History Main / IComeInPeace

-->'''Amy:''' We come in peace!\\

-->-- '''Buzz Lightyear''', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''

* Thanks to BlindIdiotTranslation in the Creator/IainBanks short story ''Cleaning Up'', the alien's UniversalTranslator converts this phrase to "First person singular obtaining colloquial orgasm within a Caledonian sandwich." The human thus greated immediately tries to shoot the alien, who fortunately has a personal forcefield.

** They also left a plaque that said: "Here Men From The Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We Came in Peace For All Mankind."

** They also left a plaque that said: Here "Men From The Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We Came in Peace For All Mankind."

* ''Star Surgeon'', by Alan E. Nourse. The protagonist is TheEmpath, but he also has the power to influence emotions, which he resists using until ItsTheOnlyWay to handle a hostile mob of aliens who have surrounded their spaceship. Naturally the first words he projects to them are: I come in peace.

* ''Series/ForAllMankind''. After the [[AlternateHistory Soviet Union beats the US to the Moon]], astronaut Gordo Stevens wonders what he would have said if he'd been the first instead. After some distraught rambling about the recent Chicago riots and the hope that a man on the Moon might have caused people to look past their hatred, he decides that he would have said, "I'm Gordo Stevens and I come in peace. ''(beat)'' [[DoubleEntendre Three times a night.]]" ''(everyone cracks up)''

* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' presents this as the Federation's CatchPhrase. The Klingons consider it an insidious lie, believing the Federation to be targeting them for an AssimilationPlot. In "The Battle at the Binary Stars," Captain Georgiou attempts to diffuse a standoff between Federation and Klingon starships with a message indicating this trope, and the Klingons respond by opening fire. Admiral Anderson even attempts to invoke the trope a second time once he arrives on the battlefield after both sides have taken losses, offering the Klingons a ceasefire. The Klingons respond by accepting the ceasefire -- and then they destroy the admiral's flagship.

** In "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", Kirk says to the Oracle "We come as friends". The Oracle responds with "Learn what it is to be our enemy" and gives them a severe electric shock as a show of power.

* In the book Aliens Are Coming, the final interview concludes with a person saying "And if an alien spaceship ever DOES land in my backyard, I hope I will have the good sense to invite the occupants inside for tea."

* In the sci-fi short ''Disarm'', by Vylar Kaftan, any nuclear, biological or chemical weapon used against the alien invaders [[AttackBackfire kills only the user]], but the aliens always [[SpareAMessenger heal one soldier and 'mark' them]] in some way that causes anyone who sees them to hear or experience a message (unique to the listener, such as a song or vision). The protagonist is a songwriter, so he has a vision of performing before a crowd: ''We come in peace / We mean no harm / [[ResistanceIsFutile Put down your weapons]] / [[BenevolentAlienInvasion We’ll save you, save you]].''

** ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' also had a shout out to ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' with the US President trying to establish peaceful contact with the alien probe by playing music. After using the Vulcan greeting gesture.
*** Apparently, alien robots don't appreciate movie theme songs.

* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' presents this as the Federation's CatchPhrase. The Klingons consider it an insidious lie, believing the Federation to be targeting them for an AssimilationPlot. In "The Battle at the Binary Stars," Captain Georgiou attempts to diffuse a standoff between Federation and Klingon starships with a message indicating this trope, and the Klingons respond by opening fire. Admiral Anderson even attempts to invoke the trope a second time once he arrives on the battlefield after both sides have taken losses, offering the Klingons a ceasefire.

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' When Bob meets the alien Officer Zodboink, the alien greets him with “¿Que pasa, amigo?” Followed a moment later with, “¿Que?… Oh! You speak ‘Eng-glish! Sorry. Your [[YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive little gibbering native languages]] are very confusing.”

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* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' When Bob meets the alien Officer Zodboink, the alien greets him with “¿Que pasa, amigo?” Followed a moment later with, “¿Que?… Oh! You speak ‘Eng-glish!' Sorry. Your [[YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive little gibbering native languages]] are very confusing.” Zodboink really is friendly, just grossly incompetent.

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* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' When Bob meets the alien Officer Zodboink, the alien greets him with “¿Que pasa, amigo?” Followed a moment later with, “¿Que?… Oh! You speak ‘Eng-glish! Sorry. Your [[YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive little gibbering native languages]] are very confusing.”

* The 1980s/90s UK prank show ''Beadles About'' had a famous and very elaborate hoax involving dozens of actors and extensive special effects to convince a women that an alien had landed in her back yard. On finally seeing the alien emerge from the saucer, her first words to what she genuinely believed to be an alien were, brilliantly, "Do you want a cup of tea?"

* [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Superman]] is an alien. In his debut appearance in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #1, his first words to Lois, after rescuing her from some goons, are "You needn't be afraid of me. I won't harm you."

* ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' greet a cat when they think they've landed on the moon this way: "We come in peace. For now."

* ''Film/IComeInPeace''. Subverted. The alien criminal says this to the Earthlings almost out of reflex, but in reality he wants to steal their brain fluid for the intergalactic drug trade. He's not trying to deceive us however, as he uses the line the moment he appears and starts attacking.