List of aliens in fiction by type This is a list of aliens that have appeared in various works of fiction featuring aliens, sorted by type. Humanoid Aliens Most aliens are humanoid if not human-like, especially in TV series because actors are human. The Greys described in UFO folklore match this body type. Humanoids include: Acquarans (Farscape) Amnioni (Stephen Donaldson's The Gap Cycle) Andorians (Star Trek) Atevi (C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series) Asgard (Stargate SG-1) Bajorans (Star Trek) Banik (Farscape) Betazoid (Star Trek) Bolians (Star Trek) Boolite (Farscape) Bothans (Star Wars) Breen (Star Trek) Brunnen G (Lexx) Centauri (Babylon 5) Charrids (Farscape) Colatas (Farscape) Coreeshi (Farscape) Dakkamites (Marvel Comics) The Dance (Marvel Comics) Daxxamites (DC Comics) Deep Ones (H. P. Lovecraft) Delvians (Farscape) Deneans (Farscape) Denobulans (Star Trek) Dentics (Farscape) Deltans (Star Trek) El-Aurians (Star Trek) Eldar/dark Eldar (Warhammer 40,000) Elves (descended from High Ones, see below)(Elfquest) Ewoks (Star Wars) Ferengi (Star Trek) Grans (Star Wars) Gamilons/Gamilus (Space Battleship Yamato/Star Blazers) Gretchin (small goblin like creatures who work for the Orks) (Warhammer 40,000) Grots (Even smaller greenies who work for the Orks) (Warhammer 40,000) Grudeks (Farscape) Grunds (Marvel Comics) Halosians (Farscape) Hangi (Farscape) High Ones (Elfquest) Hur'q (Star Trek) Hydrans (Star Trek) Hynerians (Farscape) Ilanics (Farscape) Interions (Farscape) Jocaceans (Farscape) Kafers (2300AD) Kalish (Farscape) Karrema (Star Trek) Kazon (Star Trek) Khunds (DC Comics) Khurtarnan (Farscape) Klingons (Star Trek) Kree (Marvel Comics) Kryptonians (DC Comics) Laxidasians (Marvel Comics) Luxans (Farscape) Lyrans (Star Trek) Martians H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom series Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles Aelita (1924 movie) Mars Attacks (Topps trading cards and Tim Burton movie) ... and many others Minbari (Babylon 5) Mondoshawan (The Fifth Element) Mri (C. J. Cherryh's Faded Sun trilogy) Nebari (Farscape) Neutrals (Futurama) Nox (Stargate SG-1) Oans (DC Comics) Ocampa (Star Trek) Orks (decendants of the Krork that grow from fungus) (Warhammer 40,000) Ortheans (Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed) androgynous until puberty Pilots (Farscape) Phagors (Brian W. Aldiss's Helliconia series) Porquinhos (Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead) Relgarians (Farscape) Romulans (Star Trek) Scarrens (Farscape) Scorvians (Farscape) Sebaceans (Farscape) Shi'ar (Marvel Comics) Snotlings (another of the green races collectivly known to man as Orks) (Warhammer 40,000) Squigs (As snotlings) (Warhammer 40,000) Suliban (Star Trek) Sykarians (Farscape) Taelons (Earth: The Final Conflict) Talaxians (Star Trek) Tarkans (Farscape) Tau (Warhammer 40,000) Tavleks (Farscape) Tellarites (Star Trek) Terrians (Earth 2) the Tleilaxu of Frank Herbert's Dune novels Trabe (Star Trek) Traskans (Farscape) Trolls (Elfquest) Tusken Raiders (Star Wars) Twi'leks (Star Wars) Venek (Farscape) Vineans (Yoko Tsuno (blue skin) comic) Vorc (Farscape) Vorcarian (Farscape) Vorta (Star Trek) Vulcans (Star Trek) Wookiees (Star Wars) Xandarians (Marvel Comics) Xindi (Star Trek) Yuuzhan Vong (Star Wars) Zabrak (Star Wars) Zenetan (Farscape) Zen 'Kethi (Star Trek) Zenn-Lavians (Marvel Comics) Zentraedi (Robotech / Macross) Zen-Whoberis (Marvel Comics) Near-relatives of mankind In these stories, these aliens are descended from the same ancestors as humanity: Abh (Crest of the Stars) AdeptusAstrates (Warhammer 40,000) Darrians (Traveller RPG) known for their small, high-technology polity Gethenians (Ursula Le Guins Ekumen stories) and other races Kromags (Sliders) descended from Cro-Magnons Nietzscheans (Andromeda) The Pak (or Protectors) (Larry Niven's Known Space books) the superintelligent adult form of homo habilis; human Protectors are even more intelligent. Primarch's (Warhammer 40,000) Second through Last Men (Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men) Squats(now extinct) (Warhammer 40,000) Space Marines (See Adeptus Astrates) Spaceballs (race from a movie of the same name) Terra Novans (Star Trek) His Majesty The Emperor (Warhammer 40,000) 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 called The Preservers. similarly, in Marvel Comics' The Eternals, it was revealed that many species were genetically tampered with by the alien Celestials. Feline humanoids This form has been popular. They are usually warrior-like as well: Aslan (Traveller RPG) Centrans (Christopher Anvil's Pandora's Planet stories) Ctarl-Ctarl (Outlaw star) Hani (C. J. Cherryh) Kilrathi (Wing Commander games) Kymnar (FTL:2448 RPG) Kzinti (Larry Niven's Known Space series) Tiberians (Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes' Encounter With Tiber) Tran (Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger) Unnamed aliens (Fritz Leiber's The Wanderer) Canine humanoids Melmacians (Alf) Insectoid and Arachnid Aliens The Aliens of the Alien movies Brood (Marvel Comics) Bugs from Klendathu (Starship Troopers) Buggers (Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card) Chigs (Space: Above and Beyond) Cinnrusskin of James White's Sector General series Drak (Farscape) Menoptera (Doctor Who) Mesklinites of Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity (millipede-like) Thargoids from Elite_(computer_game) Thranx of Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth series Xindi (Star Trek) Zarbi (Doctor Who) Centaurs Andalites of K. A. Applegate's Animorphs Ishtarians of Poul Anderson's Fire Time Kymellians (Horse head w/ humanoid body; Marvel Comics) Pierson's Puppeteers of Larry Niven's Known Space series Tenebrians of Hal Clement's Close to Critical Titanides of John Varley's Gaea-trilogy Vedrans of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda Reptilians and Amphibians Badoon (Marvel Comics) Cardassians (Star Trek) Dracs of Barry B. Longyear's The Enemy Papers stories Drakh(Babylon 5) Gorn Great Race of Yith (H. P. Lovecraft) Hutts (Star Wars) Hynerians (Farscape) Jem'Hadar (Star Trek) Lithians of James Blish's A Case of Conscience Omicronians / Popplers (Futurama) Rodians (Star Wars) Sheyangs (Farscape) Skrulls (Marvel Comics) Snarks (Marvel Comics) Trandoshans (Star Wars) Vaadwaur (Star Trek) Velantians (Lensman books) notable for their multiplicity of eyes and various appendages Voth (Star Trek). This species descended from Earth dinosaurs Xindi (Star Trek) Yautja (Predator) Yilane of West of Eden series of Harry Harrison the frog-like Gowachin of Frank Herbert's stories and various variations of dinosaurs Aquatic species Babel fish (Douglas Adams) Gungans (Star Wars) Mon Calamari (Star Wars) Quarren "Squid Heads" (Star Wars) The Vortex life forms (Ecco the Dolphin; assumed to be aquatic) Xindi (Star Trek) Parasites and symbionts the "body snatcher pods" from Invasion of the Body Snatchers Energy Rider (Farscape) Goa'uld of Stargate SG-1 the eponymous aliens of The Puppet Masters the endosymbionts of Hal Clement's Needle and Through the Eye of a Needle The eponymous Metroids The Invid (Robotech) Tok'ra of Stargate SG-1 Trills (Star Trek) Venom and Carnage (Marvel Comics) the Wirrn, Krynoid, and Fendahl of Doctor Who Yeerks (Animorphs) The X Parasites from the Metroid franchise Robotic and Mechanical aliens Berserkers of Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series Borg (Star Trek) Cybermen and Daleks of Doctor Who Cylons of Battlestar Galactica Necrons (necrontyr given imortality by the c'tan) (Warhammer 40,000) Phalanx (Marvel Comics) Replicators of Stargate SG-1 Technarchy (Marvel Comics) Autobots and Decepticons from the Transformers (toyline) Space-Living Creatures Budong (Farscape) Leviathan (Farscape) Sentient Plants & Fungi Delvians (Farscape) deathworld flora (found on planets like Catachan and caliban(pre climactic explosion)) (Warhammer 40,000) The Cotati (Marvel Comics) Ancient Races Aliens that have either disappeared and left only ruins or developed to godlike, practically omnipotent entities. Unnamed and unseen aliens in 2001: A Space Odyssey Ancients (Farscape) The Arisians and Eddorians of E. E. Smith's Lensman novels; compare: The Vorlons and Shadows of Babylon 5 The Chozo of the Metroid franchise Heechee of Frederick Pohl Krork (Warhammer 40,000) Necrontyr (Warhammer 40,000) August Derleth's Elder Gods The Ancients, Asgard, Nox and Furlings of Stargate SG-1 both of Terry Pratchett's early science fiction novels, Strata and The Dark Side of the Sun, offer subversions of the paradigm See also Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Star" Oans (DC Comics) Old ones (Warhammer 40,000) Organians and Progenitors (Star Trek) Cocytans from Lucasarts' The Dig More unusual forms Abyormenites of Hal Clement's Cycle of Fire (floating ballons - one race, that is) Aliens from Independence Day Black Cloud of Fred Hoyle (interstellar dust cloud) the Caleban of Frank Herbert's Whipping Star (invisible telepathic beings who are actually the minds of stars) C'tan (as above, woshipped and given corporial form by the necrontyr, only 4 still exist and only two of those the nightbringerand the deciever are awake, Mars is accually one that was covered by space dust over trillions of years)(Warhammer 40,000) 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. the Doublers, two-in-one semi-humanoids of Stanislaw Lem's Eden Drej, a race reponsible for the destruction of Earth; made out of pure energy, Titan A.E. Dugs (Star Wars) Ego the Living Planet (Marvel Comics the Gladifers of Dennis Paul Himes Hivers of Traveller RPG (modified starfish) Horta (Star Trek) Meehooks from the comic book series Fusion, "dinosaurs with fur" Methorians of Barrington J. Bayley's Zen Gun (gaseous giant-giant dwellers) Oankali of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series Prophets (Star Trek) Puppeteers of Larry Niven's Ringworld and Known Space series (three legs, two manipulative heads) Rigellians (Lensman books) which are barrel-shaped with four tentacular arms and four stubby legs Shoggoths (H. P. Lovecraft) Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (living planet) Zebesian Space Pirates (Metroid — the species has a wide range of morphological variety) Tholians (Star Trek) Tralfamadorians of Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse 5) Trillions of Nicholas Fisk (small collective crystals) Watchers in the dark (highly telipathic and thus invincible creatures who inhabit the rock Home of the Dark angles Space marines chapter) (Warhammer 40,000) Yag-Kosha, from Robert E. Howard's Tower of the Elephant (humanoid elephant) Aliens that are product of mechanical evolution in The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem Shape-shifting aliens Aylee - (Sluggy Freelance) - Shapeshifts every stage of the lifecycle Changelings (Star Trek) The Skrulls (Marvel Comics) Unintelligent Creatures Banthas (Star Wars) The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft (disputed) Sandworm (Dune) Tribbles, from Star Trek; compare Flat Cats from Robert A Heinlein's Space Family Stone book Aliens From Other Dimensions Annihilus, Blastaar and other natives of the Negative Zone (Marvel Comics) The Anti-Monitor (DC Comics) Daemons/Daemonetts (Warhammer 40,000) DigiMon of DigiMon The D-Reaper from Digimon Tamers (Toei Animation) The Digi-Gnomes from Digimon Tamers (Toei Animation) Khorne (Warhammer 40,000) Nurgle (Warhammer 40,000) Q (Star Trek) Qwardians (DC Comics) Slaaneesh (Warhammer 40,000) Species 8472 (Star Trek) Tzeentch (Warhammer 40,000) Unnamed telepathic aliens of Babylon 5: Thirdspace Warp entities(Warhammer 40,000) Galactic communities Uplift series by David Brin depicts pan-galactic community of various alien species Known Space by Larry Niven on a smaller scale Star Trek's United Federation of Planets Star Wars's Galactic Empire and Republic The Empire of man (Warhammer 40,000) The tau empire (Warhammer 40,000) Ultramar (Sub-unit of the Empire of man) (Warhammer 40,000) The Eye of Terror (Home of many legions of Chaos Space Marines) See also Index of fictional species List of fictional robots List of fictional planets List of species in fantasy fiction Xenobiology Cryptozoology References Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Ian Summers and Beth Meacham: Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials Stanley Schmidt: Aliens and Alien Societies (Writer's Digest) Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart: Evolving the Alien - the science of extraterrestrial life Cliff Pickover: 2003 The Science of Aliens New York: Basic Books. 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