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Everything Is Big in Texas
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For over a century, Texans have had a reputation for being cheerful, boastful, and loud. They talk about the oil industry (big fields), about herds of cattle (they're huge), and American Football (everybody watches football). Texas can seem "bigger" than even the nation it belongs to. If Americans Are Cowboys, Texans definitely are. In fact, there is a common joke that Americans view Texas the way the rest of the world views America. Because much of West Texas is an arid, barren stretch of rocky cliffs and deserts (with a few scattered small towns here and there), that has become the classic depiction of Texas, though more realistic works tend to be set in the suburbs of one of Texas' many cities and towns. Characters from the Lone Star State are often portrayed as a mashup between the Deep South and The Wild West. The typical Texan man is a Good Ol' Boy, while his Distaff Counterpart is a Texas Rose (Southern Belle). Positive portrayals will be kindhearted, if a bit Innocently Insensitive, while negative portrayals focus on jingoism and religious fanaticism. Compare South of the Border, which Texas has a... complicated relationship with. Also check out our Useful Notes page for real life info about the state. This trope is specifically about the stereotypes of the state and its people, which often do not neatly apply to the state's actually diverse geography and population. |
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A similar approach was taken with Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, which is set in Osaka. | |
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As mentioned above, Friday Night Lights highlights the Serious Business sports culture of Texas. Especially the fanaticism over high school football. It's not uncommon for small towns to almost completely shut down on Friday nights in the fall. However, the film can also be considered a Genre Deconstruction since it shows just how brutal and crippling this obsession with football can be on the young players involved in it.^ | |
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Gordon Bullit in the fourth season of The O.C. is a walking, talking Texan stereotype. | |
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John "Bradshaw" Layfield played this completely straight at the beginning of his career when he was known as Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw, and was often accused of being a Barry Windham clone. Then he began teaming with Windham as the New Blackjacks. He toned down his Texas roots as a member of the Acolytes with Ron Simmons, but began playing them back up as they evolved into the APA. Once he officially became "JBL", he was billed as being from New York City (where he actually lives), but was essentially a wrestling version of JR Ewing; riding in a limousine with giant Texas-sized longhorns on the front and wearing 10-gallon hats. | |
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Played with by Eddie Guerrero, who was from El Paso and would often be seen in cowboy boots when not wrestling, but his gimmick was more of a sneaky cholo than anything you'd specifically associate with Texas. | |
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Guilty Gear -STRIVE- has Goldlewis Dickinson, who certainly fits the part, being a large-but-strong American decked out in a Spaghetti Western inspired outfit, possessing a love for burgers and using a coffin housing an alien from Area 51 as his weapon. | |
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"Tex" Conway in Robot Jox. Despite being a futuristic gladiator, he's a stereotypical Texan, complete with gut, comical accent, down-homey colloquialisms, and ten-gallon hat. However, he somewhat averts the trope by being a nefarious double agent for the Commies. | |
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Clay from Xiaolin Showdown comes from Texas. He always wears a cowboy hat, uses down home country sayings, Wouldn't Hit a Girl, and is the largest of the group. Whenever Texas is seen, it's all desert, with Clay's dad owning a beef ranch. Even the Shen Gong Wu found there, the Star Hinabi, is known as the Lone Star until it's discovered and is marked as Texan. | |
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The Nutt House: The Texplex tower in Houston is a giant tower wearing an even larger cowboy hat. Big Jake Herder, CEO of Texplex, wears a cowboy hat and spurs all the time, and there are gouges in the meeting-room table from where he puts his feet up. | |
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King of the Hill dips in and out of this stereotype with every other episode, sometimes portraying Texas and Texans more realistically and other times portraying them as naive, conservative throwbacks who only care about hunting, beer and football. The landscape of Texas in the show also seems to include nothing but suburbia, desert and empty fields. Given that Mike Judge is actually a Texan, and has portrayed a much less stereotypical Texas in Beavis and Butt-Head and Office Space (yes, both of those took place in Texas), this is more a case of Affectionate Parody. In addition, the Hills live in the suburbs of a somewhat small town, which generally are much closer to the stereotyped depictions seen in the show than the big cities like Dallas and Houston are. One episode had Hank pandering to a visiting Bostonian investor to use Strickland as its propane supplier. The investor expected this trope and kept pestering Hank about cowboy hats and boots and used words like "russlin'" and "twisters". The investor eventually went with Strickland's competitor Thatherton because he acted the stereotype. Meanwhile Peggy has been known to refer to "the Republic of Texas." (Texas actually was an independent republic for a number of years between declaring its independence from Mexico and being annexed by the US, the latter at its request. The stereotypical Texan will never quite have reconciled him/herself to said loss of independence.) |
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Dustin Rhodes was this at the beginning of his career as "The Natural", when his gimmick was essentially a clone of his father. But he completely subverted this when jumping to the WWF as Goldust. Now in AEW he's "The Natural" once again, but has a look that's largely inspired by Goldust, even painting half of his face to represent his dual personality. | |
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Dr. Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory is from the Gulf coast of Texas and is about as non-stereotypical a Texan as you can imagine (his Texas-sized ego notwithstanding). However, he seems to hold most Texans in disdain for being examples of the trope. Sheldon tries to invoke this trope in one episode when his friends prank him, saying Texans know how to get revenge. It fails. When Sheldon gets drunk on Long Island iced tea and decides to fight Wil Wheaton for insulting Amy, he starts speaking like a stereotypical Texan. Sheldon has also shown he has an extensive knowledge of football, despite not actually being interested in it. |
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Inverted in Irregular Webcomic!: Steve, who is Australian, can't quite believe there are ranches in Texas, because how would you fit cattle stations into an area that small? | |
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An episode of DuckTales (1987) had Scrooge going to Texas because of his city's depleted oil supply. You expect everything in Texas, oil businessmen, cowboys etc. | |
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Osaka in the dub of Azumanga Daioh is given a Texas accent, Houston in particular, because both Texans and Osakans share the stereotype of being loud, obnoxious country hicks. (Osaka herself, of course, is the complete opposite.)note Worth noting, the English-dub voice actress, Kira Vincent-Davis, is a native of Houston, where the anime was dubbed, so at least you know the accent is legit. | |
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Molly of Denali: Trini references this trope in "Cabbagezilla", where she says that she "know[s] big" since she's from Texas. And indeed, she grows a giant cabbage. | |
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In The Most Happy Fella, the Beta Couple sing a number about how everything is big in Dallas, where they're from, "but the rest of Texas looks a mess." | |
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Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG has lots of stereotypes of Texans, but considering the author is a Texan, they seem to be badges of pride. | |
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Bernie (2011), set in a rural Texas Quirky Town, is a more straightforward example. The plot involves a cowboy hat-wearing Simple Country Lawyer (named Danny Buck and played by ultimate Texan Matthew McConaughey) attempting to convict a popular murderer by appealing to the jury's plain preferences, painting the defendant as an effete elitist. While the characters (except for the murder victim) are mostly played sympathetically, the story also addresses homophobia and racism on their part. | |
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The Von Erich boys were a much more casual version of this. They were presented to fans in the Dallas-based World Class Championship Wrestling as clean-cut hometown heroes with family values and had their athletic backgrounds (especially football) played up on television. David Von Erich, however, played this much straighter than his brothers, as he favored 10-gallon hats and was billed as "The Yellow Rose of Texas". Interestingly enough, they acquired the Von Erich name because their father Fritz was initially an aversion, working a villainous Nazi gimmick and being billed from Germany. However, as Fritz got older and turned face, he started playing up his real-life Texas roots. |
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In The Flintstones, Fred has several relatives (most notably his wealthy Uncle Tex) from its prehistoric counterpart of "Texarock" (though the name was interchangeably used with "Texas"). One map in an episode showed that the entire state itself was larger than its real-world counterpart. | |
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Dazed and Confused (1993) is set in Austin, and mostly averts the stereotypes. The main stereotypical aspect comes in the extreme worship given to high school football. All the adults treat football like the most important thing in the universe, overlooking the extreme hazing carried out by the football team, while treating Pink's ambivalence to staying on the football team as inexcusable. | |
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On Garfield and Friends, Garfield and his friends would often visit "Polecat Flats", a dude ranch set in Texas which was portrayed as a barren desert complete with cacti, coyotes and cattle. This is because it's set in West Texas. | |
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All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. A ranch? Check. A working cowboy? Check. Reckless use of guns and fireworks? Check. Filmed in Texas? You bet. | |
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Terry Funk was this, more so than even the other wrestlers in his own family (who also trained Stan Hansen). He was billed from the Double Cross Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, wore western-style ponchos to the ring, and often carried his branding iron with him which he'd frequently use to attack his opponents. | |
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Hogan's Heroes: One of the many pilots who passed through the Stalag 13 underground was a large and enthusiastic Texan. He wore a cowboy hat (yes, while flying his plane), used many Texan colloquialisms and was very amused by meeting actual foreigners such as the British Newkirk and French LeBeau. | |
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Skippy's List, Rule #47: I am not a citizen of Texas, and those other, forty-nine, lesser states. | |
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Ironically, the Texas-class of Star Trek: Lower Decks is one of the smallest ships in the fleet, almost the size of the Nova-class from Star Trek: Voyager. That being said, the Texas-class is actually a Pint-Sized Powerhouse capable of overpowering a Sovereign-class with ease. The class' creator, Vice Admiral Les Buenamigo, has various little trinkets in his office related to Texas, including a Texas flag and a picture of the Alamo. | |
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Them's Fightin' Herds pays homage to the trope with the largest fighter in the cast: Who else, Texas. A huge honkin bull with a yoke positioned to look like a cowboy hat, the leader of cattlekind in the wild west-like Prairie, and a Large Ham tough-but-friendly thick Southern accent, Texas more than lives up to his name. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Wondy's friend and sidekick Etta Candy is from Texas, where her family owns a farm. While Etta is physically one of the smallest recurring adult characters in the DCU given she's generally drawn as shorter than 5' she has one of the largest personalities being a Big Fun, Fat and Proud, Boisterous Bruiser. | |
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Major Corrigan, one of the crew members of the titular Rocketship X-M is so proud of being Texan than when Harry (the ship's professor) mentions that the state of Texas would look as small as "a mere speck" when seeing it from the Moon, he reproaches him for using that term. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Your Father and Mine features the Anthropomorphic Personification of Texas, complete with many of the stereotypes associated with the state she represents. | |
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We Are Our Adventuring Avatars: Mindy the 12-ft tall diplomat is a native of Texas. She's taller than the rest of the members of Kerberos Security, and she's quite friendly once you get to know her. | |
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The Fairly OddParents! Similar to the Rich Texan, Doug Dimmadome, Owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome, is a part time Corrupt Corporate Executive that owns a good deal of Dimmsdale, has an "odd southern drawl", and wears cowboy gear with a cowboy hat that occasionally is so big that it goes past the top of the screen, no matter how far a shot he's in. In another episode, the fairies decide to settle a matter with "a butt kicking, rip snorting, Texas cage match!" |
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After Marvel's Civil War (2006) storyline, each US state got its own superhero team. Texas got a previously-established team called the Rangers, a group which includes three cowboy-themed heroes, an Indian-themed hero, and Armadillo, who is a big armadillo. | |
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In the 1956 blockbuster Giant, Bick is taking his new bride Leslie on a railroad trip to his cattle ranch in Texas. When she looks out the window at the passing scenery and wonders when they'll get to Texas, he announces that they've been in Texas for several hours already. Also, in the beginning of the movie, David asks how much big is Bick's property. He guesses 20-50 thousand acres. Bick reluctantly says that he has 595 thousand acres of land.note For our international readers, that's a square slightly over 49 km on a side. And while that is a large ranch even by Texas standards, there have been ranches in Texas bigger than that. The King ranch, for example, is about 825,000 acres. | |
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Taken to extreme levels in North, to the point where the Texan family that North visits tries to fatten him up because they pride having the biggest of everything. | |
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If the cheesy sci-fi movie R.O.T.O.R. is to be believed, a typical lunch in Texas is a steak the size of a toilet seat for each person. | |
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One of Longmire's love interests is a woman from Texas, who is a cheerful, polite Southern Belle who also loves the wilderness and understands his cowboy personality. | |
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Sandy Cheeks from SpongeBob SquarePants. Subverted when she goes after the Alaskan Bull Worm. Despite Sandy's insistence that her Texan upbringing should lead her to be used to be largeness, it turns out SpongeBob's idea of big is MUCH bigger than Sandy's. Because, you know, Alaska is even bigger than Texas. |
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Team Fortress 2: The Engineer Comes from Bee Cave, Texas. While he has the typical southern drawl and has a lot of wild west themed unlocks, he's also probably the smartest member of the team, in exchange for also being the shortest. He does, however, have the ability to build what is by far the biggest weapon in the game, the Level 3 Sentry Gun. | |
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Mystery Skulls Animated takes place in Texas and the story is centered around the very tall ghost of a local young man, who has stolen and personalized a Big Badass Rig to chase down his old girlfriend and his murderer by the end of "Freaking Out". | |
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Battle Fantasia Takes place in a fantasy world with your typical western European fantasy kingdom, a steampunk Dwarf kingdom, Magic talkin rabbits... and a masked gunslinger from Texas... Right. | |
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About one half of SOTF-TV's characters (the other half being from a Sucky School in Detroit) are from a wealthy private school in Bryan, Texas. While the stereotype hasn't come up as much as you'd expect, it has received Lampshade Hanging both in and out of character. | |
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The ending of one Johnny Bravo episode had Johnny and his mom, failing to win a trip to Paris, France, visiting Paris, Texas instead. Naturally, the portrayal is a mash-up of every Deep South and wild west stereotype ever, bearing almost no resemblance to the actual town. They did not, however, make up the Eiffel Tower with the cowboy hat - that actually exists◊. | |
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In the Eye of the Beholder takes place in Texas and just about everyone apart from the Velvet Room denizens are from Texas, which reflects in more than half of the QIB being of Hispanic descent and high school football being very popular. | |
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One of the enemies of Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! was "Armordillo", an armor-plated armadillo with a dangerous tail, who came from the Earth-C US state of "Taxes" (nicknamed the "Lone Stork State"). As such, Armordillo spoke like an Old West gunslinger/outlaw. Several Earth-C versions of Texas cities were also mentioned in the series, including "San Antoadio" (San Antonio) and "Hogston" (Houston). Texas also was the home of historical landmark the Alamole (Alamo). |
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The 2005 remake of The Longest Yard takes place in this setting—rather, in the fictional Allenville Penitentiary. The only civilization shown aside from the prison is a high school football field and... a trailer. Also of note is the warden's political advisor, who dresses exactly like a Southern dandy. | |
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Invoked on True Blood, which takes occasional trips to other cities in the South and Dallas is one of them. One can forgive Texan vampires for following the old stereotypes since many of them are actually from the Wild West era, but then there's human businessman Gus, who's from Japan but puts on a fake Texan accent and "cowboy businessman" style of dress. It's so over-the-top, it seems more like he's mocking Texans rather than trying to fit in to do business. In real life, the vast majority of Texan businesspeople wear the same boring suits as everywhere else. | |
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Family Guy paid a visit to this version of Texas in the season five episode "Boys Do Cry". Everyone dresses like a cowboy and rides horses, Brian is given a free gun with his purchase of alcohol, the Griffins' neighbor is a professional "queer-chaser-and-beater", and the TV news reports on the discovery of "Superdevil" by church scientists. The gun/alcohol thing is especially funny to people in Texas, since the alcohol laws there are draconian to the point that the TABC is known in the bar industry as the Beverage Nazis. The main complaint about Texans in that episode was that they are racist and homophobic. Keep in mind, the primary purpose of the episode was really for the writers to deliver a very scathing, personal (and hyperbolical) attack on President George W. Bush, so this episode was really one of Family Guy's most flagrant examples of Writer on Board. | |
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Eyeshield 21: The Deimon Devil Bats fight against as Texas team, the NASA Aliens, all of whom (Except for Panther and the younger Gonzalez brother) are extremely huge. QB Homer Fitzgerald and the elder Gonzalez are both particularly advanced examples. One of the chapters involving their game with the Devil Bats is even called "the Muscles of the Americans." Excluding the coach, the rest of the team is portrayed as friendly, loyal, and boisterous, despite appearing very intimidating. Ironically, the only character in Eyeshield 21 that completely fits the Texas stereotype is Japanese, the coach for the Seibu Wild Gunmen. He's essentially a reverse weaboo, owning a variety of guns and a giant ranch in Texas. |
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Boyhood (2014), set in various parts of Texas, also mostly averts the stereotype, though it comes up at times. One plotline has Mason's liberal dad struggling against the dominant conservative culture, while another one features teenage Mason being bullied for his artsy, "alternative" personality. Mason also gets a gun and a bible for his 13th birthday, and spends summers learning to shoot at his grandparents' rural ranch. | |
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