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Octopoid Aliens
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A subset of Starfish Aliens, and a popular form for aliens to take in fiction. Octopuses and other cephalopods are highly intelligent animals, but their evolutionary history is very different from us humans and our fellow vertebrates, and correspondingly they come off as "alien" to many people already. So why not use them as the basis for an actual sapient alien species? This kind of alien is especially popular in Japan (particularly of the Martian variety), replacing the Little Green Men and The Greys that are often seen as the archetypical aliens in American media. Japan's take on the concept usually has them with large octopus, squid or jellyfish-like Cephalothorax bodies, long tentacles usually used to stand or to hold things, and a funnel-shaped mouth. Lovecraftian-inspired Eldritch Abominations often fall into this role, with giant tentacles (often of the octopus variety) sometimes being all you can see of the creature. See also Cthulhumanoid. Very much often overlaps with Tentacled Terror. Examples |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: There are giant space squids from Mars. At least some of them want to invade the Earth and/or steal its most advanced technology, such as Kowalski's robotic hand. | |
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My Dad the Bounty Hunter: Glorlox, a rival bounty hunter to the title character, has teal skin and his face has four tentacles and an octopus beak. | |
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The War of the Worlds (1898) is probably the Trope Maker, as the Martian invaders are described as cephalopod-like creatures the size of bears who move around on land with their tentacles. Apparently, Wells came up with the idea by postulating that as the Martians advanced technologically, more and more of their bodies became useless and atrophied away, with the only parts preserved being their brains, their eyes and their hands (the "guide and teacher of the brain"). By the time they invade Earth, they're essentially reduced down to a head and a few manipulative tentacles. Oddly the creature redesigns for most of its adaptations (little creatures with multi-colored eyes in the 1953 version and three-legged Greys in the 2005 version) actually seem less exotic by comparison. | |
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The Simpsons: The aliens Kang and Kodos are green with helmets and have squid-like bodies and tentacles. | |
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Home (2015): The Boov have multiple short tentacles in place of humanoid legs, an ability to change color that's often dictated by their emotions and an elongated pair of siphons called "nostricles" sprouting from the tops of their heads. The follow-up series establishes other octopoid traits like having multiple hearts, being cold-blooded and their heads being capable of inflation through their nostricles like a mantle. | |
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Bruce Coville's Book of... Aliens: The methane-breathing Veeblezanians from Brian and the Aliens (who are described as having long tentacles and look a lot like octopi in the illustration), and the octoblob (which gets its name from its octopus-like appearance) from The Buddy System. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): "Worlds Apart": Shortly after his ship crashlands on another planet, the astronaut Lt. Christopher Lindy's inflatable raft is attacked by a giant alien squid. "The Camp": The Commandant keeps a sharrak, an alien creature resembling a giant squid that can split its tentacles in two, at the titular concentration camp. On occasion, he feeds disruptive prisoners to it. The sharrak is itself a food source as the New Masters consider it a delicacy. |
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Cthulhu Mythos: H. P. Lovecraft may be the Trope Codifier with the description of the Great Old Ones and related creatures in his stories. Many of them involve tentacles of some kind, and his most famous character, Cthulhu explicitly has a face that resembles an octopus, albeit crossed with a human skull. | |
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Assassination Classroom: Koro-sensei is initially thought to be one of these, before it's revealed that he's an artificial being created on Earth, and that his octopus form isn't even his real form. | |
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Freefall: Sam Starfall is implied to look like an octopus or squid wrapped around a stick figure artificial skeleton under the environment suit that protects him from Earth-like atmospheres, and humans from going insane from looking at him. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: One very briefly shows up in an episode to return Earl the dog to the Bigheads after Ed launches him into space. | |
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Sesame Street: The Yip-yips are like benign, childishly curious versions of Wells's Martians. | |
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Puni Puni Poemy: K eventually discovers that he and his family are these (despite the fact that his parents don't even bother to disguise themselves, he goes to school in a UFO, and is even wearing a fake human body over his tentacles.) | |
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Rhythm Heaven Megamix: The aliens in the "First Contact" mini-game are jellyfish-like creatures. | |
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Insaniquarium: The Psychosquid takes this trope rather literally: it's a red alien that looks almost exactly like an octopus, only with less tentacles and more weapons. | |
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The monster in the Space: 1999 episode "Dragon's Domain" definitely qualifies, with its collection of tentacles that it uses to pull victims to it. | |
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Metal Slug: The Mars People are (mostly) green octopoids that stand on their tentacles while wielding rayguns. They also occasionally curl up to float through the air. | |
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Milo Murphy's Law: The Octalians are an Amazing Technicolor Population of shapeshifting alien octopuses with four tentacles for arms and four tentacles for legs. They intially seem villainous, but their goal from abducting Milo is actually to save their world from a Murphy's Law storm. Meanwhile, they believe humans spit acid and wrap Octalians into cocoons to feed them to their grubs. | |
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Four Eyes!: Emma's true form is a pink, cephalopod-like alien with four eyes and three hair-like strands on either side of her head. | |
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Farscape: The extra-dimensional alien encountered by Crichton in "Through the Looking Glass" resembles a cephalopod dwelling in a strange non-aquatic medium. | |
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters: King Ghidorah, who is an alien unlike the other Kaiju. He doesn't look the part, but the director says that his biology is based on that of an octopus: he can regenerate severed heads and necks from the stumps, and he has a non-centralized nervous system wherein his neurons are scattered throughout his body nstead of being focused solely in his brains. Not unlike an octopus' tentacles, in this version, Ghidorah's three heads have independent personalities. | |
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Battle: Los Angeles: Although the aliens look vaguely humanoid, this is only because they have a humanoid cybernetic frame that their bodies are wrapped around that lets them function on land. When their frames are damaged, their bodies are left immobilized on land and they resemble octopus-like creatures. They also seem to be far more at home in aquatic environments, even preferring to deploy their control systems inside the sewers of Los Angeles instead of on the surface. | |
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Galaxy Quest: The Thermians have this as their default form, but they disguise themselves as humans so that the main cast will understand them. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario Galaxy introduces the Octoombas (alien Goombas) and some of their cousins, such as the Octopuses (big brown Octoombas with tentacles), as common Mooks, as well as the King Kaliente boss, who's a giant Funnel Mouthed Octopus. Super Mario Galaxy 2 adds another boss, Prince Pikante, to the list. Super Mario Odyssey has Astro-Lanceurs, helmet-wearing octopuses found in the Moon Kingdom. |
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The Fermi Paradox: The alien species known as the Frenner are described by the game as squid creatures, but their tentacles are more similar to that of octopi. Regardless of which Earth species they more closely resemble, they qualify. | |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance: the voidfish came from another reality with the Starblaster crew. | |
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Monsters vs. Aliens: Gallaxhar is an evil extraterrestrial with octopus-like tentacles instead of legs and a large head shaped like a cephalopod's body. | |
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Alien in a Small Town: All Jan have at least two tentacles, but members of the the Warrior Caste have six. | |
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Jamie's Got Tentacles!: When not wearing his human disguise, Jamie looks much like a squid with dark green skin, four oval eyes and at least seven tentacles. | |
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Ecco the Dolphin has the alien Vortex, who in the case of the drones have this look, with big heads and numerous tentacles and limbs beneath. | |
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Resident Alien: Harry, or rather the alien who took his identity, is revealed to be distantly related to cephalopods. His head does kind of evoke an octopus-like look. And he can communicate with the octopus he dubs “42�. | |
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Dragon Ball Super: The king of the galaxy is basically an octopus wearing a crown. Interestingly, one of his tentacles is a penis, just like real-life octopuses, something Goku learns after trying to shake his "hand". | |
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Futurama: The Decapodians are an alien race with traits of various aquatic animals; while primarily based crabs and lobsters, they also have cephalopod traits such as oral tentacles and ink glands in their armpits. | |
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Ultraseven: Chibu (sometimes Chibull) sorta looks like a giant brain with tentacles and a face. As his appearance suggests, he doesn't have a lot of fighting prowess, but he is definitely one of Seven's more cunning foes. Another alien of Chibu's species named Exceller appears as the Big Bad of Ultraman Ginga S. | |
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There's a series of virtual pet games on Android and iOS called Moy by Frojo Apps, where you take care of a cuter version of this trope (much like Pou). | |
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Armada: The Sobrukai are a race of aliens resembling squids and the antagonists of the Fictional Video Game. They reside in an underwater base on another planet. | |
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Robot Chicken featured a tentacle monster like this in one of its sketches. | |
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Super Mario Odyssey has Astro-Lanceurs, helmet-wearing octopuses found in the Moon Kingdom. | |
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Doctor Who: The Daleks' outer shells are essentially war machines functioning as life-support/transportation devices, but on the comparatively rare occasions the actual dalek creatures inside them are shown, they are usually shown as jellyfish-like blobs in the original, and many-tentacled brains with a single eye in the reboot. The Ood appear as humanoids with a bundle of tentacles in place of a mouth, with a small forward brain they hold in their hands alongside a hind brain inside their heads and a giant central brain binding together the entire species. Although the complex social order created by the resulting Hive Mind can prove incomprehensible or even openly hostile to others, they are discovered to actually be quite trope-subvertingly benevolent once humans stop enslaving all of them. |
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Men in Black: J helps an alien to deliver a baby. During the process he is attacked by several tentacles, and when the mother finally gives birth to the baby, it looked like a grey and squid hybrid. | |
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Super Mario Galaxy introduces the Octoombas (alien Goombas) and some of their cousins, such as the Octopuses (big brown Octoombas with tentacles), as common Mooks, as well as the King Kaliente boss, who's a giant Funnel Mouthed Octopus. Super Mario Galaxy 2 adds another boss, Prince Pikante, to the list. | |
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Superboy and the Ravers: Shaar Q's race are essentially built like oddly shaped head/bodies with octopus-like siphons and a mass of smaller tentacles and one large one, though they move like Snake People, slithering along on their large main tentacle. | |
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Duke Nukem: Octobrains (octopus-like alien brains with tentacles) are regular enemies in the games. | |
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Gal Metal has the octopus-looking Octoid aliens. | |
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F-Zero: Octoman is a variation on the concept due to actually having a torso. | |
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Pokémon Sun and Moon: The first of the Ultra Beasts, Nihilego, is designed to evoke the stereotypical Japanese "jellyfish alien", but the positioning of its tentacles also causes it to resemble a long-haired girl with no face. They are implied to be one of the more common inhabitants of Ultra Space. | |
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Mother: Mooks are a race of aliens with octopus-like bodies. | |
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Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony: Mars' native civilisation is a race of floating betentacled creatures of varying size. | |
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Arrival: The heptapods are very similar to giant octopus aliens, of course except that they have seven tentacles. | |
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Miitopia: The Alien enemies look a lot like octopuses. Laser gun-wielding octopuses. | |
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Rama: The Octospiders, so-named for being cephalopods with hair similar to a spider. They also communicate through colored light patterns, being deaf. | |
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Space Invaders: According to The Other Wiki, designs of the enemy aliens were based on the octopus-like ones from The War of the Worlds as well as in squids and crabs. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: When Chao Lingshen reveals that she's a Martian, everyone present reacts by imagining her as one of these. | |
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Star Control: Origins has the Mu'Kay, who are actually quite friendly (unless you're fish, in which case they utterly hate you). They're your second likeliest ally in the game. One of their ship types, the Grasper, actually looks like a giant metal squid that attacks with its tentacles and expels caustic ink out the back. | |
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Titan A.E.: Cale Tucker gets a serving of alien spaghetti and meatballs in the scrapyard's commissary: the spaghetti resembles boiled kelp, and the meatballs are small creatures that once had tentacles, but these were obviously chopped off. Despite this handicap, they hop around madly on Cale's plate, perhaps sensing their impending doom. | |
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The Pak'ma'ra in Babylon 5 have cephalopoid heads atop humanoid bodies, making them resemble some images of Cthulhu. Despite this, however, they're very friendly and peaceful. | |
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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: The urfburgles from "Dale Beside Himself" are small, have four or five tentacles and a single eye. They're Too Dumb to Live, and both look and act like living jelly. The spacefaring aliens that come to Earth consume them alive and whole as a snack, though Ditz tends to make a meal of these junk food critters. | |
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Lilo & Stitch: Pleakley, the one-eyed alien, has two arms, three legs, and a long, skinny torso that has a flimsy octopus-like quality to it. His design, however, is more comical than truly alien. | |
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