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It's something that tends to happen with particularly advanced mentor-like alien species, [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Sufficiently Advanced]] [[Ancient Astronauts]] and the like. You don't want to be something as uninspiring as a [[Rubber Forehead Alien]] nor something as unphysical as an [[Energy Being]] while also maintaining some sense of secrecy and wonderment, so you take the "astronaut" idea and run with it. The aliens end up wearing large all-enclosing hazmat-like encounter suits that shield their frail physical butts from the elements.
The great thing is that because you don't know what their encounter-suited butts look like, they could be anything! The variety of abnormal suit shapes that can be worn by a performer is also greater than the variety possible with rubber faces. [[People in Rubber Suits]] still need the full detail and design of a whole new species, while this trope leaves things to the imagination. A permanent life in an encounter suit can also be justified a lot more than [[Humanoid Alien
May overlap at times with [[Mobile Suit Human]] if the "can" is human shaped. Contrast with [[Exposed Extraterrestrials]].
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** You can just barely see hints of Tali's face through her helmet.. but they're so vague that they do little more than establish that it has a human-like configuration.
* The Unggoy (aka Grunts) from ''[[Halo]]''. They are most often seen with [[Gas Mask Mooks|masks on]], large tanks on their backs. (They breathe methane on their home planet, and carry it with them much like divers and astronauts.) Some higher-ranking Grunts may also have other armor on in addition to the methane tank, or the tank and mask may look different (as with the Heretic Grunts.)
* The Meklar from ''[[Master of Orion]]'' were originally this. As the series progressed, they gradually became [[Cyborg
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