Dastardly Dapper Derby

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    A bowler hat is a rounded felt hat commonly worn from the 1850s to the early-to-mid-1900s, especially in Victorian Britain and The Wild West. Bowler hats were once considered the national hat of England, and used to be associated with the upper-middle class there, especially with bankers, in the early half of the 20th century.

    Nobody is sure why bowler hats can be associated with evil characters, since most of the time they show a character who is civilized. Irony, perhaps? Some creators might also be aware that a bowler is actually a fairly functional helmet (it was originally designed to protect gamekeepers on horseback from low branches), so a character wearing one may be anticipating getting into a fight.

    Compare and contrast Dashingly Dapper Derby.

    Compare Nice Hat, Sharp-Dressed Man, Badass in a Nice Suit, Evil Brit, Dastardly Whiplash.


    Examples of Dastardly Dapper Derby include:

    Advertising

    Comic Books

    Film

    Literature

    • The Fetchers in Keys to the Kingdom are dog-faced monsters who wear bowler hats.
    • The bledlows [Unseen University porters] in Discworld are generally petty bullies who victimise the students and have secret contempt for the wizards. They are described as not just wearing bowler hats, but having heads designed to wear bowler hats.

    Live Action TV

    Professional Wrestling

    • The Japanese heel manager Mr. Fuji was rarely seen without his iconic bowler hat in the WWF.

    Video Games

    Web Original

    • Roman Torchwick in RWBY combines a bowler (with a feather in its band!) and a look partly inspired by A Clockwork Orange.

    Western Animation

    • In the Bugs Bunny short "A Hare Grows in Manhattan", the leader of the gang of dogs is a bulldog wearing a bowler hat. There was another bullying bulldog in Looney Tunes cartoons named Spike, who also wore a bowler, who was teamed with Chester the Terrier.
    • In one of Tex Avery's MGM shorts,Bad Luck Blackie, there is a black cat who caused bad luck to anyone whose path he crossed, wore a bowler. Though his evilness could be debated, as he seemed to only cause bad luck to those who deserved it.
    • Most of the members of Warren T. Rat's gang in An American Tail.

    Real Life

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