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When humanity makes an enemy of a non-human race, we really know how to pick 'em. Not only are they unspeakably powerful, they're also really ugly! Eww! The possibilities are very varied. Maybe the aliens are horrid, reptilian creatures, noisy clanking machines or twenty meter tall giants. Of course, being so ugly and inhuman it's no surprise they've come to wipe us out. Well, the upside for humanity being involved in a (probably losing) war against these creatures is we can at least tell them apart from us humans easily, so they'll never infiltrate our society with spies and saboteurs. That is, until they figure out how to make a Mobile-Suit Human, make Ridiculously Human Robots, or use People Jars to change into human forms. Which is what they just figured out: they look like us now. The revelation will put the entire cast on edge, because they have just discovered the aliens/robots/monsters have developed a (near) perfect Masquerade or disguise. They aren't Puppeteer Parasite, able to take control of specific people or pose as them, just able to pose as a human. They are nonetheless much more dangerous because with enough patience they can now infiltrate any group. Expect small groups to tear each other apart over mutual accusations of alien-ness... just what The Mole wants. For a measure of irony, the aliens infiltrating humanity to rip it apart from the inside may discover that Humanity Is Infectious... and not in a The War of the Worlds sense. Most of the Shapeshifter tropes and spy tropes apply, with the caveat that things like Kill and Replace and Dead Person Impersonation can only be used if few people really knew the original, since the impersonator can't mimic specific people. A trope increasingly beloved by Live Action Series, as it neatly avoids the potential Special Effect Failure of making robots, aliens etc... and saves money on Special Effects. The trope may be Played for Laughs if the non-humans adopt a Paper-Thin Disguise but still fool people in their persona as "Hugh Mann." A subtrope of Human Disguise, where non-human creatures pass themselves off as humans. Compare Human Aliens, where aliens just happened to look like humans. A rich source of Paranoia Fuel. |
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Tom Terrific: The story arc "Million Manfred Mystery" dealt with some impressionable aliens who mistake Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog to be Tom (he's wearing Tom's funnel cap while he's off at the store), so they make a plan sheet of Manfred and the entire alien race duplicate themselves as Manfred. The base reason is that Tom is so likeable that the aliens want to be just like him so Earth people will like them as well. | |
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Logan's Run: In "Stargate", the aliens have a machine that allows them to assume the appearance of a given person. Everyone in the community except for Timon was subjected to it and died as a result. The early stage of the process was used on Logan and Jessica but they managed to kill their partially formed duplicates before it was completed. | |
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The entire premise of The Thing (1982) and The Thing (2011), played for all the Paranoia Fuel it's worth. | |
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V (both 2009 and the original) has reptilian aliens. Played both ways, as not only have the Vs infiltrated human society, there is a rebel faction which sympathizes with humankind and seeks to thwart their leader's plot. It's revealed that these rebels have even infiltrated the upper echelons of the V command structure. |
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In The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VII (during the short "Citizen Kang"), the evil aliens Kang and Kodos kidnap US President Bill Clinton and Senator Bob Dole, both of whom were the top candidates for the then-current 1996 presidential election. Kang and Kodos use a machine which disguises them as the two politicians, allowing them to run in the election and take over the USA (and soon the whole world). For some strange reason, nobody really notices how "Clinton" and "Dole" are behaving so weirdly and unearthly, and it's only until when Homer Simpson rips off their disguises in public does everyone see that they're actually aliens. Though this doesn't stop Kang and Kodos from telling the voters that they still had to pick one of them. | |
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Agents in The Matrix take on human forms but are easy to spot due to their choice of attire. Also, in The Matrix Reloaded, Smith downloads his programming into a human mind in the real world, making him even closer to being human. | |
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Referenced in Back to the Future, though of course Marty McFly is perfectly human. | |
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The Thing (2002) has this as a gameplay mechanic. By using a syringe and a chemical that reacts to blood by releasing heat, you can test your party members for infection. If the syringe changes from red to brown, they're A-O-K, but if the syringe breaks, fry him, he's an alien, and mutating into a beastie as we speak. | |
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Supergirl: In the storyline "Supergirl's Greatest Challenge", the green-skinned, pointy-eared Chameleon Men shape-shift into human forms to destroy the Legion of Super-Heroes and infiltrate Earth. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): The nine-foot tall, eight-hundred-pound reptilian monsters with whom humanity fights a losing war in "Quality of Mercy" and "The Light Brigade" manage to pull this off by surgically altering their (much smaller) females. | |
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On both Power Rangers and Super Sentai, Major Villains, Monsters of the Week, and even Mooks occasionally take on human form for a disguise. Usually reverting to Monster form when a fight scene commences. | |
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In XCOM: Enemy Unknown the Thin Man alien units would count as this. Their disguise is pulled off pretty good as well... thin men! Until they pull out their alien weaponry and start doing back-flips in business suits that is. Also their eyes if studied are reptilian in nature, which would explain why they wear dark glasses. The bases of their necks are also scaled, implying that only the always visible parts are human in appearance, although this isn't stated ingame. | |
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Midway through Marathon, the Pfhor begin fielding Action Bomb simulacra that blend in with the Green Shirts... Except for their (mostly) strange exclamations and Alien Blood. | |
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Averted in Chimera Squad, where all Faceless encountered in the game are untransformed. One line of dialogue suggests impersonating people had deleterious effects on their psyche, so they won't do it without the Elders forcing them to. | |
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This trope is why, according to Task Force: Valkyrie from Hunter: The Vigil, werewolves and other shifters are a much greater national security threat than other supernatural creatures. Vampires have known limitations, and mages have difficulty using spells in public, but the Uratha look completely normal until they walk into a secure area and turn into eight-foot-tall killing machines. | |
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The eponymous robots in Screamers started off as small, subterranean weapons; they were deployed on a desert planet torn by war between rival factions. The screamers were produced en masse in an underground, automated facility, which eventually began to develop more advanced models; Type Is were still small robots, but more streamlined. Human models were also developed, including small children, a male adult, and a female adult. Becker, a Type II (adult male), claims he can change his appearance by carving off the faces of humans. | |
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The formless JAM in Sentou Yousei Yukikaze. In the anime, they start by copying Earth's technology (namely weapons and aircraft) before later moving onto human beings themselves. As it turns out, this is how the JAM see Rei and Yukikaze. | |
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In Fallout 4, the Institute has reached a point in its work on autonomous androids that their current Generation Three Synths are functionally human, to the point the only way you can tell if someone is a Synth is to kill them. | |
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Instrumen from The Sanity Circus are capable of taking on the form of (empowered) humans, although Morphic Resonance applies in terms of clothing. The Scarecrows also appear as humans, with their black eyes and stitched mouths only appearing at certain (suitably dramatic) moments. Additional series art has suggested that these forms are nowhere close to being their true ones. | |
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The human-form Replicators in Stargate SG-1. A different group of bad guys try to invoke this with a friendly species that create illusions and fake memories in the minds of potential hostiles as a self defense mechanism. | |
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Calling All Creeps is pretty much based around this concept. | |
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Call of Cthulhu: The Mi-Go can surgically modify themselves to fit inside a "human suit" and masquerade as people. Said 'suits' are made by hollowing out a human body, by the way. Serpent People can use spells (such as Body Warping of Gorgoroth) to take human shape. |
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This trope is outright exploited by the Founders in Deep Space Nine: One reveals himself to Sisko to gleefuly reveal that there are only four Founder infiltrators on the entire planet Earth, center of The Federation, and look what they've accomplished! In fear of the possibility of Founder infiltrators amongst them, Earth declares martial law, and a series of events nearly leads to an outright military coup of the civilian government, and two Starfleet ships firing on each other. | |
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Inverted in District 9, when the young alien remarks that Wikus, in the process of transforming into an alien, "looks the same" as him. | |
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A recurring theme in Super Robot Wars: Original Generation. Even when not deliberately trying to disguise themselves, most of the alien monsters they fight seem to get progressively more humanoid as the game goes on. Actually inverted with the two main alien factions, though, similar to the Nadesico example. One turned out to be human abductees brainwashed by an alien Master Computer, the others (& by extension the creators of the aforementioned computer) were actually descendants of a lost starfaring civilization from Earth. Played straight by the Eldritch Abominations known as the Einst, however, who can create copies of people they've encountered & whose supposed Ultimate Lifeform is an enhanced clone of one of the main characters. | |
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The Flintstones: "Ten Little Flintstones" has an alien ship landing in Bedrock and creating a series of Fred clones to learn about Earth prior to a pending invasion. The clones simply march around smiling vacantly and saying "Yabba-Dabba-Doo" ad infinitum, and everyone thinks each is actually Fred. | |
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In Traveller there is an interesting twist. When the Terrans meet the Vilani they learn that they actually are human. Of course that does not necessarily make the meeting pleasant. | |
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This is used from time to time on Star Trek, usually as a result of Magic Plastic Surgery, but other examples include the appropriately named shape-shifters from Deep Space Nine, and Species 8472 in its final appearance on Voyager. Inverted on an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where the Romulan proconsul correctly surmises that The Federation is using Romulan-looking spies. Also used in an episode of The Original Series, combined with Humanity Is Infectious. This trope is outright exploited by the Founders in Deep Space Nine: One reveals himself to Sisko to gleefuly reveal that there are only four Founder infiltrators on the entire planet Earth, center of The Federation, and look what they've accomplished! In fear of the possibility of Founder infiltrators amongst them, Earth declares martial law, and a series of events nearly leads to an outright military coup of the civilian government, and two Starfleet ships firing on each other. |
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In Girl Genius, "revenants" were initially known to the characters by obvious mindlessness and a Zombie Gait. The readers have known almost since meeting the first one that some act perfectly normal until they receive an order, which came as a nasty shock when they were found out. | |
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Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, another series adapted into Robotech, has the Inbit/Invid start recreating themselves in humanized forms, starting with one sent to spy on the protagonists. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles X: For the most part, the city of New Los Angeles is a safe haven for the player where nothing bad happens during the early game. As the game gets more serious and darker, though, it's revealed that the Ganglion have an alien race known as the Definians on their side... who can perfectly and instantly shapeshift to look like anyone they please. Cue large amounts of paranoia among the characters after several Definian spies are revealed within the city... including one who has been there since before the start of the game. | |
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In Mass Effect: Human Revolution the Geth Infiltrator disguises itself as a human in order to get into Noveria. | |
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Pops up several times in Animorphs, where the controllers suspect a human of being an Andalite in morph. | |
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They Look Like People is about a man who is either having paranoid delusions or is one of the few people to know about "monsters" who pass themselves as humans. | |
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First Wave: While we have no idea what the Gua normally look like (a DVD box cover gives then a Grey-like appearance), they use genetic engineering to grow Gua/human hybrid bodies called husks, into which they then download the minds of Gua individuals. It's implied that the Gua are naturally much stronger than humans. | |
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In the final episode of Season 1 of Pacific Rim: The Black, Boy is revealed to be a humanoid Kaiju, able to shapeshift into a Kaiju form when sufficiently angry. | |
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Also used in an episode of The Original Series, combined with Humanity Is Infectious. | |
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Malicious Durlans have used their shapeshifting abilities to infiltrate human society, as they did in "Invasion". Luckily for the DCU most Durlans are very against the idea of leaving Durla, meaning large scale invasions by the shape-shiftering aliens are not a major concern. | |
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Rom Spaceknight: The Dire Wraiths. | |
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This is by far the most significant difference between the The War of the Worlds film/radio show/whatever and the later TV show — in the latter, the Martians are able to posess human bodies at will. The second season implements the same trope, but in a radically different way: the second wave of aliens have altered their biology to the point that they now look outwardly human (albeit with luminous blood). |
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Doubly Subverted in Invader Zim, in which the titular alien wears a Paper-Thin Disguise consisting of a pair of contact lenses and a wig. Of course, except for a few people, it works just fine. Tak's disguise, on the other hand, is near flawless, and even fools Dib. | |
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Robotech and its parent Super Dimension Fortress Macross have the Zentraedi, a race of giants who later reveal they can "micronize" to become our size. They send a team of spies into the SDF-1, which backfires horribly for their Planet of Hats culture. Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, another series adapted into Robotech, has the Inbit/Invid start recreating themselves in humanized forms, starting with one sent to spy on the protagonists. |
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Mimic was basically about this — the giant mantis/termite hybrids may not have a perfect disguise, but if you're in poor lighting and not paying attention, they look a lot like a tall man in a trenchcoat. | |
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In Stick in the Mud monsters usually take human forms when visiting human world, Rod's bar in particular. | |
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Doctor Who: Autons are essentially life-sized plastic dummies, automatons animated by the Nestene Consciousness, an extraterrestrial, disembodied gestalt intelligence which first arrived on Earth in hollow plastic meteorites. The typical Auton does not look particularly realistic, resembling a mannequin, being robotic in its movements and mute. However, more sophisticated Autons can be created, which look and act human except for a slight plastic sheen to the skin and a flat-sounding voice. In Series 5 of the relaunched series, they are shown as being able to create fully lifelike human replicas, able to fool other humans. The Zygons have shape-shifting abilities, allowing them to replicate the appearance of another being. Limited by the small size of their force, they rely on shape-shifting and their organic space craft to conceal their numbers and seize power on Earth. "Asylum of the Daleks" revealed a new weapon in the Dalek arsenal: Dalek puppets. Dalek puppets are beings who had been taken by the Daleks and partially converted via nanogenes to serve them as slaves. The Dalek nanogenes automatically would convert any organism it came in contact with, living or dead, making them into a Dalek puppet. These slaves were used as sleeper agents. When activated, they would have a miniature Dalek eyestalk extend from their forehead and a miniature Dalek gunstick from the palm of their hand. |
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In Men in Black, the alien villains do this, but so do many (relatively) friendly aliens, as it is the only way they can live safely on Earth. | |
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The Avengers: "The Kree/Skrull War" featured a major panic over this, which (among other things) led to the formation of the Special Committee on Alien Activities. Ironically, it was not the shapeshifting Skrulls who were the main target, but their enemies the Kree—Who could still infiltrate Earth in human guise, because they were Human Aliens. | |
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Parodied (with particular nods to Battlestar Galactica) in a sketch on That Mitchell and Webb Look. In the midst of a Robot War, a rumour spreads that robots have infiltrated the space station, and are supposedly indistinguishable from humans. Cut to a particularly clunky Tin-Can Robot, talking to several other people (in textbook Robo Speak) who seem to be under the impression he's human. Even when a slice of toast pops out of him. | |
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In XCOM 2: The aforementioned neck scales and dark glasses hint that the ADVENT speaker is an improved Thin Man. ADVENT troopers look like Robocop until you remove their faceplate (as happens during a cutscene and during any Alien Autopsy you perform on them). Then again, ADVENT troopers are peacekeeping forces and only need to look human enough to not be scary to the human populace while still being armored and armed well enough to keep order in the Vichy Earth regime. Faceless, on the other hand, are straight up Shapeshifter that pose as civilians to ambush your troops while they are trying to rescue them (if they are aligned with La Résistance), or avoid them (if they are aligned with ADVENT, since the Gullible Lemmings they are will alert the authority if they see heavily armed terrorists walking around, but usually aren't attentive enough to pose a threat to the squad). |
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The titular beings in Strange Invaders operate in this fashion, concealing their monstrous forms under a human-looking outer covering. They are even able to birth Half-Human Hybrids while in this form. Unfortunately, as the decades pass the aliens don't bother keeping up with changing human language and culture, making them very conspicuous and odd despite their camouflaged appearance. | |
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Galactica 1980 beats them by twenty-odd years by having human-form cylon robots in the episode "The Night The Cylons Landed". However, the ones on the reimagined series are completely human looking, down to having a reproductive system. | |
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Every alien except Cole and Zin on Tracker (2001). | |
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Carrion: The very final upgrade lets the Creature shapeshift into a human, which it uses to escape the facility and onto society. | |
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In Stellaris, during the Contingency endgame crisis your affected Synthetic citizens will discover a way to upgrade themselves into Ridiculously Human Robots nearly indistinguishable from normal people, forcing you to find a way to detect them through their disguises before it's too late. | |
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X-COM: In XCOM: Enemy Unknown the Thin Man alien units would count as this. Their disguise is pulled off pretty good as well... thin men! Until they pull out their alien weaponry and start doing back-flips in business suits that is. Also their eyes if studied are reptilian in nature, which would explain why they wear dark glasses. The bases of their necks are also scaled, implying that only the always visible parts are human in appearance, although this isn't stated ingame. In XCOM 2: The aforementioned neck scales and dark glasses hint that the ADVENT speaker is an improved Thin Man. ADVENT troopers look like Robocop until you remove their faceplate (as happens during a cutscene and during any Alien Autopsy you perform on them). Then again, ADVENT troopers are peacekeeping forces and only need to look human enough to not be scary to the human populace while still being armored and armed well enough to keep order in the Vichy Earth regime. Faceless, on the other hand, are straight up Shapeshifter that pose as civilians to ambush your troops while they are trying to rescue them (if they are aligned with La Résistance), or avoid them (if they are aligned with ADVENT, since the Gullible Lemmings they are will alert the authority if they see heavily armed terrorists walking around, but usually aren't attentive enough to pose a threat to the squad). Averted in Chimera Squad, where all Faceless encountered in the game are untransformed. One line of dialogue suggests impersonating people had deleterious effects on their psyche, so they won't do it without the Elders forcing them to. |
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The use of humanisation technology in Pokéumans allows transformed Pokeumans to resume their old human forms - but only for a few hours. The PRT use these to rescue transforming Pokeumans before Pokextinction get there. | |
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Paperinik New Adventures: The Evronians have shapeshifting Super Soldiers just for this before arriving on Earth. They're used only three times, but each time they're devastating: The special "The End of the World" shows that one of them, Kravenn the Hunter infiltrated the Xerbian government and was decisive in the vote that made the Xerbians temporarily deactivate their orbital defences as a sign of peace (the Evronians invaded in that precise moment and overran the planet in a few scant days). The same soldier, who also has a tracking superpower, continues infiltrating Xerbian pockets of resistance in the (failed) attempt to capture a member of the government, going as far as jumping on one of the three evacuation ships; late in the series, after Xadhoom (a Xerbian who wasn't on the planet for the invasion due an experiment that gave her godlike powers) has reduced the Evronians to a few scattered remnants, Grrodon (a shape-shifter of a different variant, with no additional abilities aside shape-shifting but considerably more intelligent and autonomous than the average Evronian) infiltrates the US Army to prepare an invasion. He's arrested as a spy... But he's never outed as an Evronian. In fact his first appearance was in an episode set in the twenty-third century, and he's only found out because Paperinik recognizes the signs of an Evronian weapon and he drops the disguise; The 2014 continuation "Might and Power" shows how devastating Grrodon could have been: he broke out of jail and built an Evronian army from scratch under everyone's nose. Had an intervention from the future not forewarned Paperinik, he would have conquered Earth in a month from the start of the attack. In the reboot, a two-parter starts with a group of shape-shifting Evronians infiltrating a military base. Late in the two-parter the Evronians are invading Earth en-masse and we suddenly find out that every single military force on Earth has been incapacitated, and thus Pk is the only resistance. |
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StarCraft II adds a (multiplayer-only) Zerg unit called the Changeling, which upon entering sight range of an enemy unit automatically changes its color and transforms into that enemy's tier 1 unit (Terran marine, Protoss zealot, or zergling). Since it can't attack and has no other abilities, this is only useful for scouting. | |
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Inverted in Martian Successor Nadesico, when the Jovians — frequently referred to as "lizards" for much of the first half of the series and depicted as monstrous nonhumans in government propaganda — turn out to actually be humans, forgotten colonists from Earth. | |
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Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen got a good amount of drama out of having the Decepticon "Alice" who could pose as a human. As if paranoia about everyday vehicles and devices wasn't enough. | |
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Books of the Raksura: The Always Chaotic Evil Fell can shift between a monstrous form and an ordinary-looking humanoid form at will, contributing to a general distrust of shapeshifters. The shapeshifting Raksura suffer from the preconception even though they don't share the Fell's habit of sadistically preying on their neighbors. | |
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Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles had the Imposter Bugs (a subspecies that could fit inside the Mobile Infantry's Powered Armor to evade detection), and later the Infiltrator Bugs (full-on shapeshifting in and out of human form). | |
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In Sgt. Frog, higher-ranked Keronian platoons are authorized to use technology that lets them mimic humans almost perfectly. Unfortunately for Keroro, his Rank F squad is forced to rely on a set of dubious robotic suits. | |
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In RWBY: Epic of Remnant, Ivan the Terrible's Noble Phantasm spawns Oprichniki, a sort of false soldier serving as his Secret Police. When they attack a White Fang mining operation, the defender Bay Lupin is stunned in horror, thinking the Grimm have learned to imitate human forms and use of weaponry, especially as they dissolve into darkness when killed and attack in similar ways. | |
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Time Runner: The aliens infiltrate human society for several decades before launching an all-out invasion. Their number even includes the World President. | |
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Clean Room: Both Astrid and Chloe are able to see through the demons' stealth abilities. The demons respond by possessing human hosts without controlling them, which makes them indistinguishable from unaffected humans until they attack. | |
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In Terminator Salvation, this is the first time they go from "noisy clanking machines" to "Ridiculously Human Robots" in a Terminator film. Skynet explicitly went through several Terminator design evolutions to do this, reaching the fleshy T-800 and Shapeshifter T-1000 and T-X. | |
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Transformers in general is clearly in the same spirit. While most Transformers disguise themselves as vehicles rather than people, the principle is the same... Any car on the road or plane in the sky could be a robot in disguise. One of them could be in your driveway right now. And that's just the rank and file; it's been shown that they've branched out and there are Transformers who are capable of becoming all sorts of things you might have inside the house as well, like a camera, a microscope, a wristwatch, or a computer not terribly different from the one you're looking at right now. That monitor you're staring into? It could be staring back. | |
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