But a much more pressing question: Why did they start?

Y'all should do a weekly series on Literary Theory.

Though their role as "villains" is debatable given their short appearance in the original work - they were sent to get rid of the protagonist. Also I'll take any chance to plug my favorite play of all time

World War One: "A war which would be a damn sight simpler if we just stayed in England and shot fifty thousand of our men a week."

And some were very darkly and bitingly satirical, like this depiction of Field Marshal Haig:

Armand du Plessis, better known as Cardinal Richelieu:

Not really science fiction, more fantasy, but all of Lord of the Rings. Give Tolkein an editor and a 200,000 word limit and we'll talk, but the books he put out were some of the worst pieces of literature ever concocted.

Not Sci-Fi, but I think counts.

District 9 — insectoid aliens who are not a hive-mind and have complex individual personalities.

I think we forget just how radical Jack was as a character. In the future who you love doesn't define you. But to state that on prime time TV to a family audience was a big, bold step.

The film Alien Nation:

For being the first indie movie to masterfully leverage the newly-cool Internet for marketing, generating word-of-mouth, and providing intriguing "bonus materials," and for being a terrifically scary little "found footage" gem (before the genre got beaten to death with its own GoPro hardcase), people are wont to dis…

Cult following? Yes. Huge? Meh.

For so many reasons.

Brotherhood of the Wolf was a great action/horror movie and it had Monica Bellucci in it.

Strange Days. For a long time I thought I was the only one who even remembered this movie existed but recently I've seen it show up on people's favourite lists so maybe it's on the way to become cult classics. But I still wish more people have seen it.

Vastly underrated and bombed badly.

I just love it to pieces AND YOU SHOULD TOO

and lets not forget that without Parallel Universe, we don't get tongue tied...

If you just want to vote for Winter Soldier