The Most Terrifying Fictional Race?

[Zallest]

Teletubbies, They have TV stomachs and worship an infant sun...

If you want a more serious answer I'd have to go with Dragonsatemymarbles

Time Lords.

If you can destroy planets, extinguish races, and end goverments with a screwdriver.. then you've earned my fear.

 

[Smitty of the Tolchocks]

The Deveels at the Bazaar at Deva(from the Myth Adventures series by Robert Lynn Asprin) are kind of scary.
--"If you think you've gotten a good deal from a Deveel,first count your fingers,then your limbs,then your relatives."

And also Whatinthehelleverrace(s) Yog-Soggoth and Shub-Niggurath are,those are some freaky MFers.

 

[jman11288]

With all the Dr. Who references made here, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Weeping Angels. Nothing's creeiper than something that only moves when you're not looking at it!

 

[Zallest]

With all the Dr. Who references made here, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Weeping Angels. Nothing's creeiper than something that only moves when you're not looking at it!

but there lies on the detail of how they work, could looking at them mean looking at them in video as well as just plain looking at them? if so all you have to do is point a camera at them and move them into place so they look at eachother just like in the episode, also they don't kill you they just move you through time so they're not really killing you just making things really suck by throwing you back to the 1920's or something.

 

[Azhrarn-101]

I say Tyranids. I originally hated them because they reminded me of the Zerg but then I read their codex and played a few games against them. Now they're terrifying just because they exist.

The fact that they remind you of Zerg shouldn't really surprise you, as the Zerg were originally based on the Tyranids, so that's only natural.

As for my own choice, I'd have to go with the 40k universe also, specifically Chaos Daemons/Gods.
While not a race as such, they are the one power that can challenge the Hivemind, and pretty much anything else there is for that matter.
They're usually to busy scheming and fighting amongst themselves to pull this off, but they're more than capable of it. They might even need to do it too, as they need the emotions of the other races in the universe to exist, the Hivemind is rather disruptive to the Warp too, especially if it eats everything else.

 

[GruntOwner]

Mandalorians. They nearly wiped out the Jedi completely (not to mention several other races). And there hard to tell because they look just like humans.

I thought they had their ass handed to them by a bunch of padawans and knights? Most of Revan's followers would have been fairly low down in the order, anyway, on account of the more experienced ones having the training and discipline to listen to the council. As for the Republic, they had just emerged from some other war if I recall correctly.

On topic, the 'nids. They don't just eat you, they eat your planet. Not in some pussy Star Trek eat your planet way, in a full on drink the ocean, suck up the atmosphere and grab all the heat energy from your molten core, leaving a glorified asteroid where once stood a civilisation. It took Macragge to splinter a single Hive Fleet, and when Macragge needs to make an appearance, it should tell you everything you need to know.

 

[Croaker42]

I would have to say the Snathi from Galactic Civ II are by far the most cruel and terrifying race.

 

[Ph0t0n1c Ph34r]

Two words: Mind-Flayers

 

[awsome117]

The Drej from Titan AE.

They are pure energy and kill off civilizations that they feel are a threat to them.

 

[TheLastCylon]

Fucking Borg, I always had nightmares about them when I was a kid.

 

[Vuljatar]

Isn't it the Ssi-Ruuk? Of the Ssi-Ruuvian empire? And come on, the Yuuzhan Vong had them beat for crazy and scary real easy.

The Ssi-Ruuk are pretty scary, but I have to agree that the Yuuzhan Vong are scarier.

 

[LetheanLilith]

hmmm.
.. Have you all seen The Thing?
whatever that ..thing.. is.

Oh God, thanks for bringing up repressed memories.

I used to have nightmares about that amorphous demon for years when I was younger.

Somehow, I always ended up being eaten.

aw, really?
I'm a horror movie junkie, but movies can't scare me.. I find horror movies pretty hilarious actually

 

[The_ModeRazor]

The Xenomorphs are pretty scary, but I'd go with the Reapers from Mass Effect. Well they're robots, and not a race, but they've wiped out millions of organic galactic civilisations over the millions of years, and, since they're machine, it sounds logical that they were created by someone even bigger.

 

[CJ1145]

I say Tyranids. I originally hated them because they reminded me of the Zerg

You mean the Zerg remind you of Tyranids.

But I'd have to say either Tyranids or the Flood. Maybe the Daleks, but it's a stretch.

 

[Rigs83]

Mandalorians. They nearly wiped out the Jedi completely (not to mention several other races). And there hard to tell because they look just like humans.

From the Star Wars: The Old Republic Forums I learned that the Mandalorians are not an actual race but a culture that believes that through struggle and combat a person can grow and become stronger. So many are humans but they recruit from all races.

 

[GamerPhate]

Rush Limbaugh

 

[Jedamethis]

the Flood....but only because they were only ever in dark corridors, in the open day they probably wouldn't be as scary

(also because I'm crap and have'nt seen many other terrifying things, and Doctor Who isn't scary)

 

[Erja_Perttu]

The Vashda Narada from that episode of Doctor Who. If you step into a shadow, they've already eaten you...
Or maybe those ones (also DW) that devour an entire planet and turn it into sand before flying around the planet so fast that they make a portal to transport them somewhere new? They're pretty freaky...

Oh, those skulls in space suits, they were creepy, especially when you thought one of them had gotten saved and the visor came down and holy crap, that's a skull!

With all the Dr. Who references made here, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Weeping Angels. Nothing's creeiper than something that only moves when you're not looking at it!

but there lies on the detail of how they work, could looking at them mean looking at them in video as well as just plain looking at them? if so all you have to do is point a camera at them and move them into place so they look at eachother just like in the episode, also they don't kill you they just move you through time so they're not really killing you just making things really suck by throwing you back to the 1920's or something.

nah, Weeping angels gotta have a living thing looking at it for them to stop, a video camera wouldn't work I don't think. Besides, that was the reason they were so scary. it's not what you see, it's what you don't see.

 

[hamster mk 4]

On an individual level Dark Eldar are the scariest since they have refined sadism to a science over thousands of years. On a societal level the Necrons are the scariest. They hate life with such a passion that not even bacteria are permitted to live in their presence.