History Main / FantasyAliens

* [[spoiler: The Collector of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' fame is a "child from the stars" with RealityWarper abilities and possesses knowledge of [[WrongContextMagic magic foreign to the likes of the Boiling Isles]]. He is a walking, talking OutsideContextProblem in a series involving demons and witches native to the Boiling Isles and witch-hunters from the human realm.]]

* The Collector of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' fame is a "child from the stars" with RealityWarper abilities and possesses knowledge of [[WrongContextMagic magic foreign to the likes of the Boiling Isles]]. He is a walking, talking OutsideContextProblem in a series involving demons and witches native to the Boiling Isles and witch-hunters from the human realm.

May overlap with AncientAstronauts. Also see AlienEpisode, for other instances of aliens showing up in things that are otherwise not science fiction.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'': The Zonai, an ancient civilization which ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' obliquely referenced, are revealed to be AncientAstronauts. As Zelda and Link discover in the game's opening, the Zonai "descended from the heavens" to make contact with ancient Hylians, which caused the Hylians to [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien mistake them for gods]], and then went on to found the first Kingdom of Hyrule. The revelations about the Zonai also coincide with the introduction of their {{Magitek}} devices, shifting the ''Breath of the Wild''/''Tears of the Kingdom'' setting as a whole from a more-or-less standard MedievalFantasy setting to more of a ScienceFantasy one.

* In the final season of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Horde Prime]], a GalacticConqueror whom [[DegradedBoss Hordak]] was previously revealed to be a [[CloningBlues clone]] of, arrives with his Galactic Horde to conquer Etheria]]. Though, up to that point, the series as a whole already leaned closer to ScienceFantasy, having a classic fantasy setting ([[FunctionalMagic magic]], [[TheGoodKingdom kingdoms]], princesses, etc.) with many sci-fi elements like {{Magitek}} and technological {{Superweapon}}s.

** In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyXIV'', it's revealed that the entire race of dragons are extraterrestrial creatures. Their progenitor, Midgardsormr, came to Hydaelyn after fleeing a devastating war on their homeworld provoked by an unknown other alien species. Later, Midgardsormr also confirms that an ancient machine called Omega, originally believed to be garden-variety LostTechnology, is in fact an alien war machine built by the unnamed aliens that he fought back on his home planet.
* ''Videogame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': Later in the game, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the "goddess" Sothis is in fact a {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien|s}} that came from another world. It's implied that Fódlan is not the first world that she has visited and cultivated life and civilizations on.]]

* The Collector, the GreaterScopeVillain of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', is a "child from the stars" with RealityWarper abilities and possesses knowledge of [[WrongContextMagic magic foreign to the likes of the Boiling Isles]]. He is a walking, talking OutsideContextProblem in a series involving demons and witches native to the Boiling Isles and witch-hunters from the human realm.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'': The Zonai, an ancient civilization which ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' obliquely referenced, are revealed to be AncientAstronauts, having "descended from the heavens" to make contact with ancient Hylians, causing the Hylians to [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien mistake them for gods]], before going on to found the first Kingdom of Hyrule. The revelations about the Zonai also coincides with the introduction of their {{Magitek}} devices, shifting the ''Breath of the Wild''/''Tears of the Kingdom'' setting from a more-or-less standard MedievalFantasy setting to more of a ScienceFantasy one.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'': The Zonai, an ancient civilization which ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' obliquely referenced, are revealed to be AncientAstronauts, having "descended from the heavens" to make contact with ancient Hylians, causing the Hylians to mistake them for gods, before going on to found the first Kingdom of Hyrule. The revelations about the Zonai also coincides with the introduction of their {{Magitek}} devices, shifting the ''Breath of the Wild''/''Tears of the Kingdom'' setting from a more-or-less standard MedievalFantasy setting to more of a ScienceFantasy one.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': There's a subplot where you have to defend a ranch from aliens resembling TheFlatwoodsMonster. Their "ship", for want of a better term, appears as a glowing ball of light. ''Majora's Mask'' is otherwise a completely straight fantasy game.

* ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'': The Skeksis, and their counterparts the Mystics hail from another planet. This series actually uses this concept with Gaia-style philosophy where in the regular inhabitants of the planet get to become one with the planet upon their death while the Skeksis as aliens simply cease to exist upon death. Where they originally came from or why they came to Thra (or even how) is left largely unanswered.

** ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'': TheFairFolk come from a parasite universe rather than outer space, but their physical descriptions are reminiscent of TheGreys.

* ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'': Played with in “Enchanted Forest”: Charlie and Pim visit the title location, where they run into virtually every fairy tale and fantasy trope and creature imaginable, including witches, fairies and mermaids; at one point, the run into a regular old alien, with Charlie lampshadig that it doesn’t seem to belong there, though he eventually gets over it.

Also see AncientAstronauts.

Also see AncientAliens.

** Two articles in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' described the Sheen; alien MachineLife that would drop into a fantasy world and start trying to assimilate it. It namechecks both the Barrier Peakes and the Rael Cysts from ''Tale of the Comet''.

** Two articles in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' described the Sheen; alien MachineLife that would drop into a fantasy world and start trying to assimilate it.

** ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'': Creatures from planets in one solar system can travel to planets in other solar systems (and thus be "aliens") by using sailing ships powered by magic items called "helms".

** The Burning Legion, a varied army of demons from a hellish other realm, were now making use of sci-fi technology like HumongousMecha and automated gun turrets. The idea of the demons actually originating not merely from a hellish realm, but as races from other worlds before being conquered and added to the demon's army also began to be elaborated upon at this time.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': The founder of modern ninjitsu is later revealed to be a HalfHumanHybrid born between a human and Kaguya, a woman from the Otsutsuki clan of "celestial beings" that hail from another world with many others like themselves. These beings tend to send one of their own to underdeveloped planets and try to find a God Tree, which absorbs the blood and life of the native beings of that world to produce "chakra". The tree itself is an extraterrestrial plant that crashed on Earth via meteorite several millennia ago, and was revered by ancient humans as a divine entity. Some Otsutsuki harvest the fruit until it kills all of the native inhabitants, while Kaguya ate the fruit of the tree, settled on the Earth and came to be revered as a goddess.