Vorticon
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The Vorticon are a race of grayish, dog-like, bipedal aliens featured in the Commander Keen computer games. They have formidable claws, rayguns and sometimes work as, oddly enough, ninja.
In episode one, the Vorticon steal vital parts from Commander Keen's spaceship while he is visiting Mars. After Keen defeated their leader, he returned to Earth to find that the Vorticon mothership was hovering above it with eight cannons pointed at major Earth cities. After destroying said cannons, it was revealed that the Vorticon were under the mental control of a being known only as the Grand Intellect. Keen headed to Vorticon VI to defeat him and it was revealed that he was actually Mortimer McMire, Keen's arch-rival at school. Keen then defeated him and set the Vorticon free.