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1	* AdaptationDisplacement: Much like [[Literature/MaximumRide its sister series]], fans are more likely to be familiar with the manga adaptations than the book series they spawned from.
2	* CompleteMonster: Daniel X has fought many vile villains from The List of Alien Outlaws on Earth, but these are the worst:
3	** [[CardCarryingVillain Zeboul]], known near-exclusively as "Number 1" or The Prayer, is the [[GreaterScopeVillain ultimate villain]] behind every bad occurrence in the franchise. [[SlayingMantis Number 1]] is an ancient GodOfEvil who uses his influence to drive entire civilizations into evil, and is responsible for empowering Abbadon in his horrific torment of humankind as a "show" for Number 1's viewing pleasure. Behind every major member on "The List", from setting up special shoots for Number 5's TV butcher shows to enabling Number 6 to wipe out Daniel's homeworld, Number 1 solidified himself as Daniel's ArchEnemy by murdering the boy's parents and trying to kill him when he was a toddler. Harnessing his power from the evil others do, Number 1 becomes so tired of the Milky Way galaxy's innate goodness that he attempts to wipe out its billions of lifeforms just to "tip the scales" back in the favor of evildoers. Number 1 was an utterly sadistic monster of an alien, hell-bent on destroying everything good in the universe just to satisfy his love for all things evil.
4	** ''The Dangerous Days of Daniel X'': [[PlanetLooters Ergent Seth]], Number 6 on The List, is a powerful criminal who plans on eventually [[KillAllHumans killing off the human race]]. In the meantime, Seth [[WouldHurtAChild abducts dozens of kids at a time and uses them as slaves and drug-runners]]. Learning of Daniel X's hunt for him, Seth terrorizes and [[MindRape mentally torments]] the boy before he critically wounds and captures him. Seth then takes Daniel to his home world, where Seth taunts him about the fact that he has wiped out most of the population. Finding an underground city full of surviving citizens, Seth begins slaughtering them before Daniel challenges him to a duel. Accepting the challenge, Seth orders his child slaves to observe the fight, [[HumanShield just so they would be in his crosshairs]] if he needs leverage.
5	** ''Watch the Skies'': [[MadArtist Number Five]] on The List, also his only known name, is an "entertainment" director. Showing up on planets with lesser tech than his, Five mind-controls entire towns into performing entertaining acts, kills them in sadistic ways, then [[SnuffFilm sells footage of these acts]] to illegal alien networks. Arriving on Earth, Five murders dozens of people through vaporization and PsychicAssistedSuicide, [[BadBoss including his own henchmen]] for unintentional insults, filming all the way. When his master plan to impregnate dozens of women with clones of himself to increase his filming to a galaxy-wide scale is thwarted by Daniel X, Five holds his girlfriend hostage and tries to kill Daniel while bragging the fact that he filmed the murders of Daniel's parents. Surviving his near-death at Daniel's hands, Five plans on infecting all technology on Earth and causing worldwide chaos, while also calling in reinforcements to help conquer the planet.
6	** ''Demons and Druids'': [[EvilIsBurningHot Phosphorius Beta]], Number 3 on The List, has used time portals to hold civilizations [[HistoricalRapSheet throughout history]] in a grip of fear. Terrorizing London, England in the present as an "[[PlayingWithFire arsonist]]", Beta regularly burns down entire blocks, engulfing oil refineries, schools, and day cares. Amassing a small army by turning innocents into extensions of himself, Beta uses them to collect as much organic material--including humans--as possible, then ships it off to his home world, where it is used as "fast food". While trying to kill Daniel X and his friends, Beta reveals his hand in the murder of Daniel's parents while boasting of his plans to burn down London, then move on to the rest of the world until all that's left is a husk.
7	** ''Armageddon'': Abbadon, Number 2 on the List, is TheDevil himself. A member of the [[RealityWarper reality warping]] Alpar Nokian race who reveled in destruction unlike the rest of his kind, Abbadon took up a job as chief entertainer for the Prayer, using his abilities to become Satan and begin terrorizing all of mankind. Abbadon is responsible for an untold number of atrocities throughout humanity's history, everything from UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust to the UsefulNotes/{{Rwanda}}n genocide having been perpetrated to Abbadon's tune simply to put on a show for the Prayer's enjoyment. Abbadon soon enough grows tired of merely tormenting the Earth and kicks off a full-scale apocalypse, in which he enslaves millions of humans to be tortured for eternity in Abbadon's "Hell" and slaughters billions more. Abbadon plans to turn the planet into nothing but an agonizing wasteland for any life left upon it, and is such a gleeful sadist that when Daniel X tries to stop him, Abbadon tries to sentence Daniel's LoveInterest to an eternity of torture out of spite.
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