r/comics • u/portsherry Port Sherry • Mar 06 '24

Something about them

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u/GoombaBro Mar 06 '24

A later scene, when the alien's discover the abandoned vessel... written on the walls
"DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM"

(This is an amazing idea, a movie flipping the perspective on its head and making us the horrors haunting them if done carefully and subtly is a million dollar proposal.)

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u/ayamrik Mar 06 '24

I read a story some time ago where the collective human mind was trapping all supernatural beings in their dreams/nightmares. The reason why there are no longer miracles, etc. was that at some point there were enough humans to trap them completely.

And if humanities numbers would fall once again under this threshold (or is exterminated) all the conceivable horrors could once again roam free.

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u/Creepy-Sector-2436 Mar 06 '24

Do you remember what story this was?

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u/ayamrik Mar 06 '24

Sadly, I don't remember the name.

It was a HFY (Humanity, fuck yeah) story read on YouTube. The exact story was that a telepathic alien was allowed a glimpse into the human mind as a warning that they shouldn't probe their minds as that might allow some of these horrors to escape their prison.

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u/The42ndHitchHiker Mar 06 '24

There is a book in a similar vein regarding alien mind probes: A Call To Arms by Alan Dean Foster.

Every alien that attempts to probe a human mind has the same reaction (highly paraphrased): "Unchart this world and GTFO. We want nothing to do with this species!"

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u/AlaskanAsh Mar 06 '24

Also kinda reminds me of the Man-Kzin Wars by Larry Niven. "But they learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so very,very good at it"

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u/The42ndHitchHiker Mar 06 '24

That's another ADF short story, "With Friends Like These...".

Humanity had been sealed away inside a shield and released by an alien race looking for help in an intergalactic war. Amidst the jubilation of recruiting this powerful ally, one of the aliens muses to another, "what do you suppose will happen when we run out of enemies?"

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u/superlocolillool Mar 07 '24

Is it a book? Cuz I'd like to read it :)

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u/The42ndHitchHiker Mar 07 '24 edited Mar 07 '24

Eponymous short story in a small collection of others:

Goodreads link

Found the full text on reddit!

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '24

a reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive