Valentine Michael Smith

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also known as Man from Mars, Mike, Smith, the Man from Mars, V. M. Smith, Michael, Archangel Michael

protagonist/messiah

Human raised by Martians; watches a Fosterite service, cannot grasp lying or religious pluralism, concludes he is not a man because he cannot laugh; out-of-body observes the police raid with empathic precision.

In Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein, 1961)