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* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Misato wears an anti-radiation suit when she tries to stop Jet Alone's nuclear reactor manually
* Used as part of [[The Reveal]] in the manga, ''[[Cage of Eden]]'', where the heroes find a long abandoned research facility complete with broken [[People Jars]], the DNA samples collected from every animal in the world in cultivation centers, models of the former extinct animals they had to fight the first time they crash landed on the mysterious island, and the aforementioned hazmat suits hanging around, which clues them that the everything on the island was the result of a secret experiment gone wrong.
* ''[[Darker than Black]]'' shows the field researcher teams in [[Eldritch Location|the Hell's Gate]] wearing these. Not that it helped much, but at least very lucky ones survived... and even weren't ''visibly'' affected. Most of sniffing around is done via remotely controlled robots, and even this involves visions highly disturbing to the operators.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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** Supplement ''PRIMUS and DEMON''. PRIMUS agents have radiation suits available.
* ''[[GURPS]]'' has NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) suits.
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'':
** Terminator Armors from ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', the most powerful and durable suit of [[Powered Armor|Power Armor]] ever developed by the Imperium of Man, wasis originallya hybrid of "standard" Space Marine armor with [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Terminator_Armour#History a hazmat suit]. For maintenance work inside plasma reactors, while the reactor's running at full capacity, or on "dirty" orbits under constant bombardment of hypervelocity dust.
* The Vile Savants from ''[[Dark Heresy]]'' are daemonic entities that take the form of a hazmat suit filled to the brim with pestilent filth and [[The Worm That Walks|evil, diseased maggots]]. [[Medical Horror|They fight with rusty, contaminated surgical equipment, and their speech sounds like distorted medical chatter punctuated by screams and moans of pain and horror.]]▼
** Wind Armor is a suit intended to protect the wearer from hurricane winds and "will sandblast you to the bone in half a minute" strength dust storms. Aside of plain metallo-ceramic plating, it involves design tweaking turbulence so that it's easier to move against lighter winds and withstand stronger ones, has built-in heavy air filters and (in case of being buried) 3 hours of internal air supply, plus communication gear. As a side effect, it gives overall protection equal to common flak armour (which doesn't say much, as this falls a notch short even of full Guard flak armour proper).
*** Volcanis Shroud was made for work in magma-heated forges and was adopted in various heavy industrial settlements. As such, it comes with rebreather and vision system. Gives the same level of protection, but is bulkier and against heat based or corrosive attacks as good as Stormtrooper carapace or commercial versions of [[Power Armor]].
▲** The Vile Savants from ''[[Dark Heresy]]'' are daemonic entities that take the form of a hazmat suit filled to the brim with pestilent filth and [[The Worm That Walks|evil, diseased maggots]]. [[Medical Horror|They fight with rusty, contaminated surgical equipment, and their speech sounds like distorted medical chatter punctuated by screams and moans of pain and horror.]]
 
== [[Toys]] ==
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* Subverted with ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half Life]]'s'' iconic H.E.V. suit; initially presented as a hazmat suit, it's actually more of a [[Powered Armor]]. Cue [[WMG]] over whether it's simply overengineered for its intended purpose or Black Mesa deliberately designed it for the military.
** It's even referenced by the G-man before his hibernation.
{{quote|'''G-man''': Gordan Freeman, in the flesh - or rather in the hazard suit. I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons. Most of them were government property. As for the suit I think you earned it.''}}
** For the military (the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit, at least) they made a compatible variant with slightly different functionality -- [http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Powered_Combat_Vest the PCV].
* You can find and buy a few hazmat suits in the ''[[Fallout]]'' series, as well as finding them on dead researchers. ''[[Fallout 3]]'''s [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Radiation_Suit radiation suit] unfortunately offers only 30% - 40% radiation resistance... and thanks to the way the game handles radiation you can still die from standing in a radioactive puddle.
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* ''[[Saints Row]] 2'' had a scene where a guy was denying a leak in the nuclear power plant, while wearing a suit
* You can find them in ''[[Doom]]'' and its sequels. They allow you to walk through toxic waste without any harm for a limited time.
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