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[[File:ewoks_5110.jpg|link=Star Wars|frame|Damn it, why didn't we upgrade the [[Rock Beats Laser|anti-stick]] shielding on this armor?]]

 

'''Artimaeus''': ...Hector, it's a suit of armor. Men who wear them tend to do that. |''[[Tales of the Questor]]''}}

 

** The Jaffa in the original movie were more ceremonially dressed, and didn't wear armor, allowing O'Neill to take one down with a burst of submachine gun rounds into the exposed gut. The TV show had to tone down the violence though, and had armored Jaffa largely because bullet impacts on armor are less graphic than bloody chunks getting shot out of somebody. So the armor was more to protect the show's rating than the Jaffa themselves.

** Realistically averted in one episode where SG-1 is doing an operation on Earth wearing [[Bulletproof Vest|bulletproof vests]]. Col. Simmons shoots O'Neill twice in the back. One bullet is stopped by the vest and breaks a rib, the other hits him in his unarmored arm.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'': Each Rider has a bulky "Masked Form" and a sleek "Rider Form". Allegedly the Masked Form is tougher and better protected, but one cannot help noticing that the Riders invariably cast it off at the first opportunity and finish off the monster in Rider Form.

** The Riders in that series need to shed the heavier armor to use their finishing moves. Yeah, even the ones whose finishers use almost-completely external equipment (Drake and Sasword).

* Played straight in ''[[Gears of War]]'', where one of the FEW people wearing an honest helmet, Anthony [[Meaningful Name|Carmine]], gets sniped in the head early on, killing him. Though the helmet made him one of [[The Faceless]], despite being an actual character, his death was an in-joke to the developers, based off a study that showed people who wore helmets like that get shot more due to the lack of peripheral vision.

** Lampshaded in ''Gears of War 2'' though. During one level the group is complaining about the smell and even has to run through toxic gas at one point. The one member wearing a helmet points out that they wouldn't have this problem if they'd wear one. Also, the character with the helmet is the Benjamen Carmine, little brother of Anthony Carmine.

'''Marcus"''' ''"Dom..."'' }}

** In ''Gears of War 3'', Clayton Carmine, also wearing a helmet, is walking with the squad towards a COG base when a friendly sniper mistakes them for the Lambent, and shoots Clay in the head {{spoiler|only for the bullet to ricochet off Clay's helmet, prompting a shocked, "Jeez louise, what the ''fuck''?!"}}

* In ''[[Orion's Arm]]'' early space warfare is described as being like playing hide-and-seek with bazookas.

* [[Tobuscus]] parodies this in his [[With Lyrics|Literal Trailer]] for ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]''. The lyrics accompany Ezio defeating two pairs of guards with his Hidden Blades and throwing knives, respectively.