History Main / AlienAbduction

* The Fallout3 add on 'mothership zeta' has the player and various wastelanders being abducted and studied about an alien ship.

* Arthur parodied this in a special relating to an episode plot-making contest (of which the episode itself [[TruthInTelevision was the direct result of such a contest]]), where Buster's plot idea was having Buster's character trying to get aliens to come down, they do, landing on Buster's character, take Arthur's character into their ship, doing anal probing (although, as it is a kids show, Arthurs character is just shown in his underpants, although the implications [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar were still on there]]), then leave Arthur behind. Also, the entire sequence was a direct ShoutOut to SouthPark (ironic, considering how that show was anything ''but'' kid friendly.).

* This happens to the protagonist, his [[DamselInDistress girlfriend]], his [[TheObiWan grand]][[MagicalNativeAmerican father]], and apparently half of Texas in {{Prey}}.

* In ''IndependenceDay'', Russell Casse apparently ''was'' abducted by aliens, only [[CassandraTruth nobody believed him]] and mocked him mercilessly about it until they showed up. Of course, it's never ''entirely'' made clear if it was true, or if the aliens in the movie were even the ones who did it.

* The MetalGear series played with these tropes in two of their games. In the first game, ''MetalGearSolid2'', The Colonel, shortly after Raiden manages to escape Arsenal Gear's torture room, suddenly starts telling what seems to be a typical UFO story where it is implied that he was abducted while trying to get home from work, giving the early implication that the Colonel is not who, or rather, [[AIIsACrapshoot what]], he claims to be. The second game, ''MetalGearSolid3'', has Sigint remarking that Zero claimed that he was abducted by Aliens once as a reason for him to suspend disbelief in regards to Snake procuring the Spirit Camo.

See Also: AliensStealCattle, AnalProbing

See Also: AliensStealCattle; AnalProbing

Before aliens from outer space became a popular concept, literature and folklore used [[TheFairFolk fairy abductions]], demon abductions, and gods abducting fair maidens, making this OlderThanDirt. Many of these stories reflect sexual urges excused and resolved through the agency of an irresistible entity like a god or alien.

* ''SailorMoon'': The Black Moon Clan in the Second Story Arc. Crimson Rubeus captures all the Sailor Senshi except Sailor Moon, who frees them after defeating Rubeus. In a later episode, Prince Demand captures Sailor Moon and tries to brainwash her into being his bride, but Tuxedo Mask intervenes and saves her.

* Subverted in ''RacetoWitchMountain''; Two alien siblings are captured by humans.

* ''Sailor Moon'': The Black Moon Clan in the Second Story Arc. Crimson Rubeus captures all the Sailor Senshi except Sailor Moon, who frees them after defeating Rubeus. In a later episode, Prince Demand captures Sailor Moon and tries to brainwash her into being his bride, but Tuxedo Mask intervenes and saves her.

** It is if you accept the comics as canon. [[spoiler: It is, and they were.]]

Humans returned from alien abductions usually have had bad things happen to them. They may have had a complete physical, possibly without anesthesia. They may have a little tracker planted in them. And even a benign alien can cause an abduction, and cause problems, if TimeTravel in either direction happens. Or they have been forced to be the ChosenOne.

See also AliensStealCattle.

* In ChristopherBuckley's novel ''Little Green Men'', alien abductions are the work of a top-secret U.S. government agency which had been manufacturing evidence of alien activity since 1947, and didn't start doing abductions until UFO sightings, crop harvesting and cattle mutilations had lost their novelty value. The rectal probing and egg harvesting only started because the abductees seemed to demand it. Actual LittleGreenMen aren't used any more because of the difficulty of obtaining midgets with security clearances.

* ''Communion'' by Whitley Strieber. [[ButItReallyHappened Allegedly based on a true story]]; made into a movie starring ChristopherWalken; helped establish jokes about rectal probes (to Strieber's dismay).

* ''TheSims'' games allow your Sims to get abducted by aliens if they spend too long stargazing. (It's a very small chance without hacks or cheats.) In ''TheSims 2'', they can also come back pregnant with an alien baby... [[MisterSeahorse if they're male.]] Now ''that's'' extreme anal probing.

* The {{Pilot}} episode of ''SouthPark'', "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe." Almost a hundred episodes later the aliens abducted him ''again,'' revealing that their secret motive this whole time was to monitor Earth because [[spoiler:it's actually a giant intergalactic reality TV show]].

*** "Stop! We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us!"

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* Parodied in Maxwell Strangewell, where the Moon Man complains to a Martian "All you Martians care about is probing people up the bum and slaugtering cattle!" The Martian's response? "Hey, it's a living."

Sometimes, if the alien is benign, the human will witness something that makes the abduction worth the trouble. If the aliens' interest is scientific research, expect them to be terrible at it: NoControlGroup, no reliable transquilizers (because how else could abductees keep waking up too soon, so they can see they're in a spaceship?), and no acknowledgement that it's indiscreet to keep abducting idiots who'll rush to spill their story to the tabloids.

* K.A. Applegate's ''{{Animorphs}}'' features the Skrit Na, a species that seems to be the basis of "TheGreys." As an Andalite protagonist explains in their first appearance, the Skrit Na basically go around in their weird, saucer-shaped ships, abduct people from other planets and either do weird experiments on them or put them in zoos on their home planets. Interestingly, ''nobody knows why,'' making the Skrit Na the CloudCuckooLanders of the galaxy.

* The {{Pilot}} episode of ''SouthPark'', "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe." Almost a hundred episodes later the aliens abducted him ''again,'' revealing that their secret motive this whole time was to monitor Earth because [[spoiler:it's actually a giant intergalactic reality TV show]].

** "Stop! We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us!"

* Subverted somewhat in Maxwell Strangewell, where the Moon Man complains to a Martian "All you Martians care about is probing people up the bum and slaugtering cattle!" The Martian's response? "Hey, it's a living."