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The modern version of the Little Green Men, and currently the most common depiction of extraterrestrials. They have the same basic body plan as humans, but they're grey, somewhat shorter than an average adult human, and have enormous heads with equally-huge black eyes resembling an upside-down-raindrop. They never have a single hair on their bodies. They probably have no nose (when they do, the nostrils are thin like reptiles), and they almost certainly wear no clothes (though they will have no visible genitals). In practice, they are essentially humans with all "animal" traits removed. In the older stories, they sometimes got silver spacesuits. Sometimes they will be a muted blue or green instead, and very occasionally a beige variant. Like the Little Green Men before them, they still tend to come in Flying Saucers. However, the overtly hostile version is much rarer; abduction is their primary modus operandi (which naturally may be taken as still fairly sinister of course). They will not speak in beeping noises, though, and they certainly don't know English. Mostly they will not speak at all. They may be telepathic. What they do with those abducted varies, but performing experiments on them, especially intrusive sexual experiments, is common. Specifically, Anal Probing and the creation of Half Human Hybrids. Why aliens would be so interested in human biology remains unclear, although the standard story is that they are nearing extinction and need human genetic material in order to restore their reproductive capabilities, or alternately that they need info about humanity in order to try to take control of Earth, sometimes in alliance with human governments or conspiracies. (It has been noted that their appearance and modus operandi share more than a passing resemblance to those of the more traditional depictions of the Fair Folk, suggesting either an innate human need to believe in such beings or the length of time they've been studying us. For more on this, see Alien Fair Folk.) Far from being black and grey, their beliefs are usually of the Blue and Orange sort. May be Sufficiently Advanced Aliens who haven't visited us since the time of the Pyramids. Despite the fact that Earth is an Insignificant Little Blue Planet, they will be obsessed with us for reasons which may vary. Perhaps they want to help us Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. Perhaps we are the Precursors. Perhaps they merely want To Serve Man. In other cases, they may be benevolent or much wiser than humanity, often in a hippie sort of way, granting the abductees really trippy cosmic visions. They'll hardly ever do much more than that, though. A variant is much taller and more slim proportioned and somewhat more human in the face. Often used when they're meant to be less mysterious and more human to interact with. Compare with Humanoid Aliens, Little Green Men, and Lizard Folk. Not to be confused with the movie starring Liam Neeson. |
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In Cazador, they come from a planet called Juno and they are much more feisty than usual, being avid football fans who sing stadium chants as they invade the Earth. | |
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Although Icon has a human appearance, due to an emergency device in his ship, his species looks a lot like a stereotypical grey alien in their natural form. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance, a quartet of Greys are characters in the "Oceans Unmoving" storyline. From what we know of them, they were grown in test tubes, are obsessed with Anal Probing, and got to Timeless Space via attempting to "probe" a Time Machine with a rake (in a parody of XCOM). They're also a homage to The A-Team, being named Murdock, Face, Hannibal, and B.A. | |
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A girl in Franken Fran ends up looking like one after too many surgeries to look like a chibi anime character in real life. | |
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Rocketship Voyager. The Caretaker is a slightly built figure with grey skin and an oversized cranium, who moves about in a discoid hover-craft and sends out mercenary Space Pirates to steal sentient specimens and technology for study. | |
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The TV show Dark Skies depicted an alternate version of the history of the 20th Century, with elements of the US government either battling or working with a covert invasion by the Hive, a race of Greys. Or, more precisely, a parasitic alien race that had conquered the Greys and were now working on us. | |
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Taken: The aliens are classic greys who are about four foot tall and possess large heads, oval-shaped eyes, spindly bodies and three fingers and a thumb on each hand. | |
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The Sons of Silence in the Archie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic. | |
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A Grey appears as a mysterious vision in Serial Experiments Lain, in an episode which also references the Roswell incident. It is referenced in other episodes as well. Unlike the usual nudist Greys, it is wearing a red and green striped shirt. | |
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The first appearance of aliens meeting this description in Western pop culture was an episode of The Outer Limits (1963) entitled "The Bellero Shield", which first aired February 10th, 1964. People began claiming to have been abducted by aliens looking just like the ones from the TV show within weeks, which we are sure is merely a coincidence. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Beyond the Veil", Eddie Wexler is plagued by flashbacks of being abducted by grey aliens. In "Dark Child", Laura Sinclair was abducted by The Greys in 1984 and impregnated, which resulted in the birth of her daughter Tammy. Clips from "Beyond the Veil" are used to represent her nightmares. |
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There's an interesting aversion in one episode. As Chef and the boys are escaping the Greys, they suddenly see a light behind them and scream that the aliens are after them. However, it turns out that it's not a UFO chasing them but four Greys in a sedan, one of whom leans out of a window with a gun (a plain old Earth gun) to shoot at the escaping vehicle. Then they get The Dukes of Hazzard treatment. | |
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The Masters in The Tripods series have more then a few characteristics of this. They inspire a pseudo-religious awe in humans, even humans free from their mind control are awed by their incomprehensibility and they have mysterious psychology. Not to mention technological power amid a world of humans reverted to medievalism. Physically, though, the Masters in no way resemble Greys in either the books or the TV show (the design in the TV show is significantly different from the description in the books, though both are non-humanoid). |
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Melonpool has archetypical "lottle grey men" in the form of the G.R.A.I.S.E.. | |
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In Alien Secrets, the Greys, or Ebens (short for Extraterrestrial Biological Entities), are one of the three alien races known to the secret branch of the US government, the other two being the Nordics and the Saurians. Shortly after being recruited into the program, the protagonist learns not only that the Nordics are actually time-traveling humans from about 11,000 years in the future, but the Greys are also descended from humanity, only roughly a million years from now. There are actually hundreds, if not thousands, of Grey-like branches of humanity in their time period, with the stereotypical "short humanoids with large heads and black eyes" look being just one of them. Despite a somewhat similar physical appearance to the Greys, the Saurians are a completely alien species. Unlike the Nordics, who are friendly to modern-day humans, and the Saurians, who are generally hostile, the Greys mostly treat humans as cattle or lab rats. When they first made contact with the US, they demanded the President Eisenhower sign an agreement allowing them to abduct a small number of Americans each year in exchange for some technology. When he initially refused, they threatened to sign the same agreement with the Soviets instead, forcing him to sign rather than let the Russians have alien tech. The protagonist also learns that the Greys have been interfering with human civilization for millennia, studying and modifying DNA, which he finds paradoxical, since it essentially means that they are ensuring their own evolution. | |
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The Architects in Alien Dice, aside from spooking primitives from some backwater planet they gave galactic society Nano Machines, but left when the AD corp stole a more advanced version for use in their Dice. | |
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The Zorblaxians, an alien race frequently featured in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal look like Greys, except they are dark green and wear clothes. In some strips they fit the stereotypes pretty well, abducting humans for experiments; while in others they live on Earth among humans and are used as vehicles for social commentary. | |
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The most commonly depicted alien species in Bedtime Stories (YouTube Channel)', where, among other things, are said to be responsible for several Alien Abduction incidents, as well as mysterious disappearances and killings. | |
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Dragon Ball: Tagoma's design in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' owes a bit to this trope, only taller and lankier. Jiren in Dragon Ball Super is what happens when you put the head of your standard Grey on top of a Heroic Build. He's even called "Jiren the Gray" in-universe. |
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Tagoma's design in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' owes a bit to this trope, only taller and lankier. | |
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The Greys make an appearance in the mashup novel The Tumbleweed Dossier. One even becomes a vampire. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-2020 is a sentient humanoid made out of rubber that resembles this trope. He claims to be from an advanced extraterrestrial society, but constantly flip-flops on his claims. He's also an amateur science fiction writer, but can only think of basic outlines (of other SCPs). | |
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The Nedenah are peaceful Greys in the Past Doctor Adventures novel The Devil Goblins From Neptune. A later book explains the Nedenah are one of the races the Tzun got DNA grafts from. | |
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The Graidani in Star Power have some resemblance to Greys. And they used to be enslaved by their cousins the Graidan, who might be based on the taller "leaders" that appear in some accounts. | |
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The minimal descriptions of Jeft in With Strings Attached suggest he is a fat, smelly, nerdy Grey. | |
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Partway through his Tomodachi Life LP, Vinny added several identical Miis called the Jahns, which heavily resemble the Grays (although due to the limitations of the Mii Maker, their skin isn't actually gray). They are revealed to be a group of alien researchers stranded on Earth after their ship crashed; Vinny mentions that he intends to study them, in hopes of seeing how they differentiate. However, they quickly turn out to be more than they seem, as they quickly turn the tables and begin studying Vinny, as well as making deals with Isaac and Hailey. Then, in Episode 48, they finally put their plans into effect, converting the other islanders into more Jahns, with Vinny himself under their control. Fortunately, they're driven off by Mulder and Scully two episodes later; apparently, they just wanted chicken cutlets the whole time. | |
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Trying Human has the Greys as both protagonists and antagonists, depending on whether you're Rose or Majestic 12. To Rose, they're mostly friendly (eventually) but to the government, they're evil. The government has even invented weapons specifically designated to stop them. PERMANENTLY via 'blooms' that stop their telepathy by exploding their brains. Other alien races are present, such as the creepily adorable Reptoids and the only-mentioned Nordics, but the Greys are almost the 'heroes' of the story. | |
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Mars Attacks!: The Martians don't exactly resemble Greys, but their UFO's and one autopsy of them mirrors the rumors spread about the Roswell incident. | |
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Roger from American Dad! In one episode, Jesus meets Roger and mentions that Roger's people are one of his father's "side projects". |
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The few times we see the teen aliens' guardians in Roswell in their true form, they're classic Greys. | |
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Greys appear in the Mockumentary horror film Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, in a sinister home invasion that pre-dated Signs by five years. | |
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Kobolds from the dimension Kobol in the Myth Adventures series are a race of mathematicians and computer experts. They look more than a bit like this trope (smaller than Klahds, gray-skinned, big eyes in tiny faces, large heads, short limbs), aside from having dark hair instead of bald heads. | |
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The Asgard in Stargate SG-1 are the wiser, benevolent version. This is a result of Clone Degeneration; they used to look more like Space Elves. It's even discussed within the show that they resemble the typical Roswell Greys, and that the Roswell Greys may even be based on them, given how long the Asgard have been observing humans. In one episode an Asgard criminal named Loki spends an episode abducting people and has been doing so for some time. The implication is that he's the origin of "grey alien abduction" stories. Stargate Atlantis introduces a villainous splinter group of the Asgard called the Vanir who left for the Pegasus Galaxy long ago in order to avoid the Asgard ethical constraints. Interestingly, we have no idea who they are for most of the episode introducing them, as they tend to wear bulky encounter suits. |
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The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Little Green Men" deconstructs the Roswell crashing with the Ferengi as the species that crash-landed there, more specifically Quark, Rom and Nog after they accidentally travel back in time. Other than the big heads and small size, Ferengis do not look at all as Greys. | |
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In the Archer episode "Nellis", Krieger and Pam insist that the U.S. government is harboring these at Nellis AFB. They're right, and the Greys even walk around so casually that they enter an officer's club without bothering to check who is in there first (Archer & Co.). Although there is some suggestion it was All Just a Dream. | |
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Steven Universe: Greys are something of a recurring symbol for Peridot—who herself is heavily based on their green cousins. In "Log Date 7 15 2" she puts on a pair of Goofy Print Underwear dotted with their heads, her tape recorder has a sticker of a grey's head, and Peridot falls in love with a large stuffed Grey doll in "Too Short To Ride", her desire to win one being part of the catalyst that starts the plot. | |
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The aliens who finally appear at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. | |
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In the Shaman King manga, one of the plant guardians has a grey as his spirit. Later on it is revealed that the titular shaman king position was created by these aliens, as are all the pieces of odd technology in the series. | |
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Nightmare Time: The episode "Yellow Jacket" has the boy with blue veins, Otho, a vessel for the ancient god, Pokotho. He was made by splicing human DNA with a blue substance found on a meteor. He is portrayed by an otherworldly-looking puppet, with large, glassy eyes and long knobby fingers. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: Balok, or rather, the puppet he uses in "The Corbomite Maneuver", seen in the credits of every episode, looks like a typical grey. Star Trek: The Next Generation: The episode "Future Imperfect" has Commander Riker in a dream sequence telepathically caused by an orphan Grey alien kid named Barash. The episode "Schisms" has creatures abducting several crew members including Riker and Worf for weird medical experiments and they resemble Greys. Interesting enough, as the franchise already has societies of aliens and humans interacting naturally, these Greys are the next step; creatures from Another Dimension. The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Little Green Men" deconstructs the Roswell crashing with the Ferengi as the species that crash-landed there, more specifically Quark, Rom and Nog after they accidentally travel back in time. Other than the big heads and small size, Ferengis do not look at all as Greys. |
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The Kaminoan cloners in Attack of the Clones resemble Greys but are much larger and more stylized, with long necks and the males possessing crests. | |
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Harry Vanderspeigle, the alien protagonist of Resident Alien, resembles a Grey, albeit with a more purplish skin tone. | |
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A good example are the Arconans, the very first nonhuman species not native to Tatooine to be seen in the entire franchise (in A New Hope, 1977). They are basically The Greys... except for their brown skin, green eyes, flattened heads, and claws on their hands and feet. | |
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"DJ" Gray is one who has gotten himself stranded on Earth, now working as a fast food cook. | |
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Animorphs: Played for Laughs with the Skrit Na, who go around in saucer-shaped ships and regularly steal from, abduct and experiment on other species...but it's not entirely clear why, so that other aliens see them as really weird. In a more creative twist, they have Bizarre Alien Biology: a "Skrit" is a giant, barely-sentient cockroach which eventually spins a cocoon and dies, only for a "Na" to be born from the corpse. Also, the Na usually walk on all fours ("like all sensible creatures"), though they'll occasionally stand upright to use their front legs as hands. Whether intentionally or due to an authorial mistake, they're one of the oldest sentient species still in existence—they were already around when the Ellimist was mortal, which was around the time that dinosaurs went extinct. The Helmacrons look and act a bit like Greys as well, except they're the size of insects. Word of God says that the Andalites were originally supposed to look like this, but the publishers asked for something more creative, especially since they hoped to one day make a TV show. It sort of backfired—Applegate responded by making the Andalites with all sorts of extra complexities (stalk eyes, tail blades, etc.), which made them almost impossible to replicate when said series actually got made. |
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The Bloody Man: In Amy's Bloody Man story, when the titular Bloody Man is about to kill the boy after massacring his family, two greys show up out of nowhere to arrest him. | |
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The Greys are mentioned on a recurring basis in the first season of Resident Alien. According to Harry Vanderspeigle, they have "ass fetish". In a later installment, it's revealed that they abduct human babies from pregnant women and implant trackers in people. Harry refers to them as "insidious assholes". In the second season, it is revealed that The Greys are the true Big Bad and that they are planning to desolate the Earth and have already done so once in an alternate timeline. | |
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Intruders portrays greys as well as grey/human hybrids, and deals with all the tropes associated with them, from Roswell to abductions and implants. | |
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Jiren in Dragon Ball Super is what happens when you put the head of your standard Grey on top of a Heroic Build. He's even called "Jiren the Gray" in-universe. | |
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The Galvans from Ben 10 resemble this, albeit frog-sized. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: Balok, or rather, the puppet he uses in "The Corbomite Maneuver", seen in the credits of every episode, looks like a typical grey. | |
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The "keepers" from Jupiter Ascending. They're employed by Balem to guard Earth and maintain the Masquerade, and have all the hallmarks of the trope, including grey skin, large heads, and no clothes. | |
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The aliens in Scary Movie 3, a parody of the Signs aliens, look like fairly standard-issue Greys. | |
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The Sliders' episode "The Return of Maggie Beckett" shows the Greys. They are known as Reticulans. They existed in our dimension as well, but we didn't have the benefit of a President Adlai Stevenson to reveal their existence to the public. In the alternate universe encountered in this episode, the Greys are common knowledge, and Earth has traded technology with them. | |
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Occasional Greys make an appearance in the Nightside series, usually as a gag (e.g. seeing one lying in the gutter with a "Will probe for food" sign). One of the Nightside's most secure locales, the Fortress, was founded by traumatized alien abductees, who are determined to fight back with guns, napalm, and possibly even nukes if the little buggers ever come near them again. | |
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War God, a kaiju movie, sees planet earth attacked by three skyscraper-sized Martian Greys. Humanity's last hope? Guan Yu, of course! | |
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Subverted in Futurama: Greys do appear but are depicted as backwoods hunters, humorously reminiscent of those who they reportedly abduct. Fry gets his nose stolen when he's abducted by them. | |
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Orion's Arm has a tweak Clade modeled after the Grays. Given that Time Travel is next to impossible in the setting it's highly unlikely they had anything to do with the subculture that created them. | |
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The alien invaders in Independence Day resembled Greys to an extent, including doing the stereotypical abductions and being behind the Roswell crash. The resemblance wasn't immediately apparent, as they wore biomechanical suits that looked more like Predators. | |
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The Roswellians in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command are design after the Greys (tho they are a little bit greenish) and appear in several episodes, but they are mostly an inversion of the Alien Invasion and Roswell That Ends Well tropes as their planet is actually the receptor of alien visits and not the otherway around. | |
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America's roommate Tony from Hetalia: Axis Powers. He's an illegal alien. | |
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In Stolen Skies, the stories about the Greys are said to be inspired by the few genuine encounters with the aliens responsible for UFO sightings and crop circles. It's not what they really look like, however; when they touch Earth, they attempt to mimic human form, but they're actually extra-dimensional beings with no bodies as we understand them. | |
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The Forgotten has an alien who looks like a creepily-smiling human. He lets his human facade drop only once... and it resembles a typical Grey. | |
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Stargate villain Ra was originally a grey-like alien that somehow managed to posess a human to survive as its own body was dying. Glimpses of this as well as a wall painting depicting his true form are seen throughout the film. Just before he is nuked at the end his true appearance is revealed for the last time. Once the show was created and the Asgard introduced this was explained that Ra's previous host was an Asgard. | |
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Star Trek: Untold Voyages: In "Odyssey's End", a species of grey aliens who call themselves the Abductors (as their true name is untranslatable) study inhabited planets for signs that they were seeded with non-indigenous lifeforms by their rivals, the Preservers. The Abductors believe that this seeding process robs the relevant planets of their individuality. They are on an ancient mission to remove the seeded lifeforms and return them to their planet of origin. One of the many planets that they visited was Earth, which gave rise to the numerous stories of Alien Abduction in the 20th Century. | |
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Nope: The alien-themed Western amusement park, Jupiter's Claim, sells plushies of these as part of its marketing. They also are responsible for messing with the lights in the stable... except it's just Jupe's kids playing a prank as revenge for Emerald stealing a display horse. Angel also speculates about "the little guys with the big eyes" being at the centre of the movie's mystery. | |
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Paul: The titular alien looks like one. It's mentioned that his image has deliberately been put into pop culture for decades to make it easier for humanity to accept when they eventually learn about his race. | |
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In the horror anthology V/H/S/2, the Greys are the titular antagonists of the finale segment Slumber Party Alien Abduction. | |
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Signs, although a bit more sinister than most renditions. Signs Greys are the Proud Warrior Race Guy version; taller (human height) and more muscular than the standard, with thicker limbs. | |
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The Cyantian Chronicles has two species that qualify. The Cil, who have to merge with other species to survive in earth's environment and accidentally created the weres that way. And the Rumuah, who created the Cyantians from human and animal DNA but largely went extinct centuries before the anal-probing phenomenon. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, when Luke contemplates Tedd, Grace and Noah as being aliens, he pictures Tedd and Grace staring at him with faces like that of Greys. The Uryumoms look like this, at least in their base form. |
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The Jenkinsverse knows the Greys as "Corti", a species so devoted to a eugenics program that favored intellect above all other concerns that their bodies and empathy have both allegedly atrophied (though in practice, they never had much of either to begin with). Corti are self-interested to a fault, but far from stupid: indeed, they're far more likely to make a mutually beneficial deal than an unfair one, because the mutually beneficial deal ensures that angry customers don't try to kill them. Still, they have a sideline in abducting specimens of "non-sapient" pre-FTL species for "zoological research" so that, when said species do join sapient civilization, they will find Corti merchants waiting with an assortment of suspiciously well-designed medicines, cybernetics and technological luxuries. | |
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Doctor Who: The Silence resemble Greys crossed with The Men in Black. Their enlarged craniums have hollows below their (relatively normal-sized) eyes to make them appear black and huge. They first show up in America, influenced NASA to go to the moon, and reappear in the season finale - inside a pyramid with a US flag painted on one side, dubbed "Area 52". They are eventually revealed to be biologically-altered human time-travellers from the far future. | |
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The little newborn alien baby in Men in Black is a Grey with tentacles. | |
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In Aunt Dimity Digs In, the Peacocks have a new sign painted for their pub, depicting two faces on a dark background: "One face was slightly larger than the other, but apart from that, they were identical: hairless, triangular, and delicate, with enormous eyes, plug holes for nostrils, and thin slits for mouths. They wore dark brown hoods, and their skin was a pale shade of greenish-gray." Naturally, the new name of the pub is "The Green Men". | |
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Superboy and the Ravers: When Byron Stark finally tracks down the aliens that crashed a saucer into his parents home killing his parents, siblings, girlfriend and unborn child back in the '50s they're short Greys. | |
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The aliens in Fire in the Sky resemble Greys with their space suits even more so resemble the typical Grey, while their actual appearance is based more on abductee Travis Walton's descriptions. | |
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"Angel Down, Sussex" revolves around an encounter in 1925 with strange beings who are interpreted by the people they meet as angels, demons, or fairies ("aliens from another planet" not being a popular meme yet). They're about the height of a child, and bald, with large black eyes and no nose to speak of, and are associated with strange lights in the sky. Witnesses variously describe them as being dressed in silvery cloth, or being completely naked and lacking in attributes. | |
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"Lone Huntress" provides a version of grey aliens combined with The Fair Folk. The Fey seek to conquer other species, yet their methods rely on subterfuge and infiltration. Their primary agent in such work: crossbreed hybrids known as changelings, compelled to act due to the Fey's hivemind telepathically enslaving them. For added variety, the Fey themselves are even more strictly under the control of the Overone, to the point that it's unclear if they're even separate individuals or unconnected appendages of a singular entity. | |
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The Greys make several appearances in South Park. They visit Earth to record everything as an intergalactic reality show. The Greys antagonize humans (especially Cartman for some reason) but praise cows. There's an interesting aversion in one episode. As Chef and the boys are escaping the Greys, they suddenly see a light behind them and scream that the aliens are after them. However, it turns out that it's not a UFO chasing them but four Greys in a sedan, one of whom leans out of a window with a gun (a plain old Earth gun) to shoot at the escaping vehicle. Then they get The Dukes of Hazzard treatment. |
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The alien invaders from War of the Worlds (2005) are basically Greys, with some anatomical differences (like having three legs). They also have vertical mouths full of teeth. | |
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The Greys are featured in the science fiction series, Alterien. They have all the features common to the well-known aliens of legend. They are called the Shanda'ryn in this series. | |
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They appear briefly in Rasputin Barxotka, using probing to harvest human sexual energy to power their ships. | |
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Stargate Atlantis introduces a villainous splinter group of the Asgard called the Vanir who left for the Pegasus Galaxy long ago in order to avoid the Asgard ethical constraints. Interestingly, we have no idea who they are for most of the episode introducing them, as they tend to wear bulky encounter suits. | |
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In Christopher G Nuttall's When The Empire Falls, Humanity must fight a Gray conquest. He also painstakingly includes real UFO lore, including the creation of hybrids, and their base as being at Zeta Reticuli. | |
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The Sanksians from Chrysalis (Beaver Fur), of which Ambassadors Daokat and Nakstani are members, are described as humanoids with thin bodies, large eyes, smooth, silvery skin, and recognizably humanoid sexual dimorphism. In the absence of proper humans, these serve as the Everymen alien race of the story. | |
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It's implied in Transmetropolitan that a grey like alien race exists, even though all we see are transients (people who have spliced themselves with alien DNA) and it's even offhandedly mentioned Earth has economically subjugated them. It is stated that they have a colony on Earth, and having already commodified their art and culture, their DNA is the last thing they had left to sell. | |
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In ElfQuest, the native forms of the High Ones kind of resemble elongated, yellow-orange variants of the Greys, with a bit of Rubber-Forehead Aliens thrown in. | |
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The aliens in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull are typical Greys, albeit with magnetic skeletons, as befits the film's Genre Throwback nature. | |
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Dark Skies has the Greys as the antagonists, albeit taller and more skeletal-looking than typical portrayals. The film's aliens are definitely sinister and unsympathetic (Alien Abduction being the primary threat), but not precisely evil. Rather, the film specifies that they're so advanced and so other that they're beyond human comprehension. | |
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In the Tick episode "Tick vs the Big Nothing", an alien race called the What disguise themselves as Greys in order to avoid their enemies the Hey (who happen to look like Arthur). | |
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The Fnrrns in the Terra Trilogy have large bald grey heads and large black shiny eyes. However, they're actually quite tall, and only one of them has any interest in Earth whatsoever. | |
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In Chapter 19 Heaven's Design Team, Mr. Saturn tries to recreate his grandson's crush based on a doodle the child drew. The basic prototype model is a grey humanoid creature with bulbous head, humongous eyes and tiny ears. Then they add increasingly weird features, such as the ability to rotate its head 180 degrees and having two tongues. As it turns out, Kenta's "first crush" was Pluto's prototype project, which eventually becomes a tarsier. | |
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A galactic TV host in Sgt. Frog, who's even named R Grey. | |
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The Vree in Babylon 5; in the episode "Grail", a station ombuds (something like a judge or arbitrator) has to deal with a lawsuit filed by the descendant of a UFO abductee against the descendant of the Vree who did the abducting. Naturally, their ships (seen in a few episodes) are round and flat. There were three species that resemble Greys-the Streib and the Zener (aka the "Shadow Surgeons" seen in flashbacks operating on telepaths to interface them with Shadow technology) were the other two. And the Streib apparently abducted people as well... The other two's names are Shout Outs: Whitley Streiber wrote the alien contact novel Communion, and Zener cards are used by parapsychologists for psychic testing. Unlike some examples of this trope, the Streib are not Sufficiently Advanced Aliens and when they attempt to prey upon powerful races can get a severe thrashing. When they tried to kidnap humans the humans intercepted and destroyed their ship, and when they tried that on Minbari, the Minbari "tracked them back to their homeworld and made sure they understood the depth of their mistake" as Delenn put it. The Vorlons and Shadows apparently. The Vorlons after all abducted Jack the Ripper who for some odd reason wasn't missed much by Earthers. According to the fluff, the Vree are very advanced technologically, second only to the Minbari. In fact, they are the only younger race except for the Minbari to have perfected Anti Matter reactors and weapons. The fluff also claims they have teleportation technology, a feat no other race can match. |
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Men in Black: The Series introduces two races: The Arquillians are exactly like a grey in their look, except for their tiny size. They are a pacifist race and pass as humans using big human-like suits. The Baltians, another grey-looking alien race, albeit they are taller than humans (as some greys are allegedly in Real Life). The first race un doing "official" First Contact with humans and the ones giving humans all sorts of technologies that the MIB decide when they go public. They also travel in flying saucers. |
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Sinestro: The people of the Naidroth Collective are short, hairless, grey skinned, large eyed aliens who travel in flying saucers abducting and experimenting on sentient lifeforms. Sinestro recruits one who is disturbed by her people's activities, and Sinestro's. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: The episode "Future Imperfect" has Commander Riker in a dream sequence telepathically caused by an orphan Grey alien kid named Barash. The episode "Schisms" has creatures abducting several crew members including Riker and Worf for weird medical experiments and they resemble Greys. Interesting enough, as the franchise already has societies of aliens and humans interacting naturally, these Greys are the next step; creatures from Another Dimension. |
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