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Tinfoil Hat
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })When a writer wants to establish a character as a Conspiracy Theorist, a Crazy Survivalist, or another kind of paranoid Cloudcuckoolander, they usually give them hats made out of tinfoil to wear, ostensibly to protect themselves from The Government's Mind Control rays. As The Other Wiki can tell you, however, aluminium actually has very little shielding effect and covering just the top of the head with it leaves the rest of the body (including the bottom of the head) "unprotected", anyway. (In fact, if improperly made, the tinfoil could amplify any radiation reaching the head.) So whoever is wearing it must be... funny in the head to begin with. Or the more sinister interpretation: the whole idea that tinfoil will protect you is Just What They Want You To Think. To elaborate: To shield off radiation, you need steel. Electromagnetic waves consist of alternating areas of electric fields and magnetic fields. To reflect them, you need a material that shorts both electric fields and magnetic fields. In terms of shorting electric fields, any metal (being conductors) does an adequate job — aluminium (which so called tinfoil is usually made of, despite its name) is even a very good conductor — but to short magnetic field you need a ferromagnetic metal, like iron, nickel or cobalt. As iron is seldom used nowadays, the best choice is steel (an alloy of iron, carbon and tiny amounts of other components). Just take a look at a video-recorder: Videorecorders may have fancy chassis made of aluminium, but if you look inside, you will see a small box behind the coaxial connectors, where the aerial is connected, containing the high frequency circuitry. This box is made of steel in order to shield the radiation. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Of course, this assumes the threat is actually radiative in nature. It isn't really clear where this stereotype originated, though. After all, how many actual conspiracy theorists do you know of who wear these? For when a Tinfoil Hat actually does protect the Properly Paranoid wearer, see also Artistic License – Nuclear Physics and Fantastic Radiation Shielding. This trope includes both properly paranoid and simply paranoid examples. Compare also Manifesto-Making Malcontent, where manifestos are used as a similar material shorthand for potentially dangerous weirdos. |
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Inverted in The Salvation War, where demonic mind control and illusion powers can be blocked by foil and the story gets much mileage out of this, including the line "There will always be eccentrics who deny that the tin foil hat is absolutely essential to prevent baldricks taking over your mind." | |
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In Deponia Doomsday it's shown that a tinfoil hat stuffed with straw will provide Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory necessary for a time traveler. Rufus, luckily, has a de facto built-in version thanks to a metal plate in his head. | |
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A variation in CSI: NY's "Consequences." A schizophrenic woman "captures" a badly injured paintball player, thinking he's an alien and that the green paint oozing all over his gear is his blood. She has metal colanders hanging from the ceiling throughout her apartment, and offers for Stella and Flack to put them on so their thoughts won't be captured. Naturally, they decline. | |
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On an episode of Fringe Walter wears a tinfoil hat at Massive Dynamic headquarters to defend against mindreading/Mind Control projects, and convinces Astrid to do the same. In context, it's actually a credible concern. | |
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Some NetHack variants include these; wearing one blocks both incoming and outgoing telepathy. | |
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The 1st Membranes have tinfoil helmets as part of their standard gear. It helps block out the Warp from the Guards' minds. | |
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Pilgrennon's Children: Alpha, Peter, and Dana spend part of Pilgrennon's Beacon wearing foil-lined hats so the evil supercomputer Cerberus won't be able to detect their brain-computer interfaces. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Inverted in "Foil": It's not to protect him from the signals, it's to amplify them, since if there are such signals, they're probably very important. | |
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In Freefall, Edge's protection from the lobotomizing program. Subverted in that in this case, since he is an AI and the program would be coming in on the com-net (basically wi-fi) since he has disabled all other means of communication except speech, aluminum foil covering his receiver would be enough to weaken or distort the signal enough to protect him from its effects. | |
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Played seriously in The War Against the Chtorr. The Telepathy Corps has been known to implant people without their knowledge, and even if you find out about it the only thing you can do is wear an iron cap for the rest of your life if you don't want thousands of telepaths being able to see and hear and feel everything that you're doing. | |
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Whateley Universe: A Devisor, Dr. Herbolt, used his powers to make tin foil hats that blocked psychic intrusion, but because they are powered by his power, they might not work for anyone else. There's no info on that latter point. | |
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More of a hat in spirit, in Series 7: The Contenders, the ceiling of competitor Franklin's trailer is lined with tinfoil, and his personality follows suit (YMMV on whether it's played straight—along with the rest of the movie). | |
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In Skin Horse, Jonah has the "attenuator", a colander with wires sticking out of it, which he believes is why he and Nera were unaffected when the Weirdness Censor suddenly went nationwide. (Other evidence, however, suggests that being regularly in contact with the weirdness increases your chance of not being affected somewhat anyway.) | |
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The tin-foil hat was an April Fool's Day item created by Blizzard to parody player paranoia about their character information being searchable on the World of Warcraft armory. | |
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In an episode of The Finder the Finder wears an aluminum foil hat. The client (Hodgins from Bones) mocks him, but it really does help block the government from interfering with your brain waves so you can move. | |
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Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube. He wears one of these during portions of "Scam Call Turns NUCLEAR Over $1M" to reinforce the idea of an old lady in a home where her husband is conducting dangerous experiments with a daisy-chain of microwaves, hoping to create the world's first macrowave. | |
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The Glades: The Victim of the Week of the "Close Encounters" episode was a millionaire who believed that he was abducted by an UFO and had a few foil hats scattered through his mansion. | |
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Being a paranoid cuckoo girl, Sticks of Sonic Boom inevitably references this in "My Fair Sticksy". She mentions one of her town defense system modes is meant to counter people trying to read her thoughts. According to her, it's a series of tinfoil-lined paddles to smack away telepathic signals. Or maybe just smack the mind readers themselves. | |
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In Ever World, Senna gets into a mentally-ill homeless man's head, telling him he should have remembered to wear his tinfoil hat as she makes him go yell disturbing things outside Jalil's house. | |
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Thimbleweed Park has a pirate hat wrapped in tinfoil. It doesn't protect against mind control, but it does reflect some real lasers used by the PillowTron AI. Chet, one of the characters in the game, goes far further than a tinfoil hat: He tinfoils the entire inside of the giant novelty pizza costume he's wearing. | |
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For the King has a headwear item called the Iron Foil Hat, which resembles a tinfoil hat in appearance and confers immunity to mind-related status effects such as stun, confuse, and frighten. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins has a headwear item called the Conspirator's Foil, whose description is a clear-cut reference to this trope. The hat gives the wearer a boost to mental defenses, but lowers their social skills because "it causes observers to suspect you of paranoia." | |
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In the Pegasus trilogy, one character wears a metal skullcap to block out mind-reading. This is actually effective against telepaths in this 'verse. Doesn't help much if the psychic has made skin-to-skin contact, though. | |
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The Occult Adventures companion book for Pathfinder introduces the "tin cap" item, which grants its wearer a bonus to resisting mind-altering effects and divination spells that gather information about them, but saps the mind of the wearer and induces paranoia that makes the player throw a saving roll against any effect, including harmless ones. The book also introduces a more powerful "stannum crown", which provides complete immunity to the aforementioned effects, but can only be removed by the wearer and requiring a saving throw that grows more difficult the longer the crown is worn. | |
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In The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen wear them occasionally. Also, a policeman suggests they all get one in their Origins Episode when he realizes what kind of kooks he is dealing with. | |
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In the fourth season of Farscape a Sheriff (or deputy) encountered by Moya's crew when they land on Earth in 1985 via time travel turns up again showing off a tinfoil-lined baseball cap on TV in 2003 when the crew returns. In his defense, he did receive several doses of one of Noranti's potions during the first visit. | |
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FreakAngels: Karl wears one in order to block out his telepathic link with the rest of the gang, not out of paranoia as such but because they mostly use said link for inane bickering, Seinfeldian Conversations and alternately complaining and bragging about their sex lives and he finds it incredibly annoying. It's not clear if the aluminium works because Psychic Powers use the electromagnetic spectrum or if it works because Karl believes it should work, but it certainly makes him feel better. | |
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In the second Special Operation for Marvel: Avengers Alliance, which introduced Emma Frost (one of the game's first truly psychic heroes), one of the random daily rewards was a Bauxite Interference Helmet, which could be used as an item to prevent psychic attacks on the character it was used on. Bauxite is the ore from which aluminum is extracted, making it a (very high-tech-looking) tinfoil hat. | |
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In Destroy All Humans!, you occasionally encounter humans wearing tinfoil hats. And Crypto can't read their minds. | |
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Blood Is Mine: Grizwald, the local Conspiracy Theorist, naturally has one The protagonists need to do something about their minds being scrambled by an angry ghost, and tinfoil hats come up as the most popular suggestion. Unsuprisingly, it works. |
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Chuck in Better Call Saul wears a foil thermal blanket whenever he wants to go outside. Though not a true tinfoil hat (thermal blankets are made of plastic), when coupled with his belief that it protects him from harmful electromagnetic radiation, it definitely invokes the imagery. | |
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The Sims 4: In the "Get To Work" expansion pack Sims in the Scientist career track can unlock a tinfoil hat as a reward for getting promoted. In the "Strangerville" game pack a version made out of a colander and Christmas lights can be purchased from a Conspiracy Theorist who claims it will protect you from the mysterious plant infecting the town. | |
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L.A. Noire features a street mission in which Phelps has to chase down a tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist. | |
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Karl from FreakAngels wears one at all times to block his telepathic link to the rest of the group, because they mostly seem to use it for inane bickering, Seinfeldian Conversations and complaining about how crap their sex lives are. A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read indeed... It's not clear whether or not it works because their telepathic link uses radio waves or if it works because he thinks it ought to, but it makes him feel better. | |
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In "Olivia and Her Alien Brother" from Olivia, Olivia wears one and has her friend Julian do the same, under the mistaken impression that her "older bother" Ian is an alien studying intelligent life forms on Earth and plotting to get rid of all little sisters. | |
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Eastenders character Joe Wicks was briefly portrayed constructing and wearing his own tin-foil hat as part of a storyline which saw him suffering from schizophrenia. | |
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Dollhouse: Senator Perrin goes public accusing the Rossum Corporation of unethical practices, hoping that it will encourage witnesses to come forward. The following episode he's griping that the only witness so far is a guy in a tinfoil hat claiming that Rossum mailed his liver to Saturn. | |
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Them's Fightin' Herds: Cashmere sells Arizona a tinfoil hat in the first chapter, claiming it will cloak her from "cosmic entities residing just beyond the veil". | |
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The crazy conspiracy theorist in Noroi: The Curse takes it one step further and wears an outfit made of tin foil. Later, he turns out to be right about how much he needed it. | |
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In The Greening Wars Hatchet's old "friend" Codex was wearing a tinfoil hat when they visited his bunker. But then again his former employers had put a tracking chip in his head. | |
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Deconstructed in Freeman's Mind, where Freeman reasons that, assuming mind reading is possible despite not showing up on any known spectrum, a tinfoil hat would conduct any signal that the wearer is concerned about. He concludes that you'd have better chances with a lead helmet coated in rubber. | |
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On Regular Show, Mordecai and Rigby make foil hats when using Pops' '80s era cell phones, after he warned them that they cause tumors. | |
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In the Futurama movie "Into The Wild Green Yonder," Fry gains mind reading powers, and immediately gets bombarded with brain-chatter from everyone around him. A member of a secret society of mind-readers teaches him to wear a tin foil hat to block out other people's thoughts, and to keep other telepaths from reading his mind. | |
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Oliver does this in Hannah Montana, but it's really more of a parody, because he wants Joanie to think he's insane and dump him. | |
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Dogen Boole in Psychonauts wears a tinfoil hat he claims prevents him from accidentally making people's heads explode with his Psychic Powers. | |
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Questionable Content: Momo, normally excruciatingly polite, snarkily offers to make one for another AnthroPC. It Makes Sense in Context of the conversation. | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball, Mr. Small wore this when he says he's aware of many things in Elmore disappearing like Janice. It turns out he was right when Gumball and Darwin noticed Molly was missing and they all went to the Void to rescue her and Janice. Tinfoil hats were worn so they are aware of the existence of the Void and at earlier times, change one's luck like in "The Helmet". | |
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Starsky & Hutch: Commander Jim from "Lady Blue" believes brain rays from Alpha Centauri are torturing and mind controlling him. To protect himself, he not only wears aluminum foil under all his clothes but also decorates his entire apartment with it, even wrapping it around his desk lamps. | |
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On Good Eats, Alton wears a foil fedora and a metallic suit, while he's inside of a grill, explaining how a grill works, how it can be a problematic method for cooking chicken, and how to get around these problems. Unlike most examples, it's not worn to keep radio signals from messing with his head or anything along those lines, but simply because it's cool. In an earlier episode about pot roast, Alton wants to use some foil for braising the meat while cooking pot roast at his neighbor Chuck's trailer home. There's no foil to be had in the kitchen, but there's plenty of it on the roof of the trailer, formed into a satellite dish. When questioned, Chuck responds that he got the idea from a neighbor of his who wears foil on his head to block mind-controlling signals from the government. Alton tells him to take the satellite dish down so they can use the foil for the pot roast. |
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Most of the main characters in Signs wind up wearing one at some point before the end of the movie. The scene gets parodied in Scary Movie 3, where the hats are giant Hershey's Kisses. | |
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A variant in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: the cops arresting Mentok the Mindtaker wear helmets lined with aluminum as that blocks Mentok's mindtaking powers. Metal plates also block them, as he found out when he tried taking daredevil Ernie Devlin's mind. | |
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Subverted in Welcome to Night Vale: the Sheriff's Secret Police advise (through Cecil) that tinfoil hats are useless against mind-scanning helicopters, which could scan someone's brain even if they were behind twenty feet of lead. Mostly, the Secret Police are sick and tired of everyone believing this works and wearing such silly things in public. | |
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An episode of OutsideXtra had host Luke decking his baseball cap in tinfoil to prevent being possessed by Mario throwing his hat and possessing people. His co-host Ellen thinks that ridiculous, only for third co-host Andy to show up talking like Mario wearing the plumber's trademark hat. Ellen then steals the tinfoil hat so Luke can be possessed. | |
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NYPD Blue: While on desk duty Sipowicz gets a call from a psychotic Conspiracy Theorist. Sipowicz suggest (in as close to Sincerity Mode as possible) that he make a tin foil hat in order to block the rays the government is allegedly sending to his head. | |
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In an episode of Stroker and Hoop entitled "Tinfoiled Again (a.k.a. Star Crossed Livers)", Stroker wore a tin foil hat to protect himself from being psychically manipulated by Ron Howard. | |
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In The Dark Tower, Randall Flagg has one of these. Allegedly, it actually works against most forms of mind control magic, but it doesn't work on the villain he's facing, Mordred. | |
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Wander over Foster's AU One-Shot: Bloo being a conspiracy theorist is accentuated by his plans to make tin foil hats to protect his mind from being controlled by Wander. However, in this case, Bloo's theory that Wander is an alien is actually correct. | |
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Phantom Doctrine: One of the bits of intel that you recover contains this conversation: | |
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In The Darkside Detective, one of Dooley's conspiracy theorist colleagues believes that wearing a tinfoil hat will help keep the Man from tracking him down. | |
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GURPS Illuminati actually gives a bonus on resisting Mind Control Lasers to people wearing a tinfoil hat.fnord It's just +1 though, so it doesn't make much difference. | |
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In X-Ray & Vav, Rusty wears one as soon as he hears about The Corpirate's brainwashing ray, and it actually works | |
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In the Mistborn books, aluminum cannot be affected by Allomantic powers, so adding it to a hat in The Alloy of Law protects the wearer against Emotion Control. | |
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Venetian Princess mentions wearing one in her The End Is Nigh (spoof of Lady Gaga's "You and I") to protect against solar flares. | |
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As soon as aliens appear in Legends of Tomorrow this makes an obligatory appearance, with Spooner Cruz putting tinfoil on the inside of her cowboy hat—she can sense aliens and uses it to block them out. | |
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Episode 32 of Half in the Bag has a paranoid Jay surmise that Mr. Plinkett has become wise to his and Mike's schemes and placed a tracking beacon in their heads, and wears one of these to block it. The hat winds up interfering with a media satellite, causing Battleship and Dark Shadows to be downloaded directly into his brain. When Mr. Plinkett tries to download Ken Burns documentaries by wearing one of these, he gets a burst gamma radiation and becomes dumber. | |
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A tinfoil Hat appears as a helmet in BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm. It provides decent defense and resists all elements with the downside of reducing your INT to zero. | |
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In the early Artemis Fowl books, the paranoid centaur Foaly always wears a tin-foil hat. In the second book he throws it away in frustration after being trapped in his own hermetically sealed command center. | |
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A variation on this trope is used in Gravity Falls. In the episode "The Last Mabel Corn" it is revealed that Uncle Ford has lined his skull with metal to prevent the series antagonist Bill Cipher from possessing him or entering his mind without realizing it. | |
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In I Sit Behind The Eyes, Terry's Uncle is an eccentric Parapsychologist who wears one for work. It doesn't do much good, as the title Entity enters people through the mouth. | |
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