Martian


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Martians are any of a large variety of extraterrestrial beings from the planet Mars. If one were to take into account the massive number of species said to reside here as all correct information, than Martians would most likely be immigrants using the planet as a base - likely a staging area for interacting with mankind on the planet Earth.

Appearances in Real Life

 * Possible Bacteria discovered on a meteorite found in Antarctica.

Appearances in Novels

 * Martians from the War of the Worlds (various views)
 * Martians from Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles
 * Martians from the novel Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon

Appearances in Comics & Magazines

 * Burning Martians from DC Comics
 * Green Martians from DC Comics
 * White Martians from DC Comics
 * Yellow Martians from DC Comics
 * Grey hued Martians from a one-shot Superman crossover comic from DC Comics
 * Barsoomians from Barsoom - their name for the planet Mars from Marvel Comics
 * The Brazilian magazine Superinteressante featured a non-intelligent Martian lifeform in June, 1999
 * Martians appear in several webcomics, including Irregular Webcomic! and It's Walky.
 * A Martian creature appears in the Calvin and Hobbes book, Weirdos From Another Planet!.

Appearances on Television

 * The Ice Warriors from Doctor Who
 * Martians from the Looney Tunes cartoons
 * Uncle Martin from the comedy series My Favorite Martian
 * "Native Martians" from Futurama; Buggaloes and Martian Spiders can also be considered "Martian" as they inhabit the planet.
 * A now-extinct Martian civilization was seen in "Battle of the Planets", one of the most popular episodes of the Invader Zim TV series
 * Different Martians were featured in several episodes of the anthology series The Twilight Zone
 * Mars and Beyond, an educational Disney cartoon, shows what real Martian life might have actually looked like when the planet was inhabited
 * A little green Martian is a member of the secret society of the Stonecutters in The Simpsons
 * Although never seen, Martians were mentioned in the TV series ALF. The "National Rag on Martians Day" is one of the holidays celebrated on Melmac.
 * The aliens from The Muppet Show were revealed to be from Mars in an episode of the online series Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony
 * The Yip Yips may actually be from Mars too; however since they have a bumper sticker on their flying saucer that says "Mars" on it, this more likely indicates that they were in fact tourists to the planet. Even so, they are often referred to as "Martians", even by staff crewing them.
 * Martians appear in an episode of Phineas and Ferb, where they are shown to be musically-inclined.
 * The Mysterons are an invisible race of Martian invaders from Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
 * Martian Mice inhabit the planet in Biker Mice from Mars.

Appearances in Movies

 * Martians from Contamination a.k.a. Alien Contamination a.k.a. Contamination: Alien on Earth and Toxic Spawn
 * Martian (Mars Attacks!)
 * The Martians from the 2000 movie Red Planet
 * Humanoid Martians from the Walt Disney movie of the same year Mission to Mars.
 * John Carpenter released a movie known as Ghosts of Mars one year later in 2001.
 * The 1964 movie Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, widely considered one of the worst films ever produced.
 * In both versions of the film Invaders from Mars.
 * Dim-witted Martians feature in the movie Spaced Invaders.

Appearances in Video Games

 * The Blisk from Destroy All Humans! 2
 * Mars people from the Metal Slug video game series
 * BCM, a Martian character in Airburst for the Mac OS.
 * The alien races in Corridor 7: Alien Invasion seek to take over the planet to use as a staging base to bring a war to Earth, but do not originate from the planet itself and come from elsewhere in the universe (presumably multiple worlds).
 * A multitude of Martian species appear in the RTS parody Stalin vs. Martians.
 * Huge-brained, bug-eyed Martians appear in a few levels of Zombies Ate My Neighbors, where they are easily recognized as being based upon one of the most famous B-Movie monsters.
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