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Nigh-Invulnerability
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Someone cannot be harmed. Merely fighting them won't make them go away; if at all possible their defeat requires one to figure out how, which is a legendary quest in and of itself. Usually the ability of the Big Bad in sci-fi and fantasy settings, few heroes get this one. (Except in Super Hero series, with Superman being the flagship example.) Either one has to find their Achilles' Heel, or else summon up a nuclear-bomb's worth of power in the last episode, either through The Power of Love or Ki Manipulation or really heavy armaments (e.g. When All You Have Is a Hammer…) and hope for Villain Decay. Sometimes a vaguely defined nigh-invulnerability is a way to make a hero only as tough as he needs to be to advance the plot. There's a number of ways one can have Nigh Invulnerability. Made of Diamond: The power of the Implacable Man and The Juggernaut, nothing does anything to this being. Not a boot to the head, or a bullet to the eye, or a sledgehammer to the groin. Sufficiently strong characters might be able to knock them through a wall or mountain, but just one hit like that won't have any lasting effect. This is generally what people first think of when referring to this trope. Ironically, the title is a bit of a misnomer. While in real life diamonds have extreme hardness, they lack toughness and are brittle enough to be shattered by a hammer. Made of Air: Going the opposite direction, there doesn't seem to be something to fight... but that "something" can fight you. Either they have the power of Super Smoke or Intangibility completely at will so that you can't attack them, or they may exist in some form that makes direct confrontation just not possible (an Astral Projection, for example, or just a plain old ghost). Made of Liquid, AKA The Blob: a common variant of this, when the character is made of some sort of fluid stuff that makes him tangible, but completely impervious to damage with bludgeoning or piercing weapons. Made of Rubber: Somewhere in between the last two, where most attacks just seem to bounce off with little to no effect to the victim. Kevlard: Similar to made of rubber, but with protective blubber instead. This is the form that X-Men's Blob benefits from. Unlike the former, usually they have some sort of weak spot. Regeneration/Regrowth: They have the truly nasty tendency to recover from anything. Cut off their head, and it grows back. Cut them to pieces, and they just reassemble themselves. Burn them to ashes, and mail them to Mexico, Norway, and Hong Kong, and they'll rebuild themselves From a Single Cell. Whether the character can survive being utterly atomised varies from fiction to fiction. External Repair/Spare Body Parts: Like regeneration/regrowth, but external. Most common with machines and cyborgs, but occasionally works for the undead or supernatural, and sometimes even a skilled Mad Doctor can pull this off with normal organisms. Chop off an arm? Meh, if it's too damaged to reattach, no big deal: it's replaceable. Blown into tiny chunks? That might take a little longer, but can sometimes still be fixed. Body Backup Drive is the most extreme form of this, with a character being able to transfer their consciousness into a complete replacement body. This new body may be modified as necessary, and possibly have some form of invulnerabilities themselves. The Proxy: When a person makes use of other bodies or identities in order to conceal themselves and avoid direct contact, therefore reducing risk of injury/death. The proxy could take the form of a remote-control robot, a cloned flesh puppet, or a body double. If the proxy is encountered often enough, it can give the semblance of invulnerability. Alternatively, the person can be hit, but the proxy somehow takes all the damage instead. Multiple Bodies: Similar to the above, this classic power of the Hive Mind will render the death of one body irrelevant. At worst, to kill enemies with this ability will require killing every single part of him, since even one survivor may be able to recreate a whole new army of selves. However, if they have a Hive Queen, killing it may destroy the whole being. Body Surf: Similar to Multiple Bodies and Body Backup Drive above, but instead they possess another living person to use for themselves, possibly transforming the body of the possessed into something related to the new owner. This may be even nastier than any of the above, especially when it has no limitations on whom they can possess, although usually destroying the body when the consciousness is still inside will kill both the possessed and the possessing entity permanently. Usually. Resurrection: You technically can kill them, but the problem is that they don't stay dead. Just pray that they don't have the ability to adapt to whatever that managed to kill them before such that It Only Works Once, and/or unlimited amount of extra life. Rebirth: Related to above, except when killed, they'll be reborn as an infant. Only applies if the character retains their memories/personality from their prior life, and probably will want you dead for killing them the first time around. No Pain: While you can technically damage them, their lack of pain receptors means that they will just keep coming. Very much Depending on the Writer, while a punch to the face will usually be ignored, chopping off a limb will presumably limit anyone's mobility regardless, though some authors raise this ability to superhuman levels. No Pain for the Undead: Lack of pain is justified because the character is a member of the living dead. This usually means that even severe organ damage can just be ignored, though even such characters tend to have limits in how far this can be pushed. Extreme Luck: You don't need to be invincible when you never get hit. Dumb Luck/Crazy Luck: The clumsy hero/heroine can dodge everything just because of extreme luck. Hilarity Ensues when the character is a Miles Gloriosus who believes they are Made of Diamond but are actually this, or the Cloudcuckoolander leisurely strolls through Bullet Hell. Impossibly Good Luck: They charge headlong at a machine gun, and win. Often paired with The Determinator- not all of the bullets miss, just the lethal ones. Expect an Oh, Crap! moment when paired with The Berserker. Also the constant disappointment of a chronic Death Seeker. Making Their Own Luck: Some characters literally have luck on their side, in the form of crunching the numbers, only seeming to be relying on luck, having a friendship with the one setting the odds or actually changing them themselves. Reality-Warping: They don't want to be hurt, so you can't hurt them. Simple as that. God: Face it. Sometimes you CAN'T kill a god. It's physically and theologically impossible. However other gods can sometimes kill gods, so they do technically fit the "nigh" part. Divine Protection: The character itself is not a god, but can survive anything due to intervention of a favorable god/guardian angel/spirit of parent that has been 'struck down and become more powerful than you can possibly imagine'. Can Only Kill Part of Him: Fighting a Shadow. Basically the whatsit that you were fighting was just its... "representation" in the same world. Killing its body in this dimensional plane is a mild setback... if at all, as it can grow that back very quickly or replace it. Technically not that different from Resurrection from the mortals' point of view, but distinct in that the actual entity never died- only their current physical manifestation. Usually applies to gods, demons, and perhaps Cosmic Horror. A combination of limited super-toughness, super-pain tolerance and regeneration is a popular power set to render a character effectively nigh-invulnerable while still being shown to suffer temporary pain and injury in a way that gives recognisable stakes to physical threats, even if we know they won't be fatal. The Physical God, Implacable Man, The Juggernaut, Blob Monster, Iron Butt Monkey, The Chew Toy, and anything Made of Indestructium all probably have some form of Nigh Invulnerability. Compare of course Immortality, for the ways in which characters cannot die. Contrast Made of Iron, where no explanation is given for an individual's incredible resilience. See also Immortal Life Is Cheap, which applies to such cases as Multiple Bodies or Regeneration; and Trainstopping which tends to have this as a requirement. When someone is invulnerable to literally everything, then it becomes Complete Immortality. |
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Terminator. The first Terminator "merely" has Super-Toughness, but other examples do fit this trope: Terminator 2: Judgment Day: The T-1000's blob-like nature makes him a Regenerator Blob. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: The T-X/Terminatrix has a standard Made of Diamond Terminator frame with a Regenerator Blob cover, just like the T-1000. Meanwhile, the redesigned Skynet is discovered to be virtually unstoppable because it's actually software, which puts it somewhere in the Multiple Bodies category. |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day: The T-1000's blob-like nature makes him a Regenerator Blob. | |
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The hero Siegfried from Nibelungenlied and German folk legend became nearly invulnerable by bathing in the blood of a dragon, which made his skin impenetrable (except for a spot on his shoulder). | |
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Oh, you just burned Chucky, followed by decapitating him & tearing half of his limbs off? News flash, he can still kill you! Infact, even if you do manage to kill him, he can just possess another doll... | |
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The nameless monster from the film No Such Thing is completely invulnerable except possibly to the invention of an arcane genius, and as he wants very much to die (he is billions of years old, or at least believes himself to be based on his memories), is seeking the hard-to-find scientist. | |
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In The Thing (1982) we have...well, the Thing. Part of what makes the film so terrifying and such Paranoia Fuel is that it only takes ONE cell for the creature to survive. The fact that it's basically a virus that spreads its cells to others makes it that much worse and nearly impossible to kill. | |
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While it seemed that Neo utterly destroyed Agent Smith in the first film, Neo created a new Smith who, in the latter two films, could infect any plugged-in human or program and rewrite them into a copy of himself. | |
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Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th progresses into it in Jason X, being given regenerative powers, explaining why he can't be killed. When he morphs into Ãœber Jason, he becomes more Made of Diamond than he already was. In Freddy vs. Jason, it's outright stated that he's immortal (since not even Freddy Krueger could kill him). Jason has the partial justification of being dead to begin with (he drowned as a kid). Mortal Kombat X gave him better ways of this trope thru Super Armor skills, along with a variation that lets him No-Sell defeat. |
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The eponymous hero of Hancock is immune to bullets and trains. An apartment fire hurt him but even then, he survived. The only thing that can kill him is being near his wife. | |
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The souls of the "morally compromised malefactors" that inhabit HFIL are indestructible as far as they have discerned. This is not a good thing for them as (A) they've been fitted with ki-suppressing anklets that track their every move, ensuring that they cannot escape, nor can they remove the anklet by any means, including through self-amputation, and (B) they can feel every bit of pain subjected upon them, as Raditz had the misfortune of discovering when Freeza had the Ginyu Force pull him apart by the limbs. | |
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Lapoleon in the Best Fiends shorts is impossible to kill, being a cockroach. In the game that the web shorts are based on, his bio describes him as being able to withstand atomic blasts, but the shorts expand this to be everything, leading him to be able to withstand thing such as fire, poisoned food, and a bomb (though the latter he finds to be a terribly cliche way of offing him). | |
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The Nightmare animatronics from Five Nights at Freddy's: The Stories are impossible to kill which explains how they were able to take over most of the world and almost kill all of humanity. | |
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Koshchei in The Frog Princess cannot be harmed, except by a magical needle. | |
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Inspector — sorry, Chief Inspector — Jacques Clouseau would seem to be an example of the "Extremely Lucky" variant of this trope. | |
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Mario's Castle Calamity...the castle. Everything that's thrown at it either goes back to the thrower, gets sidetracked or doesn't do anything once it connects. In the rare cases where it is destroyed, it usually gets put back together, often by someone throwing a 1-up mushroom at its remains. | |
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Fantasy beings in Dra+Koi are... well, Fantasy and as such aren't considered to really exist, thus they can only be harmed by other Fantasy. | |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Toons are, for all intents and purposes, invulnerable to the point where they'll suffer temporary Amusing Injuries at most. However, Judge Doom found a way to permanently kill Toons - namely, The Dip, which is explained to be a blend of turpentine, acetone, and benzene. | |
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Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street is a combination of Fighting a Shadow and in some movies The Proxy. He can be pulled out of the dream world, and then either made to disappear, or with opening an old-fashioned can of whoopass. Freddy's Dead states that every time he is killed, he will be resurrected by the dream demons who gave him his powers in the first place. | |
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The Adventures of Captain Marvel film serial of the 1940's is one of the earliest examples, and interestingly enough, a mild subversion. While Captain Marvel is completely immune to bullets and blades and most forms of harm, there exists technology that can hurt him enough to stun him for a while, and phenomena like molten lava is considered lethal even to him. | |
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The titular menace in Big Ass Spider!; it is only destroyed when a bazooka blast detonates the mass of highly-flammable webbing-to-be in its spinnerette. | |
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Mortal Kombat X gave him better ways of this trope thru Super Armor skills, along with a variation that lets him No-Sell defeat. | |
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The Creeper in Jeepers Creepers is a regenerator with a twist: he cannibalizes his victims for parts. Literally. | |
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All the immortals from the Highlander franchise have the Healing Factor/Resurrection version of this, vulnerable only to getting made a little shorter. | |
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The Frollo Show: Ronald McDonald may as well be considered immortal for all we care. Not only is he shown to cope perfectly fine with having his body decapitated (later shown recovering as if it never occurred to begin with), but even the destruction of a multiverse itself, with him contained inside would be absolute benign to him. | |
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From Dies Irae: The priest Valeria Trifa is nearly completely invulnerable to damage. The amount of stuff he shrugs off is nothing short of astounding. In fact, his main way of fighting is to simply let his opponent tire themselves out, fruitlessly striking against his defenses while he sneaks in the occasional counterattack. The way he himself describes, if the souls in everyone else is like regular carbon, the those that are within him are so condensed that they are more comparable to diamond. His armor does have one kink in it though. In order to use his Beri'ah he has to open up a metaphorical hole in his defenses, leaving him just as squishy as a regular human while gaining devastating offensive capabilities. Ultimately, the reason he is even able to have such absurd defenses comes from the fact that he is the retainer of Reinhard's physical body who, needless to say, is just as difficult to injure. And unfortunately, he does not need to open his defenses to use his full power. While Kei Sakurai's Beri'ah is active she is of the Made of Air variety. Her whole body turns to flame causing whatever attacks made against her to just phase right through her causing no damage. As an added bonus, she is also able to phase through whatever guard or defense an opponent might set up, allowing her to strike them with impunity. Despite this though, some individuals know how to get past this defense. Shirou Yusa have what can best be described as having Plot Armor as an actual super power. The plot demands that he survives and thus, he will, no matter how improbable or how powerful an opponent he is up against. All this due to him being a Cosmic Paything and having a really important role to play out in the script Mercurius has prepared for everyone. Upon achieving Emanation and invoking his law, Ren Fujii is able to set his own history and time to zero, preventing any change from occurring on him. He has to constantly maintain this however since if he stops, his time will start to move again and thus allow for change to occur. But while it is active, the only thing that can hurt him is if someone else has also Emanated and the strength of their law is either equal or superior to his. |
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The franchise also has King Ghidorah, who is considered Godzilla's most iconic foe and archnemesis. In the movie Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) has him be a combination of Made of Diamond and Regenerator, with him able to shrug off pretty much anything thrown at him (barring Godzilla), and what damage Godzilla does manage to inflict Ghidorah can easily regenerate from, including regrowing one of his heads after it is torn off. It takes Mothra helping Godzilla by activating a Super Mode that allows Godzilla to release powerful pulses of nuclear energy to basically atomize Ghidorah on a large scale faster than he can regenerate to finally put down Ghidorah for good. | |
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Elain from The Pink City crashes through the window of an office building and fall several stories, splattering on the pavement. She recovers immediately afterwards, and takes more punishment as the series ges on. | |
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Frozen (2013): Olaf receives a lot of Amusing Injuries throughout the film such as being separated from body parts, but that only acts as an inconvenience since he's a snowman. The only thing that can kill him is heat, and even that won't work since Elsa creates a personal snow cloud for him in the end. | |
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The titular creature in the horror parody Monster in the Closet: it emerges unscathed from an artillery bombardment, being electrocuted and shot with a prototype laser. (It turns out it can only be destroyed when all closets in the world are destroyed.) | |
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Apparently the Cobra aircraft from GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra can withstand Gatling gun fire from systems that the U.S. military uses to destroy tanks without even getting a scratch. | |
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In the sister universe The Garden of Sinners, Aozaki Toko has a replacement body, which is completely identical to her original in every way. It's even flesh and blood, apparently, and only activates when the original body is killed. Don't bother trying to figure out which is the real one. It's a bit confusing. | |
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Tonin: Vilano-san tricked a spirit into making him indestructible so nobody can harm him while he's casting spells. Fortunately, that invulnerability comes with a Weaksauce Weakness. | |
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The Undertaker: During his early years, because of Mark Calaway's uncanny ability to No-Sell even his opponent's most damaging moves. | |
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Monokuma from Danganronpa isn't particularly invulnerable (though trying to kill him will cause him to explode in your face instead,) but there are so many replacement Monokumas that there's no point in trying to take him on with physical force. In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, he claims that the number of replacement Monokumas available are many, many times greater than there are people on the face of the Earth. Though it turns out that, in this game, Monokuma is a self-replicating virus in a virtual simulation, so he doesn't even need pre-built replacements. | |
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The Blob, in all three of its film appearances, is an astoundingly tough, featureless Mighty Glacier of a Blob Monster that simply shrugs off anything it can’t assimilate. It barely seems to notice when a high-voltage power line is dropped on it, poisons and acid only discolor it for a moment, fire does absolutely nothing, and blowing it up will just make it into an Asteroids Monster that is now spread out all over. Kinetic weapons like bullets can knock it back a bit when it’s still small, but with no lasting damage. The only way to stop it is to freeze it solid, and even then, it just becomes a Monster in the Ice subjected to Harmless Freezing, and it’ll get right back to work if it thaws. It’s telling that all three movies end with a Sequel Hook, as the creature has only been frozen and there’s simply no known way to put it down for good. | |
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Red vs. Blue has the Meta, who has survived the following: a missile pod missile, sustained Gatling gun fire, Tex, several point-blank shotgun rounds, a knife in both shoulders and getting stabbed in the torso with the energy sword. Earlier in the timeline, before he was anything other than a human in special armor, in the space of 5 minutes, he took a sniper round to the chest, 9 pistol rounds to the throat, a collision at high speeds with big-rig truck and finally falling off a bridge. All it cost him was his voice. | |
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Many, many other Servants in Nasuverse has this. Siegfried, Achilles, and Karna from Fate/Apocrypha could respectively put Heracles to shame in this trope. The first can tank A-rank attacks (that will tear into Heracles easily) like mosquito bites anywhere on his body that doesn't hit the leaf-shaped mark on his back, and will even reduce damage from Noble Phantasms. The second can't even be hurt by anything that lacks Divinity and takes reduced damage from those with a lower Divinity rank than him, which is C-rank, unless they strike him in the heel, which disables said protection, but he's got the survival ability to rival Cú Chulainn even without it. The last, however, is in his own league. Not only does he lack an Achilles' Heel like the other two, his divine armor reduces any damage, physical, magical or even conceptual into 1/10 of its original value. Before taking into account its own and Karna's own natural defense. And Karna himself is only mildly inconvenienced by injuries as severe as having stakes skewering him from the inside out. Note that this isn't what his armor should do in the real myth, where it should give him Complete Immortality. | |
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From Madness Combat: Tricky after his Reality Compromised powerup, and his demon form and The Auditor, who is Made of... Dark Stuff, though as of Abrogation, it's averted as Hank finds that he's vulnerable to electricity attacks. | |
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DC Extended Universe: Man of Steel: This film is also notable for deconstructing it. Early in the film, Clark held up a portion of the oil derrick, and while he was strong enough to lift it and durable enough to not get crushed by its weight, the floor beneath his feet gave way. Also, during the battle between Clark, Nam-ek and Faora-el, the military comes into play to intervene. So, high-speed jets come in firing heavy gatling guns. Normal handguns aren't able to even faze the Kryptonians, but gatling guns are probably the most powerful machine guns ever created, and while they're durable enough to withstand the bullet impacts without damage, they follow the laws of motion and conservation of energy, and send the Kryptonians flying a short distance away. Later, Faora gets hit with a high-speed homing missile dead-center in her face, which was enough to send her flying a considerable distance, and knocked her out, showing that they have their limits. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: It is revealed that even if a Kryptonian is dead, their bodies are still almost indestructible. The scientists studying General Zod's corpse explain that they couldn't cut him open until they discovered kryptonite. |
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Helluva Boss: High-ranking demons such as Stolas and Charlie cannot be killed by ordinary means. The only known method of killing them is to use angelic weapons. | |
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WALL•E: WALL•E's cockroach, who survives being squashed by WALL•E (twice!) and nuked by EVE. He just pops right back up after each accident. However, he's otherwise powerless beyond his survival skills; he's just there to be a cute pet. | |
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Godzilla himself can also regenerate from almost anything short of being completely skeletonized or reduced to a radioactive puddle — the two things that actually have killed him in the series. Presumably, this also applies to Biollante and SpaceGodzilla, however this is uncertain, as they never return to show that they actually survived the injuries sustained in their respective movies after dissolving into particles of light and fleeing to space. | |
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Any of the male witches in The Covenant. In one scene, Caleb is racing down a road, while talking on the phone. He turns and is surprised to see a "Darkling", a scary spirit meant to warn him of something. He turns back to the road, only to realize he's drifted onto the opposite lane and is moments away from a head-on collision with a truck. The car is shattered into tiny pieces... which reassemble behind the truck, and Caleb continues driving and talking on the phone, albeit looking a lot more tired. The only ones who can really hurt them are other male witches. | |
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Man of Steel: This film is also notable for deconstructing it. Early in the film, Clark held up a portion of the oil derrick, and while he was strong enough to lift it and durable enough to not get crushed by its weight, the floor beneath his feet gave way. Also, during the battle between Clark, Nam-ek and Faora-el, the military comes into play to intervene. So, high-speed jets come in firing heavy gatling guns. Normal handguns aren't able to even faze the Kryptonians, but gatling guns are probably the most powerful machine guns ever created, and while they're durable enough to withstand the bullet impacts without damage, they follow the laws of motion and conservation of energy, and send the Kryptonians flying a short distance away. Later, Faora gets hit with a high-speed homing missile dead-center in her face, which was enough to send her flying a considerable distance, and knocked her out, showing that they have their limits. |
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This characteristic led to some fan skepticism when Freddy vs. Jason was announced. By their series' respective finales both Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees had morphed into for all intents and purposes immortal beings, so what's the point in a fight when neither side can win? One of them does win by the end (or technically, the humans do while the other killer is still standing), but even that was muddled by the Sequel Hook. When they do fight directly, it's pretty much Made of Diamond versus Fighting a Shadow. When dragged into the real world Freddy is significantly weaker, although he's still pretty good competition to Jason. | |
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John Harrison in Star Trek Into Darkness: | |
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Dorian Gray in The Movie is of the Regeneration/Regrowth type. It could also be a form of Divine Protection, as the damage and aging he sustains is magically transferred to his picture, rather than healed. Mina Harker also has a high Healing Factor, as she's a vampire. |
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While all the Servants of Fate/stay night can probably fall under this category to some degree, special mention must be made for Berserker, aka Heracles who, thanks to his Noble Phantasm, God Hand, not only can't be affected by any non-fatal attack (an attack has to be at least A-rank, in terms of power, to hurt him), but regenerates until you kill him 12 times. Yes, you read that correctly, he has to be killed 12 times in order for him to truly "die" as a Servant. And it makes him resistant to any attack that manages to kill him, so he has to be killed in twelve different ways in order to finish him off, although some really powerful attacks can take multiple 'lives' at once. | |
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In The Crow, when he comes back from the dead, Eric is completely invulnerable to being shot or hurt, until a mystic determines killing the man's crow companion leaves him vulnerable. | |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: It is revealed that even if a Kryptonian is dead, their bodies are still almost indestructible. The scientists studying General Zod's corpse explain that they couldn't cut him open until they discovered kryptonite. | |
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Pili Fantasy: War of Dragons: Yin Shih-jen can "liquidize his body", which allows him to travel through the earth and gives him nigh invulnerability to every attack. Before the season starts, Chin Chia-hsien discovered his weakness and forced him to be his lackey or die. From there, a genuine friendship grew. | |
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Mina Harker also has a high Healing Factor, as she's a vampire. | |
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Clu in TRON: Legacy is the "Divine Protection" variety, in a manner. He was created by Kevin Flynn to be his assistant and stand-in while Kevin isn't in the Grid. To ensure that Clu was still there if he left, he programmed Clu to be impervious to physical harm. Unfortunately, that came back to bite Kevin in the ass... When Clu executes his Coup, Tron single-handedly dices up all the other black guards accompanying Clu, but when Tron starts attacking Clu, a cutting stroke with a data disc is merely shrugged off. | |
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Splendid the flying squirrel version of Superman from Happy Tree Friends is practically immune to anything that can kill a regular character. This is most prominent in "Breaking Wind" where he survives an explosion that temporarily destroys the entire planet! In fact, his only official death was caused by Kryptonite Factor. | |
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Many characters in Nasuverse have Nigh-Invulnerability, though one of the main themes is "death is inescapable". Most True Ancestors can locally reverse time to regenerate their bodies, even if they're completely blown apart. Arcueid was even able to revive after being killed Deader than Dead by Shiki's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception at the beginning of the story, albeit by rebuilding her body from scratch at the cost of most of her available power. Ciel is unkillable for the duration of Tsukihime. As explained, because Ciel is the previous host of Roa, and Roa is still alive (knowing Reincarnation and all), the world itself will not let her die to prevent a paradox from occurring. Ciel herself possesses extreme regeneration abilities. One of the antagonists, Nero, has a body composed of pure "chaos", and contained within are 666 beasts. If they are killed outside of his body, the chaos will return to his body and regenerate; he only dies when all 666 lives inside are destroyed at once, making him practically indestructible. Even if you hit him with a force that can destroy continents, he'll still probably have 100 lives or so left. In the sister universe The Garden of Sinners, Aozaki Toko has a replacement body, which is completely identical to her original in every way. It's even flesh and blood, apparently, and only activates when the original body is killed. Don't bother trying to figure out which is the real one. It's a bit confusing. It is extremely unclear whether or not the Ultimate Ones, can truly be destroyed. It is said that they are so alien that death is simply something that does not happen to them, and the few who have been "killed" have continued to exist in some form or another. While all the Servants of Fate/stay night can probably fall under this category to some degree, special mention must be made for Berserker, aka Heracles who, thanks to his Noble Phantasm, God Hand, not only can't be affected by any non-fatal attack (an attack has to be at least A-rank, in terms of power, to hurt him), but regenerates until you kill him 12 times. Yes, you read that correctly, he has to be killed 12 times in order for him to truly "die" as a Servant. And it makes him resistant to any attack that manages to kill him, so he has to be killed in twelve different ways in order to finish him off, although some really powerful attacks can take multiple 'lives' at once. Keeping in mind that other servants include the aforementioned Berserker, Fate/stay night's Lancer (Cú Chulainn) is canonically the hardest servant to kill. In his legend, he fought off an entire army through a series of duels. Moreover, when he finally started to die, he tied himself to a post so that he could stand up. In the middle of a war. He continued fighting and killing until his last breath. He also cut off the hand of his killer, post-mortem. In fact because he was so impossible to kill, his enemies didn't even believe he was dead until a bird landed on him. This doesn't really show in two of the three routes since he gets hit with more or less instant-kill attacks that he can only stay alive from for a little bit longer that being his heart being pierced by his own cursed spear or being destroyed by a powerful curse before his body gets eaten by an Eldritch Abomination while he's in shock, but in the one route he does he fought Gilgamesh for twelve hours, the same enemy who Berserker didn't even last as many minutes against. One of Saber's Noble Phantasms is Avalon, The Everdistant Utopia which grants her passive regeneration and prevents aging, and when activated it shifts her into another plane of existence, which will No-Sell almost all, if not every single attack in existence. Unfortunately, it was stolen from her while she was alive, so she doesn't get to use it in a Grail War. To demonstrate how much it can protect you, in the prequel, Shirou's father, Emiya Kiritsugu, used it and it regenerates his destroyed heart instantly. And then 10 years later it is implanted to Shirou, and allows him to survive many, many shits he puts himself through. And this is the weapon used passively. When she got it back in the Fate route, she even survived a direct hit from Gilgamesh's Infinity +1 Sword Ea. Many, many other Servants in Nasuverse has this. Siegfried, Achilles, and Karna from Fate/Apocrypha could respectively put Heracles to shame in this trope. The first can tank A-rank attacks (that will tear into Heracles easily) like mosquito bites anywhere on his body that doesn't hit the leaf-shaped mark on his back, and will even reduce damage from Noble Phantasms. The second can't even be hurt by anything that lacks Divinity and takes reduced damage from those with a lower Divinity rank than him, which is C-rank, unless they strike him in the heel, which disables said protection, but he's got the survival ability to rival Cú Chulainn even without it. The last, however, is in his own league. Not only does he lack an Achilles' Heel like the other two, his divine armor reduces any damage, physical, magical or even conceptual into 1/10 of its original value. Before taking into account its own and Karna's own natural defense. And Karna himself is only mildly inconvenienced by injuries as severe as having stakes skewering him from the inside out. Note that this isn't what his armor should do in the real myth, where it should give him Complete Immortality. |
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Aereon from The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) shows off two advantages to the Made of Air version. When she's on a plane another character threatens her while she's standing by an open trap door (which would make her fall out of the plane), and goes to take a swipe at Aereon with a sword, asking if Aereon (as an Air Elemental) can fly. Aereon goes insubstantial to avoid the sword, then drifts across trap door before becoming solid on the other side, where she replies: "No, we can't fly, but we do glide very well." Made all the more awesome by the fact that Aereon is being played by Judi Dench, complete with a little smirk as she says her reply. | |
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Michael Myers from Halloween, the original slasher movie bad villain was inspired by Yul Brenner's character in Westworld. | |
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The Twins from The Matrix sequel, The Matrix Reloaded, combine Made of Air with Regeneration. Not only can they turn intangible at will, but while intangible they almost instantly heal any injuries they have sustained while in corporeal form. On the other hand, the Twins couldn't hurt anyone when intangible either, which the heroes used to their advantage. | |
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Ciel is unkillable for the duration of Tsukihime. As explained, because Ciel is the previous host of Roa, and Roa is still alive (knowing Reincarnation and all), the world itself will not let her die to prevent a paradox from occurring. Ciel herself possesses extreme regeneration abilities. | |
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The title character in the The Iron Giant combines being "Made of Diamond" (survives heavy weaponry from tanks), as well as a mixture of "Regeneration" and "External Repair" (even after being blown apart, the Iron Giant is capable of self-repair while its pieces crawl back together from various places to rebuild itself). | |
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Godzilla (2014) takes this to new levels, at least with what is confirmed onscreen. In at least some films, most notably The Return of Godzilla, using nuclear weapons on Godzilla has been suggested but never carried out. In Godzilla (2014), this is part of Godzilla's origin: the military tried nuclear as soon as they knew of Godzilla's existence, covering up their attempts as tests known as Operation Castle (Castle Bravo being the best known, and largest, of these tests). Not only did these obviously not kill Godzilla, they appear to have inadvertently caused his mutation and given him his powers, like atomic breath. This new Godzilla might be even harder to kill than previous versions. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) has Godzilla blasted point-blank with a nuclear explosion, which only rejuvenates him after he (barely) survives getting hit with the Oxygen Destroyer, a weapon that had successfully killed the original Gojira and use of which basically killed all sea life around the point of detonation for several miles. |
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The Addams Family. It's not really clear what nature their invulnerability is, of how it works since it's entirely played for laughs. Lurch takes a 20-pound bowling ball to the head from a dozen stories up and barely notices, so it may be they're all Made of Diamond, but it also extends to poisons, electrocution, and anything else they can get a gag out of. When Debbie aims a gun at him (after blowing up the house with Uncle Fester inside, which he walks away from without harm), Fester thinks she's flirting with him. They apparently use cyanide as a condiment. Even electrocuting Uncle Fester just lets him power a lightbulb with his mouth. Nothing stops them. | |
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Lone Wolf: The Darklords are explicitly described as impossible to kill with mundane or even most magical means. They can be banished to another world (one possible way to deal with Darklord Haakon), but otherwise you need a divinely powered weapon such as the Sommerswerd. Although it is later revealed that Darklord-forged weapons (like Helshezag, the Dagger of Vashna or a Zejar-Dulaga arrow) can also kill a Darklord — no doubt on purpose, since other Darklords are the most likely enemies they can have to confront. Major demonic beings, such as the Chaos-Master and Naar's Demonlords, are also impossible to fight with mundane or even ordinary magic weapons. Attacking Tagazin with a non-magical blade just destroy the weapon — and this is with a mere projection of the Demonlord on Magnamund, much weaker than his true form. You need to find their specific weaknesses or use their true names against them. On the other hand, the Sommerswerd once again always proves adequate for the task, although you must be ready for very tough fights. |
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: The T-X/Terminatrix has a standard Made of Diamond Terminator frame with a Regenerator Blob cover, just like the T-1000. Meanwhile, the redesigned Skynet is discovered to be virtually unstoppable because it's actually software, which puts it somewhere in the Multiple Bodies category. |
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army: The Golden Army, due to their Healing Factor. Downplayed with Johann Kraus. He is virtually invulnerable whenever he assumes his intangible form, but must return to his suit within a relatively short period of time. |
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The aliens in Ghosts of Mars are possessing spirits, putting them at Type 4. Moreover, while their hosts can be destroyed (qualifying them for the "nigh" part of this trope) they themselves can't, making them Invincible Villains. | |
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Various kinds show up in The Matrix movies: In addition to diamond-powers, the Agents in The Matrix also manifest Body Surf and Fighting a Shadow tactics, taking over anyone still directly connected to the Matrix. Truly "killing" an Agent wasn't possible; the best one could do is kill the Agent where there are no bodies nearby for them to immediately retaliate. Neo showed enough brawn to knock unconscious three upgraded Agents at the start of The Matrix Reloaded, but these three returned to fight again later. While it seemed that Neo utterly destroyed Agent Smith in the first film, Neo created a new Smith who, in the latter two films, could infect any plugged-in human or program and rewrite them into a copy of himself. Neo is also effectively Made of Diamond (while inside the Matrix), specifically in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. He's able to block a sword cut with his hand, only drawing a tiny bit of blood. An on-looker lampshades this act but directs his mooks to continue to attack anyway, ignoring that Neo just proved himself to be ungodly tough even by Matrix standards. The character's NOT as invulnerable in the original movie until he learns to dis-believe the reality of the artificial world at the film's conclusion (and therefore seize the means to manipulate it). When Neo meets the multiple Smiths for the first time in Reloaded ("The Burly Brawl"), it's a case of Diamond vs. Diamond as neither can defeat the other no matter how hard they struck. Smith does draws the stalemate close to a win since there was only one Neo, who escapes from a dog-pile of nearly 100 Smiths atop him. The Twins from The Matrix sequel, The Matrix Reloaded, combine Made of Air with Regeneration. Not only can they turn intangible at will, but while intangible they almost instantly heal any injuries they have sustained while in corporeal form. On the other hand, the Twins couldn't hurt anyone when intangible either, which the heroes used to their advantage. |
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From Wishmaster, trying to wish for the Djinn to go kill himself is beyond pointless. The Djinn instantly regenerates after he is ordered to blow his own head off by the heroine. "That which is eternal cannot die". The Djinn does admit it hurt immensely, so he's not absolutely invulnerable. | |
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