History Main / YouAreTheNewTrend

* ''{{Community}}'' - Troy and Abed build a blanket fort which quickly expands through the entire dorm complex into a blanket fort village. When they later read in the news that they've created a new fad they decide it's time to dismantle it.

* The end of ''Film/TheAvengers'' features the citizens of New York (and the world in general) showing their admiration of the titular group by doing things like getting their beards cut in the style of [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and images of [[CaptainAmerica The Mighty Shield]] appearing on t-shirts and graffiti.

-->'''Gloria:''' Fashions eveolve Thursday--I've heard next month's fashions will be marine invertebrates. You should enjoy it while it lasts.

-->'''Gloria (haughtily):''' There is no need to be offensive. You should be ''honoured''. Mind you, the December issue of ''[=FeMole=]'' thinks that a brown leather flier's jacket is more in keeping with 'the look'. Your black leather is a little bit passe, I'm afraid. And those shoes--hell's teeth!

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Some characters may [[AttentionWhore welcome the attention]]; more commonly, it will be embarrassing or annoying. The latter is especially true when the new trend causes [[HilarityEnsues wacky hijinks]] such as other people being [[IdenticalStranger mistaken for the character]]. In some cases, the character's ''actual outfit'' will be [[YourCostumeNeedsWork dismissed as a lame attempt to follow the fashion]]. May lead to a BeYourself {{Aesop}}.

Compare AccidentalDanceCraze.

Some characters may [[AttentionWhore welcome the attention]]; more commonly, it will be embarrassing or annoying. The latter is especially true when the new trend causes [[HilarityEnsues wacky hijinks]] such as other people being [[IdenticalStranger mistaken for the character]]. In some cases, the character's ''actual outfit'' will be [[YourCostumeNeedsWork dismissed as a lame attempt to follow the fashion]]. If you accidentally start a dance craze then that's SquirrelsInMyPants.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by GeorgeClooney. He starts smoking pipes and wearing muttonchop sideburns, saying he's "bringing them back". Sure enough, later in the episode a bunch of other people are shown with pipes and muttonchops

Some characters may [[AttentionWhore welcome the attention]]; more commonly, it will be embarrassing or annoying. The latter is especially true when the new trend causes [[HilarityEnsues wacky hijinks]] such as other people being [[IdenticalStranger mistaken for the character]]. In some cases, the character's ''actual outfit'' will be [[YourCostumeNeedsWork dismissed as a lame attempt to follow the fashion]].

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* In ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Catching Fire]]'', The mockingjay from the pin Katniss wore in the Games has become a fashionable accessory and icon for the Capitol citizens. In the districts, it became something else entirely: a symbol of resistance and hope.

In ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Catching Fire]]'', The mockingjay from the pin Katniss wore in the Games has become a fashionable accessory and icon for the Capitol citizens. In the districts, it became something else entirely: a symbol of resistance and hope.

* In ''{{Transmetropolitan}}'', Spider Jerusalem is miffed to discover he's been turned into a celebrity, complete with a minor cult dedicated to him. Then he starts exploiting it.

* ''JohnTuckerMustDie'': The girls play a prank on [[JerkJock basketball jock]] John Tucker so that he will be caught in public wearing only a thong. John Tucker doesn't lose his cool, and in fact is able to convince all the rest of the basketball team that wearing a thong is the way to go. Several of the male faculty members follow suit. Well it does prevent riding up...

* ''AHardDaysNight'': Played with -- George takes a wrong turn in a tv studio and finds himself at the office of a "with it" producer who doesn't recognize him and takes him for another poser with a phony accent. He tries to get George to appear in an advertisement for trendy clothes, warning him that he'll be an unhip pariah if he doesn't play the game.

* ''Dear Dumb Diary'' series by Jim Benton.

* In ''[[{{Belgariad}} Belgarath the Sorcerer]]'', since Polgara is supposed to be in hiding, but it's impossible to dye or otherwise disguise her [[SkunkStripe lock of silver hair]], Belgarath manages to make it a fashion trend, so every other woman in the Western Continent ''also'' has the lock.

* ''SavedByTheBell'': Spoofed where Kelly appears to be dating Screech. Zack panics when Lisa and Jessie comment that nerds might become the new trend, since "If Kelly wore a pizza on her head," people would imitate her. Cue Zack's fantasy sequence involving Kelly wearing a pizza as a hat while dating a James Bond-esque Screech.

* Riley in ''TheReplacements''

* On a ''HouseOfMouse'' short, Goofy tries out various trends in an attempt to be hip. In the end, he returns to his traditional outfit... which has somehow become a hot fashion trend.

* In the ''TinyToonAdventures'' [[TheMovie Movie]], "the box look is IN!" after [[spoiler: Dizzy's shedding forces him to don a box for modesty's sake]].

* ''MissionHill'': Jim comes back from a trip to Japan with the newest thing over there -- little shorts with HelloKitty style decorations. Andy thinks they're ridiculous, but soon becomes unhip when he's the only one not wearing them. By the time he comes around they're out, since middle-aged folks have taken them up.

* On TheOblongs, the family's lack of funds force Milo to go to school on a rainy day wearing a bucket on his head and a trash bag as a raincoat. The hill kids make fun of him, until the Fonzie [[CaptainErsatz stand in]] says he likes his bucket. Milo shows up at school the next day to find all of the hill kids wearing buckets and accusing ''him'' of copying ''them''. The rest of the plot focuses on his mother helping him stay one step ahead of them.
* In "WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic" episode Green Isn't Your Color, Fluttershy's quiet grace (Coupled with Photo Finish and a desire to help ponies) forces her into becoming a walking example, complete with new dresses. She doesn't take to it very well.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Kim's mission outfit becomes a fashion fad in "Kimitation Nation".

* ''{{Doug}}'':
** Doug Funnie finds that his trademark sweater has become the new trend after a popular TV character starts wearing it. Worse still, no one noticed ''beforehand'' that he sported what's being called the "Dylan Farnum Look" before the guy made it popular, so everyone thinks Doug is simply copying the trend; he spends most of the episode either trying to convince everybody it was his look to begin with or bucking trends in general (which fails in ridiculous fashion [[FinaglesLaw as the absurd mix-and-match costume he tries on turns out to be the "Schizo Look"]]).\\

* Happens in ''EdEddNEddy''. About three quarters through a long episode of the Eds being exactly one step behind the latest trend of the minute, they decide to try and create their own trend (really strange clothing). Which only becomes the latest trend when the Eds have moved on to something else, and in the very short time it takes them to change back into the clothes from said trend, the latest trend is something else entirely.

Everybody is following the latest trends, even if it means hourly clothing changes to stay updated. Thanks to the power of the plot, for some reason, one of the characters becomes the new trend!

Often YourCostumeNeedsWork will start the trend.

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* In ''Batman: TheDarkKnightReturns'', there's a gang that follows a series of trends, starting with their "mutant" leader and ending with... Batman himself, after he defeats the mutant. They're young, bored, quick and dangerous, and although Batman is disgusted by the crimes they commit in his name, he manages to turn them into his own personal army.

* A ''TheSimpsons'' comic book features the family being targeted by the fashion industry, who have concluded that they are the typical American family, and therefore the next trend. They get freaked out by this, and keep changing their styles, only for everyone else to relentlessly copy them, until they [[StatusQuoIsGod go back to their original outfits, and everyone forgets the whole thing]].

* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', Batman finds various impostors dressed as him trying to take down drug dealers [[ComicallyMissingThePoint with]] [[DoesNotLikeGuns guns]]. He's less than thrilled, and warns them to stop. One of them winds up a victim of the Joker.

* The credit sequence of ''CapcomVsSnk2'' shows an Asian kid dressed up as Terry Bogard. Okei!
* This is one of the major mechanics that actually affects your battle effectiveness in {{The World Ends With You}}. Certain clothes and pins are stronger depending on what is trending in the area, fighting with certain pins can change the trends.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', the small island community of Dewford enjoys following trends, that the player can directly influence using a combination of pre-defined key words.[[hottip:*:Doing so changes the random water tiles on another route from which a rare Water-type Pokémon can only be fished from]] Even though the player can't type in their own words for this, it is still rather easy to make crude jokes with it (such as 'ADULT TOYS', or 'YOUR MOTHER').

* In "MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic" episode Green Isn't Your Color, Fluttershy's quiet grace (Coupled with Photo Finish and a desire to help ponies) forces her into becoming a walking example, complete with new dresses. She doesn't take to it very well.

* The end of Film/TheAvengers features the citizens of New York (and the world in general) showing their admiration of the titular group by doing things like getting their beards cut in the style of [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and images of [[CaptainAmerica The Mighty Shield]] appearing on t-shirts and graffiti.