History Main / PlanetOfHats

** [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks Eagle Union]]: Mostly very mixed designs overall, but some classes do have a StrongFamilyResemblance. If an American shipgirl is MsFanservice, [[ShesGotLegs she's probably got legs for miles]].

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' had the Iskoort, whose Hat was guilds -- there was (in order of introduction) a Trader Guild, a Criminal Guild, a Warmaker Guild (though it quickly becomes clear the Iskoort were not cut out for combat), a Servant Guild, a Worker Guild, a Superstition and Magic Guild, a Shopper Guild, and even a "News, Gossip, and Speculation Guild." And all the Traders were the most annoying salesmen imaginable. (The others were annoying, too, but they ran into Traders the most.)

* [[OurAngelsAreDifferent The Sankta race]], which are essentially angels, from ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}} have a hat of being obsessed with guns. To further emphasize this obsession, unlike other races, the Sankta race hails universally from the nation of Laterano. This is explained away by being the only nation/race to invent firearms and subsequently formed their entire culture and religion around them. Most playable Sankta characters exhibit are classed as Sniper Operators and/or use guns. The three remaining Sankta Operators who don't use guns in gameplay still have a connection to firearms in their lore. The full extent of their gun quirk is revealed in the nation's spotlight event as bullet shells are legal tender in their economy. Bullet and gun iconography is littered everywhere in signage and interior decoration. Hospital patients regularly play with guns for fun during downtime. The darker side to this are all the gun laws that Sankta must adhere to or suffer the material consequences, non-Sankta who own guns do not have to obey these laws.

** Quarians have the hat of [[IllGirl sickly, environmental suit-bound]] GreaseMonkey[=s=] who are experts in computer programming and ship engineering, although there are also Quarians who know how to fight and can throw down with the best of them, such as Quarian marine Kal'Reegar.

* In Creator/AlanDeanFoster's series ''Literature/TheDamned'', all of humanity wears the BloodKnight hat once an interstellar war lands in our laps. And it's a good thing, too, because every other species in these novels either wear the Programmed For Pacifism hat or the Reluctant Clumsy Warrior hat, and being good at killing things is our only hope to survive in the face of technological superiority. Well... that and being immune to telepathy. Humans are the only species that doesn't have a single, unified culture, because we're the only ones who're [[HumansAreBastards such bastards]] that we can't even get along with members of our own species.

* The districts in ''Acca13TerritoryInspectionDept'' are somewhere between this and FantasyCounterpartCulture, with a nice helping of [[RuleOfCool Rule of Quirky]]. Jumoku is the place where everything is bigger. Suitsu is [[PastRightNow preserved]] ''Literature/LesMiserables''-era Paris (complete with frequent coup attempts). Yakkara is basically Vegas. And on and on. There's even ThemeNaming for everyone from those districts (e.g. Korore residents are named after colors, Peshi residents are named after fish, Furawau residents are named after flowers, Rokkusu residents are named after rocks).

** We are introduced to the Namekian race by Piccolo and God, who were original one person. Everyone in the race is green, reproduce asexually, is one gender (male), have mystical abilities, and is peace-loving with the exception of Piccolo who was the Nameless Namekian's evil side that was corrupted by living on Earth. Part of the reason for the uniformity is that the Namekians we see in the main story, with the exception of the Nameless Namekian, all came from one father after the race was brought to the brink of extinction. Which means any culture or other unique differences would be all but lost since everyone came from the same gene pool and raised by the same person. However, there are still subtypes or 'classes.' There are two castes; the Dragon Caste (consisting of those with magicial abilities and being able to create Dragon Balls i.e. Dende and God) and the Warrior Caste, those who are powerful in combat (Nail.) The reincarnated Piccolo (the now good one) could be considered a hybrid due to being a fusion (but lacks God's ablities of creating the Dragon Balls).

* Major spoilers for ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico''. [[spoiler:The Jovian Lizards are revealed to be a long forgotten human colony in the orbit of Jupiter that rebelled and became an independent nation after [[TheAlliance the federation]] forsook it. The Jovians' hat is that their entire society and culture is based on ''Anime/Gekiganger3'', an old SuperRobot [[ShowWithinAShow anime within an anime]], [[AllHailTheGreatGodMickey which they treat essentially as sacred scripture]].]]
* The various ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' species are defined by one particular trait: [[SnakePeople lamias]] are [[AllWomenAreLustful lascivious]], [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]] are [[TheDitz incredibly dumb]], [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]] behave like medieval knights, [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaids]] are obsessed with the concept of "tragic love", [[SpiderPeople arachnes]] are bascially {{dominatrix}}es, [[HeadlessHorseman dullahans]] are {{chuunibyou}}s, and so forth.
* In ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', Earth's hat is specifically noted to pretty much be our entertainment industry, which is so popular out there its a controlled substance and [[TheMasquerade we can't know how incredibly big our audience is]], both due to lack of supply, although the [[EldritchAbomination nature]] of our fans also factored into their decision to hide while taking advantage of our funny hat.

** There's a darker side to this as well, as every inhabited planet was marked by a unique physical trait [[spoiler: representing which organ was supposed to be harvested by Earth. Taraak and Mejele were male and female reproductive organs respectively.]]

** ComicBook/{{Lobo}} occasionally encounters hat planets, such as planets made entirely from highway (in the ''Lobo'' comic series), a vacation planet (''The Last Czarnian'' mini-series), and a planet populated by religious fundamentalists who immediately explode upon contact with any infidels by triggering an apparently inherited power through pushing down their head onto their shoulder.

** ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' explains that Earth's Hat is in fact that it doesn't wear a Hat; [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Earth is the most diverse planet in the universe.]] This is due to it [[spoiler:being home to the Entity that brought Life to the universe.]] (Though ComicBook/LexLuthor argues that he should get the Orange Lantern of Greed because Earth is all about consumerism and acquiring stuff.)

** The Kree's traditional hat has been an obsessive love of warfare. ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} and other sympathetic Kree characters we've met have been [[DefectorFromDecadence defectors from decadence.]]

*** Reginella's homeworld of Pacificus is inhabitated by a PerfectPacifistPeople-and for a good reason, as their PsychicPowers can be ''devastating'' under the right conditions (when coordinated by their queen Reginella a group of them has summoned ''lightning'', and Reginella, as the queen, is incredibly powerful), so it's more about protecting the rest of the universe from themselves.

*** All Evronians are tyrannical and evil EmotionEaters (to the point a warrant officer commanding a cut-off group of Evronians ''hoped'' to find a superior officer to be properly mistreated), with the Imperial Council, the Emperor's subspecies, and rogue members of the high caste being outright {{Galactic Conqueror}}s and their nicest members being at most {{Noble Demon}}s and {{Pragmatic Villain}}s. {{Justified}} in that [[CloneArmy current Evronians are all clones]] with some modifications depending on their post and job-to the point that [[spoiler:Porphioolon, the first known Evronian [[WhiteSheep to be an actual good person]], is the result of a low caste technicians messing up the process to artificially grow a high-caste one]].

*** The entire population of Armadha is in the PrivateMilitaryContractors business, either by leading [[MechaMooks an army of combat robots]] or manufacturing and selling said robots and anything they need to fight. {{Justified}} in that Armadha is extremely poor in resources (even ''air'' is scarce), so the only thing they have to export and get what they need to live on their DeathWorld is themselves-and as [[HadToBeSharp they're tough enough to live on Armadha]] and too stubborn to just move somewhere else, becoming mercenary soldiers was the logical choice.

* In IDW's ''[[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Transformers]]'' [[HasbroComicUniverse comics]], their homeworld of Cybertron has thirteen long-lost colony worlds, some of which have recently been reunited. Each one is uniquely quirky: Caminus is spiritual and resource-poor, everybody on Velocitron is a speed freak, everybody on Devisiun is half-sized twins, Eukaris is populated solely by animal-formers, and Carcer is a stratocracy that abhors lies. Two others have also been named: Prion, where everybody is tiny (relative to the average sixty-foot Cybertronian), and Tempo, which was full of philosophers.

* {{Deconstructed}} in ''Fanfic/TheWarOfTheMasters'', in that what appears to be a monoculture is more commonly the result of one particular group on a MulticulturalAlienPlanet becoming dominant over the others, which becomes a stereotype InUniverse. This ranges from the "violent brute" stereotype of Klingons (the protagonist Klingons such as B'Sanos and K'Ragh tend to be more inclined to prioritize ''batlh'', or "internal honor", over ''quv'', "external honor") to the cultural conflict between atheist quasi-communist United Earth and its more religious and agrarian rim colonies such as the worlds of the Moab Confederacy. The idea is even referenced by name InUniverse, and derided as the notion that your species dictates your politics.

* The Idirans of [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]]'s [[Literature/TheCulture Culture]] books are a ProudWarriorRace of ScaryDogmaticAliens. Culture Orbitals tend to acquire hats due to the nature of the Culture as a society of absolute leisure with high population mobility. Masaq orbital is full of extreme sports (and is so dedicated to risk it's deliberately orbiting an unstable star), whilst Chiark is the destination of choice for games of skill and chance. There's also The Affront, a race of LaughablyEvil sadists and the Gzilt, whose Hat is being MildlyMilitary with everyone being (nominally) a soldier.

* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' is a world where each nation has a hat. The Thaylen are merchants, the Azish are bureaucrats, the Alethi are warriors, etc. Historically the nations were united, as humanity was united in a series of [[ApocalypseHow apocalyptic wars]] (called Desolations) against the Voidbringers. The nations (referd to as Silver Kingdoms in modern times) divided duties in perparing for and fighting these wars. Alethela trained warriors, Thalath managed supply lines and trade, etc. In the four thousand years since the last Desolation, borders have shifted and the Kingdoms have grown or split in various ways, but their ancient purposes have played a major role in defining their modern cultures.

* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' books are made of this trope. The Beta Colony wears the "uber tolerant libertine" hat. The Jackson's Whole wears the "WretchedHive" hat. Cetaganda wears TheEmpire hat. And the titular Barrayar wears the ProudWarriorRace {{Ruritania}} hat. Justified in that all planets mentioned (except Earth, which is now the only world that doesn't have one overarching government) are colonies settled by groups from Earth, probably often special-interest groups like the European religious minorities who colonised America (for example, [[Literature/EthanOfAthos Athos]] was colonised by a religious group who believe women to be the root of all evil), and some were shaped by historical forces (for example, Barrayar was cut off from communication with the rest of the universe for many centuries, and had to revert to more primitive behaviour to survive). Also, some locations are comfortable only for minority groups (for example, the Quaddies, who were [[Literature/FallingFree created to be slave labourers]] working in zero-gravity conditions, narrowly escaped being massacred when the invention of artificial gravity made them redundant, and so had to found their own colony - naturally, on a zero-gravity space station rather than on a planet, although [[Literature/DiplomaticImmunity modern Quaddies]] generously provide some gravity-installed areas for the comfort of visitors).

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant''

** And on [[AlwaysChaoticEvil the evil side of things]], the Cavewights are all AxeCrazy mooks, the ur-viles are {{enigmatic|minion}} sorcerers, and the Croyel are parasites who offer faustian bargains. Ravers could also be said to have the hat of nature-hating omnicidal jerkasses, but this is justified by there being only three of them, and the fact that they work directly for the GodOfEvil.

* In Creator/StephenBaxter's ''Literature/ManifoldSpace'', humans are the only species able to devote themselves entirely to an idea (i.e have faith), which becomes important at the end of the book when [[spoiler:a coalition of aliens are trying to construct a gigantic solar sail to prevent a future galaxy sterilization event (and not the ''next'' one, either).]]

** Invoked by humans who are ignorant and/or [[{{Fantastic Racism}} hate the Ba'ren]].

* ''Series/BabylonFive''

* In ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', planet Onyx. Its hat is the WildWest, existing largely as a place for the [[BadGuyBar Evil Monster Saloon]] to be located.

* The very basis of ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', where our protagonists would land, I mean ''slide'', into a parallel Earth defined by a key difference with "real" Earth.
** Although some episodes are more imaginative and seems to be inspired in classic horror and sci-fi movies, some of the Earths truly play this trope straight. There’s an Earth of lawyers where 90% of the population study law and even the minimal action like buying fast food would require tons of disclaiming paperwork and documentation or accidentally hitting someone slightly may result in a life-destroying suit. There was also a hippie world, a hare Krishna world and an Egyptian world (mainly based on the most basic stereotypes associated with Egypt like their alleged obsession with death, although [[ScienceMarchesOn this idea has been already discarded by modern scholars]]).

** Grells are completly obssessed with eating

* Since the expansion of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s focus to outside of Dominaria, most planes seem to follow this sort of pattern. For instance, Kamigawa resembles FeudalJapan in culture and aesthetics, Mirrodin is made almost entirely from metal, Innistrad is an darker version of UberWald, and Zendikar is an adventurer's paradise with constantly-shifting landscapes and an endless number of unexplored ruins.

*** Everyone from Salvar is a {{Kleptomaniac|Hero}} who dresses like a ''Film/MadMax'' {{mook}}.

** The Skaven are divided between multiple clans, each with a very specific gimmick. Among the four Great Clans, Clan Skryre are crazy techo-magical inventors; Clan Moulder are insane fleshcrafting breeders of monsters; Clan Eshin are cloaked spies and assassins; and Clan Pestilens are fanatical worshipers of plague and decay. Among the numerous minor clans, Clan Mors are regimented militarists with ambitions to Great Clan status, Clan Skab are soldiers with a lot of Stormvermin, Clan Skaar are warpstone miners, Clan Sleekit are underground navigators and sailors, Clan Volkn are a bunch of pyromaniacs, Clan Skurvy are mutinous pirates, Clan Carrion are thieves and scavengers, Clan Ektrik are all obsessed with lightning, Clan Treeeherik are SocialDarwinist backstabbers even by the standards of the Skaven, and Clan Vrrrtkin are obsessed with weaponizing poison gas.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' is a little more complex about this. Humans overall are as complex as, well, [[ShapedLikeItself humans]], though individual worlds often have a hat. The Aslan's hat is ProudWarriorRace, though arguably that quality is detailed well enough to take the hattiness away. The K'kree are Vegetarian Jihadists (yes, really). The Zhodani's hat is Psionics.

** [[UsefulNotes/ChineseWithChopperSupport Eastern Radiance]]: Consists of light ships that focus on offensive power. [[PandaingToTheAudience Pandas]] are a recurring AnimalMotif. Largely OutOfFocus.

** [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades Iris Libre]]: A heroic French-based faction based on LightIsGood, ChurchMilitant, JeanneDArchetype and KnightInShiningArmour. They are the LaResistance.

* The various alien races from ''VideoGame/StarControl'' come from different varieties of Planet of Hats. The Spathi are [[DirtyCoward cowardly to the point of paranoia]], the Pkunk are hippy-dippy psychics, the Umgah are psychotic practical jokers, the Druuge are slavers, and there are ''multiple'' species of ScaryDogmaticAliens ([[CardCarryingVillain Ilwrath]], [[HostileTerraforming Mycon]], Ur-Quan [[AffablyEvil Kzer-Za]] ''and'' [[OmnicidalManiac Kohr-Ah]]) and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Guys]] (the [[DumbMuscle Thraddash]], the [[SuicideAttack Shofixti]], and the [[BraveScot Yehat]]).

* Despite what their name might suggest, the SpacePirates of ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' aren't simply a gang of outlaws in space and are actually a distinct alien species that has piracy and galactic domination as its hats. There's also the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Krikens]] of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeHunters'', who exist to raze other worlds to the ground.

* The [[VideoGame/{{X}} X-Universe]] is really bad about this, due in large part to the games' near lack of plot and characterization ([[NoPlotNoProblem though that's not necessarily bad]]). Every faction has a hat that fits every character of that race. The Terrans are high-tech xenophobes, the Split are a ProudWarriorRace, the Teladi are [[ProudMerchantRace Proud Merchant]] LizardFolk, the Boron are peace-loving [[FishPeople Squid People]], etc.

* The United Powers League of ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' took some very drastic measures to ''turn'' Earth into one in order to remove all the differences that lead to wars and other conflicts. They made English the official language of the world, banned all the old religions in favor of a philosophy of the "divinity of mankind", and made cybernetics and genetic engineering illegal, among other things. Those who did not conform to these new standards [[FinalSolution were forcibly rounded up and executed, leading to a death toll of 400,000,000]]. Doran Routhe had 40,000 of these dissidents selected to be put into cryogenic sleep and sent off to colonize other worlds, leading the Terrans to populate the Koprulu Sector that serves as the main setting of the games.
* In ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'', the races are all defined by certain traits. The Engi have MachineEmpathy, but are awkward in combat, instead relying on attack and defense drones. The Mantis are the opposite, being a ProudWarriorRace, but also are often violent and vicious. Rockmen are stoic and have a bit of TheFundamentalist in them, as well as being extremely wary of other races. Zoltan are LawfulNeutral (sometimes LawfulStupid) EnergyBeings. Slugs are greedy merchants with psychic powers that allow them to see through the thick nebulae where they live. And Humans...well, HumansAreAverage.

* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, as many of the nations and peoples of Tamriel have leanings towards certain professions and characteristics but there are a lot of exceptions to the rule - generally, individuals who grew up in their homeland play the hats straight, while individuals who were raised in other lands tend to be exceptions. Some of the "hats" in question include: Nords are [[TheNeedForMead mead-loving]] [[DoesNotLikeMagic magic-hating]] [[HornyVikings viking-esque]] {{Boisterous Bruiser}}s; [[UnevenHybrid Bretons]] are DeadpanSnarker FrenchJerk {{Magic Knight}}s; Redguards are [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Men]] badass [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordsman]] and [[{{Pirate}} adventurous sailors]]; [[MageSpecies Altmer (High Elves)]] are [[CulturalPosturing snobby]], [[SuperiorSpecies supremacist]] {{Squishy Wizard}}s, Bosmer (Wood Elves) are NobleSavage {{Forest Ranger}}s who are amazed by basic carpentry because of an [[BindingAncientTreaty ancient code]] which prevents them from ever harming plantlife in their [[TheLostWoods Lost Woods]] homeland and who that same code requires to [[ImAHumanitarian consume fallen enemies]], etc. etc. For additional information, please see the series' [[Characters/TheElderScrollsRaces "Races" sub-pages]].

* ''Star Power'' is [[http://www.starpowercomic.com/category/comic/filler-comic/ chock-full of these]].

* Sam Starfall of ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' is from a species of kleptomaniacs, because his race evolved from scavengers. Sqids who pull of incredible acts of stealing are heroes. In Sqid mythology, the gods have never actually given anything to mortals, and everything mortals have that came from them was stolen. Humans have seriously considered wiping out the Sqids because their values are so different than humans that conflict would seem inevitable should they ever gain space travel.

* The short story ''[[https://escapepod.org/2020/02/06/escape-pod-718-how-the-emperor-of-all-space-and-every-world/ How the Emperor of All Space and Every World Awoke to the True Nature of Reality and Why it Didn’t Matter]]'' by P.H. Lee, featured on the Escape Pod podcast, parodies this trope, with the titular Emperor hiring entertainers from "the best of the seven Dancer Planets" and the idea of a planet ''without'' a hat being percieved as absurd and embarrassing.

* The reverse of this is used in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Cancelled": apparently every planet except Earth has only one species, with "a planet of deer, a planet of Asians," etc. Earth was started billions of years ago with creatures from all over the universe on one planet---as part of an intergalactic RealityShow.
** A previous [[StandAloneEpisode Marklar]] of [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Marklar]] introduced the [[HumanoidAliens Marklar]] of Marklar. The [[HumanoidAliens Marklar]] used the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word Marklar]] "Marklar" for all [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun Marklar]]. The [[HumanoidAliens Marklar]] spoke otherwise perfect [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Marklar]].

** Don't forget the planet of [[LadyLand gigantic man-hating tribeswomen.]]

** {{Subverted}} in one episode: There is not, in fact, a radiator planet inhabited by radiator people. Or at least, the radiator that Fry made out with wasn't one.

* On ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', nearly almost every single sentient species that isn't a pony has a rather one-note culture. All [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] minus [[TokenHeroicOrc Spike]] are greedy, aggressive and prideful monsters which act with disdain toward weaker creatures (they do have a [[NobleDemon nobler]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold side]], however), all [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent gryphons]] are money-obssessed, callous and unfriendly jerks who don't get along even among themselves, and all yaks are [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]], [[BoisterousBruiser obnoxious brutes]] with a rather [[HulkSpeak poor]] [[YouNoTakeCandle grasp on English]], to name some examples.

* Creator/JanetKagan's ''Literature/{{Hellspark}}'' is a multiple-culture universe where each of the cultures has a single quirk -- one considers feet obscene, one duels at the drop of a hat, one considers telling the truth (speaking ''accurately'') a basic requirement, etc. It's downplayed; each character is influenced by their culture's hat, but not defined by it. There's a scene where Om im, who comes from a society with a KnifeNut hat, says as much, and points out that if he were nothing but the hat most of his colleagues would have knife holes in them by now.

* In the novel ''Design for Great-Day'' by Creator/AlanDeanFoster and Eric Frank Russel, a spiderlike species is mentioned whose hat is... hats. [[NiceHat Nice ones]].

* Gilneas in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: Cataclysm'', even before worgen curse, seems to be a literal Nation of Hats. As far as you can see, everyone in the starting zone wears some kind of hat. And not just any hats, but [[NiceHat nice hats!]]

On their WagonTrainToTheStars, our intrepid heroes come across a planet whose inhabitants all share a single defining characteristic. Everybody is a {{robot|RollCall}}, or a [[Recap/StarTrekS2E17APieceOfTheAction gangster]], or a ProudWarriorRaceGuy, or an [[WorldOfHam over-the-top actor]], or [[PlanetOfSteves has the same name]], or wears a NiceHat. To some degree, this is unavoidable; you only have so much screen time or page space to develop and explore a culture. This is especially true in episodic series where the heroes travel to a new planet each week and you have to both introduce a planet and tell a story all within a single episode. If planets are revisited, it also provides an easy way for ''viewers'' to keep track of which planet is which and remember where the story is set.

** Most of the 'hats' are actually fantasy archetypes based on Earth cultures -- the Chereks are Vikings UpToEleven, the Algars are the Mongols likewise, the Drasnians appear to be a Renaissance Italy stereotype transplanted into a different geographical setting, the Tolnedrans are based on the Roman Empire (hence both their mercantile aspect ''and'' their obsessive road-building and disciplined legions), the Arends are medieval high chivalry myths taken to the point of self-parody, etc. The unflappable demeanour, their courtesy, and the general obsession with propriety of the Sendars seem to be more English than anything.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Many worlds are characterised by this -- everyone from Cadia is a soldier, everyone from Krieg ([[GratuitousGerman German for "war"]]) is an exceptionally grim and dour soldier in a longcoat, everyone from Catachan is Rambo. To be fair, they come from a planet sitting at the gates to a NegativeSpaceWedgie from ''hell'', a (self-made) radioactive wasteland, and a [[SingleBiomePlanet Jungle]] DeathWorld full of carnivorous plants and even worse animals respectively. The hats are likely survival mechanisms. For Imperial hats, the Imperium is a basically a portmanteau of the Roman Empire, the Catholic Church, the Third Reich and the U.S.S.R all turned UpToEleven, so everyone being the same is not so incredible.

* ''ComicBook/TopTen'' (by comic book genius Creator/AlanMoore)

*** This is all justified in ''[[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Heroes_Annual_Vol_4_2 Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #2]]'', which shows that all of these planets were specifically colonized a thousand years earlier by advanced humans with similar power-sets after ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}!'' happened.

*** Some of the Tau sept-worlds have specific headgear, too. Everyone from N'dras is brooding, everyone from Ke'l'shan refuses to give up, everyone from Fal'shia is a problem solver and the list goes on and on.

* In ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'', most of the planets are this, like a planet of hillbillies, a planet of Viking sheep-men, a planet of [[TastesLikeDiabetes sickeningly sweet]] happy-go-lucky aliens, and so on and so forth.

** The Asari's hat is being [[GreenSkinnedAlienSpaceBabes Blue-Skinned Alien]] [[OurElvesAreDifferent Space Elves]] with three life phases: [[TheHecateSisters Maiden (Stripper/mercenary), Matron (boring), and Matriarch (politician)]]. The Asari character Liara is a Maiden-phase Asari who works as an archaeologist, Matriarch Aethyta works as a bartender (after being ignored when she suggested the Asari make more of an effort to ditch their hat), and Peebee is very much a reckless, live-in-the-moment person (Asari are long-lived and thus tend to take longer views of things).

[[HumansAreIndexed Earth itself]] is sometimes portrayed as a Planet of Hats.[[note]]And [[TruthInTelevision anthropologists]] have discovered ''many'' [[http://condor.depaul.edu/mfiddler/hyphen/humunivers.htm universal human traits]] that could plausibly fit the bill.[[/note]] Defining human characteristics have included [[HumansAreSpecial "pluck"]], [[HumansAreWarriors "sheer cussedness"]], [[NoSuchThingAsAlienPopCulture creativity]], and sometimes even [[HumansAreAverage "diversity"]], though [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters "evil"]] and [[HumansAreMorons "stupidity"]] are more misanthropic answers to the question. Sometimes it's stated that Hattery is the natural state and it's humans that are aberrant, or rather that humanity's Hat is not having one.

* Despite what their name might suggest, the SpacePirates of ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' aren't simply a gang of outlaws in space and are actually a distinct alien species that has piracy and galactic domination as its hats. There's also the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Krikens]] of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime:'' ''Hunters'', who exist to raze other worlds to the ground.

* Played straight in some of the more comedic episodes of ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'', when (much like ''Franchise/StarTrek'') this week's timeline is simply a planet-sized TownWithADarkSecret.

** [[{{Fanon}} Fans generally assume]] that the Vortians were essentially a species of nothing but scientists. This is never made explicit on the show, but it ''is'' plausible, as they are almost always mentioned in relation to some sort of technological achievement. The only two important Vort characters, [[LaResistance Lard Nar]] and [[TheQuisling Prisoner 777]], were both inventors.

*** Everyone from Catachan is a tough-as-nails jungle survivalist, and looks an awful lot like Film/{{Rambo}}.

* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, as many of the nations and peoples of Tamriel have leanings towards certain professions and characteristics but there are a lot of exceptions to the rule - generally, individuals who grew up in their homeland play the hats straight, while individuals who were raised in other lands tend to be exceptions. Some of the "hats" in question include: Nords are [[TheNeedForMead mead-loving]] [[DoesNotLikeMagic magic-hating]] [[HornyVikings viking-esque]] {{Boisterous Bruiser}}s; [[UnevenHybrid Bretons]] are DeadpanSnarker FrenchJerk {{Magic Knight}}s; Redguards are [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Men]] badass [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordsman]] and [[{{Pirate}} adventurous sailors]]; [[WitchSpecies Altmer (High Elves)]] are [[CulturalPosturing snobby]], [[SuperiorSpecies supremacist]] {{Squishy Wizard}}s, Bosmer (Wood Elves) are NobleSavage {{Forest Ranger}}s who are amazed by basic carpentry because of an [[BindingAncientTreaty ancient code]] which prevents them from ever harming plantlife in their [[TheLostWoods Lost Woods]] homeland and who that same code requires to [[ImAHumanitarian consume fallen enemies]], etc. etc. For additional information, please see the series' [[Characters/TheElderScrollsRaces "Races" sub-pages]].

* Another example of this is in Creator/StephenieMeyer's book "Literature/TheHost" which features a horde of peace loving aliens which invade earth and take over the body of almost everyone who lives there. This is used (apparently) deliberately as an excuse for the aliens, who hate violence, to [[PuppeteerParasite bodysnatch]] the human race, as because all of them are so similar in their views and personality, they do not understand the diversity in human morality, and assume all of us are evil.

** Also occurred at least once in a ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' comic in which ComicBook/JimmyOlsen is transported to the Planet of the Capes. [[http://www.superdickery.com/planet-of-the-capes/ Seriously]]. This comic came out in the wake of the ''Planet of the Apes'' film, so they were probably going for the pun.
** Lobo occasionally encounters hat planets, such as planets made entirely from highway (in the ''Lobo'' comic series), a vacation planet (''The Last Czarnian'' mini-series), and a planet populated by religious fundamentalists who immediately explode upon contact with any infidels by triggering an apparently inherited power through pushing down their head onto their shoulder.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Henry Stickmin Series}}''has the Toppat clan. An international crime syndicate in which members may be identified by the top hats they all wear. Apparently they aren't allowed to trade.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Henry Stickmin Series}}''has the Toppat clan. A clan of evildoers in which members may be identified by the top hats they all wear. Apparently they aren't allowed to trade.

** [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks Eagle Union]]: Mostly very mixed designs overall, but [[StrongFamilyResemblance some classes do have a unifying theme]]. If an American shipgirl is MsFanservice, [[ShesGotLegs she's probably got legs]]. Gameplay-wise, they favour high firepower and lots of offensive air power, and have many bonuses to encourage mixing them with ships from other fleets to make a MultinationalTeam.
** [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Royal Navy]]: Design-wise, OfficerAndAGentleman, RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething, EnglishRose, [[EveryoneLovesBlondes blonde]] and [[BuxomIsBetter buxom]]. Gameplay-wise, good evasion and decent armour at the expense of offensive power; prefer battleships over carriers (but the few carriers they do have are very respectable) and the only faction with [[BoringButPractical monitors]], capital-class warships with massively-oversized guns for their size.
** [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Ironblood]]: Design-wise, a strong militaristic and imperialistic theme combined with DarkIsEvil and CuteMonsterGirl rigging. Gameplay-wise, a focus on high HP and defence stats with ArmourPiercingAttack, [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer but they do lack variety]]. Tend to be the BloodKnight and the {{Tsundere}}.
** [[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun Sakura Empire]]: Design-wise, naturally the YamatoNadeshiko, but also [[LittleBitBeastly animal ears and tails]], referencing the youkai of Japanese mythology. Gameplay-wise, they have a big focus on torpedoes and carrier-class ships, with [[MagikarpPower ships that are weak in the early game but stronger in late-game]]. Uniquely, they are the only faction with aviation battleships that can swap their auxilliary guns for aircraft.

** [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets North Union]]: Design-wise, TheBaroness, SensualSlavs and [[PhenotypeStereotype very pale in both skin and hair colour]]. Gameplay-wise, [[MagikarpPower mediocre stats but boasting a wide variety of fleet-wide buffs that make them stronger when all combined together]]. Tend to be either ChummyCommies (at their nicest) or DirtyCommies and TokenEvilTeammate (at their worst).
** [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades Iris Libre]]: Design-wise, ChurchMilitant (a good one), JeanneDeArchetype and KnightInShiningArmour. Gameplay-wise, play similarly to the Royal Navy but with a more balanced approach between guns and torpedoes, and they [[KillItWithFire really love their burn damage]].
** [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades Vichya Dominion]]: Design-wise, BlackKnight and RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver combined with DarkIsNotEvil (as they are the LesCollaborateurs to Iris Libre's heroic LaResistance... [[AntiVillain but they are not happy about it one bit]]). Something of a factional CombatPragmatist given their focus on AlphaStrike tactics and critical hits.
** [[UsefulNotes/NewRomanLegions Sardegna Empire]]: Design-wise, AristocratTeam, TheFashionista and BadassCape (with DramaticWind). Tend towards KungFuProofMook as many of their ships have Torpedo Damage Reduction skills. In story, [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain they're too pathetic to be considered really bad]]; neither their Royal Navy adversaries or their Ironblood allies take them much seriously.