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For whatever reason, some characters can ignore another character's powers, be it offensive or defensive. They might be immune to every kind of magic, or their abilities are "too powerful" to be resisted but whatever the case, other characters' powers don't work on them and their own powers are not impeded in the least. If heroes attempt to use The Worf Barrage, they'll step out of the Smoke Shield and casually dust themselves off. When the Barrier Warrior tries to block their attacks with a Beehive Barrier, they'll break it into hexagons and knock them out. It can also take the form of a wrestler using their ultimate move and eliciting little more than a raised eyebrow from their opponent. They aren't canceling their opponent's powers (not actively, at leastnote The more passive/effortless it is, the better it would look), and they often aren't explicitly stated to be immune or resistant beforehand. They're just that good. It's almost as if it were a make believe children's game where one of the kids refuses to "play by the rules" and insists they're invincible and immune to their playmate's imaginary powers. That's impossible... Right? Depending on execution, this can be a terrifying reminder of exactly why they're called the BIG Bad, or a very groanworthy way of adding Fake Difficulty for a hero. If a villain has benefited from No Sell for the first four acts, by the time the hero masters his powers/confidence in the fifth, it's likely that he'll be the one using No Sell along with a Super Mode or Heroic Resolve. The trope's name is a term used in Professional Wrestling circles. In all types of acting, "selling" means an actor reacts as if he had been hit hard when the attack didn't make contact or was harmlessly light. Professional wrestling refers to it as a "no-sell" when the wrestler who was struck doesn't react to the hit (i.e. he just stands there, as if his opponent were punching a brick wall). Originally, this was usually a case of the wrestler taking the hit just being a dick, and was highly frowned upon because it was seen as undermining Kayfabe. But it also came to be used as a way to demonstrate that a wrestler is just that tough. Some wrestlers use no-selling as their main schtick. Immunities to specific attacks and/or Status Effects are almost always present in Tabletop Games and are the main purpose of Damage Typing. See also The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort. A favorite of the Implacable Man and The Juggernaut. May cross with The Determinator. An Inversion is No Saving Throw. When a video game boss can do this, it is often a Hopeless Boss Fight. An example where the boss can do this at first but a cutscene allows the hero to damage them is a Seemingly Hopeless Boss Fight. Attack Its Weak Point is where the boss no-sells everything except to one spot. Compare to: Anti-Magic: When they can block off someone's magic. Balls of Steel: When this is applied to a Groin Attack. Contractual Boss Immunity and Useless Useful Spell: When this is applied to video games. Cross-Melting Aura: An especially evil creature no-sells their Weaksauce Weakness to holy items. Disability Immunity: When a character is immune to one's power because they cannot perceive/process the manipulative signal. Feel No Pain: When the no-sell is the result of the attack not being felt by the target. Immune to Bullets: When the character can no-sell Five Rounds Rapid. Immune to Fire: When the character can no-sell being set of fire. Immune to Flinching: When the character actually is getting injured by the attack, but you wouldn't know that by looking at it. Immune to Mind Control: When attacks on the mind can be blocked off. Kung Fu-Proof Mook: When mooks do this. Like Cannot Cut Like: When something can't damage something else because they're the same thing. Nigh-Invulnerability: When they can no-sell almost everything. Psychic Block Defense: When someone is immune to mind reading. Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: When the attacker uses hand-to-hand attacks instead of special powers. Resistant to Magic: When a character resists (or is unaffected by) magic. Shooting Superman: When this crosses over with Idiot Ball. Usually, this is accompanied by a Finger Wag or other kinds of taunts. Too Dumb to Fool: When a character is too stupid to be affected by things such as Mind Rape or attempting to break him by talking. |
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Quite a few wrestlers use this as their main gimmick. Kevin Nash's career took off after he used the No Sell. Mick Foley recounted that the impetus for this was them watching a Jake Roberts match, whereupon Nash observed: "I tell you one thing, if Jake can get away with that with those skinny legs and that pot belly, I sure as hell can too." | |
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In Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), Peter realizes that people he completely trusts (i.e. May, his teammates, Fury, Agent Coulson, etc) can sneak up on him without registering on his senses, whether he wants to see him at that moment or not (something Coulson demonstrates on at least one occasion). | |
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Hook no-sold a Piledriver, in reference to his father Taz no-selling a Piledriver in ECW. | |
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Kane, whose gimmick borrows a lot from his kayfabe brother (and originally at least, about as much from Jason Voorhees), would do this a lot as well. Kane's fairly regular associate Big Show also does this, especially against smaller opponents. | |
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In Worm: One of the things that makes the Endbringers so hard to fight is that they are barely affected by many parahuman powers. It takes the combined forces of basically every parahuman (villain and hero) just to drive them off, and even then there's usually a massive amount of destruction anyways. Justified by the majority of their body being non-essential, and the closer you get to an essential part the denser and harder to damage that area is, with the essential parts being composed of material so dense it violates physics. Crawler will take damage from any attack the first time, but afterwards his body will develop a natural counter that lets him ignore it completely. Even when he does get hurt, he regenerates so rapidly that he's back to full strength within moments. He's even become a full on Combat Sadomasochist at the point, actively trying to find things that will hurt him to make him stronger. The Siberian is essentially an unstoppable force, completely ignoring any attack and able to destroy barriers by simply walking through them. She can even share this invulnerability with anyone (or thing) she touches. As far as anyone knows, there's no way to hurt her at all, but eventually her weakness is discovered to be that she's just a projection; the actual parahuman is vulnerable to damage and can't receive her touch-invulnerability. Clockblocker is able to temprorarily freeze an object or person in time, rendering it indestructible. It's been demonstrated that an object frozen this way is comparable in durability to the Siberian. Scion makes them all look like chumps, being able to completely counter any ability (including the virtually unstoppable Endbringers) after having a second to identify it. Justified in that he's the source of the majority of the abilities, and is vastly more powerful than any individual regardless of their power source. He simply attunes himself to the shard giving their powers and applies a perfect counter shard. And then there's a non-powered, Played for Laughs example: Emma, who has never worked out a day in her life and has no idea how to fight, attempting to attack Taylor. |
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A Bug's Life: Dot, during her final confrontation with Thumper, refuses to even flinch when he flares his body and shrieks at her. She even proceeds to Dope Slap him afterward! | |
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In The Spirit Thief, Den has taken the art of Master of Your Domain to the point where he completely no-sells another character's Super-Strength-level punch. | |
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie: The climax shows the effect of the Super Star. Mario and Luigi stand before Bowser, having just survived his fire blast. Bowser responds by stomping them, with enough force to crack the asphalt under and behind them. The brothers are utterly unaffected, they don't move or flinch. A few seconds later, a Hammer Bro strikes Mario, only for his hammer to shatter. | |
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In the Imperial Radch novel Ancillary Mercy, a Presger translator (a human created by the alien species of the Presger so that they can communicate with humans) is shot with a gun constructed by the Presger, and her reaction is to vomit up some things she has eaten previously, including a living fish. As the translator states, it would be foolish to construct and give to other species a weapon that can be used against them. Interestingly enough, Presger translators can be killed by rather mundane means otherwise. | |
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The X-Men crossover novel Planet X features the Enterprise-E being attacked by a powerful alien ship, with their only hope of victory being to ask Nightcrawler to teleport onto the enemy vessel. Storm notes that this plan is difficult as Kurt lacks experience in alien technology and anyone they send with him will be fatigued from the strain of the jump, but Riker suggests that they send Data with the mutant, as Data doesn’t get tired in the first place and has all the technical expertise they might need. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: Bun-bun is immune to Basphomy's magic that inflicts one's worst fear upon one. Apparently this is because he's so badass and his worst fear is losing, so it just makes him try harder. He finds it much harder to forfeit a struggle later on. | |
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The Empire Strikes Back: Han shoots first when he sees Vader. The Dark Lord just catches the blaster bolts in his hand; depending on who you ask, he either had an invincible glove or was using the Force. | |
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Hercules: Hades agrees to let Hercules dive into the pool of ghosts at the center of the underworld, so he can retrieve the soul of his deceased girlfriend, Megara. Hades casually "forgets" to mention the ghost pool applies Rapid Aging to anyone who enters. Hercules dives in, he becomes noticeably old and wrinkled, his lifespan shortens, the Fates prepare to cut his life thread... And then suddenly the aging stops, as he has become a god because of his heroic actions, and gods are immortal. Hades laughed off Hercules's attempts to fight him, as a mortal cannot harm a god like him. |
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RoboCop: A perp tries to kick Murphy in the balls while resisting arrest. Since his entire body is covered in metal armor, obviously this doesn't work. When out on his first patrol, an armed robber turns his gun on Murphy who reads the robber his rights while calmly walking over to apprehend him. |
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Return of the Scarecrow: The scarecrow is shot in its middle with a rifle, and it does nothing. | |
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The Simpsons: Several episodes, largely involving Homer. The best-known is "The Homer They Fall", in which Homer learns that he has an abnormal medical condition that effectively makes him a Stone Wall and decides to take up boxing. For most of the episode, Homer indeed withstands incredible punishment and never so much as flinches... although virtually all of his opponents are weak, unskilled novice boxers. Homer soon gains national media attention, and it isn't long before he somehow earns a shot at former World Champion Drederick Tatum. The No-Sell trope immediately crashes out the window the instant the Simpson-Tatum fight begins (Tatum's blows are just that powerful), and Moe is forced to rescue Homer seconds before Tatum can deliver a blow that surely would have been fatal. | |
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In Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, the first thing Jafar does upon coming back to Agrabah is completely own Genie, ignoring everything the blue guy throws at him while singing "You're Only Second Rate". | |
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Winx Club does this every season beginning with the fourth. In the fourth season, the Winx discover their Enchantix powers are not strong enough against the Wizards of the Black Circle, thus the Winx must earn Believix, the first of the various higher fairy levels and the next one after Enchantix, which is the only thing stronger enough than their dark power. In the fifth season, Believix turns out to be really weak underwater, and the Winx have to acquire Sirenix, an ancient power last used by Daphne, to fight against Tritannus. Bloomix, which is earned in Season 6 when Bloom shares her Dragon Flame, is not that much effective against Kalshara, so the Winx travel into the past and earn a new nature-based power, Butterflix. Butterflix is also not effective against wicked space creatures such as Staryummies, so Queen Dorana bestows the Winx the Cosmix power which they use to combat them. |
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The Mighty Ducks: In D2, the Icelandic goalkeeper manages to glove-save the titular team's power-hitter Fulton Reed's legendary slap-shot (which, at this point, has been shown to tear nets, smash plexiglass and knock out referees on the third bounce). This is treated as a super-human feat and major Oh, Crap! moment... until the goalie removes his glove and shows an enormous puck-shaped bruise on his palm. Later, when Reed is taking a penalty shot at the same goalie, the goalie is visibly shaking with fear. | |
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Sookie Stackhouse is a telepath, but she is unable to read the thoughts of vampires. Conversely, vampires can glamour people, but Sookie is immune to their powers. However, Sookie finds out that if she gets a power boost from the blood of a particularly old vampire, she can read their thoughts. She wisely keeps this to herself. | |
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No-Sell / int_2a79b2b1 | type |
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No-Sell / int_2a79b2b1 | comment |
In Kick-Ass 2, Hit-Girl's fight with Mother Russia turns into this. Hit-Girl brings out literally every trick in her arsenal and none of it does anything. It takes an adrenaline shot and several dozen glass shards for her to do anything. | |
No-Sell / int_2a79b2b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_2a79b2b1 | featureConfidence |
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Kick-Ass 2 | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_2a79b2b1 | |
No-Sell / int_2a826df6 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_2a826df6 | comment |
In Cardfight!! Vanguard: There are units known as "Perfect Guards" who do Exactly What It Says on the Tin At the cost of a discard of another unit with the same clan as it, using a Perfect Guard to guard an attack will prevent the attack target from being hit at all, no matter how ridiculously powerful the attack is. It is for this reason that Perfect Guards are considered staples in any deck. Cards can also have or be given Resist, which prevents the other player from choosing the resistant card as a target for attacks or abilities. Vanguard gains its own Destroyer Deity in "Dragon Deity of Destruction, Gyze" with immunity from all card effects. It cannot be locked, retired, or dealt damage from effects allowing Gyze to ignore all card effects that might harm it or the player. This doesn't include the insane 30k base power making it a huge Stone Wall Vanguard that is difficult for the opponent to attack into conventionally. |
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No-Sell / int_2a826df6 | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_2a826df6 | featureConfidence |
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Cardfight!! Vanguard | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_2a826df6 | |
No-Sell / int_2ba1d958 | type |
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No-Sell / int_2ba1d958 | comment |
For the most part of the first movie, the agents in The Matrix, then Neo during and after the climax, and throughout the series until he fought the Oracle-empowered Smith. | |
No-Sell / int_2ba1d958 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_2ba1d958 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Matrix | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_2ba1d958 | |
No-Sell / int_2bbcacd9 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_2bbcacd9 | comment |
Looney Tunes: Yosemite Sam of Outer Space, who has billed himself as fearsome and unbeatable, took this to absurd extremes in the 1960 cartoon "Lighter Than Hare" when he boasted that his "indestructible tank" would take out Bugs Bunny. Sam guessed wrong! He tried again with his army of "undefeatable robots" ... but when Bugs put a magnet in the chute where the "mechanized monsters" put their dynamite, they were rapidly pulled in to suffer the blast. Later, Bugs put an explosive in Sam's jetpack. Sam was only one word away from completing Yosemite Sam of Outer Space!, and thus giving chase, before the blast. | |
No-Sell / int_2bbcacd9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_2bbcacd9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Looney Tunes | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_2bbcacd9 | |
No-Sell / int_2c082d05 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_2c082d05 | comment |
Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th films is practically unstoppable, and becomes even moreso as the series progresses and he becomes an undead menace. Bullets barely phase him. Shovels to the head result in the shovels breaking to little effect on him. Trying to run him down will only wreck the car and piss him off. The only thing that is shown to put him down on a long-term basis is in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday when the FBI blows him to bits, and even then, the loss of his corporeal body is only a temporary inconvenience. | |
No-Sell / int_2c082d05 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_2c082d05 | featureConfidence |
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Friday the 13th (Franchise) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_2c082d05 | |
No-Sell / int_2c2a56e3 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_2c2a56e3 | comment |
The Phantom Menace: Watto doesn't fall into the classic Jedi Mind Trick, as Qui-Gon discovers the hard way: | |
No-Sell / int_2c2a56e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_2c2a56e3 | featureConfidence |
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The Phantom Menace | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_2c2a56e3 | |
No-Sell / int_2c9df9c5 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_2c9df9c5 | comment |
Transformers: The Movie: Unicron no-sells a Detonation Moon. As Spike put it, he isn't even dented by the blast. You know you're in trouble when that kind of thing doesn't work. | |
No-Sell / int_2c9df9c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_2c9df9c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers: The Movie | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_2c9df9c5 | |
No-Sell / int_2ce70ac5 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_2ce70ac5 | comment |
Kung Fu Panda: In Kung Fu Panda, Tai Lung and Oogway's nerve strikes are devastating to their targets, completely paralysing them. Po's layer of body fat, however, neutralizes those attacks, which comes in handy during the final fight. Unfortunately, it also neutralizes Mantis's acupuncture. In Kung Fu Panda 2, Tigress mentions that she has spent the last 20 years punching ironwood trees both as a way to work out anger and to toughen up. When she spars with Po, he punches her outstretched palm and hurts himself, and she doesn't even blink. In Kung Fu Panda 3, Po attempts to send Kai back to the Spirit Realm using the Wuxi Finger Hold that he used to defeat Tai Lung, but unfortunately it only works on mortals. However, there's nothing stopping him from sending the two of them to the Spirit Realm by using it on himself. |
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No-Sell / int_2ce70ac5 | featureConfidence |
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Kung Fu Panda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_2ce70ac5 | |
No-Sell / int_2d0cd7b6 | type |
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No-Sell / int_2d0cd7b6 | comment |
White Chicks has two sisters who get passed over for a modeling gig and try to seduce the fashion designer, only for him to sneer at them: | |
No-Sell / int_2d0cd7b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_2d0cd7b6 | featureConfidence |
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White Chicks | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_2d0cd7b6 | |
No-Sell / int_2d311a08 | type |
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No-Sell / int_2d311a08 | comment |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987): In one episode, Shredder gets his hands on a ray that makes people afraid. He uses it on the turtles and Krang angrily calls him a fool, saying something to the effect of "this does not work on mutants!" Of course, Krang never once mentioned that (in)convenient fact earlier in the episode. And, to add insult to injury, Shredder gets hit with the ray by the end of the episode, and it works on him just fine — leading to his subsequent humiliation. Then again, this incarnation of Shredder... There is another episode with a fear ray that does work wonders on the Turtles, Bebop and Rocksteady, and Shredder himself. Krang, although not totally immune, is less affected. In another episode, it was established from the beginning that Krang's brainwashing device only affected humans. Unfortunately, because it had to set on the roof of the Channel 6 building, that meant Shredder had to have Rocksteady and Bebop do it so he would be safe, and it caused quite a few problems. |
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No-Sell / int_2d311a08 | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_2d311a08 | featureConfidence |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_2d311a08 | |
No-Sell / int_2e3e7ac2 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_2e3e7ac2 | comment |
Justice League: Aquaman in "Ultimatum" after his opponent, Downpour, tries to drown him in a massive wave. He just stands there, not as much as blinking. Seconds later Downpour throws three punches at Aquaman, who doesn't even flinch before knocking Downpour out cold with a single backhand. | |
No-Sell / int_2e3e7ac2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_2e3e7ac2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Justice League | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_2e3e7ac2 | |
No-Sell / int_305d1c25 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_305d1c25 | comment |
Cucumber Quest: Almond blocks Peridot's petrification-into-gemstone spell seemingly by whacking it aside with her sword, but it was really her Heroic Spirit that kept her sword from being transformed. Nautilus was able to use her Summon Magic to good effect even against the Disaster Masters until she ended up fighting Rosemaster, who simply grabs it and hurls it to the floor. (Earlier, Saturday had evaded its attack by tying it into a lasso, but the second instance is much more serious.) |
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No-Sell / int_305d1c25 | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_305d1c25 | featureConfidence |
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Cucumber Quest (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_305d1c25 | |
No-Sell / int_310d6df7 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_310d6df7 | comment |
Stand Still, Stay Silent: The first working rune Reynir comes up with catches fire when ghosts approach. Drawn large enough on the ground, they can be used as extremely selective landmine. They unfortunately don't work on the massive Merger of Souls that is leading them, causing Lalli to have to fight it himself. | |
No-Sell / int_310d6df7 | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_310d6df7 | featureConfidence |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_310d6df7 | |
No-Sell / int_328ec455 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_328ec455 | comment |
In Midnight's Children, Shiva is the only person who can block Saleem from prying into his thoughts. | |
No-Sell / int_328ec455 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_328ec455 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Midnight’s Children | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_328ec455 | |
No-Sell / int_337631b6 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_337631b6 | comment |
In Pokémon Live!, none of the Pokémon's attacks have any effect on MechaMew2, not even very strong ones like Thunder and Self Destruct. | |
No-Sell / int_337631b6 | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_337631b6 | featureConfidence |
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Pokémon Live! (Theatre) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_337631b6 | |
No-Sell / int_34d050c6 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_34d050c6 | comment |
When Darkwing Duck fires his trademark gas gun at Bushroot in "Night of the Living Spud," the Plant Person laughs a la Poison Ivy and reveals that doesn't work on him. | |
No-Sell / int_34d050c6 | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_34d050c6 | featureConfidence |
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Darkwing Duck | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_34d050c6 | |
No-Sell / int_3512b8de | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_3512b8de | comment |
At Halloween Havoc 1995, The Giant no-sold falling off the roof of a building after losing the monster truck sumo portion of the main event, coming to ringside without a scratch on him. In the actual wrestling match, Hulk Hogan no-sold Giant's chokeslam finisher before the schmoz finish. | |
No-Sell / int_3512b8de | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_3512b8de | featureConfidence |
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Big Show (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3512b8de | |
No-Sell / int_3540125b | type |
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No-Sell / int_3540125b | comment |
The Secret of the Magic Potion: When Sulfurix attempts to hypnotise Asterix by circling a small flame around, the latter simply blows it away, as it only works on the Weak-Willed. Sulfurix even admits he didn't expect it to actually work. | |
No-Sell / int_3540125b | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_3540125b | featureConfidence |
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The Secret of the Magic Potion | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3540125b | |
No-Sell / int_35b0ed14 | type |
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No-Sell / int_35b0ed14 | comment |
Then at Bound for Glory 2006, Sting completely ignored Jeff Jarrett smashing a guitar over his head and defeated him. | |
No-Sell / int_35b0ed14 | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_35b0ed14 | featureConfidence |
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Jeff Jarrett (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_35b0ed14 | |
No-Sell / int_35e05f2a | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_35e05f2a | comment |
RWBY: In the distant past of Remnant, gods walked among humans until humanity was incited into building an army against the gods. When the army attacked the gods with magic, the God of Darkness captures all the magic in a single claw with casual ease. He is so incensed by humanity using the gift he had given then against him that he destroys the entire race, leaving the instigator of the confrontation — Salem — alone on an empty planet, unable to die. Salem herself does this during her fight in "Witch". She takes an entire barrage of punches from Yang without even flinching, and is merely inconvenienced when Yang detonates at least half a dozen sticky bombs to destroy the upper half of her body. Hazel's assault on her fares slightly better, but she still effectively shrugs off everything he throws at her, including caving her face in. |
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No-Sell / int_35e05f2a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_35e05f2a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
RWBY (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_35e05f2a | |
No-Sell / int_3638bab7 | type |
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No-Sell / int_3638bab7 | comment |
At the end of The Shadow, Big Bad Shiwan Khan wakes up in a straitjacket at a mental hospital. He immediately attempts to use his mind-control powers on a passing doctor, who seems to comply with Shiwan's orders ... only to burst out laughing when told to remove his restraints. Two consecutive shifts in camera angle reveal that 1) Khan has undergone cranial surgery to extract a mirror shard from his brain, destroying his mental powers in the process, and 2) the doctor is one of the Shadow's many contacts, who only "obeyed" the villain's initial commands to troll the guy. | |
No-Sell / int_3638bab7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_3638bab7 | featureConfidence |
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The Shadow | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3638bab7 | |
No-Sell / int_3651bc0c | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_3651bc0c | comment |
Subtly in The Princess and the Frog: Dr. Facilier's charisma and persuasion is a No Sell on Tiana, while it was effective on every other character he used it on. The fact that Dr. Facilier inadvertently showed her father being happy with what he had at that time probably helped in Tiana's case. | |
No-Sell / int_3651bc0c | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_3651bc0c | featureConfidence |
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The Princess and the Frog | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_3800964 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_3800964 | comment |
Hedorah is a walking No-Sell, thanks to his amorphous and liquefied body. Any attempts by Godzilla at using his Atomic Breath prior to the JSDF rolling out the Giant Electrodes is rendered useless as it is incapable of drying Hedorah out and weakening him, while attempting to attack Hedorah with physical techniques is a really bad idea. | |
No-Sell / int_3800964 | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_3800964 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Godzilla vs. Hedorah | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3800964 | |
No-Sell / int_3aabfec3 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_3aabfec3 | comment |
Captain Planet and the Planeteers: In "Summit To Save Earth, Part 2", Zarm forces the Planeteers to "fight" him one-on-one. However, nothing that Wheeler, Linka, Kwame or Gi try has any effect on him, as he easily avoids their attacks by either levitating himself or turning into a hologram. | |
No-Sell / int_3aabfec3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_3aabfec3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Captain Planet and the Planeteers | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3aabfec3 | |
No-Sell / int_3b34143f | type |
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No-Sell / int_3b34143f | comment |
Harry Potter: In at least two instances in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Fleur Delacour is seen trying to use her Veela charm on Cedric Diggory. Both times he's completely unaffected, which, given how unimpressed she is with boys who are, may have been what she was aiming for. Harry also learns in the same book that he's able to resist the Imperius Curse — a possible but difficult and rare feat. He also spends the entire series countering and surviving all of Voldemort's attempts to Avada Kedavra him. On another occasion in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Fawkes intercepts the same Killing Curse when Voldemort fires one off at Dumbledore, but (being a phoenix) he isn't finished off permanently: rather, Fawkes swallows the curse and is immediately reborn as a phoenix chick. Also in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Hagrid is able to completely no-sell Stunning Spells from multiple Aurors when Umbridge tries to arrest him, with the spells simply bouncing off him. This is explained as a byproduct of his being a half-giant, as giants are naturally resistant to many spells. Other magical creatures such as trolls, dragons and Acromantula also have similar resistance to magic, with dragons requiring a large number of simultaneous Stunning Spells to take them down and Acromantula needing at least two combined spells. |
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No-Sell / int_3b34143f | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_3b34143f | featureConfidence |
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Harry Potter | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_3c0fc242 | type |
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No-Sell / int_3c0fc242 | comment |
The Frog Princess: None of Ivan's weapons works against Koshchei. The arrows bounce off, and the sword breaks at contact. | |
No-Sell / int_3c0fc242 | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_3c0fc242 | featureConfidence |
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The Frog Princess (Animation) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3c0fc242 | |
No-Sell / int_3c69e536 | type |
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No-Sell / int_3c69e536 | comment |
In Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), during the Bar Brawl, not only does Sonic try to take down a thug by hitting him in the head with an unbreakable bottle, he also tries to do some Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs. Nothing works. | |
No-Sell / int_3c69e536 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_3c69e536 | featureConfidence |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3c69e536 | |
No-Sell / int_3d88b6d2 | type |
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No-Sell / int_3d88b6d2 | comment |
In Champions of Far'aus Mischevies, a type of trickster spirit, have tounges that nullify magic that comes into contact with them. | |
No-Sell / int_3d88b6d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_3d88b6d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Champions of Far'aus (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3d88b6d2 | |
No-Sell / int_3d8baf12 | type |
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No-Sell / int_3d8baf12 | comment |
RoboCop 2: Murphy calmly walks out of his burning patrol car and calmly guns down the gun store robbers who riddled his car with bullets and two RPGs. Later, after Robo-Cain goes on a rampage, he scans the crowd looking for Murphy, while being shot at by the Detroit P.D., and O.C.P. security. Eventually he gives up his search, and only fires back because the hundreds of rounds hitting him are causing a minor annoyance. |
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No-Sell / int_3d8baf12 | featureApplicability |
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RoboCop 2 | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3d8baf12 | |
No-Sell / int_3ddddb25 | type |
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No-Sell / int_3ddddb25 | comment |
Xiaolin Showdown has a Shen Gong Wu called the Two-Ton Tunic. When called upon, it transforms into an armored shirt that allows the wearer to shrug off any attack, even a punch from the Fist of Tebigong. The only Wu that is able to affect it is the Reversing Mirror, which can reverse the powers of whatever Shen Gong Wu back on its user. | |
No-Sell / int_3ddddb25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
No-Sell / int_3ddddb25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Xiaolin Showdown | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3ddddb25 | |
No-Sell / int_3e299490 | type |
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No-Sell / int_3e299490 | comment |
During an attack from dire wolves in the second episode of The Fallen Gods, Flint is able to shrug off several bites thanks to his high Armour Class. He claims it's because his pecs are too huge. | |
No-Sell / int_3e299490 | featureApplicability |
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The Fallen Gods (Podcast) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_3e374b30 | type |
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No-Sell / int_3e374b30 | comment |
Bane in The Dark Knight Rises is fond of doing this. At the start of his first fight with Batman, he doesn't even try to block or dodge his first punches, and just shrugs them off. Batman's attempts to use smoke grenades and hide in the shadows are similarly unsuccessful. | |
No-Sell / int_3e374b30 | featureApplicability |
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The Dark Knight Rises | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3e374b30 | |
No-Sell / int_3f231b84 | type |
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No-Sell / int_3f231b84 | comment |
In Jurassic World, the Indominus rex brushes aside blows that would cause serious injury to a similarly sized theropod, them being a direct tail club strike from an Ankylosaurus, minigun rounds and the attacks of Velociraptors. Only when the Tyrannosaurus is released does the hybrid finally meet her match. | |
No-Sell / int_3f231b84 | featureApplicability |
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Jurassic World | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3f231b84 | |
No-Sell / int_3f633fb4 | type |
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No-Sell / int_3f633fb4 | comment |
Fedor Emelianenko no sold the greatest suplex in the suplexiverse against Kevin Randleman in 2004 after landing directly on his head and neck, swept to side control and submitted Randleman with a kimura in less than a minute following. | |
No-Sell / int_3f633fb4 | featureApplicability |
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Cracked (Website) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3f633fb4 | |
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A less obvious example of no selling occurred at WrestleMania XII in the match between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. Shawn spent a long part of the sixty minute match attacking Bret's arm, but Bret acted like his arm was fine during his offense on Shawn. This was likely due to the bitter rivalry between the two in Real Life. | |
No-Sell / int_3fdafaad | featureApplicability |
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WrestleMania (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_3fdafaad | |
No-Sell / int_400469e | type |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's alter-ego Stupendous Man often has to resort to this as a pseudo-Watsonian excuse as to why Stupendous Man's powers never affect his foes... since his foes are "played" by real people in his life who are not playing by Stupendous Man's rules. | |
No-Sell / int_400469e | featureApplicability |
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Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_41b0198a | type |
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The Dresden Files: This was Lord Raith's power, in addition to the usual abilities of a White Court vampire; he's basically immune to magic. As it turned out, Harry's mother managed to get through his protection with her Death Curse, and used it to make him unable to feed. Outsiders, the local eldritch abominations, are immune to everything. Harry's mother seems to have known how to beat this one, too — Harry is one of the only people who can hurt them due to something about the circumstances of his birth, which she is implied to have deliberately engineered. A lot of powerful sidhe are partially or completely immune to magic. This can be gotten around, such as the time Harry lit an ogre on fire by lighting a can of Sterno and throwing that at it, or by using a power source that does affect them, as when he channels the fire of the Summer Court to blast the everloving bejeezus out of a powerful Winter fae. In Battle Ground (2020), Harry gets roped into a duel with a fire giant named Svengar. Harry, who, at that point is running on adrenaline, caffeine and pure unbridled cussedness, acts on instinct and hits Svengar with his default attack, a nice big blast of fire. Svengar asks him what he thinks he's doing, seemingly genuinely confused about why Harry thought hurling fire at a being made of fire was a good idea. |
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In Zero Sight the main requirement for being part of Lambda Squad is having high resistance to mind manipulation from vampires and other mages. | |
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Tower of God: In the Tower, Shinsu is everything. It's an unlimited power and is breathed instead of air, so those who are apt in controlling it prefer this to normal physical attacks. So when people who are extremely resistant to it appear, like Yuri and Viole, this trope just piles up. The first example is when an administrator tests people who want to go up the Tower for their ability to withstand Shinsu at all. He first uses it to push back everyone and then those who can pass through a wall of it may proceed — but the seemingly weak protagonist Bam is not even pushed back by the wave that was supposed to affect everyone. Later, Bam is shown to be immune to (at least some) spells, which are apparently a form of magic different from Shinsu manipulation. At the end of the "Name-Hunt Station" sub-arc, Princess Yuri Jahad gets into a fight with Slayer Karaka. Though both are shown to be extremely powerful, Yuri clearly has the upper hand because nothing Karaka can do to her manages to do any damage — not even reflecting the power of her own attacks against her. Likewise, she isn't even hurt by Karaka's spheres of darkness that are supposed to completely annihilate an opponent on contact. When the protagonists enter the virtual world of the Hidden Floor, they encounter younger versions of Jahad and Khun Edahn, both of whom are already extremely powerful at that point. But when when the avatar of Jahad as he is now appears on the Hidden Floor, young Jahad's Cool Sword breaks when striking him, and Edahn's lightning spear the size of a tall building vanishes without a trace — both without provoking any reaction. So the two attack him in a way that No-Sells his defences: by starting a process that annihilates the entire virtual world and strategically aiming its effect at his hand first, enabling the protagonist to escape his grip. |
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Galaxy Angel: In the second game, Moonlit Lovers, the O-Gaub uses the Black Moon's technology to surround itself with a Negative Chrono Wave, creating a shield capable of withstanding attacks from any weapon, including a direct hit from the Elsior's Chrono Break Cannon. This forces the heroes to develop a Field Canceller device to cancel this shield, installing it on Unit #7 along with the aforementioned Chrono Break Cannon to destroy it at point blank. | |
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Third Time Lucky: And Other Stories of the Most Powerful Wizard in the World: The spells which Tristan casts against Magdelene are completely ineffective due to her power. Five wizards attempt to remove her magic. Magdelene's unaffected, but acts like she has been, even not using it for six weeks, since this sets a trap for attacking demons. |
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In Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Rodan shrugs off Godzilla's Atomic Heat Ray without any visible damage whatsoever; Instead he shakes his head and then begins laughing at him. | |
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Ben 10: Alien Swarm: The Hive Queen tries to put Ben under her control since he is in the form of an alien of her species. Ben shakes it off very easily. | |
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Universal Monsters: As discovered late in book 1, the monsters are "not of this world" and cannot be killed in the standard methods (like a stake through the heart for Dracula) — they heal automatically from them. The heroes have to instead find a way to trap them back in their movies. The only ones not immune are human villains Fritz (who gets thrown into a set of chains by the monster, resulting in one of them wrapping around and snapping his neck), Karl (who dies when Joe slams a board into his head), and in the final battle of book 6, Herr Frankenstein and Dr. Pretorius, who die at the hands of the Creature. | |
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Iron Man 2: After James Rhodes presents his superiors with Tony's "War Machine" armor, Justin Hammer augments the suit with his own weapons tech, including a bunker-buster missile he calls "The Ex-Wife"; in Hammer's words, "It takes everything." During their final battle with Ivan Vanko, Rhodes fires the Ex-Wife at Vanko, only for the missile to bounce off Vanko's armor and sputter once it hits the ground. | |
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Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: In "Cactus Town", Wolf stings the Umlaut Snäkes with her scorpion-tipped staff, but it accomplishes nothing as they have venom flowing their veins anyway. | |
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In The Transformers G1 episode "The Golden Lagoon", diving into a spring filled with liquid electrum gives a coating that enables both Autobots and Decepticons to shrug off lasers, missiles, and even bombs. This enables the Decepticons to defeat even Omega Supreme, without getting so much as a scratch themselves. | |
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The Transformers | hasFeature |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Many of Jumba's mind-altering experiments don't work on other experiments, or in some cases, at least, on experiments created after the one with mind-altering powers. Stitch (who himself has no mind-altering powers to be hindered by this rule) was the last of Jumba's original creations and is thus immune to all of them. In "Spike", Jumba shrugs off losing 99% of his intellectual capabilities without missing a beat because "1% of evil super genius is still pretty good." Subverted in "Checkers" when Lilo tries using the mind-controlling Experiment 029 on Jumba who laughs it off and starts to say that it only affects the "weak-minded"... before falling under its control less than a second later. Angel, Experiment 624, can turn any experiment back from good to evil by singing a siren song; however, if that experiment is created after her, the song will have no effect on them. This is shown in her eponymous episode when she sang to Stitch (Experiment 626), who does not turn evil, instead compliments her voice and gives her flowers. This later-made experiment immunity is later exploited by Reuben (Experiment 625) in "Snafu", who tricks her into singing her siren song in reverse to try to turn him from evil to good, only to reveal to her that he recorded her voice with a tape recorder hidden in a bouquet he was holding. (He intended to play the recording in reverse so he and Gantu could convert the experiments Lilo and Stitch reformed back to evil, but Snafu [Experiment 120] ruined those plans.) |
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Sentinels of the Multiverse: Baron Blade opens the game with a defence platform that makes him invincible until it's destroyed. Ambuscade can't be damaged while in stealth mode. Citizen Dawn can "merge with the power of the sun" for several turns of invulnerability. Captain Cosmic's Cosmic Crest construct gives him and his entire construct lineup immunity to energy damage. Unfortunately there aren't too many enemies that deal energy damage, but it is quite helpful against the few who do. Tempest's incapacitated side can make the entire team immune to one damage type for a turn. Ra's Flesh of the Sun God makes him immune to fire, and can make the entire team immune to fire for a turn with a power use. This can lead to hilarious results against bad guys who rely upon the heroes damaging themselves (Plague Rat, for example), since Ra is also able to turn all the team's damage into fire with a different card. Advanced Gloomweaver is immune to melee and projectile damage, as is Shu of the Ennead. Mr Fixer with Jack Handle turns self-inflicted damage into a rain of blows on all enemies, and his Grease Gun is able to shut down all villainous damage for a turn. Even from an entire alien invasion. Most of Grand Warlord Voss's minions are immune to the kind of damage they deal, and his flying battleships are unsurprisingly melee-resistant. With Null-Point Calibration Unit out, Absolute Zero isn't just immune to ice damage, he actually heals from it. With Isothermic Transducer out as well, you can also fake fire immunity; unless it would outright finish you, the fire damage triggers the same amount of cold damage (possibly more with the right cards out) and lets you heal it back immediately. In the lore, he is also unaffected by Baron Blade's first Death Ray; the beam kills its target by affecting their molecular motion, but Absolute Zero doesn't have any molecular motion, so it just kind of fizzles out when Zero takes the shot for Legacy. The Court of Blood can shut down all radiant damage, which makes Fanatic, who relies heavily on radiant damage to do any damage at all, very unhappy. OblivAeon starts the game invincible because of his shield, forcing the heroes to deal with whatever inconvenient thing it does to them in order to start damaging him at all. The grand prize, however, goes to Legacy. With Next Evolution out, Legacy can take an action to ignore one kind of damage; with a second Next Evolution and the Legacy Ring, two kinds. Throw on Danger Sense and Legacy also ends up immune to environmental damage. Then, for real comedy, add in Lead From The Front against an enemy who only deals one or two kinds of damage (or give him power uses from other heroes' abilities), and watch Legacy tank an effectively arbitrary amount of punishment. He can also protect all his teammates using Heroic Intervention, which causes him to damage himself a bit in exchange for no other hero taking any damage. Guise can copy all of Legacy's Ongoings, which means that if Legacy is using Heroic Intervention to prevent all damage to his teammates, now he's sheltered by the copy of that and your entire team is invincible. |
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Throughout The Muppet Show, Miss Piggy's signature karate chops have proven to be quiet effective, but there have been a couple who have been able to withstand it. The first was Charlie McCarthy (he was made of solid oak). The other being Christopher Reeve (seems he truly was the Man of Steel). At one point, Kermit tried to karate chop Miss Piggy only for nothing to happen. Miss Piggy then proceeded to show him how it was done. | |
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How to Train Your Dragon: In How to Train Your Dragon 2, baby dragons like the Scuttleclaws hatchlings are immune to the Bewilderbeasts’ mind control. Also closing off a dragon’s senses of sight and hearing can also diminish the mind manipulation effect. |
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In Battle Ground (2020), Harry gets roped into a duel with a fire giant named Svengar. Harry, who, at that point is running on adrenaline, caffeine and pure unbridled cussedness, acts on instinct and hits Svengar with his default attack, a nice big blast of fire. Svengar asks him what he thinks he's doing, seemingly genuinely confused about why Harry thought hurling fire at a being made of fire was a good idea. | |
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Return of the Jedi: Jabba the Hutt is unaffected by Luke's Jedi Mind Trick, and says, "Your mind powers will not work on me, boy." | |
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Ultimate Warrior no-sold anything, even Triple H's Pedigree. Incidentally, this was a month or two BEFORE Trips was temporarily demoted to jobber in punishment for the Madison Square Garden Incident. Warrior was making his big return and they needed a warm body for him to squash, and there really wasn't anyone else available. | |
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Ultimate Warrior (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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In Kung Fu Panda, Tai Lung and Oogway's nerve strikes are devastating to their targets, completely paralysing them. Po's layer of body fat, however, neutralizes those attacks, which comes in handy during the final fight. Unfortunately, it also neutralizes Mantis's acupuncture. | |
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In Kung Fu Panda 2, Tigress mentions that she has spent the last 20 years punching ironwood trees both as a way to work out anger and to toughen up. When she spars with Po, he punches her outstretched palm and hurts himself, and she doesn't even blink. | |
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In Kung Fu Panda 3, Po attempts to send Kai back to the Spirit Realm using the Wuxi Finger Hold that he used to defeat Tai Lung, but unfortunately it only works on mortals. However, there's nothing stopping him from sending the two of them to the Spirit Realm by using it on himself. | |
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Also in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Hagrid is able to completely no-sell Stunning Spells from multiple Aurors when Umbridge tries to arrest him, with the spells simply bouncing off him. This is explained as a byproduct of his being a half-giant, as giants are naturally resistant to many spells. Other magical creatures such as trolls, dragons and Acromantula also have similar resistance to magic, with dragons requiring a large number of simultaneous Stunning Spells to take them down and Acromantula needing at least two combined spells. | |
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This is one of Popeye's trademarks. The sailor's ability to take punishment has stymied more foes than his ability to dish it out. In one memorable instance, Popeye gets shot in the stomach at point-blank range, only to spit the bullets out into his hand. As he tells his stupefied attacker, "What, didja think I was a softy?" | |
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Popeye (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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Shane Douglas claims that Scott Hall would constantly sandbag him (or as he termed it, "lead ass") during Douglas' brief WWF tenure. Hall repeatedly denied this before he passed away, claiming that Douglas simply doesn't know how to work. | |
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Shane Douglas (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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During a cage match between Bruiser Brody and Lex Luger in 1985, Luger did something to displease Brody. Rather than attacking Luger, Brody's response was to simply stop selling and stare at his opponent for the rest of the match. Given Luger's limited offense, the next several minutes consist of Luger throwing punch after punch at Brody, who just stands there, glaring a hole through him, until a genuinely terrified Luger punches the referee for a deliberate disqualification, hightails it over the side of the cage and escapes to the locker room. Another explanation given by several wrestling experts is that the bookers in Florida, where Luger was wrestling at the time, brought Brody (a legitimate bad-ass, which is largely believed to be the cause of his untimely downfall in Puerto Rico) in to teach the rookie Luger a thing or two about respect. Bill Alfonso, the referee for the match, has since said that the lesson was that you don't tell a veteran how to work a match. Another source claims that Brody (who was known for being difficult to work with) told Luger later that he had nothing against him, he just felt the match wasn't working out and had had enough of it. | |
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Near the end of Dream's first Death Swap, in the Nether, Dream uses an enchanted golden apple to swim in lava. Of course, George doesn't know this, and Dream had humorous reactions swimming in the lava. | |
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Dream (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Ronan emerges unhurt regardless of who attacks him or with how much ferocity. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | hasFeature |
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The Order of the Stick: The prequel Start of Darkness has Xykon kick off his ascension (or de-scension) to lichdom by taking Lirian the Elf druid in a Curb-Stomp Battle. None of Lirian's magic affects Xykon, including turning herself into a dragon to fight better. The first hint that Belkar's alignment is south of neutral is when an Unholy Blight spell (doesn't affect evil creatures) that incapacitates the rest of the party has no effect on him. The Monster in the Darkness also has incredible Damage Reduction, to the point that he didn't even notice Belkar attacking him. Haley's next suggestion was to run the hell away as fast as possible. Miko also tried and failed to harm the Monster. Apparently, her katana "tickles". When he promptly challenged her to a "who can hit the lightest" game, she planned to use her round to attempt her most powerful attack, but she never got that far because the Monster's weakest attack sent her flying. Using negative energy effects on Nale is just plain stupid; making out with his girlfriend involves a close encounter with a level drain attack, meaning that he buys Potions of Negative Energy Protection in bulk. Unfortunately for him, he is less resistant to knives. |
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The Order of the Stick (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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For most of the first book of the Xanth series, Bink's quasi-sentient magical talent, being unable to be harmed by magic prevents people from coming to understand its nature by working entirely through Contrived Coincidence, and so was unknown to everyone in the story, including Bink. In the climactic scene however, Bink's talent decides it is necessary that a particular antagonistic character figure it out, and causes the antagonist's magic attack to fail in rather un-subtle example. The character in question was sufficiently powerful and versatile that there was no subtle way left to thwart his magic, so Bink's talent had to create increasingly implausible events to protect him. Since the character in question was also extremely intelligent, he had to be let in on the secret because he'd figure it out anyway. In a later book, Grey Murphy has the ability to nullify magic. This causes a series of would be opponents and other dangers to No Sell against him. | |
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Xanth | hasFeature |
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Ghosts of War: One the Helwigs are brought Back from the Dead, they're able to shrug off gunfire like it's nothing. | |
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Sheriff Ned in Harry Potter Comics: is the first muggle the wizards encounter (though others follow) that is immune to mind magic and can't be memory charmed. He has no idea what they're even trying to do when they attempt it. It is later revealed that a growing number of muggles are becoming immune to memory charms, a genetic adaptation of their immune systems due to wizards using the charms on them so often. | |
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Harry Potter Comics (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell | |
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Wrestlers with high-risk styles, such as cruiserweights or hardcore wresters, sometimes instinctively no sell huge moves to reassure themselves that they aren't seriously hurt. Two examples written about in their books include Chris Jericho immediately jumping up after a huge blow to his neck (to prove he didn't get crippled, a huge fear of his) and Mick Foley no selling a C4 explosion under the arm! | |
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Chris Jericho (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_5c3b1859 | type |
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No-Sell / int_5c3b1859 | comment |
Captain America: Civil War: Black Widow finds out her wrist-mounted paralyzing gadget doesn't work on Crossbones, as his nerves are all messed up after having a Helicarrier crash into his face. A helicopter opens fire on the Winter Soldier and Black Panther. The bullets have no effect on Black Panther since his suit is laced with vibranium. Hawkeye comes out of his "retirement" to seek Scarlet Witch at the Avengers compound. Vision gets in his way, and none of Hawkeye's attacks manage to even make the vibranium-made being budge. It takes Scarlet Witch's powers to incapacitate Vision. Bucky's normally devastating punch with his prosthetic arm is caught casually by Spider-Man, who proceeds to gush over how cool it is, while just as casually twisting the arm. Bucky is understandably confused when he hears the superhero who just caught his punch speak with the voice of a teenager. |
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No-Sell / int_5c3b1859 | featureApplicability |
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Captain America: Civil War | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_5dec1d0a | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_5dec1d0a | comment |
In Red Dragon Inn, each character has an "I Don't Think So!" card, which can cancel any action by another player, including that player's "I Don't Think So!" card. | |
No-Sell / int_5dec1d0a | featureApplicability |
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Red Dragon Inn (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_5e498fad | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_5e498fad | comment |
Fright Night (1985): "You have to have faith for that (a crucifix) to work, Mr. Vincent!" | |
No-Sell / int_5e498fad | featureApplicability |
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Fright Night (1985) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_6108ba8d | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_6108ba8d | comment |
At the climax of The Last Jedi, Luke Skywalker does this twice, first with a Worf Barrage and then when Kylo Ren personally tries to slash him in half with his lightsaber. It's because he's not actually there, but simply projecting his presence across the galaxy using the Force. Unfortunately, the effort required of him to do that does succeed in killing him where Kylo Ren failed. | |
No-Sell / int_6108ba8d | featureApplicability |
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The Last Jedi | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_61a39969 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_61a39969 | comment |
Avengers: Infinity War: Thanos shrugs off nearly everything the Avengers throw at him, to the point of tanking blows from the Hulk. The Titan team only does any damage to him by attacking him all at once, nonstop, and even then they only succeed in temporarily pinning him down. It takes Iron Man unleashing his entire arsenal on Thanos to score a tiny cut on his cheek. The only hero who manages to fight him on almost-equal terms is Doctor Strange, whose reality-warping spells give him a halfway decent counter to the Infinity Gauntlet. The only one who manages to actually do significant damage to him is Thor who manages to drive Stormbreaker straight through his chest. This seriously wounds Thanos who falls to his knees in agony but even this isn't able to kill him. | |
No-Sell / int_61a39969 | featureApplicability |
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Avengers: Infinity War | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_62126ef1 | type |
No-Sell | |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Done hilariously with Luke Cage. In the series finale, it's seen just how outmatched the good guys are when Galactus no-sells getting shrunk to microscopic size and trapped in Yellowjacket's gun. He reverses it without so much as turning to look at them! |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_6276800c | type |
No-Sell | |
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One of The Nostalgia Critic's many criticisms about Alien: Resurrection is when Dr. Wren holds Annalee Call hostage, threatening to shoot her in the head, and the rest of the survivors comply, pointing out that as an android a bullet to the head would have no actual effect on her. Especially when being shot in the chest earlier didn't even slow Call down. | |
No-Sell / int_6276800c | featureApplicability |
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The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_63495904 | type |
No-Sell | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! East Academy, Haine does this to Gol'gar's Cosmic Nebula Force attack | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! East Academy / Role Play | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_63d89b7f | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_63d89b7f | comment |
Theo from Sidekicks manages to do this to Monk every time the latter tries to use his superpower. | |
No-Sell / int_63d89b7f | featureApplicability |
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Sidekicks (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_63d89b7f | |
No-Sell / int_645d2bd1 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_645d2bd1 | comment |
In Warbreaker, Nightblood is a sentient sword that acts as an Artifact of Attraction, forcing anyone nearby to attack each other in an attempt to steal him for themselves. However, this power is completely useless on those it considers sinless (Indeed, the attractive power is an attempt to discern whether the people in its vicinity are sinless). | |
No-Sell / int_645d2bd1 | featureApplicability |
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Warbreaker | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_65d07453 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_65d07453 | comment |
Captain America: The First Avenger: During their first meeting, the Red Skull is completely unfazed by Cap's punch to the jaw. And then he punches the Captain's shield so hard that he dents it. No wonder he got a better shield afterwards. Then at a later confrontation, Red Skull pummels the crap out of a restrained Cap who retorts that he can "do this all day". |
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No-Sell / int_65e33191 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_65e33191 | comment |
Melissa tries to harness the powers of Teresa's talisman against her at the end of Abandon All Hope — this becomes a complete No-Sell when it's revealed Teresa was completely lying about getting her power from a talisman. | |
No-Sell / int_65e33191 | featureApplicability |
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Abandon All Hope (Theatre) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_6715932e | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_6715932e | comment |
In Spirit Hunter: NG, D-Man explains in Spirit Memoirs 6 that curses have no effect on him, hence why he's so cavalier about receiving a mail that supposedly turns a person into a murderer. As revealed at the end of his quest, this is because he's already dead. | |
No-Sell / int_6715932e | featureApplicability |
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Spirit Hunter: NG (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_671d5c19 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_671d5c19 | comment |
The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In the episode "Speed Demon", Him is victorious in a Bad Future where the whole world has gone to "Heck". The girls unleash a full assault, only for Him to pop back up and ask if they're finished. | |
No-Sell / int_671d5c19 | featureApplicability |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_67d445c1 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_67d445c1 | comment |
In The Outside, Enga fires thirty-seven shots at an Outside monster in 3.3 seconds, using every suitable weapon in her arsenal exactly once. None of them have any effect. | |
No-Sell / int_67d445c1 | featureApplicability |
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The Outside | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_694ab80 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_694ab80 | comment |
Batman Beyond: In "Shriek", Terry tries to sneak around Shriek by switching on the machinery in the factory they're fighting in. Shriek uses his acoustic suit to silence all the sounds except Terry's footsteps. | |
No-Sell / int_694ab80 | featureApplicability |
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Batman Beyond | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_69d15cc0 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_69d15cc0 | comment |
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Captain America: The First Avenger: During their first meeting, the Red Skull is completely unfazed by Cap's punch to the jaw. And then he punches the Captain's shield so hard that he dents it. No wonder he got a better shield afterwards. Then at a later confrontation, Red Skull pummels the crap out of a restrained Cap who retorts that he can "do this all day". Iron Man 2: After James Rhodes presents his superiors with Tony's "War Machine" armor, Justin Hammer augments the suit with his own weapons tech, including a bunker-buster missile he calls "The Ex-Wife"; in Hammer's words, "It takes everything." During their final battle with Ivan Vanko, Rhodes fires the Ex-Wife at Vanko, only for the missile to bounce off Vanko's armor and sputter once it hits the ground. The Avengers: In their fight in Stuttgart, Captain America's best blows barely faze Loki. Loki attempts to brainwash Tony Stark by touching his staff to his chest, only for it to harmlessly bounce off the arc reactor keeping Tony alive instead. Tony is, to say the least, supremely unimpressed. It even makes a loud clink when it hits. After a Beat Loki tries again. Clink. Guardians of the Galaxy: Ronan emerges unhurt regardless of who attacks him or with how much ferocity. Captain America: Civil War: Black Widow finds out her wrist-mounted paralyzing gadget doesn't work on Crossbones, as his nerves are all messed up after having a Helicarrier crash into his face. A helicopter opens fire on the Winter Soldier and Black Panther. The bullets have no effect on Black Panther since his suit is laced with vibranium. Hawkeye comes out of his "retirement" to seek Scarlet Witch at the Avengers compound. Vision gets in his way, and none of Hawkeye's attacks manage to even make the vibranium-made being budge. It takes Scarlet Witch's powers to incapacitate Vision. Bucky's normally devastating punch with his prosthetic arm is caught casually by Spider-Man, who proceeds to gush over how cool it is, while just as casually twisting the arm. Bucky is understandably confused when he hears the superhero who just caught his punch speak with the voice of a teenager. Thor: Ragnarok: Hela draws her power from Asgard itself, and so is virtually invincible. Even after over 1500 years imprisoned in a limbo dimension, she’s able to catch and crush Mjolnir with a single hand, and only grows stronger from there. Avengers: Infinity War: Thanos shrugs off nearly everything the Avengers throw at him, to the point of tanking blows from the Hulk. The Titan team only does any damage to him by attacking him all at once, nonstop, and even then they only succeed in temporarily pinning him down. It takes Iron Man unleashing his entire arsenal on Thanos to score a tiny cut on his cheek. The only hero who manages to fight him on almost-equal terms is Doctor Strange, whose reality-warping spells give him a halfway decent counter to the Infinity Gauntlet. The only one who manages to actually do significant damage to him is Thor who manages to drive Stormbreaker straight through his chest. This seriously wounds Thanos who falls to his knees in agony but even this isn't able to kill him. In Avengers: Endgame, Thanos finally ends up on the other end of this when he headbutts Carol Danvers as she's stopping him from using the Infinity Gauntlet. She doesn't even flinch and he has to resort to a trick (popping the Power Stone out of the gauntlet and using it in his off hand to blast her) to get her off of him. In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda no-sold everything launched against her. Best example is when America fight Wanda, America's punches literally fails to do something beyond annoying her. |
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No-Sell / int_69daf29 | type |
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Grrl Power: Maxima pulls off a rather spectacular no-sell when Vehemence gives her a super-powered punch to the face. Her internal monologue reveals that he broke her nose, but she's not about to tell him that. A vault of supernatural artifacts too dangerous to be used is protected by, among other things, an immense golem with a weakness-inducing aura. When they have to open the vault after a robbery, the supernatural entities are all visibly immoblized, while the ARCHON agents Maxima, Dabbler, and Halo make short work of the golem. When asked why the aura didn't affect them: |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_6a7e6314 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_6a7e6314 | comment |
Thor: Ragnarok: Hela draws her power from Asgard itself, and so is virtually invincible. Even after over 1500 years imprisoned in a limbo dimension, she’s able to catch and crush Mjolnir with a single hand, and only grows stronger from there. | |
No-Sell / int_6a7e6314 | featureApplicability |
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Thor: Ragnarok | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_6a7e6314 | |
No-Sell / int_6bde20e3 | type |
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No-Sell / int_6bde20e3 | comment |
Tempest (2011): In Tempest Revealed, Tempest blasts the Leviathan with enough magic to kill any other creature, but the Leviathan barely seems to notice it. | |
No-Sell / int_6bde20e3 | featureApplicability |
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Tempest (2011) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_6ca8eee5 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_6ca8eee5 | comment |
Bayley has a habit of no selling a move or two towards the end of her matches. At the NXT Takeover Brooklyn event, the end of the match saw Asuka kick her in the head, only for Bayley to no sell it to get in one last slap before Asuka laid Bayley out with two more heavy kicks to end the match and win the title off Bayley. | |
No-Sell / int_6ca8eee5 | featureApplicability |
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Bayley (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_6d6ccc60 | type |
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No-Sell / int_6d6ccc60 | comment |
Moongobble and Me: Book 5 has Oggledy Nork be completely immune to spells that would alter people's perception of him. | |
No-Sell / int_6d6ccc60 | featureApplicability |
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Moongobble and Me | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_6db54316 | type |
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In Words of Radiance (book two of The Stormlight Archive), it turns out that Shardplate is immune to the lightning that some types of Voidbringers can summon. The first guy to survive such an attack notes that he should have realized it earlier; after all, Shardplate was designed to be used against Voidbringers. | |
No-Sell / int_6db54316 | featureApplicability |
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Words of Radiance | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_6eb4ca5c | type |
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In one episode of Jackie Chan Adventures that takes place in Spain, Valmont (who's currently sharing a body with Shendu, the Big Bad of the season), Hak Foo, Ratso, and Jackie find themselves standing in the middle of a Pamplona street when the Running of the Bulls begins. Jackie (an extremely athletic archaeologist), Hak Foo (The Brute of Valmont's team), and Ratso (who usually serves as Dumb Muscle and is quite strong himself) immediately panic and find themselves tossed among the angry bulls. But Valmont/Shendu just stands still, and the bulls go around him. It's unclear whether this was because they sensed the demon inhabiting the body, or the combination just gave the two incredible willpower that naturally made the bulls go around what they thought was some kind of immobile obstacle. | |
No-Sell / int_6eb4ca5c | featureApplicability |
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Jackie Chan Adventures | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_6ff8b00a | type |
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Dora the Explorer: In the Christmas special, "Dora's Christmas Carol Adventure," Swiper, No Swiping! didn't work on Future!Swiper when it was used by his past self, of all people. In "Dora's Big Birthday Adventure", Dora and Boots cannot jump out of the Magic Storybook because it's ineffective when in Wizzle World; the only way out of the book from there is to speak to the Wishing Wizzle who can wish them home with his magic wishing crystal which Dora had on for the previous two Magic Storybook specials. |
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Dora the Explorer | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_7013cf88 | type |
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In the Apprentice Adept series, Adepts' magic cancels each other out, on a one-on-one basis. Protagoinist Stile (the Blue Adept) finds this out when he hits Adept White with a series of near-spells designed to fizzle out immeditately, and White informs him that the real thing would not have done her any more harm. He's also informed that this is not the case should two or more Adepts gang up on him. He also realizes that this put an extra degree of mystery to the death of his Phaze counterpart, the previous Blue Adept; He should've been able to fend off the booby trap that ultimately killed him, but instead allowed himself to succumb. | |
No-Sell / int_7013cf88 | featureApplicability |
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Apprentice Adept | hasFeature |
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Kung Fu Hustle: In the midst of showing off just how much of a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass he is, the Beast ends up getting dropkicked in the face, and then punched and kicked on either side of his head in tandem. Other than his face deforming around the offending extremities, he doesn't even budge. | |
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Kung Fu Hustle | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_72262aee | type |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: "The Puppetmaster": "The Day of Black Sun, Part 2": "Sozin's Comet Part 4: Avatar Aang": After Firelord Ozai accidentally unlocks Aang's Avatar State, absolutely everything he throws at him for the rest of the "fight" is casually tossed aside and deflected like it was nothing. |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_7460586f | type |
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Archer: In "El Secuestro", Pam is mistaken for Cheryl (who is Secretly Wealthy) and kidnapped. While she does spit out blood and gets a black eye, she literally laughs off the kidnappers attempting to beat her into silence, and taunts them over how ineffective they are. The episode later reveals that Pam used to routinely fight in an underground fight circuit, so she's used to dealing with people who can hit a lot harder than these dumb wannabe kidnappers. | |
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Archer | hasFeature |
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In The Shepherd's Crown, it turns out Granny Weatherwax's self-proclaimed rival Ms. Earwig is so astoundingly self-absorbed she's completely immune to Elf glamour. | |
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The Shepherd's Crown | hasFeature |
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In Dies Irae there are quite a few who fit to bill of being able to shrug off whatever is thrown at them, but a few examples would be: The priest Valerian Trifa is someone who happens to be the caretaker of the Big Bad's physical body. This gives him such obscene defenses that more often than not he just stands there in a fight letting the opponent wail on him to no effect, maybe slipping in the occasional counterattack every now and again. And needless to say but the same also applies to said Big Bad. One of the three commanders, Machina, has the ability to "end" whatever he comes in touch with. Basically, if something has a beginning, middle and an end, he can force it to end immediately. Be it magical effects or whole existences. This is of course valuable defensively as most things just "end" upon hitting him making him very difficult to hurt. And finally there is the Time Armor, possessed by the main character Ren Fujii after he begins Emanating. It locks it's users state at zero and prevents any kind of change from being imposed on them unless they allow it. It is one of the most powerful defensive abilities in the series and is something that can even block the effect of Machina's all ending fists. |
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Dies Irae (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
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X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Bad Future sentinels' design is sufficiently advanced to be impervious to most mutants' powers and even worse, counter them. | |
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X-Men: Days of Future Past | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_7832b74c | type |
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Steven Universe: Modern Homeworld gems have weapons and equipment that directly disrupt the physical forms of gems, instantly reverting them to gem form. Steven doesn't have the physical form of a gem, though, but an organic human body, so they don't seem to do much more than make him feel a bit odd. Similarly, humans (such as Lars) are completely invisible to most of the Gem detection systems as they are set to look for Gems rather than organic material. On the flipside, Homeworld technology has advanced considerably in the six thousand years between their defeat in the Gem War and the present. The hand-shaped Homeworld ship that shows up in "The Return" isn't even scratched by the Crystal Gems' woefully obsolete Light Cannons (though early in the series, just one is enough to destroy an automated probe). Quite a lot of gem weapons and technology were designed only with gems, which are alien rocks with hard light bodies. Humans are often either resistant or entirely immune. In "Earthlings", Amethyst insists on fighting Jasper one on one, to prove that she is as strong as her. Armed with the extra training and weapon upgrade from the weeks since the last time they'd faced each other, she puts all her strength into her attack. After taking a couple of blows from her, Jasper just stops and takes every attack from her without suffering any visible damage. In "Reunited", Lapis shrugs off Blue Diamond's Emotion Bomb attack, which had left everyone else involved incapacitated, delivering a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner before proceeding to turn the tide of the battle. Steven's shielding powers at their most powerful effectively make anyone else's attack this, most likely because he's actually a Diamond, and not a Quartz as he'd previously believed. When his Gem is forcibly removed by White Diamond in "Change Your Mind", his Gem half, Pink Steven, effortlessly shields itself against White's brainwashing beam, even when she's firing not just from herself, but from all the other Gems in the room she's controlling. In the movie, when Steven gets his powers back in the climax, he's able to deflect all of Spinel's attacks, defeating her solely by letting her wear herself out enough to where she starts thinking clearly about how awful she's being. At the end of Steven Universe: Future, in "I Am My Monster", Steven's Corrupted Form shrugs off basically everything thrown at him. Granted, nearly all of them were secondary abilities that weren't straight attacks, but none of the Diamonds nor Lapis (who has been shown to be extremely powerful with her water abilities) could keep him held down for very long at all. When holding Steven down fails to stop him, the group quickly changes plans to try and calm Steven down from this form by reaching him emotionally, which, thankfully for them all, works. |
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In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the Enterprise takes an attack from V'Ger that already annihilated three Klingon battlecruisers — but unlike with the Klingons, her upgraded Deflector Shields successfully stop the attack. | |
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In Mega Man (Ruby-Spears), the Robot Masters almost always flee after Mega Man steals their powers, letting him end some fights before they begin. However, when he tries this trick on Pharaoh Man, Pharaoh Man responds by punching him in the face so hard that Mega flies to the other side of the street. | |
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ThunderCats (2011) has this in the "Trials of Lion-O". Lion-O must force Panthro out of a wrestling ring within a time limit, but cannot even move him. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In "The Best Lazy Day Ever", Dr. Doofenshmirtz invents the Ugly-inator, which is designed to make everyone else ugly so that he'll look attractive by comparison. He gets shot by it himself and is unaffected, suggesting that he's already too ugly for it to have an effect. In "Tip of the Day", Doofenshmirtz invents a Delete-From-My-Mind-inator which can erase whatever is on his mind from all minds in the Tri-State Area; however, anyone who isn't aware of what he's thinking of will be unaffected. The Worst Fear-inator from "Cheers for Fears" brings the worst fear of anyone it zaps to life; however, it has no effect on Perry because he's fearless. |
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In Silver Crisis, this is how most bouts against main antagonists Silver and Ganondorf go. Granted, it's justified because Ganondorf can only be killed by Sacred Weapons made by the Gods, and the same applies to Silver because he was a being created by Ganondorf's magic. | |
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The Parry skill in Fleuret Blanc is a guaranteed block against any attack — unless it comes up against Feint, in which case a difficult Quick Time Event determines its success. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Jones has a sparring match with Sir Eglamore, where his sword glances off her face without leaving a mark. Chapter 40 later shows her being invulnerable to a spear. | |
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InGodzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), the US military attempts to use the Oxygen Destroyer on Godzilla and King Ghidorah while the two are busy fighting to kill both of them in one fell swoop. While it does succeed in wiping out all sea-life in the bay and nearly kills Godzilla, it has absolutely no effect on Ghidorah, because, as it's later discovered, he's an extraterrestrial organism which does not need oxygen to survive. And now with his chief rival out of the way, Ghidorah takes his place as the new monster king unimpeded. | |
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Epithet Erased: Zora's ability to inflict Rapid Aging only works on things that show effects of that ageing. Ramsey makes himself immune to it by turning himself to gold, which doesn't corrode. In Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic, Molly's power is a hard counter to her sister's, and while it has limitations, as you'd expect from an ability being used by a malnourished twelve-year-old who's already had a tiring week, most of the challenges the group encounter on their way to Lorelai's stronghold have to threaten Feenie and/or Trixie indirectly, because Molly can just shrug everything off and erase the "boss" from existence. The first major crack in Lorelai's facade comes when she throws an attack that she knows won't hurt Molly, but Rick jumps in front of the attack. |
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Near the ending of Con Air, Poe walks towards the Big Bad who destroyed his peaceful ride home. A nearby con raises his gun and shoots at the striding Poe, who gets hit in the upper arm. He just keeps walking and kicks the con's ass. | |
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Subverted by Kellie Skater in SHIMMER, who claims to be "pure adamantium" and "virtually indestructible". This is about as true as JBL's claims that he is a wrestling god. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings: Tom Bombadil is shown to be completely immune to the corrupting powers of the One Ring, as well as its more practical effects like invisibility. In fact, when Tom briefly holds the Ring in his hand he is downright amused by it, treating as it as nothing but a harmless curiosity, and even performs a couple of palour tricks with it before he casually hands it back to Frodo. This turns out to be a case of Blessed with Suck for Frodo and the other Hobbits; they can't ask Tom to keep the One Ring safe for them, because he's so disinterested in its power that he'd likely just forget about it and misplace it, if not outright throw it away without a second thought. Impressively, Faramir isn't tempted by the Ring's power either, even when he learns Frodo has it and is in a position to easily take it from him. This is in stark contrast to his older brother Boromir, who was always seen as stronger than Faramir but was corrupted by the Ring. Sam is likewise unaffected despite much longer exposure. In his case we actually see the ring try to corrupt him, only to utterly fail when it can't think of anything to tempt him with that he actually wants. The Ring tries to tempt with the idea that he could use it to overthrow Sauron, and use his powers as the new lord of Mordor, to transform it into a large garden tended by enslaved servants. Sam rejects this idea, because he only wants to tend a garden on his own, not to lord it over others and force them to do the gardening. The Ring then tries to amend the suggestion, telling Sam that he could still make Mordor into a large garden and just tend to it himself. Sam rejects this idea too, as he points that he is just one person, and he possibly couldn't take care of such a large place alone. There's also a Too Broken to Break variation: Éowyn is able to stare down the Witch-King of Angmar and shrug off the crippling despair his presence inspires that reduces most men to sobbing piles on the ground. She's not able to do this because she's "just that badass"; but rather because she's been living in despair for literal years while taking care of her ailing uncle and doing her part in trying to make sure his kingdom didn't fall apart: She is just used to feeling utterly hopeless and acting in spite of it. |
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Godslave: When Edith tries her Megaton Punch on Turner, his only reaction is a small wince. | |
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Star Trek: In the Next Generation novel "Vendetta" Delcara's Planet Killer easily demolishes the first Borg ship it comes across. The Tholians then ensnare Delcara's Planet killer in one of their infamous webs. For exactly 19 seconds the Tholians believed they had her trapped until she opened up with her anti-proton beam, frying the two Tholian ships still connected to the web and causing the web itself to disintegrate a few seconds later. The Planet Killer then flies through the Tholian system's sun without suffering any damage. Then the giant ship faces down three Borg cubes. While the Borg cubes put up more of a fight, Delcara is able to defeat them with help from the Federation. The X-Men crossover novel Planet X features the Enterprise-E being attacked by a powerful alien ship, with their only hope of victory being to ask Nightcrawler to teleport onto the enemy vessel. Storm notes that this plan is difficult as Kurt lacks experience in alien technology and anyone they send with him will be fatigued from the strain of the jump, but Riker suggests that they send Data with the mutant, as Data doesn’t get tired in the first place and has all the technical expertise they might need. |
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: The Wishing Star is surrounded by a technicolor field that disintegrates anything it touches. The Wolf, being The Grim Reaper, can simply walk through it without so much as blinking. | |
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In How to Train Your Dragon 2, baby dragons like the Scuttleclaws hatchlings are immune to the Bewilderbeasts’ mind control. Also closing off a dragon’s senses of sight and hearing can also diminish the mind manipulation effect. | |
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Girl Genius: The Master of Paris easily shrugs off an attack that moments before turned a group of knights into Dem Bones style servants to the one who uses it. Played for Laughs by Othar Tryggvassen (GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!) who no-sells having a Jaeger land on his back from terminal velocity. When Tarvek points out his spine should be broken, Othar brushes it off with "special trousers. Very heroic". When a Dreen makes its first appearance, it at first appears to be an anti-climatic gag with Tarvek's warnings of how dangerous they are seemingly ended when Martellus's battle-clank squashes it flat. In the next strip, Martellus's clank has been disassembled from the bottom up, without the Dreen even taking its attention away from Agatha. By the time Von Pinn fights Lucrezia in the latter's old lab in Castle Heterodyne, she has rendered herself immune to Lucrezia's Compelling Voice. |
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In Val and Isaac, Isaac's asexuality means he's impervious to things like a siren's song or the arrow of a Romanticore. He's also immune to poison, not because he's ace, but because he keeps accidentally drinking the stuff. | |
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Monsters vs. Aliens: The Deflector Shields on Gallaxhar's giant robotic probe make it Immune to Bullets, along with just about everything else the U.S. Army can throw at it. | |
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Valek in Maria Snyder's Ixia and Sitia books is immune to all magic, but has no magical power himself. | |
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In the Journey to Chaos, this happens most frequently when someone tries to use the Evil Eye technique on someone who either has a stronger spirit or has experienced greater suffering. They don't have to block or do anything; it just doesn't hurt them. They just get goosebumps. | |
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The case 4 culprit from Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane is the only person who won't take any damage in the final Argument with you in court. | |
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A staple for The Undertaker: He incorporated the no sell into his "rising from the dead" persona, where he would sit up after taking his opponent's Finishing Move. If you see him lying out completely straight after taking a finisher, he's very likely about to do this, especially if his opponent hasn't covered him immediately. Cue an Oh, Crap! face from said opponent. The Rock once got savvy while trying to perform the People's Elbow on Undertaker. When Undertaker sat up, Rock kicked him back down and did the elbow anyway. Kane, whose gimmick borrows a lot from his kayfabe brother (and originally at least, about as much from Jason Voorhees), would do this a lot as well. Kane's fairly regular associate Big Show also does this, especially against smaller opponents. Perhaps the first time Undertaker actually visually reacted to a strike was during the 1992 Royal Rumble, when Ric Flair low-blowed him and Taker sort of "half-sold" it. |
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In the party at the beginning of Aleta: Vampire Mistress, a robber tries to shoot Aleta when she starts approaching him. It doesn't work. Also, the stake-through-the-heart thing doesn't work on her either. She justifies this by stating that it only works on her underlings, but not her. | |
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Fanny Price of Mansfield Park is the only woman in the world so far whom Handsome Lech Henry Crawford finds immune to his charm (although "she felt his powers"), leading to I Love You Because I Can't Control You (this being Jane Austen, though, she picks the actually moral, reliable Edmund). The parody mash-up Mansfield Park and Mummies expands on this and makes Fanny the only human immune to Mary Crawford's (now a vampire) hypnotic powers. | |
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Weregeek (or rather its guest page) reminds us: while Warhammer 40,000 may be fun, very few sorts of Mind Screw can be worse than this trope applied recursively. | |
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In at least two instances in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Fleur Delacour is seen trying to use her Veela charm on Cedric Diggory. Both times he's completely unaffected, which, given how unimpressed she is with boys who are, may have been what she was aiming for. Harry also learns in the same book that he's able to resist the Imperius Curse — a possible but difficult and rare feat. He also spends the entire series countering and surviving all of Voldemort's attempts to Avada Kedavra him. On another occasion in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Fawkes intercepts the same Killing Curse when Voldemort fires one off at Dumbledore, but (being a phoenix) he isn't finished off permanently: rather, Fawkes swallows the curse and is immediately reborn as a phoenix chick. | |
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Danganronpa has Makoto Naegi, The Hero of the first game and the Big Good for the rest of the franchise. The Ultimate Despair is known for their ability to throw people in despair, manipulate their minds with Mind Rape and Breaking Speech and make everybody lose hope with a few words. Makoto, however, is immune to any of that, which he attributes to his unyielding optimism, and their Breaking Speech is often counterattacked and defeated by Makoto's Rousing Speech. The third installment takes it a step further, by showing that even their analytical skills don't work on him, as they can't predict his luck, which is completely random in terms of both when and how it'll work in his favor. | |
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One episode of The Real Ghostbusters features the team trying to catch a ghost haunting a theater, but every time they trap him, he simply breaks out of the trap. It turns out to be the ghost of Harry Houdini. | |
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Red vs. Blue sees Tucker attempt to drop a shipping container on a recently recreated Tex only for her to no sell it. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: In "Joker's Favor", everyman Charlie Collins has spent two years living with the specter of the Joker hanging over his head (after inadvertently cussing the Clown Prince of Crime out on the freeway, he begged for his life; Joker agreed in exchange for Charlie promising him to do a favor — which the villain could call in whenever he wanted — at some point in the future). After being pulled into one of the Joker's insane schemes and living to tell the tale, Charlie confronts the clown in an alleyway. The Joker tries to laugh him off, only for Charlie to sock him in the stomach. The villain immediately starts doing what he'd done for those two years — threatening Charlie's wife and son — but Charlie doesn't even blink, instead pulling out one of the Joker's own bombs and threatening him with it. Joker is terrified and ends up calling for Batman to save him. That's right — a short, pudgy, balding man stood up to the villain with one of the highest body counts in all of fiction, and brushed off his threats. THAT is a Badass Normal. In "Harley and Ivy", it's revealed that Poison Ivy has a natural immunity to poisons and toxins, which she brilliantly employs by hiding out in a half-finished neighborhood built atop a toxic waste dump; she gives Harley the same immunity in the episode, as they've teamed up to commit crimes. When Joker shows up to "reclaim" Harley, he uses his signature Joker venom — which can affect even Batman — on Ivy when she gets in the way. She falls to the ground, coughing... and then those coughs turn to laughter as she stands up and simply says "It doesn't work on me." She then demonstrates that the Joker has no such powers by kicking him square in the crotch, sending him sprawling. |
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No-Sell | |
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The Titan in Latchkey Kingdom can No-Sell a stab to its weak point. It's significantly weaker to explosives, though. | |
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Latchkey Kingdom (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_95521c97 | type |
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In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Spidey realizes that, because of the time he spent fused with the symbiote, his spider-sense doesn't consider Venom a threat (leading to a rather painful beatdown). | |
No-Sell / int_95521c97 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Spectacular Spider-Man | hasFeature |
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In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain, Lucyfar (who may or may not be the Archangel Lucifer) is only mildly annoyed when she gets cursed twice in quick succession. | |
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Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_9614fa1e | type |
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Variation in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indy is fighting the massive German mechanic at the airfield. The mechanic obviously feels the punches and grunts with each hit, but he doesn't even move despite Indy throwing his fists full-force into his jaw. Then the mechanic delivers a single jab that knocks Indy on his ass. | |
No-Sell / int_9614fa1e | featureApplicability |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_961b37e0 | type |
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In the DC Extended Universe: Man of Steel: Clark's shirt catches on fire after saving workers from a failing oil rig. The fireproof Clark remains unfazed. Zod barely notices being hit by falling debris. Bullets simply bounce off all the Kryptonians without even making them flinch. However, the A-10's Gatling guns were able to temporarily stun all three caught in their path. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Clark no-sells being hit by the Batmobile going at full speed. Later, during Clark and Bruce's Battle in the Rain, Bruce is able to block Clark's blow after Clark has been hit by a Kryptonite gas, leaving Clark shocked. However, as the Kryptonite begins to wear off, Bruce's punches have less and less effect on the Man Of Steel, until a punch just bounces harmlessly off Clark's chin. Zack Snyder's Justice League: Steppenwolf is about to deliver a strike from his electro-axe on the hapless Cyborg... then a CLANG! is heard — it's Superman bodyblocking the strike like it's nothing! Suicide Squad: Harley hits Big Bad the Enchantress over the back of the head with her trusty baseball bat. It simply bounces off with no effect... but it does get her attention, with painful results for Harley. SHAZAM!: Shazam and Freddy figure out through trial and error that the former is Immune to Bullets, fire, blunt force, and slices. Dr. Sivana later confirms to Shazam that normal humans and their weapons can't harm him; only magic can overcome magic. Since Sivana is possessed by the (magical) Seven Deadly Sins, this applies to him too, and the most important parts of the climax involve 1) Billy and his foster siblings trying to figure out a way to get all seven Sins to leave Sivana's body so he's vulnerable and can actually be defeated, and 2)Billy figuring out that he can share his Shazam powers with his siblings, so they can join the fight too. The Sins themselves seem to be immune from any lasting damage, and can turn into smoke to avoid being hurt, which Wrath does twice during his fight with Shazam. At best, the most that Shazam or his siblings are able to do is temporarily stun/incapacitate them. |
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DC Extended Universe (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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In Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic, Molly's power is a hard counter to her sister's, and while it has limitations, as you'd expect from an ability being used by a malnourished twelve-year-old who's already had a tiring week, most of the challenges the group encounter on their way to Lorelai's stronghold have to threaten Feenie and/or Trixie indirectly, because Molly can just shrug everything off and erase the "boss" from existence. The first major crack in Lorelai's facade comes when she throws an attack that she knows won't hurt Molly, but Rick jumps in front of the attack. | |
No-Sell / int_964243ec | featureApplicability |
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No-Sell / int_98c961e2 | type |
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No-Sell / int_98c961e2 | comment |
Helluva Boss: Blitzo and Millie are captured by Satanists who attempt to send the imps back to Hell by tying them to a stake, dousing them in gasoline, and setting them alight. After a tense moment they turn out to be perfectly fine, so the Satanists decide to try shooting them in the head, which Blitzo admits would work better. | |
No-Sell / int_98c961e2 | featureApplicability |
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Helluva Boss (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_99d527e2 | comment |
Digimon in the Digimon Card Game with the Jamming effect cannot be deleted in battle with Security Digimon. There are also several cards that inflict other Digimon with "Security -1", which means unless they were able to increase their number of Security attacks they'd check zero cards. | |
No-Sell / int_99d527e2 | featureApplicability |
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Digimon Card Game (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_9a80fd5d | type |
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No-Sell / int_9a80fd5d | comment |
Trolls: TrollsTopia: Chaz's Mind-Control Music in "Smooth Operator" can hypnotize any troll alike; however, it has no effect on children, which he realizes too late. | |
No-Sell / int_9a80fd5d | featureApplicability |
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Trolls: TrollsTopia | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_9b2b9859 | type |
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No-Sell / int_9b2b9859 | comment |
Cain in He Never Died is getting repeatedly pounded in the face by thugs in his apartment, but each hit, to their confoundment, barely registers more than an annoyed "Don't...!" Later he will be shot point blank in the forehead and remain unfazed, and after killing the mooks responsible, he simply pulls the bullet out of his head with pliers, explaining that if he leaves it in, it will give him migraines. | |
No-Sell / int_9b2b9859 | featureApplicability |
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He Never Died | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_9c4849a0 | type |
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In the Class of 3000 episode "Prank Yankers", when the school is filled with helium as a prank, Philly Phil's voice proves to be so deep that he's unaffected by it. | |
No-Sell / int_9c4849a0 | featureApplicability |
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Class of 3000 | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_9d41fc3b | type |
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Despicable Me: Gru manages to do this to four heat-seeking missiles and a shark when he breaks into Vector's fortress to get the girls back, leaping over the missiles (which blow up the gate) and getting rid of the shark with an Offhand Backhand. | |
No-Sell / int_9d41fc3b | featureApplicability |
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Despicable Me | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_9d9c71a4 | type |
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In My Little Pony (G3): Twinkle Wish Adventure, it's no sell on The Power of Friendship for Whimsey Weatherbe, at least at first. After the ponies hit her with their cute and catchy song number, "That's What Makes a Friend," she just shrugs it off, saying that she doesn't believe them, that they only want to take the wishing star Twinkle Wish back from her and not actually be her friend. Ultimately, however, she gives Twinkle Wish back on her own when she realizes that keeping her isn't getting her anywhere as far as making friends. | |
No-Sell / int_9d9c71a4 | featureApplicability |
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My Little Pony (G3) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_9d9c71a4 | |
No-Sell / int_9dab421d | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_9dab421d | comment |
Barbossa does something similar in the first film after Elizabeth stabs him with a kitchen knife. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_9e2dbb4d | type |
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No-Sell / int_9e2dbb4d | comment |
Regular Show: In "Grave Sights", Skips attempts a Groin Attack on one of the zombies. Though the zombie's crotch crumbled to dust, he was otherwise completely unharmed by the kick. In "Rage Against the TV", the Hammer is immune to all damage.... except from furniture. In the Grand Finale, the park crew try to pre-emptively take out Anti-Pops with traps when the fight begins. Despite hitting him with a variety of things, including a train, it doesn't do anything to him with Anti-Pops commenting that it tickled. |
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Regular Show | hasFeature |
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Batman Returns: Mild example. The Penguin twirls an umbrella with a black-and-white spiral pattern in front of Max Shreck who asks if it's supposed to hypnotize him. Realizing it's having no effect, Penguin says, "No, just give you a headache." Shreck comes back with, "It's not working." | |
No-Sell / int_9e84c324 | featureApplicability |
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Batman Returns | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_9ff4a8d9 | type |
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No-Sell / int_9ff4a8d9 | comment |
Many a monster in the Godzilla series has done this at least once. In Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Rodan shrugs off Godzilla's Atomic Heat Ray without any visible damage whatsoever; Instead he shakes his head and then begins laughing at him. Hedorah is a walking No-Sell, thanks to his amorphous and liquefied body. Any attempts by Godzilla at using his Atomic Breath prior to the JSDF rolling out the Giant Electrodes is rendered useless as it is incapable of drying Hedorah out and weakening him, while attempting to attack Hedorah with physical techniques is a really bad idea. In Godzilla (2014), the MUTO's are only mildly annoyed by even the heaviest ordnance the military can bring to bear. Godzilla, on the other hand, simply doesn't even notice when humans are attacking him. InGodzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), the US military attempts to use the Oxygen Destroyer on Godzilla and King Ghidorah while the two are busy fighting to kill both of them in one fell swoop. While it does succeed in wiping out all sea-life in the bay and nearly kills Godzilla, it has absolutely no effect on Ghidorah, because, as it's later discovered, he's an extraterrestrial organism which does not need oxygen to survive. And now with his chief rival out of the way, Ghidorah takes his place as the new monster king unimpeded. |
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Godzilla (Franchise) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_9ff4a8d9 | |
No-Sell / int_a037ae41 | type |
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In the backstory (depicted in Fate/Zero), Gilgamesh No Sells the Holy Grail pouring out all of the world's evil at once, declaring that because he is "the King of all mankind", he has the authority to take responsibility for mankind's collective sins, thus those sins cannot corrupt him. Whether it was because of that or just because Gilgamesh's ego is roughly the size of a galaxy, he turns out correct: the Grail cannot corrupt him. He does it again in the "Heaven's Feel" scenario, when the Servant-devouring Shadow tries to corrupt him but can't, and has to hurriedly eat him before he kills it. | |
No-Sell / int_a037ae41 | featureApplicability |
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Fate/Zero | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_a037ae41 | |
No-Sell / int_a159f0a8 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_a159f0a8 | comment |
The Brightest Shadow: The end result of any sufficiently superior ability, most directly Xetsu simply ignoring entire groups of people attacking him. | |
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The Brightest Shadow | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_a183d57f | type |
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No-Sell / int_a183d57f | comment |
In Futurama: Fry, due to lacking the Delta Brainwave (an inherent component of most forms of life), has reduced mental capacity in exchange for being completely immune to psionic attacks and manipulation. In "Less Than Hero", Fry and Leela take an ointment creamnote Warning: May cause superpowers in humans that allows them to shrug off practically any damage, which they learn after an attempted mugging. |
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Futurama | hasFeature |
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Later books in the Sword of Truth series have people immune to magic turn up. The infamous evil pacifists fit into this category. | |
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Sword of Truth | hasFeature |
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During the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' first fight against Tokka and Rahzar in The Secret of the Ooze, Donatello tries to baseball swing his bo into Tokka. It not only fails to do any damage, but the recoil of the blow knocks Donatello senseless. | |
No-Sell / int_a34863aa | featureApplicability |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_a40b1126 | type |
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The aliens in Independence Day are able to shrug off all of humanity's weapons. Even nuclear bombs, despite a brief Hope Spot, prove completely ineffective. At least, until they find a way to get through their energy shields. Independence Day: Resurgence takes this even further, with the alien queen taking a point-blank nuclear detonation to the face and walking out unscathed. | |
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Independence Day | hasFeature |
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Man of Steel: Clark's shirt catches on fire after saving workers from a failing oil rig. The fireproof Clark remains unfazed. Zod barely notices being hit by falling debris. Bullets simply bounce off all the Kryptonians without even making them flinch. However, the A-10's Gatling guns were able to temporarily stun all three caught in their path. |
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Man of Steel | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_a446c11f | type |
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Wrong is Right: When several assailants attack Unger's car, he barely reacts as they shoot his bulletproof window, and then proceeds to pull ahead of them, lower his window, and toss out a grenade to eliminate his pursuers. | |
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During a patrol, a group of P-47 Thunderbolts were looking for German fighters. One pilot saw some, but before he could react, one of the Germans (who were diving on the formation) knocked his plane out of the fight. After a few thousand feet went by, the P47 leveled off, and after several failed attempts to bail out, the pilot decided to try and return to base. After this, another German fighter (an FW-190) arrived, and started firing on him... after 3 attempts, the German ran out of ammunition, but the 'Jug' was still flying. The German rendered a salute (probably the German ace Colonel Egon Mayer, who would have been denied his 67th kill of the war), and left. The American arrived back at base, landed, got out, and started counting the bullet holes. After passing 200, and not even moving off the wing... he gave up. The pilot in question? Robert S. Johnson | |
No-Sell / int_a5f7e04e | featureApplicability |
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Cool Plane | hasFeature |
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In Avengers: Endgame, Thanos finally ends up on the other end of this when he headbutts Carol Danvers as she's stopping him from using the Infinity Gauntlet. She doesn't even flinch and he has to resort to a trick (popping the Power Stone out of the gauntlet and using it in his off hand to blast her) to get her off of him. | |
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Avengers: Endgame | hasFeature |
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Magic: The Gathering has a few variants: "Indestructible" means a card can't be destroyed by damage or by effects that say "destroy". Other ways of affecting it still matter, though, as does, in the case of creatures, reducing toughness to zero. Creatures like Progenitus and Darksteel Colossus take it a step further; even if they somehow would die, they go into their owner's deck instead. "Protection from X" means that a creature cannot be damaged by anything with property X, enchanted or equipped with anything with property X, blocked by anything with property X, or targeted by anything with property X. This can be a double-edged sword, though. Progenitus comes up again by having protection from everything. Apart from board-wipes and sacrifice-forcing effects, nothing can hurt it. "Regenerate" works similar to indestructible with a few caveats and usually with a cost, although one badass creature automatically regenerates. "Madness" means you can play it, for its madness cost, when you are forced to discard it. And a small number of creatures will automatically go to the battlefield if discarded. Counterspells function as a No Sell to the opponent's attempt to use magic. Uncounterable spells are, in turn, the No Sell to counterspells. There are two cards that instantly end the turn and function as a No Sell to anything and everything that is currently happening. Cards like Fog and Holy Day allow a player to ignore an attack from a whole army. Lich's Mirror and Platinum Angel allow their control to ignore anything would make them lose the game. Angel's Mercy gives similar reprieve, albeit monetarily. In story Nicol Bolas does this to Teferi in Time Spiral. He allows Teferi's disguised ultimate attack to hit, which should have put him in stasis for eternity. Nicol laughs it off and then rips him into tiny pieces. Nicol Bolas does the same thing to the Gatewatch on Amonkhet. He is particularly unimpressed with Chandra unleashing fire magic against him, pointing out that she's trying to burn a dragon. Ertai did it first. Game objects that are phased out probably take it furthest, they are "treated as if they didn't exist" and ignore everything. True-Name Nemesis No Sells anything a chosen opponent can throw at it short of a board wipe. Creatures, and the very occasional player, with shroud or hexproof are immune to anything that would specifically target them. A player with Witchbane Orb, for example, can't be hit by "target player" or "target opponent", but stuff that says "each opponent" or "each player" will still smack you upside the head. As a pleasant bonus, Witchbane Orb also dispels any Curses you've had inflicted upon you. Some creatures, most notably Tatterkite and Melira's Keepers, can't have either -1/-1 counters (Keepers) or any counters at all (Tatterkite) placed on them. Melira herself makes your entire army immune to -1/-1 counters. All three cards appeared in -1/-1 counter blocks. |
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Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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The Fairly OddParents!: When Super Bike finally pushes his yandere tendencies too far, Wanda tries to poof him away. She only gets a face full of fire and a reminder that Super Bike is Nigh-Invulnerable. | |
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The Fairly OddParents! | hasFeature |
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VeggieTales: In Sumo of the Opera, the Italian Scallion goes up against sumo champion Apollo Gourd. Despite Scallion having trained harder than he had in his entire life, while Apollo hadn't trained at all, Scallion is badly outmatched...until Apollo tries using his Signature Move on Scallion. For the first time in Apollo's whole career, it doesn't work. Scallion comes close to beating Apollo, but only ends up getting a draw. Still, even that is more than any other challenger to Apollo's title had ever accomplished. | |
No-Sell / int_a9f06cb6 | featureApplicability |
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VeggieTales | hasFeature |
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The "sell nothing at the start of the match" routine is incredibly common in Japan, even if the wrestler is not a monster but is just somewhat large and sometimes not even then. Lance Archer, whose former gimmick was analyzing and outsmarting the opponent, took to roaring and no selling after heading to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, for example. | |
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New Japan Pro-Wrestling (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda no-sold everything launched against her. Best example is when America fight Wanda, America's punches literally fails to do something beyond annoying her. | |
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | hasFeature |
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Inverted in Serenity, when Mal sells a nerve-cluster blow that doesn't actually affect him in order to fool his opponent. | |
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Serenity | hasFeature |
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In Nightmare at Noon, Ken punches Charley, who has been turned into a mindless killer. Charley barely reacts. Ken yells, "Oh shiiiit!" as Charley throws him over a table. | |
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Nightmare at Noon | hasFeature |
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In Batman & Robin: Poison Ivy uses her pheromone powers to get others to obey. When Mr. Freeze takes the diamond from her and she tries it on him, Freeze points out it doesn't work on a coldhearted individual like himself. Though Freeze is mostly being dramatic. The real reason it probably doesn't work is that he's wearing his refrigeration armor with a sealed helmet. Later in the film, Robin survives a kiss with Poison Ivy by protecting himself with rubber lips. He's the only character in the film to survive an on-screen kiss with her. |
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In Jemjammer, Mr. Herst ends up ending his turn in a pool of acid. While it's been a pain for everyone else, he resists it so much that he only takes one damage from it. It's like vinegar to him. | |
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The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks: At one point in book 1, the family goes out to dinner, and Norman puts on his gorilla head to surprise their waitress (having already been popping out of places while wearing it to surprise people earlier in the day). When the rest of the family orders a large pepperoni pizza, she's completely unphased by Norman's appearance, asking only "And what will your gorilla have?" | |
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The Faerie Queene: The first half of the battle between Redcrosse Knight and the dragon ends when Redcrosse lands a blow directly on the dragon's head... only for his sword to just bounce off the dragon's scales. Cue Breath Weapon. | |
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Back to the Future Part II: In 2015, Marty McFly tries to use the "Hey, what's that?!" move on Griff Tannen, Biff's grandson, who simply intercepts his fist thanks to bionic implants. Marty only escapes by kicking him in the groin. | |
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In The War of the Worlds (1953), the U.S. government authorizes the dropping of the latest atomic bomb model on the Martian warships in a last ditch attempt to stop them. When the smoke clears, the warships are seen surrounded by their protective blisters, floating towards their next target unfazed. | |
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Area 51: Most of the Airlia artifacts and deflector shields can withstand even the most powerful human weapons, such as a direct hit by a nuke. | |
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The Japanese wrestlers in Dragon Gate USA tend to not sell anything until they reach their limit, at which point they collapse. Bryan Alvarez likened this peculiarity of Dragon Gate USA singles matches to a live-action fighting game. | |
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In Gladiator's introduction in X-Men: The Animated Series, Juggernaut punches him in the stomach. He's unfazed, and tosses Juggernaut across the ocean. Then Phoenix shows up for the first time, and she shrugs off Gladiator's attacks and throws him into space. | |
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X-Men: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
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At Bound For Glory 2005, Christopher Daniels hits AJ Styles with a German Suplex, but Styles gets up immediately showing no signs of pain before flooring Daniels. | |
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Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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Parodied when The Man In Black attacks an unmoving Fezzick in The Princess Bride. | |
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In Star Trek Into Darkness, Kirk attempts a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on John Harrison after Harrison surrenders to him on Qo'noS, but is unable to even bruise him. Later, Spock attempts to subdue him with both a Vulcan nerve pinch and a Mind Meld — this time, he screams in pain but powers through it anyway. | |
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Star Trek Into Darkness | hasFeature |
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CPU Championship Series: In Everest Tony manages to do this to Blood Falcon's attempt to send him to the Dark Realm through sheer determination. Combined with Legacy Character in this case. | |
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Erika and the Princes in Distress: Angered that Erika interrupted its duel, a scorpunch launches its huge fist-shaped tail at full force straight towards her head. Erika merely turns around looking pissed, and the scorpunch realizes it is royally screwed. Somewhat subverted however, when Pita then pats the back of Erika's head, and she actually cowers and lets out a cry of pain. | |
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Fate/stay night: As a rule of thumb, all Servants are immune to attacks that are not at least indirectly magical in nature. Berserker's Noble Phantasm "God Hand" negates any attacks of B rank or lower, meaning that only an insanely powerful attack can harm him. And as if that wasn't enough, it also gives him twelve lives and makes him immune to any attack which killed him before. If activated instead of used passively, Avalon allows the user to No Sell EVERYTHING. From a rain of countless legendary Noble Phantasms to the single most powerful artifact weapon in the whole of the Nasuverse (capable of tearing apart spacetime and destroying the world), Avalon just ignores the whole thing. In the backstory (depicted in Fate/Zero), Gilgamesh No Sells the Holy Grail pouring out all of the world's evil at once, declaring that because he is "the King of all mankind", he has the authority to take responsibility for mankind's collective sins, thus those sins cannot corrupt him. Whether it was because of that or just because Gilgamesh's ego is roughly the size of a galaxy, he turns out correct: the Grail cannot corrupt him. He does it again in the "Heaven's Feel" scenario, when the Servant-devouring Shadow tries to corrupt him but can't, and has to hurriedly eat him before he kills it. |
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Exploited in Critical Role. Intuit charges deal massive amounts of psychic damage, and even one of them is enough to severely cripple or even kill a person. Lucien exploits his own immunity to psychic damage by dropping about a dozen intuit charges in the chamber of the Somnovem, and standing practically on top of them as they explode, killing the Somnovem and forcing the Mighty Nein to flee, but leaving him completely unharmed. | |
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Danny Phantom: In a dhampyr-style "best of both worlds" arrangement, half-ghosts are immune or resistant to many ghost vulnerabilities. For example, they can effortlessly pass through ghost shields as long as they're in human mode. Also, Danny's ghost sense doesn't detect half-ghosts like Vlad or Danielle (his much more powerful future self no longer has this weakness). Danny's (albeit limited) resistance to Freakshow's control over ghosts could also be due to this. On the flip side, Danny's immune to many other ghosts' powers or attacks that affect humans. He's unaffected by Ember's Mind-Control Music until she gets a significant power boost, and the ghost bugs that attack all his classmates in "Doctor's Disorders" can't infect him (even though he's one of the villain's prime targets in that plot, so they logically would have gone after him, too, if they could have). Wulf's power to create portals between dimensions makes him the only full-ghost able to get through ghost shields. Dora, sister of Prince Aragon, has a Ring of Power that stops Danny's ghost sense from working on her. To most ghosts (including aforementioned incredibly powerful future self), humans, technology, buildings, and anything in the way, Danny's Ghostly Wail attack is a One-Hit Kill that puts them down for the count. The two exceptions are a giant ghost sphinx in "King Tuck" (it's at that point that Sam concludes "Now we're doomed") and Vlad, who gets up and transforms without a scratch on him or a single sign of weakness, as if the attack didn't even happen. Granted, in the latter, Danny had been knocked out twice, overshadowed and shocked, so he may not have been using the Ghostly Wail at full power. |
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Goldberg no sold frequently during his streak and afterwards. He had a memorable match with Glacier where he no sold everything. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Davy Jones does this, even going so far as to disarm Will in At World's End after he stabs Davy with a rapier, by reaching round and bending the point of the rapier so it couldn't be drawn out of his body. Barbossa does something similar in the first film after Elizabeth stabs him with a kitchen knife. |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Something Smells", SpongeBob eats a peanut-onion sundae he made out of ketchup, onions and a peanut plant, rendering his breath rancid and gross, which scares the townsfolk away. Patrick is unable to discern the stinky breath because he doesn't have a nose; thus, this results in him suspecting that he's ugly. In "The Bully", SpongeBob is threatened by Flats Flounder and spends most of the episode trying to avoid him. However, when the time comes for Flats to beat him, it turns out that SpongeBob's spongy body absorbs the blows, leaving him unharmed. Flats continues hitting him until he's completely exhausted and falls over. In "Karate Island", while ascending the "Four Floors of Fear" to rescue SpongeBob, Sandy makes it to the third floor and encounters Filthy Phil, who uses the power of his body odor to defeat opponents. However, it has no effect on Sandy due to her nose being protected by her air helmet, and Phil passes out from getting a whiff of his own smell. In "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!", Plankton invents a fruitcake with a chemical known as Jerktonium, which causes anyone who eats it to become a naughty Christmas-hating jerk. Surprisingly, the Jerktonium has no effect on SpongeBob, because his innocence and deep love of Christmas protects him from its negative effects. |
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Epic Rap Battles of History: In "Superman vs. Goku", Superman's heat beam bounces harmlessly off Goku's arm. In "Hannibal Lecter vs. Jack the Ripper", Hannibal attempts to break Jack with his raps but Jack is unfazed. |
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In El Goonish Shive, when Not-Tengu is hit by Ellen's tranformation beam it has no effect on him whereas every time Ellen has used it before it has at least had a stun effect. | |
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The Wrath of Giga Bowser: Despite multiple characters attempting to fight back against Giga Bowser, all of their attacks prove completely ineffective, not even managing to make it flinch. During the climax of the video, multiple characters are unloading a barrage of missiles and laser beams at Giga Bowser, but it just keeps advancing without even reacting to being shot. | |
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In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, the human Mane Six and Sunset were the only ones unaffected by the Sirens' Mind-Control Music, because of The Power of Friendship that got imbued into them when they drew magic from Twilight's crown; however, this does not prevent them from arguing which allows the Sirens to absorb their magic. DJ PON-3 was also not affected by the spell because she always wears her headphones. | |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Clark no-sells being hit by the Batmobile going at full speed. Later, during Clark and Bruce's Battle in the Rain, Bruce is able to block Clark's blow after Clark has been hit by a Kryptonite gas, leaving Clark shocked. However, as the Kryptonite begins to wear off, Bruce's punches have less and less effect on the Man Of Steel, until a punch just bounces harmlessly off Clark's chin. | |
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Beetle Bailey: Sarge has a "Kick Me" sign on his back. So Beetle kicks him. All that happens is that he hurts his foot while Sarge keeps on walking without a reaction. | |
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Davy Jones does this, even going so far as to disarm Will in At World's End after he stabs Davy with a rapier, by reaching round and bending the point of the rapier so it couldn't be drawn out of his body. | |
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Suicide Squad: Harley hits Big Bad the Enchantress over the back of the head with her trusty baseball bat. It simply bounces off with no effect... but it does get her attention, with painful results for Harley. | |
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SHAZAM!: Shazam and Freddy figure out through trial and error that the former is Immune to Bullets, fire, blunt force, and slices. Dr. Sivana later confirms to Shazam that normal humans and their weapons can't harm him; only magic can overcome magic. Since Sivana is possessed by the (magical) Seven Deadly Sins, this applies to him too, and the most important parts of the climax involve 1) Billy and his foster siblings trying to figure out a way to get all seven Sins to leave Sivana's body so he's vulnerable and can actually be defeated, and 2)Billy figuring out that he can share his Shazam powers with his siblings, so they can join the fight too. The Sins themselves seem to be immune from any lasting damage, and can turn into smoke to avoid being hurt, which Wrath does twice during his fight with Shazam. At best, the most that Shazam or his siblings are able to do is temporarily stun/incapacitate them. |
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SHAZAM! (2019) | hasFeature |
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Hulk Hogan made it part of his persona as well. The first step in his "Hulking Up" process is to start no-selling everything. After that, it's all over. In the aftermath of Hogan's first major starring role in the 1989 movie No Holds Barred (a professional wrestler battles a corrupt television producer), a storyline was devised to pit Hogan against co-star Tiny Lister Jr., in Lister's role of man-monster Zeus, in a "real life" feud. (The explanation being that "Zeus" was annoyed and jealous over Hogan's star billing.) Zeus the wrestler made several appearances at wrestling cards, usually to interfere in matches involving Hogan and his friend, Brutus Beefcake, and the trope came into play when Hogan and/or Beefcake would try to fight off Zeus ... but Zeus would stand there, absorb the blows and smile as though he were not hurt! Eventually, a match was set up for SummerSlam 1989, with Hogan-Beefcake taking on Zeus and Randy Savage (with whom Hogan had been feuding, and Beefcake starting that spring); Zeus initially no-sold everything Hogan and Beefcake threw his way, but eventually they figured out his lone weak spot: if you poked his eyes, you could stun him long enough to hurt him. The "unfazable monster" gimmick worked for awhile, but eventually Zeus succumbed to Hogan, and in a "final" steel cage match in December 1989, Zeus little more than jobbed to Hogan ... a far cry from the imposing monster that was initially promoted as "unbeatable." Behind the scenes, Lister — who actually shared mutual respect for Hogan and had no problems with his second billing — had very little formal wrestling training, and Hogan has written in his autobiography that he agreed to go easy on Lister because of this. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Fluttershy in "Stare Master". She is being turned to stone by a cockatrice, and one might expect her to have some clever solution to the situation, as is typical with such stories. Instead, she just ignores it and stares the creature down and lectures it until it's intimidated into stopping and breaking the enchantment on her. In a similar vein, "The Return of Harmony Part 1" shows that Fluttershy is the only one of the Mane Six who's immune to Discord's verbal manipulation. Granted, he finally just gives up and uses straight-up mind control instead. In "The Return of Harmony Part 2", the first time Twilight tries to combine the Elements of Harmony to defeat Discord, it doesn't work, because her friends have become corrupted to their opposite selves and the Element of Loyalty does not work with Spike. "Keep Calm and Flutter On" reverses it. Fluttershy uses The Stare on Discord (the same one she used to cow a dragon into submission); Discord pretends to be scared, then laughs at Fluttershy for thinking her Stare could affect him. By the end of the episode, both being immune to overt manipulation by the other forms the basis of a lasting friendship and his redemption. It should be noted that in "Princess Twilight Sparkle, Part 2", Fluttershy's Stare does work on Discord, implying that Discord's immunity might have come from his Lack of Empathy rather than anything else. As the superhero Saddle Rager in "Power Ponies", her super-powered mode gets a full blast of the Mane-iac's doomsday weapon, and the beam bounces off harmlessly. In "Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2": Until she voluntarily surrenders it, Tirek is unable to drain Twilight of the combined power of the Princesses' alicorn magic. Though likewise, Tirek shrugs off everything Twilight throw at him. Tirek's magic (even with the power of the alicorns — two of which regularly raise the sun and moon, and one who is the living embodiment of The Power of Love — Discord, and many ponies he absorbed) does absolutely nothing to the rainbow-powered Mane Six. In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, the human Mane Six and Sunset were the only ones unaffected by the Sirens' Mind-Control Music, because of The Power of Friendship that got imbued into them when they drew magic from Twilight's crown; however, this does not prevent them from arguing which allows the Sirens to absorb their magic. DJ PON-3 was also not affected by the spell because she always wears her headphones. |
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In "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!", Plankton invents a fruitcake with a chemical known as Jerktonium, which causes anyone who eats it to become a naughty Christmas-hating jerk. Surprisingly, the Jerktonium has no effect on SpongeBob, because his innocence and deep love of Christmas protects him from its negative effects. | |
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Before a match at Ring of Honor's Final Battle 2011, The World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas) beat down the Briscoe Brothers with chairs and their Tag Team Championship Titles for eight minutes straight. Once they were all in the ring and the match officially started, the Briscoes, still bloody and bruised from the beat-down, were able to go toe-to-toe for another thirteen minutes as if nothing happened, eventually getting a clean win. | |
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Home on the Range: Slim's hypnotic yodeling can control cattle at his command; however, it has no effect on Grace. When curious over why she wasn't effected afterward, Maggie and Ms. Calloway note it's because she's not on "perfect pitch" like the others. | |
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In Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Donatello and Batgirl are pitted against Bane, who boasts about being "The Man Who Broke the Bat", and proceeds to demonstrate this by attempting to break Donnie's spine. However, since Donnie is a turtle, his spine is actually a hard, outer shell, so all Bane ends up doing is taking out his own kneecap. | |
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The Avengers: In their fight in Stuttgart, Captain America's best blows barely faze Loki. Loki attempts to brainwash Tony Stark by touching his staff to his chest, only for it to harmlessly bounce off the arc reactor keeping Tony alive instead. Tony is, to say the least, supremely unimpressed. It even makes a loud clink when it hits. After a Beat Loki tries again. Clink. |
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In the Grand Finale, the park crew try to pre-emptively take out Anti-Pops with traps when the fight begins. Despite hitting him with a variety of things, including a train, it doesn't do anything to him with Anti-Pops commenting that it tickled. | |
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In the Eddsworld Halloween Musical Episode "Trick or Threat", an evil little girl manages to possess both Matt and Edd, but her powers doesn't work on Tom, who is able to kick her out of the house, and thus making Edd and Matt go back to normal. It turns out Tom was immune from the girl's psychic powers because he was already possessed. | |
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There is a Call-Back to this in Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor. Being shot at by an army is a concern for Luke, but being shot at by one man is not. | |
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At the end of Steven Universe: Future, in "I Am My Monster", Steven's Corrupted Form shrugs off basically everything thrown at him. Granted, nearly all of them were secondary abilities that weren't straight attacks, but none of the Diamonds nor Lapis (who has been shown to be extremely powerful with her water abilities) could keep him held down for very long at all. When holding Steven down fails to stop him, the group quickly changes plans to try and calm Steven down from this form by reaching him emotionally, which, thankfully for them all, works. | |
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In the Twilight novels, Bella is immune to Edward's telepathy, although he can sense everyone else. This is part of her allure for him. When Bella becomes a vampire, she gains the ability to project her immunity to mind-altering effects to her allies, including shielding both wolf packs by only shielding their alphas. | |
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The novel I, Jedi shows that one Force power Jedi have is to absorb energy. Corran uses this ability at one point to no-sell a stun baton (by absorbing the shock and dissipating it in the surrounding environment), and it's implied that Vader may have been using the same ability in The Empire Strikes Back. An even more impressive no-sell happens later, when Corran absorbs the energy of an explosion, redirecting much of it and the debris directly upwards and away from civilians. It completely exhausts him and leaves him without clothing, but he survives (with relatively little injury), and there are very few casualties. | |
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Ben 10: Omniverse: In "So Long and Thanks for All the Smoothies", Ben transforms into Alien X right before the Annihilargh detonates and destroys the universe. As a being from outside the universe, Alien X is not only unaffected, but Ben didn't even realize at first that the universe was truly being destroyed. With just a thought, Alien X proceeds to recreate the universe. | |
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In Superman Returns, one criminal tries to shoot Supes in the eye. The only effect is a little 'doink' sound. And a flattened bullet. | |
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Two examples in the South Park episode "Good Times with Weapons": The boys get real "ninja" weapons and pretend-fight with Butters and his persona "Professor Chaos". Professor Chaos repels heat and ice attacks, so Kenny uses his non-elemental attack, a real ninja star into Butter's eye. Cartman picks the ninja power to have whatever power he wants. In a practical sense, it's straight-up No Selling. |
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In the Rivers of London series, Peter eventually becomes all but immune to mind control and mental manipulation — because it's a running joke that every magical creature he encounters tries to glamour him at some point, so he's gotten very good at resisting. | |
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Played for laughs in The Book of Life, when Xibalba launches Manolo with enough force that when he hits Luis, they both go flying until they hit Carmelo, who barely flinches. | |
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The Legend of Korra: Similarly to the Airbender example, in "Out of the Past", Amon is capable of resisting Tarrlok's bloodbending with little effort. At most it simply slows him down. Tarrlok is visibly shocked, as it had always been his foolproof last resort if other methods of subduing people didn't work. The ending reveals that this is because Amon is himself a Bloodbender and is able to bloodbend himself into resisting it. Aang is capable of ignoring bloodbending while in the avatar state. The Dark Spirits in Book Two of Korra also have this ability, but it works on all four elements. In the first two episodes, the main cast hit them with everything they've got, but the spirits either dodge or shrug off the attacks. Even after Korra entered the Avatar State, a single spirit swatted her aside and forced her out of it. Only Unalaq's spiritual waterbending techniques work on them, and even then they're only being calmed down rather than hurt directly. Midway through the series, the sealed Northern Spirit Portal completely defies Unalaq's attempt to open it with waterbending. Even after 10,000 years, the Avatar's seal holds strong. |
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In War of the Worlds (2005), when Ray's family is walking towards safety, they witness a large battle between the U.S. Army and the tripods. The military acknowledges that their weapons have no effect whatsoever, but their efforts are just so that the civilians can get as far away from the tripods as possible. | |
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The iridium-armored hovertanks fielded by mercenary regiment Hammer's Slammers are invulnerable to all but equally exotic high-tech weaponry. As some of the side-exposition notes, few planets can afford to own or produce such behemoths themselves, while 'renting' them (and their operators) is much more affordable. As a result, wars are commonly fought entirely with mercenary forces on both sides, because failing to produce an effective opposition would be an instant curb stomp. | |
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The Funhouse Massacre: Rocco The Clown is able to take knife stabs to the back and being shot like it's nothing. It takes a barrage of bullets to take him down. And even then, he just gets out of the body bag he was in in the second Stinger. | |
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In Godzilla (2014), the MUTO's are only mildly annoyed by even the heaviest ordnance the military can bring to bear. Godzilla, on the other hand, simply doesn't even notice when humans are attacking him. | |
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The Adventures of Puss in Boots: The Bloodwolf is on such a higher level than anyone else that nothing anyone does to him makes him do more than flinch slightly. He blocks all of Puss' attacks barehanded just to show he can, as when Puss finds an opening and stabs at the Bloodwolf with all his might, Puss' sword breaks against him. | |
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A few characters in Invincible (2021), but Omni-Man is probably at the top of the list. During the Flaxan invasion, he takes several seconds of focused laser fire (when a single shot was enough to cut a regular human in half) without so much as a burn mark on his costume. Later, a house he's in explodes, leaving no trace of the structure or other people inside. When the smoke clears, he's in the exact same spot and pose he was in before the explosion. | |
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For every dragon weakness on Dragons: Riders of Berk, there's at least one species that's immune to it: Typhoomerangs are the only dragons who are able to eat eels, which are poisonous to all other dragons and makes them really sick and have a disease known as Eel Pox. Scauldrons are able to eat Blue Oleander, a flower that has lethal poison to all other dragons. Their venom is also used as an antidote. Gronckles are unaffected by all forms of Dragon Root, an herb that causes dragons to go crazy and, in concentrated liquid form it can incapacitate them. Whispering Deaths are, unfortunately, unaffected by Dragon Nip, which has a calming effect on all other dragons. Thunderdrums are immune to the Death Song’s singing call because their bellow is so loud that they tend to be almost deaf, making it the only known dragon which is immune to the Death Song's call. Slitherwings are the only dragon that the Death Song can't trap in its amber — due to the poison the Slitherwings secrete through their skin, the liquid amber substance slides right off them before it can harden. The Death Song is the only dragon that can protect itself from Slitherwing poison — the poison can't penetrate its hardened amber. The Screaming Death is the only dragon with scales hard enough to completely protect it from the hunters' Dragon Root lanced arrows. Their scales are also tough against an average powered Night Fury’s plasma blast and a Deadly Nadder’s spine shot. It turns out marble is impervious to all forms of dragon fire and able to completely withstand physical dragon attacks. So far, only Catastrophic Quakens are strong enough to damage marble. The dragon-worshipping Defenders of the Wing feed the local dragons Sagefruit to keep them docile and non-aggressive. Toothless is the first dragon they've ever seen resist its effects (to protect Hiccup). The last season reveals Singetails are also apparently immune to the effects of Sagefruit. According to Viggo, the only dragon powerful enough to beat the nigh-invincible Singetail is the Skrill. Viggo's dragon hunters make their chains, cages, etc. from a "dragon-proof" metal completely impervious to all forms of dragon fire and that dragons can't bite or claw through. It's a constant mission to find dragons that can get around this. The winners? Any Razorwhip tail is sharp enough to slice through it, all Hotburples can bite through it, Changewing acid can dissolve it underwater, and Dagur's able to train his Gronckle to smash through it. Lava also weakens it like it would any metal under such intense heat, enough that one good blast can shatter it — such a technique would normally require at least 2 different dragon species to pull it off, but since Dramillions have both lava and concussive attacks, they're able to destroy it without help from anyone else. The riders also eventually discover that, although the metal may be impervious to any one dragon species' fire, the combined fire of their five different dragons can destroy it. |
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At the climax of Shards of a Broken Crown, Tomas, Pug, Miranda, and Nakor need to get to the enemy stronghold. Standing in their way is the second-largest army in the world. Being the most powerful warrior and the three most powerful magicians in the world, they walk through men and fortifications almost as if they weren't there: arrows bounce off of magical shields, soldiers get pushed out of the way by waves of energy, barred doors are pushed open as if they were unlatched, and so on. | |
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In various shows, Ric Flair will often say "I made you" to Sting. He is referring to the 1988 inaugural Clash of Champions PPV, where Flair and Sting fought to a 45 minute draw, where Sting developed his gimmick of no selling Flair's moves, particularly the "Whoo Chop." Then at Bound for Glory 2006, Sting completely ignored Jeff Jarrett smashing a guitar over his head and defeated him. |
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A non-power example in A Twisted Tale: Conceal, Don't Feel; in a world where Elsa and Anna were separated as children and practically nobody knows Anna even exists, Hans attempts to court Elsa and then Anna as part of a scheme by the Duke of Weselton to get a king on the throne who would make a better trading deal with Weselton, but Hans' efforts to win them over fail as Elsa never sees him that way and Anna's already into Kristoff by the time Hans learns she even exists. | |
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Bazil Broketail: Ribela's spells are unable to harm Gog Zagozt in the slightest. | |
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In Kingdumb Hearts: "Derp Dorp Dorpence," when Sora first encounters young Xehanort, he uses dream power to drop coconuts on him. Later, when he encounters young Xehanort again, Xehanort tries to no sell him, telling him that this won't work on him again. Sora uses dream power to turn him into a coconut. | |
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Bray Wyatt's "The Fiend" persona no sells everything and tends to kick out at one when hit with finishing moves or weapons. | |
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In Hudson Hawk, Anna Baragli pulls a gun on Kaplan's crew; but the agents, particularly Almond Joy, are completely unthreatened, and Almond Joy calmly disables Anna with a knockout dart. Almond Joy and the rest of the crew know that Anna is a nun and wouldn't shoot anyone. | |
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All paladins have a natural No Sell with the Axe of Prissan in Goblins. In order to ensure it is wielded by a paladin for good, the weapon is magically enchanted to pass harmlessly through any paladin it strikes. The enchantment also extends to anything attached to the axe. As revealed later this can be manipulated. The goblins tied a rope to the axe and then threw it through Kore. While the rope was still inside Kore, it was severed from the axe and rematerialized inside his throat. | |
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Played with in Spaceballs. When Lone Star tries to give the Vulcan neck pinch to one of the Spaceballs, it has no effect. The Spaceball then says "No, no, no, stupid. You've got it much too high. It's down here where the shoulder meets the neck." Lone Star then tries again at that location while asking "Like this?", and the Spaceball says "Yeah!" and passes out. And again when Lone Star's Schwartz repeatedly and ineffectually bounces off Dark Helmet's Schwartz-proof helmet. He has to wait until Dark Helmet raises his faceplate to gloat so he can punch him in the face instead. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Pawtucket Pete", like with the Class of 3000 example, Jerome's voice is deep enough that he's immune to the effects of the helium leaking out of Brian's parade balloon that Peter shot. | |
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Orange Cassidy is a more modern and unique example, as he doesn't sell moves not because he's tough or invincible, but because he's lazy. A punch has him landing on his back before he kips back up, or a headlock takeover has him gently rolling away. All this while his hands are in his pockets and he has a bored expression on his face the whole time, mind you. | |
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In Gods of Egypt, Hathor can compel anyone to do anything she tells them unless their heart belongs to another, with the result that her powers cannot work on Bek as he truly loves Zaya. Hathor's powers even don't work on Horus, who truly loves Hathor herself. | |
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This is the basic nature of the primary form of the phenomenon known as "resilience" in the The Bartimaeus Trilogy books, the ability to resist and survive attacks by spirits. The power varies from being able to withstand minor attacks to being able to shrug off very strong magic. Those with additional abilities can also do things such as negate the ability of spirits to hide themselves from human sight and sense things like magical objects. | |
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No-Sell / int_edb4e494 | type |
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Mick Foley once made a joke at Al Snow's expense by saying, "I'd like to congratulate Al Snow on his lucrative Laz-E-Boy endorsement deal, which is odd, because Al usually doesn't sell chairs." However, this was not like most cases where the reason for a guy no-selling is because he's a jerk or because their gimmick requires them to be nigh-invincible. The joke occurred after a match wherein, after a lengthy sequence that saw Snow suffer a legitimate concussion in a match with the Road Dogg (which neither of the two recognized at the moment), when his opponent hit Snow with a chair several times and Snow just shrugged all of them off. Foley went on to ask Snow about it after the match (when the effects of the concussion were becoming apparent) only to have Snow ask, "What chair shots?", as he legitimately did not remember the whole incident (at least according to Snow, but, knowing Snow and Foley's longtime friendship, he probably was being honest). Mick recounted the story in his second book. Mick also recounted a humorous instance of him, as Cactus Jack, no-selling a chair shot by the Fake Mankind (Dennis Knight, a.k.a. Phineas I. Godwin, a.k.a. Mideon): "A chair to the back, you see, is a little different than a chair to the head, in that one has a bit more freedom in how to sell it. Which is my way of trying not to sound like a total hypocrite for not selling it at all." | |
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Mick Foley (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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In the Radio Drama adaption of Episode V, Han exclaims (paraphrased) "No way, you can't just block a blaster's fire with your hand!" Right before Vader force-summons his weapon as well. Perhaps this applies to the film as well. | |
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Star Wars Radio Dramas (Radio) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_effc6905 | |
No-Sell / int_f1da64b5 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_f1da64b5 | comment |
The Lord of the Rings: When Gandalf confronts Saruman in The Return of the King, Saruman blasts Gandalf with a fireball. Gandalf emerges from it completely unscathed. | |
No-Sell / int_f1da64b5 | featureApplicability |
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The Lord of the Rings | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_f1da64b5 | |
No-Sell / int_f1fbeee0 | type |
No-Sell | |
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Destroy the Godmodder: Most things used on the godmodder, and a number of attacks aimed at Piono post-MBoA. | |
No-Sell / int_f1fbeee0 | featureApplicability |
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Destroy the Godmodder (Roleplay) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_f367511c | type |
No-Sell | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! has its own versions. A pair of trap cards known as Spirit Barrier and Astral Barrier. Spirit Barrier prevents the player from taking damage, as long as they have a monster on the field, but monsters can still take damage. With Astral Barrier the player can take attacks for the monsters instead. Combined, the player can No Sell literally any attack for his monsters. Similarly, Waboku No Sells all attacks for the rest of the turn while Negate Attack both No Sells the current attack and ends the Battle Phase, preventing any more attacks from coming. Vennominga, the Deity of Poisonous Snakes has its own version. Like the anime's God Cards, it has protection from all spell, trap and monster effects, and can remove from play another snake from the grave to revive itself if it dies. Some cards like the Xing Zhen Hu Replica or the Nordic Relic Laevateinn prevent other effects to be activated in reaction to them, effectively making them uncounterable once activated. A major offender is Super Polymerization. It performs a Fusion Summon using any monsters on either side of the field, and, as with the above examples, stops your opponent from being able to do anything about it. Most Qliphoth have the effect that, when normal summoned, are unaffected by the effects of monsters with a lower level/rank. Exaggerated with Apoqliphoth Killer, who has the aforementioned effect and is Level 10, as well as being immune to spell/trap cards. Anomalocaris and the Burgesstoma traps, when summoned as monsters, are unaffected by the effects of other monsters. |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_f3d889f7 | type |
No-Sell | |
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Zack Snyder's Justice League: Steppenwolf is about to deliver a strike from his electro-axe on the hapless Cyborg... then a CLANG! is heard — it's Superman bodyblocking the strike like it's nothing! | |
No-Sell / int_f3d889f7 | featureApplicability |
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Zack Snyder's Justice League | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_f3d889f7 | |
No-Sell / int_f42fa008 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_f42fa008 | comment |
Hotel Transylvania: Whoever is wearing contact lenses (ie. Johnny) will render them immune to Drac's Hypnotic Eyes. Other vampires will also be immune, such as Dana the counselor of Camp Winnepacaca. In the series, Mavis gains the same hypnotic powers as Drac and Lydia, but it doesn't work on anyone (except for Donald, who's weak of mind) due to just getting it and she isn't old enough for it to work properly. |
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Hotel Transylvania | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_f42fa008 | |
No-Sell / int_f6f91ce7 | type |
No-Sell | |
No-Sell / int_f6f91ce7 | comment |
Ghost Note: When a man sees Eugene Burns, he tries to shoot him with his gun. Eugene just shrugs off each shot. | |
No-Sell / int_f6f91ce7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Ghost Note | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_f6f91ce7 | |
No-Sell / int_f724b70d | type |
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Code Lyoko: Subverted. Attacking a polymorphic clone or someone Xanafied ends up with them no-selling the attack when they're not blocking the attack or knocked out. And even then, it's only for a few moments. However, William (with his entire Xanafied class in episode 54) and Ulrich (with XANAfied Milly in episode 89) succeeded in permanently putting them off of commission. Falling in the Digital Sea guarantees you a Fate Worse than Death. However, thanks to his Super Smoke, William is not affected in the slightest by the Digital Sea, and even lives inside it while he's XANAfied. |
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No-Sell / int_f724b70d | featureApplicability |
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Code Lyoko | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_f887f99b | type |
No-Sell | |
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In the climactic cyborg fight of Heart of Steel, Alistair receives a vicious kick between the legs — to no great effect because everything from the hips down was made of metal. | |
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Heart of Steel | hasFeature |
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No-Sell / int_fcf23883 | type |
No-Sell | |
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Matt Riddle almost always no-sells getting hit with a German Suplex. | |
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Matt Riddle (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_fcf23883 | |
No-Sell / int_ff94c012 | type |
No-Sell | |
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Unordinary: Arlo's barriers are completely impenetrable to those with a lower power level than him. Even Sera damages herself breaking through it, as well as John, though she healed herself in seconds by rewinding the injury. Additionally, anyone who attacks the barrier appears to have the force the used reflected back on them, hurting them even more, though whenever his barrier breaks Arlo takes damage as well. | |
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unOrdinary (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
No-Sell / int_ff94c012 | |
No-Sell / int_ff9ab17f | type |
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In the Next Generation novel "Vendetta" Delcara's Planet Killer easily demolishes the first Borg ship it comes across. The Tholians then ensnare Delcara's Planet killer in one of their infamous webs. For exactly 19 seconds the Tholians believed they had her trapped until she opened up with her anti-proton beam, frying the two Tholian ships still connected to the web and causing the web itself to disintegrate a few seconds later. The Planet Killer then flies through the Tholian system's sun without suffering any damage. Then the giant ship faces down three Borg cubes. While the Borg cubes put up more of a fight, Delcara is able to defeat them with help from the Federation. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation | hasFeature |
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