The alien is the titular main antagonist of the 2010 TV film Alien Opponent, which originally aired on the now-defunct network "Chiller". It is an alien pilot who crash-landed in a junkyard on Earth, and was forced to combat dozens of dimwitted, trigger-happy humans who were sent to kill it and retrieve a corpse from its crash site, and while it would often ignore non-combatants and those who stayed out of its way, it deemed everyone who set off a trap or confronted it a threat. Additionally, the alien claimed it only wanted to repair its ship, showing no interest in conquest or genocide, its role in the film appearing to be one that was forced onto it, as for the most part, it was provoked by the human characters, some of whom were villainous in their own right. However, the alien showed no qualms with personally murdering children, or immediately using lethal force, resorting to any means necessary to achieve its goals, with its inhuman nature making its actions harder to interpret.
The alien is a tall, bulky humanoid fully clad in an armored space suit. While this obscures its entire body, it is shown to have three fingers on each hand and possess digitigrade feet. What could be seen of its face, briefly seen when its helmet's visor cleared up, had somewhat fish-like features, with large, dark eyes and pale blue skin. While not as agile as a human, the alien is far stronger and more durable, although it often relies on traps and automated sentries rather than direct engagements.
The alien was portrayed by Ben Chester, who also portrayed the alien's scrap robot sentry.
Biography[]
In the early 2010s, the alien crash-landed on Earth after the engine of its ship suffered critical failure, crashing right into a junkyard in Tomstown, a rural settlement somewhere in the southern United States. The ship crashed through the roof of a warehouse in the center of the junkyard, right next to the body of Tom Mazurski, an abusive husband who had just been murdered by his long-suffering mother-in-law, Rita, who had left the warehouse. Ignoring the corpse, the alien cloaked its ship and began looking for materials to repair the engine with, before seeing a group of three drunk and armed humans approaching, as the humans saw the crash and were investigating.
Staying hidden, the alien watched the humans, coming up behind one. The human heard the alien, and turned to fire at the alien, but the alien ducked out of sight, just as another human, Dwayne, came in where the alien just was, taking the shot instead. The other human, Jack, entered the room as the first human struggled to defend himself, claiming the alien used some sort of 'star man magic' to manipulate his gun into shooting Dwayne. Jack then found the cloaked ship and touched it, but the ship's shield burned Jack's arm away. As he screamed for help, he saw the alien come up behind the first human, fleeing the warehouse as the first human turned his shotgun on the alien, shooting it in the chest, to no effect. The alien then smacked the human away, where the human picked up a metal pole and attacked the alien with it, but the alien grabbed the pole and ripped it out of the humans' grasp, impaling the human with it and tossing him to the edge of the junkyard, killing him. With that, the alien began to unpack and set up a number of lethal traps around the junkyard, seeking to keep all humans off the property.
The aliens' presence was soon discovered by Rita and Megan, her daughter and Tom's wife, when they wanted to retrieve Tom's body to collect his life insurance money. After failing to convince the police of the alien's presence, and realizing the traps made it too dangerous for them to enter the yard, they offered $100,000 to anyone who could kill the alien and retrieve the body. Almost immediately, every money-hungry, thrill-seeking, and otherwise arrogant and dimwitted human from around Tomstown arrived at the junkyard to get the prize money, each bringing an assortment of weapons, although they almost immediately began falling victim to the traps, including one trap that consisted of an egg for a number of carnivorous alien slugs. The alien itself began to walk around the junkyard to observe the events and collect more parts, but was eventually confronted by three marines, who moved to surround it. However, the alien was in a position between three hidden traps, which the marines inadvertently stepped on, launching them into the air and killing them with the fall. Shortly afterwards, one of the alien's traps, a series of buried razor-sharp metal wires that could flick out at incredible speeds, was accidentally tripped and sliced apart a karate instructor who joined the challenge, along with all but one of his child students who he brought with him. The student who set off the trap, the only survivor of the group, was quickly met with the alien. The alien, apparently deeming the child to be a threat, promptly ripped his head off.
Carrying the student's head, the alien found another group of human challengers nearby, and stepped into clear view of them, connecting its suit to the student's head and reanimating it, using it as a translator to tell the humans that it only wished to repair its spacecraft, and would kill anyone who tried to harm it, before discarding the head and walking off, the other humans letting it go. Throughout the rest of the day, the alien kept collecting parts and using them to rebuild the damaged engine, and would ignore anyone who didn't attack it. At night, the alien constructed an automated robotic sentry shaped like a shark, which burrowed underground and began patrolling a section of the junkyard. After deploying it, the alien was watched by two humans, named Braden James and Linnea Gold, Linnea joking about how the alien must see her as a friend due to it not attacking. The next morning, while looking for more parts, the alien watched as the robot shark killed a woman who crossed into its territory, and also found the woman's boyfriend, who had been frozen solid by a freeze trap, touching the man's body and instantly shattering his torso.
By the next day, more humans fell victim to the traps, with even more challengers entering, spectators amassing around the junkyard. The alien paid no attention to the spectators, and constructed another robotic sentry, this one humanoid and equipped with a buzz saw and machine gun, powered by a spherical alien device. The alien stood by as the robot engaged a group of football and baseball players who entered the challenge, mostly impervious to their sports equipment and killing all but one football player, who found the alien in clear view of spectators. The alien beckoned for the player to engage, easily blocking the human's tackle attempt, before ripping the player's head off and tossing it to the spectators, where some cheerleaders began fighting over it. The alien then left, as the remaining contestants became better-armed as they dwindled in numbers, one contestant welding together a flamethrower and a suit of armor, exterminating all but one of the alien slugs, although the human was later killed by the sentry robot. However, said sentry robot was promptly destroyed by a gun-toting priest, who was in turn killed by sleazy bounty hunter Brooklyn Davis trying to eliminate the competition. As the bodies were collected, the alien retrieved the power core from the sentry robot, bringing the robot's remains back to the warehouse while also planting the power core in the body of the priest, resurrecting the priest as a hostile zombie, until one human managed to cut the core out of his body with a chainsaw.
Now down to only a handful of contestants, the alien returned to the warehouse and used all the parts it had collected to finish the repairs, also utilizing a hovering drone to help in the effort. As the sun rose, the all but three of the remaining contestants killed each other in a mad dash for the warehouse. Brooklyn, one of the survivors, was promptly killed by the last alien slug, leaving the last two humans, Bradan and Linnea, free to enter the warehouse. The alien, just completing its repairs and repowering its ship, did not notice them, until Bradan got scared by the deactivated sentry robot's remains, alerting the alien to their location. The two humans then directly engaged the alien, finding that their physical attacks had no effect, but then managed to activate the sentry robot's machine gun, pointing it at the alien. While the alien's suit was impervious to the shots, the gunfire still pushed it back and prevented it from attacking them, allowing the humans to get out of the room. The repair robot then disabled the gun, and the alien promptly boarded its ship and took off, leaving Earth, having left Tom Mazurski's corpse completely untouched. With the alien gone, Bradan was promptly killed by Linnea, who was actually Tom's illegitimate daughter, leaving her free to claim his body and insurance.