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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alien character" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a character that is not from this world or is foreign in nature, often found in science fiction or fantasy contexts.
Example: "The story features an alien character who struggles to adapt to life on Earth while trying to understand human emotions."
Alternatives: "extraterrestrial being" or "foreign entity".
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It's as dense and deafening as you would expect, the obscure guitar tunings lending it all a vividly alien character.
She described him as "a man whom I've known since I woke up from a deep cryogenic sleep as Ellen Ripley," referring to her "Alien" character.
It's the lake where David Bowie's quixotic alien character, Thomas Jerome Newton, splashes down and later builds a wickedly cool Atomic Ranch-style manse.
The announcement of Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor last weekend brought together a global audience of all ages, celebrating an alien character on a scale that's surely unprecedented.
And also with Paul (2011), which Rogen stars in but didn't write, in which his alien character is able to transmit the entirety of human knowledge into another's mind with the merest prod of his ET-ish index finger.
Dexter and Six Feet Under actor Michael C Hall, who plays the central alien character Newton, will reprise the role alongside fellow original cast members Michael Esper and Sophia Anne Caruso.
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After all, the alien characters in films should be "readable".
2. Many children's cartoons are about alien characters and their way of life.
Unappealing alien characters, a tepid marketing campaign, family film gridlock at theaters and the movie's antifeminist undertones contributed.
The designer said he was inspired by Zenna Henderson, an American science fiction writer in the 1950s and '60s whose alien characters struggled to live within a human world.
When James Cameron's science-fiction opus "Avatar" comes to the screen this month, audiences will witness meticulously conceived alien characters — speaking a meticulously conceived alien language.
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