Random Memorable Fictional Romances Between Humans And Aliens (16 items)

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  (#1) Leela & Fry On 'Futurama'

  Between all the earnest teenage love stories, all the world-ending hero films, there is one love story that always hits home: Leela and Fry on Futurama. They represent the archetypal New York couple, poor and in love.

  The two meet during a misadventure and end up becoming crew members aboard Planet Express, an interstellar postal service. Although Fry may be a brain cell short of human, Leela's mutation also outcasts her. The two end up being friends, until Leela finally opens her eye to how deeply Fry actually loves her, at which point, the couple finally celebrate their affection for one another. 
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  (#2) Korben Dallas & Leeloo In 'The Fifth Element'

  A former member of the special forces, cab driver Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) finds himself in a bind when he must rescue not only a humanoid elemental but the Earth itself. Leeloo (Milla Jovovich), created from living cells taken from Monshadowan cells, is a true innocent, albeit one with incredible powers. Like most aliens, Leeloo must learn how to live on Earth, speak on Earth, eat, sleep, and sometimes play; her guilelessness is adorable and endearing.

  The two fall in love as Dallas saves the spirited redhead from impending doom many times over. 
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  (#3) Aeryn Sun & John Crichton On 'Farscape'

  Farscape brings viewers a rare treat with the love between Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black) and John Crichton (Ben Browder). The two met after John crashes Aeryn's ship, ruining her mission. After a few episodes, their chemistry is off the charts, as is the intensity of their high-speed chase away from evil.

  The two find they have a lot to learn from each other: Aeryn's background has trained her to be emotionless and logical, while John is full of strange Earth energy - which is to say, he's just kinda hyper. 
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  (#4) Superman & Lois Lane

  It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman and Lois Lane! It's the original interplanetary office romance as reporter Clark Kent finds himself drawn towards fellow journalist Lane. The two end up meeting constantly at work while Superman is under the guise of Clark Kent. If not for the Earth always needing saving, they could have had a lovely relationship.

  In some alternate realities and iterations (see, for example, Alan Moore's magnificent Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?), they have a child - made in the natural, human (and apparently also Kryptonian) way, unlike Starman. We can always root for those offshoot dimensions, even if the romance seems to be constantly stymied by circumstance in others.
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  (#5) The Doctor & River Song On 'Doctor Who'

  The Doctor is an almost thousand-year-old alien (played by an ever-growing list of actors) who seems to always have an eye for younger women; but while adventuring with some dear companions, The Doctor draws closer to the mature River Song (Alex Kingston). 

  Thanks to the vicissitudes of time, conflict, alternate reality, and a touch of VR, The Doctor and River Song meet on the day their relationship ends. The two never fully understand how much they'll impact each others' lives, as they seem to be falling in love backwards, with only River's memories and The Doctor's future diary to guide them. Daleks and Vashta Nerada keep the two apart constantly, but they always find a way to be together. This human-alien science fiction romance is for the ages. 
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  (#6) Jake Sully & Neytiri In 'Avatar'

  Inhabiting the body of an alien avatar, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) falls in love with Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), a hunter/princess native to the deadly forest world of Pandora in Avatar. As Neytiri, unaware that Jake is actually a double-agent for the human military occupiers, trains him to be a member in good standing of the Na'vi, the two fall in love amid a turbulent political backdrop and in spite of a significant language barrier. They meet in conflict and their relationship is constantly undermined by the fight between the humans and the natives of Pandora.

  Neytiri seems to understand that Jake's physical body, essentially an ultra-high-tech puppet that goes dormant when he turns off his digital interface, is not exactly like hers, but at times, this confusion endangers their lives. Fortunately, all ends well with a little help from Eywa, a super-intelligent tree-goddess who has a soft spot for young lovers.
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  (#7) Dick & Mary On '3rd Rock From the Sun'

  Love and hate drove this alien and human relationship so wild that only an SNL-worthy cast could fill the roles. 3rd Rock From The Sun has Dick, the alien (John Lithgow), and Mary, the human (Jane Curtin), meet at work, forced to share a small office space. For Dick, it's love at first sight; for Mary, the complete opposite. The two spend most of the series in an on-again-off-again relationship until finally they become engaged. Although they had all of America, and maybe even the solar system, rooting for them, the couple's romance was given a sadly Men In Black-esque ending, with Dick, forced to return to his homeworld, erasing Mary's memory of him.

  Better to have loved and lost, we say. If this science fiction couple's relationship seemed strong, it may have been partly from the phenomenal casting. 
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  (#8) Spock & Uhura In 'Star Trek' (2009)

  The original 1960s Star Trek famously gave us the first televised interracial kiss - between Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura, although they were forced into it by the telekinetic powers of a group of malevolent Greek-toga-wearing aliens. Rebooting the series in 2009, J.J. Abrams and his writers upped the ante with the romance between Vulcan Spock (Zachary Quinto) and human Uhura (Zoe Saldana).

  The two meet at Starfleet Academy, where Spock is one of Uhura's instructors. The romance is, for the most part, hidden from the audience; we mainly discover it by small hints and random acts of flirtation - showing the romance is serious enough to hide from coworkers (i.e., the crew of the Enterprise). Many of the hardships the couple endures are your run-of-the mill "don't perish in a volcano, don't perish on a planet about to blow up" variety.
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  (#9) Starman & Jenny In 'Starman'

  Probably one of the most heartfelt love stories between an alien and a human, John Carpenter's Starman shows characters grappling with loss and learning through age and wisdom. Starman (Jeff Bridges), a guilelessly genuine extraterrestrial soul, meets and falls for Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen), an infertile widow. The two embark on an adventure across America together, pursued by those implacable government agents who always seem to want to spoil an innocent alien's fun.

  In the end, Starman manages to leave Jenny with the one thing she always wanted but could never have - a child. He also happened to embody her deceased husband while doing it. 
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  (#10) Valerie & Mac In 'Earth Girls Are Easy'

  Probably one of the best/worst '80s flicks, Earth Girls Are Easy is what Clueless could have been with aliens. Valerie (Geena Davis) and Mac (Jeff Goldblum) meet by mistake when Mac's spaceship lands in her pool the day after she and her fiancé break off their engagement. The two head down a path of partying, adventure, and California sun.

  After some police interaction and a near-fatal trip to the emergency room, the couple escape back to their home. In the end, they run (or fly) off together for a life of adventure in space, which is perhaps the happiest ending one can imagine for a human/alien romance.
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  (#11) Celeste & Steven In 'My Stepmother is an Alien'

  In My Stepmother is an Alien, Steven Mills (Dan Aykroyd) and Celeste Martin (Kim Basinger) start their relationship off in a normal enough manner, at a family party resulting in a one-night-stand. The two begin a fast-paced romance fueled by physicality and newly discovered emotions. Celeste's from the planet "Cosine N to the 8th," where the beings have no feelings. After landing on Earth, her emotions are sparked, and she's able to feel and experience things as a newborn would. 

  This couple faces its share of obstacles: Steven's daughter (a pre-Buffy Alyson Hannigan) is full of suspicion for the interloper and her strange ways; Celeste's family calls her home; and her bodyguard tries to slay her boyfriend - although normally bodyguards don't come in the form of cyclops tentacles in a designer handbag. 
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  (#12) Decker & Ilia In 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture'

  Commander Willard Decker (Stephen Collins), the frustrated first officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise (which he was supposed to command, but had taken from under him by Admiral Kirk), finds himself in an awkward spot when an old flame - Lieutenant Ilia (Persis Khambatta), a Deltan navigator - joins the refurbished starship's bridge crew on its maiden mission to save Earth from the mysterious V'ger probe. Deltans, it seems, are extremely casual about physical love, and Ilia doesn't share the same feelings for Willard that he developed for her during their fling.

  The romance takes an unexpected twist when Ilia is fatally zapped by V'ger, only to return as a hybrid being - possessing Ilia's body and some of her personality traits, but also acting as a sort of emissary for V'ger, a way for the probe to communicate directly with humans. This 'new' Ilia is better able to reciprocate Decker's feelings, and in the final encounter with V'ger, he leaps at the opportunity to merge with her in a cosmic meeting of minds. Kirk gets to keep the spaceship, but Decker gets to unify with his true love in a fabulously backlit clinch.
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  (#13) Michael & Maria On 'Roswell'

  Although it didn't last past three seasons, Roswell made its mark as a spicy teen romance that focused on some love triangles in New Mexico, an alien hotspot. Michael (Brendan Fehr) and Maria (Majandra Delfino) cycle through an on-again-off-again romance, popular for teenage humans and aliens, which eventually leads to the troubled youths realizing they love each other.

  Michael, who has to deal with his vicious foster father, yearns to escape Earth but decides to stay because he understands that home is where the heart is - in his case, Maria. 
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  (#14) Robin & Brian On 'V: The Miniseries'

  The interspecies romance between naive human teen Robin Maxwell (Blair Tefkin) and duplicitous alien officer Brian (Peter Nelson) shows that good things can have bad beginnings.

  The romance begins innocently enough - Robin develops a thing for the dashing young 'Visitor' officer, unaware that underneath his human-seeming guise he's actually a green lizard. Brought aboard the Visitor mothership, Robin makes love to Brian, only to learn afterward that the incident was orchestrated by Brian's superiors in order to test the viability of a hybrid offspring. Brian is soon captured by the human Resistance and made a prisoner. Now pregnant and enraged at how she was used, Robin flings an experimental 'red dust' in Brian's face; it quickly ends his life, demonstrating its potential against the invaders.

  But Robin's child by Brian, Elizabeth, becomes the superhuman 'Starchild' who helps to avert Earth's destruction and open up the possibility of peace between the two species.
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  (#15) Gardner Elliot & Tulsa In 'The Space Between Us'

  Born on Mars, Gardner Elliot (Asa Butterfield) is the first technical Martian featured in The Space Between Us. Although of human background, his body and musculature been have changed so dramatically by his years on Mars that he cannot live on Earth without surgical assistance. During his solitude on Mars, Elliot wanders into an online virtual chatroom where he meets Tulsa (Britt Robertson), a troubled orphan. The two find a strong connection that fuels Elliot's desire to go to Earth. 

  After a long struggle, surgery, and physical training, Elliot makes his way to Earth and finds Tulsa. The two embark on a romantic journey, until Elliot's heart begins to give out and they must find a way to save him. 

  This innocent young love tale shows that romance can spark between people who are different but share an inherent desire not to be alone. 
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  (#16) Lena & Kane In 'Annihilation'

  Something truly epic occurs during Alex Garland's groundbreaking Annihilation. Lena, played by Natalie Portman, must enter an alien space known as "the shimmer" to discover where all the missing crew members are, and bring back something for scientists to research and understand. While inside the space, Lena looks for remnants of her husband, Kane (Oscar Isaac), and finds him, seemingly having survived all his time in the shimmer. Through the turmoil of an adventure battling malevolently Darwinian bacteria, Lena defeats the alien and reunites with Kane. 

  But it's not till the end, as the reunited couple shares an intimate kiss, that the secret is revealed. Lena realizes Kane is an alien now, after watching a tape of her husband dying while voluntarily giving his place to the extraterrestrial. Viewers might also suspect that Lena has retained some side effects of the shimmer, making her part alien as well. 

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