Never Bareheaded / Video Games

Hairdresser Octopus: Hey! Take that stupid hat off! What does it look like in there? PaRappa: Uh...I'm not sure myself.
 * 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 in the 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 off 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.
 * 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.
 * Cun-Cun & Santi: Cun-Cun is always seen wearing his blue baseball cap, the only time we see him without it is at the beggining cutscene of the game when he´s sleeping. His cap is in a hat hanger next to his bed. Felipe is never seen without his cap, too.
 * Uriel from Cun-Cun & Santi 2 is also seldom-seen without his red beanie.
 * 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 a Funny 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 ....
 * Marumaro in  Blue Dragon  always wears a hat, which almost results in an Accidental Marriage in Kelaso Village.
 * In  Wizard 101, even your default clothes include a hat.
 * 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 hat. In the former's case, Mario takes extra damage without his hat on. In the latter, the island's intense sun and heat causes Mario to slowly take damage from it unless he either gets under some shade or retrieves his hat.
 * Masaru Daimon from the  Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls  always wears earphones.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Onmyōji : Seimei is always wearing some sort of hat in all of his skins.
 * In  Guilty Gear, the mad doctor Faust is notable for wearing 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. But it is purposely hidden in shadow.
 * 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.
 * Xenoblade Chronicles 2 : Over the course of the game, Morag removes her hat a grand total of twice.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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:
 * In the  Pokémon  series through  Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, the various protagonists are almost always seen wearing some sort of headgear, the only exceptions being Pokémon Contests. It's especially noticeable in  Pokémon X and Y ; this is the first game to introduce Character Customization, yet you can never remove your hat.  Pokémon Sun and Moon  finally give you the option to prance about bareheaded.