Animate armor
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Body armor, usually full plate mail, that moves and fights on its own.
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Alternate names: Living armor
Name variations: animated armor
See also: animate weapons
These may have segments with clearly nothing in them holding parts of the full armor aloft as if they had an invisible wearer.
Sometimes these are said to be possessed by ghosts, spirits or other immaterial beings.
A rare but still notable variant is where a person's soul is bound to armor, such as Vhailor from Planescape, Alphonse from FMA, etc. and commonly have a tragic story associated with them.
Sometimes these are said to be possessed by ghosts, spirits or other immaterial beings.
A rare but still notable variant is where a person's soul is bound to armor, such as Vhailor from Planescape, Alphonse from FMA, etc. and commonly have a tragic story associated with them.
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The first Animate armor video game was released on June 1989.
Capcom, Square Enix and Konami published most of these games.
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