If this is correct, the strange
creatures of science fiction movies, with two arms and two legs and a head, are far more like us than anything we are really likely to meet «out there».
Due, in part, to the outsized proliferation (and templatization)
of a particularly disaster - friendly subgenre
of science fiction — the superhero
movie — mainstream cinema is saturated with images
of VFX - bloated destruction wreaked by all manner
of creatures: demigods, aliens, pirates, mummies, mutants, advanced apes, sentient cars, and humans.