A List of ASB's

[Count Dearborn]

Has anyone here on AH.COM every tried to compile a list of ASB's from TV, Movies, and Literature? If not, here is a start:

The Q (Star Trek)
The Organians (Star Trek)
The Ancients, aka Humanity Mk 1 (StarGate: SG-1 & Atlantis)
The Asgard (StarGate: SG-1)

[Hermanubis]

The Asgard (StarGate: SG-1)
Really? I mean, sure, they’re very advanced and all, but I’m not sure if they belong in the same league as the others…(this could apply to the ancients as well to a lesser extent)

[Mike Stearns]

Has anyone here on AH.COM every tried to compile a list of ASB's from TV, Movies, and Literature? If not, here is a start:

The Q (Star Trek)
The Organians (Star Trek)
The Ancients, aka Humanity Mk 1 (StarGate: SG-1 & Atlantis)
The Asgard (StarGate: SG-1)

The Vorlons and the Shadows from B5. You could probably argue that the Mimbari are close to ASB status as well. You could probably that the Matrix Agents are ASBs as well.

[Archangel Michael]

The Vorlons and the Shadows from B5. You could probably argue that the Mimbari are close to ASB status as well. You could probably that the Matrix Agents are ASBs as well.

All the First Ones from B5 could be considered ASB's. Anubis from SG-1 can be considered an ASB, and you could also count Daniel Jackson.

[TheLoneAmigo]

The Assiti from 1632 and All That.

[Mike Stearns]

The Assiti from 1632 and All That.

I hadn't considered the Assiti. We don't know anything about them, as yet other then the fact that they were wiped out, but I think the ability to manipulate time in the way that they do could definetely be considered an ASB power.

[edvader]

How about Mr Mxy...whatever the hell you spell his name from Superman.Samantha from Bewitched.Maybe more-I will check.Definitely Mr Mxy and oh yeah-Batmite from Batman.Do not think he is around much more!Wasnt' there a member of Legion of Super Heroes who used magic?

[Forum Lurker]

I hadn't considered the Assiti. We don't know anything about them, as yet other then the fact that they were wiped out, but I think the ability to manipulate time in the way that they do could definetely be considered an ASB power.

They're the living definition of Alien Space Bats. They ISOTed Grantville; there's nothing more ASB than an ISOT, that I've yet seen.

[Hendryk]

The Beyonder in the Marvel Universe (Galactus might qualify too, although his idea of tampering with a planet is usually to have it for lunch). I suspect Star Trek's Q may be a rip-off of the Beyonder, unless it's the other way around...

Lovecraft's Outer Gods are also ASBs: insanely powerful entities who mess up human history just for the hell of it. Nyarlathotep especially (he even has a bat-like avatar). The Elder Things, the Great Race of Yith and the Mi-Go as well.

Whoever is responsible for the abduction and ISOTing of the 4400s, obviously.

The aliens in "X-Files", that goes without saying.

[Hermanubis]

There are a few more in Star Trek…

[Mike Stearns]

What about the race that built the Dyson sphere in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Any race that can build something that big be must pretty outrageously powerful. I would also consider the Caretaker and V'ger to be ASBs as well.

[edvader]

Ringworld-the original engineers?Come on-only someone or thing like an ASB could build a 93 million mile long artifact and seed it with flora/fauna.How about any of the species found on that ringworld?

[Mike Stearns]

Ringworld-the original engineers?Come on-only someone or thing like an ASB could build a 93 million mile long artifact and seed it with flora/fauna.How about any of the species found on that ringworld?

I'm not really familliar with Ringworld, but I would have to agree, that any race capable of building something with the same dimensions as Earth's orbit around the sun must be insanely powerful.

[Hermanubis]

What about the race that built the Dyson sphere in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Any race that can build something that big be must pretty outrageously powerful. I would also consider the Caretaker and V'ger to be ASBs as well.
Also, Trelane ("The Squire of Gothos")

[Mike Stearns]

Also, Trelane ("The Squire of Gothos")

Right, I'd forgotten about Trelane. Yeah he's definetly an ASB.

[Diamond]

What about that freaky kid played by Billy Mumy in that episode of Twilight Zone? He was an ASB if I ever saw one.

[Hermanubis]

Right, I'd forgotten about Trelane. Yeah he's definetly an ASB.
How about the Traveler(From a few Next Gen eps), and “God” from STV?

[Archangel Michael]

They're the living definition of Alien Space Bats. They ISOTed Grantville; there's nothing more ASB than an ISOT, that I've yet seen.

That was truly an accident. They can't just ISOT what ever they want when ever they want to.

[Forum Lurker]

ASB intervention doesn't need to be intentional, merely reason-defying.

[edvader]

OK I am going to start a ruckus:Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer's Apprentice in the original Fantasia.Daffy Duck as Stupor Duck! Bugs as Super Rabbit!LOLLMAO! :rolleyes: :p ;)

[Midgard]

Actually Bugs Bunny would probably qualify as a rate-A ASB... to think about it, he travels through space and time pretty much at will, gets away with just about anything, and has the ability to find the useful devices in the places where you would not expect them... it is like all those wigs/dynamite/props appear out of thin air... :D :p

[Othniel]

How about Mr Mxy...whatever the hell you spell his name from Superman.Samantha from Bewitched.Maybe more-I will check.Definitely Mr Mxy and oh yeah-Batmite from Batman.Do not think he is around much more!Wasnt' there a member of Legion of Super Heroes who used magic?
Your forgetting JJ Thunder's Djijjin.

All inhabitant's of the 5th dimension, crazy place with lots of thought polution.

[Mike Stearns]

Actually Bugs Bunny would probably qualify as a rate-A ASB... to think about it, he travels through space and time pretty much at will, gets away with just about anything, and has the ability to find the useful devices in the places where you would not expect them... it is like all those wigs/dynamite/props appear out of thin air... :D :p

The Road Runner. No matter what you do to him, he WILL NOT DIE.

[The Alternate Finn]

Don't forget the aliens from "Stalker" by Arkadi & Boris Strugatski: they left behind six hazardous 'Zones' on Earth, full of anomalous, science-defying stuff, including a mysterious golden sphere that makes all your wishes come true... Which reminds me of the movie "Sphere"! Can you say "ripoff"?!

Also, the Tecnocore AI cluster from Dan Simmons' "Hyperion" books... They created a copy of Earth zillions of lightyears away...

[Midgard]

Don't forget the aliens from "Stalker" by Arkadi & Boris Strugatski: they left behind six hazardous 'Zones' on Earth, full of anomalous, science-defying stuff, including a mysterious golden sphere that makes all your wishes come true... Which reminds me of the movie "Sphere"! Can you say "ripoff"?!

Also, the Tecnocore AI cluster from Dan Simmons' "Hyperion" books... They created a copy of Earth zillions of lightyears away...

I think "Stalker" was the movie... the book on which it was based is called "Picnic By The Roadside" ("Piknik Na Obochine" in Russian)... definitely very ASBish, good choice. Very creepy ASBs at that, too...

[Mike Stearns]

I just remembered another Trek superbeing that could be considered an ASB. The Traveller. He can manipulate warp fields with his mind.

[Count Dearborn]

Thanks for reminding me of the Tricksters of the Mythology: here's a list

Mercury Hermes
Ganesha
Raven
Coyote/Sedit/Whiskey Jack
Rabbit
Anansi (also known as Spider, Coyote's drinking buddy)
Maui
Olofat
Blue Jay
Silver Fox
Loki
Punchinello
Robin Goodfellow

Trelane is either a Q or an Organian.

The Dyson sphere was probably built by the same people who built the Guardian on the Edge of Forever.

The Asgard are ASB because they like to move populations to other worlds.

The Animal Folk of Charles de Lint's Newford Stories.

[Mike Stearns]

The Dyson sphere was probably built by the same people who built the Guardian on the Edge of Forever.

That may be, but the fact that they can build something like the Dyson sphere makes them outrageously powerful and definte ASB candidates as far as I am concerned.

[Glen]

Also, Trelane ("The Squire of Gothos")

I believe at least in the novels that they linked Trelane to the Q continuum.

[Hermanubis]

I believe at least in the novels that they linked Trelane to the Q continuum.
Too bad Novels are NonCanon in Trekdom…

[NHBL]

Merlin, Zeus and his bunch, Thor, Odin--all the gods worshiped by humanity, from the long forgotten ones of antiquity to the Christain God worshiped today, and all the great wizards of legend.

[Archangel Michael]

Merlin, Zeus and his bunch, Thor, Odin--all the gods worshiped by humanity, from the long forgotten ones of antiquity to the Christain God worshiped today, and all the great wizards of legend.

So, basically the Goa'uld?

IMHO, you can't really consider the Ancients ASBs for the simple fact that they don't do anything ASBish (except for Uma).

[Leej]

The arilou in star control.

[Mike Stearns]

Too bad Novels are NonCanon in Trekdom…

Yeah, but even exculding Trek novels, I can easily buy the Trelane=Q theory. He's an omnipotent, god-like being the maturiy of a child and a major jerk.

[fortyseven]

The Sphere Builders from ST:Enterprise. The aliens in Voyager of which Chakotay boxes with one.

[Count Dearborn]

Merlyn & Roma of Otherwere (Marvel Comics)
The race of demonic-looking beings who built the Multiverse, in Chalker's And the Devil Shall Drag You Under.
The Malakhim from The Age of Unreason.

[Archangel Michael]

The Ellimist and the Crayak from Animporhs.

[Scarecrow]

hey someone else who knows about Animorphs! i used to read them in my youth...they were ok, but i didnt follow them much after they let the other guy in.

lets see...ASB...
the Xeelee and photino birds from Baxters Xeelee sequence.

humans from another universe in Baxters Manifest trilogy.

[Archangel Michael]

hey someone else who knows about Animorphs! i used to read them in my youth...they were ok, but i didnt follow them much after they let the other guy in.

And I thought I was the only one. I read the first couple of books, read a couple then read the last three when I heard that the series was ending.

[Mike Stearns]

How about the Drej from Titan AE?

[Archangel Michael]

How about the Drej from Titan AE?

Just because they can blow up a planet?

[Scarecrow]

And I thought I was the only one. I read the first couple of books, read a couple then read the last three when I heard that the series was ending.

i think someone else, ?Ironyuppie? has mentioned them
how did it end?

[Mike Stearns]

Just because they can blow up a planet?

Well, destroying Earth is probably an extreme demonstration of their power.They ARE made of energy after all. I'm sure they must have other abilities that we don't know about.

[Archangel Michael]

i think someone else, ?Ironyuppie? has mentioned them
how did it end?

It's been a while since I read it, but hear it goes.

The Yeerks destroy the Animorph's home town and the alien invasion goes public. The Animorphs recruit others to figth against the Yeerks, and the Yeerks were defeated but Rachel was killed. They other Animorphs continue on as celeberties, until Ax goes missing and Jake and Marco go to investigate on a stolen Yeerk spaceship, and that's where it ends.

[Scarecrow]

It's been a while since I read it, but hear it goes.

The Yeerks destroy the Animorph's home town and the alien invasion goes public. The Animorphs recruit others to figth against the Yeerks, and the Yeerks were defeated but Rachel was killed. They other Animorphs continue on as celeberties, until Ax goes missing and Jake and Marco go to investigate on a stolen Yeerk spaceship, and that's where it ends.

that kinda sucks.

[Hendryk]

I didn't read it, but the aliens invented by Philip Jose Farmer in his Riverworld cycle are as ASB as they come. They ISOT every single human being since pretty much the origin of mankind at the instant of his/her death and make them all appear simultaneously on an artificially-created planet, just to see how they'll interact.
Has anyone read it?

Come to think of it, Zelazny's Princes of Amber, although technically not aliens, ought to qualify as well. Transdimensional beings who toy with human history in various alternate universes just to further their own power games... I'm particularly fond of Benedict, Corwin's oldest brother and master of arms. There's a passage in The Guns of Avalon IIRC in which Corwin explains that Benedict has taken part in every battle ever fought anywhere in the multiverse, and once he's fought in a battle, he tweaks one historical parameter and fights it again just to see how it will turn out that time around. A contemplative warmaster ASB, how cool can one get?

[edvader]

Read the Riverworld series including the first one.BTW SciFI channel did a TV movie:P.U.You forgot one important ASB-The Great Gazoo from the Flintstones!How about Uncle Martin from the original My Favorite Martian! :D :p :rolleyes:

[edvader]

Zatana the magician from DC comics.Shazam the aged mentor of Captain Marvel, Mary Marvel , and Captain Marvel Junior. Ibis the invincible-minor character from Dc who was like the Marvel family owned by Fawcett Comics?

[edvader]

Dr WHO! The Master. A powerfull witch portrayed by Jean Marsh who appeared in a Dr Who series.Think it was with Sylvester McCoy!

[Count Dearborn]

Jean Marsh played Mogaine of The Fae.

[Count Dearborn]

The various Ladies of the Lake, one of whom gave Arthur the sword, Excalibre.

[Hendryk]

Another ASB of note is the mysterious higher power who keeps ISOTing Sam Beckett back and forth in time in "Quantum Leap".

[Mike Stearns]

Another ASB of note is the mysterious higher power who keeps ISOTing Sam Beckett back and forth in time in "Quantum Leap".

I thought he did that because of a time travel experiment gone wrong.

[Hendryk]

I thought he did that because of a time travel experiment gone wrong.
That's the initial reason, but as he and his hologrammatic sidekick realized the ISOTings weren't random, they concluded he was being used by a higher power to set things right in certain people's lives. That higher power, as they see it, may be either an advanced alien intelligence or, possibly, God.

[Count Dearborn]

Let's not forget the Slave of the Ring and the Slave of the Lamb from the story of Aladdin.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

You certainly can include:

-Sabrina Spellman and the rest of the Spellman Family on Sabrina, Teenage Witch , both the TV series (ABC-TV) and the comic book series (Archie).

-Cookie, the 25th Century Mutant Time-Taveler from the Happy Days animated series., starring Henry Winkler and Ron Howard.

-Dodo from the Looney Tunes Adventures from the magical land of Wackyland. Consider the fact that he even drove Daffy Duck and Porky Pig nuts after bringing them to his part of the world.

-Myxlsptlk, 5th-dimensional imp of the Superman series is always a doozy.

[Count Dearborn]

The Bat-Mite also from the 5th Dimension. He's Batman's biggest fan.

[NapoleonXIV]

Most of Roger Zelazny's characters are ASB's. Corwin, Francis Sandow, the Jack of Shadows, Steel General. His most major single novel remains basically a SF retelling of the Rig-Veda with Buddha thrown in.

I always liked the Steel General's power of temporal fugue. He could apparently travel a few seconds forward in time and then that traveler would become a duplicate of himself when he caught up. Since all the dupes could also do this he could double and redouble himself very quickly to form a huge army.

[edvader]

Santa Claus! The invaders from the SF novel-Sleeping Planet- in which everyone on earth except a few people are put to sleep while the invasion comes. The aliens from the story The Big Front Yard who try to swap some of their ideas -like anti-gravity? for paint.Damn! There was another candidate for ASB status but I will have to think about what it was! :p

[edvader]

I was thinking of Eugene the Jeep and the Sea Hag from Popeye-both the Thimble Theatre cartoon strip and Popeye cartoons.Eugene could do strange things like turning invisible. The Sea Hag I believe used Magic!The popular quarter ton truck used by the US Army was named after Eugene!

[fortyseven]

Azazel of the George and Azazel stories by Asimov.

[Flocculencio]

Has anybody mentioned the Time Lords yet? I think they'd certainly qualify as ASB level beings. Also, the Daleks and any other race from the Dr. Who universe powerful enough to challenge the Time Lords. After all, although we haven't heard much about the Great Time War it seems like it could take the title of the most destructive and widespread conflict in any sci-fi series ever.

Also Azrael from the Discworld novels (although he only actually appears in 'Reaper Man')

[Count Dearborn]

The Oans and Zamarons from DC Comics.
The Celestials from Marvel Comics.
King Brian from Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
The Fairy Godmother from Cinderella.
THe Evil Fairy from Sleeping Beauty.

[edvader]

Willy Wonka!-Johnny Depp version!How about the oompa loompas! :p

[edvader]

Flintstones Fans:The Great Gazoo-voice bu Harvey Korman.What do you do with him OR if YOU become the Great Gazoo! :p

[Count Dearborn]

From 1960's sit-coms:

Uncle Martin
Samantha Stevens
Jennie

from 1970's TV & 1990's TV:

Mr. Rourke

From Shakespeare:

Puck
Oberon
Titania
Prospero
Ariel

From Saturday Morning TV:

Rubik, the Amazing Cube

From the Whedonverse:

Glorificus, the Hellgoddess
The Judge (blue demon)
Illyria, before she was depowered.
The lawfirm of Wolfram & Hart
The Powers that Be
The First (Evil)
The Gentlemen
Darth Rosenburg

[Count Dearborn]

Xiombarg, the Queen of Swords
Arioch, the Prince of Swords

The other Lords of Chaos, and the Lords of Order.

From the Warhammer Universes

Nergal, Lord of Decay
Khorne, Lord of Battle
Tzeenitch, Lord of Magic
Slaine, Lord of Pleasure

From the Gemworld (DC):

Lord Opal
Flaw & the Child

[Bulldawg85]

And don't forget

Q from ST.

[Count Dearborn]

And don't forget

Q from ST.

He's on the first page of this thread.

[Count Dearborn]

Lord Simultaneous from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[Count Dearborn]

The demonic looking universe builders from the Great Jack L. Chalker's And the Devil Shall Drag You Under.

[Leej]

Talk of animorphs eh...Damn that was great, used to love it. Stopped reading it around book 20 (not a concious decision, there was a gap in releases of books and I couldn't get into town to buy them and the library didn't have them and...agh).
Going to have to read up a summary on what happened in the books after that. I sort of want to know what happened (though not with missing most of it)

[Kidblast]

hey someone else who knows about Animorphs! i used to read them in my youth...they were ok, but i didnt follow them much after they let the other guy in.

lets see...ASB...
the Xeelee and photino birds from Baxters Xeelee sequence.

humans from another universe in Baxters Manifest trilogy.

Beat me to it.... :rolleyes:

I used to love Animorphs, but after book 30, they just got repititive. I did read the last one, and it's really depressing.... :( :(

[Count Dearborn]

The Lords of the Tiers from the series by Philip Jose Farmer.

Glinda, the ruler of Gillikinland, from the OZ books.

[Alois]

In Carl Sagan's novel "Contact" (and the movie starring Jodie Foster) there are aliens that constructed our section of the universe, and they were able to establish that we would have three dimensions of physical space. They themselves had eleven dimensions - and were looking for the other aliens that had built their section of the universe.

In "The Witches of Karres" by James Schmidt, and the recently published sequel "The Wizard of Karres" by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer, there are beings called vatches that can manipulate time and space, and do so for amusement.

[Weapon M]

Read the Riverworld series including the first one.BTW SciFI channel did a TV movie:P.U.You forgot one important ASB-The Great Gazoo from the Flintstones!How about Uncle Martin from the original My Favorite Martian! :D :p :rolleyes:


The first Riverworld was "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" I believe. I read that when I was 10 or 11. Philip Jose Farmer wrote them, the series rocked.

[Sargon]

More possible candidates to add:

The Doomlords of Nox

The Seeker from Odyssey 5

F-Zero One from Starfleet

Death from Discworld

Count Iblis from Battlestar Galactica

Sargon

[Count Dearborn]

The demonic looking universe builders from the Great Jack L. Chalker's And the Devil Shall Drag You Under.

I went an repeated myself, as a mentioned them earlier in this thread.

Anyone mentioned Trance Gemini from Andromeda. She is the avatar of a sun. In that continuum, all celestial bodies have avatars, from planets to black holes.

Let's not forget these beings from the tv series The Beastmaster:

The Ancient One
The Sorceresses
Kuru-pira, her sister, & all of the other Demons
The Apparition w/Red Eyes
Anubis
Garuda

[Phenabob]

All the various deities in Neil Gaiman's "American God's" and "Anansi Boys" novels.

[Count Dearborn]

Bun-Bun from Sluggy Freelance. Along with Uncle Time, the Holidays, and the Demon Lords of the various demon dimensions.

[Count Dearborn]

Bumpity bump.

[Hapsburg]

Has anyone here on AH.COM every tried to compile a list of ASB's from TV, Movies, and Literature? If not, here is a start:

The Q (Star Trek)
The Organians (Star Trek)
The Ancients, aka Humanity Mk 1 (StarGate: SG-1 & Atlantis)
The Asgard (StarGate: SG-1)
Khronos and Gaia (from my SotS story).


What? Technically, it falls under the literature section. Just obscure lit.:D

[reddie]

Jeannie and Babu (Hanna-Barbera)

Shazzan (Hanna-Barbera)

I-Am-The-One-Who-Made-It (from the obscure 19th century novel, Etidorhpa)

The mega-poltergeist who infested the Castle of Otranto

That magic groundhog-creature from the "Punky Brewster" cartoon

The Turtle (from Stephen King's It and the Dark Tower series, alleged to have accidently created the multiverse after vomiting it up)

The Crimson King (from the Dark Tower series, though when Roland finally confronted him he had been stripped down to sub-Voldemort power levels)

The Clitoris (from South Park the Movie)

The Transcendant and Retired Orders of Life (from David Brin's "Uplift" series)

Franklin Richards (Marvel)

Sir James Jaspers (a Marvel character who probably outstrips Franklin Richard's powers)

The Scarlet Witch (as written by Brian Bendis)

The Phoenix (Marvel)

Alexander Luthor (DC)

Superboy of Earth-Prime (DC)

Billy Preston (don't think so? Watch the end segment of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." On the other hand, maybe you shouldn't....)

Kira from Xanadu (yeesh. My misspent youth...)

[At-Bari]

How about brain slugs, brainspawns, hypnotoad and nibbloians from Futurama?

[Hapsburg]

How about brain slugs, brainspawns, hypnotoad and nibbloians from Futurama?
Plus god, or, rather, the result of a exploratory space probe colliding with god.:p

[Count Dearborn]

Bump, bump

[Dynamitard]

The Forerunners from Halo?
The Time Lords from Doctor Who? They seem pretty alien and pretty invincible

[monkey]

The Mothman

[Count Dearborn]

Any others?

[Midgard]

Any others?

Was Doctor What already mentioned? :rolleyes: :D

On a more serious note, Sepiros from Moorcock's Elric novels fits the bill IMO.

[fortyseven]

Was Doctor What already mentioned? :rolleyes: :D

On a more serious note, Sepiros from Moorcock's Elric novels fits the bill IMO.

it's Sepiriz

[Midgard]

it's Sepiriz

My bad, it's been a while since I've read the books.

[fortyseven]

My bad, it's been a while since I've read the books.

I thought you meant Sepiriz. I checked on wikipedia. There's no closer name. Sepiriz is really cool-not as cool as Elric but still very cool :D

[Midgard]

I thought you meant Sepiriz. I checked on wikipedia. There's no closer name. Sepiriz is really cool-not as cool as Elric but still very cool :D

He's the one... shows up at the right place, at the right time, and somehow seems to have ASB-ish powers (until "Stormbringer", when he is revealed to be vulnerable).

[fortyseven]

He's the one... shows up at the right place, at the right time, and somehow seems to have ASB-ish powers (until "Stormbringer", when he is revealed to be vulnerable).

on Google, found a post of mine about him, on another board, on the second page :)

[HelloLegend]

Has anyone here on AH.COM every tried to compile a list of ASB's from TV, Movies, and Literature? If not, here is a start:

The Q (Star Trek)
The Organians (Star Trek)
The Ancients, aka Humanity Mk 1 (StarGate: SG-1 & Atlantis)
The Asgard (StarGate: SG-1)

Add to that the Beyonder (Secret Wars 1983, Marvel Comics)

[Count Dearborn]

Lord Eternity & Lady Infinity from Marvel Comics.
Death from the Disworld, he does sent you on your final destination, but he could interferr if he wanted to.

[Count Dearborn]

The Shopkeeper from the the episode "Alien Shop", which is part of the newer version of The Outer Limits.

[leapofaith97]

The Forerunners from Halo?

Damn, you just beat me to them! Well, i have to agree. Creating like, 7 halos, and the entire planet of Onyx is pretty impressive. Also their tech level seems pretty high, considering the how 343 Guilty Spark says that the Forerunners have a armor 6x as powerful as the Spartans MJOLNIR armor.

[euio]

What about V---ger from Star Trek?

[Cthulhu]

This may be a little wierd, but aren't all authors of speculative fiction ASBs? I mean, we are basically immensely powerful beings who do whatever we like with the characters we create for the sheer enjoyment of it. I mean what's more ASB than creating this vast fictional universes in our minds and own paper and then destroying and changing them for amusement?
Or did I just blow my mind?

[stevep]

This may be a little wierd, but aren't all authors of speculative fiction ASBs? I mean, we are basically immensely powerful beings who do whatever we like with the characters we create for the sheer enjoyment of it. I mean what's more ASB than creating this vast fictional universes in our minds and own paper and then destroying and changing them for amusement?
Or did I just blow my mind?

Cthulhu

A point I have wondered from time to time. If we discovered that the worlds we dreamed up became real could [or would] we try to suppress our appetite for conflicts and devastation in many of those stories?;)

Steve

[kt-64]

The elder things from lovecraft. Also the inner party can in some way be considered an alien space bat. They definetly spew plenty of guano.

[Ivan Druzhkov]

Nobody's mentioned the G-Man from the Half-Life series. He can stop time, abduct people, put them in stasis, and throw them back into the real world whenever they're needed. In Opposing Force, he even starts jerking around with Cpl. Adrian Shepard (your character) by locking and unlocking doors around Black Mesa so as you can't actually escape the facility.

There's also Gregory Iphwin, the human avatar of a dimension-jumping "anti-virus program" in John Barnes' novel Finity. He manages to gather himself a bunch of people from different TLs to find out why the US has been disappearing without a trace in a number of different universes. I wouldn't waste my time reading this one; the story doesn't go anywhere.

[Count Dearborn]

Reed & Sue Richards are his paternal grandparents, and Scott Summers & Jean Grey as his maternal grandparents; known as a possible future depotic ruler of this section of the universe, Hyperstorm.

[Count Dearborn]

The Ally & the Otherness from the works of F. Paul Wilson.

[Count Dearborn]

:D:D:D:D........................................

[Snarf]

Of all the comic book characters mentioned, I can't believe nobody's mentioned the Green Lantern Corps! Those power rings are as ASB as you can get. And the Guardians of Oa definitely qualify...

[Sovereign12]

The Markovians from Jack Chalker's Well of Souls series.

[Count Dearborn]

Of all the comic book characters mentioned, I can't believe nobody's mentioned the Green Lantern Corps! Those power rings are as ASB as you can get. And the Guardians of Oa definitely qualify...

The Oans have been mentioned, they are ASB's, as are all of the Children of Maltus. (Oans, Zamarons, & Controllers mentioned so far.)

[ArKhan]

Cthulhu, the Yithians, ect.

[Count Dearborn]

Please read the thread, Cthulu has been mentioned more then once, as have th Oans, Q, the Ancients, the Perservers, and Trelane.:rolleyes:

[Snarf]

Please read the thread, Cthulu has been mentioned more then once, as have th Oans, Q, the Ancients, the Perservers, and Trelane.:rolleyes:

Yes, please stop mentioning Cthulhu! You may yet call forth the Old One with your meddling!

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Yeah, but even exculding Trek novels, I can easily buy the Trelane=Q theory. He's an omnipotent, god-like being the maturiy of a child and a major jerk.

So how about Charlie X? Yet another omnipotent being who lacked the emotional maturity to deal with his power.

[Krall]

ASB's

IT'S PLURAL! NOT GENITIVE!

WHEN WILL YOU PEOPLE LEARN!

[Agentdark]

Chuck Norris (well...considering all of the jokes...)

[KJPedersen]

The Cheshire Cat (scares the hell out me)!

[Snarf]

IT'S PLURAL! NOT GENITIVE!

WHEN WILL YOU PEOPLE LEARN!

Just checked Webster's. The apostrophe is used to indicate plurals of words, letters, and figures. Thus, 'ASB's' is the correct usage.