Cooper (Super 8)

Cooper, is the (former) secondary antagonist in the 2011 film "Super 8", he was portrayed by Bruce Greenwood.

Appearance
He is a humanoid alien that stands up to 12-feet tall with six limbs and grey skin with white strips also has secondary eyelids that covers his real eyes.

Background
Prior to the events of the movie, in 1958 Cooper passed by the Earth while in ship. However for some reason, he crash landed and was captured by the military, he was placed in a holding cell for observation and under the care of Dr. Thomas Woodward  who he came in contacted with. Woodward then realized that all Cooper was to rebuild his ship so he may return to his planet.

History
In 1979, Cooper was transported to another military base under command of Colonel Nelec, near the town called, Lillian, Ohio. however on the way to the base, the train is destroyed when Dr. Woodward drives a truck right into it and Cooper is then able escaped by broken out of cargo, he soon began to evade the Air Force and reconstruct his lost ship while Joe Lamb had one the cube which was a piece of his ship.

The day after the train crash, Nelec and his men began retrieve the remain cubes, meanwhile back in town number people's dogs had gone missing and several auto parts weir taken. during the night when the Sheriff goes to full on gas he is catcher by Cooper and destroys his car, later as Breen comes out and sees the Sheriff's wreck car, to in counts the alien and gets kidnaped.

While citizens of Lillian, kidnapping some people and eating others, he stole engines, microwaves, power lines, and other mechanical items and kept them in an underground cavern with entry holes in the cemetery and under some houses. The U.S. Air Force pursued the alien, going as far as evacuating the town by making the excuse of Operation: Walking Distance, where a massive forest fire burned throughout the outside land area.

They brought the cubes in trucks into the town's center, hoping to lure it into a trap, Cooper managed to out-power them, using electromagnetism, he drew all the cubes and other metallic items toward the water tower, where the cubes reassembled into his ship, Cooper then boarded his ship and left Earth so he may return to his home planet.