History Main / DunceCap

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Green Lantern foe The Fool's costume incorporated one.

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': GoldenAge Green Lantern foe The Fool's costume incorporated one.

** Professor Farnsworth gets a holographic Dunce Cap in the episode [[Recap/FuturamaS6E5TheDuhVinciCode "The Duh-Vinci Code"]].

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin occasionally gets a dunce cap for mouthing off in class, such as the time he claimed that B. C. stood for "[[ItsAllAboutMe Before Calvin]]" while giving a history report.

* Mentioned in an episode of ''Machinima/FreemansMind'': "I'm going to make a dunce cap, and you're going to wear it."

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin occasionally gets a dunce cap for mouthing off in class, such as the time he claimed that B. C. stood for "[[IsAllAboutMe Before Calvin]]" while giving a history report.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin occasionally gets a dunce cap for mouthing off in class.

* Some Holy Week traditions in Spain involve wearing a pointed cap as a form of penitence. The cap is tall, with cloth covering the cap and face, with holes cut out for the eyes. There's usually a flowing robe to go along with it. Visitors from the US are sometimes scandalized by the uncanny resemblance of this garment to those of TheKlan, but, and this can't be stressed enough, the resemblance ends with the uniform.

* ''Webcomic/{{Hollowtale}}'': In [[https://www.deviantart.com/thejessofmess/art/Bad-Unfluence-847462404 a side comic]], Sans repeatedly proves himself to be a bad influence to the Knight, introducing them to rude gestures, smoking and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking consuming ketchup as food]], much to Papyrus's irritation. The last straw turned out to be when the Knight reveals to Papyrus that Sans taught them [[InnocentSwearing how to say "asshole" in sign language]]. Shortly after Papyrus fires a DeathGlare at Sans, the last panel of the comic shows Sans being put in the corner, taped off with "do not cross" tapes and wearing a dunce cap with "BAD INFLUENCE" scribbled on it.

* Used as a form of AchievementMockery in ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', where you can unlock a wearable dunce cap by ''failing three straight Classes'' (read: minigames).

A variant is the "donkey ears" cap, formerly favored in France. It's what a [[TheJester court jester]] stereotypically wears.

-->'''Guybrush:''' Well, I might be a dunce, but I'm a ''might pirate'' dunce!

* In ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'', one puzzle is to do as badly as possible in a school so you're stuck with a dunce cap. You then have to wear it so you don't leave a splash as you hit the water during a diving competition.

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* Used as a silly BraggingRightsReward in ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}''. It makes sense, though, when you realize you get it by ''failing three straight Classes'' (read: minigames).

* Around 271 AD Roman soldiers had attacked a group of Gothic soldiers and captured some of them as prisoners of war. Among them were 16 women who were crossdressing as men. Before their inevitable death or enslavement as POWs they were paraded through the streets of Rome with signs hanged on them that mockingly proclaimed them “Amazons”.