I wouldn't really say that the Trope Namer is an example of the usual style either...
If people learned from their mistakes, there wouldn't be this thing called bad habits.
If you're talking about the Cain pics, that's exactly what it is; that hat (or variants on it) is a standard part of the commissarial uniform in Warhammer 40K. Granted, it's kinda silly looking, but it gets the job done.
edited 22nd Jan '11 11:44:02 PM by Willbyr
But what makes him the Trope Namer? I became familiar with the style of cap just from pictures of that one dictator from Libya back in the 80's, and from WW 2 German officer uniforms.
They're called Commissar Caps presumably because of Added Alliterative Appeal.
edited 22nd Jan '11 11:53:13 PM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.Actually, the image on the trope page right now is exactly the type of hat that the trope is talking about. It's called a Commissar Cap. Feel free to google it. The results will all more or less look like the ones on the page. The pointy one is a weird variation and of the examples on that page, only one character seems to wear it, the one that was suggested in the first post. The trope image is the one that's being talked about.
edited 23rd Jan '11 12:08:14 AM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickMuammar Qaddafi: This man turned the Commissar Cap into a fashion statement.
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If you insist on replacing that image, then lets go with the Most Triumphant Example with the man who was famous in part BECAUSE he wore them. It became part of his public image.
No, they don't usually come to a sharp point at the top of the peak; it's rounded. Can anyone get a good screencap from Moon Over Parador?
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More or less, the entire commissar uniform is very much Putting on the Reich...the pics on the Gaunt's Ghosts omnibuses do a better job of portraying that, the artwork of Cain tends to make his uniform a lot more stylized.
The Qaddafi pic is good. I had an idea while I was booting up the laptop: what about a collage pic that has, say, the Qaddafi pic, the guy that's the main page image on the Wikipedia article, and one of the Cain pics, so that way there's sort of a cross-cultural theme. I'll play with that and see what I can come up with.
edited 23rd Jan '11 8:06:44 AM by Willbyr
Here's a couple of takes...the last pic in the second one is of a different 40K commissar with a hat that's closer to the normal definition of the trope.
I like the second one, but I'd rather have in media examples instead of so many Real Life ones.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

The web address on the current image really bugs me, and the cap doesn't seem like a typical example of this style, especially in light of the pics on the Wikipedia link to "peaked cap".
If we're going to have a RL example, I'd like to get one that doesn't have a mark of any kind. The problem is, a lot of the examples I'm finding are of Nazi hats...do we have any kind of restrictions on using their imagery? Here's
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What I'd really like to see is an example from the Trope Namer. Here's some shots of Ciaphas Cain rocking the actual item: