Contra III: The Alien Wars/Enemies

Listed by order of appearance. The names are primarily from the US version of the game, followed by their Japanese and European names. Names in quotation marks are unofficial names or translations for enemies who don't have official American names.

Corporals of Punishment

 * Japanese name: Small Fry Soldiers (ザコ兵)
 * European name: Other soldiers

Sniper

 * Japanese name: Sniper (狙撃兵)

"Grenade Thrower"
Official name unavailable.

Man-Faced Mutts

 * Japanese name: Human-faced Dogs (人面犬)
 * European name: Human faced dogs

"Middle Fort"
A mid-sized version of the first boss from the original Contra.
 * Japanese name: Middle Fort (中間要塞)

"Magnus Mk. II"

 * Japanese name: The Magnetic Heavily Armored Vehicle Magnus Mk. II (磁力重装甲車マグナスmk2)
 * European name: Magnetic Heavy Armoured Car Magnus mk2

Beast Kimkoh
In the Japanese and European versions, Kimkoh is the name given to the Golden Beast in Area 6 (the final boss from the NES version of Super C).
 * Japanese name: Slave Beast Taka (奴隷獣タカ)
 * European name: Vicious Slave Hawk

"Dome Defender"

 * Japanese name: Dome Defender (ドームディフェンダー)
 * European name: Dome defender

Twylobites

 * Japanese name: Crawler Tank (クローラータンク)
 * European name: Crawler Tank

Metallican

 * Japanese name: Multi-Cannon Sweeping Machine Bosco Spider (多砲台掃討機ボスコスパイダー)

"Rotating Duckers"
A rotating cannon. The Duckers were originally enemies from the Gradius series.
 * Japanese name: Rotating Ducker (回転ダッカー)

Gigafly

 * Japanese name: Gigafly (ギガフライ)
 * European name: Gigafry

Chrome Dome

 * This enemy is accidentally listed twice in the American version's instruction booklet, the second time under its Japanese name


 * Japanese name: Tri-Transforming Mecha Wall Walker (三段変形メカウォールウォーカー)
 * European name: Tri-Transforming Wall-Walker

The Flying Squito Nest

 * Japanese name: Floating Bird Nest Garth Base (浮遊鳥巣ガースベース)
 * European name: Floating Bird's Nest Garth Base

Mutant Megasquito

 * Japanese name: Birdman Race Garth (鳥人間ガース)
 * European name: Birdman Garth

"Rotating Gun"

 * Japanese name: Rotating Gun (回転砲台)

BOB-1 and BOB-2

 * Japanese name: Robot Brothers Kenny No. 1 and No. 2 (兄弟ロボケニ1号＆2号)
 * European name: Brothers Robot Kenny 1 & 2

Robo-Corpse

 * Japanese name: Daikaku Robot Big Fuzz (大覚ロボビッグファズ)
 * European name: Grand Prize Robot Big Fuzz

Psycho Cycler

 * Japanese name: Hell Riders (ヘルライダース)
 * European name: Hellriders

"High Speed Tank Booby"

 * Japanese name: High Speed Tank Booby (高速戦車ブービー号)

"Sensor Arm"

 * Japanese name: Sensor Arm (センサーアーム)

"Fierce Cannon"

 * Japanese name: Fierce Cannon (強烈砲台)

"Walking Bipedal Cannon"

 * Japanese name: Tetranducker (テトランダッカー)
 * European name: Tetandakker

Slash

 * Japanese name: Rocket Ninja Sasaki (ロケット忍者ササキ)
 * European name: Rocket Ninja Sasaki

Battleship

 * Japanese name: Anti-Contra Battleship Dodriguez (対魂斗羅戦艦ドドリゲス)
 * European name: Anti-Contra Sergeant Dodoriguez

"Alien Scorpions and Alien Scorpion Generators"

 * Japanese name: Oggies and Oggie Generators (オギー＆オギージェネレーター)

Scorpabellum

 * Japanese name: Top Secret Experimental Creature Anthell (極秘実験生物アントヘル)

"Humanoid Aliens"

 * Japanese name: Ogre-Faced Beast Orlean (鬼頭獣オーリアン)

"Alien Mouth and Mouth spawns"

 * Japanese name: Ultra Preying Beast Wadder (超猛獣ワーダ) and Poisonous Insect Gell (毒々虫ゲル)
 * European name: Ultra-wild Animal Wadder

"Facehuggers and Facehugger Breeders"

 * Japanese name: Evil Insect Buggers (把妖虫バッカー) and Evil Eggrons (妖卵エグロン)

Para-Slug

 * Japanese name: Uranian Devil Dragon Java (天王鬼龍神ジャバ) and Ogre-faced Beast Bandles (鬼頭獣バンドル)
 * European name: Jappa

"Giant Alien Heart"

 * Japanese name: Evil Heart of the Uranian Beast Gomera Mosking (天王創魔心ゴメラモスキング)
 * European name: Gomeramos King

"Golden Beast"

 * Japanese name: Shadow Beast Kimkoh (陰獣キムコウ)
 * European name: The Fearsome Beast Kimkoh

Vicious Slave Hawk
His American name is a mistranslation of "Slave Beast Taka", which is the name of the giant turtle boss from Area 1.
 * Japanese name: Metal Alien (メタルエイリアン)
 * European name: Metal Alien

Jagger Froid

 * Japanese name: Uranian Beast Gava (天王鬼ギャバ)
 * European name: Uranian Devil Gappa

"Alien Brain"

 * Japanese name: Living Brain Organism Searle (頭脳生命体サール)

"Armored Alien Brain"

 * Japanese name: Six Men Feromedos (フェロメドス六人衆)