Neil Ranks Depictions of Aliens in Sci-Fi
1.2M views · May 7, 2026 · People & Blogs
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@StarTalkPlus · 4 months ago · pinned
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@dill13 · 4 months ago
That Xenomorph ranking is devastating for your inbox, you will never hear the end of this
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@joshhewitt105 · 4 months ago
The Thing, District 9 and Starship Troopers, three glaring omissions 😮
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@flyprojector · 4 months ago
I'm surprised you didn't include The Thing!
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@mirondanut4085 · 10 days ago
Would be awesome to see Neil ranking aliens from video games there is an entire ecosystem of aliens present in video games
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@knight-mares · 4 months ago
The reason the Xenomorph is a vertebrate is because of the host it used. In this case it was a human, in alien 3 it’s a dog and the Xeno takes looks differently because of it.
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@j.c.999 · 4 months ago
The Navi didn’t know english until they built a school and had human teachers lmao
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@RobertCostley-y5i · 4 months ago
One character in the original Star Trek was the Horta, a silicon based life form that was totally non humanoid.
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@TheMbangel · 2 weeks ago
Other aliens getting criticised for looking Humanoids except for the Twilight Zone one that gets put in S tier :cat-orange-whistling::eyes-purple-crying:
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@knineknights · 4 months ago
In the movie Contact, her camera recorded approximately 18 hrs of static.
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@unclemozart · 4 months ago
Xenomorph in C is wild
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@kmward26 · 4 months ago
The friendly aliens in Galaxy Quest are S tier for sure.
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