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* Yuki Nagato's class in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' dressed her up as a fortune-telling witch for the [[School Festival]] by means of a cloak and pointy hat over her school uniform. Haruhi hijacked the costume (and the wearer) for her own [[Non-Indicative First Episode|student movie]].
** As a highly advanced, probability altering alien, her predictions are all 100% accurate (much to the chagrin of some students).
** In ''[[Lucky Star]]'', Konata [[
* [[Cute Witch|Yukari Sendou]] from ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'' has a traditional style pointy hat worn at all times, including the swimming pool and beach.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' present a strange mix of uses and inversions of this trope:
** The full garb is apparently part of the uniform of the two [[Wizarding School
** On the other hand, the ''standard'' mage clothing seems to be a [[All-Encompassing Mantle|long, billowing white cloak]] [[In the Hood|with a hood]] replacing the hat. No ([[Redshirt Army|named]]) adult so far (except Stan) has worn a hat.
** An early conception of "conflict" between Negi and Evangeline was that she would refuse to take her wizard hat off. This never made it into the series.
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*** And of course, the Dean, who gets ... very gung-ho about whatever new idea has caught the wizards' fancy this time, has occasionally been spotted with pointy '' hair''.
** It's been noted in the Discworld series that pointy hats are pretty much hardwired into being a wizard, along with (at the very least,) deep seated distrust and dislike of other wizards, and a desire to build a tower.
* Wizarding casual dress in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series appears to be... you guessed it... a
** The later films put Harry and company in a regular school uniform with a robe, possibly to avoid evoking [[Narm]] among the less fantasy-inclined members of the audience.
*** Conversely, in the [[The Worst Witch|Worst Witch]] Series by Jill Murphy, Pointed hats and robes are FANCY/Formal dress. The student wear variations on their school colors of black and grey even in their off hours. Including their [[Pajama-Clad Hero|PJs]].
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== Live Action TV ==
* In the third episode of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', the title
{{quote|'''Merlin''': He thinks he is so sharp. Even when I told him I was a wizard, he still couldn't see it.
'''Gaius''': Sometimes it's pretty hard to spot.
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{{quote|Typical orders for any crew, whether at sea or in space, are "Shoot at anyone who looks like a wizard". Of course, this often means that the man who looks like a wizard really isn't.}}
** The official "Complete Arcane" expansion adds a class called "Warmage" which is kind of a cross between fighter and sorcerer. This class can wear light armor and light shields with no spell-failure penalty and can train to wear medium armor as a feat at later levels. Add in a Mithril Chain Shirt and a high Dex, and you have a sorcerer with almost as good AC as the Paladin tank in heavy plate with a tower shield.
* Thankfully avoided in [[Mage: The Awakening]] and [[Mage: The Ascension]]. However, since both games reference [[The Invisibles]] in their source material... the new
** For the sake of accuracy, it would be difficult for [[Mage: The Ascension]] to reference [[The Invisibles]] in its source material, since the game was written at least a year before the comic was - and the design/thematic elements of the game that led to a lack of robes and hats was in place right from the very first edition. That being said, it's interesting to note that both Mage and The Invisibles were later cited as sources the Wachowski Brothers were inspired by (or stole directly from) when writing [[The Matrix]].
** In their defense, White Wolf did mention that players who were looking for "High flying fantasy adventures in the vein a certain popular magical school in Great Britain" should probably look elsewhere. Too bad they kept the [[Glass Cannon]] [[Squishy Wizard]] of [[Dungeons and Dragons]] everywhere else.
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' subverts this trope. Mages can wear body
* [[Iron Kingdoms|WARMACHINE]] mostly avoids this trope, as most warcasters prefer to go to battle wearing a full set of [[Steampunk|steam powered]] platemail. One's even fused to a [[Humongous Mecha]].
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* Melody, the bath house keeper from ''[[Rune Factory]]'' wears one, even though she doesn't know any magic.
* There are magical Robes aplenty in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' related games due to the fact wizards and he like can suffer from Arcane spell failure if the wear armour, which is an indirect cause of [[Squishy Wizard]]. Characters who draw there powers from holy sources can run around in full suits of armour with no problems, probably because they can rely on divine assistance.
** Sort of a [[Deconstructed Trope]] to many players and [[Game Master
** And then Baldur's Gate rolled along and subverts it and provides Player Characters with ''no'' pointy hats to put on. But then still cameo's Elminster with one! Party mages have to settle for imposing looking hoods instead.
* In ''[[The Sims]] 2'', magic users wear a robe and pointy hat, and the colors magically change upon their alignment. Good ones wear white robes with gold trim, and evil ones wear black robes.Neutral ones wear brown and grey robes.
** In ''[[The Sims Medieval]]'', the majority of outfits available to Wizards are robes, and there's a pointy hat that only Wizards can wear.
* Though the other wizards show up randomly, and have a variety of different looks, Mithra in ''[[Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria]]'', the first one you pick up, the one that shows up in a cutscene and is the only non-random Einherjar you find, fits the
* Selfi, the [[Tsundere|snobby-but-cute]] [[Cute Witch|witch]] in ''[[Azure Dreams]]''.
* Amadeus the Magnificent, [[The Casanova]] wizard from ''[[Trine]]'', is clad in this getup.
* Lillet Blan, despite being a "newbie" in ''[[Grim Grimoire]]'' sure dresses the part.
* In the game ''Space Station 13', A gamemode that comes up where one of the crew of the ship has been selected to be a space wizard, they use a radio and teleport to an area to get spells, and come back to the ship. When they come back in order for them to use their spells (Many at least)none other than a
* Marisa Kirisame of [[Touhou]] fame wears a pointy wizard hat, though her robes are rather unstandard.
** The other (stated) magicians, Alice Margatroid and Patchouli knowledge, both have robes (Alice's are colorful but loosely standard, while Patchy's are more like pajamas - justified by her tendency towards being ill far too much), but Alice has only a hair band, and Patchy's hat only has a point on it because she has a cresent moon shape attached to it.
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* Many of the higher clergy in the Catholic Church, most notably the Pope. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Leo_XIII.jpg You can't tell me this doesn't get "Flowing Robe and Pointy Hat" points.] Their original purpose was to be identified in a crowd easily. Now they are to symbolize their office rather than to cast [[Bolt of Divine Retribution|level 1,000,000 lightning]], but still. (Of course, it's debatable whether or not His Holiness ''can'' call down epic-level lightning...)
* The Zoroastrian Magi of Persia are thought to have originated the pointed-hat look and symbol-covered robes, while the broad-brimmed hat and long white beard may be derived from Odin. The words "magic" and "mage" are derived from ''magi'', so there might be something there.
* A number of ancient Saka people from in central and east Asia were found by archaeologists buried in incredibly tall pointy
* Academia generates a lot of fuss about ceremonial garb. There are no pointy hats, but there are hats you're only allowed to wear if you have a Ph D, and the shape and color of graduates' hoods has a long and very specific history that varies depending on the institution. And, of course, they're accompanied by robes.
* During times of plague in the medieval era, doctors "treating" plague victims really, seriously did wear big robes and hats, presumably to keep skin-to-skin contact to a minimum. They also wore creepy-looking masks with pointy faces stuffed with aromatics to cut down on the smell; many had little glass lenses to see out of. They even used staffs to point at people and direct them, since their voices were muffled. The combined effect was like something out of ''[[Silent Hill]]''
* The English style of headgear in the 17th century ran to high-crowned (pointy) hats, which became the stereotypical "witch's hat" in Halloween iconography.
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