History Main / HappyHarlequinHat

** [[MonsterClown Fizzarolli]] and his [[RobotClown robotic replicas]] wear these, fitting his whole jester theme. [[spoiler:The "happy" part is subverted when it's shown that the hat covers his broken horns.]]

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss:'' [[MonsterClown Fizzarolli]] and his [[RobotClown robotic replicas]] wear these, naturally.

* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' foe the Jester wears one.
* Of course, [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn Harley Quinn's]] iconic red and black hat, though it has two flaps and no bells.
* Merryman, leader of the ComicBook/InferiorFive, had one of those, though it was monochrome.

* In the StorybookEpisode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Dr Cox's story give JD the Village Idiot one, as the equivalent of the also ridiculous hat he's wearing in the real world (both hats disappear after the establishing shots).

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* ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'': Pomni’s clown outfit comes with a two-pointed jester's cap. Pomni herself, however, is anything but happy.

Further engraining itself in common knowledge of the general public is the popularity of [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn Harley Quinn's]] character in the DC Universe, especially following ''Film/SuicideSquad2016''.

Much like kings, castles, and knights, the jester hat seems to be synonymous with TheMiddleAges. However, contrary to popular belief, authentic jesters did not always wear this particular hat. For example, Will Sommers, Henry VIII's jester, wore a more poofy hat, like berets on each-other, with a cloth flower on top.

Much like kings, castles, and knights, the jester hat seems to be synonymous with medieval times. However, contrary to popular belief, authentic jesters did not always wear this particular hat. For example, Will Sommers, Henry VIII's jester, wore a more poofy hat, like berets on each-other, with a cloth flower on top.

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* Zazie Rainyday, from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', though her hat is one color, two flaps, no bells. It still has the design, though.

* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} foe the Jester (no relation to the abovementioned character) also wears one.

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* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', the points of the King of Fools crown droop and have bells on the end like the flaps of a jester's cap.
* In the "Steadfast Tin Soldier" segment from ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'', the jack-in-the-box wears a harlequin hat to cover the fact that he's bald.

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* Friar Carl wears one of these as part of his jester costume for the masquerade ball where he and the title character meet Dracula in the film ''Film/VanHelsing''. He twitches his head to make the bells ring in the graveyard where they stash the Frankenstein monster, out of anxiety, [[RuleOfFunny for laughs]], or both.

* The Fool from ''Literature/WyrdSisters'' has one of these. He also has bells on his handkerchief. Coming from a long line of jesters, and being sent to the Fools' Guild at an early age, he still remembers when he first realised that his outfit "had been carefully and meticulously designed for no other purpose than making its wearer look like a complete and utter pillock". In ''A Tourist's Guide to Lancre'', the Lancre coat of arms is "crowned" with a jester's cap.
* Willard Phule, of Robert Aspirin's ''Literature/PhulesCompany'' picks for his military pseudonyms names that play on his own last name, starting as Lieutenant Scaramouche (fool character from Italian commedia dell'arte) before getting promoted to Captain Jester. He becomes so popular with his new troops that they adopt an unofficial patch for their uniforms: a skull with a jester's cap.
* The cover art for Alan Gordon's ''[[Literature/FoolsGuild Fools Guild Mysteries]]'' features figures wearing such a hat, and the main protagonists are a couple of professional jesters Theophilos (a.k.a. Feste from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night) and Claudia (a.k.a Viola from the same play). They are often depicted donning chalk makeup and costumes for performances.

* The titular character of the ''Literature/SebastianDarke'' series wears one in the first book, which is even featured on the book's cover. However, he burns it near the beginning of the second book. But, near the end of the third book, [[spoiler:he is given a new jester costume, complete with one of these.]]

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* In ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'', Bung the Jester always wears one of these.
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* One of these appears on the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Fifth Doctor Adventures'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Axis_of_Insanity.jpg cover]] for the episode "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho056AxisOfInsanity Axis of Insanity]]". True to form, the villain of the story takes the form of a court jester, and is often heralded by the sound of tinkling bells.
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* Touchstone from ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'' wears this in some productions, and is believed by some to be the inspiration for the semi-famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reading-jester-q75-760x753.jpg reading jester]] picture. He is also the inspiration for [[https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3766/11988476545_880e1f7d02_b.jpg the Fool Statue]] in Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford-Upon-Avon.

* The MonsterClown Dimentio from ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has a variation of this.
* On the subject of [[MonsterClown Monster Clowns]], Shaco from the ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' series of video games wear this in all five of his skins.
* Cicero from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' wears a variation of this, along with the rest of the outfit, after he kills a jester.
* Malcolm in the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfKyrandia'' games wears one. In the third game, wearing a [[PaperThinDisguise leather jerkin]] and/or [[HeadPet a squirrel]] as a disguise will also remove the hat and cause fewer people to recognize him, despite no change in his loud yellow-and-purple sleeves and leggings. The jester hat seems to be the only thing most laypeople remember about him!
* Jester from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' unsurprisingly wears one of these as part of his outfit.

* The [[http://rune-nifelheim.com/db/items/collection/5003.gif Joker Jester]] hat in ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline''.

* The titular character of the ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' franchise can obtain a two-coned hat along with the power to shoot beams out of a cane. In ''Kirby Super Star'', Kirby also wore it in Mirror form. And so did the antagonist Marx.
* ''VideoGame/SparkTheElectricJester'', as the title lets you know, features a character and his [[JobStealingRobot robot replacement]] that wear this kind of hat. This trait is likely influenced by the aforementioned ''Kirby'' games since in one of the ''Sonic'' fangames previously made by the author, Sonic and Tails could obtain Kirby's Beam and Mirror abilities.
* The Scream Fortress VIII update of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' introduced the Pestering Jester cosmetic, a medieval jester hat for the Scout, Soldier, Pyro and Heavy.
* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'''s Jester class has one, although it is worn and patched up in places.
* One of the villain groups in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' was the [[CircusOfFear Carnival of Shadows]]. Some of their low-level minions wore a jester's cap, along with their {{Stripperific}} costumes.
* ''[[VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet Sackboy: A Big Adventure]]'': As a jester-like creature, Vex's head is actually shaped like one of these. His head has two floppy points, each with a bell at the end. The red and blue stripes all along his body help with this effect.

* Maytag wears a green cap in ''Webcomic/{{Flipside}}'' as part of her everyday outfit.
* In ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'', [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/1508.htm Dagonet wears one]] in the colours of the Pendragon coat of arms.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Bobby Hill sports one in "Joust Like a Woman", though it's hard to tell whether or not there are any bells..
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Homer talks a couple of late-middle-aged hippies into going on a "good old fashioned freak-out" he wears one of these while freaking the normals.
---> Have no fear, the Cosmic Fool is here, to blow the lid off your conformist button-down world!

* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny wears one, with two flaps that fit over his ears, in "WesternAnimation/KnightyKnightBugs".

* In one of the pilot shorts of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Vicky forces Timmy to wear as jester cap as she makes him to do a ton of chores.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=2410 Jester's Cap]], a version of the classic hat with many flaps. Later, a joke set mocked the Cap by introducing the ungodly [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=9739 Jester's Sombrero]].

* The [[http://rune-nifelheim.com/db/items/collection/5003.gif Joker Jester]] [[NiceHat hat]] in ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline''.

The hat itself represents a donkey--traditionally, the hat is worn with one flap forward, and the other two off to the side, representing the nose and ears, respectively. So the hat in a sense, represented how the jester would [[StealthPun make an ass out of himself]].

* Oddly enough, Arlecchino, that is, ''the'' Harlequin from ''Theatre/CommediaDellArte'', occasionally subverts this trope in certain productions, wearing a hat more like [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDiney Clopin's]] than the hat we all know and love.

* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', the points of the King of Fools crown droop and have bells on the end like the flaps of a jester's cap.

* Oddly enough, Arlecchino, that is, ''the'' Harlequin from ''Theatre/CommediaDellArte'', occasionally subverts this trope in certain productions, wearing a hat more like [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Clopin's]] than the hat we all know and love.

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* Zazie Rainyday, from ''MangaNegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', though her hat is one color, two flaps, no bells. It still has the design, though.

What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word [[TheJester jester]]?

* Zazie Rainyday, from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', though her hat is one color, two flaps, no bells. It still has the design, though.

* [[VillainousHarlequin Evil court jesters]] Zorn and Thorn from ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIX''.

* The 5th stage boss of ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}}: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'', Clownpiece, wears an odd four-coned variation, with two of the cones twisted around each other to connect to a single pompom.
* The titular character of the ''Videogame/{{Kirby}}'' franchise can obtain a two-coned hat along with the power to shoot beams out of a cane. In ''Kirby Super Star'', Kirby also wore it in Mirror form. And so did the antagonist Marx.

* These frequently show up in ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}''.

* ''VideoGame/SackboyABigAdventure'': As a jester-like creature, Vex's head is actually shaped like one of these. His head has two floppy points, each with a bell at the end. The red and blue stripes all along his body help with this effect.

* [[VillainousHarlequin Evil court jesters]] [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Zorn and Thorn]] from ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIX''.

* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny wears one, with two flaps that fit over his ears, in "Knighty Knight Bugs".