History Main / KnightsArmorHideout

* WebOriginal/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries like the original source material has Tristan sneak around Pegasus's castle in a suit of armor but additionally has fun with the fact that he's [[SurpisinglyRealisticOutcome moving around in a large metal suit.]]

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** Subverted in ''[[Recap/TintinTheSecretOfTheUnicorn Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn]]''. Tintin is trying to escape the Bird brothers in their antique-filled basement. Cut to the villains arriving and seeing a suit of armour standing in the corner. They suspect Tintin inside it and fire at it. It falls apart. Turns out, Tintin hid behind a desk.

* In ''Film/{{Paddington 2}}'', Phoenix hides in a suit of armour to sneak by a night guard.

* In the ''Creator/EnidBlyton'' book ''Literature/TheCastleOfAdventure'', one of the children, Phillip, ends up hiding all day inside a suit of armour from the criminal gang. He is rather blasé about it, and reckons the worst part was having to stifle a sneeze.

* [[Creator/CatherineAird Catherine Aird's]] Literature/TheCompleteSteel shows that a suit of armour is also a handy place to stash a dead body.

* In the ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'' episode "Bump in the Night", lead character Mike hides in a decorative suit of armour when he finds himself alone in the house with an unknown (to him) number of burglars. Then he tries to intimidate them by pretending to be a ghost. Unfortunately, he fails to allow for the weight and clumsiness of the armour, and falls flat on his back.

* One puzzle in ''VideoGame/BrokenSwordTheShadowOfTheTemplars'' involves hiding behind a suit of armour after drawing the attention of an NPC you have to sneak past. Looking at it has George contemplate actually putting it on, but admitting that it would be impractical.

* A horrible subversion of this is in ''VideoGame/ClockTower1995''. [[spoiler: One of the jump scares you can find is if you investigate a suit of armor. It falls over and the body of Laura, your friend, is in there. Either she was shoved in their by Scissorsman or she tried to hide in it. It was most likely a decorative suit of armor and not fitted for a human being. She dies as her chest is compressed and she couldn't breath. It most likely wasn't quick either.]]

* A horrible subversion of this in ''VideoGame/ClockTower''. [[spoiler: One of the jump scares you can find is if you investigate a suit of armor. It falls over and the body of Laura, your friend, is in there. Either she was shoved in their by Scissorsman or she tried to hide in it. It was most likely a decorative suit of armor and not fitted for a human being. She dies as her chest is compressed and she couldn't breath. It most likely wasn't quick either.]]

* In French comedy ''La Tour Montparnasse Infernale'', Eric and Ramzi are window washers trying to hide from a highly organized group of criminals during a bank heist. They decide to hide in full knight armor suits, which becomes a plot point and a way to make multiple jokes:

* {{Creator/CatherineAird}}'s {{Literature/TheCompleteSteel}} shows that a suit of armour is also a handy place to stash a dead body.

** Subverted in ''[[Recap/TintinTheSecretOfTheUnicorn Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn]]''. The villains are looking for Tintin and suspect him inside a suit of armor so they shoot at it and it falls apart. Turns out, Tintin hid behind a desk.

* In ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica Tintin in America]]'', Tintin sneaks into the castle where the members of the KIDNAP Inc. meet. He hides inside a knight's armor in the corridor and takes out one unsuspecting baddie after the other as they pass by.

* In ''Film/IvanVasilievichChangesProfession'', Miloslavsky gets into a suit of armor to hide.

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* ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure''
** The titular duo dress in suits of armor off screen while in medieval England. It's implied they somehow slipped into them as they comment on their first steps that it's really heavy.

* The titular character in ''Film/JohnnyEnglishStrikesAgain'' performs exactly as pictured above. Because of ClingyCostume, he wasn't able to remove it until he knocks out the BigBad and is finally congratulated by the Prime minister.

** They use their disguises to hide in plain sight, but one of them gets beaten-up by the leader of the bad guys who was [[PercussiveTherapy taking out his frustration]] on what he thought was an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmaKqEDVXTo empty armor]].

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* In ''Literature/BeauGeste'', hiding in a suit of armour was how Michael "Beau" Geste knew that [[spoiler:the Blue Water had been replaced with a fake - he saw his aunt selling the real Blue Water while she was unaware that he could see her from his hiding place in the armour]].

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* Used to happen every other week in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''. Sometimes This Week's Villain would hide inside the armour while the Mystery Gang charged past; sometimes Scooby and Shaggy would fit into the {{Hammerspace}} inside a suit of armour so as to evade detection; on one occasion they tried to hide in the armour only to find the villain was already in there...

** In ''From hare to Heir'', Yosemite Sam hides in a tiny suit of armor to attack Bugs with an axe. However, he misses and proceeds to take a tumble down a long flight of stairs, cussing all the while.
** Gossamer tried this once with a suit of armor, but his hair leaked out of the edges of the parts of the suit.

* One of the Literature/NancyDrew and Literature/HardyBoys crossover stories featured an attempt to steal a famous suit of armor custom made for a woman to follow her lover into battle. The sleuths get a tip a second attempt will be made, so they have time to set a trap in advance, deciding that Nancy will wear the targeted armor and the boys will wear two other sets from the collection. They [[LampshadeHanging need help to get the armor on from the professionals charged with its care, and remark about how cumbersome and hard to see in it is]].

** To really play this up, Ted falls down a set of stairs and somehow falls out of the suit while leaving the suit in a perfectly intact shape.

* In the ''Creator/EnidBlyton'' book ''Literature/TheCastleOfAdventure'', one of the children, Phillip, ends up hiding all day inside a suit of armour from the criminal gang. He is rather blasé about it, and reckons the worst part was having to stifle a sneeze.

* From ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' - "The Wizards Three", a series of humorous short stories by Ed Greenwood in which Mordenkainen of TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}, Elminster of the TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms, and Dalamar of Literature/{{Dragonlance}} met for friendly dinner parties in Ed's dining room while Ed hides in a suit of armor.