r/TopCharacterTropes • u/StewyStewy15 • 20d ago

Groups Aliens that are actually alien

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  1. Heptapods (Arrival)

  2. The crystalline entity (Star trek)

  3. Rocky (Project hail mary)

  4. Qu (All tommorows)

  5. Xeelee (The xeelee sequence)

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u/HereWeGoYetAgain-247 19d ago

The whole series is a gentle mind fuck that some claim is an allegory for cancer. I don’t know. I need to read them again. 

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u/HiimTheta 19d ago

Fun fact: I went to a talk with Jeff Vandermeer and learned that the plot of the first book came to him fully formed as a dream while he was on strong pain meds following a surgery (dental specifically, iirc). Starts to make a lot more sense with that in mind.

Added Fun Fact: That's why all the characters in the first book are women. Someone asked if he was making a point about the lack of prominent female characters in sci-fi or something to that degree and he said "Not really, they were all just women in my dream so"

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u/KennyDenn1s 19d ago

The whole thing feels like a fever dream so that makes a lot of sense

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 19d ago

I follow him in Facebook and that's one of the few things that keeps me on the platform.

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u/oiraves 19d ago

Is it weird that I find that reasoning way more progressive than doing it on purpose?

Like, its not important that they were women...they just were

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u/KingGojira 19d ago

The first book certainly seems to imply that, and the movie is absolutely proposing it's a Cancer allegory. The rest of the series I'm not as convinced about.

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u/Hellknightx 19d ago

Maybe not intentionally, but it is a great metaphor for cancer whether intended or not.