Demeronian

**Demeronians** are the reptilian extraterrestrial race that originate from the fifth planet of the Cenuro System known as Demeron. They hails from the 2011 sci-fi/western graphic novel *Cowboys & Aliens* (from which the movie was loosely based off of).

## **Background**

### **Physical Appearance**

They are reptilian creatures, considerably taller, stronger, and more physically resilient than humans, and also far more muscular, which probably owes to the fact that their homeworld has naturally higher gravity. They possess two pairs of arms; one on their shoulders, which have massive claws, and one inside their chest cavities. Their internal hands are smaller and more nimble, allowing them to be used to carry out more delicate tasks, unlike their outer hands, which are used for combat. Unfortunately, the cavity that houses the inner hands also contains their hearts, meaning that they run the risk of being fatally shot or stabbed whenever they use them. Their blood is dark green.

## **History**

### **Origins**

They first appear when they begin attacking Absolution and abduct a number of townspeople, including Sheriff Taggart, Percy Dolarhyde, and Maria. Jake Lonergan, the film's protagonist, shoots down one of the aliens' flyers, and the craft's occupant is heard attacking people inside one of the houses before fleeing, though not before Nat Colorado is able to wound it, allowing him and others to track it by the puddles of its blood left behind.

One of the aliens next appears when Emmett Taggart goes to look for a stray dog, only to be confronted by the alien, who begins to feel him. Meacham, the town preacher, arrives and fires his gun at the alien, who turns and attacks him, fatally wounding him. Jake enters the room and tries to fire at the alien, who escapes.

Later on, the aliens appear as the group flees on horseback. One of the flyers snatches Ella off her horse, and Jake rides alongside the craft before jumping from his own horse and landing on the craft. He uses his weapon to fire into the craft, causing it to crash-land into a lake. Moments after Jake and Ella make it to shore, an alien emerges and violently strikes Ella before Jake kills it with his wrist weapon.

Later, Jake, with the help of Apache Indians, recovers his memories and learns where the aliens are located, so the main characters, accompanied by the Apaches, head to the location. Jake seemingly abandons the group, only to later return with his former gang of criminals. The humans then stage an assault on the outside of the aliens' ship, causing a bunch of aliens to come out and begin attacking. The aliens were killed by the human army.

As the battle rages on, Jake and Ella venture inside the aliens' ship, where they find the captives, free them, and get them to leave the ship. Jake then follows Ella to the ship's power core, where she successfully gets Jake's wrist weapon off of him and re-configures it into a bomb, which she then takes into the core on a suicide mission while Jake flees from aliens who begin shooting at him.

Jake makes his way into the aliens' lab inside which he was held earlier, and is confronted by the alien who murdered his lover, Alice. The alien overpowers Jake, restrains him on the operating table, and prepares to cut into him until Woodrow Dolarhyde comes in and fires at it, causing it to turn and advance on him. This allows Jake to get free and fire multiple times at the alien, wounding it and causing it to fall into a stream of liquid gold being extracted by the aliens' ship, dying in the process.

Jake and Dolarhyde then escape from the ship before it takes off. Moments after it takes flight, the reconfigured wrist weapon detonates, which causes the insides of the ship to be completely burned. This also causes the ship to lose part of its hull. Seconds later, the blast from the reconfigured wrist weapon causes the Demons' ship's hull to completely fail and rupture, causing it to explode, incinerating all the aliens onboard and killing them in the process, leaving their ship's remains scattered all over New Mexico.