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KD Since: May, 2009
2024-09-20 17:47:17

The term, at least on bomb suits, is usually "neck dam" or "collar extension", but may also be called "high collar" or "collar flap".

While I couldn't find any existing trope, and like you said, a lot of these have probably taken some inspiration from real-world bomb suits (EOD armor). Check out what the guy is wearing in the Wikipedia article for Advanced Bomb Suit.

Edited by KD
Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
2024-09-22 14:13:16

These frequently draw from exaggerations of traditional plate armor:

Both Eastern and Western versions of the cuirass frequently included a high collar, which sometimes got exaggerated to High Collar of Doom or Shoulders of Doom levels in the interest of minimizing the amount of access pointy objects had to the neck.

Late in the era of plate armor when smiths really got good at creating complicated mechanical joints you also had a lot of variants of the bevor and buffe, two styles of neck armor that would get matched up with a helmet so that they overlapped or interlocked to create your bullet-head profile

dbsamurai Since: Apr, 2012
2024-09-22 14:45:10

Having looked at No-Neck Chump and Tiny-Headed Behemoth it seems like there isnt really an existing trope for this, since Shoulders of Doom applies to shoulders and High Collar of Doom applies exclusively to villains (and isnt specific to making them look durable so much as imposing.

I wonder if there are enough examples to justify a new trope...

Especially since in real life the tendency for modern armor to include a neck dam over a gorget collar is still fairly uncommon due to weight.

Some more examples Ive thought of:

Davis and the Holo Pilot class in Titanfall 2

Fortified Commando and dreadnought and Devastator armors from Helldivers 2

Maestro and fenris from Rainbow Six Siege

Spooky Space Kook from Scooby Doo

Terminators and XV25 Stealthsuits and Riptide Crisis Suits and Stormsurge Battlesuits from Warhammer 40,000...

Edited by dbsamurai
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