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The Dog Is an Alien
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Some sort of extraterrestrial lifeform comes to Earth, and, to avoid attention from The Men in Black or any other government agencies, disguises itself as a domestic animal, usually a dog. Sometimes the alien happens to already look like a dog, while others may transform themselves using Voluntary Shapeshifting or Applied Phlebotinum. The latter variant raises some questions as to why the alien wouldn't choose to disguise itself as a human, giving itself far more freedom within human society. However, given that their disguise may not be perfect, or that they may be unfamiliar with human social norms, this may be a sensible decision. A dog that acts or looks a little bit odd is less likely to attract attention than a human who acts strangely or looks creepy. The alien often finds itself adopted as a pet, usually at least somewhat willingly. After all, a family who is willing to provide food and shelter seems like a reasonable alternative to living on the streets avoiding The Men in Black and dog catchers, and the alien probably reasons that it is capable of escaping if it needs to. This trope comes in both benign and malevolent variants. The former tends to result in A Boy and His X. The most common variant of this trope involves a dog that's an alien, however, it can also apply to other types of animals, and "alien" can be substituted for virtually any sentient fictional species. If the alien is not intentionally disguising itself as a dog, but gets mistaken for one anyway, it's Mistaken for Dog. Compare Alien Animals, where an entire species of Earth animal are and have always secretly been aliens. Not to be confused with The Dog Was the Mastermind, though it can sometimes mix together. |
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The cat in Kid vs. Kat is an alien that looks like one of those hairless cats. | |
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Krypto the Superdog is (usually) a dog from Krypton that is passable as an Earth native dog when he's not flying around or showing off his super strength. | |
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In Phantoms, a gelatinous being can send out autonomous drones to do tasks. One of these is a white dog that fools soldiers and gets close enough to send out tentacles and kill them. Later, the dog is used to keep tabs on the surviving humans. | |
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Good Boy!: It turns out every dog on Earth is actually an alien from another planet, though many have gone native and forgotten they were originally sent to conquer Earth. | |
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The alien in The Thing (1982) masquerades as a dog for a while. | |
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Runaways: "My dog's a [mystically cloaked] genetically engineered psychic dinosaur from the 87th century." | |
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In The Hidden, a parasitic alien creature hides in other beings and uses them. It temporarily uses a dog, but (as in the original "Who Goes There?") it wants to be a man, not a dog. | |
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In Supernatural there are Skinwalkers who can take the form of a dog. One of them becomes attached to the family he lives with. | |
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Rokoroko from Doraemon: Nobita's Little Space War is the pet of Papi, an alien from Planet Pirika, arriving on earth to find his missing master. It turns out Papi had already met Doraemon and friends several days ago and is already well-acquainted with the earthlings by the time Rokoroko catches up. | |
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Shirogane from Ayakashi Triangle is a cat ayakashi that sometimes alters his smaller form to look like a regular stray cat that isn't Invisible to Normals. Despite regular cats being drawn in a much more realistic style, only Lu notices the difference. At first this was to deter Soga from attacking him as he hangs around Hokusai High School, but he also enjoys the attention and treats the students give him (so long as he can avoid the enormous English teacher's Bear Hugs). A while after moving into Suzu's house but keeping himself invisible to the rest of her family, Shirogane uses his visible form to become their adopted stray "Shiro", purely so he'll get more food. | |
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In Turning Point, the first book of Lisanne Norman's Sholan Alliance, the Cat Folk Kusac hides his sapience by pretending to be one of the local felines. Carrie then takes him into her home on account of his injuries. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket claims that Captain Marvel's cat Chewie is a rare and dangerous alien species called a flerken. Turns out he's right. | |
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Captain Marvel (2019): The Kree and the Skrulls alike insist on calling Goose the tabby cat a "Flerken", and are downright terrified of her, which the heroes find hilarious. And just like in the comics, turns out, the aliens are right. | |
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Relative Heroes: Cameron treats his potted plant as a pet/Companion Cube and the thing is eventually revealed to be an Es (a type of shapeshifing alien) advance scout for the now occurring invasion, and so is Cameron. | |
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In Parasyte, one of the first Parasytes Shinichi and Migi encounter is one that accidentally infested a dog rather than a human. Because of this, it had dog-level intelligence and only eats dogs (though it still tries to attack them). | |
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Conan the Adventurer: While not an alien, Needle, a baby phoenix, would occasionally pretend to be a parrot to avoid drawing attention. | |
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In Teen Titans (2003), Beast Boy can turn into a green version of any animal. In one episode, he gets captured in dog form by an alien looking for his missing pet. Meanwhile, the other Titans have found the alien dog and believe that Beast Boy has somehow become Shapeshifter Mode Locked. The alien dog is so amused that he takes his time before telling them the truth.. | |
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Subverted in The Cat from Outer Space, in which the alien looks exactly like a cat in his natural state and doesn't do much to pretend to be one except refrain from speaking. If the humans assume he's a cat, it's not his fault. | |
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Futurama's Nibbler is a bit of an odd example as everyone knows he's an alien. What they don't know is that he's a member of an incredibly advanced alien race. And he can talk. | |
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In Legacy of the Wizard, Pochi looks like a dog when hanging around the family home, but when selected as a playable character he turns into something that is definitely not a dog. | |
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Invader Zim: GIR disguises himself as Zim's pet dog...by wearing a green costume with a visible zipper. He rarely even bothers going on all fours. It's arguably still better than Zim's human disguise. | |
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Counterfeit Cat is a show about the adventures of Gark, a blue tentacled alien who disguises himself as a cat and lives with an ordinary cat named Max. | |
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Trillian's mice from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy turn out to be aliens in disguise. So are all other mice, wild ones included, but Trillian's are specifically implied to be albino laboratory rodents, hence domesticated. | |
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Ambis in Jix are frequently mistaken for dogs, despite the titular character having blue fur among other things. Eventually it is determined that they share a common ancestor with foxes. | |
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The Incredible Hercules: It's revealed that Kirby, the coyote pup that Amadeus Cho had adopted, had been long-replaced by a Skrull imposter. While the real coyote was safe and unharmed, the Skrull coyote had accompanied Cho for the better part of a year before The Reveal. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Day of the Doctor", the Tenth Doctor is hunting for a Zygon which, as it turns out, is disguised not as Queen Elizabeth the First, but as the horse that she and the Doctor were riding. Later the trope is subverted, when the Doctor briefly mistakes a mundane rabbit for the Zygon's new disguise. | |
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Frank the Pug from Men in Black. The Animated Series revealed that he's a Remoolian, a type of canine-like species that looks just like a pug with pale green scaly skin and a few little antennae popping from his head. Also he is apparently prone to dog-like behavior and it's not part of the disguise. | |
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ALF does this from time to time, with varying degrees of success. For instance, on one occasion, he is seen by a hobo who thought he was a kangaroo... and promptly leaps off the train they were riding. | |
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Stitch from Lilo & Stitch pretends to be a dog despite looking more like a blue koala (even when he hides away the second set of arms, spines, and antenna). According to the (decanonized) tie-in comics, however, it explains that one donor of his genetic composition was from an Earth puppy, so he should have somewhat resembled one. It's not very effective. The universal reaction on seeing him is "You're sure it's a dog?" Basically, he only passes because no-one can come up with any alternatives (and Rule of Funny). | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In the episode "Aquiel", the crew of the Enterprise suspect a shapeshifting alien monster to have killed and impersonated a member of a remote science station. The two humanoid suspects (one of them Klingon) are eventually cleared by lab tests, but in a horrifying twist the dog from the station that nobody paid any mind to is revealed to be the alien, and it almost devours Geordi to take his form. | |
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