Stormtrooper Key Chain

Few helmets in science fiction are as instantly readable as the Imperial stormtrooper's, and that helmet is the entire subject here. The sunken lens sockets, the frowning brow line, the ridged vocoder across the mouth and the tapered cheeks add up to a shape that is faintly skull-like and completely unmistakable, even reduced to something that hangs from a key ring. It is a fandom piece before it is anything else. It goes on car keys, a rucksack pull or a lanyard, and it gets recognised by exactly the people you want to recognise it, which is half the reason anyone carries a charm like this at all. The helmet is defined by silhouette rather than by markings, so it holds up as a likeness on its own terms. Convention traders, Star Wars-mad households and secret Santa organisers will all find a use for a handful.