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* ''[[The Wire]]'', when Omar ends up in prison he [[Duct Tape for Everything|duct-tapes]] several thick books to his body before going to shank an enemy as an example to the other inmates.
* Unable to acquire an armored vehicle, Michael Westen of ''[[Burn Notice]]'' once filled the insides of an SUV's doors with phone books.
** This was deemed plausible by the [[Myth BustersMythBusters]]. It worked quite well, but you'd need so many phone books to cover the windows it's [[Awesome but Impractical|impractical for]] [[Real Life]].
** Which was explained in Westen's voice-over: "You don't want to skimp on ballistic glass."
** In a later episode where Michael's in prison, he and another prisoner fashion temporary armor from several library books.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' has 'Ard Boyz, relatively bright Orks who realize that by slapping together plates of scrap metal into a crude set of armor, they have a better chance of surviving the charge across the battlefield into melee. Of course, ''all'' Orks' armor counts as improvised (as do their weapons, vehicles, architecture, medicine...)
* ''[[GURPS]]: High-Tech'' has rules for homemade armor. Buckets can be made into a plastic ''lorica segmentata'' strong enough to provide noticeable protection from a shotgun blast.
* [[Dungeons and& Dragons]]
** In the 3e ''Oriental Adventures'' (effectively d20 ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]''), Nezumi are fond of making makeshift armor out of whatever they can cobble together, like tower shields made of the shells of turtle-like monsters called Kappa.
** One post-apocalyptic ''[[D20 Modern]]'' setting featured illustrations of thugs using American football shoulder pads for armor and a Stop sign for a shield.
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