Amusing Alien: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==

* Mokona from ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'', until {{spoiler|it's revealed that he's actually the creator of both Cephiro and Earth.}}

* A good deal of the cast in ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]''

 

** [[Alien Scrappy|Jar-Jar Binks]] and [[Brian Blessed|Boss Nass]] from ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Phantom Menace]]''.

** Greedo from ''[[Star Wars]]: [[A New Hope]]''. Note that he wasn't ''trying'' to be funny, but his only purpose in the film was to be a punchline for Han Solo.

* Gimli the Dwarf in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' live-action movies.

* Bubo the mechanical owl from the original ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' was this from time to time.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* An entire species of Amusing Aliens: [[Hoka|the Hokas]].

* An hilariously out-of-the-ordinary example of this trope occurs in [[Diane Duane]]'s [[Young Wizards]] novel ''Wizard's Holiday'', when Dairine attempts to lead her three alien wizard guests on a trip to the mall. Considering that one of them is a tree, one a giant centipede, and the third a sun prince who looks like an anime character, you can guess what kinds of [[Amusing Alien]] antics will happen.

** Sometimes Ax falls into this trope, though he isn't exclusively it.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* [[Mork and Mindy|Mork from Ork]], probably the [[Trope Codifier]] and best example.

* [[Saturday Night Live|The Coneheads]]

** Along with their Supreme Leader, the Big Giant Head (as portrayed by [[William Shatner]]).

* All the eponymous ''Aliens In The Family''.

* V.I.C.I. from ''[[Small Wonder]]''.

* Alpha 5 from ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''.

** ''Double'' subverted by the Pakleds, actually: {{spoiler|1=they're bright enough to steal technology and kidnap Geordi LaForge but not bright enough to actually ''use'' their stolen technology without the help of a kidnapped engineer...nor to see through the technobabble and bad acting the Enterprise crew uses to effect a rescue.}}

** And they ''are'' slow - just not ''quite'' as much as people tend to think

* Twiki from ''[[Buck Rogers in The 25th Century]]''.

* George Sunday/Thermoman from ''[[My Hero (TV)]]''.

* Brian and Sophie Johnson, the titular parents of ''[[My Parents Are Aliens]]''.

* Tom Servo and Crow from ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' (and Gypsy when she isn't running the ship).

* ''[[Mister Ed|Mr. Ed]]''

* Sheldon Cooper from ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' is an ''Earthling'' example.

* Dex, also known as the ''[[Masked Rider]]'', has traces of this at times. In one example would be that his race, Eltarians, derive from insects instead of apes. Now guess what he answered on an Earth biology test on the subject of human origins…

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Hans the winged pig in ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]''.

* Almost all of the [[You No Take Candle|vorcha]] from [[Mass Effect]] 2.

== [[Web Original]] ==

* [[Agamemnon Tiberius Vacuum]] and the Vacuum Consortium. SUBMIT WILLINGLY!

* Bob of [[Olan Rogers|New Prime]]

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Mr. Mxyzptlk from the [[DCAU]], appropriately [[Actor Allusion|voiced by ]] [[Gilbert Gottfried]].

** Stitch himself is also [[Comedic Sociopathy|a good example]].

** As well as his older cousin 625, who's entire existence is mostly based around sandwiches and [[Deadpan Snarker|Deadpan Snarking]].

* ''[[Invader Zim]]''

** She drinks mustard as if it were soda and...

** Confuses the familiarity levels of social greetings and...

** Misinterprets Earth Slang ("You diggin' the scene?" "I... did not know we were supposed to bring shovels!") and...

** is allergic to chromium (The reaction is [[Power Incontinence|sneezing star-bolts]]).

 

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