History Main / FantasticRadiationShielding

* All the friggin' time on ''Franchise/StarTrek''. Radiation of all kinds (both real and contrived) can be blocked by various means, from DeflectorShields to magical inoculations.

* In the ''Film/XMen'' films, Magneto's helmet protects him from various mutants' psychic powers.

* Karl in ''Webcomic/FreakAngels'' wears one so the other "angels" don't bother him with telepathic messages [[http://www.freakangels.com/?p=26&page=4 all the time]]. It's not clear whether or not it works because their telepathy uses radio waves or [[MagicFeather the placebo effect]], but it seems to make him feel a bit better.

* In ''TheSalvationWar'', demonic mind control and illusion powers can be blocked by foil, the story gets much mileage out of this, including the line "There will always be eccentrics who deny that the tin foil hat is absolutely essential to prevent baldricks taking over your mind." said by a government official.

* From ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' comes the Gellar field, which projects a "bubble of reality" around large-scale objects, making is used as a shield from psychic energy. While it's used in that capacity only a few times, such as to ward off psychic phenomena or daemons, it's main use is to allow ships to safely transition from realspace and to exist safely warpspace, making it essential to most factions' capacity for FTL travel. However, the technology is [[ParanoiaFuel not totally reliable]], and sudden Gellar field failure will mean that the fabric of the ship will...change within hours, although the crew will be long dead by that point, and be [[FateWorseThanDeath wishing for death]] up to ''that'' point.

* Karl in ''FreakAngels'' wears one so the other "angels" don't bother him with telepathic messages [[http://www.freakangels.com/?p=26&page=4 all the time]]. It's not clear whether or not it works because their telepathy uses radio waves or [[MagicFeather the placebo effect]], but it seems to make him feel a bit better.

* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' movie ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'', Fry and the Legion of Madfellows wear foil hats which prevent their thoughts being read by "The Dark One". And to keep themselves fairly sane as it blocks their own [[PowerIncontinence uncontrollable]] telepathy.

* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Magneto's helmet protects him from both the guy mind-controlling Xavier and the latter's psychic powers.

* From ''TabletopGames/Warhammer40000'' comes the Gellar field, which projects a "bubble of reality" around large-scale objects, making is used as a shield from psychic energy. While it's used in that capacity only a few times, such as to ward off psychic phenomena or daemons, it's main use is to allow ships to safely transition from realspace and to exist safely warpspace, making it essential to most factions' capacity for FTL travel. However, the technology is [[ParanoiaFuel not totally reliable]], and sudden Gellar field failure will mean that the fabric of the ship will...change within hours, although the crew will be long dead by that point, and be [[FateWorseThanDeath wishing for death]] up to ''that'' point.

* Karl in ''FreakAngels'' wears one so the other "angels" don't bother him with telepathic messages [[http://www.freakangels.com/?p=26&page=4 all the time]].

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* The Tec-Shield Franchise/{{Batman}} [[http://gofigureactionfigures.com/product830.html action figure]] wears a golden suit that "'protects' against extreme heat and chemicals".

* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' movie ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'', Fry and the Legion of Madfellows wear foil hats which prevent their thoughts being read by telepaths.

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[TokenEvilTeammate Belkar]] uses a lead sheet to block [[KnightTemplar Miko's]] DetectEvil ability. Later in the story, LaResistance of the Azure City use the same to hide from goblins' Detect Good.

* In the MassEffect franchise, it's possible to block the mechanism for [[BigBad Reaper]] [[MoreThanMindControl indoctrination]] ([[spoiler: and Leviathan enthrallment, which is quite similar]]) with sufficient numbers of [[ForceField glowy energy barriers]]. This is handy for studying fragments of Reapers and other small artifacts, which could otherwise slowly indoctrinate researchers to the Reaper cause. However, it's insufficient for really big things, like active Reapers and capital ship derelicts.

* In ''Literature/TheAlloyOfLaw'', aluminum and some of it's alloys are "allomantically inert", which means, in part that wearing a hat lined with aluminum foil will prevent an Allomancer from using EmotionControl powers on you.

* In past ages of comic books, [[{{Superman}} Kryptonite radiation]] was stopped by lead, and only lead, even though while lead provides great radiation shielding in real life, it's by far not unique in this property.

* In the second ever ''Series/DoctorWho'' story, "The Daleks", the Doctor and his companions take medicine that not only cure them of radiation sickness encountered while unknowingly exploring an irradiated planet, but also protects them from future radiation.

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