Planet of Hats: Difference between revisions

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== 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]]''

** 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 ==

* [[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 ==

* ''[[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 ==

** Asshai (and the Targaryens): fire

 

* 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.]]

== 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 ==

== 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 ==

* 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.

* ''[[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.

* 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.

 

* ''[[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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[[Category:Older Than Feudalism]]

[[Category:Fictional Culture and Nation Tropes]]

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