Basic Trope: In an race known for one specific attribute, one member of that race will be the opposite in comparison.
- Straight: The Hat People are known for being bloodthirsty warriors who are always looking for a good fight and never think twice before charging into battle. Hiro in comparison is a peacemaker who would prefer to talk things out and only charges into battle if needed.
- Exaggerated: ???
- Downplayed: If Hiro gets enraged, he can succumb to traditional Hat behavior, but he is somewhat hard to enrage.
- Justified:
- Hiro is a Half-Human Hybrid and because he has a human soul, he can think things out more rationally.
- Hiro was originally just like all the other hats, however Alice took him back to Earth, and as a result, he starts to get more humanlike qualities.
- Hiro isn’t like the others because he is a perfect and refined version of them.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: It seems like this applies to Hiro, but someone turned the Mind Control machine off and Hiro acts just like all the other Hats under normal circumstances.
- Double Subverted: However by this point, the crew’s spaceship is billions of lightyears away, so they have to keep him, and due to Humanity Is Infectious Hiro starts acting like how he was during the Mind Control.
- Parodied: Alice and her crew explore the Planet of Hats. All the Hats look like Lovecraftian monsters, except Hiro, who looks like a Human Alien.
- Zig-Zagged: Hiro seems different from the rest of the Hat people, but then he turns out to be more like them than he wants to admit. Alice and Bob then meet another Hat, Hari, who seems so like them it's scary, but then behaves in ways diametrically opposed to Hiro's ostensible difference — until she reverts to being like the rest of them.
- Averted: All the Hats act like bloodthirsty warriors that are always looking for a good fight and never think twice before charging into battle.
- Enforced: “If Alice and Gang are going to spend a few episodes on the Planet of Hats, we might as well make it interesting.”
- Lampshaded: "Are you sure you're a Hat-person, Hiro?"
- Invoked: Alice takes a baby Hat back with her and attempts to teach it Justice and Right.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Due to peer pressure, Hiro adopts regular hat behavior.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Hiro is a common source of mockery among the hats due to his behavior, and eventually he has enough and snaps.
- Reconstructed: ???
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