History Main / TheGreys

* ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' villain Ra was originally a grey-like alien that somehow managed to posess a human to survive as its own body was dying. Glimpses of this as well as a wall painting depicting his true form are seen throughout the film. Just before [[spoiler:he is nuked at the end]] his true appearance is revealed for the last time. Once the show was created and the Asgard introduced this was explained that Ra's previous host was an Asgard.

* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' introduces two races:

What they do with those abducted varies, but performing experiments on them, especially [[AnalProbing intrusive]] [[AliensMadeThemDoIt sexual]] [[MarsNeedsWomen experiments]], is common. Specifically, AnalProbing and the creation of {{Half Human Hybrid}}s. Why aliens would be so interested in human sex remains unclear, although the standard story is that they are nearing extinction, and they need human genetic material in order to restore both their reproductive capabilities, and their ability to experience emotion. (It has been noted that their appearance and modus operandi share [[JustForFun/SciFiCounterpart more than a passing resemblance]] to those of the more traditional depictions of the [[TheFairFolk Fair Folk]], suggesting either an innate human need to believe in such beings or [[WildMassGuessing the length of time]] [[ParanoiaFuel they've been studying us]]. For more on this, see AlienFairFolk.)

** A good example are the Arconans, the very first nonhuman species not native to Tatooine to be seen in the entire franchise (in ''Film/ANewHope'', 1977). They are basically The Greys...except for their brown skin, green eyes, flattened heads, and claws on their hands and feet.

** The Kaminoan cloners in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' resemble Greys but are much larger, with long necks and the males possessing crests.

* [[http://www.bogleech.com/creepy/creepy13-captainslog.html One of the winning entries]] ([[WebOriginal/CaptainsLog now with its own page]]) in ''Website/{{Bogleech}}'''s ''CreepyPasta Cook-Off 2013'' features them and gives a pretty brilliant (and terrifying) explanation for why they always act the way they do.

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has a [[HumanSubspecies tweak]] Clade modeled after the [[http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-view-article&egart_uid=47ec45df22bde Grays]]. Given that TimeTravel is next to impossible in the setting it's highly unlikely they had anything to do with the subculture that created them.

They have the same basic body plan as humans, but they're grey, somewhat shorter than an average adult human, and have enormous heads with equally-huge black eyes resembling an upside-down-raindrop. They probably have [[TheNoseless no nose]] (when they do, the nostrils are thin like reptiles), and they almost certainly wear [[ExposedExtraterrestrials no clothes]] (though they will have [[NonHumansLackAttributes no visible genitals]]). In the older stories, they sometimes got silver spacesuits. Sometimes they will be a muted blue or green instead, and very occasionally a beige variant.

* The FurryComic ''[[http://www.ringtailcafe.com/starfireagency/ Starfire Agency]]'' has Grays as one of apparently several alien races that frequently abduct major character Denver, and the species he fears the most as they seem to be completely emotionless and uncaring about the experiments they perform on him, and they steal his clothes and send him back in different ones each time. In one arc a hybrid that looks like a tall, gaunt canid with large black eyes appears to [[spoiler:fix the sleeper personality his creators put in Denver, or rather the clone they replaced him with a decade ago]].

** The alien invaders from ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' are basically Greys, with some anatomical differences (like having three legs).
** They also have vertical mouths full of teeth.