Human disguise

A human disguise is a concept in cartoon animations, science fiction, and religious texts where a costume is used to disguise a non-human as a human being. The deception has been depicted in storylines as a means used to blend in with people. The use of human diguise in stories and mythology has been employed by aliens, gods, satan, angels, and cartoon characters.

In science fiction
Human disguises, sometimes referred to as "human suits", have been described in various works of science fiction. The recurring plot device and theme is used in several stories about alien invaders.

In the Men in Black movie, based on a comic book, aliens disguised as humans inhabit Earth. , Galaxy Quest, The Thing, Star Man, V, They Live, Third Rock from the Sun and Meet Dave.

The mannerisms of aliens using human disguises are sometimes portrayed as awkward, indicating that the aliens are not comfortable in their false skin.

Director Albert Kodagolian produced a short film called Human Suit, to help promote the Sci Fi Channel

Martian Manhunter, one of the main characters in New Frontier is "a shape-changing alien who adopts human disguise because he knows his alien form would scare people." The character illustrates the fear of outsiders the occured during the Cold War.

The Furon character Crypto, a gray-skinned alien, in Pandemic's Destroy All Humans video game uses a holographic human disguise to infiltrate 1950s suburban America. "In human form he cannot use weapons but is still able to use his mental powers to hurl objects and hypnotize people into becoming obedient slaves."


 * Men In Black : The alien prince of the Arquillian Empire was in a human suit, living as a human being, with a pet cat. There was also a large alien found with illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico into America, which squeezed itself into a human suit.
 * Men In Black II : The alien known as Ben is found selling alien weapons in his store. When his fake human head is shot off, it rapidly regrows.
 * In the science fiction series V, the reptilian aliens wear human suits to pass as humans, trying to make them feel more comfortable around them.
 * Meet Dave : A group of aliens arrive in a spaceship shaped like a human being, and pilot it, to interact with the humans, without getting noticed.
 * In Star Man, the alien appears in human form, explaining it was so "you not be a little bit jumpy."
 * Third Rock from the Sun features a group of aliens, given human bodies, to observe aspects of human society.

In cartoons
The meme is also used in animation for cartoon characters. In a short story by Haitham Chehabi a human disguise is worn by Trix, a cartoon rabbit.

In religion and mythology
In the the Old Testament apocryphal Book of Tobit, Raphael is an archangel who takes on human disguise and the name of Azarias. Zeus's human disguises have been compared to Plato's use of communicating through alternate characters as a means to express that the "essential philosophical nature is divine rather than human" and "cannot be represented without some element of human "disuise"."