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alt title(s): Green Space Babe; Blue Skinned Space Babe 
The Green Skinned Space Babe
"Just once, I want to be captured by the sexy alien!"
"We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However, I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars?"
An exotic yet attractive female alien, tending to look exactly like an attractive female human except for odd coloring and a couple minor features added.
Named for ye olde originale Green Skinned Space Babe Vina, played by the late actress and director Susan Oliver, all the way back in "The Cage", the first Star Trek pilot. Well, the green Orion slave girl was one of the guises that her character took, at least.
A Weird Science staple, usually coming from a Sensuous Culture. See also Boldly Coming. May overlap with Cute Monster Girl.
Despite the name, Blue seems to be a more prominent color now days (2Ks)
Warning: There may be some disagreements as to who will carry any children resulting from the union.
Examples
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Anime and Manga
- Martian Successor Nadesico parodies this trope by introducing Aquamarine, a cookie-cutter character of exactly this type in the Show Within A Show Gekiganger 3. The protagonist Akito immediately identifies her as his dream girl, but when he finally meets a young woman with a similar name (just "Aqua") who appears superficially similar, she turns out to be a borderline psychotic with suicidal tendencies.
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross, features a Green Haired Space Babe: Miria Fallyna is especially notable for falling in love with her target after losing to him in battle then seeking him out to defeat him on board the ship. He misunderstands her intentions and takes her to an arcade where he defeats her in a video game. Afterward she tries to kill him with a knife. He wins again and she breaks down since he's the first person she's never been able to beat.
- Notably, among all the similarities between Macross and the other two series' used to make Robotech is that all three of them have a green-haired alien girl who ends up falling for one of the good guys: Musica in Southern Cross and Sara in Mospeada.
- Subverted in a recent Dragonball web-broadcasted special. Vegeta's hitherto unmentioned brother is married. Assuming the rare examples of women in the series are the norm, everyone is surprised when she turns out to be a cartoonishly cute alien — except Roshi, who figures aliens marrying humans is just as strange.
- Keroro Gunsou has several, ranging from regular characer Angol Mois to Space Policewoman Poyon to single-appearance ones.
Comic Books
- Xavin of Runaways has achieved this title recently with his/her female Skrull form.
- It must be noted that Xavin's lover and Runaways charter member Karolina 'L.S.D.' Dean is a Iridescent/Psychedelic-Skinned Space Babe in her own right.
- Also that Karolina didn't have to seduce Xavin; they were already betrothed by arranged marriage when they met.
- Predating Xavin by some 20 years, there is Gamora
 . And she fits this trope to a tee, right down to the, ah, appetite. She's also immortal, an assassin, and recognized as "the most dangerous woman in the galaxy".
- Mantis◊ of The Avengers and Guardians Of The Galaxy fame, something of an inversion, as she was originally a normal human who through alien foster care and Because Destiny Says So, was chosen as the Celestial Madonna and developing Psychic Powers and later the ability to resurrect into plant based bodies that have taken on a more greenish tint then her original look.
- Contemporary to Xavin, Teddy of the Young Avengers is certainly green-skinned when he wants to be, and technically meant to lead the Skrulls; however, he was Billy's boyfriend before he found any of this out.
- Green Skined Space uh... Bishonen?
- He's much too muscular. Green Skinned Space Hunk.
- Used delightfully but deceptively in Top Ten in the form of retired heroine/alien pornstar M'rgalla Qualtz, the Vigilante from Venus. Her true form turned out to be a huge green insect thing
- Lyja is another example of an attractive female Skrull, who Johnny Storm fell in love with after he got over the whole Skrull thing.
- Starfire first appeared as a hot alien babe with orange skin, who learned languages by kissing people. Her general lack of modesty is often used for copious Fanservice, and even her normal hero outfit leaves little to the imagination.
- Miss Martian of the Teen Titans. In an interesting twist, she's actually a White Martian and monstrously inhuman and hideous in her true form.
- Professor X's galpal Lilandra is a space babe with feathers.
- Alflyse, queen of the Dark Elves from Incredible Hercules. She will blow your mind.
- Parodied in Heater Delight, space "commodity" and sometimes-girlfriend of Marvel's Starfox.
- And now Jimmy Olsen has Forager for a love interest Alien babe.
Film
- Female Twi'leks from the Star Wars universe are known for their beauty, and often exploited due to it. They come in green, blue, red, and other interesting hues.
- The EU has the Zeltron race (pink-skinned), who are perfectly aware of their attractive appearance and flaunt it.
- Don't forget the Falleen (green, but red when excited), who in addition to all being drop-dead gorgeous have powerful sex pheromones under conscious control that work on nearly all humanoid species.
- Star Trek (2009). Kirk appears to be in bed with Uhura, but when the lights come on she turns out to be Uhura's roommate, an Orion girl. Who has been told off by Uhura before about bringing men back to their quarters.
- Her name is Gaila, she owns this Trope. Because she's from Orion, she's green skinned. Also, she's a babe. In space.
- In space? I thought that whole Academy scene happened in San Francisco.
- Ah, but then, isn't it IN SPACE! for her?
- Saavik, played by Kristie Alley and then by Robin Curtis in Wrath Of Khan and Search For Spock.
- Blue-skinned women run a Lady Land society in the 60's B Movie Missile to the Moon.
- Brilliantly subverted in Galaxy Quest. Laliari looks like a hot chick but is really a squid disguised by a hologram. Oddly, this doesn't stop her from falling in love with Fred... or vice versa.
- Ney'tiri, of Avatar, is a blue-skinned space babe. In fact, all the Na'vi, male and female, qualify as blue-skinned space babes.
- Yes, even the males. The whole species is damned pretty.
Live Action TV
- The Wild Wild West episode "The Night of the Flying Pie Plate" features several literal Green Skinned Space Babes—at least until it's discovered that they're human women painted green as part of a con game.
- Mentioned in Red Dwarf by a Genre Savvy Lister:
Lister: Rimmer, there's nothing out there, you know. There's nobody out there. No alien monsters, no Zargon warships, no beautiful blondes with beehive hairdos who say, "Show me some more of this Earth thing called kissing."
- A literal green skinned space babe was in Lost In Space. She had a crush on Dr. Smith, who had to use her to find out where to get fuel for their stranded ship.
- Star Trek had many examples, apart from the original (pictured above):
- TOS also featured a Green-Haired Space Babe in the person of Shahna the Drill Thrall, in the episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion." Her ignorance of kissing is possibly the original source of the cliche noted in the Red Dwarf quote above; she requested another example from Kirk to broaden her sample set.
- Jadzia Dax (the spots go all the way down, Or So I Heard.) More intellectual than the usual Space Babe, but sexy as hell and perfectly willing to indulge her sensual side (her prior male host was a Dirty Old Man and it seems the libido carried over.)
- The various Star Trek series saw the Orion Slave Girls Flanderized into an entire species of GSSBs.
- T'Pol, during Pon Farr.
- Wouldn't that be green blooded space babe?
- Also from Enterprise is the Andorian Action Girl Talas — Commander Shran's Number Two — who is a Blue Skinned Space Babe.
- From Star Trek The Next Generation, we have Deanna Troi.
- Space Cases had Elmyra, who became the love interest for the Human Alien Radu.
- Aside from the Sebaceans, Farscape lived this trope - if the aliens weren't actually portrayed by Jim Henson puppets, they were certainly as weird-looking and brightly-coloured as possible. Regular characters include Zhaan (blue from head to toe, as her frequent casual nudity will attest) and Chiana (entirely grey, and a nymphomaniac to boot).
- Quite a few Doctor Who examples including Chan-tho and Jabe.
- Even the semi-asexual Doctor flirted with Jabe, and she was a tree.
Literature
- Dejah Thoris of the John Carter Of Mars series is a red-skinned space babe. There are also literal green females on Mars, but they don't qualify as babes. Then again...
- Aelita from the book of the same name is another old and rather straight example. She is blue.
- In the Viagens Interplanetarias cycle by L. Sprague de Camp, one of the prominent planets, Krishna, is populated by a humanoid species that happens to be sexually compatible with humans (though matings won't result in offspring). Some of them wear nothing but jewellery and body paint. Needless to say, one of the human characters gets to seduce a local princess. (The Krishnans are actually depicted as green-skinned humanoids in the GURPS adaptation of the setting as a tabletop game).
- In something of a subversion, de Camp knew exactly how unlikely this would be, but wanted to write swashbuckling, two-fisted adventure stories ... In Space! , and worked very hard to come up with a setting that would let him get away with this, without being as utterly stupid as the premise of the John Carter Of Mars series. The biological difficulties are frequently lampshaded, and provide a fair amount of the comedy in the series.
- A short story by James Tiptree, Your Haploid Heart, features an outwardly humanoid and physically seductive human species (the Flenni), but the problem is that they happen to be just a phase in a complex reproductive cycle, and their post-coitum lifespan is counted in weeks.
- Hitchhikers Guide: Eccentrica Gallumbits.
Music
Tabletop Games
- Eldar fit the trope, but not even the most Xeno-loving human should ever consider mating with Eldar, since they see this mostly as bestiality (especially with Craftworld). Dark Eldar are mostly fine with torturing you, though. Death by snu-snu is optional.
- Old and most likely non longer canon background mentions Eldar outcasts occasionally having relationships with humans.
- At least one Craftworld Eldar has also been known to fall in love with human - consult Love Can Bloom.
- With the coming release of the "Rogue Trader" WH 40 K RPG, Eldar-Human relationships will be probably given renewed attention. When playing genocidal über-space marine templars or fanatical inquisitors the scope for interspecies sex with aliens is decidedly narrow but with swaggering, roguish space conquistadors... it's another matter entirely!
- Tau also fit the trope as blue-skinned space babes, considering the fact that they're the most open species in the 40K universe, and mating with humans would not be exactly outlawed. The hooves are another matter.
- Seeing how they're not allowed to mate outside their own caste, I don't think so, Tim.
- Water caste might be an exception though; they're the diplomancers of the tau, so might be able to engage in sex with humans if it'll further The Greater Good. Tau are fags though so they probably wouldn't want to, also they have no tits.
Theater
- Elphie of Wicked might not have been considered gorgeous in the play, but there's no denying how gorgeous Kerry Ellis and Idina Menzel both looked in green paint.
- Don't forget Julia Murney. Or Stephanie J. Block. Or any of the other beautiful ladies who have played the part.
Video Games
Web Comics
- Schlock Mercenary lampshades it here: http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040916.html
- Therkla from Order of the Stick.
- Parodied an an early Sluggy Freelance plotline: There is a Green Skinned Space Babe, but it turns out (s)he's the male of that species. Riff and Torg oddly don't seem to care, and continue ogling him as blatantly as before.
- Aylee plays this straight when not in a draconic or serpentine form.
- Subverted in The Inexplicable Adventures Of Bob. Princess Voluptua looks the part of the stereotypical alien space nymphette, right down to her skimpy one-piece outfit. However, this is an illusion; underneath it, she is a giant butterfly creature. This is common knowledge among the cast, so there is no serious possibility of a relationship between her and Bob, or any other human male. They have kissed, however, much to Jean's consternation. When designing her shapeshifted human form, Voluptua claims to have gotten the normal human female proportions wrong unintentionally; she has not corrected the error.
- Found in Outsider as a deliberate homage to the tradition.
- MSF High has the true legion, planty alien chicks that can convert other people into more true legion.
- Emsi of Drunk Aliens has green skin, blue hair, antennae, & a tail.
- The Perry Bible Fellowship points out certain problems that could arise when sleeping with an alien species here◊ (Link not safe for work).
Western Animation
- A villain in an episode of Eek! The Cat parodying Star Trek uses this exact wording to refer to his highly attractive spies.
- A lampshade hanging of this occurs in Futurama, in the episode where Zapp Brannigan tricks Leela into sleeping with him. From the Captain's Log, dictated to Kif at the end of the episode:
"We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However, I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars?"
- Of course, the irony when you realise that Leela turns out to be a mutant human, not an alien, makes it even more hilarious.
- Grandpa Max of Ben 10 married a purple-skinned energy being (who hides it well) and later dated a literal Green-Skinned Space Babe.
- The ultimate dream of Jamie in Megas XLR is to visit a planet full of these. He even picked up a few such girls in Battle Royale, though it was entirely due to the money he made from betting on Coop's winning streak.
"Coop, what're you doing man? I've got digits from green-skinned girls! GREEN-SKINNED GIRLS!"
- An episode of Stroker and Hoop deals with this. She was a secret government agent sent to kill him the whole time.
- Actually, she was also a real space alien as revealed at the end. Damn Stroker shot her though. She claimed her skin was hard as stone, but he called her bluff because he had felt her up while she was unconscious. A damn waste if ya ask me, shoulda aimed for the shoulder. Stroker must have had relationship troubles in the past, because he sures takes being even subtly lied to pretty harshly!
- Seeing how she was a con artist who sent Stroker to a drug rehab center and stoled 10000 dollars form his brother I don;t blame him.
- In the Tek Jansen cartoons shown on The Colbert Report, Tek is constantly having no-setup sex with various space vixens. On one occasion, the woman in question was a fleshy outgrowth from the forehead of a man-eating space anglerfish.
- Starfire, the resident Orange Skinned Space Babe.
- Princess Mandie on The Fairly Oddparents, a Yellow Skinned Alien Babe.
Real Life
- The Statue of Liberty: the original Green Skinned Alien Babe?
- Her skin is made of copper, which turns green when it corrodes.
- When did France become a different planet?
- We are from France!
- Since when was the Statue of Liberty from France?
- When France gave it to us, probably.
- Alien can mean either off of the Earth, or from another country.
- This Troper ships Liberty and Justice. For all.
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