seven Suns)
- The Lexx race (Lexx and "Little Lexx" from Lexx)
- Locust (listed under insectoid because of their superorganism-like society, the various Locust types are similar to a variety of creatures such as arachnids, humans, monkeys, bats, Queen type hive insects, jellyfish, and squid) (Gears of War)
- Majat (Alliance-Union universe of C. J. Cherryh)
- Mantis (Conquest: Frontier Wars)
- Marmosians (Ascendancy)
- Mind worms (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri)
- Menoptra (Doctor Who)
- Mesklinites of Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity (millipede-like)
- Optera, (Doctor Who)
- "Prawns" (District 9)
- Re'tu (Stargate SG-1)
- Shivans (Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War)
- Spider Aliens (Valiant Comics)
- Lepidopterran (Ben 10)
- Tachidi (Master of Orion)
- Tecreaseans (Battlelords of the 23rd Century)
- Than (Andromeda)
- Thargoids from Elite (computer game)
- Thranx of Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth series
- Tyranid Warhammer 40,000
- Tractators (Doctor Who)
- Team Space Bug of Kaiju Big Battel
- Uchuu Kaijuu ("Space Monsters") from Gunbuster
- Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah (Star Control)
- Ur-Quan Kzer-Za (Star Control)
- The Vajra from Macross Frontier
- Vore (Doctor Who: The Gallifrey Chronicles by Lance Parkin)
- Wreaves (ConSentiency universe)
- Wirrn (Doctor Who, The Ark in Space)
- Xeno (Alone in the Dark)
- Xenomorph (The Alien series)
- Xindi (Star Trek)
- Zarbi (Doctor Who)
- Zerg (StarCraft)
[edit] Centaurs [edit] Reptilians and amphibians Another popular form. See also Reptilian humanoid. [edit] Aquatic species [edit] Parasites and symbiots [edit] Robotic and mechanical aliens Aliens that are created through technological means. This category also includes lifeforms that have been altered so that their existence depends on implants and other technologies. [edit] Rodents [edit] Space-living creatures These fictional creatures purport to thrive in the biome of outer space. [edit] Sentient plants & fungi [edit] Ancient/Primordial races Aliens that have either disappeared and left only ruins or developed to godlike, practically omnipotent entities. [edit] More unusual forms - Aliens from Sector General by James White are among the most diverse. Crystalline methane creatures, continent sized carpets, rolling ring-shaped aliens, chlorine breathers, radiation eating telepaths and creatures assembled from several symbiont species meet in a setting of space hospital.
- Aliens that are product of mechanical evolution in The Invincible by Stanisław Lem
- The Animus, a telepathic alien intelligence with a corporeal form resembling an octopus (Doctor Who)
- Ark Megaforms (a non-humanoid race from Noon Universe, no information on appearance available)
- Abyormenites of Hal Clement's Cycle of Fire (floating ballons - one race, that is)
- Beta Renner cloud (Star Trek)
- Black Cloud of Fred Hoyle (interstellar dust cloud)
- C'tan ('Star Vampires' worshipped and given corporeal form by the Necrontyr, only four still exist, only two of which (the Nightbringer and the Deceiver) are active, Mars (The Void Dragon) is believed to be one that was covered by space dust over trillions of years ago) (Warhammer 40,000)
- The Caleban of Frank Herbert's Whipping Star (invisible telepathic beings who are actually the minds of stars)
- The Celareon of Conquest: Frontier Wars RTÉ Game, peaceful beings of pure energy. They constructed mechanical bodies with which they interact with his entourage, and they control it by a cell where lie their true "body".
- Chenjesu, intelligent silicon-based crystals (Star Control)
- Chronomyst (Ascendancy), sentient jellyfish-like creatures that communicate by refracting light within their bodies.
- The Chtorr, pink wormlike creatures from David Gerrold's War Against the Chtorr series. According to David, the Chtorr can also refer to the entire alien ecology.
- Dnyarri, non-humanoid Telepaths (Star Control)
- The Doublers, two-in-one semi-humanoids of Stanisław Lem's Eden
- Dralasite, an amoeboid race introduced in the Star Frontiers role-playing game
- Drej, a race responsible for the destruction of Earth; made out of pure energy, Titan A.E.
- The Dubtaks from the Ascendancy Universe remind of sperm cells.
- Dugs (Star Wars)
- Dyson Aliens (Peter F. Hamilton's "Pandora's Star")
- Ego the Living Planet (Marvel Comics)
- Eldila, barely visible faint, shifting light that are native to interplanetary space. (Space Trilogy)
- The Face of Boe, a giant head in a jar-like support system (Doctor Who)
- Father (Animorphs) an intelligent entity formed from a network of algae and alien corpses spread across an ocean planet.
- Meehooks from the comic book series Fusion, "dinosaurs with fur"
- Gadmeer who live in a sulphur environment. (Stargate SG-1)
- Garrotian Snails (Noon Universe)
- The Gelth, intelligent gaseous lifeforms (Doctor Who)
- Ghatanothoa of H. P. Lovecraft (has Gorgon-like visual properties)
- Ghroth from Ramsey Campbell's short story "The Tugging" (small, sentient planet with a large red eye)
- Giygas from EarthBound (Mother 2)
- The Gladifers of Dennis Paul Himes
- The Govorom species from the Ascendancy Universe are feminine-like spirits of nature.
- Great Race of Yith of H. P. Lovecraft (Disembodied, time-hopping minds of a long-dead alien race; Known bodies used are gigantic molluscs and large beetles)
- Harmonia (The Sirens of Titan), a cave-dwelling flatworm-like race living on Mercury.
- Headies (a kynoid (dog-like) sentient race from Noon Universe)
- Hivers of Traveller RPG (modified starfish)
- Hooloovoo, non-corporeal beings, when refracted in a prism, appear as a shade of blue. (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
- Horta (Star Trek), silicon-based tunneller.
- The Invaders of John Varley's Eight Worlds novels, higher-dimensional beings originating from a gas giant.
- Kambuchka (Ascendancy).
- Judoon, Humanoid Rhinos (Doctor Who)
- Kymellians, humanoid horses (Marvel Comics)
- Lloigor from Colin Wilson's Return of the Lloigor (Vortices of energy; Solidify as vast, alien reptiles)
- Logrians from Andrey Livadny's The History of the Galaxy series (two-headed xenomorphs)
- Ly-Cilph, begin their lives as corporeal, but can latter become non-corporeal being. (Night's Dawn Trilogy)
- The Macra, giant crab-like aliens with telepathic and hypnotic ability (Doctor Who)
- Mars People in Metal Slug series
- Martians from H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds
- Mebes, Giant single-celled sentient organisms from the Ascendancy Universe.
- Melnorme (Star Control)
- Methorians of Barrington J. Bayley's Zen Gun (gaseous giant-giant dwellers)
- Medusans (Star Trek), an incorporeal race who cannot be looked at by humanoids.
- Nimbuloids, a species of large sentient gas creatures from the Ascendancy Universe.
- Oankali of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series
- Orfa (Ascendancy)
- Ogri, silicon-based life form resembling standing stones (Doctor Who)
- Pan Spechi, each individual has five different bodies, occuping each one throughout their life time. (ConSentiency universe)
- Puppeteers of Larry Niven's Ringworld and Known Space series (three legs, two manipulative heads)
- Pilots (Farscape)
- Phantoms (a ghost-like race from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within)
- Photino Birds, made up of Dark Matter (Xeelee Squence)
- Pkunk, appear like Toucans (Star Control)
- Prophets (Star Trek)
- Qax (Xeelee Squence)
- Rigellians (Lensman books) which are barrel-shaped with four tentacular arms and four stubby legs
- Mr. Saturn (EarthBound)
- The Scrin of Command & Conquer, an intelligent species of unknown form which are apparently symbiotic with the crystal, root and spore, Tiberium.
- Shevar (Ascendancy), an inorganic race from an alternate universe that feeds on life force.
- Shoggoths (H. P. Lovecraft)
- Silicoids, a race of sentient crystals in the Master of Orion universe
- The Slitheen (or, more accurately, Raxicoricofallopatorians — Slitheen is a family name, not the species), bipedal, vaguely humanoid creatures with sharp claws and baby faces, made of living calcium, (Doctor Who)
- Slylandro (Star Control)
- The Snovemdomas from the Ascendancy Universe are similar to mammoths.
- Solaris by Stanisław Lem (living ocean)
- Spathi, similar to shellfish (Star Control)
- Sphere (Sphere (novel) by Michael Crichton)
- Spline, whalelike creatures that rebuilt themselves into living ships (Xeelee Squence)
- Sqid, a squidlike species in Freefall.
- Swaparamans (Ascendancy)
- Tetraps, vaguely humanoid bat-like creatures with four eyes allowing 360 degree vision (Doctor Who)
- Tholians (Star Trek)
- Thraddash, boar- or rhino-like creatures with whiskers (Star Control)
- Tralfamadorians of Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse 5)
- Treecats - Six-limbed cats (Honor Harrington Series)
- Trillions of Nicholas Fisk (small collective crystals)
- Trisolians(Humanoid creatures made out of liquid) (Futurama)
- Taprisiots (Whipping Star, The Dosadi Experiment)
- Tweel from A Martian Odyssey
- Umgah, large, pink or lilac-colored blobs (Star Control)
- Utroms (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- VUX, green tentacular creatures (Star Control)
- Wanderers (most mysterious of the Noon Universe races, no information about their appearance is available, but most likely they're non-humanoid)
- Watchers In The Dark (highly telepathic creatures that inhabit the ruins of Caliban, home of the Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter) (Warhammer 40,000)
- Yag-Kosha, from Robert E. Howard's The Tower of the Elephant (humanoid elephant)
- Yehat, pterodactyl-like creatures (Star Control)
- Yuggs (Maggot-like)
- Zebesian Space Pirates (Metroid series — the species has a wide range of morphological variety)
- Zonama Sekot - a sentient planet with mysterious, powerful abilities. (Star Wars)
- Zoq-Fot-Pik (Star Control)
[edit] Shape-shifting aliens [edit] Unintelligent creatures These fictional extraterrestrials display no signs of sentience. [edit] Aliens from other dimensions [edit] Galactic communities Interstellar governments or communities in which several alien civilizations interact: (see also List of fictional governments). Ultramar- Home of the ultramarines space marine legion- war hammer 40,000- [edit] References |
