Fictional Species Nominations! Opening Round Starts Feb.

[lexprod]

Hey, so why don't we do a most interesting fictional creature and/or species that may or may not be sentient? Unicorns and jackalope and the Sandman oh my!

The line gets blurry with things like gryffons or aliens, that may be beasts or sentient depending on the source material, and would it be fair to put up "humanoid" races like Timelords, Smurfs, and Crab People (south park) up against Pokemon, Tribbles, and Babelfish? I'm of the "more the merrier" philosophy, so that we could have a mega-bracket.

NOMINATIONS OPEN: Post 20 picks for the most interesting fictional species of all time and all medias (as long as it has never been nor is a real species). The most nominated species get put in the best seeds, while the least nominated will go into run-offs to determine if they'll be let in the bracket.

[MNOWAX]

im a fan of Protoss and Zerg
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The Man The Myth The Legend
MNOWAX

[Undercover Monk]

The Irken race will dominate you all. Hahahaha. No Gir not that button Noooooooo.....(end transmission)

I would love to see a huge mega bracket and this seems like a great category. We would probably end up needing several run-offs just to get the list from the nominations. I'm all for it and would be available if you needed a co-mod, this could get messy.
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The Classic Blunders:
1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

[lexprod]

[lexprod]

NOMINATIONS OPEN: Post 20 picks for the most interesting fictional species of all time and all medias (as long as it has never been nor is a real species). The most nominated species get put in the best seeds, while the least nominated will go into run-offs to determine if they'll be let in the bracket.

Take your time making your list if you need it, the category is nearly infinite. Also please avoid looking at others' lists until you've made your own, as it could influence your decisions. Currently there is no deadline, but I wouldn't want to wait more than a month for this phase to be complete.
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I'll have a P please...

[JDTAY]

Gorgons
Catgirls
Harpies
Banshees
Witches
Hags
Nymphs
Faeries
Lamias
Succubi
Mermaids
Cecaelias
Nagis

And The Women Who Have Orgasms

Nah, seriously, Valkyries

I'll post my other six later.

[Quailman]

Sasquatch
Yeti
Abominable Snowman
Yowie
Mapinguari
Skunk Ape
Maricoxi
Almas
Chemosit
Chuchunaa
Orang Pendek
Hibagon
Nguoi Rung
Yeren

[Zag]

My first thought for most interesting fictional species was Hobbits. They are, at least, the ones I most enjoy reading about.

I suppose if you are intending only ones that people have claimed actually live on this earth rather than Middle Earth, I would say the fictional species that Tolkien suggested were really just hobbits all along: leprechauns, brownies, and the like.

[MNOWAX]

(pulls out AD&D Monster Manual)
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MNOWAX

[JDTAY]

Two more:

Sirens
Angels

[JDTAY]

Also:

Wraiths

Sorry for all the posts, I just wanna make sure I don't forget this stuff.

[JDTAY]

I'm guessing Chimera is out of the question, right? 'Cause there's only one of her, which makes her more like a character than a species.

[Stubby]

vote: Grendel's Mother

[Creationist*]

Neanderthals

[Amb*]

Smurfs
Snorks
Goa'uld (stargate)
Replicators (stargate)
Hobbits (LOTR)
Pokemon
Prawns (District 9)
Magwai (Gremlins movie)
Cacodaemons (DOOM I & II etc)
Brontosauruses


I think Brontosauruses is great myself. Bet I won't get a following on that at all

[Dented Ford]

Au contraire!
Brontosaurus is a staggeringly brilliant suggestion.

[mole]

Tiggers!
Sandworms
Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts of Traal

[JDTAY]

Would the Bene Gesserit count? They're human.

Also, for my potential 20th pick, I pick the Luna. Nah, seriously, I'll think of something later.

[L'lanmal]

The interesting part about these tournaments is when you have vastly different genre competing which are not normally compared, like Classical vs. Rap in music. I say mash humanoids and non-humanoids together.

That said, I would encourage all entries to be actual (well, ficticious) species. I would be disappointed to see occupations (Witch, Wizard, Swordmage, Summoner, Jedi) or unique beings (the Phoenix, Deep Thought, Medusa from Greek Mythology, Spiderman). Other human or nearly-human races (Atlantians, Demi-humans, Stormtroopers) seems to be a grey area.

My first nominees:
Prinnies (Disgaea) - Just explosive demon penguins with helium voices at first glance...
Chocobo (Final Fantasy) - The source of many minigames.
Treecats (D. Weber - Honorverse) - Telepathic hexapods that love celery. Bleek!
Leontine (M. Sagara) - Picked at random out of Aerians, Barrani, Leontine, Tha'alani
Ferengi (Star Trek - Possibly a race) - In DS9 either the Ferengi were well-done or the Dominion was poorly-done. Hm, probably the second.
Dragons - Everyone loves dragons

[JDTAY]

No, not witches!

Do you know how hard it is to come up with all-female species? There are no all-female species on Star Trek. What's up with that?

[L'lanmal]

[JDTAY]

Whoa, Wikipedia says there are 14 types of nymphs. I think I'll just take Dryads and Naiads though.

[JDTAY]

One more:

White Women

No, not those White Women, These White Women

Now to see how many of my nominations the lexprod rejects. I'm guessing 7.

[Amb]

[lexprod]

My nominations:
Unicorn
vampires
timelords (Doctor Who)
vulcans
phoenix
sphinx
jackalope
pikmin (Pikmin)
yoshis (Super Mario series)
Ood (Doctor Who)
geth (Mass Effect)
dragons
boogeymen
jabberwock
leprechaun
minotaur
godzilla
Audrey Jr. (little shop of Horrors)
manbearpig (south park)
gargoyles




I'm taking as wide as a definition as possible. If there's only one of them, it counts as long as it's a distinct species and not like, the ONLY black sheep or something. Also it need not live on earth, any and all alien species are fair game. Nor does it need to be beastial nor humanoid. I've included geth which are actually AIs that became sentient and (as usual) try to kill everyone.

Also: thank you Amb for putting Smurfs. I had to lop it off my list sadly, glad to see it get a nod.

PLEASE try to keep your list in one post if at all possible, having to chase all the entries down is gonna be rough if you do it one or two at a time, especially since many people will be suggesting joke entries in similar ways.
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I'll have a P please...

[lexprod]

I guess there's no way to end the poll since I set it to never end. If there is a way, could someone? The poll was from before we started nominations X.x;;
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I'll have a P please...

[Amb]

I editted the poll to stop in 1 day's time. Thats as good as I can do.

[JDTAY]

Just to be clear lexprod, which of my nominations are you rejecting? I'll put them all in one post for you after you reply.

[lexprod]

[mith]

Brontosaurus

(Because I agree with the awesomeness of that nomination. Might add some more eventually if I remember to do so.)

[Undercover Monk]

Yeti
Sasquatch
Irkens (Invader Zim)
Dragons
Pokemon (if that counts I may need to just do one)
Goombas
Smurfs
Jabberwocky (from Alice in Wonderland)
Heartless (Kingdom Hearts)
Nobodies (Kingdom Hearts)
the Hutts (Star Wars)
ManBearPig (South Park)
Basalisk
Chupacabra (That mexican lizard that eats all the goats lol)
Drawves
Faeries
Pixies (especially those voiced by Ben Stein)
Flying Monkies (Wizard of Oz)
Goblins
Boggart (Harry Potter)
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The Classic Blunders:
1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

[JDTAY]

Gorgons
Catgirls
Harpies
Banshees
Naiads
Dryads
Faeries
Lamias
Succubi
Mermaids
Cecaelias
Nagis
Valkyries
Sirens
Angels
Wraiths
Chimera
White Women
Nessie (Loch Ness)
Pixies (Thank you, Incognito Acolyte!)

I also considered the Libertarians Who Hold Office, and the Non-Bigfoot Creature That Inhabits Quailman's List. j/k

I considered the Bene Gesserit, Asari, and Unu, but decided I like the classics.

I also considered the Fates and the Furies, but they don't really count.

[JDTAY]

Hey, um, we've never done this before, but, um, can we submit pictures for the matches?

Sorry for the post, but no GL thread is complete without 11 JD posts.

[jesternl]

I saw no mention yet of the Griffin.
And especially for JDtay

[Samadhi]

Niven/Pournelle/Barnes' Grendel's
Moties
Pierson's Puppeteers
The Thrint
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Giants
The Haruchai
both from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Covenant
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[Amb]

The Muppets?

[lexprod]

[jesternl]

And we also cannot forget Tolkien's Ent

[Zag]

[Zag]