History Main / RageHelm

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series' Enclave have PoweredArmor helmets so intimidating that, in the [[VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} third game]] and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', they ''reduce your Charisma by one point!'' [[DumpStat Not that it makes much difference.]] In the third game, they're nicknamed "devil suits" in-universe, as the Enclave suits resemble, er, devils with pointed horns.

** Legate Lanius's demonic helmet, which comes with a scowling facemask.
*** Also the helmets worn by some Marked Men on the Lonesome Road. The best are near-perfect replicas of Lanius' helmet, but a step below that are the ones that are imcomplete, cracked, and deformed.
* Several helmets in VideoGame/BlacklightRetribution put a nasty-looking face on the helmet, such as the Bonebreaker, which is a scowling skull.

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* Dr. Cube's serves as the logo for Wrestling/KaijuBigBattel.[[/folder]]

* Deliberately invoked by ''TabletopGame/{{DungeonsAndDragons}}'' items called Helms of Dread, minor magical items whose only function is to have spooky GlowingEyesOfDoom, with no actual mechanical bonus for the users.

* Deliberately invoked by ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons items called Hems of Dread, minor magical items whose only function is to have spooky GlowingEyesOfDoom, with no actual mechanical bonus for the users.

* Deliberately invoked by ''TabletopGame/{{DungeonsAndDragons}} items called Hems of Dread, minor magical items whose only function is to have spooky GlowingEyesOfDoom, with no actual mechanical bonus for the users.

* Starting with Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movies, every film version of Batman's costume has frowning eyebrows sculpted into the cowl.

*** Averted with the Indoril helms of the [[ChurchPolice Ordinators]], which instead have an emotionless FrozenFace. The lore-friendly ''VideoGame/TamrielRebuilt'' GameMod (which seeks to expand ''Morrowind'' by adding the rest of the province of Morrowind) indicates that there are specialized Ordinator groups whose helmets are altered to show other emotions. The ones who have shown up thus far are the Ordinators in Mourning, the guards for the necropolis of Necrom, whose helmets are designed to look like Nerevar (supplementary materials back around ''Morrowind'' said that the Ordinator helmet was based on Nerevar's face) [[ManlyTears crying]].

* In ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'', the [[CargoCult Exterminators]] wear grimacing [[TitleDrop Zardoz]] masks.

Solution: make ''the helmet itself'' look angry. Enter...''the [[TitleDrop Rage Helm]]''.

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** Inverted with Ordinator (Indoril) helmets from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind''. These display an emotionless FrozenFace. Played straight, however, with Almalexia's war mask, and with the Daedric helmets.
*** The ''VideoGame/TamrielRebuilt'' GameMod (which seeks to expand ''Morrowind'' by adding the rest of the province of Morrowind) indicates that there are specialized Ordinator groups whose helmets are altered to show other emotions. The ones who have shown up thus far are the Ordinators in Mourning, the guards for the necropolis of Necrom, whose helmets are designed to look like Nerevar (supplementary materials back around ''Morrowind'' said that the Ordinator helmet was based on Nerevar's face) crying.
** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'''s Dwarven Helmets exhibit this, with the faceplate of the mask crafted to look like a perpetually furious Dwemer (unless your character is female, in which case it's smiling). And again with the Daedric Helmets...
** The Wolf Armour helmet has a cheek-guard shaped to resemble a wolf's jawbone.
** The Carved Nordic Armour introduced with the ''Dragonborn DLC'', has a helm shaped like a bear.

* Soviet gas masks often were colored white and had small eye windows, making them look eerily like skulls. Since they conceal nearly all of the face, this adds to the UncannyValley effect, making designs like the [[http://www.soviet-power.com/pictures/pbfblack.jpg PBF]], and the [[http://www.soviet-power.com/pictures/GasMaskNew.jpg PMG]], look rather imposing, but the [[https://41.media.tumblr.com/06a8fc30d921d04f7e6444665622b141/tumblr_n66nhcT8Fi1qct6ago1_500.jpg PMK]] comes closest to the trope, but the [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/taongglabas/IMGP1092.jpg GP-5]] is definitely the scariest. Because of three key facts, which are that it is much easier and economical to make gas masks with small windows, that modern combat seldom takes place at close range, and form follows function, it is highly unlikely that the masks were designed intentionally to be intimidating.

* TheDragon in ''Film/{{Willow}}'' has a helmet with a terrifying skull face that really leaves an impression.

* In ''Disney/{{Moana}}'', the Kakamora are these weird little midgets who wear coconuts over their bodies. Right after the titular heroine comments at how cute they are, they paint angry faces over their armor.

*** The Tamriel Rebuilt GameMod (which seeks to expand ''Morrowind'' by adding the rest of the province of Morrowind) indicates that there are specialized Ordinator groups whose helmets are altered to show other emotions. The ones who have shown up thus far are the Ordinators in Mourning, the guards for the necropolis of Necrom, whose helmets are designed to look like Nerevar (supplementary materials back around ''Morrowind'' said that the Ordinator helmet was based on Nerevar's face) crying.

* The helmet of all Makai Knights in ''Series/{{Garo}}'' appear to be stylized images of wolves baring their teeth.

* In the movie of ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Prince Caspian]]'', [[BigBad Miraz's]] forces wear helmets embossed with a fearsomely snarling face, and Miraz himself wears a slightly fancier one.

* [[http://imgur.com/a/X8fOo Scary helmets]] are the default for ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' SpaceMarines. Righteous fury is extolled amongst them, after all. Taken UpToEleven with the fanmade [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Angry_Marines Angry Marines]] chapter, pictured above. To say nothing of the [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1CdIK9Dvf6E/TU9Yg9lsNRI/AAAAAAAABpQ/4L6BbzXUbPw/s400/Black_templar_chaplain_by_LordHannu.jpg Chaplains]] and their skull-shaped helmets...

* [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/d__/images/4/4b/Wallpaper_warhammer_40000_dawn_o-9.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120727160203&path-prefix=dow Scary helmets]] are the default for ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' SpaceMarines. Righteous fury is extolled amongst them, after all. Taken UpToEleven with the fanmade [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Angry_Marines Angry Marines]] chapter, pictured above. To say nothing of the [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1CdIK9Dvf6E/TU9Yg9lsNRI/AAAAAAAABpQ/4L6BbzXUbPw/s400/Black_templar_chaplain_by_LordHannu.jpg Chaplains]] and their skull-shaped helmets...