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These Human/Rubber-Forehead Aliens are tall, willowy and graceful — and incredibly beautiful to humans. Bonus points if they glow, are made out of Pure Energy, or have some kind of ethereal quality.
They are distinct from Space Elves insofar as Space Elves are defined more by their personality (uptight and academic) and superiority complex than their appearance. The chief characteristics of the Space Angel are its beauty and grace, and it is not uncommon for them to be silent, adding to the high-class feel. (If they do talk, expect their voices to also be incredibly beautiful, as well as resonant.) Radiant and glowing, these beings leave humans awestruck and may prompt more superstitious characters to actually compare them to angels. If the appearance or abilities of the Space Angels validate traditional depictions of angels, it may be a case of Ancient Astronauts.
Their clothing will likely be composed of elaborate flowing robes, but it is just as common for Space Angels, particularly Energy Beings, to not wear them. This can be for any one of a number of reasons: They may be agender (or at least appear that way); they may lack clothing taboos; or their "clothes" might appear to be integrated into their bodies. There is a high chance that a Space Angel will have jellyfish-like frills and/or tendrils, likely as a form of Alien Hair.
They are likely to have advanced technology, telepathy, empathy and other hallmarks of Sufficiently Advanced Aliens and may indicate a race of Rubber-Forehead Aliens that has reached the apex of technological advancement or Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence.
The facial forms of Space Angels are likely to evoke The Greys (large eyes, small or no nose, small mouth), possibly due to the visual and mythological links between aliens, angels, and elves/fairies. However, unlike the Greys, Space Angels are normally kind, gentle beings who are friendly to humans, though they are sometimes depicted as unknowable, with morals and motives above and beyond our understanding.
Not to be confused with the 1960s animated series Space Angel, whose title character is a Captain Space, Defender of Earth! type; or with Casper and the Angels, where the "angels" in question are a pair of female space cops.
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Adventure Time: One of the background characters is literally referred to as Space Angel Princess. Presumably she rules a kingdom of others like herself.
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Doom Eternal has the Makyrs, a race of aliens who look like cybernetic angels worshiped as gods by the civilization of Argent D'Nur. Despite this, they're in league with Hell, aiding them in their conquest in exchange for power and underneath their armor their true appearances are fairly monstrous.
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Homo Sol: With over two hundred different Humanoid Aliens in the galaxy, some are beautiful to the people of Earth. The alien psychologists recognise the similarities between our mythological deities and utilize this to facilitate a God Guise.
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The Simpsons: Subverted in "The Springfield Files". Homer sees in the woods what appears to be a glowing, smiling Grey saying, "I bring you peace" and "I bring you love." It turns out to be Mr. Burns, disoriented and high after a medical treatment "to cheat death," with the glow coming from his exposure to nuclear plant radiation.
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Time Masters: The people of Gamma 10 are faceless angels, controlled by an Eldritch Abomination that assimilate people into more of themselves.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): The Aeons possess various similarities to the image of angels, notably their wings. When corrupted, they take on demon-like characteristics.
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "The Beholder", Kyra, who lives on a different plane of existence, is a beautiful young woman with an ethereal, angelic appearance.
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Star Trek: Discovery: The Red Angel was thought to be one but turned out to be a time traveling human in Powered Armor.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The angels were genetically engineered by a race of alien precursors. They don't actually look like (humanoid or otherwise) angels, they just get their individual and collective names from them.
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Torchwood: The Arcateenians◊ are telepathic Energy Beings with the ability to take human form. The one in "Greeks Bearing Gifts" turns out to be hostile, killing humans in order to maintain her disguise, making her a malicious example of a Space Angel.
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Earth: Final Conflict: The Taelons are tall, bald, and graceful. They also go translucent when experiencing strong emotions. In season 1, they certainly do their best to portray benevolent visitors from the stars, and members of the Church of the Companions believe them to be angels, drawing them with halos around their heads. It's revealed that the reverend of the church is secretly working for the Taelons.
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A.I.: Artificial Intelligence: The alien-looking Future Mechas at the end, although slightly humanoid, have elongated arms, slender bodies and bioluminescent skin.
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Flash Gordon: The Hawkmen are Winged Humanoids that drew criticism from religious groups with accusations of blasphemy.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Angels are native to Milius Prime, a moon of the planet Iego. First mentioned in The Phantom Menace by a young Anakin Skywalker, who says they are the "most beautiful creatures in the universe", they were later depicted in the installment as tall, glowing humanoids with butterfly-like wings.
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Green Lantern: Havanians are a humanoid alien species notable for their angelic wings and beautiful appearance, the princess Bleez having once been labeled the most beautiful women in Seven Systems. When she was taken by a member of the Sinestro Corps, raped, tortured and had her wings torn off, she became a member of the Red Lantern Corps, where she was given a new set of skeletal wings and a more demonic appearance.
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Childhood's End: Inverted with the Big Red Devil look of the aliens. It's explained that the idea of the red devil is actually a sort of reverse species memory.
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The Space Trilogy: The sorns of Malacandra are incredibly tall beasts that Ransom comes to appreciate as beings of such intelligence and grace as the great titans and angels. Of course, the Trilogy also includes the "eldila" and "oyarsas" — Energy Beings who are, apparently, literal angels.
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The Sarah Jane Adventures: Another member of the angelic Arcateenians is shown in the first episode. This one seems benevolent, and is thus a more straight example of the trope.
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Sword of the Stars: Male Morrigi project a psionic illusion that makes viewers see them as an attractive male of their own species with wings, and are explicitly stated to have inspired myths of angels on earth (along with a host of Trickster God legends). Their actual appearance is a three-meter long feathered serpent with eight limbs, and females are up to six meters and inspired myths of dragons.
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Attack of the Clones: The Kaminoans◊ are a hybrid of Space Angels and The Greys. They dwell on the ocean world of Kamino and possess advanced cloning technology. They are peaceful and polite, although they unwittingly provide the Sith with the clone army that would later form the foundation for the army of the Galactic Empire, and their grace is shown in long necks, slow speech, narrow robes, and desaturated colors.
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Masters of Horror. It is revealed at the end of "The Screwfly Solution" that the human extinction was engineered by this type of alien◊. The last surviving woman encounters them while fleeing from hunters in the woods. They kill by shooting jets of fire from their hands in a manner similar to a Bible passage quoted by a hunter, and are referred to throughout the segment as "angels". Although they appear to be hostile to humans, it's implied that they decided to wipe humans out as punishment for their immoral nature.
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Wild CATS Wild Storm: In the backstory, some Kherubim and their rivals, the Daemonites crash landed on Earth. They inspired humanity's legends of gods, angels, demons and monsters.
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The Abyss: The aliens inhabiting the eponymous abyss,◊ who are an aquatic version of this. They are able to manipulate water and are, for the most part, benign and pacifistic, protecting the lives of humans on multiple occasions. However, they show themselves as a species not to be messed with when they threaten to annihilate human civilization with massive tidal waves if they don't cease their warlike ways.
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Futurama: Subverted in The Beast with a Billion Backs. The beautiful, otherworldly angels are just non-sentient birds that clean the surface of the extradimensional beast Yivo.
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Daimos: The Baam are reminiscent of the painterly Renaissance depiction of angels in Christianity. Their religion is quite reminiscent of Christianity as well.
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Ultra Series: A few of the heroes have this appearance mixed with that of a standard Super Hero, such as Ultraman Nexus's final form Ultraman Noa, Ultraman X's final fusion form, and Ultraman Zero's Ultimate Aegis.
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Strike Legion: The Serrans, sort of. They're a hyperintelligent genetically engineered species resembling angels, and they were created by the God-Empress of Mankind to function as a Slave Race along with several other created species.
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Priscilla Hutchins: In Chindi, a human expedition lands on a newly discovered planet and tries to establish First Contact with the incredibly beautiful winged humanoids who populate it. They seem peaceful at first, but then suddenly attack without provocation. Fortunately, Hutch is carrying an improvised Ray Gun and is able to drive them off, though not without losses on their side. An epilogue notes that further studies have shown the aliens are generally peaceful, and it's theorized that they assumed the humans were their equivalent of demons, who are without wings in their religion.
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Doctor Who:
"The Mutants": An alien race's life cycle includes a phase where they become angelic energy beings◊ that glow in a rainbow of colors and are dressed in flowing robes (which somehow appear as part of the metamorphosis from the previous physical form).
The Weeping Angels are a subversion. They are stone creatures that look like angel statues, but are among the most dangerous and evil creatures in the universe.
The Sarah Jane Adventures: Another member of the angelic Arcateenians is shown in the first episode. This one seems benevolent, and is thus a more straight example of the trope.
Torchwood: The Arcateenians◊ are telepathic Energy Beings with the ability to take human form. The one in "Greeks Bearing Gifts" turns out to be hostile, killing humans in order to maintain her disguise, making her a malicious example of a Space Angel.
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Battlestar Galactica (1978): The people of the Ship of Lights are this pretty explicitly, and are apparently connected to The Powers That Be.
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: The guardians of God's last message look like angels with green wings and gold beards.
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Knowing: The aliens combine this with Energy Beings. They have wings and are glowing and kind of see-through.
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Mission to Mars: Unlike most Space Angels, the Martians of this film are depicted as tall, Grey-looking beings with a bright, orange skin and blue eyes.
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Babylon 5: The Vorlons appear as angels to humans and the equivalent to other species. It's part of their grooming us to fight a proxy war against the Shadows.
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Catherine:
The Archangel that challenges Vincent in Catherine: Full Body turns out to be a load of tiny pink aliens clumped together in Winged Humanoid armour. Their race has been visiting Earth, guiding humanity and performing miracles while being mistaken for angels.
The Archangels' younger brother, Qatherine/"Rin", has small feathered wings printed on his clothing, and is hinted to drop real feathers in his wake.
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