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Some people are just born lucky. It's no surprise that this should extend to death as well. Basically, this is when a character falls into a situation that should, by all accounts, be lethal, and survives through sheer luck or coincidence. This can be only a one time thing, or, more often, you have a character who constantly bumbles around, surviving things they shouldn't. Characters like this are often oblivious to the danger they find themselves in, or recognize that they are lucky and count their blessings, but, in the worst cases, they can get pretty arrogant about it, to the point where you wish they would die. A staple of the bumbling investigator. Often found in conjunction with Not the Fall That Kills You…. Compare Normally, I Would Be Dead Now, in which a character survives a normally lethal situation by sheer force of will. An inverse of this would be a Death Seeker who, through sheer luck, finds himself unable to die. Often followed by an I'm Okay! If a character finally dies after surviving a string of normally lethal occurrences, that's a Rasputinian Death. Frequently occurs in Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb. Not to be confused with No One Could Survive That!, where the person in question is thought to have died. If someone survives a Mortal Wound Reveal, it is necessarily this trope. Compare Joker Immunity, where a character will survive things that should have killed him because they're too good or too popular to be Killed Off for Real. |
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Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) should have died in the explosion that Holmes had to run away from to survive. | |
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In The Witchlands, Merik somehow survives standing right next to an explosive when it blows up. In contrast to most examples of this trope, the improbability of this becomes a plot point. | |
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Bleach oh, boy. Here we go. To the point where people even survive multiple declarations of death and complete loss of spiritual pressure We've got a main character cut clear in half at the waist and while she is out of the fight, with some healing it's implied that she can still make it. A certain evil character got stabbed through the brain and managed to hang on for a little while. Most recently, the Big Bad survived being disintegrated from the inside out and having his Phlebotinum stolen. Mind you, this is the same series where the main healer can bring people back from the dead, because she doesn't heal injuries, she UNDOES them. | |
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In Runaways, Tristan's hideous scars are the result of being caught in an explosion that was intended to wipe out a large section of New York City. How the hell he survived with only superficial wounds is never fully explained. | |
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: While revealing his backstory to a prisoner, Skull Face states that the injuries he suffered were so bad that a nurse at the infirmary they took him to openly stated that they should just let him die. | |
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Lan/Netto in Mega Man Battle Network 2 receives hundreds of thousands of rads of radiation. Even with a protective suit, that should cause Central Nervous Syndrome to set in in a matter of minutes. CNS is rapidly (as in hours-days) degenerative and always fatal, making this also an example of Artistic License – Nuclear Physics. | |
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It carries over into the sequel, Aladdin: The Return of Jafar. As a genie, Jafar is now incapable of killing Aladdin himself, so he instead sets up an elaborate frame-up. Aladdin is about to be beheaded for the Sultan's murder on Jasmine's orders, and Jafar even shows up in person to taunt him one last time, mere seconds before his sentence is carried out. Jafar doesn't stick around to see it, though...which means he doesn't see that, once again, Aladdin escaped thanks to the Genie, and only finds out the hard way later. | |
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In F.E.A.R., the first clue (beyond his super-reflexes) that our protagonist is not normal is when he is launched out of a second story window by an explosion and just stands up slightly dazed. Then, at the end, he survives getting thrown several miles through the air by a nuclear shockwave. How? Erm... no one's really sure. | |
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Uncharted: Nathan Drake, full stop. The trick is he knows it, his enemies know it, and quite frankly, the entire cast is in disbelief at the sheer quantity and reliability of his luck. | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head, especially in the earlier episodes, often experienced things that should've killed them like the tornado episode for instance. | |
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The extremely near miss with a Tiger tank that should have killed Major Foley of the Royal Tank Regiment. When recovering the wreck of his tank, Foley measured a straight line between the entry hole of the 88mm round in the hull, and the hole left by its penetration of the engine bulkhead. The shell should have gone straight through him, the tank commander standing in the middle of that direct line. But the only wound on Foley was a slight gash on his left leg, as if the 88mm round had swerved in flight to miss him. He writes about this in his autobiography, Mailed Fist. | |
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Abused to death in Naruto Shippuden 167. Pain gets Megaton-Punched in the face, slammed head-on with a boulder, pounded INTO THE GROUND with another boulder, blasted with chakra, heavily facepalmed, and thrown like a ragdoll, colliding head-first into a cliff MILES away, with falling chunks of dirt burying him... while still alive and without a scratch. This was all done by the 4-, and then 6-tailed Naruto. Pain is actually a dead body controlled by the real Pain: Nagato. That still doesn't give reason for him being unscathed. Tobi aka Obito Uchiha. It really makes you wonder how a thirteen year old survived having his body crushed by a falling boulder. His survival skills are inhuman. Later on chronologically but earlier in publication history, he survives being blown up by 600 billion explosive tags, by means of a forbidden technique. There's also when he took a Rasengan to the back, he was hit with deadly poison and had to rip his arm off, when he was stabbed in the heart by Kakashi, when he had the Juubi and the Gedo Mazo ripped out of him, when he was forced to use his life force to revive Madara, when he had the Rinnegan ripped out...yeah. And yes, he's still alive. Though to be fair, he only survived the last three thanks to Naruto's newfound Healing Hands. He is finally done in by a disintegrating ash-bone spear. Even then, it doesn't stop him because his Sharingan allows him to warp out of the afterlife as a ghost and possess Kakashi. |
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Shuda solidifes himself as the hardest person in Rave Master to kill not when he doesn't die from cutting off his arm so he can fall almost a mile to his near death but when he later has a sword stabbed all the way through him and is not only alive, but active a week later. | |
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Several examples from 8-Bit Theater. Most of the main characters fall into this at least once, but the king of this is Fighter, who has survived tons of stabbings, explosions, murder attempts and accidents, but always survives: half of the time due to his own ability to shrug off injury, the other half due to sheer serendipity. A good example of this would be when he is crushed by the Armoire Of Invincibility, but emerges unscathed since the bottom was made of cheap plywood. Later justified in that the Wizard That Did It wants to keep them alive for various less-than-altruistic reasons. Said wizard even explicitly kills the main characters a few times on purpose, just to make a statement about how easily he can do so (and revive them later to make them suffer more). Examples that fit this trope, however, are such things as his Make-Black-Mage-Puke-Up-His-Organs spell, which leaves Black Mage with his entire digestive system visibly outside his body, yet he doesn't die from it because Sarda doesn't want him to. Black Mage also has "Darko" the dark god forbidding him from dying, and he pops in to revive BM when no one else is there to do it instead. | |
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MadWorld has Deathwatch commentator Kreese Kreeley, a former competitor in the bloodsport who's managed to survive a ruptured scrotum, a collapsed lung, getting mauled by a pack of werewolves, having a massive Frankenstein's Monster shove his hand up his ass, a lobotomy, and losing four pints of blood to a vampire, just to name a few things he went through in his time competing. In that latter one's case, he actually did apparently die, but somehow came back to life a week later. | |
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The comic series of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic begin with Queen Chrysalis returning. In her episode she is basically blasted over a cliff and by all accounts should have suffered a Disney Villain Death, but Issue 3 shows her hitting the ground face first from the fall and surviving as if it were one of Rainbow Dash's crashes. In issue 4, she takes multiple magic beams from Twilight, right in the face. At least one of these magic beams is shown to vaporize solid stone. Chrysalis registers the pain, but there's no lasting damage until the fifth or sixth consecutive beam. | |
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Inspector Clouseau is a very frequent beneficiary of this. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00's Patrick Coulasour has managed to survive energy blasts, suicide cruise-missile robots, and having the top of his mecha blasted off then falling into the Earth's atmosphere… all without a scratch. Lampshaded in Season 2, where Patrick has picked up the nickname "the Immortal Coulasour" for ability to survive situations where anybody else's luck would've run out. | |
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In Hoodwinked!, Red Puckett falls at least 200 feet from a cable car cabin into a heavily wooded forest. A fall from that height would either kill you or very likely break a lot of bones in your body. However, she also hits several tree branches before hitting the ground, so when she's getting up afterwards, it appears that she was only bruised mildly. | |
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Halo: Reach: Noble Six plummets to Reach from space after Jorge's Heroic Sacrifice and somehow survives with little more than a limp, whereas in Halo 3, the fall from the Forerunner ship over Earth was thought to kill Master Chief when he was found. Of course, Noble Six was wearing specialized atmosphere re-entry equipment, while Master Chief was not. | |
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This is the response of a random passerby in Monty Python's Life of Brian after Brian emerges unscathed from a crashing UFO. | |
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In the Discworld series, Rincewind has survived any imaginable death (and a handful of unimaginable ones), including falling off the edge of the world. He is Lady Luck's favorite beneficiary, mainly because he refuses to believe in her. She and Fate have a bit of a rivalry going on, in fact, with Fate getting Rincewind into trouble and Luck getting him out of it. He does believe in the Lady, as shown when he meets her (also, gods on Discworld vandalize the houses of non-believers). He just doesn't believe she is the one who always saves him. Rincewind does not actually sustain any life-threatening damage. He is just always saved just in time. His hourglass is so twisted and screwy even Death can't tell when Rincewind will die. Hell, sometimes the sand flows backwards. |
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Torchwood: The cast seem to get this a lot. Lampshaded in that it's accepted by the characters that Torchwood agents are lucky if they live to see their first grey hair. Particularly there's leader Jack, who is immortal for real. You can make a case for whether he counts, since he doesn't usually survive, he just refuses to stay dead. His list of deaths to date include (but are in no way limited to): shot by a Dalek, thrown off a 100 foot building, being stuck on the outside of the TARDIS inside of the vortex (in "Utopia"), electrocuted, shot in the head, blown up via a bomb implanted in his stomach, encased in concrete, stabbed for days on end by Italians, poisoned... the list goes on. Also Owen, who eventually does die. And comes back as a sentient but not technically alive, unhealing, never sleeping, never eating, incredibly grumpy corpse. Then there's Ianto. Survived the Dalek and Cybermen massacre of Canary Wharf, nearly killed by a pterodactyl, shot at, electrocuted by half-converted cyber-girlfriend, attacked by cannibals, Weevils... etc. Eventually dies from an alien virus. |
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On Saving Grace, Grace and Neely fall off a building and survive. Given the nature of the show, it's heavily implied that God did it. | |
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In a prequel story for Relativity, a complex sequence of events leads to Ravenswood suffering from "Systemic liquefaction degeneration," which is explained to him as, "Doctor-speak for 'We don't know exactly what happened, but somehow your entire body turned to liquid.'" | |
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The cinematics alone should've killed Max Payne. | |
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The Order of the Stick often has this from a realistic point of view, because the characters all run on D&D rules. So long as their Hit Points are not depleted, they can live through terrible injuries. Haley gets impaled on a bastard sword during her fight with the Thieves' Guild leader and goes down, but is fine with no lasting internal damage after some basic healing magic. Redcloak has a metal pole driven through his eye and into his skull by O-Chul, but lives because he, too, is still at positive HP. It's worth noting that things like decapitation only happens when the target dies from it, though. Staying alive with your head separated from your shoulders is a bit of a stretch, even for D&D. O-Chul, being Made of Iron (his constitution score is stated by Word of God to be in the mid-20s) is the king of this. At one point, he is captured by the villains and thrown into a tank of acid with an acid-breathing shark. Not only does he manage to defeat the shark and escape the tank, he immediately charges and attempts to smite Xykon before being knocked unconscious. After being rescued, he presents Roy with Xykon's spell list, which says he got "one saving throw at a time". For reference, Xykon is an epic level sorcerer (i.e. his save DCs are absurdly high) and said spell list includes such nasties as Cloudkill, Finger of Death, Symbol of Insanity, Meteor Swarm (which he previously used to kill Roy), and several epic level spells. |
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Metal Gear: Goddamn Liquid Snake. Helicopter crashes, stinger missiles, three story freefalls, multiple bullets. Then in the second game, we find out that not even killing him stops him, until the fourth game confirms that he really did die and Ocelot was faking. It's complicated. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: While revealing his backstory to a prisoner, Skull Face states that the injuries he suffered were so bad that a nurse at the infirmary they took him to openly stated that they should just let him die. |
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Scaffolds falls are notorious for breaking bones without "cushion". One ECW match saw New Jack miss a stack of tables and land his head on concrete. Vic Grimes landed on New Jack's head. Brain fluid came out of New Jack's nose, but he temporarily went blind in one eye, but he lived and even had more scaffold matches! | |
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Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling made use of scaffolds, electrical hazards, fire and plastic explosives. Hayabusa not only survived it all, he continued to wrestle in ever more dangerous garbage matches. What finally put him down? A botched moonsault. | |
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Uncanny X-Men: In the lead up to issue #100, it's mentioned several times that a massive and extremely deadly solar flare is headed to Earth. In that issue, the team winds up stuck on a space station with the only shuttle left too damaged to safely fly back to Earth unaided (they kind of rammed the station with it), so someone's got to take the bullet and pilot the ship manually. Jean Grey volunteers, and then insists. Sure enough, the radiation hits the shuttle. Issue #101 begins with the shuttle face-planting into the Hudson, and Cyclops desperately trying to get to the sunken shuttle and Jean. Then the water begins to bubble, and Jean literally flies out of the water, not only completely unharmed but with a boost in powers and a new name. (However, later developments would have it Jean would have been reduced to a human-sized pile of radioactive meat, had the Phoenix Force not come along when it did.) | |
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Inspector Gadget alternates between being saved by Brain (who often takes the bullet in the process) and sheer luck. And it's hilarious. | |
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CinemaSins: They say it in their review of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, to lampshade how unrealistic it is that Wormtongue was thrown down the stairs of Edoras and has no apparent injuries. Of course, his Plot Armor hasn't fallen off. Cinema Sins has a general Running Gag in which if someone clearly should have died, the narrator applies a sin while noting "they survive this." It's also a major source of another Running Gag where they give multiple sins to one shot, including situations where characters are "saved" by another character but should have died regardless. |
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Especially in later games, Super Robot Wars is the god-king of this trope, thanks to its plethora of There Is No Kill Like Overkill attacks. Both player characters and enemies are capable of surviving ultimate attacks that seem to cause anywhere from a Class 1 to a Class X-2 apocalypse! | |
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Mortal Kombat in a nutshell. Every other attack would be lethal in real life, from face-stabbing to multiple gunshot wounds to superheated lasbolt eye beams to acid in the bloodstream to spine-crushing, neck-snapping, skeleton-shattering mayhem, yet as long as your character's health bar has at least a tiny sliver, they'll instantly heal and act as if nothing happened. Mostly handwaved by the divine magic that powers the MK tournaments. | |
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President "Baby" Panay from Just Cause 2 also survived having a grenade blow up in his face, after which he also survives being shot up by Rico. It takes a nuclear explosion to (presumably) kill him. | |
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Halo: Halo: Reach: Noble Six plummets to Reach from space after Jorge's Heroic Sacrifice and somehow survives with little more than a limp, whereas in Halo 3, the fall from the Forerunner ship over Earth was thought to kill Master Chief when he was found. Of course, Noble Six was wearing specialized atmosphere re-entry equipment, while Master Chief was not. Halo 4: Cortana somehow manages to instantly cover Chief in enough Hard Light to protect him from a point-blank nuclear detonation coming from a bomb the Chief himself had just hand-detonated. |
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Two minutes into the first episode of Harry's Law, a suicidal man jumps off of a six-story building and lands on Harriet. Both survive with minor injuries. Two minutes later, she distractedly crosses a street and gets hit by a car. She lands on a mattress being loaded into a moving van, and doesn't even break any bones. In both cases, it's completely unexpected, even interrupting her internal monologue. It's portrayed as serendipity, because both the suicidal man and the car driver end up joining her law firm by the end of the episode. | |
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Kira Yamato in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED has a tendency to survive things he shouldn't for a Mid-Season Upgrade. In the first series he survives the Aegis Gundam self-destructing while attached to his Strike Gundam's chest. By no means a death sentence in a Gundam show, but before it happened, the Aegis cut the cockpit open, exposing it to the outside. Moreso, the cockpit of the Strike after the explosion was shown to be scorched and damaged by those that find the wreckage. The second time seems to be the fault of his attacker, Shinn Asuka, who apparently can land kill-shots on named characters, but somehow miraculously misses the main main characters. When facing Athrun, he managed to clearly stab Athrun's suit through the cockpit, which was by no means spacious or empty (considering Athrun at the time had Meyrin Hawke aboard with him), yet there were no fatalities (or much in the way of injuries). Both cases are given explanations in supplemental material: in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray, Kira survived the Strike's destruction because Lowe had been watching the battle and pulled him free just barely in time. Kira wasn't in the cockpit when it got scorched. ...Except as explained in the series' entry in Plot Hole, this still doesn't make sense, as in the anime proper, they have to cut open the cockpit because of the damage, which shouldn't have happened if Lowe actually did get Kira away in time. As for Destiny: the Freedom's design is different from the standard (due to the inclusion of a nuclear reactor), and its cockpit is located higher in the chest than normal. Shinn stabbed the Freedom's abdomen, which is where the cockpit is usually located, but not where Freedom's cockpit was. This perfectly explains why Kira survives what is clearly a nuclear explosion. This does not how explain explain Athrun's survival, since the GOUF he was piloting had a perfectly standard cockpit location.note Out of universe, this is an artifact of how the digitally-animated SEED Destiny made extensive use of the ability to edit Stock Footage and replace one mecha with another one while leaving everything else the same. The scene of Shinn stabbing below the Freedom Gundam's cockpit was thus edited into a scene of him using the exact same stabbing technique to impale Athrun's stolen GOUF, failing to account for the different cockpit location. In-universe, no explanation is given. |
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Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, in a series of missions where you must kill the Big Bad's little brother and right hand man, Sergio. Sergio goes on to survive four heavily planned assassination attempts through mostly dumb luck, and eventually Tommy just chases him down to his hideout and confronts him directly. | |
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor practically turns this into an art form. Through the game's Nemesis system, Talion will find himself doing battle with the Uruk Captains and Warchiefs of Sauron's armies, but if they're not explicitly defeated by decapitation or head explosion, even if you punch an arrow through their skull, ventilate their braincase with your sword, burn them alive, feed them to Caragors or Graugs, there's a very good chance they'll come back stronger with matching scars to boot. In the sequel, they can even survive being severed in two! | |
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In Red vs. Blue: Relocated, Grif falls 800 feet. His teammates spend the entire time while he's in free fall arguing over whether or not to catch him. They don't. | |
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The Joker in the Batman: The Animated Series series has survived falls and explosions, and seems immortal, hence the term Joker Immunity. He is Killed Off for Real in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, but only after permanently damaging the relationship between Batman and his allies, and even then manages to come back one final time to cause damage before finally being killed off again, this time permanently, by Terry McGinnis. | |
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Several of the characters in Snatch. appear to be virtually immortal - including Bullet Tooth Tony and Boris the Blade (aka "Boris the bullet dodger"). Shot over and over again they just won't die! Until they do. Boris winds up the victim of a Rasputinian Death, while Tony, who became famous for getting shot 6 times by an enemy and being strong enough to kill the guy with a sword afterwards, gets killed by a stray bullet from a Hand Cannon. | |
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One Piece is downright ridiculous with this, even by Sh�nen standards. One of the most iconic examples is Pell taking an explosion point-blank from a bomb that had a 5-kilometer kill radius. Even the other characters thought he was dead, and they made a gravesite for him, yet he shows up in seemingly perfect health a few chapters later (albeit with someone saying that it's a miracle that he survived). Pell's example in particular led to fans automatically assuming that no matter how obvious a death scene was, the character wasn't really dead unless it happened in a flashback. A sentiment that, by and large, has proven accurate for over a thousand chapters. Hence the widespread shock when Whitebeard and Ace were Killed Off for Real. Of course, we also get plenty of this in-universe with Luffy. Crocodile impaled him and left him in a sinkhole in the middle of the desert, and he came back for a rematch. Crocodile sucked all the moisture out of his body and left him as a shriveled husk in the middle of a pool of sand, and he came back for a rematch. Crocodile poisoned him with scorpion venom in the middle of an underground mausoleum that was crumbling to pieces around the two of them, and long past the point where he should have succumbed, he kept fighting, and this time, Crocodile lost. The battle between Luffy and Rob Lucci was, for the most part, a clash of equals: a Rubber Man versus a leopard-man, both of them armed with only refined brute force. Luffy's Super Mode slowly eked out an edge for him, though, pushing Lucci to pull out his Dangerous Forbidden Technique. Two blasts of it leave Luffy motionless on the ground, but at his crewmate's prompting, he gets back up. Lucci hits Luffy with it one more time, at full power, and to Lucci's horrified rage, Luffy doesn't fall again until after he finishes Lucci off. By the Wano arc, the Straw Hats have grown savvy to this trope; when they hear news that Luffy has lost to Kaido and is dead, they don't even slow down in their own fights, much to the bewilderment of everyone else who was expecting a sudden and drastic drop in morale. And the Straw Hats are right to not be worried, of course. |
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Code Geass: Nunnally Lamperouge. Assassination attempt on your life as a kid? Check. Madman strapping you to a live bomb? Check. Kidnapped by one of your best friends who may or may not kill you? Check. Survived a nuclear explosion that wiped out almost all of Tokyo? Check. Surviving a world war? Check. No wonder she is The Woobie... Mao. He survived multiple gunshot wounds, including from the high-caliber machine gun of a Knightpolice Frame, and then says "I got better thanks to Britannian medicine." |
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They say it in their review of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, to lampshade how unrealistic it is that Wormtongue was thrown down the stairs of Edoras and has no apparent injuries. Of course, his Plot Armor hasn't fallen off. | |
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Goddamn Liquid Snake. Helicopter crashes, stinger missiles, three story freefalls, multiple bullets. Then in the second game, we find out that not even killing him stops him, until the fourth game confirms that he really did die and Ocelot was faking. It's complicated. | |
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No More Heroes III: Travis is capable of surviving a crocodile assault in one of the minigames, even if he fails to counter the attack (he's merely knocked down, wasting some of the limited time). Much later in the game, it appears like he finally meets his end when he's stabbed to death right after defeating his now-corrupted brother Henry, but he later returns to life. | |
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The final episode of Starsky & Hutch has Starsky being shot in the chest at least three times by hitmen with automatic weapons; he's taken to the hospital, where he's revealed to be weak but have miraculously survived (he does code out at one point in the recovery process, but revives when Hutch comes running in). | |
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Dr. Eggman from Sonic the Hedgehog always manages to survive catastrophic ship failures, including one that sinks into a pit of lava with him in it while it's breaking down. Convection, Schmonvection indeed. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: Sam Sterns was once a lowly laborer in a research facility. One day, he was nearby when some technology that hadn't been properly disposed off went off, exposing him to a massive amount of Gamma Radiation. Much to the bafflement of the doctors, he survived rather than dying. Also, his intelligence started increasing at a geometric rate. (However, per Immortal Hulk, he actually hadn't survived. He just didn't stay dead.) | |
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Milton Jones. He falls from a plane above the former Yugoslavia but survives by landing on a snowman... he's pushed into a printing press by Chris Evans but rescued by Esther Rantzen... he's stranded in the Arctic but saved when Agnitha from Abba turns up and gives him a snowmobile... | |
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Ghat and Father-Mother from Zeno Clash survived having a grenade blow up a foot or so away from their faces. Metamoq demonstrated earlier that this sort of thing does, in fact, kill, and the grenade wasn't a dud, so there's really no explanation for how this happened. | |
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Keitaro from Love Hina is the king of this trope, surviving falls, insane punches, being attacked by swords, and the largest injury he ever got was a broken leg. When a building fell on him. This is lampshaded in the series when Keitaro is faced with imminent danger the girls of Hinata Sou will yell 'don't worry Keitaro, you're immortal!' to ease his fears. | |
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Fate/stay night: In the prologue, Shirou is stabbed through the heart with a cursed spear, only to mysteriously wake up with his wound completely healed. He narrates afterwards on how disturbed he is by this - not only did he feel himself die back then, making his survival completely unnatural, but he doesn't feel like he deserves such a miracle when there are people out there who need it more than he does. The anime version of this monologue reached memetic status when one translator decided to render Shirou's objections as "People die when they are killed". Later on, Saber survives Cú Chulainn's noble phantasm Gae Bolg, an attack that rewrites causality to have already hit before it was activated, through the use of her high Luck stat. This is enough to spook his Master Kirei into ordering him to retreat. |
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Syphon Filter: Logan has survived falling 50 feet through a glass ceiling, swan diving off a cliff, and jumping from an exploding bridge onto a moving train, etc., things you couldn't conceivably survive in real life. | |
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At one point in Singularity, Nate Renko travels back to 1955 and shoots Big Bad Demichev in the head, causing him to fall out a window. Yet, when Renko returns to his own time, Demichev is still alive and ruling the world with an iron fist. | |
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No More Heroes: Travis Touchdown survives several such episodes in the first game and its sequels, one of the most notable occasions being in a cut-scene before his battle with Holly Summers in the first game. He ends up in a pit of sand, and has three hand-grenades dropped directly onto his chest. This merely means he is bounced out of the hole by consecutive explosions, and he continues the game with no lasting ill effects. Every cutscene before a boss fight has him surviving way more than anyone should. During the final battle with Jeanne, she bloody PUNCHES THROUGH HIS HEART, but he just shrugs it off. | |
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The Pandoras of Freezing. While they are implanted with Applied Phlebotinum and there is advanced medical practices in the future, the battles that they go through really make your eyes pop out. | |
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Happens a lot in Dragon Ball when people suffer horrible beatdowns and everybody wonders how certain fighters managed to make it out alive. One of the most obvious cases is Goku vs Piccolo Jr. where the former has a leg broken, a hole in the chest and loses a lot of blood. Piccolo throws an energy beam and everybody starts claiming that Goku died until they see him flying. | |
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Both cases are given explanations in supplemental material: in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray, Kira survived the Strike's destruction because Lowe had been watching the battle and pulled him free just barely in time. Kira wasn't in the cockpit when it got scorched. ...Except as explained in the series' entry in Plot Hole, this still doesn't make sense, as in the anime proper, they have to cut open the cockpit because of the damage, which shouldn't have happened if Lowe actually did get Kira away in time. As for Destiny: the Freedom's design is different from the standard (due to the inclusion of a nuclear reactor), and its cockpit is located higher in the chest than normal. Shinn stabbed the Freedom's abdomen, which is where the cockpit is usually located, but not where Freedom's cockpit was. This perfectly explains why Kira survives what is clearly a nuclear explosion. This does not how explain explain Athrun's survival, since the GOUF he was piloting had a perfectly standard cockpit location.note Out of universe, this is an artifact of how the digitally-animated SEED Destiny made extensive use of the ability to edit Stock Footage and replace one mecha with another one while leaving everything else the same. The scene of Shinn stabbing below the Freedom Gundam's cockpit was thus edited into a scene of him using the exact same stabbing technique to impale Athrun's stolen GOUF, failing to account for the different cockpit location. In-universe, no explanation is given. | |
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power In "The Beacon'', Emily uses her laser canon to blast through a wall to reach Entrapta. No one in the room is injured from being within a few feet of a massive explosion. Also, Emily's blast was hot enough to melt a hole in the metal wall, but none of the characters suffer ill effects from the heat or fumes that would have logically resulted. In "Protocol", Lonnie, Kyle, and Rogelio sustain chemical burns all over their bodies from exposure to the spore storm. The next time they appear in season 4, they're healthy and have no visible scarring. In "Destiny, Part 2", Catra is in close proximity to several explosions triggered by Hordak's arm cannon, but is unharmed. Most egregiously, in "Destiny, Part 2", Hordak takes a punch to the face, has the power source ripped out of his cybernetic exoskeleton, has part of a building fall on him, and takes an exploding arrow to the face. By the time Horde Prime beams Hordak aboard his ship, Hordak is exhausted but somehow uninjured! |
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Aladdin: Jafar sends Aladdin falling to his death at best and buried alive at worst in the collapsing Cave of Wonders. He escapes thanks to the Genie. Jafar orders the guards to bind Aladdin (disguised as Prince Ali), tie him to a stone, and sink him in the ocean. He escapes thanks to the Genie. Jafar, now in control of the Genie, uses his new powers to trap Aladdin in a tower of the Palace and sends that tower rocketing to the edge of the earth. He escapes thanks to his Magic Carpet. Jafar is understandably angry and bewildered. It carries over into the sequel, Aladdin: The Return of Jafar. As a genie, Jafar is now incapable of killing Aladdin himself, so he instead sets up an elaborate frame-up. Aladdin is about to be beheaded for the Sultan's murder on Jasmine's orders, and Jafar even shows up in person to taunt him one last time, mere seconds before his sentence is carried out. Jafar doesn't stick around to see it, though...which means he doesn't see that, once again, Aladdin escaped thanks to the Genie, and only finds out the hard way later. |
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Halo 4: Cortana somehow manages to instantly cover Chief in enough Hard Light to protect him from a point-blank nuclear detonation coming from a bomb the Chief himself had just hand-detonated. | |
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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: Skelter Helter provides the page quote for Normally, I Would Be Dead Now, a couple of bosses from the first game return for the sequel, and then there's the terms on which a few bosses in the sequel are fought. | |
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Kaneda in AKIRA (the manga version, especially), who constantly survives point-blank automatic weapons fire and being sucked into a black hole with a large chunk of Neo-Tokyo only to be expelled, alive, months later. | |
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In White Tiger, we first meet Naydenov being brought into a field hospital with 90% burns. He is not expected to survive, but he not only makes a full recovery, but is not even scarred. The doctors are impressed. | |
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In Flubber, Wesson is repeatedly hit on the head with a bowling ball traveling at incredibly fast speed, or else falling from a great height, and all he gets is some bumps and bruises on his head. | |
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The Home Alone movies, particularly the second. In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Marv alone should've died 11 times. The most egregious instance, however, was when Harry's head is lit on fire and he dunks it into a toilet, not knowing that Kevin has replaced the water with kerosene. The resulting explosion destroys the entire first floor, and yet Harry escapes with nothing more than a few minor burns and getting his hat ripped open. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Shredder is crushed by a trash compactor, yet turns up alive in the next movie. He is later killed by a dock collapsing on him, which is a considerably less lethal, as noted by The Angry Video Game Nerd. | |
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Emil from NieR was revealed to be alive in ending C, with only his head intact. Its not explained how he was able to get out of that magical blast field alive. | |
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Phoenix Wright, the original protagonist of the Ace Attorney series. Aside from the near brushes with murder from Mafia hitmen, assassins, Amoral Attorneys, etc., he also survived a hundred foot fall from a burning bridge into a fast-moving freezing river in the middle of winter with a bare fever and head cold. He was still hospitalized, but even that is pretty lucky. Related, from the third game there's Dahlia Hawthorne, who survives falling into the same river as Phoenix does... which leads to the amusing realization that throughout the entire game, the supposedly inescapable deadly river never actually kills anyone who falls into it. |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi gives us Jack Rakan. One of his many titles is "That Damn Guy You Can Stab With Swords All You Like and It Won't Do a Thing, Damnit", which really tells you all you need to know about him. He repeatedly emerges unscathed from attacks that would have vaporized anyone else. He at one point survives being erased from existence. | |
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In Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Nicolai lights the gas station on fire and is caught in the explosion, but shows up none the worse for wear later. | |
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Starscream of Transformers can be like this in several of his incarnations. Occasionally, he doesn't survive... and comes back anyway. Beast Wars tried to hand-wave it by saying Starscream's spark was mutated in a way so it can never join the Matrix, but also made it completely indestructible. They also tried to clone his spark, resulting in Rampage, whose spark could apparently be cut by an energon blade without lasting damage (although it does cause him great pain) whereas other sparks in the situation are destroyed. | |
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