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* ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]''

* ''[[Hidamari Sketch (Manga)|Hidamari Sketch]]'': Yuno gets abducted by aliens while relaxing on the school roof... only it was [[All Just a Dream]].

* Inverted in [[Daft Punk (Music)|Daft Punk]]'s long-form anime music video, ''[[Interstella 5555 (Anime)|Interstella 5555]]'': The main characters are aliens who are kidnapped by an [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Earthling entertainment mogul to make pop music as part of convoluted plot for intergalactic domination]], which means that, despite the inversion, it technically still is an [[Incredibly Lame Pun|alien abduction]].

* [[Subverted]] in ''[[Happy Feet (Animation)|Happy Feet]]'', when the skua tells young Mumble of [[Humans Are Cthulhu|his alien abduction]].

* ''[[Alien Abduction Incident in Lake County (Film)|Alien Abduction Incident in Lake County]]''

* In ''[[Independence Day (Film)|Independence Day]]'', Russell Casse apparently ''was'' abducted by aliens, only [[Cassandra Truth|nobody believed him]] and mocked him mercilessly about it (some even implying that his "alien abduction" was really some people who abducted him and abused him sexually) until they showed up. Of course, it's never ''entirely'' made clear if it was true, or if the aliens in the movie were even the ones who did it.

* ''[[It Came From Outer Space (Film)|It Came Fromfrom Outer Space]]'' (1953). The aliens abduct humans both to [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|copy their bodies]] (so they can covertly steal equipment to repair their spaceship) and as hostages. They have no malevolent intent, but believe their [[Blob Monster|alien appearance]] will lead to conflict with the primitive humans.

* In ''[[The Fourth Kind (Film)|The Fourth Kind]]'', the protagonist is interviewing people who claim to have been abducted.

* K.A. Applegate's ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' features the Skrit Na, a species that seems to be the basis of "[[The Greys]]." As an Andalite protagonist explains in their first appearance, the Skrit Na basically go around in their weird, saucer-shaped ships, abduct people from other planets and either do weird experiments on them or put them in zoos on their home planets. Interestingly, ''nobody knows why,'' making the Skrit Na the [[Cloudcuckoolander|CloudCuckooLanders]] of the galaxy.

* In [[Christopher Buckley]]'s novel ''[[Little Green Men (Literaturenovel)|Little Green Men]]'', alien abductions are the work of a top-secret U.S. government agency which had been manufacturing evidence of alien activity since 1947, and didn't start doing abductions until UFO sightings, crop harvesting and cattle mutilations had lost their novelty value. The [[Anal Probing|rectal probing]] and egg harvesting only started because the abductees seemed to demand it. Actual [[Little Green Men]] aren't used any more because of the difficulty of obtaining midgets with security clearances.

* In [[Diane Duane]]'s ''[[Young Wizards (Literature)|Young Wizards]]'' series the primary motivation aliens have for abducting humans is [[Sense Freak|to steal their chocolate]].

* ''Communion'' by Whitley Strieber. [[ButThe ItTasteless But ReallyTrue Happened!Story|Allegedly based on a true story]]; made into a movie starring [[Christopher Walken]]; helped establish jokes about [[Anal Probing|rectal probes]] (to Strieber's dismay).

* ''[[The Puppet Masters (Literaturenovel)|The Puppet Masters]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]]. The titular aliens have been abducting humans for years, possibly centuries, as part of the plan to conquer Earth. It turns out that the protagonist's [[Love Interest]] was abducted from a human colony on Venus as a child; this provides a key to the eventual defeat of the invasion.

* Although Pratchett hasn't seen fit to pull this off on ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' (yet), one of his footnotes does poke fun at this trope, remarking that so many aliens seem to hang around isolated backwoods roads, waiting to abduct humans, that they keep screwing up and abducting one another. Oh, and Bigfoot.

* ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]''

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''

* ''[[The X-Files (TV)|The X-Files]]''. Subverted in "Jose Chung's ''From Outer Space''" where the fake alien abductors got abducted by real aliens. [[Rashomon Style|Prob]][[Unreliable Narrator|ably]].

* ''[[Star Trek: the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek theThe Next Generation]]'' did its own take of this in "Schisms", where the crew gradually realise that aliens from another dimension have been abducting and conducting sinister experiments on them, then wiping their memories and returning them to the ''Enterprise''. Unusually for ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'', their actual purpose in doing so is never revealed.

* Subverted in ''[[First Wave (TV)|First Wave]]'', where the members of the Alien Abduction Support Group are revealed to be hypnotized by aliens to recall false memories as part of an experiment. Aliens don't have starships in the series.

* In ''[[The Chronicle (TV)|The Chronicle]]'', one of the main characters claims that she was abducted several times when she was a child by at least two different alien races. One of these later returns to check up on their subjects... and remove their brains.

* Played with and averted in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. A child patient is being treated due to having beliefs that he was abducted by aliens. Turns out that it was false, but not because the kid was making stuff up: {{spoiler|He actually did believe it due to the "abduction memories" being a side-effect of his birth. He was originally supposed to have a twin brother who he absorbed in the womb.}}

* ''[[Changeling: The Lost (Tabletop Game)|Changeling: The Lost]]'', being about [[The Fair Folk]] and their victims, emphasizes the ties between [[Alien Abduction]] and the old faerie myths -- somemyths—some Keepers are described as androgynous, slender beings that put their victims through strange examinations involving horrifying equipment, and the Wizened in the illustrations appear to be a mixture of traditional goblins and [[The Greys]]. Of course, the book goes on to say in a sidebar that not ''all'' alien abductions in the ''[[New World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|World of Darkness]]'' may be the fault of [[The Fair Folk]]....

* In the world of ''[[Pathfinder (Tabletop Game)|Pathfinder]]'', hapless people sometimes disappear from their homes, only to reappear sometime later with mysterious surgical scars and no recollection of what happened beyond vague nightmares of short gray-skinned creatures with bulging eyes... except instead of aliens from outer space, they've been abducted by derros, [[The Fair Folk|fey-like humanoids]] from [[Beneath the Earth]]. A [[Shout -Out]] to the literature of Richard Sharpe Shaver and his "deros", which may have inspired the idea of [[The Grays]] in the first place.

* ''[[The Sims (Video Game)|The Sims]]'' games allow your Sims to get abducted by aliens if they spend too long stargazing. (It's a very small chance without hacks or cheats.) In ''The Sims 2'', they can also come back pregnant with an alien baby... [[Mister Seahorse|if they're male.]] Now ''that's'' extreme [[Anal Probing]]. Even if they're not pregnant, there's a possibility of [http://cloudlessnights.livejournal.com/26890.html them starving to death] after their return if they aren't fed immediately; the aliens don't have human food, it seems.

* The ''[[Fallout 3 (Video Game)|Fallout 3]]'' add-on ''Mothership Zeta'' has the player and various wastelanders being abducted and studied aboard an alien ship. The evidence on the ship indicates that they have been doing this for centuries. In fact, one of the abductees is a Japanese samurai in full armor who proceeds to slice up his abductors with his [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]]. Naturally, you can't understand each other. Another is a Wild West cowboy, whose Colt comes in handy.

** In the first game, ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty (Video Game)|Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', the Colonel, shortly after Raiden manages to escape Arsenal Gear's torture room, suddenly starts telling what seems to be a typical UFO story where it is implied that he was abducted while trying to get home from work, giving the early implication that the Colonel is not who, or rather, [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|what]], he claims to be.

** The second game, ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater (Video Game)|Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', has Sigint remarking that Zero claimed that he was abducted by Aliens once as a reason for him to suspend disbelief in regards to Snake procuring the Spirit Camo.

** ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker (Video Game)|Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'' implies that most of the UFO encounters, Alien abductions, and Cattle Mutilations were actually caused by the CIA, more specifically their rogue unit: the Peace Sentinels, and their AI weapons.

* ''[[Super Mario Bros (Franchise).|Super Mario Bros]]''

** ''[[Super Mario Land (Video Game)|Super Mario Land]]'', where Mario had to save Princess Daisy (who made her debut here) from an evil alien {{spoiler|who kidnapped her just so he can distract Mario while the game's ''real'' villain, Wario can succeed in his evil plans as revealed in the sequel.}}

** ''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]'': Rosalina, according to her backstory was actually abducted by the Lumas because one of them thought that she was its mother. When Rosalina realizes that her real family is now long dead since her departure, she eventually becomes their leader, and even helps Mario save both Peach and the entire Mushroom Galaxy from [[Big Bad|Bowser,]] who at the same time did this to Peach.

* In ''[[Disgaea 4: a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 aA Promise Unforgotten]]'' all of the generic classes have introductory cutscenes which play when you create a new one to add to your team. The [[Infinity+1 Sword|cyborg]] class's cutscene shows a female fighter being abducted in this manner, before being [[Strapped to An Operating Table]] and undergoing [[Unwilling Roboticisation]].

* [[Karate Bears (Webcomic)|Karate Bears]] were abducted once [http://www.karatebears.com/2011/08/alien-abduction.html Alien Abduction].

* In ''[[Alien Dice (Webcomic)|Alien Dice]]'', Chel, who's about to board a spaceship voluntarily, wonders for a moment if aliens abduct you through talking you into coming with them. Later it's revealed that humans were abducted in the past to create the Rishans but it was forbidden by the laws of [[The Federation]].

* ''[[I Was Kidnapped Byby Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space (Webcomic)|I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates Fromfrom Outer Space]]''. [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]].

* Happens ''a lot'' to Denver in ''[http://starfire.poecatcomix.com/ Starfire Agency]'', and they [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420085247/http://starfire.poecatcomix.com/2006/05/16/05162006/ never return him in the right clothes.] Turns out {{spoiler|[http://starfire.poecatcomix.com/2007/01/31/01312007/ he's a slightly damaged replicant created by the Greys]}}

* The [[Pilot]] episode of ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'', "Cartman Gets an [[Anal Probing|Anal Probe]]." Almost a hundred episodes later the aliens abducted him ''again,'' revealing that their secret motive this whole time was to monitor Earth because {{spoiler|it's actually a giant intergalactic reality TV show}}.

* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]''

{{quote| "Stop! We have reached the limits of what [[Anal Probing|rectal probing]] can teach us!"}}

* Chuck Jones put out two alien-abduction themed ''[[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]]'' -- ''Hasty Hare'' has Bugs captured by Marvin Martian, and ''Jumpin' Jupiter'' has a mutant-turkey alien abduct a vacationing Porky Pig in a visually awesome scene where the flying saucer burrows beneath his campsite, and carries off a whole section of ground with tent, campfire, car and all.

* Played for laughs on ''[[Invader Zim (Animation)|Invader Zim]],'' where the title character, an insane alien posing as a human, gets abducted by a pair of even-stupider aliens who think he really ''is'' human. We find out that the aliens are so stupid and ineffective at doing anything, all their victims ''escaped without harm''.

* ''[[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Arthur]]''

** Parodied in a special relating to an episode plot-making contest (of which the episode itself [[Truth in Television|was the direct result of such a contest]]), where Buster's plot idea was having Buster's character trying to get aliens to come down, they do, [[They Killed Kenny|landing on Buster's character]], take Arthur's character into their ship, doing anal probing (although, as it is a kids show, Arthur's character is just shown in his underpants, although the implications [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|were still on there]]), then leave Arthur behind. Also, the entire sequence was a direct [[Shout -Out]] to [[South Park]] (ironic, considering how that show was anything ''but'' kid friendly.).

** Similarly, in the episode (and book) "Arthur's Slumber Party", a subplot involved a newspaper headline mentioning that someone thought they saw a UFO. DW got obsessed with [[UF OsUFOs]] as a result, and so during the slumber party, Arthur, Brain, and Buster decided to pull a few pranks on DW by first placing one of their sleeping bags and using a cutout of an alien to cause DW to think its a real alien, and then (episode only) create a UFO contraption for DW to take pictures of until it landed via Brain's remote control.

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