History Main / TransHumanAliens

* ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds2019'': [[spoiler:The aliens are human-like invaders from another world. In fact, descendants of Emily and Sacha in another timeline.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Lunarians were humans that moved from earth to the moon in ancient times. They also have the most advanced technology in the series, live on the source of Gensokyo's magic, and include a pair of {{God Mode Sue}}s that systematically defeat many of the main characters. In spite of this, they notably still possess [[HumansAreFlawed human minds and personalities]], and the [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent extended isolation from other human factions]] leads them facing repeated military defeats against their much less advanced Earth counterparts.

* ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts}}'': The many races of the Microverse are all descended from a [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/earthswordinthestar.htm future humanity]] which fled through time, space and dimensions to escape a genocidal war.

* ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds2019'': The aliens are human-like invaders from another world. In fact, descendants of Emily and Sacha in another timeline.

** In Seruies 7, TheMster’s minions the Toclafane, are cheerful psychopaths who look like flying silver basketballs. [[spoiler:These balls contain [[BrainInAJar human heads]], revealing their true nature as refugees from a decayed far future]].

->''"We were like you once, but now we are different... certain weaknesses have been removed."''

* ''ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic'' features a vision of a dying Earth where the surviving humans have evolved into tall, translucent-skinned hunter-gatherers with drastically reduced intelligence. Their bodies produce chlorophyll to help cope with the lack of nutrients left on the planet.

** Some Cybermen aren't technically humans -- they're a nearly identical humanoid race from Earth's long-lost twin planet Mondas. Regardless, they often [[UnwillingRoboticisation forcibly convert]] humans and HumanoidAliens into Cybermen, so at least some Cybermen fit this trope perfectly. Other Cybermen are humans from an AlternateUniverse.
** In the episodes with John Simm's Master, his minions, the "Toclafane", are a race of cheerful psychopaths which normally look like flying silver basketballs. Inside these "balls" are [[spoiler:[[BrainInAJar human heads]], revealing their true nature as refugees from a decayed far future]].

** [[spoiler:The Face of Boe]] is most likely a human -- specifically, [[spoiler:Captain Jack Harkness]] -- after eons of AgeWithoutYouth.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': It's suggested (the crew can't really go look; finding Earth is one of the series' goals, though hardly ever really worked toward) that humanity is extinct due to the three million year difference between when Lister left Earth and the current time frame. They don't really know what happened, but in the first episode it is suggested that if three million years could turn a house cat into Felis Sapien, Lister compared to "modern" humanity might as well be the slime that crawled out of the primordial sea. The various species of [=GELFs=] (Genetically Engineered Life Forms) the crew encounters are all of human creation, but they serve very much the same role in the plots that aliens would in a more conventional space opera, so that every "alien" in the show is a human creation, fast-forwarded three million years. Many shows have the {{Precursors}}; here, we're it.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'' plays this a number of ways- every Spanner, whether Continuum or Narcissist has been at least partially uplifted by future technology to give them the ability to TimeTravel. Aquarian humans from after 2222 AD or so are benevolent, slightly weird telepaths (and get weirder the further Up you go) as a result of the same sets of technology, while past 2400 the world belongs to the Exalted and the [[TheGreys Inheritors]]. The Inheritors have apparently managed to colonise and fill the rest of the universe, so a portion of UFO sightings are spotting them taking a break en route to their colonies in the Earth's past (the rest are spotting them [[TimePolice cleaning up someone's attempt to mess with causality and cause vigintillions of Inheritors to never have existed]]). The monstrous side of the trope is played straight by [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination the Scorpiod Kings of Antedesertium]] who all started out as ''human'' Narcissists]].
* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'': "Transhumanity" is ''mostly'' composed of humanity and its descendants, though except for flats, almost everyone is genetically enhanced to some degree and virtually immortal. It also includes uplifted animals and AIs though, who are not that different from humanity anymore (and can slip into each other's bodies).

* ''Literature/TheDragonMasters'': A human colony is plagued by alien kidnappers. After fighting back and taking captives, the story shifts ahead many years, and the captive aliens have been bred into [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons of many breeds with many purposes]]. When the alien slavers return, it's revealed that they have [[BodyHorror done the same with their human captives]].
* ''Literature/HyperionCantos'': In ''Fall of Hyperion'', [[spoiler:the Ousters have modified their DNA to varying levels; the more extreme variants have massive wings and are capable of flying unassisted in space]].

* ''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy'': In ''That Hideous Strength'', it becomes apparent that the Moon became as desolate as it is because the {{Lunarians}} tried to destroy their bodies and become pure minds. The mad attempt destroyed their civilization and the few not to attempt bodiless immortality have been struggling to survive on the dark side of the Moon. It turns out that the goal of the earthly N.I.C.E. is to repeat the process on Earth with some help from [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the Macrobes]] to ensure no savages survive blemish their untainted universe.

* ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' is an early example with the Morlocks and Eloi as future humans (the result of respectively factory workers and privileged elites developing into separate species) and neither presenting that pleasant an outcome for the human race. The Morlocks are subterranean monsters with the intellect to operate machinery, the Eloi are beautiful creatures with low intelligence who live pampered lives. The latter is maintained by the former for food.

** The end result of devoting your civ to the Supremacy or Harmony affinities is turning your people into {{Cyborg}}s or {{Half Human Hybrid}}s respectively. This may be a positive or negative portrayal depending on how you play them Supremacy, Harmony, and Purity are about tools, not how they're used.

There are two broad ways in which these entities are portrayed. In the first, they'll be actual {{Transhuman}}s, whose inhuman or post-human state is the result of centuries, millennia or more of increasing technological or spiritual advancement and modifications to the original human form. These are often cyborgs, {{Energy Being}}s or aliens highly similar to TheGreys -- indeed, the Greys being far-future human descendants is a common element in conspiracy theories related to them. These posthumans will often be amoral or disinterested in modern humans, but there are occasional instances of uplifted humans who having experienced TheSingularity are benevolent and god-like. In the second case, they'll instead be bestial creatures, often a FormerlySapientSpecies regressed to animalistic ways, and physically monstrous in the bargain.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': It's suggested (the crew can't really go look; finding Earth is one of the series' goals, though hardly ever really worked toward) that humanity is extinct due to the three million year difference between when Lister left Earth and the current time frame. They don't really know what happened, but in the first episode it is suggested that if three million years could turn a house cat into Felis Sapien, Lister compared to "modern" humanity might as well be the slime that crawled out of the primordial sea. The various species of [=GELFs=] (Genetically Engineered Life Forms) the crew encounters are all of human creation, but they serve very much the same role in the plots that aliens would in a more conventional space opera, so that every "alien" in the show is a human creation, fast-forwarded three million years. Many shows have ThePrecursors; here, we're it.

There are two broad ways in which these entities are portrayed. In the first, they'll be actual {{Transhuman}}s, whose inhuman or post-human state is the result of centuries, millennia or more of increasing technological or spiritual advancement and modifications to the original human form. These are often cyborgs, {{Energy Being}}s or aliens highly similar to TheGreys -- indeed, the Greys being far-future human descendants is a common element in conspiracy theories related to them. These posthumous will often be amoral or disinterested in modern humans, but there are occasional instances of uplifted humans who having experienced TheSingularity are benevolent and god-like. In the second case, they'll instead be bestial creatures, often a FormerlySapientSpecies regressed to animalistic ways, and physically monstrous in the bargain.

%%* ''Series/StargateSG1'': The "ascended beings" -- at least, the ones who were human before they ascended.

* In perhaps already the most over the top and science fiction-ish James Bond plot competition, ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' contains not just Agent 007 himself engaging space travel as well as an invisible city orbiting around the Earth, but also an antagonist who’s evil plot involves destroying all human life on Earth and breeding genetically perfect people to create an ultimate humanoid alien race to come and take the big blue planet for themselves.

* In perhaps already the most over the top and science fiction-ish James Bond plot competition, ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' contains not just Agent 007 himself engaging space travel as well as an invisible city orbiting around the Earth, but also an antagonist who’s evil plot involves destroying all human life on Earth and breeding genetically perfect people to create an ultimate alien race to come and take the big blue planet for themselves.

* In perhaps already the most over the top and science fiction-ish James Bond plot competition, ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' contains not just Agent 007 himself engaging space travel as well as an invisible city orbiting around the Earth, but also an antagonist who’s evil plot involves destroying all human life on Earth and creating a genetically perfect humanoid species native to space to come and take the big blue planet for themselves.

* In perhaps the first prize winner for the most over the top James Bond plot competition,''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' contains not just space travel as well as an invisible city orbiting around the Earth, but also an antagonist who’s evil plot involves destroying all human life on Earth and creating a genetically perfect species to come from space and take the big blue planet for themselves.

* In perhaps the first prize winner for a weirdest James Bond plot competition,''Film/Moonraker contains not just space travel as well as an invisible city orbiting around the Earth, but also an antagonist who’s evil plot involves destroying all human life on Earth and creating a genetically perfect species to come from space and take the big blue planet for themselves.

Related to the EarthAllAlong ending, and sort of like WasOnceAMan for an entire species, this is where a group of alien/future creatures (typically those encountered by normal humans) are revealed to be the [[HollywoodEvolution future evolutionary path]] of humanity. These creatures are often monstrous in appearance and behavior and this idea generally has a strong element of HumansAreTheRealMonsters. Compare with NotEvenHuman; in this case, they are worse because they are. Note that there are occasional instances of uplifted humans who having experienced TheSingularity are benevolent and god-like.

For populations of humans that moved to space and ''stayed'' human, see TransplantedHumans. Compare/contrast with HumanAllAlong and HumanSubspecies. Not to be confused with {{Ultraterrestrials}}. See also NoTranshumanismAllowed and {{Transhuman}}. Can be used as a [[JustifiedTrope justification]] for HumanoidAlien or RubberForeheadAlien if time travel is involved.

* Possibly true at the end of ''Anime/ErgoProxy'' [[spoiler: the Proxies were created by humans with the intent that they would make Earth habitable again. When this does occur at the end of the series, you see a bunch of spaceships descend from the sky intent on killing the human survivors from the domes. While the viewer isn't shown what they look like, they are alien invaders who were/are human- see ''Man After Man'' below]]
* In ''Anime/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet'', [[spoiler:the Hideauze are revealed to be descendants from humans who volunteered themselves to be part of genetic experiments that would allow the human body to survive the harshness of space in search of a new homeworld to escape an Earth going through global cooling. That group, known as the Evolvers, were opposed by other humans who formed the Continental Union, the forebear of the Galactic Alliance. They wanted to escape Earth as well, but as humans, and relied on technology more than genetics. This contradicts everything Ledo learned about the Hideauze being a hostile alien force that wanted to wipe out humanity.]]

* TheReveal in the ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' series [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/{{Zenith}}'']] was that the EldritchAbomination villains were actually a trio of Earth superhumans who had evolved far beyond human form and and gotten stuck on the wrong side of a dimensional barrier in the process.
* The Sheeda from Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'' series were a future posthuman species that robbed the past to support their resource-poor civilization.
* The many races of Creator/MarvelComics' [[ComicBook/{{Micronauts}} Microverse]] are all descended from a [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/earthswordinthestar.htm future humanity]] which fled through time, space and dimensions to escape a genocidal war.
* Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic'' features a vision of a dying Earth where the surviving humans have evolved into tall, translucent-skinned hunter-gatherers with drastically reduced intelligence. Their bodies produce chlorophyll to help cope with the lack of nutrients left on the planet.

* The robotic alien creatures at the end of ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'' are a rare positive example of this. Being robots with biological components in a world where humans are extinct, the implication is either they are robots who won the RobotWar with evil humans or else uplifted humans who learned the error of their ways. In either case, they are a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien.
* A borderline example in ''Film/TheDescent'' with the cave creatures who evolved from homo sapiens or an earlier ancestor.
* ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'', the creatures are at first assumed to be aliens that somehow got aboard the ship. It's revealed [[spoiler:that they were humans that, like everyone on board, were exposed to an agent to accelerate their evolution and evolved to life on the ship.]]
* The beings responsible for creating the wormhole in the movie ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'' are speculated to be simply humans from the extremely distant future, who, like the Downstreamers in ''Literature/ManifoldTime'' have evolved to exist in strange 5-dimensional space and can thus travel through time as though it were a physical dimension, and influence the material Universe via gravitational alterations[[spoiler:, much like the "ghost" who directs the protagonist to the hidden NASA base is revealed to simply be ''himself'' from the future, influencing his own past to create a StableTimeLoop that will allow humanity to develop the technology necessary for interstellar travel.]]
* TheGreys from ''Film/OfficialDenial'' [[spoiler:come from the future and are the last generation of mankind, having lost the ability to reproduce. The protagonist understands this after consulting the database on the ship, remembering "DOS" words that to save "DOS"'s people, he must save his own]].

* In C.M. Kosemen's ''Literature/AllTomorrows'', humans first colonized Mars, where the lower gravity and other conditions caused them to evolve a little, but still be recognizably human. After humanity developed interstellar travel and settled many planets across the galaxy, an alien species called the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Qu]] showed up and, after [[CurbStompBattle defeating humans]] on almost every world, genetically engineered them into [[BodyHorror grotesque forms]]. These then evolved on their own for a few million years, most into forms that are no longer recognizable as originating from ''Earth'', let alone human. Several do re-evolve sapience, though. Eventually the cyborg Machines wipe out most of the other species, only to be stopped by the godlike [[SpacePeople Asteromorphs]], whose ancestors managed to escape the Qu since they lived on spaceships rather than planets.
* In ''[[Creator/PoulAnderson The Avatar]]'', [[spoiler:the Others seen to fit this trope, and actually invite Caitlín to become one of them.]]
* ''The Literature/BelisariusSeries'' by Creator/DavidDrake and Creator/EricFlint features in its backstory two opposing factions in a far-future war, which can be summed up as a fight over whether humanity should be defined by the mind or by the body. One faction is made up of Transhuman Aliens, humans evolved or genetically engineered to live on alien worlds, some even evolving into gigantic {{Space Whale}}s. Others scuttle about on crab-like legs that are modified ribs. The opposing faction fancies themselves the original, pure-blood humans, and [[FantasticRacism wants to wipe out]] all the evolved and engineered subspecies of humanity. Of course, this far in the future, they aren't recognizably human any more, either. More precisely, the [[SpaceWhale Great Ones]] are so different as to be made of non-organic crystals and forcefields, but think like human beings; whereas the New Gods resemble impossibly perfect humans, but have lost all compassion for those not like themselves to the point where they seem less human than the Great Ones. This is why one faction is trying to alter the past into a meritocratic society, and the other into a caste-based eugenic society.
* A group of Sauron SuperSoldiers of the ''Literature/CoDominium'' universe invade Haven. The natives blame everything from SpacePirates to supernatural monsters. Having the Saurons rule most of the planet for several centuries does nothing to clear up the matter for most people.
* In ''Diplomatic Act'', a book co-written by Creator/WilliamHKeithJr and ''Series/Babylon5'' actor Peter Jurasik, TheGreys ("Homus" is their real name) turn out to be humanity's descendants from the future.
* In Creator/JackVance's 1962 story, ''Literature/TheDragonMasters'', a human colony is plagued by alien kidnappers. After fighting back and taking captives, the story shifts ahead many years, and the captive aliens have been bred into [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons of many breeds with many purposes]]. When the alien slavers return, it's revealed that they have [[BodyHorror done the same with their human captives.]]
* In ''[[Literature/HyperionCantos Fall of Hyperion]]'', [[spoiler:the Ousters have modified their DNA to varying levels; the more extreme variants have massive wings and are capable of flying unassisted in space.]]
* ''Literature/ManAfterMan'' is all about this in a heavily HumansAreBastards way. Much of the book is about various genetically engineered species of humans all heavily dehumanized (and [[CripplingOverspecialization cripplingly overspecialized]] to boot). The book ends with an alien species coming to earth and destroying all life on land. They are the evolved remnants of the humans who went into space at the beginning of the book.
* The Downstreamers from Creator/StephenBaxter's ''Literature/ManifoldTime'' and ''Literature/ManifoldOrigin'' books are descendants of the human species from the very end of the Universe, after the Heat Death. Since much or all of the material universe has disappeared in their time, they function as disembodied minds hosted in a computational sub-stratum of the Universe itself, where they can survive indefinitely. This allows them to access entire galaxies' worth of energy and complete control over space and time. [[BlessedWithSuck It doesn't mean they enjoy it]], however.
* In M.C.A. Hogarth's ''Literature/ParadoxUniverse'' the Pelted are multiple races of genetically engineered [[BeastMan human-animal hybrids]] created as part of "Project Homefront".
* In Steve Alten's ''Phobos: Mayan Fear'', the grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be transhumans from the future, [[spoiler:specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.]]

** ''Literature/RevelationSpace'': The Ultras vary from human-seeming to animated works of art; the Skyjacks are permanently adapted for life in space; the Stoners are heavily augmented humans who go so far as swapping sexes and appearances the way most people choose hairstyles - Zebra, in Chasm City, has horselike legs, zebra stripe skin pigmentation, a mohawk that runs all the way down her spine, horselike ''eyes'', and [[GenderBender hasn't always been female]]. Not that any of that gives the hero a moment's pause before bedding her. In Zima Blue, outside of the Revelation Space universe, an artist who appears to be a transhuman turns out to be [[spoiler:a pool-cleaning robot who developed sentience and modified itself repeatedly over the centuries.]]
** In ''Literature/HouseOfSuns'', where we have a galaxy of staggeringly diverse beings, from sea-life to giant space-dwellers to semi-sentient weather, all of which are in fact evolved or modified human stock. The only reason the central characters are remotely recognizable as human comes of their spending the eons since the original diaspora flitting around at relativistic speeds and thus have passed much less subjective time in the meanwhile.
* Several ''Franchise/StarTrek'' ExpandedUniverse novels have the crew meeting "aliens" who turn out to be heavily modified humans.

* The Homo Ludens in the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers ''Literature/TheTimeWanderers'' are essentially [[spoiler:a benign, but detached group of ascended humans who protect their bodily brethren.]]
* In ''[[Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy That Hideous Strength]]'', it becomes apparent that the Moon became as desolate as it is because the {{Lunarians}} tried to destroy their bodies and become pure minds. The mad attempt destroyed their civilization and the few not to attempt bodiless immortality have been struggling to survive on the dark side of the Moon. It turns out that the goal of the earthly N.I.C.E. is to repeat the process on Earth with some help from [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the Macrobes]] to ensure no savages survive blemish their untainted universe.

* Lots of examples in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
** [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul The Cybermen]] from the page quote.
*** Some Cybermen aren't technically humans--they're a nearly identical humanoid race from Earth's long-lost twin planet Mondas. Regardless, they often [[UnwillingRoboticisation forcibly convert]] humans and HumanoidAliens into Cybermen, so at least some Cybermen fit this trope perfectly.
*** Other Cybermen are humans from an AlternateUniverse.
** [[spoiler:In the episodes with John Simm's Master, his minions, the "Toclafane" are refugees from a decayed far future. They are a race of cheerful psychopaths which normally look like flying silver basketballs. Inside these "balls" are [[BrainInAJar human heads]], revealing their true species.]]
** ''Series/DoctorWho'' also had Daleks that were partially built from human DNA in "The Parting of the Ways" as well as a human being converted into a human-Dalek hybrid in "Daleks in Manhattan/ Evolution of The Daleks".
** [[spoiler:The Face of Boe]] is most likely a human--specifically, [[spoiler:Captain Jack Harkness]]--after eons of AgeWithoutYouth.
* Nietzscheans and the Castalian fish-people from ''Series/{{Andromeda}}''. Nietzscheans are humans genetically engineered to be superior {{Ubermensch}}en by a literal NietzscheWannabe MadScientist a thousand years or so before the events of the series. They can eat almost anything organic, have nanobot-enhanced immune systems, and [[SpikesOfDoom bone spikes]] growing out of their forearms (in addition to the usual SuperStrength and other enhanced physical abilities). The Castalians are humans genetically engineered with gills to live underwater and breathe water rather than air. They've got nifty water-tank backpacks with tubes to their neck gills for when they have to come out of the water to meet others. Nietzscheans are pretty much neutral, Castalians generally fairly good guys, although they've done some nasty things to survive in the CrapsackWorld after the fall of the [[TheFederation the Commonwealth]], and they tend to treat the "air-breathers" (i.e. normal humans) on their planet as second-class citizens.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'' season 4 finale, "Deconstruction of Falling Stars" had a human from a million years into the future revealed as a trans-human EnergyBeing that uses an encounter suit much like the Vorlons earlier in the series did.
** Jason Ironheart becomes one after an experiment at creating telekinetics turns him into an EnergyBeing.
* The third season ''Series/BlakesSeven'' episode "Moloch" featured one of these, although it was {{justified|Trope}}, more or less, since said being was the result of a computer simulation made flesh by an [[AppliedPhlebotinum ultra-sophisticated replicator]].
* It's suggested (the crew can't really go look; finding Earth is one of the series' goals, though hardly ever really worked toward) that humanity is extinct in ''Series/RedDwarf'' due to the 3 million year difference between when Lister left Earth and the current time frame. They don't really know what happened, but in the first episode it is suggested that if 3 million years could turn a house cat into Felis Sapien, Lister compared to "modern" humanity might as well be the slime that crawled out of the primordial sea.
** The various species of [=GELFs=] (Genetically Engineered Life Forms) the crew encounters are all of human creation, but they serve very much the same role in the plots that aliens would in a more conventional space opera.
** Basically, ''every'' "alien" in Series/RedDwarf is a human creation, fast-forwarded three million years. Many shows have ThePrecursors; here, we're it.
* The ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Terra Nova" has the Enterprise encounter a colony wiped out by radiation, and an [[AliensSpeakingEnglish English-speaking]] primitive group of underground-dwelling bumpy-skinned humanoids, all under a certain age. Guess what, they're [[spoiler:the surviving kids and their descendants, having been hidden away in a shelter when their parents died]]. Why the Enterprise crew don't make the connection sooner is [[IdiotBall just par for the course]] for that series.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' {{inverted|Trope}} this trope [[spoiler:when it was revealed that ALL humanoid species, including humans themselves, were descended from ancient humanoids that thrived billions of years ago. The first humanoids had explored the galaxy and found [[AbsentAliens no beings like themselves]].]]

** Series wide, the human members of [[YouWillBeAssimilated the Borg]] could qualify. The vast majority of Borg drones seen seem to be human, including the various Borg Queens. That said, this is a series famous for its HumanAliens, so they could just be aliens that look a lot like humans. An Expanded Universe novel reveals that the first Borg ''were'' human, merged with a StarfishAlien.
*** Kes, an ascended Ocampa, counts.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' featured several incorporeal aliens who had evolved past a humanoid form, including the Organians, Zetarians and the Thasians. The Preservers had also evolved past the need of a body but resembled oversized brains, and several other humanoid species had been replaced by their own machines.
* The "ascended beings" in ''Series/StargateSG1'' - at least, the ones who were human before they ascended.
* An episode of ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' has a group of college students board an ancient alien starship. When they land, they find a skeleton of a human-like figure with bat wings, which they assume to belong to the aliens who sent the ship. Then it is revealed that the planet is [[PlanetOfTheApesEnding actually Earth in the future]], meaning the skeleton belongs to a human who has either evolved or has been genetically modified to have wings.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' had the classic episode "The Sixth Finger," about a working class guy who gets accelerated through EvolutionaryLevels to become a superintelligent creature. TranshumanTreachery follows, partly because he had been kind of a misanthrope to begin with.
* [[spoiler:The Observers]] of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' are revealed to be this, albeit coming from one possible future of humanity. Using their unique mastery of time, they are free to interact with the past (including our present).
* When Peter has amnesia in Volume 2 of ''{{Series/Heroes}}'', his soon-to-be-love-interest, Caitlyn, says she thought he was an alien escaped from a military base.
* On ''Series/{{Primeval}}'', it's speculated that the Mer Creatures from the future may be descended from humans, although it's only solidly established that they're primates.

* Some role-playing-games use the term "Evolutionary Offshoots" for such creatures
* The Therians from ''TabletopGame/AT43''. They're more Well-Intentioned Extremists than villains, as they're the descendants of humanity, but found that the universe would collapse in a trillion years in its current state. To prevent this, they seeded worlds with life which would strip their homeworlds of resources, allowing their conversion into a gigantic Dyson sphere. All the other factions in the series were seeded by them. [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness As is befitting AT-43]], they are also huge nerds. The {{MMORPG}} is the basis for their society, and [[{{Fora}} forums]] are considered cities.
* "Transhumanity" in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' is ''mostly'' composed of humanity and its descendants, though except for flats, almost everyone is genetically enhanced to some degree and virtually immortal. It also includes uplifted animals and AIs though, who are not that different from humanity anymore (and can slip into each other's bodies).
* An early ''Magazine/DragonMagazine'' article for the ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' RPG (several editions ago, and [[{{Retcon}} no longer canonical]]) justified the unrealistic physical hardiness of its "pure strain humans" by revealing that they're descended from genetically-engineered superhumans. Untampered humans' descendants are all mutants; "pure strains" only ''think'' they're the original human type because they closely resemble the humans in ancient pictures.

* The Veruni of ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 5}}'' are believed to be aliens by the inhabitants of the Filgaia they conquered. However, it later comes to light that centuries ago they fled Filgaia by spacecraft and then returned a few decades ago. However, their alternate path of evolution has made them unfit to survive on Filgaia and they are dying out.
** Also ''[[VideoGame/WildArms1 Wild ARMs]]'', where the evil alien robots turn out to be robots from the future after mankind has replaced organic parts with machine parts.

* [[ScaryDogmaticAliens The Rikti]] from ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' are mutated humans from an AlternateUniverse. They're disfigured to the point of being unrecognizable as human, but they also have [[CursedWithAwesome advanced technology and]] PsychicPowers.
* Each of the three factions of the Korean MMO ''VideoGame/RFOnline'' are this: The Bellato are short Heavy Worlders, the Cora are space elves with psychic powers, and the Accretians are cyborgs with Landmate-sized bodies.
* Lunarians from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' were humans that moved from earth to the moon in ancient times. They also have the most advanced technology in the series, live on the source of Gensokyo's magic, and include a pair of {{God Mode Sue}}s that systematically defeat many of the main characters. In spite of this, they notably still possess [[HumansAreFlawed human minds and personalities]], and the [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent extended isolation from other human factions]] leads them facing repeated military defeats against their much less advanced Earth counterparts.
* They haven't left Earth yet, bu the Omar in ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'' are a group of humans who are using nanotechnology to radically augment themselves, going so far as to replace parts of their brains with transmitters to create a HiveMind.
* [[spoiler:The Reapers]] in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', although [[spoiler:they're more along the lines of Trans''alien'' Aliens. The Human Reaper encountered in the second game counts, though, as it's "constructed" from harvested humans.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Achron}}'' it is not stated outright, but can be inferred that [[spoiler:the Vecgir]] are in fact the decendants of humanity that [[spoiler:have been enslaved and modified by the Coremind in a loop that has been going on for millions of meta-years.]]
* ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'':
** The end result of devoting your civ to the Supremacy or Harmony affinities is turning your people into {{Cyborg}}s or {{Half Human Hybrid}}s respectively. This may be a positive or negative portrayal depending on how you play them Supremacy, Harmony, and Purity are about tools, not how they're used.
** The hybrid affinities of Rising Tide play with this. Supremacy/Harmony actively embraces this as a goal, its citizens pursuing whatever form they desire through unchecked genetic and cybernetic engineering.
** Defied by Purity and the Purity/Supremacy hybrid. They only engage in modest genetic and cybernetic enhancement, while carefully ensuring that its people remain essentially human; the latter is more willing to experiment with [=AIs=] and cybernetics, but keeps fairly baseline humans at the helm. Purity/Harmony is a bit more daring, seeking to become the epitome of the human form, but they're still "essentially" human.
* ''[[VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance Mother: Cognitive Dissonance]]'' reveals that [[spoiler: [[MechanisticAlienCulture the Starmen]] were once the denizens of Mars and were leading a promising society, but after losing a war against [[GalacticConqueror Giegue]], they were offered by him to have their PSI powers enhanced in exchange for his loyalty. This lead to the creation of the cybernetic aliens that we know today.]]
* The Helghast from ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}'' are the descendants from a group of exiles who modified themselves to survive their DeathWorld home planet. Due to this, they can't breathe regular air any more, and have very prominent [[GasMaskMooks gas masks on their armor.]]

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* Venusians in Triquetra Cats, using cybernetics and genetic manipulation to adapt themselves to Venus, humans from that planet end up looking like cyborg Grey Aliens
* In ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'' the Eebs turned out to have evolved from a tribe of primordial humans who developed telekinesis and then used their powers to leave the planet when they got tired of the non-TK humans. Their short, stocky bodies are a result of their new homeworld's higher gravity and the green skin was caused by something in the atmosphere, no explanation for the antennae though. [[spoiler: And they can still cross-breed]]
* ''Webcomic/AliceGrove'' introduces the Transhuman siblings, Ardent (who is more pro-biological enhancement) and Gavia (who has {{Nanotechnology}} integrated into her).

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* Many, many kinds of TranshumanAliens in ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm''. Generally positive in portrayal.
* Implied by [[https://www.futuretimeline.net/the-far-future-2300-2999.htm#superhuman FutureTimeline.net,]] at least in the [[https://www.futuretimeline.net/beyond-1000000.htm Beyond section.]]
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* The Gobots from ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'' are descended from HumanAliens rather than humans per se, but they're still a race of {{Cyborg}}s.
* In "End Sinister," the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux,'' [[spoiler: Aeon learns too late that the "aliens" are future humans, and that by killing them, she has exterminated the entire human race, except [[AdamAndEvePlot for her and Trevor]].]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', mewmans are introduced as HumanAliens from another dimension, having a near-identical appearance but a fair amount of BizarreAlienBiology that distinguishes them. The last season reveals that they're actually descended from humans, and exposure to magic is what led to their different biology.

* Implied by [[http://www.futuretimeline.net/the-far-future.htm#superhuman FutureTimeline.net,]] at least in the [[https://www.futuretimeline.net/beyond-1000000.htm Far Future section.]]

* Implied by [[http://www.futuretimeline.net/the-far-future.htm#superhuman FutureTimeline.net,]] at least in the Far Future [[http://www.futuretimeline.net/beyond.htm#1000000 section.]]

** The end result of devoting your civ to the Supremacy or Harmony affinities is turning your people into {{Cyborg}}s or {{Half Human Hybrid}}s respectively. This may be a positive or negative portrayal depending on how you
roleplay; Supremacy, Harmony, and Purity are about tools, not how they're used.

* ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'': The end result of devoting your civ to the Supremacy or Harmony affinities is turning your people into {{Cyborg}}s or {{Half Human Hybrid}}s respectively. May be a positive or negative portrayal depending on how you roleplay. The hybrid affinity of the two added in Rising Tide does this as well. One upping both by creating half human cyborgs, who look almost nothing like the people they used to be.

For populations of humans that moved to space and ''stayed'' human, see TransplantedHumans. Compare/contrast with HumanAllAlong and HumanSubspecies. Not to be confused with {{Ultraterrestrials}}. See also NoTranshumanismAllowed and {{Transhuman}}.

* ''ComicBook/BlakeEtMortimer'' features a story where LittleGreenMen are kidnapping people from various times and places over several centuries. They turn out to be humanity's descendants after nuclear war seriously messed up the planet. But where modern man has mastered the atom, they mastered time travel instead, and brought back Basam Damdu (the dictator from the very first story) so as to ensure that under the leader who came closest to world domination, humanity wouldn't rip itself apart.

* The Ousters in ''[[Literature/HyperionCantos]]'' are this. ''The Fall of Hyperion'' implied the Ousters and Hegemony to be the result of an ideological split. The Hegemony terraforms planets to better suit humanity. The Ousters instead change themselves to adjust to life on other, unterraformed planets or even deep space.