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13	[[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/Fallout2 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f2_tribal_pa_helmet.png]]]]
14	[[caption-width-right:350:That used to be a perfectly good suit of PoweredArmor.]]
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16	->''"It seems the first thing everyone does after the bomb hits is strap every random animal skull and piece of kitchenware to their leather singlets."''
17	-->-- ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' doing a ''VideoGame/Rage2011'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/4824-Rage review]]
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19	So, your whole world has gone down the swirly waters of the porcelain throne, eh? That's a bummer!
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21	You'll probably miss the clean underwear most of all. Yes, TheApunkalypse has long since come and gone, society has crumbled (or been blasted to smithereens by [[AfterTheEnd nuclear war, meteorites, unfriendly aliens and/or the Wrath of God]]), the tailors were the first to die, there's nary a [=McDonald's=], Wal-Mart or Hostess cupcake factory left standing and tribal punks roam the wasteland.
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23	What's a {{Disaster Scavenger\|s}} to do? {{Improvise\|dArmour}}! Necessity is the mother of invention in ScavengerWorld, AfterTheEnd.
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25	Need to protect your noggin? Raid the wreckage of the local football stadium. There should be helmets lying around every seven feet or so. If you're not careful you might just trip over one or three.
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27	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 {{spikes\|OfVillainy}} onto your outfit as well.
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29	After TheApunkalypse, nobody will judge your garish fashion choices or lack of personal hygiene, because frankly everyone will use and wear the same recycled remnants of a communal bygone era.
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31	Taken to certain extremes, this may result in outfits that are AwesomeButImpractical or even ScavengedPunk. ChainmailBikini is fairly common for both genders, indicating that civilized notions of modesty have also gone out the window.
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33	A SubTrope of ImprovisedArmour, and a SisterTrope to PostApocalypticGasmask.
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35	Compare PeltsOfTheBarbarian.
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37	!!Examples:
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41	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
42	* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' being a prime example of the TheApunkalypse naturally features this trope. The common raiders feature this slightly more than the main characters, whose outfits tend to be almost fantasy-like in design. One thing's for certain though, shoulder pads are in.
43	* ''Manga/{{Japan}}'', a manga by Creator/KentaroMiura where a {{Yakuza}} boss gets flung into a BadFuture, features this prominently. [[http://www.manga-news.com/index.php/serie/Japan2 Behold]] the dude's magnificent car tire ShouldersOfDoom and street pole spear!
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46	[[folder:Fan Works]]
47	* Subverted in ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria''. After a battle in an early chapter, Littlepip appropriates a suit of cobbled-together armor from a dead raider. Later, when she approaches a settlement, she is mistaken for a raider herself and gets shot and badly wounded by a sniper. After recovering, she ditches the raider armor in favor of an [[IconicOutfit armored Stable jumpsuit.]]
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50	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
51	* ''Film/{{Doomsday}}'': After a viral outbreak, Scotland is walled off and its inhabitants return to their tribal, modern primitive roots.
52	* ''Film/MadMax1'' sequels ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'', ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'' and ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' are all examples of post-Apunkalyptic tribes of ne'er-do-wells (often seen with fairly typical scavenged Post-Apunkalyptic Armor) encountered in the wastelands of the Apocalyptic world they inhabit. As the {{Trope Codifier}}s for this look, they're also the direct inspiration for most of the examples below. ''Fury Road'' in particular even has leftover circuit boards (given computers rose [[SequelGap during the 30 years between films]]) as part of Immortan Joe's armor.
53	* ''Film/ThePostman'' -- After a bout of [[AfterTheEnd Doomsday]], society breaks down, and people revert to either insular villages or large authoritarian, sometimes punkish, communes for survival.
54	* ''Film/SpacehunterAdventuresInTheForbiddenZone'' has the henchmen of the villain Overdog dressed this way.
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57	[[folder:Literature]]
58	* In ''Literature/TheDreamsideRoad'', [[MasterArcher The Wuyar Archers]] wear concealing black leather body armor of [[Film/MadMax Mad Maxian design]].
59	* 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."
60	* ''Tachanka from the South'', a Soviet novel about the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Civil War]] (not an apocalypse but close enough, believe it), features a Makhnovist bandit character who looted a livery from a traveling circus and customized it to look badass (but still a bit comical).
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63	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
64	* Parodied in ''Series/TheDailyShow''. Creator/RobRiggle 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.
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67	[[folder:Music]]
68	* Music/TheAquabats: Referenced briefly in the "Radiation Song!", a [[LyricalDissonance jaunty show-tune]] about a [[ApocalypseHow post-nuclear apocalypse]]:
69	-->''Razor-blade boomerangs and iron hands\
70	Crossbows and hockey pads are in demand''
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73	[[folder:Music Videos]]
74	* In the music video for "[[Music/TheProtomen Hope Rides Alone]]", [[BombThrowingAnarchists Bombman]] is basically a robotic [[Film/TheRoadWarrior Wes]]. [[http://protomen.com/act1/images/wallpapers/bombman.jpg See for]] [[http://protomen.com/act1/images/wallpapers/bombtoss.jpg yourself.]]
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77	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
78	* ''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.
79	* Some editions of the RPG ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' include rules for cobbling together armor like this.
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82	[[folder:Video Games]]
83	* ''VideoGame/Ashes2063'': As a shooter that wears its references on its sleeve, the game features punk-ish raiders in ''Mad Max''-like scavenged bikini-like leather armor. One NPC's dialogue questions if they were using bondage gear.
84	* 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.
85	** 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.
86	* 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.
87	* ''VideoGame/ConquerorsBlade'': In the lore of Season XI: Tyranny, the Borderlands have been ravaged by natural disasters and the rise to power of the bloodthirsty, destructive Tyrant. Warlords are left to scavenge whatever they can get to arm themselves. The result is a sort of medieval ''Mad Max'' aesthetic which can be seen on all of the weapon and armor cosmetics available during the season.
88	* This is worn by the Rogue enemy faction in ''VideoGame/CrimecraftGangWars''. 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.
89	* Apart from the pre-war stuff, every single piece of clothing in the ''Franchise/{{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]]).
90	** 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]].
91	** [[GiantMook Super Mutant Behemoths]] beat even the regular Super Mutants, wearing necklaces made of human skulls and chains, using car doors as shields and shopping carts strapped to their backs as backpacks and wielding entire fire hydrants (and the pipes they're attached to) as clubs.
92	** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the Marked Men in the Divide are probably the best example in the series; they wear [[StillWearingTheOldColors their old armor]] from where they NCR or Legion troops, patched up with whatever they could find, which prominently includes ''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.
93	** At the lowest levels, Legionnaire armor is made mostly from scavenged sports gear. That means football pads and batting helmets.
94	** 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 Vaul-Tec jumpsuit.
95	* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''; [[SuperSoldier SOLDIER uniforms]] consist of turtlenecks, gloves, and pauldrons, elites wear more [[CustomUniform complex armor and uniforms]], [[TheHero Cloud]] has a pauldron and bracelet, together with his rusted sword gives off this crude parody of uniform.
96	* ''VideoGame/AutoAssault'' - The Mutants obeyed this trope most closely. Humans mixed in TronLines and the odd gadget or two while Biomeks added [[{{Cyborg}} bolts, claws, and other cybernetic bits.]]
97	* In the first and last areas of ''VideoGame/MadWorld'', common {{Mooks}} are guys decked out in armor made of football pads, tires, and road signs. Some of them also have motorcycle helmets. Miniboss Big Bull Crocker is essentially wearing the deluxe package.
98	* The ''Super VideoGame/MondayNightCombat'' fleshed out the game's setting by giving "Outlander" uniform choices for a few of the classes. Outlanders live in the lawless wastelands between sanctioned towns and cities, and their gear is pretty slapdash but much more intimidating than the standard-issue stuff.
99	* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' parodies this: one of the Phantom Thieves has a leather, sleek biker outfit with various armor bits when working, spiked shoulder pads included. She's also [[StudentCouncilPresident Makoto Nijima]], who is probably the least likely person to become a raider, ever, in an actual apocalypse. {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d, of course.
100	-->'''Ryuji:''' 'Sup, Ms. Post-Apocalyptic Raider.\
101	'''Makoto:''' Do you ''want'' to get smacked?
102	* 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.
103	* 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.
104	* ''VideoGame/PhoenixPoint'':
105	** 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 better off disassembled for resources than worn into combat]].
106	** 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 [[PostApocalypticGasMask repurposed SCUBA rebreather gear]] with the air hoses painted neon green (which is also a good choice, since the apocalypse involved an airborne plague, although the nukes didn't help any).
107	* The ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' DLC "Anarchy's Children" adds many such pieces to XCOM's armory.
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110	[[folder:Webcomics]]
111	* Parodied in the ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive NP'' storyline "Fantasy Wasteland", which is a mashup of various open-world video game tropes (particularly ''Franchise/{{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.
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114	[[folder:Real Life]]
115	* In modern Syria, practically leveled as by an apocalypse, rebels have built [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2245815/Syrian-rebels-unveil-Mad-Max-style-home-tank-controlled-Playstation-gamepad.html combat-worthy armored cars]] able to withstand 23mm cannon fire, from salvaged junk steel plates welded over small trucks. With [[SchizoTech remote-controlled machine gun stations]] and flatscreen [=TVs=] for control.
116	* {{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, and treadplate.
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