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* Most of the main characters in ''[[Signs]]'' wind up wearing one at some point before the end of the movie.

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' movie ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'' featured a cult-like group of hobos called the Legion of Madfellows who all wore such hats to prevent the Dark One from reading their thoughts, and indoctrinated Fry into their practices.<ref>Fry's hat in particular would be in different shapes for different scenes (it's foil, after all), depending on the occasion. E.g. it became a stereotypical police officer hat when he was posing as a security guard.</ref> They were, of course, [[Properly Paranoid]].

** The hat also serves to block Fry's own mind reading powers as [[Power Incontinence|he can't turn them off of his own accord]].

 

* In the early ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' books, the paranoid centaur Foaly always wears a tin-foil hat.

* The novel ''Idiots In The Machine'' by Edward Savio portrays a character who believes that tin foil keeps harmful gamma rays away and becomes a media sensation, marketing a successful line of foil hats to Chicago.

* In ''[[The Dark Tower]]'', Randall Flagg has one of these. Allegedly, it actually works against most forms of mind control magic, but it doesn't work on the villain he's facing, Mordred.

 

* ''[[Eastenders]]'' character Joe Wicks was briefly portrayed constructing and wearing his own tin-foil hat as part of a storyline which saw him suffering from schizophrenia.

* In ''[[The X-Files]]'', [[The Lone Gunmen]] wear them occasionally. Also, a policeman suggests they all get one in their [[Origins Episode]] when he realizes what kind of kooks he is dealing with.

* On an episode of ''[[Fringe]]'' Walter wears a tinfoil hat at Massive Dynamic headquarters to defend against mindreading/MindControl projects, and convinces Astrid to do the same. In context, it's actually a credible concern.

* In an episode of ''[[The Finder]]'' the Finder wears an aluminum foil hat. The client (Hodgins from ''Bones'') mocks him, but it really does help block the government from interfering with your brain waves so you can move.

 

* In [[Doctor Steel]]'s web video, "Reality Engineering", Steel is shown wearing a tinfoil hat when he's labeled a conspiracy nut.

* Half of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song "Foil" (a parody of Lorde's "Royals", from his 2014 CD ''Mandatory Fun'') is a buildup to a musical [[Conspiracy Theories|conspiracy rant]] with the punchline being his tin foil hat, as seen in the page quote.

 

* The tin-foil hat was an April Fool's Day item created by Blizzard to parody player paranoia about their character information being searchable on the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' armory.

* ''[[L.A. Noire]]'' features a street mission in which Phelps has to chase down a tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist.

 

== Web Original ==

* A guy wearing a tinfoil hat is (or was, at least) the symbol of the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] section of [[TV Tropes]].<ref>[[This Very Wiki|We]] use a [[Doctor Who|TARDIS]], instead, for all the Time Lords allegedly identified.</ref>

 

* On ''[[Regular Show]]'', Mordecai and Rigby make foil hats when using Pops' '80s era cell phones, after he warned them that they cause tumors.