Coolest Fictional Alien Race

[xitel]

The C'Tan are pretty damn cool.

Spoiler: Nightbringer

Don't mind me, just being the inspiration of death for a shit-ton of races.

I don't know if I'd count the C'tan as aliens, so much as they're star-eating gods... Now, the Necron? Yeah, pretty badass. Although, the Nids are better, in my experience. The perfect adapters, and there's an unimaginable number of them. Single fleets can overrun entire sub-sectors, and they're just a microscopic amount of the total race.

 

[PatSilverFox]

Krogan.

They kick ass and have cute toes. Seriously look at Wrex's toes in ME1 armour, you will squee.

You think that too? =3

 

[Cheesus333]

The problem with sci-fi is as soon as the most awesome thing comes around, there is always something more awesome around the corner. This also applies to the aliens.

That's why it's hard to put a shiny ribbon of honour on any particular one. But I'm playing Mass Effect right now, so I'll go with the Reapers. The galaxy is their *****.

Spoiler: OH HAYLL NAWWW

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Krogan.

They kick ass and have cute toes. Seriously look at Wrex's toes in ME1 armour, you will squee.

You think that too? =3

Oh yes specially if they are stripey. I doubt I would live very long if I pointed it out though

 

[Koroviev]

I'm partial to the Asari, a race of blue female bosses.

 

[v3n0mat3]

Protoss from Starcraft. 'Cause they are just so fucking hardcore.

 

[SoranMBane]

Vortigaunts definitely take the #1 spot. They're interesting, helpful, and they shoot LIGHTNING from their fingers. Also, they saved Alyx's life twice, which is more than a good thing. Special mention also has to go to the Irkens, who are so completely ridiculous and incompetent that they come full circle and become awesome again. They're also helped by the fact that their highest-profile member, Zim, was pretty much the most gloriously hammy character in all of fiction until Cave Johnson came along to steal that title.

 

[Wereduck]

I'm gonna go with Xenomorphs.


...but Saya is also a pretty cool.
Though I bet nobody here knows Saya.

Saya the chriopteran? I wasn't that impressed myself - besides, depending on which storyline you go by she's either a stone ***** or a whiny putz of Shinji Ikari proportions and her only special power is that she can kill monsters by bleeding on them. Chronica from Trigun Maximum is a way more awesome terran alien.

I'm with you 100% on the LV426 xenomorphs though, just as long as they don't need to be naturally-occurring aliens. I don't know if there's a definitive origin story on those bad boys but they only ever made sense to me as a macro-scale biological weapon.

 

[Heronblade]

The xenofungus from the old Alpha Centauri game. The fungal stalks were capable of forming a neural network with each other. When pread out over the entire planet, it achieved sentience. At high enough concentrations, it reached a higher plane of existence, easily comparable to godhood.

 

[Crazy Ian]

Dralasites [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dralasite] always interested me, but giant amoebas may not be everyone's idea of cool. Though special mention goes out to the aliens in fallout for showing me no matter how advance you are, you can always be trumped by shotgun.

 

[Slenn]

Zerg rush! Kekekeke!

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

I'm once again addicted to Mass Effect, so I'm inclined to say Turians or Asari... I can never decide which.

 

[Tulks]

The Horta.

NO KILL I!

 

[dannybates]

Turians from mass effect. FTW =D

 

[ZeroMachine]

I have four favorites:

The X Parasites from Metroid: Fusion (for what they do, not how they look),

the Turians from Mass Effect,

and the Sangheili (Elites)

and Flood from Halo.

 

[CaptainLoserPants]

Prawns from District 9.

I honestly find them adorable. They eat catfood. Support the betterment of living conditions in District 10.

 

[Nocturnal Gentleman]

The Ur-Quan...

Damn it. I liked those guys. Probably the only alien enemy race I could feel sympathy for. Well, I guess I'll pick the next best thing...Shofixti.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

How has no one said Time Lords yet? D:

Spoiler

I'm sorry.

That doesn't look like an alien to me.

"But, you look human!"
"No, you look Timelord, we were here first!"

Yea seriously... two hearts... from galifray... Able to regenerate whole body... Able to share all experience with another person by bumping heads... ABLE to literally "see" time... you sir need to watch some more WHO...

This, this, and more this. In the words of the Doctor, "ALLONS Y!"

The Drej have no need to see into the memories of puny humans. Yes, they can also regenerate their whole body back. (They're made of energy after all.) And more of them can be endlessly produced. The only way they were beat was by a prototype machine which even that almost didn't survive the blue ray of exploding death.

 

[MadCapMunchkin]

The Daleks. Sorry, they just are.

Definitely Xenu he the greatest, all praise Xenu!

Aww, damn...*kneels before the might of the Galactic Overlord* Xenu, be praised!

 

[A Satanic Panda]

How has no one said The Andromeda Strain? o.o