What was the name of the turn-into-by-touching character in "The Last Starfighter"?
The movie "The Last Starfighter" from 1984, featuring a kid getting sent on a mission by winning at a video game, had a character (a parasite?) which touched him, gave him a shock, and then after a few days or weeks of vegetating in bed became an identical copy of the kid.
What was the name and/or species of that character?
Best Answer
The organism which turns into the main character was called a beta unit AKA simuloid. This site documents this with the following quote:
Alex Rogan: Hey, you look like me!
Beta: Of course I do. I'm a beta unit.
Alex Rogan: What the hell is a beta unit?
Beta: A beta unit is a simuloid. An exact duplicate, only not as loud!
Personally, I would have called it a haptoduplimorphoid (an android which changes into and duplicates what it touches). Anyways, this is arbitrary, too bad. If anyone knows of any other terms for this science fiction phenomenon then please let me know.
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Answer 2
You're referring to the android duplicate named Beta in "The Last Starfighter" (1984).
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