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== [[Anime]] ==

* 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.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

== [[Film]] ==

{{quote| '''Luigi''': Aliens? Now we gotta deal with aliens too?<br />

'''Mario''': Luigi, ''we're'' the aliens!<br />

* 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]].

 

== Literature ==

* ''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?'"

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* 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.

** 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.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* 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...)

{{quote| '''Agent''': Hmm...Subject has green skin. Imagine! Just like in the funny papers!}}