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[[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|Shields]] can have some amazing and intricate designs on them. In particular, those resembling faces. Probably for intimidation.
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== [[Classical Mythology]] ==
* [[Lady of War|Athena]]'s shield has Medusa's head on it. Not a design, Medusa's ''actual [[Off
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Third edition ''[[Dungeons
** In the first edition ''Dungeons and Dragons'' Monster Manual, an illustration for the kobold had a fighter with a giant ant's head on his shield.
* Some of the dwarven lord units in ''[[Warhammer
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Mirror Shield in ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* Very prominent in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' — just to show two examples: [http://www.wowhead.com/item=45877 Humanoid], [http://www.wowhead.com/item=2916 Lion].
* In the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, there is the Aegis shield, a shield that brings terror to all who behold it, and contains a demon within. Said demon's face is on the shield.
* The ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series has numerous examples. The Boss Shield and Tempest Shield have standard intimidating faces, while the Slime Shield bears the face of everyone's favorite [[Mascot Mook]].
** The Harmour/Evil Armor enemy class has a skull face shield, and the Shielder enemies have shields bigger than their bodies with living faces.
* In ''[[Morrowind]]'', both varieties of Daedric shields have some pretty angry looking faces carved into them.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The paladin from the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (
* Monkian from ''[[
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