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*** One Superman/Flash story has the duo facing a mysterious alien race that apparently seeded both Earth and Krypton with life, at around the same time, serving as a possible explanation for this trope.

*** It is mentioned that Jor-El chooses Earth ''because'' humans looks exactly like Kryptonians, so Kar-El could live among them without detection.

** Other stories suggested that the human and Kryptonian species actually were directly related:

** Krypton dodges the [[Caucasian Aliens]] trap via "Vathlo Island", home to "a highly developed black race" of Kryptonians, first mentioned in 1971.

* Averted in the novel ''Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday'' (a prequel to the film), where Starscream claims that any sufficiently advanced race would naturally build machines that were similar to Cybertronians, as the Decepticons believe that they are the most perfect lifeforms in the galaxy. However, he also may have been simply trying to explain away the fact that the human spaceship ''Ghost 1'' seemed to be built using Cybertronian technology (i.e. that Megatron, the Decepticons' true leader, has been found).

* Conspicuously and consciously avoided in Wayne D. Barlowe's illustrated sci-fi novel ''Expedition''. Barlowe, a noted fantastic fiction illustrator who darn well knows his biology, openly despises this trope and so he invented an alien race who is very like humankind in their attitude and culture - {{spoiler|but they look a bit like a cross between a hot air balloon and an [[Space Whale|airborne octopus]].}}

* The Martians and Venusians of [[S.M. Stirling]]'s ''[[The Lords of Creation]]'' novels look human because they are (more or less); the eponymous beings, in prehistoric times, Terraformed Mars and Venus and seeded them with Earth life (repeating the process several times, so that on Venus you have humans sharing the planet with dinosaurs and mammalian megafauna).

* The aliens in Robert Zubrin's [[The Holy Land]] consider themselves the humans, and the Earthlings merely 'proto-humans'. Given their superior senses, telepathic ability, superior physiques, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|superlative hygiene]], they're probably right. However, they themselves originated on Earth, about twenty thousand years ago.