He is going through a process of character formation, making many mistakes in his youth, over time forming better and better judgment, while always self-consciously aware of his status as an alien from another planet who is different from other people.

A character can be human, robot, alien, or of a genetically engineered species.

* Pixar's 2006 short film Lifted is based on an alien character who is in a tractor beam usage test.

* Gamzee Makara, an alien character from the webcomic Homestuck that is based on Juggalos and general evil clown cliches.

It indicates that a computer, alien, mythical creature or other object will be treated as a completely human character, with similar rights, capabilities and desires as any human character.

* Maya ( Space: 1999 ), an alien character on the television series Space: 1999

Writer Samuel A. Peeples told Roddenberry these attributes made Spock too alien, and suggested " he should at least be half-human and have the problems of both sides ", believing the human traits made the character more interesting and able to comment on the human condition more believably.

* Abyss ( alien ), a character in the Marvel UK comics ' universe

After the alien bursts out of his stomach, Hurt's character mutters despairingly " Oh no, not again !".

However, later writers would bring the character back using various explanations ranging from her being a shapeshifting alien to her being an angel.

* Nessus ( Pierson's Puppeteer ), an alien character in Larry Niven's Known Space books, of the species Pierson's Puppeteer

As an alien goddess of " vivid and forceful character ", her reception varied.

His relationship with Star Trek is made light of in the episode " Secrets and Lies ", in which the alien character Max auditions for a guest role as an alien for Star Trek: Enterprise.

This character is an alien military officer, Captain Mar-Vell of the Kree Imperial Militia, who is sent to observe the planet Earth as it is developing technology to travel into space.

" Jack " O ' Neill, USAF is a fictional character in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe, three science fiction shows about military teams exploring the universe via a network of alien transportation devices.

* In the 1985 Contact ( novel ) ( by Carl Sagan ), the character Xi Qiaomu — who had been involved in excavations of the tomb of Emperor Qin during the Cultural Revolution — is visited by a personified alien in the form of the Emperor Qin.

This eventually leads the main character to final confrontation with the mysterious alien ( The Entity ) behind The Order.

One of Cohen's inspirations for the character of Dr. Zoidberg was the fact that Star Trek character Bones, the ship's doctor ( Leonard McCoy ) frequently administered medical treatment to aliens such as Mr. Spock, so Cohen wished human characters in Futurama to be in the uneasy situation of being treated by an alien doctor.

As the patrons realize that an alien is amongst the group, Jack Elam's character laughs and says, " She's just like science fiction, that what she is.

It combines grand space operatic themes of battle between space empires and intergalactic alien invasion with philosophical themes of predestination and destiny, and detailed character development of a tight set of central characters.

However, before the May 1983 debut of that film, the character made his first chronological appearance in a series of Star Wars newspaper comic strips by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson, where he was portrayed as the leader of the alien species Mon Calamari, who were allies of the Rebel Alliance in their conflict with the Galactic Empire.

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

An early triumph of Luthor's first term occurs during the Our Worlds at War comic book crossover, in which he coordinates the U. S. Army, Earth's superheroes, and a number of untrustworthy alien forces to battle the main villain of the story arc, Imperiex.

Men in Black ( 1997 ), starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as Agent K and Agent J, was based on Lowell Cunningham's comic book about a secret organization that monitors and suppresses alien activity on Earth – The Men in Black from Aircel Comics.

The TARDIS keys have varied in design from an ordinary Yale key to an ankh-like key embossed with an alien pattern ( identified in Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke's 1972 book The Making of Doctor Who as the constellation of Kasterborous, Gallifrey's home system ) from seasons 11 to 13, after which it reverted to the Yale key design.

* The Last Theorem The 2008 book by Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl features the Depression as a location for an alien landing.

Clearly, Swift's idea of having another species domesticate mankind was anathema to Heinlein ( who did not hesitate to point out weaknesses of both human and alien characters in his works ), and this part of the book expresses his vociferous rebuttal.

This threat would be revealed in the book as an alien species from another galaxy known as the Yuuzhan Vong.

The book is often regarded as Clarke's best novel by both readers and critics, and is described as " a classic of alien literature ".

Examples of life under alien occupation can be seen in the TV series V, Falling Skies, John Christopher's book series, The Tripods, the comic book miniseries Slash Maraud, and the Half-Life and Resistance video game series.

* In the Area 51 book series, Qin Shi Huang is revealed to be an alien exile stranded on Earth during an interstellar civil war.

On 29 November 1980 police officer Alan Godfrey allegedly experienced an alien abduction and was the subject of Jenny Randles ' book The Pennine UFO Mystery.

He gained his superpowers in the third book by drinking some " Extra Strength Super Power Juice " found on an alien spaceship.

The first was a novelization of the first two miniseries combined into one story, originally planned as 2 books, Pinnacle later changed their minds during its writing, and decreed that it should be one book ( The publishers were then left with the option of another book, this became " East coast crisis " ) Because the Writers guide was not ready in time for the authors to consult, most of the original novels that followed did not feature characters or continuing storylines from the TV series, but rather focused on battles against the alien invaders in other parts of the world, some were also set during the " unrecorded year " between the end of " The Final battle " and " Liberation day " to get around this problem.

Reproduction and fertility expert Dr Jack Cohen acted as a consultant on the book, designing the novel life cycle of the alien antagonists, the grendels.

* The comic book by Archie Comics reveals that the planet of Mobius is actually the Earth of a distant future ; an alien race known as the Xorda launched several bombs meant to exterminate humanity, but instead ended up mutating the various wildlife, giving them humanoid forms, human cognition, and ( in many cases ) superhuman abilities.

In the third book ( a prequel, set in the time before Eon ), Legacy, soldier Olmy ap Sennon is sent to spy on a group of dissidents who have used the spacetime tunnel of " the Way " ( introduced in Eon ) to colonize the alien world of Lamarckia, a planet with an ecosystem that learns from its changed environment in a way that resembles Lamarckian evolution.

The second book in the Time Trader series, Galactic Derelict, features the use of recovered alien technology, to enable human travel to the stars, and this theme is also very recurrent, with definite features developed by Andre Norton.

The book " The Lost Regiment " and the subsequent series by author William R. Forstchen chronicle the adventures of the " 35th Maine ", a Union regiment from Maine having been transported to an alien planet.

The book describes a complex alien civilization, the Moties.

Theodore Sturgeon, describing Mote as " one of the most engrossing tales I have encountered in years ," reported that " the overall pace of the book the sheer solid story of it " excuse whatever flaws might remain, particularly an unexplained key feature in the imagined alien society.

The book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen, based on interviews with scientists and engineers who worked in Area 51, dismisses the alien story.

In the 2007 American comic book Atarian Conquest, an alien named Irvyll, rescued from Area 51 by his home race, claims to be the descendant of the aliens who " crashed in a nearby Eartian desert in the mid 1900's ".