Bad guys in Sci Fi

I personally like reptiles and amphibians as pets, I’ve owned quite a few of them. But they do generally have a predatory nature and a weird intelligence that is below ours but is still recognizable. If you watch a Florida Anole, he stalks prey at long range and slowly at first, planning his attack, a Leopard Frog barrels in like a bull in a China shop to feast…they make great and interesting pets!

They also instinctively camouflage and can attack at a moments notice…
They are impressive to me in their variety.

My Rock Python was about 30 inches long and was nearly always gentle, but when I startled her to clean her cage or feed her she would strike at me furiously! She was fast but somehow I was a hair faster lol!
Scary!!

Drac (Louis Gosset Jr.) from Enemy Mine (85) was pretty lizard-like and he was in many ways more humane than the human Dennis Quaid fighter pilot character who was sort of an asshole sometimes. Good movie btw👌

Maybe the notion that a ‘lesser creature’ could be our equal or better is inherently frightening?

I’d be way more afraid of Terminators and drones…those would take a hell of a lot of bullets to put down😳

Because you're supposed to hate them from the gecko.

Because they're quite literally cold-blooded, so they're used to represent the metaphorically cold-blooded.

I have an indoor pond full of red-eared sliders and they would eat people if they could. Ninja turtles never get full and eat anything they can digest....dead or alive. They clear any vegetation I put in the water in hours. Even plants that supposedly taste awful to turtles.

I loved how the bad aliens in V would scarf down rats. It was a great touch :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZYoAmZX4rI

It might be because whenever I walked around in my garden, they usually had this impression-less look on their faces as if saying, "Who the hell are you and what are you doing here?"

And they'll also cling to the side of a branch and stick their necks up and make it puffy as to tell me, "Get the hell out of here, I'm looking for bugs to pass by so I can eat them."

If we were the size of bugs, they'd eat us.