Rage Helm: Difference between revisions

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This is when a helmet's visor is embossed with a furious face or something similarly frightening. Merely having scary-looking eye-slits doesn't count, although features that just vaguely suggest a wrathful expression might. Stern looks also count, and might even be scarier than the raging ones. [[Mecha-Mooks]] might have this, depending on how their "faces" look. Compare and contrast [[Malevolent Masked Men]] (for when the scary visor is the whole point) and [[Expressive Mask]] (which actually ''changes'' expression). See also [[Faceless Goons]] and [[Gas Mask Mooks]].

== Anime and Manga ==

* The MS-07 Gouf series of Mobile Suits in ''[[Gundam]]'' have a distinctive triangular protrusion hanging down from the middle of their [[Cyber Cyclops|mono-eye]] visors, giving them a perpetually scowling look.

** The [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Physalis Gundam]] also has an unusually malevolent looking face, with a curious, angry looking red "mouth" in place of the iconic twin horizontal vent slits.

== Film ==

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* In the movie of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|Prince Caspian]]'', [[Big Bad|Miraz's]] forces wear helmets embossed with a fearsomely snarling face, and Miraz himself wears a slightly fancier one.

* ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'': The closure line of Stark's Iron Man helmet suggests a thin-lipped scowl.

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* Agamemnon's helm in ''[[Time Bandits]]''.

* Starting with [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' movies, every film version of Batman's costume has frowning eyebrows sculpted into the cowl.

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== Gamebooks ==

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* In the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebook series, the Drakkarim -- [[Elite Mooks]] of the [[Evil Overlord|Darklords]]—always wears metal helmets with skull-shaped facemasks in battle. To the point this is often the main feature used to describe them.

== Literature ==

* ''[[Discworld]]'' likes to mock this trope. They appear in ''[[~~Discworld/Interesting Times|~~Interesting Times]]'' and ''[[~~Discworld/Pyramids|~~Pyramids]]''. In ''Pyramids'' the soldiers wear them even during innocuous conversation, and some of the palace guards in ''Interesting Times'' have actually cultivated the art of going to sleep in their feet, confident of not being detected behind the expressions of metal rage on their visors.

* ''[[Discworld]]'' likes to mock this trope. They appear in ''[[Interesting Times]]'' and ''[[Pyramids]]''. In ''Pyramids'' the soldiers wear them even during innocuous conversation, and some of the palace guards in ''Interesting Times'' have actually cultivated the art of going to sleep on their feet, confident of not being detected behind the expressions of metal rage on their visors.

* In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', dwarvish helms apparently were like these. One of these helms becomes significant as the signature item of the hero Turin Turambar.

== Live-Action TV ==

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** Except Setesh guards' helmets. [[Noodle Incident|Apparently]], they're the subject of many jokes among the Jaffa, jokes whose humor is [[Lost in Translation]].

* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', and a few other series with sculpted mouths on the helmets.

== Tabletop Games ==

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* Rage Helm plus [[Humongous Mecha]] = [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhOvbfyyJw Atlas].

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=== Gamebooks ===

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* In the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebook series, the Drakkarim -- [[Elite Mooks]] of the [[Evil Overlord|Darklords]]—always wears metal helmets with skull-shaped facemasks in battle. To the point this is often the main feature used to describe them.

== Video Games ==

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* Inverted with Ordinator (Indoril) helmets from ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]''. These display an emotionless [[Frozen Face]]. Played straight, however, with Almalexia's war mask, and with the Daedric helmets.

** ''[[Skyrim]]'s'' Dwarven Helmets exhibit this, with the faceplate of the mask crafted to look like a perpetually furious Dwemer.

== Western Animation ==

* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', the Firebender [[Mooks]] wear [[Spikes of Villainy|spiky]] helmets with skull-like masks. The effect is kinda ruined by them [[Harmless Villain|never being a credible threat]], though.

== Real Life ==

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