History Main / KlingonsLoveShakespeare

* ''Fanfic/WaitingForAMiracleMiraculousLadybug'': Chloe teaches the Kwamis about television, and they all start watching anime on one of her streaming services.

* In ''[[Literature/TheShipWho The Ship Who Sang]]'', there is one instance of the titular ship transporting a group of Shakespeare players to perform ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' for an alien race who resemble methane-breathing jellyfish in exchange for a new power generation technology. They need to transfer their brainwaves into alien bodies to perform.

* Xavin from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' has said that Starbucks is not just Earth's greatest achievement, but the ''entire galaxy's''. And considering that it's the MarvelUniverse (so most of the planets are somewhat inhabited), that's high praise.

* Several Asgardians of ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' comicbook family expressed extreme fondness of Series/GameOfThrones. Up to thinking that one of the worst things about the afterlife is that it limits access to new episodes.

* [[Franchise/StarTrek The Klingon Institutes]]' translation of ''Hamlet'' into Klingon actually had a preface describing how Hamlet reads to a Klingon--and actually makes a pretty good case that Klingons would enjoy the play, if they were allowed to read the play as something different than what traditional human audiences read it as.

** Ambassador Delenn reads Earther news publications because she finds it's a better source of relevant information than her own [[ObstructiveBureaucrat government sources]], ''even when dealing with matters from her own home world.'' Admittedly, this is more a comment on the controlling and secretive Minbari culture than on her humanophilia...but then, she does end up becoming part-human and [[spoiler:marrying John Sheridan.]] TruthInTelevision in that monitoring the foreign press is a major task for diplomats and spies: understanding the locals' perception of one's own government can yield critical information. It's also an attempt to get used to how human media treats leaders; the first time she was interviewed in the show she was blindsided by an ArmorPiercingQuestion and barely avoided crying on camera.

** M'Gann/Miss Martian has apparently been [[AliensStealCable watching a human sitcom]] called ''Hello, Megan!'' since it aired in the 70's. This helps to explain her GirlNextDoor mannerisms and CatchPhrase.

* ''Film/TheHidden'': the alien fugitive loves Earth junk food, cars, and UsefulNotes/HeavyMetal.

** Fondness for human religion seems to be a thing among Adzel's people. There is another one who is a wandering Catholic mendicant later on.

** Klingons also seem to like coffee to the point of having adapted their own version of it (which is also drunk by some humans, coming full circle), although this could also be a culinary version of CallASmeerpARabbit.

May have been a consequence of AliensStealCable. Compare FanOfThePast and HumanityIsInfectious, which can serve a similar narrative purpose. Related to GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff. Can sometimes lead to GoingNative. Compare AlienCatnip when the subject is actually addictive. Aliens latching onto our pop culture can be because there's NoSuchThingAsAlienPopCulture. See also FantasticAnthropologist.

** Blue Diamond was a fan of the in-universe equivalent of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda''.

* In ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', pretty much every alien is a fan of Earth's entertainment media, to the point where the [[SpacePolice Planetary Defense Organization]] had to set limits on exports and treats smuggling as a serious crime. Nyarko herself is a giant {{Anime}} and {{Toku}} fangirl who loves quoting things like ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' and performing ''Series/KamenRider'' poses.

* In ''Literature/TheShipWhoSang'' there is one instance where the titular ship transported a group of Shakespeare players to perform ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' for an alien race who resemble methane breathing jellyfish in exchange for a new power generation technology. And did I mention that they needed to transfer their brainwaves to alien bodies to perform?

* ''The Queen of the Night's Aria'' by Ian [=McDonald=]. The Martian queen is a fan of Terrene opera, and in particular a tenor [[WhiteDwarfStarlet whose glory days are behind him]] and so decides to [[GlamorousWartimeSinger entertain the troops]] involved in the invasion of Mars after the events of ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. The Martians however launch a massive counterattack, wiping out the human army and kidnapping the tenor to take down to their UndergroundCity where the Queen has constructed a replica opera house just for him. He's aghast at the thought of spending the rest of his life performing for tentacled horrors, but on seeing the packed auditorium the Queen has gathered to hear his performance, he decides it's not all bad.

* ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'': The Catians come to Earth specifically because they're so interested in Earth culture (specifically things like anime and manga) and food that they wanted to try it for themselves.

* In ''LightNovel/FateZero'', the Rider Heroic Spirit [[spoiler: Alexander the Great]] turns out to really enjoy video games, much to his Master's surprise.

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** Odo enjoys kayaking as well as Creator/MickeySpillane novels.
** The Ferengi on Deep Space Nine enjoy various human foods. Rom loves sausage and pancakes. Nog enjoys root beer. Quark disapproves of it, calling it a "cloying, bubbly, sickly sweet force bent on corrupting the core of Ferengi culture," but admits that if you drink enough of it, you come to enjoy it. He notes that this is precisely the case with the Federation.
** One minor plot arc in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has Garak exploring Shakespeare's Theatre/JuliusCaesar. Initially, he finds it to pretty much be a farce, as his own Cardassian culture (which is much more reptilian in nature) features betrayals as a matter of course, and the fact that Caesar couldn't figure out that Brutus was the betrayer until the assassination itself bewildered Garak. He later revised his opinion, however, as he gained more understanding for the culture that produced the work (and when certain events of said episode helped him realize that he and Caesar weren't so different).
*** The same episode has Bashir admit that the driving literature movement among Humans is adapting alien literature to a human setting.
*** Another episode has Garak enjoy the fable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" but he did disagree with two points. First he thought the Aesop was incorrect (rather than "If you always lie, no one will believe you when you tell the truth" should be "Never tell the same lie twice") and that while it has merit as a story, the fate of the boy makes the tale [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids wholly unsuitable for a children's story]].
** The episode 'Carbon Creek' from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' has a Vulcan who liked to watch TV; namely, "''Series/ILoveLucy''".
** On ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', a whole episode revolves around Vulcans enjoying baseball, which is actually becoming an obscure sport on Earth. It could be that Vulcans love the sport for the same reason it's the GameOfNerds... but the episode largely implies that the Vulcan captain who introduced it to his fellow Vulcan crew was only doing so because he and Sisko have a rivalry and he wanted an opportunity to beat Sisko at his own beloved game and rub his face in it. The rest of the crew start to take a shine to it, particularly Odo, who was asked to be the umpire and by the time of the game could quote line and verse the rulebook to Sisko; and Rom, despite being terrible. The latter is actually a case of IronyAsSheIsCast, as the actor playing Rom actually had a minor league career and was quite good... if you watch carefully, he's fielding and batting with his left hand, which the actor ad-libbed so he wouldn't outplay his character's ability.
** On ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', the young Romulan warrior Elnor is fond of ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''.

** His species does have dancing, though. It's...not very good. [[note]]Numfar! Do the Dance of Honor![[/note]]

--> Lorne: You know, ordinarily I handle bad news really well. I just drown my sorrows in an iced cold gin and tonic, little squeeze of lime. Except for they don't have them here!

** In ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', Sarah Jane's alien computer, Mr Smith, seems to enjoy reading celebrity gossip... and looking at dating sites.
** In the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho story "Time of the Daleks" an alternate timeline is created where the Daleks are Shakespeare fans.

* In ''Series/Supergirl2015'', Kara has this to say about chocolate pecan pie:
-->'''Kara''': Chocolate pecan pie is the best dessert in the galaxy. And as someone who's been to twelve different planets, [[NotHyperbole I mean that literally.]]
** J'onn J'onzz shares his love of Chocos with his Comic Book counterpart, above.
* ''Franchise/UltraSeries'':
** ''Series/UltramanMebius'' has our protagonist Mirai, who is the title character in disguise likes everything on Earth, as well as his TrademarkFavoriteFood being Curry Rice, which is his first meal on said planet.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E64WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp Will The Real Martian Please Stand up?]], Martians like [[spoiler: Ross]] think cigarettes taste wonderful, especially since they don't have anything like them back home. It also seems they [[spoiler: and Venusians]] enjoy human music.

* Xavin from ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}'' has said that Starbucks is not just Earth's greatest achievement, but the ''entire galaxy's''. And considering that it's the MarvelUniverse (so most of the planets are somewhat inhabited), that's high praise.

* Several Asgardians of ''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'' comicbook family expressed extreme fondness of Series/GameOfThrones. Up to thinking that one of the worst things about the afterlife is that it limits access to new episodes.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'':

** An actual Shakespeare example starts in ''Videogame/MassEffect1'' as an advertisement for a performance of Hamlet with an all-elcor cast. Note that elcor speak in a slow, flat monotone at all times. Emotion and tone are conveyed to Elcor with [[TheNoseKnows pheromones]] and imperceptible body language hints, and to everybody else with [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry declarations of the tone of their next sentence before they say it]]. This makes the play a terrifyingly boring prospect. Although, the guy who came up with the whole idea is a human who wanted to give audiences the chance to judge Hamlet "by his deeds and not his emotions". By Videogame/MassEffect2 it becomes a runaway hit. All fourteen hours of it.

* ''Webcomic/{{Melonpool}}'' / ''Webcomic/{{Zortic}}'': A crossover between these comics takes place on a space station, in which the crews of both comics' [[CoolShip Cool Ships]] wait in a long line of alien [[FanBoy fanboys]] to see the latest ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie. [[spoiler:Although the definition of "latest" turned out to vary.]]

* The entire premise of ''Year Zero'' is this: Earth music is the best in the universe. Extraterrestrials respect other planets' laws. Therefore, over the past few decades, aliens have racked up an exorbitant debt in copyright infringement fees and some of the more unscrupulous races want to wipe out the debt by wiping out the planet.

* ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': Laurence discovers- much to his surprise- that dragons like human music, and some of the more intelligent ones can critique artworks.

* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'':
** An early issue of vol. 2 has Rocket Raccoon stating a fondness for Ebay. After all, how else is he supposed to get the [=DVDs=] of his favourite shows?.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': Used in many series.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': Used in many series.
** ''Franchise/TransformersGenerationOne'':
*** Quite a few of the Autobots like particular things about Earth. Jazz and Blaster love our music. Hound and Beachcomber love nature. Tracks loves cities as well as his [[CoolCar Corvette vehicle mode]]. And several of the 'Bots apparently have a fondness for a TV soap opera called ''As The The Kitchen Sinks.'' This is balanced by a few like Mirage and Huffer who don't like Earth much at all.
*** This is particularly amped up in the toyline/comic characters of this series. For example, the Cassettibot, Eject, is a self-professed sports junky who adores sports so much he hopes that, one day, Autobots and Decepticons will be able to replace war with competitive sports, which would be far less lethal.
** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'':
*** Dinobot, and to a lesser extent, Megatron. At various points, the two of them actually [[ShoutOut/ToShakespeare quote Shakespeare.]] In a sad bit of irony, none of the Maximals have such a reverence for human culture, or even a familiarity, because a lot of stuff on humanity has been classified.
** ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'':
*** It gets downright meta with the Decepticon Shortround, who somehow actually collects ''Transformers action figures'' (specifically including never-released prototypes of ''[[ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2 Generation 2]]'' figures).
*** The textstory "Force of Habit" has the Decepticon sharpshooter [[NerdInEvilsHelmet Hardtop]]. He's a fan of comics, collecting many from earth, and other organic planets. When the 'cons are beaten at the end of the story, they're left on a planet awaiting rescue, so he starts handing them comics for them to read (though insisting they don't get skidmarks or crease them). Runamuck admits they aren't that bad.
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'':
*** Jazz is fascinated with all the stuff on Earth, like rain and traffic lights, though it does take him a while to realise little girls do not spit acidic slime. This is in contrast to his superior Sentinel Prime, who hates Earth and everything on it.
*** Bumbleebee and Bulkhead, again, with the two of them spending hours doing nothing but watching cartoons, playing video-games, and old b-movies.
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'':
*** Knockout is a fan of human automobiles, choosing his alternate mode based off of aesthetics and performance (to paraphrase Knockout, he's not just an automobile, he's an automobile enthusiast). He even enjoys competing in human street racing and watched horror movies at drive-in theaters. This interest in human culture is particularly rare for a Decepticon. Ironically, he doesn't care much for the humans themselves, though that's expected given his allegiance.
*** Bulkhead likes metal music and monster truck rallies, while Bumblebee likes racing and cartoons.
*** Even Megatron gets in on this at times; if his character notes are to be believed, he enjoys ''[[TheInternetIsForCats online cat videos]]'', and his favorite song is apparently the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' theme, [[RealMenWearPink of all things]].
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'':
*** Animated!Jazz would get along well with Boulder, who is likewise fascinated with pretty much everything Earth has to offer.
*** And ''all'' of the Rescue Bots seem to like movies, though they have their own preferences on genres. Blades once binged on pirate movies and then spent most of the episode [[TalkLikeAPirate talking like one]].

* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' sees the titalur character scrolling through TV to get an understanding of the planet. He's glued to it like a TV couch potato for a bit.

** ''Ponyville, USA'': The main six ponies, who ended up on Earth, find themselves enjoying human films, video games and board games.

** ''Fanfic/ThroughTheEyesOfAnotherPony'': The protagonist gets Princess Luna hooked on playing ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' on his smartphone. She also ends up loving comedic Website/YouTube movies, such as ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', or ''My Little Pony'' {{Fan Vid}}s.

-->"Its large head swollen with thoughts! Its eyes... It understands."

-->"...Why was this documented?"