Heavy Duty: Standing in front of you are Delta-Six accelerator suits.
Ripcord: What's it accelerate?
Heavy Duty: You.
Ripcord: What's it accelerate?
Heavy Duty: You.
Face it, real super powers are way too unbelievable for today's sophisticated readers. Fans want something more realistic — like armor sturdy enough to withstand any force yet lightweight enough to be worn like a leisure suit and collapsed into a briefcase. Now that's realistic. And even better if it comes with big guns.
— Marvel Year in Review 1993
Strapped into powered armor
Got the ladies always lookin' at me
They can't believe the size of my
over-engineered codpiece.
Got the ladies always lookin' at me
They can't believe the size of my
over-engineered codpiece.
— Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain, "Terran Up the Night"
I had to admire the power armor. Even the idea of power armor, it was kind of scary to me. Putting together a piece of machinery that could bend steel bars and punch through concrete was impressive enough on its own, but doing that and then climbing into said machinery, walking around in it, knowing that a single malfunction could cause a potential catastrophic failure? Being trapped in that armor, or worse, having it accidentally leverage that terrible strength against the wearer inside?
— Worm
"Power Armor is for pussies."
— Duke Nukem, Duke Nukem Forever
Iteration X shock troops sum up the armour issue in two simple words: Exo-skeletons suck. While they may look good on the posters, six-inch thick armour-plated suits are slow and difficult to maneuver. While it's fun to watch the effect one has on a bunch of Reality Deviants while you're playing Metallica through the external speakers, it's rather pointless if the herd can easily outrun you. Thus, Q Division and the Clockwork Convention have put a lot of work into a suit of armour that is, as they say, sexy as all hell.
— Mage: The Ascension — The Technomancer's Toolbox
"Feels like you can take on the world in there, doesn't it?"
— Danse, Fallout 4
Elf: I show you in a set of civvy armor.note How's it working for you?
Ambassador Gav: Gus bounced right off me, I ran through a wall, and the cloud of killer nannies hasn't eaten me yet.
Ambassador Gav: Gus bounced right off me, I ran through a wall, and the cloud of killer nannies hasn't eaten me yet.
"[T]he one gadgeteer I was sure wasn't going to play 'I can keep up with the exemplars if I just engineer it right' has built a power suit in three days! She wasn't even studying power armor, Ophelia! [...] As bad as this fiasco is, do you know she toyed with buzzing the International Space Station last night? On a lark with a suit she didn't know would fly until she jumped out a window!"
— Headmistress Elizabeth Carson, upset with how Loophole has just tried to out-do Tony Stark, Whateley Universe, "Even Murphy's Law has Loopholes (Chapter 2)"
"The advanced circuitry that powers my suit, also triples my strength!"
— Dr. Freeze, Batman: The Animated Series
"Welcome to Camp Navarro. So you're the new replacement? YOU ARE OUT OF UNIFORM, SOLDIER!! WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR?!"
— Sargeant Dornan, Fallout 2
