History Main / PlanetOfCopyhats

* One episode of ''{{Wakfu}}'' has Tristepin, the "lovable goof" of the series, doing a butt-slapping dance to playfully mock the other team during a sporting event. It's fairly typical conduct for an athlete in the middle of a game, right? Later on, we meet Tristepin's people, the Iops, and they have ''an entire butt-slapping dance ceremony.''

* Mostly averted with MassEffect, as a race's Hat tends to be explained by the crew member of that race or set up before you get a companion of that race. In fact, the different NPCs you meet have a 50/50 chance of exemplifying or subverting a particular race's Hat.

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*** Also made [[NeverTellMeTheOdds a fine trope]].

* This happened in the new series of ''DoctorWho'', which retconned The Doctor's iconoclasm as being the Hat of renegade Time Lords, informing the personality of the Doctor's EvilCounterpart much more than in the original series. The same also applies to some of the other renegade Time Lords mentioned in the series, such as The Corsair.

* On the ''LoisAndClark'' show, Clark decided to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean wait for marriage]]. A cute gesture? When the New Kryptonians show up, they tell him it's a racial quirk.

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* In the Ronald [=McDonald=] cartoon movies, Grimace travels to the island of his people, the Grimaces.
* In ''{{Futurama}}'' Dr. Zoidberg's Yiddish accent became the standard one of his entire race.
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* ''DragonballZ'': So Goku starts of as a strange kid with a monkey tail, and a talent for (and love of) martial arts. Years later, his people, the Saiyans, are introduced with fighting as their hats. While they tend to be evil and ruthless, unlike Goku (and it's implied Goku would have been to if not for a TapOnTheHead in his youth), they share a lot of Goku's most famous traits (i. e.: huge appetite, [[BloodKnight a tendency to give their opponent an advantage to make a fight more fun]]).

Bonus points if it isn't even established until later on that an individual is part of some separate "race."

* In ''Terminator2'', the T-800 wields a minigun in one scene because it is most effective in achieving a particular goal (namely, scaring off the police). ''Rise of the Machines'' and ''Salvation'', in contrast, show the T-800s using the minigun as their preferred weapon of choice.

If the culture is conceived from the start as having some specific distinguishing trait, and then characters are presented as specific examples of that culture, that's a standard PlanetOfHats. See also AKindOfOne for cases where there's some ambiguity concerning whether the quirky character is just a character who is quirky or a perfectly average specimen of a quirky species.

** While not the first Bajoran seen on screen, [[StarTrekTNG Ro Laren]] was the first with any real amount of screen time. In an episode she shows a more religious side (compared to Geordie). Come ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', religion became the Bajorans' hat.

* {{Parodied}} in ''OrderOfTheStick''. Drow are supposed to be AlwaysChaoticEvil, but then this character Drizzt Do'Urden came along in the ''ForgottenRealms'' series, who was a WhiteSheep of the species. Drizzt got extensively copied, leading to the paradoxical circumstance in which ''every Drow'' is a WhiteSheep from an AlwaysChaoticEvil species.

* ''DragonballZ'': So Goku starts of as a strange kid with a monkey tail, and a talent for (and love of) martial arts. Years later, his people, the Saiyans, are introduced with fighting as their hats. While they tend to be evil and ruthless, unlike Goku (and it's implied Goku would have been to if not for a TapOnTheHead in his youth), they share a lot of Goku's most famous traits (i. e.: huge appetite, a tendency to give their opponent an advantage to make a fight more fun).

* ''DragonballZ'': So Goku starts of as a strange kid with a monkey tail, and a talent for (and love of) martial arts. Years later, his people, the Saiyans, are introduced with fighting as their hats. While they tend to be evil and ruthless, unlike Goku, they share a lot of Goku's most famous traits (i. e.: huge appetite, a tendency to give their opponent an advantage to make a fight more fun).

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* In the Ronald [=McDonald=] cartoon movies, Grimace travels to the island of his people, the Grimaces.

* {{Parodied}} in ''OrderOfTheStick''. Drow are supposed to be AlwaysChaoticEvil, but then this character Drizzt Do'Urden came along in the ''ForgottenRealms'' series, who was a WhiteSheep of the species. Drizzt got extensively copied, leading to the paradoxical circumstance in which ''every Drow'' is a WhiteSheep from an AlwaysChaoticEvil species.
* ''DragonballZ'': So Goku starts of as a strange kid with a monkey tail, and a talent for (and love of) martial arts. Years later, his people, the Saiyans, are introduced with fighting as their hats. While they tend to be evil and ruthless, unlike Goku, they share a lot of Goku's most famous traits (i. e.: huge appetite, a tendency to give their opponent an advantage to make a fight more fun).

* In ''{{Futurama}}'' Dr. Zoidberg's Yiddish accent became the standard one of his entire race.