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The great thing is that because you don't know what their encounter-suited butts look like, they could be anything! The variety of abnormal suit shapes that can be worn by a performer is also greater than the variety possible with rubber faces. [[People in Rubber Suits]] still need the full detail and design of a whole new species, while this trope leaves things to the imagination. A permanent life in an encounter suit can also be justified a lot more than [[Humanoid Alien|Humanoid Aliens]]s: they have [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] that can't stand our atmosphere, they're physically very frail by comparison, so it works like [[Powered Armour]] and similar things.

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* The Emperor of the Arquillian Galaxy from ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]]'', of course. He's the classic [[Little Green Men|Little Green Man]] in a can... disguised as an [[Mobile Suit Human|elderly Eastern European]] jeweler.

* [[The Dragon|The One]] from ''[[Last Legionary (Literature)|Last Legionary]]'' is a mutated human with stunted limbs, wearing a massive golden exoskeleton that turns him into [[The Juggernaut]].

* The Creapii from [[Terry Pratchett (Creator)|Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[The Dark Side of the Sun (Literature)|The Dark Side of the Sun]]'' are always encountered in tentacled, ovoid environmental suits. Not because they're too frail to survive the kinds of atmospheres the other sentient species use, but because their natural habitat is the photospheres and upper corona of ''stars'' (with a class system based on how hot their home star is)

* The Daleks (pictured above) from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', though their suits aren't so much suits as little tanks in which utterly feeble bodies reside.

* The Vorlons from ''[[Babylon Five5]]'', who not only need a completely alien atmosphere but also have their own reasons for wanting to hide their true appearance. Comes complete with [[Neglectful Precursor]] behaviour.

* The Breen of ''[[Star Trek]]'', who first appeared on-screen in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'', come from a much more frigid environment than most humanoids and need environmental suits to interact with other races face-to-face.

* Most Tau warriors from ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', with suits ranging from ordinary armour to [[Power Armour]] to [[Mini -Mecha]], although [[Helmets Are Hardly Heroic|their spiritual leaders go bareheaded]]. They can all breathe our atmosphere unprotected, however.

** Also, [[Funetik Aksent|Ork Killa Kanz]], which are literally [[Our Goblins Are DifferentWickeder|little green men]] in [[Tin Can Robot|cans]].

* The Meklar from ''[[Master of Orion (Video Game)|Master of Orion]]'' were originally this. As the series progressed, they gradually became [[Cyborg|Cyborgs]]s, then full-on [[Mechanical Lifeforms]].

* Sam Starfall from ''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]''. He wears an environment suit, but we've never seen his actual form. It's implied that it's so horrible that it destroys the minds of anyone who sees it. Also, his suit is deliberately designed to be cute, as a means of distracting people so he can steal from them.

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