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It's something that tends to happen with particularly advanced mentor-like alien species, [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Sufficiently Advanced]] [[Ancient Astronauts]] and the like. You don't want to be something as uninspiring as a [[Rubber Forehead Alien]] nor something as unphysical as an [[Energy Being]] while also maintaining some sense of secrecy and wonderment, so you take the "astronaut" idea and run with it. The aliens end up wearing large all-enclosing hazmat-like encounter suits that shield their frail physical butts from the elements. |
It's something that tends to happen with particularly advanced mentor-like alien species, [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Sufficiently Advanced]] [[Ancient Astronauts]] and the like. You don't want to be something as uninspiring as a [[Rubber Forehead Alien]] nor something as unphysical as an [[Energy Being]] while also maintaining some sense of secrecy and wonderment, so you take the "astronaut" idea and run with it. The aliens end up wearing large all-enclosing hazmat-like encounter suits that shield their frail physical butts from the elements. |
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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]]: 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. |
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]]: 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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May overlap at times with [[Mobile Suit Human]] if the "can" is human shaped. Contrast with [[Exposed Extraterrestrials]]. |
May overlap at times with [[Mobile Suit Human]] if the "can" is human shaped. Contrast with [[Exposed Extraterrestrials]]. |
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== Tabletop Games == |
== Tabletop Games == |
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* Most Tau warriors from ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', 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. |
* Most Tau warriors from ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', 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. |
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** Also, [[Funetik Aksent|Ork Killa Kanz]], which are literally [[Our Goblins Are |
** Also, [[Funetik Aksent|Ork Killa Kanz]], which are literally [[Our Goblins Are Wickeder|little green men]] in [[Tin Can Robot|cans]]. |
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== Video Games == |
== Video Games == |
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