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* ''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/DigimonDataSquad Masaru]] have goggles on their head as their signature accessory.
** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' Tomoki/Tommy seemed to feel his hat was notable enough to warrant a special mention in the entry for him Bokomon was writing in his GreatBigBookOfEverything.

** [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo Jotaro Kujo]] is almost always seen wearing a hat that tends to blend into his hair. The author said that this was done to give him a distinctive silhouette in comparison to his peers.
** ''Manga/PhantomBlood'': Will A. Zeppeli has a rather extravagant signature top hat with a checkerboard pattern. [[spoiler:Speedwagon wears it once Zeppeli dies, and Caesar ends up wearing it in part 2.]].
** ''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 and uses it as a weapon during Wamuu's fight.]]
** ''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 that can be shapeshifted thanks to his stand's ability, while major villain Vanilla Ice wears a headband with a heart on it to symbolize his loyalty to DIO.
** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': Rohan Kishibe, the Mangaka, has a zig-zagged 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 and is carried over for Pink Dark Boy's design. In this part, Joseph Joestar has yet another different signature hat, sporting a leopard-print ushankha.
** ''Manga/GoldenWind'': Bruno Bucciarati, [[{{Deuteragonist}} the deuteragonist]], has two golden barrettes 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 a star-patterned beanie with a horseshoe pin on it (to symbolize him being both a Joestar and an American), 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. His adoptive nephew Tsurugi always wears an origami frog in his hair that fits his Stand ability.
** ''Manga/TheJOJOLands'': Jodio wears a star-shaped hairclip in his braid, symbolizing him as part of the Joestar family.

* ''Franchise/OnePiece'' has several examples just in the main crew alone:

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':

** Link is known for wearing a green pointy hat which [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild alm]][[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom ost]] all of his incarnations have worn.

* '' Franchise/FinalFantasy'' has recurring headgear for the Black Mages in a pointy hat that completely obscures the mage's face outside of two glowing eyes.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyBraveExvius'', every member of the Emperor's Orders wears eye-obscuring headgear.

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* Komari Kamikita from ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' has her trademark star-shaped hairclip and very long hair ribbons, which she notably considers to be her {{Charm Point}}s.
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* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory: The Arizona residing Mike Teavee wears a cowboy hat which represents his love for watching violent Westerns on television and that AmericansAreCowboys.

** Link is known for wearing a green pointy hat which all of his incarnations have worn.

* Franchise/IndianaJones' fedora is one of his two {{Iconic Item}}s; the other being his trusty [[WhipItGood bullwhip]]. He even risks death doing the now famous IndyHatRoll to retrieve it in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.

* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Four out of the five Nakano sisters wear notable head accessories that identify them and go with their NumerologicalMotifs and respective NumericalThemeNaming:
** Nino wears ''two'' butterfly-shaped ribbons on the sides of her hair.

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': Anya Forger is almost always wearing a pair of black-and-gold horn-like accessories on the sides of her hair, even while sleeping. One of the few times she wasn't was during a flashback to her life as an experimental subject (where she had OdangoHair in their place).

* 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.

** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': Rohan Kishibe, the Mangaka, has a zig-zagged 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 and is carried over for Pink Dark Boy's design. In this part, Joseph Joestar has yet another different signature hat, sporting a leopard-print flapped hat.

** ''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.

** ''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-zagged 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/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.

* ''Franchise/OnePiece'' has several examples:
** Perhaps the most iconic headgear in all of anime and manga: the simple yellow straw hat with a red ribbon around it. It has adorned the head of series protagonist Monkey D. Luffy since chapter/episode one and continues to do so over a thousand chapters/episodes later, and is so synonymous with Luffy that not only is his moniker "Straw Hat", his entire crew is officially called the Straw Hat Pirates. It even has in-universe cred: before it was passed down to Luffy, it belonged to Shanks (one of [[TheDreaded the Four Emperors of the Sea]]), and it was passed down to ''him'' by none other than the legendary Pirate King himself, Gol D. Roger (although only in his early career; Roger is most commonly associated with his own bicorne pirate hat that bears his Jolly Roger).

** Usopp has two: the yellow durag/goggle combination he wore pre-timeskip, and the white hat with an oversized rim post-timeskip.
** Chopper also has two, both pink hats. The pre-timeskip one was a simple top hat with a white 'x' symbol, while the post-timeskip one is a blue round hat with a pink center and the same white 'x' symbol. Both also feature openings for his antlers... that sometimes come off ''with'' the hat in sillier moments.

* Chika Fujiwara from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' has her ever-present "super black" bow that stays affixed to her hair without any visible means of support. [[RuleOfFunny She even has it on when she's wearing a bald cap and trying to fool everyone into thinking she shaved her head.]] She even carries a backup "not as black" bow in case she needs it.