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Adaptive Armor
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Powered Armor is a very fearsome tool and weapon, even capable of making the wielder a Lightning Bruiser with the Alpha Strike capability to One-Hit Kill most enemies. However, despite its potential for great versatility with in built Swiss Army Weapons, it will always look and do the same things regardless of the driver. This isn't the case with Adaptive Armor. Whether it's a benevolent symbiotic entity, a Bio-Armor, a mystical suit of armor, or armor so advanced it seems magical, this suit of armor will adapt itself to any wearer in order to enhance their greatest strengths and potentially minimize their weaknesses, even going so far as to give the driver a form of Personality Powers based on their desires or talents. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The adaptability doesn't stop there, either. The armor likely has a greater or lesser chance of giving the wearer a Swiss Army Arsenal, resistance via exposure to enemy attacks or environmental hazards, and a Healing Factor courtesy of Nanomachines, Power Crystals or biological symbiont. Sometimes these powers act like a Swiss-Army Superpower that become "set" as the wearer needs them until the armor stops being able to "adapt". The armor itself is likely to have a mind of its own, if not at least a personality that makes its moods known to the wearer. In these cases, the mind can usually activate the armor's Heroic Safe Mode to protect the user in case of accident, unconsciousness, or Mind Control. Mind the Tranquil Fury with no regard to friend and foe. Also, in a pinch it can change appearance based on the wearer's alignment. If there's more than one suit of Adaptive Armor or the wearer ever loses the armor or has it forcibly separated, anyone else who wears it will have a similar but distinct look, or it will be incensed that it's been stolen and work against its new "master." Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })See also Clothes Make the Superman. Examples: |
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The Beta Suit in Echo cushions against g-forces, can emit deadly electrical attacks, cures diseases, and can even re-write the DNA of its wearer. Unfortunately, as wonderful as it is, Julie just can not get the darn thing off. Also, the DNA rewriting thing? Not so great when the suit is convinced the person wearing it is someone else. | |
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The Guyver units are this. They all share similar capabilities, but each one looks vastly different. Humans, who were created by Precursors as Living Weapons, gain exponentially more power from the suit than the aliens themselves, as well as inexplicable immunity to their Mind Control abilities. It is implied that a Zoalord who equipped a Guyver unit would have power approaching that of a god. Also consider that said Precursors, who were probably not a single species, created them primarily as space suits: i.e. they were developed to supply the physiological requirements of pretty much any nitrogen/oxygen breather without drawing on anything from the immediate environment. To a greater extent, the Guyver Gigantic, which changes appearance to match the Guyver wearing it. | |
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The DEMONICA armor in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey makes you a series of questions when you first don it to adapt to your personal tastes by programming stat growth along certain lines. It slowly adapts to the Schwartzwelt's hostile environment - when gaining levels, it's the armor that levels up, adding new parts to itself and continually modifying its structure to improve the wearer's performance. | |
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The Jamie Reyes version of Blue Beetle has such an armor. | |
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Commanda, an obscure villainess from Untold Tales of Spider-Man, wears a suit of armor that can generate a force field, fire electric shocks, and change its shape and appearance at her will. | |
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Kid Icarus: Uprising downplays this during the final chapter, but it's still there. The Great Sacred Treasure's stats are influenced by the weapon you equip to the battle, so picking a good weapon is still necessary. | |
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In Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger, the Sapphire Star assassin had a suit of bio-armor (actually a Gestaltian female) that among other things gave her extreme speed and strength, deployable wings, an (extra) venomous sting, and very powerful lux abilities. Unfortunately, it wasn't properly tuned for her, so it also gave her a nearly fatal allergic reaction. | |
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Dial: Using Jury Rigg and Upgrade's abilities, Dial develops Armor Gear, Powered Armor made out of catoms that can coordinate with X for assistance, can be compacted into clothing and can adapt to form weapons and other devices, like arm blades, tower shields or an agents' Weapon of Choice. And since these are standard issue, they are usable by everyone, from the baseline human agents to the Enhanced soldiers. Crusher Creel a.k.a. Alloy gains a bracer filled with useful materials that he can copy the properties from, such as lightweight aerogel, superdense osmium and indestructible vibranium, allowing him to adapt and respond to more situations. |
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The symbiote that plays a large role in Spider-Man 3 has this effect, attaching first to Peter Parker's suit and providing him increased abilities, and also accentuating aspects of his personality. It later becomes detached from Parker and connects to his nemesis with similar effect. | |
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In the Exalted supplement Shards of the Exalted Dream we are introduced to "Modern Alchemicals" which has the modularity and adaptability of the Alchemical Exalted and removes their utter dependence on infrastructure. In a way, all Exaltations qualify for this, save that they are less "armour" and more "omnitool". | |
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By Avengers: Infinity War Tony Stark's nano-armor has advanced to this point. As evidenced by the climax of Avengers: Endgame when he uses it to assemble a substitute Infinity Gauntlet on the fly. | |
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In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!, Captain Mar-Vell's armor-suit can morph into various weapons. | |
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In Mutants & Masterminds' core setting Freedom City, this trope is filled by the Star Knight Corps, combined Expys of the Green Lantern Corps and ROM: Space Knight. | |
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Berserk: The Berserker Armor that Guts wears. Besides the fact that the helmet shape changes form according to the wearer's inner beast (in Guts' case, the dog-like beast), it increases the wearer's endurance and power, but at the cost of allowing the wearer to surpass their physical limit by making their subconscious unaware of physical injuries (though while wearing the armor, massive wounds can be temporarily healed - but this is done by the armor-piercing splinters through the skin). Oh, and it also causes temporary insanity by making the wearer go berserk and is insinuated that long term use will cause mental deterioration. It is a cursed piece of armor, after all. | |
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The Transformers: Dark Cybertron had Jhiaxus use one of these to mimic Starscream's new body, giving him all of the latter's abilities and a similar appearance. This was actually lampshading Jhiaxus having originally started as a recolored version of a Starscream toy. Unfortunately for Jhiaxus, he discovered that merely having the appearance and abilities of someone didn't automatically grant you their skills, and Jhiaxus had spent the last few million years hidden away performing twisted science experiments while Starscream had served as a front-line soldier in the Cybertronian Civil War. And when Jhiaxus deploys a fancy set of built-in wrist-blades, revealing to Starscream that his body came with an identical set... | |
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In ThunderCats, series Sorcerous Overlord Lich Mumm-Ra uses Power Crystals as Amplifier Artifacts to transform a gauntlet into a custom set of skeletal armor. When young Catfolk hero Leo acquires a duplicate of the gauntlet and steals one of the crystals, his gauntlet transforms into golden lion armor. When his successor Lion-O acquires a crystal, it turns his claw gauntlet into full armor covering his entire left arm. | |
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The Apex Armor in Transformers: Prime resizes and reshapes itself to fit its wearer, first fitting Starscream before eventually being taken by Miko. | |
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In Champions this would be done with a Variable Power Pool using the Focus (power suit) and No Conscious Control limitations. | |
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Command & Conquer: The Allies in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 field the Multigunner IFV, an adaptive jeep that would power up any infantry put inside (including the other factions). There was also a base defense version. Hilariously enough, a Multigunner Turret seen through the fog of war would appear to have all its possible addons, including several guns, a missile rack, a lightning gun, a freeze ray, a plasma beam, an energy bow, a ninja star launcher, and some kind of automatic repair arm. This trend started with the earlier, bog-standard IFV of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. While lacking anything quite as awesome-sauce as a freeze ray, placing President Dugan in one certainly caused a fantastic light show... |
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The alien symbiotes (Venom, Carnage, etc.) of Spider-Man fame are examples of this. | |
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The Danger Mouse episode "Where There's a Well, There's a Way" has a suit of armour inside a wooden case that precipitates a knock-knock joke when DM knocks on it. | |
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This trend started with the earlier, bog-standard IFV of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. While lacking anything quite as awesome-sauce as a freeze ray, placing President Dugan in one certainly caused a fantastic light show... | |
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The Allies in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 field the Multigunner IFV, an adaptive jeep that would power up any infantry put inside (including the other factions). There was also a base defense version. Hilariously enough, a Multigunner Turret seen through the fog of war would appear to have all its possible addons, including several guns, a missile rack, a lightning gun, a freeze ray, a plasma beam, an energy bow, a ninja star launcher, and some kind of automatic repair arm. | |
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During the Superior Iron Man run, Tony had a symbiote-based armour. After Secret Wars (2015), he switched to an armour that can morph but isn't, you know, kind of alive. And it can do pretty much everything all his old armours could do - even Victor Von Doom was impressed. | |
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The Goku Uniforms in Kill la Kill are all made using a special material called Life Fibers that grant the person wearing them enhanced strength, speed, and durability, but it's the Kamui (often translated as "God Robes" in fan dubs) that really stand out. The majority of uniforms are woven with only a certain amount of fibers (A One Star uniform is made up of 10% Life Fibers, a Two Star with 20%, and Three Stars are made with 30%), with more powerful uniforms having a higher percentage of fibers. Kamui are unique in that they are made entirely of Life Fibers (100%), and their powers are exponentially greater than the other uniforms. However, it comes with the cost of using the wearer's blood as fuel, and the wearer also has to have the willpower to maintain that power without overloading. One of the Kamui, Senketsu, is sentient and has a psychic link with the main protagonist. Kamui can transform all or parts of themselves into weapons, wings, claws, and even rockets to allow the wearer to fly. Give a Kamui too much blood, however, and the results are not pretty. | |
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Goblins has the Axe of Prissan, which was intended to be wielded by multiple wielders and designed to account for this by reshaping itself to suit their needs, and provides its wielder with a suit of armor with similar shape-shifting properties. Most of its wielders through its history have been paladins who wielded it as a two-handed greataxe and wore the armor as platemail, but there have been a few exceptions; when it was wielded by a Golem the axe replaced one of its limbs as a Blade Below the Shoulder and the armor fused to its body, while a wizard found that the axe took on a form similar to a quarterstaff and the armor took a form that wouldn't interfere with his spellcasting. | |
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World Trigger: Kuga's black trigger powers. | |
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The Culture also has suits, named in its usually literal way Suits, though as with most Culture technology they're controlled by an AI (usually of the lower end of the sentience scale) rather than being passive tools. Flying Brick capabilities come as standard, but offensive weaponry beyond the Effector would not be generally issued. Being sentient, they can also operate quite independently of a wearer if needs be and are not practically stealable. | |
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Clothes in Saint Seiya have shades of this, if not all the elements. One size fits all? Check. Mind of its own (helping Seiya in a pinch more than once, screwing its rogue Gold Saint bearer) ? Check. Some of them upgrade (in the Poseidon arc after being revived by Gold Saint blood, and in Hades arc turning into God Cloths) in response to Heroic Resolve? Check. | |
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