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Human-alien hybrids are everywhere in scifi. Whether they come from interplanetary love or mutant genes quietly sneaking into our DNA, we're all about hooking up the Human factor with anything else out there. Just ask Captain Kirk, who tried to dock with every alien woman he encountered. Check out our list below of some of the best science fiction halfsies. Hybrid vigor!
Spock: Not only could Spock serve as the poster boy for the entire half-human/half-something else universe, but they also worked his background into several episodes of the show, and the plot of a couple of the films. Plus it gave them the opportunity to write lines like "All right, you mutinous, disloyal, computerized half-breed. We'll see about you deserting my ship." Which Kirk said, and not Bones, who relished in taking digs at Spock's dual heritage. He also helped carve the way for other Stark Trek halfsies, like Deanna Troi (half Human/half Betazoid and Worf's son Alexander, who is 1/4 Human, 3/4 Klingon and 4/4 whiny.
Doctor Who: Everyone knows that Doctor Who is from Gallifrey, right? Well, not the writers of the 1996 Doctor Who television movie. They had the 8th Doctor be half-human "On my mother's side," which opened up an enormous can of worms in the continuity, amongst the fans, and pretty much throughout space-time. The 10th Doctor later revealed that Time Lords can rewrite their DNA to imitate alien species, which seems like a stopgap effort at fixing that particular problem.
Ripley: In Alien Resurrection (shudder) Ripley was brought back as a clone with half-human/half-alien DNA, with an alien queen embryo implanted inside her. The military scientists extracted the embryo, but decided to keep Half-Ripley alive. Which, of course, turned out to be a mistake because her human side is imbued with "kickass." Her resulting offspring was also a mix of Alien with Human traits. In fact, the original design for the creature featured very prominent male and female genitalia, which they finally removed in post-production. According to director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, "Even for a Frenchman, it's too much."
Elizabeth: This half Alien/half human child from V: The Final Battle was the resulting offspring from the climactic ending of episode two of that miniseries. When Robin gave birth to those two babies, one a girl with a forked tongue, and the other a boy who looked like a lizard, it was one of the most shocking moments of the show. It was probably only topped by the fact that the Visitors were reptilian aliens. Elizabeth ended up having strange magical powers that saved the day in the end, plus the bacteria that killed her brother but left her alive was developed into a weapon called "Red Dust" that the humans used against the Visitors. Looks like cross-species sex pays off after all. Just ask the Cylons, and while you're at it find out what the hell is happening with the whole Hera subplot, especially now that we have Nicky and Hera: dual Cylon offspring.
Robocop: Okay, in all fairness, he wasn't really half human, since most of his body had been replaced by robo-parts, but he still had a human brain and a human face. In fact, I'm not sure why the bad guys didn't just target his lower jaw whenever they were out fighting him in public. Looked fairly vulnerable to me. Still, he did have to power down from time to time (so he could dream and further the human plot points) and he also ate that strange sludge that tasted like baby food, so he had enough human workings going on in there. Thank you for your cooperation.
Mariner: Kevin Costner's Waterworld flick has been popping up on cable every time you blink lately, and I have to admit that this film isn't as bad as I remember. Sure there are some dorky moments, but Costner's Mariner character as a half Human/half fish combo leads an interesting life. Rather than seeing him battle Dennis Hopper and his cronies, I'd like to see a Discovery Channel-esque special that just followed him around on his trimaran and showed us what his life was like. After all, at the end of the movie he returns to the waters to do... who knows what?
King of the Land of Half: Did you know there was an entire land dedicated to Halves? Everything in the entire land was split into different halves, and was presided over by a king who wore half kingly robes, and a half suit of armor. His crown was made up of two different halves, and his breakfast bowl was made up of try different types of bowls, perfect to hold his Quaker Halfsies cereal in. This rice/corn combo cereal came and went in the early 1980s, but not before Jay Ward of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame could animate this Half King/Half King wonder. He might not be scifi, but the cereal featured Nutrasweet, which is certainly space-aged and likely to turn us all into mutants. And speaking of mutants...
Kuato: Technically he might be a mutant, but he sure looked like a half Mutant/half Human to us. After all, he couldn't get around very well without the lug whose belly he was growing out of walking around and feeding him and all that jazz. What was really special was that no matter how fucked-up you thought Kuato looked, he was the real brains of the operation. You sure hope that poor guy never got punched in the stomach, plus it probably made shopping for clothes a real interesting experience. I just want to know where Kuato "went" while he was tucked up inside the guy's guts. Was it like regressing back to the womb? Check out the clip below that shows what he might have been like at parties.
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Water world better than you remember? What the hell are you smokin? does anybody realize that there just isn't enough water on the planet, even if you melted the ice caps, for the world to be submerged by water.
The ugliest was the alien/human hybrid from the end of Alien Resurrection. Damn that was sick.
What, no Hera?
Or is that too much of a spoiler?
Where's the love for B'Elanna Torres? Oh, the ST quota was already filled.
My all time favorite alien/human hybrid is the twins in the Dunwich Horror. I didn't sleep for a week when I read it in 6th grade.
I forgot Barf from Spaceballs. Half man, half dog, he's his own best friend.
Does Quato from Total Recall count?
Dont forget "Hillary Rodham Clinton".
No human has "chankles" like that.
I'm not surprised, but how do you manage to get the definition of half-breed wrong?
Human with alien symbiont or parasite is a similar topic. Anyone recall Hal Clement's Needle?
NO Scorpius? - Okay, he wasn't part "human" persay, but the writers always seemed to suggest a link between humans and sebaceans. (the latter being an artifically evolved subspecies.)
And her certainly was the best..er, naddest hybrid anything of them all.
And don't forget most of the creatures in the end of "Slither" were pretty much human/alien hybrids, Grant Grant being the endall of that mess.
Are not the "Alien" monsters hybrids?
Arthur Watley (a.k.a. The Dread Lobster)
show-Frisky Dingo
half man/half lobster
Inventor of Antfarm keyboard
What about the girl from Species? Half human, half sex-starved alien, hellbent on procreating.
@Priam:
"I like to call it lost wages!"
And Kuato sings!
+ Watch video
Tiny Attorney on the Venture Bros is my fave Kuato rip off.
@Priam: I'm guessing Cody 2 could work as well.
maggie simpson!
Re: Doctor Who
I always assumed that "Half human on my mother's side" was roughly the same as saying, "Oh, he's so graceful he must be half cat!"
At least, that's what I like to pretend, because that makes sense.
can't...stop...laughing at first pic.
Oh man.
Whew.
The episode climaxing with the freeze-frame of the birthing of that lizard-baby was pretty damn nuts in 1984...
we're so jaded these days.
What about Carthoris? Son of John Carter, Warlord of Mars, and Dejah Thoris, The most beautiful woman on two worlds? Possibly the original hybrid between an alien and an Earthling! (unless, of course, you count the gods in greek mythology as aliens, then they would be alien hybrids...)
@Tim Faulkner: "Half-breed is a term used to describe anyone who is half of one race and half of another"
So, how's that wrong?
@Kevin Kelly: I'm with you. And why be so picky? It's a good topic regardless.
@Zantor: Yeah!
There's too many good hybrids out there tyo come up with a short list, but what a great way to explore the genre!
I nominate the Fly/Human hybrid played by Eric Stolz in The Fly II. The "I'm getting better!" line as the boy genius starts to shed his human appearance is priceless.
I also vote a HUGE no against any Alien(s) hybrid, whether it's the dog alien from alien3 or the Predator Alien hybrids in the comics and movies. I thought it was a gimmick to introduce the idea that the aliens take on characteristics of their host just so they could design new aliens for each movie. I'll stick with James Cameron's drone, warriors, and Queens.
@Kevin Kelly: I didn't no Peter Weller's mom had sex with a robot, Kevin Costner's mom had sex with a fish, that Kuato's mom had sex with basketcase (?), or that a short-lived cartoon advertisement about half-sies could register. (I won't even be so nitpicky as to question Ripley.)
I'm fine with breaking the rules for the sake of humor, but when there are many missed opportunities on this list and 4/8 don't qualify and you still don't comprehend that?
Even if you only said "mutant hybrids" 2/8 still wouldn't qualify, the 4 "true" half-breeds aren't strictly mutants, and of course, you'd be missing many of the best mutant hybrids.
Sorry, but Annalee pays me to nitpick.
@Tim Faulkner: "know", not "no" of course. And I didn't mean to suggest that it's always the women that are freaky-deaky. You could replace "mom" with "dad" in my samples above.
@Tim Faulkner: Thanks for grading, and for reading! When your own post about the same topic is up, please let me know.
@augie1: People love to whine!
@A-Bettik: It wasn't. There was dry land, they just hadn't found it yet. (Until the end of the movie.)
In other news...Guess I'm the only one who actively liked (yes, LIKED) Alien Resurrection. Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a freakin' genius IMO. (And the Joss Whedon pedigree of the script helps too.)
Y'all just a buncha haters.
Wait, what about Scully's baby?
No wait.
No, wait again.
Crap. Can anyone actually remember how that story line ended? Was anyone still paying attention at that point?
@Lizzie24601: I think the kid might've just been Mulder and Scully's.
But I don't remember either.
On the Doctor being "half human": something like that was sort of what the lost Lungbarrow arc (the plot thread in operation at the time of the original show's demise) was leading towards.
Sort of. Except weirder. A lot weirder. But so weird that the statement is weirdly truthful. Now, said plot arc is now no more than unwritten history, but it's worth noting it's a little less absurd than all that.
Kuato isn't really a hybrid, he's half human, half...human? Just a plain old human-human mutant.
If you're counting Robocop, then an honorable mention should go to the old kids cartoon Silverhawks.
There's even a line in the theme song proclaiming Our Heroes to be: "Partly metal! / Partly real! / Silverrrr! Hawwwks!"
wow snl is still as funny as a kick in the cancer
@A-Bettik
Well you do know that water is extraterrestrial right?
And that scientists have been tracking all of the extra water we get yearly from space.
Eventually we will receive enough water to submerge all of the landmasses on the planet that aren't made of floating ice.
@Lizzie24601: I think he was half alien but but then was that because Scully herself became alien-like what with the implant and all, or because Mulder had a couple tests done on him as well.Either way, poor kid never had a chance.He was lucky he only got as far as moving bits of spaceship with his noggin.
Anyway the most important thing to remember is:THEY GOT IT ON AT SOME POINT.Yay!
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Murphy's face wasn't the original but a reconstruction, presumably bullet-proof. It's mentioned in the second movie.
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That alien baby scene in "V" was the talk of the schoolyard when I was in the 6th Grade. I can't believe how terrible it looks in brightly-lit closeup.
"...the original design for the creature featured very prominent male and female genitalia, which they finally removed in post-production. According to director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 'Even for a Frenchman, it's too much.'"
And that is why the film should have been directed by a German.
Star Wars has some good ones going for it in the expanded universe stuff. I guess that genes and galactic society at large give most humanoids some leeway, but I guess once you get past supralight travel, a dude with green freckles is just a drop in the bucket.
@Calraigh: Not necessarily! Wasn't there that one flashback where Scully asked Mulder to be the father of her baby in a, like, artificial inseminationy sort of way?
Deny Everything.
@Lizzie24601: (though actually even as a stalwart noromo I'm still peeved at the half-assediness of the whole MSR. either get them together on screen or not at all - it's a tv show, what's the point of doing it if it's not going to be part of the drama? instead, Mulder reappears in the series finale and suddenly they're all in lurve as though its always been that way. half-assed, yo.)
@psych0fred: Technically, I believe the "standard" xenomorph we are used to is the human/alien hybrid.
Robocop makes it, but Syl from Species doesn't?
What about the cheesey halfbreed baby from Humanoids from the Deep?
@Counterglow: Yeah, I expected Syl to be in the top three.
Oh man... the V-baby will make a great profile pic!
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