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*** Made more baffling by the fact that earlier in the same scene the bullets are shown shooting through the front plate of a bulldozer. The bullets are also demonstrated by being fired into a vest hung on a stand. The bullet easily passes through both the front and back sides of the hanging vest, thus proving the bullets could easily penetrate a double thickness of vest.
* In ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'', [[Training from Hell|the introductory scene for Big Daddy and Hit Girl]]. Later she mentions that she wears kevlar all the way down to her underwear.
* A fantasy version appears in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', in the Mines of Moria. Frodo appears to be fatally stabbed by a cave troll, but soon after reveals that he's wearing an impenetrable shirt of [[Mithril]] beneath his coat. This also happens in the book, though he is stabbed by an orc and suffers a greater injury from the impact.
* The film ''[[Missing in Action]]'' features an on-the-run [[Chuck Norris]] buying a large raft-like speedboat made from "the same stuff that [[Bullet Proof Vests]] are made of". The salesman demonstrates this by getting into his handy-dandy rotating turret machine gun and putting a few hundred rounds into it, not getting a scratch on it. In reality, some boats are made from such material, but are hardly bulletproof. [[Chuck Norris]] heroically steals the super-boat by [[Ballistic Discount|holding up the salesman with his own turret gun]] and forcing him to accept a nominal sum.
* Notably averted in ''[[Black Hawk Down]]'', when the US soldiers remove the reinforced steel plate from their kevlar body armor before the mission to lighten their load. Because past experience had led them to assume that they would not be fired upon, the soldiers chose to sacrifice protection for maneuverability. Ultimately they find themselves in a heavy fire-fight and suffer casualties that might have been prevented by the steel plating. Ultimately the real event helped create a restructuring of military policy that prohibits soldiers in combat zones from leaving behind their assigned equipment, though some still do.
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** The effectiveness of body armor is highly underestimated. As [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7321647.stm this] article demonstrates, modern body armor can receive a full-contact grenade blast.
** Many army medics in Iraq reported that soldiers who survived an IED blast would often have shrapnel injuries on the limbs that would stop in a very neat line where their body armor started.
** The latest trend in body armor? Ballistic shorts which provide coverage to the groin area. This being intended to address a [[Groin Attack|major problem]] for troops riding in vehicles that roll over landmines or IEDs. Various styles are being evaluated, including "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130508144915/http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/ballistic-boxers-might-just-save-your-tail-1.122993 ballistic boxers]" to shorts made from more conventional body armor materials. [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s abound, obviously.
* A primitive version of such a vest is reputed to have been used by tax-gatherers. It consisted of a plank of wood hanging under the clothes on their back, and apparently it was not unknown for them to go about their business with arrows sticking out of it.
* [[w:Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]], outlaw and Australian [[Folk Hero]], is famous for his standoff with the police with him and his gang dressed in body armor forged from plow parts. Unfortunately for the gang, they didn't armor their legs and only Ned survived to sit trial.
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