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2 unusual facts about Alien


Ultra the Multi-Alien

Grant Morrison used him both in his run in Animal Man (in issue #25 Ultra and other pre-Crisis characters appear in comic book limbo) and in the Aztek monthly series (though not shown, Ultra makes two appearances).

A storyline in Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. involved Young Justice teaming with Star-Spangled Kid and S.T.R.I.P.E. to stop a group of Larroo (one of the four aliens from Ultra's origin) from using their ray to turn everyone in Blue Valley into Larroo.


Alien Vampires

Formed in 2000 by Nysrok Infernalien (ex-Aborym) who wanted to explore different sonorities by blending psy trance, industrial, EBM and metal, Alien Vampires was joined by Nightstalker in 2004 who also shared the same passion for Jam Montoya, BDSM and Drugs.

Alien War

Alien War (now called Alien Wars) opened at its original home at the Arches Glasgow on 6 December 2008 and ran until 30 August 2009 in a modified format that is unrelated to the 20th Century Fox film series.

Allegra McEvedy

During a spell in the USA, facilitated by being awarded a special visa as ‘an alien with extraordinary ability in the culinary arts’, McEvedy worked at Rubicon and Jardinière in San Francisco, and ran the kitchen at Robert De Niro’s New York restaurant Tribeca Grill (regularly doing 500 covers a night).

Altered States

It's an anthology and apotheosis of American pop movies: Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Nutty Professor, 2001, Alien, Love Story.

Back to the Heavyweight Jam

"Keyser Soze" samples the alien-contacting theme from the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, also known as the noise programmed to unlock a door in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.

Bad Shave

"...unique, customised but never self-indulgent or irritatingly inaccessible. It's as off as it's beautiful, as rich as it's lo fi... imagine Ray Davies emerging, blinking and bearded, Howard Hughes like, after years in the darkness and you'll have some idea of the deeply, deeply English yet marvellously, utterly alien world of Baby Bird." - Melody Maker

Blaster Learning System

In 1999, coinciding with the CBS Saturday Morning cartoon "Blaster's Universe" produced by Nelvana and Teletoon, the characters once again changed, probably to be more identifiable as people, with Blasternaut becoming Max Blaster, a 12-year old boy obsessed with science and space in the 21st century, and his Galactic Commander becoming G.C., a cool 12-year-old girl who looks like an earthling but is really an alien.

Camillo Togni

From 1951 to 1957 he attended the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt, but he found the turn toward aleatoricism there, beginning in 1957, alien to his nature, and did not return until he was invited back in 1990.

Cities in Flight

An alien culture is also investigating this phenomenon, which will shortly accelerate to engulf all galactic space; in other words, the colliding universes will end in a transition in between the Big Bang and Big Crunch.

Cosmo Tank

In vs. mode, the Game Link Cable is used to allow two players to race to defeat the alien leader.

Destroy All Monsters

The three-headed space monster is dispatched to protect the alien stronghold at Mt. Fuji, and battles Godzilla, Minilla, Mothra, Rodan, Gorosaurus, Anguirus, and Kumonga (Manda, Baragon and an unnamed Varan are also present but do not take part in the battle).

Donna Barr

Barr also produced illustrations for the Traveller role-playing books, including Alien Module 8: Darrians, the MegaTraveller Player's Manual and several issues of both the Journal of the Travellers Aid Society and Challenge magazine.

Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon

While there, he explains his story to Bulma: a thousand years ago, an evil race of alien magicians, the Kashvaar, who at sometime proclaimed themselves as the Superior race and set out to destroy all life different to their own in the universe by awakening an ancient monster known as Hirudegarn.

Felix Nussbaum

After Nazi Germany attacked Belgium in 1940, Nussbaum was arrested by Belgian police as a "hostile alien" German, and was subsequently taken to the Saint-Cyprien camp in France.

Fernspählehrkompanie 200

There is a brief mention of the FLSK200 in the XCOM: Enemy Unknown video game, where they lead the first reconnaisance of an alien landing craft, before the player takes over.

Flannan Isle

The poem Flannan Isle is quoted by Tom Baker as the Doctor at the end of the Doctor Who story Horror of Fang Rock, which was set on a lighthouse and involved an alien explanation for the tragedy that befell the three keepers there and survivors of a shipwreck.

Gerardo Sandoval

Sandoval introduced a resolution "condemning the defamatory language used by talk radio host Michael Savage" after Savage criticized illegal alien protesters who were fasting in support of the controversial DREAM Act, which would give qualifying illegal aliens a path to US citizenship as well as enable them to receive tax payer funded in-state college tuition.

Googam

Googam takes up a job as a parking attendant in the Baxter Building, but is later tricked by the microscopic alien conqueror Tim Boo Baa into using the scientific equipment of Mr. Fantastic to enlarge him (Tim Boo Baa pretends to be Googam's father, Goom).

Great Space Roaster

--Please only add references that are notably sourced by third party reliable resources, not just those that appear in the episode itself.-->The episode makes several cultural references, including Alien, Kindergarten Cop, actor Merlin Olsen, and his role on the 1980s series Father Murphy.

Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion

Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979) is heard at the end of the record saying, "This is Lieutenant Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off."

How to be an Alien

The second part, "How to be a Particular Alien", describes particular occupations from Bloomsbury intellectual to bus driver, finishing with how to be a naturalised citizen, which includes the eating of porridge for breakfast, and alleging that you like it.

I've Never Met a Nice South African

He has met the Loch Ness Monster, had a close encounter ('of the 22nd kind, That's when an alien spaceship, Disappears up your behind!'), seen unicorns in Burma, met a working Yorkshire miner and had sunstroke in the Arctic, but despite all these exotic experiences, he has never met a nice South African.

Joel Gion

He was a guest star on the U.S. television show Gilmore Girls, where he played the tambourine in the fictitious band Hep Alien.

Kaldor City

Kaldor City is a human city of the future on an unspecified alien world, created by Chris Boucher for the Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death broadcast in 1977, and reused in his Past Doctor Adventure Corpse Marker in 1999.

Kyōran Kazoku Nikki

: She is a young female alien with long braided blue hair which has a large eyeball at the end from the planet Ocean (which looks very similar to Jupiter) that had come to Earth to figure out the to meaning of the word 'love'.

Lego Mars Mission

It was a harsh struggle for a long while, with both sides on a stalemate, until one of the Astro machines, named the Crystal Reaper, accidentally stumbled across the cracks forming the surface of the Alien Hive on Olympus Mons.

Louise von Gall

In September 1852 the family moved to Sassenberg in Warendorf, where Louise Schücking felt alien and unhappy, as a Protestant in a strict Catholic environment.

Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft

Movies reviewed inside the book include more popular films such as In the Mouth of Madness, Alien, Hellboy, The Thing, the cult classic Re-Animator as well as more obscure Japanese works such as Marebito and Uzumaki, Italian gore films (The Beyond) and even comedies (Cast a Deadly Spell).

Magic User's Club

An enormous cylindrical alien spaceship, which people call "the Bell" (釣り鐘 Tsurigane), descends upon Earth one day.

Meldac

They also made Heiankyo Alien and Mercenary Force for the Game Boy in addition to Uchuu Race: Astro Go!

Night Caller from Outer Space

Scientist Jack Costain (John Saxon) and his aides investigates a meteorite in the British countryside, discovering that it is an alien device from Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter.

Our Lady of Salvation High School

However, Our Lady of Salvation School, located in a lower middle income area where the idea of an opera was alien to many has produced Gilbert and Sullivan operas year after year.

P visa

A P visa is a type of temporary employment visa of the United States, granted to alien athletes, artists, and entertainers, and their spouses and children.

Prador

The Prador are a fictional alien race, created by Neal Asher in his Polity Universe series of science-fiction books.

R. Leo Sprinkle

He is also known for his involvement with Stan Romanek, a well-known alien abductee, whom he hypnotised to retrieve lost memories of his supposed abductions.

Roger Murray-Leach

For the serial Planet of Evil, Murray-Leach designed an alien jungle at Ealing studios that so impressed Hinchcliffe that he wrote to the Head of the BBC design department, suggesting that Murray-Leach should be nominated for a BAFTA or a Royal Television Society Award.

Scott Bernard

In the latest installment of the Robotech series, Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, Ariel, after having a premonition, seeks out Scott on Moon Base ALUCE to warn him that the Robotech Expeditionary Force (REF) and humanity face a new alien threat.

Skin of Evil

In this episode, the Enterprise races to rescue Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) from a crashed shuttle, which is being held captive by an alien life form called Armus (Mart McChesney, voiced by Ron Gans).

Slow Decay

Gwen has made a dinner date with Rhys, but Jack advises her to keep her mobile on, as Toshiko is tracking an alien energy signature somewhere in Cardiff and the team may be called into action at any moment.

Space Harrier

The enemies are also unique, featuring prehistoric animals, Chinese dragons, and alien pods.

Starhyke

The show begins in the year 3034 when humans have become emotionless drones bent on expansion by destroying any alien species they encounter.

Sternocleidomastoid muscle

"Even C-3PO has it, in the form of little pistons on his neck. Watch Star Trek: The good guys always have them, and the bad guys don't. It's a classic alien designer trick," notes biologist and Hollywood anatomy consultant Stuart Sumida.

Stratfield Saye Priory

Stratfield Saye Priory was an alien priory belonging to the Abbey of Vallemont, located at Beech Hill in the Berkshire part of the parish of Stratfield Saye (in England).

The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture

The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture is a 2005 book by Jason Colavito, a contributor to Skeptic magazine, and published by Prometheus Books.

The Killing Star

We Are the World by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie - Six alien ships patrolling through the post-attack solar system continually broadcast this song.

The Ship Who Sang

In the popular 1992 science fiction computer game, Star Control II, the player can embark on an optional side quest to Beta Corvi, and meet a sentient alien race who inhabit a gas giant there.

The X-Files Game

This time is also after the first incident with the alien black oil in the episode "Piper Maru" of the third season.

Triannon

The Triannon, an alien race in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Chosen Realm"

William Boyett

Boyett earned much praise for The Hidden as a hospital patient named Jonathan P. Miller, possessed by an alien being with a taste for red Ferraris and rock and roll music.


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