History Main / CommissarCap

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-->-- '''CiaphasCain''', '''''CiaphasCain'''''

* Played straight in Real Life in the 1990s with RussiansWithRustingRockets and Russian cops. Unlike RedsWithRockets, they have these as part of uniform. But the caps are going to be abolished soon, replaced with smaller ones.

->''It isn't the scarlet sash and the fancy hat that makes you a commissar, it's the way you wear them.''\\
-- '''CiaphasCain''', '''''CiaphasCain'''''

-- '''CiaphasCain'''

-- '''CiaphasCain''', '''''[[FakeUltimateHero HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]]'''''

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* As noted above, Commissars in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''.
** Commissar CiaphasCain, '''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM'''! [[TheSoCalledCoward would, on the whole,]] [[CombatPragmatist prefer a helmet.]]
** These are the subject of many [[MemeticMutation Memetic Mutations]] regarding Warhammer 40k; they typically involve Orks, [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Kharn Chaos]], or one [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Eldrad incredibly dickish Eldar]] picking it up from a [[BlackComedy puddle of former Comissar]].
*** [[MemeticMutation KHÂRN IS THE NEW COMMISSAR NOW]]
*** [[{{AxCrazy}} Two thousand traitor guardsmen died before someone was able take that hat off him.]]
** Arguably a case of PuttingOnTheReich as well, as many commisars tend to wear black hats with skulls and eagle wings prominently displayed on the front. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything indeed.
** CommieNazis {{IN SPACE}}!
*** ''[[ChurchMilitant Catholic]]'' CommieNazis InSpace

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* M. Bison from ''StreetFighter'' is never seen without his hat, except in one DLC costume.
** And now Cammy has one, as of her second DLC costume.
* General Ahkboob from ''TotalCarnage'' ("YOU SUCK AT THIS GAME.")

* Sturm in ''AdvanceWars''.
** Greyfield from Days of Ruin also has one.
* Captain Allen Hamilton and Colonel Orson Perrault, of ''AceCombat'' 5, both wear these, styled after the USAF.

** A less blatant one is worn by recurring character [[MissionControl Signas]], and also by the character Redips in ''[[GaidenGame Command Mission]]''

* Fully promote a pig to the Hero rank in HogsOfWar, and they get one of these hats.
* Worn by Crow in [[FragileDreams Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon]]

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* Bangladesh Dupree of ''GirlGenius''
* CORE officers in {{SSDD}} are often shown wearing blue and red pointed caps (including [[HeroicSociopath Tessa]] in her first appearance). Anarchist "leaders" tend to prefer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shako Shakos]].

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* TheNostalgiaCritic wears one as part of his fancy uniform in the {{Kickassia}} anniversary special.
** [[spoiler: and at the end, when N. Bison is removed from power, NostalgiaChick, Linkara, and Cinema Snob all fight over who gets the hat....and hence control of {{Kickassia}}]]

[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
* [[RockyAndBullwinkle Rocky the Flying Squirrel]] would occasionally wear one while announcing a commercial break.

* The "Banana Republic" in ''{{DuckTales}}'' and Thembria in ''{{TaleSpin}}'' have people wearing these hats.
** Baloo wears one as well, albeit a less decorated one.

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* Played straight in Real Life in the 1990s with RussiansWithRustingRockets and Russian cops. Unlike RedsWithRockets, they have these as part of uniform. But the caps are going to be abolished soon, replaced with smaller ones.

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* [[TheMafiya Balalaika]] from ''BlackLagoon'' wears one, alongside her full old uniform when she get dead serious.

* One is part of the regalia of Paradorian President-For-Life Alphonse Simms in ''Moon Over Parador''. Richard Dreyfuss wears it with a jaunty tilt.

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* Aversion in RealLife: [[RedOctober actual Soviet commissars]] wore smaller caps with soft tops. But these were often made of black leather, which is also [[HellBentForLeather badass in its own way]].
* Played straight in Real Life in the 1990s with RussiansWithRustingRockets and Russian cops (one on the picture above belongs to a Russian border guard officer). Unlike RedsWithRockets, they have these as part of uniform. But the caps are going to be abolished soon, replaced with smaller ones. Probably because when every EnsignNewbie and his little brother at the military school wears one, they do not look so impressive any more. Badassitude Inflation, anyone?
** Nah, it's because they're extremely unpopular among the officers and bear an ignoble nickname of "[[BananaRepublic Pinochet hats]]".
** Averted in the military, police, and other state organs in the Soviet Union, who relied mostly on smaller crowned caps as visible ''[[http://www.undertheredstar.com/ here]]''. The '[[BananaRepublic Pinochet Caps]]' like the Border Guard cap above, as they're called in Russia, were introduced in the late 1990s as the first post-Soviet uniform design, and were much larger than their Soviet predecessors, in part so they could include the large double-headed eagle. They were unpopular enough to cause the Russian Government to revert to smaller designs done in the Soviet style, less likely to blow away in the wind around 2008.
** A funny exception can be found in the caps issued to Moscow and Leningrad [[http://www.undertheredstar.com/NonMOD/taxi72.jpg taxi drivers]]'', deliberately modeled after American caps for the benefit of tourists, though failing to realize they looked more like those worn by police. They were dropped after a few years.

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Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi;\\
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_over_Parador "President-For-Life Alphonse Simms of Parador"]];\\
M. Bison from the ''StreetFighter'' games;\\
[[ThePoliticalOfficer Commissar]] [[GauntsGhosts Ibram Gaunt]] from ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'']]-]

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[[ThePoliticalOfficer Commissar]] [[GauntsGhosts Ibram Gaunt]] from ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'']]

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-->''It isn't the scarlet sash and the fancy hat that makes you a commissar, it's the way you wear them.''\\

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* Washizaki from ''{{Riki Oh}}'', the inspiration for Vega/M.Bison in ''StreetFight'' in VideoGames.

** Commissar CiaphasCain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! would, on the whole, prefer a helmet.

** CommieNazis INSPACE!

* Chiri Kitsu in an episode of Zoku ''{{SayonaraZetsubouSensei}}'', when she subjects the teachers and other students to surprise inspections in order to catch them unprepared.

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* In ASmallCrime, the character Kit wears a black peaked cap.

[[AC: WebOriginal]]
* TheNostalgiaCritic wears one as part of his fancy uniform in the {{Kickassia}} aniversary special.
** [[spoiler: and at the end, when N. Bison is removed from power, NostalgiaChick, Linkara, and Cinema Snob all fight over who gets the hat....and hence control of {{Kickassia}}]]

* M. Bison from ''StreetFighter'' is never seen without his hat.

-- '''CiaphasCain''', '''''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!'''''

A subtrope of both NiceHat and BlingOfWar. A large, high [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaked_cap peaked cap]] similar to those worn by BananaRepublic [[GloriousLeader dictators]]. The trope namer is ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', with [[ThePoliticalOfficer Commissars]] wearing such caps. This headgear surely makes the wearer look badass in an authoritarian sense of the word.

** [[spoiler: and at the end, when N. Bison is removed from power, Nostalgia Chick, Linkara, and Cinema Snob all fight over who gets the hat....and hence control of {{Kickassia}}]]