Basic Trope: A helmet that folds up into a compact form by itself.
- Straight: Bob's Powered Armor has a helmet that folds up by itself.
- Exaggerated: Bob's Powered Armor folds up not just the helmet but all the extremities, leaving only a breastplate.
- Downplayed: Bob's helmet doesn't entirely collapse by itself, but it does have a raisable faceplate.
- Justified: Bob's helmet is made of Hard Light or Nanomachines.
- Inverted: Bob puts on the helmet and the Powered Armor folds out from it.
- Subverted: It seems that Bob's helmet folds up by itself. But then it turns out that it was actually pulled by strings by Harry who was hiding behind him.
- Double Subverted: It was pulled by strings by Harry, because the power armor battery is depleted. Once it is recharged, it will work on its own again.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Parodied:
- Bob's helmet undergoes a needlessly elaborate Transformation Sequence every time it collapses.
- Not just the helmet but the whole armour folds up into a tiny trinket that is way too small to possibly fit all of it.
- Implied: Unlike other characters around him, Bob wears heavy armor but no helmet. However, there are two buttons with helmet label on the side of his armor.
- Averted: Bob's helmet is one whole piece by itself and does not fold up for storage.
- Enforced: "I want to avert Helmets Are Hardly Heroic but also not force Bob to carry a separate helmet everywhere he goes. Let's make it fold up on itself!"
- Lampshaded: "Why is Bob without a helmet? Don't tell me that he suddenly pulls it out of nowhere in the middle of the combat." In the next scene, he does exactly that.
- Exploited: David, an enemy of Bob, learns a special punch that triggers the proces of folding up the helmet in the middle of a combat.
- Invoked: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "I need to go pick my helmet. It is not like it is miraculously hiding in the back of my armor."
- Conversed: While putting on power armor, Bob and Harry are talking about future development of power armor that could include Awesome, but Impractical perks such as collapsible helmet.
- Deconstructed: While folding up, Bob's helmet gets stuck on some out-of-alignment bit.
- Reconstructed: Bob's helmet got stuck on some out-of-alignment bit is no accident. It is actually a failsafe the prevents Power Armor being used without a correct code.
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