What Should The Next Science Fiction Monster Be?

zoobyshoe

This is a big problem because I think they ran out of good ideas a long time ago.

The last one that struck me as any good was the graboid in Tremors, but that film is pretty old now.

The film Alien really turned the whole genre around and most stuff that's come afterward seems to have it's roots in that film, one way or another. Mimic and Species, which both had good sci-fi monsters, still reminded me alot of Alien.

I think we need a new sci-fi monster that comes from a different direction.

hypnagogue

hypnagogue

Seriously though, I don't know. I was going to suggest some kind of parasite that takes over the brain, but I get the feeling some variation of that has already been done a few times.

Ivan Seeking

How about a race of aliens so big that when they come along, they just eat the earth like a big apple?

Hmmmm, it would be a short movie I guess...

hypnagogue

Already been done, sort of, in the Transformers cartoon movie:



That's a moon getting consumed by a gigantic humanoid robot that itself transforms into a giant robotic planet with planet-eating mandibles (here seen in giant robotic planet form). Ah, childhood memories.

zoobyshoe

This is certainly from a different direction.

zoobyshoe

Yeah, one of the first sci-fi films I ever saw as a kid was about brain parasites. They hung on your shirt collar and inserted two probes in the back of your neck. It was ust sort of sickening, not scary.

Ivan Seeking

Hmmm, okay, how about a black hole beast? You get ripped apart by the tidal forces whenever it gets near. It just sucks you up and then gets bigger and stronger.

zoobyshoe

This is pretty much what they were up against in one of the original star treks. I think they called it The Planet Killer. It was a giant space worm, really, with a big mouth.

zoobyshoe

That's not too bad.

hypnagogue

Um... isn't that just a black hole?

Ivan Seeking

That used an energy beam. Not quite as elegant as being eaten like a big apple, IMO.

Ivan Seeking

Sort of, but it acts with intent and can fit in your Geo.

Kakarot

i think sephiroth should be the new bad guy

Hurkyl

How about some sort of assult by murderous fruit, or maybe murderous vegetables?

Ivan Seeking

Okay, Zooby liked my last answer. I'm stopping before I ruin the moment.

hypnagogue

A 4D monster might be cool. It could rip your heart out without puncturing your chest. And other neat stuff.