Line #22 PlayingWith/RobeAndWizardHat


1	'''Basic Trope''': Wizards wear a conical hat and robe.
2	* '''Straight''': The wizards of Magica wear this as their normal outfit.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': The outfit is mandatory for all wizards, and wearing anything else is punished by death.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Many (but not all) wizards wear robes or long coats, and felt hats that come to a rounded kind of point.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Someone who knows what they are doing can read possible future spells through a wizard leg-work and, like traditional Kendo garb, the robe hides this.
7	** The stone towers where wizards often live are very drafty and cold. So, they started wearing warm robes. Wizards started wearing conical hats because the shape helps collect and focus ambient magic, like a radio antenna.
8	** [[EvilSorcerer Wizards are hated throughout the land]] [[MagicIsEvil for various reasons]]. The wide-brimmed hat and shapeless robes hide their faces and body types from prying eyes so they can't be identified; [[CollectiveIdentity and if they all dress the same, it's impossible to pick out exactly]] ''[[CollectiveIdentity which]]'' [[CollectiveIdentity wizard it was]] who burnt down your house and [[{{Necromancer}} raided the family plot for]] [[DemBones skeletons]]. Once the uniforms come off, they're just seemingly-normal everyday people.
9	** Wizards need to travel a lot, because their skills are always in high demand. As a result, they have to wear comfortable clothes that protect them from the elements.
10	* '''Inverted''': Everyone in Magica ''but'' the wizards wears robes and conical hats, as it's the traditional national costume.
11	* '''Subverted''': The first wizard seen wears this garb, but it turns out he's only claiming to be a wizard, and no real wizards wear it.
12	* '''Double Subverted''': ...but said con-man winds up learning magic and keeping the garb.
13	* '''Parodied''': A wizard is [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive caught up in an adventure]] while wearing a dressing gown and nightcap. Through various mishaps, the soft cap becomes stiff and scorched and sticks upright.
14	* '''Zig Zagged''':
15	** The only "wizard" who wears this garb demonstrates no real magical powers.
16	** He does have them, however, and wears the outfit specifically to make people think he's a wannabe.
17	** A few wizards start to adopt the look in homage to this wizard and in self-deprecation.
18	** It also becomes fashionable among [[{{Muggles}} completely ordinary folk]] who are impressed by the wizard's feats.
19	** And then the BigBad can't find the wizard because [[IAmSpartacus everyone now dresses like that]].
20	* '''Averted''': No one wears such an outfit, and wizards dress like everyone else.
21	* '''Enforced''':
22	-->Producer: "How else will the audience know they're wizards?"
23	* '''Lampshaded''':
24	-->Alice: "You might as well put on a robe and pointy hat and shout, 'Magician over here!'"\
25	Bob: quickly drops the robe and pointy hat he's picked out
26	* '''Invoked''': Bob decides to wear this outfit to claim to be a wizard.
27	* '''Exploited''': The [[{{Mooks}} enemy soldiers]] target people in robes first, as [[LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards the more dangerous opponents]].
28	* '''Defied''':
29	** A wizard puts together such an outfit for entirely practical reasons, but changes his mind because he thinks it will look stupid.
30	** The party wizard absolutely refuses to wear one knowing full well it acts as a giant "SHOOT ME" sign.
31	* '''Discussed''':
32	-->Alice: "Why do you dress like that? Isn't it a bit... stereotypical?"
33	* '''Conversed''':
34	-->Viewer A: "Wizard in pointy hat!"\
35	Viewer B: "[[DrinkingGame Take a shot!]]"
36	* '''Deconstructed''': A wizard is quickly identified as a GlassCannon thanks to his attire, with [[ShootTheMageFirst all the consequences that may apply]].
37	* '''Reconstructed''': Smart wizards ditch the robes, non wizards sometimes put them on as a bluff, and sometimes StoneWall warriors use magic items to appear to be wearing a robe and wizard hat while they are in fact wearing chain mail, [[IAmSpartacus safe in the knowledge that they can take/dodge the hits that will come for them when the enemies will target them instead of the real wizard just next to them.]] Most wizard are too proud and/or traditionalist to change their wardrobe though, so don't expect the robe and wizard hat to go out of style anytime soon..
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