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Useless Accessory
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An accessory which characters never actually use, but which is noticeable enough that they must consciously choose to wear it. For example, a Discredited Trope from The Dark Age of Comic Books was superhero costumes featuring a large number of pouch-covered belts and harnesses - which never actually seemed to be used, since most of these heroes relied on their powers rather than on gadgets. |
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Kingdom Hearts II adds hoods to Sora and Kairi's new outfits. Sora never actually uses his in-game, but its inclusion at least makes sense, considering his original outfit had a hood as well. Kairi has a hood on her spaghetti strap short dress for no conceivable reason: it's just there because it is. | |
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The Hyrule Warriors incarnation of Link gets a Scarf of Asskicking for no other reason than to look cool. It's especially gratuitous as he doesn't wear it when he's first introduced as a knight; he gets the scarf later on when he receives the traditional hero's garb. What makes this weird is that no other incarnation of the character has a scarf as part of the costume, meaning the people who gave it to him added a scarf to the ensemble for no adequately explained reason. | |
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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII has a deliberate example in adornments, which exist just for cosmetic purposes. The game does have actual accessories that provide benefits, but don't appear on Lightning. | |
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Yuuno's side-pouch in Lyrical Nanoha, which we never see him use. Some Fan Web Comics (Omake (?)) have made speculations on what he places in there◊. | |
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Count Saint Germain from Castlevania (2017) wears an hourglass prominently around his neck. It may be a reference to his video game counterpart, but in the show it doesn't seem to have any purpose. | |
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Yoh's headphones from Shaman King. They're such an integral part of his character that seemingly every villain calls him "headphones" at one point or another, but he stops using them after the first few chapters. Supposedly he has them in the first place to block out other people's thoughts. How headphones help avoid mind-reading is another big question. In reality they belong to his father and he stole them so he could feel closer to him. |
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The Red Green Show: Edgar, the local explosives enthusiast, wears hearing protectors behind his ears. There's a reason he's hard of hearing. | |
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In RuneScape, among the myriad of armor and weapons, several pieces of equipment offer no stat bonuses whatsoever, such as the Brass Necklace and Cyclopean Helmet, relegated to only serving cosmetic purposes. | |
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The Kongs of the Donkey Kong franchise wear accessories such as neckties, hats, shirts, etc. that only exist so you can tell who's who. | |
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Kim Possible: Kim and Ron's commando mission suits in "A Sitch In Time". Shego's supervillain outfit has a leg pouch she's never been seen to use. Then again... |
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Fraggle Rock: Mokey Fraggle has always worn a pull-tab ring as a pendant. Midway through Season 2, she also begins wearing a drawstring pouch on her necklace. No one ever refers to it, though, and it's unknown what she keeps in it. | |
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Sailor V's mask is this. Unlike Sailor Moon's similar mask in the manga it has no point aside from obscuring her face. When she becomes Sailor Venus she continues to wear it offscreen for a bit and during her introduction (probably so viewers/readers know that she and Sailor V are the same person) ditches it once she joins the team and her identity is never revealed due to it. | |
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Bender and many other robots in Futurama have antenna that serve no apparent purpose, which gets a Lampshade Hanging several times. First when the thing turned out to be interfering with the satellite transmission in his new apartment, and Fry says he should just cut it off since it doesn't do anything, after which it's treated as a robot equivalent of his penis. Again when it's suggested he has a toilet somewhere in his body and pushing down on it flushes. Subverted again when Mom says most people think she puts antenna on her robots just to make them "more science-fictiony" but they really let her take control of everything with a remote control. | |
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Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot wears flippers all the time, in case he needs to swim. | |
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Stage dressing example: French musical duo Justice perform on-stage behind a giant modular synthesizer setup named "Valentine"◊, surrounded by a series of 18 Marshall Cabinets and a giant lit cross. None of this equipment is functional. | |
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This is the purpose (or lack thereof) of all the nice hats and other cosmetics in Team Fortress 2. | |
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On certain Minecraft skins, weapons, armor, and other such things are present, but are purely aesthetic. | |
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Doctor Who: The Doctor usually has rather Rummage Sale Reject costumes, but the fifth Doctor also wore a piece of celery in his lapel. It was eventually explained in his final episode as a precaution against a particular poisonous gas. The producer and script editor had intended to leave it as inexplicable, but the actor, Peter Davison, insisted a reason for the celery be given before he left. |
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A lesser example is how Captain Falcon refrains from using his personal sidearm in the games as well. Doesn't stop him from using Ray Guns and Super Scopes, though. | |
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Used on-and-off by Deadpool, whose pouches are almost never used. When they are used, they have contained action figures (of himself), wallet, keys, and (on one occasion) a pancreas. Then again, he's Deadpool. Logic doesn't work on him. | |
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Implemented, much to fans' chagrin, in the Super Smash Bros. series with Ganondorf's sword. Ganondorf likes to show off his sword after winning matches or taunting, but he never actually uses it. To quote Masahiro Sakurai, the lead developer of Super Smash Bros. Brawl: "What are you putting it away for? Use it! People tend to make fun of Ganondorf for this." Really, though, it seems the developers were making fun of the fans with it until the fourth game did allow the use of it as a replacement move for the Warlock Punch and Ultimate had him use it in his smash attacks. A lesser example is how Captain Falcon refrains from using his personal sidearm in the games as well. Doesn't stop him from using Ray Guns and Super Scopes, though. |
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