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Hippies are often depicted in television and video games as pot-loving, tie-dyed shirt-wearing, [[Disco Dan|stuck-in-the-'60s]] types who believe in [[Eternal Sexual Freedom|sexual freedom]], [[Nude Nature Dance|celebrating nature]] and railing against "[[The Government|the man]], man." While this was (and whoah, still is, you know, dude) true to some extent, it has been [[Flanderization|exaggerated]] ([[Rule of Funny|naturally]]) in fiction, dude.
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Former hippies who joined the establishment while retaining their countercultural values become a specific type, the [[Bourgeois Bohemian]].
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲{{tropelist|Whoah, there's Examples, man:}}
* ''[[Turn
* Two unnamed hippies (a man and a woman, possibly a married couple) appeared several times in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'', and were an essential element to the plot of one story.
▲== [[Anime]] ==
* In the dub of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', Human Wave duelist Belowski didn't dress as one (though his old Obelisk Blue uniform wasn't in very good condition) but he talked and acted like one.
▲* ''[[Turn a Gundam (Anime)|Turn a Gundam]]'' has the Red Team, a family of Moonrace-descended Terrans who wear hippie clothing and spend a lot of time getting drunk, dancing, and singing songs about the Moon. The rest of the Moonrace treats them... well, kind of like real life hippies are treated. They're a subversion though: rather than countercultural peace-lovers, they are warriors absolutely loyal to the Lunar Queen, Dianna Soriel.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Ted Richards' underground comic ''[[The Forty Year Old Hippie]]'' came out ca. 1979 - the title character looks about 70, and regales youngsters with stories about the old days. His catch phrases: "Over 200 trips and they've all been bummers - but I ain't givin' up!" and "I ain't been high since The Pot of '69!"
* The most well-known version of ''[[Justice League]]'' villain Prometheus (the one whose name has never been revealed) was the son of a hippie couple - who were also cold-blooded [[Serial Killer]]s who were eventually gunned down in a police sting. Their son grew up to be just as rotten.
== [[
* Clearwater Commune in ''[[DC Nation]]'' fits this. Founded on [[Actual Pacifist]] principles, and implied to have devolved a bit into the [[Granola Girl]] trope. Led by [[Retired Badass]] "Brother" Joseph Cross, who is [[The Atoner|atoning for the atrocities he committed during the Vietnam War]]. The Titan Fauna was born and raised on the Commune, and remains as much of
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Paris in The Twentieth Century]]'', written in the 1860s, has as its 1960s protagonist a [[Love Freak]] and self-proclaimed poet who grows his hair long and detests corporations. He's not a drug addict, but the foundations of the trope can be seen. (Again, this was probably working off the Transcendentalists.)
* Starflower Creed from ''[[Love in a Nutshell]]''.
* Gloria Glyczwych (Witch Gliz) and her gay traveling companion John
* Practically every human character we see in the 1967 science-fiction novel ''[[The Butterfly Kid]]'', but subverted in that there's no "Retro" here -- in the 1976 of the book, the hippie counterculture is still a vibrant and living thing, almost at the tipping point where it stops being "counter" and becomes the culture. And the narration suggests that that's exactly what happened after the events of the book.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Leo on ''[[That '70s Show]]'', albeit the role was played by Tommy Chong, so this may be an odd instance of [[Truth in Television]].
** The hippie persona of Tommy Chong is a character he played, not his real personality. Though he was indeed a hippie back in the day it wasn't to the extent you see in his comedy routines.
* There was an early episode of ''[[All in The Family]]'' where a pair of hippie friends of Meathead's come to visit. For once, Gloria and Meathead come around to Archie's point of view about them. Mostly, because the guests believe in wife-swapping.
* Half the cast of ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'', this being the premise of the show. Larry, Dharma's father, was the most [[Egregious]] example, compared to his unmarried partner in a very [[Over and Under the Top]] way.
* The last ''Quartermass'' somehow managed to combine this and [[The New Rock and Roll]]; the cities are decaying, and one symptom of this is a band of violent
* [[The Young Ones]]:Shut up, hippie.
* Naomi's mum Gina from ''[[Skins]]'' is this; she's turned their house into a commune populated by naked people, Jesus lookalikes, free love (one of the hippies notes of just-woken-up-naked-Naomi that "it's nothing he hasn't seen before", and she's "even got the same haircut her mum does"
* A religious cult of hippies who appear to worship trees to the extent of almost having sex with them appears in an episode of ''[[Jonathan Creek]]''.
* Buzz Sherwood from ''[[The Red Green Show]]'', though a bit more energetic than most hippies.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Done slightly better in ''[[Hunter: The Vigil]]'', where the hippies don't have to talk incessantly in "whoa, dude." (Oh, and [[Hunter S. Thompson|they have guns]])
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Pretty much the whole main cast of ''[[Hair (theatre)|Hair]]'', a "tribe" of politically active bohemian hippies in New York City, fighting conscription into the [[Vietnam War]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] is the New Age Retro Hippie from ''[[
** Oddly enough, in ''[[
** The music apparently wasn't Jimmy Hart-ed enough: It was cut from ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' and it's been cited as one of the biggest obstacles to an American re-release of ''Earthbound'', due to copyright concerns.
** Hippies appear in ''[[MOTHER 1]]'' as well. [[Laughably Evil|They attack you with rulers and try to trick you into thinking your mom's calling for you by shouting through a bullhorn.]]
* Shinta Iwata, the owner of the ''Cosmic Corner'' shop in ''[[The World Ends With You]].'' In modern day Shibuya, Japan; no less.
* ''[[
{{quote|'''CJ:''' Can you shoot?
'''The Truth:''' Shoot? I'm a hippie. The only thing I've shot is acid. I heard of a dude snorted it once. Thought his nose was a kangaroo and the moon was a dog! }}
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' features hippies rather prominently in a late-game quest involving a large-scale war between a hippie enclave and a dorm of frat-orcs.
* ''[[Persona 4]]'': {{spoiler|Kunino-sagiri}} may not be a
* The Elves of ''[[Overlord II]]'' are an entire race of this and are the closest thing to a [[Hero Antagonist]] this series has.
* Annie Frazier of ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' is a total New Age Retro Hippie, even though she's from the '90s.
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{{quote|'''Mr. Burns:''' And our hemp-smoking friend! Shine on, you crazy diamond.
'''Hippie:''' Sounds like somebody's livin' in the past! Contemporize, man! }}
** Ned Flanders' parents are often called "hippies" by fans, but they were, in fact, "beatniks", a different type of counterculture that started in the '50s.
* Cartman from ''[[South Park]]'' hates hippies with a passion, to the extent that he runs a hippie extermination business. While Cartman [[Axe Crazy|has issues]], the hippie swarm is definitely the villain of this episode.
** These hippies seem to vary between traditional dirty party-hippies and upper-class Boulderite socialist-elitist hippies. To a modern Coloradoan, of course, the difference between the two is quite superficial.
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* ''[[The Goode Family]]'', Mike Judge's follow-up to ''[[King of the Hill]]'', makes hippie/activist folks the main thrust of its comedy.
* The best friend/owner of ''[[Scooby Doo]]'', Shaggy, is the fully G-rated comic relief version of this trope, and has remained this way in every incarnation.
* One episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' introduces the closest thing that the [[Fan Nickname|Avaverse]] has to
* Mandark's parents in ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''. [[Johnny Cash|They even named him Susan]] in a horribly misguided attempt at breaking the gender boundaries. Naturally, this caused Mandark to resent them even more.
* [[The Nameless]] store owner in ''[[The Mighty B!]]'' is a walking hippie archetype, complete with a beard you could get lost in.
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'' has them feature in an episode where they have a nonprofit fruit and veg store. And they start panicking once Hank makes them more efficient and they start ... ''earning money''!!
* Mr. Van Driessen from ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]''.
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* [[wikipedia:Rainbow Gathering|The Rainbow People]].
* Explore the San Francisco Bay Area a bit and you're bound to find a few of these somewhere. Especially common in the city of Berkeley and the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
** One suspects that much of the scenery is really the result of market-savvy former hippies [[The Theme Park Version|playing up the simplified stereotypes for all they're worth]] [[Modern Minstrelsy|in order to amuse and pander to uninformed outsiders]]. The "multicolored tie-dyed clothing," for example, [[Unbuilt Trope|wasn't even that ubiquitous in the '60s]]. If you look at quite a few of the pictures of "flower children" from that era, you'll notice that they're often wearing fairly drab clothing (partly, of course, a sign of their aloofness from middle-class materialism, but also simply to keep
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