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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''[[Take Me to Your Leader]].'' }}▼
▲''[[Take Me to Your Leader]].'' }}
A formerly common depiction of aliens, now a [[Discredited Trope]]. They're green, they pilot [[Flying Saucer]]s, and they're smaller than a human. The degree of "little" varies widely; they may be only a head or so shorter than people, or they may be small enough to pick up in one hand. They commonly have antennae.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Mars Attacks!]]
* The Arquillians from ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]''. Also a couple other races, in all likelihood.
* ''[[Spaced Invaders]]''
* Arguably, ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
* Yoda from ''[[Star Wars]]''.
** Rodians also qualify, as they have green skin, and their face resembles an insect. They even have attenae.
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* Frederic Brown's novel ''Martians Go Home!'' features an invasion of little green men who attack Earth not with saucers or rayguns, but with an ability to appear anywhere, immunity to all harm, and absolutely no tact. They refer to all male humans as "Mac", and all female humans as "Toots". In one (obvious) scene, a Martian pops in on a pair of newlyweds, and refuses to leave until he observes human mating practices.
* The Evil Gollarks in ''[[Murderous Maths]]''. Notice we said evil.
* The natives of the eponymous satellite of Earth in ''[[The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet]]'' by [[Eleanor Cameron]] are faintly greenish in hue when they get all the necessary nutrients in their diet. The cover to the first edition of the book makes the green hue even more pronounced.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==▼
* Parodied in [[Diane Duane]]'s ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel, ''Spock's World''—a tabloid newspaper reports that Spock's mother, Amanda, has married a little green man. (As a Vulcan, Sarek has green blood and a slightly green complexion.) Amanda tells reporters at a press conference, "There is nothing little about my husband." Even Sarek cracks up once the context is fully explained.
** Canon ''[[Star Trek]]'' has them, actually: they're not smaller than humans, but the Andorians are blue-green and have antennae, apparently as a nod to this trope.▼
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** An episode of ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' was named "Little Green Men" and featured Ferengi (who are not green, but smaller than humans) crashing in Roswell.
** Referenced in the ''[[Star Trek:
{{quote|'''Captain Christopher:''' I never have believed in little green men.
'''Spock:''' (deadpan) Neither have I. }}
* In the 1970's sci-fi TV series ''[[UFO]]'', the aliens' green look is shown to be from the oxygenated-fluid used to cushion their bodies during months of faster-than-light travel.
* The alien in
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* When pulsars were first discovered in [[The Sixties]], astronomers had no idea what they were. Some suggested that they represented intelligent life. The first few to be discovered were named LGM 1, LGM 2, etc. Eventually, they were discovered to be spinning neutron stars.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The grots from ''[[Warhammer 40,000
== Toys ==
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* ''[[Fallout]]'' 3 has a crashed flying saucer in which one of the best weapons in the game can be found near the corpse of a very small pilot. Only the head is visible, but yup—he's green.
** The ''Mothership Zeta'' DLC shows he's not alone either.
* The point of the ''[[Kerbal Space Program]]'' is to get three of these into space
* ''[[The Sims]] 2''. If you spend too much time looking through a telescope, you get abducted by these. If the sim is a male, they'll later have a [[Half-Human Hybrid]]. Only the [[Mister Seahorse|males have a kid,]] females just waste time in space.
** You can also put them in your neighborhoods. They're really just like any other Sims, except green. (They are, however, also the same size as "normal" Sims. Unless you use a mod or cheat to make them shorter.)
** They're really more green [[The Greys|Greys]] than little green men.
* Referred to in ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]!'' "I am not green!"
* The title character of ''[[Alien Hominid]]'', though, he is actually
* The Cor-Dems of ''[[Adventure Quest]]''.
* The alien family in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Tooie]]''.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* In the ''[http://www.8legged.com/ Deep Fried Live]'' episode "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120603123448/http://www.8legged.com/DeepFriedLive/DFL01_07.html Fleeb Cooks A Cow]", Chef Tako is kidnapped by an LGM who wants to learn... how to cook a cow. He's not hostile or mysterious, instead being rather friendly if a bit too fond of [[Anal Probing|probing]].
** The cook turns out to be less than friendly near the end, when he {{spoiler|tries to make Tako into a sidedish}}.
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* [[Zula Patrol]]: Bula.
* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky", Frink has a brief encounter with such an alien. There is also Ozmodiar, a parody of the Great Gazoo from ''[[The Flintstones]]''.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* When pulsars were first discovered in [[The Sixties]], astronomers had no idea what they were. Some suggested that they represented intelligent life. The first few to be discovered were named LGM 1, LGM 2, etc. Eventually, they were discovered to be spinning neutron stars.
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