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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Deadpool]] once wore a bunch of frozen meat to beat Bullseye. In his own words. "I am the meat."
* An issue of ''[[The Punisher]]'' (one of the Summer Specials back from the late 80's - early 90's) had the titular character fighting an evil school principal with a penchant for handing out guns to his students (don't ask). This (like many fights in schools) gets dragged to the library, where the Punisher decided that to survive the situation, he needed protection. A little duct tape and some textbooks later, we have the glorious invention of '''book armor!'''.
* This is essentially [[Iron Man]]'s origin, although where he gets the material varies from retelling to retelling. Most famously, he used parts of his own stolen missiles to build his armor [[Memetic Mutation|IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]]
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Wire]]'', when Omar ends up in prison he [[Duct Tape for Everything|duct-tapes]] several thick books to his body before going to shank an enemy as an example to the other inmates.
* Unable to acquire an armored vehicle, Michael Westen of ''[[Burn Notice]]'' once filled the insides of an SUV's doors with phone books.
** This was deemed plausible by the [[Myth Busters]]. It worked quite well, but you'd need so many phone books to cover the windows it's [[Awesome but Impractical|impractical for]] [[Real Life]].
** Which was explained in Westen's voice-over: "You don't want to skimp on ballistic glass."
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* [[Internet Backdraft|Without going into the reasons for it]], U.S. soldiers in Iraq resorted to using "Hillbilly Armor" to reinforce their vehicles for better protection against Improvised Explosive Devices (underside armor was an important first step). Some of their designs were so popular and effective that they became "kits" used throughout the army.
** Used in larger scale in [[World War II]]. Tankers would weld spare tread links onto their tanks or even use sandbags. Later, when shoulder-launched anti-tank weapons became more common, they would use thin metal sheets or wire mesh as so-called slatt-armor to detonate the shaped charges away from the tank's armor.
* [[wikipedia:Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]]. His homemade armour stopped at least twenty direct hits during his infamous shootout against Australian law enforcement. Unfortunately for Ned, the armour was heavy and didn't protect him all over. A [[Achilles' Heel|shot to his ankle]] brought him down.
* Convicted NZ murderer [http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3351986/No-penalty-for-attack-by-Burton Graeme Burton] packed newspapers and magazines under his prison uniform when he stabbed another inmate, quite possibly inspiring the example from ''[[The Wire]]'', above.
* During the [[wikipedia:North hollywood shootout|North Hollywood shootout]], one of the bank robbers wore a full suit of patchwork body armor, including bullet-proof vests wrapped around his legs. The other robber simply wore a [[Bulletproof Vest]] with a metal trauma chestplate. Soon, however, the SWAT team arrived, in addition to a number of the regular officers acquiring assault rifles from a nearby gunstore, and both robbers soon learned the hard way that their body armor was only effective against the considerably less powerful handgun ammunition that the beat cops carried. Rifle rounds travel much faster and tend to go through kevlar quite easily, which is why soldiers wear ceramic armor plates inside their vests.
* Some of the Egyptian protesters against the Mubarak regime were seen sporting helmets made of concrete slabs tied on with rope, and even loaves of bread secured with tape.
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