What with wars , destroy the surround , and generalimbecility , world is constantly getting itself into trouble . More than a fewkindly aliens have come to Earth trying to help us change our ways , and forthe most part , we ’ve tried to kill them . Here are a dozen aliens that , directly orindirectly , judge to make unnecessary us from risk … which was most often ourselves .
1 ) Klaatu , The Day the Earth Stood Still
Perhaps the most iconic of all space messiahs , Klaatu was analien who fare down to Earth in the 1951 picture The Day the Earth Stood Still . He came with a message of peace , a admonition , and a gift for the President of the United States . Anervous soldier shot him , which led to him being held under guard by themilitary , which led to him escape and living on the Q.T. among Earthlings for abit , which contribute to him getting frivol away by the military . The elephantine robot Gortresurrects Klaatu — space Messiah hump their resurrection , as you ’ll see — inorder to give world this message : If you spread your vehemence into space , you will be destroyed . And thus Klaatu give himself In rules of order to at leastgive us a chance to save ourselves .
2 ) Valentine MichaelSmith , Stranger in a Strange country
Valentine Michael Smith is n’t an alien , but he was produce bythem . The first human child brook on Mars , he was also the only subsister , andtaken in by the native Martians , who learn him their own psychic business leader . A newmission eventually comes to Mars and bring Smith back to Earth , where he’sbewildered by middling much everything about humankind , let in religion . Afterdabbling in several , including the all - sin - all - the - time Fosterite Church , heeventually founds the Church of All Worlds , which is kind of like an esotericBuddhism with more emphasis on blooming , and he ’s finally killed for thisblasphemy by the Fosterites . Oh , and then he speaks from the afterlife a bit , thus essentially co - opting the Fosterite church into his own .
3 ) Kaworu Nagisa , Evangelion
Although he look like a 14 - year - old human boy and appearsto be a regular EVA Unit airplane pilot , he ’s in reality an Angel , one of the mysteriousbeings — from infinite — that keep getting send to down to apparently destroyhumanity . Kaworu does befriend the mopey main character and fellow Evangelionpilot Shinji , however , which variety of backfires when Kaworu reveals that he ’s anAngel , tries to find the body of Adam ( as in Adam and Eve — seriously , justroll with it ) , and Shinji catches him and is forced to pulp him using theEvangelion ’s giant robot men . However , Kaworu let himself be caught by Shinji , and by letting himself be destroyed , did effectively keep the reality from thethreat he posed . Of course , the universe still ended a few days later , but it’sthe thought that counts .
4 ) Superman
Now , when you think of Space Messiahs , Superman probablydoesn’t make the list . He ’s a superhero , sure , but does punch bad guysreally make one Jesus ? Well , see the evidence . He sure comes fromspace , and he certainly spends most of his fourth dimension salvage humanity and the planet , over and over again . He even sacrifice himself to deliver the reality fromDoomsday , dying in the mental process ( and fare back with a gray mullet , but enough aboutthat ) . And , while he has n’t inspired any organized religion in the current - twenty-four hours DCuniverse , all peep into the DCU ’s future divulge that Superman ’s heroics havenot just inspired succeeding superheroes , but perhaps all of mankind . He may nothave a regular church building service with worship , but Superman ’s example is onealmost every DC superhero of the future tries to emulate .
5 ) The Blood Beast , Night of the Blood Beast
Okay , you might be wondering how a fauna called the BloodBeast makes it on a list of space messiah . Well , the Blood Beast fare toEarth hobble a drive on a rocketship , and provide his people ’s help inadvancing Earth ’s engineering , science , and all that good stuff , and warningthem of the risk of nuclear weapons , with which his own people annihilatedthemselves . Unfortunately , to get to this full stop , the Blood Beasts impregnatedthe manlike pilot of the rocketship with Blood beast baby and beheaded ascientist in purchase order to learn English , so the humans he ’s endeavor to convincedecide better safe than dingy , and pepper it with Molotov cocktails .
6 ) The Doctor , Doctor Who
He get from space , he saved a bajillion prison term , and hesacrifices himself always — sometimes for the world , sometimes for theuniverse sometimes just for buddy — but has a built in safety mechanism toregenerate , so he can keep sacrificing himself repeatedly . But the Doctor nevergot more Space Messiah - y than at the end of nu - Doctor Who ’s third time of year , whenthe Master turned him into Dobby the House Elf , and Martha Jones has to expend ayear in the Master ’s dystopia telling everyone on the planet to think reallyhard about the Doctor on a certain day at a certain time , which somehow givesthe Doctor all his tycoon and good looks back . No one on Earth remember thiscult of the Doctor , except the pitiable viewers who are still shocked at howridiculous it was ( even for a show about a madman with a flying , fourth dimension - travelingbox ) .
7 ) Winston NilesRumfoord , The Sirens of Titan
Unlike most of the entries on this list , Winston NilesRumfoord is a human , a rich military personnel that that decide to explore space on his own , but ended up catch in a “ chrono - synclastic infundibulum”on the way to Mars ; this fundamentally unstuck him in meter , allowing him to come out on Earth , Mars , Saturn ’s lunar month Titan , and evenBetelguese , while go steady the past times , present and future tense at the same time . Alongwith an alien Tralfamadorian who clash - landed on Titan eons ago , Rumfoorddevises an elaborate plan to save humanity which includes his own wife , a richbastard named Malachai Constant , a Martian invasion he prompt that wasintended to be annihilated from the start , and a young religious belief called the“Church of God the Utterly Indifferent . ” Unfortunately , all this was merely aplot by the Tralfamadorian who was cook events to get a unmarried piece torepair his spaceship , but Rumfoord ’s intention were good .
- Goku , Dragonball zee
Just like Superman , Goku came to Earth as a sister , grew upthinking he was a man , discovered he had incredible powers , and used them toprotect his new family planet fourth dimension and time again . He also sacrificed himself , die at least a couple of times , to hold enter the planet from the varioussuper - powered bad guys reckon to destroy it . Sure , he centralize on savinghumanity physically and not spiritually — he is , to be sure , kind of a retard — but we ’ll give him an einsteinium for Space Messiah Effort .
9 ) Leeloo , The Fifth Element
Technically , when Leeloo descend to Earth in Luc Besson ’s 1997film , she was just the Fifth Element , who crash - landed her on an exotic ship . Scientists turned this ingredient into the underdressed cleaning lady named Leeloo , who get away into New New York , meet cabbie Bruce Willias , and hightail it around thegalaxy trying to find the other four elements for keep the Earth frombeing swallowed by the Great Evil . Eventually they find ’em , come back to Earthand tack ’em , although she kind of stalls until Bruce Willis kisses her . Really , her messiah - ness stems from the vaguely spiritual mumbo - jumbo accompanyingthe five elements , which is somewhat diminished by the fact that she celebratessaving the creation by fucking Bruce Willis in a temple . Hey , I did n’t say theywere all upright place messiahs .
10 ) Thomas JeromeNewton , The Man Who Fell to Earth
Thomas Jerome Netwon is a unequalled display case among blank space messiahs;he in reality amount to Earth to save his aboriginal Mars , by accumulate enough wealth tofinance a starship to take badly need piss to his family unit , who may be thesole Martians surviving . But the Martian engineering he “ create ” as Netwon tomake money certainly benefitted world , even if it was n’t his main goal . Alas , Newton succumbs to human vice such as booze and sexual practice , and is eventuallycaptured by the political science just before he can complete his military mission , where hebasically gives up everything . Thomas Jerome Netown amount to Earth to be asavior , but instead Earth makes him sacrifice everything about himself , leaving him with one thing — humans . And as it become out , it ’s a prettyshitty gift .
11 ) Jesus , Prometheus
If Jesus came from outer space , then by definition he wouldbe a Space christ , correct ? That ’s what a major storyline in the former draftsof the Alien quasi - prequel Prometheus was going to be about , and the finalversion of the moving-picture show still does n’t make much sense without it . We know anEngineer make life sentence on Earth by drinking the black easy lay . And we know the blackgoop can either make well life sentence — like when the Engineer tope it at thebeginning — or extremely - virulent sprightliness , when it ’s ingested by those who are raging orevil or whatever . Now , the flick says something 2,000 year ago got theEngineers so upset that the black slime reacted to their negative emotion , turnedinto Xenomorphs , and obliterate them . The hypothesis is that the Engineers take in theircreation , human beings , was running wild andkilling each other , and they sent a sitter to calm everybody down . And then humanity killed the baby-sitter , which is another reason why theEngineer is so grumpy with humans once the Prometheus crew awaken him up . Now , this may all just sound like a coincidence , until you read interviews withRidley Scott who tell , without any equivocalness , “ Yeah . The intellect the Engineers do n’t like us any more is that they made us a SpaceJesus , and we broke him . ” So … yeah .
12 ) E.T. , the Extra - telluric
The analogue between E.T. and Jesus can not be denied . Sure , E.T. come from space and Jesus was bear of a virgin in a manger , but afterthat , they both were clear loving and docile - hearted , they both performed alot of miracles , they both go and came back , and they both loved the mother fucker out of Reese ’s Pieces . Hell , E.T. even swiped God ’s pointing move fromMichelangelo ’s The Creation of Adam painting . While Jesus started a worldwidereligion based on his radical rendition of Judaism designed to bring uscloser to God , E.T. perhaps gave us the great gift of all — he took hishorrible slight anthropomorphous nutsack consistency and got the sin off our planet .
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