"He was a candidate for a Midwestern congressional seat, and he hired me to manage his campaign advertising. Unfortunately, his opponent turned up something in his past with which we could not cope."
"Let me guess: he was secretly a liberal."
"Worse. An alien."
"You're kidding?! An undocumented alien running for—"
"No. A space alien, Ms. Walters."
A character of extraterrestrial origins. For tropes about what
makes them alien, see
Bizarre Alien Biology.
If you thought it meant "illegal aliens" and signed up, click
Race Tropes.
If there are no aliens at all, see
Absent Aliens.
Not to be confused with
Otherness Tropes.
Tropes
Levels of the ladder of alien strangeness:
SFX:
General tropes:
Interspecies relations:
Reproduction:
Genders:
Other features:
