Introducing the Tinfoil Hat

This article is about Blizzard introducing the Tinfoil Hat. The Tinfoil Hat is a fictional item in World of Warcraft that was announced on April 1, 2007. The announcement was a satiric response to player concerns raised by the launch of World of Warcraft Armory, a part of the Blizzard website displaying all characters' equipment and talent choices. While the most obvious part of the story parodies X-Files themes; names of characters in the screenshots – Sparta, Xerxes, Gorgo, Leonidas, Delios, Sunblot, Shadowfight, and Helldiner – are related to the movie 300, a possible response to a rise in Sparta-related quotes on the forums shortly after the movie's theatrical premiere. This theory is further supported by the caption Dining in Hellfire Peninsula. The tin foil hat-wearing draenei Dogen may be a reference to Dogen Boole, a character from the game Psychonauts who also wore a tin foil hat. The tin foil hat itself is obviously a reference to tin-foil hat in real life.