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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
* 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]] ==
* The [[
== [[Film]] ==
* Midway in the ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
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'''Mario''': Luigi, ''we're'' the aliens!
'''Luigi''': We are? '''Cool!''' }}
* In ''[[Back to The Future]]'', the DeLorean [[Time Machine]] was mistaken for a UFO in 1955 due to its gull-wing doors. The fact that Marty was wearing a radiation suit at the time didn't help.
** He turns it to his advantage later, when he orders his father [[Aliens Made Them Do It|to hook up with his mother]].
* Grand Fenwick's chainmail-clad longbowmen successfully invade 1950s New York City in ''[[
== 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 ''[[
== [[Live
* "Tomorrow is Yesterday" from ''[[Star Trek:
** 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
* 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 ''[[
* ''[[Stargate
** 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 ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
*
* ''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]", got it understandably wrong and glimpsed another succubus - in the natural form, with horns and tail. From that moment on, Naomi was inclined to see any weird (and some ''not'' weird) stuff that [[Weirdness Magnet|tend to happen around Teddy]] as [[Wrong Genre Savvy|more proof that he is a shapeshifting alien]]. Then she overheard him saying "{{spoiler|I'm just not used to being around human girls}}" in an aside conversation with a succubus. Then an angel Prudence drops in ([[Living Crashpad|literally]]), and since wings and halo are [[Invisible to Normals]], Naomi mistakes her for [[Alien Abduction|an abductee]] - talking about it in euphemisms ("from up there?") [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations|doesn't help to clear the situation]]. And since Prudy is [[Genki Girl|excitably ditzy]] and forbidden from revealing herself to humans in the first place (besides, the last time it happened, it ended in a lot of headache for her), she does not take steps to disabuse her friend of this notion.
** 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]] ==
* During the episode "Mush-Rumors" of ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3]]'', a human family ends up driving into the Mushroom Kingdom by accident and are called aliens by one of the Toads, which then gets spread and exaggerated to the point where Bowser thinks they're an alien invasion force in disguise. The fact that they look not-unlike the human Mario and Luigi never comes up.
* There's a ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode (''[[The X-Files]]'' crossover) where Mr Burns is mistaken for an alien from the results of the various dubious medical treatments he undergoes and glowing green in the dark, a side-effect of working at the nuclear power plant.
* ''[[
* An episode of ''The Mask'' animated series featured a government agent and a scientist mistaking The Mask for a hostile alien due to a series of coincidences (not that it's hard to mistake him as such in the first place...)
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* Inverted and played straight in one episode of ''Viva Pinata''. Fergie Fudgehog is conned onto going onto a defective rocket ship that crashes. When he comes out, his foggy helmet makes his friends look like aliens to him, and it makes him look like an alien to his friends! Needless to say, [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* 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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