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* [[Chest Burster]]: Chryssalids and Tentaculats.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: Most prevalent in ''UFO Defense'', where aliens don't suffer from Fatal Wounds unless they were inflicted under previous mind control, magically know the entire map (and your soldiers' positions) after Turn 20, and can target any of your soldiers as soon as just one is in visual range (particularly rage-inducing with Ethereals' psi-spamming).

** Even so, it's possible to fool them by bringing a psi-decoy with low mental defences and no weapons (if you want to keep one somewhat useful with zero damage capability, there are medi-kit, mind probe, smoke grenades and flares) to suck up all their psychic powers, as they are always going to target the people with the weakest minds.

** Even so, it's possible to fool them by bringing a psi-decoy with low mental defences and no weapons (if you want to keep one somewhat useful with zero damage capability, there are medi-kit, mind probe, smoke grenades and flares) to suck up all their psychic powers, as they are always going to target the people with the weakest minds. This can be exploited to screen for low mental defense before you gain the ability to see a unit's value directly.

*** Thus making that poor bastard a [[Mind Rape]] [[Unwitting Pawn]].

*** The aliens were also capable (in ''TFTD'', and presumably ''UFO Defense'') of hiding in squares that were in [[Fog of War|line-of-sight.]] Finding a lobster man three squares away with a blaster launcher just outside the final room of T'leth is an unpleasant surprise. When the discovery takes place because it rotated where you could see it after you'd specifically [[Failed a Spot Check|looked in that corner...]]