In science fiction, a Jovian is an inhabitant of the planet Jupiter.
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Jovians in literature
- In H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos (1928–...), Jupiter was the one-time home of the flying polyps.
- In Isaac Asimov's short story Victory Unintentional (1942), human colonists on Ganymede send robots to Jupiter to contact the Jovians, who are planning a war with the humans.
- In Poul Anderson's Three Worlds to Conquer, sympathtic Centaur-like Jovians are in danger of extinction by cruel invaders from another region of the planet. At the same time their friends, the human colonists of Ganymede, are threatened by a powerful space warship commanded by a dicatorial militarist. Eventually, the two groups find ingenious ways to help each other defeat their respective enemies.
- In John Carter of Mars: Skeleton Men of Jupiter (1943), the eleventh and last Barsoom book by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the hero John Carter is kidnapped and taken to Jupiter by its inhabitants, the Morgors, also called "Skeleton Men" because they look like walking human skeletons. Jupiter is described as a harsh world warmed only by volcanoes, with forests of sentient trees.
- Arthur C. Clarke's A Meeting with Medusa (1972) proposes giant mile sized medusa-like creatures living in Jupiter's atmosphere.
- Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two (1982) depicts city-sized, cloud-like creatures, squid-like animals, and creatures resembling terrestrial aircraft.
- Ben Bova's novel Jupiter (2001) also features massive whale like creatures kilometers long living the liquid stage of Jupiters atmosphere and are pictured as being intelligent.
In comics
- In the Marvel comic book series Guardians of the Galaxy, Charlie-27 is from Jupiter and was genetically engineered to survive in Jupiter's harsh conditions.
- In Indian cartoonist Pran's Chacha Chaudhary series, one of the main characters Sabu is a Jupiter native, but lives on earth with his best pal Chacha Chaudhary. Whenever Sabu is angry, it causes a volcano eruption on the surface of Jupiter.
In animated film and television
- The plot of the anime Martian Successor Nadesico (1996) revolves around a mysterious invasion force based on Jupiter, named the "Jovian Lizards", or simply the "Jovians", and the attempts of Earth's forces, and specifically the ship Nadesico, to subdue this invasion.
- In the Looney Tunes short Jumpin' Jupiter (1955), Porky and Sylvester's desert campground is sliced away and towed into outer space by a green, bird-like Jovian searching for earthly animal life. But Porky remains blissfully unaware, leaving Sylvester to be terrorized by the alien.
In video games
- In the MMORPG Eve online, Jovians are an unplayable race.
See also
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