History Main / TransplantedHumans

* An interdimensional version in ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}}'', where a [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Negative Sea Wedgie]] transports a pair of American destroyers from a WorldWarTwo battlefield to a parallel world, where humans never evolved. Instead, they get stuck in the middle of an ancient war between a race of LizardFolk called the Grik and CatFolk called Lemurians. It isn't long before they find out that they're not the only humans to find themselves in this world ([[spoiler:there are the Imperial Japanese, who are helping the Grik before splitting off on their own at Zanzibar, the Empire of New Britain Isles at Hawaii, the Holy Dominion in Central and South America, the League of Tripoli in the Mediterranean, the Republic of Real People in Southern Africa, the New United States near the Mexican Gulf, and a bunch of human tribes all over the place]]).

* While there aren't any actual humans in {{Spore}} (except maybe [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Steve]]) you can find planets inhabited by tribes or civilizations of your own species and abduct specimens of other species and drop them off on planets.

* The ''SomethingWickedSaga'' by Music/IcedEarth is told from the point of view of the Setians, a race of [[TheReptilians Reptilian Humanoids]] who were indigenous to Earth and [[HumansAreBastards nearly got wiped out by invading humans]].

* A WhatCouldHaveBeen example: in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, a novel called ''Alien Exodus'' was planned, which established the Star Wars humans as transplanted through space and time from Earth. It was never finished and never made canonical.

* ''Film/Stargate'' made it quite clear that the people of Abydos were transplanted ancient Egyptians. See the entry for the Stargateverse under Television for more detail.

* In Creator/WilliamHKeithJr's ''Semper Mars'', an expedition at Cydonia, Mars, discovers ruins half a million years old. An American archaeologist then discovers skeletons that appear to indicate that whoever had built the ruins also abducted ''Homo erectus'' from Earth and genetically modified them, possibly using them as labor to build the Face. An unexplained disaster then caused the deaths of both the Builders and the transplanted hominids. The American archaeologist immediately wants to notify Earth about what he discovered, but the [[UnitedNationsAsASuperpower UN]] "observers" want to keep the discovery under tight wraps, fearing riots all over Europe thanks to a number of alien-worshiping cults springing up after the discovery of the ruins. When the archaeologist refuses to obey, the UN forces at Cydonia stage a takeover of the archaeological team and the [[SemperFi US Marines]] there, while their superiors back on Earth hastily declare war on the US and its allies, citing noncompliance with UN demands as reasons.

* In Creator/WilliamHKeithJr's ''Semper Mars'', an expedition at Cydonia, Mars, discovers ruins half a million years old. An American archaeologist then discovers skeletons that appear to indicate that whoever had built the ruins also abducted ''Homo erectus'' from Earth and genetically modified them, possibly using them as labor to build the Face. An unexplained disaster then caused the deaths of both the Builders and the transplanted hominids.

* An interdimensional version in ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}}'', where a [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Negative Sea Wedgie]] transports a pair of American destroyers from a WorldWarTwo battlefield to a parallel world, where humans never evolved. Instead, they get stuck in the middle of an ancient war between a race of LizardFolk called the Grik and CatFolk called Lemurians. It isn't long before they find out that they're not the only humans to find themselves in this world ([[spoiler:there are the Imperial Japanese, who are helping the Grik, the Empire of New Britain Isles at Hawaii, the Holy Dominion in Central and South America, the League of Tripoli in Mediterranean, the Republic of Real People in Southern Africa, the United States near the Mexican Gulf, and a bunch of human tribes all over the place]]).

* An interdimensional version in ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}}'', where a [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Negative Sea Wedgie]] transports a pair of American destroyers from a WorldWarTwo battlefield to a parallel world, where humans never evolved. Instead, they get stuck in the middle of an ancient war between a race of LizardFolk called the Grik and CatFolk called Lemurians. It isn't long before they find out that they're not the only humans to find themselves in this world ([[spoiler:there are the Imperial Japanese, who are helping the Grik, the Empire of New Britain Isles at Hawaii, the Holy Dominion in Central and South America, the League of Tripoli in Mediterranean, the Republic of Real People in Southern Africa, the United States near the Mexican Gulf, and a bunch of human tribes all over the place).

* Implied to be the case with the [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Syreen]] in ''VideoGame/StarControl''.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': Some prerelease ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' fluff mentioned that during the United Nations' colonization of stars near Sol, they occasionally discovered societies of primitive humans on worlds they knew for a fact no ships had been to; this was quickly made non-canon. However, actual canon media later revisited the theme by giving us Transplanted Human ''Architecture'' in ''Literature/HaloEvolutions'' and ''Anime/HaloLegends'', with ''Literature/HaloCryptum'' and ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' revealing that it's a result of [[spoiler:AdvancedAncientHumans: Humanity had a prehistoric spacefaring empire that seemingly beat back the Flood, then tangled with the Forerunners and had their asses handed to them]].

* Some ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' fluff mentions that during the United Nations' colonization of stars near Sol they occasionally discovered societies of primitive humans on worlds they knew for a fact no ships had been to. As per ''Literature/HaloCryptum'' and ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'', [[spoiler:it's a result of AdvancedAncientHumans: humanity had a prehistoric spacefaring empire that successfully beat back the Flood, then tangled with the Forerunners and had their asses handed to them.]]

* The ComicBook/PostCrisis [[TheDCU DC Universe]] used this trope to justify the HumanAlien [[PlanetOfHats Planets of Hats]] most of the ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} came from: after the ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}'' CrisisCrossover, [[strike:Mon-El]] Valor seeded several worlds with humans who had gained powers from alien experimentation.

* TheCyantianChronicles takes place around the time period when Cyantia culture re-integrates with Earth. Most of the humans from Cyantia are descendants of alien abductees who were enlisted to help a precursor race with a biological problem, and chose to stay away from roman-age human civilization.

* This was planned for the ''Literature/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', with the humans of the Star Wars galaxy being travelers from a troubled future Earth who traveled through space and back into time. However, the project was scrapped before release.

* The ''Literature/{{Narnia}}'' series has a magical version of this to explain why there are humans in Narnia. They're all descended from a London cab driver and his wife, and/or Mediterranean brigands and their islander "wives", who came later (or from various similar transplants that aren't explicitly mentioned).

* The ''Literature/{{Narnia}}'' series has a magical version of this to explain why there are humans in Narnia. They're all descended from a London cab driver and his wife, and/or Mediterranean brigands and their islander "wives", who came later.

This trope is often combined with AncientAstronauts and/or AdvancedAncientHumans. Contrast {{Ultraterrestrials}}, where the Transplanted Earthlings aren't human.

* The titular SpaceElves of Alistair Young's ''Literature/{{Eldraeverse}}'' are descended from pleistocene humans brought to an artificial planet in another galaxy and modified extensively by the Precursors. Unlike most examples the Eldrae haven't made contact with their distant relations though, in large part because they live in a different galaxy and lack FTL other than a PortalNetwork that they're in the process of constructing.