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{{quote|''"If I were to pick up this cowering-plate, I would have to put down my [[Dual-Wielding|second sword]]," a Scotsman thinks. "And surely this is madness."''
|[[Team Fortress 2]], on the [[Averted Trope|Chargin' Targe]]}}
Shields. Big pieces of wood and/or metal that protect at least one half of your body against attack. Pretty useful in battle, you might think. And indeed some characters will gratefully sigh that [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]. Others, however, are not so sure.
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Closely related to [[Armor Is Useless]]. Not to be confused with [[Deflector Shields]]. Aversions are [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Samson is one of the few characters in ''[[Berserk]]'' to use a shield, and a single slash from [[BFS|Guts' swords]] went through it, [[Armor Is Useless|Samson's helmet]], and his entire head.
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== Film ==
* In ''Kingdom of Heaven'', when {{spoiler|the walls of Jerusalem are breached}}, Orlando Bloom's character throws aside his shield and charges into the fray with only his sword. In reality this would be a death sentence.
* In the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy, shields are used for a variety of standard and creative purposes, but often we see the [[Redshirt Army|Red Shirt Armies]] on both sides just letting their shields hang by their sides as they're casually dispatched.
* In ''[[Hero (film)|Hero]]'', Flying Snow and Broken Sword fight through the entire imperial guard single-handedly, slicing through their shields like cardboard.
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