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A shield or any other sort of [[Power
See also [[Bandit Mook]] and [[Mooks Ate My Equipment]] for things that can treat ordinary armor as One Hit Point Wonders, unlike the rest of the game.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In ''[[Captain America the First Avenger]]'', the eponymous hero starts off using a triangular shield he picked up during his stage show (a [[Mythology Gag]] to the characters' roots). The shield is used precisely once as a guard against the Red Skull's fist. The Red Skull caves it in and it is quickly discarded.
* [[Action Girl|Bastille]] from the ''[[Alcatraz Series (Literature)|Alcatraz Series]]'' wears a jacket made from spun fibers of Defender's Glass. It can take one blow that by rights should kill her, but then it's ruined and she has to get another.
* In ''[[Labyrinths of Echo (Literature)|Labyrinths of Echo]]'', Magister Honna's headband was enchanted to protect even against [[One
* Reactive armor, on tanks, is designed so that when hit by a shaped-charge...[[Shoot the Bullet|it explodes]]. It actually works quite well, but the explosives get used up. A lot of anti-tank rocket launchers are now being designed with two barrels—one rocket takes out the armor, the second gets the tank.
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