Discussion Post: Species Differences

[scioscribe]

The cosmic MCU has given us some aliens--though, in my humble opinion, never enough (you can never have too many aliens)--but they mostly tend to be roughly humanoid. Have you noticed any intriguing background aliens? For the aliens who are generally "like humans, but green/blue/pink/gold," are there any other biological differences you like to imagine them having? Do you have any speculations on how Groot's species or the Skrulls--two of the more diverse types of aliens we've seen--may be particularly adapted to their original environments?

Xeno speculation welcome!

Comments

[lynnenne]

I’ve been surprised by the lack of non-humanoid aliens in the MCU, actually. I keep looking for them in the background of crowd scenes, but Ragnarok was really the only film that used a lot of them.

I’d like to know what species of creature Miek is. I don’t think it’s ever specified.

[sholio]

This may be slightly off topic, but one thing I absolutely LOVED about the first GotG movie is that "Xandarian" is a cultural identity and not a species. Xandar is not a one-species planet; there are at least three different colors/types of aliens that we see around in Xandar crowd scenes and even as speaking, named characters who clearly all identify as Xandarians. Presumably most of them also aren't specifically native to the planet since we also see them around elsewhere in the galaxy.

I had never realized how incredibly rare this is in multi-alien sci-fi before, at least outside of planets that are explicitly identified as colonies of somewhere or other, or else have an identity as a very recent melting pot, such as a starship or space station. But to have a planet be casually diverse like that is really rare, and I loved it.

There is something kind of charming about the fact that so many MCU aliens actually look exactly like humans without even having funky hair/skin/eye colors. I mean, a lot of this is down to the source material, obviously, but it is interesting to wonder whether extremely human-looking aliens like, say, half the people on Xandar actually ARE different in some way that might materialize if they were ever on Earth and therefore in a position to compare themselves to Terrans.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

This seems to be happening (with some differences) among the Kree. Though we don't know all that much about the cultural differences between Historical Kree (such as the Guesthouse corpse) and 1995 Kree or any relation or non-relation between Min-erva and any Centurians.

I'm really wanting the Skrulls to differ from Terran humans. Maybe Fury wasn't even looking in the right spot! I'm not sure that Maria's clarified "up your ass" parsed which is a funny bit. We know little enough about General Talos that he could have laid an egg prior to leaving Soren and the others that hied off with Mar-vel. Soren might have an ovipositor. Skrulls though could have more than two sexes involved in reproduction.

I know at least some fen are going speculative with Centurian biology. But we also have the pleasure robots seen when the Reavers are R&Ring to consider. Someone made them.