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We know what happens to today when it becomes yesterday. It waits for them. The time keepers of eternity. Always following behind. Cleaning up the mess in the most efficient way possible: by eating it.
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~ Bob Jenkins
The Langoliers are the titular secondary antagonists of Stephen King's The Langoliers. They are inter-dimensional creatures that destroy the past by consuming it with their gigantic mouths.
Langoliers exist in the past and eat everything in their path. They travel in large groups at fast speeds. Their collective consuming creates a sound which can be heard from long distances away.
Appearance[]
The Langoliers appear to be circular creatures with no facial features except for their giant mouths. These mouths appear to consist of three flaps which are all lined with sharp teeth. Langoliers can appear as either red or black. Langoliers are roughly the size of, if not larger, a human.
Biography[]
The Langoliers don't appear physically for a long duration of the story, but can begun to be heard once the plane lands in Maine. Craig Toomey often expressed his paranoia about the Langoliers before they appeared.
The Langoliers make their first physical appearance after the group gets the plane working, and they immediately begin to eat everything in their way. Once Craig Toomey sees them, he screams and begins running, catching the attention of two Langoliers. He continues to run, begging to his absent father that he'll do whatever he wants if he just makes them go away. His pleas go unheeded as they proceed to consume his body. As the plane begins to move, it catches the attention of the other Langoliers. They begin to approach it, looking into the windows and eating things around the plane. As the plane continues to move, the entire pack begins to follow after it. However; they are able to make it into the air before the Langoliers could due the plane any harm.
Gallery[]
Coming over the mountain and eating the field grass.
Eating the airport.
Appearing in front of the plane.
Chasing after the plane.
Trivia[]
According to Craig Toomey, the Langoliers are creatures that eat up the "lazy" and "unproductive" people of the world, this information having been given to him as a child. The Langoliers that Craig believed in and the Langoliers from the movie are most likely not one in the same, and the characteristics that they had in common are most likely a coincidence.
Despite being the titular antagonists, the Langoliers only appear for a short chunk of the overall story.
The Langoliers were intended to be depicted using puppetwork and the props were fully completed, but ultimately were scrapped in favour of CGI renderings.
