History WMG / CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator

They have a space hotel in 1975. 'Nuff said, people.

If it was the thick atmosphere causing the Knids to burn up on entry that protected Earth from them, then Venus wouldn't have been a target because its atmosphere is even worse in that regard. But what Earth has that neither Venus, Mars, nor the Moon have is a lot of Oxygen and Nitrogen--Venus' and Mars' atmospheres are made mostly of Carbon Dioxide, with very little of anything else, while the Moon doesn't even have that much. Earth's atmosphere, meanwhile, is mostly Nitrogen with a not-insignifigant chunk being Oxygen (roughly 78% and 21%, respectively), so it's possible that either/both of those could be reacting combustively with the Vermicious Knids, [[BizarreAlienBiology for one reason or another]], as they enter the Earth's atmosphere.

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[[WMG: Roald Dahl, the author of the ''Charlie'' books, is H.P. Lovecraft's alter ego]]
His work is intentionally even more terrifying, just targeted to children; this implies he is a WMG/TimeLord who regenerated into a new form sometime in the 20s. His latest form is unknown, but can probably be found on staff at the production studio for ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''.

Or maybe he's just Creator/StephenKing.

Note: Roald Dahl ''did'' write some short stories for grown-ups before he became a children's author. These stories are also horror. (v. good black comedy, to be exact.) He just had a stroke of genius to aim his books at an audience that was more impressionable.
* [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Not to mention]] that both authors made some, shall we say, ''interesting'' comments on Jews.


[[WMG: K'nids are really goddamn scary to an eight year old.]]
Seriously.
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* Doesn’t stop him from being ‘‘a’’ Doctor. Eleven retired in Victorian London. Maybe it’s just something he/she does?

* Doesn’t stop him from being ’’a’’ Doctor. Eleven retired in Victorian London. Maybe it’s just something he/she does?

[[WMG: The Vermicious knids are [[Creator/HPLovecraft Shoggoths]].]]

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His work is intentionally even more terrifying, just targeted to children; this implies he is a WMG/TimeLord who regenerated into a new form sometime in the 20s. His latest form is unknown, but can probably be found on staff at the production studio for ''Main/CourageTheCowardlyDog''.

They're all under a curse that makes them aggressive and vermicious (or at least all the ones we see are), and "SCRAM" is a much shorter thing to spell than "PARDON ME, I DO NOT WISH TO ATTACK YOU, BUT IF YOU DO NOT LEAVE IMMEDIATELY I WILL BE FORCED TO DO SO AGAINST MY WILL." It also includes no spaces, since for a k'nid to spell a space, it would have to disappear or becom invisible.