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• “In fact, the exterior itself could be described as insectoid, like a Transformer robot that might shapeshift from a vehicle into a mechanical bug.”

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• “The Bafly is orange and kind of insectoid looking.”

  Pretty, Fizzy Paradise

• “It was a science fiction game, where you could play humans or insectoid aliens or blobs or glider monkeys and shoot each other with lasers or needler weapons or gyrojet guns … I had never seen a role-playing game before (well, maybe the D&D playing scene in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) and it blew my mind.”

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• “They are insectoid creatures, hunched over and scuttling, with writhing tentacles where their mouth should be and a grunting, clicking language.”

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• “There was also an assortment of winged insectoid types of life, although the scientists assured me that they were NOT insects in the way that I knew, and some sort of creature that looked like a cross between a turtle, a lizard, and a walking stick You know, the kind of insect that looks like a stick?”

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• “The ropy black stone was teeming with destroyers—their insectoid figures steaming as they cooled.”

  Simon & Schuster: GuildWars Edge of Destiny

• “Cutting to the chase: the plot centres around the revelation of an obscene coming-of-age ceremony for girls, where they are chained down outside the cliffs and left to the mercy of the rather horrible flying/insectoid? aliens.”

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• “I may be trapped in the Negative Zone with Annihilus and his killer horde of insectoid warriors, but I'll be shouting "flame on" again before you can rub two sticks together.”

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• “The reptilians, a primate variation, insectoid, um, deep dish and Chicago style (I don't think I've met the other two yet, honestly).”

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• “But in 1984 Atari Force made the move to a full-sized, ongoing series by (at least initially) Conway and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez that again featured Martin Champion, this time with his dimension-jumping son Tempest, telepathic mercenary Dart, insectoid empath Morphea, enormous alien toddler Babe, and the rodent-like thief Pakrat.”

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