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{{quote|'''Astronaut:''' Navigation! Where are we?
'''Kevin Murphy:''' Well we're over the [[Planet of the Apes]], approaching [[The Phantom Planet]], right near the [[Our Vampires Are Different|Planet of the Vampires]] which is right across from the [[Lost World|Prehistoric Planet]].
|[[Riff Trax]] ''[[Planet of the Dinosaurs]]''}}
On their [[Wagon Train to the Stars]], our intrepid heroes come across a planet with [[Alike and Antithetical Adversaries|a single defining characteristic.]] Everybody is a [[Robot]], or a gangster, or a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]], or [[Nice Hat|wearing a hat]]. To some degree, this is unavoidable; you only have so much screen time or page space to develop and explore a culture. But it's still very easily and often overdone. For maximum typing, the characters can also be physically uniform, as in [[People of Hair Color]]. [[Bonus Points]] if a planet's Hat is one that requires a [[Nice Hat]].
Earth itself is sometimes portrayed as a
Just for comparison, Earth has seven continents, hosting just under two hundred states, with an estimated five thousand ethnicities, with even more thousands of different languages and ''their'' varied dialects. There is no reason to suspect that alien life forms would be any different, but in media they are nowhere near as diverse as one might expect. Also, in the universe that isn't completely cardboard, placing too much of your eggs in a single basket is prone to turning into [[Poor Predictable Rock|a strategical disadvantage]]. Which is why the species that aren't endemic remain diverse in the first place, of course: this ensures necessary minimum of adaptability.
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Writers love to use the hat planet to [[Issue Drift|represent controversial issues]] in society (or less often other "hot" topics of [[Phlebotinum Du Jour|various]] [[Ripped from the Headlines|nature]]) whenever they can. This way the characters can take a thinly disguised public stand on an issue that the network execs would otherwise consider too taboo to openly discuss. We can't have our heroes discussing euthanasia, but should they stumble across a Planet Of Hats where [[Straw Character|everyone who gets sick is put to death]], then it's okay. Eventually the plots will run out with an entire race of identical people so one or more of the species will have their hat fall off, declaring [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]. Alternately, the show may explore why [[Klingon Scientists Get No Respect]].
The
In an example of [[The Coconut Effect]], the concept of the
Occasionally semi-[[Justified Trope]] in settings with relatively convenient space travel. Many nations agree to use a single language (usually English) when they must operate in a multinational group. It is also reasonable to expect planetary colonists to be culturally and linguistically uniform.
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Possibly [[Truth in Television]], with people saying that all mice like cheese, all dogs hate cats, all [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]/[[Humans Are Special]], etc.
Compare [[Gang of Hats]]. Contrast [[Multicultural Alien Planet]]. See also [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]], [[Intelligent Gerbil]], [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]. May result because [[Apathy Killed the Cat]]. If the planet's hat is being evil, it's an example of [[Exclusively Evil]]. [[Serious Business]] is what happens when the show's setting gets a hat. This trope in itself is a good example of [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]. See [[Single Biome Planet]] when the planet is unnaturally uniform physically. [[One
Has nothing to do with a certain [[Team Fortress 2|war-themed hat simulator]]. [[Planet of Hats (web comic)|The web comic]] was probably named after the trope; David Morgan-Mar is a self-confessed troper.
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Galaxy Express 999]]'' is the ur-example in Anime/Manga. We have planets where everyone's a beggar, fat, angry, lawless, sad, glows in the dark and so on.
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''
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** There's a darker side to this as well, as every inhabited planet was marked by a unique physical trait {{spoiler|representing which organ was supposed to be harvested by Earth. Taraak and Mejele were male and female reproductive organs respectively.}}
* The three Invading Countries (actually planets) from the second season of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''. Autozam is all about the [[Magitek|mental power-based technology]], Fahren is a thinly-veiled [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] for [[Imperial China]], and Chizeta's culture is entirely [[Arabian Nights]]-based.
== Comic Books ==
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*** And of course, the planet [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Bizmol]], whose hat is eating things.
*** This is all justified in ''[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Heroes_Annual_Vol_4_2 Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #2]'', which shows that all of these planets were specifically colonized a thousand years earlier by advanced humans with similar power-sets after ''[[Invasion (Comic Book)|Invasion]]!'' happened.
** Also occurred at least once in a ''[[Superman]]'' comic in which [[Jimmy Olsen]] is transported to the Planet of the Capes. [
** [[Lobo]] occasionally encounters hat planets, such as planets made entirely from highway (in the ''Lobo'' comic series), a vacation planet (''The Last Czarnian'' mini-series), and a planet populated by religious fundamentalists who immediately explode upon contact with any infidels by triggering an apparently inherited power through pushing down their head onto their shoulder.
** The Hat of the Daxamites is violent xenophobia. Daxamites who ''don't'' try to kill aliens on sight are considered outcasts, and in one case was ''brainwashed by his own parents'' so that he would be a xenophobe. And just to complicate matters for aliens, they're on offshoot of [[Superman|Kryptonians]], who win the [[Superpower Lottery]] when exposed to a yellow sun.
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* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|The Mojoverse]] is an entire ''Dimension'' of Hats organized around television. Whoever has the best ratings is the [[Dimension Lord]].
* In ''[[Invincible]]'', all of the male Viltrumites have to grow moustaches.
== Film ==
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* ''[[The American Astronaut]]'' has the Venusians, which are all [[Southern Belle]] and the people from Jupiter who are all miners, the later is justified since it's implied they are hired from all over the galaxy.
* Inverted in ''[[Critters]]'', in which the alien prison-warden and the data he provides to the bounty hunters refer to Earth's own civilization as ''a'' culture.
== Literature ==
* Nations characterized by a single trait have been a staple of travelogue-style fiction for centuries. The academics-obsessed people of Laputa in ''[[Gulliver's Travels|Gullivers Travels]]'' are a good example.
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: This happens in the ancient Greek tales of Hyperborea, [[Atlantis]], and other allegorically intended foreign lands.
*[[Poul Anderson]] tends to avert this in [[Technic History]] and some of his other sci fis. However Ythrians main hat is [[Warrior Poet]], Space Libertarians. To be fair they are fleshed out enough that it doesn't feel irksome. Also hints are made of a religious revolution centuries back, political strife (seldom as bloody as among humans) and so on. The planet of Avalon where they have a joint colony with humans is an interesting one as each rubs off on the other.
* The Idirans of [[Iain Banks]]' [[The Culture|Culture]] books are a [[Proud Warrior Race]] of [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]. Culture Orbitals tend to acquire hats due to the nature of the Culture as a society of absolute leisure with high population mobility. Masaq orbital is full of extreme sports (and is so dedicated to risk it's deliberately orbiting an unstable star), whilst Chiark is the destination of choice for games of skill and chance.
* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'':
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* In the ''To The Stars'' trilogy by [[Harry Harrison]], EarthGov has not only terraformed [[Single Biome Planet]]s, they've also created a unique culture for each in order to maximise their control. For instance the agricultural planet the protagonist has been exiled to in "Wheelworld" is populated entirely by peasants and mechanics, ruled by a group of autocratic Familys.
* In old science-fiction novel [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18492 ''Star Surgeon''] by Alan E. Nourse, Humans have the hat of being doctors, to the point that Earth is called "Hospital Earth". Apparently nobody else ever really got into the whole "cut people open to make them better" thing. (At the time it was written, open heart surgery was [[Phlebotinum Du Jour|a new, exciting thing]].)
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20151219140304/http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/0671318616/0671318616.htm Pandora's Planet], the [[Alien Invasion|Alien Invaders]] are dull and gullible enough compared to humans that once we start going out and proselytizing they become more convinced than the proselytizers. A whole planet briefly bans everything artificial. Mention is made of a low-gravity world colonized expressly for the purpose of horse racing.
* ''E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet'', the sequel novel to ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'', implies that all the members of E.T.'s unnamed species are botanists, since they can all communicate telepathically with plants.
* In [[Stephen Baxter]]'s ''[[Manifold Space]]'', humans are the only species able to devote themselves entirely to an idea (i.e have faith), which becomes important at the end of the book when {{spoiler|a coalition of aliens are trying to construct a gigantic solar sail to prevent a future galaxy sterilization event (and not the ''next'' one, either).}}
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** Asshai (and the Targaryens): fire
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' series are actually the prime examples of this trope, nearly every species having one defining trait. This was often subverted in the [[Expanded Universe]], and occasionally in-show.
** "A Piece of the Action" is interesting because the culture's true hat was mimicking others—their entire society had been built around a book about 1920s gangsters in Chicago. In the comics, after being visited by the Enterprise they experienced a cultural revolution and [[Comically Missing the Point|began dressing like Kirk and co.]]
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** Cheron in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" is (or rather, was), supposedly, a planet of racists. (''They'' are black on the left side. ''We'' are black on the right side!)
** ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' brought in the Risians to wear the sex hat. Risa's hat is more accurately hospitality. "All that is ours is yours". Free and open sexuality is just a part of that; a part most aliens fixate on.
** Supposedly the El-Aurian hat is "listening", but we've only met three members of the species... one (Guinan) specializes in listening, but one was a con man (in a ''Deep Space Nine'' episode which lampshaded the "listening hat" thing by having a fellow prisoner try to come up to the con man and tell him his life story in jail, whereupon he responded by begging the guards to take the guy away from him) and one was a mad scientist. In that sense the El-Aurians have managed to subvert the usual Trekkian "one hat per species" rule. Although Guinan literally does wear some [[Nice Hat|awesome hats]].
** Taking place clear across the galaxy from these others, ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' has its own hat species, such as the Kazon (society revolves around infighting between the various rival groups), the Vidiians (society revolves around medicine and organ-stealing due to the disease they have), the Hirogen (society revolves around [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game|"the hunt"]]), and Species 8472 (society revolves around eradicating lesser, "weak" species.)
** Want to do a [[Green Aesop]] in ''Voyager''? Then it's time to wheel out the Malon, whose hat is, of all things, ''pollution''. They're saved from being an entire race of ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]'' villains because they're not polluting just for the sake of it—it's simply that they've never bothered to invent "clean" technologies as long as the waste is transported [[Not in My Back Yard|a long way from the homeworld]].
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*** Along with these two are the Sontarans, a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] of clones made to be the best at fighting and conquering any planet that looks at them funny. They are so into the whole warrior thing that their form of punishment is forcing the perpetrator into a job as a ''nurse.''
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' also contains a ''literal'' reference to the Planet of the Hats in the episode "Partners in Crime", suggesting that someone on the writing staff is aware of this site.
'''Doctor''': You've got a... a... hatbox?!
* The Twelve Colonies of the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' occasionally fall into this, in function if not in populace. Aerilon was the breadbasket of the colonies, and everyone from it is perceived to be some sort of hick (which is why Baltar adopted a more upper class accent). The Gemenese believe in the literal truth of scripture. Sagittarons are downtrodden, and mad about it. Taurons are stoic and traditional, and have a mafia equivalent (depending on your perspective, they're either [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Space Mexicans or Space People of the Mediterranean]]). Capricans have it made - their planet is the center of art, culture, science, and politics. There is, however, no physical look specific to the people of any planet. Hopefully, this means that [[Single Biome Planet]] is avoided.▼
'''Donna''': Planet of the Hats, I'm ready!}}
▲* The Twelve Colonies of the
** ''[[Caprica]]'' indicates that the title planet may have been a planet of actual hats, as well, at least 58 years before the Cylon genocide.
* Used a ''lot'' in the [[Stargate Verse]]:
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** In ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', the Wraith are a race consisting solely of warriors who live to eat. In the last season, Todd the Wraith mentions that feeding on humans is the driving force in their society with little beyond that. We did finally get a small glimpse of Wraith society in Season 5's "The Queen." Judging from that episode, the entire society is divided into Queens, who seem to spend their time intimidating one another, their male Advisors/Viziers, who seem to specialize in Magnificent Bastardry, and the possibly asexual Drones, whose duties apparently involve patrolling ships and standing guard (not unlike actual Soldier Drones in Bee colonies). All of them are in thrall to a prime Queen (called The Primary in this particular segment shown, but this may not be the case with every Wraith alliance). Exactly where the various Male Wraiths who serve as scientists and field commanders (who are also uniformly errhm, uniformed [[Hell-Bent for Leather|in leather]]) fit into this mix is never really shown.
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' had Rimmerworld, a planet populated by Rimmer clones. The population idealized the core aspects of Rimmer... which happened to be cowardice, backstabbing, snottiness, arrogance, and hunger for power. Those that deviated were hunted down and executed.
* The Neighborhood of Make-Believe segment of ''[[Mister Rogers'
* Largely averted in ''[[Power Rangers]]'', as alien cultures rarely seem to reflect aspects of earth society, the exception being planet Onyx. Its hat is the [[Wild West]], existing largely as a place for the [[Bad Guy Bar|Evil Monster Saloon]] to be located.
** An unusual example is Inquiris. Little is known about the planet, save that the natives, for whatever reason, cannot make declarative or exclamatory statements. Yes, a planet who's hat is literally a specific type of sentence.
* The very basis of ''[[Sliders]]'', where our protagonists would land, I mean ''slide'', into a parallel Earth defined by a key difference with "real" Earth.
* We don't see it, but while Illyria from ''[[Angel]]'' is talking about all the places and things she has seen, she mentions a planet made up entirely of shrimp. Of course, she "tired of that one quickly".
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Brewster Rockit]]: Space Guy!'' has had several. Possibly justified in the case of the Zombie Planet.
== Radio ==
* An episode of ''[[X Minus One]]'' featured a reptilian alien coming to a mining planet for one of their workers (basically a milder version of a [[Riddick|Furian]]). The reptile alien's hat is that they [[Can Not Tell a Lie]] (although they don't have to say the whole truth either) while the "Furian's" hat is being [[Hot-Blooded]]. Lampshaded by the "Furian": "You know how they say we're all good at bar fights?"
== Tabletop Games ==▼
▲== Tabletop ==
* 4th Edition ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' splits the old traits of the elf race into two new races called "elves" and "eladrin". Because, you know, you can't have a single species wearing the intellectual hat and the close-to-nature hat at the same time.
** Humanity's hat in 4th edition is being driven, ambitious, [[The Determinator]], and being able to learn things faster than other races because of their [[We Are as Mayflies|shorter lifespans]].
* The Stellar Nations of ''[[Star*Drive]]'' all have their own hats.
* In ''[[GURPS]] Fantasy 2: The Madlands'', there is the region of Savringia. Thousands of years previously, two godlike entities
* Since the expansion of ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'''s focus to outside of Dominaria, most planes seem to follow this sort of pattern. For instance, Kamigawa resembles [[Feudal Japan]] in culture and aesthetics, Mirrodin is made almost entirely from metal, Innistrad is an [[It Got Worse]] version of [[Überwald]], and Zendikar is an adventurer's paradise with constantly-shifting landscapes and an endless number of unexplored ruins.
* Many worlds in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' are characterised by this—everyone from Cadia is a soldier, everyone from Krieg ([[Gratuitous German|German for "war"]]) is an exceptionally grim and dour soldier in a longcoat, everyone from Catachan is Rambo. To be fair, they come from a planet sitting at the gates to a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] from ''hell'', a (self-made) radioactive wasteland, and a [[Single Biome Planet|Jungle]] [[Death World]] full of carnivorous plants and even worse animals respectively. The hats are likely survival mechanisms. For Imperial hats, the Imperium is a basically a portmanteau of the Roman Empire, the Catholic Church, the Third Reich and the U.S.S.R all turned [[Up to Eleven]], so everyone being the same is not so incredible.
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*** Every Word Bearer is an insane and unrelenting dark priest.
*** Every Black Legionnaire is out for revenge for the death of Horus.
** For Space Marines and Chaos Space Marines, this is largely justified due to the fact that they all share genetic material with the primarch of their chapter - essentially, they have all been deliberately modified to be the same. And the rest is tradition.
*** [[Fanon]] has many parodies, such as: Angry Marines (Always angry! All the time!), Reasonable Marines, Obstinate Marines (even more obsessive than everyone else), Lazy Marines, Adeptus Orthodontus/Scions of Cleanliness (archenemy of Nurglites), Disco Marines (archenemy of Noise Marines), Lumbermarines, Abyssal Jaws (like Space Wolves, but with giant piranhas), Blood Jaguars (Aztec themed), Star Krakens (Space Vikings, but emphasizing raids and rivalry of single-ship teams rather than berserkers), Screaming Eagles ([[Eagle Land]] over 9000, enemies of Tau), Galactic Partridges (drop in when most of the fighting is done and steal glory), [https://boltertokokoro.tumblr.com/post/184495677382/clown-marines Clown Marines] (naturally, [https://boltertokokoro.tumblr.com/post/184863357392/drawings-from-drawthread-1452019 had to met Harlequins]), [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/27756548/#p27758781 Chef Marines], [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/27756548/#p27766573 Paint Marines], [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/27756548/#p27768640 Philosopher Marines], [https://boltertokokoro.tumblr.com/post/624248604781101056/drawings-from-drawthread-2172020 Cowboy] [https://boltertokokoro.tumblr.com/post/624923700480933888/drawings-from-drawthread-2872020 Marines]… Much the same with Chaos Space Marines: Ivory Huntsmen, Marines Immaculate, Warp Riders (Chaos Undivided bikers, with Slaaneshi chapter theoretically led by Doomrider, except he's usually too high).
** Orks
*** Every Bad Moon has more expensive gear than other orks and is decked out with [[Bling of War|flash.]] And they're teef fall and grow fast.
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*** Hochlanders are accomplished hunters and crack shots with hunting rifles and longbows.
** Skaven - originally there were <s>four</s> [[Ascended Extra|five]] defined major clans: Skryre, the crazy techo-magical inventors; Moulder, the insane fleshcrafting breeders of monsters; Eshin, the cloaked espionage and assassination division; Pestilens, the gibbering worshipers of plague and decay; Mors, the now extremely powerful martial clan. A recent book on heraldry introduced scores of minor clans, each their their own (slightly smaller) hat.
*** Skaven from most clans have a near universal tendency to have all of the following qualities: Arrogant, cowardly, misogynist (pretty much all Skaven characters are male, "breeders" are [[Baby Factory]]s), racist, egocentric, ambitious, and treacherous.
** Vampire Counts - Each Vampire Count will be from one of several bloodlines: Von Carstein (classic Dracula-style vampires, although recently have been modeled to be a lot more bestial), Lahmians (pseudo-Egyptian female vampires. With cats), Blood Dragons (honour-bound martial powerhouses who exist only for combat and proving themselves), Strigoi (horribly deformed ghouls with no link to their humanity at all) and Necrarchs (Nosferatu-like intellectuals who are wizened but terrifyingly powerful when it comes to magic).
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' 3rd edition features a section with members of each of the [[Five Races]] giving you a brief introduction to their race. Most of them start by acknowledging their race's hat, then going on to tear it apart as racist bullcrap. Except the dwarf, since their hat is being short.
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* A vast majority of the various D-Bees in ''[[Rifts]]'' fall neatly into this trope. The Simvan are all nomadic warriors with a psychic connection to animals, the Larmac are all lazy, the Naruni are all shrewd businessmen, etc. Occasionally aversions to this trope will be made in the case of individual NPCs, but the description almost always includes the statement "Unlike most members of X's race..."
* ''Space [[Munchkin]] The RPG'' had the Bumpy Foreheaded Alien race, which is actually a category for all races of this type in scifi. You chose (or randomly rolled) your one distinguishing racial feature, the concept that your culture is entirely devoted to and the concept from human culture your culture cannot understand ("We have no word for this thing you call 'modesty'")
== Video Games ==
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== Web Animation ==
* Parodied in the Flash-animation series ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/burntfaceman.html Burnt Face Man]''. In the conclusion of episode 7, Bastard Man (yes, that's his name) [[Spaceballs|steals all the world's air with a vacuum cleaner]] (yes, he did that) and tries to sell it to a "planet of shifty characters". Everyone on the planet is wearing a large overcoat and hat or they are hidden in the shadows, the main shifty guy telling Bastard Man that they might not pay him for the air because they're all "a bit shifty".
== Web Comics ==
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* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' the residents of the Dimension of Lame are all incredibly sweet, nice, rice cake-loving pacifists. The most deranged psychopath among them suffers an incredible bout of guilt after slightly bruising the toe of a murderous demon. Even the rules of the universe conform to this Hat: the sewers smell like flowers, fermentation doesn't exist, and all swear words are automatically replaced with a "bleep" noise.
* ''[[Goats]]'''s Multiverse has entire Dimensions of Hats, such as Topeka Prime, the farm dimension, complete with [https://web.archive.org/web/20120809162649/http://www.goats.com/archive/060322.html cow computers]. Each dimension, however, has a pub.
* ''[http://www.komikwerks.com/episodes.php?x=32&y=13&ti=49&utype=AOL&ep=463 This strip]''{{Dead link}}
* ''[[Curvy]]'' [[Invoked Trope|invokes]] this; every Earth explicitly has a gimmick, and ours is apparently "Boring World".
* Parodied in [http://mountaincomics.com/?p=49 this] episode of ''[[Mountain Time]]'', as the astronauts are all too eager to attach a gimmicky label to a newfound planet.
* Some of the aliens seen in ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'' seem to fit this trope, with all individuals seen having similar behaviour or jobs. However, just as many are as varied as humans both in behaviour and appearance.
* Subverted in ''[[Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger]]!'' Groonch the Gnorch, a parody of Worf from ''[[Star Trek]]'', says that despite being raised with the ideals of another alien race, he strives to be the kind of noble warrior honored by "the Gnorch peoples." Quentyn asks, "Which peoples?" Groonch then learns, to his complete surprise, that the Gnorch species is rather culturally diverse and only a handful of ancient tribes were as warlike as he thought. His own outfit is an odd cultural mishmash.
* ''[[Cwen's Quest]]'' has Dimension of Hats, as introduced in [https://web.archive.org/web/20180213113814/http://www.cwensquest.com/?comic=chapter-2-page-15-origin-trel this] strip. Nothing but ''Haaaaaaaats!''
* Used for some aliens in ''[[Spacetrawler]]''. The Eebs are all [[Gadgeteer Genius]] telepaths with almost zero willpower. The Tornites are infamous for their bad fashion sense.
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* In ''[[Titan Maximum]]'', Eris is inhabited solely by rednecks and Mercury by old people. Neptune is a gigantic winter resort, with a lone steam-in-a-can production facility.
== Other Media ==▼
▲== Other ==
* ''[[The Point]]!'' is a fable which Harry Nilsson used to make an entire soundtrack. It was later adapted into an animated film and screenplay using the soundtrack. The entire fable revolved around a planet on which everything had a point on it, with the sole exception of the main character. He is shunned as a result. {{spoiler|Ironically at the end, the entire world becomes devoid of points with the exception of the main character, who grows a point.}}
* Some scientists argue that [[Humans Through Alien Eyes|through alien eyes, Earth could be seen as a planet of hats]] - aliens would first notice all common traits of humans and ignore all the differences.
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