The Most Terrifying Fictional Race?

[thepj]

i'd have to say the tyranids, or one i haven't seen (i didn't read the thread properly but oh well) the necrons for warhammer 40k cause they don't realy die, they just keep going and don't stop until everything dies.

But you lot wait till I finish writing my book, i've got somthin that'll give you nightmares...

 

[MatumbeJack]

Personally my vote goes toward the Tyranids of the Warhammer 40k universe, for a good number of reasons.

They are controlled by a single consciousness that spans the entirety of their race, unsurprisingly called the 'Hivemind,' the physical manifestation of which is measured in LIGHT YEARS.

They devour every shred of organic matter on a given planet and apply thousands of years of evolution to the genetic identities of their prey. Literally, they will eat you, vomit you into the mycetic pools, and you will emerge a perfect incarnation of what you once were - utterly bound to the will of the Hivemind.

Most importantly though is what's written in their codex. It literally describes the Tyranids as the inevitable representation of death and rebirth, and it says of them that every living creature is doomed to stand against them, fight, and ultimately lose.

Dear god, they are HORRIFYING.

An entire race is controled by one colective consciousness ok im with u so far.
But how would you measure a consciousness i would imagine its kind of ethereal and there for has no substance but asuming you could do so why is it measured in lightyears wich is a measure of time?
Im not familiar with the warhamer backstory can someone fill me in?

Not the consciousness as you would think the abstraction per se, but the actual organisms that make up the 'body' of the Hivemind. What cells are to you, as an organism, monstrous space-faring beasts are to the Hivemind.

And you are mistaken; 'light year' is a measure of length on a stellar scale.

 

[L24z13L]

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.

No, the Tyranids reminded me of the Zerg because I saw the Zerg first.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

Necromorphs

Shibito (from Siren)- Some of the more advanced types are really scary. Like the "Burger head"

 

[DeathWyrmNexus]

I'm rather fond of the Xenomorph as a horrifying race.

I'm with you.

I would hate to find out they existed for real...

Ya, Pants altering would occur if I found out they were real...

 

[Zorg Machine]

Zerg (tyranids are rip offs in my eyes so they don't count) they take over planets and devour the natural life forms so they can reproduce them as genetically enhanced fighting machines...and also there are only a small tribe of alien warriors that can actually destroy the zerg leader (a giant biological mass called "the overmind" who commands all zerg and makes them evolve) and even if they do destroy the overmind, some of the lower commanders (smaller biological masses called "cerebrates" who command the divisions of the zerg force) can reform themselves into a new overmind.
and let's not forget that a single hive cluster (where the zerg are spawned from) managed too destroy 3 armies of terrans (humans) and protoss (aliens) due to the incredible reproductive abilities of zerg. a hive cluster spawns up to 3 larvae that can evolve into any of the zerg life forms, and if they are spawned into zerglings (standard zerg attack unit, equal to a fully geared marine) a single larvae produces 2 zerglings.

EDUCATION FAIL!

Tyranids where around BEFORE the Zerg as such how can Tyranids be rip off's is anything, they are based on Xenomorphs then expended.

I like starcraft better and anything that I like better is the original/most innovative game (don't try to understand my logic) and besides zerg are more awesome anyway sooooooo...

 

[Zacharine]

Pretty much any race from the WH40k universe, discounting the Tau, Eldar and various 'good' human factions (Imperial guard, Space marines, Sisters of battle, Inquisitors...)

So that leaves us with Dark Eldar ("Hey, I like the way you scream! I'll make you scream for the next few dedaces" - so after a few decades of torture, you, assuming you still live, can't tell the difference between pleasure and pain as you serve your masters, who torture you even more just for the kicks.)

The Ork ("Wesa smash you good! WAAAAGH!" - que a rush of an unstoppable horde who can't really be stamped out without a full-scale planetary bombardment. A single Ork spore is enough to grow them all back and their technology is genetically programmed into them. Their minds also make it work: every ork knows red vehicles go faster, so painting a tank red does make it go faster. If a weapon looks 'good an proper Orky' it will work, no matter what the laws of physics would say, as long as it's in Ork hands.)

Chaos ("SAnITy iS FOr tHe WEaK! Blood for the Blood God!" etc. Their 4 gods are also very real and the home of Chaos is pretty much comparable to medieval idea of hell.)

Necrons ("The Living have come. We shall cleanse this world in the name of the Star Gods" Who literally eat stars, but happen to like souls a bit more, for the taste)

Tyranids (Yeah... Xenomorphs have nothing on tyranids. Their heavier fighters would eat entire xenomorph lairs for breakfast with a sidedish of a few Predators... oh and they are all psychic. Their scouting fleets alone have been declared the greatest threat to life within the galaxy. The main invasion fleet is still far away...)

 

[FallenRainbows]

Zerg (tyranids are rip offs in my eyes so they don't count) they take over planets and devour the natural life forms so they can reproduce them as genetically enhanced fighting machines...and also there are only a small tribe of alien warriors that can actually destroy the zerg leader (a giant biological mass called "the overmind" who commands all zerg and makes them evolve) and even if they do destroy the overmind, some of the lower commanders (smaller biological masses called "cerebrates" who command the divisions of the zerg force) can reform themselves into a new overmind.
and let's not forget that a single hive cluster (where the zerg are spawned from) managed too destroy 3 armies of terrans (humans) and protoss (aliens) due to the incredible reproductive abilities of zerg. a hive cluster spawns up to 3 larvae that can evolve into any of the zerg life forms, and if they are spawned into zerglings (standard zerg attack unit, equal to a fully geared marine) a single larvae produces 2 zerglings.

EDUCATION FAIL!

Tyranids where around BEFORE the Zerg as such how can Tyranids be rip off's is anything, they are based on Xenomorphs then expended.

I like starcraft better and anything that I like better is the original/most innovative game (don't try to understand my logic) and besides zerg are more awesome anyway sooooooo...

So essentially wrong but you don't admit it and use "logic" was it? Oddly enough your logic isn't well... logical. But your entitled to think they are more awesome, so I wont argue that but Tyrinids where around BEFORE the zergs and 'nids them selves are loosely based on the xenomorphs.

 

[Typhusoid]

Mr. Staypuft

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

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.

The creepiest thing about the necrons to me is that both the orks and the eldar may have been created as weapons against the necrons, and the necrons are still there!

 

[lee1287]

humans. there stupidity amuses me. and is scary.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

The Necrons from 40k. They are very evil and very misterious. A bunch of machines made from living metal that want to wipe out all life in the universe, the race who created Orks to serve them, the race who will bring dwon the imperium. They are relentless and unstoppable.

 

[SteakHeart]

Every non-friendly creature in Half-Life 2, mainly the Combine Advisors.

 

[Disaster Button]

To all of you that say Tyranids from the 40k Universe, let it be known, they are entering our Galaxy because they are running from something else.

And when a Imperium sent out a probe, all they got in response was "Dakka, Dakka, Dakka, Dakka.." over and over again

 

[Disaster Button]

The Necrons from 40k. They are very evil and very misterious. A bunch of machines made from living metal that want to wipe out all life in the universe, the race who created Orks to serve them, the race who will bring dwon the imperium. They are relentless and unstoppable.

The Necrons didn't create the Orks, the Old Ones did.

 

[sk0lltap]

I say the zerg, mainly because of all the reasons that xenomorphs were listed in this thread. Nothing more terrible than being ripped to shreds by a million lings.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

The Necrons from 40k. They are very evil and very misterious. A bunch of machines made from living metal that want to wipe out all life in the universe, the race who created Orks to serve them, the race who will bring dwon the imperium. They are relentless and unstoppable.

The Necrons didn't create the Orks, the Old Ones did.

The Necrons are the old ones. They created the Ork precursers to serve them. The small techy ones (their name escapes me at the moment) are the closest in form to the origional Orks.

 

[Nouw]

BUGS. Wow! No one ever read or watched Starship Troopers around here. Does it kill to read the book that started it all? Bugs=Aliens=Tyranids=Zerg
For those that don't know of the bugs. They shoot plasma into the atmosphere and beyond to make sure those humans don't arrive at their homeplanet. They send asteroids from one side of the glaxay to another to destroy man-kind.
Search up Starship Troopers in Youtube and you might be suprised. Sure another giant bug alien race. But the first.

I say the zerg, mainly because of all the reasons that xenomorphs were listed in this thread. Nothing more terrible than being ripped to shreds by a million lings.

Is getting your brain sucked out by a tube while you are alive more terrifying?

 

[Disaster Button]

The Necrons from 40k. They are very evil and very misterious. A bunch of machines made from living metal that want to wipe out all life in the universe, the race who created Orks to serve them, the race who will bring dwon the imperium. They are relentless and unstoppable.

The Necrons didn't create the Orks, the Old Ones did.

The Necrons are the old ones. They created the Ork precursers to serve them. The small techy ones (their name escapes me at the moment) are the closest in form to the origional Orks.

Oh shit I know what techy ones you mean too, was it Snotlings?

And no, the Old Ones did create the Orks, they were primative back then but they expanded and bcame what they are today. They created them as an intelligent battle race to fight the Necrons before the Eldar but they didn't work out exactly as they planned.

Besides why would the Necrons create any more life, especially one as reproductive and savage as the Orks. It's their sole purpose to destroy all life.

Edit: ALso the Necrons are NOT the Old Ones, the Necrons were created by the Ctaan Gods, one of which dwelled in the star of the Necron home world befor ethey were Necrons. They became jealous of the old ones and so tried to destroy them by enlisting the Ctann God. Naturally the God tricked them and enslaved them, using their wish for long life agains tthem by turning them into the actual Necrons.

Thus began the War that destroyed the Old Ones, although it is believed some that survived. During this war the Old Ones created the Orks and Eldar to help them in their battle and to carry on their legacy.