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** Cain has no choice; his uniform includes a [[Commissar Cap|peaked cap]], which precludes him from using a helmet. He frequently regrets that this is the case.
* Variation: [[Justified Trope|justified]] in ''[[Snow Crash]]'': Y.T. does without a helmet because it plays havoc with her hearing and peripheral vision, and anyway she has enough ''other'' safety gear that the presence or absence of a helmet would be largely academic.
* Averted by [[Chronicles of the Emerged World|Nihal]], who despite being unable to wear a proper armor (being female and all) still wears a helmet ornated with Dragon Wings. [http://www.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://digilander.libero.it/loralya/immagini/cronache.jpg&imgrefurl=http://vtutto.forumcommunity.net/%3Ft%3D32209950&usg=__N1QHAjm3TZoWZ2GAGprvgxj1J8U=&h=500&w=990&sz=434&hl=it&start=21&zoom=1&tbnid=KwTcRrGrj77IVM:&tbnh=75&tbnw=149&ei=eC60TeXjJYfQsgarr9jzCw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcronache%2Bdel%2Bmondo%2Bemerso%26hl%3Dit%26biw%3D1503%26bih%3D613%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1 Seen often in the cover arts here]{{Dead link}}.
* Justified in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]''. [[The Squad]] stop at a garrison town to equip themselves, but what equipment they find is so thoroughly battered that the helmets weren't even capable of keeping the rain off.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' Tyrion removes his helmet during the Battle of Blackwater to improve his vision, and later takes an axe to the head that nearly kills him. After he's mostly recovered his father reprimands him for doing it, saying that his [[Parental Favoritism|brother]] would never have been foolish enough to take off his helmet during battle.
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