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A [[Crazy Prepared]] or [[Disaster Scavengers]] character makes [[Bulletproof Vest|body armour]] or a [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|shield]] out of [[MacGyvering|materials to hand]], quite possibly to back up an [[Improvised Weapon]].
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== [[Card Games]] ==
* The [[Chainmail Bikini|surprisingly protective]] card "[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=41163 Improvised Armor]" in ''[[Magic:
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'', with the steel chest-piece.
** Homaged in ''[[Back to The Future]] 3'', with a oven door used for the same purpose.
* In ''[[Iron Man (
* In ''[[The
* In ''The Good, the Bad, the Weird'', Tae-goo survives a particularly crazy shootout by putting on a huge, metal diver's helmet.
** In the longer alternate ending we learn he survived the three way shootout by also having an oven door hidden under his jacket in another shout out to ''A Fistful Of Dollars''.
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== Literature ==
* Mentioned in one of [[Andrew Vachss]]'s Burke books. A prisoner who suspects he's going to get attacked will stuff as much newspaper as he can under his clothes. It won't totally stop a shiv, but even a centimetre or inch less of penetration can make the difference between a trip to the hospital and a trip to the morgue.
* As depicted above, in [[Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[Alice in Wonderland
* The 'Za Lord's Guard in ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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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, as do their weapons, vehicles, architecture, medicine...
* Pick a [[Scavenger World]], any scavenger world. One post-apocalyptic ''[[
** Done in ''All Flesh Must Be Eaten'', similar to the ''[[
** ''[[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.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[
* There are many examples in the [[Fallout]] 'verse, but the most obvious are the Raider armours from Fallout 3. Highlights include using sieves as a bikini, a cow skull as a shoulder pad and an empty shell of a spherical hovering robot as a helmet. In ''[[Fallout]] 3'', Super Mutants wear bits of tire as shoulder guards, while their Behemoths wield car doors as bucklers.
** In the original games, Leather Armor was based on Pre-War designs used for contact sports.
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* Various ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' games have pot lids as the cheapest shield.
* In Command and Conquer Generals the GLA has pickup trucks and tanks which can be upgraded by collecting wreckages of destroyed enemy vehicles, which they use as improvised armor.
* In ''[[The Godfather (
* 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.
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