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Improvised Armour
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A Crazy-Prepared or Disaster Scavenger character makes body armour or a shield out of materials to hand, quite possibly to back up an Improvised Weapon. Indicates that the character, at least, doesn't think Armour Is Useless. Related to Pocket Protector, a protection unknown to the audience which is therefore much more likely to save your life. As stated earlier this trope also covers improvised shields, which usually tend to be metal trash can lids, pot lids, doors (both car and house doors) or anything that is big, tough, circular/square/rectangular and has a handle. Although the circular ones can be very useful for throwing. Expect to see a lot of this in a Scavenger World or as part of a Scavenged Punk setting. May be donned as part of a Lock-and-Load Montage. Bucket Helmet is a popular Sub-Trope. |
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Heralds of Valdemar: In the Collegium Chronicles, during tryouts for the new Kirball teams, one character shows up for his tryout wearing assorted bits of stovepipe. | |
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in episode 3 of Samurai Jack Jack and the dogs create armour for Jack and his the giant six-legged horse-sauropod creature, salvaged from mining equipment. | |
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In Disgaea, one of the lower rank armour items is actually a pot lid. | |
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Fear Street: Before entering the final confrontation, Deena makes herself a vest out of the in-universe Fear Street books. Literal (almost) Plot Armor. | |
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In The Little Rascals short "The First Seven Years" two of the rascals have a swordfight and they armor up first. One uses a catcher's mask and the other uses a beekeper's hat-and-veil. | |
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Arrow: In "Trust but Verify", Oliver uses a garbage can lid as an improvised shield to block a tear gas grenade. | |
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In Summer Knight, Fix cobbles together some makeshift armor for Meryl by attaching tableware to a heavy jacket. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer Simpson builds a bear-hunting suit (with one notable gap) out of stuff he finds in his garage. | |
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In Breath of Fire II, the first helmet you can buy is called a Salad-BWL. Guess it's better than nothing. | |
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In Command & Conquer: Generals the GLA has pickup trucks, buses and tanks that can be upgraded by collecting wreckage of destroyed enemy vehicles, which they use as improvised armor. | |
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In Toradora!, Ryuuji's mother tells him in a nostalgic tone that his Disappeared Dad was a yakuza who used to wear magazines under his jacket in case he got stabbed. | |
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Friday the 13th (2009): When Lawrence goes out looking for Chewie, he picks up a pan to be his shield. | |
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In The Lost Room, the protagonist uses the Coat as body armor, as Objects are indestructible. He is still hurt (unlike actual body armor, the Coat does nothing to spread the impact of a bullet). | |
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The Dresden Files: In Summer Knight, Fix cobbles together some makeshift armor for Meryl by attaching tableware to a heavy jacket. The 'Za Lord's Guard, being pixies, wear armour crafted out of garbage. |
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In the original Total Recall (1990), Quaid (Arnold) uses a dead innocent bystander as a human shield to stop enemy bullets by holding up the dead body from falling. | |
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King of the Hill: In "Ceci N'est Pas Une King Of The Hill", Dale acquires a full on suit of medieval armour and begins terrorizing the neighborhood. Bill retaliates with a suit of homemade armour, made up of boxing gloves, a trash can and a colander among other things, and engages Dale in combat. | |
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In Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, The Chosen One uses a squirrel to protect himself from Master Betty's deadly attack. | |
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Total Drama: During the last episode of the fourth season Lightning creates a suit of armor consisting of sheet metal from a trash can and a smashed in frying pan for a helmet, while Cameron creates a of armor with a laptop he coded to become said armor. | |
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The oft-homaged example seen in A Fistful of Dollars above was apparently Truth in Television; if The Sheriff or some other local authority figure got wind that trouble might be breaking out, he'd sometimes don an "iron shirt" as a precaution. A stove door like Marty uses in Back to the Future Part III was pretty common, being the most readily available item of approximately the right size and shape. | |
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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.: In one episode, Brisco and Bowler cram the heads of shovels under their shirts, let themselves get shot, then dramatically swan dive into a river to make the bad guys think they killed them. | |
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In Iron Man, he has to improvise his first suit of armor out of missile parts. Then again, this being a life-supporting suit of Powered Armor with fully operational flamethrower and mostly-operational rocket-pack, "improvised" doesn't do it justice. | |
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Emberverse: Dies the Fire features many examples. In later books, most cultures have learned to make proper armor, but occasional savage bands wearing improvised armor still turn up, such as the Bekwa, and their trademark stop-sign (or rather, "Arrêt"-sign) shields. | |
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Blue Eye Samurai. While having tea with Heiji Shindo, Mizu (who was raised by a swordmaker) praises the ironwork on his family-sized tetsubin. The enormous (albeit heavy) lid comes in handy as a shield when they're ambushed by Heiji's archers. | |
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Van Helsing (2016): In "Wakey, Wakey", after initially dismissing a lot of money he finds as useless because they are in an After the End scenario, Axel uses duct tape to cover his arms and vitals with the wads of cash. It works well enough to stop knives. | |
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In Grim Dawn, the very early heavy armor sets are little more than salvaged scrap metal worn over clothing, with the metal taken from the ruins of the post-apocalyptic towns of Cairn following the titular Grim Dawn. As the game progresses the armor gradually shifts to proper equipment and then to more advanced professional military gear. | |
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Parodied by Penny Arcade here, demonstrating that wearing multiple helmets and dozens of pieces of metal strapped to your chest makes you look ridiculous. | |
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The player character in The Forest can wear lizard skin as armor. | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, Caesar's Legion has made ersatz Roman armor out of American football pads, baseball catcher's pads, and the occasional (presumably metal) dinner plate, while elite legionaries show their status with bits of armour from tougher foes they've felled. This serves as a visual contrast to the NCR Army's use of pre-war ballistic armour for their troops and the Veteran Ranger's LAPD Riot Squad armour. The Marked Men from the Lonesome Road DLC, meanwhile, have mixed-and-matched components from both the NCR and Legion's kits, bolstered by street signs and whatever other scrap metal they can find in the Divide, to show how mutual suffering has united the former enemies against the outside world. | |
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: In the "Near Algodones" chapter, an old bank teller covers himself in improvised armor of cooking pots and pans, then charges at a would-be bank robber. Each time a bullet ricochets off of the bank teller's armor, he gleefully shouts, "Pan shot!" | |
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In The Gauntlet, Clint Eastwood welds steel plates together to create an armored compartment around the driver's area of a passenger bus. | |
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The Dark Knight. A group of Batman-themed vigilantes wear hockey pads as protection. The real Batman in his $300,000 body armor is not impressed. | |
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In GTO: The Early Years, Itou wears shoulder pads, a pot on her head, and a sword that appears to be made of jagged metal when she goes with Tsukai to back up the Onibaku against the Kamakura Mad Dogs. | |
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Molly of Denali: In "Porcupine Slippers," Tooey puts all kinds of padding on to search for a porcupine. | |
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In The Godfather 2 the so-called armoured cars are clearly cobbled-together, with things like metal bars welded over the windscreens. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Iron Man, he has to improvise his first suit of armor out of missile parts. Then again, this being a life-supporting suit of Powered Armor with fully operational flamethrower and mostly-operational rocket-pack, "improvised" doesn't do it justice. In The Incredible Hulk, the Hulk shears some metal sheets off a crushed APC to use as shields against the army's guns (because those .50 cals itch something fierce). |
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This is essentially Iron Man's origin, although where he gets the material varies from retelling to retelling. Most famously, he used parts of his own stolen missiles to build his armor "in a cave, with a box of scraps." | |
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In the Oriental Adventures sourcebook for Dungeons & Dragons, Nezumi are fond of making makeshift armor out of whatever they can cobble together, like tower shields made of Kappa shells. | |
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As early as the original Fallout, the Leather Armor is based on pre-war designs for full-contact sports. | |
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Raider armours from Fallout 3 have features like a cow skull being used as a shoulder pad, a gutted Eyebot hull being worn as a helmet, or a pair of sieves tied by shoestrings for use as a bikini top. Meanwhile Super Mutants are using bits of tire as shoulder guards, while their Behemoths are using car doors as bucklers. | |
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In Fallout 4, the guards in Diamond City (a settlement built in the mostly-intact remains of Fenway Park in Boston) have armor that's constructed from salvaged umpire and catcher padding and masks, worn over salvaged Red Sox uniforms. Considering that by 2287, baseball is mythologized as a gladiatorial Blood Sport, from the guards' perspective the armor may seem to be more reclaimed than improvised, though. The Automatron DLC adds sets of Robot Armor to the game, android casings that one gang of raiders wears as armor. Regular raider armor, meanwhile, is made of chunks of scrap welded together, often including visibly poking metal rods and the grilles from cars. The Metal Amor set is also clearly improvised but of better quality, looking like scrap metal that has been properly reforged and shaped into breastplates, gauntlets, helmets and greaves. | |
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Einsteinian Roulette: One player character makes a suit of armour out of locker doors. It doesn't help much. | |
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In Storm Hawks, Dove and her grandfather Wren are simple farmers on Terra Gale. When Cycloians come to invade their territory, the pair prepare to fight back and don homemade armour largely made out of kitchenware. | |
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The Fallout series is full of this trope, due to the post-apocalyptic setting. As early as the original Fallout, the Leather Armor is based on pre-war designs for full-contact sports. Raider armours from Fallout 3 have features like a cow skull being used as a shoulder pad, a gutted Eyebot hull being worn as a helmet, or a pair of sieves tied by shoestrings for use as a bikini top. Meanwhile Super Mutants are using bits of tire as shoulder guards, while their Behemoths are using car doors as bucklers. In Fallout: New Vegas, Caesar's Legion has made ersatz Roman armor out of American football pads, baseball catcher's pads, and the occasional (presumably metal) dinner plate, while elite legionaries show their status with bits of armour from tougher foes they've felled. This serves as a visual contrast to the NCR Army's use of pre-war ballistic armour for their troops and the Veteran Ranger's LAPD Riot Squad armour. The Marked Men from the Lonesome Road DLC, meanwhile, have mixed-and-matched components from both the NCR and Legion's kits, bolstered by street signs and whatever other scrap metal they can find in the Divide, to show how mutual suffering has united the former enemies against the outside world. In Fallout 4, the guards in Diamond City (a settlement built in the mostly-intact remains of Fenway Park in Boston) have armor that's constructed from salvaged umpire and catcher padding and masks, worn over salvaged Red Sox uniforms. Considering that by 2287, baseball is mythologized as a gladiatorial Blood Sport, from the guards' perspective the armor may seem to be more reclaimed than improvised, though. The Automatron DLC adds sets of Robot Armor to the game, android casings that one gang of raiders wears as armor. Regular raider armor, meanwhile, is made of chunks of scrap welded together, often including visibly poking metal rods and the grilles from cars. The Metal Amor set is also clearly improvised but of better quality, looking like scrap metal that has been properly reforged and shaped into breastplates, gauntlets, helmets and greaves. |
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In The Good, The Bad, The Weird, Tae-goo survives a particularly crazy shootout by putting on a huge, metal diver's helmet. In the longer alternate ending we learn he survived the three way shootout by also having an oven door hidden under his jacket in another shout out to A Fistful Of Dollars. | |
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In Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel, Shirou uses his reinforcement skill on a book he hid on himself to soften an oncoming attack from Rider. | |
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Improvised Armour | |
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In The Incredible Hulk, the Hulk shears some metal sheets off a crushed APC to use as shields against the army's guns (because those .50 cals itch something fierce). | |
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In an episode of Spellbinder, the protagonist fashions herself a suit out of mirrors when faced with a reactivated laser-armed APC guided by an AI. This comes after hearing a local children's story involving a "looking glass" being used to defeat a monster. | |
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Roll To Dodge: Savral: After slaying a tiger, one of the player characters uses its corpse as makeshift body armor. | |
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In Mohawk, Oak constructs a makeshift suit of armor out of remains of a pregnant deer and its unborn fawn before embarking on her Roaring Rampage of Revenge. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: While investigating the hideout of a ninja who stole a scroll describing how to perform a Touch of Death, Batman notices a training dummy that showed signs of great force being exerted on a specific part of its chest. Batman pretends to No-Sell the Touch of Death in the fight with the ninja by hiding the dummy's chest padding under his costume. | |
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Egil's Saga: When Egil and his companions expect an ambush on the forest road between Varmland and Norway, Egil ties a large flat stone to his chest by winding a rope around his upper body. Thus prepared, Egil fights his way through two ambushes and comes out without serious wounds. | |
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Stardust Crusaders: During the fight against DIO, Joseph runs Hamon through Hermit Purple and wraps himself in it beneath his clothes, hoping to sucker DIO into punching him and getting evaporated by it. Unfortunately for Joseph, DIO sees through it and settles for chucking a knife at him. Later DIO unleashes his Flechette Storm onto Jotaro, enough make it by to stab him over his body. Except Jotaro managed to seclude several magazines beneath his clothes before facing DIO. |
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Improvised Armour | |
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Back to the Future Part III has Marty manages to slip the door off a stove under his clothes in preparation for his showdown with Buford in an homage to A Fistful of Dollars. It works like a charm, stopping not only the bullet but also causing Buford's punch to backfire. He also whacks him in the face with it before beating him senseless. | |
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Bob's Burgers: In the episode “Dawn of the Peck� a Thanksgiving event goes awry at Wonder Wharf, leading to hundreds of poultry attacking the town. In order to get to the kids and their friends stuck on the Scramble Pan ride Linda, Teddy and Mickey run to save them covered in stuffed animals and prizes. | |
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In Punch-Out Wii, King Hippo duct tapes a manhole cover to his stomach when he rematches you in an attempt to keep you from exploiting his vulnerability to body blows. | |
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Jimmy DeMarco duct taped a fruit bowl to his head in an effort to protect himself from DDTs when he met Jake "The Snake" Roberts in the International Wrestling Cartel. It didn't work. | |
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In Holyland, when Masaki fights Taka the former uses a knuckleduster as an impromptu mini-shield. Yuu also uses books as bracers. | |
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In The Escapists the player can craft a variety of armoured versions of their jumpsuit. Possible sources of protection include (from weakest to toughest) a pillow, a book and a sheet of metal. | |
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In Splatoon 2, the Salmonids of the Salmon Run mode have all of their gear and armory made around cookware materials. For example, Chum and Cohocks wield frying pans and Smallfry wield spoons, Stingers sit atop a tower of pots, and Grillers are motorized barbecue grills. | |
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Golden Wind: Mista manages to survive several headshots from Prosciutto after having wrapped ice around his head to soften the blows. | |
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Improvised Armour | |
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In World War Z, Brad Pitt's character duct-tapes glossy magazines around his forearms as a precaution against zombie bites. | |
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Mal in Cthulhu Slippers uses the indestructible Necronomicon as body armor in this strip. | |
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Improvised Armour | |
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In Backyard Sports, Marky makes shin guards out of newspaper. | |
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Improvised Armour | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: During the fight against DIO, Joseph runs Hamon through Hermit Purple and wraps himself in it beneath his clothes, hoping to sucker DIO into punching him and getting evaporated by it. Unfortunately for Joseph, DIO sees through it and settles for chucking a knife at him. Later DIO unleashes his Flechette Storm onto Jotaro, enough make it by to stab him over his body. Except Jotaro managed to seclude several magazines beneath his clothes before facing DIO. Golden Wind: Mista manages to survive several headshots from Prosciutto after having wrapped ice around his head to soften the blows. |
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In Plants vs. Zombies, some of the zombies have obtained armour that makes them more powerful, such as traffic cones, metal buckets, American football gear, screen doors, bobsleds...a Humongous Mecha. On the plant side, Pumpkins provide this for other plants. | |
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The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal: Ingolf and six of his men go after a party of thieves and discover them in a hideout where eighteen of them are together. Not wanting to turn back, Ingolf picks up two flat stones from a nearby ravine and fastens one to his chest and the other between his shoulders. With only one companion to help him, he attacks and routs the robbers but also receives a lethal wound. | |
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In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Mr. Hyde uses a steel door in order to block enemy bullets. | |
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Improvised Armour | |
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Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time: Poncho Zombies. They may or may not be wearing a metal grate under his poncho. He's about as tough as a regular zombie if he isn't, but is as tough as a Buckethead if he is. | |
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Improvised Armour | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has 'Ard Boyz, relatively bright Orks who realize that by slapping together plates of scrap metal into a crude set of armor, they have a better chance of surviving the charge across the battlefield into melee. Of course, all Orks' armor counts as improvised, as do their weapons, vehicles, architecture, medicine... | |
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The "raider bandits" in the Fantasy Wasteland NP arc of El Goonish Shive have scavenged armor... made out of barrels. And belts. | |
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Unsounded: When Cresce launches their counterattack to liberate Grenzlan some of the locals grab a table as a shield and use it to ram into the Aldish soldiers who aren't paying attention to the people they've been systematically raping and brutally executing on an industrial scale. It helps ensure they're overrun a bit quicker. | |
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Improvised Armour | |
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In Batman, Bruce Wayne hides a small silver tea-tray inside his jacket, as body-armor against the Joker's gun. | |
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An issue of The Punisher (one of the Summer Specials back from the late 80's - early 90's) had the title character fighting an evil school principal with a penchant for handing out guns to his students (don't ask). This (like many fights in schools) gets dragged to the library, where the Punisher decided that to survive the situation, he needed protection. A little duct tape and some textbooks later, we have the glorious invention of book armor!. | |
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Doctor Who: "Resolution" presents Improvised Armour: Dalek Edition, as a Dalek recon scout buried on Earth for 1200 years, after reconstituting itself, controls a woman to build itself a new set of armour out of stolen remnants of its species' technology and materials found at a mechanic's shop. | |
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An advert for Strongbow cider had a guy giving a Braveheart-esque Rousing Speech to massed ranks of tradesmen with suitably working class Improvised Weaponry and armour — the shield wall is made up of satellite dishes and dustbin lids, various "soldiers" are armed with spirit levels, paint rollers and garden tools, and most of them are wearing hard hats. | |
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Improvised Armour | |
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Done in All Flesh Must Be Eaten, similar to the d20 Modern example above. | |
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Improvised Armour | |
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In Evolve, the assault character Lennox built her armor out of a salvaged exoskeleton meant to protect scientists from lava flows. Similarly, Markov's armor is actual an environmental suit used by orbital welders. | |
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When Zack and Cyndi from The Bite need to get to another room at CDC headquarters, they discover they have to fight through a horde of zombies on the way. Zack finds a stack of reports and wraps them around his arms and hers to protect themselves from zombie bites. They make it to the other room where Cyndi discovers a zombie bit right through the report on her arm, infecting her. | |
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In The Wire, when Omar ends up in prison he duct-tapes several thick books to his body. Sure enough, only minutes later someone attempts to shank Omar for the large bounty put on Omar's head by a vengeful crime boss. Thanks to the books the attempt is foiled and Omar horrifically turns the tables on his attacker as an example to the other inmates of why they shouldn't try to claim that bounty themselves. | |
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J and K in Men in Black 3 block several spikes being thrown by the villain with a metal door. | |
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The Grand Finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender has Toph bend a metal door around her to protect herself from Firebenders. | |
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In Super Lesbian Animal RPG any party member who is equipped with the Machinist spellbook can cast a spell that conjures scrap metal armor for the team, costing both mana and scrap metal. The armor boosts defense, but falls apart after a few combat turns. | |
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In some Lufia games, some of the equipment available early in the game is a Pot helmet, and a Chopping Board shield. | |
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The Pot of Yesterdayers boss from Our Darker Purpose is a living (or possessed) vat of spoiled potato stew. It wears a saucepan for a helmet, a cookie sheet for a breastplate, and shoulderpads made out of steamer baskets. | |
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One post-apocalyptic d20 Modern setting featured illustrations of thugs using American football shoulder pads for armor and a Stop sign for a shield. | |
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Dragons: Riders of Berk: When faced with Dragon Hunters armed with anti-dragon arrows that can fell a dragon in one shot, Hiccup decides to make temporary Dragon armour by stitching together Screaming Death scales, the hardest dragon scales he can think of. | |
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Various Dragon Quest games have pot lids as the cheapest shield. | |
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Several episodes of Brainiac: Science Abuse have mannequins dress up in improvised armour based on the setting, and fired at with a slingshot, longbow and crossbow. For example, if war broke out in a home, a mannequin in the kitchen might use a wok as a chestplate. | |
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GURPS: GURPS High-Tech has rules for homemade armor. Buckets can be made into a plastic lorica segmentata strong enough to provide noticeable protection from a shotgun blast. GURPS Steampunk 2 notes that the Industrial Revolution made steel plate widely available for mundane applications — and that this plate could be and sometimes was repurposed into useful improvised armor. It refers to A Fistful of Dollars (see Films — Live-Action, above) and the story of Ned Kelly (see Real Life, below) as examples of this idea in action. |
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In The Devil's Rejects, the Firefly family shoots it out with the police wearing various amounts of improvised armor. The most heavily armored Firefly stays behind to cover the family's retreat. The armor proves very effective, but ultimately he succumbs under the hail of gunfire. | |
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In National Treasure, Ben uses the Declaration of Independence as a shield when he's being shot at (or rather, the case fitted with bulletproof glass the Declaration was being kept in). | |
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The Bull of the West: When the drifter who murdered the brakeman throws a knife at him, Johnny Wade twists and catches the knife in the saddle he is carrying over his shoulder. | |
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The New Conglomerate in PlanetSide 2, being backed by mining and security MegaCorps, often makes use of cast-off or archaic designs for their armor and weaponry. Their MAX Powered Armor in particular is obviously based on a mining exoskeleton with some extra armor panels welded to it, in contrast to the purpose-built Terran Republic MAX and the heavily augmented Vanu Sovereignty MAX. Early concept art had the improvised armor being more prevalent on NC gear, with their engineer appearing to use mining gear for armor. | |
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Unable to acquire an armored vehicle, Michael Westen of Burn Notice once filled the insides of an SUV's doors with phone books and put ballistic glass in the windows. This was deemed plausible by the MythBusters. It worked quite well, but the windows were noted to be an Achilles' Heel, so that ballistic glass was a good investment. In a later episode where Michael's in prison, he and another prisoner fashion temporary armor from the hard covers of several library books. Adequate to stop a plastic shiv. |
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In City of Heroes there's a group of mutant hobos called "The Lost" with Elite Mooks who use various types of armor such as a STOP sign for chest protection and a TV set (with a broken screen) as a helmet. | |
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Deadpool once wore a bunch of frozen meat to beat Bullseye. In his own words. "I am the meat." | |
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