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* ''[[Parappa the Rapper]]'' wears a beanie.

* ''[[Warhammer Online]]'' has the Knights of the Blazing Sun, an elite army of wandering warrior monks who worship Myrmidia, goddess of warfare and civilization. They are commonly seen running around with golden helmets pimped out in gigantic feathers painted any variety of colors, ranging from red, to blue, to gold. Some of them may simply forego the feathers and have a gold statue of a falcon perched on their heads.

* The Three Daedric helmets from ''[[Elder Scrolls|Morrowind]]'': The Daedric Face of God, Terror and [http://media.photobucket.com/image/Daedric%20Face%20of%20Inspiration/mcmuffinizor/Daedric%20WIPz/daeFoItextured01.jpg Inspiration].

* The ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' game series features a number of memorably bizarre hats taken from the Three Kingdoms era of China, most notably the Propeller Hat, which is [[Truth in Television]].

** Lu Xun's hat is particularly bizarre, up until the character design changes in the 6thgame. Fans have often taken the liberty of making fun of his hat in fanfiction.

** And the [[H-game]] parody [[Sengoku Rance]] continues this proud tradition, and [[Lady of War|Uesegi Kenshin]] is the owner of a triangular hat that not looks nice, she uses it ''like a lance point while charging the enemy!''

* [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]], of course, has his iconic red cap with an "[[Brought to You by The Letter "S"|M]]" on it. It spawned out of the difficulty to draw hair on a sprite back in '81, so he was instead given a cap. Similar situations also spawned his equally iconic overalls and his [[Badass Moustache|moustache]].

** ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' has several nice hats, including the Wing Cap to [[Flight|fly]], the Vanish Cap that makes Mario invisible and the Metal Cap that makes him become metallic. Also when an enemy takes off [[Mario]]'s own hat in a desert level, he takes damage from the heat. Noticeably, in any level, being hit by an enemy while hatless will make you take one [[Hit Point]] more damage than you would with the hat. Apparently Mario's hat projects its own forcefield.

** In the remake of this game for the DS, picking up a playable character's hat (Mario, Luigi, or Wario) will turn you into that character. If you started the level as one of these characters and lose your original hat, hitting a Power Flower block will unleash an angry Bob-omb rather than the helpful flower.

** In ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'', Mario's health slowly drains if an enemy steals his hat. Apparently the stress of losing his hat weakens him, although, given that he's in the tropics, this is kinda understandable. Sunburns hurt!

* Lechku and Nechku in ''[[Okami]]'' pull random objects out of their hats as attacks. Waka also has a pretty bitchin' hat which never comes off {{spoiler|until he thoroughly gets his ass whooped by Yami}}. Orochi has ''eight'' giant, brightly colored [[Nice Hat|Nice Hats]] that denote the element they rule over.

** Some other characters in Okami also have some wacky headgear. Queen Himiko's hat is ''[[Incendiary Exponent|on fire]]'' while her husband, the Emperor, has a Miniature Treasure Boat for an hat. Mr. Flower, a Sei-An Citizen, has a Bonsai Sakura tree which seems to be ''merged'' with his skull. Kushi packed some Rice bales on her head. Madame Fawn, the fortune-teller, has a deer skull with some Ofuda on her head. Mika, a Shinto Priest, has a miniature building on his head. Yatsu, the (deceased) priest of the Gale Shrine, has a Miniature Windmill on his head. Orihime and King Wada {{spoiler|A.K.A. The Water Dragon}} both seems to have containers on their head, the Dragon Palace guards have underwater flora or coral on their heads. Most if not all the Poncles have some kind of insect in guise of a hat. {{spoiler|Nami}} has a bucket of Sake with an arrow embedded to it and Mushi's Mama has a Water Vase on her head at all times. Whew!

** The most extreme example has to be in the sequel where one minion will make a hat out of the top of a Aquila which is golden and almost as tall as he is.

* I-No in ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' has a ''living'' hat that looks like [[Harry Potter|the Sorting Hat's]] [[Evil Twin]]. Johnny and May naturally have some pretty sweet hats, too, being pirates. Johnny's is an homage to Johnny Cash.

* The classic [http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/Red_Mage_V.png Red Mage hat] from the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' franchise. Widely known as the "Pimp Hat" to players of ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]''.

** Despite this, when Red Mage was dead/incapacitated Black Mage started wearing his hat ''on top of his own''. Presumably as a trophy. Of course, Red Mage ([[Man On Fire|on fire]]) ''is'' a nice hat...

** In ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' the NPC Maat tests your fighting ability in your job to advance from 70 to 75. Beating Maat in all fifteen of the original and advanced jobs ([[To A]] and [[Wot G]] not included) nets the player a special scene with Maat's story and the reward of his iconic beret. A challenge less than .5% of all 500k+ players have completed.

** Freya's red hat in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' is a mix between the Red Mage pimp hat and the Dragoon helmet. It's so awesome that we never get to know what she looks under it.

** The Sage hat in ''[[Final Fantasy III]]'' adds cat ears to the hood.

** Also, after becoming Big Boss, Naked Snake starts wearing a military beret. It makes him resemble Che Guevara with an eyepatch, which is even pointed out during Peace Walker.

** Solid Snake has his a bandana of his very own, and sometimes it gives him infinite ammo.

** This has led to a recurring joke in the fandom that programmer and designer ZUN is a "hat fetishist."

** In one of his interviews, he is seen wearing what is [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Image:ZUN_thenetstar.jpg clearly] a [[Nice Hat]].

** Suwako's ''eye-hat''. [[Memetic Mutation|Fandom]] tends to give it a mind of its own, with theories ranging from [[The Man Behind the Man]] to [[People Puppets|a parasited body]].

** While [[Touhou]] may be a universe of Nice Hats, Keine Kamishirasawa stands out. She wears what can only be described as a ''miniature pagoda'' on her head, in her human form.

** A minor meme among the fandom: "If a Touhou loses her hat, she will certainly die."

* You can equip hats in ''[[The World Ends With You]]'', and you eventually get Minamimoto's cap as an item. It gives you more stat boosts than most good items do in one stat, in ''all three'' stats.

** She also has one in her third costume in ''Soul Calibur II''

* The obscure game ''[[Animamundi: Dark Alchemist]]'' - the main character has an expy of [[Vampire Hunter D]]'s hat, with his own little flourish. It's still a nice hat.

* Most of the named characters in ''Archaic Sealed Heat'' (and some of the generic units) that don't have amazing hats have [[Anime Hair|ridiculous hair]] instead. Some of them have both at once. Now add goggles and eyepatches to the mix, and things just get awesome.

* Maximillian's cap(s) in ''[[Dark Cloud]] 2'' are probably the only thing that differentiates him from other standard RPG heroes appearance-wise. And they're neat looking, to say the least.

** As do the Moogle Flintlocks, whose design were based on the British royal guards. Several of the Nu Mou classes also sport some nice (and big) hats.

* Raidou Kuzunoha the 14th in ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]]'' wears a nice black cap as part of his school uniform.

** Made a Nice Hat even moreso because he will wear the cap ''when wearing nothing else'', seriously.

* GMs in ''[[Maple Story]]'' have a [[Nice Hat]] as part of their uniform. Said hat also gives them a [[Clothes Make the Superman|godly stat boost]].

* Dizzy of ''[[Gears of War]] 2'' has a [http://i28.tinypic.com/96z2nb.jpg cowboy hat], which can actually come off in multiplayer. Damn shame.

** Some [[Nice Hat|Nice Hats]] do give Nice Bonuses to some classes.

** The enemy with the most recognizable [[Nice Hat]] is the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Evil Snake Lord's]] scholar hat.

* Isamu's newsboy-style hat in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]] Nocturne'' practically became its own character in fan art and 4Koma comics. Even his "God" wears the damn hat.

** In Luisfe's [[Let's Play]] of ''Nocturne'', Isamu was [[Fan Nickname|renamed]] "Sidekick McHat".

* Inverted somewhat in ''[[Mega Man 9]]'', where you can spend the game's currency for the privilege of playing as Mega Man ''without'' his trademark headgear.

** However, Mega Man takes ''double damage'' when he's not wearing his helmet. Some ''Mega Man'' games have helmets of the character you are using as one up items. In ''[[Mega Man and Bass]]'', the game over screen shows your character's helmet on the ground.

** Meanwhile, in the ''[[Mega Man X]]'' series, the hero can always find additional upgrades to his helmet that has extra functionality and generally is part of a collectible series of items to unlock some sort of super awesome secret.

** ''[[Mega Man 10]]'' instead gives us {{spoiler|the Wily Machine's}} awesome pirate hat.

** After years of debate, the games' artist [[Word of God|Ken Sugimori]] finally confirmed via Twitter that it's a knit hat.

** [[Pokémon]] Law of Hats: Every possible player character has a hat. Every rival character which may not be a player character lacks a hat. [[Fan Wank|The beta female character in the first generation? No hat, so she was kicked out.]] Among other nice hats are the Youngsters and Rocket Grunts.

*** Outside of Gen III, Bianca is the only rival who has one.

** According to [[Chuggaaconroy]], the trainer with the dumbest hat in the land is bound to succeed.

* ''[[Fallout 3]]'' has the Pre-war Hat, which is a spiffy fedora. Aside from looking nifty, it gives a bonus to Perception, making you shoot better. The downside is that it's rather fragile, and doesn't give much protection. But it's worth it for a killer hat. There's also the "Shady Hat" which not only increases your Perception, but your Sneaking ability as well.

** ''Fallout 3'' has so many nice hats it's a pity the player is restricted to one at a time. Further examples include Euology Jones' Pimp Hat, a 18th Century style wig, and Abraham Lincoln's stovepipe hat, which is just made for wearing while mowing down the slavers of Paradise Falls. Or the incredibly rare and hard to find Chinese Commando Hat, wear with a Duster of any kind and you can pretend to be a Soviet conscript!

* [[Shiren the Wanderer|Shiren's]] straw flat-topped [[wikipedia:Kasa (hat)|kasa]] that usually obscures the top half of his face except for a small tear on one side that lets us see his left eye while he's wearing it. Apparently, it is magical enough to allow Shiren to avoid the effects of a [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|kill-everything-in-the-room scroll]] by [[Hammerspace|hiding completely inside it.]]

* ''[[Fatal Fury]]''/''[[The King of Fighters]]'': Terry Bogard is almost always seen wearing an ordinary (but still rather nice) baseball cap. It never leaves his head until a fight ends. In the case of his ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' appearance, [[The Anime of the Game]] upgraded his cap to include a ''metal plate'' for no discernible reason at all. Still looks [[Badass]], though.

** Let's not forget Raiden and his iconic Conical Asian hat.

* Most gun kills in ''[[Total Overdose]]'' cause the victim's hat to hover in the air briefly. Moving in to position your head beneath it at that time gives a 'Hat Catch' bonus plus extra points per kill while wearing it. There's also the 'Sombrero of Death', a Day-of-the-Dead costumed zombie in a sombrero, who packs a grenade launcher to fight for you.

* Another case of a hat hurting you... Caffeine Nicotine out of ''[[Samurai Shodown]] 2'' wears a nice-sized one. When armed, he swings it as his weak slash/punch. When unarmed, he just swings it for all side moves. And if he does a dive roll, the hat itself is what's seen as rolling along its brim.

* [[Professor Layton]] ''defines'' this trope with his orange-banded top hat.

** At one point, his hat is (for complicated reasons) causing extremely irritating problems for him and his apprentice Luke. When Luke logically suggests that the Professor take it off for a little while, though, the Professor flat-out refuses, since "a gentleman can never be seen without his hat."

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', also known as The Quest For More Hats, or Hat Fortress 2. At the time of their introduction, there was a single hat for each class giving a total of 9 hats. There are now '''well''' over a hundred. Hats are [[Serious Business]] in the ''Team Fortress 2'' world and the base broke several times over various updates due to hats. The game is now advertised as "'''The world’s #1 war-themed hat simulator'''"!

** It's gotten to the point where the word "hat" is Valve-developer slang for something the players want. [[A Worldwide Punomenon|You could almost say they have it as their]] [[Planet of Hats|Hat]].

** One update was "The Hatless Update", promising 100% non-hats. And a hat-like pin was secretly included by a mischievous programmer, a promotion for ''[[Portal 2]]''.

** Hats also function as a joking status symbol among players, since it takes quite a bit of time (through the random drop system) or money to attain one. The one exception is a hat called the Ghastly Gibus, initially attained through a hidden page in the Halloween Update, but now achievable by mercilessly slaughtering a player wearing one. Due how easy it is to get one, wearing it is considered a sure fire symbol of noobdom<ref>The exception to this exception is the "Ghastlier Gibus", an automatic upgrade that counts how many years ago you earned your Gibus</ref>.

* The hats in ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' can give every hat in the this ''entry'' a run for its money. For crying out loud, ''[http://tinyurl.com/lcs7mk look] at the [http://tinyurl.com/lucaod shopkeepers]''.

** In the game itself you can spawn a top hat, glue it to a unicycle, make a panda ride the unicycle, glue a saddle to the panda, and then make a wizard sit on the saddle.

* If your family member general is insane in Rome [[Total War]], they will often give odd (or rather, crazy) pre-battle speeches, such as:

* From Software's Evergrace features many nice hats, which are also quite beneficial since normal clothing works just like armor, just with less durability. Fear be-hatted [[Catgirl]] Sharline, FEAR.

* The sentient phases of ''[[Spore]]'' offer an increasing selection of clothes, including [[Nice Hat|Nice Hats]].

* ''[[Diablo]]'' and ''Diablo II'' have the Harlequin Crest. The original has a drawback of -3 to your Armor class, but the +2 to all attributes is tempting.

* A few ''[[Eternal Sonata]]'' characters sport some nice/interesting hats. Fredric Chopin's feathered top hat is something of a trademark for him; the same feathers appear in one of his attacks.

* Shades' pink baseball cap with little wings on the sides in ''[[Ufouria]]''. It may be a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Dr. Slump]], where Arale often sported a similar cap.

* [[Carmen Sandiego]], in her videogames and tie-in television series, is a [[Badass in a Nice Suit]] in her red [[Nice Hat]] and [[Badass Longcoat]].

* In ''[[The Godfather (video game)|The Godfather]]'', enemy mobsters always have a hat as part of their ensemble, which you blow off with a [[Coup De Grace]] [[Boom! Headshot!]] in the Hats Off [[Finishing Move|Execution Style]]. Your character can also equip a hat.

* ''[[Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure]]'' kicks off when the title character discovers a bowler hat that deages him by several decades and opens up the Puzzle World. The hat is part of a full wardrobe set which Henry must assemble to fix the damage he's done.

* The Rosetta Rosso from ''[[Luminous Arc 2]]'' all wear nifty hats decorated with roses.

* ''[[Sands of Destruction]]'''s Agan wears a pretty nice green hat.

** Jack Krauser and Mikhail Victor also sport berets in their respective Resident Evil games. Honorable mention goes to the R.P.D. and their police caps. Too bad that most of them are zombified.

* The main villain of [[Petz]]: Dogs 2 is a wolf with a magic technicolor top hat.

* [[Pickory]] wears a giant purple cavalier hat which is bigger than he is.

* ''[[Fable II]]'' has several nice Enlightenment Era hats, ranging from tricorns to bicorns to top hats to wizard hats.

** And let's not forget the Pimp Hat from the original ''Fable''.

** In the sequel ''Continuum Shift'', Tsubaki Yayoi takes notes from [[Code Geass|Lelouch]] and wears a hat with wings on the sides and an eye on the brim.

** [[Big Bad|Hazama]] is not complete without his signature [[Michael Jackson|Smooth Criminal]] fedora, either. Notably, he seems to be aware of this trope being in effect, (either that or he's just [[Troll|trolling]], as usual,) as he doesn't catch himself when he is knocked down, but opts for catching the knocked off hat, instead.

* Ojou in ''[[Suika]]'' absolutely refuses to remove her nice hat. It's black and has two bells hanging on it. It doesn't even come off when she's bathing or swimming. The closest to removal it gets is Hiroshi putting a 'second hat' (read: Archimedes) on top of her head.

* [[Chzo Mythos]]: Trilby is named after the iconic hat he wears. One of his bonus outfits in [[Gaiden Game]] [[The Art of Theft]] is a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Michael Jackson]].

** [[Tin Tyrant|Death's Hand]] has an impressive demon-face helmet that features prominently on the game's packaging.

* Various girls in the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' series wears hats on some of her seasonal clothes, during Dating times. As a rule of thumb, standard pretty girls (ex. : [[The Ace|Shiori]], [[Meganekko|Mio]], [[Moe|Miho]]) wear pimped-out or straw large hats ; [[Genki Girl|Genki Girls]] (ex. Saki, Hikari) wear caps ; and [[Ojou]] and rich girls (ex : Yukari, Mei) wear berets.

** Naoto from ''[[Persona 4]]'' wears a nice hat that may or may not help {{spoiler|her be a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]}}.

* The ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' games have a couple of examples. Though the main character has a rather standard flat cap (which, admittedly, can be used as a land mine with a certain ability in the first game), Don octavio, a boss from the third game, wears a fairly nice opera hat (given that he is an opera-themed villain), but most notable is Sir Raleigh the Frog, the first boss of the first game, who wears what is possibly the [http://us.playstation.com/Content/pugg/SCUS-97198/Site/images/s_boss_raleigh.jpg greatest Top Hat in existence.]

** Can't forget Yun's baseball cap and Bison's iconic red hat with the infamous winged skull. Cammy and Rolento also sport red berets.

* The second-greatest appearance/item mod in ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' (after inserting [[Knights of the Old Republic|Bastila's]] head) is the addition of wide-brimmed feathered musketeer hats.

* Many Italians in ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' wear hats, while the lowest-ranking guards all wear berets.

* In ''[[Jumper (video game)|Jumper]] Three'', there is a shop where you can buy loads and loads of useless-but-cool hats (and glasses).

* John Marston, the protagonist of ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' wears a black cowboy hat with a eagle feather. He kills three bandidos when one of them takes it off his head. [[Too Dumb to Live|Because when you pick someone to rob, pick the cowboy with multiple facial scars and a belt full of weapons.]]

* ''[[Virtual On]] Marz'' gives us Apharmd the Hatter, a [[Humongous Mecha|giant combat robot]] with what can only be described as a stylish [http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m45/luuke86/apharmd4.jpg mecha-fedora]. Apharmd the Hatter, piloted by [[Hot-Blooded|Sergeant Hatter]], makes appearances in ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' as well. Notable in that appearance for being able to use his hat as a ''[[Precision-Guided Boomerang]]''.

* Princess Alena from ''[[Dragon Quest IV]]'' wears a very distinctive Nice Hat. It's a sort of dark blue, brimless, crown-shaped hat with one cone-shaped protrusion from the middle.

* ''[[Portal 2]]'' has some rarer hats from ''Team Fortress 2'' available in co-op.

* In ''[[Dawn of War]]: Dark Crusade'', while assaulting the Imperial Guard stronghold with the Orks, Warboss Gorgutz will lament that the Commissar's hat gets blown away with his head, because ''he'' wanted it.

* There's also King Graham's lucky hat in ''[[King's Quest]]''. Crown goes off, the hat comes on, and you know that the Quest's started.

* ''[[Dark Souls]]'' has Big Hat Logan and his very wide brimmed steeple hat. The hats the other Vinheim characters wear aren't too shabby either.

* Gust and Blanc/White Heart from ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]'' have some pretty spiffing hats.