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When characters are mistaken for the beings of another world. If you [[Time Travel|travel through time]] (especially to the mid-20th century or thereabouts) or are an astronaut, this will probably happen to you at least once.
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== [[Anime]] ==
* [[The Cutie|Rena]] from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' mistook her friends for aliens in "The Atonement" chapter. {{spoiler|Of course, she was at best, at lv.4 [[Hate Plague|Hinamizawa Syndrome]]}}
* One episode of ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' had Honey's younger brother Yasuchika accuse him of being an alien simply because he eats three cakes at once ''in less than a second'' once a week.
* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' helps an actress who has fallen for a male lead who is obsessed with anime features, and wants to star opposite him in live-action adaptations. She insists on ever more extensive surgery but fails to take Fran's advice at the hazards in her rush to bed the actor, and cosmetically falls to pieces. He flees in terror, then goes on so many talk shows raving about Grays trying to abduct him that he doesn't get any more roles.
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== Literature ==
* In [[Spider Robinson]]'s ''The Free Lunch'', when the protagonists notice that there's something very odd about some of the attendees at the theme park where they live, their initial deduction is aliens. [[Author Appeal|This being Spider Robinson]], however, they're actually time travellers.
* ''Take Me to Your President'' by Leonard Wibberley was about a fellow nicknamed "A-1" from a small British town called Mars, who accidentally got loaded into an experimental rocket. When it landed somewhere other than it was expected to, and he came out wearing the space suit he'd found and saying he was from Mars, well....
* In Amy Thomson's ''The Color Of Distance'' has the protagonist, Dr. Juna Saari, spend five years among the alien Tendu, who give her a moist color-changing skin and internal linings that keep her hair from growing and let her breathe particulates and eat foods which she'd normally be lethally allergic to. When humanity comes back to pick her up, the first contact is with a suited man who thinks she's one of the Tendu, and she plays along for a bit before saying "I believe the line is 'Dr. Livingston, I presume?'"
* A long-running plot point of ''[[Animorphs]]''. The Yeerks thought the kids were Andalites.
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* In ''[[The Addams Family]]'', the Addams are mistaken for aliens by the military, who approach them claiming to wish peace and asking them lots of questions. As a consequence, The Addams believe the army men are aliens as well (because of their green wardrobe).
* [[Stargate SG-1|SG-1]] deliberately invokes this when they're stranded in 1969, presumably figuring that it's a quicker explanation than the actual one.
** Quicker, maybe, but the main reason was to avoid paradox. (Although that didn't stop Jack from going by the names of fictional characters, some of whom already existed and others didn't, but [[Rule of Funny|who cares]]? They didn't want to [[Butterfly of Doom|endanger the Stargate program by accident]].
* Averted in the TV Show, ''Community''. Abed plans to 'mess with' Troy by using the classic sitcom set up for this, except that he didn't fool Troy for a second.
* Done in the ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "Countrycide", where the team thinks that some aliens are responsible for disappearances and attacks. Turns out, it's a bunch of [[I Am a Humanitarian|humanitarians]].
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* The ''[[Hey Arnold!]]!'' Halloween episode. Also doubles as a [[Parody Episode]] due to all the ''[[Orson Welles]]'' references.
* In ''The Santa Claus Brothers'', one of the elves is mistaken for an alien.
* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space", the people of Australia thought Marvin was an alien. To be fair, he ''did'' emerge from a spaceship.
* An episode of [[Gargoyles]] has an actual alien think the title characters are also aliens.
* [[Invader Zim]] has an unfinished episode where Zim tricks Dib into thinking Poonchy, Drinker of Hate was an Irken Invader. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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