I’m just gonna put this out there: Orko is terrifying. Blue skin, terrifying feral yellow eyes, Lou Scheimer’s unnerving Bat-Mite voice… Add it all together with the fact that he seems to HAVE NO HEAD, and you have one freaky character. When I was younger, I wondered if his scary hat was some sort of terrible creature that ate his head, but left his eyes and ears and accursed consciousness to float in a horrific void, a monstrous fate for even someone as utterly obnoxious as Orko. Of course, at least his hat didn’t define his entire life and personality with a five second song as happened to Harry Potter or doom him to a life of defending the planet from all comers like poor Rich Rider, leading to today’s haberdashery query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) has also found Loki’s giant horned helm to be a little intimidating as well, asking: Which fictional character best wears your definition of a Scary Hat?
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Matthew, I love Orco but you’ve now made me look at him in a totally different way…You have to love the “scarf” though.
Without a doubt, General Kael from Willow, with his skull helmet. That is the ultimate example of an evil looking hat, to my mind. It immediately tells you everything you need to know about the character.:
http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/General_Kael
You gotta love Sauron’s spiky helm of doom!