History Main / PostApunkalypticArmor

** Taken to something of an extreme in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' due to the game allowing you to mix and match different types of armor pieces over a suit of civilian clothing. A character might wind up wearing a right sleeve from a suit of combat armor, a left sleeve from a leather jacket, a right leg consisting of the Institute's plastic and alloy armor, and a left leg made from robot armor, all attached to a raider's chest piece and worn over a Vaulttec jumpsuit.

* Apart from the pre-war stuff, every single piece of clothing in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series. Many of these are {{Shout Out}}s to the ''Film/MadMax'' series. Some of the post-War ''armours'' avert it (especially [[spoiler:the Enclave's multiple power-armour designs]]). Though this not to say that everyone dresses this way; by ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', most people are dressed in scavenged or patched-together outfits suitable for roaming the wastes or pre-war clothing or armour appropriate for their job or surroundings. The Super Mutants look this way because they're practically [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]] and nothing that can fit a human can even come close to fitting them, and the Raiders dress in leather and metal outfits with bare chests, metal bras, leather straps, and spiked pauldrons because they're ruthless bandits in a post-apocalyptic wasteland - ''[[{{Troperiffic}} of course]]'' [[{{Troperiffic}} they dress this way.]]

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* Parodied in the ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive NP'' storyline "Fantasy Wasteland", which is a mashup of various open-world video game tropes (particularly ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''), and therefore the Raider Bandits are wearing ''medieval fantasy'' post-apunkalyptic armour. This [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/fantasywasteland-06 mostly consists of wooden buckets]], although one guy has [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/fantasywasteland-07 a cartwheel strapped to his back]], in lieu of the "armour made from old tyres" aesthetic.

** The absolute lowest tier of armor (as in, even worse than your standard issue ODIN armor), the Praetorian (assault), Guardian (heavy), and Swamp Cat (sniper) armor sets, are made out of sports padding, football helmets, repurposed coat leather, and lots of forest-green paint (with red for accents). Out of all of them, only the Swamp Cat helmet looks professionally made, rather than thrown together from sporting goods and car parts. The "Praetorian 2" and "Guardian XA" helmets are pretty punk, being, respectively, a football helmet (complete with rollcage-like face guard) and a motorcycle helmet with buzzsaw-blade mohawks; the latter having a [[CoolShades neato-looking ]] [[OneWayVisor red-mirrored wraparound visor]] and a a yellow jawguard. Such armor is usually found on [[DisasterScavengers Independant]] recruits, or in crates during Scavenging missions, and is BetterOffSold (er, disassembled for resources) than worn into combat.

** The absolute lowest tier of armor (as in, even worse than your standard issue ODIN armor), the Praetorian armor set, is made out of sports padding, football helmets, repurposed coat leather, and lots of forest-green paint (with red for accents). The "Praetorian 2" and "Guardian XA" helmets are pretty punk, being, respectively, a football helmet (complete with rollcage-like face guard) and a motorcycle helmet with buzzsaw-blade mohawks; the latter having a [[CoolShades neato-looking ]] [[OneWayVisor red-mirrored wraparound visor]] and a a yellow jawguard. Such armor is usually found on [[DisasterScavengers Independant]] recruits, or in crates during Scavenging missions, and is BetterOffSold (er, disassembled for resources) than worn into combat.

* {{Invoked}} by [[https://m.youtube.com/@ZNA_Productions ZNA Productions]], who makes some pretty punk-looking armor and weaponry out of repurposed and reinforced sporting goods, plumbing, etc.

** The Disciples of Anu get in on the action with their standard-issue Acolyte armor, which is fashioned from belts, scrap metal, and bits of arthron shell for the [[FashionableAsymmetry right pauldron]] (which is a pretty good choice, considering how damage-spongey Arthrons can get). They even have a helmet (the "Aksu") that's literally SCUBA gear with the air hoses painted neon green.

* The ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' DLC "Anarchy's Children" adds many such pieces to XCOM's armory.

** The absolute lowest tier of armor (as in, even worse than your standard issue ODIN armor), the Praetorian armor set, is made out of sports padding, football helmets, repurposed coat leather, and lots of forest-green paint (with red for accents). The "Praetorian 2" and "Guardian XA" helmets are pretty punk, being football helmets with buzzsaw-blade mohawks; the latter having [[CoolShades red-mirrored wraparound sunglasses]] for a visor and the "rollcage" replaced with a yellow dust-mask. Such armor is usually found on [[DisasterScavengers Independant]] recruits, or in crates during Scavenging missions, and is BetterOffSold (er, disassembled for resources) than worn into combat.

** The absolute lowest tier of armor (as in, even worse than your standard issue ODIN armor), the Praetorian armor set, is made out of sports padding, football helmets, repurposed coat leather, and lots of forest-green paint (with red for accents). The "Praetorian 2" and "Guardian XA" helmets are pretty punk, being football helmets with buzzsaw-blade mohawks; the latter having [[CoolShades red-mirrored wraparound sunglasses]] for a visor and the "rollcage" replaced with a yellow dust-mask. Such armor is usually found on [[DisasterScavengers Independant]] recruits, or in crates during Scavenging missions, and is BetterOffSold (er, disassembled for parts) than worn into combat.

* The absolute lowest tier of armor in ''VideoGame/PhoenixPoint'' (as in, even worse than your standard issue armor) is made out of sports padding and repurposed coat leather, and green paint (with red for accents). The "Praetorian 2" and "Guardian XA" helmets are pretty punk, being football helmet with buzzsaw-blade mohawks; the latter having [[CoolShades red-mirrored wraparound sunglasses]] for a visor. Such armor is usually found on Independant recruits or in crates during Scavenging missions, and is BetterOffSold (er, disassembled for parts) than worn into combat.

* Parodied in ''Series/TheDailyShow''. Rob Riggle reports from a post-apocalyptic wasteland wearing an outfit right out of ''Film/MadMax''. When Stewart comments on it, Riggle says that your standard "leathers 'n feathers" ensemble is mandatory in such circumstances.

* The bandits in the ''Mad Max'' parody segments of ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', one of whom "looked as though he'd bought his clothes in the scrap metal yards of three continents and, where they wouldn't fit, had strapped on a chicken."

* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' got something of this aesthetic going on during the Succession Wars, after rampant use of nuclear weapons and orbital bombardments had resulted in the loss of much of the Inner Sphere's manufacturing ability. With replacement parts becoming increasingly scarce, people were forced to improvise to keep their battlemechs in working order. At the most extreme end of it were so-called Frankenmechs, which were made from grafting whole body-parts from different mechs together. If the stars aligned correctly you could wind up with a very fearsome machine. Most of the time you would wind up with a malfunctioning scrapheap that barely stayed together.

* This is worn by the Rogue enemy faction in ''Crimecraft: Gang Wars''. Female rogues in particular uniformly wear spiky body armor. Rogue berserkers and aggressors wear football gear (with helmets in the latter case). This stuff is also available for the player to wear -- and sported by several of the game's preset classes.
* The Resistance in ''VideoGame/{{Brink}}'' is largely clothed in this fashion, with the Fortress and Warrior archetypes in particular wearing armor clearly cobbled together from scrap metal.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', Bandits don't really wear armor for the most part. Most of them wear masks, but Badass Bruisers have crazy homebrew helmets. Bandit boss Sledge wears a nasty suit of welded-together armor, including a helmet built around a welding mask. He also has a hammer made out of engine parts.
** By ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', some Bandits do wear light body armor, usually either customized football pads, stuff made from sheet metal, or bones. Others wear bits and pieces of old Crimson Lance armor. On the second playthrough and beyond, some psychos wear ''heavy'' Lance armor that has seen better days.
* Turns up some in ''VideoGame/Rage2011''; ranging from a tattered orange robe with black trousers and a OneWayVisor to DoomTroops-a-riffic PoweredArmor, to not-quite-SteamPunk brass plate mail, to dog skins.
* FatAndSkinny duo Junkrat and Roadhog dress like this in ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''. They hail from Australia, which in this game has become a radiated blown apart wasteland, with the duo being "junkers" who scavenged for a living before going on a crime spree together.
* The ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' DLC "Anarchy's Children" adds many such pieces to XCOM's armory.

* Turns up some in ''VideoGame/{{Rage}}''; ranging from a tattered orange robe with black trousers and a OneWayVisor to DoomTroops-a-riffic PoweredArmor, to not-quite-SteamPunk brass plate mail, to dog skins.

-->-- ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' doing a ''VideoGame/{{Rage}}'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/4824-Rage review]]

What's a [[DisasterScavengers Disaster Scavenger]] to do? [[ImprovisedArmour Improvise]]! Necessity is the mother of invention in ScavengerWorld, AfterTheEnd.

Need to protect your noggin? Raid the wreckage of the local football stadium. There should be helmets lying around every 7 feet or so. If you're not careful you might just trip over one or three.

Whilst food, water, shaving cream, and deodorant will be scarce commodities, fetching a king's ransom for those lucky enough to scavenge some up, there will always be a surplus of used sporting equipment, police riot gear (sorry, no weapons), and used car parts lying around from which to fashion the latest low-tech ensemble with which to protect yourself from the elements, wildlife, and your fellow man. If you're planning on teaming up with the baddies, since they have all the cool toys, don't forget to cobble a few [[SpikesOfVillainy Spikes]] onto your outfit as well.

** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the Marked Men in the Divide are probably the best example in the series; their armor partially made of ''street signs''. Subverted in a few cases; some Marked Men have masks that are near-perfect recreations of the ornate one worn by Caesar's second-in-command Lanius. Ulysses praises the craftsmanship their creation involved, as these too were made from whatever sheet metal they could get their hands on.