History Main / CommissarCap

[[folder:Visal Novels]]

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''' Reichsman, the [[AlternatHistoryNaziVictory Axis America]] version of Statesman, tops his PuttingOnTheReich uniform with a black peaked hat.

* M. Bison (played by Raul Julia) wears one in ''Film/StreetFighter'', and turns out to have a private hat rack with several variations on it next to the paintings of himself and such. To further stress the PuttingOnTheReich aspect, the metal Shadaloo symbol on the front looks rather eerily like a mix between the Nazi "Reichsadler" and the SS "Totenkopf" motif.

* ''Film/{{Frantic}}''. Michelle wears one when she first meets the protagonist played by Creator/HarrisonFord, along with a black leather jacket.
* ''Film/TheGreatDictator''. ''Creator/CharlieChaplin'' lampoons Adolph Hitler and wears a wonderful Commissar Cap with a [[NoSwastikas XX logo in place of the swastika]].

* In ''Film/LordOfWar'' many Red Army Ukrainian officers wear them.

* Russia in ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' wears one occasionally.

* In the Mass Effect fanfic series {{Fanfic/Uplifted}} Hanala seems to enjoy stealing Hoch's cap. Rundstedt forces SS officer Joachim Hoch to give his hat to his granddaughter as a form of humiliation, telling him that he is not a real officer. Rommel seems to have a tendency to fiddle with his.

See also BlingOfWar, NiceHat. Often worn by TheGeneralissimo and sometimes ThePoliticalOfficer.

** The 90es huge peaked caps were disliked among the Russian military, derisively known as [[BananaRepublic "Pinochet caps"]]. They were also a case of SukhomlinovEffect, becoming larger and more fanciful as the Russian army weakened and grew underequipped and undertrained.
** As of recent years, Russian military funding has risen again, and coincidentally, they have adopted smaller caps lacking the double-headed eagle of the Russian federation and look similar to Soviet caps. The new Minister of Defence, Sergei Shoigu, brought his old EMERCOM hat, quite compact and soft, into Russian military fashion.
** Also note that as of TheNewTens peaked caps are actually only worn with a dress and semi-dress uniforms in Russia. In the field, or even in garrison, but in undress uniforms, everyone wear either a patrol cap almost identical to the US version, or a beret (the color of which depends on the branch).

** On the other hand, during the Cold War, the US Armed Forces had larger-crowned caps than their Soviet counterparts, for reasons similar to above: American caps wear a large insignia on the ''crown'', almost always some variation of the eagle of American heraldry, whereas Soviet caps almost always had a small, less obtrusive Soviet insignia the ''band'' (American caps also typically have thinner bands). This almost certainly was a large inspiration on the Russian Federation's placement of their ''own'' eagle on the crown of their new caps, and when the Russian military moved away from the American style, their caps shrunk accordingly.

* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': The OvertOperative Tseng, of Tseng's Herbal Remedies in the Los Angeles Chinatown, wears a commisar cap, an EyepatchOfPower, and an army uniform. He still insists that he's not a soldier.

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]

* [[Anime/JojosBizarreAdventure Jotaro Kujo]] wears the front half of a cap like this.

** Say it with us now: Cowardly Commissar Ciaphas Cain Contains his Coiffure in a Commissar Cap!

* The original pilot for Star Trek alluded to this; in Captain Pike's cabin, sitting on top of the captain's television set, is a forage cap. It's never seen in use, and was never seen in the Original Series (aside from a glimpse in the two-parter that made use of footage from the pilot.)

** Also note that as of TheNewTens peaked caps are actually only worn with a dress and semi-dress uniforms in Russia. In the field, or even in garrison, but in undress uniforms, everyone wear the patrol cap almost identical to the US version.

A subtrope of both NiceHat and BlingOfWar. A large, high [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaked_cap peaked cap]] similar to those worn by BananaRepublic [[GloriousLeader dictators]]. The trope namer is ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', with [[ThePoliticalOfficer Commissars]] wearing such caps.[[note]]This is itself a nod to the similarly totalitarian [[GloriousMotherRussia Soviet Union]], in which pretty much everyone, even ''primary school children'', was issued a peaked cap at some point, especially the political commissars.[[/note]] This headgear surely makes the wearer look badass in an authoritarian sense of the word. Sometimes decorated with elaborate silver or gold designs on the visor and/or the front of the crown, nicknamed "scrambled eggs" by military folks; the stereotypical BananaRepublic leader's cap has so much of these that you can barely see the color of the actual cap underneath.

* Literature/CiaphasCain ([[LargeHam HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!!]]) wears one, and he does it [[LargeHam with style]], as page quote states.
** Say it with us now: [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Cowardly Commissar Ciaphas Cain Contains his Coiffure in a Commissar Cap!]]

* Played straight in Real Life in the 1990s with RussiansWithRustingRockets and Russian cops. Unlike RedsWithRockets, they had these as part of uniform, though they were abolished in TheNewTens, being replaced with smaller ones in the older Soviet style. Soviet officers did often have this kinds of caps as part of the dress uniform (hence the trope name), though Soviet caps were not quite as large as modern ones — it actually started in TheEighties (duh!) as [[CustomUniform some sort of military chic]], and the style eventually got popular with the brass in UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia, thus entering the regulations.

* The "Banana Republic" in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' and Thembria in ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' have people wearing these hats. Baloo wears one as well, albeit a less decorated one.