Nothing Face

Nothing Faces are a humanoid shapeshifting species, two of which, Ug and Lee, served as bounty hunters for the Intergalactic Council, best known for hunting Crites.

Biology
In their true form, Nothing Faces bear Human-like proportions, but most notably, their heads have no face, giving this species their nickname, just smooth skin, although they appear to have somewhat skeletal outlines of eye sockets and mouths. Regardless of lacking ears, eyes, and mouths, they are able to see, speak, and hear, although they do not need to breathe. By default, the skin on their heads is green and softly glows, but the skin on the rest of their bodies, or at least their hands, have Human-like fair skin tones. It is unclear if Nothing Faces have distinct sexes, but the only two known Nothing Faces had male bodies and voices, albeit with a robotic tone, in their default forms. As Nothing Faces are shapeshifters, they are capable of morphing their bodies to replicate the appearance of individuals of other species, regardless of the subject's sex, such as Humans, and are even capable of drastically changing their size, such as when mimicking Crites. They can remain in a morphed form for an indeterminant amount of time, possibly for their entire lifespans.

What the Nothing Faces mimic depends on what they can see, meaning that if they copy the appearance of an injured Human, they will replicate the injuries as well, and one Nothing Face who morphed into a model in a Playboy magazine copied a scaled-up version paperclip that was present in the image's midsection, where the magazine's pages came together. Also notably, that instance demonstrated that Nothing Faces are capable of harmlessly removing parts of their bodies, presumably just extremities, as the Nothing Face was able to remove the paperclip-like protrusion. To help with their disguises, Nothing Faces are able to change their voices to mimic that of whatever species and/or sex they morph into. Nothing Face shapeshifting also appears to rely on their emotional state, as a Nothing Face going though grief rapidly flashed through different faces and then reverted to his default form. Internally, Nothing Faces have red blood, and also possess enhanced strength, able to effortlessly throw Humans around and throw bowling balls hard enough to completely shatter bowling pins. Additionally, Nothing Faces have longer lifespans than Humans, as they, or at least whatever visage they take on, do not visibly age after 50 years.

Culture and society
Little is known of Nothing Face society, but they appear to have been members of the Intergalactic Council, and some served the Council as bounty hunters. Nothing Face clothing, at least for bounty hunters, consists of red coats that can have air tanks and other gear built into them. Nothing Faces tend to remain in their default form until they find a visage they like, which they tend to adopt for the rest of their lives. Nothing Faces that have not found their desired visage continuously shift faces between subjects, regardless of the subject's species or sex, sometimes for merely disguising their alien appearance. Nothing Faces also appear to have no care for modesty or public indecency, as a Nothing Face who morphed into a Playboy model nearly entered a town nude, ignoring the fact that their clothes ripped off during the transformation. Due to their shapeshifting's integrity relying on their emotional state, Nothing Faces usually display no emotions and speak in simple, technical ways, although their bounty hunters are known to create very strong bonds with their crew. It is unknown what became of Nothing Face society after the Intergalactic Council dissolved, but at least one ran a multi-planetary corporation that operated in Human space. The only known Nothing Face bounty hunters did not display much concern for the lives and property of other lifeforms, often throwing civilians out of their way and destroying property. Despite being well-versed in advanced alien technologies, Nothing Faces have displayed little knowledge of how to operate relatively underdeveloped machinery, such as common Earth cars and pump-action shotguns.

Technology
Nothing Faces have access to highly advanced technology, including blocky spacecraft capable of holding at least three occupants and able to cross the Milky Way, known to be equipped with cryogenic storage containers, real-time interstellar communications, and holographic displays. Nothing Face armaments include tube-shaped handheld energy cannons, which extend their barrel when armed and fire large and destructive bolts of energy, capable of instantly vaporizing Crites. Another notable example of Nothing Face technology are handheld communication devices, which can also be used to reconstruct destroyed buildings using invisible energy.

History
For some time prior to 1986, a duo of Nothing Face bounty hunters, named Ug and Lee, served clients of the Intergalactic Council, although they were known to be quite destructive in their methods. In 1986, a group of eight Crite prisoners escaped from Prison Asteroid-Sector 17, and the alien warden, Zanti, called in Ug and Lee to find and eliminate the Crites, having had tracked them to Earth. Wordlessly accepting the job from Zanti, the Nothing Faces took off for Earth, cutting off a transmission from Zanti that asked them to be less destructive this time. As they approached the planet, they went through Intergalactic Council records of Earth and its inhabitants, seeing many aspects of Earth's culture, with Ug focusing on a recent music video featuring a Human singer named Johnny Steele, performing the hit song "Power of the Night." Ug then took on Steele's appearance, and decided to use it as his visage even beyond the mission. After transforming, he ordered Lee to transform, but Lee hadn't found a visage he liked, so Ug told him to find something when they landed. As the duo entered the atmosphere over Grover's Bend, a town in the United States where the Crites were detected, their ship was seen by a Human named Charlie McFadden, who believed them to be Martian invaders.

The bounty hunters landed near a road to isolated farms, finding the remains of a police officer who was killed by the Crites. Lee took the officer's appearance, but replicated all the injuries left on the corpse. Taking the officer's car, the two figured out how to make it drive, but in reverse, also blasting a hole through the roof with a shotgun that Ug poorly handled, making their way to the nearby town of Grover's Bend, where they began to search for Crites. They first searched a church, crashing their car through the building's porch and destroying it, before entering and demanding the location of the Crites. As none of the Humans knew what they were talking about, the Nothing Faces confronted the priest, with Lee changing his appearance to that of the priest, before blasting a nearby piano that he heard go off when the player accidentally pressed a key. Ug stopped Lee from firing again, and they then left to a bowling alley. Within the alley, Ug watched Humans bowl, and tried it himself, throwing the ball hard enough to shatter the pins, before him and Lee entered the alley's bar, meeting Charlie McFadden within. Lee changed his appearance yet again to Charlie as the two questioned the bartender about Crites, becoming increasingly aggressive, before the sound of gunshots on a nearby TV made the two start firing at it, destroying most of the bar.

Later, Ug and Lee drove back down the road to the farms, coming across Bradley Brown, a boy from a farm that was being overrun by Crites. Brad, mistaking the two for Charlie and Johnny Steele, entered their car and followed Bradley's directions to the farm, where they began to destroy Crites with their guns. After clearing the house and leaving to look for more Crites, a few surviving Crites, grown larger than Humans by eating enough, used their ship to destroy the Brown house, before in turn being destroyed by a bomb left on their ship by the Bradley and the real Charlie. With the Crites dead, Bradley thanked Ug for their help, and Ug left him with a communicator, which also had the capability to reconstruct the house. As the two Nothing Faces left to collect their payments and take off, Charlie followed them, asking to come with them, and was allowed to join their crew.

Over the next two years, Ug, Lee, and Charlie ran a number of jobs for the Intergalactic Council, with Charlie being trained as a bounty hunter. Ug kept the visage of Johnny Steele, but Lee reverted back to his default form, as he had not yet found a face he liked.

Appearances

 * Critters (1986)
 * Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)
 * Critters 3 (1991)
 * Critters 4 (1992)