15 Best nonhuman TV characters

The most selfish deposed king in the universe had a knack for hiding his heart.

We know you cared, Rygie.

Part dominatrix, part computer virus... fully insane. Her arc was tragic. She reverted her face lift to battle the biggest threat the tiny village of Mainframe ever faced. From villain to redeemer and back again.

Loophole! Al was a hologram in the Quantum Leap series. And come on, you know Al was really just a metaphor for Sam's id.

Proof that we wont flush anything imbued with Christmas spirit.

This furrowed Ferangibrought patriarchal piety to a whole a new level.

Doug Funny's best friend lived many secret lives.

Lady La La made the other Teletubbies look like fuddy duddies.

There was only one way for Pilot to get off his home world –enter into a lifetime appointment as symbiotic pilot of a living ship.

Unlike Pilot & Moya, these guys had a choice to part ways without mortality being a factor. But neigh. Some people are best defined by their misery. And miserable Renwas, every time Stimpytongued out another mound of ripe kitty litter.

The chatty dolphin from Seaquest-DSV loved to save his favorite sci-sub.

Remember that scene from cop-drama The Wire when McNulty and Bunk crack a case with expletives? Squirtle also proovesthat a one-word lexicon gets the point across as well as one thick as Webster’s.

Another character programmed with conflicting algorithms. To terrorize or maximize?

That is the question.

"Clever Girl"

But not clever enough to escape the jaws of the Deus Rex Machina.

Often referred to as the 9th character on the short-lived space-western Firefly.

Before Jewel Staitefixed Serenity’s inner workin’s, she was Titian.

No, not like the painter. Like a citizen of a moon that orbits Saturn.