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* ''Film/FirehouseDog'': The canine actor Rexxx goes missing, and is eventually considered dead by his owner. In the absence of a body, Rexxx's toupee is placed on top of the grave.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Kanan}}'': "Stance"'s headstone is his rifle with his helmet perched atop it.
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Loved and were loved, and now we lie'']]
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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'': When the general--who also happens to be Shang's father--dies, Chien-po, who found the body, brings back the general's helmet. Having no time for a burial, Shang erects a memorial by driving his sword into the ground and placing his father's helmet on it. Mulan also places an [[EmpathyDollShot abandoned doll]][[note]]which the Huns had used [[GPSEvidence to learn the imperial army's location]][[/note]] she found in the village's ruins next to the sword.
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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'': When the general--who also happens to be Shang's father--dies, father--is killed by Shan Yu and his army, Chien-po, who found the body, brings back the general's helmet. Having no time for a burial, Shang erects a memorial by driving his sword into the ground and placing his father's helmet on it. Mulan also places an [[EmpathyDollShot abandoned doll]][[note]]which the Huns had used [[GPSEvidence to learn the imperial army's location]][[/note]] she found in the village's ruins next to the sword.
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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'': When the general--who also happens to be Shang's father--dies, Chien-po, who found the body, brings back the general's helmet. Having no time for a burial, Shang erects a memorial by driving his sword into the ground and placing his father's helmet on it. Mulan also places an [[EmpathyDollShot abandoned doll]] she found in the village's ruins next to the sword.
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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'': When the general--who also happens to be Shang's father--dies, Chien-po, who found the body, brings back the general's helmet. Having no time for a burial, Shang erects a memorial by driving his sword into the ground and placing his father's helmet on it. Mulan also places an [[EmpathyDollShot abandoned doll]] doll]][[note]]which the Huns had used [[GPSEvidence to learn the imperial army's location]][[/note]] she found in the village's ruins next to the sword.
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Nice Hat is being dewicked.
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When characters die and a formal funeral, or returning the body home, is not possible, their companions will often bury them and erect some kind of marker as a form of DueToTheDead. And, if the character wore some kind of [[NiceHat trademark headgear]], their friends may hang the hat atop the marker.
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When characters die and a formal funeral, or returning the body home, is not possible, their companions will often bury them and erect some kind of marker as a form of DueToTheDead. And, if the character wore some kind of [[NiceHat trademark headgear]], headgear, their friends may hang the hat atop the marker.
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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'': When the general--who also happens to be Shang's father--dies, Chien-po, who found the body, brings back the general's helmet. Having no time for a burial, he erects a memorial by driving his sword into the ground and placing his father's helmet on it. Mulan also places an [[EmpathyDollShot abandoned doll]] she found in the village's ruins next to the sword.
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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'': When the general--who also happens to be Shang's father--dies, Chien-po, who found the body, brings back the general's helmet. Having no time for a burial, he Shang erects a memorial by driving his sword into the ground and placing his father's helmet on it. Mulan also places an [[EmpathyDollShot abandoned doll]] she found in the village's ruins next to the sword.
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* In ''Film/TheLandThatTimeForgot'', the sailors killed by the dinosaurs, whether British or German, all have their graves marked with a pole driven into the ground with their sailors' cap hung from the top of it.
* Both original and the 1995 remake of ''[[Film/Sahara1943 Sahara]]'' ends with shots of the graves of the fallen Allied soldiers, with [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits variety of their head gear]] being put on the service rifles fixed as headstones. The difference is in tone of the scene: the original is upbeat, "we made it through sacrifice to victory" (being a war-time propaganda movie, after all), while the remake is a somber scene of WarIsHell.
* Both original and the 1995 remake of ''[[Film/Sahara1943 Sahara]]'' ends with shots of the graves of the fallen Allied soldiers, with [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits variety of their head gear]] being put on the service rifles fixed as headstones. The difference is in tone of the scene: the original is upbeat, "we made it through sacrifice to victory" (being a war-time propaganda movie, after all), while the remake is a somber scene of WarIsHell.
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* In ''Film/TheLandThatTimeForgot'', the sailors killed by the dinosaurs, whether British or German, all each have their graves grave marked with a pole driven into the ground with their sailors' sailor's cap hung from the top of it.
* Both the original and the 1995 remake of ''[[Film/Sahara1943 Sahara]]'' ends with shots of the graves of the fallen Allied soldiers, with [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits variety of their head gear]] being put on the service rifles fixed as headstones. The difference is in tone of the scene: the original is upbeat, "we made it through sacrifice to victory" (being a war-time propaganda movie, after all), while the remake is a somber scene of WarIsHell.
* Both the original and the 1995 remake of ''[[Film/Sahara1943 Sahara]]'' ends with shots of the graves of the fallen Allied soldiers, with [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits variety of their head gear]] being put on the service rifles fixed as headstones. The difference is in tone of the scene: the original is upbeat, "we made it through sacrifice to victory" (being a war-time propaganda movie, after all), while the remake is a somber scene of WarIsHell.
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* The Both original and the 1995 remake of ''[[Film/Sahara1943 Sahara]]'' ends with a camera panning over shots of the graves of the fallen Allied soldiers, with [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits variety of their head gear]] being put on the service rifles fixed as headstones. This The difference is a ''significant'' change over in tone of the far more upbeat scene: the original ending.is upbeat, "we made it through sacrifice to victory" (being a war-time propaganda movie, after all), while the remake is a somber scene of WarIsHell.
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* Demonstrated in the "Odie-sey" episode of ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans''. The nymph Calypso helps the heroes and her new beloved Odie escape her island with a boat in her possession, since she is forbidden from leaving the island. When asked how she got a boat, she reveals she ReallyGetsAround and got the boat from one of her now deceased ex-boyfriends, consisting of various men who wash up on her island every hundred years or so that she takes as lovers. Cue a graveyard full of time-relevant helmets showing the burial places.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The very last episode "Victory and Death" [[spoiler: ends with the Venator-class star destroyer crash-landing on the surface of a moon. Ahsoka and Captain Rex are the only ones to escape in time,but none of the Clone Troopers survives. To honour the dead clones, they place their helmets before they leave. When Darth Vader arrives several years later, the helmets are almost entirely covered in snow.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The very last episode "Victory and Death" [[spoiler: ends with the Venator-class star destroyer crash-landing on the surface of a moon. Ahsoka and Captain Rex are the only ones to escape in time,but none of the Clone Troopers survives. To honour the dead clones, they place their helmets before they leave. When Darth Vader arrives several years later, the helmets are almost entirely covered in snow.]]
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* Demonstrated in the "Odie-sey" episode of ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans''. The nymph Calypso helps the heroes and her new beloved Odie escape her island with a boat in her possession, since she is forbidden from leaving the island. When asked how she got a boat, she reveals she ReallyGetsAround and got the boat from one of her now deceased now-deceased ex-boyfriends, consisting of various men who wash up on her island every hundred years or so that she takes as lovers. Cue a graveyard full of time-relevant helmets showing the burial places.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The very last episode "Victory and Death" [[spoiler: ends with the Venator-class star destroyer crash-landing on the surface of a moon. Ahsoka and Captain Rex are the only ones to escape intime,but time, but none of the other Clone Troopers survives.survive. To honour the dead clones, they place their helmets before they leave. When Darth Vader arrives several years later, the helmets are almost entirely covered in snow.]]
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We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,\\
Loved and were loved, and now we lie'']]
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We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,\\
Loved and were loved, and now we lie'']]
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* The cover of ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' #52 depicts ComicBook/TheQuestion's iconic fedora perched on top of a gravestone (with ComicBook/ElongatedMan's orange costume wrapped round the stone).
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When characters die and a formal funeral, or returning the body home, is not possible, their companions will often bury them and erect some kind of marker as a form of DueToTheDead. And, if the character wore some kind of [[NiceHat trademark headgear]], their friends may hang the hat atop the marker.
For warriors, this is usually combined with WeaponTombstone: placing the warrior's helmet atop the weapon. However, it can be done for characters who are not warriors or in situations were the others do not wish to leave the warrior's weapon behind.
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* Used in [[https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn553950 this]] 1944 advertisement for US War Bonds. It depicts a US Army combat helmet by a white cross in a graveyard full of crosses, asking "...does it matter whether he was Protestant, Catholic or Jew? He fought American. He died American. He was American."
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The cover of ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' #52 depicts ComicBook/TheQuestion's iconic fedora perched on top of a gravestone (with ComicBook/ElongatedMan's orange costume wrapped round the stone).
* Garth Ennis' ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' has a variation on this in a Vietnam War flashback. After wiping out American troops armed with a crappy new rifle supplied by [[EvilInc Vought-American]], the VC leave the dead GI's weapons stuck in the ground with their helmets on top. However, the helmets aren't [[DecapitationPresentation empty]]....
* At the end of ''ComicBook/CombatKellyAndHisDeadlyDozen'' #4, the Dozen leave a rifle with his helmet atop it stuck into the ground besides the body of Captain Conner. However, as a mark of their LastDisrespects, they do not bother to bury the body.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' #140, Puss in Boots is thought dead. Briar Rose marks his cairn by placing his rapier in the pile of stones and hanging his musketeer hat on it.
* ''ComicBook/{{Kanan}}'': "Stance"'s headstone is his rifle with his helmet perched atop it.
* In the ''Comicbook/SgtRock'' comics, the graves of fallen members of Easy Company were usually marked with their rifle and helmet. This was featured the cover of the ''Between Hell and a Hard Place'' GN, and in the story itself Wildman instructs some new privates to do this for a fallen comrade.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'' #106, the Rangers think Tomahawk is killed in an avalanche. They mark his resting place with his tomahawk and coonskin cap.
* In one ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' story, a trio of generic bad guys hunt him down [[TheyHaveTheScent with dogs]]. First he runs from them. Then, when an InnocentBystander is killed in the crossfire, he slaughters them. He then takes a while to dig graves before he moves on... and is shown placing the two dogs' collars and the bystander's hat on the three graves, and [[LastDisrespects leaving the dead men for the scavengers]]. [[note]] This particular story wasn't written by a Marvel writer, but by a fan [[OfficialFanSubmittedContent who entered it in "Write an Issue of Wolverine" contest]] the company held.[[/note]]
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* When Milton Caniff, creator of Steve Canyon, died, the last ''ComicStrip/SteveCanyon'' strip to run was a tribute including a panel by Bill Mauldin. This showed Mauldin's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII soldier Willie sticking a rifle-sized pen into the ground while Steve, in flight suit, set a pilot's helmet atop the pen. (The rest of the tribute was the signatures of twenty or thirty other cartoonists.)
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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'': When the general--who also happens to be Shang's father--dies, Chien-po, who found the body, brings back the general's helmet. Having no time for a burial, he erects a memorial by driving his sword into the ground and placing his father's helmet on it. Mulan also places an [[EmpathyDollShot abandoned doll]] she found in the village's ruins next to the sword.
* A dark version occurs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', combined with a grim TrophyRoom, as Charles Muntz has killed other explorers and, apparently, kept their aviator helmets on stands as a way of keeping track.
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* In ''Film/TheLandThatTimeForgot'', the sailors killed by the dinosaurs, whether British or German, all have their graves marked with a pole driven into the ground with their sailors' cap hung from the top of it.
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' : After the paratroopers killed near the radar station are buried, Capt. Miller marks their graves with their helmets and M1 rifles. He removes the trigger group from each weapon so they can't be used by the Germans.
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* ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Completing the Mission]]'': In the "Valiant Hero" ending, chopper pilot Charles Calvin loses his life in an explosion. The game ends with his friend Henry Stickmin coming to visit his gravestone, which has his iconic headset placed on top.
* In ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'', the basket-like Tengai hat can be found during Act 3, in the northwestern part of the lake by Jogaku Temple. This lake is positioned just a bit south of the temple, an important settlement in ''Ghost of Tsushima'''s third map - Kamiagata. Once you're in this corner of the lake, go towards the forest, pass over a small grass patch, and you'll spot two graves. There is a stick next to the western one. You'll find the hat on top of this stick.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzkL-vg8MHE&feature=related live-action trailer]] for ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' features the 'Helmet, boots, rifle' field burial with the equipment updated appropriately.
* The GameOver screen in ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAlliedAssault'' is a field of M1 Garand rifles planted barrel-first on the ground with helmets perched on them.
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* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': At the end of "Shredder vs Silver Samurai", after defeating the Silver Samurai, Shredder plants his sword in the ground and hangs his helmet on the hilt.
* The end of ''WebAnimation/{{TOME}}'' includes a small shot of Kirbopher's gravestone, marked with his sword and hat, despite Christopher being alive by the end of the story. Perhaps it's meant to say that the persona itself is dead, either due to Kajet's attacks corrupting the game model, or because his secret identity had been revealed.
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* Demonstrated in the "Odie-sey" episode of ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans''. The nymph Calypso helps the heroes and her new beloved Odie escape her island with a boat in her possession, since she is forbidden from leaving the island. When asked how she got a boat, she reveals she ReallyGetsAround and got the boat from one of her now deceased ex-boyfriends, consisting of various men who wash up on her island every hundred years or so that she takes as lovers. Cue a graveyard full of time-relevant helmets showing the burial places.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The very last episode "Victory and Death" [[spoiler: ends with the Venator-class star destroyer crash-landing on the surface of a moon. Ahsoka and Captain Rex are the only ones to escape in time,but none of the Clone Troopers survives. To honour the dead clones, they place their helmets before they leave. When Darth Vader arrives several years later, the helmets are almost entirely covered in snow.]]
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* The "Field Cross," as it's known in the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks US Military]], consists of a personal weapon (usually a rifle with the bayonet fixed, but not always) stuck muzzle-down into the ground, with the fallen serviceman's boots placed on either side for support, his helmet hung over the butt, and one of his dog tags looped through the trigger guard or otherwise secured to the weapon (the other tag is taken for records and next-of-kin notification). The weapon will generally have the bolt or some other critical component removed to render it inoperable to an enemy who might steal it. Since the wars the US has fought since 1973 have been either very short or low-intensity, most bodies have been removed from the field and sent home for burial, so Field Crosses are usually symbolically erected at funeral services and memorials.
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For warriors, this is usually combined with WeaponTombstone: placing the warrior's helmet atop the weapon. However, it can be done for characters who are not warriors or in situations were the others do not wish to leave the warrior's weapon behind.
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[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Advertising]]
* Used in [[https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn553950 this]] 1944 advertisement for US War Bonds. It depicts a US Army combat helmet by a white cross in a graveyard full of crosses, asking "...does it matter whether he was Protestant, Catholic or Jew? He fought American. He died American. He was American."
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The cover of ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' #52 depicts ComicBook/TheQuestion's iconic fedora perched on top of a gravestone (with ComicBook/ElongatedMan's orange costume wrapped round the stone).
* Garth Ennis' ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' has a variation on this in a Vietnam War flashback. After wiping out American troops armed with a crappy new rifle supplied by [[EvilInc Vought-American]], the VC leave the dead GI's weapons stuck in the ground with their helmets on top. However, the helmets aren't [[DecapitationPresentation empty]]....
* At the end of ''ComicBook/CombatKellyAndHisDeadlyDozen'' #4, the Dozen leave a rifle with his helmet atop it stuck into the ground besides the body of Captain Conner. However, as a mark of their LastDisrespects, they do not bother to bury the body.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' #140, Puss in Boots is thought dead. Briar Rose marks his cairn by placing his rapier in the pile of stones and hanging his musketeer hat on it.
* ''ComicBook/{{Kanan}}'': "Stance"'s headstone is his rifle with his helmet perched atop it.
* In the ''Comicbook/SgtRock'' comics, the graves of fallen members of Easy Company were usually marked with their rifle and helmet. This was featured the cover of the ''Between Hell and a Hard Place'' GN, and in the story itself Wildman instructs some new privates to do this for a fallen comrade.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'' #106, the Rangers think Tomahawk is killed in an avalanche. They mark his resting place with his tomahawk and coonskin cap.
* In one ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' story, a trio of generic bad guys hunt him down [[TheyHaveTheScent with dogs]]. First he runs from them. Then, when an InnocentBystander is killed in the crossfire, he slaughters them. He then takes a while to dig graves before he moves on... and is shown placing the two dogs' collars and the bystander's hat on the three graves, and [[LastDisrespects leaving the dead men for the scavengers]]. [[note]] This particular story wasn't written by a Marvel writer, but by a fan [[OfficialFanSubmittedContent who entered it in "Write an Issue of Wolverine" contest]] the company held.[[/note]]
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* When Milton Caniff, creator of Steve Canyon, died, the last ''ComicStrip/SteveCanyon'' strip to run was a tribute including a panel by Bill Mauldin. This showed Mauldin's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII soldier Willie sticking a rifle-sized pen into the ground while Steve, in flight suit, set a pilot's helmet atop the pen. (The rest of the tribute was the signatures of twenty or thirty other cartoonists.)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'': When the general--who also happens to be Shang's father--dies, Chien-po, who found the body, brings back the general's helmet. Having no time for a burial, he erects a memorial by driving his sword into the ground and placing his father's helmet on it. Mulan also places an [[EmpathyDollShot abandoned doll]] she found in the village's ruins next to the sword.
* A dark version occurs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', combined with a grim TrophyRoom, as Charles Muntz has killed other explorers and, apparently, kept their aviator helmets on stands as a way of keeping track.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
* In ''Film/TheLandThatTimeForgot'', the sailors killed by the dinosaurs, whether British or German, all have their graves marked with a pole driven into the ground with their sailors' cap hung from the top of it.
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' : After the paratroopers killed near the radar station are buried, Capt. Miller marks their graves with their helmets and M1 rifles. He removes the trigger group from each weapon so they can't be used by the Germans.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Completing the Mission]]'': In the "Valiant Hero" ending, chopper pilot Charles Calvin loses his life in an explosion. The game ends with his friend Henry Stickmin coming to visit his gravestone, which has his iconic headset placed on top.
* In ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'', the basket-like Tengai hat can be found during Act 3, in the northwestern part of the lake by Jogaku Temple. This lake is positioned just a bit south of the temple, an important settlement in ''Ghost of Tsushima'''s third map - Kamiagata. Once you're in this corner of the lake, go towards the forest, pass over a small grass patch, and you'll spot two graves. There is a stick next to the western one. You'll find the hat on top of this stick.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzkL-vg8MHE&feature=related live-action trailer]] for ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' features the 'Helmet, boots, rifle' field burial with the equipment updated appropriately.
* The GameOver screen in ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAlliedAssault'' is a field of M1 Garand rifles planted barrel-first on the ground with helmets perched on them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': At the end of "Shredder vs Silver Samurai", after defeating the Silver Samurai, Shredder plants his sword in the ground and hangs his helmet on the hilt.
* The end of ''WebAnimation/{{TOME}}'' includes a small shot of Kirbopher's gravestone, marked with his sword and hat, despite Christopher being alive by the end of the story. Perhaps it's meant to say that the persona itself is dead, either due to Kajet's attacks corrupting the game model, or because his secret identity had been revealed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Demonstrated in the "Odie-sey" episode of ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans''. The nymph Calypso helps the heroes and her new beloved Odie escape her island with a boat in her possession, since she is forbidden from leaving the island. When asked how she got a boat, she reveals she ReallyGetsAround and got the boat from one of her now deceased ex-boyfriends, consisting of various men who wash up on her island every hundred years or so that she takes as lovers. Cue a graveyard full of time-relevant helmets showing the burial places.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The very last episode "Victory and Death" [[spoiler: ends with the Venator-class star destroyer crash-landing on the surface of a moon. Ahsoka and Captain Rex are the only ones to escape in time,but none of the Clone Troopers survives. To honour the dead clones, they place their helmets before they leave. When Darth Vader arrives several years later, the helmets are almost entirely covered in snow.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life]]
* The "Field Cross," as it's known in the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks US Military]], consists of a personal weapon (usually a rifle with the bayonet fixed, but not always) stuck muzzle-down into the ground, with the fallen serviceman's boots placed on either side for support, his helmet hung over the butt, and one of his dog tags looped through the trigger guard or otherwise secured to the weapon (the other tag is taken for records and next-of-kin notification). The weapon will generally have the bolt or some other critical component removed to render it inoperable to an enemy who might steal it. Since the wars the US has fought since 1973 have been either very short or low-intensity, most bodies have been removed from the field and sent home for burial, so Field Crosses are usually symbolically erected at funeral services and memorials.
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