History Main / YouAreTheNewTrend

For some reason, the character's distinctive look or mannerisms becomes the model for the latest hot trend. Perhaps the character has suddenly become famous because of his deeds or just random happenstance, or perhaps he's provided an inspiration to a trend-setter.

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* On ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012,'' Blythe is a rare cartoon character without a LimitedWardrobe, yet that doesn't make her immune to this trope. When a bird's nest accidentally falls on her head outside a fashion show, a TV host there declares "nest hats" the new trend. All Blythe wants to do is return the nest (and, more importantly, the egg that was inside) to the tree it came from, but she winds up shanghaied by the media and the Biskit twins as the face of the new trend. She's able to stop the trend (thus freeing herself) when she discovers that the hats are causing birds all over town to dive bomb people.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/Paddington1975'' episode, Paddington goes to a store to buy some pajamas and ends up wandering into what appears to be a bedroom, but was actually the store's display window where he goes to sleep. When he later wakes up he finds out that the store completely sold out of the pajamas he was wearing and the store manager thanks him by letting take one item from the store for free.

Compare AccidentalDanceCraze. See also IJustWantToBeYou and SincerestFormOfFlattery. Compare FifteenMinutesOfFame for more general examples of sudden short-lived public attention.

* In one ''WesternAnimation/PaddingtonBear'' episode, Paddington goes to a store to buy some pajamas and ends up wandering into what appears to be a bedroom, but was actually the store's display window where he goes to sleep. When he later wakes up he finds out that the store completely sold out of the pajamas he was wearing and the store manager thanks him by letting take one item from the store for free.

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* In one ''Literature/PaddingtonBear'' episode, Paddington goes to a store to buy some pajamas and ends up wandering into what appears to be a bedroom, but was actually the store's display window where he goes to sleep. When he later wakes up he finds out that the store completely sold out of the pajamas he was wearing and the store manager thanks him by letting take one item from the store for free.

* In ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad Belgarath the Sorcerer]]'', since Polgara is supposed to be in hiding, but it's impossible to dye or otherwise disguise her [[SkunkStripe lock of silver hair]], Belgarath manages to make it a fashion trend, so every other woman in the Western Continent ''also'' has the lock.

* Music/{{Eminem}}, never a very fashionable person, accidentally started a huge fashion trend for young white men to crop their hair and bleach it ([[WhatDidIDoLastNight something he did spontaneously while high on drugs]]), and wear white tees and carpenter jeans (which was just the comfy clothes he liked wearing at the time). He references this on numerous later songs and music videos, such as Stan in "Stan" being shown bleaching his hair to resemble his idol, his "million others just like me, who dress like me, who walk, talk and act like me..." in "The Real Slim Shady", and in "White America" - "''who would have thought, standin' in this mirror, bleachin' my hair with some peroxide, reachin' for a t-shirt to wear, that I would catapult to the forefront of rap like this? How could I predict my words would have impact like this?''"

** In the episode "It Isn't the Mane Thing About You" Rarity lose most of her mane because she accidentally uses Zecora's magical remover potion. Once she accepts that she can't grow back her ruined mane quickly, Rarity opts to turn it into a multicolored punk mohawk. By the end of episode, Rarity's new manestyle (which appeared on the front of the magazine for the best manes in Equestria) becomes a trend among the residents of Ponyville (and apparently a long-lasting one, considering months had passed).

* In ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'', Katniss Everdeen meets a girl on the Victory Tour who tells her that she wants to volunteer as tribute like her. Snow's grandddaughter also wears her hair in a braid like Katniss, even saying that all the other girls at her school are doing it.

-->'''Gloria (haughtily):''' There is no need to be offensive. You should be ''honoured''. Mind you, the December issue of ''[=FeMole=]'' thinks that a brown leather flier's jacket is more in keeping with 'the look'. Your black leather is a little bit passé, I'm afraid. And those shoes--hell's teeth!

* The end of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' features the citizens of New York (and the world in general) showing their admiration of the titular group by doing things like getting their beards cut in the style of [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and images of [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica The Mighty Shield]] appearing on t-shirts and graffiti.