Mangalore

The Mangalores were a species of alien which appeared in the 1997 science fiction movie The Fifth Element.

Description
A highly aggressive but not particularly intelligent race of beings, the Mangalores were ugly creatures by human standards. Standing slightly taller than a human male, they possessed a crinkly skin with large, pointed ears, and almost fish-like faces. Although fairly dim-witted, they were capable of utilising sophisticated technology such as advanced weaponry and starships.

Their most unique trait however, was their ability to shift their form to appear as a member of a race other than their own. Whilst most of these creatures could make this transformation seamlessly, at least one suffered from involuntary lapses which led to his detection by the security systems it was trying to bypass.

History
When the Great Evil returned to the galaxy in 2263, it had one of his agents, an amoral man known as Zorg, hire a mercenary band of Mangalores to aid him in his quest to find and destroy the one weapon which could destroy it. After initially destroying the Mondoshawan ship sent to Earth to retrieve one of the weapon’s components, the Mangalores then proceeded to pursue Leeloo and Korben Dallas across the galaxy in an effort to claim the weapon and its bounty.

Unfortunately for the Mangalores, they were no match for the pair, and they all ultimately perished in the destruction of the space liner Fhloston Paradise before being able to complete their task.