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** The [[Zombie Apocalypse|Flood]] and [[Hive Mind|The Gravemind]] also qualify.
*** Pure Forms especially, as they seem to have their own uniquely engineered anatomy, and can change from a spider-like "Stalker" to either the lumbering bear-bug "Tank", or the really odd, bulbous, porcupine-like "Ranged" form.
** The Engineers/Huragok, who resemble large pink tentacled slugs that float above the ground using two gas-bags. Their tentacles have the ability to split into millions of thread-like cilia, which they use to fix or build just about anything. The Engineer
*** According to the limited edition material for the 'Legendary' version of ''Halo 3'', the Engineers aren't even a naturally
*** There are a few exceptions, though. Lighter Than Some, for instance, had his own unique personality: while still driven to fix everything, he willingly {{spoiler|ignores his commander's will in an attempt to save the humans on Harvest, believing that they should have the same opportunity to "walk the Path"}}
* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', the playable "Kheldian" aliens are formless energy creatures who can extend their lives by [[Fusion Dance|symbiotically combining]] with other intelligent lifeforms, who gain energy powers and the ability to transform physically into any of the Kheldian's previous hosts. The two alternate forms in game are the "Nova" (a floating tentacled creature) and the "Dwarf" (a huge armor-plated biped). Their [[Evil Counterpart
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* ''[[Free Space]]'' has the Shivans, which can best be described as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpAcztB2F-Y gigantic five-legged spiders]. Their bizarre shape is apparently due to them having evolved in zero-g: they are incredibly agile and acrobatic in such an environment. The list of strange attributes about them is too long to list here, but it's been stated that they can survive prolonged exposure to vacuum (one cutscene dropped from the game had them jumping out of their ships onto a space station to board it... without any kind of suit). Furthermore, their means of communication is, for most of the games, completely unknown to the Terrans: and since [[Omnicidal Maniac|Shivans seem to exist only to blow up things that are not Shivan]], they were named for Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction.
* ''[[Escape Velocity]] Nova'' has the Wraith, a race of [[Living Ship|living ships]] with an innate cloaking ability, and the Krypt, a mysterious [[Hive Mind]] which considers itself to be the only form of life in the universe.
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* [[UFO: After Blank|''UFO: Aftershock'']] has the Starghosts, strange aliens that appear later in the game. The Starghosts use "pet" creatures that range from animated shuriken to giant spiders. However, aside from psionic projections, the true form of the Starghosts is never seen.
* The [[The Kingdom|Boron]] of the ''[[X (video game)|X-Universe]]'' look like [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]] over comms, [[Subverted Trope|but you only see them from the neck up]]. They actually look like [http://www.egosoft.com/x/xnews/gfx/22_concept_boron.jpg this]. They're an aquatic species that evolved on an ocean world with an ammonia atmosphere, and have three genders. Meanwhile, the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Paranid]] have three eyes, a crazy religion based on three-dimensionality, multiple genders, and four arms.
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