10-06-2016, 09:44 AM | #181 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
A sufficiently advanced alien that is not evil and just minds it's own business.
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10-06-2016, 01:23 PM | #182 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
If you mean the Klackons, they're hive-insectoid, but otherwise have the same technological approach to civilization as other species, nor do they get anything resembling ultra-evolution. If you mean the Harvesters, then they're pretty much everyone's enemy . . . and seem to use the same tech as everyone else.
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10-06-2016, 01:27 PM | #183 |
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Location: Ventura CA
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Re: bending stereotypes
The Rachni are a deliberate subversion of this trope, one which I am sure you are familiar with.
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10-06-2016, 01:31 PM | #184 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
Hmm. Indeed. Alas, they don't seem to have a lot of spotlight time even as they fight the Reapers with the rest of the Citadel civilizations (I've chosen the Paragon path).
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10-06-2016, 01:32 PM | #185 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
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10-06-2016, 01:33 PM | #186 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
On that note the Zerg themselves are are ultimately a subversion of the trope.
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10-06-2016, 02:42 PM | #187 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
That'd be nice, but I haven't been exposed to Andromeda yet.
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10-06-2016, 10:37 PM | #188 |
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Re: bending stereotypes
That's actually kind of hard to portray, though. Just by being in contact, the alien has effects, and if it's a sufficiently advanced alien, when it just passes through, the side-effects are likely to be 'interesting'.
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10-07-2016, 02:24 AM | #189 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Re: bending stereotypes
A devastating plague with a mortality rate that's between 20% and 30%. All the fictional ones seem to be over 90%.
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10-07-2016, 02:53 AM | #190 | |
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Re: bending stereotypes
Quote:
I dislike how zombie plagues are always 100% effective and only if an infected bites you, never fluid misting from close proximity. I think much more drama could happen if it were much lower rate. That at least makes the cliched character that hides his wound not completely insanely stupid.
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