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== Anime and Manga ==
* The eponymous character from ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]''.
== Film ==
* Ellie Arroway from ''[[Contact]]'', both the book and the movie - at least when it comes to the ''idea'' of aliens and how to make contact with them.
* Several main characters in ''[[Avatar]]'' are this to some degree.
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== Literature ==
* Bren Cameron of [[C. J. Cherryh]]'s ''[[Foreigner (novel)|Foreigner]]'' series of books. Meant to be an envoy/translator from the human government to the native aliens, he essentially defects to the alien side.
* Arguably, the Pevensie siblings from ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' become this.
** Considering they number MANY nonhumans as friends, it's definite.
* Willis E. Davidge, from Barry Longyear's ''
* 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.
== Live Action TV ==
* 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.
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== [[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.
** However, she says that pro-human does not necessarily mean anti-alien
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