![]() ![]() They have antlers with jingle bells attached to them, in imitation to the habit by his lieges to put deer horns on their helms. The mad jester Patchface wears one of these in A Song of Ice and Fire.Although the results of this prank are played for a good bit of comedic effect, the underlying issue of the lack of trust between "Farmers" and Lakewalkers (and the fact that this lack of trust is not totally without basis) is treated as a fundamentally serious problem. This is totally untrue wearing a metal pot on your head doesn't affect groundsense one little bit. As a prank, a Lakewalker tells one of the local Muggles that Lakewalker " groundsense" can be blocked by metal (such as by wearing a pot on one's head). A somewhat more serious use of the trope features in The Sharing Knife series.She proceeds to trip over something and says it's a good thing she was wearing the bucket or she'd have hurt herself - to which Tommy and Annika comment that if she hadn't been wearing the bucket she wouldn't have tripped in the first place. At one point in one of the Pippi Longstocking books, Pippi puts a bucket over her head as a helmet.Joe's bargain-basement armour in Muddle Earth includes a saucepan for a helmet.The Shel Silverstein poem "Man in the Iron Pail Mask".Older Than Steam: Don Quixote: Don Quixote had a proper helmet, but he threw it away for the traveling barber's bronze shaving basin, which the barber simply wore as a hat while traveling (à la Johnny Appleseed) Quixote in his dementia believed that the basin was a magical golden helmet that would give him courage, and so he liberated it from the barber, thinking him a thief of great treasures.Pikel Bouldershoulder of The Cleric Quintet wears a cooking pot as his standard helmet (and only piece of armor).As a bit of an Ironic Echo, many years later in The Malloreon, the same aunt provides Belgarion with a lidded pot, which are converted into an actual helm and shield via the use of a little scrap steel from a broken knife, a fair amount of river clay, and no small amount of sorcerous transmutation by Durnik. This does not go down well with his overprotective aunt, who is also the mistress of the kitchen. Early in The Belgariad, Garion and his friend play-fight using, among other kitchen implements, a pot helmet and pot-lid shields.Not to be confused with the late Medieval great helm, which is sometimes called a bucket helm because of its shape but unlike the improvised variety is not actually made from a bucket. With only an eye hole/slit or two to see out of, although for Rule of Funny sometimes there is no eyeholes to see out of. Some examples instead wear the full bucket over their entire heads turning them into The Faceless. While most examples usually wear the bucket properly (as properly as you can wear it at least) by having it above their eyes. You may have noticed that in real life it's hard to wear and ridiculously easy to remove because of the handle. It's most likely to be used by children, when either playing pretend or they actually need some kind of protection (See Weapon Jr.). Alternatively it can also be a metal pot, colander or saucepan too. A Sub-Trope of Improvised Armour one good way to give yourself an improvised helmet is putting a bucket (either plastic, wooden or metal) over your head. ![]()
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