Helmet
A helmet was a form of protective gear worn to protect the head. Warriors of numerous races wore helmets, such as humans (TV: The Time Meddler, et al.) Sontarans, (TV: The Time Warrior) Sycorax, (TV: The Christmas Invasion) Judoon (TV: Smith and Jones) and the Mire. (TV: The Girl Who Died)
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Vikings were known for wearing helmets. Even after he became a time traveller, Sven Langbard always wore his "conical helmet" if he could get away with it. (GAME: The Legions of Death [+]Loading...["The Legions of Death (game)"])
Just after arriving in Northumbria in 1066, Vicki Pallister found a Viking helmet which she shown to the First Doctor. Though the First Doctor attempted to use this as proof for Steven Taylor that his TARDIS could travel through time, Steven voiced his reservations, to which the Doctor sarcastically asked him if he thought it was a space helmet for a cow. Steven speculated that it was part of a costume, a toy left behind by a child. (TV: The Time Meddler [+]Loading...["The Time Meddler (TV story)"])
The heads of Cybermen were known, at least by the Sixth Doctor, as Cyber-helmets. (AUDIO: The Carrionite Curse [+]Loading...["The Carrionite Curse (audio story)"]) In the case of those from Pete's World, the brain they contained was the sole organic component that remained in a Cyberman. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)","Rise of the Cybermen"]/The Age of Steel [+]Loading...["The Age of Steel (TV story)"])
Sontaran troopers typically wore helmets. Certain Sontarans, however, could chose to go without their helmet in what was referred to being "open-skinned". (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem [+]Loading...["The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)"]) The helmets of Sontarans of the Special Assault Squad, such as Kaagh, could be automatically retracted into their armour at will. (TV: The Last Sontaran [+]Loading...["The Last Sontaran (TV story)"])
Sycorax warriors wore helmets known as skull helmets. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)","The Christmas Invasion"], PROSE: The Final Darkness [+]Loading...["The Final Darkness (short story)"])
At the Twelfth Doctor's request, Ashildr used a stolen Mire helmet to project a false image which scared them into fleeing from Earth, an act which resulted in her death. (TV: The Girl Who Died [+]Loading...["The Girl Who Died (TV story)"]) Another such helmet was captured and held within UNIT's Black Archive, (TV: The Zygon Inversion [+]Loading...["The Zygon Inversion (TV story)"]) while yet another was found inside the Matrix on Gallifrey. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])
Judge Joseph Dredd wore a black helmet with red accents in either 1991 (COMIC: The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic [+]Loading...["The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)"]) or 2127. (PROSE: Psykogeddon (digital edition) [+]Loading...{"var":"digital edition","1":"Psykogeddon (novel)"})
