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''now they're here again, with a simple claim''
''Alien, Alien attack''
''They. Want. Their. Planet. Back."''
|'''[[S.P.O.C.K]]''', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}sHzXZWJIsJc ''Alien Attack'']}}
The [[
Contrast [[Earth All Along]], which includes a reversal of this trope: human spacefarers encounter a strange planet with strange lifeforms. It turns out that a lot of time has passed, and this strange planet is actually Earth. Thus, the visiting human protagonists are actually [[Aliens From Earth]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The Atlanteans in ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]].''
* The Olmecs in ''[[The Mysterious Cities of Gold]].''
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* The title nasty in the [[Gorn]]-filled [[Hentai]] OVA series ''[[Demon Beast Invasion]]''; numerous [[retcon]]s gradually transformed it from an advance scout for his race to a transdimensional [[Cosmic Horror]].
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* [[The Reveal]] in the ''
* [[Marvel Comics]] has the Eternals, the Deviants, and the Inhumans, all different groups who were genetically modified by aliens, long ago. Also the Sub-Mariner's [[Atlantis]].
** Lost lands of this type were also a staple of the company's [[Kaiju|"giant monster"]] and science fiction stories in the 50's, although not all of those stories are still considered canon in the Marvel Universe.
* The [[DC Universe]] has Paradise Island/Themyscira, home of [[Wonder Woman|the Amazons]]; Gorilla City, home of gorillas [[Touched by Vorlons|genetically enhanced by aliens]]; and [[Aquaman]]'s [[Atlantis]]. [[The Warlord]]'s land of Skartaris ''used'' to count, being a [[Hollow World]], but then got retconned as being a ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]''-style [[Alternate Universe]].
** According to one story from ''[[Arion Lord Of Atlantis]]'', at least one alien race is descended from Atlantean space explorers. This ''might'' be an explanation for why there are so many [[Human Aliens|human-looking alien races]] in the [[DC Universe]].
* ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'' LIVES on this trope. Digging up artifacts from such civilizations is the whole point of Gina's character.
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* The dolphins in ''[[The Illuminatus Trilogy]]''.
* In [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''Acorna'' series, the eponymous character is a member of a humanoid race of unicorns, [[Interspecies Romance|descended from]] more traditional equine unicorns and the [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] who rescued them from being hunted to extinction on Earth in the middle ages.
* [[Ken MacLeod]]'s ''[[Cosmonaut Keep]]'' series is set in the Second Sphere, an area of space colonized by successive waves of intelligent Earth-evolved life forms, starting with hyperintelligent giant squid, and uplifted dinosaurs. Who fly around in saucers and happen to look a lot like [[The Grays|grays]].
* A staple of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s ''[[Cthulhu Mythos]]''. [[Fish People|Deep Ones]], [[Our Ghouls Are Different|Ghouls]], [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Sand Dwellers]] are all roughly humanoid and presumably originated on Earth; the Cthonians could also possibly be of terrestrial origins, but their being full-fledged [[Eldritch Abomination]]s makes this hard to determine. The [[Starfish Alien|Great Race]] is actually a subversion, as while their ''host bodies'' originated on Earth, the ''possessing intelligences'' that are the actual Great Race projected themselves through time and space from elsewhere and -when.
== Live Action TV ==
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** The revived series does a purer form of this trope with the Silence, {{spoiler|who have secretly ruled Earth "since the wheel and the fire"}}, but always went unnoticed due to the fact that you forget their existence as soon as they leave your field of vision.
* Gary Seven, from the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Assignment: Earth", was from a race of humans raised on another planet, returned to Earth to guide human evolution.
* The aliens in ''[[The X-Files]]'' were actually ancient native Earth lifeforms that left for a few millennia and decided to come back. Much to their horror, they found that those pesky apes had built a civilization and replaced them—so they set out to re-colonize Earth, using the [[Government Conspiracy]] to aid them.
* ''[[Fringe]]'''s First People {{spoiler|are a subversion. They're actually contemporary humans using a time machine.}}
* The antagonists in the ''[[Ultra Seven]]'' episode "Envoy from Nonmalto".
== [[Music]] ==
* In the song "Alien Attack" (see
== Tabletop Games ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Leela from ''[[Futurama]]'' was introduced on the show as a cyclops alien. As the series progressed, it was revealed she was a human mutant born on Earth.
* ''[[South Park]]''{{'}}s Crab People.
{{quote|'''"Taste like crab, talk like people..."'''}}
* ''[[Stingray (1964 TV series)
* The title monsters from ''[[Inhumanoids]]'' as well as the Mutores.
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