Space now terrifies me

[viking97]

Aliens that terrify me most? The bigger Flood forms and necromorphs are already pretty nasty, but what truly scares the pants off me are the little infector-type aliens - you know, the ones that are basically independent penises with 'brutal and fatal rape' as the standard pre-programmed setting. Xenomorph facehuggers, those little Flood buggers, that necromorph thing that looks like a flying vagina with a protruding spike, what have you...

what about head-crabs? if my understanding is correct, they basically replace your brain and mutate you a whole bunch!

i personally found IT to be a relatively unfrightening movie, but the one scene where everyone is tied up, and he is individually testing their blood, scared me a bunch. anybody could be the creature, you can't trust anyone.

Yes, head-crabs count, too, I forgot those.

By the way, you mean "The Thing". "IT" was that movie with the killer clown, Pennywise.

oh ya, sorry "The Thing". although IT was working under similar principles now that i think about it, but pennywise wasn't an alien.

 

[Antari]

Well, not really, but my imagination has really run wild lately with supposition.

See, I've very recently played through Dead Space and am currently playing through Dead Space 2. Now, these games aren't scary, like say, Amnesia: Dark Descent, but the situation your are playing in would be absolutely terrifying if you were not a resourceful engineer with a mineral cutter.

Along with the xenomorphs from the Alien franchise, the necromorphs are the last thing you want to encounter on the galactic frontier. Unlike here, on good old planet Earth, where we pretty much know what can kill us, space is full of the unknown, and the thought that all manner of nasty beasties could tear us to shreds on our first space colony isn't what I would have signed up for.

I mean, imagine waking up to this one morning (in spaaaaaace).

Spoiler: Do not watch if you are the type of person who wouldn't touch anything to do with horror with a ten foot galactic pole.

And this is before I even consider being enslaved by a master race of alien overlords.


But I love it, this sort of thing really fuels my imagination.

So, fellow eascapist, when you think of terrifying aliens, do you think of our good old friends the xenomorphs/necromorphs or something more intelligent, like say, the Predators?

There's a pretty good chance that we'll end up being the dangerous power hungry aliens invading other planets.

 

[blind_dead_mcjones]

what would terrify me the most in terms of exteraterrestirals is an alien species that is so alien that they don't even look biological and there is litteraly no way to communicate with them, and while they are benign they end up wreaking havok anyway due to said communication barrier

kind of like the ELS (extraterrestrial livingmetal shapeshifters)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTKKIgDCNPY

 

[Vrex360]

I love Necromorphs. Seriously they have to be the coolest space zombies ever.
Alarmingly scientists have found evidence to suggest that micro organism could resurrect dead skin cells so it is actually possible that somewhere out there exist necromorphs.

Oh and by the way, puny human, you have every reason to fear the depths of space. For that is the home of the MIGHTY SANGHEILI ARMADA!!

We are coming for you!!!

Anyway, to be honest I fear the idea of an advanced alien civilization more than I fear alien monsters or space virus's. Because an advanced civilization could do all manner of damage to Earth in only a short period of time.
Then again, so could an extraterrestrial pathogen.

Come to think of it, the thing I fear most is an advanced alien civilization that kill people with an alien pathogen.

 

[DragonBorn96]

I think the Necro's are awseome. Alien Space Zombies FTW. 2nd would be the Xeno's. Primitive yet Intelligent. I also agree with the concept of the alien virus. That would cause devastation. I really want Necro's to be real.....

Alarmingly scientists have found evidence to suggest that micro organism could resurrect dead skin cells so it is actually possible that somewhere out there exist necromorphs.

0-o Oh dang...... Ah well, if your gonna glass me then I don't got alot to worry about.

 

[thiosk]

If you think deadspace, xenomorphs, and the like are horrifying, give a gander to the Warhammer 40k fiction.

High-Octane Nightmare fuel [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HighOctaneNightmareFuel/Warhammer40000], it certainly is.

 

[Nouw]

If you think deadspace, xenomorphs, and the like are horrifying, give a gander to the Warhammer 40k fiction.

High-Octane Nightmare fuel [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HighOctaneNightmareFuel/Warhammer40000], it certainly is.

Man it took 4 pages ('cept my post) to mention Warhammer 40,000? Read the damn post and try not to shit bricks.

 

[Cheesus333]

What scares the hell out of me is the idea of the alien overlords rather than alien extinctionists.

Think about it, which is worse? Being slaughtered en masse by the xenomorphs, necromorphs, Flood etc.? Or being herded Combine-style into dystopian city-cages and slowly killed over miserable, hopeless decades?

I mean, the latter example probably isn't as potent given that the Combine are so hilariously incompetent that they were eluded, overthrown and driven to the brink by a physicist with a malformed metal rod, but still. To be a citizen in the 20 years after the seven hour war would have been indescribably horrific.

Alarmingly scientists have found evidence to suggest that micro organism could resurrect dead skin cells

Oh... well shit. I'd better zombie-proof my house. Not that it will help, unless I make it airtight. And then I'll suffocate and die anyway.

Out of curiosity, is it just skin cells? That seems oddly specific.

 

[SamuelT]

Y'know. It would be much more terrifying to know that, with the entire expanse of the universe, there was nothing out there. No great civilisation, no small alien baceria. Absolutely nothing. The isolation from that fact would be a lot more scary to me than finding something hostile out there. Highly unlikely, I know, due to all the room and variables, but it's something that's pretty disconcerting.

But if we do find life out there, it's either waaaaay more advanced than we are and it's likely they're not that hostile to us. It's be the equivalent of humans finding a colony of ants, so advanced they would be compared to us. If we find THEIR homeplanet however, we have nothing to fear. We'd be the humans and they'd be the colony.

 

[Rockchimp69]

Well heres a scary thought.

If space really is infinite (like many people think it is) then everything that can exist will exist somewhere. It works on a similar principle to the monkeys with the typewriters theory. Simply put, if its biologically possible then those aliens ur scared of, will exist somewhere out there = P

As long as there aren't creatures similar to what Lovecraft created, I won't be scared at all.

If we finally develop faster than light travel and start exploring the galaxy only to run into Azathoth or something I'll be pissed off. Luckily it probably wouldn't care too much

Would be worse is if we start scanning it and it decides to crush our planet to stop all these annoying space bees from buzzing around.