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* Early in ''VideoGame/GlimmerInMirror'', you collect a magic golden crown called Lyo who grants you HandBlast abilities, as well as amplifying your attacking spells. For bonus points, Lyo can also ''talk'' and communicate with you at times.
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* The Mad Hatter from the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' books. As the name implies, he is a psychotic supervillain with a range of lethal headware. His "normal" hat (if you can call it that) just lets him [[MindControl control people's minds]]; hats for special occasions include exploding hats, gas-emitting hats, hats that let you fly, and hats with hilarious pop-out guns.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' villain Brain Storm wears a special helmet which enables him to absorb and channel cosmic energy for a wide variety of effects.
* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has the Serpent Crown, an artifact linked to an EldritchAbomination that gives wearers various powers. It's an {{Expy}} of the Conan artifact (see Literature, below).

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* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': The Mad Hatter from the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' books. As Hatter, the name implies, he is a psychotic supervillain with a range of lethal headware. His "normal" hat (if you can call it that) just lets him [[MindControl control people's minds]]; hats for special occasions include exploding hats, gas-emitting hats, hats that let you fly, and hats with hilarious pop-out guns.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': The villain Brain Storm wears a special helmet which enables him to absorb and channel cosmic energy for a wide variety of effects.
* ''ComicBook/SubMariner'': The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has the Serpent Crown, also known as the Helmet of Power, is an artifact linked to an the EldritchAbomination Set that gives wearers various psionic powers. It's an {{Expy}} of the Conan artifact (see Literature, below).the Cobra Crown.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]", the Coronet of Rassilon gives the user the ability to amplify and to project their own will to dominate others.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}!'' has the Zap Cap, which allows the titular character to shock enemies in front of him.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}!'' ''VideoGame/{{Bug|1995}}!'' has the Zap Cap, which allows the titular character to shock enemies in front of him.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Kukuburi}}'' every member of la Brigade du Chapeaux wears one. It's strongly implied that the package Reggie was to deliver to Nadia contained one of these (so she could join as a member, probably). The hats are [[spoiler: the endings of a PortalNetwork and the wearers also use them instead of telephones]].

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* Several Gadget-of-the-week from ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' are caps or hats, which grants it's wearer special abilities, like the Ace Cap (you'll ''never'' miss a throw with it, Nobita inevitably uses said gadget to cheat at baseball), the Esper Hat (granting the user MindOverMatter powers), Genius Helmet (wearer becomes a GadgeteerGenius instantly), Stone Cap (wearer becomes invisible), Bird Hat (wearer becomes a human-bird, prominently featured in the [[Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheWingedBraves Birdopia adventure]]), and to a lesser extent some one-shot gadget hats used as cheap gags (case in point, the Popcorn Hat can generate large amounts of popcorn if the wearer is angry).



* ''VideoGame/TheCrownOfWu'', a game based on ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', somehow depicts Sun Wukong's Golden Fillet from the novels as a crown that amplifies it's wearer's magic powers. Turns out Su Wukong used to be an all-powerful Great Sage Equal to Heaven before said crown was stolen by [[spoiler:Wukong's ex-comrade, Zhu Bajie]], when fought as a boss [[spoiler:Bajie]] will use the crown's powers against Wukong; the final cutscene sees Wukong defeating the boss before regaining his Fillet and superpowers.

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* ''VideoGame/TheCrownOfWu'', a game based on ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', somehow depicts Sun Wukong's Golden Fillet from the novels as a crown that amplifies it's wearer's magic powers. Turns out Su Sun Wukong used to be an all-powerful Great Sage Equal to Heaven before said crown was stolen by [[spoiler:Wukong's ex-comrade, Zhu Bajie]], when fought as a boss [[spoiler:Bajie]] will use the crown's powers against Wukong; the final cutscene sees Wukong defeating the boss before regaining his Fillet and superpowers.
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* ''VideoGame/TheCrownOfWu'', a game based on ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', somehow depicts Sun Wukong's Golden Fillet from the novels as a crown that amplifies it's wearer's magic powers. Turns out Su Wukong used to be an all-powerful Great Sage Equal to Heaven before said crown was stolen by [[spoiler:Wukong's ex-comrade, Zhu Bajie]], when fought as a boss [[spoiler:Bajie]] will use the crown's powers against Wukong; the final cutscene sees Wukong defeating the boss before regaining his Fillet and superpowers.
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