Pod People (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

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Pod people are a fictional extraterrestrial species and the titular main antagonists in the 1954 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the 1978 remake of the same name, and the 1993 film Body Snatchers. In most of their appearances, the pod people are portrayed as seedpods that hatch into replicas of any human sleeping in their vicinity, which they kill and replace. These replicas are physically flawless copies that retain the memories and habits of the original human, yet lack any emotion. The success of the 1956 and 1978 film versions caused the term "pod people" to enter the popular American lexicon, with a pod person being slang for "a soulless conformist; someone who acts strangely, almost mechanically".

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