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{{quote|"He was a candidate for a Midwestern congressional seat, and he hired me to manage his campaign advertising. Unfortunately, his opponent turned up something in his past with which we could not cope."
"Let me guess: he was secretly a liberal."
"Worse. An alien."
"You're kidding?! An undocumented alien running for--"
"No. A space alien, Ms. Walters."|''[[She Hulk|Sensational She-Hulk]]'' #11, Jan. 1990}}


A character of extraterrestrial origins. For tropes about what ''makes'' them alien, see [[Bizarre Alien Biology]].


[[Alien|If you thought it meant "illegal aliens" and signed up]], click [[Race Tropes]].
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If there are no aliens at all, see [[Absent Aliens]].
[[Category:Index Index]]

Not to be confused with [[Otherness Tropes]].
<tabber>
Levels of the ladder of alien strangeness=
* [[Human Aliens]]
* [[Human Subspecies]]
** [[Transhuman Aliens]]
* [[Not Quite Human]]
* [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]
** [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]
** [[Space Elves]]
* [[Humanoid Aliens]]
** [[Petting Zoo People]] (sometimes they're aliens)
*** [[Catfolk]]
** [[Little Green Men]]
** [[The Greys]]
** [[The Reptilians]]
* [[Little Green Man in a Can]]
* [[Insectoid Aliens]]
* [[Intelligent Gerbil]]
* [[Mechanical Lifeforms]]
* [[Alien Animals]]
** [[Blob Monster]] (amoeba)
** [[Killer Space Monkey]]
** [[Space Whale]]
** [[Sand Worm]] (worms)
* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]
* [[Low Culture, High Tech]]
* [[Plant Aliens]]
* [[Starfish Aliens]]
** [[Eldritch Abomination]]
* [[Silicon-Based Life]]
* [[Energy Beings]]
* [[Genius Loci]]
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]
** [[Insufficiently Advanced Alien]]
|-|
SFX=
* [[People in Rubber Suits]]
* [[Muppet]]
* [[Serkis Folk]]
</tabber>
<tabber>
General tropes=
* [[Alien Autopsy]]
* [[Alien Invasion]]
** [[Benevolent Alien Invasion]]
* [[Alternative Number System]]
* [[Anal Probing]]
* [[Brain In a Jar]]
* [[Ditto Aliens]]
* [[Mistaken for Aliens]]
* [[My Brain Is Big]]
* [[Panspermia]]
* [[No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture]]
* [[People Jars]]
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]
|-|
Interspecies relations=
* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]
* [[Alien Non-Interference Clause]]
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]
* [[Ancient Astronauts]]
* [[Area 51]]
* [[Descriptively Named Species]]
* [[First Contact]]
* [[First Contact Math]]
* [[I Come in Peace]]
** [[Take Me to Your Leader]]
** [[We Come in Peace, Shoot to Kill]]
* [[Innocent Aliens]]
* [[Klingons Love Shakespeare]]
* [[Mistook the Dominant Lifeform]]
* [[Protocol Peril]]
* [[The Right of a Superior Species]]
* [[Roswell That Ends Well]]
* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]
* [[Servant Race]]
* [[Slave Race]]
* [[Superior Species]]
* [[To Serve Man]]
** [[How to Invade An Alien Planet]]
* [[What Measure Is a Humanoid?]]
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]
* [[The Xenophile]]
|-|
Reproduction=
* [[Designer Babies]]
* [[Dying Race]]
* [[Exotic Equipment]]
* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]
* [[Immortal Procreation Clause]]
* [[Interspecies Romance]]
** [[Boldly Coming]]
** [[Gendercide]]
** [[Improbable Species Compatibility]]
** [[Mars Needs Women]]
** [[Only You Can Repopulate My Race]]
* [[Uterine Replicator]]
|-|
Genders=
* [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism]]
* [[Gender Equals Breed]]
* [[One-Gender Race]]
|-|
Other features=
* [[Abusive Alien Parents]]
* [[Alien Abduction]]
* [[Alien Among Us]]
* [[Alien Catnip]]
* [[Alien Kudzu]]
* [[Aliens and Monsters]]
* [[Aliens Never Invented the Wheel]]
* [[Aliens Steal Cable]]
* [[Aliens Steal Cattle]]
* [[Amusing Alien]]
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]
** [[Bizarre Alien Reproduction]]
** [[Bizarre Alien Senses]]
* [[Came From the Sky]]
* [[Chest Burster]]
* [[Crop Circles]]
* [[ET Gave Us Wi-Fi]]
* [[Exposed Extraterrestrials]]
* [[Higher-Tech Species]]
* [[The Men in Black]]
* [[Mirror Chemistry]]
* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]
* [[Named After Their Planet]]
* [[Solid Gold Poop]]
* [[Spice of Life]]
* [[Stronger with Age]]
* [[They Look Like Us Now]]
* [[Touched by Vorlons]]
* [[Unusual Ears]]
* [[Ultraterrestrials]]
</tabber>
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Otherness Tropes]]
[[Category:Tropes in Space]]
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Genre Tropes]]
[[Category:Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes]]
[[Category:Narrative Tropes]]

Latest revision as of 10:34, 29 December 2014

"He was a candidate for a Midwestern congressional seat, and he hired me to manage his campaign advertising. Unfortunately, his opponent turned up something in his past with which we could not cope."
"Let me guess: he was secretly a liberal."
"Worse. An alien."
"You're kidding?! An undocumented alien running for--"

"No. A space alien, Ms. Walters."
—Sensational She-Hulk #11, Jan. 1990

A character of extraterrestrial origins. For tropes about what makes them alien, see Bizarre Alien Biology.

If you thought it meant "illegal aliens" and signed up, click Race Tropes.

If there are no aliens at all, see Absent Aliens.

Not to be confused with Otherness Tropes.

* Human Aliens

* Aliens Are Bastards

  • Alien Non-Interference Clause
  • Aliens Speaking English
  • Ancient Astronauts
  • Area 51
  • Descriptively Named Species
  • First Contact
  • First Contact Math
  • I Come in Peace
  • Innocent Aliens
  • Klingons Love Shakespeare
  • Mistook the Dominant Lifeform
  • Protocol Peril
  • The Right of a Superior Species
  • Roswell That Ends Well
  • Scary Dogmatic Aliens
  • Servant Race
  • Slave Race
  • Superior Species
  • To Serve Man
  • What Measure Is a Humanoid?
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?
  • The Xenophile

    • * Abusive Alien Parents

  • Alien Abduction
  • Alien Among Us
  • Alien Catnip
  • Alien Kudzu
  • Aliens and Monsters
  • Aliens Never Invented the Wheel
  • Aliens Steal Cable
  • Aliens Steal Cattle
  • Amusing Alien
  • Bizarre Alien Biology
  • Came From the Sky
  • Chest Burster
  • Crop Circles
  • ET Gave Us Wi-Fi
  • Exposed Extraterrestrials
  • Higher-Tech Species
  • The Men in Black
  • Mirror Chemistry
  • More Teeth Than the Osmond Family
  • Named After Their Planet
  • Solid Gold Poop
  • Spice of Life
  • Stronger with Age
  • They Look Like Us Now
  • Touched by Vorlons
  • Unusual Ears
  • Ultraterrestrials

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