Even better if the aliens have no concept of a serial killer so they have no frame of reference for the horror they have brought upon themselves.
They conclude it is normal human behavior and decide to leave us the fuck alone, like we do with the sentinel islands.
Look, I already bought my hypothetical ticket, you and the_riviera_kid don’t have to sell this thing to me harder!
No, they threaten to kill all of us unless we change. Then we are given 6 months to find and kill every serial killer on the planet and they give us the technology to instantly detect serial killers but it turns out the device detects potential serial killers as well and it’s flagging multiple politicians, celebrities, nobel laureates and even children.
I do like the idea that the island is a normal friendly people but they have to put up with Derek been an an aggressive drunk.
The perfect outcome.
Or death isn’t even an inconvenience for them. They’re a hive mind and losing one loses nothing. He gets no joy from it and they are but mildly annoyed.
Terran
The Smell of Fear
A serial killer wouldn’t necessarily do well in this situation. They tend to get off on being sneaky and killing people with no way to defend themselves. A combat vet is probably their worst possible choice, which is why it’s a popular trope.
Hannibal lecter and true crime make serial killers look like supervillains but really they’re just Steven Miller if he was broke.
Seriously Dahmer had a victim RETURNED TO HIM BY THE POLICE. Not a mastermind, a higher intelligence wouldn’t be subverted.
Not only that, there were a bunch of his neighbors telling the police that he was killing people and that his apartment smelled like the literal pile of rotting corpses that it actually was, and the police response was, “You’re black/gay, we don’t care.”
Dahmer was a psychotic, tactless, idiot fucking dumbass that genuinely did not seem to be even trying to hide his actions, and the police were still too fucking stupid, lazy, and bigoted to even notice.
Conspiracy incoming:
The cops knew what Dahmer was doing, they just didn’t give a shit. He killed a bunch of people the cops wanted to kill themselves.
Just like Reagan and AIDS!
ICE cold take
I don’t think you would even call that a conspiracy theory, that’s just what was obviously happening.
There are stories of Gary Ridgeway’s co-workers jokingly calling him “Green River Gary” before he was caught because he gave off serial killer vibes.
Documentaries always like to show them as geniuses because it’s more exciting than the idea that people are oblivious and law enforcement isn’t always effective.
There was one fan fiction where the A-Team was abducted by aliens. Let’s say they promptly broke out of confinement, locked themselves in a room with a bunch of alien goodies and went underground in a nebula. That was a fun one.
Instead of a serial killer, maybe an obsessive weirdo who can figure out how anything works (and how they can be made to not work) and really, really wants to go home.
The aliens keep trying to find their captive, but parts of the ship keep breaking.
So… McGuyver?
Actually yeah.
I struggled with that show when I was a kid. I didn’t understand the point. Because my family is… just like that. Dear old Dad, my uncles, even my mom who made her own wedding dress on a treadle sewing machine.
That just sounds like the original ‘Die Hard’ with Aliens. he’s in the vents!
Yeah but we’d totally watch that.
Oh yeah, absolutely I would!
Let’s just make a nice cup of tea in that Nutri-Matic over there …
Until the combat vet gets triggered by his PTSD, but then we already have Rambo.
What about a serial killer that normally targets combat vets??
Have you seen Predators? This is directly addressed in that movie.
What about a serial killer that normally targets combat vets??
Why not both? Ever watch criminals minds it’s always “ex military”
Okay, so the aliens don’t abduct him. They pose as humans, ala They Live or Men In Black. They don’t know he knows they’re aliens. They’re his family, friends, and business partners.
And most combat vets are retired mercenary serial killers.
Not the same kind of “serial killer” referenced here, though.
Osiris with Linda Hamilton.
If aliens were to abduct someone I’d think they would want someone who’s alone and out of sight of most people. So it’s probably going to be someone farther from the cities, and just walking by themself. So they might abduct someone out hunting, or they might abduct a someone hopped up on meth wandering through back roads or swamp areas of Polk County, Florida.
Either way, they probably got more than they bargained for.
Heck, have the aliens try to abduct some wildlife and then it turns out they picked up the cocaine bear. Play it as an action comedy from the perspective of the aliens.
Bonus points if they then abduct a human hunter to deal with it and he turns out to be the deranged serial killer from the post.
Alien vs Predator from the aliens perspective.
Aliens abduct Florida Man?
This actually already happened, the Aliens had to put him back and all his friends just wrote it off as a meth high. After seeing what 1 human was like the aliens fucked off and said it wasn’t worth trying to cohabitate with us.
Jurassic Park, but a future civilization of tiny beings tries to bring back various species of the Cenezoic Era, especially humans, among a few planets in a backwater star system . Chaos ensues. They lose control, evacuate, and slag the planets from orbit on the way out. Unbeknownst to them, a corrupt employee loses a vial of prokaryotes while trying to smuggle it out to a rival faction. It’s smashed and washed into the sea in the process. The employee gets eaten by a frilled lizard. Billions of years later, that region of the galaxy is still quarantined. The descendants of the surviving prokaryotes look up at the stars hungrily from the surface of a tiny blue dot.
This reads like fucking Scientology if it was actually interesting instead of a derranged meth dream.
That’s probably one of the kindest things someone’s said about my writing. I think I still went down one thetan level for it, though.
That’s an Uno Reverse on the whole killer alien genre. I’d watch that in a heartbeat
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Actual sociopath who has tried very hard to maintain boundaries and not commit crime even in secret suddenly finds himself in a safe space for venting.
Peak, must watch.
Do psychopaths actually do this? I thought the whole point was that they didn’t care about other people, so would have no particular interest in hiding?
Not quite. There’s a range of antisocial personality disorders. The common characteristic is lacking empathy. For the most part, the interest in hiding is more a byproduct of self preservation, getting what you want, and upbringing.
Just because you don’t care about something doesn’t mean you don’t do things you were taught , you just do them because that’s how things are done, not because you’ve internalized the reason behind it. I hold the door for the person behind me because being kind to strangers is good, and I’d feel bad if I made someone have a worse day. A sociopath might do it because they were told that that’s what you do.
Put differently: they view people as akin to objects. I will openly admit to having objectified my toaster. I don’t care what it thinks of me, and when it stops toasting I’ll only keep it long enough to reference the model number and get a new one. (Not being a sociopath, I’ve now considered the feelings of my toaster and feel a tinge of irrational guilt about writing that about my loyal toaster).
Abusing the toaster wouldn’t give me intrinsic joy. It would cause my family to look at me oddly and I’d have to answer all sorts of questions. Also I couldn’t make bagels. Treating an inert object well helps me avoid an uncomfortable situation, and is more useful to me. Once treating it poorly had more value though, I won’t really hesitate.That’s why they often find themselves in jobs where treating people like objects is helpful. Other people balk at ruthlessly firing people right before the holidays, or telling a child with cancer that their treatment is more expensive than the premiums they’ll bring in, even accounting for the lawsuit for wrongful claim rejection, and so they need to die. Sociopath just sees the benefit to themselves of making their quarterly numbers look good.
Isn’t this the plot for Jason X?
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He was a good husband and a loving father, he hid his true nature through great effort, so he could have a better life. But one day, dark shapes appeared in the sky, and he was taken prisoner by beings who had every reason to believe he was docile…
This could be done by fans overdubbing the movie Doom (2005). Add translation captions to all the monsters where they are friendly and confused but the sounds come out as Doom monsters.
Like Robot Chicken where they showed Panda Baba was actually a friendly architect and his friend was messing around by saying he was dangerous to ObiWan in the cantina.
This is verbatim the plot of Jeremy Robinson’s
30 Sevenhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242460569-30sevenDexter: Green Blood
That was my first thought too!
…then I wondered, how about a Trinity Killer, in his prime?! Whole family gets abducted and he’s still trying to stay “under cover” from them…
Call it… Slayer under Saturn.
S. U. S. For short
Oh cool, a new Doom movie.
A part of that is in Predators (2010)
Not really, they abducted him because they knew he was a killer. Predators famously don’t hunt the weak.
Everyone except the poor doctor, he really didn’t belong or deserve to be abducted. So it totally fits!
Has it been a while since you watched the movie or did you not finish it?
I just recently rewatched it and I don’t know what you’re talking about haha. Predators is one of my guilty pleasure movies.
No One Will Save You.
Its about an outcast girl being caught up in an alien invasion except she is really good at killing them so much that i felt horror for the aliens.
Aliens V. Becky
I look forward too watching this in 10 years when Hollywood adapts it. Or in 2 years when someone slops it out as an ai vid
2 years? They’re probably slopping it out right now!
Humans are space orcs.
Real talk.
