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* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' has some popular alien films, but most of them are relatively recent. Examples include ''Fleet and Flotilla'' and ''Blasto: The Jellyfish Stings'' (although that sounds more like a human production than a hanar one). Several alien video games are mentioned as well, such as ''Galaxy of Fantasy'', which was based on turian mythology.
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* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' has some popular alien films, but most of them are relatively recent. Examples include ''Fleet and Flotilla'' and ''Blasto: The Jellyfish Stings'' (although that sounds more like a human production than a hanar one).one, and ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' reveals it to be a ''salarian'' production). Several alien video games are mentioned as well, such as ''Galaxy of Fantasy'', which was based on turian mythology.
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* ''Ghosts of the Federation,'' an ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'' fic, features a discussion on a genre of Mantis films called "Gladiator Dramas," particularly [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny the one that was the Trope Codifier for the whole genre but now feels stale to modern viewers]]. Slugs aren't interacted with beyond their criminal shennanigans, Rockmen go the "no pop culture, just the local answer to 'The Bible'" route, and Engi, being robots, have very little culture TO explore.
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* ''Ghosts of the Federation,'' an ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'' fic, features a discussion on a genre of Mantis films called "Gladiator Dramas," particularly [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny [[OnceOriginalNowCommon the one that was the Trope Codifier for the whole genre but now feels stale to modern viewers]]. Slugs aren't interacted with beyond their criminal shennanigans, Rockmen go the "no pop culture, just the local answer to 'The Bible'" route, and Engi, being robots, have very little culture TO explore.
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* In ''Literature/TheShipWho'', classical Shakespearean human actors also learn and perform alien plays. One is congratulated for conveying "the vital interplay of color, odor, and rhythm." Musical forms are also [[AlienArtsAreAppreciated appreciated]] - having learned to [[BeautifulSingingVoice sing]] despite being [[WetwareCPU incapable of opening her mouth or properly breathing]], Helva is particularly good at "Reticulan croons".
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* Averted in ''ComicBook/DrBlinkSuperheroShrink''. According to the spacefaring Major Amazing, alien races everywhere eventually gravitate towards lowbrow tastes.
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* Averted in ''ComicBook/DrBlinkSuperheroShrink''. According to the spacefaring Major Amazing, alien races everywhere eventually gravitate towards toward lowbrow tastes.entertainment.
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* Averted in ''ComicBook/DrBlinkSuperheroShrink''. According to the spacefaring Major Amazing, alien races everywhere eventually gravitate towards lowbrow tastes.
-->"Did you know the Cat People of Betelgeuse V have thirty-seven different words for 'reality TV'?"
-->"Did you know the Cat People of Betelgeuse V have thirty-seven different words for 'reality TV'?"
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* Played with in Literature/''SectorGeneral''. At some points, popular television programs from many different alien cultures are available to patients at the titular hospital; but in one novel the only thing a ward full of patients has to entertain themselves is playing space poker.
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* Played with in Literature/''SectorGeneral''.''Literature/SectorGeneral''. At some points, popular television programs from many different alien cultures are available to patients at the titular hospital; but in one novel the only thing a ward full of patients has to entertain themselves is playing space poker.
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** In Crusade, the crew of the ''Excalibur'' recover an extensive popular cultural archive of a now-extinct species.
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* Played with in Literature/''SectorGeneral''. At some points, popular television programs from many different alien cultures are available to patients at the titular hospital; but in one novel the only thing a ward full of patients has to entertain themselves is playing space poker.
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* ''Anime/Interstella5555'' features a race of [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe aliens]] with its own pop band, who are kidnapped and disguised as humans so they can be "the next big thing."
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* ''Anime/Interstella5555'' features a race of [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe aliens]] with its own pop band, who are kidnapped and disguised as humans so they can be "the next big thing."" The kidnapper has apparently [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy done this for centuries]].
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* Averted in the ''Literature/{{Wayfarers}}'' series. The various races of the Galactic Community all have their own pop culture, and we see several examples of it, from politically subversive Harmagian stimthump music to Quelin virtual reality environmental sims.
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* Averted in the ''Literature/{{Wayfarers}}'' series. The various races of the Galactic Community Commons all have their own pop culture, and we see several examples of it, from politically subversive Harmagian stimthump music to Quelin virtual reality environmental sims.
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* Averted in the ''Literature/{{Wayfarers}}'' series. The various races of the Galactic Community all have their own pop culture, and we see several examples of it, from politically subversive Harmagian stimthump music to Quelin virtual reality environmental sims.
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* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' is a deconstruction.
** The Thermians don't just lack the concept of fiction; it becomes the PlotDevice, as they mistake human TV series for documentaries.
** [[BigBad Sarris's]] people, on the other hand, apparently do have TV shows. The moment he witnesses the opening titles of the Thermian's "Historical Documents" he realizes immediately that he's dealing with actors and not real space explorers.
** The Thermians don't just lack the concept of fiction; it becomes the PlotDevice, as they mistake human TV series for documentaries.
** [[BigBad Sarris's]] people, on the other hand, apparently do have TV shows. The moment he witnesses the opening titles of the Thermian's "Historical Documents" he realizes immediately that he's dealing with actors and not real space explorers.
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* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' is a deconstruction. \n** The Thermians don't just lack the had no concept of fiction; it becomes lying at all before encountering [[BigBad Sarris]]. Through painful experience, they now are aware of lying for malicious purposes, but cannot concieve of any other forms of lies. This means that fiction -- lying to an audience who are aware of the PlotDevice, lie but have agreed to pretend to believe you as a means of entertainment -- is ''way'' beyond their capabilities. This drives the entire plot, as they mistake a human sci-fi TV series show for documentaries.
** [[BigBad Sarris's]]a documentary and seek out its stars to act as their protectors. Sarris's people, on the other hand, apparently do clearly have fiction and TV shows. shows of their own. The moment he witnesses the opening titles of the Thermian's "Historical Documents" Documents", he realizes immediately that he's dealing with actors and not real space explorers.
** [[BigBad Sarris's]]
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* In ''Literature/TheyAreSmol,'' human astronauts assigned to alien crews have a choice on how to spend their rec period: watching some good old Earthling TV to remind them of home, or a FunWithSubtitles edit of one of their host's shows/movies to make them seem [[PunyEarthlings less intimidating,]] everyone else having evolved from terrifying apex predators.
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* In ''Literature/TheyAreSmol,'' human ''Literature/TheyAreSmol'':
** Human astronauts assigned to alien crews have a choice on how to spend their rec period: watching some good old Earthling TV to remind them of home, or a FunWithSubtitles edit of one of their host's shows/movies (we get to see a jornassian action flick with this treatment) to make them seem [[PunyEarthlings lessintimidating,]] intimidating]]; everyone else having evolved from terrifying apex predators.predators.
** In the third story arc, we get to see snippets of 1) a dorarizin saturday-morning cartoon, which has the same kind of zany supervillain shennanegans and adorable victims we have (except those adorable victims are [[spoiler: humans, because everyone else thinks we're cute]]), and 2) a multispeciese MMO videogame (something to do with robots and zombies) the main human charachters are fans of.
** The karnakians pass the time with {{Hypothetical Fight Debate}}s centering around their various religeon's popes. It's noted to be simultaneously heretical enough to get you thrown in jail for a month, and ''universal,'' to the point that the aforesaid popes do it amongst themselves when they think nobody's listening
** Human astronauts assigned to alien crews have a choice on how to spend their rec period: watching some good old Earthling TV to remind them of home, or a FunWithSubtitles edit of one of their host's shows/movies (we get to see a jornassian action flick with this treatment) to make them seem [[PunyEarthlings less
** In the third story arc, we get to see snippets of 1) a dorarizin saturday-morning cartoon, which has the same kind of zany supervillain shennanegans and adorable victims we have (except those adorable victims are [[spoiler: humans, because everyone else thinks we're cute]]), and 2) a multispeciese MMO videogame (something to do with robots and zombies) the main human charachters are fans of.
** The karnakians pass the time with {{Hypothetical Fight Debate}}s centering around their various religeon's popes. It's noted to be simultaneously heretical enough to get you thrown in jail for a month, and ''universal,'' to the point that the aforesaid popes do it amongst themselves when they think nobody's listening
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* A plot point in ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', where pop culture is explicitly humanity's [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. In one episode Nyarko explains that aliens ''do'' have their own entertainment media, but they vastly prefer Earth's because of the quality and variety.
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* A plot point in ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', where pop culture is explicitly humanity's [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. In one episode Nyarko explains that aliens ''do'' have their own entertainment media, but they vastly prefer Earth's because of the quality and variety.
