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A formerly common depiction of aliens, now a [[Discredited Trope]]. They're green, they pilot [[Flying Saucer
Typically, they are either [[Alien Invasion|hostile]] or mysterious. If hostile, they will wield ray guns, [[Aliens Speaking English|speak English]], and will ask anyone they find to [[Take Me to Your Leader|take them to their leader]]. If mysterious, they will probably [[The Speechless|not speak]], or speak [[The Unintelligible|only in weird beeping noises]], possibly [[Alien Abduction|abduct people]], and then disappear quickly and mysteriously, leaving little trace.
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Since the Mariner and Viking probes of [[The Sixties]], they've been slowly replaced by [[The Greys]] in serious works. Basically done for comedy now.
See also [[Green
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Roswell Little Green Man]]''.
* The Skrulls in [[Marvel Comics]] started out as almost completely stereotypical little green men in the second issue of ''[[Fantastic Four]].'' They even arrived in a literal flying saucer, which Reed stored in the Baxter Building for years afterward. Decades of stories since then have fleshed them out a lot (and they're generally portrayed to be of human ''height'' these days, although one could argue that height is arbitrary for a race of [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shapeshifters]]), but when all's said and done, they're still [[Alien Invasion|invading alien]] green guys with "bug eyes" and ray guns.
* [[Superman]]'s enemy Brainiac started out as one of these. Later stories made him taller and revealed him to be an android, but he was still a green guy in a flying saucer for many years.
* [[Martian Manhunter]] isn't little, but he's certainly green, as well as being a literal Martian.
** Miss Martian is a subversion, in which being green is just [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|a form she's comfortable with]]; she's actually a White Martian, but chose [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|not to follow the murderous path of her brethren]].
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* The Aldebarans, from ''Fantastic Worlds #6'', are small, green and invade planets using small planetoids that they transformed into space fortresses.
* The Blyntzyns, from ''Amazing Adventures #4'', are small, green aliens that use androids to find the weaknesses of a civilization.
* Appeared in ''Herbie'' at least as background characters (standing on some asteroid, [http://41.media.tumblr.com/109f05d883c77153acb94c8262d96f6f/tumblr_nisy89vpxd1t3i99fo3_1280.jpg when] Loch Ness Monster flew by).
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Mars Attacks!]]
* The Arquillians from ''[[Men in Black (
* ''[[Spaced Invaders]]''
* Arguably, ''[[
* Yoda from ''[[Star Wars]]''.
** Rodians also qualify, as they have green skin, and their face resembles an insect. They even have attenae.
* In all three ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' films, there have been Pizza Planet toys who are short compared to most other toys. This would barely be enough to ''really'' qualify as an example of Little Green Men, if not for the fact that in ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'', their species is ''actually referred to'' as Little Green Men.
* ''Feeders'' and it's sequel feature [[Special Effects Failure|paper-maché]] Little Green Men who occasional venture to Earth for [[To Serve Man|a feeding frenzy]].
* In ''[[Contact (
* Most of the aliens from ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* 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.
* Parodied in [[Diane Duane]]'s ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel, ''Spock's World''
== [[Live
▲* 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.
** 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:
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'''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
== Toys ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Ariloulaleelay in ''[[Star Control]]'' games are green humanoids with ships shaped like saucers. In the background it is mentioned that they have visited Earth before and are responsible of UFO sightings and abductions.
* ''[[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
** The ''Mothership Zeta'' DLC shows he's not alone either.
* The point of the ''[[Kerbal Space Program
* ''[[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
** 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 ''[[
* The alien family in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Tooie]]''.
* ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' has Elgyem ([[Don't Explain the Joke|pronounced as "L-G-M", little green man]]), a little green psychic alien. [[Fun
** Despite that, the [[Mon]] itself is actually just as close in color to [[The Greys|gray]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''The Law of Purple'': Green technically counts as this until he hits a growth spurt that makes him not-so-little.
* Uryuoms from ''[[
== [[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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* The Irkens from ''[[Invader Zim]],'' the race which the title character belongs to.
* [[Great Gazoo]] from ''[[The Flintstones]]''
* The three-eyed toy aliens in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''. In the [[Spin
** I believe that was [[Retcon|Ret Conned]] into "Martians."
** Aliens that look much more like the traditional little green men did show up later. They find the humanoid body of a small head and large torso to be "grotesque".
* The [[Looney Tunes]] character "Marvin the Martian" probably qualifies.
** While he is little, he's also completely ''black.'' It's his ''helmet'' that's green.
* Morbo from ''[[Futurama]]'' certainly isn't little (he's about the size of a well built human), he has green skin and hates humanity.
** Kiff fits the bill for being small and green. However neither he, nor his species, has hostility towards humanity.
* ''[[Martin Mystery]]''
* [[
* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
▲== [[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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