Bane (Invasion of the Bane)

The Bane are a large green, one-eyed alien race with six tentecles and a turtle-like shell on the back. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)

Encounter with Sarah Jane Smith
In July 2008, the Bane attempted to invade Earth using an addictive drink known as Bubble Shock!, which contained the secretions of the Mother Bane, the leader of the Bane.

Their original version of the drink was not entirely effective, working on only 98% of the population when to succeed the Bane needed it to work on all 100% of the population, so the Bane grew a Human child known only as The Archetype, who contained all the information of the 10,000+ children who entered the Bubble Shock! factory.

Eventually The Archetype escaped with Sarah Jane Smith and her new neighbor, Maria Jackson, and they travelled back to Sarah's home where they used Sarah's alien computer named "Mr. Smith" to communicate with the Bane and order them to stop, but the Bane continued with their plans anyway, but with The Archetype no longer in Bane control decided to let the Bane secretions in the bodies of those who had drunk Bubble Shock! possess the bodies and try to force the 2% of the people on the planet to drink Bubble Shock! and become possessed themselves, thereby ridding all humanity off Earth and changing it into the Bane World.

However, when Sarah, Maria and The Archetype entered the Bubble Shock! factory, The Archetype - with the memory of 10,000 children - remembered the many digits of the co-ordinates of the Bane and used an alien communicator to disrupt the signal from the Mother Bane controlling the Bane-possessed Humans, thereby releasing the Humans of Bane control and killing the Mother Bane.

Afterwards, the possession of various Humans was attributed to the chemicals in Bubble Shock! causing a combination of causing strange brain activities and hallucinations.


 * Presumably, due to the controlling of the Humans by the Bane inside them, in turn controlled by the Mother Bane, the Bane may be a group mind.
 * Also, due to the Bane's plans to turn Earth into the "Bane World", it may be that the reason to invade Earth was that the original Bane World - the Bane's homeworld - was destroyed.