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A staple of [[Obviously Evil]] design. Compare [[Spikes of Villainy]] and [[Chained By Fashion]]. See also [[Bad With the Bone]] when bones are used as [[Improvised Weapon|Improvised Weapons]].
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* Mola Ram in ''[[Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom]]'' has a skull as part of his headdress, and various bones as part of his jewelry.
* In ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]'', the ship is disguised as a Reaver ship by covering it with bones, blood and corpses.
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* [[Battle Butler]] [[The Renfield|Igor]] in ''[[Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (Film)|Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl]]'' (he serves the former) wears an armour made of bones.
* Part of the killer's mask in ''Midnight Movie'' is a skull.
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* Drizzt's arch-nemesis Artemis Entreri wields Charon's Claw, a sword with bones for a hilt.
** Subverted with another of Drizzt's main enemies, Obould Many-Arrows. He has a helmet crafted to look like a skull, but is in made of glass-steel, a super-hard, transparent material.
* Cohen The Barbarian from ''[[Discworld]]'' has dentures made out of troll teeth. Discworld trolls, [[All Trolls Are Different|being made of metamorphic rock]], have diamond teeth. Also, a troll mobster makes cufflinks out of his enemies' teeth. Other trolls like to wear belts of human and dwarf skulls, but in recent, more politically correct times, sheep skulls have become a substitute (after a short experiment with monkey skulls. Either there was too much similarity in size and approximate shape for most dwarfs to tell the difference or [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|the Librarian]] [[Berserk Button|took issue]]). The ''real'' tough troll criminals don't bother; they just beat you over the head with your own arm until you get the message rather than run the risk of inflaming dwarfs with no grounding in forensic anthropology unnecessarily.
* In the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]], [[Faction Paradox]] members wear [[Cool Mask|ceremonial masks]] created from the skulls of creatures "[[Temporal Paradox|that really shouldn't have existed in the first place anyway]]".
** And [[media:armour.jpg|full-body armor]] made from [[Our Vampires Are Different|Yssgaroth]]-tainted [[Time Lord|Homeworld]] agents. It's a Faction Paradox thing - they embrace and celebrate death instead of fearing it.
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* Nazi SS officer caps have a skull on them.
** Not really an example of wearing actual, literal "bones." More like pirates using skulls-and-crossbones as their symbol. Incidentally, skull-and-crossbones emblem (along with black uniforms) had been used by Prussian cavalry since 18th century and both the SS and the Panzerwaffe were just using an old, well-known military symbol.
* And as long as we're collecting ''metaphorical'' bones, go to any shop with a good selection of [[Fun T
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