Alien Monster
Also known as: Space Invader, Video Game Monster
Description
A friendly-looking, tentacled space creature with two eyes. Most major platforms style their design after aliens in classic arcade games like Space Invaders, rendering it purple and pixellated, as if in 8-bit graphics. Samsung’s design resembles an octopus and previously featured a big-brained alien, à la Star Trek. Earlier designs from Google and Microsoft depicted more cartoon-like alien monsters. May be used of topics concerning extraterrestrial life, outer space, gaming, and computing, but also enjoys a range of idiosyncratic applications, such as conveying a sense of weirdness, wackiness, or excitement, given that the emoji looks like it is raising its arms shouting Yay! on many platforms.
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| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :alien_monster: | |
| GitHub | :space_invader: | |
| Slack | :space_invader: | |
| Discord | :space_invader: |
Additional Information
A type of monster or creature that may feature in arcade video games. Often assumed to be an alien, this may have varying appearances across http://emojipedia.org/alien-monster/
- Causing destruction or much damage
- Causing destruction; damaging.
- Not disposed to friendship or friendliness.
- Not disposed to friendship or friendliness
- Very large; worthy of a monster.
- Morally corrupt.
- Morally bad or wrong
- Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world.
- Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
- Originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; alien to Earth or its environment.
- Originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere
- Originating from outside of the Earth.
- To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
- To cause destruction.
- Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
- To cause the destruction of.
- To intentionally cause the destruction of.
- A story about fairies; told to amuse children
- Fairy tales are a type of story which typically features fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. tale
- A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.
- A folktale featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters.
- A fictional story that usually features folkloric characters (such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, and talking animals) and enchantments
- Fictional story featuring folkloric fantasy characters
- A strange, odd, eccentric person.
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and fictive medieval technology.
- Fantasy refers to constructs of the imagination; in storytelling Fantasy generally refers to a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting.
- Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting.
- A genre of literature and art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot and theme. The storyline is often set in a fictional, historically oriented setting.