History Main / GranolaGirl

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': While not as overtop as some of the other examples, Giggles is still shown to care about the environment greatly, and harming the environment is a [[BerserkButton Berserk Button]] for her. This is especially shown in the TV episode "[[Recap/HTFEveryLitterBitHurts Every Litter Bit Hurts]]", where Lumpy was constantly harming the environment throughout the episode, which pissed Giggles off to the point where she hired a team to help pick up any litter they find.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': While not as overtop as some of the other examples, Giggles is still shown to care about the environment greatly, and harming the environment is a [[BerserkButton Berserk Button]] for her.

Granola ''Guys'' are less common, and are often depicted as some flavor of NewAgeRetroHippie: either a [[Creator/CheechAndChong Tommy Chong-ish]] {{Erudite Stoner}}, a balding old guy with a ponytail who [[DiscoDan only grudgingly accepts that the 1960s are over]], or (in more recent works) a pretentious millennial {{hipster}} with long hair and organic, hemp-based clothes. Either way, expect him to have a big beard and wear loose, outdoorsy clothes. He typically looks likes he's about to go on a hike. He may work as a yoga instructor, whitewater rafting guide, or mountaineering store staffer. Whatever his job is, it's sustainable and nature-related.

* As described by Music/{{Beck}} in "Nitemare Hippy Girl":

* Dawn of the ''Literature/BabySittersClub'' loves the beach and California living, is a health food nut, an environmentalist, and a strong opponent of guns and violence.

* Allie's mother in Margaret Ball's ''Lost in Translation'', who's heavily into yoga, astral travel, channeling and such and believes that Allie shouldn't seek temporary employment at the Steak Shoppe because it's full of "red meat and death vibrations."

* Foli "the politically correct, vegetarian, feminist activist Succubus" from ''ComicBook/LilIPut'' combines passionately preaching this tope with a SoapboxSadie preaching PoliticalOvercorrectness. Mind you being proud of her haritage as a demon from hell Foli adds some unique perspective to the trope to say the least (eg. she see eating human souls as vegan since there is no mat in them).

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* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Colin is a rare male version of the trope, preferring herbal remedies to treat his (many) injuries and illnesses, a vegan, occasionally exploring more eco-friendly alternatives of energy sources, and a lover of animals, to the point of opening a Children's Corner containing animals as diverse as lions and snakes in Series 7.

* [[AnIcePerson Thetis]] from ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent'' is definitely a non-comical version of this trope. He is a young boy not much younger than [[TheHero Grey]]...[[WellIntentionedExtremist WHO WANTS TO DESTROY ALL OF HUMANITY]] [[HumansAreBastards FOR DARING TO POLLUTE THE OCEAN.]]

If SoapboxSadie doesn't become a Straw Feminist when she grows up, she'll become this trope instead. A Granola Girl who is ''really'' serious about the lifestyle may live on a {{Commune}}. If a Granola Girl is completely committed to the persona, she may also be a {{Hairy Girl}} and/or not wear a bra as well. Like her NewAgeRetroHippie counterpart, she often DoesNotLikeShoes (unless they're Birkenstocks). Sometimes, she is a StrawFeminist or StrawVegetarian, but she won't be nearly as aggressive as those tropes usually entail. May also be a [[DirtyCommies hardline communist]] but she'll usually be more [[ChummyCommies Rosa Luxemburg]] than UsefulNotes/JosefStalin. Be on the watch for RoundHippieShades. After finishing degrees in environmentalism and sustainability, she may become an executive in an eco-friendly firm or NGO and become a BourgeoisBohemian.

* Terra Caldwell from the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5330983/1/Convergent_Paths Convergent Paths]]'', who [[DoesNotLikeShoes dislikes shoes]] and likes meditating, up to the point of switching between the normal state and meditative state (in which she speaks "like a wise elder of a village").

* [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel]] has shades of this, particularly in ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries''. She DoesNotLikeShoes, insists on helping animals in need, loves nature, and is into new age stuff. You can quote Cassandra on this:

Granola ''Guys'' are less common, and are often depicted as some flavor of NewAgeRetroHippie: either a [[Creator/CheechAndChong Tommy Chong-ish]] {{Erudite Stoner}}, a balding old guy with a ponytail who [[DiscoDan only grudgingly accepts that the 1960s are over]], or (in more recent works) a pretentious millennial {{hipster}}. Either way, expect him to wear a big beard.

You can expect either gender to play the acoustic guitar, [[DreadfulMusician badly]] (or actually be pretty good at it), or the [[QuirkyUkulele ukulele]]. Regardless of gender, they are portrayed as sincere and well-meaning. Bonus points for having an out-of-the-box HippieName (think Music/FrankZappa's offspring).

Granola Girls (and Guys) tend to be [[WideEyedIdealist Wide Eyed Idealists]] or occasional {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s, and often end up bringing other characters to follow their way of thinking, usually to solve a conflict or think about a situation from a different perspective. Especially true in an office setting, where they probably feel like a FishOutOfWater: they're likely to spearhead the team-building exercise that gets their fellows and superiors through an issue none of them have been able to solve (in which case, compare GeniusDitz).

Compare BourgeoisBohemian. If SoapboxSadie doesn't become a Straw Feminist when she grows up, she'll become this trope instead. A Granola Girl who is ''really'' serious about the lifestyle may live on a {{Commune}}. If a Granola Girl is completely committed to the persona, she may also be a {{Hairy Girl}} and/or not wear a bra as well. Like her NewAgeRetroHippie counterpart, she often DoesNotLikeShoes (unless they're Birkenstocks). Sometimes, she is a StrawFeminist or StrawVegetarian, but she won't be nearly as aggressive as those tropes usually entail. May also be a [[DirtyCommies hardline communist]] but she'll usually be more [[ChummyCommies Rosa Luxemburg]] than UsefulNotes/JosefStalin. Be on the watch for RoundHippieShades. After finishing degrees in environmentalism and sustainability, she may become an executive in an eco-friendly firm and become a BourgeoisBohemian.

Compare BourgeoisBohemian. If SoapboxSadie doesn't become a Straw Feminist when she grows up, she'll become this trope instead. A Granola Girl who is ''really'' serious about the lifestyle may live on a {{Commune}}. If a Granola Girl is completely committed to the persona, she may also be a {{Hairy Girl}} and/or not wear a bra as well. Like her NewAgeRetroHippie counterpart, she often DoesNotLikeShoes (unless they're Birkenstocks). Sometimes, she is a StrawFeminist or StrawVegetarian, but she won't be nearly as aggressive as those tropes usually entail. May also be a [[DirtyCommies hardline communist]] but she'll usually be more [[ChummyCommies Rosa Luxemburg]] than UsefulNotes/JosefStalin. Be on the watch for RoundHippieShades. After finishing degrees in environmentalism and sustainability, she may become a BourgeoisBohemian.

An overtly comical left-wing, anarchist-environmentalist-spiritualist character, with a penchant for tie-dyes, crystals, veganism, [[EthicalSlut free love]], [[NudeNatureDance oneness with nature]] and anything that is "[[AllNaturalSnakeOil all-natural]]."

This character is not very well grounded, tending to be overly-cheerful and flighty but not [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} scatter-brained]] enough to qualify as TheDitz. She [[SpiceRackPanacea loves alternative medicine]] and might refer to real doctors as "greedy allopaths," followed by an immediate apology for "being so negative. That's not like me, at all."

You can expect either gender to play the guitar, [[DreadfulMusician badly]] (or actually be pretty good at it), or the [[QuirkyUkulele ukulele]]. Regardless of gender, they are portrayed as sincere and well-meaning. Bonus points for having an out-of-the-box HippieName (think Music/FrankZappa's offspring).

Compare BourgeoisBohemian. If SoapboxSadie doesn't become a Straw Feminist when she grows up, she'll become this trope instead. A Granola Girl who is ''really'' serious about the lifestyle may live on a {{Commune}}. If a Granola Girl is completely committed to the persona, she may also be a {{Hairy Girl}} and/or not wear a bra as well. Like her NewAgeRetroHippie counterpart, she often DoesNotLikeShoes (unless they're Birkenstocks). Sometimes, she is a StrawFeminist or StrawVegetarian, but she won't be nearly as aggressive as those tropes usually entail. May also be a [[DirtyCommies hardline communist]] but she'll usually be more [[ChummyCommies Rosa Luxemburg]] than UsefulNotes/JosefStalin. Be on the watch for RoundHippieShades.

* Janice from ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', who apparently had a discussion with her mother at some point about living on the beach and walking around naked. (''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'')

* Sam from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', whom she's self-labeled herself as an "Ultra-Recyclo Vegetarian." though she also blends this with being a goth, or as she puts it Eco-Goth, so wears a lot more black than the average version.

%% * ''Series/BarRescue:'' Lonie of Underground Wonder Bar. Her vegan influence on the menu wouldn't be bad, if her reasons for not putting traditional bar foods such as chicken wings on the menu weren't so hypocritical. [[note]]She claimed it was because she couldn't get organic products, yet when expert Chef Pink makes a naan flat bread with sausages on top, Lonie complains about how she doesn't like the type of bread, not the fact that the sausages have preservatives in them. Chef Pink then points out that the food store-bought boxed ready-to-bake pizzas in the bar's fridge are far more processed than her dish.[[/note]] Her bar's outside appearance, which she painted herself, looked more childish and didn't fit with the upscale Chicago Neighborhood. And her musical abilities (she was a jazz musician playing in Chicago bars), well... let's just say that some of that ability didn't exactly age well. Finally, she puts out crayons, and paper table covers out for customers to doodle on. When Taffer tries speaking with her, she spends the entire first meeting drawing hearts and CrossPoppingVeins on it rather than paying attention to what he's trying to say..

%% * ''Series/BarRescue:'' Underground Wonder Bar owner Lonie.