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When an alien from another planet, whether one of the [[Little Green Men]] or one of [[The Greys]] or whatever, kidnaps a human. The alien generally leaves no trace of the human until it's done with it. Alien abductions do get witnessed, but the witnesses are almost always portrayed as a bit mad even when the alien abduction is real in canon.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[
** The Black Moon Clan in the Second Story Arc.
** In the anime, Crimson Rubeus captures all the Sailor Senshi except Sailor Moon, who frees them after defeating Rubeus. In a later episode, Prince Demand captures Sailor Moon and tries to brainwash her into being his bride, but Tuxedo Mask intervenes and saves her.
** In the manga, three of the Sailor Senshi (Sailors Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter) are captured by Rubeus; only Sailor Venus and Sailor Moon remain. Eventually, Sailor Moon is captured as well when she is teleported from Crystal Tokyo to Planet Nemesis. There, Demand tries to brainwash her with his "third eye", but like in the anime, he fails.
* ''[[Cromartie High School]]'': Freddie being abducted by aliens is seen as more important than knowing the name of Hokuto's lackey.
* ''[[
== Films -- Animation ==
* Inverted in [[
* [[Subverted]] in ''[[
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* ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''.
* ''Intruders'' is arguably one of the best films on alien abduction (plus its really scary! Check out the little boy scene, during the hypnosis sessions. Most of the film deals with aliens abducting successive generations in the same families. At the end, aliens themselves reveal their reasons to the abductees.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Flight of the Navigator]]'', the protagonist wakes up 8 years after being abducted and returned to Earth, and hasn't aged at all because of time dilation caused by faster-than-light travel.
* In ''[[
** If you accept the comics as canon, then {{spoiler|it is, and they were.}}
* ''[[It Came
* Done in an unfriendly way in ''Fire in the Sky'' with examination/torture. It is worth noting that the abduction depicted in the movie is nothing like the account given by the real Travis Walton, whose story the movie is based on. In Walton's actual account, the aliens while frightening in appearance were not violent, and did not torture him.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Mysterious Skin]]'' (which is also a book), Brian ''thinks'' this is what happened during a blank spot in his childhood. {{spoiler|The truth is much, much worse.}}
* Subverted in ''[[Race to Witch Mountain]]''; Two alien siblings are captured by humans.
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** In ''The Brass Dragon'', the protagonist initially can't remember the last year of his life, but unexpectedly finds that he now knows a lot more about mathematics than he used to. {{spoiler|He and his alien companions were trapped on Mars for most of that year, since they had to wait for an enemy ship to be available to ambush for transport back to Earth. They passed the time by teaching the protagonist a lot of math.}}
** She co-wrote ''Hunters of the Red Moon'' with her brother Paul Edwin Zimmer, in which the protagonist, who is sailing around the world alone, is kidnapped off his boat by the Mekhar (who trade in slaves, and were expecting more people to be on the boat).
* K.A. Applegate's ''[[
* In [[Christopher Buckley]]'s novel ''[[Little Green Men (
* In [[Diane Duane]]'s ''[[
* ''Communion'' by Whitley Strieber. [[But It Really Happened!|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 (
* In ''Slaves of Spiegel'' by [[Daniel Pinkwater]], Steve Nickelson is abducted by [[Space Pirates]], who have him and everything in his Hoboken restaurant wrapped in aluminum foil, shrunk in size and taken to the planet Spiegel for the pirates' great interplanetary cook-off. Steve sends in a report to the Flying Saucer Club of Hudson County, New Jersey, who pronounce his report to be totally inauthentic since all aliens are either [[Little Green Men]] or blobby eye stalk creatures, not "fat people," and nobody has ever heard of a planet named Spiegel. When the [[Space Pirates]] then find out about Steve's assistant, Norman Bleistift, and kidnap him too.
* Although Pratchett hasn't seen fit to pull this off on ''[[
* In ''Angry Lead Skies'', Garrett's associate and housemate {{spoiler|the Goddamn Parrot}} gets abducted by "silver elf" aliens, to the detective's considerable delight.
* A [[Nature Spirit|non-scifi variant]] happens in Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo".
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** Also, there was one episode where Thor did transport O'Neill to his ship, although its subverted in that it wasn't to do testing on O'Neill as much as request for his help (since the Replicators were attacking his planet, and it was very likely the Replicators would attack Earth next).
** The entire Milky Way galaxy is populated by descendants of ancient humans who were abducted by the Goa'uld and made to serve as slaves.
* ''[[
* The aliens that supplied the supersuit in ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]'' do this to various people, although for benign reasons.
* ''[[UFO]]''. Aliens from a dying world abduct humans in order to harvest them for their organs.
* ''[[Star Trek:
** There are at least a couple of inversions in the series - where the Enterprise beams up an unsuspecting local alien (at least one from a "bronze age" society). However, there was generally a lack of probing and prodding, but they do try to erase the alien's memories of the event.
* Subverted in ''[[
* In the ''[[Dark Skies]]'' series finale, Majestic-12 replaces an official who is about to be abducted by the Hive with the protagonist in order to infiltrate the mothership. Since the series was cancelled, the outcome is unknown.
* In ''[[
* 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.}}
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[
* In the world of ''[[
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** This happens to the protagonist, his [[Damsel in Distress|girlfriend]], his [[The Obi-Wan|grand]][[Magical Native American|father]], and apparently half of Texas.
** Also if you listen to the radio they have also done this to Oakland (they don't specify which one) and if you look around they are planing on doing this to New York City{{spoiler|, [[Creepy Child|already got a school bus filled with kids]], you watch them take an airplane, and they have abducted other human-like people from different planets. Plus with a ship that size who knows what else could be up there?}}
* ''[[
* The [[Backstory]] of ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]: UFO Defense'' includes humanity being terrorised by mass abductions, and the aliens continue mounting missions to abduct humans through the game... while [[Who You Gonna Call?|it's up to you to stop them]].
* The ''[[
* ''[[Metal Gear]]''
** In the first game, ''[[
** The second game, ''[[
** In the novel within a video game, ''The Shocking Conspiracy on Shadow Moses'', the main character once thought he was abducted by aliens.
** ''[[
* ''[[Super Mario Bros
** ''[[
** ''[[
* In ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* [[
* In ''[[
* ''[[I Was Kidnapped
* Happens ''a lot'' to Denver in ''[http://starfire.poecatcomix.com/ Starfire Agency]'', and they [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]}}
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== Western Animation ==
* The [[Pilot]] episode of ''[[
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** This happens to Homer in a Hallowe'en special, and they say "[[Take Me to Your Leader|take us to your leader]]" and everything...
{{quote| "Stop! We have reached the limits of what [[Anal Probing|rectal probing]] can teach us!"}}
** In another, they tell Marge, "Warning! Prepare to be abducted!"
* Chuck Jones put out two alien-abduction themed ''[[
* One of Disney's 1950s TV shows on space featured a frenetic take on a "typical sci-fi story" where a scientist's secretary is nabbed by aliens, done by Ward Kimball in peerless '50s style.
* Played for laughs on ''[[
* Parodied and shown from the aliens' point of view in the [[Pixar]] short film ''Lifted''.
* ''[[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 Os]] 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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