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== Anime and Manga ==

* The eponymous character from ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]''.

 

== Film ==

* Several main characters in ''[[Avatar]]'' are this to some degree.

* In ''[[Enemy Mine (film)|Enemy Mine]]'', a human and a Drac pilot who are on opposites sides of an space war learn to set aside their racial and political differences to survive on a hostile planet. They start out trying to kill each other, but become good friends.

 

== Literature ==

* A few different characters in [[Larry Niven]]'s ''Known Space'' books. Beowulf Schaeffer and Louis Wu come to mind. At least one of them explicitly referred to himself as a xenophile.

 

* Many of [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]]'s companions seem to end up like this, so caught up with time travel they don't want to go back to their own time.

* Daniel Jackson of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', seemingly much more at home interacting with the many different cultures and races he's met through the Stargate than he ever is on Earth. He is an anthropologist, after all.

** Sisko meanwhile seems to love Bajoran culture to the point that he decides to build a house there.

 

* "Xenophilia" is one of the possible disadvantages in ''[[GURPS]]'' (applying to anyone exotic, not just nonhumans). It's a disadvantage because it makes you trust potentially nasty creatures more than you should.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'': this is something the Inquisition works very hard to avert. Many citizens are attracted to the Tau's "Greater good" philosophy and occasionally less brutal treatment of its own citizens, while a very small amount of the Adeptus Mechanicus consider the Necrons holy warriors (it doesn't help that the Omnissiah is possibly the Necron's own omnicidal deity).

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Yeoman Kelly Chambers in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' is thoroughly fascinated by all aliens, which is rather untypical for a member of the pro-human extremist organization Cerberus.

* In ''[[Galactic Civilizations]] II'', when culture suddenly booms it's credited to/blamed on the Xenophiles (Depending on whether your planets are deep in someone else's territory, or theirs are in yours)

 

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