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Rubber-Forehead Aliens

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Rubber-Forehead Aliens	comment	The tendency for several sci-fi alien species to merely be one or two facial features away from humanity. Sometimes they're not even that far away. They look totally human and sound human. In some cases, this may well be a disguise or A Form You Are Comfortable With, but in others this appears to be their natural appearance. See Human Aliens. You'd think that alien species would be radically different — insectoids, three-legged wombats, giant cats, etc. — but animal-cruelty laws tend to discourage fitting animals with prosthetics, and the effects budget only allows for latex and makeup, so we get humans with brow ridges, humans with extra nostrils, humans with Unusual Ears, humans with bony protrusions, and so on. (Of course, the makers of Star Wars found a way around this by building and operating startlingly lifelike puppets, making Humanoid Aliens and Starfish Aliens possible.) One odd consequence of this, however, is that in the Federation Council scenes in the Star Trek movies, you often see very strange, non-humanoid (or only partly humanoid) aliens, because the movies have the necessary additional budget for them. These additional races are, of course, never seen in the TV series at all. Similarly, written and animated adaptations and entries tend to showcase a wider variety as well. Gene Roddenberry gave more reasons for this in an interview once. Budget constraints aside, if you try to make aliens look completely alien, you'll firstly make them look ridiculous (cf. Doctor Who), and secondly make it doubly hard for the actor playing the alien to do anything mildly resembling acting. This has actually been isolated to extremely specific requirements: if an audience can't see an actor's eyes or mouth, their ability to empathize with or emotionally invest in that character is significantly impaired. If they can see neither, it's difficult to empathize with them at all. This is one reason why mooks, especially SF mooks like the Cylons or the Imperial Stormtroopers, are so often uniformed in face-obscuring helmets. While not totally undoable with the post TOS Star Trek budget, the flamboyant and outlandish alien designs of Star Wars appeal to a more pulp Space Opera aesthetic from which Star Trek has historically chosen to distance itself, at least onscreen; the expanded universe of comics and novels is a different beast. Additionally, Roddenberry had always insisted that Star Trek was about human issues and that the aliens are intended as vehicles for social commentary. This required aliens that may have been scientifically implausible (humanoid appearance, ability to communicate in English and emote like humans, etc) but easy for the human characters to interact with and the audience to relate to in the narrative. Trek fans may assume that the pure hard science fiction adventures and alien encounters occur offscreen (indeed, the animated shows tend to have even less humanoid aliens). The anime equivalent is the alien with Pointy Ears, colorful facial markings, chromatic skin tones (sometimes hair too, if humans are restricted to normal colors), or cutesy animal-like traits. A scientific explanation of this trope is the theory that most advanced alien species will look roughly similar to humans due to the theory that our physical layout is the most efficient one for an oxygen-breathing carbon-based life form. The next step past Rubber Forehead Aliens (catlike or buglike or lizardlike aliens that can still sit in chairs and hold weapons) is Humanoid Aliens, possibly overlapping with Intelligent Gerbils. Contrast with Starfish Aliens. The Unintentional Uncanny Valley can result if your RF Alien looks a little too human. Possible sister trope to Bizarre Alien Limbs, if the make-up crew opts for weird rubber hands instead of facial appliances. A definite sister is Palette-Swapped Alien Food, where alien food looks like oddly-colored human food. On a side note, Bill Blair holds the Guinness World Record for the most Rubber Forehead Aliens (202). His first science fiction makeup role was in Alien Nation and he never stopped. For starters, not only has he played in various Star Trek franchises as Cardassians, Jem'Hadar, Klingons, Borg and Vulcans (yes, all plural), but he has appeared in nearly every Babylon 5 episode as well as both movies. His credit on the show? "Alien Actor".
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_11a2f6c7	comment	While The Worlds of Aldebaran features a huge variety of alien species, the only sapient aliens encountered so far look very much like humans, except that they are entirely hairless and have a flat nose reminiscent of a cat's muzzle (an impression reinforced by their yellow eyes and slit pupils). They do have a semi-aquatic life cycle, much like the Mantrisses, who come from the same planet.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_145d9b29	comment	Tetrageniots from TheSecond Story/The Second Evolution have a Third Eye that gives them better depth perception.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_15870207	comment	The Martians in El Chapulín Colorado are normally actors (most commonly Rubén Aguirre who was very tall in real life (1,90 meters or around 6,23 feet) with a bold cap and heavy make-up.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): The Geni just look like human men with green skin and mustaches.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): The Kreel, who are the ruling people of the Sangtee Empire, look like humans wearing red contacts, purple paint, fake pointy ears with incised helixes and some prosthetic makeup bits covering up their hair and giving them barbels and flattish hair substitutes.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_17415b19	comment	In Star Ocean series, if a major species of aliens are not Human Aliens, they will be this. The only truly strange aliens are either Always Chaotic Evil, or one-off weirdos, like inventors in Till the End of Time. Fantastic Space Odyssey/The First Departure: Fellpools allegedly descend from cats, and for some reason possess tails and pointy ears. They also have copper-based blood, which, somehow doesn't prevent them from interbreeding with Earthlings. There are also their subspecies - Highlanders and Lesser Fellpools. The former have striped skin in addition to tails and pointy ears, while the latter are full-blown Cat Girls. Featherfolk are Winged Humanoids, who can use Symbology without Power Tattoos. Tetrageniots from TheSecond Story/The Second Evolution have a Third Eye that gives them better depth perception. And then there are three different species of Space Elves - Nedians from The Second Story and Eldarians and Morphus from The Last Hope. They have pointy ears, and that's about it. The latter game, however, raises the possibility that Morphus are Nedians, or at least their offshoot group.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_18d31711	comment	Hawkman: Thanagarians look exactly like humans save for their giant wings.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_195c083d	comment	In the season finale of Other Space, an alien reveals that its insectoid appearance is actually a mask and that its true form is this.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon actually has this in the form of Agunimon, whose appearance is justified by him being the Human Spirit of Flame. He looks mostly human, except that he has '80s Hair, fangs, and red markings on his face. Oh, and his boots are designed to accommodate claws.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_1bd9c52c	comment	Lobo: The Czarnians (Lobo's species) were (or just barely are, since Lobo is the last one) basically human except for red eyes, pale gray skin, and huge '80s Hair (usually black).
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_1c309c36	comment	Teenagers from Outer Space divides aliens into one of three types: Near Humans (which tend to be either this trope or Human Aliens), Not Very Near Humans, and Real Weirdies.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_2a139e05	comment	Except for Yaphit, (a sentient blob), most aliens we've seen so far in The Orville are rubber-forehead ones; this includes the ridge-headed Moclans, and the Xelayans who have Pointy Ears and some marks on their noses and over the eyebrows. (In order to let Lt. Kitan to be an Alien Space Babe).
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_2acb12c5	comment	The Split race in the X-Universe games are tall human-like aliens with very rough looking narrow faces, and odd colored skin.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_2beba8ff	comment	A recurring sketch on Human Giant is an actor who plays one of these on a show called Battle Sector 17. Fed up with having to spend the time to apply the make-up he gets surgery to make it permanent... just before the show is canceled. He then spends several episodes trying to get work but no one will take him because of the make-up, not even for his old Battle Sector 17 character. When he finally gets a job he has to spend hours to get make-up to make him look human, it doesn't quite work.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_2d316ba2	comment	Starlee from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward. Her race look almost exactly like humans, except for having blue skin and pointy ears.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_30b255fb	comment	The Graxians from the Supergirl story arc Red Daughter of Krypton are blue-skinned humanoids with flat noses and cow-like ears.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_31b1c820	comment	Dan Dare: The Atlantines are human but with blue skin and a visible lump on the forehead. A nice subversion later reveals that they are descendants of people kidnapped from Earth aeons ago, and their differences from Earth people are adaptations that evolved to enable them to survive on Venus.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_3381cfbc	comment	Zayto from Power Rangers Dino Fury is from the planet Rafkon and has a pair of antenna on his forehead.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): The Geni just look like human men with green skin and mustaches. Wonder Woman (1987): The Kreel, who are the ruling people of the Sangtee Empire, look like humans wearing red contacts, purple paint, fake pointy ears with incised helixes and some prosthetic makeup bits covering up their hair and giving them barbels and flattish hair substitutes.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_3c65a1d1	comment	Crest of the Stars: The Abh are distinguished by their blue hair, though some of them also have pointy ears. This one does get justified, though, in that the Abh are in fact genetically altered humans, who even call their stellar nation the "Humankind Empire Abh" (or a variant, depending on how you translate it); the Abh see themselves as humans with a few different traits, while their (non-modded) enemies tend to see them as vile aliens, wholly different from humanity. One of the narrative thrusts of the work is examining just how human they really are — or aren't.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall: Subverted: Sam Starfall looks humanoid, but it's really a suit to let him operate in an Earth-like environment. We don't get to see his true appearance, but it involves tentacles, and humans apparently find it disgusting.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	New Jedi Order: The Yuuzhan Vong look like big, muscle-y humans with a few deliberate errors- their skin tones are varying shades of grey rather than brown, they have talons instead of fingernails, their foreheads are prominent and sloped, their eye-sockets droop like a basset hound's, and their hair is almost always black when they're not bald (which is more common among them than it is among humans). Artists also commonly depict them with pointed ears, though this is never described in the novels. Since they treat ritualized Body Horror as a mark of high status, the higher-ranked a Vong is, the less humanoid they usually look (for example, having "skull-faces" due to slicing off large sections of their noses).
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_42c1d7f7	comment	The Occupation Saga: Shil'vati have skin in the purple to pink range and average seven feet tall in females and a little under six in males, but otherwise look wholly human aside from having small tusks on their lower jaws (giving them a resemblance to orcs). Halkam look like grey-skinned humans with snake-like scales. Jason compares the Nighkru to glow-in-the-dark drow: they're black-skinned Space Elves with patterns of bioluminescent microbe colonies in their skin and eyes.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_4368039d	comment	Supergirl (1982): In issue #21, Superman and Supergirl come upon the Seeders, basically humanoid but with pink skin, blue-hair and vaguely-feline features.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_44127c7c	comment	Used in Power Rangers on those rare occasions when aliens aren't either people in full-body rubber suits or regular actors using a silly name. Aquitians, for example, have a purple... thing on their head (external braincase?), and Xybrians have green hair and a gem embedded in their forehead. Super Sentai is known for being far less elaborate with theirs - Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger has the Ryujin, who merely have four tiny claws over their cheekbones. Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger in particular spammed the use of full-head rubber masks (over very mundane clothing too), unlike Power Rangers S.P.D. which relied a lot on prosthetics. A full nonhuman body typically indicates the Monster of the Week. Except, of course, for the Muppet Catfolk. Dekaranger also has aliens use human disguises a la Men in Black, presumably to save budget. Zayto from Power Rangers Dino Fury is from the planet Rafkon and has a pair of antenna on his forehead.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_4567f1e6	comment	The Psycogs and the Ethereals in Khaal: The Chronicles of a Galactic Emperor. The former are human beings with different colors and exotic head protrusions while the latter have three fingers and long tails.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_45fc0fc2	comment	"Superman vs. Muhammad Ali": The warlike Scrubbs are green-skinned, big-foreheaded aliens; otherwise they look right like humans.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: The trolls make reference to a lot of Bizarre Alien Biology endemic to their species, like "chitinous windholes", "auricular sponge clots", "porous cranial plates", and various colors of blood, but outwardly just look like grey-skinned humans with yellow-orange eyes, horns, and fangs. Complicating this is the fact that some of the Bizarre Alien Biology seems actually more likely to be bizarre alien terminology, instead, or a very idiosyncratic translation convention if you presume they're not speaking English in the first place.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): One interpretation of "The Eye of the Beholder". It's revealed at the end that the doctors' snoutlike noses and enlarged upper lips are the norm, while the seemingly beautiful patient is considered hideously deformed. She may be a Human Alien in a Rubber Forehead race. There are some hilarious rubber-foreheaded aliens in "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" which feature one race as two guys stuck together with metal antennas on their heads and another race as children with painted mustaches partially inflated balloons on their head and two bug-like antennas. Thankfully, the episode was meant to be a comedy. The episode titled "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?". The setting of this episode is a rural restaurant. During the 25-minute episode, we wonder which one among a group of people is the alien. It turns out, we were seeing the alien all along, and that there were two of them. One alien has an extra arm (this one is from Mars). The other one has a third eye (he's from Venus). The infamous "To Serve Man" features tall aliens with larger brains.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_55ed5874	comment	The aliens in Deathscent by Robin Jarvis are somewhere between this and Humanoid Aliens. While both races look quite like humans - enough that when one first arrives the human characters don't realise what he is until they see him in the light - their biology is very different. One of them perceives the world primarily through sense of smell, has four nostrils (one of which is in the forehead) and speaks a musical Starfish Language.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_56cb92c3	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy has multiple examples among its main cast, to say nothing of hundreds of extras: Gamora, a Green-Skinned Space Babe with a few little markings on her face and no eyebrows, who otherwise looks human. Drax, a large grey-skinned (but not a Grey) humanoid alien covered in red tattoos. Ronan the Accuser, a blue-skinned Kree (see the comic book section above), albeit a sicklier, more greyish blue than his comic book counterpart, and with purple eyes and unevenly-shaped irises. Nebula, Gamora's adoptive sister, an originally purple-skinned, bald alien woman, now a Cyborg with extensive areas of blue grafted synthetic skin. Carina, the Collector's pink-skinned Krylorian (in this universe, essentially a literally pink Kree) assistant. The Collector himself might qualify, seeing as he has a handful of facial markings that could be natural or could be tattoos or makeup. Mantis in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 looks like a human woman with two antennas sticking out of her forehead, an odd skin tone, and large black eyes. The Sovereign race looks like tall humans with gold skin, hair, and eyes. Most of the background races in the Guardians films qualify as well, usually having an inhuman skin tone and/or one or two prosthetics (e.g. forehead ridges, horns, pointy ears, some combination thereof) as their sole distinguishing features from humans and Human Aliens, though there are a few Humanoid Aliens scattered about, most notably Groot.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_56dce3c1	comment	Mantis in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 looks like a human woman with two antennas sticking out of her forehead, an odd skin tone, and large black eyes. The Sovereign race looks like tall humans with gold skin, hair, and eyes.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_57b6a595	comment	Copperhead is home to a ridiculously diverse alien population. Some are distinguishable only by nonhuman skin color (Thaddeus) or unusual ears (Nestor and Zolo).
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_5cec267a	comment	Multiple Votan species in Defiance look a lot like humans. Irathients have bright red hair, red and white skin patterns, and a slightly more prominent forehead. Castithans have very pale skin and white hair. Indogenes have no hair and white (actual white) skin covered with hexagon patterns, justified as they are cyborgs. Bio-men on the other hand are hulking, blue-skinned, and bald, but are actually human Super Soldiers. Omec have purple skins with patterns, silver irises, and large canines.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_5fec5efd	comment	In This Island Earth's Metalunians were similar to humans except for huge foreheads and white hair.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_605dd875	comment	Most "aliens" in the Stargate-verse are just humans, transported from Earth in antiquity. But of those that don't, some — particularly other species used as hosts by the Goa'uld — still fit this Trope. The Unas are humans with scales, chin spikes, and only four fingers, which puts them more in the Humanoid Alien category. Wraith from Stargate Atlantis fit well enough though, once you get past their (justified) Bizarre Alien Biology. Inverted by a Wraith in "Vegas": he uses cosmetics to turn himself into a Rubber-Forehead Human, which goes completely unnoticed.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_61d236b7	comment	Discussed by Sarah in InCryptid, who calls them "Star Trek aliens". The inhabitants of the dimension in Calculated Risks look humanoid except for Pointy Ears, rosette Facial Markings, and slightly-larger eyes in yellow and green.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_62570927	comment	The Kree, from Marvel Universe, are extraterrestrials with two main races: the blue-skinned (such as Ronan the Accuser), and others who seem completely human (such as Mar-Vell and Marvel Boy). There's a little problem: the blue Krees are dominant in the Kree social hierarchy, and treat the others as worthless slaves. With such a background, Ronan's original opinion of us humans is nobody's surprise. He eventually got better, up to and including marrying the human-looking Inhuman princess Crystal and defending her and her kind against other blue Kree who called them 'pink-skinned lab apes', and later becoming an ally to the Guardians of the Galaxy, but the social attitude still persists in other Kree.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House: Witches look human save for their elf-like Pointy Ears, and an extra organ attached to their hearts that allows them to cast magic (though that's not visible from the outside). Witches also have a greater variation in hair and eye color than humans do (Amity has yellow eyes, and Raine's hair is naturally teal). Some witches also sport explicitly more non-humanoid features, like Boscha's three eyes, Adrian Graye's tail, and Amber's bat-like nose and ears, likely due to cross-breeding with the much more animalistic demon-population. Grimwalkers are made to look exactly like witches. While they are made of completely different stuff and are likely more tree than witch, the only external feature that distinguishes a Grimwalker from a witch is the fact that Grimwalkers always have bright pink eyes.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_68237790	comment	In Pathfinder, elves are Ancient Astronauts from Castrovel who got to Golarion through long range portals. They still look basically like humans with pointy ears.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_69085a0	comment	Macross has many examples, with the most notable being the Zentraedi; once you got past the whole size difference thing, they're nearly identical to humans, with the exception of skin and hair tones of varying offness to human norms. Later entries also tended to give pointy ears to Zentraedi (and humans with Zentraedi ancestry). This similarity is because both species' evolutions were heavily influenced by the Protoculture. The Zolans in Macross 7 are another Protoculture-influenced species who appear mostly similar to humans, except for very Pointy Ears, two-toned brightly-colored hair, and prominent fur on the forearms of the men. They are also implied to be marsupials, like most of the lifeforms on their homeworld. The Ragnans of Macross Delta basically look like dark-skinned humans who happen to have gills, webbing, and fins. There's also the Windermerians, who are physically indistinguishable from humans outside of having at least one antenna-like tentacle growing out of their hair, and the Voldorians, who are basically Little Bit Beastly Cat Folk. Like humanity, Zentraedi, and the Zolans, the natives of Ragna, Windermere, and Voldor are "children of the Protoculture".
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_69bc0bf6	comment	Miriam in Shining Force Feather might be a living Lampshade Hanging. She meets our protagonists and is immediately amazed, as she hasn't ever seen a human before. Never mind that Miriam is an elf, and that the only difference between her and Jin are her pointy ears, slanted eyes, and skinnier build. One scene later, she meets Alfin and is equally wowed, as she's never seen a Core Unit before, despite that Core Units are... Ridiculously Human Robots. Meanwhile, she meets all the varieties of Beast Men with no more than chipper enthusiasm.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power: Justified. In addition to some aliens that are humans with some minor modifications (enough humans have been abducted that they have a stable population in space, and they have access to genemods), Dabbler explains that the humanoid form is evolutionary advantageous in most areas. Two arms, two legs, and two eyes are an improvement over anything with fewer arms/legs/eyes, but adding more produces diminishing returns for increased calorie requirements. There definitely are really strange alien races out there, but a very noticeable percentage of sapient species are humanoid.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_6a989b15	comment	The television series of the novel trilogy The Tripods averts this, just as the books do. The Masters were tripedal creatures that differed a bit from their book description, but it was still one of the first times a television series did not employ this trope.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Jason compares the Nighkru to glow-in-the-dark drow: they're black-skinned Space Elves with patterns of bioluminescent microbe colonies in their skin and eyes.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_6db4c31d	comment	Aliens in the Family: Cookie looks mostly human, but she has blue ridges on the sides of her head.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_6de97f03	comment	Astaroth from Marco & the Galaxy Dragon is an alien who looks like a bald, extremely muscular man with chalk-white skin and black sclera, and he has snake-like appendages growing from the base of his skull. This is in contrast to his daughter Haqua, who is a straight-up Human Alien.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_6e012371	comment	Xandri Corelel averts this for every species except the Anmerilli, who look almost exactly like humans except for their cheek ridges, bulbous foreheads, longer ears, and tails. Xandri describes the similarity between the two species as "one of Mother Universe's cosmic jokes."
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_6e1d5f36	comment	In spite of its subversions of this trope, Farscape has a few species of these floating around, albeit usually more a case of body painted and Anime Hair wig aliens than rubber-forehead. Nebari look human except for their monotone grey skin and the fact that their hair colour depends entirely on their gender. Subverted wonderfully in the 19th episode of season one, in which Chiana, a Nebari, dons utterly unconvincing magnolia-coloured pancake makeup and a black wig (which might count as cross-dressing for a Nebari woman). She does this in an attempt to pass for Sebacean, where Sebaceans look exactly like humans, but does nothing about her enormous aniridic pupils or grey lips. For some reason, it works for a while. Delvians look like blue, scaly humans. The series' main Delvian is bald, but others have hair. All that said, they're actually a race of humanoid plants. Kalish have intense blue-green eyes, copper-red hair and a few transparent scales on their temples. Interions are almost completely humanoid except for their ridged foreheads and higher hairlines. They're a close enough genetic match to humans that members of the two species can serve as medical donors for each other. The Luxans have a fairly elaborate tentacle-featuring face prosthetic, but still count as an example of this trope. Most Sebaceans look exactly like humans (justified, since they are Transplanted Humans with some genetic engineering thrown in), but we see several with skin and eye colors not seen on Earth which would qualify if the whole race shared them. There are also several individuals and cultures whose race is ambiguous; they may be ethnicities or they may not. One episode had a race that the Sebaceans claim is a lost colony of a Sebacean subspecies, although the locals deny any biological connection.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_6eda9bd5	comment	Space Precinct loves it some actors with rubber heads on. The sheer contrast between big rubber head and undisguised human body gives the whole thing a farcical charm.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_6f42452	comment	Practically all aliens in Leijiverse. Mazone, Illumidas, Tokarga... they're all humans with slightly different skin colour, even the Mazone who are plants. Miime's race is unrevealed, but she's also fully humanoid apart from not having visible mouth in most? story versions.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_6f76d71a	comment	In The Sims franchise: In The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, alien sims are just like human sims, except for the green skin and the completely black eyes. In The Sims 4, alien sims remains not so physically different from human sims, except that they now have different sets of inhuman skintones (like blue and purple) and eyes.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_7668653b	comment	In Mass Effect 3, if a male Shepard romanced Tali and saved the quarian fleet, Tali will leave a photo of herself without mask or helmet on his nightstand. It turns out that were it not for the skin markings, purple-tinted skin, the three-digited hands and feet, and the avian legs, she could pass for human. It helps that her "photo" is literally a photoshopped stock image of a model◊
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_7832b74c	comment	The Gems in Steven Universe generally look like human women except for their skin tones, hair colors, hairstyle, and having a gemstone embedded somewhere in their bodies. That said, their figures are often drawn more exaggerated than humans, and the series increasingly shows types of gems that are still humanoid but with blatantly inhuman features (Nephrite is a Cyclops whose gem functions as an eye; Sapphires, Aquamarines, and Rutiles are The Noseless; many types are inhumanly large or small), and that's before getting into gem fusions which are generally larger than any human, frequently possess Extra Eyes and limbs, and sometimes are only partially humanoid. Technically, their gemstones is their Heart Drive and actual form, while their bodies are a Hard Light projection, so they can actually shape-shift at will as a result, meaning their normal shapes are preferred forms than anything else.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: Asari fit the trope perfectly, being blue-skinned alien space babes. Although their tentacles are actually on the back of their heads, where a human would have hairnote In the third game, Liara describes them as "semi-flexible cartilage-based scalp crests that grow into shape". While they wear the same armor as humans in-game, every race sees them as their equivalent of blue-skinned alien space babes except possibly the Krogan, who still see them as attractive. In Mass Effect 3, if a male Shepard romanced Tali and saved the quarian fleet, Tali will leave a photo of herself without mask or helmet on his nightstand. It turns out that were it not for the skin markings, purple-tinted skin, the three-digited hands and feet, and the avian legs, she could pass for human. It helps that her "photo" is literally a photoshopped stock image of a model◊ The batarians are the closest Mass Effect species to this trope, as unlike the asari (who are all female) or the quarians (who, as mentioned, have three digits on each hand and foot and digitgrade legs), batarians have the same sexual dimorphism as humans, human-passing skin tones (various shades of brown), and are identical to humans from the neck down, to the point that the only way to tell batarian and human enemies apart when they're wearing face-concealing helmets is that the batarians' grunts have a filter applied to them. They differ from humans only in that they have four eyes, needle-like teeth, and ridges along the fronts of their faces. They'd definitely look at home in the Star Trek franchise. On the technical side, the developers of Mass Effect admit that when it comes to fighting their alien designs were limited to bipeds with human proportions because of the Unreal engine's combat system. That's the reason you never see any of the more alien races such as the elcor or hanar in-combat; each race would require whole new skeleton rigs of their own. Mass Effect: Andromeda has a bit of fun with this trope, since the angara are humanoid(ish), but with vastly different physical builds, for the reason given just above. An asari scientist is disappointed by the physical similarities, and at least some angara are weirded out by humans (these are the nicer responses), with one e-mail found at one point of an angara wondering if the human explorers modified their appearance to look less alien to them.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_79979f2b	comment	In Crucible, Lys Amata's unnamed alien species are pink-skinned, blue-haired humanoids with long oblong faces and black eyeballs. On the another hand, Tsavo is a Ngoan, and they look like humanoid, long-tailed, thick-furred cats.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_79d01256	comment	Cat Planet Cuties features Little Bit Beastly aliens like the Catians (cats) and Dogisians (dogs). Hilariously, the Catians originally called their home planet Earth and referred to themselves as Earthlings — they changed the name of their planet and species to Catia out of courtesy. A race of bunny girls is also briefly mentioned.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_7f640c58	comment	In The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, alien sims are just like human sims, except for the green skin and the completely black eyes.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_7fd403f8	comment	In Galaxy Quest, the character of Dr. Lazarus from the Show Within the Show is played by Alexander Dane (who is in turn played by Alan Rickman) wearing a rubber forehead. The Thermians think he is a real alien, even though his rubber forehead begins to show damage and develop holes over the course of the adventure. The Thermians themselves are a subversion of this: on first appearance, they look like short-ish humans who have Vulcans for hair stylists, but it's later revealed that this is just A Form You Are Comfortable With.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_80c382f4	comment	A number of the extraterrestrial characters in Defenders of the Earth fit this trope: The show's Big Bad, Ming the Merciless, has green skin and pointed ears, traits shared by his children, Kro-Tan and Castra. In the original "Flash Gordon" comic strips, Ming resembles an oriental warlord, but he was given a more obviously alien appearance in the Defendersverse to avoid any Unfortunate Implications. Princess Astra from "The Revenge of Astra" has pointed ears, but otherwise looks human. The Psychic Warriors from "The Evil of Doctor Dark" are humanoids with '80s Hair and antennae which they use to focus their powers above their eyes. Mara, the youngest of the trio, who defects to join forces with the Defenders, also appears in the sequel, where her skin (blue in the original episode) has a more human tone, though she retains her characteristic hair and antennae. The title character in "The Starboy" is a humanoid child who appears to be a little younger than Kshin. He is hairless with white skin and the star which gives him his name on his forehead; this star changes from red to blue based on his mood.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Klingons, Vulcans, Bajorans, Ferengi, and Cardassians, just to name a few. The majority of all races encountered in every Star Trek series share the same basic outline of a human, with many differing from human solely by slight variations in their forehead, ears or bridge of the nose. The exceptions are usually Monster of the Week types. Some specific acknowledgements of the trope throughout the various television series include: The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Chase" provides a tidy explanation (part retcon, part Lampshade Hanging) for the prevalence of these in the Star Trek universe. All the main races in the universe (humans included) were created from "seeds" placed in their respective worlds' primordial oceans by an even more ancient humanoid race. Lampshaded when the Bajoran Ro Laren, who has something of a chip on her shoulder, refers to herself as "the token bumpy-head" in one of the novels. Behind the scenes, Bajoran makeup was specifically designed to be minimal so that the actress who played Ro would remain attractive. The same thing happened when the appearance of the Trill was retconned from their first appearance in TNG. When the makeup was applied to Terry Farrell as she prepared to play Jadzia Dax on DS9, even the minimal Bumpy Forehead they made for her was thought to obscure her beautiful features too much, so they toned it down still further to the leopard spots that became the appearance of all subsequent Trills. (The DS9 novels eventually reconcile this and other differences with TNG by saying that they simply represent ethnic variations within the Trill humanoid species.) Another Lampshade Hanging occurs in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Chimera" in this conversation between two changelings, Odo and Laas:
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_81a8151a	comment	Earthling Cinema series of fictional reviews is hosted by alien Garax Wormuloid, who is just the creator with eyebrows significantly wider than his head.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_84fe82fe	comment	In Wasp (1957) by Eric Frank Russell, the Sirians are similar to humans, their most striking feature being their purple skin, a "bow-legged gait", and a number of other minor differences. This helps Mowry (a human) in passing as a Sirian without suspicions.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_87c48abb	comment	Harry Vanderspeigle, the protagonist of Resident Alien. He has a similar physique to a human but has characteristics like purple skin and pointed ears to set him apart.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: The Qwardians, like Kaliber from Superboy and the Ravers and the Green Lantern foes the Weaponers of Qward, look like large pink hairless people wearing odd contacts. The Graxians from the Supergirl story arc Red Daughter of Krypton are blue-skinned humanoids with flat noses and cow-like ears. Supergirl (1982): In issue #21, Superman and Supergirl come upon the Seeders, basically humanoid but with pink skin, blue-hair and vaguely-feline features. The Warzoon from War World are red-skinned, fanged humanoid aliens. In Crucible, Lys Amata's unnamed alien species are pink-skinned, blue-haired humanoids with long oblong faces and black eyeballs. On the another hand, Tsavo is a Ngoan, and they look like humanoid, long-tailed, thick-furred cats. The Vrangs from The Krypton Chronicles and other stories are hairy humanoids with brownish-grey skin, pointed teeth, huge lower fangs and large lobed ears. Last Daughter of Krypton: Reign, who belongs to an unnamed alien species, is grey-skinned, her eyes' sclera is pitch-black, she lacks eyebrows, and her flat and wide nose resembles a monkey's. In Superman vs. Shazam!, Karmang is a Martian whose skin is chalk-white and hairless. In Way of the World, Krallian aliens look right like blue-skinned, blank-eyed humans. "Superman vs. Muhammad Ali": The warlike Scrubbs are green-skinned, big-foreheaded aliens; otherwise they look right like humans.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_8e93a13d	comment	Subverted in Phantasy Star with Newmans/Numans, and later Beasts in Phantasy Star Universe. Sure, they look human enough, save for their ears and (in the case of Beasts) their harelips and eyes ... but they aren't actually aliens at all. They're actually genetically engineered humans. Played straight, though: The three planets' humanoid species are Parmanian/Palmanian (humans), Motavian (furred, beaked humanoids), and Dezolisian/Dezorisian (Rubber Forehead Aliens with green skin).
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_905cf99c	comment	The Fifth Element has a variety of particularly tacky examples. The alien opera-singer sort of looked like a hybrid between an Asari, a Twi'lek and a Xenomorph. Mangalore warriors from the same movie appear to be this but were actually the products of CGI and animatronic costumes.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_9161b59c	comment	The "Alienoids" of the Garnet and Gure short, Holiday Quickie-Toon resemble cheesy black-and-white style spacemen with over-long eyebrows.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_94566e52	comment	In Superman vs. Shazam!, Karmang is a Martian whose skin is chalk-white and hairless.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_9afa4e32	comment	UFO Robo Grendizer: The Vegans and other alien races have strangely-shaped heads or unusual skin or hair colours at the very least. Gandal has blue skin and his head looks cubic due to his very angular features, his wide forehead, and that the top of his head is nearly flat. Blackie has dark-purple skin, pointy ears and a very pointy, hairless head. Even the most human-looking aliens -like Rubina- have bluish or abnormally pale skin, black irises or green or aquamarine hair (keep in mind no human character in this anime is blue-haired).
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_9cc8c624	comment	Lampshaded in some Space Agent Valérian book. There are quite a few non-human aliens but also a multitude of practically humans, to the point where it's mentioned that "one head, two hands, two feet, two eyes, could be anyone".
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_9cefc9f8	comment	The Ragnans of Macross Delta basically look like dark-skinned humans who happen to have gills, webbing, and fins. There's also the Windermerians, who are physically indistinguishable from humans outside of having at least one antenna-like tentacle growing out of their hair, and the Voldorians, who are basically Little Bit Beastly Cat Folk. Like humanity, Zentraedi, and the Zolans, the natives of Ragna, Windermere, and Voldor are "children of the Protoculture".
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_9dbdbeac	comment	Prince of Space: the men of Krankor are rubber nose aliens. This might have been slightly more badass had the noses not had a silhouette much like a chicken beak.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_9fb9bec4	comment	Outsider: Both largely averted and deconstructed. Loroi look just like humans, except for the pointy ears, blue skin tones, odd eye and hair colors, and their males being smaller than and far outnumbered by the females. This similarity is noted as a significant abnormality by everyone, considering that the rest of the races go from notably physiologically different to being Starfish Aliens. The fact that humans also seem to be resistant to the Loroi's telepathy implies that this may be far more than mere coincidence, but when Tempo makes a fairly loaded implication implying Jardin of being a physically-tailord spy, Jardin testily counters that it would be extremely stupid for the Umiak to create a mole that sticks out like a sore thumb as much as he does. An interesting detail revealed in the Insider posts is that there's another species, the Nibiren, that is to the Barsam — a species that, along with the Loroi, is part of a group of biochemically related organisms related to a powerful Precursor civilization — what the humans are to the Loroi, i.e. different in coloration and a few physical details but otherwise startlingly similar. Rubber Forehead Aliens to another alien species, essentially. The conclusion reached by the Barsam is that they were genetically engineered with the Nibiren as a model. If this is true, it might have interesting implications for the relationship between the humans and Loroi.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_a183d57f	comment	The majority of alien species Futurama are more or less humanoid, including all the main cast. That being said, the show does have a wide array of odd aliens (sentient nebulae, sludge monsters, swarms of flies, etc) and robots who are either minor recurring characters or the focus of individual episodes. Subverted with Leela, who is revealed in an early season to be a remarkably minimally mutated human mutant who was raised to think she was a Last of Her Kind alien.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_a3fcd166	comment	Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy could be considered one. He looks perfectly human except for his extra head. In the movie, the head is implied to be artificial just like his third arm, but all versions of Zaphod's (and Ford's?) species seem to require more than two sexual partners to reproduce: "He shares three of the same mothers as me." Not to mention that such an arrangement could result in one black kid and one white kid, meaning skin tone must work more like hair color does for humans.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_a6c44b45	comment	Most barbari races of Taming Dreams fit the description. Bold have a furry nose and a cleft upper lip and the Meek have doe ears and antlers on the males.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_a6f6433c	comment	The dominant race in the Jak and Daxter series are humans with excessively long pointy ears.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_a8ccc682	comment	Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms: It's fantasy rather than science-fiction, but most of the Ghost Tribe look like ordinary humans with horns growing from their faces.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_a99e863d	comment	Ayuri: Dobeks, which are domesticated humanoids with the intelligence (and fashion sense) of a dog.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_aaa12219	comment	Terra: All the known nonhuman species fall here. The Azatoth would be Human Aliens but for a heavier brow ridge and a couple nodules on the sides of their noses; they also tend to be a foot taller than the average human. The Vareliens look like asari with longer, more flexible head-tentacles. The Shintari have swept-back conical heads and orange skin.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_ac421c4b	comment	In Way of the World, Krallian aliens look right like blue-skinned, blank-eyed humans.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_acc09715	comment	Stellar Santiago in Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier (though this trope is otherwise mostly absent from the Space Quest series).
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_b0160545	comment	Wicked Lovely tends to go this route with a lot of The Fair Folk. Niall, for example, is described as having "too-sheer skin, like parchment by a flame, and too many joints."
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_b0be54ed	comment	As in the source material, namely the Barsoom books, Martian civilizations in Warlord of Mars are indistinguishable from humans except for their unusual skin tone and laying eggs instead of giving birth. The First-Born are grey skinned, the Okarans have golden-skin and the Red Martians are reddish-copper toned. The Therns are the closest to Human Aliens and the Green Martians are on way another level.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_b0fc9724	comment	The Coneheads from Saturday Night Live were conceived as a parody of the '50s B-movie Rubber Forehead Alien.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_b11e29d2	comment	Outlaw Star: The C'tarl-C'tarl, are essentially Cat Girls (and boys of course) from space. Were-Catgirls, as we later found out.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_b141ce54	comment	The Vrangs from The Krypton Chronicles and other stories are hairy humanoids with brownish-grey skin, pointed teeth, huge lower fangs and large lobed ears.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_b8c3cc30	comment	On Young Justice, Rannians are depicted this way, with pale yellow skin, pointed ears and, at least in Alanna's case, purple eyes. This is a change from the comic books, where they're Human Aliens.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_b8e7bb8	comment	Super Sentai is known for being far less elaborate with theirs - Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger has the Ryujin, who merely have four tiny claws over their cheekbones. Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger in particular spammed the use of full-head rubber masks (over very mundane clothing too), unlike Power Rangers S.P.D. which relied a lot on prosthetics. A full nonhuman body typically indicates the Monster of the Week. Except, of course, for the Muppet Catfolk.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_bb95f452	comment	Zukahnaut's protagonist is a palette-swap and a new pair of ears away from looking like a passable (if ugly) human.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The in-universe setting book Xenology references this. While the Eldar, the Tau, and (to a lesser extent) the Orks look outwardly humanoid, inside the races are nothing alike. The tech-priest doing the dissections is extremely confused by this, especially since his other subjects aren't remotely humanoid. What the tech-priest doesn't know that players and fans do is that many species were created by the Great Old Ones. Speaking of which, the Eldar straddle the line between this and Humanoid Aliens. They are thin, graceful, pointy-eared (Elf expies In Space!), but their body structure is much more lithe and spindly. Orkoids: Orks look like, well, Orcs. They're humanoid, but green and have small eyes, exaggerated lantern jaws, large numbers of long, thick teeth with a pair of prominent tusks for their lower canines. The thing that starts to test the limits of this trope is the size of them, as Orks get bigger the older and more battle-hardened they become; the average Ork boy is the size of a large human athlete, but warbosses become inhumanly huge. There are even recorded, very rare instances of Orks who become the size of small buildings. Grots and Snotlings, the Orks' smaller, goblinoid brethren are somewhat different. Grots could pass for this trope, since they are about the size of a child, being about 1 meter or so tall. Snotlings are visually similar, but even smaller. Squigs avert this trope entirely, as they are animals. Even if you wanted to wrap this trope around the animal kingdom, most squigs don't really have a good analog, since most are egg-shaped critters that are basically rudimentary biological and locomotive systems wrapped around an enormous, fang-lined maw. Some squigs become more analogous to actual creatures, like sharks or mammoths. Tau are much better fit to this trope, as they are humanoid, but are distinctive enough. They have hooves for feet, hands with four fingers apiece, have skin tones that vary between blue to grey, have solid red eyes, and have a single slit in their head for a nose. Certain castes have differing builds, but the only real outlier are the Ethereal caste, who have a bony protrusion on their forehead, and it's speculated to be related to why the other castes are so fanatically and blindly loyal to them (as the Tau are mentioned to have been uplifted by some Eldar in old fluff, though it is unclear if this is still canon). Oh, and despite what the countless pieces of fanart would tell you, female Tau aren't very attractive by human standards.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_cfbcd69f	comment	Leaving the Cradle: Utterly averted, despite being Space Opera. None of the species of the galaxy resemble anything human except for, well, humans.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_e235270c	comment	On the initial release, Stellaris deliberately averted this; aside from humanity, the selection was a mixture of roughly Humanoid Aliens and truly bizarre forms. Eventually, by popular demand, an entire (relatively small) category for humans and very human-like aliens (include Space Elves and Klingon look-alikes) was added. The "Humanoids Species Pack" then added a few more, most of them being based on typical fantasy races, such as orcs, dwarves or cyclopses.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_e25322af	comment	In the Homestar Runner episode "buried", Strong Bad unearths what he believes to be an alien artifact. He states that the earth was colonized by extraterrestrials, and that it explains "why all beings look the same except for slight differences of our foreheads!"
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel have a lot of demonic races that are essentially humans in various different colors of facepaint. However, this is justified because almost all demons that appear are possessing or have interbred or been contaminated by humans. The few Pure Demons that have appeared didn't look remotely human:
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_e4732abc	comment	Wraith from Stargate Atlantis fit well enough though, once you get past their (justified) Bizarre Alien Biology. Inverted by a Wraith in "Vegas": he uses cosmetics to turn himself into a Rubber-Forehead Human, which goes completely unnoticed.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi does this with many inhabitants of the magic world; they look like normal people, but with horns or weird shaped ears or something. The rest are Beast Men.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_e71c3f24	comment	Invoked in The Red Vixen Adventures when Salli is watching a foxen kaiju movie and wonders aloud, "Who are those humans in the silver jumpsuits with the prosthetic foreheads?"
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_eb3f3551	comment	Mass Effect: Andromeda has a bit of fun with this trope, since the angara are humanoid(ish), but with vastly different physical builds, for the reason given just above. An asari scientist is disappointed by the physical similarities, and at least some angara are weirded out by humans (these are the nicer responses), with one e-mail found at one point of an angara wondering if the human explorers modified their appearance to look less alien to them.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_ec28245c	comment	The Saiyans in Dragon Ball Z are just humans with tails in appearance; that turn into giant monkeys during a full moon. Dragon Ball Z is very bad about this. There's even a whole race of "humans but skin is different color"; the Brench-seijin, which Jeice and Salza belong to. Most of the major races fall into this. Most prominent besides the Saiyans are the Namekians, who are green-skinned and fanged with antenna and long pointy ears, but otherwise resemble human men, and the Shinjin, who look like humans with long pointy ears and weird skin colors (e.g. red, green, purple). In-universe, Earthlings and aliens are all classified as "humans" (sometimes localized as "mortals"), which shows that they aren't really all that different from each other.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_efccb9da	comment	The Alteans in Voltron: Legendary Defender look almost exactly like humans, but have a few differences, such as the small marks of color next to their eyes. However, the other alien species tend to look more...alien.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 is almost a case study on alien race-types on television. The Shadows and Vorlons were Starfish Aliens. Then, the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, the minor powers of the region, were a mix of this and Humanoid Aliens. The Minbari were Rubber-Back-of-the-Head Aliens, being bald humans with a bony crest covering the back of their skulls (which they apparently actually carved into the elaborate shapes we see much as humans cut hair), and the Narn were fairly elaborate Rubber Forehead Reptilians. The Centauri were a bit of an odd bird, since they were superficially Human Aliens (which was actually a part of their backstory, Centauri explorers/con artists almost convinced humanity we were a lost Centauri colony, until someone got hold of a Centauri DNA sample and figured out we have more genes in common with octopi), and their Bizarre Alien Biology was rarely shown outrightnote their reproductive organs are on their torsos and they have no major blood vessels in their wrists, but was frequently referenced and became a plot point fairly frequently.
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_ff9ab17f	comment	The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Chase" provides a tidy explanation (part retcon, part Lampshade Hanging) for the prevalence of these in the Star Trek universe. All the main races in the universe (humans included) were created from "seeds" placed in their respective worlds' primordial oceans by an even more ancient humanoid race.
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Space Brat / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Space Cadet (Rvbomally) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
The Enemy Papers / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
The Forerunner Saga / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
The Occupation Saga / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
The Red Vixen Adventures / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
The Sirantha Jax Series / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
The Worm Ouroboros / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
True History / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Wasp (1957) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
AVoyageToArcturus	seeAlso	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Brainiac	seeAlso	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
CaptainMar-Vell	seeAlso	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
ConSentiency	seeAlso	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Darkbolt	seeAlso	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
MartianManhunter	seeAlso	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Quark	seeAlso	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
RubberForeHeadAliens	sameAs	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
RubberforeheadAliens	sameAs	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
SecretInvasion	seeAlso	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Cannon God Exaxxion (Manga) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Outlanders (Manga) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Replay Value Universe / Role Play / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Cambridge University Treasure Trap (Roleplay) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Worldof Homestuck (Roleplay)	seeAlso	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Alien Nation / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Aliens in the Family / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Andromeda / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Charmed (1998) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Cousin Skeeter / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Defiance / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Giant Robo / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Hyperdrive / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Kamen Rider BLACK RX / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Out of Jimmy's Head / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Pandora / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Sliders / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Space Cases / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Space Rangers (1993) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Star Trek: The Original Series / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Star Trek: Voyager / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
The Orville / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Uchu Sentai Kyuranger / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Walking with Cavemen / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Munchkin (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Myriad Song (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Numenera (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Rifts (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Scum and Villainy (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Space 1889 (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
The Delver's Guide to Beast World (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
A Final Unity (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Adiboo: Magical Playland (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Astalon: Tears of the Earth (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Bik	seeAlso	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Cookie Clicker (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Creatures (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Crimson Sea (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Distant Worlds (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Iji (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Master of Orion (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Middle Manager of Justice (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Sprite Wars (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Star Trek: Elite Force (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Star Trek: Klingon (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
The Sims 2 (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Star*Drive (Video Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Marco & the Galaxy Dragon (Visual Novel) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Strong Bad Email (Web Animation) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Aventures (Web Video) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Terrible Writing Advice (Web Animation) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Alien Dice (Webcomic) / int_5e5c859d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Ava's Demon (Webcomic) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Cucumber Quest (Webcomic) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
StarSomething	seeAlso	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Terra (Webcomic) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Overused Sci-Fi Settings (Website) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
The Onion (Website) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Alfred J. Kwak / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Duck Dodgers / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Extreme Dinosaurs / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Mars Needs Moms / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Odd Job Jack / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Planet Sheen / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Shadow Raiders / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Star Trek: Lower Decks / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Star Trek: Prodigy / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Young Justice - Original Series / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Red Daughter of Krypton (Comic Book) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Tech Infantry (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
The Reconstruction / Videogame / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens

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