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* The Mon Calamari of ''Franchise/StarWars'' are basically octopi with humanoid bodies. In the old Expanded Universe, they shared their planet with the Cthulhu-esque Quarren as well.
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* The Mon Calamari of ''Franchise/StarWars'' are basically octopi with humanoid bodies. In the old Expanded Universe, they shared They share their planet with the Cthulhu-esque Quarren as well.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheBountyHunter'': Glorlox, a rival bounty hunter to the title character, has teal skin and his face has four tentacles and an octopus beak.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Home2015'': The Boov have multiple tentacles in place of humanoid legs, an ability to change color that's often [[LivingMoodRing dictated by their emotions]] and an elongated pair of siphons from the tops of their hands called "nostricles". The [[WesternAnimation/HomeAdventuresWithTipAndOh follow-up series]] establishes other octopoid traits like having multiple hearts, being cold-blooded and their heads being capable of inflation through their nostricles like a mantle.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Home2015'': The Boov have multiple short tentacles in place of humanoid legs, an ability to change color that's often [[LivingMoodRing dictated by their emotions]] and an elongated pair of siphons called "nostricles" sprouting from the tops of their hands called "nostricles".heads. The [[WesternAnimation/HomeAdventuresWithTipAndOh follow-up series]] establishes other octopoid traits like having multiple hearts, being cold-blooded and their heads being capable of inflation through their nostricles like a mantle.
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A subset of StarfishAliens, and a popular form for aliens to take in fiction. This kind of design works because octopuses already look alien enough to most people.
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A subset of StarfishAliens, and a popular form for aliens to take in fiction. This kind of design works because octopuses already look Octopuses and other cephalopods are highly intelligent animals, but their evolutionary history is very different from us humans and our fellow vertebrates, and correspondingly they come off as "alien" to many people already. So why not use them as the basis for an actual sapient alien enough to most people.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FourEyes'': Emma's true form is a pink, cephalopod-like alien with four eyes and three hair-like strands on either side of her head.
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* Octopuses themselves are incredibly intelligent, displaying advanced problem solving skills and even tool use. However, octopuses (and all other molluscs) are on a completely different evolutionary lineage from humans (and all other vertebrates), with our latest common ancestor having lived in the Precambrian era some 600 million years ago. (You basically have to get to sponges and jellyfish to find animal groups we're ''less'' closely related to.) As a result, octopus intelligence evolved along completely different lines than that of vertebrates such as mammals and birds. In fact, many regard them as the best example we currently have of an "alien" intelligence on Earth, and many speculative evolution pieces have posited them as the group most likely to gain full sapience, with ''or'' without humans in the picture.
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* Octopuses themselves are incredibly intelligent, displaying advanced problem solving skills and even tool use. However, octopuses (and all other molluscs) are on a completely different evolutionary lineage from humans (and all other vertebrates), with our latest common ancestor having lived in the Precambrian era some 600 million years ago. (You (We're more closely related to starfish than to octopuses, and you basically have to get to sponges and jellyfish to find animal groups we're ''less'' closely related to.) As a result, octopus intelligence evolved along completely different lines than that of vertebrates such as mammals and birds. In fact, many regard them as the best example we currently have of an "alien" intelligence on Earth, and many speculative evolution pieces have posited them as the group most likely to gain full sapience, with ''or'' without humans in the picture.
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* Octopuses themselves are incredibly intelligent, displaying advanced problem solving skills and even tool use. However, this intelligence evolved along completely different lines than that of vertebrates such as mammals and birds. In fact, many regard them as the best example we currently have of an "alien" intelligence on Earth, and many speculative evolution pieces have posited them as the group most likely to gain full sapience, with ''or'' without humans in the picture.
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* Octopuses themselves are incredibly intelligent, displaying advanced problem solving skills and even tool use. However, this octopuses (and all other molluscs) are on a completely different evolutionary lineage from humans (and all other vertebrates), with our latest common ancestor having lived in the Precambrian era some 600 million years ago. (You basically have to get to sponges and jellyfish to find animal groups we're ''less'' closely related to.) As a result, octopus intelligence evolved along completely different lines than that of vertebrates such as mammals and birds. In fact, many regard them as the best example we currently have of an "alien" intelligence on Earth, and many speculative evolution pieces have posited them as the group most likely to gain full sapience, with ''or'' without humans in the picture.
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*There's a series of virtual pet games on Android and iOS called ''Moy'' by Frojo Apps, where you take care of a cuter version of this trope (much like ''VideoGame/{{Pou}}'').
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* ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]], who is an alien unlike the other {{Kaiju}}. He [[DraconicAbomination doesn't look the part]], but the director says that his biology is based on that of an octopus: he can regenerate severed heads and necks from the stumps, and he has a non-centralized nervous system wherein his neurons are scattered throughout his body nstead of being focused solely in his brains. Not unlike an octopus' tentacles, in this version, Ghidorah's three heads [[MultipleHeadCase have independent personalities]].
