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{{quote|''It isn't the scarlet sash and the fancy hat that makes you a commissar, it's the way you wear them.''|'''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'''}}
A subtrope of both [[Nice Hat]] and [[Bling of War]]. A large, high [[wikipedia:Peaked cap|peaked cap]] similar to those worn by [[Banana Republic]] [[Glorious Leader|dictators]]. The trope namer is ''[[Warhammer
Sometimes, especially if the cap in question is black with silver piping, it's [[Putting on the Reich]].
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* Chiri Kitsu in an episode of Zoku ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'', when she subjects the teachers and other students to surprise inspections in order to catch them unprepared.
* Chocolat from ''[[Sorcerer Hunters]]'' wears one of these ([[Stripperiffic|and little else]]) when she's in "combat mode".
* Washizaki from ''[[Riki
* [[Visionary Villain|Kanako Watanabe]] of [[Star Driver]] wears one of these as part of her Glittering Crux outfit.
* Russia in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' wears one occasionally.
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* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|Blackblood]] in ''[[ABC Warriors]]'' has a head shaped like one of these.
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== Literature ==
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''His Last Command'', when Ludd is sent to get troops to the battlefield, he loses his cap getting
* The [[Honor Harrington|Grayson Space Navy's]] uniforms seem to be modeled after the US Air Force, so naturally they have these, complete with gold oak leaves and lightning bolts. It's stated that they seem to weigh at least 3 kilograms and cause the title character to feel like "some comic-opera costumer's idea of a prespace military dictator".
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer
** As noted above, the Commissars. Arguably a case of [[Putting on the Reich]] as well, as many commissars tend to wear black hats with skulls and eagle wings prominently displayed on the front. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] indeed. [[Commie Nazis]] [[In Space]]! ''[[Church Militant|Catholic]]'' [[Commie Nazis]] [[In Space]]
** Commissar [[Ciaphas Cain]] [[The So-Called Coward|would, on the whole]], [[Combat Pragmatist|prefer a helmet]].
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== Video Games ==
* The Commissar's Helm in ''[[Warhammer Online]]'' can only be accessed by entering a code found in copies of ''[[Command
* Naturally, some of the Soviet Officers in the ''[[Command
* M. Bison from ''[[Street Fighter]]'' is never seen without his hat, except in one DLC costume. To further stress the [[Putting on the Reich]] aspect, the metal Shadaloo symbol on the front looks rather earily like a mix between the Nazi "Reichsadler" and the SS "Totenkopf" motif. And now Cammy has one, as of her second DLC costume.
* General Ahkboob from ''Total Carnage'' ("You suck at this game.")
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* ''[[Hogs of War]]'': Fully promote a pig to the Hero rank, and they get one of these hats.
* Worn by Crow in ''[[Fragile Dreams]]: Farewell Ruins of the Moon''
* Salvatore in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' wears a black one.
* Raidou Kuzunoha of ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]]'' and ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha VS King Abaddon]]'' wears one of these at all times, even when in the bath.
* The Chapeau of High Inquisitor Sally Whitemane in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. [[Randomly Drops|With a little luck, it can be yours.]]
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** Rocky the Flying Squirrel would occasionally wear one while announcing a commercial break.
** It was certainly a must for Fearless Leader.
* The "Banana Republic" in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' and Thembria in ''[[Tale Spin]]'' have people wearing these hats. Baloo wears one as well, albeit a less decorated one.
== Real Life ==
* Played straight in Real Life in the 1990s with [[Russians With Rusting Rockets]] and Russian cops. Unlike [[Reds with Rockets]], they have these as part of uniform. But the caps are going to be abolished soon, replaced with smaller ones in the older Soviet style. Soviet officers did often have this kinds of caps as part of the dress uniform (hence the trope name), though Soviet caps were not quite as large as modern ones.
** An overview of Soviet uniform caps may be found [http://www.undertheredstar.com/ here], showing civilian and military caps from various decades, with different
** Modern huge peaked caps are disliked among the Russian military, derisively known as [[Banana Republic|"Pinochet caps"]]. They are also a case of [[Sukhomlinov Effect]], becoming larger and more fanciful as the Russian army weakened and grew underequipped and undertrained.
** As of recent years, Russian military funding has risen again, and coincidentally, they have adopted smaller caps lacking the double-headed eagle of the Russian federation and look similar to Soviet caps.
* Across the world, this is a common feature of the uniform of high-ranking officers in the military and many civilian law-enforcement agencies in many Western nations have something like this as part of the uniform (or at least the dress uniform). In most of these cases, however, they tend to be smaller and a bit more modest than the stereotypical authoritarian model.
** On the other hand, for much of the Cold War, large-crowned American caps were bigger than their Soviet counterparts.
** The hat worn by Royal Air Force officers is nearly a subversion of the trope. Small and with horribly bent edges that sag downwards, it harks back to the time that all RAF officers were pilots and their hats were much abused, normally stuffed away in some pocket and thus scuffed and worn. In all other words, a mess, and in contrast to the hats worn by other ranks which are rather smart.
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