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== [[Film]] ==
* In the book of the film for ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|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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* The ''Saga of the Seven Suns'' series has the Terran Hanseatic League.
* Most of [[Andre Norton]]'s science fiction stories.
* [[EEE. 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 (Literature)|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]].
* "Terra" and "Terrans" are used throughout [[H. Beam Piper]]'s "Terro-Human Future History".
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** Spock was asked in one Original Series episode if he was "Terran or Vulcan."
* ''[[Blake's Seven|Blakes Seven]] '' has a Terran Federation.
* 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.
*** "Tau'ri" (lit. "The First World") is the name for Earth itself. Humans from Earth were originally referred to as "Humans of the Tau'ri," and was eventually shortened to just "Tau-ri" for the sake of brevity.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The ''[[Battle TechBattleTech]]'' universe has the Terran Hegemony.
* ''Renegade Legion'' has an imperial government known as the Terran Overlord Government.
* Holy Terra is the homeworld of the Imperium of Man in the ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' universe.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[X (Videovideo Gamegame)|X3]]: Terran Conflict'', the humans in the Sol system are referred to as "Terrans", but the planet is still called Earth.
* The Galactic Terran Aliance from ''[[Free Space]]''. Earth is still Earth, however.
** In the sequel, two sides use Terran in their name: the Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance (composed of humans and Vasudans) and the Neo-Terran Front (composed of anti-Vasudan human radicals, with a vision of 'Neo-Terra' as an utopia for humans).
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** And they're referred to as humans instead of terrans reasonably often.
** Starcraft is actually a weird case of this, as the terrans are the humans not associated with earth. The people from earth still call themselves humans.
* ''[[Wing Commander (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]]'' has the Terran Confederation, with "Terrans" occasionally being used by non-human races to refer to the speciess originating from Sol III.
* In the ''[[Unreal|Unrealverse]]'', the Skaarj call humans Terrans.
* ''[[Planet SidePlanetSide]]'' has the Terran Republic.
* The main race in the sequel to ''[[Galactic Civilizations]]'' is the Terran Alliance.
* ''Rock 'n Roll Racing'' refers to Snake Sanders' home planet (very blatantly Earth-like) as Terra.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' the setting is usually called "Gaia" (Greek for Earth) but in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' the plot's impetus is an invasion by another planet known as Terra.
* The ''Battle Opera Gunmech'' universe has the Terran Alliance.
* ''[[Adventure Quest (Video Game)|Adventure Quest]]''.
* Used in the ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' series. Earth and Terra are separate planets, and one of the inhabitants of Terra believes Earth to be a copy of it.
* In ''[[Mass Effect (Video Game)|Mass Effect]]'', the Star of Terra is one of the Systems Alliance's highest military decorations.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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