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* ''Franchise/Touhou'' really loves this trope. Almost every character in the series wears a signature hat or bow.
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* ''Manga/AirGear'': Kururu's hair is absolutely ''littered'' with bobby pins, as well as a large X-barrette which causes her to stand out quite well.
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* ''Manga/AirGear'': Kururu's hair is absolutely ''littered'' with bobby pins, as well as a large X-barrette which causes X-barrette. The reason she has so many bobby pins in her hair is because she is trying to stand out quite well.make her hair look a little neater. Although, unfortunately for her, the bobby pins are ineffective in that regard.
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** ''Manga/{{Jojolion}}'': Main character Josuke has a sailor's hat that matches his uniform. It's actually used as a plot point: because he lost his memory, he goes back to the hat shop to ask who bought it.
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** ''Manga/{{Jojolion}}'': Main character Josuke has a sailor's hat that matches his uniform. It's actually used as a plot point: because he lost his memory, he goes back to the hat shop to ask who bought it. His adoptive nephew Tsurugi always wears an origami frog in his hair.
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** ''Manga/Jojolion'': Main character Josuke has a sailor's hat that matches his uniform. It's actually used as a plot point: because he lost his memory, he goes back to the hat shop to ask who bought it.
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** ''Manga/Jojolion'': ''Manga/{{Jojolion}}'': Main character Josuke has a sailor's hat that matches his uniform. It's actually used as a plot point: because he lost his memory, he goes back to the hat shop to ask who bought it.
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** ''Manga/StoneOcean'': Ally Hermes Costello is always seen with decorative clips in her hair. Narciso Anasui has what looks like a traditional flight attendant's cap in black, and Weather Report has a fluffy horned hat based on ''Music/Jamiroquai'''s album covers.
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** ''Manga/StoneOcean'': Ally Hermes Costello is always seen with decorative clips in her hair. Narciso Anasui has what looks like a traditional flight attendant's cap in black, and Weather Report has a fluffy horned hat based on ''Music/Jamiroquai'''s ''Music/{{Jamiroquai}}'''s album covers.
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo Jotaro Kujo]] is almost always seen wearing a hat which tends to blend into his hair. The author said that this was done to give him a distinctive silhouette in comparison to his peers.
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**[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo Jotaro Kujo]] is almost always seen wearing a hat which tends to blend into his hair. The author said that this was done to give him a distinctive silhouette in comparison to hispeers.peers.
**''Manga/PhantomBlood'': Will A. Zeppeli has a rather extravagant signature top hat with a checkerboard pattern. [[spoiler:Speedwagon wears it once Zeppeli dies]].
**''Manga/BattleTendency'': Caesar Zeppeli is always seen with a purple-and-orange headband. [[spoiler:Once he dies, he uses it to pass on his remaining power to Joseph Joestar, who wears it for the rest of the part.]]
**''Manga/StardustCrusaders'': Apart from Jotaro, old Joseph Joestar always has on an Indiana Jones-style cowboy hat. Minor villain Oingo also has a very tall baseball cap, while minor villain Telence D'arby has an odd green conical cap of some kind.
**''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': Rohan Kishibe, the Mangaka, has a zig-zaggy headband just under his hair, though in the [[Manga/ThusSpokeKishibeRohan spinoff series starring him]] it's implied he has many due to there being multiple colors. His [[FightingSpirit stand]], Heaven's Door, also has a translucent top hat. In this part, Joseph Joestar has yet another different signature hat, sporting a leopard-print flapped hat.
**''Manga/VentoAureo'': Bruno Bucciarati, the Team Mom, has two golden barettes in his hair at all times. Ally Narancia Ghirga always has an orange headband covering his messy hair. Minor villain Polpo has some sort of pincushion-looking hat on.
**''Manga/StoneOcean'': Ally Hermes Costello is always seen with decorative clips in her hair. Narciso Anasui has what looks like a traditional flight attendant's cap in black, and Weather Report has a fluffy horned hat based on ''Music/Jamiroquai'''s album covers.
**''Manga/SteelBallRun'': Main character Johnny Joestar has some sort of star-patterned beanie with a horseshoe pin on it, while his companion Gyro Zeppeli has a slitted cowboy hat with green goggles on the brim. Frienemy Diego Brando has a cap with large lettering spelling "DIO" on it, while other frienemy Hot Pants has a Pickelhaube.
**''Manga/Jojolion'': Main character Josuke has a sailor's hat that matches his uniform. It's actually used as a plot point: because he lost his memory, he goes back to the hat shop to ask who bought it.
**[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo Jotaro Kujo]] is almost always seen wearing a hat which tends to blend into his hair. The author said that this was done to give him a distinctive silhouette in comparison to his
**''Manga/PhantomBlood'': Will A. Zeppeli has a rather extravagant signature top hat with a checkerboard pattern. [[spoiler:Speedwagon wears it once Zeppeli dies]].
**''Manga/BattleTendency'': Caesar Zeppeli is always seen with a purple-and-orange headband. [[spoiler:Once he dies, he uses it to pass on his remaining power to Joseph Joestar, who wears it for the rest of the part.]]
**''Manga/StardustCrusaders'': Apart from Jotaro, old Joseph Joestar always has on an Indiana Jones-style cowboy hat. Minor villain Oingo also has a very tall baseball cap, while minor villain Telence D'arby has an odd green conical cap of some kind.
**''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': Rohan Kishibe, the Mangaka, has a zig-zaggy headband just under his hair, though in the [[Manga/ThusSpokeKishibeRohan spinoff series starring him]] it's implied he has many due to there being multiple colors. His [[FightingSpirit stand]], Heaven's Door, also has a translucent top hat. In this part, Joseph Joestar has yet another different signature hat, sporting a leopard-print flapped hat.
**''Manga/VentoAureo'': Bruno Bucciarati, the Team Mom, has two golden barettes in his hair at all times. Ally Narancia Ghirga always has an orange headband covering his messy hair. Minor villain Polpo has some sort of pincushion-looking hat on.
**''Manga/StoneOcean'': Ally Hermes Costello is always seen with decorative clips in her hair. Narciso Anasui has what looks like a traditional flight attendant's cap in black, and Weather Report has a fluffy horned hat based on ''Music/Jamiroquai'''s album covers.
**''Manga/SteelBallRun'': Main character Johnny Joestar has some sort of star-patterned beanie with a horseshoe pin on it, while his companion Gyro Zeppeli has a slitted cowboy hat with green goggles on the brim. Frienemy Diego Brando has a cap with large lettering spelling "DIO" on it, while other frienemy Hot Pants has a Pickelhaube.
**''Manga/Jojolion'': Main character Josuke has a sailor's hat that matches his uniform. It's actually used as a plot point: because he lost his memory, he goes back to the hat shop to ask who bought it.
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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny: Lacus's iconic hairclip is almost the only thing Durandal didn't feel the need to replicate. Meer's is a giant gold star. Given how this is the only thing to identify her while she works for ANaziByAnyOtherName, it has [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust deeply and deliberately unsettling implications]]
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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny: ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny'': Lacus's iconic hairclip is almost the only thing Durandal didn't feel the need to replicate. Meer's is a giant gold star. Given how this is the only thing to identify her while she works for ANaziByAnyOtherName, it has [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust deeply and deliberately unsettling implications]]
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** The [[CloudCuckooLander extraterrestrial-investigation-club leader]] Kotono from Rei's school wears red hairbows.
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** Captain Rex of the 501[[superscript:st]] painted a blue border around the visor of his helmet, with the bottom edge continuing to a point that ends at the lower air intake. The forehead has ''Jaig'' eyes painted in blue, there is a thin stripe of lighter blue framing the top air intake that then wraps around the casing of the lower intake and there are a series of simple tally marks around the crown.
** Captain Rex of the 501[[superscript:st]] painted a blue border around the visor of his helmet, with the bottom edge continuing to a point that ends at the lower air intake. The forehead has ''Jaig'' eyes painted in blue, there is a thin stripe of lighter blue framing the top air intake that then wraps around the casing of the lower intake and there are a series of simple tally marks around the crown.
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''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has several among the named clone characters on the show, with the color typically associated with their respective unit.
** Captain Rex of the 501[[superscript:st]] painted a blue border around the visor of his helmet, with the bottom edge continuing to a point that ends at the lower air intake. The forehead has ''Jaig'' eyes painted in blue, there is a thin stripe of lighter blue framing the top air intake that then wraps around the casing of the lower intake and there are a series of simple tally marks around the crown. After the clones switch to the Phase II clone trooper armor, Rex cuts the “T” shaped visor out of his Phase one and welds it into his Phase II helmet.
** Captain Rex of the 501[[superscript:st]] painted a blue border around the visor of his helmet, with the bottom edge continuing to a point that ends at the lower air intake. The forehead has ''Jaig'' eyes painted in blue, there is a thin stripe of lighter blue framing the top air intake that then wraps around the casing of the lower intake and there are a series of simple tally marks around the crown. After the clones switch to the Phase II clone trooper armor, Rex cuts the “T” shaped visor out of his Phase one and welds it into his Phase II helmet.
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** Fives of the 501[[superscript:st]] has a symmetrical blue inkblot design on the top of his helmet, incorporating two red dots. Beneath the design on the forehead there is a downward facing red arrow, and the hollow cheek portions are painted blue.
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** Fives of the 501[[superscript:st]] has a symmetrical blue inkblot design on the top of his helmet, incorporating two red dots. Beneath the design on the forehead there is a downward facing red arrow, and the hollow cheek portions are painted blue. This design represents the fate of fellow Domino Squad trooper, Cutup, as he was eaten by a giant eel on the Rishi Moon in the episode “Rookies”.
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** Commander Cody of the 212[[superscript:th]] goes through a couple of helmets, but personalizes both with a yellow sun visor and understated yellow sunburst pattern around the air filtration intakes.
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** The helmet of Commander Wolffe of the 104[[superscript:th]] has a wide convex grey lozenge on top the end of which becomes a thin stripe down his face, the air filtration casing are painted in the same grey, and there are short yellow stripes above each eye and an upside down red triangle in the middle of the forehead.
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** The helmet of Commander Wolffe of the 104[[superscript:th]] has goes through several helmet designs. The common theme is a wide convex grey lozenge large wolf design on top his faceplate. He also uses a different style of helmet from most after the end of which becomes a thin stripe down his face, the air filtration casing are painted in the same grey, and there are short yellow stripes above each eye and an upside down red triangle in the middle of the forehead.switch to Phase II.
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** Commander Bly of the 327[[superscript:th]] has a pale yellow stripe down the center of his helmet with electrobinoculars attached over the visor.
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** Commander Bly of the 327[[superscript:th]] has a pale yellow stripe down the center of his helmet with electrobinoculars attached over the visor. His Phase II armor adds brownish yellow markings on the air filtration units.
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* Norma in ''Film/Carrie1976'' spends the entire movie wearing a distinctive red baseball cap. Even when she and her friends are getting their hair done for prom, she still finds a way to "wear" it [[https://nypdecider.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/norma-curlers.jpg atop the dryer.]] According to P. J. Soles, who played Norma, the hat was a ThrowItIn from director Creator/BrianDePalma; she had worn the hat to the audition because she had just arrived in California from New York and wasn't used to the bright, sunny weather, and De Palma liked how it looked on her and [[https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/chosen-one-of-the-day-pj-soless-hat-from-carrie asked her to keep wearing it.]]
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* Dustin's red, white, and blue trucker cap in the first two seasons of ''Series/StrangerThings''. In the third, he swaps it out for a yellow-and-green Camp Know Where baseball hat, having given his old one to Suzie, a girl he met at camp.
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* One story in ''America's Dumbest Criminals'' had a murder suspect who wore a really distinctive hat. The officer telling the story claims that it reminds him of Carmen Miranda's signature headwear. During the suspect's interrogation, he claims that his girlfriend will confirm his alibi. So, they take him home and forbid contact with her. Somehow, he manages to get to her house, tell her what to tell them, and leave before they can get there. But when they enter, guess what they find on the coffee table. [[note]] Yes, it's the hat. [[/note]]
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* ComicBook/{{Magneto}}'s horned helmet has been his signature headgear since 1963. While sometimes the colors change, to reflect a change in the colors of his costume, the shape is unique, and is uniquely associated with him. It is sometimes, especially in the Film/XMenFilmSeries, said to provide him with protection from telepathic attacks, which is useful considering he often finds himself in opposition to ComicBook/ProfessorX.
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* Nitori from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' is associated with headbands. She's a trans girl whose LGBTAwakening was being forced to wear a headband by classmates as a joke. Nitori initially wore headbands to pass as a girl, but she phased them out as a part of her CharacterDevelopment.
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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Link is known for wearing a green pointy hat which all of his incarnations have worn.
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** Link is known for wearing a green pointy hat which all of his incarnations haveworn.worn.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Midna's "helmet" is actually a Fused Shadow, one of the PlotCoupons she's trying to recover to restore her power.
** Link is known for wearing a green pointy hat which all of his incarnations have
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Midna's "helmet" is actually a Fused Shadow, one of the PlotCoupons she's trying to recover to restore her power.
* ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'':
** The series as a whole is associated with a blue baseball cap on its male protagonists. The original Pete from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon1'' had a blue hat in his sprites, but it is supposed to be ''green'' according to official art. It became canonically blue in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64''. Many other protagonists have the blue hat and the NPC Taro even wears one in [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonIslandOfHappiness two]] [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonSunshineIsland games]], but the hat has been largely phased out since the early 2010s.
** Gray has his baseball cap with "UMA" ("horse" in Japan). This hat originated in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'', where Gray is the son of a rancher and used to race horses until he had a CareerEndingInjury. Gray in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'' is [[AdaptationalJobChange a blacksmith's apprentice]] but kept his iconic hat because it fits his design and his ShrinkingViolet personality. Gray kept his hat until the 2019 remake ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsFriendsOfMineralTown'', where he was redesigned to look more like the city-born blacksmith he is.
** Kai from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'' and ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'' always wears a purple bandana. It's changed to a purple hat in ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsFriendsOfMineralTown'', but the idea is the same.
** In ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonMagicalMelody'', Blue and Kai have {{exp|y}}ies in Blue and Dan. The two share their original's accessories, though Dan's bandana is red instead of Kai's purple.
** The series as a whole is associated with a blue baseball cap on its male protagonists. The original Pete from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon1'' had a blue hat in his sprites, but it is supposed to be ''green'' according to official art. It became canonically blue in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64''. Many other protagonists have the blue hat and the NPC Taro even wears one in [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonIslandOfHappiness two]] [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonSunshineIsland games]], but the hat has been largely phased out since the early 2010s.
** Gray has his baseball cap with "UMA" ("horse" in Japan). This hat originated in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'', where Gray is the son of a rancher and used to race horses until he had a CareerEndingInjury. Gray in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'' is [[AdaptationalJobChange a blacksmith's apprentice]] but kept his iconic hat because it fits his design and his ShrinkingViolet personality. Gray kept his hat until the 2019 remake ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsFriendsOfMineralTown'', where he was redesigned to look more like the city-born blacksmith he is.
** Kai from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'' and ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'' always wears a purple bandana. It's changed to a purple hat in ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsFriendsOfMineralTown'', but the idea is the same.
** In ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonMagicalMelody'', Blue and Kai have {{exp|y}}ies in Blue and Dan. The two share their original's accessories, though Dan's bandana is red instead of Kai's purple.
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* ''VideoGame/TwilightPrincess'': Midna's "helmet" is actually a Fused Shadow, one of the PlotCoupons she's trying to recover to restore her power.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'': Dumb Donald wears a pink knit cap That covers most of his face, with eyeholes cut out so He can see. It accentuates his less-than-bright nature, and it sets him apart as he's the only character who wears such an obviously cartoony article of clothing.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'': Dumb Donald wears a pink knit cap That that covers most of his face, with eyeholes cut out so He he can see. It accentuates his less-than-bright nature, and it sets him apart as he's the only character who wears such an obviously cartoony article of clothing.
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* B.D. in ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' wore a helmet of some sort (football, army, police, etc.) all the time for the first 30+ years he was in the strip. It wasn't until 2004, after he was seriously wounded in Iraq, that we actually saw what he looked like ''without'' one.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurger'''s Louise Belcher is never seen without her pink bunny ear cap. The episode "Ear-sy Rider" has Logan steal it and throw it away, which makes her so angry [[DisproportionateRetribution she sics a motorcycle gang after him!]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurger'''s ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''' Louise Belcher is never seen without her pink bunny ear cap. The episode "Ear-sy Rider" has Logan steal it and throw it away, which makes her so angry [[DisproportionateRetribution she sics a motorcycle gang after him!]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurger'''s Louise Belcher is never seen without her pink bunny ear cap. The episode "Ear-sy Rider" has Logan steal it and throw it away, which makes her so angry [[DisproportionateRetribution she sics a motorcycle gang after him!]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Hero108'', Mystique Sonia's hat is an actual living creature named Yaksha that usually rests on her head, but also helps her in battle or other activities with the different forms it can take, like a trampoline. It's also literally unique to her, because Sonia is the only known character known to be cursed in a way that if a man who loves her confesses his feelings three times in a row, he turns into a Yaksha. In "Liger Castle", the original Yaksha died in battle, but she soon gets a new one with the same appearance and personality when a soldier who loves her is tricked by her into saying this three times.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Hero108'', Mystique Sonia's hat is an actual living creature named Yaksha that usually rests on her head, but also helps her in battle or other activities with the different forms it can take, like a trampoline. It's also literally unique to her, because Sonia is the only known character known in the show to be cursed in a way that if a man who loves her confesses his feelings three times in a row, he turns into a Yaksha. In "Liger Castle", the original Yaksha died in battle, but she soon gets a new one with the same appearance and personality when a soldier who loves her is tricked by her into saying this three times.
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* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', WizardsAndWitches are extremely attached to their hats. One interesting case is IneptMage Rincewind, who identifies very strongly as a wizard despite his ineptitude, because if he wasn't a wizard he wouldn't be anything, and is never seen without a red hat that says "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Wizzard]]" on it.
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* Yoko of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagan'' always has a skull hairpin in her hair. This fits her personality as someone who is both cute eye candy and a no-nonsense, badass fighter. The skull is iconic enough that it has appeared in shoutouts to the show in other media, such as Konota of ''Manga/LuckyStar'''s cosplay or the visual skull motif of [[Anime/KillLaKill Nonon Jakuzure]], who's character design is similar to Yoko's.
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* Yoko of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagan'' ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' always has a skull hairpin in her hair. This fits her personality as someone who is both cute eye candy and a no-nonsense, badass fighter. The skull is iconic enough that it has appeared in shoutouts to the show in other media, such as Konota of ''Manga/LuckyStar'''s cosplay or the visual skull motif of [[Anime/KillLaKill Nonon Jakuzure]], who's character design is similar to Yoko's.
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* Keith Wayne from ''VideoGame/PowerInstinct'' series had a distinctive blue headband in the classic games previous to ''Matrimelee'', which more than decorative was used to hide his DuelingScar in the forehead (unveiled since ''Matrimelee'' accompanied by [[DyeHard a notable]] [[YouDontLookLikeYou change of look]]).
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* In the movie ''Film/ElDorado'', Mississippi (Creator/JamesCaan) wears a hat that is so distinctive (it's essentially a low crowned top hat with a wide cowboy brim, plus a hatband with a ribbon over it studded with silver conchos) that almost nobody can refer to the character with also mentioning the hat. Nobody except Mississippi actually ''likes'' the thing, but everyone notices it.
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* In the movie ''Film/ElDorado'', Mississippi (Creator/JamesCaan) [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/63/6b/88/636b883dba6819ef16d215dafbe977be.jpg wears a hat hat]] that is so distinctive (it's essentially a low crowned top hat with a wide cowboy brim, plus a hatband with a ribbon over it studded with silver conchos) that almost nobody can refer to the character with also mentioning the hat. Nobody except Mississippi actually ''likes'' the thing, but everyone notices it.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Due to many factions having [[CoolHelmet CoolHelmets]] and [[CoolHat Hats]], it's not uncommon for there to be headgear that's pretty iconic and signature.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Due to many factions having [[CoolHelmet CoolHelmets]] {{Cool Helmet}}s and [[CoolHat Hats]], it's not uncommon for there to be headgear that's pretty iconic and signature.
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-->'''Bull Harris:''' ...might have anyhow if I wasn't tryin' to figure out what that fella's got on his head.
'''Alan Bourdillon Trehearne (Mississippi):''' It's called a hat.
'''Alan Bourdillon Trehearne (Mississippi):''' It's called a hat.
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'''Alan Bourdillon Trehearne (Mississippi):''' It's called a hat.\\
'''Alan Bourdillon Trehearne (Mississippi):''' It's called a hat.\\
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* Hild from ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''--the amount of decorations and ornaments in her hair are incredible. Her daughter, Urd, seems to copy this aspect of her.
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* Hild from ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''--the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''; the amount of decorations and ornaments in her hair are incredible. Her daughter, Urd, seems to copy this aspect of her.
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** Sailor Mercury's circlet with a sapphire, is created by her TransformationSequence and used to be given to all her minions, until she fixed that, and now it only applies to those who share her transformation.
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'''Alan Bourdillon Trehearne (Mississippi):''' "It's called a hat."
'''Bull Harris:''' "Well, I'll have to take your word for it."
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* TabletopGame/Warhammer40K: Due to many factions having [[CoolHelmet CoolHelmets]] and [[CoolHat Hats]], it's not uncommon for there to be headgear that's pretty iconic and signature.
** The Commissars of the Astra Militarum are not only well-known for their habits of executing their own men for a variety of reasons, but also their [=CommissarCaps=]. They are even highly prized among orks, who recognize their value as symbols of authority (having noticed that when a human wearing such a hat shoots one of his own men, the rest fight better).
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* TabletopGame/Warhammer40K: ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Due to many factions having [[CoolHelmet CoolHelmets]] and [[CoolHat Hats]], it's not uncommon for there to be headgear that's pretty iconic and signature.
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* TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy: Azhag the Slaughterer is an orc warlord with a looted crown, an acute sense of tactics and a strange tendency to talk to himself. In fact the crown is the one (sometimes) calling the shots: it's an artifact belonging to Nagash and trying to return to its master by controlling the mind of its wearer, unfortunately for it orcs are TooDumbToFool and the control tends to fail, leading to Azhag seemingly arguing with thin air.
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"Clothes make the man" is a well established idiom, but we all know it's specifically the head gear that makes you who you are.
Distinctive headgear (or hair accessories) make people stand out in the crowd. Most of the time, the headgear is unique to only that character (or that group). They also tell you a little something about the character's personality. Oftentimes the headgear/hair accessory is so ingrained into the character, that one only needs to use the headwear as a symbol for that character's presence.
It's also an easy way for creators who are prone to OnlySixFaces to give a little bit more distinction to their characters, similar to how YouGottaHaveBlueHair is used to give characters their own special flair through unique hair colors
A subtrope of DistinctiveAppearances and MeaningfulAppearance. Compare to ArtsyBeret, CoolCrown, HatOfAuthority, HatOfPower and other headgear related tropes that creators use for characterization and/or distinction purposes.
Related to IconicItem, for character defining items or props well recognized outside of a work. Also related to HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic, where the protagonist ''lacks'' headgear to highlight their specialness and make them easier to recognize.
See also NeverBareheaded, where a character is never seen without their hat, and ImportantHairAccessory, which is when removing or putting on the headgear defines a moment of CharacterDevelopment.
Not to be confused with TheHatMakesTheMan, about hats that alter the wearer's personality. Also not to be confused with BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill, a different type of "headgear".
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* Hild from ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''--the amount of decorations and ornaments in her hair are incredible. Her daughter, Urd, seems to copy this aspect of her.
* ''Manga/AirGear'': Kururu's hair is absolutely ''littered'' with bobby pins, as well as a large X-barrette which causes her to stand out quite well.
* In ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel'' Ashigara wears a pair of hair clips in the shape of a stylised wolf, which along with her CuteLittleFangs reference her RealLife counterpart's nickname "The Hungry Wolf"
* In ''Manga/AttackNumberOne'', the easiest way to distinguish which girl is which is by their headbands or bows. Kozue wears a yellow headband with a bow on it. Midori has a blue headband.
* Almost all the girls in ''Manga/CandyCandy'' wear something in her hair. The eponymous Candy has her iconic twin red bows, Annie wears a hairbow, Eliza and Susanna prefer big bows on the back of their heads, Louisa uses blue bows, etc. Pretty much the only girls who didn't put hair decs were Patty (she uses a short bob) and Frannie (too practical to be concerned with her appearance). [[spoiler: It becomes very important when Candy is framed by Neil and Eliza for trying to hurt Annie: Annie can't testify in her favor, but she manages to leave one of her hair ribbons to silently tell Candy that she believes in her innocence.]]
* ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'': Whenever people ask about the Uiharu about the flowers in her hair, she'll say she doesn't know what they are talking about. They are a headband of artificial flowers. In the third volume of the MMR side-GagSeries, she's been rendered effectively invisible while it's under repair.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' has Gyu-Mao/The Ox-King, who wears a Viking helmet reminiscent of HornyVikings which he's rarely seen without, but InUniverse his ethnicity is ambiguous, since there's nothing to suggest he's NorseByNorsewest, which suggests that his Viking horned helmet is simply related to the show's AlternateUniverse feel.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': All of {{the Protagonist}}s except for [[Anime/DigimonSavers Masaru]] have goggles on their head as their signature accessory.
** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' Tomoki/Tommy seemed to feel his CoolHat was notable enough to warrant special mention in the entry for him Bokomon was writing in his GreatBigBookOfEverything.
* Haruhi of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' is easily identified by her yellow hair bow. Without it, her character design is a very generic Japanese schoolgirl look (simple black haircut, brown eyes, school uniform), so the hair bow highlights that she is a very strange and special person inside a seemingly normal person's body.
* ''Manga/HidamariSketch'': [[CheerfulChild Yu]][[OlderThanTheyLook no's]] own X-shaped hair clips are her defining physical characteristics, often serving to symbolize her in the anime. Miyako was surprised to find out that they aren't hereditary. One time, when they went to the pool, Yuno wore a bathing cap, but when Sae removed it, she went back to get her clips. And at the bathhouse, when she removed them to wash her hair, Miyako put them on and got Yuno to look at her newly-''X'd hair''.
*''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo Jotaro Kujo]] is almost always seen wearing a hat which tends to blend into his hair. The author said that this was done to give him a distinctive silhouette in comparison to his peers.
* In ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', Princess Snow almost always wears her iconic oversized pink bow on her head. If she isn't... there's something wrong. It's also helpful in distinguishing Snow from Koyuki, [[spoiler: as it's eventually revealed Snow is a copy of Koyuki, who ends up merging her soul back into her at the very end.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny: Lacus's iconic hairclip is almost the only thing Durandal didn't feel the need to replicate. Meer's is a giant gold star. Given how this is the only thing to identify her while she works for ANaziByAnyOtherName, it has [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust deeply and deliberately unsettling implications]]
*''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'': Chiyo wears bows in her hair, which are red with white polka dots. It's one of the only ways the titular Umetaro Nozaki can regonise her, much to her annoyance. This is taken to its logical extreme when Nozaki is asked to draw sidebars for ''tankoban'' volumes of ''Let's Fall in Love'' and writes a column about conversations with his assistants. There, he draws Sakura first as a floating ribbon, then as a person with a ribbon for a head.
* Ichigo Otohime and Morei Nekomata of ''Manga/OmujoOmutsuJoshi'' wear hair clips in their hair corresponding to their names. Strawberries for Ichigo, and cats, two with differing expressions, for Miss Nekomata. Ichigo's are distinctive enough that the male lead, Shouta, realizes she's the one being described by someone as soon as strawberry hair clips are mentioned.
* ''Anime/{{Pretear}}'' is one of the only series that gets away with having a distinctly heterosexual male character wearing a dec, though it manifests in the shape of a large, tube-shaped bead and clasps around his ponytail in back. Later, it is revealed that every Leafe Knight possesses one of these "communicator beads" to some varying degree of size and placement.
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** Tsukino Usagi, Chibi Usagi and Chibi Chibi all wear {{Odango}} orbs and tiaras in their Sailor forms. Super Sailor forms throw in barrettes. The [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] had the barrettes from the beginning.
** Minako has a red bow, which even has a backstory of its own: in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'', it was her first crush who suggested her to wear it, telling her it would look good on her. [[TragicKeepsake Then she found out he was a youma, and ended up making him her first kill]]... [[SubvertedTrope And kept wearing it because he was right: it]] ''[[SubvertedTrope did]]'' [[SubvertedTrope look good on her]].
** Naru always wears her green hairbow, and in the manga, most of Usagi's classmates are distinguished by their hair ties.
** The [[CloudCuckooLander extraterrestrial-investigation-club leader]] Kotono from Rei's school wears red hairbows.
** The Sailor/Amazoness Quartet from the manga are an extreme case, as their hair decs (and hairstyles as well) are [[AnimeHair practically]] [[ImprobableHairstyle improbable]].)
* Kafuka of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' almost always wears a distinctive yellow ribbon in her hair. It's been noted that without their hair styles, most of the girls would look [[OnlySixFaces practically identical]].
* Yoko of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagan'' always has a skull hairpin in her hair. This fits her personality as someone who is both cute eye candy and a no-nonsense, badass fighter. The skull is iconic enough that it has appeared in shoutouts to the show in other media, such as Konota of ''Manga/LuckyStar'''s cosplay or the visual skull motif of [[Anime/KillLaKill Nonon Jakuzure]], who's character design is similar to Yoko's.
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* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'', Jughead Jones wears a very distinctive hat that he is almost never seen without. Properly called a 'whoopee cap', it is made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up. A common item of fashion when the character was created, it is now almost exclusively associated with Jughead to the extent that it is often called a 'Jughead hat'
* In ''ComicBook/MegaMan'', the Blue Bomber's signature helmet is synonymous with him, to the point that Auto wears one while playing pretend when no one's looking. In one arc, it's left crushed and shattered to be found by Rock's successor, X, 200 years in the future, implying a grisly fate for Mega Man until the next issue reveals that he'd simply lost it in a fight with one of Wily's weapons platforms.
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': The only way to tell named clone troopers from all the rest when they're in full armor are the little modifications they've made to personalize their armor which are mostly done to helmets.
** Commander Grey has painted his helmet with a series symmetrical tapering red stripes.
** Captain Styles has painted the crest of his helmet red, painted two red stripes that go from the back of the helmet across his eyes and down to the mouth, and two red stripes around the air filtration casing.
** Corporal Big-Mouth painted a widening stripe of forest green on the center of the top of his helmet, and a stripe of the same green at the edges of the eyes.
** Trooper Stance painted the crest of his helmet lime green.
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* Lucky Eddie, right-hand man to ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'' wears a funnel on his head 24/7, unlike the other Vikings in the Hagar universe, who wear normal helmets, or helmets adorned with horns. Being TheFool as well as the ComicFoil to Hagar, this odd headpiece signifies that Lucky Eddie comes up short by Viking standards.
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* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'':
** Crowned Death's black crown which he wears, and so does any entity that belongs to him, like if a bit of him is cut off, or is possessing something.
** Sailor Mercury's circlet with a sapphire, is created by her TransformationSequence and used to be given to all her minions, until she fixed that, and now it only applies to those who share her transformation.
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* In the movie ''Film/ElDorado'', Mississippi (Creator/JamesCaan) wears a hat that is so distinctive (it's essentially a low crowned top hat with a wide cowboy brim, plus a hatband with a ribbon over it studded with silver conchos) that almost nobody can refer to the character with also mentioning the hat. Nobody except Mississippi actually ''likes'' the thing, but everyone notices it.
-->'''Bull Harris:''' "...might have anyhow if I wasn't tryin' to figure out what that fella's got on his head."
'''Alan Bourdillon Trehearne (Mississippi):''' "It's called a hat."
'''Bull Harris:''' "Well, I'll have to take your word for it."
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* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': Mat Cauthon buys a wide-brimmed black hat in the Aiel Waste and keeps it for the rest of the series. When he becomes a general, rumours spring up among his soldiers that the hat is magic and that he obtained it from a supernatural entity, but all it really does is keep the sun off.
-->'''Mat:''' When [[TheStoryteller Thom]] puts this all into song, he better remember my hat. It really is a {{nice hat}}.
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* ''Series/BigBrother'': Ashley, from season 14, always wore some kind of hair accessory in her hair, whether it was barrettes, flowers, clips, headbands or floral crowns. Her hair accessories were part of her signature style.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Fourth Doctor's fedora is second to his scarf as the most recognizable of his outfit.
* Blair on ''Series/GossipGirl'' was known for her headbands during the first two seasons, and it was even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Serena, who ripped off one during a fight once, and Dan.
* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Series protagonist Deputy US Marshall Raylan Givens wears a distinctive white cowboy hat.
**In the episode "Hatless", he loses the hat in a bar fight. For the rest of the episode, every character he interacts with asks about his missing headgear.
**In the episode "The I of the Storm", Dewey Crowe impersonates Raylan by wearing a cowboy hat while robbing drug dealers under the guise of a drug raid. The dealers don't remember a name but everybody who hears their description assumes it was Raylan until he finally shows up and the witnesses can see he looks nothing like Dewey.
**In the episode "Slaughterhouse", Raylan discovers that his [[ArchnemesisDad father Arlo]] killed Trooper Tom Bergen to help notorious criminal Boyd Crowder evade arrest. Later, when Raylan is explaining what happened to Winona, he theorizes that Arlo probably didn't even know he was shooting a state trooper.
-->'''Raylan:''' "He just saw a man in a hat pointing a gun at Boyd."
-->'''Winona:''' "A man in a hat?"
-->''Raylan nods, stands, puts on his hat, and walks out.''
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* TabletopGame/Warhammer40K: Due to many factions having [[CoolHelmet CoolHelmets]] and [[CoolHat Hats]], it's not uncommon for there to be headgear that's pretty iconic and signature.
** The Commissars of the Astra Militarum are not only well-known for their habits of executing their own men for a variety of reasons, but also their [=CommissarCaps=]. They are even highly prized among orks, who recognize their value as symbols of authority (having noticed that when a human wearing such a hat shoots one of his own men, the rest fight better).
** The Mk. VI 'Corvus' powered armour, an earlier pattern of Space Marine armour. Is mostly well-known for the nickname "Beakie" due to their well. Beak-shaped mouth guards for their helmets. They are quite popular with the Raven Guard.
* TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy: Azhag the Slaughterer is an orc warlord with a looted crown, an acute sense of tactics and a strange tendency to talk to himself. In fact the crown is the one (sometimes) calling the shots: it's an artifact belonging to Nagash and trying to return to its master by controlling the mind of its wearer, unfortunately for it orcs are TooDumbToFool and the control tends to fail, leading to Azhag seemingly arguing with thin air.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}}'': In One's DLC, you can distinguish male One from her by his headband, which resembles a pair of horns. They are otherwise identical.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'':
** Most of VideoGame/IkariWarriors (with the exception of Leona Heidern and Whip) wear distinctive headgear in their outfits: Ralf Jones uses a red-green camouflage bandana, Clark Still has a cap and black sunglasses, and Heidern wears a olive-green beret and an {{eyepatch|OfPower}}.
** Continuing with his look from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'', Billy Kane can't be seen without the red and white striped bandana all over his head. Sometimes the colors or the design changes (like his bandana from ''XIV'') but always Billy's head has covered with a bandana.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Link is known for wearing a green pointy hat which all of his incarnations have worn.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' and its various adaptations almost always have a protagonist that has a hat/headgear that unique only to them. You can easily tell which character is which by simply just looking at their hats.
* Keith Wayne from ''VideoGame/PowerInstinct'' series had a distinctive blue headband in the classic games previous to ''Matrimelee'', which more than decorative was used to hide his DuelingScar in the forehead (unveiled since ''Matrimelee'' accompanied by [[DyeHard a notable]] [[YouDontLookLikeYou change of look]]).
* Keith Wayne from ''VideoGame/PowerInstinct'' series had a distinctive blue headband in the classic games previous to ''Matrimelee'', which more than decorative was used to hide his DuelingScar in the forehead (unveiled since ''Matrimelee'' accompanied by [[DyeHard a notable]] [[YouDontLookLikeYou change of look]]).
* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'': The titular Professor Hershel Layton wears a tall top hat, and is the only character to do so. This becomes a plot point in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'', where several characters in Future London recognise the Professor by his hat alone, with one even hiding in fear from him.
*''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'': In all incarnations, protagonist Maxwell is never seen without his rooster helmet; a red hat with three horns. It was revealed later on that his entire family has their rooster hat as well.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': The Mario Bros caps are as iconic as the bros themselves, with Mario and Luigi respectively sporting a cap of their signature colors and letter.
* ''VideoGame/TwilightPrincess'': Midna's "helmet" is actually a Fused Shadow, one of the PlotCoupons she's trying to recover to restore her power.
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* In ''Webcomic/ApricotCookies'', most of the characters have hair decorations as a nod to anime character design, but some of these say things about the characters as well. Protagonist Apricot wears large pink hair bows even while sleeping, as she's consciously trying to become a stock MagicalGirl protagonist. Cream Tea, the obligatory ForeignExchangeStudent character, wears Union Jack hair bows to further point out her country of origin.
* In ''Webcomic/GodOfHighSchool'', Jin Mo-Ri is almost never seen without his signature sleep mask, which he uses to doze off anywhere between fights, reflecting his family "do what you want" motto. [[spoiler:When he regains his former powers and memories as the Monkey King, it's replaced by his magical headband while in his godly form.]]
* In ''WebComic/IMadeAComicAboutInternetExplorer'', the main character has a hair clip shaped like the Internet Explorer "e" logo, which is the main thing that identifies her as the MoeAnthropomorphism of Internet Explorer. Tor also has a tiny crown as a hair decoration which identifies her as the "Queen of the Dark Web".
* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Cassidy's distinctive feature is her hair bow, which also mimics the shape of a pair of scissors, [[ShearMenace her weapon in magical girl form]].
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'': The show is mostly shot as TalkingHeads. Several hair accessories or hats are used as props in Lizzie's Costume Theater whenever someone is playing someone else. Sometimes they use other props and clothes, too.
** William Darcy is represented by a newsie cap (and a bow tie). He doesn't really wear a newsie cap himself but it fits his hipster persona.
** Lizzie's sweet elder sister Jane is represented by an artificial pink flower worn in someone's hair.
** Bing Lee is a rich and hot medical student. Whoever plays Bing wears a doctor's head-mirror on their forehead.
** Caroline Lee is a RichBitch who is represented by her CoolShades and a black scarf.
** Wickham and other members of the swimming team are represented with swimming goggles.
** Mr. Bennet has a short-brimmed hat and a pipe. (Once they used a model of a train, too.)
** Mrs. Bennet, Lizzie's embarrassing mother, has a large floppy garden hat, chandelier earrings and a rainbow scarf.
** Gigi Darcy is represented by a newsie cap (which is also used for her brother) plus Jane's pink flower.
** Fitz, a close friend of the Darcy kids, is represented by a big poufy wig provided by Darcy.
** Lizzie's best friend Charlotte has a knit purple hat, pig tails and a book that says "Charlotte costume" on it. Lizzie had to improvise. Charlotte is not impressed with Lizzie's uninspired choice.
--->'''Charlotte:''' You had ninety-six episodes to think up a costume for me, and you came up with... pigtails and a book?
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' 's Finn, one of the pseudo-VagabondBuddies protagonists of the Finn and Jake duo, wears a white bear hat that covers up his long, blonde hair that he is (almost) never seen without. It's so iconic, that even in the AlternateContinuity comic books and videogame ExpandedUniverse material, he does ''not'' have the hat off.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and its SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Avatar Kyoshi's battle outfit contains a headdress that once belonged to her mother. She's never been seen without it and the Kyoshi Warriors AmazonBrigade wear similar ones.
*''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'':
** When he's outside, Mr Willy Fog always wears a top hat.
** Rigodon wears a bowler hat which he believes brings him good luck and refuses to replace it when he briefly loses it. It's from his grandpa.
** Princess Romy has a jewelled head-dress, a traditional Indian maang tikka. Revealed in one episode to contain medicinal chicken bones.
** Inspector Dix always wears a flat cap.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Edd has his black toque hat which he [[NeverBareheaded never takes off]], driving Eddy to nickname him "sockhead".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy always wears a pink hat, which is always associated with him. He uses it in one episode to help Cosmo and Wanda identify him, and in [[Film/AFairlyOddMovieGrowUpTimmyTurner the live-action film,]] him replacing it with a different pink hat is a sign he's maturing.
* ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'': Dumb Donald wears a pink knit cap That covers most of his face, with eyeholes cut out so He can see. It accentuates his less-than-bright nature, and it sets him apart as he's the only character who wears such an obviously cartoony article of clothing.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Hero108'', Mystique Sonia's hat is an actual living creature named Yaksha that usually rests on her head, but also helps her in battle or other activities with the different forms it can take, like a trampoline. It's also literally unique to her, because Sonia is the only known character known to be cursed in a way that if a man who loves her confesses his feelings three times in a row, he turns into a Yaksha. In "Liger Castle", the original Yaksha died in battle, but she soon gets a new one with the same appearance and personality when a soldier who loves her is tricked by her into saying this three times.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Diamond Tiara wears a diamond tiara all the time, which is also a signifier of her AlphaBitch status.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'', Peg wears a woollen hat all the time and when the Neighbour Ladies change her dress, they want to take her hat too, but she insists on keeping it.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': All the secret agents of OWCA are easily recognizable by their FedoraOfAsskicking, without which they look like normal animals. A RunningGag with Doofenshmirtz involves him being unable to recognize Perry the Platypus without his hat. In another episode, the opposite situation happened: he confused a normal platypus that just likes sandwiches with Perry, despite lacking the latter's experience in fighting and intelligence (yet he ''still'' manages to defeat Doofenshmirtz), because of the hat.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' has King Bob (OnlyKnownByTheirNickname, and [[NonIndicativeName not actually of royal blood]], who wears a crown-shaped football helmet that has a brown B on its front. He wears it almost every episode (taking this trope UpToEleven in a way), with the sole exception of "Bad Hair Day", when we see him get an ImportantHaircut, but StatusQuoIsGod reverts it back to the iconic crown-shaped football helmet right after that.
*''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** Captain Rex of the 501[[superscript:st]] painted a blue border around the visor of his helmet, with the bottom edge continuing to a point that ends at the lower air intake. The forehead has ''Jaig'' eyes painted in blue, there is a thin stripe of lighter blue framing the top air intake that then wraps around the casing of the lower intake and there are a series of simple tally marks around the crown.
** Corporal Echo of the 501[[superscript:st]] has the crest of his helmet and hollow cheek portions in dusty blue, and two stripes of darker blue framed with dusty blue starting at the brow and running parallel along the crest to the back of the helmet over the top.
** Fives of the 501[[superscript:st]] has a symmetrical blue inkblot design on the top of his helmet, incorporating two red dots. Beneath the design on the forehead there is a downward facing red arrow, and the hollow cheek portions are painted blue.
** Tup of the 501[[superscript:st]] painted a blue band around his helmet above the visor, and a blue tear drop under the right eye.
** Kix of the 501[[superscript:st]] painted a wide blue band around his helmet which merges with a blue frame for the visor and matches the blue on the crest.
** Commander Cody of the 212[[superscript:th]] goes through a couple of helmets, but personalizes both with a yellow sun visor and understated yellow sunburst pattern around the air filtration intakes.
** Captain Gregor of the 212[[superscript:th]] painted a yellow border around the visor of his helmet, and then kept a messy KillTally in thin black lines all over the helmet.
** The helmet of Commander Wolffe of the 104[[superscript:th]] has a wide convex grey lozenge on top the end of which becomes a thin stripe down his face, the air filtration casing are painted in the same grey, and there are short yellow stripes above each eye and an upside down red triangle in the middle of the forehead.
** Commander Fox of the Coruscant Guard has painted his entire helmet maroon, save for a series of parallel stripes near the intakes of his air filtration casings, the crest, the triangular piece directly over his mouth, and his grey sun visor.
** Commander Thorn of the Coruscant Guard has painted the face of his helmet red with three stripes around each air filtration casing, red wings originating at each temple and added a grey sun visor.
** Commander Bly of the 327[[superscript:th]] has a pale yellow stripe down the center of his helmet with electrobinoculars attached over the visor.
* Clay, the American monk from ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', is almost never seen without his cowboy hat that he is protective of. He gets angry when it gets destroyed (happened twice in "Chameleonbot") or when Omi and Raimundo fill it with milk ("Big as Texas").
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Distinctive headgear (or hair accessories) make people stand out in the crowd. Most of the time, the headgear is unique to only that character (or that group). They also tell you a little something about the character's personality. Oftentimes the headgear/hair accessory is so ingrained into the character, that one only needs to use the headwear as a symbol for that character's presence.
It's also an easy way for creators who are prone to OnlySixFaces to give a little bit more distinction to their characters, similar to how YouGottaHaveBlueHair is used to give characters their own special flair through unique hair colors
A subtrope of DistinctiveAppearances and MeaningfulAppearance. Compare to ArtsyBeret, CoolCrown, HatOfAuthority, HatOfPower and other headgear related tropes that creators use for characterization and/or distinction purposes.
Related to IconicItem, for character defining items or props well recognized outside of a work. Also related to HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic, where the protagonist ''lacks'' headgear to highlight their specialness and make them easier to recognize.
See also NeverBareheaded, where a character is never seen without their hat, and ImportantHairAccessory, which is when removing or putting on the headgear defines a moment of CharacterDevelopment.
Not to be confused with TheHatMakesTheMan, about hats that alter the wearer's personality. Also not to be confused with BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill, a different type of "headgear".
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Hild from ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''--the amount of decorations and ornaments in her hair are incredible. Her daughter, Urd, seems to copy this aspect of her.
* ''Manga/AirGear'': Kururu's hair is absolutely ''littered'' with bobby pins, as well as a large X-barrette which causes her to stand out quite well.
* In ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel'' Ashigara wears a pair of hair clips in the shape of a stylised wolf, which along with her CuteLittleFangs reference her RealLife counterpart's nickname "The Hungry Wolf"
* In ''Manga/AttackNumberOne'', the easiest way to distinguish which girl is which is by their headbands or bows. Kozue wears a yellow headband with a bow on it. Midori has a blue headband.
* Almost all the girls in ''Manga/CandyCandy'' wear something in her hair. The eponymous Candy has her iconic twin red bows, Annie wears a hairbow, Eliza and Susanna prefer big bows on the back of their heads, Louisa uses blue bows, etc. Pretty much the only girls who didn't put hair decs were Patty (she uses a short bob) and Frannie (too practical to be concerned with her appearance). [[spoiler: It becomes very important when Candy is framed by Neil and Eliza for trying to hurt Annie: Annie can't testify in her favor, but she manages to leave one of her hair ribbons to silently tell Candy that she believes in her innocence.]]
* ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'': Whenever people ask about the Uiharu about the flowers in her hair, she'll say she doesn't know what they are talking about. They are a headband of artificial flowers. In the third volume of the MMR side-GagSeries, she's been rendered effectively invisible while it's under repair.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' has Gyu-Mao/The Ox-King, who wears a Viking helmet reminiscent of HornyVikings which he's rarely seen without, but InUniverse his ethnicity is ambiguous, since there's nothing to suggest he's NorseByNorsewest, which suggests that his Viking horned helmet is simply related to the show's AlternateUniverse feel.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': All of {{the Protagonist}}s except for [[Anime/DigimonSavers Masaru]] have goggles on their head as their signature accessory.
** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' Tomoki/Tommy seemed to feel his CoolHat was notable enough to warrant special mention in the entry for him Bokomon was writing in his GreatBigBookOfEverything.
* Haruhi of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' is easily identified by her yellow hair bow. Without it, her character design is a very generic Japanese schoolgirl look (simple black haircut, brown eyes, school uniform), so the hair bow highlights that she is a very strange and special person inside a seemingly normal person's body.
* ''Manga/HidamariSketch'': [[CheerfulChild Yu]][[OlderThanTheyLook no's]] own X-shaped hair clips are her defining physical characteristics, often serving to symbolize her in the anime. Miyako was surprised to find out that they aren't hereditary. One time, when they went to the pool, Yuno wore a bathing cap, but when Sae removed it, she went back to get her clips. And at the bathhouse, when she removed them to wash her hair, Miyako put them on and got Yuno to look at her newly-''X'd hair''.
*''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo Jotaro Kujo]] is almost always seen wearing a hat which tends to blend into his hair. The author said that this was done to give him a distinctive silhouette in comparison to his peers.
* In ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', Princess Snow almost always wears her iconic oversized pink bow on her head. If she isn't... there's something wrong. It's also helpful in distinguishing Snow from Koyuki, [[spoiler: as it's eventually revealed Snow is a copy of Koyuki, who ends up merging her soul back into her at the very end.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny: Lacus's iconic hairclip is almost the only thing Durandal didn't feel the need to replicate. Meer's is a giant gold star. Given how this is the only thing to identify her while she works for ANaziByAnyOtherName, it has [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust deeply and deliberately unsettling implications]]
*''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'': Chiyo wears bows in her hair, which are red with white polka dots. It's one of the only ways the titular Umetaro Nozaki can regonise her, much to her annoyance. This is taken to its logical extreme when Nozaki is asked to draw sidebars for ''tankoban'' volumes of ''Let's Fall in Love'' and writes a column about conversations with his assistants. There, he draws Sakura first as a floating ribbon, then as a person with a ribbon for a head.
* Ichigo Otohime and Morei Nekomata of ''Manga/OmujoOmutsuJoshi'' wear hair clips in their hair corresponding to their names. Strawberries for Ichigo, and cats, two with differing expressions, for Miss Nekomata. Ichigo's are distinctive enough that the male lead, Shouta, realizes she's the one being described by someone as soon as strawberry hair clips are mentioned.
* ''Anime/{{Pretear}}'' is one of the only series that gets away with having a distinctly heterosexual male character wearing a dec, though it manifests in the shape of a large, tube-shaped bead and clasps around his ponytail in back. Later, it is revealed that every Leafe Knight possesses one of these "communicator beads" to some varying degree of size and placement.
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** Tsukino Usagi, Chibi Usagi and Chibi Chibi all wear {{Odango}} orbs and tiaras in their Sailor forms. Super Sailor forms throw in barrettes. The [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] had the barrettes from the beginning.
** Minako has a red bow, which even has a backstory of its own: in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'', it was her first crush who suggested her to wear it, telling her it would look good on her. [[TragicKeepsake Then she found out he was a youma, and ended up making him her first kill]]... [[SubvertedTrope And kept wearing it because he was right: it]] ''[[SubvertedTrope did]]'' [[SubvertedTrope look good on her]].
** Naru always wears her green hairbow, and in the manga, most of Usagi's classmates are distinguished by their hair ties.
** The [[CloudCuckooLander extraterrestrial-investigation-club leader]] Kotono from Rei's school wears red hairbows.
** The Sailor/Amazoness Quartet from the manga are an extreme case, as their hair decs (and hairstyles as well) are [[AnimeHair practically]] [[ImprobableHairstyle improbable]].)
* Kafuka of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' almost always wears a distinctive yellow ribbon in her hair. It's been noted that without their hair styles, most of the girls would look [[OnlySixFaces practically identical]].
* Yoko of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagan'' always has a skull hairpin in her hair. This fits her personality as someone who is both cute eye candy and a no-nonsense, badass fighter. The skull is iconic enough that it has appeared in shoutouts to the show in other media, such as Konota of ''Manga/LuckyStar'''s cosplay or the visual skull motif of [[Anime/KillLaKill Nonon Jakuzure]], who's character design is similar to Yoko's.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'', Jughead Jones wears a very distinctive hat that he is almost never seen without. Properly called a 'whoopee cap', it is made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up. A common item of fashion when the character was created, it is now almost exclusively associated with Jughead to the extent that it is often called a 'Jughead hat'
* In ''ComicBook/MegaMan'', the Blue Bomber's signature helmet is synonymous with him, to the point that Auto wears one while playing pretend when no one's looking. In one arc, it's left crushed and shattered to be found by Rock's successor, X, 200 years in the future, implying a grisly fate for Mega Man until the next issue reveals that he'd simply lost it in a fight with one of Wily's weapons platforms.
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': The only way to tell named clone troopers from all the rest when they're in full armor are the little modifications they've made to personalize their armor which are mostly done to helmets.
** Commander Grey has painted his helmet with a series symmetrical tapering red stripes.
** Captain Styles has painted the crest of his helmet red, painted two red stripes that go from the back of the helmet across his eyes and down to the mouth, and two red stripes around the air filtration casing.
** Corporal Big-Mouth painted a widening stripe of forest green on the center of the top of his helmet, and a stripe of the same green at the edges of the eyes.
** Trooper Stance painted the crest of his helmet lime green.
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[[folder:Comic strips]]
* Lucky Eddie, right-hand man to ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'' wears a funnel on his head 24/7, unlike the other Vikings in the Hagar universe, who wear normal helmets, or helmets adorned with horns. Being TheFool as well as the ComicFoil to Hagar, this odd headpiece signifies that Lucky Eddie comes up short by Viking standards.
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[[folder:Fanfics]]
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'':
** Crowned Death's black crown which he wears, and so does any entity that belongs to him, like if a bit of him is cut off, or is possessing something.
** Sailor Mercury's circlet with a sapphire, is created by her TransformationSequence and used to be given to all her minions, until she fixed that, and now it only applies to those who share her transformation.
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[[folder:Film - Live Action]]
* In the movie ''Film/ElDorado'', Mississippi (Creator/JamesCaan) wears a hat that is so distinctive (it's essentially a low crowned top hat with a wide cowboy brim, plus a hatband with a ribbon over it studded with silver conchos) that almost nobody can refer to the character with also mentioning the hat. Nobody except Mississippi actually ''likes'' the thing, but everyone notices it.
-->'''Bull Harris:''' "...might have anyhow if I wasn't tryin' to figure out what that fella's got on his head."
'''Alan Bourdillon Trehearne (Mississippi):''' "It's called a hat."
'''Bull Harris:''' "Well, I'll have to take your word for it."
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[[folder: Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': Mat Cauthon buys a wide-brimmed black hat in the Aiel Waste and keeps it for the rest of the series. When he becomes a general, rumours spring up among his soldiers that the hat is magic and that he obtained it from a supernatural entity, but all it really does is keep the sun off.
-->'''Mat:''' When [[TheStoryteller Thom]] puts this all into song, he better remember my hat. It really is a {{nice hat}}.
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[[folder: Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/BigBrother'': Ashley, from season 14, always wore some kind of hair accessory in her hair, whether it was barrettes, flowers, clips, headbands or floral crowns. Her hair accessories were part of her signature style.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Fourth Doctor's fedora is second to his scarf as the most recognizable of his outfit.
* Blair on ''Series/GossipGirl'' was known for her headbands during the first two seasons, and it was even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Serena, who ripped off one during a fight once, and Dan.
* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Series protagonist Deputy US Marshall Raylan Givens wears a distinctive white cowboy hat.
**In the episode "Hatless", he loses the hat in a bar fight. For the rest of the episode, every character he interacts with asks about his missing headgear.
**In the episode "The I of the Storm", Dewey Crowe impersonates Raylan by wearing a cowboy hat while robbing drug dealers under the guise of a drug raid. The dealers don't remember a name but everybody who hears their description assumes it was Raylan until he finally shows up and the witnesses can see he looks nothing like Dewey.
**In the episode "Slaughterhouse", Raylan discovers that his [[ArchnemesisDad father Arlo]] killed Trooper Tom Bergen to help notorious criminal Boyd Crowder evade arrest. Later, when Raylan is explaining what happened to Winona, he theorizes that Arlo probably didn't even know he was shooting a state trooper.
-->'''Raylan:''' "He just saw a man in a hat pointing a gun at Boyd."
-->'''Winona:''' "A man in a hat?"
-->''Raylan nods, stands, puts on his hat, and walks out.''
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* TabletopGame/Warhammer40K: Due to many factions having [[CoolHelmet CoolHelmets]] and [[CoolHat Hats]], it's not uncommon for there to be headgear that's pretty iconic and signature.
** The Commissars of the Astra Militarum are not only well-known for their habits of executing their own men for a variety of reasons, but also their [=CommissarCaps=]. They are even highly prized among orks, who recognize their value as symbols of authority (having noticed that when a human wearing such a hat shoots one of his own men, the rest fight better).
** The Mk. VI 'Corvus' powered armour, an earlier pattern of Space Marine armour. Is mostly well-known for the nickname "Beakie" due to their well. Beak-shaped mouth guards for their helmets. They are quite popular with the Raven Guard.
* TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy: Azhag the Slaughterer is an orc warlord with a looted crown, an acute sense of tactics and a strange tendency to talk to himself. In fact the crown is the one (sometimes) calling the shots: it's an artifact belonging to Nagash and trying to return to its master by controlling the mind of its wearer, unfortunately for it orcs are TooDumbToFool and the control tends to fail, leading to Azhag seemingly arguing with thin air.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}}'': In One's DLC, you can distinguish male One from her by his headband, which resembles a pair of horns. They are otherwise identical.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'':
** Most of VideoGame/IkariWarriors (with the exception of Leona Heidern and Whip) wear distinctive headgear in their outfits: Ralf Jones uses a red-green camouflage bandana, Clark Still has a cap and black sunglasses, and Heidern wears a olive-green beret and an {{eyepatch|OfPower}}.
** Continuing with his look from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'', Billy Kane can't be seen without the red and white striped bandana all over his head. Sometimes the colors or the design changes (like his bandana from ''XIV'') but always Billy's head has covered with a bandana.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Link is known for wearing a green pointy hat which all of his incarnations have worn.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' and its various adaptations almost always have a protagonist that has a hat/headgear that unique only to them. You can easily tell which character is which by simply just looking at their hats.
* Keith Wayne from ''VideoGame/PowerInstinct'' series had a distinctive blue headband in the classic games previous to ''Matrimelee'', which more than decorative was used to hide his DuelingScar in the forehead (unveiled since ''Matrimelee'' accompanied by [[DyeHard a notable]] [[YouDontLookLikeYou change of look]]).
* Keith Wayne from ''VideoGame/PowerInstinct'' series had a distinctive blue headband in the classic games previous to ''Matrimelee'', which more than decorative was used to hide his DuelingScar in the forehead (unveiled since ''Matrimelee'' accompanied by [[DyeHard a notable]] [[YouDontLookLikeYou change of look]]).
* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'': The titular Professor Hershel Layton wears a tall top hat, and is the only character to do so. This becomes a plot point in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'', where several characters in Future London recognise the Professor by his hat alone, with one even hiding in fear from him.
*''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'': In all incarnations, protagonist Maxwell is never seen without his rooster helmet; a red hat with three horns. It was revealed later on that his entire family has their rooster hat as well.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': The Mario Bros caps are as iconic as the bros themselves, with Mario and Luigi respectively sporting a cap of their signature colors and letter.
* ''VideoGame/TwilightPrincess'': Midna's "helmet" is actually a Fused Shadow, one of the PlotCoupons she's trying to recover to restore her power.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/ApricotCookies'', most of the characters have hair decorations as a nod to anime character design, but some of these say things about the characters as well. Protagonist Apricot wears large pink hair bows even while sleeping, as she's consciously trying to become a stock MagicalGirl protagonist. Cream Tea, the obligatory ForeignExchangeStudent character, wears Union Jack hair bows to further point out her country of origin.
* In ''Webcomic/GodOfHighSchool'', Jin Mo-Ri is almost never seen without his signature sleep mask, which he uses to doze off anywhere between fights, reflecting his family "do what you want" motto. [[spoiler:When he regains his former powers and memories as the Monkey King, it's replaced by his magical headband while in his godly form.]]
* In ''WebComic/IMadeAComicAboutInternetExplorer'', the main character has a hair clip shaped like the Internet Explorer "e" logo, which is the main thing that identifies her as the MoeAnthropomorphism of Internet Explorer. Tor also has a tiny crown as a hair decoration which identifies her as the "Queen of the Dark Web".
* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Cassidy's distinctive feature is her hair bow, which also mimics the shape of a pair of scissors, [[ShearMenace her weapon in magical girl form]].
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'': The show is mostly shot as TalkingHeads. Several hair accessories or hats are used as props in Lizzie's Costume Theater whenever someone is playing someone else. Sometimes they use other props and clothes, too.
** William Darcy is represented by a newsie cap (and a bow tie). He doesn't really wear a newsie cap himself but it fits his hipster persona.
** Lizzie's sweet elder sister Jane is represented by an artificial pink flower worn in someone's hair.
** Bing Lee is a rich and hot medical student. Whoever plays Bing wears a doctor's head-mirror on their forehead.
** Caroline Lee is a RichBitch who is represented by her CoolShades and a black scarf.
** Wickham and other members of the swimming team are represented with swimming goggles.
** Mr. Bennet has a short-brimmed hat and a pipe. (Once they used a model of a train, too.)
** Mrs. Bennet, Lizzie's embarrassing mother, has a large floppy garden hat, chandelier earrings and a rainbow scarf.
** Gigi Darcy is represented by a newsie cap (which is also used for her brother) plus Jane's pink flower.
** Fitz, a close friend of the Darcy kids, is represented by a big poufy wig provided by Darcy.
** Lizzie's best friend Charlotte has a knit purple hat, pig tails and a book that says "Charlotte costume" on it. Lizzie had to improvise. Charlotte is not impressed with Lizzie's uninspired choice.
--->'''Charlotte:''' You had ninety-six episodes to think up a costume for me, and you came up with... pigtails and a book?
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[[folder: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' 's Finn, one of the pseudo-VagabondBuddies protagonists of the Finn and Jake duo, wears a white bear hat that covers up his long, blonde hair that he is (almost) never seen without. It's so iconic, that even in the AlternateContinuity comic books and videogame ExpandedUniverse material, he does ''not'' have the hat off.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and its SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Avatar Kyoshi's battle outfit contains a headdress that once belonged to her mother. She's never been seen without it and the Kyoshi Warriors AmazonBrigade wear similar ones.
*''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'':
** When he's outside, Mr Willy Fog always wears a top hat.
** Rigodon wears a bowler hat which he believes brings him good luck and refuses to replace it when he briefly loses it. It's from his grandpa.
** Princess Romy has a jewelled head-dress, a traditional Indian maang tikka. Revealed in one episode to contain medicinal chicken bones.
** Inspector Dix always wears a flat cap.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Edd has his black toque hat which he [[NeverBareheaded never takes off]], driving Eddy to nickname him "sockhead".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy always wears a pink hat, which is always associated with him. He uses it in one episode to help Cosmo and Wanda identify him, and in [[Film/AFairlyOddMovieGrowUpTimmyTurner the live-action film,]] him replacing it with a different pink hat is a sign he's maturing.
* ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'': Dumb Donald wears a pink knit cap That covers most of his face, with eyeholes cut out so He can see. It accentuates his less-than-bright nature, and it sets him apart as he's the only character who wears such an obviously cartoony article of clothing.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Hero108'', Mystique Sonia's hat is an actual living creature named Yaksha that usually rests on her head, but also helps her in battle or other activities with the different forms it can take, like a trampoline. It's also literally unique to her, because Sonia is the only known character known to be cursed in a way that if a man who loves her confesses his feelings three times in a row, he turns into a Yaksha. In "Liger Castle", the original Yaksha died in battle, but she soon gets a new one with the same appearance and personality when a soldier who loves her is tricked by her into saying this three times.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Diamond Tiara wears a diamond tiara all the time, which is also a signifier of her AlphaBitch status.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'', Peg wears a woollen hat all the time and when the Neighbour Ladies change her dress, they want to take her hat too, but she insists on keeping it.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': All the secret agents of OWCA are easily recognizable by their FedoraOfAsskicking, without which they look like normal animals. A RunningGag with Doofenshmirtz involves him being unable to recognize Perry the Platypus without his hat. In another episode, the opposite situation happened: he confused a normal platypus that just likes sandwiches with Perry, despite lacking the latter's experience in fighting and intelligence (yet he ''still'' manages to defeat Doofenshmirtz), because of the hat.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' has King Bob (OnlyKnownByTheirNickname, and [[NonIndicativeName not actually of royal blood]], who wears a crown-shaped football helmet that has a brown B on its front. He wears it almost every episode (taking this trope UpToEleven in a way), with the sole exception of "Bad Hair Day", when we see him get an ImportantHaircut, but StatusQuoIsGod reverts it back to the iconic crown-shaped football helmet right after that.
*''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** Captain Rex of the 501[[superscript:st]] painted a blue border around the visor of his helmet, with the bottom edge continuing to a point that ends at the lower air intake. The forehead has ''Jaig'' eyes painted in blue, there is a thin stripe of lighter blue framing the top air intake that then wraps around the casing of the lower intake and there are a series of simple tally marks around the crown.
** Corporal Echo of the 501[[superscript:st]] has the crest of his helmet and hollow cheek portions in dusty blue, and two stripes of darker blue framed with dusty blue starting at the brow and running parallel along the crest to the back of the helmet over the top.
** Fives of the 501[[superscript:st]] has a symmetrical blue inkblot design on the top of his helmet, incorporating two red dots. Beneath the design on the forehead there is a downward facing red arrow, and the hollow cheek portions are painted blue.
** Tup of the 501[[superscript:st]] painted a blue band around his helmet above the visor, and a blue tear drop under the right eye.
** Kix of the 501[[superscript:st]] painted a wide blue band around his helmet which merges with a blue frame for the visor and matches the blue on the crest.
** Commander Cody of the 212[[superscript:th]] goes through a couple of helmets, but personalizes both with a yellow sun visor and understated yellow sunburst pattern around the air filtration intakes.
** Captain Gregor of the 212[[superscript:th]] painted a yellow border around the visor of his helmet, and then kept a messy KillTally in thin black lines all over the helmet.
** The helmet of Commander Wolffe of the 104[[superscript:th]] has a wide convex grey lozenge on top the end of which becomes a thin stripe down his face, the air filtration casing are painted in the same grey, and there are short yellow stripes above each eye and an upside down red triangle in the middle of the forehead.
** Commander Fox of the Coruscant Guard has painted his entire helmet maroon, save for a series of parallel stripes near the intakes of his air filtration casings, the crest, the triangular piece directly over his mouth, and his grey sun visor.
** Commander Thorn of the Coruscant Guard has painted the face of his helmet red with three stripes around each air filtration casing, red wings originating at each temple and added a grey sun visor.
** Commander Bly of the 327[[superscript:th]] has a pale yellow stripe down the center of his helmet with electrobinoculars attached over the visor.
* Clay, the American monk from ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', is almost never seen without his cowboy hat that he is protective of. He gets angry when it gets destroyed (happened twice in "Chameleonbot") or when Omi and Raimundo fill it with milk ("Big as Texas").
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