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* In ''TheDarkTower'', Randall Flagg has one of these. Allegedly, it actually works against most forms of mind control magic, but it doesn't work on the villain he's facing, Mordred.
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* In ''TheDarkTower'', ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'', Randall Flagg has one of these. Allegedly, it actually works against most forms of mind control magic, but it doesn't work on the villain he's facing, Mordred.
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* In ''TheAlloyOfLaw'', because of [[MagicAIsMagicA the way the magic system works]], aluminum blocks emotional allomancy, so wearing a tinfoil hat can in fact protect you from mind control.
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* In ''TheAlloyOfLaw'', ''Literature/TheAlloyOfLaw'', because of [[MagicAIsMagicA the way the magic system works]], aluminum blocks [[EmotionControl emotional allomancy, allomancy]], so wearing a tinfoil hat can in fact protect you from mind control.control.
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->''"I seem to recall it was your bright idea to spend billions of credits on those orbiting mind-control lasers!"''
->''"How was I to know that tinfoil hats would become the latest fashion?"''
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->''"How was I to know that tinfoil hats would become the latest fashion?"''
-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''' by Odon
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* In ''TheAlloyOfLaw'', because of [[MagicAIsMagicA the way the magic system works]], aluminum blocks emotional allomancy, so wearing a tinfoil hat can in fact protect you from mind control.
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* In the early ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' books, the paranoid centaur Foaly always wears a tin-foil hat.
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* In ''TheGreeningWars'' Hatchet's old "friend" Codex was wearing a tinfoil hat when they visited his bunker. But then again his former employers had [[http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Greening_Wars/5345899/ put a tracking chip in his head]].
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* Exaggerated in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', "Brother's Little Helper", Bart becomes paranoid after taking an ADD drug called Focusin, leading him to believe that Major League Baseball is spying on him and begins donning a tin foil bodysuit. At the end of the episode, Bart turns out to be right when he shoots an MLB satellite out of the sky.
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* Exaggerated {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', "Brother's Little Helper", Bart becomes paranoid after taking an ADD drug called Focusin, leading him to believe that Major League Baseball is spying on him and begins donning a tin foil bodysuit. At the end of the episode, Bart turns out to be right when he shoots an MLB satellite out of the sky.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1900/fc01863.htm Edge's protection from the lobotomizing program.]]
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For when a Tinfoil Hat actually ''does'' protect the ProperlyParanoid wearer, see also ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics. This trope includes both properly paranoid and simply paranoid examples.
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For when a Tinfoil Hat actually ''does'' protect the ProperlyParanoid wearer, see also ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics.ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics and FantasticRadiationShielding. This trope includes both properly paranoid and simply paranoid examples.
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** The scene from ''Signs'' gets parodied in ''ScaryMovie 3''
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* Most of the main characters in ''{{Signs}}'' wind up wearing one at some point before the end of the movie.
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* In the fourth season of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' a Sheriff (or deputy) encountered by Moya's crew when they land on Earth in 1985 via time travel turns up again showing off a tinfoil-lined baseball cap on TV in 2003 when the crew returns. In his defense, he did receive several doses of one of Noranti's potions during the first visit.
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* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3498 Squigley's protection from the Illuminati.]]
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* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3498 Squigley's protection from the Illuminati.]]
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As TheOtherWiki can tell you, however, aluminum actually has very little shielding effect and covering just the top of the head with it leaves the rest of the body (including the bottom of the head) "unprotected", anyway. So whoever is wearing it must be... funny in the head to begin with.
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As TheOtherWiki can tell you, however, aluminum aluminium actually has very little shielding effect and covering just the top of the head with it leaves the rest of the body (including the bottom of the head) "unprotected", anyway. (In fact, if improperly made, the tinfoil could amplify any radiation reaching the head.) So whoever is wearing it must be... funny in the head to begin with.
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* Exagurated in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', "Brother's Little Helper", Bart becomes paranoid after taking an ADD drug called Focusin, leading him to believe that Major League Baseball is spying on him and begins donning a tin foil bodysuit. At the end of the episode, Bart turns out to be right when he shoots an MLB satellite out of the sky.
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* In the ''SalvationWar,'' tinfoil hats actually DO protect you from demonic possession, so the entire world wears it.
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* In the early ''ArtemisFowl'' books, the paranoid centaur Foaly always wears a tin-foil hat.
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* Dogen Boole in ''{{Psychonauts}}'' wears a tinfoil hat he claims prevents him from accidentally [[YourHeadASplode making people's heads explode]] with his PsychicPowers.
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* Dogen Boole in ''{{Psychonauts}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' wears a tinfoil hat he claims prevents him from accidentally [[YourHeadASplode making people's heads explode]] with his PsychicPowers.
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* In ''TheXFiles'', TheLoneGunmen wear them occasionally. Also, a policeman suggests they all get one in their origin episode when he realizes what kind of kooks he is dealing with.
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* In the {{Futurama}} movie 'Into the Wild Green Yonder' Fry uses a tinfoil hat to block his mind reading powers as [[PowerIncontinence he can't turn them off of his own accord]].
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* ''LANoire'' features a street mission in which Phelps has to chase down a tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist.
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* In an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', "Brother's Little Helper", Bart becomes paranoid after taking an ADD drug called Focusin, leading him to believe that Major League Baseball is spying on him and begins donning a tin foil hat. At the end of the episode, Bart turns out to be right when he shoots an MLB satellite out of the sky.
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* In Exagurated in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', "Brother's Little Helper", Bart becomes paranoid after taking an ADD drug called Focusin, leading him to believe that Major League Baseball is spying on him and begins donning a tin foil hat.bodysuit. At the end of the episode, Bart turns out to be right when he shoots an MLB satellite out of the sky.
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* In the early ''ArtemisFowl'' books, the paranoid centaur Foaly always wears a tin-foil hat.
* The novel ''Idiots In The Machine'' by Edward Savio portrays a character who believes that tin foil keeps harmful gamma rays away and becomes a media sensation, marketing a successful line of foil hats to Chicago.
* In ''TheDarkTower'', Randall Flagg has one of these. Allegedly, it actually works against most forms of mind control magic, but it doesn't work on the villain he's facing, Mordred.
* Inverted in ''TheSalvationWar'', where demonic mind control and illusion powers can be blocked by foil and the story gets much mileage out of this, including the line "There will always be eccentrics who deny that the tin foil hat is absolutely essential to prevent baldricks taking over your mind."
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* In an episode of ''Stroker & Hoop'' entitled Tinfoiled again (a.k.a. Star Crossed Livers), Stroker wore a tin foil hat to protect himself from being psychically manipulated by Ron Howard.
* In ''TheXFiles'', TheLoneGunmen wear them occasionally. Also, a policeman suggests they all get one in their origin episode when he realizes what kind of kooks he is dealing with.
* On an episode of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' Walter wears a tinfoil hat at Massive Dynamic headquarters to defend against mindreading/MindControl projects, and convinces Astrid to do the same. In context, it's actually a credible concern.
* ''NYPDBlue'': While on desk duty Sipowicz gets a call from a psychotic ConspiracyTheorist. Sipowicz suggest (in as close to SincerityMode as possible) that he make a tin foil hat in order to block the rays the government is allegedly sending to his head.
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* On ''RegularShow'', Mordecai and Rigby make foil hats when using Pops' '80s era cell phones, after he warned them that they cause tumors.
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