History Main / SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset

* In the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, {{Faction Paradox}} members wear suits of armor created from the skeletons of creatures "[[TemporalParadox that really shouldn't have existed in the first place anyway]]".

* Averted by Sangamon Taylor, the environmental-crusader from Neal Stephenson's ''Zodiac'', who found a more modern way to dress himself in death: he wraps his feet in protective plastic and dons tennis shoes soaked in ''toxic waste''. Very colorful, keeps the cops at a distance, and it's a hell of a statement if the CorruptCorporateExecutives he opposes have to call in a Hazmat team to publically divest him of footwear stained by their own companies' pollutants.

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* This theme is rampant throughout the ''WorldofWarcraft'' expansion "Wrath of the Lich King". The titular King has skulls in just about every location of his armor where they would fit. There's even a weapon called Colossal Skull-Clad Cleaver.
** "No, it's not okay, I have skulls...on....my....kneecaps!"

* BattleButler [[TheIgor Igor]] in ''[[{{ptitlekeueal74}} Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl]]'' (he serves the former) wears an armour made of bones.

* Also subverted in the ''HowToTrainYourDragon'' filmshort sequel, ''Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon'' where the heroes hunt down the apparently aggressive dragon and he looks like the stuff of nightmares. However, when he finally gets the last bone needed to complete his armor from Gobber, he turns out to be a friendly sort who freely volunteers to fly the shipwrecked bunch home.

* Chaos, the final boss of the original ''FinalFantasy'', had skulls for kneecaps.

* TheDragon to the evil queen in ''{{Willow}}'' has a skull helmet as well.
** An unusually realistic depiction, as while the metal parts were useful and saved him from the blow the bone shattered when it was hit.

* General Kael in ''{{Willow}}'' wears a helmet with a skull for a visor.

* Drizzt's arch-nemisis Artemis Entreri wields Charon's Claw, a sword with bones for a hilt.

** Which oddly enough does not require the character to be evil, so you can have a lawful good bone knight.

What sort of person would clothe themselves in bones and skulls?[[hottip:* :Apart from the fact that [[StrippedToTheBone skeletons are indestructible]]?]] Someone who no doubt appreciates them as symbols of mortality and death. The wearer of such attire must surely lead a hardened lifestyle of murder, combat and death-bringing. Perhaps you could say that they're... [[JustForPun bad to the bone]]?

* Cohen The Barbarian from ''{{Discworld}}'' has dentures made out of troll teeth. Discworld trolls, [[AllTrollsAreDifferent being made of metamorphorical rock]], have diamond teeth. Also, a troll mobster makes cufflinks out of his enemies' teeth. Other trolls like to wear belts of human and dwarf skulls, but in recent, more politically correct times, sheep skulls have become a substitute (after a short experiment with monkey skulls. Either there was too much similarity in size and approximate shape for most dwarfs to tell the difference or [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the Librarian]] [[BerserkButton took issue]]). The ''real'' tough troll criminals don't bother; they just beat you over the head with your own arm until you get the message rather than run the risk of inflaming dwarfs with no grounding in forensic anthropology unnecessarily.

* Subverted in ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', where the only explicit skulls in the coat closet are the golden skulls on the Earth Kingdom army uniforms of generals. Low-ranking firebenders do wear a metal mask as part of their helmet which is somewhat skull-like, however.

What sort of person would clothe themselves in bones and skulls?[[hottip:* :Apart from the fact that [[StrippedToTheBone skeletons are indestructible]]?]] Someone who no doubt appreciates them as symbols of mortality and death. The wearer of such attire must surely lead a hardened lifestyle of murder, combat and death-bringing. Perhaps you could say that they're... bad to the bone?

Compare SpikesOfVillainy and ChainedByFashion. See also BadWithTheBone when bones are used as {{Improvised Weapon}}s.

Compare SpikesOfVillainy and ChainedByFashion.

* Generak Kael in ''{{Willow}}'' wears a helmet with a skull for a visor.

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