Armor n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
Tropes about armor. Could be body armor, helmets, shields (even energy shields), gauntlets, leggings, or even using something improvised as armor.
Beware anything that is an Armor-Piercing Attack or Anti-Armor.
Note that having armor in the name is not enough.
Sister Indexes
- Cranium Coverings
- Knight in Shining Tropes
- Metallic Tropes
- Military and Warfare Tropes
- Sir Index of Tropes
- Smithing Tropes
- Sword Tropes
- Weapons and Wielding Tropes
Tropes
- 24-Hour Armor: A character wears armor that they never seem to take off.
- Adaptive Armor: An armor that adapts based on whoever is wearing it.
- Animated Armor: Living armor.
- Armor and Magic Don't Mix: Magic users don't or can't wear armor.
- Armored Collar of Durability: A character wears armor that obscures their neck to show their toughness.
- Armor Is Useless: Even though the character is wearing armor, they aren't protected from damage.
- Armor of Invincibility: The most powerful armor in the game.
- Armored Dragons: Dragons wearing armor.
- Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes: The villains wear armor, but the heroes don't.
- Balls of Steel: If you're wearing armor over your.. assets.
- Battle Ballgown: An armored skirt.
- Beehive Barrier: An energy shield made of geometric shapes, primarily High-Tech Hexagons.
- Bio-Armor: Artificially created organic armor.
- Bling of War: Armor that is impractically decorated.
- Body Armor as Hit Points: Armor is used as a form of health bar.
- Boots of Toughness: These are often used to protect feet.
- Broken Armor Boss Battle: A videogame boss is covered in armor, and you can't damage it until you get rid of it.
- Broken Faceplate: A character is shown to be injured by damaging their faceplate.
- Bubble Shield: A barrier made up of a bubble.
- Bucket Helmet: Improvised Armour by putting a bucket or pot on your head.
- Bulletproof Vest: A vest that can stop bullets in fiction.
- Chainmail Bikini: A Fanservice trope where armor is impractically revealing.
- Collapsible Helmet: A helmet that can fold itself into the armor.
- Cool Helmet: A cool and unique helmet.
- Deflector Shields: An invisible energy barrier that protects you.
- Deployable Cover: A form of barrier that you can deploy in combat.
- Elemental Armor: Instant Armor made of Elemental Powers.
- Face-Design Shield: A shield with a face painted on it.
- Forging Scene: A scene where a set of armor is forged.
- Good Armor, Evil Armor: You can tell who the good guy is by whether their armor is Obviously Evil or not.
- Heavily Armored Mook: A videogame enemy that's wearing heavy armor.
- Heavy Equipment Class: A character or class that stands out due to proficiency with heavy armor.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Heroes never seem to wear helmets, or at least not face-concealing ones.
- Improvised Armour: MacGyvering a set of armor out of spare materials.
- Instant Armor: Armor that can be spawned out of thin air with magic or technology.
- Kevlard: Fat as body armor.
- Knight in Shining Armor: A knight who keeps his armor in very good condition.
- Lady Legionnaire Wear: A segmented skirt, or pteruge, used as a symbol of toughness.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Using a physical shield to defend yourself.
- Onesie Armor: Armor is counted as one item in a video game.
- Orbiting Particle Shield: A series of particles that orbit around you to block damage.
- Pocket Protector: An item in a character’s pocket stops a bullet.
- Post-Apunkalyptic Armor: Improvised Armour from After the End.
- Powered Armor: A mechanized suit of armor that can move under its own power.
- Rage Helm: An angry-looking face mask.
- Regenerating Shield, Static Health: Barriers/energy shields regenerate automatically from damage, while health/hull requires manual regeneration/repairment.
- Scarred Equipment: A character's experience in battle is visually indicated by the battered and beat-up appearance of their armor.
- Scary Impractical Armor: A very scary, Obviously Evil armor that hinders the wearer.
- Shed Armor, Gain Speed: A character becomes faster after dropping their armor.
- Shield-Bearing Mook: A Kung Fu-Proof Mook that uses a shield to deflect frontal attacks.
- Shield Surf: Using a shield as a sled.
- Shields Are Useless: Shields barely protect the character.
- Single-Use Shield: A shield that only protects you once.
- Special Ability Shield: Shields that do something unusual.
- Spectral Body Construct: The ability to manifest a large body-shaped construct of psionic, magical or spiritual energy around oneself like a suit of armor.
- Tin Tyrant: A villainous character that wears fully concealing plate armor.
- Turtle Shield: Turtles used as shields or armor.
- We Will Wear Armor in the Future: Characters in far-future settings still wear body armor.
