List of alien races in DC Comics is a list of fictional extraterrestrial races that have appeared in comic book titles published by DC Comics, as well as properties from other media that are listed below, with brief descriptions and accompanying citations.

Overview
There are countless different extraterrestrial races in the DC Comics universe. The vast majority are humanoid in structure.

United Planets

The United Planets is a governing body which is active starting in the 21st century all the way to the 31st Century. The planets of the Solar System and Htrae are known members alongside the artificial planet-sized satellites, the buffer planets that were seeded by Mon-El, and the neighboring empires.

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5th Dimensional Imps
Zrfff is the homeworld of all 5th Dimensional Imps, including Mister Mxyzptlk, Miss Gsptlsnz, Vyndktvx, Brpxz, Mister Genie (Genro), Quisp, Bat-Mite, Kcid Nosyarg (Larry), Zook, Gazook, and Mopee.

5th Dimensional Imps in other media
The 5th Dimensional Imps appear in Supergirl, consisting of Mxyzptlk and Gsptlsnz / Nyxlygsptlnz. In a Supergirl crossover with The Flash, the Music Meister is revealed to be an imp as well.

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Adaptoids
The Adaptoids were blob-like creatures in the vicinity of the star Arcturus that traveled to Earth-One in attempt to wipe out the human race. Able to adapt to any threat, they were defeated by the Justice League when they were exposed to the Thanagarian equalizing disease.

Aellans
The Aellans are the yellow-skinned reptilian humanoid peoples of Aello (Stormswift), Demonia, Harpis and Doc of Aello were all members of the Omega Men.

Alien Invaders
The Alien Invaders are the nameless primary antagonists of Armageddon: The Alien Agenda.

Almeraci
The Almeraci are a humanoid race of technologically advanced warriors with psionic abilities similar to the Euphorix. The Almeraci are ruled by the House of the Blood Royale, a matriarchy of superpowered monarchs who maintain their bloodline and psionic status through selective breeding. The Almeraci choose mates through ceremonial gladiatorial competitions; whichever male can defeat a prospective female in battle earns her hand in marriage. This species is represented by Maxima - Queen of Almerac - as well as her handmaiden Sazu and her onetime betrothed Ultraa.

Aloi
The Aloi are blue-skinned aliens with ridged foreheads. The Aloi are at war with the Margoi over a device known as the "Grayl". They were represented by Tumlat.

Alstairans
The Alstairans of Alstair are one of four technologically advanced and constantly at war spacefaring races native to the Antares system. The most well known Alstairan is their ruler, the alien plant elemental known as Hyathis. Alstairans are plantlike humanoids with leaves instead of hair.

Anasazi
The Anasazi in the DC Comics Universe are metahumans who were resettled to planet Starhaven, represented by Dawnstar.

Andromedans
The Andromedans of the Andromeda Galaxy are a race of superhumans similar to Kryptonians and Daxamites. They have red hair, albino skin and blue eyes. One of the Andromedans named Karb-Brak was exiled to Earth because he developed an allergy to superhuman metabolisms, he took the human identity of construction worker Andrew Meda. Superman and Vartox eventually cure Karb-Brak and return him to his homeworld.

Angtuans
The Angtuans are inhabitants of the planet Angtu, a world with a thick, noxious atmosphere. Angtu was ultimately destroyed in the 30th century by the mutated native Mano.

Anunnake
The Anunnake are reptilian aliens who claim to have killed off the dinosaurs; they are also known as the Hunter/Gatherers.

Anndrann
The Anndrann are green-skinned military geniuses from Anndranna who were later banished to Bellatrix and are famed for their weapons of war. Iron has a deleterious effect on their cognitive abilities.

Appellaxians
The Appellaxians of Appellax are a race of technologically advanced energy aliens from the planet Appellax with the ability to create powerful artificial host bodies for their minds. The seven Appellaxians that invaded created bodies that were named Golden Roc (a golden bird-like monster), Wood King (a humanoid wood monster who had power over wood), Stone-God (a humanoid rock monster that can shoot Kryptonite beams from its eyes), Crystal Creature (a humanoid crystal monster who can fire diamond shards), Fire-Lord (a humanoid fire monster with pyrokinesis), Glass-Man (a humanoid glass monster with energy projection), and Mercury Monster (a living pool of mercury). Each of them can turn other beings into the beings of their respectful elements. It is because of them that the Justice League first came together. The Appellaxians were defeated by the Justice League.

Appellaxians in other media
The Appellaxians' creations appear in the Young Justice episode "Salvage", consisting of Golden Roc, Wood God, Stone God, Crystal Creature, and Mercury Monster. Bruno Mannheim combines them into a Golem using a Mother Box, planning to use it as an enforcer for Intergang, before it is ultimately destroyed by Black Beetle.

Aipitons
The Aipitons are the presumed name of a species of small flying insects of the planet Apaiton. They are represented by the deceased Green Lantern Bzzd.

Aquoids
The Aquoids are natives of planet Beltair IV.

Aranes
The Aranes of Arane II are a race of light blue-skinned, white-haired humanoids, with tiny blue protruding horns on their foreheads. Rolind Siepur of Arane II is a member of the Dark Circle.

Ardenans
The Ardenans are the presumed name of a sentient race of humanoids with orange scaly skin from the planet Arden. They are represented by the deceased Green Lanterns Lodar and Meeno Monak.

Astonians
The Astonians are a minor alien race under a once dying star saved by the Blue Lantern Saint Walker upon facing extinction. Saint Walker is of this race.

Azarathians
The Azarathians are people belonging to the parallel universe of Azarath. Raven is an Azarathian.

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Barrions
The Barrions of Barrio III are silicon-based lifeforms. They are represented by the Green Lantern known as Chaselon.

Bellatrix Bombers
The Bellatrix Bombers are alien warlords featured in Green Lantern (vol. 3) #20.

Bgztlians
The Bgztlians are humans from the colony Bgztl who possess the metahuman ability of intangibility. Phantom Girl of the Legion of Super-Heroes is their representative.

Blight
The Blight are a cybernetic race whose bodies are composed of rotting flesh and villains of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Their leader is Atrophos, chief scientist and engineer vowed to hunt down M'onel for immortality, but were stopped by the Legion.

Bloodline Parasites
The eight Bloodline Parasites were extraterrestrial lifeforms capable of accidentally activating the human metagene during the act of feeding on human spinal fluid. All Parasites had dense exoskeletons and were incredibly strong, they all had the ability to duplicate human form.

Braalians
The Braalians are humans from the colony Braal who possess the metahuman ability of electromagnetic field manipulation. Cosmic Boy and Magno of the Legion of Super-Heroes are their representatives.

Brain-Parasites of Planet X
The Brain-Parasites of Planet X hail from Planet X and use powerful Knowledge-Extractors to steal knowledge from other races.

Branx
The Branx of Emana Branx are a gray-skinned race of dull-witted, four-armed warriors who serve the Citadelians. Native to the Vega star system.

Brylyx
The Brylyx are white-skinned aliens featured in Green Lantern: Mosaic.

The Bolovax Vikians
The Bolovax Vikians are highly communal and technologically advanced Bolovax Vikians of Bolovax Vik are a dead race. Kilowog of the Green Lantern Corps is the last surviving member of this species.

Bugs of New Genesis
The Bugs of New Genesis are an insectoid race who were spread on New Genesis during their war with Apokolips. They are a society of humanoid bugs that thrive in colonies beneath the surface of the planet. There is occasionally prejudice between these two races, as many of the gods consider the bug-people to be a lesser species. However, there are also instances of mutual compassion and respect. Forager and Mantis are the most prominent members of the race.

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Cairnians
The Cairnians are members of L.E.G.I.O.N.

Calatonians
The Calatonians are an ancient monarchy on the planet Calaton ravaged by the Doomsday creature.

Canopians
The Canopians are a member of Atari Force. Canopians such as Morphea are from New Earth in a parallel universe.

Carggites
The Carggites are humans from the colony Cargg who possess the metahuman ability of duplication. Triplicate Girl of the Legion of Super-Heroes is their representative.

Catherix

The Cathexis are a race of alien super-scientists from the "sixth dimension" who created self-aware reality endangering technology.

Changralynians
The Changralynians of Changralyn are a race of silicon-based pacifists, they are represented by Broot of the Omega Men.

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Children of Tanjent
The Children of Tanjent are a psionic race.

Circadians
The peaceful insectoid Circadians of Circadia established a joint human/Circadian settlement in the 30th Century known as Pax Colony. The best known Circadian representative is Circadia Senius, a Chronarch Research Fellow at the Metropolis Time Institute and a friend of Brainiac 5.

Chthalonians

Citadelians
The Citadelians of the Citadel are a race of sadistic imperialistic clones, whose intellect and genetic viability degrades with each newly cloned generation. The former tyrant rulers of the Vega star system are now an Empire in decline. The Citadelians use Gordanians and Branx Warriors as their enforcers; they have a limited mastery of Psion technology.

Clementians
The Clementians of Clementia are also known as "Black Mercies". The Green Lantern known as Mother Mercy is the caretaker and ruler of the Clementian race.

Coluans
The Coluans (sometimes known as Yod-Colu) of Colu are a hyper-intelligent species, one of the most technologically advanced in the known universe. They are most notably represented by the various men and women who hold the title of Brainiac along with Pulsar Stargrave.

The planet Colu was destroyed by the Omega Titans in Justice League: No Justice.

In other media

 The Coluans appear in Legion of Super Heroes, with various members voiced by Kari Wahlgren and Richard McGonagle. This version of the species share a hive mind, and every three solar cycles undergo a data-sharing process known as the Alignment. Additionally, as demonstrated by Brainiac 5, they possess various transformative and technological abilities not shared by their comic counterparts.

Competalians
The Competalians of Competalia are a race of people empowered by the discovery of their equivalent of the metagene. They recently overthrew the tyrant known as Anathema. They are similar in concept to the Inhumans from Marvel Comics.

Controllers
The Controllers are a Maltusin descended race, cousins of similar offshoot races such as the Oans and Zamarons.

Council of Overseers
The Council of Overseers are a trio of aliens that somehow got hold of Warworld until they handed it over to Mongul.

Criq
The Criq are the presumed name of a grey skinned humanoid species with wide eyes from a planet of the same name. They are represented by the now deceased Green Lantern Driq.

Cthistosians
The Cthistosians are the presumed name of a species of red skinned humanoid amphibians that apparently secreted an aroma that was unpleasant to humans. They are represented by the deceased Green Lantern Chthos-Chthas Chthatis.

Culacaons
The Culacaons of Culacao are a strange example of a deliberately engineered lifeform. The Culacaon sexes exhibit wildly separate phenotypes, with the yellow-skinned males being humanoid and the females being mollusc-like. The females have a sensitive membrane in their shells that, when stabbed by the males, causes the females to become dormant and undergo mitosis; newborn males are then cut out of the newly budded section.

C'ythonisians
The C'ythonisians are the presumed name of a simian species from the planet C'ythonis. The deceased Green Lantern Myrrt was a member of this species.

Czarnians
The Czarnians are a critically endangered race of red-eyed, white-skinned humanoids. A peaceful and educated species, the Czarnians were all but wiped out when one of their own - Lobo - decimated their homeworld of Czarnia as part of a "high school science experiment" gone wrong. While their attributes differ between continuities, Czarnians - by way of Lobo - are mostly depicted as exhibiting super strength and durability coupled with accelerated healing. Lobo's most prolific trait is his ability to create clones of himself with only a few drops of blood.

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Daxamites
The Daxamites are a race who originate from the planet Daxam, with physiology similar to Kryptonians. This enables them to gain special abilities in a yellow-sun environment, yet they have extreme sensitivity to lead.

Debstams
The Debstams of Debstam IV are a race of humanoids who were wiped out by a pandemic brought to their world by the tyrant Mongul.

Dheronians
The Dheronians are a race of white-eyed, white-skinned humanoids introduced in the Earth One continuity. Hailing from Dheron, the fifth world of the Rao star system, the Dheronians were locked in an ongoing war for resources with the neighboring world of Krypton and had a hand in the planet's fate. As they share the same star as Krypton, their physiology functions in much the same way with only several notable differences; absorbing energy from foreign stars to exhibit super strength and invulnerability. While still strong, their technology is still vulnerable to Krypton's.

Dhorians
The Dhorians of Dhor are one of four technologically advanced and constantly at war spacefaring races native to the Antares system. The infamous Kanjar Ro is Dhorian. Dhorians have large insectlike compound eyes and prominently pointed noses.

Diibs
The Diibs are a race of massive and nearly indestructible denizens of Diibworld, home of L.E.G.I.O.N. member Bertron Diib.

Djinn
The Djinn are a race of alien warriors who tried to invade Oa led by Kantuu.

Doda
The Doda are a race of aliens in the 30th century.

Dominators

The Dominators of the Dominion are a race of conquerors who destroy what they cannot dominate. Their mastery of advanced science, specifically the "metagene", rivals that of the Psions.

Dokris
The Dokris are a race of green-skinned aliens with advanced time travel technology; they altered Earth's past to invade and conquer the planet in the year 2287. They were defeated by Kid Flash (Wally West).

Draal
The Draal are alien invaders of Sector 3515.

Dromedanians
The Dromedanians are a camel-like humanoid race native to the 30th Century. Captain Brakta, an ally of the Legion of Super-Heroes, hails from Dromedania.

Dryad
The Dryads are a race of silicon-based lifeforms, represented by Legion of Super-Heroes member Blok and L.E.G.I.O.N. member Strata.

Duomalians
The Duomalians are a race of gray-skinned humanoids who inhabit the "Mirror World", a fourth-dimensional universe also inhabited by the Amazonlike Orinocas. Duomal was discovered and renamed by Giovanni Zatara, in honor of its co-rulers Queen Duora and Queen Mulano. Duomal was originally known as Thrule.

Durlans
The Durlans are an infamous and much-feared race of xenophobic shapeshifters native to the planet Durla. Durlans Chameleon Boy and Chameleon Girl are members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, while R. J. Brande is Chameleon Boy's father and financier of the Legion, who was trapped in human form by Yorggian fever.

Dyrlians
The Dyrlians of Dyrlia are an orange-skinned humanoid alien race who sent their genetically engineered savior the "Star-Child" to Earth, so that he could be raised by Superman and Supergirl. The Star-Child matured into an adult in twenty-four hours.

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Earthlings
The Earthlings are the names given to the inhabitants of the planet Earth. The dominant life form on the planet are humans, who have the genetic potential to gain amazing powers thanks to the Meta-Gene. They have also split into sub-species such as the Atlanteans and the Amazons.

Empire of Tears
The Empire of Tears is an alien empire on the prison planet Ysmault.

En'tarans
The En'tarans are a race of would-be conquerors who decimated much of Rann in their quest to acquire Zeta-Beam technology.

Euphorians
The Euphorians are a race of telepathic and telekinetic humanoids from the planet Euphorix in the Vega star system. They are represented by Primus and Kalista of the Omega Men.

Exorians
The Exorians are aliens from the planet Exor. They are represented by a pair of Exorian metas named Zan and Jayna (the Wonder Twins), two of the ten hereditary protectors of Exor. The "Ten Elements of the Universe" is the name given to a group of five pairs of royal twins on Exor, each pair possesses elemental powers including fire, love, vapors, plants, sound, metal, and shadows.

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Farfarmniflatch
The Farfarmniflatch are a race of shapeshifters. Monstergirl of the Young Heroes has been revealed to be one of them.

Femiazons
The Femiazons are a race from Trigus VIII.

Fire People
The Fire People are alien beings of living fiery plasma, who arrive on a comet. They are defeated by the Justice Society of America.

Flame Men
The Flame Men were extraterrestrials fire people, that seemed to be made of, or at least able to project thermokinetic energy.

Fluvians
The Fluvians of the planet Fluvian are a form of aquatic plant-based life. Dob Zagil of Fluvian later became a Green Lantern.

Freshishs
The Fresishs of Fresish are a race of insectoids. Gorgoth of Fresish is a member of the Dark Circle.

Futuresmiths

Fylipians
The Fylipians are the presumed name of a species from planet Fylip in Sector 2813. Tammal Tayn of the Orange Lantern Corps is a member of this race.

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G'Newtians
The G'Newtians are a race of humanoid canines. G'nort is a member of this race.

Galadorians
The Galadorians of Galador have lifespans measured in tens of thousands of years, and have power over matter and energy. Bed Aldain of Galador is their representative on Earth where he works as a shepherd in fields just outside Metropolis.

Garonese
The Garonese of Garon are human-like aliens under the control of the Headmen.

Garrians
The Garrians are the presumed name of a snake-like race from the planet Garr. A Red Lantern Corps member of this race was seen in a possible future where Guy Gardner became a Blue Lantern.

Giants of Dimension Zero
The Giants of Dimension Zero are a technologically advanced, extra-dimensional species discovered by Green Arrow and his sidekick Speedy. They also meet Xeen Arrow, an alternate version of Green Arrow native to Dimension Zero.

Giants of Ogyptu
The Giants of Ogyptu are blue-skinned nude giants on the planet Ogyptu in the Vega star system. Time appears to pass much slower for them than other species, and they are, for all intents and purposes, immortal.

Gil'Dishpan
The Gil'Dishpan are the oldest and most powerful, imperialistic, spacefaring, aquatic extraterrestrial race in the DC Comics Universe. They appear to be purple giant tube worms, and are powerful telepaths. The Gil'Dishpan have taken an interest in younger aquatic races such as the Hykraians, the Qarians and the Atlanteans of Earth. The Gil'Dishpan were responsible for uplifting the Hykraians and giving them the gift of interstellar travel. Their homeworld is a frozen planet with methane oceans similar to the lakes of Titan.

Glazzonions
The Glazzonions are a race of grey skinned humanoids with flat, almost snout like faces and no noses. The deceased Green Lantern Ahtier was a member of this race.

Glirell
The Glirell are the presumed name of a near-human species of pacifists from a planet of the same name. They are represented by the deceased Green Lantern Jeryll.

Gordanians
The Gordanians are a race of reptilian alien slavers who have colonized the planet Karna and served the Citadel; enemies of the Karnans, the native werefeline race which they hunted to near-extinction.

Gordanians in other media
 The Gordanians appear in the Justice League episode "Starcrossed". They are mentioned to be at war with the Thanagarians, causing the latter to invade Earth in an attempt to build a warp gate to gain an upper hand, which would destroy the planet in the process. Though this plan is foiled by the Justice League, the war continued to take place, as seen in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Hunter's Moon".
 The Gordanians appear in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, consisting of General Kreegaar (voiced by Richard Green) and an unnamed trooper (voiced by James Arnold Taylor).

Graxions
The Graxions are an elf-like race from Space Sector 2815, located near the constellation Gemini. Green Lantern Arisia Rrab is a member of the species.

Grendians
The Grendians are robotic beings capable of self-awareness and emotion. Stel of the Green Lantern Corps hails from Grenda.

Griks
The Griks are a race of amphibian spacefaring roboticists who are allies of Rann; they were contracted to use their robots in Rann's mines.

Grolls
The Grolls are alien invaders with cerebro-radiation rays.

Gryxians
The Gryxians are a yellow-skinned humanoid race from Gryx. Stealth from L.E.G.I.O.N. was a member of this race and was cast out of her society because she was born with special powers.

Guardians of the Clockwork Universe
The Guardians of the Clockwork Universe are a mysterious group that once recruited Captain Comet in their goals in protecting "the Clockwork Universe"(not to be confused with the Oan Guardians).

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H'od
The H'od are 'would be' galactic conquerors.

H'San Natall

The H'San Natall Empire is the home of a powerful warrior race, which forced a group of captive Psion scientists to create superhuman hybrids of the human and H'San Natall races. These four hybrid children later joined the Teen Titans.

H'tros
The H'tros are a mechanical race who seeks destruction of all organic life, and aided the Cyborg Superman in capturing Superman.

Halla's
The Halla's are a race of green-skinned aliens from Sector 2814, they wore purple and black uniforms with no insignia. The Halla's served as enforcers for the Oans in the transition period between the Manhunters and the Green Lantern Corps. Instead of power rings the Halla's were given the stun guns and power batteries of the Manhunters.

Havanians
The Havanians of Havania consists of two races, the angelic upper class and the frog-like lower class. Bleez of the Red Lantern Corps is a Havanian.

Hators
The Hators are from the ruined planet Hator. Badra is the only survivor of her kind and is an enemy of Wonder Woman.

Headmen
The Headmen are alien leaders whom often refer themselves to their psychic abilities of superior intelligence and enhanced telepathy; they hail from the Vegan star system.

Hegemony
The Hegemony are an alien race of toxic world invaders who pollute planets for bio-chemicals and other resources.

Hexapuses
The Hexapuses of Vortuma are a race of six-legged intelligent purple cephalopods encountered by Aquaman. He was transported to their world by technology similar to the Zeta-Beams used by Adam Strange. The Hexapuses communicate using vibrations through water; their word for water is "Vortum". They have advanced communications technology, and can focus aquatic vibrations around their tentacles to create "water tornadoes".

Htraeans
The Htraeans of the topologically impossible planet Htrae are also known as Bizarros. Like Bizarro, their lifestyle is backwards.

Hykraians
The Hykraians are amphibious telepaths from the water world of Hykraius. Tellus, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, is their representative.

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Icoids
The Icoids are former natives of Jupiter's moons, who later moved to the rings of Saturn. They and the Thermoids originated outside the Solar System.

Imperiex Probes
The Imperiex Probes make up the body of a hive-intelligence led by a cosmic being known as Imperiex.

Imskians
The Imskians are humans from the colony Imsk who possess the metahuman ability of shrinking. Shrinking Violet of the Legion of Super-Heroes is their representative.

Invisible Raiders
The Invisible Raiders are a race of yellow-skinned Saturnians with abilities similar to the Faceless Hunter.

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Jaquaans
Little is known of the Jaquaans of the planet Jaquaa. Their sole representative in the 30th Century is Doctor Gym'll, the staff doctor of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Jayd
The Jayd are a purple skinned race of humanoids from a planet of the same name. They were represented by disgraced and deceased Green Lanterns Kentor and Laira Omoto.

Jirenn
The Jirenn are a humanoid race from Rojira which represent the Green Lantern Rori Dag.

Junoans
The Junoans of the asteroid Juno are a race of technologically advanced humanoid aliens. The Junoans are protected by an Atlantean exile named Zarl Vorne who gained Kryptonian-equivalent abilities when in close proximity to the asteroid.

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Kahloans
The Kahloans are the indigenous people of the planet Kahlo. Many Kahloans are addicted to Belamort, a psychotropic plant.

Kalanorians
The Kalanorians of Kalanor are a purple-skinned, two-eyed race of alien soldiers and sorcerers whose greatest champions are three-eyed mutants empowered by the "Flame of Py'tar". Their current champion and king is the tyrant Despero.

Kalvars
The Kalvars of Kalvar are also known as the "Bird-Man Bandits". They are a species of purple-skinned telepathic humanoids with bird-like wings and feet.

Karnans
Karna was the home of a races of extraterrestrial werecats known as the Karnans who shared their world with the Gordanians, who hunted them to near-extinction. The only surviving Karnan is Tigorr of the Omega Men.

Khund

The Khunds are an ancient warrior race from the heavy gravity world of Khundia. Khunds have codified rules of combat. Khund bodies have much denser bone and muscle tissue than humans.

Kriglo
The Kriglo are a race of spider-men native to the planet Mars. The Kriglo have large black spider-like bodies with bald human-like faces, green skin, large fangs, and prehensile green-skinned hands on their forelegs. They called the planet Mars 'Kigor'. Their relation to the other Martians is unknown.

Klaramarians
The Klaramarians of Klaramar are a race of yellow-skinned Saturnians possibly descended from the Yellow Martians. Klaramarians all appear to have yellow-orange skin, pointy ears, a total lack of facial features, and are telepaths. The Faceless Hunters are known to be Klaramarians.

Karaxians

Korugarians
The Korugarians of Korugar are a superstitious high technology race. They are represented by Thaal Sinestro, Katma Tui, and Soranik Natu.

Krells
The Krells of New Krell are blue-skinned, wrinkly, coneheaded aliens, who live on a Superman-shaped generation ship they call New Krell.

Krenons
The Krenons are a species of alien brutes and hybrids who have an interest in Almeracian society. Most Krenons are genetically engineered with four arms. Sazu and the warlord De'cine are from this race, but Sazu is created from a slave caste system and is regarded as a hybrid species.

Krokodilos
The Krokodilos are a warlike empire which hails from Krokodilo Prime in the Byo system.

Kroloteans

The Kroloteans of Krolote are a high technology race also known as "Gremlins". They perform illegal genetic experiments on other species and sell the resulting bio-weapons to their clients.

Kryptonians

The Kryptonians are the alien inhabitants of the destroyed planet Krypton. They are represented on Earth by Superman, Supergirl, the Kandorians, and General Zod and his fellow Phantom Zone inmates.

Kwai
The Kwai are a race of insectoids from the Second Galaxy, a quadrant of the Legion Universe. Legion member Shikari is a Kwai.

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Lallorans
The Lallorans are humans, some of whom possess metahuman abilities, from the ancient Earth colony of Lallor. Their representatives are the Heroes of Lallor.

Largas
The Largas are an extremely peaceful race that watched over Warworld after the Warzoons were wiped out. The Largas eventually died out too.

Laroo
The Laroo are a race of religiously fanatical aliens who persecuted the Lasma.

Lartnecs
The Lartnecs are a blue-skinned humanoid race. Star Sapphire member Miri Riam hails from Lartnec.

Lasma
The Lasma (also known as the Ayrie) are a peaceful race of plant-like cosmic beings.

Lenglyns

Lexorians
The Lexorians of Lexor are a race of humanoid aliens who believed that Lex Luthor was a hero and that Superman was a villain. Later, Luthor accidentally destroyed the planet while fighting Superman, blaming him for it.

Lightning Beasts
The Lightning Beasts are a non-sentient energy-based species from the planetoid Korbal. They are most notable for giving the Ranzz siblings - Garth, Ayla, and Mekt - their electric abilities after they crash-landed on Korbal and tried to recharge their ship using the Beasts' power, being charged with their energy instead.

Lightning Beasts in other media
The Lightning Beasts appear in the animated series Legion of Super Heroes. This version of the species have an ungulate-like appearance, with tusks and lightning-like tails.

Lizarkons
The Lizarkons are one of the subject races of the Thanagarian Empire. Their pre-conquest homeworld is located in the Aptilia solar system, a distinction they share with the Manhawks. Their representative is Isamot Kol.

Llarans
The Llarans of Llar are a reptilian species, and one of four technologically advanced and constantly at war spacefaring races native to the Antares system. The most well known Llaran is their ruler, Emperor Sayyar.

Lunarians
The Lunarians of Planet Prime are a race of yellow-skinned humanoids who lived in a hollow world complete with an artificial sun, inside of Earth's moon Luna. The Lunarians intended to wipe out humanity to expand their empire using their "molecular disruption technology" and "cephalic inhibitors". They are ruled by a government called the Diode, led by Primor-Trena and the Secundus-Ormang. Lunarian molecular disruption weaponry operates in the same spectrum as "red sun radiation" and can theoretically kill Superman. Like Kryptonians, the Lunarians can absorb solar radiation to become superhumanly powered. The Lunarians were forcibly exiled to an artificial planetoid (generation ship), and banished from the Solar System by Superman. The status of their former home inside the hollow Moon is unknown.

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Macrolatts
The Macrolatts are a tyrant race that enslaved the Zarolatts.

Maltusians
The Maltusians were the progenitors of three of the galaxy's oldest alien societies, the Oans, the Zamarons, and the Controllers. It was on Maltus that the Guard-Power later wielded by the Oans was first discovered.

Manhawks
The Manhawks are one of the subject races of the Thanagarian Empire; they are large hawk-like avians who wear humanoid masks. Their nameless pre-conquest homeworld is located in the Aptilia solar system, a distinction they share with the Lizarkons.

Manhunters

The Manhunters are sentient berserker androids, originally created as a force for peace by the Oans until they went rogue. The Manhunters were the prototype for a later group of more controllable robotic enforcers created by the Guardians; these machines were known as the "Fists of the Guardians".

Margoi
The Margoi are orange-skinned aliens with forehead crests and blue eyes. The Margoi are at war with the Aloi over a device known as the "Grayl". The Margoi are represented by Nemmul.

Martians
The Martians are the native humanoid species of the planet Mars, known for their incredible psychic powers and shapeshifting abilities. They are split among four ethnic/racial divisions: the Green Martians, represented on Earth by the Martian Manhunter; the Red Martians; the White Martians (aka "Pole Dwellers"), led by the warlord Commander Blanx; and the Yellow Martians.

Metans
The Metans are natives of the Meta-Zone are able to pass through the Zero-Zone using M-Vests to access Earth. Meta is the home of Rac Shade, also known as Shade, the Changing Man.

Molantans

Monguls
The Monguls are the unnamed alien race of technologically advanced, religious fanatics from which the tyrant Mongul was exiled. Mongul was deposed during a revolution led by an ancient mystic known as the Arkymandryte; he fled the theological coup with a small trusted crew whom he later killed.

Monitors

The Monitors are a group of ancient cosmic beings from a vast alien civilization who ruled the DC Multiverse for billions of years.

Monks
The Monks are a race of squirrel or chipmunk-like aliens from the planet H'lven. Ch'p and Bd'g of the Green Lantern Corps are Monks.

Moon Creatures

Mosteelers
The Mosteelers of Mosteel are one of four technologically advanced and constantly at war spacefaring races native to the Antares system. The most well known Mosteeler is their ruler, the metal-skinned Kromm. The Mosteelers are not robots, but their metabolism appears to have deposited ferrous metals directly into their protective chitinous exoskeletons.

Muscarian
The Muscarian are a race of small, sentient, vaguely humanoid fungi. Amanita of the Green Lantern Corps is a member of this race.

Mygorg
The Mygorg are a brutish green-skinned race which has enslaved the human population of the planet Pytharia, including that planet's ruling elite the Lightning Lords. Pytharia is the extradimensional home of the swordswoman known as Starfire.

Myrmitons
The Myrmitons are the blue-skinned rulers of the Myrmiton Star Empire; they attempted a secret invasion of Earth which was foiled by Green Lantern and the Flash.

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N'crons
The N'crons of N'cron are a race of tentacled aliens who resemble H.P. Lovecraft's depiction of Cthulhu. Grullug Garkush of N'cron is a member of the Dark Circle.

Naltorians
The Naltorians are humans from the colony Naltor who possess the metahuman ability of precognition. Nura Nal (Dream Girl) and Mysa Nal (White Witch) of Naltor are members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, while Norak Kun is a member of the Dark Circle.

Naktosian
The Naktosians are a race of grey skinned humanoids from the planet Naktos. They live their lives according to a strict set of laws. They are represented by deceased Green Lanterns Ghrelk and Varix.

New Gods

The New Gods are virtually immortal race of deified humanoids originating from a plane of existence known as the Fourth World and centered on the conflicting planets of New Genesis and Apokolips. The two warring factions are led by the benign Highfather and the ruthless Darkseid respectively. In addition to each planet possessing their own sophisticated technology unique to the two cultures, the New Gods almost innately exhibit super strength and durability. Some may have influence over domains of power such as emotion or energies like the Alpha Effect or Omega Beams.

Noc'Sagians
The Noc'Sagians are a race of beings with enormous heads that comprise most of their body mass. They have three legs to help support this great cranium, and their arms emerge from the sides of their face. They are represented by deceased Green Lanterns Gallius Zed and Cundiff Cood, as well as a new unnamed Noc'Sagian Green Lantern.

Null-Oids
The Null-Oids represented by Null-O are artificial beings made of neither matter nor energy. Null-O was sent from the distant future by advanced humans.

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Oans
The Oans are a Maltusian descended race, cousins of similar offshoot races such as the Zamarons and Controllers. They are also known as the "Guardians of the Universe".

Obsidian Folk
The Obsidian Folk are one of two races native to Stoneworld; they are obsidian-skinned, hairless, tribal humanoids. Kworri of the Obsidian Folk later became a Green Lantern.

Octi-Apes
The Octi-Apes are a race of sentient aliens that resemble six-armed gorillas. They are represented by Kar-Han who was temporarily stranded on Earth.

Okaarans
The Okaarans of Okaara are the second oldest race in the Vega star system. The Warlords of Okaara studied and perfected all forms of combat to protect the once peaceful Okaarans from the Psions.

Okaarans in other media
The Warlords of Okaara appear in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "When OMAC Attacks!".

Olys
The Olys are alien invaders of numerous star systems.

Omegons
The Omegons of Omegon are a race of purple-skinned, four-armed humanoids with a hybrid feudal/technological culture. The murdered hero "Voltro the Champion" was born on Omegon.

Omerons
The Omerons hail from the planet Omeron orbiting the star-sun Antares. Discovered by a human farmer named Howard Melville who piloted a crashed Omeron ship back to its homeworld.

Ophidians
The Ophidians are a secret mystic race.

Orandans
The Orandans of Orando are possibly descendants of the Homo magi of Earth. Princess Projectra and Sensor of the Legion of Super-Heroes are their representatives.

Orinocas
The Orinocas are a race of telepathic warrior women who inhabit the "Mirror World", a fourth dimensional universe also inhabited by the Duomalians. The first person from Earth to discover the Mirror World was Giovanni Zatara, but it was Samuel Scudder, the original Mirror Master, who discovered the Orinocans.

Overlords
The Overlords are a cybernetic lunar race.

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Parademons
The Parademons are a race of alien shocktroopers commanded by Darkseid. An artificially enhanced pseudo-race devoted to Darkseid, Parademons serve as both labor as well as an elite guard for the planet of Apokolips. Created and trained by DeSaad - often by torturing and reconditioning captured victims - Parademons typically act in Legions with strength in numbers, and they are often accompanied by gigantic dogs called Hounds.

In the comic Salvation Run, Parademons are dispatched by Desaad to attack the villains that were dumped onto their training camp. They killed Hyena, Brutale, General Immortus, and Solomon Grundy, the last of whom turned up alive in later comic issues. Most of them were killed when Lex Luthor self-destructed the teleportation device. One joined the Secret Six during Villains United.

In the New 52 (a 2011 reboot of the DC Comics universe), the Parademons are used to attack Earth, first seen encountering both Green Lantern and Batman in Gotham City. It is revealed in new continuum that the Parademon hordes are either remolded lifeforms or processed corpses that Darkseid and his Elite have harvested from the various worlds and realities they've conquered.

The New 52 era Red Tornado of Earth-Two discovered that 'K'li, a former Tamaranean Fury of Darkseid, was creating a special class of Berserker Parademons from the remodeled remains of dead or kidnapped humans, repurposing them through the usage of nightmarish Apokoliptian technologies.

Parademons in other media

Television
 Parademons appear in The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (vocal effects by Frank Welker), Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League Unlimited, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High (with one individual named Perry voiced by Fred Tatasciore), Justice League Action, Young Justice: Outsiders and Harley Quinn.

Film

Live action
 The Parademons appear in the films set in DC Extended Universe:
 In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, they appear in Bruce Wayne's vision/nightmare of a post-apocalyptic Earth resembling Apokolips.
 In Justice League, with vocal effects by Gary A. Hecker, they appear under the command of Steppenwolf, are shown to be attracted to fear, and can transform their victims into other Parademons. After Justice League separates Mother Boxes, Parademons sense the fear in Steppenwolf and they take him to Apokolips via the Boom Tube.
 In Zack Snyder's Justice League, a director's cut version of the film, Parademons are not motivated by fear, but by their fanatical loyalty to Steppenwolf and Darkseid, in addition to their ability to smell the Mother Boxes and kidnapping those who were in contact with them regarding their location.

Animation
 Parademons appear in Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, Justice League: War (with vocal effects by Dee Bradley Baker), Reign of the Supermen, Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (as a new group called "ParaDooms" mixed with Doomsday) and Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League.

Video games
 Parademons appear in Superman: The Game, Justice League Heroes, DC Universe Online, Injustice 2 and Lego DC Super-Villains (voiced by Elias Toufexis).

Peganans
The Peganans are a fish-like race which tried to invade Earth in the 25th century. The name of the species is a possible textual reference to The Gods of Pegāna, by Lord Dunsany.

Pharmans
The Pharmans are a species of blue-skinned humanoids. They are represented by the deceased Green Lantern Davo Yull.

Pharoids
The Pharoids are the rulers of the Pharon Empire. They hail from the planet Pharos IV.

Poglachians
The Poglachians are a race of alien clowns.

Progeny
The Progeny are a beetle-like race in the Second Galaxy who want to eliminate the creation of Element Lad's race the Kwai.

Prolfs
The Prolfs are a race of diminutive aliens who are immune to the vacuum of space. They are native to the Vega star system.

Promethean Giants
The Promethean Giants are an ancient alien race of giants that are trapped in The Source Wall.

Proteans
The Proteans are a race of telepathic shapeshifting pets from an unnamed planet in the Antares system. Proty I (deceased) and Proty II (a member of the Legion of Super-Pets) are their representatives.

Psion

The Psions are a race of reptilian scientists uplifted by Maltusian proto-Oans from native Maltusian lizards.

Puffballs
The Puffballs are an intergalactic hive of Green Lanterns.

Pumice People
The Pumice People are one of two races native to Stoneworld, they are dark gray-skinned, hairless, tribal humanoids. Aa of the Pumice People later became a Green Lantern.

Pytharians
The Pytharians are a race from the planet Pytharia which is the extradimensional homeworld of the swordswoman known as Starfire. The planet was once ruled by an elite class known as the Lightning Lords, but the human population has been enslaved by aliens known as the Yorg and the Mygorg.

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Quahooga

Qarians
The Qarians of Qaria are aquatic humanoids who closely resemble humans, but have purple coral-like hair and gills on the backs of their necks. Qaria is a world completely covered in water.

Qinoori Raiders
The Qinoori Raiders are a race of raiders who strip mine planets for resources. Zamba, homeworld of the Darkstar Ferrin Colos was destroyed by them.

Quantum Mechanics
The Quantum Mechanics are a superadvanced alien race.

Qwardians
The Qwardians are natives of the planet Qward in the anti-matter universe. Qward is the anti-matter equivalent of the planet Oa.

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Rannians
The Rannians of Rann are an ancient race of technologically advanced humanoids. They are represented by Alanna Strange, wife of Adam Strange and her father Sardath; formerly located in the Alpha Centauri star system, they are currently located in the Polara star system.

Rannians in other media
The Rannians appear in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Young Justice, Krypton and Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Cosmic Clash.

Ravagers of Olys

Red-Moon Gods
The Red-Moon Gods are Atlantean survivors of the city of Challa-Bel-Nalla, then ruled by Lord Daamon (an ancestor of Deimos), formed an alliance with an alien race they called the Red-Moon Gods. These aliens provided the Atlanteans with advanced technology that Travis Morgan, a.k.a. the Warlord, would later discover in New Atlantis.

Reflektorrs
The Reflektorrs are a race of psionic parasites consisting of pure psychic energy; they were discovered feeding on natives of Apokolips.

Replikons

Reach
Thee second oldest race in the universe behind the Maltusians, the Reach are an ancient militaristic race who control Space Sector 2. They have an ancient non-aggression pact with the Oans, and are the creators of the scarab that through events outside of Reach's control, became bonded to Jaime Reyes, making him the third incarnation of the superhero Blue Beetle.

Reach in other media
The Reach appear in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice.

Rhoon
The Rhoon come from the planet Rhoon which is split between science and elemental sorcery, with magic users segregated to the Sorcerer's Isle. They are represented by Green Lantern Hollika Rahn.

Rigellians
The Rigellians are a violet-skinned, four-armed race of noseless amphibians who fled their own dying world untold years in the future. They were welcomed by humans living on Earth in a time when the sun appeared to have become a red giant. A civil war takes place when the Halflings, the hybrid offspring of humans and the Rigellians, overthrow their forefathers.

Roboticans
The Roboticans of Robotica are a machine civilization led by C.O.M.P.U.T.O. which is native to the 30th Century.

Roguians
The Roguians are a shy race from the planet Rogue in the Vega star system. Soon after birth, they learn to produce a natural force shield that hides them even from each other. Elu of the Omega Men is a Roguian.

Rolvacians
The Rolvacians are the presumed name of a mammalian race with orange skin and long ears that engage in seasonal hibernation. They are represented by the deceased Green Lantern Burkett.

Rulanns
The Rulanns are one of two races from Rojira which resemble starfish.

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Sangtee
The Sangtee are members of the single-sex Sangtee Empire, ruled by an Emperor called the "Kreel".

Saturnians
The Red, White, and Yellow Saturnians are descended from clones of the Green, White, and Yellow Martians. Fura, a Saturnian warlord from 3000 A.D., appeared in Batman #26, an enemy of the Batman of 3000 A.D. Jemm is also a Saturnian.

Savothians
The Savothians are a camel-like advanced humanoid species native to the planet Savoth. They have entertained a long friendship with all members of the Flash Family.

Scissormen
The Scissormen are metafictional characters who inhabit a world called Orqwith.

Scyllans
The Scyllans are the presumed name of a sentient race from the planet Scylla. They are spindly and thin, and are represented by the deceased Green Lantern Laham.

Sklarians
The 'Sklarians from the planet Sklar are a yellow-skinned humanoid race. They are represented by the Sklarian Raiders and Kono of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Slaggites
The Slaggites (also known as Spitroids) from the planet Slagg survived a near-genocide after they rebelled against Citadel rule, represented by Shlagen of the Omega Men.

Slyggians
The Slyggians are the four-armed native sentient race of the planet Slyggia, these intelligent reptillian aliens are represented by Salakk of the Green Lantern Corps and Smythwick of the Sinestro Corps.

Sornaii
The Sornaii are an apparently multiversally aware alien race who seem to serve a role similar to that of the Monitors, but on a lesser scale.

Space Dolphins
The Space Dolphins are alien cetaceans capable of surviving and navigating in the vacuum of outer space. Two Space Dolphins have been seen in the company of Lobo.

Spider Guild
The Spider Guild are a race of alien merchants, traders, slavers and conquerors from the Vega star system.

Sputans
The Sputans are a sentient race made up of larva and bacteria.

Star Conquerors
The Star Conquerors are starfish-like aliens that are speculated to be Starro's race.

Statejians
The Statejians are a warlike race of Qualar IV.

Suirpalamians
The Suirpalamians are the presumed name of a species of sentient primates from the planet Suirpalam. They are represented by the deceased Green Lantern B'Shi.

Sumal
The Sumal are an alien race exterminated by the Progeny located in the Progenitor's Galaxy.

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Talokians
There are three known species of Talokians:
 The light blue-skinned natives of Talok III are Mikaal Tomas' (Starman) people.
 The sapphire blue-skinned natives of Talok IV are Lyssa Drak's people. Lyssa is a member of the Sinestro Corps.
 The dark blue-skinned natives of Talok VIII are Tasmia Mallor's (Shadow Lass) people. It is also the homeworld of her brother Grev Mallor, and her ancestors Lyrissa Mallor and Lydea Mallor.

Talyns
The Talyns of Talyn are an alien race represented by former Teen Titan Jarras Minion. The Talyns were the creators of the Omegadrone technology later co-opted by Victor Stone (Cyborg).

Tamaraneans
The Tamaraneans of Tamaran are a feline humanoid species native to the Vega star system. They have golden skin, large green catlike eyes, and long manelike hair. Like Superman and the residents of Krypton, the Tamaranians are living solar batteries who can store and convert solar radiation. They are represented by Starfire of the Teen Titans and Blackfire.

Tamaraneans in other media
The Tamaraneans appear in Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go! and Titans.

Tchk-Tchkii
The Tchk-Tchkii are a parasitic insectoid beetle-like race on the verge of extinction. Basically because of their yellow armor, they are responsible for the extermination of various Green Lantern Corps members from a few Space Sectors including Abin Sur.

Tebans

Technis
The Technis are a technologically savvy race who transformed Cyborg of the Teen Titans into Cyberion.

Technosapiens
The Technosapiens are a cybernetic parasite race which infects many different alien races.

Teiresiae
The Teiresiae are a race of shapeshifters who inhabit a land called Mother-Time.

Tellurians
The Tellurians of Telluria are blue-skinned Klingon-like aliens with red gems in their foreheads. The gems in their foreheads enable them to fire mind bolts. They are technologically advanced and are represented by the brothers Farlund and Karmault.

Terrorforms
The Terrorforms are a highly evolved telepathically synchronized race of beings who grant lower races superpowers.

Thanagarians
The Thanagarians of Thanagar are an ancient humanoid star empire orbiting the star Polaris. The Thanagarian Empire has contracted greatly since the days of the height of its power, but their descendants' many subject races still reside on the imperial homeworld. Gravity-defying wing harnesses made of an exotic material known as "Nth Metal" allow the Thanagarian elite, military and law enforcement to experience a unique form of powered flight. The Katar Hol version of Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Golden Eagle, and Fel Andar are known Thanagarians.

Thanagarians in other media
 The Thanagarians appear in the Justice League episode "Starcrossed". This version of the species are at war with the Gordanians, and tried to use Earth's resources to build a warp gate to directly attack the Gordanian homeworld under the guise of it being protection from the Gordanians, though this would destroy the planet in the process. Additionally, Hawkgirl (Shayera Hol) was secretly sent to Earth as a spy and agent for the Thanagarians prior to the start of the series, and temporarily sided with them before choosing to aid the League in stopping them. Even after the Thanagarian invasion was stopped, Shayera chose to leave the League out of guilt, though she later returned in Justice League Unlimited. Members of the Thanagarians include Shayera's fiancé Hro Talek (voiced by Victor Rivers), Paran Dul (voiced by Elizabeth Peña), and Kragger (voiced by Héctor Elizondo).
 The Thanagarians appear in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Hunter's Moon". Following their failed invasion of Earth, Hro Talak's army was ambushed by the Gordanians, and he sacrificed himself to allow them to escape. Afterwards, Paran Dul and Kragger led the remnants of their forces in planning revenge.
 The Thanagarians appear in the Legion of Super Heroes two-part finale "Dark Victory", as one of several species attacked by Brainiac.
 The Thanagarians appear in Legion of Super Heroes in the 31st Century #17.
 The TV series Naomi features a Thanagarian named Dee (portrayed by Alexander Wraith) who operates a local tattoo shop. Naomi McDuffie discovers this secret at the end of the first episode.
 The Thanagarian armada briefly appears in DC Showcase: Adam Strange.
 The Thanagarians appear in Green Lantern: Beware My Power, with Shayera Hol being voiced by Jamie Gray Hyder.

Thanagarian Snare Beasts
The Thanagarian Snare Beasts are giant spider-like aliens from the planet Thanagar. They were originally created for Kevin Smith's unproduced film Superman Lives, which would have had Superman (portrayed by Nicolas Cage) fight one, as requested by producer Jon Peters. However, Warner Bros.  asked Smith to change its name to not refer to it as a spider. Though the film was ultimately cancelled, the concept was referenced in the 2023 film The Flash, where an alternate universe version of Superman (portrayed by Cage) fights a Thanagarian Snare Beast.

Tharrians
The Tharrians are humans from the colony Tharr who possess the metahuman ability of cold manipulation. Polar Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes is their representative.

Thermoids
The Thermoids are former natives of Jupiter's moons, who later moved to the rings of Saturn. They and the Icoids originated outside the Solar System.

Thorons
The Thorons of Thoron are a race of technologically advanced humanoids who hail from the same solar neighborhood as the Kryptonians, and possess similar abilities. They are represented by Halk Kar, a Thoron who once believed that he was "Superman's older brother".

Throneworlders
The Throneworlders are a race of humanoids who hail from Throneworld, a planet formerly known as Kranaltine. Throneworld is the home of Prince Gavyn, the hero known as Starman.

Thronnians
The Thronnians are a race of humanoids from the planet Thronn. Energiman, Magicko, Strong Girl, and Golden Blade are the Honor Team of Thronn.

Thythen
The Thythen are invaders of the planet Vonn and survivors of the planet Mars. They are warmongers who inhabit distant solar systems and use robotic chargers, gigantic robotic beings to help them invade other worlds.

Timronians

Titanians
The Titanians are humans from a colony on Saturn's moon Titan who possess the same metahuman ability of telepathy. Saturn Girl of the Legion of Super-Heroes is their representative.

Toomians
The Toomians are humanoids with wolf-like features. They are endangered because they are hunted for their valuable hides. Barreer Wot of the Green Lantern Corps is a Toomian.

Tormocks
The Tormocks are a race of humanoid, primitive spacefaring warriors dedicated to the destruction of the Vuldarians. They are metamorphs who can change their shape and fuse with their armor or other inorganic properties to remake them into bio-mechanical apparatuses.

Tribunes
The Tribunes of Gallo are a race alleged to be even older than the Guardians of the Universe. They formed the Galactic Tribunal, an organization devoted to studying the immutable laws of creation, and dedicated to judging and punishing those who violate those laws. Led by Tribunal-Prime, with enforcers called the Tribunal Guardsmen.

Trogkian Mammoths
The Trogkian Mammoths are giant mammoth-like creatures whose stampedes terrorized the primitive world of Trogk. Moose of the Sinestro Corps is one of these creatures.

Trombusans
The Trombusans of Trombus are a race of humanoid aliens technologically and societally on par with Earth. Trombus is protected by the Hyper-Family, a group of humanoid aliens with Kryptonian-like abilities which they gained under a "red sun". The Hyper-Family are the only survivors of a nameless Krypton-like world. They are Hyperman, Hyperwoman, Hyperboy (Kirk Quentin), and Klypso the Hyperdog.

Trontians
The Trontians are a race of amorphous amoeba-like aliens capable of joining into a collective biological mass. They also possess the ability to store large amounts of energy.

Trommites
A species from the planet Trom, who all possess the ability of elemental transmutation. They are notably represented by Element Lad (Jan Arrah) of the Legion of Super-Heroes, who is also the last survivor of the species after they were killed by the space pirate Roxxas for refusing to use their abilities to his advantage. Jan only survived because he was off-world at the time.

In post-DC Rebirth continuity, the Trommites were instead killed by the alien Horraz under similar circumstances.

In other media
The Trommites appear in Legion of Super Heroes in the 31st Century #14. This version of the species were killed by a series of natural disasters of mysterious origin. However, their ghosts return in an attempt to convince Phantom Girl, the only one capable of seeing them, to stop her mother Winema from signing a treaty that would enable businessman Xavier Ro to strip-mine Trom for resources. After she succeeds in doing so, the Trommites are finally able to rest in peace.

Trophy Lords
The Trophy Lords are a technologically advanced race of powerfully built, white-furred, wolf-like humanoids. They appear to be a race of pathological hunters and are represented by Jharaka Bin Dharlok. the Trophy Lord, who encountered Superman.

Tsaurons
The Tsaurons of Tsauron are a race of yellow-scaled reptilian humanoids. Ontiir of Tsauron is a member of the Dark Circle.

Tybaltians
The Tybaltians of Tybalt use Earth as a vacation spot by disguising their citizens as humans. In their natural forms, the Tybaltians are squat green-skinned dwarf-like creatures with enlarged craniums; they have exhibited physical strength on par with Superman.

Tynolans
The Tynolans are a race of orange-skinned humanoids. An alien deity named "Moxumbra the Star Serpent" had demanded living sacrifices from the Tynolans. The planet was destroyed by the alien entity known as Sraltka.

Tyrraazians
The Tyrrazians are a technologically advanced red-skinned race in the 30th Century who come from the artificial planetoid Tyrraz. The Tyrrazians have a strong physical and cultural resemblance to Khunds. They are represented by Tyr.

Tyreans
The Tyreans are a race of insectoids with long flat bodies and many flipper like legs. They are represented by the deceased Green Lantern Chogar

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Ultas
The Ultas of Ulta appear to have their own version of the metagene. The hero "Trygg the Invincible" exhibited Superman-level strength before his death.

Ungarans
The Ungarans are red-skinned humanoids. They are represented by Abin Sur, the former Green Lantern of Sector 2814, and his son Amon Sur, who is now part of the Yellow Lanterns.

Uranians
The Uranians, led by Uvo the warlord of Uranus, sent a small space armada in a failed attempt to conquer the Earth and steal uranium, a radioactive ore which is abundantly present in the outer planets, only to be defeated by Wonder Woman. The Uranians have advanced technology and use a "decalcifying" ray which petrifies its victims.

Uxorians
The Uxorians are green-scaled reptilians from Uxor and are represented by the Green Man, former member of the Omega Men and the Green Lantern Corps.

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Valeronians
The Valeronians are an extinct race of humanoid aliens due to the destruction of their planet Valeron. Vartox and Ontor are known Valeronians.

Varidians
The entire Varidian race was taken over by Starro. Astrild Storm-Daughter, goddess of her people, voluntarily submitted to Starro.

Varvans
The Varvans are a horned race of red-skinned humanoids from the planet Varva. They are represented by the deceased Green Lantern Ke'haan, and possibly Turytt.

Venusian Mind Worms
The Venusian Mind Worms are worms that did not originate in the Sol System, but were exiled to a prison capsule suspended in the upper atmosphere of Venus. When exposed to the rare element suspendium, Mind Worms will mutate into evolved forms known as Hyperflies. A Hyperfly is capable of feeding on the potentiality of the Multiverse. Mister Mind is the only Venusian Mind Worm.

Vimanians
The Vimanians are a humanoid alien race with three eyes and white hair who intended to stripmine the Earth. They brought along a workforce stored as energy matrices in special crystals; scientist Zachary Leight activated these crystals and they reconstituted as a group of heroes calling themselves the Xenobrood. The Vimanians were also responsible for creating the human metagene.

Vrangs
The Vrangs Vrang are a gray-skinned race of technologically advanced, space-faring warlike humanoids with batwings in place of ears. The Vrangs once tried to conquer the planet Krypton.

Vuldarians
The Vuldarians are a humanoid race of elite warriors with shapeshifting abilities similar to the Durlans. The Vuldarians can fashion their limbs into weapons as well as project internally generated energy into munitions. They also possess super strength and durability, enhanced healing, and flight. The Green Lantern Guy Gardner was born a Terran-Vuldarian hybrid - the first known case of a successful human-alien offspring of this species. However, his extraterrestrial gene was rendered dormant by means of genetic alteration, the full side-effects of which remain unrevealed.

Vulxans
The Vulxans are a race of orange-skinned silicon-based humanoids who developed advanced teleportation technology. Superboy discovered that Kryptonite could protect their planet from deadly radiation.

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Wagnorians

Warworlders
When Warworld was destroyed upon its invasion of Earth with Brainiac, its inhabitants called the Warworlders went to Metropolis. To activate the remaining war machines, they went underground and took control of Metropolis's sewer system.

Warzoons
The Warzoons are a very warlike race that created Warworld. They all died off mysteriously.

Winathians
The Winathians come from the ancient Earth colony Winath. Their representatives are Lightning Lad and his twin sister Lightning Lass of the Legion of Super-Heroes and their brother Lightning Lord who all gained their abilities from the lightning beasts of Korbal.

Wingors
The Wingors are a race of winged gorillas from the planet Illoral which was conquered by Thanagar.

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Xan
The Xan are living electromagnetic beings. They thrived in the earliest eras of Krypton.

Xanadorans
The Xanadorans are a humanoid race and home to Star Sapphires member Dela Pharon. Recently she has looked more alien, with darker skin and a more alien-like complexion.

Xanthuans

Xardans
The Xardans of Xarda are an amphibious race of purple-skinned humanoids. The deceased Green Lantern Ares Bandet was a member of this species.

Xenoformers
The Xenoformers from Galaxy X are Grant Morrison's bizarre meld of the Transformers and Scoop from Bob The Builder. Currently a Xenoformer named Metalek is imprisoned in Britain's Basement 101.

Xenusians
The Xenusians were a race of malevolent aliens who spread a mysterious plague that caused the victims to mutate and transforms into new Xenusians. The Xenusians were also responsible for the annihilation of the entire Vexaphon race.

Xudarians
The Xudarians of Xudar are an orange-skinned species of extraterrestrial pseudo-avians; reminiscent of ornithischians. Their most respected representatives are Tomar-Re, and his son Tomar-Tu of the Green Lantern Corps.

Y

Yazz
The Yazz are a bird-like alien race represented by the Yazz.

Yorg
The Yorg are a mysterious extradimensional race of living shadows who assisted another alien race known as the Mygorg with enslaving the Pytharians. The Lightning Lords were the ruling elite of Pytharia, home of the swordswoman known as Starfire. The Yorg were also closely allied with a sorceress named Lady Djinn. The Yorg exhibited shadow manipulation abilities similar to those of the Shadow Thief.

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Zambians
The Zambians are a race of humanoid people who had their planet destroyed by Qinoori raiders for minerals. Ferrin Colos joined the Darkstars after seeing his planet's destruction.

Zandrians
The Zandrians of Zandria are a race of would-be world conquerors incapable of harming sentient life.

Zamarons
The Zamarons are a Maltusian-descended race, cousins of similar offshoot races such as the Oans and the Controllers.

Zoans
The Zoans are the Green Lantern Gpaak's race.

Zarolatts
The Zarolatts are an energy race who were enslaved by the tyrannical Macrolatts. The Weird is a member of this race.

Zaroxians
The Zaroxians of Zarox-13 are a race of green-skinned rotund humanoids with advanced polymer science and robotics technology. The alien conqueror known as Garguax is a Zaroxian.

Zeerangans
The Zeerangans are a militaristic race that hail from the planet Zeeranga who attempted to conquer the planet Omeron.

Zilliphi
The Zilliphi are Taa's race.

Zolatams
The Zoltams of Zoltam are an advanced alien society with sound-based technology; they are also able to use sound to power their cities. Zoltams have light yellow skin, wide flat skulls, and pointed ears.

Zumoorians
The Zumoorians of Zumoor are a race of humanoids. The golden energy rays of Zumoor's moon appear to trigger the metagene in humans. Thomas Keith of Earth traveled to Zumoor with his dog Rovo, there he was adopted by Chad and Vela Kazzan and rechristened Zarl Kazzan. Somehow Zarl and his dog Rovo gained metahuman powers equal to a Kryptonian which they used to protect Zumoor.

Zwenties
The Zwenites inhabit the ancient Earth colony Zwen and have developed the ability to transform themselves into static stone forms to deal with the planet's exceptionally long rotation around its sun. Zwen's most famous native is Stone Boy, part of the Legion of Substitute Heroes.

See also
 List of Legion of Super-Heroes members
 List of alien races in Marvel Comics

References

External links
 List of Alien Races at the DCU Guide
 The Great Book of Oa at the Green Lantern Corps Web Page
 Cosmic Teams: The Omega Men
 Cosmic Teams: Legion of Super-Heroes

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Henry John Hatch (1818–1895) was a British clergyman who was sent to prison for the indecent assault of two female children in his care. Following the conviction for perjury of his main accuser – one of the children – he was granted the Royal Pardon and embarked on a series of court actions to win compensation for wrongful imprisonment.

Early life
Henry John Hatch was born on 2 January 1818 in Chertsey, the second of 12 children of the Reverend Thomas Hatch, vicar of Walton-on-Thames, and his wife Anna Maria Ellen née Birch. Henry was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and around 1840 he went to Australia to work as a tutor. While he was there he met and married Esther "Essie" Dillon, daughter of John Dillon, a solicitor of Sydney originally from Dublin, and in 1847 or thereabouts Hatch returned to England with his wife. In 1849, he was ordained at Lichfield and became a curate, and in 1851 he was appointed first chaplain to the New Surrey House of Correction, built on Wandsworth Common.

Hatch's father, Thomas Hatch, was Lord of Sutton Manor. When his father died in 1851, Hatch had to manage his father's estate, and look after his six unmarried sisters and administer their marriage settlements. Hatch and his wife had no children of their own, so in 1856, 11 years after they were married, they adopted an orphan, Lucy Harriet Buckler.

Actions in the Court of Chancery – at least one of them brought by Hatch himself – together with an ill-fated journalistic venture, dissipated Hatch's entire cash reserves. In 1859, when Lucy was now seven and needed educating, Hatch and his wife decided to employ a governess and take on some paying pupils to defray the cost and provide some extra income. They advertised in The Times, and Thomas and Caroline Plummer brought their daughters, Mary Eugenia, aged 11, and her seven-year-old sister Stephana Augusta to Wandsworth to receive tuition. The Plummers were a well-off family from Broad Blunsdon in Wiltshire. The arrangement did not last long, because Caroline Plummer feared that a violent thunderstorm was an act of God against her for "abandoning her children with strangers" and removed both children the following day. Eugenia was only at Wandsworth for two weeks; Stephana for just one night.

Trial

Two months later, Henry received a letter from his bishop saying that the Plummers were accusing him of assaulting both of their daughters while they were in his care. On 1 December 1859 he was tried at the Old Bailey, convicted, and sentenced to four years hard labour. He was sent to Newgate Prison. Prosecution witnesses were Eugenia, Stephana and their mother, Caroline Plummer. There was some disquiet in the press regarding the justice of the conviction given the nature of the accusations, 'too disgusting to print', and significant discrepancies in the prosecution testimony given. Neither Hatch nor his wife had been allowed to give evidence, and his counsel, Serjeant William Ballantine, did not call any material witnesses. Henry's only chance of liberty was to apply for the Royal Pardon.

Hatch's petition to The Queen contained his own evidence and that of members of his household, none of which had been heard in court. His supporters contacted the twelve members of the jury and showed them the petition. Eleven of the twelve then signed a declaration to the effect that had they seen Hatch's evidence during the trial, they would never have convicted him. While the Home Secretary, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, remained unconvinced, he did say that if Eugenia could be convicted of perjury, the petition would be reconsidered.

Perjury Trial

Hatch's supporters advertised for funds to bring an action against Eugenia, and raised around £700 from the public. Finally, on 15 May 1860, Mary Eugenia Plummer, now aged twelve, was put on trial at the Old Bailey for Wilful and Corrupt Perjury.

After a five-day trial, Eugenia was found guilty and sentenced to three weeks in prison, followed by two years in a reform school. During the trial Caroline Plummer was seen to be intoxicated in the witness box, the Plummers' doctor, John Gay, fainted under cross-examination and Eugenia's sister Stephana, now aged eight, claimed that Hatch had assaulted her while his wife looked on.

A week after the trial ended, Hatch was released from Newgate, having spent 191 days in prison. Two weeks after that, Eugenia too was released under The Royal Pardon; she was to spend several years away from her family under the control of a strict governess, where it was intended that she should receive some religious and moral education.

There was extensive coverage in the press, most commentators concluding that Caroline Plummer had coached Eugenia and Stephana in what to say. Nevertheless, a conspiracy between Mrs. Plummer and her children was impossible to prove, so no action was ever brought against the Plummers.

Final Days

Hatch embarked on a protracted series of court actions against his solicitors, Lewis and Lewis, for bungling his defence case.

After 21 years as Rector of Little Stambridge in Essex, he and Essie ended their days in Little Linford in Buckinghamshire. On his death in 1895, Henry John Hatch's liabilities exceeded his assets by £65.

References

1. Henry's Trials, by Peter Maggs, published by Mirli Books Ltd, 2009,

2. The Ordeal of the Revd. Henry J. Hatch of Walton-on-Thames: No. 34: An Extraordinary Tale of Victorian Criminal Justice, by John Pulford, published by the Walton & Weybridge Local History Society, 2010,

External links
Excerpts from Henry's Trials in Google Books
Mirli Books website

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People from Chertsey
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Jessica Claire Timberlake (née Biel, born 3 Mairch 1982 in Ely, Minnesota) is an American actress. She is mairit tae the sangster Justin Timberlake.

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The Middle East News Agency (MENA) is a news agency based in Egypt. It is run by the Egyptian government.

History and profile
The MENA was founded on 15 December 1955 as a joint stock company owned by Egyptian press establishments. The agency, based in Cairo, began its operations on 28 February 1956. The owner of the agency became the Egyptian government in 1962. In 1978, the agency's owner became the Shura Council. In 1980, a board of directors was established and began to run the agency. It was later attached to the Ministry of Information.

Mustafa Naguib is among the former chiefs of the agency. Mahfuz Al Ansari also served in the post. In July 2005, he was replaced by Abdullah Hassan as editor-in-chief. In June 2014, Alaa Heidar was appointed editor-in-chief of the agency.

The MENA is the member of the Federation of Arab News Agencies that includes the national news agencies of 18 Arab countries. The agency had cooperation with nearly 25 news agencies in the 1990s. It offers news in three languages, namely Arabic, English and French.

It has following six major services: (1) Local Arabic news of which target audience is those subscribers living in Egypt and covers political, social, economic, culture and sports news in the Arab world, the Middle East and internationally. (2) Press services which include features news analysis, and photo services and international sectors such as culture, art, science, sports and history. (3) Publications in print which informs the subscribers about printed daily, biweekly and weekly. (4) Cairo Press Review which is a daily English-language publication, offering news published in the Egyptian newspapers. (5) Party Press Review news which is a biweekly publication in English about the main news published in the party newspapers in Egypt and (6) The MEN economic magazine which is a weekly English-language publication and offers the main economic news concerning those who are part of the economy of Egypt.

On 5 February 2014, the agency started a news website, called Bawabet Sharq Al Awsat.

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Linwood G. Dunn, A.S.C. (December 27, 1904 in Brooklyn, New York – May 20, 1998 in Los Angeles, California) was an American pioneer of visual special effects in motion pictures and an inventor of related technology. Dunn worked on many films and television series, including the original 1933 King Kong (1933), Citizen Kane (1941), and Star Trek (1966–69).

Early career
Dunn is noted as being very interested in cinema from as early as age 14, going so far as to compile his own rating scale for the movies he watched. This interest initiated his career, which began in 1923 in his home state as a projectionist. He was hired as an assistant camera operator by the Pathé company in 1925 and eventually moved to Hollywood, where he continued to work for Pathé until 1929.

His early contributions in this capacity were for film serials such as The Green Archer (1925), Snowed In (1926), Hawk of the Hills (1927), and Queen of the Northwoods (1929). He was then hired by RKO Radio Pictures as a cinematographer and as head of the photographic effects department, where he would work from the late 1920s until 1956.

His early contributions in camera work and special effects at RKO included films such as The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930), Danger Lights (1930), and Cimarron (1931), an Academy Award-winner for Best Picture, and The Monkey's Paw (1933). This early experience led to the World War II development of the first practical commercially manufactured optical printer, a device consisting of cameras and projectors allowing for the accurate compositing of multiple images onto a single piece of film.

Body of work
Dunn photographed the rotating RKO radio tower trademark used at the beginning of all RKO films. In the early 1930s, Dunn became part of the effects team responsible for the creation of the original King Kong (1933). He advanced his special effects techniques through extensive cutting between a miniature Kong model in full shots and fully-scaled body parts in close-ups, a technique he would repeat for later movies, including the sequel, Son of Kong (1933). Dunn worked under model animator Willis O'Brien and would go on to work with O'Brien on other projects.

Dunn did optical/photographic composites for the airplane-wing-dance sequence in the first Astaire-Rodgers musical Flying Down to Rio (1933). The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) were other well-remembered RKO films on which Dunn worked before America entered the second world war. In Citizen Kane, Dunn's composites open the film and many of cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus shots utilize Dunn's skill for creating optical composites. For Bringing Up Baby (1938), separate footage of Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and a leopard were photographically combined by Dunn. Dunn's work became so highly sought after by other studios that he formed his own company, Film Effects of Hollywood, in 1946. He served as the company's president until 1980, working that business at the same time as working at RKO. Eventually, Dunn sold his company to Francis Ford Coppola, who absorbed it into Zoetrope.

Production on The Outlaw (1943) was halted owing to a controversy over how much of Jane Russell's bosom would be visible. Dunn resolved the situation by rephotographing Russell's close-ups with a tiny scrim inserted between the projector and camera, so as to soften the line of her cleavage. Dunn gained a technical Oscar (along with machinist Cecil Love) in 1944 for his work. Dunn continued to work at RKO after Howard Hughes bought the studio.

After RKO had ceased to exist as a film production company, Dunn did the optical composites and title sequence for West Side Story (1961) and the elaborate fire-ladder sequence at the end of Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), which required 21 different all-color elements to be composited into final images.

Other later large-format and/or high-profile films Dunn's company did opticals for are My Fair Lady (1964), The Great Race (1965), Hawaii (1966), The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Darling Lili (1970), and Airport (1970).

In some cases, his work was not given credit. For example, he was consulted for the special effects in The Exorcist (1973), and numerous correspondences indicate his role in the production of the movie. His contributions to this movie include several stylistic choices that display the demonic possession of Regan MacNeil, including levitation and facial transformations.

Inventions and innovations

During World War II, Dunn developed the Acme-Dunn optical printer to be mass-produced out of a request from the United States' military. The printer was revolutionary in both the production process and the post-production process, as it had numerous capabilities. For example, it was used at the end of Citizen Kane for a final zoom-in shot of Rosebud, the sled, and in Hawaii for shooting against a blue background and adding in details, such as rocks and water, after the shooting was complete.

Dunn produced the lightning-electrocution scene at the end of The Thing from Another World (1951) by scratching the lightning, frame-by-frame, on a strip of black film and then compositing the best of that footage with live action footage of the monster burning and shrinking (done by Dunn via pulling back the camera on a track while filming the monster image element against a black background), with those two elements then photographically combined with the unmoving image of the floor and walls that surround the creature in the final composite. During the brief 3-D craze and the more permanent shift to widescreen processes such as CinemaScope, Dunn pioneered the use of optical composites using these developments, inventing and refining new equipment to achieve it.

Dunn worked for Desilu Productions, founded by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, and the TV production required the occasional use of optical effects, especially for increasingly elaborate title sequences, and Dunn's Film Effects of Hollywood was one of several optical houses that supplied them. From 1965, Dunn became one of four optical houses that supplied visual effects for the company's (later Paramount) Star Trek. It was mostly Dunn who photographed the 11-foot large Starship Enterprise model, designed by series creator Gene Roddenberry and Matt Jefferies and built by Dick Datin, Mel Keys, Venon Sion, and Volmer Jensen at Production Model Shop in Burbank, California. Dunn also generated footage that could be used by the three other optical houses involved with Star Trekthe Howard Anderson Company, Westheimer Company, and Van Der Veer Photo Effectsall necessary due to the large number of effects shots and tight weekly production schedule. Dunn continued to work on the series until its cancellation in 1969.

Dunn also specialized in optical work for special and large format films, creating the equipment necessary to do the jobs. In fact, he was the first person to blow up a film from 16mm to 35mm color internegative. Dunn did optical composite for several special 70mm films shown at World's Fairs, including the multi-panel tour-de-force film A Place to Stand, made for Expo 67. It was Dunn who did what his associates said was impossible, cleanly blowing up 16mm negative to 70mm prints for George Harrison's Concert For Bangladesh. Dunn's company later became the first facility in Hollywood that could do optical composites in the ultra-large IMAX film format.

He co-wrote (with George Turner) a book on his career and the history of visual effects, The ASC Treasury of Visual Effects published in 1983.

In the 1990s, while in his 90s, Dunn joined with Japanese engineers in the development of a 3-D television system that used electronic dual-polarized glasses that auto-synced to the TV image, to create the most clear and deep 3-D images ever produced. The system was originally built for hospitals. Surgeons in many facilities are now using the system as a key aid in sorting out the nerve-endings during micro-neurosurgery. A consumer version of the system is now sold with 3-D Blu-ray players and TV sets in most video equipment stores. The system was profiled on an episode of Alan Alda's TV series Scientific American Frontiers. Always keenly interested in technology, Dunn participated in the development of digital projection for theaters.

Honors and awards
Dunn was first recognized for his optical printer in 1944 with a citation of technical excellence from the Motion Picture Academy and later was recognized in 1980 by the academy with an Oscar in technical merit.

Dunn was the recipient of the Golden Hugo from the 8th Annual Chicago International Film Festival, was given an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the San Francisco Art Institute, and received several similar awards from various arts and technical colleges, and other technical organizations.

Dunn shared an Oscar win for special effects in 1949 for his work in collaboration with Willis O'Brien for the original Mighty Joe Young. In 1984, he received the Gordon E. Sawyer Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as Honorary Membership in The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers—their highest honor.

Twice elected president of the American Society of Cinematographers, he was also elected a governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in two different branches, and was instrumental in the formation of the academy's Visual Effects branch. He also served as the AMPAS's treasurer for one several-year term.

The Linwood Dunn Theater at the academy's Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood was named in honor of Dunn and his innovations and contributions to the film industry. The moving image collection of Linwood Dunn is held at the Academy Film Archive.

Death
After winning two final special achievement Oscars in 1979 and 1985, Dunn lived in his North Hollywood home until his death in 1998 at age 93.

Academy Awards
1944 (17th) for the Acme-Dunn Optical Printer
1949 (22nd) for Mighty Joe Young - RKO Productions
1978 (51st) in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
1980 (53rd) for the concept, engineering and development of the Acme-Dunn Optical Printer for motion picture special effects.
1984 (57th) Gordon E. Sawyer Award

References

External links

 Linwood G. Dunn papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
American Cinematographer Magazine; March 1965; December 1985; July 1998
Cinefantastique Magazine; July 1996, Visual EFX article, pages 64 – 75
Book: The Making of Star Trek, Stephen E. Whitfield & Gene Roddenberry, Ballantine, 1968.
Book: Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide, 2006 Edition.

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Aziz Akhannouch (, ; born 31 December 1961) is a Moroccan politician, businessman, and billionaire who is currently the Prime Minister of Morocco since his government took office on 7 October 2021. He is the CEO of Akwa Group and also served as Minister of Agriculture from 2007 to 2021.

Akhannouch's political career has been generally characterized by several controversies, including accusations of corruption and negative relations with the press. His government has been additionally marked by inflation, as well as continued suppression of dissenting opinions. It has been suggested that Akhannouch may have been elected by election fraud and vote buying, as the previous party, the PJD saw its support collapse from 125 to just 12 seats.

Early life and education
Akhannouch was born in 1961 in Tafraout and raised in Casablanca. He comes from the Amazigh tribe of Souss of Aït Ammeln. His mother and sister were survivors of the 1960 Agadir earthquake that killed ten of his family members; they were reported to have been left buried beneath rubble for several hours before being rescued.

In 1986, Akhannouch graduated from the Université de Sherbrooke with a management diploma.

Business
He is the CEO of Akwa Group, a Moroccan conglomerate particularly active in the oil and gas sector. Forbes estimated his net worth as $1.4 billion in November 2013. Akhannouch inherited Akwa from his father. In 2020, he was ranked 12th on Forbess annual list of Africa's wealthiest billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $2 billion.

Political career

From 2003 to 2007, Akhannouch was the president of the Souss-Massa-Drâa regional council. He was a member of the National Rally of Independents party, before leaving it on 2 January 2012.

He served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries between 2007 and 2021, During this period, he successfully implemented the Green Morocco Plan, an ambitious agricultural development strategy that was introduced by King Mohammed VI in April 2008 and has received international recognition and admiration as a true model and example.

On 23 August 2013 he was appointed by King Mohammed VI as Minister of Finance on an interim basis after Istiqlal ministers resigned from Benkirane's cabinet, a position he kept until 9 October 2013.

On 27 July 2016, Akhannouch met with Jonathan Pershing, Special Envoy for Climate Change for the United States. They spoke about preparations for the 2016 United Nations Conference of the Parties.

On 29 October 2016, Akhannouch rejoined the RNI after being elected as president of the party. He took over Salaheddine Mezouar's position, who had resigned following the 2016 general election.

In March 2020, through his company Afriquia, a subsidiary of the Akwa group, Akhannouch donated roughly one billion dirhams ($103.5 million) to a COVID-19 pandemic management fund founded by King Mohammed VI.

Prime Minister of Morocco (2021—present)

In the 2021 general election, his party placed first, winning 222 seats of the 435 seats, while the governing Justice and Development Party lost 113 of its previous seats. On 10 September 2021, he was appointed as Prime Minister by King Mohammed VI, succeeding Saadeddine Othmani, and was tasked by the King to form a new government.

Akhannouch announced the formation of an official coalition government alongside the PAM and Istiqlal parties on 22 September 2021, thus officializing his status as Prime Minister of Morocco. On 7 October 2021, Akhannouch assumed office as the new Prime Minister.

In late October, Akhannouch was criticized by Moroccan citizens for wearing a pin of the MENA region that excluded Western Sahara while attending a Green Initiative event in Saudi Arabia.

In September 2022, Akhannouch attended the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

On 11 October 2022, Akhannouch met with Prince Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg along with his business partners in Rabat, in order to boost economic trade between Morocco and Luxembourg.

In December 2022, he attended the United States–Africa Leaders Summit 2022 and met with US President Joe Biden.

On 1 February 2023, Akhannouch participated with Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez in the 12th edition of the Morocco-Spain High Level Meeting in Rabat, in which both countries signed a total of 19 bilateral agreements concerning a plethora of sectors.

In July 2023, Akhannouch attended the 2023 Russia–Africa Summit in Saint Petersburg and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Controversies
Akhannouch was the target of several accusations of corruption during his time as Minister of Agriculture. In 2017, the Secretary General of the Istiqlal Party, Hamid Chabat, accused him of stealing 13 billion Moroccan dirhams intended to go towards gas compensation during a party meeting. At a previous gathering in Fez, he additionally accused Akhannouch of corruption, and implied that his $2 billion fortune was the equivalent of "all that 30 million Moroccans own". An open letter to King Mohammed VI from blogger Maysa Salama al-Naji published online in June 2021 cited a 400-page report counting corruption charges against Akhannouch.

Akhannouch has been criticized over the suppression of dissenting opinions and imprisonment of opponents, alongside calls for an end to violations of freedom of speech and the right to peaceful demonstration.

17 billion case
In 2015 and 2016, after the Moroccan government of Abdelilah Benkirane decided to liberalize fuel prices, the fuel companies decided to collude with each other and not reduce prices. Among those companies was the Akwa company, owned by Akhannouch.

The profits of these companies amounted to about 17 billion dirhams (around US$1.75 billion), and several parties described them as immoral and illegal profits on the back of the Moroccan people. There were still several demands to restore them, whether in Parliament or in the media.

During the period following the case, the president of the Competition Council, , prepared a report on Akhannouch's illegal profits, and submitted it to King Mohammed VI. In March 2021, Guerraoui was relieved of his position and replaced by Ahmed Rahhou.

Press relations
As of 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture spent several million dirhams annually in massive advertising in the country's print press. If a newspaper criticized Akhannouch or his Maroc Vert plan, it immediately saw the Ministry's advertisements cut off, along with those of the Akwa group.

In 2017, Akhannouch sued three journalists from the Badil news site for having criticized him. He demanded that they pay him 1 million dirhams.

2018 boycott

In the spring of 2018, Morocco was shaken by a boycott movement launched against Centrale Danone, Sidi Ali (mineral water) and Akwa's subsidiary Afriquia. The three brands, which are major distributors of three basic products – milk, water and fuel – were accused by the population of charging very high prices. The movement became extremely popular, leading to reactions from the government.

According to the French think tank School of Thought on Economic Warfare (EPGE), which investigated the boycott movement, it was a campaign of "hierarchized" disinformation "therefore orchestrated by a precise political agenda", which would have benefited from a substantial budget, with for example between 100,000 and 500,000 euros for the purchase of online space to disseminate the ideas of the movement, as well as expensive donation campaigns to the poor to mobilize public opinion. According to the same study, the movement of Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane would be behind this boycott campaign with the aim of removing Akhanouch from the political scene.

Akhannouch himself said he "ignored" the boycott campaign while speaking to Jeune Afrique, accusing opponents of "exploiting Moroccans' hardship for political goals".

On 17 November 2018, Driss Guerraoui was appointed by King Mohammed VI as president of the Competition Council. In 2020, the Council recognized that the three brands targeted by the 2018 boycott campaign had reached an agreement on prices.

Milan comments
In December 2019, during a meeting in Milan with Moroccans living in Italy, Akhannouch declared, "Whoever believes that they can come and insult the institutions of the country has no place in Morocco. Whoever wants to live in Morocco must respect its motto and its democracy. Insults will not move us forward. And excuse me, but it is not justice that should do this job. […] We must re-educate Moroccans who lack education." The remarks triggered strong reactions from Moroccan politicians and citizens as well as a call for the resuming of the 2018 boycott of his companies. TelQuel attributed his comments in relation to the arrest & prosecution of a Moroccan YouTuber after he published a video criticizing King Mohammed VI's speeches. The Milan comments were alluded to in the popular music video "M3a L3echrane" by Dizzy DROS.

2021 election
In the runup to the 2021 general election, Abdellatif Ouahbi, Secretary General of the Authenticity and Modernity Party which later joined the government coalition, accused Akhannouch of "flooding the political scene with money", while the Justice and Development Party heading the outgoing coalition condemned the "obscene use of funds to lure voters and some polling station supervisors", without naming any parties. Additionally, the party also alleged "serious irregularities" in the voting process. Nabil Benabdallah, head of the Party of Progress and Socialism, criticized the RNI during an interview for giving sums of money to lure candidates from other parties "in full view of everyone". An RNI spokesperson contacted by Agence France-Presse said the accusations had been "rejected" by the party, and declined any further comments.

Rising prices and inflation
Throughout less than 200 days into Akhannouch's time in office, he became a target of Moroccans calling for his resignation, accusing him of corruption. The prices of fuel and several essential food products have skyrocketed in recent months, as the price of a 5-litre bottle of vegetable oil increased by 27 dirhams, while the price of 25 kg of semolina, widely used in Moroccan cuisine, increased by 50 dirhams. The inflation affected many vulnerable families, in which more than 430,000 Moroccans lost their jobs.

#Degage_Akhannouch campaign
In 2022, as fuel prices continued to rise, an online campaign emerged with tens of thousands of users on Twitter and Facebook using the three French hashtags #7dh_Gazoil, #8dh_Essence and #Degage_Akhannouch ("Get out Akhannouch") to call for an immediate decrease in gas prices, accusing Akhannouch and his company Afriquia of benefiting from the crisis. Abdelilah Benkirane, head of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) and former Prime Minister, said that he "didn't support" the online campaign, adding that "only Sidna (our lord) [King Mohammed VI] has the competence (…) to put an end to this cabinet and call for the organisation of early legislative elections". Nevertheless, several PJD members participated in the campaign.

2023 Marrakesh Earthquake
On 8 September 2023, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 Mw hit Marrakesh-Safi region of Morocco. Akhannouch received criticism from the Moroccan people for his absence and lack of management towards those affected by the earthquake. 2 days after the earthquake occurred, Akhannouch sent his condolences to families affected by the disaster. Akhannouch pledged to rebuild all infrastructures destroyed by earthquake.

Personal life
Akhannouch is married to Salwa Idrissi, a businesswoman who owns a company active in malls and holds the Moroccan franchises for brands such as Gap and Zara. They have three children.

As Minister of Agriculture, Akhannouch hosted King Mohammed VI and his immediate family for Ramadan iftar on two separate occasions in 2013 and 2016.

On 21 November 2022, government spokesperson Mustapha Baitas announced that Akhannouch had tested positive for COVID-19.

References

External links

Biography at the ministry of agriculture official website
Official website of the Moroccan ministry of agriculture

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Living people
1961 births
People from Tafraout
Prime Ministers of Morocco
Berber Moroccans
Moroccan Berber politicians
Moroccan billionaires
Moroccan businesspeople
Moroccan chief executives
Shilha people
National Rally of Independents politicians
Université de Sherbrooke alumni

Aziz Akhannouch