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**The Combat Appliance Disposable Information Retrieval units ([=CADIRs=]) created in the finale are the DIR design upgraded to look like gorillas, and are the most dangerous of Lex's minions.
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* ''VideoGame/StarFox'': Andross, the BigBad, is an evil scientist appearing as a giant orangutan head and hands. Most of his underlings are also monkeys and apes.
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* ''VideoGame/StarFox'': ''Franchise/StarFox'': Andross, the BigBad, is an evil scientist appearing as a giant orangutan head and hands. Most of his underlings are also monkeys and apes.
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* ''Film/SpaceMonsterWangmagwi'', a Korean kaiju film, have it's titular creature, a monkey-like giant behemoth sent by a hostile alien race to destroy humanity.
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* ''Film/SpaceMonsterWangmagwi'', a Korean kaiju film, have has it's titular creature, a monkey-like giant behemoth sent by a hostile alien race to destroy humanity.
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See also ManiacMonkeys. May be a KillerGorilla InSpace. Not to be mistaken with ApesInSpace, who are monkeys that go ''into'' space.
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* ''Franchise/DragonBall'': The Saiyans used their power to transform into giant "apes"[[note]]they're referred to as apes, but, having tails, are technically monkeys[[/note]] during the full moon to conquer planets for Frieza. Calling the Saiyans "monkeys" was a bit of a [[FantasticSlur racial slur]] used by Frieza and his underlings.
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* ''Franchise/DragonBall'': The Saiyans used their power to transform into giant "apes"[[note]]they're referred to as apes, but, having tails, are technically monkeys[[/note]] during the full moon to conquer planets for Frieza. Calling the Saiyans "monkeys" was a bit of a [[FantasticSlur [[FantasticSlurs racial slur]] used by Frieza and his underlings.
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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' has met a few alien apes with powers similar to his own:
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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' has met a few alien apes with powers similar to his own:
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* ''Fanfic/InvaderZimABadThingNeverEnds'': Lex's DIR units are not real monkeys, actually being robots in shoddy monkey costumes, but they're still monkey-looking {{Killer Robot}}s from outer space.
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** Lex's DIR units are not real monkeys, actually being robots in shoddy monkey costumes, but they're still monkey-looking {{Killer Robot}}s from outerspace.space.
**The [[EliteMooks upgraded SADIR units]] are even more dangerous, being much larger and more heavily armed, while still wearing monkey disguises. Tak notes that while the regular [=DIRs=] look like spider monkeys, the [=SADIRs=] are more like mandrils.
** Lex's DIR units are not real monkeys, actually being robots in shoddy monkey costumes, but they're still monkey-looking {{Killer Robot}}s from outer
**The [[EliteMooks upgraded SADIR units]] are even more dangerous, being much larger and more heavily armed, while still wearing monkey disguises. Tak notes that while the regular [=DIRs=] look like spider monkeys, the [=SADIRs=] are more like mandrils.
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* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'': The aliens start evolving into ape-monsters around the third act of the film as they reach the monkey [[EvolutionaryLevels stage of the evolutionary "ladder"]].
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* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'': ''Film/{{Evolution|2001}}'': The aliens start evolving into ape-monsters around the third act of the film as they reach the monkey [[EvolutionaryLevels stage of the evolutionary "ladder"]].
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* ''Fanfic/InvaderZimABadThingNeverEnds'': Lex's DIR units are not real monkeys, actually being robots in shoddy monkey costumes, but they're still monkey-looking {{Killer Robot}}s from outer space.
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* ''Fanfic/InvaderZimABadThingNeverEnds'': Lex's DIR units are not real monkeys, actually being robots in shoddy monkey costumes, but they're still monkey-looking {{Killer Robot}}s from outer space.
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Such extraterrestrial monkeys tend to be brutish killing machines -- an intelligent alien ape is usually a subversion.
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Such extraterrestrial monkeys tend to be brutish killing machines -- an intelligent alien ape is usually a subversion.
subversion. If HumansAreWarriors and/or HumansAreTheRealMonsters, then technically ''we'' [[HumansThroughAlienEyes might be an example to aliens]].
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Maybe it's because they land somewhere in the UncannyValley. Maybe, as with the MonsterClown, it's because writers like subverting the traditionally "cute". Maybe it is a reflection of our savage ancestry. Maybe it's a remnant of our struggle with our differently-evolved cousins. Maybe its a twisted take on the ApesInSpace motif. Or maybe it's simply that monkeys make everything better. Whatever the reason, killer simians make for good alien monsters.
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Maybe it's because they land somewhere in the UncannyValley. Maybe, as with the MonsterClown, it's because writers like subverting the traditionally "cute". Maybe it is a reflection of our savage ancestry. Maybe it's a remnant of our struggle with our differently-evolved differently evolved cousins. Maybe its a twisted take on the ApesInSpace motif. Or maybe it's simply that monkeys make everything better. Whatever the reason, killer simians make for good alien monsters.
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* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' police forces on Mars often use genetically modified baboons adapted to the atmosphere, a lot of people are scared of them. In one of the stories an Olympus Ranger character has two of them, one of which smokes and is prone to tearing faces off if he doesn’t get his nicotine fix.
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* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' police forces on Mars often use genetically modified baboons adapted to the atmosphere, atmosphere in a role similar to police dogs, and a lot of people are scared of them. In one of the stories an Olympus Ranger character has two of them, one of which smokes and is prone to tearing faces off if he doesn’t get his nicotine fix.
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* ''TabletopGame/StarFrontiers'' had the Yazirians as a playable race. They were generally good guys, of the ProudWarriorRaceGuy sort.
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* ''TabletopGame/StarFrontiers'' had the Yazirians as a playable race. They were generally good guys, of the ProudWarriorRaceGuy sort. They were subsequently ported over into ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' as the Hadozee.
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* ''Literature/PlanetOfTheApes'' has apes who are exactly as brutish and nasty as humans. [[spoiler:Unlike in [[TheFilmOfTheBook the film franchise]] listed above, they are extraterrestrial -- except, presumably, for the ones [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand the protagonist meets on Earth]] at the very end.]]
