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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.
Yet another variant of [[
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[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.
* A running gag in ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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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.
== [[Live
* "Tomorrow is Yesterday" from ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''.
** Well ... their starship is recognized as a UFO by a fighter pilot, so they pick him up with their transporter (Spock's pointed ears are a shock to him, but he adapts much better than the other guy they pick up later in the episode), then Kirk and Sulu have to go down to an Air Force base, and Kirk gets captured by the military - who don't believe him when he says he's from outer space.
* The ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' episode [https://web.archive.org/web/20080603222015/http://www.tv.com/i-dream-of-jeannie/u-f-oh-jeannie/episode/252763/summary.html?tag=reviews;episode;2 "U-F-Oh Jeannie"], where Tony was mistaken for a Martian by a group of rednecks in the [[Deep South]].
* In ''[[Kyle XY]]'', Josh Trager claims, half-jokingly, that Kyle is an alien. (In fact he's an experimental clone with psychic powers.) Two years later, when Kyle finally reveals his history to the Tragers, he comments that Josh's guess may have been the closest to the truth.
* In the ''[[Lost in Space]]'' episode "Visit to a Hostile Planet", the Robinsons go back through time to 1947 and are mistaken for aliens when they land on Earth.
* 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
** 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
* 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]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' played straight and then subverted it, in [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20070717.html this] strip .
* ''Dangerously Chloe'' got the male lead replaced with a shapeshifting [[Succubus]] when he caught some fever and had to miss the school on a test day. The ensuing weirdness was noticed by a curious student who then tried to date Teddy to find out what's going on. Then she overheard Teddy's "cousin" saying "[http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/the_wedding_date a normal human date]"
** This gradually moves toward [[Flat Earth Atheist]] level, as Naomi persists in this heresy even after {{spoiler|visiting [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]}}.
* ''[[The Unspeakable Vault of Doom]]'' had an investigator of "[[Alien Abduction]]s" who [http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/173/ learned] what happened faster than he expected, but still too late.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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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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