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For questions about names: of characters, including titles, nicknames, and honorifics; of in-universe locations, e.g. countries or planets; or of objects, e.g. vessels, weapons, etc. Questions can be in-universe or out-of-universe, about topics such as origins, meanings, usage and pronunciation. For questions about the title of a work of sci-fi or fantasy, use the [title-explanation] tag instead.
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Why where the aliens called Buggers in the book, but called the Formic in the movie?
I read somewhere that "Formic" was used to draw a distinction between them and the alien bugs in the Starship Troopers movies. I don't recall where I originally read that but I did find this comment b …
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