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 a lot of Alien.

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

 

[hypnagogue]

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

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[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]

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...

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

http://www.garaje.ya.com/agltox/Unicroeaten.jpg

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]

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This is certainly from a different direction.

 

[zoobyshoe]

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.

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]

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

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]

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.

That's not too bad.

 

[hypnagogue]

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.

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

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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.

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

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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

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

 

[Kakarot]

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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.

 

[hypnagogue]

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

Attack of the Killer Tomatos? No, that won't do. Attack of the Killer Pluots?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Attack of the Killer Tomatos? No, that won't do. Attack of the Killer Pluots?

Attack of the green leafy vegetables?

 

[zoobyshoe]

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

The image that came to my mind was of a hulking humanoid thing that slowly trudged around sucking people in by it's personal super-gravity. You'd see them striped apart layer by layer: skin, then muscle, then bones.

 

[hypnagogue]

I think we're making good progress in this thread. Now we can start asking the really interesting questions. Who would win in a fight, the black hole monster or the killer pluots?

 

[zoobyshoe]

I think we're making good progress in this thread. Now we can start asking the really interesting questions. Who would win in a fight, the black hole monster or the killer pluots?

Well, how does the killer pluot kill?

 

[hypnagogue]

Well, how does the killer pluot kill?

Its strange genetics generate an intense anti-gravitational field. Plus, it's kind of weird.

 

[Hurkyl]

Yah, don't you know weirdness always trumps raw power?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Its strange genetics generate an intense anti-gravitational field. Plus, it's kind of weird.

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I don't buy it as the right kind of foil for a black hole monster. And, as every crackpot knows, all anti-gravity would do for it is give it the ability to levitate.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Yah, don't you know weirdness always trumps raw power?

That's why the weird, purple jellyfish could pretty much beat anything. The pluot is merely "sort of" weird. Not good enough.

 

[Hurkyl]

That's why the weird, purple jellyfish could pretty much beat anything.

Nah, cuteness is the most powerful force in the universe.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Nah, cuteness is the most powerful force in the universe.

You prolly never saw Bambi meets Godzilla.

 

[hypnagogue]

no, it's true

Here we see the black hole monster being thwarted by a cute, disembodied kitten head.

 

[Smurf]

Attack of the black hole bunny rabbit?

Subtitle: Cute kills/How cute, is TOO cute?

 

[honestrosewater]

No contest. The woman wins by giving them all The Look.

 

[Smurf]

hmmm, The female mind... sounds sci-fi-ish to me.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Here we see the black hole monster being thwarted by a cute, disembodied kitten head.

What's that thing on the black hole monster's chest? The time travel spiral from Austin Powers?

 

[honestrosewater]

What's that thing on the black hole monster's chest? The time travel spiral from Austin Powers?

They're obviously gravity waves or some type of hypnosis device.

 

[wolram]

An attack of an pure force super creature power by but detached from some super brained people on a science forum.

 

[zoobyshoe]

An attack of an pure force super creature power by but detached from some super brained people on a science forum.

That's kinda like Forbidden Planet.

 

[Simetra7]

Here we see the black hole monster being thwarted by a cute, disembodied kitten head.

Evil but cute son of Cheshire cat meets black hole monster in wonderland. Now that i'd like to see!

 

[Smurf]

Hmmm, who's side is the mad hatter on?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Hmmm, who's side is the mad hatter on?

He would have to be the physicist responsible for creating the black hole monster. I think it happened during a hypnagogic state when he was thinking about the density of mercury and the hole, or interior cavity, of a hat. From this, and his madness, the thought form of the black hole monster emerged.

 

[wolram]

It should be sexy though, the thought of being killed by a sexy monster
aint to bad, you could model it on a few around here

 

[Danger]

You prolly never saw Bambi meets Godzilla.

And leave us not forget the sequel: Bambi's Revenge. Even better.
I think that the next monster should be a seemingly innocuous fellow who can induce haemorrhoids by sheer will-power. (Even better if he runs a Mexican restaurant.)

 

[JamesU]

I think the next Sci/Fi monster should be my avatar, or danger's

 

[zoobyshoe]

It should be sexy though, the thought of being killed by a sexy monster
aint to bad, you could model it on a few around here

This is the premise of the film Species. If you haven't seen it, I recommend renting it. It's very well done. The first sequal, Species II is almost as good, and worth watching. The third isn't worth it.

 

[ray b]

David Brin's books [uplift] have a whole univerce of aliens not just one type
to bad they blew the postman movie one of the few books of Brin's without his
cast of thousands of aliens types

Dolfins and chimps in space is just a good small subplot too

 

[wolram]

This is the premise of the film Species. If you haven't seen it, I recommend renting it. It's very well done. The first sequal, Species II is almost as good, and worth watching. The third isn't worth it.

I would if i had a video machine that worked That number 5 of
star treck would make a good mind generated killing machine. :!)

 

[Entropy]

Sorry guys. A black hole was already used in Event Horizon as the bad guy.

 

[yourdadonapogostick]

what about the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

 

[arildno]

myincrediblyfatauntonrollerblades would make a really scary villain.

 

[Entropy]

He is a good monster. He watches over people with his noodley appendages.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Sorry guys. A black hole was already used in Event Horizon as the bad guy.

The black hole monster is not an authentic black hole, just something that roughly mimics one. In fact, there may be several physicists in the film who have constantly to point this out to the media and the public, but people will still keep calling it "the black hole monster."