History Main / NeverBareheaded

* In the ''TheSimpsons'' spinoff/superhero parody comic ''Radioactive Man'', the titular hero must wear a hat at all times in his {{secret identity}}, because he has a metal shard sticking out of his head from [[FreakLabAccident the accident]] [[SuperheroOrigin that gave him his powers]]. (His superhero mask also covers most of his head, but allows the shard to stick out.)

* In {{Wizard101}} even your default clothes inculde a hat.

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Applejack, who always seems to wear a cowboy hat - even when in a formal dress. Though to be fair, the hat itself is "dressed up", and probably isn't the plain brown Stetson she usually wears. It's also a common meme among [[FandomNickname bronies]] to ask where her hat is (since this is ''My Little Pony'', many characters come with their own toys, and Applejack's often comes without her hat.) Still, she does take it off when sleeping, like in "Look Before You Sleep" and "The Cutie Pox," and in one episode she actually took it off in the daytime.

** Orko never removes his hat, as part of the Trollan custom that they never show their faces to anyone except their one true love. When he and Dree Elle showed each other their faces, they were kept offscreen; only shadows were shown.
** In one comic book story, Skeletor magically disguised himself as Orko and blew his cover by taking off his hat. Even that was kept in shadow!

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Applejack, who always seems to wear a cowboy hat - even when in a formal dress.
** Though to be fair, the hat itself is "dressed up", and probably isn't the plain brown Stetson she usually wears. It's also a common meme among [[FandomNickname bronies]] to ask where her hat is (since this is ''My Little Pony'', many characters come with their own toys, and Applejack's often comes without her hat.)
** She does take it off when sleeping, like in "Look Before You Sleep" and "The Cutie Pox"

* Subverted by TerryPratchett. He is well known for his penchant for wearing large, black fedora hats, as seen on the inside back covers of most of his books, but he actually takes them off now and then. It's just that when he does, people assume that it's not Pratchett.
** Perhaps a reference to his ''Discworld'' series? A wizard without his hat is naked. A wizard with his hat is not naked, even when he is.

* All characters in {{Touhou}}, except two minor characters in spinoff games

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* The Title character of ShinryakuIkaMusume, who would die if she removed her hat.

* The Title character of ShinryakuIkaMusume, who dies if she removes her hat.

* In TheMovie of ''FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'', Dumb Donald explains that he always wears his hat because [[TheFaceless the animators didn't give him a face]]. He is forced to remove his hat and discovers that he indeed has a face. When Albert's friends [[RealWorldEpisode return from the real world]], Donald had to put his hat back on because, in their fictional world, he indeed has no face.

* [[StarWars Darth Vader]] always wears his helmet, since it's part of his life support system. Seen only twice without it: [[spoiler:the first time in a special pressure chamber, the second time dying.]]

Please note that this is ''not'' about characters who usually wear a hat. It's for characters who ''always and without exceptions'' wear one, even though they don't need to. Maybe exceptions can be made if the character is seen hatless ''just once'', but no more than that, or if it happens very rarely and is made a big deal of. A good rule of thumb is that if it doesn't seem weird, when you think about it, that the character in question always wears headgear, then s/he doesn't qualify. So obviously a character that appears briefly in two episodes of a threehundred-episode series don't qualify, even if his fedora was on all the time.

* For many years in ''{{Doonesbury}}'', [[NoNameGiven B.D.]] was never seen without his football helmet. When he was called up from the Army reserves for the Gulf War in 1991 he wore a military helmet instead. For decades he wore a helmet until it finally came off on April 21, 2004, when B.D. lost a leg while serving in Iraq. His only reflection on losing the helmet was on July 31, 2004, when he thought the pag quote to himself.

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