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** Then again, contemporary Earth in the Marvel Universe [[Subverted Trope|doesn't usually ''need'' to bluff the advance scout]] -- something noted in an issue of ''[[X-Men]]'' where an alien invasion is called off after one of the leaders gets a summary on Earth's recent history, and reads, with increasing horror, "Homeworld of the current Sorcerer Supreme? Executed the Kree Supreme Intelligence? Has repelled Galactus ''four times in the last ten years''? All ships halt! Reverse course!"
* In one issue of ''[[Exiles]]'', the omniscient whatever-it-is that commands the Exiles sets up a chain of events that ends with some minor supervillain, feeling unappreciated, setting off a weapon that fills the Earth's atmosphere with foul-smelling gases for 72 hours. All because the omniscient whatever-it-is has foreseen that during those 72 hours an alien invasion fleet will arrive, scan the planet, and decide to move on to somewhere with a nicer atmosphere.
* A fairly recent{{when}} ''[[Mickey Mouse]]'' story had the mouse and his sidekick, Goofy, visiting an archaeologist-friend at Abu Simpel in Egypt, when they're abducted by [[Ancient Astronauts]] - specifically, the old
* ''[[Donald Duck]]'': One story has Scrooge McDuck make a bunch of money by producing and selling semi-sentient 'growing' cars to people. Things are already falling
* In the ''[[XXXenophile]]'' story "My Favorite Oitling", the human explorer convinces the Martian warrior women that the huge suit of power armour that arrives to rescue him is a typical Earth female and so Earth will be too tough to invade.
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