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| “ | It's that infernal Spaceman Spiff! Open fire! | „ |
| ~ The leader of the aliens from Planet Mok |
| “ | You had your chance, earthling! Take him to the interrogation room and WASH HIS HAIR! | „ |
| ~ The leader about torturing Spaceman Spiff |
| “ | Our hero is called before the alien potentate where it becomes clear that Spiff is about to be sacrificed to appease the evil god they call "nollij"! | „ |
| ~ Spaceman Spiff |
| “ | They dragged me to a platform, tied me up, and wired to my cranium a fiendish suction cup! They turned it on and current coursed across my cerebellum, coaxing from my brain tissue the things I wouldn't tell 'em! All the math I ever learned, the numbers and equations, were mechanically removed in this brain-draining operation! | „ |
| ~ Calvin about his kidnapping by aliens |
The Aliens are the recurring antagonists of Calvin and Hobbes. They usually appear in Spaceman Spiff's adventures, as well as in Calvin's daily life and imagination.
Description[]
Aliens found in Calvin and Hobbes vary wildly in size and shape, though most of them are larger than Calvin/Spiff, ranging from the size of an adult to the size of a blimp. Their anatomy tends to have reptilian or insectoid features like claws, fangs, tentacles, compound eyes, antennae, and scales or exoskeletons. The names of individual aliens as well as alien races usually start with the letter "Z" (Zorgs, Zogs, Zogwargs, Zargs, Zondargs, etc.) or just weird made-up words (Graknils, Bloatoids, Yukbarfs, etc.) parodying similar names found in campy pulp sci-fi comics and movies. Almost all of them are hostile to Calvin/Spiff.
In Spaceman Spiff comics[]
Spaceman Spiff is a reoccurring imaginary alter ego of Calvin's, a self-described "interplanetary explorer extraordinaire" who appears in his daydreams. In comics featuring Spiff, he frequently goes up against hostile aliens, from simple wild predators attempting to eat him to sentient bounty hunters, space pirates, and evil empires. In most comics, Spiff ends up crashlanding on another planet or getting captured and tortured in order to gain some secret information off of him, such as a top-secret formula for his Death Ray Blaster. In reality, the aliens in Calvin's daydreams represent people he encounters in real life, such as his parents, his neighbor Susie, or his teacher Miss Wormwood, and his battles against them are re-interpretations of Calvin's interactions with them, usually involving something Calvin doesn't want to do: for example, in one comic Spaceman Spiff is captured by aliens, one of which orders the guards to "take him to the interrogation room and wash his hair!". In reality, it's shown that Calvin is simply being forced to take a bath by his mom, and the "torture" is Calvin getting soap in his eyes.
In Other Comics[]
Aliens kidnap Calvin
In some comics, Calvin's imagines himself encountering aliens, with varying results. More than once he's been abducted by aliens who perform some sinister experiment on him, such as a race of bug-like creatures who strap him to a machine to drain his mind of all mathematical knowledge (which he claimed happened so he wouldn't have to do math problems in class). In another strip, giant aliens trap him in a fake copy of his house to study his behavior like a wild animal (including attempting to feed him with a crude hand puppet of his mom). Another comic involves Calvin being abducted and replaced with a robot duplicate of himself to cause mischief around his house, such as stealing cookies and breaking a lamp. When Calvin comes back home he attempts to explain this to his mom, but she obviously doesn't believe him.
Calvin also sometimes tries to call aliens, for example, he once writes "UFOs! LAND HERE!" on the roof with Christmas lights. The reason why is to get aliens' spaceship in exchange for his parents as slaves.
The most reoccurring aliens in Calvin and Hobbes are Galaxoid and Nebular, a pair of cyclopic, squid-like beings who came to Earth to take it over (according to them, "Earth is prime real estate"). Calvin manages to convince them that he is the representative of Earth and agrees to hand it over to them in exchange for fifty tree leaves from their own planet, so that he could get out of doing a leaf collection assignment his class was doing. Two months later during the winter, Galaxoid and Nebular arrive at Calvin's doorstep complaining about the cold weather and snow, claiming he sold them a planet with a "faulty axis". Calvin couldn't give them a refund as he threw away the leaf collection, so instead Hobbes makes them winter clothes out of their Christmas stockings, much to Calvin's disapproval.
The Truth[]
Actually, aliens are nothing but the people from Calvin's life. He often imagines himself as Spaceman Spiff who fights evil aliens that are normal people in fact. They are usually Calvin's parents, Miss Wormwood (Calvin's teacher) and Principal Spittle (the principal of Calvin's school). While daydreaming, Calvin sometimes attacks the other people, believing they are aliens. For example, he once attacks Miss Wormwood with a rubber band and then escapes from the aliens' base (the school), only to caught by another alien (his mom).
Calvin himself believes his parents are actually "space alien freaks" masked as humans who landed on Earth to enslave Calvin. Every morning, Calvin sees how unreliable their masks. While walking, his "parents" are slow because of Earth's gravity. They also don't prefer TV or fried food, so they can't be humans.
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