Bulletproof Vest: Difference between revisions

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== Film ==

* In the final scene of ''[[A ~~Fistfulof~~ Dollars]]'', The Man with No Name wears a metal plate under his serape. He goads Ramone to shoot him in the heart, which Ramone does repeatedly to little effect. Ramone is terrified and quickly wastes all his bullets.

* In the final scene of ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'', The Man with No Name wears a metal plate under his serape. He goads Ramone to shoot him in the heart, which Ramone does repeatedly to little effect. Ramone is terrified and quickly wastes all his bullets.

* In ''[[Back to The Future]]'', Doc Brown gets shot up at the beginning of the movie. After Marty [[Time Travel|time travels]] back to the 1955, he keeps trying to warn him, but Doc refuses, citing the integrity of the space-time continuum. Marty travels back to the present... just in time to see Doc get shot again. Marty runs over, mourning him... but, of course, Doc finally took the warning, and was wearing a Bullet Proof Vest. In the third movie, [[Genre Savvy]] Marty hides a stove door under his shirt to survive a gun duel, in homage to ''A Fistful of Dollars.''

** The stove piece is actual Truth in Television. During the era of the Wild West outlaws and sheriffs would occasionally don makeshift vests, and "iron shirt" if they heard an enemy was in town. The armor was typically the strongest flattest piece of steel or iron around, the back plate of a stove happened to be the perfect shape for this.

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* ''[[Snow Crash]]''. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Hiro]] [[Meaningful Name|Protagonist]] has a full set of motorbike "leathers" made of Arachnofiber, which appears to be Kevlar [[In Space]]. While wearing them, he is hit in the back by a volley of small arms fire, which he describes as like being massaged with several ball-peen hammers. And, of course, there is Raven, whose monomolecular-edged glass daggers and spears slice right through kevlar armor.

** Spider silk is impressive stuff. Bullet proof vests woven from almost any sort of silk-like material would put steel and kevlar to shame... but such materials are still totally impractical to make in bulk at the moment.

* [[Able Team]] (the 1980's [[Heroes-R-Us]] spin-off of ''[[The Executioner]]'') wore kevlar vests with a steel trauma plate insert, which came in useful when Carl Lyons got shot at point-blank range with an [[AKA 47]] in Cairo, leading to quips that he'd been shot in the head, and the terrorists had better issue armor-piercing ammo when 'The Ironman' came around.

* [[Able Team]] (the 1980's [[Heroes-R-Us]] spin-off of ''[[The Executioner]]'') wore kevlar vests with a steel trauma plate insert, which came in useful when Carl Lyons got shot at point-blank range with an [[AKA-47]] in Cairo, leading to quips that he'd been shot in the head, and the terrorists had better issue armor-piercing ammo when 'The Ironman' came around.

* In [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''For The Emperor'', [[Anti-Magic|Gunner Ferik Jurgen]] proves that imperial guard armor is not as useless as some people say: His helmet allows him to survive ''a bolter<ref>miniature rocket-propelled grenade</ref> shot to the head'', though it's made clear that a second shot would have [[Your Head Asplode|killed]] him (the helmet is destroyed). Granted, it was stormtrooper Carapace armor, not standard-issue Flak armor.

* In the [[Adam Hall]] spy novel ''[[Quiller|Quiller's Run]]'' the protagonist runs into a problem when he wears an anti-knife vest to a confrontation with a villainess who, up till now, has used knives -- only she [[Oh Crap|pulls out a revolver]] and blasts him six times in the chest. Fortunately the vest still stops the bullets.

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* Bubushka's life is saved twice by the bulletproof corset she wears under in her clothes in the [[Young Bond]] novel ''By Royal Command''.

* In the Alex Rider book ''Snakehead'', Ash reveals that his entire team was wearing bulletproof vests, and the mission completely went wrong because when Yassen shot him in the chest, he got back up. Yassen, being smarter than the average bear, then proceeds to shoot the rest of the team in the head. And then Ask screwed up the mission even more.

* [[The Dresden Files (Literature)|Harry Dresden]] has his [[Badass Longcoat|duster]] enchanted to be very resilient, to the point where the only thing that has penetrated it after enchantment is a shot from a [~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_M82~~ .50 caliber rifle]. In an aversion, the readers found out that his duster was enchanted pretty early in the book. Played straight with Murphy's reaction to the shot, however.

* [[The Dresden Files (Literature)|Harry Dresden]] has his [[Badass Longcoat|duster]] enchanted to be very resilient, to the point where the only thing that has penetrated it after enchantment is a shot from a [[wikipedia:Barrett M82|.50 caliber rifle]]. In an aversion, the readers found out that his duster was enchanted pretty early in the book. Played straight with Murphy's reaction to the shot, however.

** {{spoiler|Butters is luckily wearing a conventional vest when he's shot}} in ''Changes''.

** Murphy, a professional [[Action Girl]], never forgets to wear her west when it's time to do some ass kicking. As ''Aftermath'' revealed, working with Dresden has convinced her to also let Charity Carpenter (wife of a modern-day [[Paladin]]) reinforce her vest with ''chainmail'' to deflect bladed weapons.

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** Not an issue, as ''Army Men'' is about the little green plastic kind of army men (Who shoot the little tan, red, and blue plastic kind of army men) and never pretends to be any more accurate about details than a toy would be.

* The game ''Postal 2'' has Kevlar and Ceramic Armor, which reduce damage until destroyed.

* The [[Jagged Alliance]] games come with a range of body armour, helmets and, in Jagged Alliance 2, armoured trousers, as well as handy chemicals with which to reinforce them. These range from the common or garden flak jacket and steel helmet, which is about as effective as putting on an extra T-shirt, to full-body [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Ultra_high_molecular_weight_polyethylene~~ Spectra], which will let you survive a point-blank burst from an M16 with only multiple flesh wounds (and sudden severe exhaustion on account of having the wind knocked out of you). There's also a kevlar-reinforced leather biker jacket, which is the only body armour upgrade one character will agree to wear.

* The [[Jagged Alliance]] games come with a range of body armour, helmets and, in Jagged Alliance 2, armoured trousers, as well as handy chemicals with which to reinforce them. These range from the common or garden flak jacket and steel helmet, which is about as effective as putting on an extra T-shirt, to full-body [[wikipedia:Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene|Spectra]], which will let you survive a point-blank burst from an M16 with only multiple flesh wounds (and sudden severe exhaustion on account of having the wind knocked out of you). There's also a kevlar-reinforced leather biker jacket, which is the only body armour upgrade one character will agree to wear.

** Jagged Alliance 2 also allows various attachments to armour like knee protectors and armour plate inserts. Full SWAT gear with inserts and no damage gives an insane amount of damage resistance that can make non-armour-piercing rounds do 0 damage if they hit. You don't even want to ''know'' how much damage the EOD Suits can resist. Really.

* All the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games have body armor that act as a second health bar. Depending on the game, it won't protect you from drowning, hunger, car explosions (while inside them) and high falls.

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