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{{quote|'''[[The Hero|Aang]]:''' Sorry about your [[Battle Boomerang|boomerang]], Sokka.<br />

'''Merchant:''' Here's your produce, ponytail guy.<br />

'''[[The Spock|Sokka]]:''' ''(dejectedly)'' I used to be boomerang guy...|''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''}}

 

Often produced as [[Official Cosplay Gear]]. Compare [[Clothes Make the Legend]] and [[Memetic Outfit]]. Also compare [[National Weapon]] for a type of cultural [[Iconic Item]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]'s yellow hair ribbons, Yuki Nagato's glasses, and Mikuru Asahina's cosplay costumes, especially her maid costume.

* Many of the Angels in ''[[Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer]]'' would count; more than tools to their users, who even ''talk'' to the robotic dolls on more than one occasion, an abandoned Angel is a sign that something is deeply wrong with its operator.

** And their sunglasses, of course.

* In ''[[El Dorado]]'' people keep commenting about Mississipi's odd-looking hat, but he refuses to stop wearing it because it belonged to his dead mentor.

 

 

** Pretty much any wizard's wand in the [[Harry Potter]] universe. Remembering them, on the other hand...

** Um, [[The Hero|Harry's]] glasses.

* Rincewind's hat in ''[[Discworld]]''. Of course, all wizards and witches wear a [[Robe and Wizard Hat|pointy hat]], but Rincewind is the only one who finds it necessary to write "WIZZARD" upon it in sequins. And he ''always'' comes back for his hat. (Although at the start of ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', he's been seperated from it for some time while on a [[Deserted Island]], and found it necessary to construct a replacement ("a [[Cargo Cult]] wizard's hat") out of grass and bamboo. With "WIZZARD" spelt out in cowrie shells).

* [[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quijote]], his suit of armour and the "golden helmet of Mambrin" (actually a barber's brass shaving-bowl).

* In ''[[Law and Order Criminal Intent]]'', Goren uses his pocket knife a lot (not as a weapon mind you, just to pick up stuff he doesn't want to touch, dig stuff out of walls, etc).

* [[Gossip Girl|Chuck Bass']] scarf.

* In [[Ugly Betty]] Betty's Red glasses and pink brasses. Although she finally gets the braces removed in the final fourth season.

* "Boston" Rob Mariano, from ''[[Survivor (TV)|Survivor]]'' and ''The Amazing Race'', has his Boston Red Sox hat. At one point on ''The Amazing Race'' 7, he gives a local the blue Red Sox hat he traditionally wore on ''Survivor'', and from the next leg on (including on All-Stars) he wore a [[Law of Chromatic Superiority|red one instead]].

* Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves ''always'' wears a bow tie (though not the same one).

** And why not? Bow Ties are cool.

 

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