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Bizarre Alien Locomotion
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Thousands of species of Real Life organism move by walking with legs, swimming with fins, or flying with wings. Most Speculative Fiction species do the same. But whether to showcase the physical demands of a creature's unusual habitat, to prove it can be done, or merely to make them stand out in a crowd, writers sometimes dream up truly weird ways for their creations to get from point A to point B. Wheels are a common example, possibly for the sheer absurdity of the image. This trope is not intended for teleportation, plane shifting, and other means of travel that break the laws of physics. (Bending those laws is acceptable, however.) Bizarre technological methods of locomotion belong under the various vehicular tropes. Sub-Trope of Bizarre Alien Biology. Super-Trope of Heli-Critter. Sister Trope to Bizarre Alien Limbs, when that trope is about legs. Usually applies to a Living Gasbag. Compare Rolling Attack. |
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His Dark Materials: In The Amber Spyglass, the Mulefa clutch giant seed pods in specialized gripping appendages and roll around like living motorcycles. It's mentioned that when they walk, they do so in a rather clumsy and ungainly fashion, due to the placement of their legs (one in front, two in the middle, one in back, like a diamond shape). | |
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Cluster: One race uses jet propulsion. | |
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Samurai Jack: One of the gladiator champions from "Jack and the Smackback", Torto, can curl into a sphere and roll at opponents. | |
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Spinnerfish in Subnautica: Below Zero resemble a ball with a starfish lodged inside it vertically, and move by tumbling over and over in the water. In the original game, hoverfish drift freely through the ocean using pad-tipped appendages that ionize the water underneath the pads. | |
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One hypothetical alien creature from Through the Wormhole has a tubular body and vane-shaped fins that propel it through water by rotating like a drill. | |
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At one point in The Thing (1982), a piece of the alien uses an elongated tongue to drag itself along the floor. | |
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The 1957 Walt Disney Presents documentary "Mars and Beyond" includes some depictions of hypothetical Martian wildlife, including several mineral-consuming creatures built like legless armadillos. They use broad banks of oral appendages resembling earth-moving machinery to carve trenches in rocky surfaces, eating the rock they displace, as they slide along the ever-growing trenches on their flat bellies. | |
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Serina: The snuffalo are a species of large, flightless birds that walk tripedally, using their huge bills as a third leg. They rest its blunt tip on the ground when at rest in order to support their massive heads, and when walking they press it down in front of themselves and then use their huge neck muscles to pull themselves towards the spot where it's planted. The antlears' most distinctive traits are their pronged, keratinized ears, first used to grasp tree branches. These become jointed and enlarged in later species, and the burrowing antlears eventually develop them into a full set of walking limbs. These ear legs start out mainly as a supplementary support in the first burrowing antlear species, but become much more well-developed in their scorplear descendants. |
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Fighting as a cy-bug, King Candy briefly rolls up into a chitinous ball to chase Ralph in Wreck-It Ralph. | |
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Teen Titans Go!: Starfire's pet larva Silky occasionally curls up and rolls along the floor. | |
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One of the smaller lifeforms from Fragment are wheel-shaped creatures with many forked appendages that protrude from a slot in the edge of the wheel. They roll on their edges, extending their forks to adjust speed or direction. | |
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Humanx Commonwealth: In Quofum, a small burrowing creature has a fleshy slot on its back, in which it grips and rotates a hard conical crystal, drilling its way through the soil. | |
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Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate: While Valstrax is a faily standard quadruped on the ground, its method of flight is bizarre: it draws in air through an orifice on its chest, compresses it with Dragon energy, then ejects the mixture from its wings as it ignites to propel itself. That's right — it's a living jet engine. The wings themselves also have bizarre flexibility for biological limbs, being able to stretch a surprising distance to stab at prey, or completely flip with the vents pointing forwards so Valstrax can use blasts of Dragon energy as an attack. | |
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Hamster's Paradise: The cricetaceans are a family of marine rodents that resemble Earth's whales and dolphins and as such, appear to propel themselves forward with a fluked tail. However, they evolved from the seal-like bayvers which lacked a tail and swam using their flippers, which means that the cricetaceans' fluke is actually a pair of highly modified immobile hind legs, and they swim by undulating their elongated spines. | |
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Expedition: Jetdarters and skewers use jet propulsion. The former are bug-sized, the latter are... jets. Eosapiens, the most advanced life form on Darvin IV, are able to hover using large bags of methane gas. In Alien Planet, they are the last life forms encountered by Ike the probe. |
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In "The Hounds of Tindalos", the titular Hounds of Tindalos are strange, angular creatures who existed long before single-celled organisms first evolved. They are normally invisible as they inhabit the "angles of time" as opposed to the "curves of time" that humans and other life-forms do. Thus, they can freely travel through time as well as materialize through any corner of a wall or object if it's sharp enough (120 degrees or less). Thus, the only way to avoid getting hunted and eaten by one is to stay in a room with no angles... forever. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-2086, a type of giant predatory arthropod that mimics public transportation, curls its legs into "wheels" to roll on. This lets it maintain the illusion of being a bus, the better to trick potential victims into boarding. | |
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The Long Earth: In The Long Cosmos, Joshua disturbs a nest of starfish-like burrowing creatures while hiking on an alien planet halfway to the galactic core. The smaller ones cluster on the back of the large one, which folds its arms around them protectively and then rolls away. (It's unclear if this is their normal mode of locomotion, or one specifically used when an adult's appendages are otherwise engaged in shielding its young.) | |
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The Flummels from Extinct (2021) are furry creatures shaped like doughnuts and can move by rolling. | |
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Discworld: In Guards! Guards!, Errol the swamp dragon manages to reverse the direction his flame comes out from, turning his guts into a chemical rocket and flying by jet propulsion. The lunar dragons from The Last Hero use it as their normal mode of propulsion. | |
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Having no legs, the titular mermaid from The Singing Mermaid escapes from the circus after the acrobat teaches her how to handstand. She then walks back to the ocean on her hands. | |
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Uru: Ages Beyond Myst: One of the Ages has disc-shaped creatures that spring up into the air and drift down like parachutes, similar to the Forte creatures listed above. | |
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Sunspot, Jet's alien pet from Ready Jet Go!, moves himself underwater by whirling his striped tail like a propeller. | |
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Riddick: The scorpion creatures have perfectly good legs, but in a scene where a horde attack Riddick and Boss John, one of them is seen rolling into the action like the mythical hoop snake before unraveling to attack. | |
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Snow dragons of Frigia in the old Flash Gordon comics would snowboard rapidly down slopes by standing on their own broad, flat tails. | |
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Hoppers in Land of Oz are one-legged people who hop around. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Lurmen, seen in "Jeid Crash" and "Defenders of Peace", curl into balls and roll along like wheels rather than run when they want to go fast. | |
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The Dufflepuds from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, although forced to bounce on one foot on land (see above), discover that their huge single feet, properly shod in kayak-sized footwear, can be used like canoes. As Dawn Treader sets sail, a crowd of cheering Dufflepuds stand afloat on the water's surface and, paddling like mad, circle the ship in farewell. | |
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One of the species in Unicorn Jelly and spinoffs has a tube-shaped body with a foot at each end, and they ambulate by placing one foot on the ground and then arching over to place the other one, etc. Leeches crawl and climb in a similar fashion in Real Life. | |
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Marble Knights: The characters all have no legs, instead possessing a magical rolling orb as a lower body. | |
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It's never really specified what form of locomotion the Carbosilicate Amorphs of Schlock Mercenary use, but one comment often aimed at one member of the species, Sergeant Schlock, is "you're faster than you look". | |
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Mandarins in Silent Hill 2 dangle and brachiate beneath chain-link floors of the Otherworld, using the circular maws on their arms to maintain their grip. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The third-party supplement Into the Black describes a number of exotic cavern-dwelling critters, one of which — the ice rat — traverses glacial cavern floors by rolling around in snow until its thick fur is sheathed in ice, with gaps for its head, paws, and rudder-shaped tail. Encased by this form-fitted one-rat toboggan, it slides along incredibly fast, controlling its speed and direction with tail and dragging claws. The whitespawn iceskidder, one of many strange dragonspawn introduced via the intervention of Tiamat, speed across ice with the elongated skating-claws on their hind feet and twin stabilizing blades alongside the base of the tail. |
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Sector General has an aquatic example: the Drambon Rollers (classification CLHG) are a toroidal species that literally cannot stop moving or they die, as their circulatory system is powered by the rolling motion. | |
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Batman: Arkham City: Clayface repeatedly turns into a giant rolling ball in an attempt to crush Batman during his Boss Battle. | |
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Rocket Age: The skies of Jupiter are already home to floating gas bags, but a better example is probably the Eagle Snake. Eagle Snakes are metre-long, lamprey-mouthed creatures that use three gas bags on their ventral side to control their elevation and propel themselves, while using the ridge of thin flesh to squirm through the air. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Gorons primarily move by rolling. While they can walk, their stubby legs and extremely top-heavy stature make them so slow that they can be outrun by a small human child. However, in ball form, they can roll fast enough to match a half-grown young horse. | |
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The six-headed shark from a late entry in the #-Headed Shark Attack B-movies used the four heads sprouting from its sides like crude limbs, planting each head's pointed rostrum in the sand in turn, to drag its bulk along the beach. | |
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In Ghost Story, wraiths that aren't under the direct control of a more powerful entity are described as drifting ethereally through Chicago's ghost-realm, just barely out of contact with the ground, occasionally touching down with their toes to push themselves along. When commanded, they fly freely, suggesting that it's simply their lack of individual willpower that hinders their independent motion. | |
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The Rhinogrades from The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades are a group of fictitious mammals, some of which walk on their multiple nasal trunks. | |
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The Skeezaboos from No Such Things have horns so long that they can and do use them as skis. | |
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Gamera: Gamera propels himself through the air by spinning like a Frisbee. | |
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In How to Train Your Dragon 2, the two-headed dragons called Zipplebacks reveal a new ability usable in battle: they curl into a ball and roll across the battlefield, breathing out flammable gas and igniting themselves into tumbling balls of fire. | |
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Spellsinger: Squirks use four rotating props to hover like helicopters. | |
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The three-legged Jan in Alien in a Small Town revolve as they walk, though the Jan are also subterranean burrowers. | |
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The three-legged biots in Rendezvous with Rama revolve as they walk. | |
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Lexx: Cluster lizards have long flat segmented bodies and roll into hoops that can roll rapidly. They're also predators, so you don't want to get in their way. When Zev/Xev accidentally acquires Cluster lizard DNA, she also acquires the ability to curl up and roll fast, though it's not demonstrated until season 3. | |
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Peanuts: Snoopy has occasionally twirled his ears like a helicopter's propellers to fly around. | |
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Known Space: The Outsiders, aliens that live in zero gravity, get around by expelling weak jets of gas from their thin tentacles. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: Clayface turns into a giant rolling ball in an attempt to crush Batman in his origin episode. | |
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In the Animorphs prequel The Andalite Chronicles, Visser Thirty-five (later Three) has a pair of weird pets that move on wheels — until their upper bodies detach so that they can attack on wings. | |
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The elastospondyls from Alien Biospheres have an internal shell that allows them to catapult themselves to catch prey. | |
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Ben 10: Ben's Kineceleran form XLR8 has small black wheels on both feet. His Petarola form as Cannonbolt can curl into an armored sphere and roll at high speed. | |
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Dumbo: Dumbo the elephant can fly using his oversized ears like wings. | |
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The snails from Turbo will "tuck and roll", hiding inside their shells to roll down slopes, if they need to move faster than a crawl and/or shield their soft parts while in motion. This maneuver is how Turbo wins the Indy 500 after he's injured and loses his Super-Speed just shy of the finish line. | |
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Centigurps in Odd Squad sometimes roll along the floor, at least when the Tribble-like oddities aren't bouncing around like ping-pong balls. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: The Horta in "The Devil in the Dark" is a silicon-based organism that moves around by actually melting stone with the acid of its body. Spock describes it as "moving through rocks as we move through air". | |
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The aliens in Edge of Tomorrow move in a manner that involves whirling their body in a corkscrew-like motion while whipping limbs in every direction. | |
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The Careening Dirigibug from Pikmin 2 flies via inflatable sacs that resemble party balloons. | |
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The Untold Story of Argo City has Zygors, an alien species who travel through the void of space by organic jet propulsion thanks to their tentacles. | |
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Pokémon: Spoink is a pig-like creature with no hind legs. It moves by bouncing on its large spring tail. Said bouncing also causes its heart to pump, so it will die if it stops moving. | |
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Godzilla: Godzilla is sometimes seen propelling himself using his nuclear breath to chase Hedorah, though the physics behind it is murky at best, and he never did so again. | |
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In one episode of Futurama, Earth goes to war against an alien race that are basically intelligent basketballs. Naturally, they mostly get around by bouncing. | |
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The Fleeches in Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus are worm-like creatures who move like regular real-life worms, but they can use their Multipurpose Tongue as a grappling hook to navigate their environment. | |
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In Small Favor, Dierdre forms her animated blade-hair into a shark-like tail for swimming with when she dives into Lake Michigan. | |
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Scooby-Doo has been known to move in fairly bizarre ways while sneaking around, from extending all four legs straight to the sides and toe-walking to pushing his huddled body forward with inchworm-like movements of his tail. | |
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The fish-creature from The Host (2006) traverses the undersides of bridges above the Han River by doing back flips, alternately gripping with its two legs and its prehensile tail. | |
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The gukuy and owoc from Mother of Demons have two parallel 'rails' which operate much like a snail's foot. They're faster than you might expect, though humans are faster and can get through rougher terrain. | |
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Battle for Terra: The aliens can fly and use their tails in a fashion similar to how fish use their tails to swim underwater. | |
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Sukiya Podes in Puyo Puyo series is based on the one-footed Skiapods — his name is just a Japanization then re-Romanization of Skiapods, to boot. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic and many of his friends have the ability to curl up into a ball and roll along the ground at high speed. Sometimes they can even "rev up" in place to dash forward with a tremendous burst of speed. Tails the fox instead flies around by rotating his twin tails like helicopter blades. | |
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Tigger from Winnie the Pooh is depicted bouncing around on his spring-like tail in cartoon adaptations. This probably comes from the original stories, in which A. A. Milne's son misunderstood tigers "pouncing" on their prey as "bouncing". | |
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The Eternal Cylinder: Trebhum are usually bipedal, but they can curl up into a ball to roll at top speed. There is also an enemy called the Tonglegrop that possesses an acid sac that it can use as a wheel to move faster. | |
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The Dark Crystal: Some small pillar-shaped organisms in the swamps fly straight upward with propellers. | |
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In The Star Beast, the eponymous Lummox is an eight legged space dinosaur. It normally moved in a 1,4,5,8,2,3,6,7 gait, good for anything from a slow crawl to as fast as a trotting horse. However, if in a hurry, s/he could move in a double-ended gallop moving legs 1 & 2 & 5 & 6 together, alternated with 3 & 4 & 7 & 8. | |
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3-2-1 Penguins!: The Wait-Your-Turners (aliens that look like old fashioned electrolux vacuum cleaners) move around via rolling around on their four wheels. | |
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A footnote in Nation describes how the sailfin crocodile (Crocodylus porosus maritimus) travels immense distances at the surface of the Great Southern Pelagic Ocean using the movable skin-and-cartilage sail on its back to catch the wind. | |
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Shaar Q from Superboy and the Ravers uses what appears to be her largest tentacle, but might be a serpentine body analogue, to slither along while holding her head casing, three masses of smaller tentacles and siphons up. Presumably her siphons allow her to use jet propulsion in liquid like a squid or octopus though she's never given a chance to show off as her preeminent ability that affects the story is her ability to plane shift either in whole or with just the tips from two of her tentacle groupings. | |
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Some of the fish from McElligot's Pool. There are fish with built-in sails or propellers. One fish can ski down underwater slopes. There are even fish who jump off steep waterfalls and parachute down to the river below. | |
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In After Man: A Zoology of the Future, a tiny mammal walks on water like a water strider, using long hairs on its feet to distribute its few grams of weight over the water's surface. | |
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The Elder Things from At the Mountains of Madness could somehow travel through outer space using their fan-shaped wings. The original text depicts them flying through the aether, but Fanon insists that their wings are biological solar sails. | |
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In Strata, paleontologists have named one of the alien Precursors believed to have engineered aspects of the universe "Wheelers", as they apparently had dome-shaped bodies that rolled on three wheels. | |
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The Crites from the Critters films curl up and roll when they need to move quickly. In one of the films, a whole swarm of them bunch up into a single large rolling ball. | |
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The Starchild Trilogy: The "Spacelings" are friendly, tameable animals which live among the reefs of space, between the stars. They appear to move via a reactionless drive of some sort — figuring out how they fly is one of Steve Ryland's goals in The Reefs of Space. Pyropods (Latin for "flamefoot") are living rockets, which also live in the reefs. Their need for reaction mass means they have evolved to be vicious and deadly hunters. Even a baby is enough to take on several humans, and a small pack of adults can destroy and devour a ship! |
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Fengshen Yanyi, Longxuhu is a chimeric monster who moves around hopping on a single, powerful tiger's leg. Much later, Tongtian Jiaozhu shows up riding the Kuiniu, a beast depicted as a giant, monstrous bull with scales with a single clawed leg as his only limb. | |
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In Uplift, g'Keks have bone wheels driven by natural magnets. As they reside on a low technology Lost Colony with almost no infrastructure, the g'Kek suffer from premature axle and wheel damage due to there being no real roads to speak of. | |
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Meteos: Globin is a planet-sized living thing; it has an intelligent, sentient civilization comprised of leukocytes traveling around Globin's bloodstream. The people of Wiral are made of electricity. They normally just float about but prefer to do high-speed travel through electric wires. |
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In The Condemned Legionnaires, Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes meet one alien species whose large limbless bodies are completely spherical. They move around and attack by rolling and bouncing. | |
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The cover art for The Science of Discworld III shows men riding on a giant tortoise with wheels in place of its feet. This was probably created by the God of Evolution, who'd been working on a wheeled elephant when he'd previously appeared in The Last Continent. | |
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As a fictional human example, South Park introduced a form of locomotion that involves sitting on your naked butt with your legs in the air while dragging yourself along with your hands. It's called "Taylor Swifting" for some reason, and it becomes a youth fad akin to planking. | |
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Pikmin: The Snitchbugs used to have normal wings, but lost them during their evolution. As a result, they have adapted to flying by rapidly beating their branching antennae. The Careening Dirigibug from Pikmin 2 flies via inflatable sacs that resemble party balloons. |
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Stellaris includes these as flavor text — the "Alien Specimen Procurement' quest chain involves capturing specimens of Uddlorans, described as small furry animals that can wrap themselves into tight balls and roll at up to 80 kilometre per hour across the snow fields of their home planet. | |
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In the Lensman book Galactic Patrol, the inhabitants of Aldebaran I are the Wheelmen, who are literally wheel-shaped aliens, like a living example of Monowheel Mayhem. As you might expect, they move by rolling around like wheels. They also encounter a non-sentient wheel-shaped alien in one of the earlier novels which apparently doesn't have the ability to turn unless it's physically moved; it just keeps rolling in a continuous circle around the entire planet. | |
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Lilo & Stitch: Yaarp (a.k.a. Experiment 613) from Lilo & Stitch: The Series can hop around using his tail, a la Tigger. Cannonball (Experiment 520) primarily bounces around on his big butt. |
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StarCraft II: Banelings execute this trope with an upgrade (which increases their speed). | |
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Tremors 3: Back to Perfection: The Assblasters take off and fly by organic jet propulsion. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In "Basics", a cave-lizard has four limbs spaced around its circumference so it can pull itself along the cave roof as well as the ground. | |
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The ocean phantom in The Future Is Wild is a colonial jellyfish-relative that drifts on the surface, using tall flaps of tissue to catch the wind and sail from place to place. | |
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One strange little Halloweentown demon from The Nightmare Before Christmas walks around on the tips of its very long, bat-like wings, its plump, stubby-limbed body not touching the ground. | |
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