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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has 'Ard Boyz, relatively bright Orks who realize that by slapping together plates of scrap metal into a crude set of armor, they have a better chance of surviving the charge across the battlefield into melee. Of course, ''all'' Orks' armor counts as improvised
* ''[[GURPS]]: High-Tech'' has rules for homemade armor. Buckets can be made into a plastic ''lorica segmentata'' strong enough to provide noticeable protection from a shotgun blast.▼
* Pick a [[Scavenger World]], any scavenger world. One post-apocalyptic ''[[D20 Modern]]'' setting featured illustrations of thugs using American football shoulder pads for armor and a Stop sign for a shield.▼
* [[Dungeons and Dragons]]
** In the 3e ''Oriental Adventures''
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* Pick a [[Scavenger World]], any scavenger world.
** Done in ''All Flesh Must Be Eaten'', similar to the ''[[D20 Modern]]'' example above.
** ''[[Hero System|Post-Apocalyptic Hero]]'' gives its front cover character a Stop sign shield and a helmet that started life as sporting equipment.
▲* In the ''Oriental Adventures'' sourcebook for [[Dungeons and Dragons]], Nezumi are fond of making makeshift armor out of whatever they can cobble together, like tower shields made of the shells of turtle-like monsters called Kappa.
▲* ''[[GURPS]]: High-Tech'' has rules for homemade armor. Buckets can be made into a plastic ''lorica segmentata'' strong enough to provide noticeable protection from a shotgun blast.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In ''[[The Godfather (video game)|The Godfather]] 2'' the so-called armoured cars are clearly cobbled-together, with things like metal bars welded over the windscreens.
* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'' there's a group of mutant hobos called "The Lost" with [[Elite Mooks]] who use various types of armor such as a STOP sign for chest protection and a TV set (with a broken screen) as a helmet.
* ''[[Freedroid RPG]]'' has bucklers made from a robot hull, and [[Item Crafting]] system allows to reinforce existing armor with "add-ons" built from robot parts.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had Captain Landon wear [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/0308-wallpapers a riot shield strapped to the body] after he got into an armory. Because "[[Uplifted Animal|uplifted]] [[Everything's Worse with Bears|polar bear]]" is not a common size, and he didn't have time to go anywhere else due to an ongoing coup.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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