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Maybe it's because they land somewhere in the [[Uncanny Valley]]. Maybe, as with the [[Monster Clown]], it's because writers like subverting the traditionally "cute". Maybe it is a reflection of our savage ancestry. Maybe it's a remnant of our struggle with our differently-evolved cousins. Or maybe it's simply that [[Everything's Better
Such extraterrestrial monkeys tend to be brutish killing machines - an intelligent alien ape is usually a subversion.
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* The Thunes in Mike Baron and Steve Rude's comic book ''Nexus'' resemble apes. Thunes are an intelligent race, though, and are just as varied morality-wise as humans. The two most prominent Thune castmembers are Nexus's two best friends, Dave and his son Judah.
* The [[Marvel]] ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' comic had a race of (somewhat) intelligent, vicious cyborg monkeys living in limbo.
* A group of intelligent killer space monkeys appear in the ''[[
* Titano from the ''[[
== Film ==
* One variation is the movie ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'', in which the apes are exactly as brutish and nasty as humans.
* The aliens in ''[[Evolution (
* The Morlocks in the 2002 adaptation of ''[[The Time Machine]]'' were particularly ape-like.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' gives us Chewbacca and his fellow Wookies, who are for the most part the most unambiguously noble critters in the galaxy. The Wampa from Hoth is a more traditionally monsterish version.
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== Literature ==
* [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' setting has multiple hominids evolved from the Pak, including a whole [[Ring World]] full of sentient and non-sentient types. The [[Shout
* [[John Carter of Mars]] has the White Apes - gigantic, four-armed Martian primates.
* In ''[[After Man a Zoology of The Future]]'', several species of deadly predator have evolved from monkeys, including the fish-eating [[Exactly What It Says
== Live Action TV ==
* The Ogrons, a race of mercenary grunts often turning up as henchmen to the Daleks in ''[[
* The Kromaggs, the product of parallel evolution on one of the worlds of ''[[Sliders]]'' with a taste for human eyeballs. In their initial appearance, they were most definitely ape-descended, though later appearances made them more human, with something of a Nosferatu bent. (Note that their name comes from "Cro-Magnon", [[Hollywood Meaningful Name|but the actual Cro-Magnons were modern humans]].)
* The Magog from ''[[Andromeda]]''.
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* ''[[Firefly]]'': Space monkeys are raised as a possible reason why Kaylee's engine room is so untidy in "Train Job".
* Goldar of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' fame.
* The Mugato from ''[[Star Trek:
== Other ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Not so much ''killer'', as their role is more of [[The Engineer]], but ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' features the Jokaero, a race of space orangutans.
* Another tabletop wargame, ''AT-43'', features a race of intelligent apes (actually uplifted Earth gorillas), fond of philosophy and simian-related [[Shout
* ''[[Star Frontiers]]'' had the Yazirians as a playable race. They were generally good guys, of the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] sort.
* ''[[Spelljammer]]'' brought the Yazirians back, but renamed them "Hadozee," or "deck apes."
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[System Shock]] 2'' had creepy zombie space lab monkeys. With [[Psychic Powers]] (either cryokinesis or pyrokinesis, depending on which kind of monkey).
* ''[[
** And gives you a [[Bragging Rights Reward|badge]] for [[Never Say "Die"|"arresting"]] 1000 of them.
* While both the Grunts and the Elites from the first game have a substantial number of ape-like features, ''[[Halo]] 2'' went right out and admitted it with the Brutes, who are basically gorillas. Gorillas in [[Powered Armor]] who [[Guns Akimbo|dual-wield shotguns]]. Yeah.
** The Covenant name for Grunts is Unggoy, which in Tagalog means monkey.
** ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' has a [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]] encounter with a pair of giant tusked lizard-monkeys.
* The Cosmic Silverback in the ''Dead Ops Arcade'' minigame of ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops
* A literal case with General Skun'ka'pe in the third season of the ''[[Sam and Max]]'' episodic adventure game.
* The Tarka from ''[[Sword of the Stars]]'' are one part reptile and one part this. In return, they consider us this too.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Captain Simian
* An odd twist on the trope is the ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]]''. They're technically the good guys, but they have no compunction whatsoever against killing their enemies, and being brutal about it.
* ''[[Bucky O'Hare and
* An episode of ''[[Superman:
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The Lespuko from ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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