When Aliens Attack: A Collection of Extraterrestrial Kills

[Travicity]

When Aliens Attack: A Collection of Extraterrestrial Kills
They've come from another planet to blow you to bits.

25
The Narada's Resident Badass - Star Trek

Growing as it does from network television, Star Trek isn't particularly known for the bloody ferocity of its villains. Yes, some are diabolical evil-doers, others are men of brains and brawns, unleashing their plans like an especially calculated chess move. But when it comes to actual killing -- well, there are faceless goons for that.

But not Nero. The time traveling Romulan takes matters in to his own hands. When he doesn't hear what he wants, like when he first abducts the USS Kelvin Captain's Robau, he kills and moves on. No info? Here's a spear to the chest.


24
The Tentacle Chokehold - Independence Day

"Don't touch my exoskeleton!" is probably what the silent but pissy alien from Indepedence Day was telepathically screaming as Dr. Brackish Okun sliced in to reveal his puny self. Whether the loony doc could hear him is a different story, but the warning was there -- and when you touch another man's exoskeleton, expect hell. With one cut, the alien leaps into action, strangling Okun and using him to vocally explain to the President that he and his kind aren't here to sing Kumbaya.

23
Danny Devito Has Big Bones - Mars Attacks

The Martians in Mars Attacks roast an assortment of human scum during their short time on Earth: scientists, soldiers, the President of the United States, all of Congress -- but no kill is as satisfying as watching Danny Devito's loud-mouthed, gambler go from tubby douchewad to pile of bones. Tim Burton must have felt the same way we did about Twins.


22
Alien on Alien - Dreamcatcher

Donnie Wahlberg hit a streak in the late '90s/early '00s playing...well, weirdos. In Dreamcatcher, he plays a bald, mumbling weirdo who turns out (spoiler?) to be an alien on Earth to track down an evil alien. Sadly, the former New Kid takes an extraterrestrial tail to the the chest -- but not before getting his own vicious revenge. When you cross an alien with an alien, apparently you get an explosion.

21
Brain Food - The Brain

If you're hungering for knowledge, dive into a good book! If you're a giant alien brain hungering for knowledge...eat a person!

The brain of The Brain terrorizes humans in the name of a whacko scientist spreading religious propaganda, which means this is probably what Tom Cruise is going to look like when he's 70.

20
Whip Your Tentacle Back and Forth - Slither

Local townsfolk need to start knowing their roles. The police can handle a mutating, alien beast Mr. That's-It-No-More-Mr-Nice-Guy. If you play hero against a blood-thirsty monster, you'll get what you ask for. Namely, an ass whooping.

19
Snot Rocket - Men in Black

The alien-infested Edgar doesn't take kindly to disgruntled receptionists, especially when he's on the hunt for a miniature galaxy. When he encounters the irritatingly passive David Cross at the front desk of the morgue, he doesn't waste time making chit chat and playing bureaucratic games. He just wipes his nose and plops it on the ceiling -- along with David Cross.


18
The Last Laugh - Avatar

With an epic battle raging in the background, Princess Neytiri swoops in to the rescue of her beloved Avatar companion Jake, just before Colonel Quaritch can pull his plug. Just when you think the nature-loving, blue furry is all about peace, love and becoming one with nature, she stabs the bastard straight in the heart.

How do you say, "Say hi to Eywa for me!" in Na'vi?

17
Vaporized - War of the Worlds

For hundreds of years, Martians laid dormant under the streets of New Jersey, waiting to rise from the ground to harvest humans for their nefarious, unknown purposes. But not everyone can be so lucky as to get swept up. Space in a tripod is as cramped as a New York City tenement, so a few scared Earthlings need just be blown away to the ether.

16
Bishop Gets Stuck - Aliens

Bishop may be a android, but his death is equally fightening and gruesome.

When Ripley finally meets the robot at the drop ship, a disgruntled Alien Queen decides its the perfect time to show the humans who's boss - by spearing Bishop right through his mechanical chest and quickly ripping him in two. It's not bloody, but flailing parts and gallons of robo-goo still make for an unpleasent clean up.

15
How Many Licks Does It Take to Get to the Center of a Person? - Skyline

Part machine, part organic alien lifeform, 100% about sucking human brains out of their skulls.

On the run from an alien craft, the Skyline posse loses one of their own, a particularly slow lady who fails to out run a couple gangly tentacles. It's all that pleather -- doesn't have the same flexibility as real leather.

14
The Critters Find the Easter Bunny's Eggs - Critters

The space furballs with attitude stick it to Hallmark holidays and American faith by attacking Christianity's most important symbol: the Easter Bunny. Jumping through his bum flap, the Critters rip at the dude from inside the suit, eventually causing him to jump through a church's stainglass window. Metaphor!

13
You Have Something on Your Chin - X-Files: Fight the Future

By the time X-Files: Fight the Future hit theaters the only aliens in the picture were the non-fans completely alienated by the overarching mythology. Black oil? Yeah...I remember that from the show...it was...bad?

Yes, it was bad, and unfortunately for a twelve-year-old kid who stumbled into a 10,000 year old cave, the extrateresstrial goo went bad all over his face.


12
When Pigs Fly - District 9

Amazingly, not a single prawn kills a human during District 9 (at least on screen). But when the mutated Wikus mans one of the mech exoskeletons, he is nothing less than alien. Armed with body erupting guns and armor that could withstand a tank blast, Wikus goes on an all out killing spree to protect his friend Chris Johnson, including using a poor little piggy as a bullet against an irksome MNU gunman.

11
The Alien Bit Me and That Really Hurt - Cloverfield

The last shot of Cloverfield is all the evidence I needed to close-mindedly conclude that the monster who attacks New York and infests the city with its explosive symbiotes is from outer space. Because being a sea creature disturbed from its fathomless, underwater resting place is simply not as cool. Fact.

Now that we have all that cleared up, we can enjoy the extraterrestrial mayhem caused by those little buggers on the beautiful Beth. One bite from a subway creature and within hours, she inflates and blows. OK, that may have just been an NYC rat.


10
That's How You Know It Hurt - Predator

Carl Weathers in Predator is one of several definitions of machismo. When you're acting like a total badass and '80s-era Schwarzenegger is in the room, you're obviously doing something right.

That said, never before has there been such a blood-curdling reaction to an injury sustained while fighting aliens as Weathers' yelp unleashed after his left arm is blown off by a Predator. One minute he's howling like a werewolf at the moon. The next, he's perfectly calm. More impressive than the Predator's actual kill.

9
Take a Bite Out of Crime Syndicates- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

When Jabba sends cocky Jedi Luke Skywalker falling to his doom into the Rancor pit, it's a faithful guard who gets the worst end of the monster's wrath. Two steps outside the door and the Rancor is chomping in to the Gamorrean. Every arena fight goes better with a first course of bacon.


8
INCOMING! - Starship Troopers

Michael Ironside gave them fair warning, but a few soldiers in one of Starship Troopers' big bug battle didn't get the memo. A fleet of flying insects made their way past the machine guns enough to slice through the skulls off the unlucky batallion. Don't worry, they weren't getting ahead in life anyway. HAR!

7
The New Flesh - The Thing

Here's a clear sign the human you're operating on is not in fact your friend, but an alien lifeform replicating him: a sharp set of teeth coming out of his abdomen. Dead giveaway, and dead friend.

6
No Fangs Necessary - Lifeforce

Astronauts uncover a drifting space ship containing three cryogenically frozen bodies still intact, only to realize...they're vampires. But all those crazy myths about sucking blood and turning in to bats is just hooey -- all these guys want is everlasting life and a bit of your soul. The process doesn't even leave a mark. Sort of.

5
Don't Lose Your Head - Killer Klowns from Outer Space

No one knows where the Killer Klown runs off to to find his technologically advanced pair of boxing gloves, but we do know they allow him to punch a human head cleanly off the neck, with precision accuracy. Clowns may looking like they're joking around, but remember: they could be aliens bent on humorously destroying the human race.

4
Dust to Dust - Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Before his infamous movie-ending scream, Donald Sutherland's Matthew finds his colleague Elizabeth asleep on the ground, which could only mean one thing: body snatchers. Matthew picks the woman up, trying to wake her, but finds that the aliens already got to her. She disintegrates in his arms.

The silver lining: her body snatcher counterpart appears behind him...naked! See, alien invasions aren't so bad.


3
Sink, Sank, Sunk - The Blob

Due to its malleability, The Blob is capable of fitting in some seriously tight spaces. Unfortunately, the human head is not as ductile, as George finds out the hard way when he attempts to clean the pinkish alien goo out of the kitchen sink. That's going to take more than one Draino.

2
Humans Meet the Chestburster - Alien

The recommendation is always to cook meat all the way through before consumption, eliminating any possible bacteria from infecting you. This goes double for alien meat. Now Kane didn't purposefully eat any xenomorph seedlings -- they were stuffed down his throat by a facehugger. But still, you could expect the same results if you decided to bite into your alien burger before it was done.

1
The Other Kind of Alien - Machete

He comes from the United States' closest neighboring planet.

Illegal or not, nobody kills with the artfully gory honor of Machete. He doesn't text, but he will gut you with a surgical saw and use your intestine to swing through a second-floor window.

UGO

[Swinny]

I love me some alien-related deaths. Nice list.

And LOL@ Machete.