Science Fiction @lemmy.world SSTF @lemmy.world 2y ago

Cool scifi armors? For ages, I thought this Lost In Space helmet was the coolest thing.

Here’s a short video of it popping onto his head.

Yeah, it’s basically Iron-Man nanoarmor, but this Lost in Space movie came out in 1998, and the full gunmetal rugged aesthetic is still pretty top tier.

What are other unique, cool scifi armors?

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I like the Anubis helmets in the original StarGate movie. Helmets that fold away are always cool.
- Even though it just encourages the "ancient aliens" crowd, I can thank Stargate for my love of anything that fuses Egyptian/Mayan/Aztec aesthetics and mythology with sci-fi.
  
  Edit: oooh, and other Native American tribes, too, like The Endless Nation in Hickman's East of West
  
  The Endless Nation was so cool. I love me some East of West. Someone give me that animated adaption, please.
  
  East of the West
  
  Wow thanks for mentioning this! I just got the first chapter and it looks to be amazing! I don't know if it's just Image comics style in general or not but the art style reminds me strongly of Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples's Saga as well.
Feel like this movie was super underrated. Everything from the major's battlesuit to the kid's hologram robot pilot station was awesome!
- I had a huge crush on Lacey Chaberts Penny in this movie when I was a kid. She was just a few years older than me and I was enamored. I haven't thought about it in like 20 years now.
  
  Dude same.
Dead space helmet
that batman returns batmobile armour was pretty sweet too
"How You Doin'?" - Dr. Drake Ramoray
- You mean Ken Adams?
Hellgate London had some cool armors.
- Aw geez, you know i just it's kinda cool rick
- That seems like highly impractical armor.
  
  Aside from the fact that it's open around the waist to show booty, it's actually sensible. It's basically cyber full plate armor.
I absolutely loved this helmet as a kid! And the cool gun helped the style as well. Overall super fun to watch on screen.
- The late 90s and very early 2000s were the peak of chromed out guns with lasers on them.
  
  The Noisy Cricket
You guys know you can post images, right?
It's a game, but the Terran Marine, Firebat, and Ghost are classics.
- "Need a light?"
- My all time favote space marine armor.
As terrible as that movie was there was a lot of cool stuff. I always loved robot before he gets blown to smitherines. I think my favorite aci fi armor from the 90s was the power armor in the beginning of the final fantasy movie. I think it was the forst time id ever seen armor like that and thought their glowing blue eyes were so cool.
I'm a sucker for the goofy box of light that was the shield belts in the 1984 version of Dune. It's armor of a kind, right?
- There's a whole video about recreating the effects here
  
  https://youtu.be/C09-xuAXWpk
The armor and helmet from the Mass Effect trilogy (particularly 3). Relatively simple and basic but still badass and iconic.
I feel like a lot of stuff in Destiny and Destiny 2 should count. There are some truly wacky armors in those games, and some really badass stuff too.
can we give George Lucas some credit at least in the helmet department?
- He didn't design any of those.
- Yeah, clone armor is fire.
War Machine
"Its basically iron-man nanotech" Yet... You admitted Lost in Space came first... So Iron-Man is using Joey Tribbiani nanoarmor.
The Colonial Marines from Aliens get a lot of points for saying a lot very quickly with their costume design.

For a more scifi design I've always been fond of the soldiers' armor from Hunter Prey
Mark VII Astartes power armor I think is just peak coolness, especially with the skull faced visage of a chaplain
- MkVI "Corvus" is where it's at for me
Pretty cool. As helmets go, I was always taken with the Jaffa helmets from the Stargate movie (not the silly ones from the show though... LOL)
That looks like an adaptation from a 15th C style helmet called a sallet, worn with a bevor.
Master Chiefs Mk V and VI. Also a huge fan of the Mk IV.

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