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List of fictional characters within The Simpsons - Kang and Kodos
Kang and Kodos are two green, seven-foot tall, continually drooling octopus-like cyclopian aliens from Rigel 7, beyond Earth, who are brother and sister (Kang has a much deeper voice than Kodos whose voice is still masculine), who enjoy exchanging long protein strands. Their primary appearances are in the various "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, but they (or others of their race) have several cameos. Their overall appearance is most likely derived from the aliens appearing in the 1959 B-movie The Atomic Submarine, which are almost identical in every major way to the cartoon characters.
Kang is voiced by Harry Shearer, while Kodos is voiced by Dan Castellaneta. Another Rigellian, "Serak the Preparer", was voiced by James Earl Jones.
Kang and Kodos are named after two characters from Star Trek; Kang was a Klingon captain, and Kodos the Executioner was a human villain.
Kang and Kodos do not speak English, but actually speak Rigellian (which, by a staggering coincidence, is exactly the same as English). They are Quantum Presbyterians.
In the episode "Treehouse of Horror VII," they compete for the presidency of the United States on crowd-pleasing platforms ("Abortion for some, miniature American flags for others!"). Even after Homer reveales them to be aliens, most people vote for one of them because they don't want to throw their vote away on a third-party candidate. Kang wins and enslavens humanity. A toiling Homer says "Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos". From this, the term "Kang and Kodos" is sometimes used to describe candidates with undistinguishable platforms.
Kang and Kodos appear in The Simpsons: Hit and Run video game as villains, but only in cutscenes. Kang and Kodos use wasp-like surveillance cameras to watch everyone in Springfield. In the Level 5 cutscene, Bart Simpson and Apu are listening to Kang and Kodos' plan that they are distributing laser guns all over Springfield, and they use the evil cola to make people crazy. In the Level 6 cutscene, Kang and Kodos are planning to use the evil cola to rise the zombies from the dead. In the Level 7 cutscene, Kang and Kodos die, after their spaceship crashed, with them on it.
Kang is also the boss in the Simpsons Wrestling game.
Their space ship is based on the flying saucers from the movie Earth vs. the Flying Saucers.
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