Tarnhelm

• Alberich changes to a dragon and then a toad in Das Rheingold, Scene 3.
• Fafner changes to a dragon at the end of Das Rheingold and appears thus in Siegfried Act II.
• Siegfried changes to Gunther's form in Götterdämmerung Act I, Scene 3.

In popular culture

• The 1957 Warner Bros. cartoon What's Opera, Doc?, a comedy on opera in general and Wagner's Ring Cycle in particular, has Elmer Fudd wearing a magic helmet that is meant to suggest Tarnhelm.
• The Dungeons & Dragons game includes a magic item called the helm of teleportation, which functions like Siegfried's use of the Tarnhelm in Act II, Scene 2.
• In Marvel's Thor an adaption was done of the Ring Cycle, in which the Tarnhelm appeared.
• The Tarnhelm is an integral part of Michael Scott Rohan's Winter of the World trilogy, which repurposes many Norse myths.
• The main character in Brenda Clough's novel How Like a God can psionically obstruct other people from seeing him, a process he refers to as "tarnhelm".
• The Tarnhelm is an item found in the PC game Diablo II.
• Operation Tarnhelm is the name of the expansion pack for the PC strategy game Naval War: Arctic Circle, which features new stealth units supposedly invisible to radar.
• In The Lord of the Rings, Eowyn adopts the name "Dernhelm" when she masquerades as a man before slaying the Witch-King of Angmar; "Dernhelm" is the Old English equivalent of "Tarnhelm".