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    30 Characters Who Survived Their Planet's Destruction

    Star Trek's Vulcan Towers Stand Tall, Logically

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    Image of bobert bobert
    05/16/09

    In reply to 30 Characters Who Survived Their Planet's Destruction
    "The People", from Zenna Henderson's stories, had their home planet destroyed, and some number (hundreds? thousands?) wound up on Earth.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/16/09

    @bobert: Hundreds is pushing it. One ship worth crashed on Earth, others made it to the planet they were supposed to be going to.


    Those were lovely books.

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    05/16/09

    In reply to 30 Characters Who Survived Their Planet's Destruction
    Guinan still owes me $10. You wouldn't know it from TNG, but she's kind of a flake.
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    Image of DontBlameGrima DontBlameGrima
    05/17/09

    @twophrasebark: Speaking of next gen...Isn't Lore sort of a survivor after their colony was wiped out by the Crystaline Entity. Sure, he helped cause it, but who wants to be nitpicky?
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    05/18/09

    You're right. Just because Lore is "evil" doesn't mean he can't qualify for the Federation's Survivor of Planetary Destruction Benefits Program.
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    05/16/09

    In reply to 30 Characters Who Survived Their Planet's Destruction
    For Doctor Who, you forgot to include:


    The Great Vampire - Who fled to E-Space to escape the Rassilon's mighty bowships. (nothing's specifically mentioned about their planet of origin, but it's stated that The Timelords completely eradicated them from our universe, so we can assume it's probably no longer around)


    Sutekh the Destroyer - Last of the Osirians. 'nuff said.


    The Fendahl - Another ancient enemy of the Time Lords. Fearing the power of a being capable of absorbing all energy. They destroyed the Fifth Planet, hoping the Fendahl had perished too, but somehow the skull survived and projected itself to Earth.


    Meglos - Ol' Cactus face was the last Zolfa-Thuran, who's entire race perished in a civil war over control of the Dodecahedron. His planet didn't actually get destroyed, but it did turn into a sandy, inhospitable craphole, and he was the only survivor, so it still counts.


    The Xeraphin - This one's a bit iffy. Technically, they're an entire race of ancient beings that narrowly escaped destruction during a great war by transforming themselves into a single gestalt intelligence.


    Delta - Queen of the Chimeron and last survivor of her race. Except for the egg that she carries in her backpack, and later 50's greaser Billy, who proves once and for all that guys will do *anything* for hot alien poontang.


    Kane - The very next episode also features the lone survivor of his race. Kane got dumped on an ice planet with a bio-mechanical dragon to toast his ass if he got too uppity. Apparently, he was just biding his time for several million years, since when he tries to set course for his home world of Proamnon to exact his revenge, he realises he has been a prisoner so long that the planet no longer exists. He then kills himself by opening a window and re-enacting a scene from 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/16/09

    @bluehinter: and the Gelph
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    Image of fineyboy R.O.A.C.H fineyboy R.O.A.C.H
    05/16/09

    In reply to 30 Characters Who Survived Their Planet's Destruction
    remeber though leia's adopted dad survived the destruction of alderan which is why she wasnt that sad
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/16/09

    @fineyboy R.O.A.C.H: "Oh poo on those billions on other people, I still got my Daddy!"

    "That's my Princess!"
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    Image of Sairus Delaney Sairus Delaney
    05/16/09

    In reply to 30 Characters Who Survived Their Planet's Destruction
    Riddick from Pitch Black and the rest of the Chronicles. Last of the Furyans.

    The Phantoms in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Though they got their dead asses rekilled at the end)
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    05/18/09

    @Sairus Delaney: Well, we don't necessarily know that the Furyans had their planet destroyed. Could have been plain, old fashion ethnic cleansing on this account.
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    Image of Counterglow Counterglow
    05/16/09

    In reply to 30 Characters Who Survived Their Planet's Destruction
    If we don't get off our asses and start acting responsibly, they'll be able to add "human survivors" to the list.
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    Image of InvaderPhlegm InvaderPhlegm
    05/16/09

    @Counterglow: Here, here!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/16/09

    In reply to 30 Characters Who Survived Their Planet's Destruction
    hmm


    That tragic distinction goes to Nyssa, who watched her planet Traken be destroyed by the bizarrely universe-spanning threat in Logopolis.


    of course it was universe spanning. it was the held off Heat Death of the Universe ;)

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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    05/16/09

    In reply to 30 Characters Who Survived Their Planet's Destruction
    Hey, I own Titan A.E.! It wasn't too bad.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/16/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: You own it? You're 20th Century Fox?!

    Oh man, do we have some things to say to you...
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    Image of Project Thanatos Project Thanatos
    05/16/09

    In reply to 30 Characters Who Survived Their Planet's Destruction
    Titan A.E. wasn't terrible. I actually enjoyed it.
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    Image of DeepFriar DeepFriar
    05/16/09

    @Project Thanatos: Hard to believe the same animation company did The Secret of Nihm. But yeah, I didn't mind it
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    05/18/09

    @Project Thanatos: Hear, hear! Titan AE is one of my favorite films. It's a bit cheesy at times, but fun.
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    Image of capnrob capnrob
    05/16/09

    In reply to 30 Characters Who Survived Their Planet's Destruction
    Bobo, Mike Nelson, and Pearl Forrester, no? Didn't they blow up Earth?
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    05/16/09

    @capnrob: I thought Mike and the 'bots ended up back on Earth in the final episode of MST3K, watching cheesy movies in their Minneapolis bachelor pad. Ah, sweet freedom!
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    05/16/09

    @capnrob: Mike helped the Holy Bomb cult detonate their atomic warhead, killing everybody on the future 'Planet of the Apes' version of Earth, except for Bobo.


    He then also had the Nanites blow up the observer's planet with a #7 special (though several of the other observers escaped to reappear in a later episode) and destroyed another unnamed planet with a baking soda bomb.


    Technically, you could also say he was responsible for the death of his own eyelash mites, millions of nanites, and the Hubble telescope.

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    Image of Logan5 Logan5
    04/02/09

    In reply to Star Trek's Vulcan Towers Stand Tall, Logically
    Vulcan, with the unlikely rock formations towering in the background, demonstrates once again how this movie has sacrificed logic for the sake of eye candy, in this case in the least likely and most offensive place in the Star Trek universe.


    Those rock formations simply could not exist unless the gravity of Vulcan were a fraction of the Earth's, and probably many more unlikely scenarios converging for the sake of justifying a special FX shot.

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    Image of Evdor Evdor
    04/02/09

    @Logan5: Where's Garrison Dean when you need him?


    Somethingsomething graphic here It's a Disaster, etc.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/02/09

    @Evdor: Come back Sunday for his regular feature. I'd wager he's planning something.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/02/09

    In reply to Star Trek's Vulcan Towers Stand Tall, Logically
    Holey-moley! Didja notice that those mountains in the background look like a jumped-up version of[en.wikipedia.org] ? The location where they shot the TOS episodes "Arena", "Arena", "The Alternative Factor", "Shore Leave", and "Friday's Child".


    Also a bizillion other shows and tv and etcetera and so on.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/02/09

    @Grey_Area: Vasquez Rocks, I mean.

    VASQUEZ TOTALLY ROCKS!!
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    Image of dave the wet sprocket dave the wet sprocket
    04/02/09

    @Grey_Area: it's a hint. the bad guy in reboot 2 is gonna be the gorn dude.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/02/09

    @dave the wet sprocket: Too much to hope for. I heart Gorns!
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    04/02/09

    In reply to Star Trek's Vulcan Towers Stand Tall, Logically
    How can Sulu be a good helmsman considering its all just pushing buttons and plotting routes? Its not like they use a stick, its mostly computers.


    And for that matter doesn't Sarek run into something coming out of space dock in Wrath of Khan. How can she be so bad at pushing buttons?

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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    04/02/09

    In reply to Star Trek's Vulcan Towers Stand Tall, Logically
    You forgot


    '& Slusho'

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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    04/02/09

    @NotChoinski:


    (With newest flavor, 'Tranya')

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/02/09

    In reply to Star Trek's Vulcan Towers Stand Tall, Logically
    Khan Noonien Singh looks kind of different than I expected in that photo.
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