List of fictional alien species: C explained

Name Source Type
Cabal Destiny franchise Large, rhinoceros-like humanoids from the planet of Torobatl. Their politics and society are similar to that of Ancient Rome.
Caged dude
Feline humanoid
Star Wars
Caleban Frank Herbert's Whipping Star invisible telepathic beings who are actually the minds of stars
Callineans Star Fleet Humanoid
Calvin Life Cephalopod-like
CampbelliansChōdenji Robo Combattler V
Canaria
Capelons Ascendancy
Ben 10 Black-skinned aliens from planet Teslavorr, Conductoids are cycloptic humanoids with plugs on their fingers, prehensile tail, and antenna on their heads. They have the ability to absorb energy and redirect it as electrical energy.
Cascan Ben 10 Hailing from planet Cascareau in the Andromeda Galaxy, these aliens are very similar to Orishans, being armored humanoids able to manipulate water.
Star Trek Reptilian Humanoid
Carggites
Doctor Who Humanoid
Red Dwarf Felis Sapiens. Evolved over the course of three million years in deep space, from a domesticated housecat.
Bravest Warriors A combination part cat and part ladybug, Catbug simultaneously exists in two dimensions; reality and the See-Through Zone.
Star Wars Cat-like humanoid
Doctor Who Feline Humanoid.
Cat PeopleThe Garfield ShowFeline humanoid.
Feline humanoid
Catalyte Utopia
Cavalier
Ratchet & Clank
Marvel Comics
Ben 10 Horned humanoids with a body similar to that of a starry night sky from the Forge of Creation, they can warp space, time and reality. However, they are limited by their psyche: their minds are divided into separate personalities that need to agree in order to do even simple tasks, causing them to remain motionless for long periods of time.
Babylon 5 Humanoid
Centrans Christopher Anvil's Pandora's Planet stories Feline humanoids
Ben 10 Crab-like aliens from Encephalonus IV with massive heads due to super-sized brains. They are extremely intelligent (their IQ is at one nonillion), though not as smart as Galvans, and can use their enhanced intelligence to perfectly calculate the trajectory of objects, operate complicated machinery, and come up with strategies for combat on the fly, and also generate and manipulate electricity into electric blasts and force fields.
Ceti eel bug-like brain parasites from Ceti Alpha V
Kathy Tyers's One Mind's Eye
Star Trek
Chamachies Ascendancy
Star Trek
Chaos Independence War, aka I-War, and
Farscape Humanoid
Chasch Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure Series Big headed humanoids divided in subspecies.
Battlelords of the 23rd Century Humanoid
Cheblons
Dragon's Egg inhabitants of neutron star
Chelonians Doctor Who novels
Star Control Crystalline life-form
Cherubs Homestuck Cherubs are characterized by their green exoskeleton.
Chevanno Utopia
C. J. Cherryh's Chanur novels
Reptilian Hybrids between virus and host
Ben 10 Green-skinned cephalopodic humanoids from the planet Murray (later renamed Vilgaxia after their leader, galactic warlord Vilgax), who have the ability to turn into monstrous squid-like beings when submerged in water.
Bill, the Galactic Hero
Star Wars Blue-skinned red-eyed humanoids
Star Control
Jack McDevitt's Infinity Beach
Universe devourers
Bird-like species. Extremely technologically advanced and spread out across the galaxy.
Physically identical to humans. They have vast Time manipulation powers and able to create Energy beams. However, using their time powers weakens them over time, causing them to age faster.
Chronomyst Ascendancy
James White's Sector General series
Cirronians
Battlelords of the 23rd Century
Clairconctlar Star Control 3
Clutch Turtles
Cocytans The Dig Furry, bird-like beings trapped in "Spacetime Six", a parallel universe.
Similar to a big cat; prehensile tentacles sprouting from shoulders. Feeds on potassium and/or organic phosphorus.
Cognocenti Star Trek
Colatas Farscape Humanoid
Cole
Cole Tracker
The X-Files
Colour out of space
Coluans
Half-Life 2 an alien empire; note: many of the "Combine" seen in the game are actually humans that have been assimilated or collaborate as brutal police troopers.
Saturday Night Live Humanoid with conical heads
Control Brains Invader Zim The Control Brains assign the Irken race with roles and are the unspoken leaders of the Irken Empire.
Farscape Humanoid
Star Trek Humanoid
Corporal Giroro Sgt. Frog
Star Trek Reptilian Humanoid
Halo Collective of alien species who are allied with each other, Composed of Grunts, Brutes, Elites, Hunters, Jackals, and Prophets. Religious Hierarchy with intent to destroy the Human Race.
Crystals Raiden Hi-tech aliens that has control over red crystals with unlimited powers, which are used to power up their weapons and equipment.
Ratchet & Clank
Creators
CrescendollsInterstella 5555An alien band, inspired by the Daft Punk song of the same name.
Crites Critters films carnivorous hairballs
Cryons Doctor Who A crystalline humanoid race from planet Telos, they cannot survive temperatures above the freezing point, boiling and steaming in said temperatures.
Outlaw Star
Cuber Adventure Time
Doctor Who Marauding cybernetic life-forms. Originally an alien race driven to conversion by catastrophic climate change, more recently reimagined as assimilated humans.
Cybertronians Transformers Large robots from planet Cybertron able to change their shape at will into other mechanical constructs, most commonly varying types of vehicles like planes and trucks. Known more commonly as Transformers.
Cybyota Orion's Arm
Cyclons
Battlestar Galactica Sentient robots. Remnants of a civilization of reptilian aliens (also known as Cylons) in the original series, but created by humans in the remake series. Both mechanical and biological flesh-and-blood versions co-exist, with the biological versions in charge.
Cynoid Master of Orion III
Cyrollan The Journeyman Project