Bane (Invasion of the Bane)

The Bane were an alien species who attempted to conquer Earth in secret during the early 21st century using an addictive soft drink known as Bubble Shock!.

Physical characteristics
The Mother Bane appeared as little more than a giant cephalapod-like eye surrounded by tentacles.

Smaller Bane were the size of a very large, green, lozenged-shaped, and, like the Mother Bane, have one eye that resembles that of a cephalapod. There were pads on the undersides of their six tentacles which allow them to walk across ceilings and floors, and a turtle-like shell on the back.

The Mother Bane's children could transform into human form using image translators, however by doing so they left behind a sticky black slime. Sarah Jane Smith happened to have a liquid spray which could harm them. The Bane had a physical aversion to cell phone transmissions and even more so to alien superluminal communications technology.

Using enzymes secreted by the Mother Bane, the Mother's children placed the enyzme in Bubble Shock! and so could control those who drank it. The flaw with this is that it was approximately 98% of the Human population who liked to drink it, with the Bane unable as yet to determine why the remaining 2% didn't like the taste of it.

Encounter with Sarah Jane Smith
Circa February 2009, 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, they 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 Earth of all humanity 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.


 * Presumably, due to the controlling of the Humans by the Bane inside them, in turn controlled by the Mother Bane, the Bane are 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.