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The Pod People are aliens that appear in The Body Snatchers and its movie adaptations. They appear to be perfect copies of the persons replaced, but devoid of any human emotion.
Beginning
In deep space, a race of gelatinous creatures abandon their dying world. Pushed through space by the solar wind, they make their way to Earth and land in San Francisco. Some fall on plant leaves, assimilating them and forming small pods with pink flowers.
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The Pod People are a nomadic race of extraterrestrial parasites originating from an unnamed planet. Realizing that it would be only a matter of time before the planet's resources would be completely depleted, the alien inhabitants somehow managed to evolve and gained the ability to defy gravity, atmospheres, turn their bodies into microorganic forms, and be able to leave their dying planet in the search of a new world to settle.
For millennia, Pods float in space in spore-like states, propelled by the solar winds, until Pods manage to find and land on inhabited planets. Once there, Pods would replace the dominant native species by spawning perfect but emotionless replicas to the native species. The duplicates had lifespans of only five years, and are impotent; the original bodies of the said native species would then disintegrate once the duplication process was completed. Pods would then ultimately consume all of the planet's resources, leaving in search of yet another new planet. The Pods' sole purpose and concern in life was that of individual survival, heeding no attention to the civilizations they duplicate or the resources they squander.
This pattern of arrival and drain of planet had been going on in an unknown parts of the universe for some time, and civilizations that were once inhabited encountered Pods met the said fate. But once arriving on Earth their invasion was short-lived: Pods had underestimated the sheer determination humanity displayed in defense. Eventually the Pods lost their war to humanity and fled Earth, leaving behind a small population of duplicates, who all perished shortly after.
1956 Movie
1978 Movie
1993 Remake
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