Face Design Shield



Shields can have some amazing and intricate designs on them. In particular, those resembling faces. Probably for intimidation.

No, this isn't about masks.

Classical Mythology

 * Athena's shield has Medusa's head on it. Not a design, Medusa's actual severed head.

Tabletop Games

 * Third edition Dungeons and Dragons had a Lion's Head Shield.
 * In the first edition Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual, an illustration for the kobold had a fighter with a giant ant's head on his shield.
 * Some of the dwarven lord units in Warhammer feature dwarven heads carved into their shields.

Video Games

 * The Mirror Shield in The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask.
 * Very prominent in World of Warcraft — just to show two examples: Humanoid, Lion.
 * In the Final Fantasy series, there is the Aegis shield, a shield that brings terror to all who behold it, and contains a demon within. Said demon's face is on the shield.
 * The Dragon Quest series has numerous examples. The Boss Shield and Tempest Shield have standard intimidating faces, while the Slime Shield bears the face of everyone's favorite Mascot Mook.
 * The Harmour/Evil Armor enemy class has a skull face shield, and the Shielder enemies have shields bigger than their bodies with living faces.
 * In Morrowind, both varieties of Daedric shields have some pretty angry looking faces carved into them.
 * The Defender Heartless in Kingdom Hearts possesses a shield with a living, giant dog's head growing out of it. And it Randomly Drops as one of Goofy's stronger shields.
 * One of the Dragon Age II pre-order items was the Lion of Orlais shield which had the face of a... well, guess.
 * Arcane Shield from Arcanum is a wooden shield with a skull face "surfacing" from it.
 * Guild Wars has several - the Ascalon Aegis (and it's variants), the Guardian of the Hunt, and most prominently, the Gingerbread Shield are just three such examples.

Web Original

 * The logo of the Knights of Good on The Guild has a shield with a smiley emoticon.

Western Animation

 * The paladin from the Dungeons and Dragons' cartoon series had a pegasus on it.
 * Monkian from Thunder Cats has a shield with a face that shoots cannonballs.