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Five Green Characters Everyone Should Know

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It’s the end of April, that time of year when we set aside a day to honor our mother Earth and raise awareness of ways to ensure that all those dark, dystopian, ruined-enviroment futures that we love to read about never actually come to pass. Let’s face it — science fiction fans have always been environmentally conscious, as seen in numerous movies from ’70s classics like Silent Running (protecting trees) and Soylent Green (recycling) to more recent favorites like Wall-E (reducing waste) and Avatar (general tree- and bunny-huggery).

Being green is just in our nature, I guess, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the variety of strange and alien creatures found in science fiction of all media, including television and comics. The more creative among us have taken the age-old idea of the “little green man from Mars” and expanded upon it, bringing us some pretty memorable characters who are, if not exactly environmentally conscious (or even human), quite literally the right color to represent the Earth’s cause. Here are five of my favorites:

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