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Shoulders of Doom

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Shoulders of Doom	comment	Also known as pauldrons. Be it pads, armor, or epaulets, the Big Bad and The Hero have the biggest shoulder-wear. This is most common in fantasy or science fiction: fantasy armor can easily have huge pieces of armor on the shoulders, and science fiction can easily create a future costume (or armor) with huge shoulders. They may also come with a ridiculously high collar, Spikes of Villainy, or an All-Encompassing Mantle for the aspiring Evil Overlord. On occasion, the shoulder pads can actually serve a purpose, by having a cape attached to them. The corollary is that if somebody in the cast has enormous shoulder pads, they're probably evil. Other cast members can have shoulder pads, of course, they're just smaller. The exception, of course, is if they give everybody humongous shoulder guards. There are both artistic and function-related reasons that this trope existes: Artistically, the inverted triangle (i.e. one point pointing down) generally conveys a more sinister form, and shoulder pads help the torso form a triangular image. From a distance, you may also be fooled into thinking you're fighting some undead headless monster. And, as the picture of the Space Marine shows... it looks quite intimidating. Also, large shoulder pads add additional mass to the upper torso and create a tapering body shape, which instinctively registers as a fit, muscular build. i.e. a do-not-mess-with-me-physique. The functional reason is all about mobility. Because the human shoulder joint can pivot slightly over 180 degrees both horizontally and vertically, rigid shoulder armor cannot be fitted tightly to the shoulder. It must be either free-floating (fastened to the breast- and back-armor by straps or some other flexible material) or have enough room for the joint to pivot within it (a big, ball-like shape). They still don't need to be as big as most costume designers make them, however. Sometimes huge shoulders (especially on Powered Armor) are handwaved as actually being storage, as well - most often for ammo. In video games, it's often used because the ball-and-socket joint of the shoulder was very difficult to incorporate into a player model without causing clipping and an action-figure look. Modern games designers use the look because it is still very difficult to properly animate the shoulder joint- it involves four bones, several unusual muscle groups and an irritating degree of twistability. It can also be a pain to generate a texture to cover this smoothly - a shoulder pad allows artists to make one texture for the torso and a separate one for the arm without really caring how they join. The overall psychology behind this is Truth in Television. Broad shoulders suggest greater muscular strength in the arms and upper body, making a character look both sturdy and intimidating. Characters who are thicker around the middle may be just as strong or good at fighting, but they will more often play the Boisterous Bruiser because they lack the intimidating emotional effect on the audience. If they are round enough, they overlap with Giant Poofy Sleeves. See Shoulder Cannon for when a gun is mounted on them (for some literal "Doom"). If they're not so much shoulderpads as a pair of shoulder-mounted towers, then they're Vertical Mecha Fins.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_100eaa09	comment	The design of Carnage in Spider-Man Unlimited involved bony protrusions all over his body, including his shoulders.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_10b03dcf	comment	Batman in the Batman: Arkham Asylum series has shoulders the size of his own (and everyone else's) head.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_12fd5db0	comment	Most of the costumes worn by the title character of Megamind feature shoulder pads—not that they help much as he still appears pretty shrimpy.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_1c34acd2	comment	Averted in Rocketship Voyager where the oversized pauldrons are one of several Awesome, but Impractical items that the Space Marines remove from their armor.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_1c63e768	comment	The Heathers (and Veronica) in Heathers, as the most popular and ruthlessly powerful clique in an 80s high school, wear color-coded 80s power suits, complete with the shoulder pads.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_1fca96ce	comment	Magic Knight Rayearth - Zagato, the Big Bad of the first season has both these and Spikes of Villainy.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_2192aeb3	comment	The Fire Emblem series. Not villains per se, but the General class has shoulder armor larger than the helmet. Several baddies are Generals, since it's the most physically durable class and the lack of mobility doesn't matter when the enemy has to come to you. Especially the Black Knight from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, who is a good guy in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn... kind of. 9's villain, Ashnard, has these, complete with Spikes of Villainy! In Awakening, the shoulder pads that come standard with Knights and Generals are actually shown to be detachable from the rest of their armor◊, making them more practical than most other examples. The pauldrons of generic enemy knights are especially pronounced, forming a large, metal hood over their heads.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_234035fa	comment	The Space Marine-inspired Stormcast Eternals of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, naturally, inherit something akin to the pauldrons. This becomes fairly silly in the case of the Judicators, one of whom cannot actually see where he is aiming◊ because his enormous shoulder pad is in the way. Warriors of Khorne often have such pads, characters such as the Slaughterpreist may actually have them stuck to the shoulder. As in, strapped on, and the buckles for the straps have been surgically implanted into the skin in the manner of body modification jewellery.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_2365cd7a	comment	Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space. The attire of a typical gentleman of the early twenty-first century includes "the flared shoulder-yoke that required all doorways to be two yards wide."
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Shoulders of Doom / int_25d10644	comment	Most, if not all, of the Zoalords in Guyver have these as part of their formal robes (with one notable costume having shoulders almost as wide as its wearer was tall). Many Zoanoids (and the Gigantic) have weapons or other functions built into large shoulder-pods.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_260d57b3	comment	Il Palazzo from Excel♡Saga has absolutely huge shoulder pads, as a parody of an evil overlord.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_266cacb6	comment	Bloody Spell have one of the last armor upgrades you can equip yourselves with, golden spiked pauldrons.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_275c56fe	comment	In his appearances in the Marvel vs. Capcom series, Mega Man's Hyper Megaman Limit Break not only temporarily upgrades him to a much larger form, but said form sports proportionately massive pauldrons.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_27f67983	comment	The Road Warriors Hawk and Animal, a legendary tag team from AWA and NWA that split off from the Legion Of Doom, popularized large spiky shoulder entrance gear in pro wrestling, though their case was more the spikes being large than the pads themselves. Kensuke Sasaki joined them in New Japan Pro-Wrestling. And if you're into WWF/E pissing on badass history, you can't forget Droz or Heidenreich.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_2819aebd	comment	Special mention goes to Punk. In both his Battle Network appearances and his place in the older Mega Man (Classic) games his shoulder pads were shells that could enclose his entire body. A similar design is used by Shield Sheldon from Mega Man X6. In both cases the shoulders are used for protection and performing special attacks so they're not exactly superfluous.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_2fee008d	comment	In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann they're found on mech's used by both the good guys and the bad guys, though that's to be expected when most of the mech used by humans were stolen from Beastmen. Especially notable it the Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann which has two bigass drills for shoulders that actually come off and stack together to form one oddly-shaped drill. Of course the drill is still very effective at... drilling.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_3038d75c	comment	The necromancer from Diablo II has a rather iconic pauldron in the shape of a horned demon skull on one shoulder. In D3 there are three necromancers who wear an updated version of the same costume, including the pauldron.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_30f32521	comment	The various armors worn by the protagonists and antagonists of Darksiders and Darksiders II.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_32d026ec	comment	Rave Master's Gale Glory wears a large set of decorated epaulets on his shoulders when he first appears. He discards them when Disc-One Final Boss King clips the right-hand epaulet with an ultimate attack that destroys matter in its entirety. Seeing a big chunk not just cracked or burned by the hit, but outright gone clearly indicates his armor is useless against his enemy.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_330d93	comment	In Violinist of Hameln several villains wear fairly massive shoulderpads or shoulder armor pieces, including Chestra and Hell King Bass. The first prize, though, goes to Sizer. Her example also confirms that evil gets bigger shoulderpads - her normal shoulder armor pieces are already humongous, but get even bigger when she is turned/turns into her "Dark" form.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_33acebd8	comment	Guilty Gear - Justice has them. They transform into laser cannons during her Gamma Ray super.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_33dd1d90	comment	Completely averted in Half-Life 2. The Combine Overwatch's transhuman soldiers wear very realistic body armor with protective inserts, along with somewhat more-advanced gasmask-helmets. They have no frills or un-necessary parts to their combat armor aside from armbands denoting their rank- after all, if the Overwatch are attacking something, they don't 'need' to intimidate it. It'll just be 'dead'. This is also carried by the sociopathic Metrocops; though in their case, their thuggish brutality, black uniforms, and State Sec-esque look is more than intimidating.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_366a284d	comment	Many, many, many people in Fist of the North Star sport shoulder pads, most commonly in pairs but sometimes singly for Fashionable Asymmetry. Some are relatively modest: for instance, Shu's◊ are very neutral and plain, and appear to be simply for protection. However, it dips into the ludicrous and Obviously Evil with people like Souther.◊ The numerous thugs and brutes also wear shoulder pads, especially the tattooed biker gangs commonly seen in the early portion of the series.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_38304f2a	comment	Zio from Phantasy Star IV, whose pads could each double as a chest plate. Shoulders are really important: lots of enemies have huge shoulder armor (or just shoulders), as do some of the PCs. The trope is played straight, though: the more evil someone is, the bigger their shoulders. The final form of the final boss? Two-thirds of its mass is stuff on its shoulders.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Vegeta and the other Saiyans (and everyone else in Frieza's army) in Dragon Ball too, so much so that when Vegeta starts on the path towards his Heelâ€“Face Turn, he gets a new outfit with no shoulder pads! Piccolo's cape includes outrageous shoulder pads. This seems like a subversion until you remember Piccolo was originally a demon king. The shoulder pads are also weighted. Still, they seem rather superfluous after a certain point. Notably, Gohan and Krillin once used sets of these armor, and Gohan noted that the shoulders don't get in the way because the material is flexible enough. Later on, Gohan get another set of these, alongside a Badass Cape, when he request a set of clothes designed just like Piccolo's. Dragon Ball Z Abridged lampshaded this when Piccolo makes Gohan his new clothes, telling him he'll have trouble with crowds and doors might be a problem, and he recommends approaching them at a forty-five degree angle.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_3bce4381	comment	At least two villains in Trigun. Legato adds mass to his shoulder with a human skull. Brilliant Dynamites Neon's shoulderpads are both nearly the size of his torso, and they glow. In the manga and anime, BDN's shoulderpads contain large-bore machine guns for a suprise edge in fights.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_3d22c14b	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Dynames, Virtue, Cherudim and Arios feature this with their own unique twists to it. The Dynames has the full shields on the shoulder which allows it to walk around and absorb gunfire like it's his birthday. The Virtue has the two pairs of GN cannons on its shoulder to unleash the beam spam with vents on it so that it can generate a GN field. The Cherudim has the shoulders as the docking points for his set of shield bits. Finally the Arios' shoulders are entirely built to hold both halves of the claw while it is not in MA form. The 00 Gundam from the second season has its powerful twin drive system on swivel mounts on its shoulders. The fact that the drives are conical only adds to the effect. The mobility issue is excused with the drives being on pivots and able to move around, for example pointing backwards for high-speed boosting.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_3e96b159	comment	Cats Don't Dance - Sometimes they just have really big shoulders, like Max though he's only The Dragon. Seriously, look at him◊.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_3f01b5a4	comment	A fairly large majority of Battlizer armors have shoulderpads of varying ridiculousness, the winner goes to the Shogun Mode from Power Rangers Samurai. Just take a look at this particular example.◊
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Shoulders of Doom / int_42c05590	comment	In Rocko's Modern Life Mr. Bighead is running for dog catcher against Rocko. The Chameleon brothers give him a special suit with huge shoulders to "wear" because it'll make him look more authoritative. It works: he wins partly because of the suit, but the job isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_438b63e4	comment	Halo: Reach: Some of the Spartans in Noble Team have some rather prominent shoulder pads.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers The first Megazord from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers exhibited the giant robot form of this. The Mega Dragonzord combo takes it even further. Also, Goushi from the parent Sentai Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger wears large paldrons as part of his non-morphed combat gear. A fairly large majority of Battlizer armors have shoulderpads of varying ridiculousness, the winner goes to the Shogun Mode from Power Rangers Samurai. Just take a look at this particular example.◊ Many Sixth Rangers have these, usually in the form of additional armor, as did Ninjor/Ninjaman when he went giant and converted to his samurai-esque battle mode.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_44fe781e	comment	While Neon Genesis Evangelion was the trope namer for Vertical Mecha Fins, the original version of Zeruel◊ does fits this trope.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_45501b8c	comment	Samus Aran's Power Suit. The giant shoulders appear starting with the Varia Suit in Super Metroid, which has increased shielding as well as the ability to function perfectly in more extreme temperatures, causing many players to suggest that some of the components for these features are housed in the shoulders. The giant shoulders came to be because in Metroid II: Return of Samus, the Game Boy didn't have color, so the developers drew the Varia Suit with big shoulder pads to show the player that they got a new suit.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_485c564	comment	Byron the Berserker from Guilded Age claims this guy's pauldrons, even though he normally has his axe handles sticking up over his shoulders.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_49a87cb3	comment	Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII. A notable mention goes to Cloud, who only has a (rather big) shoulder pad on his left shoulder. Crisis Core seems to show that shoulder pads are the only constant in the uniforms of 1st Class SOLDIERs. Sephiroth and Genesis both seem to have kept the pants underneath their Badass Longcoats.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft, epaulets appropriate to a character's level get progressively bigger. Presumably, this is supposed to make more experienced characters look intimidating. However, the usual result is slim characters who look off-balance and bulkier characters who just look excessive◊. When a bug was introduced that reduced the size of the epaulets on the ( otherwise excessive ) Male Orc model to something more benign, there was a gigantic uproar of displeasure. When the bug was fixed, it was fixed to make them larger than the pre-bug state. The addition of more Spikes of Villainy and bigger shoulder pads is on the way to becoming an Enforced Trope in World Of Warcraft development. As seen from the picture, a number of people requested the option to hide the shoulderpads as they can their cloaks and helmets. As of the new Transmogrification system introduced in Legion, shoulder armor can now be hidden. Shaman class cosmetic gear beats them all◊ in the shoulder department. There's also this◊. Depending on the Artist, the pauldrons worn by Human Footmen can range from reasonable to outright 40k-levels of disproportionately large. This is especially apparent in Reforged wherein most if not all human suits of armor sport gargantuan pauldrons. Garrosh Hellscream deserves a special mention in that his pauldrons are the tusks of the demon Mannoroth, which combined with his already hulking build for an orc creates an incredibly menacing figure.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_4be3aedd	comment	The first Megazord from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers exhibited the giant robot form of this. The Mega Dragonzord combo takes it even further. Also, Goushi from the parent Sentai Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger wears large paldrons as part of his non-morphed combat gear.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_4c746380	comment	Naraku in Inuyasha. After re-forming into a bigger Big Bad, he gets what could be called big Spikes of Villainy holders on shoulders.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_4f4d1b05	comment	Worn by the hero in The Return of Captain Invincible, although he has previously been prosecuted for his dress sense.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_4f63edbd	comment	The gods of Soul Nomad & the World Eaters all have highly ornamental shoulder pads that hover above their true shoulders. Out of the ones you meet, the only one who isn't directly evil is the one who's taken human form and therefore doesn't show them.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick has the sixth member of Tarquin's old adventuring party. He's had next to no screen time (three flashback appearances with one line of dialogue) and the only thing known about him is that he wears plate armor with massive shoulderguards. Not knowing his name, fans call him "Shoulderpad(s) Guy."
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Shoulders of Doom / int_59da62aa	comment	Interestingly, in Fallout: New Vegas, the strength of a power armor is apparently inversely proportional to the doominess of its Shoulders of Doom — the T-45d, with its ridiculous duck fin shoulderpads, is the weakest; the T-51b Power armor is the middle of the road, with oversized Knight Armor shoulderpads; the Enclave Remnants (Advanced) Power Armor and Gannon Family Tesla Armor are the strongest, and the shoulders themselves are fairly small. Though in the case of the Advanced and Tesla armors, it has traded the Shoulders of Doom for a massive hunchback. The non-powered combat armors also have rather bulky shoulders, with the Reinforced Mark II, NCR Ranger, and Riot Gear armors making both genders look like linebackers. Ditto the Reinforced Leather Armor. Some folks, dissatisfied with Obsidian's "skinny tin can" rendering of the Remnants Power armornote since the Fallout 2 sprite looked at least as bulky as the T-51b power armor, have made a few mods that give it back the bulk, and put the doomy size back in the shoulders. Bethesda themselves brought back the doominess with Fallout 4's equivalent, the X-01.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_5a0daa35	comment	Prince Vladimir Tzepesci of the Iron Kingdoms, a Khadoran warcaster based on Vlad Tepes, has very large shoulder pads on his armor; his more experienced Epic version takes this to ridiculous extremes. In the Retribution of Scryah, the Sentinels, Destors and Scyir of the Dawnguard sports some epic ones. Example◊ Come to think about it, a great chunk of the Retribution wears them. Vyros (justified as he's the leader of the Dawnguard), all their Warjacks, but is more noticeably in the heavy ones. The Artificer could have them, but it's more like an upper body's armor of doom. The biggest ones (in proportion, but in size also counts) are worn by their colossals, the Hyperion and Helios. Just look◊ at them. Cryx troops often have them, such as the Bane Knights and Thralls, and certain of the casters.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_5a1e517c	comment	Yeagar from Nodwick, though one of the 'good guys', shows us that occasionally shoulders of doom can have their uses.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_5a37ac78	comment	Now possible in War Frame due to the introduction of armor customization, with shoulder plates.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, this is downplayed. Ming wears a blazer with padded shoulders.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_5b344855	comment	The minor Wolverine villain called Genesis was actually known in fan forums as "Shoulderpad Guy".
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Shoulders of Doom / int_5c66fff9	comment	Lord Nasher in Neverwinter Nights 2 has disproportionately big shoulderpads as part of his armor, which he wears throughout the entire game, even when sitting on his throne. Then again, considering how much crap Neverwinter is generally involved in: If you were the ruler of that city, would you leave your bedroom without your pauldrons? He was attacked in his own throne room last game. Now he's just Crazy-Prepared. And it comes in handy when he is again attacked in his own throne room.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_629cd094	comment	And in Dragon Age: Origins, just about anyone wearing massive armor. One shoulder tends to be bigger than the other, but either way, those are some seriously massive shoulders.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_63230cb	comment	Dragon Ball Z Abridged lampshaded this when Piccolo makes Gohan his new clothes, telling him he'll have trouble with crowds and doors might be a problem, and he recommends approaching them at a forty-five degree angle.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_638624c8	comment	Slayers: The humanoid villains have huge shoulder pads. Also spoofed with Lina's rival, Naga: To be fair, Lina's own shoulder pads aren't exactly tiny. They're also boobytrapped, as Martina discovers when she tries to swipe one of the jewels. Gourry the other PC is another example.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_684610	comment	BlazBlue - This is basically all that Mu-12 is wearing in battle... Susanoo in Central Fiction has huge fanged mouths for shoulders.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_68959735	comment	Luca Blight from Suikoden II has these.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_68cc4d6	comment	Gruesomely evoked in Jeff Long's The Descent, when a group of soldiers is spotted with very wide, jutting shoulders and chests. Subverted when the witnesses get closer, and discover that their shoulders only look wide because hadals have extracted all their viscera, leaving these propped-up corpses' emptied abdomens so narrow that their upper torsos look massive by comparison.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_696b75c2	comment	Subverted in A Brother's Price: Shoulder pads are the court fashion for men, because it makes them look more manly, and thus, more sensual and erotic. Doom doesn't factor into it at all.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Iron Man - When Iron Man first got his iconic red-and-gold armor, he only had rings around where the sleeves connect to the chestpiece. With the introduction of the Silver Centurion armor in 1985, though, he got big triangular Shoulders of Doom... which he even once used against a building (to provide a distraction for Ant Man to hack into the building's computers at Tony's behest). Shoulder armor has been incorporated into many subsequent designs, including War Machine. Iron Monger had massive Shoulders of Doom. The '80s version of Crimson Dynamo and the Gremlin version of Titanium Man also had pretty doomy shoulder armor. Iron Man 2020 features a spiked version of the original red-and-gold's shoulder rings. Actually, while the Silver Centurion armor is the most well-known version of Iron Man's Shoulders of Doom, it was back during the Secret Wars (1984) (when Jim Rhodes was subbing for Tony Stark) that first gave him his shoulder pads. His armor was damaged in a fight against the villains and Reed Richards had to rebuild it for him with the technology from their base. Richards decided that as long as he was fixing up the armor, why not give it moar powah?
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Shoulders of Doom / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat villains Shao Kahn and Quan Chi have major Spikes of Villainy on their Shoulders of Doom.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 has this most prominently with the Enclave Tesla and Hellfire armors.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_6dbe6646	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Dr. Robotnik has massive shoulder pads and a cape for obvious Evil Overlord effect.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_6e1d5f36	comment	The Tavleks from Farscape sport particularly outstanding examples of the trope.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Especially the Black Knight from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, who is a good guy in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn... kind of.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_6f2d1072	comment	MechWarrior carries over much of BattleTech's doomy shoulders; the Atlas assault mech has its white skull-shaped cockpit complimented by enormous shoulder plates.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_72262aee	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender the Fire Nation uniforms feature shoulder pads, getting larger with rank. Fire Lord Ozai's are absolutely enormous. And when he declares himself Phoenix King he gets even bigger ones, though he takes it off in the fight. They used to be bigger. The stolen Fire Nation uniforms that the northern Water Tribe was planning on using had pretty large shoulder spikes, but are are quickly dismissed by Sokka as archaic and no longer used.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_7353a7bd	comment	Dark Demon from Dynamite Headdy has what appear to be green statues sprouting from the shoulders of his costume.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: Halo: Reach: Some of the Spartans in Noble Team have some rather prominent shoulder pads. Some Forerunners had floating shoulder armor. There's subtle hints that such seemingly-pointless additions are signs of age or growing influence/rank; the Didact lacks them in his younger years before the Human-Forerunner war, and gains two later on in the war. In Halo 4 he sports a floating collar/shoulder-pad combo that is perhaps the most prominent piece of his Combat Skin.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_755c9804	comment	LEGO: Some of the aliens from LEGO Space's UFO and Insectoid lines wore giant shoulder pads. Millennia from Slizer in his "rider" form. Many characters in BIONICLE, such as the Toa Nuva in their base-forms, Takanuva and the Toa Metru (at times exaggerated in the comics), Mantax (post-mutation), Karzahni (both pre- and post-mutation), the Maxilos robots, Malum, Strakk, all classes of Skrall, Mata Nui in his Glatorian body has crescent-like Vertical Mecha Fins, and Vastus wears snake-figurines on his shoulders. Keetongu has these in the movie, but not on his toy. In the Reboot, Gali, Onua, Kopaka, and Tahu all have them. Some Hero Factory designs have these, but the Hero Minifigures from the Invasion from Below line made it a uniform feature.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_78d4f24	comment	Mega Man Geo-Omega from Mega Man Star Force.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_794d9734	comment	Every single infantry trooper from Mutant Chronicles is guilty. One of the hero units, Big Bob Watts even has a pair of BFGs strapped to his. Dark Legion commanders also have Shoulders of Doom, adorned with Spikes of Villainy for the quintessential Evil Look. Some models even have shoulder pads the size of European cars and no other armor to attach them to.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_7ad168ca	comment	Skeleton Warriors: The Big Bad, Baron Dark.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_7baf6139	comment	MÃstico had large shoulders has part of his entrance gear, each curving into a single point, making them look sort of like horns.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_7c297a3c	comment	The Alt Eisen from Super Robot Wars Compact 2 brings new meaning to the "Doom" part, as they're actually Humongous Mecha-sized titanium ball bearing launchers, the same kind of ball bearings used in Claymore mines. Still, it averts the "evil" part, as it's the male protagonist's mecha. Its Alternate Universe equivalent Alt Eisen Nacht of Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier, however, plays this straight. Until it joins the heroes as an SRW, anyways. Everyone in the SRX Team of Super Robot Wars Alpha takes this and runs with it, due to their Latex Space Suit. The Ascended Fanboy's shoulder pads are large enough to hide countries in.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_7ccc77f0	comment	Patlabor: The police-modified AV-98 Ingram Labors driven by the Tokyo Police Dept. Special Vehicles Units have giant shoulders, but no one's doom is involved — turns out that the shoulders on a Humongous Mecha make a great mounting point for a pair of emergency lights.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_7d8c61a2	comment	In Star Wars: The Old Republic, one of the indicators of rank among the Sith appears to be the size, ornamentation, and unwieldiness of your shoulder pads.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_7e1fd23f	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa, the main villain Dietlinde Eckhart gets these when she turns into her One-Winged Angel form at the end of the movie. The shoulder pads are big enough to register as weapons of mass destruction.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_7f39a041	comment	Parodied in Gintama where one of Gintoki's ideas for improving a draft of a manga he's writing is to give every single character massive shoulder pads that are almost as long as they are tall, and he puts more effort into designing said shoulder pads then anything else in the manga. The draft after that makes them even huger and places still more emphasis on them, trying to have them depicted in their entirety as much as possible, even if it means having them stretch into adjacent panels or forcing the faces of the characters to be obscured.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout, with Power Armor - and Advanced Power Armor, which actually has a smaller helmet and bigger shoulders. Not to mention most of the other armor's shoulder spikes (metal, tesla). And Frank Horrigan. Fallout 3 has this most prominently with the Enclave Tesla and Hellfire armors. Interestingly, in Fallout: New Vegas, the strength of a power armor is apparently inversely proportional to the doominess of its Shoulders of Doom — the T-45d, with its ridiculous duck fin shoulderpads, is the weakest; the T-51b Power armor is the middle of the road, with oversized Knight Armor shoulderpads; the Enclave Remnants (Advanced) Power Armor and Gannon Family Tesla Armor are the strongest, and the shoulders themselves are fairly small. Though in the case of the Advanced and Tesla armors, it has traded the Shoulders of Doom for a massive hunchback. The non-powered combat armors also have rather bulky shoulders, with the Reinforced Mark II, NCR Ranger, and Riot Gear armors making both genders look like linebackers. Ditto the Reinforced Leather Armor. Some folks, dissatisfied with Obsidian's "skinny tin can" rendering of the Remnants Power armornote since the Fallout 2 sprite looked at least as bulky as the T-51b power armor, have made a few mods that give it back the bulk, and put the doomy size back in the shoulders. Bethesda themselves brought back the doominess with Fallout 4's equivalent, the X-01. Heck, the primary purpose of most power armor seems to be giant shoulders. Caesar's Legion also have giant shoulder pauldrons, as their armor is made from football pads. The result, however, is more Narm than intimidating. After power armor got an overhaul in Fallout 4, the shoulders are now bulkier than ever. Especially the T-60c.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_8125b468	comment	Batman - Batman had pretty epic shoulder pads in the nineties. They were spiky as all get out, presumably to make him look like a bit more of a badass. What they accomplished was making him look like he was shrugging all the time. Apparently they were indented to simulate the "thumb" on batwings. In a straight villain example, Jason Todd had the same thing on his "Batman" costume during "Battle for the Cowl".
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Shoulders of Doom / int_815220e8	comment	Armada featured several characters with giant shoulders - most notably Hot Shot, whose toy's demented grin and enormous shoulders provoked the "JaAm" and "WhY mY ShOuLdErS hUrT?" memes. Demolishor has missiles sticking out of his shoulders, and Megatron's extend into tank treads. Combined with his giant horns he looks ridiculous. And Optimus Prime has really chunky shoulders, as similar to the Laser Optimus Prime example, they form the front of his truck mode, and he has really fat tires.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider only started using these in the 80s with Black. Now they're part of the uniform. Kamen Rider Den-O in his Gun Form has particularally large ones. However, they're fully functional in that they feed energy into his gun for his Finishing Move. Climax Form has theme as well, made up of the masks of Ax and Rod Forms, but likewise, they're functional for moving down the tracks to ether the arm or the leg for a finishing move.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_83c5459c	comment	At the end of the Trinity Blood anime, when Cain is rampaging through Londinium, his costume features some impressively spiky shoulder... thingies. And at the very end of the last episode, Abel apparently decides that the only way to properly combat his Evil Twin is by acquiring some Shoulders of Doom of his own.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_842c5731	comment	Monster X in Godzilla: Final Wars has two large skulls on his shoulders that later grow into two of Keizer Ghidorah's heads when going One-Winged Angel.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_86814cd0	comment	Final Fantasy IV - Golbez has the biggest, pointiest shoulder armour in the series, hands down. Although Exdeath of Final Fantasy V comes a close second.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI: Two of the heroines, Terra and Celes, possess shoulder pads of admirable size. So does the knight Cyan, but shoulder pads are standard for his knight armor. As does Edgar, but he is a king and wears a cape as well.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_86814e7d	comment	Final Fantasy X-2: The Alchemist Job class has shoulderpads very reminiscent of the ones Samus has in her suit—Rikku especially looks like she's wearing the Varia suit, but with Too Many Belts on top of that.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_86c3beca	comment	Gilgamesh Wulfenbach of Girl Genius gets some pretty bitchin' spiky shoulder pads here. Later Agatha tries on some "armor", with one like this on panel 4.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: Played every-which-way in almost every Alternate-Universe Gundam series. Almost every mobile suit with the name "Gundam" has large shoulder pads, but it is not exclusive. In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Dynames, Virtue, Cherudim and Arios feature this with their own unique twists to it. The Dynames has the full shields on the shoulder which allows it to walk around and absorb gunfire like it's his birthday. The Virtue has the two pairs of GN cannons on its shoulder to unleash the beam spam with vents on it so that it can generate a GN field. The Cherudim has the shoulders as the docking points for his set of shield bits. Finally the Arios' shoulders are entirely built to hold both halves of the claw while it is not in MA form. The 00 Gundam from the second season has its powerful twin drive system on swivel mounts on its shoulders. The fact that the drives are conical only adds to the effect. The mobility issue is excused with the drives being on pivots and able to move around, for example pointing backwards for high-speed boosting. The Neue Ziel.◊ Who needs legs when you've got these babies?! (The thinking behind this being that, as long as it's a mobile armor anyway - that is, it doesn't have limbs to change its orientation in space through conservation of momentum - they might as well load it down with extra thrusters. What's strange is that the Neue Ziel has arms at all, really.) The Graze Ein, being the largest Graze variant, naturally has the biggest shoulders of all the Grazes. The "doom" part is also literal, they're as big as they are so they can store a pair of gun-wielding sub-arms. Other contenders for this trope include the Byarlant,◊ the Byarlant Custom,◊ the Qubeley,◊ the Quin Mantha,◊ the Gogg◊ and the Hygogg.◊ These are often referred to as 'Shoulder Binders', and contain maneuvering (or in some cases main) thrusters in space-use Mobile suits; surface-use Mobile Suits tend to include them more for streamlining purposes, and the surface/sub-surface Hygogg makes good use of them in this regard.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_8e0322a5	comment	In 102 Dalmatians, Cruella de Ville turned evil... and in the same moment her costume sprang with shoulder pads.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_90c5d5fe	comment	The second and third installments in the Patapon trilogy allow the Tondenga class to equip these. Fittingly, considering they're the patapon type with the largest physique.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_90e2f673	comment	A fair few BattleTech 'Mechs feature outsized shoulders, with designs such as the Atlas featuring some of the traditionally largest shoulders thanks to the machine's 100-ton weight, while others, such as the Archer, are some of the doomiest due to the pair of enormous long-range missile launchers that make up its shoulders. Justified, in the Atlas' case, because it was deliberately designed to look as intimidating as possible. Some BattleArmor likewise features shoulders of doom, such as the prototype Elemental suit◊. Some suits (such as the standard Elemental, or the Longinus) get a similar inverted-triangle silhouette courtesy of a pair of shoulder-mounted missile launchers.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_94b4367c	comment	The Boys - The Homelander has a Judge Dredd-esque eagle-shaped pauldron.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_972907cf	comment	Space Godzilla from Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, who's crystalline shoulder growths are so massive, they render him almost literally immobile.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_985ddbb1	comment	Everyone in the SRX Team of Super Robot Wars Alpha takes this and runs with it, due to their Latex Space Suit. The Ascended Fanboy's shoulder pads are large enough to hide countries in.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_996edf24	comment	Wonder Woman vol 1 villain Queen Atomia has always worn curved decorative green shoulder pads over her dress, giving her incredibly tall pointed shoulders in silhouette.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_9a8bf274	comment	The more recent Command & Conquer games seem to be using this trope, too, much to the chagrin of old-time fans. The most obvious ones are the Zone Troopers in Tiberium Wars which ARE very kickass units and the Tesla Trooper in Red Alert 3 which are not so much. (Both have roughly analogous stats, but the Zone Trooper moves faster than regular troops and has a Jetpack. The Tesla Trooper.....doesn't).
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Shoulders of Doom / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Averted to date in the series when it comes to the Big Bad of each game's main quest. They've so far been an Evil Sorcerer, a Lichnote Daggerfall lacks a true Big Bad, but Mannimarco is easily the most outright evil leader of the competing factions in the game's Multiple Endings, a Physical God Walking Shirtless Scene, a likewise shirtless Multi-Armed and Dangerous Big Red Devil Destroyer Deity (though he does have some spikes on his shoulders), and a draconic Beast of the Apocalypse. A few of the Expansion Pack and DLC Big Bads play it straight. Almalexia, Umaril the Unfeathered, and Miraak all wear rather broad pauldrons on their shoulders. Throughout the series, you can choose to have these by wearing Daedric armor. It is red and black (forged from ebony which has been imbued with Daedric souls), generally quite spiky, and is almost always the heaviest armor available in each game. Other than the weight, the "impractical" aspects ultimately end up meaning very little in terms of gameplay. These aspects are especially exaggerated in Oblivion and Skyrim. Morrowind plays with it. Mostly only the native styles (Glass, Bonemold, Dreugh, Indoril) play it straight, as each possess large pauldrons.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_9e2f90f4	comment	The armor of Don Krieg from One Piece has Shoulders of Doom, which conceal some of his huge assortment of built-in guns, and also are removed and used as components for the Mighty Battle Spear. Post-time-skip Franky has ginormus robotic shoulders (and rectangular forearms). Many high ranking marines also wear coats with rather broad shoulders as capes. Taken to ridiculous levels with Pica, whose actual shoulders are in the shape of huge, spiked shoulder armor. Word of God is that his shoulders grew in to that shape due to wearing armored shoulder guards since puberty, similar to growing square watermelons.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Subverted with Darkrai from PokÃ©mon, who appears to be sinister-looking but only does its job if it is threatened. Played straight in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series games, however.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla Space Godzilla from Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, who's crystalline shoulder growths are so massive, they render him almost literally immobile. Monster X in Godzilla: Final Wars has two large skulls on his shoulders that later grow into two of Keizer Ghidorah's heads when going One-Winged Angel.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_a1117942	comment	Tekkaman Blade Tekkaman Blade carries Wave Motion Guns in his. Balzac Asimov later gains 360-degree Fermion Cannons in the shoulders of his Soltekkaman Mk.I Powered Armor. They resemble nothing so much as upside-down laser sprinklers. And in the OVA sequel, Tekkaman Sommer also has shoulder-pad-mounted Voltekkas. All of them avert the "evil" part (Balzac was an Anti-Hero at one point, but well before he got the Voltekka sprinklers).
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Shoulders of Doom / int_a34863aa	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Shredder in all continuities, along with Spikes of Villainy.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_a495544e	comment	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command's Evil Emperor Zurg has huge, pointy shoulder pads - and a cape for bonus points!
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Shoulders of Doom / int_a7bb29ae	comment	The fully armored X in Mega Man X.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy Final Fantasy IV - Golbez has the biggest, pointiest shoulder armour in the series, hands down. Although Exdeath of Final Fantasy V comes a close second. Final Fantasy VI: Two of the heroines, Terra and Celes, possess shoulder pads of admirable size. So does the knight Cyan, but shoulder pads are standard for his knight armor. As does Edgar, but he is a king and wears a cape as well. Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII. A notable mention goes to Cloud, who only has a (rather big) shoulder pad on his left shoulder. Crisis Core seems to show that shoulder pads are the only constant in the uniforms of 1st Class SOLDIERs. Sephiroth and Genesis both seem to have kept the pants underneath their Badass Longcoats. Final Fantasy X-2: The Alchemist Job class has shoulderpads very reminiscent of the ones Samus has in her suit—Rikku especially looks like she's wearing the Varia suit, but with Too Many Belts on top of that.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_a81bac45	comment	Subverted in Record of Lodoss War, as Deedlit is the one with arguably the biggest shoulder-wear. (Of course, everyone in Lodoss has huge shoulder guards.)
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Shoulders of Doom / int_aacd24cb	comment	StarCraft: StarCraft, and its many flavors of CMC armor. The armor's strength and shoulder size are positively correlated. In the sequel, contrary to the page quote, Tychus does actually make two attempts at tackling people. One successful, one not as much.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_aeac03f9	comment	Metroid Dread plays with the trope, at least for the Dread Suit variations of this game's Power, Varia, and Gravity suits. Though the shoulders are somewhat large, they're not obtrusively so, letting Samus still have enough space to view whatever's on either side of her. It's most apparent with the Power Suit. The Gravity Suit's shoulders are noticeably larger, playing the trope straighter.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_b211ee13	comment	Robots in Disguise Scourge has giant shoulders that actually make up the front of his truck mode, a design inherited from the Generation 2 Laser Optimus Prime toy he was based on. Also like said design, these also function as missile launchers.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Cersei wears a dress for her coronation that sports a set of armoured shoulders embossed with the Lion of her family sigil in the season six finale. Gregor wears a pair of awesome pauldrons. Though he doesn't wear them in the second season, he puts them on again when he appears in the fourth.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind plays with it. Mostly only the native styles (Glass, Bonemold, Dreugh, Indoril) play it straight, as each possess large pauldrons.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_b974f3ca	comment	Lots of them in the original 1980s version of Dynasty.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_ba9a3647	comment	Major Q9 in Hero Scape is a soulborg with pauldrons that are the size of his freaking body and tower over his head, almost like the forbidden love child between Shoulders of Doom and Vertical Mecha Fins. Deathwalker 9000 has some pretty wicked shoulders going on, too. Major Q9's shoulders actually restrict his vision in-game.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_bb3fde3d	comment	At one point in Danny Phantom Skulker donned upgraded armor which comes equipped with the giant shoulder guards.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 likes this trope, to the point that it's joked that you can measure a model's importance either by the quality of his hat or the size of his pauldrons. For example... Space Marine Power Armor is famous for its enormous pauldrons◊ which cover a Marine's arm from shoulder almost to elbow (the page pic is an extreme exaggeration). This is justified in the background, as their armor was originally designed for close-quarters combat (their precursors, the Thunder Warriors, actually used tackling moves in melee combat, and in some descriptions Assault Marines still do this). The pauldrons are auto-responsive and shift when the wearer wants to look past them, although in most modern depictions looking over them isn't an issue for a Marine. Their most obvious use is to display the Marine's chapter badge (on the left pauldron) and, in many cases, his squad type and number (on the right), although they also protect the actuators that give a Power Armour-clad Marine his incredible upper body strength. The design of the pauldrons in Space Marine power armor is actually much more practical than it looks at first glance. The pauldrons will shift when the marine tries to look over them so they don't actually block his vision but otherwise, between the pauldrons on the sides and the large reactor at the back, the only way to get a clear shot at a marine's comparatively vulnerable helmet is to stand directly in front of him, which is the worst possible place to be for someone tackling a space marine. Chaos Space Marines have the same large pauldrons as their loyalist counterparts but add Horns and Spikes of Villainy to theirs. Tau combat armor sports one over-sized sode-style shoulder pad, the strategic positioning of which is part of their firing stance. Their commanders also typically sport massive shoulder pads◊ that rival even Space Marines, in addition to huge guns bolted to their arms Inquisitors' power armor usually has more subdued, but very intricate shoulder pieces clearly inspired by Roman lorica segmentata. In their most recent codex, the basic Necron Warrior had its armor value reduced, because those tiny scapula-shaped shoulderblades just wouldn't offer the same protection as Space Marines. The much more impressive Necron Immortals retain their high armor value, as do their Lords.◊ Space marines also have another, heavier infantry suit, known as tactical dreadnought, or, more commonly, Terminiator, armour. This is also echoed in the ranks of the Chaos marines and, being heavier, has much larger pauldrons.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_bcdcf629	comment	Lockdown of Transformers: Animated has these built into his body. With spikes. Somewhat appropriate, since he's a big, bad bounty hunter who lives for "upgrades". Bonus points might be awarded for his car mode, which has a huge spoiler to go with the look. Megatron and Blitzwing have, basically, towers for shoulders. So do Blurr and Bulkhead (the latter of which can turn his into a chair). Starscream's shoulders are pretty wide as well.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_bd41836e	comment	StarCraft, and its many flavors of CMC armor. The armor's strength and shoulder size are positively correlated.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_c2297a9c	comment	In Judge Dredd, the titular character, being a fascist future lawman, sports bulky fetishistic shoulderpads that can go into massive sizes in certain artistic depictions.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7. In "Death-Watch", the WTH, Costuming Department? has put huge shoulder pads on Avon's leather jacket. Fans named the look 'Tugboat Avon'.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_c74f2d3c	comment	Diablo: The necromancer from Diablo II has a rather iconic pauldron in the shape of a horned demon skull on one shoulder. In D3 there are three necromancers who wear an updated version of the same costume, including the pauldron. The archangels Imperius and Tyrael both have this. Tyrael loses one when he becomes mortal. When he reforms the Horadrim, they all have a single, large shoulder pad each, most likely out of respect for Tyrael.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_c77b15f0	comment	Most of the non-grunt enemy soldiers, as well as the player character, in the Crusader games have shoulder pads.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_c97b081b	comment	Actually, while the Silver Centurion armor is the most well-known version of Iron Man's Shoulders of Doom, it was back during the Secret Wars (1984) (when Jim Rhodes was subbing for Tony Stark) that first gave him his shoulder pads. His armor was damaged in a fight against the villains and Reed Richards had to rebuild it for him with the technology from their base. Richards decided that as long as he was fixing up the armor, why not give it moar powah?
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Shoulders of Doom / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Seto Kaiba has these weird pointed-shoulder things for his cape. Here, take a look◊.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_ceac6bec	comment	Jungle Juice has an Insect Human with an Armored Ground Cricket Complex that gives her a natural set of these that's stronger than most steel and can be used for devastating tackles.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman's nemesis Doomsday, however, has possibly the most impressive Shoulders of Doom anywhere in comicdom, despite the fact he doesn't even wear armor - the ginormous, razorsharp crystalline spikes that sprout from his shoulders are part of his skeleton.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_cf69b21e	comment	Beast Wars Transmetal Megatron has massive shoulder-pads that double as a jetpack. Other Beast Wars characters that have them include Transmetal Rattrap, Rampage and Dinobot II. Transmetal Tarantulas has a variation, with huge round shoulders that double as missile launchers.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d11cd383	comment	Kamen Rider Den-O in his Gun Form has particularally large ones. However, they're fully functional in that they feed energy into his gun for his Finishing Move. Climax Form has theme as well, made up of the masks of Ax and Rod Forms, but likewise, they're functional for moving down the tracks to ether the arm or the leg for a finishing move.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d4caf593	comment	This even applied to a limited extent in the Rockstar Games release Bully, although in this case it's American football pads worn by one of the cliques.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d4f6f3fb	comment	F-Zero - Deathborn posesses a large pair of pauldrons, to fit the Omnicidal Maniac title. A particular example: Captain Falcon wears only one pauldron. On his right shoulder.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Jafar from Aladdin has some of the biggest shoulder pads in the business.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d4fa168d	comment	Some of the armor sets in Fable fit the trope. Especially if the player character is evil.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d5166b45	comment	Some Forerunners had floating shoulder armor. There's subtle hints that such seemingly-pointless additions are signs of age or growing influence/rank; the Didact lacks them in his younger years before the Human-Forerunner war, and gains two later on in the war. In Halo 4 he sports a floating collar/shoulder-pad combo that is perhaps the most prominent piece of his Combat Skin.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d54b59cc	comment	Simon Phoenix wears these in Demolition Man.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d557c9a2	comment	Daos, of the Lufia games. The other male Sinistrals too, but Daos especially.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d557e6c3	comment	Many of Ghaleon's designs in the Lunar series (and he gets rather a lot of costumes) have big shoulder guards. The Magic Emperor armor is an obvious example, but his final boss design in Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete takes it to a whole other level — it almost looks like some sort of architectural model sprouting off of him.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d60b94e0	comment	Jak 3: Wastelander - The Wastelanders' shoulder pads: so big they probably need Super-Strength just to wear them. Several come with Spikes of Doom.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d616724d	comment	Several champions in League of Legends have quite epic pauldrons, most notably Garen, Darius, Riven, Sion, Mordekaiser, Kayle (at least before her VGU), Xin Zhao, Jarvan IV and (rather oddly) Swain, who unlike the other listed champions is a mage rather than a fighter (although not a Squishy Wizard) though his case it is enhanced by his Coat Cape.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_d8e24914	comment	Worn in Yaiba by almost every villain.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_dab32c1	comment	In Mega Man 6 Rush can turn into a huge pair of shoulder pads that turn Mega Man into Power Mega Man.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_e030b382	comment	In PlanetSide 2, the Terran Republic and New Conglomerate get in on the doominess. TR Heavy Assault troopers have large circular shoulder guards, and both the TR MAX suit and NC MAX have doomy shoulders; the TR have huge circular guards, and the NC have armor plating which crosses into Vertical Mecha Fins
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Shoulders of Doom / int_e144ba19	comment	The Arishok in Dragon Age II. And in Dragon Age: Origins, just about anyone wearing massive armor. One shoulder tends to be bigger than the other, but either way, those are some seriously massive shoulders.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_e25322af	comment	Considered with Strong Mad's design. While not necessarily evil or armored, his rectilinear physique easily identifies him as the strongest of the Strongs.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_e293455a	comment	Miss French from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, "Teacher's Pet":
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Shoulders of Doom / int_e31f2cd8	comment	Heavy armor in Tribes: Ascend. Previous games had this to a lesser degree, but Ascend takes it to a whole new level◊. The shoulders are even bigger in-game.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_e863cc41	comment	FlashMan.EXE from Mega Man Battle Network 3. He had an attack that was removing the orbs on his shoulders, raising them up, and releasing a blinding, paralyzing light from it. Metal Man from the same also stored his giant Metal Wheel Boomerangs on his (already huge) shoulders.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_e9cb2780	comment	Gears of War: COG armor has prominent shoulder pads, the biggest example being Tai Kaliso's armor in Gears 2, which has an inexplicably huge shoulder guard on the right side. Largely averted in Gears 3 because very few characters have any armor on their arms at all. Notably averted with Cole, who is actually the only character that would have serious tackling skills, being a former thrashball player. His arms are so beefy that apparently they don't need any armor. Many Locust soldiers, particularly the Theron/Palace Guards, feature some very large shoulder armor.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_e9e265b6	comment	In Awakening, the shoulder pads that come standard with Knights and Generals are actually shown to be detachable from the rest of their armor◊, making them more practical than most other examples. The pauldrons of generic enemy knights are especially pronounced, forming a large, metal hood over their heads.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_eaeeea9b	comment	In the sequel, contrary to the page quote, Tychus does actually make two attempts at tackling people. One successful, one not as much.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_eb46e06a	comment	Tina Turner in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Not only her, but almost every bad guy in this movie. George Miller loves this trope.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_ef661e97	comment	M. Bison/Vega/"Dictator" from Street Fighter has massive shoulder pads. They hold a cape, which is apparently tear-away.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man: In his appearances in the Marvel vs. Capcom series, Mega Man's Hyper Megaman Limit Break not only temporarily upgrades him to a much larger form, but said form sports proportionately massive pauldrons. In Mega Man 6 Rush can turn into a huge pair of shoulder pads that turn Mega Man into Power Mega Man. The fully armored X in Mega Man X. FlashMan.EXE from Mega Man Battle Network 3. He had an attack that was removing the orbs on his shoulders, raising them up, and releasing a blinding, paralyzing light from it. Metal Man from the same also stored his giant Metal Wheel Boomerangs on his (already huge) shoulders. Mega Man Geo-Omega from Mega Man Star Force. Special mention goes to Punk. In both his Battle Network appearances and his place in the older Mega Man (Classic) games his shoulder pads were shells that could enclose his entire body. A similar design is used by Shield Sheldon from Mega Man X6. In both cases the shoulders are used for protection and performing special attacks so they're not exactly superfluous.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: Samus Aran's Power Suit. The giant shoulders appear starting with the Varia Suit in Super Metroid, which has increased shielding as well as the ability to function perfectly in more extreme temperatures, causing many players to suggest that some of the components for these features are housed in the shoulders. The giant shoulders came to be because in Metroid II: Return of Samus, the Game Boy didn't have color, so the developers drew the Varia Suit with big shoulder pads to show the player that they got a new suit. In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, the shoulders are the housing for the Hazard Shield upgrade, visibly changing after that upgrade is acquired. They make her PED Suit's shoulders have a larger profile. Metroid Dread plays with the trope, at least for the Dread Suit variations of this game's Power, Varia, and Gravity suits. Though the shoulders are somewhat large, they're not obtrusively so, letting Samus still have enough space to view whatever's on either side of her. It's most apparent with the Power Suit. The Gravity Suit's shoulders are noticeably larger, playing the trope straighter.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_f163bd9f	comment	Completely ignored in ElfQuest where pointy shoulders are just another fashion accessory.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_f216d15	comment	Moonrider, the protagonist of Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider, wears a pair of large pauldrons with demonic faces engraved on them.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_f412ce55	comment	Just about every Juggernaut in Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004 sports these.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_f565604d	comment	A given in Eyeshield 21, since all the major characters are football players. If anything, many of the antagonists appear to have smaller shoulder pads, because their bigger builds make the shoulder pads stand out less. As the extras best put it, "Shoulder pads make even our scrawny hero look like a man!"
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Shoulders of Doom / int_f74b5f80	comment	In Babylon 5, the military factions of the Minbari and Drazi races both sport pauldrons.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_f95a1dc9	comment	Space 1889 In 1889 many dress or parade uniforms from the Victorian era has epaulettes. For women the gigot sleeve or leg-of-mutton-sleeve was fashionable. The illustrations in the game reflect this.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers Lockdown of Transformers: Animated has these built into his body. With spikes. Somewhat appropriate, since he's a big, bad bounty hunter who lives for "upgrades". Bonus points might be awarded for his car mode, which has a huge spoiler to go with the look. Megatron and Blitzwing have, basically, towers for shoulders. So do Blurr and Bulkhead (the latter of which can turn his into a chair). Starscream's shoulders are pretty wide as well. Animated Megs had some pretty doomy shoulders in his Cybertronian body, but his Earth-mode ones are arguably closer to Vertical Mecha Fins. Are Blitzwing's shoulders vertical enough to qualify for that? Robots in Disguise Scourge has giant shoulders that actually make up the front of his truck mode, a design inherited from the Generation 2 Laser Optimus Prime toy he was based on. Also like said design, these also function as missile launchers. Armada featured several characters with giant shoulders - most notably Hot Shot, whose toy's demented grin and enormous shoulders provoked the "JaAm" and "WhY mY ShOuLdErS hUrT?" memes. Demolishor has missiles sticking out of his shoulders, and Megatron's extend into tank treads. Combined with his giant horns he looks ridiculous. And Optimus Prime has really chunky shoulders, as similar to the Laser Optimus Prime example, they form the front of his truck mode, and he has really fat tires. Beast Wars Transmetal Megatron has massive shoulder-pads that double as a jetpack. Other Beast Wars characters that have them include Transmetal Rattrap, Rampage and Dinobot II. Transmetal Tarantulas has a variation, with huge round shoulders that double as missile launchers. Primus sports massive shoulders in one of his designs◊. It's somewhat justified by the fact that his alternate mode is the planet Cybertron and his shoulders are just massive chunks of the planet. Almost every incarnation of Ultra Magnus has huge shoulder pads. Lampshaded in Prime.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_fcf34eec	comment	Full Metal Panic!: Let's just say that both the Arbalest and the Codarl has well-pronounced shoulders. May not count, but M9Es has two vertical armor plates mounted onto the upper arms.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_fe16b92c	comment	Happy Heroes: In the first two episodes, main villain Big M.'s armor has two shoulder pads with spikes on them, a feature that none of the other non-Monster of the Week villains have. They don't appear from episode 3 onwards.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_fe1b5414	comment	Mob Psycho 100: Muraki, one of the Scar bosses, wears these as part of his "super villain" aesthetic and for guarding his shoulders. Reigen flat out states what they're really for.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_fe83990a	comment	Saint Seiya: When Shun is possessed by Hades, part of his black robes included gold shoulders of doom.
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Shoulders of Doom / int_ff9ab17f	comment	The Romulans from Star Trek: The Next Generation wore truly fugly military tunics with massive shoulder padding, resembling a cross between a 1980's women's business suit and a quilted bedspread. Mercifully toned down on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and in Star Trek: Nemesis (although Jonathan Frakes would describe Shinzon's outfit as "a reject from Rollerball.")
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Shoulders of Doom / int_ff9ca30	comment	In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, the shoulders are the housing for the Hazard Shield upgrade, visibly changing after that upgrade is acquired. They make her PED Suit's shoulders have a larger profile.
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