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* ''[[Robotech]]/[[Macross]]'' has an interesting example. There's an aversion with the future human society, since they still have pop stars and things like that (they're only [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]). But the invading Zentraedi don't have anything like that (although they do have a name for it in [[Macross]]: Protoculture); they are an entirely militaristic society. In fact, this becomes a plot point later on. The Zentraedi, having never been exposed to singing or anything like it, are rendered stupefied by a recording of a singing pop star. The humans actually seize on this and use it as a tactic in battle, making the pop star both a weapon ''and'' a morale booster.

 

* The Glatun and the Rangora, two alien species from [[John Ringo]]'s ''[[Troy Rising]]'' series, have rich pop-cultures that include popular music, trash literature, movies and so on (the Glatun even have the same sort of advertising spam we get on their computer networks). The Horvath, on the other hand, are portrayed as being unimaginative to the point that their lack of a popular culture is [[Justified Trope|justified]]: they're simply not creative enough to have developed one.

* The [[Star Trek Novel Verse]] tends to avert this, for all that the TV series tended to play it straight. For example, the novel ''[[A Singular Destiny]]'' features a character owning a large collection of novels and comics (or equivalent) from Klingon popular culture - most of these had been introduced in earlier novels, only to be collected together here for [[Continuity Porn]]. In the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]], a popular joke involves the crew of ''Defiant'' all reading their way through a melodramatic Klingon novel, and the same series introduced a Bajoran children's educational series, ''The Adventures of Lin Marna''. Meanwhile, in ''[[Star Trek: Klingon Empire]]'' mention is frequently made of the [[Narm Charm]] found in the politically-charged animated series "Battlecruiser Vengeance". In one novel, Ezri Dax is distracted by her memories of a Trill nursery rhyme.

 

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* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has some popular alien films, but most of them are relatively recent. Examples include ''Fleet And Flotilla'' and ''Blasto: The Jellyfish Stings'' (although that sounds more like a human production than a Hanar one).

 

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** It should be noted that in-universe {{spoiler|Alternian pop culture has actually inspired human pop culture - because trolls created the human universe.}}