Well, it seems our Superfriends in Congress might be a mite too paranoid about a latter-day Legion of Doom escaping during transfer from Gitmo and wreaking havoc on voters in their districts while fulfilling diabolical plans of world domination (aided and abetted by mutant powers and arch-villain alien technology).
While these stories arise from sober and recognizable threats — nuclear war, plague, climate change, resource depletion — these serve as little more than a trigger for the plot, which involves handsome actors going postal on the relevant villains: aliens or cyborgs or, more recently, zombies meant to personify the dehumanizing effects of modern society.
The Reapers are the more interesting villains however, and too often the Kett come off like a generic Star Trek crew of baddie aliens with ugly armor and designs to kidnap and murder everyone for its own sake.
"I can't wait for people to meet the heroes of Class, to meet the all-new villains and aliens, to remember that the horrors of the darkest corners of existence are just about on par with having to pass your A-Levels".
"I can't wait for people to meet the heroes of Class, to meet all-new villains and aliens, to remember that the horrors of the darkest corners of existence are just about on par with having to pass your A levels".
Back in the 1990s, a series of Bloodlines comics were released into the DC Universe, where the villains were Alien-style rip-off monsters who fed on spinal fluid and turned some people into heroes.
Known for the unearthly menace he brings to the characters he portrays on television's "Boardwalk Empire" and off Broadway's "Mistakes Were Made," it's only natural that Michael Shannon would end up as an alien villain in Zack Snyder's new "Superman" movie.
Krang the evil alien villain and his tank-like fortress the technodrome will be in the new "TMNT" film, but the pink screaming alien didn't have a voice until now.
There's only so much you can have in common with an alien villain, and Jessica Alba just wants to make sure fans know she's not quite as unhinged as her lovesick character Lena in "Escape From Planet Earth".
In 1922, a government permanent secretary was quoted in The Times of London calling grays "sneaking, thieving, fascinating little alien villains".
Also, the film, coming as it did at the end of the stagnant 1970s, and featuring a powerless Superman and vaguely Slavic looking alien villains commanding the president of the United States to his knees, deftly captured the national mood coming out of a dispiriting decade.
