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-> "Our recent defeat has taught us this: Armor does nothing. As we see in this painting. A fully armored warrior, stabbed straight through the breastplate. By a toddler with a stick."
-->-- '''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}''', ''[[https://www.oglaf.com/newmodelarmy/ New Model Army]]''
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-->--'''''WebVideo/{{Unskippable}}''''': on '''''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/1972-Arc-Rise-Fantasia Arc Rise Fantasia]]'''''

->''"Uuh, this papier-mache armor is useless!"''[[note]] According to ''Series/MythBusters'', thickly layered paper armor might actually be [[http://mythbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Paper_Armor_Myth reasonably effective]][[/note]].
-->-- '''Hapless Fire Nation soldier''', '''''WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries'''''

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-->--'''''WebVideo/{{Unskippable}}''''': -->--'''WebVideo/{{Unskippable}}''': on '''''[[http://www.''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/1972-Arc-Rise-Fantasia Arc Rise Fantasia]]'''''

Fantasia]]''

->''"Uuh, this papier-mache armor is useless!"''[[note]] According to ''Series/MythBusters'', thickly layered paper armor might actually be [[http://mythbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Paper_Armor_Myth reasonably effective]][[/note]].
useless!"''
-->-- '''Hapless Fire Nation soldier''', '''''WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries'''''
''WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries''



-->-- '''Literature/TheLongShips'''

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-->-- '''Literature/TheLongShips'''
''Literature/TheLongShips''



-->-- '''Arac''', "This Helmet I Suppose";
---> from Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/PrincessIda''

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-->-- '''Arac''', "This Helmet I Suppose";
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Suppose"; from Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/PrincessIda''
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-->--'''[[RealLife Sir Edmund Verney]]''' in a letter to his son, [[UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar 1639]]. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He later went into the battle of Edgehill without any armour and was promptly cut down, while his heavily armoured comrade, the Earl of Northampton, could not be killed until his helmet was removed.]]

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-->--'''[[RealLife Sir -->--'''Sir Edmund Verney]]''' Verney, Knight Marshall of the King's Palace''' in a letter to his son, 1639.[[note]]Ironically he would be killed in the [[UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar 1639]]. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He later went Battle of Edgehill]] in 1642 as a consequence him deciding—because he was torn between his conscience supporting the parliamentarians and his duty belonging to the king—to go into the battle of Edgehill without any armour and with no arms or armor, instead bearing the Royal Standard. His body was promptly cut down, while never found, only his severed hand which was identified by a ring on it. Verney's heavily armoured comrade, the Earl of Northampton, could not be killed until his helmet was removed.]]
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-->--'''[[RealLife Sir Edmund Verney]]''' in a letter to his son, [[UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar 1639]]. [[RealityEnsues He later went into the battle of Edgehill without any armour and was promptly cut down, while his heavily armoured comrade, the Earl of Northampton, could not be killed until his helmet was removed.]]

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-->--'''[[RealLife Sir Edmund Verney]]''' in a letter to his son, [[UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar 1639]]. [[RealityEnsues [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He later went into the battle of Edgehill without any armour and was promptly cut down, while his heavily armoured comrade, the Earl of Northampton, could not be killed until his helmet was removed.]]
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->''"Your friend is dead, and Meryn Trant's not. Because Trant had armor, and a big fucking sword."''

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->''"Your friend is dead, and Meryn Trant's not. [[DefiedTrope Because Trant had armor, armor]], and a big fucking sword."''

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