History Main / LittleGreenMen

* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': the alien in the episode "Alien" is a light green, one-eyed alien who owns a FlyingSaucer.

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* Axel from ''WebComic/EnnuiGo'' is a green man (or at least a male) with huge, almond-shaped, pure black eyes, but he's the size of a regular person, BizarreAlienBiology nonwithstanding.

* The Skrulls from ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', just like their comic counterparts. When they try to interrogate ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, they demand to know [[HeroicWillpower why he doesn't break]]. His response is to laugh at them for being little green men.

** The three-eyed toy aliens are even referred to as "[=LGMs=]"--{{Grammar Nazi}}s notwithstanding. In the first episode it's revealed that they share a psychic link that they call "[[HiveMind Unimind]]", and their homeworld's name is a string of unpronounceable gibberish. They were {{Retcon}}ned into "Martians".

** While Morbo certainly isn't little (he's about the size of a well built human), he has green skin and hates humanity.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHillbillyBears'' episode "Saucy Saucers" features two [=LGMs=] who subject Paw Rugg to AlienAbduction because they want to study Earth creatures. HilarityEnsues.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** AmusingAlien Marvin the Martian probably qualifies, although while he is little, his skin is literally black and it's his ''helmet'' that's green.
** The Merrie Melodies short "Rocket-Bye Baby" details the humorous consequences when a green Martian baby and an Earthling get accidentally switched at birth. It turns out [[spoiler: ItWasAllJustADream on the baby's father's part. Probably.]]

** In "Homer the Great", we briefly see a Martian, of whom the Stonecutters "keep under wraps".
** The end of "The Simpsons Spinoff Showcase" claims Homer is joined by Ozmodiar, a parody of the Great Gazoo from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones''.
** In the ending montage of "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky", Frink finds a meteorite that he believes could contain alien life. A little green man then climbs out, curtly tells him to shut up, and walks out with the rock.

* Mot, the baby Martian accidentally raised by an Earth family in ''WesternAnimation/RocketByeBaby'', is green, big-headed, and has antennae. (Although we don't know if he's "little" because he's a Martian or just because he's a baby.)

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has a crashed flying saucer in which one of the best weapons in the game can be found near the corpse of a very small pilot. Only the head is visible, but yup -- he's green.
** The ''Mothership Zeta'' DLC shows he's not alone either- approaching the saucer causes you to get beamed up to a bigger starship where more aliens take you hostage.

** And one returns again in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', this time crashing his ship into the ground near a settlement and wandering into a nearby cave, providing another way to get the Alien Blaster.

** In "The Little People of Killany Woods", Liam O'Shaughnessy sees several three foot tall green aliens in Killany Woods. Their size and color, as well as their toadstool-shaped ship, causes him to [[TotallyNotAWerewolf mistake them]] for {{Leprechaun}}s but he eventually learns the truth.
** {{Discussed|Trope}} in "A Saucer of Loneliness". Margaret's mother tells her that their neighbors have been looking at them strangely since Margaret's contact with the FlyingSaucer and that they probably think that she is a traitor who is conspiring with little green men.

* [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams The Houston Astros']] mascot is a stereotypical green alien named Orbit, and while he isn't little (like most sports mascots, he's roughly the size of a human), he certainly fits a lot of this trope's attributes, complete with antennae that have baseballs on the ends.

* The Child from ''Series/TheMandalorian'' is from the same species as Yoda. As The Child is still an infant he's even smaller than the Jedi Master being roughly the size of a human newborn and small enough that the Mando can carry him with one arm.

* Parodied in Creator/DianeDuane's ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novel, ''Literature/SpocksWorld''--a tabloid newspaper reports that Spock's mother, Amanda, has married a little green man. (As a Vulcan, Sarek has green blood and a slightly green complexion.) Amanda tells reporters at a press conference, "There is nothing little about my husband." Even [[TheStoic Sarek]] cracks up once the context is fully explained.
* This was the original title of ''Literature/TheWordForWorldIsForest''. This is a reference to the Athsheans being only a meter tall with greenish fur.

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* [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams The Houston Astros']] mascot is a stereotypical green alien named Orbit, and while he isn't little (like most sports mascots, he's roughly the size of a human), he certainly fits a lot of this trope's attributes, complete with antennae that have baseballs on the ends. [[AmusingAlien He's well known for his silly antics during games]], especially his interactions with opposing team members: for example, he went after Mike Trout with [[{{Pun}} a fishing pole]], convinced David Ortiz to join his [[TheDreadedPretendTeaParty tea party]], set up a birdhouse for the Toronto Blue Jays, and had a [[SitcomArchNemesis light-hearted feud]] with [[FandomRivalry Texas Rangers]] catcher J.P. Arencibia. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVH3j31pV7Y He also loves to dance.]]

* The alien in the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Alien" is a light green, one-eyed alien who owns a FlyingSaucer.

** An episode of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' was named "Little Green Men" and featured Ferengi (who are not green, but ''are'' smaller than humans) crashing in Roswell.
** Referenced in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", when a 1960s pilot is accidentally transported onto the ''Enterprise'':

** And of course there's the GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe we see dancing for Captain Pike in the original pilot. It's hard to imagine that the choice of color wasn't a reference to this trope; a way of making an "Orion slave girl" look alien while still remaining a MsFanservice.

** Interestingly, while other members of the species have shown up in both Legends and Canon, it has never been identified. Official material only lists it as "Yoda's Species".

* In the 1970s sci-fi TV series ''Series/{{UFO}}'', the aliens' green look is shown to be from the [[BreathableLiquid oxygenated-fluid]] used to cushion their bodies during months of faster-than-light travel.

* The term "Little Green Man" is sometimes applied to gremlins.

* In all four ''Franchise/ToyStory'' films, there have been Pizza Planet toys who are short compared to most other toys. They also have three eyes and worship "the CLAAAWWWW!"
They have variably been referred to as the “Little Green Men” in Toy Story media, specifically the ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' TV show.

* In all four ''Franchise/ToyStory'' films, there have been Pizza Planet toys who are short compared to most other toys. They also have three eyes and worship "the CLAAAWWWW!!!!"

* In the 1970s sci-fi TV series ''Series/{{UFO}}'', the aliens' green look is shown to be from the oxygenated-fluid used to cushion their bodies during months of faster-than-light travel.

* ''ComicBook/RoswellLittleGreenMan''.
* The Skrulls in Creator/MarvelComics started out as almost completely stereotypical little green men in the second issue of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour''. They even arrived in a literal flying saucer, which Reed stored in the Baxter Building for years afterward. Decades of stories since then have fleshed them out a lot (and they're generally portrayed to be of human ''height'' these days, although one could argue that height is arbitrary for a race of [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifters]]), but when all's said and done, they're still [[AlienInvasion invading alien]] green guys with "bug eyes" and ray guns.
** In particular, the original version of the Skrulls look a lot like the "space goblins" from the famous 1955 Sutton family farm UFO case in Kentucky.
* Franchise/{{Superman}}'s enemy ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} started out as one of these. Later stories made him taller and revealed him to be an android, but he was still a green guy in a flying saucer for many years.
* ComicBook/MartianManhunter isn't little, but he's certainly green, as well as being a literal Martian.
** Miss Martian is a subversion, in which being green is just [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith a form she's comfortable with]]; she's actually a White Martian, but chose [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch not to follow the murderous path of her brethren]].
* The Captain, from ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'', got his powers as a gift from a pair of little green men. He then proceeded to murder them both and express dismay that he didn't get a pot of gold as a reward, having mistaken them for leprechauns. In his defense, he was exceptionally drunk at the time.
** That's ''always'' his defence.

* Discussed in ''ComicBook/UltimateOrigins''. When Captain America is sent to fight in WWII, he's told that there are aliens involved. He asked if they are little green men, but no, they are not.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: "Gremlins" are green fur covered aliens with antennae that are small enough to ride on a human's shoulder.

* Arguably, ''Film/{{ET|The Extraterrestrial}}'' is a cute cross between this and TheGreys.

-->'''Farmer wife''': AAAAAAAEEEIIII!! LITTLE GREEN SPACEMAN! AAAAAAAEEEIIII!!!\\

** Morbo certainly isn't little (he's about the size of a well built human), he has green skin and hates humanity.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The grots deserves a mention here. They are small, green and hostile, and they are aliens. It should be noted, however, that they also happen to be [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Goblins]] [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]] so it is kinda justified, even if they are technically part of the same species as [[OurOrcsAreDifferent da Orkz]], who are defenitely ''not'' "little". Really played for laughs in every sense, since they are the {{Butt Monkey}}s of the orks. Also worth noting that the universe has both this trope '''and''' TheGreys (The Tau), which really shows a great deal of contrast between the two.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The grots deserves a mention here. They are small, green and hostile, and they are aliens. It should be noted, however, that they also happen to be [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Goblins]] [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]] so it is kinda justified, even if they are technically part of the same species as [[OurOrcsAreDifferent da Orkz]]. Really played for laughs in every sense, since they are the {{Butt Monkey}}s of the orks. Also worth noting that the universe has both this trope '''and''' TheGreys (The Tau), which really shows a great deal of contrast between the two.

* In all four ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' films, there have been Pizza Planet toys who are short compared to most other toys. They also have three eyes and worship "the CLAAAWWWW!!!!"