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== [[Film]] ==
* In the book of the film for ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'', humans are called "terries". (At least by Edgar the bug, so it's likely a derogatory derivative of "terran".)
== [[Literature]] ==
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* [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s stories referred to our planet as both Earth and Terra. He also used the alternate name Tellus.
* [[Poul Anderson]]'s [[Technic History]]: The ''Dominic Flandry'' stories refer to Terra and the Terran (or sometimes Terrestrial) Empire.
* An odd inversion is that Edmond Hamilton's ''Starwolf'' trilogy always speaks of humans as Earthmen, but the back-cover blurb describes the main character as a Terran.
* [[Keith Laumer]]'s ''[[Retief]]'' stories frequently use the abbreviated "Terry" for Terrestrial. There's no sense of it being derogatory, as the Terries use it themselves often enough.
* In [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Line of Delirium]]'' trilogy, Earth is renamed Terra and serves as the capital of the [[The Empire|Human Empire]].
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* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Mirror Universe]] has the Terran Empire (until it collapses, at least). The main universe occasionally also refers to our solar system as the Terran System (though it's more frequently known as the Sol system or Sector 001).
** Spock was asked in one Original Series episode if he was "Terran or Vulcan."
* ''[[Blake's
* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' it was mentioned once that the [[Precursors|Ancients]] called earth Terra, of course, [[Justified Trope|Latin is derived from their language]].
** Though most of the time the Goa'uld word, Tau'ri, is used for humans from earth.
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