History Main / IComeInPeace

* ''Film/IComeInPeace'': Subverted. The main alien says this to the Earthlings almost out of reflex, but in reality he wants to steal their brain fluid for the intergalactic drug trade.

->''I am Buzz Lightyear, I come in peace.''

* In possibly the oddest straight use ever (and possibly a StealthParody), the player-character in ''VideoGame/HomeworldCataclysm'' quotes the trope word-for-word... whilst trying to convince the setting's resident SpacePirates to [[StrangeBedfellows help you take on the monster that's clobbered you and them both.]] [[spoiler:It doesn't turn out very well, to say the least.]]

* ''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.

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WeComeInPeaceShootToKill is another name for aversions of this trope. Compare TakeMeToYourLeader. If the characters start out with numbers instead of language, it's FirstContactMath.

This trope is an important part of HowToInvadeAnAlienPlanet.

->''My name is Buzz Lightyear, I come in peace.''

* ''Film/FlashGordon1980''. Doesn't work for our hero when he first arrives on Mongo; the friendly hand he thinks is being held out to him in response shoots off the alien's hand, grabs Flash around the throat and chokes him.

* ''Film/FlashGordon1980''. Doesn't work for our hero when he first arrives on Mongo; the friendly hand he thinks is being held out to him in response shoots off the alien's hand, grabs Flash around the throat and chokes him.

* The first Vahnatai you meet in ''{{Avernum}} 2'' (in the flesh, at least) uses this line nearly word-for-word--however, she's not quite fluent in English, and it comes out as "peaceness" instead.

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* In ''Webcomic/MeatyYogurt'', the [[http://rosalarian.com/meatyyogurt/2011/09/05/sxlzyfrk/ Sxlzfyrk]] apologize for their rudeness in not introducing themselves to humans sooner, state that they "hope to become friends," and promise to return to Earth later with pizza and beer.

* In possibly the oddest straight use ever (and possibly a StealthParody), the player-character in ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}: Cataclysm'' quotes the trope word-for-word... whilst trying to convince the setting's resident SpacePirates to [[StrangeBedfellows help you take on the monster that's clobbered you and them both.]] [[spoiler:It doesn't turn out very well, to say the least.]]

* The trope is implied with the GoldenEnding in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}. [[spoiler: With the monster race emerging to the surface of the world after being imprisoned underground by humans for who knows how many years, they attempt to make peace with the human race after Frisk, a human themselves, spared all the monsters and didn't hurt a single one. Everything works out as the ending shows the monsters successfully integrating with human culture.]]

* In one episode of ''GarfieldAndFriends'', Garfield and Jon are watching a BMovie about aliens, and [[LampshadeHanging making fun of the fact]] that the aliens ''always'' announce "We come in peace" in these types of movies. Then a real alien lands in their front yard, announcing that he comes in peace, at which point Garfield [[BreakingTheFourthWall turns to the audience]] and says, "Wow, they really do say that." Eventually, it turns out that the alien doesn't come in peace at all, as he's actually the spy for a hostile invasion force.

* An episode of ''{{Rugrats}}'' has the kids exploring the house during a power failure, looking for a monster which turns out to be a rat. Tommy greets it with "We come in peace."

* In ''Film/{{Explorers}}'', one of the young heroes greets an alien with "We come in peace", because it seems like the right thing to do. The alien, in turn, replies, "[[Characters/BugsBunny Ehhh, what's up, doc?]]"

** ''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.

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

-->"Err...I am Captain Archer of the starship Enterprise. We come in peace from the planet Earth."
-->"Mistake...Organ used for sight is the leading bowman of the prime vessel undertaking," chirped the translator. "We ejaculate in portion from the world of dirt."

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. In "The Girl Who Waited" Rory shouts this in panic when he's attacked by a masked figure wielding a katana. Who turns out to be his wife.

* ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Captain Proton]] and the [[LadyLand Planet of Lesbians]]''.