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  • In Child of the Storm and its sequel, Asgardians and the mostly extinct Kryptonians (who are stated to have previously interbred) are the most prominent examples of this, as are the Kree - the Shi'ar and Skrulls are mentioned, but like other species like the Jotuns, they are at last humanoid. The classic Marvel explanation of 'the Celestials did it', since the entities in question make a passing appearance, likely holds true.
  • The humans from Pokémon - referred to as "Pokérinians" - are described as "humanoid but decidedly not human" in Intelligence Factor.
  • In Keepers of the Elements, everyone from the magical planets Alma, Spectra, Erendor, Wispera and Nadir resemble humans, with few exceptions.
  • The Angels, Jews, and Muslims in the Sonic X: Dark Chaos universe. Humanity was originally descended from them, and they look very similar to humans with only a few minor quirks.
    • Ethnic Angels closely resemble Tolkien elves. They are often tall and fair.
    • Jews are short, dark-skinned tribal people with beards. Jesus, although he's the leader of the whole Federation, is one of these.
    • Male Muslims are generally quite similar to Jews. Female Muslims are always completely covered up, and for good reason.
  • Jason Shepard from Sailor Moon: Legends of Lightstorm is suspected to be this. At the very least, he's extremely old and used to have powers, but whether or not he's an actual alien is up for debate.
  • The Last Daughter subverts and plays this straight. According to Jor-El, they had to remove Taylor's ancillary thumbs and re-add her canine teeth back, among other things, in order for her blend in on Earth. Amy notes that humans genetically have more in common with sea sponges than with Kryptonians. However, the end product means that virtually no one, including Taylor for most of her life, can tell the difference.
  • Alex Harris, the heroine of Origin Story, is a Kryptonian, and thus nearly identical to a human female. There is a discussion between Alex and her human lover that details some of the physical differences between the two species (specifically, the Kryptonians in this story have hearts on the opposite side of the chest than a human, Kryptonians don't have anything that corresponds with the human appendix, female Kryptonians only ovulate four times a year and thus only menstruate four times a year, they have less body hair per square inch of skin, their eyes can't differentiate as many separate shades of color as the human eye, and so on), but none of them are readily obvious to the casual viewer.
  • In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku is Kryptonian. His appearance and bodily functions are close enough to a human's that he has no problems passing as one even after the government discovers him. The fact that his powers manifested when he was four years old only adds to the illusion that he's just a kid with a ridiculously powerful Quirk rather than the "big green monster man" the public believes him to be.
  • Shinji Ikari in Alpha And Omega (Fanfic) is completely identical to humans on a biological level but vastly different on a metaphysical level, being the last of the Lilum. Unlike humans of the Mass Effect universe, Shinji can pilot an Evangelion and utilize an AT field. It's eventually revealed that Shinji is older than the last trillion universes.
  • Discussed by a pair of Peruvian llama farmers in If They Haven't Learned Your Name who find Barnes and the spaceship floating near their farmlands. After Barnes asks them for directions and then takes off, the two farmers debate if Barnes is an alien- obviously thinking of Asgardians -a drunk, or just a gringo, or if they're the ones who got drunk enough to hallucinate a white guy and an ugly-ass spaceship. They also realize that if Barnes is, in fact, an alien sent to take over Earth Loki-style, they're the idiots who just pointed him to the nearest town.
  • Tales of the Otherverse: Discussed. Sherri finds hard to believe the fact that there were humanoids and dog-looking animals in Krypton, although Mon-El points there is a thing called convergent evolution.
    Mon-El: Dog? White? Named Krypto?
    Sherri: Yes. Supposedly he came from the same planet Superboy came from, though I find that hard to believe. It's hard enough to imagine that evolution followed similar paths with humanoids on other planets.
    Mon-El: Depends. If you give credence to the theory that many worlds were seeded with similar life forms, then it stands to reason that those life forms might evolve along similar paths.
  • I'm Nobody: There are actual humans originating from planets other than Earth, and not in the "humans were transplanted there" way but in the "they evolved on their own" way. The most prominent example is planet Barsoom, aka Mars.


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