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{{trope}}
{{quote|''I'm just a perfectly normal [[Paper-Thin Disguise|human worm baby!]] You have nothing, absolutely nothing, to worry about.''
|'''Zim the Alien'''
A being from outer space generally comes to Earth either to observe and learn about us or to help guide us (or just get stuck here) and must keep his true nature a secret. A good opportunity for [[Mr. Exposition]] to make his presence felt as the alien often needs everything explained, or describes the situation for others of his kind who might share his curiosity. A lot of comedy can be drawn from the newly landed alien having [[No Social Skills]].
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The displacees in the [[Mega Crossover]] shared-world story ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'' are of the "stranded" type. Even the ones who aren't from space.
== [[Film]] ==
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** Inverted in the ''Trevelyan's Mission'' books, which take place centuries later in the same 'verse, with the titular protagonist and his colleagues, whose job is to infiltrate primitive humanoid cultures in order to study them and accelerate their progress.
== [[Live
* ''My Favorite Martian''
* ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]''
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** Hey, they never once mentioned him actually eating a cat while on Earth, something he did regularly on Melmac.
* The Tenctonese/Newcomers on ''[[Alien Nation (TV series)|Alien Nation]]'' were refugees and slaves. In this case it was over 100,000 aliens, who form their own community in Los Angeles. Therefore the cultural misunderstandings went both ways, as humans learned to deal with odd newcomer traditions.
* The character of Anya from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' could also be considered a variation on this device. Anya was a 1,120-year-old former demon, who did not understand the conventions of humans and, therefore, had wacky misunderstandings and needed to have things explained to her. Anya eventually subverted this trope in
* ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' once had a clever [[Lampshade Hanging]] about this trope when, in one of the last seasons of the show, Mindy exclaimed in exasperation, "Oh, Mork, what Earth concept have you misunderstood ''this'' week?"
* The TV series ''[[Hard Time On Planet Earth]]'' starred Martin Kove as an alien criminal sentenced to serve out his time on the unimportant backwater planet Earth. Accompanied by his "warden" (a computer-animated flying eye), the protagonist used his inhuman strength to fight bad guys while [[Walking the Earth]]
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* ''[[Ultra Seven]]''
== [[Tabletop
* In the [[Alternity]] / [[D20 Modern]] setting Dark•Matter there are several aliens who hid on Earth, with some who tried to prepare them for the High Tide.
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