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== Literature ==
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' has a few borderline cases. Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox both visit Earth without attracting too much attention, despite the former's badly chosen fake name and Zaphod not even trying to hide he's from space; of course, they're both basically human-looking, with just a few subtle (or not; see below) oddities. Later on,
** It doesn't exactly help that Arthur blurts out "What?" on this suggestion.
** In the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)|game]] (and in the book ''Mostly Harmless''), it is revealed that the two-headed Zaphod went to a costume party on Earth dressed as a pirate. He put a birdcage over the second head and covered it with a cloth. The head in the cage said "Pretty Polly" every now and again.
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*** And almost blew their cover, as the now very clean room now confused the hell out of Marco's father!
* In the Mark Clifton short story ''What Have I Done?'', an employment agent meets an alien who asks him to help the alien invaders with their disguises. (The agent has a superhuman ability to read people, and is the only person so far who's seen through the Hugh Mann act.) He defeats the invasion by helping them to appear as the most perfect, noble humans ever - [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|so that real humans will destroy them out of envy]].
== Live Action TV ==
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