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== Anime and Manga ==
== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Planetes]] - +95% averted. Spacesuits have faceplates with integrated [[HUD]]s, and are almost always lowered to protect against unfiltered sunlight and debris impacts. If you see a character's face in a spacesuit, it's a [[Closeup on Head]]. People raise their faceplates only to identify themselves to each other - or so they can see each other's faces during [[Rule of Drama|dramatic arguments]].
* [[Planetes]] - +95% averted. Spacesuits have faceplates with integrated [[HUD]]s, and are almost always lowered to protect against unfiltered sunlight and debris impacts. If you see a character's face in a spacesuit, it's a [[Closeup on Head]]. People raise their faceplates only to identify themselves to each other - or so they can see each other's faces during [[Rule of Drama|dramatic arguments]].
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** When Tony first switched from the Gold Plated Battle Tank Armor to the classic red-and-gold skin-tight model in [[The Sixties]], his lengthy introduction to the new suit specifically noted that he's made the eye-holes and mouth-slits bigger so his adversaries could see his expressions. In [[The Seventies]], everything narrowed to featureless slits again ... but there was a tendency for artists to draw the solid metal "shellhead" faceplate as an [[Expressive Mask]].
** When Tony first switched from the Gold Plated Battle Tank Armor to the classic red-and-gold skin-tight model in [[The Sixties]], his lengthy introduction to the new suit specifically noted that he's made the eye-holes and mouth-slits bigger so his adversaries could see his expressions. In [[The Seventies]], everything narrowed to featureless slits again ... but there was a tendency for artists to draw the solid metal "shellhead" faceplate as an [[Expressive Mask]].
* In ''[[Tintin|Explorers on the Moon]]'', the faces of the spacemen can always be seen through their multiplex helmets, even when floating in outer space or walking through a dark cave on the Moon.
* In ''[[Tintin|Explorers on the Moon]]'', the faces of the spacemen can always be seen through their multiplex helmets, even when floating in outer space or walking through a dark cave on the Moon.


== Fan Works ==
* [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in ''[[Desperately Seeking Ranma]]'': When the cast visits the surface of the Moon, they do so wearing [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum|ultratech force-field-based spacesuits acquired from an alien civilization]]; the suits simply wrap a transparent protective field around whatever the wearer already has on. In this case, not only can everyone see your face, everyone can see your jeans and T-shirt, or your suit and [[Cool Shades]].




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* [[Transformers Film Series|''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'']] does this a little oddly; the astronauts on the 1969 Moon landing have their iconic reflective visors at first, but while examining the crashed Ark up close, actually slide them up into their helmets to reveal secondary transparent visors with face-illuminating lights.
* [[Transformers Film Series|''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'']] does this a little oddly; the astronauts on the 1969 Moon landing have their iconic reflective visors at first, but while examining the crashed Ark up close, actually slide them up into their helmets to reveal secondary transparent visors with face-illuminating lights.
* ''[[Doomsday Machine]]'', a film featured on ''[[Cinematic Titanic]]'', actually averts this trope in the end, where the two astronauts who board the Russian spacecraft have black, reflective visors on their helmets. Unfortunately, this was mostly an attempt to (not particularly successfully) cover up the fact that the last part of the movie was filmed with different actors and different sets due to budget constraints.
* ''[[Doomsday Machine]]'', a film featured on ''[[Cinematic Titanic]]'', actually averts this trope in the end, where the two astronauts who board the Russian spacecraft have black, reflective visors on their helmets. Unfortunately, this was mostly an attempt to (not particularly successfully) cover up the fact that the last part of the movie was filmed with different actors and different sets due to budget constraints.



== Literature ==
== Literature ==
* Referenced in [[Larry Niven]]'s Known Space setting; because their faces can't be seen in their helmets, the setting's asteroid miners paint their individual spacesuits with bright, distinctive and elaborate patterns.
* Referenced in [[Larry Niven]]'s Known Space setting; because their faces can't be seen in their helmets, the setting's asteroid miners paint their individual spacesuits with bright, distinctive and elaborate patterns.
** Also used in Robert Heinlein's "Red Planet." A new headmaster at the Martian colony school orders the distinctive patterns of the space-suits to be painted over, leading to confusion.
** Also used in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Red Planet (novel)|Red Planet]]''. A new headmaster at the Martian colony school orders the distinctive patterns of the space-suits to be painted over, leading to confusion.
** Averted, very nearly disastrously, in ''[[The Mote in God's Eye]]'' - aliens in a spacesuit use a severed head in a helmet to slip past guards. The deception is only revealed when a momentary angle of sunlight reveals the aliens peering out the helmet - having moved the head out of the way to be able to navigate. Having those lights to identify your astronauts sure would have helped spot the dead guy...
* Averted, very nearly disastrously, in ''[[The Mote in God's Eye]]'' - aliens in a spacesuit use a severed head in a helmet to slip past guards. The deception is only revealed when a momentary angle of sunlight reveals the aliens peering out the helmet - having moved the head out of the way to be able to navigate. Having those lights to identify your astronauts sure would have helped spot the dead guy...
** [[Truth in Television]], as current ISS/Shuttle suits have velcro-attached color bands to distinguish between the different astronauts. Since there only two astronauts out in suits at a given time, they don't have to be that different.
** [[Truth in Television]], as current ISS/Shuttle suits have velcro-attached color bands to distinguish between the different astronauts. Since there only two astronauts out in suits at a given time, they don't have to be that different.
*** This practice may have started with Apollo 12. After the first moon landing, it became standard procedure to put a bold red stripe on the Commander's suit, so that people reviewing lunar photographs could easily tell which astronaut they were looking at. This can be seen in ''[[Apollo 13]]'' when Lovell fantasizes about his landing.
*** This practice may have started with Apollo 12. After the first moon landing, it became standard procedure to put a bold red stripe on the Commander's suit, so that people reviewing lunar photographs could easily tell which astronaut they were looking at. This can be seen in ''[[Apollo 13]]'' when Lovell fantasizes about his landing.
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** It should be noted that Wedge is not wearing a spacesuit but his pilot suit and helmet as seen in the films with a personal force field to keep a layer of air around him.
** It should be noted that Wedge is not wearing a spacesuit but his pilot suit and helmet as seen in the films with a personal force field to keep a layer of air around him.
* The Toralii boarders in ''[[Lacuna]]'' have opaque visors, but one raises it to gloat to a wounded, fallen Captain Liao. {{spoiler|That proves to be his undoing.}}
* The Toralii boarders in ''[[Lacuna]]'' have opaque visors, but one raises it to gloat to a wounded, fallen Captain Liao. {{spoiler|That proves to be his undoing.}}



== Live-Action TV ==
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' - "Thirdspace"'', Captain Sheridan's suit runs straight into this trope.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' - "Thirdspace", Captain Sheridan's suit runs straight into this trope.
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* Justified in [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|the original ''Battlestar Galactica'']] - it was the emitters of a force field that kept the pilot's air in.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''
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** Justified in the original series - it was the emitters of a force field that kept the pilot's air in.
* It has cropped up a couple of times on ''[[Doctor Who]]''. In "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit", the Tenth Doctor spends much of his screen-time gallivanting around a pit-and-cave-system wearing a pressure suit and helmet. The helmet features four tiny lights which are pointed directly at the corners of the Doctor's mouth and eyes.
* It has cropped up a couple of times on ''[[Doctor Who]]''. In "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit", the Tenth Doctor spends much of his screen-time gallivanting around a pit-and-cave-system wearing a pressure suit and helmet. The helmet features four tiny lights which are pointed directly at the corners of the Doctor's mouth and eyes.
** also, "Silence in the Library" features helmets with blue lights shining into the face in the mouth area.
** also, "Silence in the Library" features helmets with blue lights shining into the face in the mouth area.
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* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]] [[Strange Journey]]'' plays with this trope by giving the character spacesuit-things for the hostile atmosphere where the game takes place... but only unnamed Strike Team members (which includes you) wear their helmets' faceplate down all the time. Important characters (Gore, Zelenin, Jimenez) keep the faceplate up even when out in the field, protected from the environment only by the transparent visor underneath.
* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]] [[Strange Journey]]'' plays with this trope by giving the character spacesuit-things for the hostile atmosphere where the game takes place... but only unnamed Strike Team members (which includes you) wear their helmets' faceplate down all the time. Important characters (Gore, Zelenin, Jimenez) keep the faceplate up even when out in the field, protected from the environment only by the transparent visor underneath.
* Deeply, for the disappointment of many fans, averted in the ''[[Halo]]'' series where it features John-117 and his Spartan Mjolnir suit, designed to work in every condition, including vacuum.
* Deeply, for the disappointment of many fans, averted in the ''[[Halo]]'' series where it features John-117 and his Spartan Mjolnir suit, designed to work in every condition, including vacuum.
** You can't EVER see his face through his faceplate, which is a golden 150% reflective one.
** You can't ''ever'' see his face through his faceplate, which is a golden 150% reflective one.
** On the other hand, the [[It's Raining Men|Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]] from ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' do have transparent visors, but only when they toggle them to do so. In combat, though, they can't be seen through.
** On the other hand, the [[It's Raining Men|Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]] from ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' do have transparent visors, but only when they toggle them to do so. In combat, though, they can't be seen through.
* The ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'' series averts this trope, for the most part. At most one only saw the area immediately around the eyes of the pilots wearing the helmets, and it wasn't illuminated other than by the light in the cockpit (which just shifted the problem out of the helmet, but that's not this trope).
* The ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'' series averts this trope, for the most part. At most one only saw the area immediately around the eyes of the pilots wearing the helmets, and it wasn't illuminated other than by the light in the cockpit (which just shifted the problem out of the helmet, but that's not this trope).
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