Never Bareheaded / Video Games

* Marumaro in ***Blue Dragon*** always wears a hat, which almost results in an Accidental Marriage in Kelaso Village.
* ***Brain Dead 13***: Averted in Vivi's Salon, when Vivi grabs Lance's baseball cap and uses it as a gag to ensure that he can't scream during the painful "makeover". Also averted in some death scenes.
* Masaru Daimon from the ***Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls*** always wears earphones.
* ***F-Zero***: Captain Falcon is only depicted without his face-obscuring helmet twice, if you win the GP in Master Class in *F-Zero X* and at the end of *F-Zero GX*'s story mode. Even then, in the case of the latter, he faces away from the camera so you only see the back of his head. This is why it was a huge deal when, during his Heroic Sacrifice in the anime, his helmet flies off and his face is revealed. Other characters throughout *GP Legend*'s run were able to deduce his Secret Identity and Falcon did outright reveal himself to one character, but his back was to the viewers then. Maybe that's because he was based on Judge Dredd.
* ***Granblue Fantasy***: Whether it's her royal regalia or her commoner disguise, Pholia always seems to have something on her head. This leads to the bizarre effect of her being an Erune as common knowledge in-universe and her bragging about the fluffiness of her ears to others despite the fact that players can't see them. Hiding her ears was probably done to prevent players from realizing that she's related to the Golden Knight before the story confirmed it.
* ***Guilty Gear***: After the first game, the mad Doctor Baldhead undergoes a Heel–Face Turn and from then on takes the name Faust and uses a brown paper bag over his head at all times, with the exception of his taunt in Guilty Gear Xrd where he shows his face to his opponent. Though in that case it is purposely hidden in shadow.
* King Dedede from the ***Kirby*** is always seen with a hat on, even while in a bathtub in ***Kirby: Right Back at Ya!***. Usually he's wearing his classic beanie, but a few official illustrations show him with other hats.
* Snips in ***The Legendary Starfy*** would qualify, but who knows if that pink thing on her head is even a hat?
* This was enforced with Link in ***The Legend of Zelda*** for a period. According to an interview, Nintendo gave the mangaka of the ***The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time*** manga trouble because they had *one scene* where Link's hat is off. This has since been stopped, as Link is depicted hatless in games such as ***The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild***.
* In contrast to his predecessor, who frequently removes his helmet to reveal a head of synthetic hair, ***Mega Man X*** is never shown removing his own helmet, if indeed he even can. Zero is similarly always helmetted (even after a change of body), though his own hair is visible anyway.
* ***Onmyōji***: Seimei is always wearing some sort of hat in all of his skins.
* The trope is lampshaded in a scene that plays in the second ***PaRappa the Rapper*** game if you do badly at Hairdresser Octopus's stage, in regards to PaRappa himself, who is never seen not wearing his signature beanie: Hairdresser Octopus: Hey! Take that stupid hat off! What does it look like in there? PaRappa: Uh...I'm not sure myself.
* In every main series installment up until ***Pokémon Sun and Moon***, you were unable to remove the protagonist's hat. Particularly egregious was ***Pokémon X and Y***, which introduced the ability for players to dress their characters in a variety of clothing, but still forced them to wear a hat of some sort.
* **Professor Layton**. Though he does actually take it off briefly in the ending cutscene of ***Professor Layton and the Lost Future***. Even in flashbacks before getting his famous top hat, he wears a cap. Averted in the Flashback sequences of *Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask*, where his younger self has a massive and unruly mop of hair. Which might be why he wears a hat all the time. Similarly, his apprentice Luke is always wearing a blue paperboy hat.
* Lampshaded in ***Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army*** when Raidou beats up yakuza in a public bathhouse, naked but with his uniform cap on.
* Charmy Bee in the ***Sonic the Hedgehog*** series is never seen without his pilot helmet on his head. Similarly, Vector never removes his headphones off his head.
* ***Super Mario Bros.***: According to *Super Mario 64* and *Super Mario Sunshine*, bad things would happen to Mario in the event he ever removed his cap. In the former's case, Mario takes extra damage without it on. In the latter, the island's intense sun and heat cause Mario to slowly take damage from it unless he either gets under some shade or retrieves his cap, and in *Super Mario 3D Land* his small form lacks the cap. In future games, he can finally be seen without his iconic hat, but he still wears some kind of headgear, unless it's an Easter Egg.
* Seven of the nine classes in ***Team Fortress 2*** wear some kind of headwear by default. Scout, Engineer, and Sniper can be made hatless by obtaining hat-free items equippable in the headwear slot. However, the Soldier can only have his hat replaced by other hats while the Spy, Pyro, and Demoman wear hats *over* their balaclavas, gas masks, and knit cap instead of replacing them—their models don't even include that part of their head (or, in the Pyro's case, *any* of his head) under it. Although for Demoman, one of them is an afro, which is supposed to be his actual hair, so it has a headband to cover the part of his cap's model that sticks out under it. There's a reason it's called Hat Fortress. It is possible for some of the characters to not wear a hat. By wearing a No-Hat Hat. So it isn't a hat by properties of not giving a hat, but it is a hat, and it goes in the hat slot ....
* Almost all of the playable characters in ***JUAN*** wear some sort of headgear, the only exceptions are **Franco**, **Ezequiel** and **Dr**. **Dellaglio**. It kinda makes sense, **since all of them are a single person** and need something to be identified with.
* It would be a lot shorter to list the ***Touhou*** characters to which this *doesn't* apply, although in many cases the hair accessory is just a ribbon or a headband. Fanon has taken this concept and run with it—it's often joked that removing a Touhou's hat will kill them instantly. It's just that most things happen outside and there's a fairly small number of characters that consistently recur, so most characters are never seen bare-headed.
* In ***Wizard 101***, even your default clothes include a hat.
* ***Xenoblade Chronicles 2***: Over the course of the game, Morag removes her hat a grand total of twice