History Main / PoweredArmor

* ''Film/TheTuxedo'' could be considered a form of Powered Armor, as it enhances the wearer's reflexes, strength, and speed. In fact, the tuxedo mostly functions on its own with the wearer only required to select a particular action from the list. In the film, Creator/JackieChan's character can't fight. It's the tuxedo that does all the fighting, although in the typical Jackie Chan fashion. The final fight involves a battle between Jackie Chan's character (in a super-powered tux) and the BigBad (who managed to get one too). Somehow, though, the BigBad is ''much'' more proficient with the tux than "Jimmy", even though "Jimmy" has been walking around in it for most of the film, while the BigBad put it on literally two minutes before the fight. It ''could'' be justified because [[spoiler:the BigBad is wearing the original "superspy" suit, while Jimmy's could have been an inferior version]].

* ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' has a realistic version, as Bond and Melina must take on a mook in a deep-sea diving JIM suit.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Avalon}}'', there are the Iron Suits, dummied down versions of the ''ComicBook/IronMan'' suit used by Nerv.

* [[https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/4866b0051debd Thicksuits]] in ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' are a cross between this and LatexSpaceSuit. They're mainly meant for surviving in space, but (thanks to including artificial muscle) they also give the user TheStrengthOfTenMen and reduce the apparent force of impacts.

* ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' had SteamPunk Powered Armor. The best-powered armor in the game is being worn by [[ShoutOut a character who was sent out]] from his desert-located HiddenElfVillage to locate a [[MacGuffin water crystal]] and who is now being refused permission to rejoin the community because he's changed too much. The dev team is definitely referencing their [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} previous works]].

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series prominently features powered armor developed before or after [[AfterTheEnd the Great War of 2077]]. Almost every game has featured its unique power armor design on the box art.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

* In ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', it is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:"Ultra Magnus" is actually a form of Powered Armor [[LegacyCharacter that has been worn by several different Autobots]] over the ages since the death of the original Ultra Magnus. The idea was cooked up by a lawmaker, Chief Justice Tyrest, who was so fascinated with Magnus' reputation that he created the armor and spread a story about Magnus merely ''faking'' his death to create "an eternal lawman" controlled by him. The current wearer of the "Magnus Armor" is a small, unassuming 'bot with the somewhat unfortunate name of Minimus Ambus. It's also mentioned that the wearers of the Magnus Armor have to be "Point One Percenters", meaning that they have stronger than usual [[OurSoulsAreDifferent sparks]] that allow their bodies to integrate with the armor without their frames collapsing from the strain]].

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':

** B-ko breaks out a {{Stripperific}} mockery of one for her showdown with A-Ko... at least it would be a mockery if it did not enable her to fight a running battle with the HumongousMecha-wrecking titular lead.

* In ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'', Cyborg Guy has a suit of "Ultimate Armor". He graduates to "ID Armor" when he becomes an Evoluder. It's not clear whether the armor is enhancing his natural strength and speed, enabling it, or is just there to [[RuleOfCool look cool]]. That said, the ID armor has one important part in it (the [=GaoBrace=] and Will Knife), and Evoluder Guy probably at least needs the ID Armor to pilot [=GaoFar=] and [=GaoFighGar=]. The UsefulNotes/SonyPlaystation video game ''Blockaded Numbers'' reveal that the ID Armor and the Ultimate Armor were used by 3G's predecessors.

* {{Tokusatsu}} {{Deconstruction}} ''Manga/{{Zetman}}'' has [[HeroicWannabe Alfasz]], who combats the [[BodyHorror Players]]. The suit's wearer, Kouga Amagi, purposefully modelled it on a children's show hero, due to being a bit of a justice freak.

* ''Manga/{{Radiant}}'': Doc accidentally activates [[spoiler: the armor of ''Pen Draig'' when he hides inside it while carrying memory stones containing the spirits of old heroes, which is a Fantasia powered, black-clad armor, which grants him super speed, super strenght, and [[MultiFormBalance has five modes]] each with its own arsenal of weapons made of Fantasia.]] Doc being [[LovableCoward Doc]] prefers to run away as his first option.

** ComicBook/DoctorDoom. Contrary to its almost medieval-industrial revolution aesthetic, being covered in visible rivets and displaying no apparent electronics, it is actually a nuclear-powered, ultra-sophisticated walking tank that stands up next to Tony Stark's best designs. It makes him strong and tough enough to go toe-to-toe with the Thing, discharge an array of devastating energy attacks, enables him to fly and control his vast arsenal of external technological devices. (Some versions even have a device that renders him immune to direct assault by mutant powers, so Magneto's victory over him in a fight isn't as assured as it would be against Tony.) He can basically beat the tar out of any non-"cosmic" character short of the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] and ComicBook/SquirrelGirl.

** His friend James Rhodes has used Stark armor many times, either taking up the Iron Man mantle while Tony was incapacitated or presumed dead, or working independently as Comicbook/WarMachine.
** Pepper Potts also has her own armor that was designed by Tony, called "ComicBook/{{Rescue}}".

*** Beyond the Iron Spider, Spidey has also created a number of armors for himself. Notable ones include the original Spider-Armor, the Sonic Armor (which became [[ComicBook/ScarletSpider Kaine Parker's]] costume), the Bulletproof Spider-Armor, and the ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth armour, designed to combat the Sinister Six.

** ComicBook/{{Mysterio}}'s suit serves as a containment/protection for his various hologram and gas-based gadgets, but depending on the writer it also has a battery-powered strength-enhancing system. It was far more rudimentary and basic than the ones employed by, say, Iron Man, however.

** ComicBook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}} and several other depowered mutants started wearing powered armor to [[RePower compensate]] for their [[BroughtDownToNormal lost abilities]] in ''ComicBook/NewWarriors''.
** ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} wears powered armor made with Celestial technology [[spoiler:and they are fully aware he has it and are letting him use it in exchange for future favors]] that enhances his already formidable superpowers and possibly grants him new ones.

** Batman in certain incarnations (most notably when [[ComicBook/{{Azrael}} Jean Paul Valley]] [[AntiHeroSubstitute took on the role)]] beefed the suit into a virtual war machine. (This was a sort of "Be careful what you wish for" to fans who wanted Batman to become more Punisher-like during UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|of Comic Books}}). ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' had the same general concept, but the suit was [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman more slender and less clunky looking]] than most.

** ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobin2009'' gives us the Hellbat, a OneManArmy, GodzillaThreshold suit [[ForgedByTheGods forged by the Justice League]] equal parts science and magic made of liquid metal that allowed Batman to demolish the forces of [[DeathWorld Apokolips]] by himself and later, go one on one with {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} himself. However, [[AwesomeButImpractical it drains Batman's life the longer it's used]], and if put on for too long will kill him.

** In the story arc ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'', the J'ai -- a warlike alien species that Superman and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} meet and fight -- wear green powered armors to fight in space.

*** In the ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' era, he dons a blue and red armor sporting the familiar S-shield and wears the cape of the fallen New 52 Superman in his drive to actually be a hero. This is what drives the pre-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' Superman to get back into the game as he doesn't want Luthor with that shield.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

** Byrna Brilyant used a snowman-themed "Blue Snowman" mechanized snow-creating armor in the Post-ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis continuity, though given who she's normally up against it didn't do her much good and she ended up easily defeated by ComicBook/PowerGirl and then eaten alive by monsters. In the revamped ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' continuity her armor was upgraded to a {{Humongous|Mecha}} MotionCaptureMecha.

* The ''Total Justice'' mini-series ([[MerchandiseDriven which was based on a popular Hasbro toyline]]) revolved around the members of the ComicBook/JusticeLeague losing their powers and being forced to don suits of armor that mimicked their abilities.

* ComicBook/{{Darkhawk}} has his entire body replaced by a powered armor body.

** In ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'', Robotnik wears War-Armour to battle [[TheStarscream Brutus]] which has a distinctive green and purple colour scheme, much like the battle-suit worn by [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Lex Luthor]]. It also has a [[KillItWithIce hose-like weapon that sprays liquid nitrogen]] which allows Robotnik to destroy [[MadeOfIndestructium Brutus]].
* In ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', it is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:"Ultra Magnus" is actually a form of Powered Armor [[LegacyCharacter that has been worn by several different Autobots]] over the ages since the death of the original Ultra Magnus. The idea was cooked up by a lawmaker, Chief Justice Tyrest, who was so fascinated with Magnus' reputation that he created the armor and spread a story about Magnus merely ''faking'' his death to create "an eternal lawman" controlled by him. The current wearer of the "Magnus Armor" is a small, unassuming 'bot with the somewhat unfortunate name of Minimus Ambus. It's also mentioned that the wearers of the Magnus Armor have to be "Point One Percenters", meaning that they have stronger than usual [[OurSoulsAreDifferent sparks]] that allow their bodies to integrate with the armor without their frames collapsing from the strain.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheMetabarons'' features the [[PraetorianGuard elite Endoguard]] who are outfitted with extremely bulky suits of power armor which provide increased strength and supposedly good protection, but offers no protection against the might of a Metabaron. As a show of being the WorldsGreatestWarrior, the Metabaron eschews power armor except for environmental protection.

** Later in the sequel, Harry's given his own stripped-down version, code-named [[ChronicHeroSyndrome 'Project]] [[KnightInShiningArmour Galahad']]. It's largely white and silver, with emerald green eye-lights, and its design is mainly focused on speed, agility, and defences, on the grounds that by this point, [[PersonOfMassDestruction Harry]] ''is'' a weapons system, and its main function is to prevent someone getting past his guard.
* ''Fanfic/{{Contraptionology}}'': Theoretically. Rainbow tries to create a set of flight-capable powered armor, but the best that she can manage is an unconvicting mockup made out of carboard boxes.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Avalon}}'', there are the Iron Suits, dummied down versions of the ''ComicBook/{{Iron Man}}'' suit used by Nerv.

* ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'': During "The Apokolips Agenda", ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} wears a Kryptonite-proof armor suit to counter any Kryptonite-based villains on ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'s payroll.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' short ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers'', Wallace buys a pair of ex-NASA techno-trousers. HilarityEnsues.

** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', the genius-billionaire-playboy-pilanthropist reveals a fully nanotechnological suit of armor during an epic clash with the Black Order (It aids Tony during his adventures on the Q-Ship, as well as the battle of Titan, when it gets absoluely wrecked by Thanos and reduced to smithereens. The last glimpse of it we see is in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', when Tony uses the last few thousands of nanoparticles left to conjure a helmet with a message to Pepper Potts).

** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' includes Tony's last (and probably finest) effort in armor engineering. Mark 85 is used to extract The Tesseract from its locker, fly large distances, battle the minions of Thanos, and finally perform the Snap as Tony delivers an epic [[ShutUpHannibal one-liner]] to the BigBad and kills them all. The armor disitegrates soon after.

* A bulky suit of powered armor is used in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' [[MundaneUtility as a forklift]]. And to [[spoiler: fight the xenomorph Queen in the climax.]] It's manufactured by Catterpillar, even. It straddles the line between this and MiniMecha, making its wearer 10 feet tall and giving them the strength to lift cars, but slowing them to a crawl and not actually providing any protection besides a roll cage.

** In Abaddon's Gate, the third novel, we get to see what they can really do. Disarmed of all of their weapons and in the hands of inexperienced users, four of them prove almost unstoppable [[spoiler: only being beaten by sneaky tactics such as sending a full speed elevator into one. Had they been fully armed it's basically a given that they would have been unstoppable]]

* The marines in Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/InFuryBorn'' uses powered armor, as do the marines of ''Literature/HonorHarrington''. Interestingly enough, we never see fights between forces equipped with Powered Armor in the Honorverse, only between the armored troopers and non-armored enemy forces. And at least one book included [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome an example]] of what happens when you try to stealthily land on top of a building in a [[DynamicEntry heavy Power Armor suit.]] While they are portrayed as NighInvulnerable in this setting (at least against infantry), there has been at least one example of them being defeated by regular squishy unarmored personnel who catch them by surprise (and use a {{BFG}}).

* The protagonist of Gary Gibson's ''Stealing Light'' has some sort of LatexSpaceSuit InstantArmour Powered Armour she stole from some aliens. If they knew about it, they'd want it back. Alas, it's implanted in place of one of her lungs (at least).

* The "living-brain" Martians in H. G. Wells' ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' came very close; their war-machines straddle the line between this trope and HumongousMecha. They also had smaller non-combat work-machines into which they strapped themselves.

* Nearly all {{Toku}}satsu programs qualify in some way, although some have the protagonist as a HollywoodCyborg, RidiculouslyHumanRobot, or a bioweapon created through genetic engineering or magic instead. Even with these, the character's superhero form is often treated as a power-enhancing suit. For the sake of not listing every show in the genre, only exceptional instances are listed here.

*** A [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain Of The Week]] develops an exoskeletal suit that allows him to move as fast as the Flash. Then his control chip gets damaged. Cue the "bug on its back" sight.

* In the ''Chi-Chian'' rpg based on the comic by Music/{{Voltaire}}, those with money will wear PoweredArmor as a display of wealth and fashion. The most notable of these suits is the Dragon armour, besides enhancing one's stats and providing the best protection rate, the very fanciful Dragon has wings that allows the wearer to fly and there's a dragon-head attachment to the helmet which [[BreathWeapon breathes fire]]. Chi-Chian herself owns the NighInvulnerable unique Biologic Suit given to her by her supergenius father. The suit has an [[ArmorOfInvincibility armor rating of infinity as well as boost her stats!]]

* In ''Dark Legacies'' a D20 game from ''Red Spire Press', one advanced class for a race of gnome-like people can make a {{Steampunk}} suit of PowerArmor that's armed with a modified AutomaticCrossbow and PowerFist type weapon.

* Surprisingly downplayed in ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'', much of the fancy armor look like they'd be PoweredArmor but they're nothing more than future full-plate with a closed helmet. The Brotherhood's Crucifier armor is the most famed armor as it has a magically responsive 2nd set of arms to provide the user with [[MultiarmedAndDangerous four arms]] worth of guns and other weapons.

* ''Obsidian: Age of Judgement'' has 3 kinds of armor: soft, hard and mechanical. Mechanical armor has muscle coils and stabilizers to increase a wearer's strength and ability to handle recoil but requires daily recharging. The armors are: Stormtrooper which is a common, medium suit that offers good protection but lacks environemental sealing. Bounty which is a light armor used often by bounty hunters - while it's lightweight and unencumbering while lacking coverage for the head and extremities. Deathware is a strong, heavy armor that offers great protection and stability but inhibits movement speed. Last of all is Assault Stabilizing Wear which is a massive suit that's very clumsy and slow but offers many extra features. Officers of the LAW megacorp have their own unique variations of Deathware and Assault Stabilizing Wear (Patrol armor and Law Stabilizing armor) which are greatly improved compared to the standard versions, such as Patrol being fully sealed and Law Stabilizing having built-in machine guns.

** Another Palladium game that extensively uses PoweredArmour (but of OrganicTechnology) is ''TabletopGame/{{Splicers}}''. Host Armour is the power armour of the system and like the name says it's a symbiotic parasite for its host which provides the host with an extensive array of powers and stat bonuses while the host procures power sources for the armour. The source of power for Host Armour depends on the type of suit and can vary from taking ambient heat from the surrounding area, to digesting minerals, gulping large quantities of meat and just sucking life force from its host.

** Spyrers are ordinary humans from the heights of TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'s Hive Primus who use Powered Armor to achieve ClothesMakeTheSuperMan. It's hinted that their ancient, possibly alien (the names are all [[MeaningfulName useful descriptions of their function]] in Tau) suits are actually TheSymbiote, as they literally grow stronger and more powerful as the wearer gets more used to them. These are unusual artefacts belonging to noble families rather than standard military gear, however.

** The Golden Armour, although it's more of a fantasy variant than most of the science fiction examples on this page. [[spoiler: It has the power to incinerate Antidermis, including all the [[WetwareCPU Kraata]] inside Rahkshi, and permanently transfers the Kraata's powers to the user]]. The Toa Nuva's AdaptiveArmor also develops different characteristics to enhance the wearer's performance depending on the environment.

* Some of the figures from Kenner's ''Total Justice'' line from the '90s, which featured various Creator/DCComics heroes. Some made sense, but others were pretty WTF-worthy (why would Franchise/{{Superman}} or Franchise/TheFlash need armor?)

** In ''VideoGame/AssaultOnDarkAthena'', an enemy roughly analogous to Riot Guards return in the form of Athena Mechs. However, [[spoiler:Revas dons a suit that plays this trope completely straight for the final boss fight.]]

* The Silencers from ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}'' have a kind of powered armor as their uniform. The armor itself doesn't (apparently) increase strength or speed, but it can mount a dizzying array of technological devices, including wide-spectrum vision, targeting sensors, personal shielding (against weaponry and hard radiation), and also apparently comes with a ''[[HyperspaceArsenal backpack]] [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons of holding]]'' standard. Oh, and it's apparently made of [[ElementsDoNotWorkThatWay polonium, which (among other things) is ridiculously radioactive]].

* In the ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' games, ''everyone'' wears a form of powered exoskeleton called [=RiG=] ([[FunWithAcronyms Resource Integration Gear]]) that serves to monitor health and personal resources, and manages communications and interfacing with other machines and computer systems. On top of the standard [=RiGs=], the games' protagonists usually wear an enclosed suit of armor, complete with CollapsibleHelmet. These suits have specific profession-based designs (Soldier, Engineer, Archaeologist, Miner, etc), but regardless of the individual model, they are ''[[CrazyPrepared all]]'' vacuum-enabled with an oxygen supply, zero-gravity boots and thrusters and have incorporated armor & weapons management systems. So even a lowly systems engineer has a chance in the [[TemptingFate unlikely event]] of a [[RecycledINSPACE Space]] ZombieApocalypse.

** Master Chief John-117's MJOLNIR armor is one of the most well-known video game examples, being a fusion-powered, [[DeflectorShield energy-shielded]] suit of death that makes the operator so powerful that they can ''[[SuperStrength flip tanks over]]'' with little effort. It is literally ''too much'' for a normal human to take, which is why only Spartan super-soldiers, who are biologically and cybernetically enhanced to post-human levels, can don the suits. MJOLNIR comes in many varieties and can be divided into three distinct generations; [=GEN1=] (aka Mark IV-VII) was worn by Spartan-[=IIs=] and select Spartan-[=IIIs=] during the Human-Covenant War, [=GEN2=] is the standard for Spartan-[=IVs=], and [=GEN3=] is worn by Master Chief in ''VideoGame/HaloInfinite''.

** While a select few got MJOLNIR, most Spartan-[=IIIs=] during the Human-Covenant War wore SPI (Semi-Powered Infiltration) armor, which provides far less protection and physical enchancement than MJOLNIR, but has photoreactive panels which function like a poor man's invisibility cloak.

* ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion'' has PoweredArmor as a technology that can be researched. Once done all your infantry will wear it to gain a boost in their combat rating. In the sequel game, power armour gives a very substantial boost in boarding and ground combat - not only does it increase the wearer's combat rating, it also gives an extra hit point as well to greatly improve survivability.

** ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'': The [[ArtifactOfDoom Biometals]]? The Biometal envelops the [[ChosenOne Chosen Ones]] with a Powered-Armor based on the previous character the Model was based on. Of course, this is a topic of contention among several fans.

** Samus's suit itself is essentially a modified (for humans[[note]]Technically Samus was modified a bit herself by the Chozo so she could survive on their planet but she's still a very different shape to a "normal" Chozo warrior.[[/note]]) version of a Chozo warrior's armour. Of course, being a race of ActualPacifist aliens after giving up their ProudWarriorRaceGuy ways, Samus is the only Chozo (by adoption, of course) to take up the mantle for hundreds of years...until ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'' hints and ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' confirms there is at least one Chozo tribe that still kept up the ways, [[spoiler:and their leader Raven Beak has an even better version of her suit, as in it has the [[WaveMotionGun Hyper Beam]] for his ArmCannon.]]

* ''VideoGame/ShadowComplex'' has the Omega Armor XOS-7, a combat exoskeleton that grants a 30% damage reduction and a devestating GroundPound ability that instantly kills weaker enemies. During the game's prologue, Colonel Sam Dallas manages to steal one from a Restoration soldier and uses it against them to fend off their assassination attempt on the Vice President [[spoiler:until Lucius hacked his suit and car bombed the Vice President's SUV]]. The main character Jason Flemming eventually gets a hold of the prototype and upgrades its capabilities.

** But before that, a couple of little-known games called ''Hero Senki'' and ''Super Hero Sakusen'' combined ''{{Tokusatsu}}'' heroes like ''Franchise/KamenRider'' and ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' with ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Gundam]]'' pilots wearing Powered Armor versions of their Mobile Suits, though in Super Hero Sakusen it was implied that the Gundams and original mechs were full-size. Don't think about it too hard.

** The Suul'ka are [[spoiler:Liir Elders who wear Powered Armor that allows them to live in space.]] The armor is a very crucial part of the backstory [[spoiler:since the main reason the Liir are so advanced is that the Suul'ka psychically enslaved the younger Liir to jumpstart an industrial revolution solely to build those spacesuits.]]

* ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter 2'' had the Emergency Defense Squad from the Bio Lab Escape level who can only be killed by explosions. Chance and Rhoemer (in a flashback in part 3) both wore NighInvulnerable high-impact kevlar armor. Ditto for Anton Girdeux in the first game.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': Every single Warframe is a suit of power armor [[spoiler: controlled by an organic host Tenno from afar]] that is capable of channeling the user's innate power into different abilities, which are dependent on the frame. They are also highly resilient, much more so than any enemy in the game that isn't wearing extremely bulky and unwieldy armor. They even allow for parkour and jumps through the air inconceivable by humans. Later it turns out to [[SubvertedTrope not be the case]]; warframes are ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler:humans infected with a strain the [[TheVirus Technocyte virus]] which transformed them into incredibly powerful, nigh-uncontrollable berserkers. The Operators aren't so much controlling the warframes as they are providing support and comfort for their tortured minds and providing direction and purpose for the mission, meaning the Tenno are more of a [[HiveMind gestalt creature]] than machine and user.]]

* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', Tagon's Toughs (and some other military/mercenary groups) all wear powered ''[[LatexSpacesuit clothing]]'' that can deflect small arms fire, increase strength, offer emergency life support, and fly. And ''that's'' just their knocking-around uniform; their big hard-shelled field combat armors improve on all those abilities multiple times over and add huge shoulder-mounted cannons to boot. (Though that's the latest stage in a [[ZigZaggedTrope zigzag process]]; the low-profile suits were a strict upgrade from the ''original'' bulky hardshelled suits.)

* These have started to show up in ''Webcomic/TheFarSideOfUtopia'', in particular the soldier from Kor's World seems to have a rather advanced one.

* Website/TheOnion mentioned it in passing on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxJLUZWPEb8 video]] about the axed [[TankGoodness Dragon Tank]].

** Subverted in "Leader of the Pack": Coyote appears to be Xanatos in yet another suit of powered armor, but it turned out to be [[spoiler:[[RobotMe a robot.]]]]

** In season five, Hank appropriates the "strength suit" of the former Countess of SPHINX, and it really does live up to the awesome potential of this trope. It's also pure fanservice in the [[BreastPlate "improbably molded metal"]] tradition, but it looks like Hank is hanging on to it regardless.

* Gizmoduck of ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' fame wore Powered Armor that was almost reminiscent of WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget, with mechanical arms and gadgets coming out of every panel. In the 2010 ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck'' comic series, [[spoiler: [[LittleMissBadass Gosalyn]] controlled the Gizmoduck suit for a while, since it responded to her catchphrase.]]

* Season Two of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' introduces [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Blue Beetle]] Jaime Reyes, who just like his comic counterpart also uses a Scarab created by the Alien race known as the Reach, who show up as the main antagonists of the season. It also introduces us to [[CanonForeigner "Black Beetle" and "Green Beetle"]] later in the season. According to WordOfGod, in this continuity there are three main varieties of Reach Scarabs, the Blue and Green variety are sent to infiltrate worlds and possess the natives so they can act as the vanguard of the Reach invasion, while the Black variety are used by the Reach themselves, specifically elite members of their Warrior Caste.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet'' the fanfic [[https://www.wattpad.com/story/292855701-i-am-a-de-vil I AM A DE VIL]] [[spoiler: Dyrant DeVil gets his armor that increase his superhuman abilities along with his superserum.]].

* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', the 4U City military initially seems to be using {{Humongous Mecha}}, but they are later revealed to be this trope.

Powered Armor is distinct from ClothesMakeTheSuperman in that it is specifically designed for combat and is clearly armour rather than clothing. Distinct from HumongousMecha in that Powered Armor is a suit worn on the body, while HumongousMecha are vehicles that are controlled, either from a cockpit or with some UnusualUserInterface. There are, however, [[MiniMecha the occasional mecha that sit on the line]] between HumongousMecha and Powered Armor. A really advanced set of powered armor will usually be made of NanoMachines that make the hero into a ChromeChampion. The change may even be [[InstantArmor Instant]].

* ''Webcomic/{{XRS}}'' Though not meant to be worn as armor the XRS's thermoplastic heat resistant skin is also strong enough to defeat small calibre firearms.

* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', Tagon's Toughs (and some other military/mercenary groups) all wear [[LatexSpacesuit powered]] ''[[LatexSpacesuit clothing]]'', which can deflect small arms fire, increase strength, offer emergency life support, and fly. And ''that's'' just their knocking-around uniform; their big hard-shelled field combat armors improve on all those abilities multiple times over and add huge shoulder-mounted cannons to boot. (Though that's the latest stage in a [[ZigZaggedTrope zigzag process]]; the low-profile suits were a strict upgrade from the ''original'' bulky hardshelled suits.)
* Tessa and the rest of her squad of {{super soldier}}s in ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' are field-testing experimental powered armor that is controlled using NanoMachine implants as of the current arc (which is backstory), she has been seen using the armor in other story arcs that take place later (from her perspective).

* [[NeverMessWithGranny Abigail Primrose]] in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' owns a suit of ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis''-styled Powered Armor capable of flying into space. It was given to her by [[OurDragonsAreDifferent space dragons.]]
* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' the 4U City military initially seemed to be using [[GiantRobot Giant Robots]], but these were later revealed as being this trope.
* In ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', the newest member of Quentyn's party is a knightless squire with a sort-of-borrowed, sort-of-stolen suit of armor. Magical, self-propelled armor.

* The Bulls from ''Webcomic/MyLifeatWar'' wear bulky, primitive power armor. They even have power cables to power them.

* In ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'', Cyborg Guy has a suit of "Ultimate Armor". He graduates to "ID Armor" when he becomes an Evoluder. It's not clear whether the armor is enhancing his natural strength and speed, enabling it, or is just there to [[RuleOfCool look cool]]. That said, the ID armor has one important part in it (the [=GaoBrace=] and Will Knife), and Evoluder Guy probably at least needs the ID Armor to pilot [=GaoFar=] and [=GaoFighGar=].

* ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' featured various powered armor suits in the higher tech tiers of the settings such as the mighty Powered Assault armor which boosts strength and has a force field. The 4th edition of the game had a spin-off game called ''Gamma Knights'' which focuses on powered armor combat and expands the arsenal for appropriate weapons and armor.

* ''Literature/SpaceCaptainSmith'' featured the militant, religious fanatics, the Edenites who made use of power armour similar to the ones in Starship Trooper, down to having jump jet capacity though no portable nukes. That said, Edenite armor is no match for Smith's rifle which was capable of punching thru a bank vault door.

* The ''Iron Empires'' comics by Christopher Moeller made extensive use of powered armor shocktroops who were the "Anvil" element to the space-borne capital ships "Hammer". The Hammer provided orbital bombardment to break up enemy formations and trapping them against the Anvil which surrounded the enemy and ground them to dust.

* ''TabletopGame/GURPS'':
** ''TabletopGame/GURPSUltraTech'' has a slew of suits. The most powerful is the [[TechnologyLevels TL12]] "Warsuit" which, just for starters, is armored with layers of hyper-dense regenerating metal alloy and multiplies an ordinary person's strength 25 times over. There's also the clever "Exo-Field Belt" which is Powered Armor made out of nothing but force fields.

* In ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark3'' (which takes place in the Wild West) the final boss fights you wearing a 19th-century power armor suit (which even has an ArmCannon).

* ''ComicBook/TheOrder2007'': Supernaut uses a suit so big it practically qualifies as a miniature HumongousMecha, with enough armament for a small army to boot. Supernaut's somewhat notable in that outside of his suit, he's a paraplegic.

** ComicBook/SpiderMan once donned one of his own, the Iron Spider armor. However, he dumped it in favor of his old red-and-blues when ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' really picked up and he defected from Iron Man's side.
* Beyond the Iron Spider, Spidey has also created a number of armors for himself. Notable ones include the original Spider-Armor, the Sonic Armor (which became [[ComicBook/ScarletSpider Kaine Parker's]] costume), the Bulletproof Spider-Armor, and the ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth armour, designed to combat the Sinister Six.
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': ComicBook/DoctorDoom. Contrary to its almost medieval-industrial revolution aesthetic, being covered in visible rivets and displaying no apparent electronics, it is actually a nuclear-powered, ultra-sophisticated walking tank that stands up next to Tony Stark's best designs. It makes him strong and tough enough to go toe-to-toe with the Thing, discharge an array of devastating energy attacks, enables him to fly and control his vast arsenal of external technological devices. (Some versions even have a device that renders him immune to direct assault by mutant powers, so Magneto's victory over him in a fight isn't as assured as it would be against Tony.) He can basically beat the tar out of any non-"cosmic" character short of the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] and ComicBook/SquirrelGirl.
** Doom also has on occasion created stronger variants of the armor, powered by draining some of the above-mentioned "cosmic" characters and thus rendering Doom's power almost as God-like as his ego. Since Doom is also a mage, he can use a combination of [[{{Magitek}} magic and science]].
** In one notable issue of Mighty Avengers (just before ''Civil War'') Doom and Iron Man go one-on-one after the rest of the Avengers were subdued by an army of [[MechaMooks Doombots]] and an array of traps. Their suits are so well matched that it comes down to whose suit's battery can last longer. [[spoiler: It's Doom's.]]
** Following ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', Doom actually winds up genuinely going straight (to the bafflement of just about everyone in the Marvel Universe), abdicating his rule of Latveria and (among other things) slowly winding up Tony Stark. After Stark is critically injured, he takes up the Iron Man mantle as the 'Infamous Iron Man', with a sleek silver-grey copy of Tony's latest armour with green eye-lights and his signature dark green cloak.

* Numerous times in the history of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', Reed (or someone else) has been able to cure Ben Grimm and restore him to human form, [[StatusQuoIsGod although it never lasts]]. During those times, Ben has been known to use a suit of powered armor to continue to fight alongside the team, which is designed to look like the Thing and gives him SuperStrength.
* The 616 version of the Rhino is a muscular thug in a suit resembling the hide of a rhinoceros. However, the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version of the Rhino is a wimpy geek in a high-tech suit of robotic armor. They drew on this portrayal for the character's appearance in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''.
** The 616 version of Rhino was also briefly replaced by a power-armour-wearing counterpart after he tries to go straight. When the New Rhino makes the mistake of killing Classic Rhino's new wife, he gets the match with his predecessor that he richly craves. [[spoiler: Classic Rhino crushes his power-armour counterpart like he was nothing.]]
* Supernaut of the Stark-backed ''Order'' uses a suit so big it practically qualifies as a miniature HumongousMecha, with enough armament for a small army to boot. Supernaut's somewhat notable in that outside of his suit, he's a paraplegic.
* The Asgardian Destroyer is an unusual example, since it is, depending on your point of view, not an armor at all, or the very purest form of armor. It is not wearable, but rather sucks up the spirit of a sapient being that comes too close to it - it cannot operate on its own, although it quickly overrides the will of anyone who powers it. Unless that individual's will is strong enough. Anyway, it's more or less an armor that is powered by its 'wearer' instead of the other way around. It might be the most powerful armor in comics (well... apart from the Celestials' armor, but that might not ''be'' armor).
* Even ComicBook/CaptainAmerica got in on the armored action in the mid-90s, as he was forced to wear an armored version of his familiar red-white-and-blues due to the Super-Soldier Serum breaking down in his body and rendering him paralyzed. Naturally, it didn't take.
** He got a new version, briefly, under similar circumstances at the end of ''Time Runs Out'', just prior to ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', when he went after the inverted Tony Stark.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** In "Gangland", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', Silvermane shows off his powered armor, which inexplicably doesn't cover his face. It's the kind of powered armor that hums and whirs with every movement, and the noise tips Spidey off about how to defeat him.
** That armor is a tribute to Silvermane's cyborg body from the comics and ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', unprotected head and all.

* Gizmoduck of ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' fame wore Powered Armor that was almost reminiscent of WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget, with mechanical arms and gadgets coming out of every panel. In the 2010 ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck'' comic series, [[spoiler: [[LittleMissBadass Gosalyn]] controlled the Gizmoduck suit for a while, since it responded to her CatchPhrase.]]

** In ''VideoGame/StarCraft2'', you get to see it up close. Marine CMC suits aside, [[KillItWithFire Firebat]] and [[StuffBlowingUp Marauder]] armor systems are frikkin' huge, more like MiniMecha than anything else; almost the size of a tank.