In Speculative Fiction stories dealing with the extraterrestrial and otherworldly, the beings from beyond the veil are rarely friendly, and if they are it's usually a pretense so they can eat us or make us mommies less than consensually. The reason is that it makes good drama, it exploits humanity's latent fear of the unknown with implacable and indecipherable menaces. Traditionally this trope uses aliens not as characters but as forces of nature. They will be the Monster of the Week for the heroes to fight, a terrifying and nigh-unstoppable foe with little to no motivation other than violence for its own sake.
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Xenomorph
Marvin the Martian
Martians (Mars Attacks!)
Audrey II
Edgar the Bug
Predators
Symbiotes
Darkseid
The Daleks
Kang and Kodos
King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse)
Pennywise (It)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Chitauri (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Engineers (Prometheus)
Kree (Marvel)
The Flood
Zim (Invader Zim)
Decepticons
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