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A [[Sub -Trope]] of [[Improvised Armour]]; one good way to start making it is putting a metal bucket, or, alternatively, a metal pot or colander, on your head. Most likely to be used by children.

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* The first [[Red Tornado]] was a woman who fought crime with a pot as a helmet on her head.

* At one point in one of the ''[[Pippi Longstocking (Literature)|Pippi Longstocking]]'' books, Pippi puts a bucket over her head as a helmet. It covers her eyes. She proceeds to trip over something and says it's a good thing she was wearing the bucket or she'd have hurt herself — to which Tommy and Annika comment that if she hadn't been wearing the bucket she wouldn't have tripped in the first place.

* Early in ''[[The Belgariad]]'', Garion and his friend play-fight using, among other kitchen implements, a pot helmet and [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|pot-lid shields]]. This does not go down well with his overprotective aunt, who is also the mistress of the kitchen.

* ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]'': Don Quixote couldn't find a helmet, so he used a barber's washbasin instead, making this trope [[Older Than Radio]].

** He ''had'' a proper helmet, but he threw it away for the traveling barber's bronze shaving basin, which the barber simply wore as a hat while traveling (à la Johnny Appleseed); Quixote in his dementia believed that the basin was a magical golden helmet that would give him courage, and so he liberated it from the barber, thinking him a thief of great treasures.

* During a ''[[Myth Busters (TV)|Myth BustersMythBusters]]'' test regarding how easily one could get lost in the wilderness in certain conditions, Adam and Jamie wore buckets on their heads to limit visibility to just a few feet. The technique was effective; Adam got lost, while Jamie only kept a straight path because of his wilderness survival training.

* One of the kids from ''[[Brave Fencer Musashi (Video Game)|Brave Fencer Musashi]]'' does this. His playmate's "helmet" is a woven basket -- hebasket—he uses this to convince her that his obviously superior bucket is a legendary artifact.

* ''[[Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game)|Plants vs. Zombies]]'': some zombies wear bucket helmets, which give them [[Heavily Armored Mook|quite a defense]] compared to normal ones.

** The bucket helmet is available as a hat in ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' for Soldier.

* One of the male Lilty designs in ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]'' is called "Bucket Head", which is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]].

* Donny in ''[[Fire Emblem: Awakening]]'' always wears a metal pot as a helmet, even after he promotes from a villager to a proper soldier.

* ''[[Boktai (Video Game)|Boktai]]'': Trinity wears one of these

* The main character of ''[[Heart of Darkness (Videovideo Gamegame)|Heart of Darkness]]'' wears a metal colander as a helmet.

* Corporal Paraplonk in ''[[Mario and& Luigi: BowsersBowser's Inside Story (Video Game)|Mario And Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' wears a plastic red bucket on his head -- thoughhead—though it's a little big for him, making his eyes peek out under the space between the handle and bucket itself.

* A bucket and a traffic cone are both cheap, if somewhat underwhelming, helmet options in ''[[Dungeons of Dredmor (Video Game)|Dungeons of Dredmor]]'' (in addition to finding them randomly, [[Item Crafting]] allows the player to make the latter, while the former can be upgraded to an actual, useful helmet).

* ''[[X -Men]]: Mutant Academy 2'', on the [[PS 1]], featured a pool party stage where all the characters had their costumes replaced by swimwear. Juggernaut wears a plastic sand bucket in placement of his helmet.

* In one of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' shorts from the ''Tracy Ullman Show'' days, Lisa and Maggie put cooking pots on their heads to play Space Patrol; Bart puts a vase on his head and it promptly slides down, blocking his vision.

* In an episode of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'', Die Fledermaus and Sewer Urchin had to infiltrate a group of supervillians by improvising evil costumes from a gardening shed. Sewer Urchin had a metal bucket with an angry face drawn on it over his head.

* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly:Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly's]] helmet was a real functional bulletproof helmet ''shaped'' like a bucket.

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