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| - Related to In Space Everyone Can See Your Face, in any work where a hero wears armor, either powered or otherwise, the helmet is never worn, even in combat situations. The reasons for this are various. Humans are good at recognizing faces, and associate faces with personalities. Actors need facial expressions as a main tool of their performances. Also, less armour equals more Badass. And in video games where you can customize your character's appearance, wearing a helmet will often obscure it and waste all the effort you put into it. Contrast Cool Helmet.
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| - Related to In Space Everyone Can See Your Face, in any work where a hero wears armor, either powered or otherwise, the helmet is never worn, even in combat situations. The reasons for this are various. Humans are good at recognizing faces, and associate faces with personalities. Actors need facial expressions as a main tool of their performances. Also, less armour equals more Badass. Alternately, the armor the main character wears might not be distinctive enough to make him stand out from other people wearing armor; we wouldn't want our hero to just be one of the faceless goons, after all. Writers and artists often try to alleviate this by giving main characters almost, but not quite the same uniform as the Faceless Mooks -- or cheat by giving the hero a helmet, but shows their face clearly, whereas everyone else wears a full face helmet. And in video games where you can customize your character's appearance, wearing a helmet will often obscure it and waste all the effort you put into it. On a related note, in virtually every superhero movie in which the main character wears a mask, it will be pulled off during the climax of the movie. Usually it's torn off or so badly damaged that there's no point in keeping it on; sometimes the hero just decides to take it off. Contrast Cool Helmet. Examples of Helmets Are Hardly Heroic include:
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