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* ''[[Star Wars]]'' - The infamous stormtroopers and their predecessors the clone troopers. As well as the Mandalorians.
** Stormtrooper armor blocks radiation, chemical and biological weapons, stun bolts, and most (non-energy) melee attacks, as well as providing general life support and environmental protection. [[Armor Is Useless|Too bad (for the stormtroopers) that the rebels just use simple blasters.]] But, [[All There in the Manual|other sources]] say that while it might be penetrated by a direct blaster bolt, it would at least significantly reduce damage from the absorbed bolt, [[Fan Wank|so the]] [[Short-Range Long-Range Weapon|constantly close-ranges of combat]] [[Fan Wank|in the movies is why the armour seems useless]].
** This is illustrated in the first battle scene in the entire series. Armored stormtroopers vs. unarmored rebel
** Stormtrooper armor, as everything else, is designed for a specific purpose. It's a product of the same "[[Zerg Rush|drown them in attackers]]" doctrine as TIE fighter, so it protects an ''unit'' rather than ''individual''. Thus ''direct hits'' of blasters stronger than handguns can cause knockdown and injury, melee weapons and lucky shrapnel hits sometimes kill through the weak neck joint, but anything (short of very heavy weapons) that could inflict mass casualties is stopped - if a large unit of stormtroopers can plow through gases, depressurizing, shrapnel and shockwaves of blaster near misses and grenades, and fight on, they will win simply because of the advantage in numbers, as long as they are disciplined and competent enough - and stormtroopers are. The helm's communication and optics lock down so it's mostly useless for an enemy who picked it up, especially for [[False Flag Operation]].
* ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' - Making the fact that they left out the book's power armor even more obvious.
** The armor props were sold to a ''lot'' of other productions, like ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Firefly]]''.
* The colonial marines in ''[[Alien (franchise)|Aliens]]'', though apparently it doesn't provide much protection from acid blood.
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* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'': The cops wear so much armor that they look like mobile metal bon-bons with the word "Police" stenciled on them.
** Ditto for the Mondoshawan, assuming the mechanical-looking structures that covered them actually ''were'' armor and not their actual bodies.
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* Lots of armor in ''[[Mass Effect]]'', which also functions as a spacesuit when necessary. This is probably because mass accelerator technology has made small arms even more lethal without armour.
** Not so much in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', however, where most of your teammates do not, in fact, wear armour. Interestingly, several of the villains do.
* In the ''[[Fallout]]'' series, being set in a [[Schizo-Tech]] [[Alternate Universe]], armour was very popular both before and after the war, amongst individuals, companies, armies and police forces alike. Its effectiveness greatly depends on how improvised it
* ''[[Gears of War
** It is revealed in the third game that most of that bulk wasn't armor, they are just that large and muscular (Marcus's biceps are two third's the width of Anya's torso).
* The armor worn by Terran Marines in ''[[Starcraft]]'' is likewise bulky, but does come with a helmet.
** Hilariously, the armor provides no in-game benefit as Marines have no armor value until you research upgrades.
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|However, the armor does give marines 55 health compared to the 10 health of an unarmored human.]]
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[SSDD]]'' it's stated that buckminster fullerene armor made conventional firearms obsolete. However, the various weapons designed to counter it all have their own disadvantages ([http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20070709.html slow firing], [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20070710.html cumbersome], [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20070712.html expensive], [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20070714.html tends to explode], etc).
* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' there is a lot of both light and heavy body armor variants.
** The low-profile powered suits look a lot like cloth uniforms, but definitely function as armor. "Carbonan crotch-huggers", as Karl Tagon calls them, seem to be standard issue in at least some human armies, and they stop a lot of things, from bullets to flame to bioweapon [[nanobots]], can sustain the wearer in space for short time periods ([[Collapsible Helmet]] is deployed on mental command or bad atmosphere), and include inertiics that both protect from collisions and provide limited flight. [[Armor Is Useless]] usually when overkill with heavy weapons is involved.
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** Exosuits used by security teams on Haven Hive were capable of keeping wearers uninjured even after a plasma cannon hit (the same glancing sweep ''left a wide cut through ship bulkhead and deck''), though the suit itself ends up utterly destroyed in process.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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