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Giant shoulder pads

Cartoon / anime theme

Characters fairly consistently have oddly large shoulder pads, pauldrons, or such. Especially when they are impractically large.

36
games
17
platforms

Alternate names: Giant pauldrons
Name variations: huge shoulder pads, huge pauldrons

Darksiders (Windows)
Darksiders
WIN 2010-06-24
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (Windows)
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
WIN 2003-07
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (Windows)
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
WIN 2002-07
Metroid Prime: Hunters (Nintendo DS)
Metroid Prime: Hunters
NDS 2006-03-20
Metroid Prime Remastered (Nintendo Switch)
Metroid Prime Remastered
SWTC 2023-02-08
Fallout 3 (Xbox 360)
Fallout 3
X360 2008-10-28
Darksiders II (Xbox 360)
Darksiders II
X360 2012-08-14
Lords of the Fallen (PlayStation 4)
Lords of the Fallen
PS4 2014-10-28
World of Warcraft (Windows)
World of Warcraft
WIN 2004-11-22
Fallout 3 (Windows)
Fallout 3
WIN 2008-10-28
Metroid: Other M (Wii)
Metroid: Other M
WII 2010-08-31
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
WII 2007-08-20
This was for a time a joked measure of a character's power in anime&manga.

Example from Space Marine:

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The first Giant shoulder pads video game was released on August 26, 1991.

Nintendo, THQ and Blizzard published most of these games.

Related site

TV Tropes article (Shoulders Of Doom)

Platforms

Windows 9
X360 4
PS3 4
Mac OS Classic 2
Mac OS X 2
Linux 2
GameCube 2
Wii 2
Wii U 1
Xbox One 1
PS4 1
3DS 1
SNES 1
Switch 1
GB 1
GBA 1
Nintendo DS 1

Most common companies

Nintendo10
THQ9
Blizzard8
Bethesda Softworks3