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9	->'''Lunaris:''' Greetings, puny Earthers. I am General Lunaris of the vastly superior Planet Moon. \
10	'''Scrooge:''' Umm, The Moon's not a planet-- \
11	'''Della:''' Yeah, it's a whole thing with them.
12	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017''
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14	What if intelligent life wasn't on some distant star, but in the heavenly body right next door?
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16	The idea that there might be life on the Moon goes at least as far back as ''Literature/TrueHistory'' by Lucian of Samosata (2nd century AD)[[note]]although this was a satire of now-lost earlier stories, so the idea may potentially be considerably older[[/note]], and showed up in a lot of proto-science fiction afterwards. It should really have died with the development of high-power telescopes in the late 18th century, but hung around as at least the subject of spoofs (such as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moon_Hoax Great Moon Hoax]]). By the end of the 19th century, any astronomer could literally ''see'' that there was no life on the surface of the Moon, although some writers suggested that there was ''once'' life on the moon, leaving behind ruins for their heroes to explore.
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18	In most modern SF, lunar inhabitants tend to be human colonists; such examples fall under ColonizedSolarSystem. If said colonists have evolved or otherwise changed into something other than human, then it becomes this trope again via TranshumanAliens.
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20	Contrast TheManInTheMoon, MoonRabbit. Sub-trope of SolarSystemNeighbors. May be encountered in a TripToTheMoonPlot.
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27	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GjFfDGij0c A series of commercials for Tang]] instant breakfast drink featured moon-based characters. These aired in the early 1970s, the time of the Apollo moon landings. There were at least two more such commercials that appeared after the end of the Apollo program -- one had them opening a hotel on the moon, where the astronauts had to pay in Tang (it won't work; they stopped sending men to the moon!). In another they composed a song to bring the astronauts back so they would bring more Tang (which sounded remarkably familiar: "Twinkle twinkle little jar...")
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31	* In ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' the Digital World is orbited by three moons, the Blue Moon being inhabited by Starmon and some Burgermon.
32	* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasChronicleOfTheMoonExploration'' have Doraemon and friends coming across a race of HumanAliens called Espals living ''underneath'' the Moon's core. Turns out the Espals fled their world thanks to a genocidal AI hunting them to extinction, and have been living inside our moon since a millennia ago.
33	* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' canonically takes place in a world where ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter'' is an actual historical event, meaning that at some point there were aliens living on the moon. This is only established in the volume 4 Q&A, and the series is never shown to have actual science fiction or fantasy elements.[[note]][[FunnyBackgroundEvent Barring that yeti in Episode 3 of Season 1, the Moon breaking in Episode 3 of Season 2 (which apparently happened due to the moon still being broken in Episode 12)]], the Cubari Faccaciamo, the ghost of Girl A in the Light Novel, etc.[[/note]]
34	* ''Manga/LandOfTheLustrous'': The bad guys. They're trying to take the gems to the moon and turn them into jewelry. [[spoiler:Later they are stated to be other descendants of humanity, alongside the gems and the Admirabilis. Wentricosus ponders whether they want to reunite to become humans again]]. [[spoiler:They don't. They just want to pass on to the afterlife.]]
35	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': The Ōtsutsuki Clan is a group of godlike aliens, including a version of Princess Kaguya (who is revealed to be a GreaterScopeVillain who came from outside the solar system). One of Kaguya's two sons, Hamura, and his descendants settled on the Moon to watch over the sealed shell of the Ten-Tailed Beast.
36	* In ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' the [[MagicalGirlWarrior Sailor Senshi]] are looking for the Moon Princess who was reincarnated on Earth by the Moon Queen, (along with the princesses of other planets in the solar system), after the evil Queen Beryl and Metallia destroyed the civilizations on other planets. To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Moon Princess's identity turns out to be [[spoiler: Tsukino Usagi, or Serena in the English dub, who is Sailor Moon]].
37	* ''Manga/OnePiece'': It's revealed that the Skypieans are descended from a civilization which originally came from the moon, which Enel travels to on his Maxim ark after being defeated by Luffy. There is also another race that are actually called 'Lunarians', although, as far as we know, [[NonIndicativeName they have no connection to the moon]].
38	* They come to Earth at the end of ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'', [[spoiler:to take Kaguya back to the Moon.]] They're airy and ethereal, led by the Buddha himself, or at least someone who looks like him, and play joyful music with Indian influence, keeping with the Buddhist theme.
39	* The female [[IdolSinger idol units]] of ''Music/{{Tsukiuta}}'' are from the moon. They are "Goddess Candidates" aiming to be chosen as rulers of the moon, apparently. [[MeaningfulName Ai Kisaragi]], Fluna's February [[MoeAnthropomorphism representative]] has a twin brother ([[SpearCounterpart Six Gravity]]'s [[ThemeTwinNaming Koi]])[[note]]guess what day their birthday is[[/note]], and neither he nor their father know that she and their mother are from the moon.
40	* ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' has the legendary Moonrace, a group of ancient space colonists who managed to retain most of their advanced technology and HumongousMecha after an apocalypse which ravaged Earth. The plot kicks off when the Moonrace contact Earth, now rebuilt to early 20th Century levels, to announce that the time has come for them to return home. There's even a {{Homage}} to ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter'' involving a time their queen once discreetly travelled to Earth.
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44	* In ''Animation/NanaMoon'', a girl named Keke accidentally stumbles across a section of the moon called Moon Haven that is populated and guarded by moon fairies. Keke quickly makes friends with one of these moon fairies, Amy.
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48	* Inhabitants of the moon appear in several [[ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics Disney]] stories. A few examples:
49	** In Creator/CarlBarks' ''Rocket Race to the Moon'' (1948), the Moon is inhabited by chubby-looking aliens who drink rocket fuel and split in two smaller aliens when hit.
50	** In the Italian-written ''Astralpippo n. 9999!'', Goofy and Mickey are tricked by a mad scientist into a rocket and land on the Moon. There they find get caught in a war between two factions of HumanAliens -- one of which does [[BizarroUniverse everything in a "reversed" way]] and are at risk of starvation because the enemy keeps bombarding them with food. And the war has been orchestrated by [[WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} Peg Leg Pete]] somehow. The story makes so little sense that later reprints tried to [[AllJustADream explain it away as Mickey's dream]].
51	* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has the Watcher living at a hidden base in the Moon, an alien that observes all events and sometimes works as a story's narrator. He's not actually native to the Moon, he's from an alien species that establishes such outposts at several corners of the universe. Note that this character was created in 1963, during the years of the space race but before the actual Moon landing, so the work treated the Moon as a mysterious place.
52	** The Inhumans (who were originally genetically modified human offshoots from Earth) later moved to the moon, living next to the Watcher.
53	* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' has the Nightmare Forces, and the ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFiendshipIsMagic'' reveals they used to be Nyx, who are tasked with manipulating dreams to fend off nightmares.
54	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: The moon is inhabited by nymphs who worship their ruler Artemis as a goddess. The moon also has forests and glass volcanoes.
55	* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' has ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'' at war with the [[Literature/TheFirstMenInTheMoon Selenites]] with gravity and air generated by [[Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey Monoliths]]. [[WesternAnimation/TheClangers The Clangers and the Soup Dragon]] live there as well as [[Literature/TrueHistory Lucien]] and [[Creator/MarvelComics Uatu The Watcher]].
56	* ''ComicBook/ScarletTraces'' is similar to ''[=LOEG=]'' and has cave paintings of [[Literature/TheFirstMenInTheMoon Selenites]] and [[Creator/MarvelComics Uatu The Watcher]] as the original inhabitants of The Moon.
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60	* In the ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' comic there was a race of humanoid creatures on the Moon. They looked like human beings except that they had large eyes and horns on their heads.
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64	* In ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter'', Princess Kaguya turns out to be from the moon, and her people eventually come to collect her.
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68	* In the FoundFootage horror film ''Film/Apollo18'', the inhabitants are spider-like creatures that disguise themselves as rocks. It is notable for being one of the few modern examples of this trope being played straight.
69	* ''Film/CatWomenOfTheMoon'' and the 1959 remake ''Film/MissileToTheMoon'' (not to mention the spoof ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'') reveal that the Moon is inhabited [[LadyLand entirely by beautiful women]].
70	* The 1964 movie ''Film/FirstMenInTheMoon'' (an adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel mentioned below) features Selenites brought to life through the stop-motion work of Creator/RayHarryhausen. These ones also domesticate giant caterpillar-like creatures known as mooncalves.
71	* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', based on the Baron Munchausen character, shows the Moon inhabited by giants that can remove their head from the body.
72	* In ''Film/{{Munchhausen}}'' Baron von Munchausen and his sidekick fly a balloon to the Moon. They find a genial race of moon people that can exist as whole bodies or just disembodied heads, as well as a weird YearOutsideHourInside time warp.
73	* ''Film/NudeOnTheMoon'': This very very silly 1961 "naturist" BMovie has two scientists build their own rocket ship and fly to the Moon. They discover that the Moon is populated mostly by HumanAliens who are telepathic, who are mostly good-looking young women, and who like to wander about wearing nothing but bikini bottoms.
74	* The landmark 1902 film ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'' involves some whimsical astronomers getting shot to the moon by a giant gun. Once they land they find the Selenites, a strange race of people that disappear into a puff of smoke if you whack them with an umbrella.
75	* Subverted in the [[SoBadItsGood hilariously awful]] made for TV movie "Stonehenge Apocalypse", when people kept accusing the main character of claiming that the government covered up the discovery of aliens on the moon, only for him to have to repeatedly clarify that [[MemeticMutation it... was... a ROBOT HEAD!]]
76	* The poster for ''Film/RobotMonster'' refers to the aliens as "Moon monsters" but in the movie they come from a planet called Ro-Man.
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80	* In ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', Floyd speculates one of these to be the ones who buried the Monolith in the moon, but then debunks this when he realizes that they would have been wiped out by the formation of the moon's craters.
81	* In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator'', Willy Wonka mentions that the moon ''used'' to be inhabited, but the native Poozas were wiped out by the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Vermicious Knids]].
82	* In Galileo Gallilei's ''[[http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-Galileo.html Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems]]'', Salviati muses about the possibility that the Moon may be inhabited by corruptible creatures who give praise to {{God}} by their existence. He proposes this as a far more beautiful and fitting possibility than if the heavens were the cold, unchanging spheres described by Ptolemy and Aristotle, lacking the change and alteration which makes Earth such a miracle. One of Galileo's translators posts the brief fantasy to the one proposed in ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Paradiso]]''.
83	* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', the inhabitants of the Moon are ghosts so pale that Dante mistakes them for shadows and reflections, relegated to this lowest place in Paradise for the vows they've violated. In truth, they live with Mary, the angels, and the rest of the saved in God's Empyrean, but to allow Dante to understand the difference between them and other Paradisians, the oath-breakers have taken the pale Moon as their living place.
84	* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/ExtraterrestrialCivilizations'': (DiscussedTrope) Dr Asimov [[ShoutOut cites]] a number of fictional works that make use of a civilized Moon.
85	* Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheFirstMenInTheMoon''. A businessman and a physicist create an AntiGravity based CoolStarship and travel to the Moon. Under the surface they discover a civilization of InsectoidAliens they call Selenites. Selenites have thousands of possible forms and each one performs a specific function in Lunar society. Since the Moon was already known to be uninhabited, Wells attempted to explain how the Moon civilization could have gone undetected: all of the Moon's water and cities are in underground caves and the lunar atmosphere on the surface freezes at night, so the Moon ''is'' airless 50% of the time. No word on how astronomers could have missed the atmosphere the other 50% of the time, though.
86	* ''[[Literature/GiantsSeries Inherit the Stars]]'' by James P. Hogan zigzags this while blending it with half a dozen other "humans in space" tropes. In the near future, humans exploring the Moon find a spacesuited dead body buried in a cave. A [[ColonizedSolarSystem colonist from Earth]]? Can't be - [[AdvancedAncientHumans the body is 50,000 years old]], but no trace of his culture has ever been found on Earth. He and his culture are promptly dubbed the Lunarians. It turns out that [[HumanityCameFromSpace he's from another planet]], Minerva, which once existed between Mars and Jupiter but broke up to become the Asteroid Belt. But if he's from another world, how can he be [[HumanAliens biologically 100% human]]? Well, 25 million years ago, [[SolarSystemNeighbors Minerva was home to an advanced alien species]] who captured a wide array of Earth lifeforms and took them back to Minerva - including very primitive hominids who eventually evolved into [[TransplantedHumans a Minervan subspecies of human]]. It makes sense. Eventually.
87	* Jerome Beatty, Jr. wrote a series of children's books, starting with 1961's ''Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth'', wherein Matthew and his sister Maria are young members of a non-human civilization native to the Moon.
88	* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Moone The Man in the Moone]]'', by Francis Godwin, is a story where characters travel to the moon by flight.
89	* In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs' ''Literature/TheMoonMaid'' the Moon is inhabited by a variety of cultures, including the warlike Kalkars.
90	* Literature/OrlandoFurioso. Orlando's wits get lost on the moon, Astolfo fetches it and meets John the Evangelist there.
91	* ''Literature/RocketShipGalileo''. There are [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazis on the Moon]], but at one point a character claims to have seen LittleGreenMen as well, and it's [[OrWasItADream left ambiguous as to whether he was hallucinating]] from lack of oxygen.
92	* In ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Swords of Mars]]'', ''our'' moon is uninhabited, but one of the moons of Mars is home to the Malena (arboreal cat-people) and the Tarids (white-skinned psychics.)
93	* In ''Literature/ThatHideousStrength'', the third book of C.S. Lewis' space trilogy, a few mentions are made in passing of a lunar race who have a completely technological, anti-nature civilization.
94	* Lucian's book ''Literature/TrueHistory'' (sometimes translated as "True Story" or "True Fiction") is among the first science fiction stories, and in large part concerned with a war on the Moon. Unusually the Moon people are not at war with Earth, but rather with the people who live on the Sun. They also have [[BizarreAlienBiology odd characteristics]] like being [[OneGenderRace all male]], having detachable genitals, gestating their young on their calves, having leaf ears and possessing armies of bizarre creatures like dog-faced men riding on acorns and cloud centaurs. It could be seen as the first attempt at writing alien biology, if it wasn't so blatantly ridiculous.
95	* In Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's pioneering sci-fi story "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unparalleled_Adventure_of_One_Hans_Pfaall The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall]]" (1835), Pfaall flies a balloon to the moon, where he finds a race of earless, two-foot-tall moon people.
96	* ''Voyages to the moon and the sun'', by Cyrano de Bergerac, considered several ways to travel into space, although the main character eventually used a method that [[ScienceMarchesOn would prove unworkable in real life]].
97	* In the Literature/DiogenesClub story ''Moon Moon Moon'' by Creator/KimNewman, the Moon is a magical place populated by all the characters who've travelled to the Moon in fiction. An EvilSorcerer wants to use them to destroy ''Apollo 11'', but Richard Jeperson persuades them to [[TheMagicGoesAway face their end with dignity]] and not destroy those who have been inspired by their deeds to carry them out for real.
98	* "Flight of the Vampires", a short story that appeared in ''Magazine/AmazingStories'', has the Earth attacked by vampiric pterodactyl-like creatures from the Moon.
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102	* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s''. In "Man-Eater of Surrey Green", Emma Peel speculates that the PlantAliens came from Mars or even the Moon. "Recent photographs show whole areas of vegetation." Not sure [[HollywoodScience how the writers could justify]] that one...
103	* In the ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' episode ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs On A Spaceship]]'', The Doctor tells Rory and Brian not to bump the ship into the Moon or the races that live there will be livid, leading to Brian's FlatWhat. Given that it's set in the 24th century, it might have been colonized.
104	** Except we later find out the Moon is an [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E7KillTheMoon egg for a giant space creature]].
105	* ''Franchise/UltraSeries''
106	** ''Series/UltramanAce'' have a mid-season revelation that [[spoiler:Yuhko Minami]], one of the two hosts of Ultraman Ace, turns out to be an alien from a civilization that lives on the moon, before their homeworld was destroyed by the monster Lynatyx. Ultraman Ace expectedly fights Luynatyx and wins, and by the episode's conclusion [[spoiler:Yuhko decides to leave the show and return to the moon]].
107	** ''Series/UltramanLeo'' has an episode which is a WholePlotReference to ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter'', where Gen Ohtori's new friend, Kaguya, turns out to be an infant from a race of moon-people and the moon's monstrous guardian, Kirara, is on it's way to earth to send her back home. Forms a nice ContinuityNod with ''Ace'' above, since Minami and Kaguya ''could'' be of the same tribe.
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111	* The groups Selas and Fluna of ''Music/{{Tsukiuta}}'' are actually Lunarians. The reason why they've come down to Earth is because they're trying to pass a MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest to become the Goddess of the Moon.
112	* Invoked in Music/TheyMightBeGiants' song "All Alone", which tells the story (listed below under RealLife) of a germ being found on the moon by Surveyor 3. The song was recorded for the ABC science documentary series ''Brave New World''.
113	-->Then one day the scientists recovered all their gear\
114	Excited by the prospect of unearthly things inside\
115	They found, to their astonishment, a living thing within\
116	It seemed to bear good tidings from somewhere in outer space:\
117	"You're not alone\
118	You're not alone\
119	Behold the mystery that is me."
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123	* The second segment of the ''Podcast/TwilightHistories'' episode "The Moon" takes place in a world where the Moon is home to several intelligent lifeforms. Said lifeforms have a Victorian Era level of technology and society and communicate via vibrations, though not with sound. As of late, they’re dealing with invasion from humans.
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127	* [[Music/JacquesOffenbach Jacques Offenbach's]] play [[Theatre/LeVoyageDansLaLune Le Voyage Dans La Lune]] features Lunarians that live without romantic feelings towards one another and mate by bidding on a bride at an auction, that is until the main characters arrive and find out apples make everyone fall in love with one another, and effectively end these auctions for good. Their political system is also quite strange, and doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
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131	* ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'' has Magnolia Arch, a Ba'al Buster who calls the moon of Luxendarc her home. Unfortunately, her home was ravaged by a demonic entity, making her among the LastOfHerKind.
132	* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', it eventually turns out that the entire plot was set into motion by the lunarians, and that not only is the real villain a lunarian, but TheHero is [[HalfHumanHybrid half lunarian]] himself.
133	* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' has penguins living on the moon, who [[PlanetOfHats are characterized]] by their love of movies featuring lots of bright lights and loud music.
134	* The ''Galactricraft'' mod for ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' sometimes spawns moon villages, complete with humanoid inhabitants.
135	* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' has the Moon Tribe, a race of technologically advanced HumanAliens who lived on the Moon before being destroyed in an unknown cataclysm, leaving only three survivors. They were the creators of the Ark of Yamato, the prison for Yami and his armies of demons who later slaughtered the Celestials and plagued Nippon during the events of the game. They also created numerous artifacts that are later used as powerups by Amaterasu such as the Fire Tablet that allows her to swim in molten lava.
136	* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' has X-Nauts, a race of aliens who come from the Moon (or at least use it as their base of operations), whose leader, Grodus, seeks to TakeOverTheWorld.
137	* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'':
138	** The Lunarians are a group of Shinto deities led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto Tsukuyomi]], who moved to the moon via SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology when [[HumanityEnsues the taint of mortality]] began to spread across Earth millions of years ago. In the present day they have become somewhat xenophobic out of fear that their new home will become likewise tainted by human astronauts. They are particularly important to the plots of ''[[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight Imperishable Night]]'', ''Manga/TouhouBougetsushou'' and ''[[VideoGame/TouhouKanjudenLegacyOfLunaticKingdom Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''.
139	** Their fear of impurity is such that one of the midbosses is a living BrownNote to them: Clownpiece is a fairy that's pure lifeforce, and thus anathema to them. Adding insult to injury (literally), the reason she's wearing stars-and-stripes is to remind the Lunarians of that one time humans walked around on the moon.
140	** The moon also has a large population of {{Moon Rabbit}}s, who appear to be either creations of the Lunarians or native lifeforms they enslaved.
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144	* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' features Mooninites Ignignokt and Err but it's questionable whether they qualify as intelligent life.
145	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Babar}}'', Babar and co. make themselves pass as Selenites in order to trick Rataxes into buying the moon.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' has a lunar civilisation who went into hiding when they realised their neighbouring planet had the ability to send rockets to them. [[spoiler: And one of them seeks revenge.]]
147	* The characters Gidney and Cloyd from ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' hail from Earth's moon. They're pudgy, pear-shaped HumanoidAliens about half as tall as earth humans.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMoonMonsterMadness'' has the titular moon monster as a native of the moon.
149	* The first ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' serial "Jet Fuel Formula" concerns the US Government and Pottsylvania wanting to get their hands on Buillwinkle's mooseberry fudge cake recipe, which works equally well as rocket fuel, so they can go to the moon. Partway through the serial moon men Gindey and Cloyd show up to get it themselves so no humans will go to the moon. Gidney and Cloyd show up in later serials "Metal Munching Mice" and "Missouri Mish Mash."
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153	* Despite most people’s disbelief in life on worlds other than Earth, an incident involving an Israeli rocket proved otherwise. The rocket accidentally transported tardigrades on the rocket onto the Moon. However, [[https://www.science.org/news/2021/05/hardy-water-bears-survive-bullet-impacts-point subsequent research makes it doubtful that they survived the impact]], and even if they did, they would remain in a dormant "tun" form unless they were exposed to liquid water. Although these extraterrestrials were brought to the Moon by humans and not created there naturally, it is still interesting to think of another world besides our planet to be confirmed to have life.
154	* There's a similiar story about the lunar lander Surveyor 3, which went to the moon in 1967. Upon its return, it was found to have a germ living on the camera lens, leading to a brief moment of excitement over the possibility of life, however primitive, on the moon, and when the germ was identified as ''Streptococcus mitis'', one also found on Earth, a few people even latched onto this as evidence of interplanetary {{panspermia}}. However, a much more likely hypothesis was quickly proposed: the germ was from Earth all along, and had essentially stowed away, undetected, on the lander before its initial launch. Scientists now believe the germ was probably never even in space at all, and got onto the lens during ''re-entry''. This story was the basis of Music/TheyMightBeGiants' song "All Alone", listed above under music.
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