Venusians

Venusians are extraterrestrial life forms native to the planet Venus in the Sol System. Venusians have appeared in a variety of science fiction stories over the years, going as far back as far as the early 1930s with Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Venus Series" of pulp fiction stories. In the series of novels and novellas, Burroughs' hero Carson Napier encounters the natives of Venus who refer to themselves as Amtorians. They first appeared in the 1934 novel Pirates of Venus. There were five novels written in the Venus Series between 1934 and 1965.

In film, aliens from Venus became popular in the late 1950s. The first American film to highlight a Venusian was the 1956 movie It Conquered the World. A sentient Venusian life form strives to take over the planet Earth using mind control techniques to remove all emotion from the human consciousness.

The following year, Morningside Productions released 20 Million Miles to Earth, which featured a giant, reptilian creature popularly referred to Ymir. This Venusian entity has become an iconic figure in the sci-fi genre and is considered one of the pinnacle achievements in the career of stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen.

In 1958, Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor played a Venusian freedom fighter named Talleah who leads a resistance to overthrow the evil Queen of Venus, Yllana in the film Queen of Outer Space.