u/RecluseRaconteur

Answer: Fantasy armor generally sucks because it's designed by an uneducated DEI hire in California over the course of 2 hours while drinking a soy milk matcha latte instead of generations of medieval masters who actually specialize in designing armor. Simple as.

To cope, they just try to make fantasy armor more "fanciful" and can never compete with the best of real medieval aesthetics. I'm not biased; it's facts. I spent the last 6 years working on a fantasy book that has my own fantasy armor designs, so trust me I know how hard this is to hear for a fantasy lover. The only solution: Make armor in fantasy more historically-inspired, because badass medieval armor is one thing about reality we should have no need to escape from. If anything, I need to escape fantasy just to see the real armor again. Ah, it's medicine for my eyes!

Not even a joke; this meme is based.

I wont stop making memes until the cockwombles in Hollywood realize you can still tell a good medieval story without making kings look like dirty bums with impractical armor that doesn't even fit properly.

If you rely on gray filters and putting mud everywhere to set a mood then you shouldn't be working in film.

Turns out this helmet was actually sold on Beck Auctions for only $525 CAD. What a steal, eh!