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Oh no! The Hero just got shot! There's a hole in their shirt right over their heart... but what's this? They have something in their pocket? It stopped the bullet! They are saved! They got a Bible in there? It'll stop the bullet. Ditto for cellphones, and especially lockets; if it contains photographs of beloved ones, expect a large modifier (positive or negative, depending upon the scene) to the attack. While it may have worked in the days when guns were extremely underpowered (relatively speaking), these days the life-saved-by-sentimental-object trope is discredited; it's rare to find a 21st century example that plays it straight. It's important to note that most real-world examples involve ricochets, spent bullets, shrapnel or other low-velocity projectiles. It's a very lucky break when the round is moving slow enough to be stopped by anything so small and thin as what you can fit in a pocket. Also, pretty much any real-life example of a bullet being stopped by a Bible or other book in the victim's pocket will involve the book being stored in a silver or steel box, which obviously provides more resistance than just paper. One commonly-used justification is that it's an attempted assassination; silencers only work with subsonic rounds (any supersonic round makes a loud crack as it breaks the sound barrier, which a silencer can only do anything about by slowing the bullet down enough that it doesn't break the sound barrier in the first place) meaning appropriate bullets can thus be rendered nonlethal by many everyday objects capable of fitting into a pocket. This trope is usually an example of either Chekhov's Gun (if the object was introduced previously), Deus ex Machina (if the object was not previously introduced), or both (if the object was introduced, but couldn't be expected to stop a bullet). Often overlaps with Heart in the Wrong Place, if an item in the left breast pocket is claimed to have shielded the target's heart specifically. See Bulletproof Vest for things that are supposed to stop bullets.note Some of which in real life, incidentally, are fitted with protective ceramic plates stowed in pockets. Compare Concealment Equals Cover, where the hero is protected by something that isn't in their pocket. If bullets are stopped by an unwilling Mook or bystander, that's a Bulletproof Human Shield. For other uses for books, see Useful Book. For intentional versions with (usually) larger objects, see Improvised Armour. Invariably leads to a Wardrobe Wound. Not to be confused with the pocket protectors stereotypically worn by nerds. Nor to be confused with Pak Protectors. |
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Predator 2: Before going in to fight the Predator, Harrigan puts a metal plate in his shirt to protect against its attacks. | |
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In The Eyre Affair, Thursday Next is saved from a bullet by a copy of Jane Eyre in her pocket. She still suffers serious injury, though, and received first aid from none other than Mr. Rochester himself. | |
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Clue: At the end of book 5, Mr. Boddy is stabbed in the chest by Miss Scarlet... but the introduction of book 6 reveals that he wasn't hurt a bit because the Knife was stopped by his "custom-made, titanium-lined, mega-million sized" wallet. | |
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Inverted in an episode of the original live-action The Adventures of Superman series. The bad guys are holding Clark, Lois, and Jimmy hostage, and their boss insists Clark is Superman. The boss shoots Clark, who in turn reacts with surprise, and Lois and Jimmy are both convinced. Clark, however, reaches into his jacket and feels around thoughtfully. After the situation is resolved Clark reaches into his jacket, finds a silver dollar and dents it with his Super-Strength before pulling it out and claiming the bullet deflected off the coin. This is actually a Call-Back to one of the Superman comics. | |
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Support Your Local Sheriff: Subverted in this western comedy when the newly-hired sheriff of a lawless Western town is given his badge, which has a nasty bullet-dent in it... Later played straight: the outlaw patriarch gives his false teeth to his son for safekeeping during the firefight. |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team gives us Aina's pocket watch/locket, which saves her from a bullet by hanging in front of her heart during the final episode. | |
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A story along these lines is told near the end of Heist when veteran thief Bobby (Delroy Lindo) is sitting in a van with a sort-of partner, Jimmy (Sam Rockwell) before a heist. | |
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Jreg: In Centricide 6, it's revealed that Conservative survived being shot twice by Nazi thanks to two books he had on him at the time. One was a copy of The Bible, and the other was 12 Rules for Life by Dr. Jordan Peterson. | |
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Star Wars: Tag & Bink: Tag is shot by Boba Fett but the blaster bolt bounces off Chewie's medal which he had just put on. Twice. | |
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Just like in the Hitchcock film, in the 2005 play The 39 Steps, one of the characters survives getting shot when a prayer-book in his coat pocket stops the bullet. | |
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In Maiden Rose, the textbook Taki wrote in slows down the bullets that Klaus takes at point-blank range in Volume 2, causing the wounds to be non-fatal. | |
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SleepyHollow: Ichabod is saved from Lady Van Tassel's shot by Katrina's book in his jacket. | |
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During the Hawks arc, General Julius tries to have Griffith assassinated with a poisoned arrow during the royal hunt, but the arrow is stopped by Griffith's Behelit (or as Berserk Abridged calls it, the "Portable Deus Ex Machina Generator") before it can reach his heart. Justified in that Behelits are supernatural instruments of fate that want to keep their owners alive until they can cross the Despair Event Horizon, and are likely Made of Indestructium to boot. | |
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Ichigo's Hollow mask saves him twice from otherwise fatal hits in Bleach, the second time being after being taken from him and thrown into a sewer. | |
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Played glaringly straight in an episode of Black Jack 21 when a single ace of spades and his mother's pendant stopped a bullet from piercing his left lung. | |
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Occurs in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School when the Unluckily Lucky Nagito is shot, but his school handbook keeps the bullet from penetrating. However, the impact was still enough to knock him out cold. | |
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The first Black Cat ends with Catherine, a Professional Killer who had fallen for the civilain Allen, forced to execute Allen to Leave No Witnesses. She then shoots him before leaving tearfully, but it turns out she left a bulletproof plate under Allen's shirt. | |
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In the A Certain Magical Index/The Familiar of Zero crossover HOPES and FEARS, a cross necklace Saito gives Prince Wales saves him from the sword stab that killed him in canon. | |
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Parodied in Bleak Expectations when Pip accidentally stabs through his nemesis and into his Love Interest. She apparently dies, but in true Cliffhanger fashion turns up all right late into the next episode because she'd been carrying Pip's letters with her everywhere. Though she is still pretty cross about having been stabbed. | |
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In the second episode of Alphas, Marcus Ayers, whose Awesomeness by Analysis abilities have allowed him to set off Disaster Dominoes throughout the episode with as little as a single coin, is shot in the chest, but his body isn't found in the stream into which he fell. While the characters are searching, the camera pans down the side of the stream, where a shot of some pebbles reveals a coin like the one Ayers had been using, except now with a bullet-shaped dent. | |
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Subverted in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Robert Downey Jr is shot by the bad guy and collapses; the love interest is afraid that he's been killed, but wait! He sits up, and pulls out from his pocket that trashy detective novel from earlier in the movie, with a bullet hole in it! But then she realises that, wait a minute — the bullet hole goes right through. He's been shot in the chest and is in dire need of an ambulance. (The bullet may have been slowed down by passing through his partner first.) | |
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "Darkness Visible", when Clare Llewellyn attempts to stab Jock Clement, he is saved when Lucien deflects the knife and it hits him the wallet in his jacket pocket. | |
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In Chuck, the eponymous character gets shot in his nerdy pocket protector, and the shot doesn't go through it. Luckily, it was only a tranquilizer dart. | |
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Great Teacher Onizuka: In Tomoko's improv performance, delinquent son Kenji accidentally stabs his mother (also played by Tomoko) with a boxcutter, but it turns out she was carrying her dead husband's watch in her pocket, which blocked the blade. | |
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The Elvis Presley film Frankie and Johnny has Johnny survive being shot onstage by a Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon when the bullet is lodged in the lucky cricket pendant Frankie had given him earlier. | |
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In Change 123, a bullet shot into the back of a girl gets stopped by a (hidden) combat knife tucked into her belt. | |
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In The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Indiana Jones is saved this way in the episode "German East African 1916", by a locket over his chest. Partially subverted when several Belgian Askaris say he must have divine protection; Indy says there is a mundane explanation for his survival, but his African Sergeant points out that there is indeed something miraculous about such a small target (made of a non-ferrous metal like silver or pewter) deflecting a rifle bullet. | |
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In the White Collar episode "Book of Hours", Neal manages to block a gunshot from the villain of the week by holding up a Renaissance-vintage Bible (that he's spent the entire episode looking for). | |
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The Simpsons: In the episode "Homie the Clown", a mobster accidentally shoots Ned Flanders in the chest. The bullet hits his Bible. The mobster shoots again, only to hit a piece of the True Cross he wears around his neck. Ned then flees before any more shots are fired, presumably because he realizes he's run out of religious objects. Parodied again in an episode when Homer is hit by a car — but is saved by the Bible in his crotch. This happens in another episode where Apu is shot in a Kwik-E-Mart robbery, with the bullet bouncing off another bullet that was previously lodged in him in a different robbery. In another episode, "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution", Bart accidentally fires a gun, and the bullet fails to wound Homer because it is stopped by another gun Homer happens to have in his back pocket. |
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The MythBusters pretty much proved this trope was a myth, at least with modern firearms in mind. They tested normal everyday items like a book, a deck of cards, and a Zippo lighter and showed that they were all ineffective at stopping bullets. They also tested police/sheriff badges (outcome depends on how the badge is made — they put holes in two test badges, but the third type stopped a handgun round). In another episode, they tried the same with knives. A book, or a thick pile of paper (e.g. money), can save you. It takes about 60 or so sheets thick to stop the hardest hit the build team managed. In an episode regarding myths from the American Civil War, they showed it was plausible for a silver dollar of the time to stop a bullet. A pocket Bible, not so much. In another episode, they tested urban legends involving stories of items that stopped bullets. A laptop computer wouldn't, unless the bullet hit the battery. A hair weave didn't even slow the thing down; if that story was close to true, the bullet probably ricocheted around inside the woman's car and then got caught in the weave once it was too slow to be dangerous. Three pepperoni pizzas in a deliveryman's warming bag blocked most of the pellets from a shotgun firing birdshot, so you might survive (as was claimed by a pizza delivery boy). Buckshot at the same range, however, required 14 pizzas distributed between 5 warming bags before they could be stopped. During a final season revisit, Jamie and Adam took a second look at "Zippo lighter stops a bullet". While a bullet fired straight at the lighter went straight through, a ricocheted shot only dented it, earning Zippos a "Plausible". |
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Walter narrowly escapes death in 1941 (2009) when a bullet strikes the locket he carries in his pocket. | |
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Gunsmith Cats: The manga has Rally surviving a bullet to the side thanks to the bullet having to penetrate a collapsible rifle stowed in her jacket — along with her car's roll cage. The rifle is left with a bullet hole in the stock and barrel, and Rally is left with broken ribs as it was a fired from a fourteen-inch .45 Desert Eagle. Once, Rally is forced to shoot Roy, but deliberately aims at the revolver in his shoulder holster. There's also one time when she takes control of an assassin's arm and forces her to empty her magazine right at her chest... where she put a paperback novel just for the purpose. Justified by the circumstances; May was being held hostage in their hotel room and started Talking through Technique — referring to a "favorite piece" when she knows fully well that Rally is using a cheap throwaway gun due to her license being suspended. Rally thus realizes this, and makes the logical assumption of an assassin using a silenced small-caliber pistol. |
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Doctor Who Expanded Universe: Subverted in Death and Diplomacy: a character tells the story of his grandfather, who went away to war wearing a crucifix of great sentimental value. One day, a bullet fired at him hit the crucifix — which shattered, aggravating a wound that would otherwise not have been lethal. In the Short Trips: Past Tense story "All Done With Mirrors", the Doctor is saved from a stab to the heart due to a copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare that he kept in his breast pocket. Then he gives the book as a parting gift to William Shakespeare himself, telling him 'only to look at it if he gets stuck'. |
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Played with in one episode of Castle: a character has a copy of Crime and Punishment in his coat pocket that stopped a bullet. | |
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Castle (2009) | hasFeature |
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Bullet Train: The phone in Ladybug's breast pocket saves him from a surprise stabbing from The Wolf. | |
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In the pilot of The Good Guys Dan's flask saves his life when it stops a knife that is thrown at him (the bad guy is out of bullets). | |
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A villan using this is in Plunkett & Macleane cheats death. General Chance manages to survive a duel to the death with a Bible over his heart. | |
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In First Squad, the old monk survives an attack from Nazi ninja twins because his book took a bullet meant for him. | |
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First Squad | hasFeature |
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Modesty Blaise: In "The Vampire of Malvescu", Willy is saved when a bullet fired at him hit the tin mug he was holding. Justified by the bullet being a soft nose that deformed on hitting the mug and lodged in the far wall. The mug still hit him with enough force to knock him out and break a rib. In "The Killing Distance", Sir Gerald (barely) survives a sniper's bullet when it deflects off a medal on the costume he was wearing. In "The Hanging Judge", Willie is saved when a crossbow bolt deflects off the bandoleer of knives he is wearing. Again, he is left wounded, but alive and mobile. |
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In the Darkwing Duck episode "Bad Tidings", Darkwing is shot by a device from Steelbeak that will make his internal organs expand and explode. He is saved by the manual he had taken from Grizzlikoff earlier and put in his coat. | |
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Darkwing Duck | hasFeature |
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An example in a later episode of Miracle Girls where Mika gets saved from a knife hurled by Takamura using psychic powers because it hits the pocket watch she got from Chris. | |
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Paranoia XP. The Giant Metal Plate can be worn on the front or the back (or both) under a Troubleshooter's reflec armor. It provides extra protection against attacks and severe back injuries. | |
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In Boone: The Bounty Hunter, Boone gets shot in the chest, but has only a bruise due to it being stopped by the metal case holding his "Boone Deputy" signed trading cards. | |
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Boone: The Bounty Hunter | hasFeature |
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Parodied in Senyuu.. A character claims to have been saved from a spear by a memento dagger in his front pocket, but Hero points out that everyone saw him get Impaled with Extreme Prejudice. He refuses to admit that he died and had an Unexplained Recovery. | |
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In the movie Curse of the Blood Rubies, Yamcha's history as a thief pays off when Pasta sprays his chest full of bullet holes, but he's unharmed due to the blood rubies he was hiding in his shirt. | |
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Dragon Ball: Goku survives Tao Pai Pai's Dodonpa to the chest at one point in Dragon Ball because he had the 4-Star Dragon Ball under his shirt. Considering those are said to be indestructible, it makes sense. In the movie Curse of the Blood Rubies, Yamcha's history as a thief pays off when Pasta sprays his chest full of bullet holes, but he's unharmed due to the blood rubies he was hiding in his shirt. |
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In Trigun: Badlands Rumble, Vash is saved from a gunshot wound to the heart by a rock-hard chunk of Tomas meat that he'd tried and failed to get an edible knife scraping off of earlier in the movie. | |
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Played for laughs in Cross Ange. After Momoka gets shot by the Big Bad(then knocked off a cliff by a bus, which naturally explodes), she shows up alive in the following episode. When a shocked Ange asks how the hell she survived, Momoka reaches into her blouse and pulls out a cast-iron frying pan with the bullet still lodged in it. No that doesn't explain how she survived everything else(or why she's carrying a frying pan, or how the hell it fit in there), that's the joke. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Rentarou fantasizes about the wooden charms of his girlfriends saving him from being shot in Chapter 53. Subverted when he moves them out of the way beforehand so that they wouldn't be put in danger, and dies anyway. | |
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A Discussed Trope in the short story "Best of Luck" by David Drake. The protagonist is in the middle of 'Nam and carries a lucky silver dollar with him. He's heard stories of people being saved from a bullet by something they keep close to their chests and wonders if the dollar will save him in such a manner. He quickly dismisses the idea since a silver dollar by itself isn't going to stop bullets of the caliber being used by the Viet Cong. The silver dollar does save his life in a very different manner however. | |
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In the later Power Rangers Samurai, a crossover episode has Jayden and Scott being brainwashed into a Let's You and Him Fight situation by the Big Bad. However, both are Not Brainwashed and instead provide the other with a form of protection before the fight. | |
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Power Rangers Samurai | hasFeature |
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In Princess Tutu, Ahiru fends of a sword attack from Fakir (don't ask) with a Paper Fan of Doom. | |
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Princess Tutu | hasFeature |
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Armed Girl's Machiavellism: Fud� Nomura likes to smuggle magazines and manga into class by hiding them in his shirt. They end up saving him a few times from sword strikes. Kirukiru Amou's Razor-Sharp Hand can penetrate them, but they manage to mitigate the damage from lethal to extremely painful. | |
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold: Randy gets shot in the side with an arrow and freaks out when he sees red liquid spilling. Then it turns out the arrow hit a juice box in his pocket. | |
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In Problem Child, Ben (John Ritter) survives a bullet to the chest because it hits an old, dried prune he had in his shirt pocket. In a slight subversion, the bullet goes straight through one or two other mementos in the same pocket. | |
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Problem Child | hasFeature |
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Lampshaded in Raising Hope: when Burt becomes a Bounty Hunter, he reassures Virginia that until he's earned enough money for a Bulletproof Vest, he'll wear a fishing vest with the pockets filled with flasks and Bibles. | |
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Raising Hope | hasFeature |
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Mickey of Too Many Cooks survives a gunshot due to the cigarette in his breast pocket. | |
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Too Many Cooks (Theatre) | hasFeature |
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Mentioned in The Long Earth: Private Percy remembers his sergeant being furious with new recruits who have armoured prayer books in their breast pockets, asking them if they have any idea what shrapnel is. | |
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The Long Earth | hasFeature |
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Power Rangers: In an episode of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy Leo is saved from the effects of a freezing monster due to the monster's weapon striking his brother's dog tags. In the later Power Rangers Samurai, a crossover episode has Jayden and Scott being brainwashed into a Let's You and Him Fight situation by the Big Bad. However, both are Not Brainwashed and instead provide the other with a form of protection before the fight. |
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Power Rangers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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In a Dylan Dog story, Groucho gets saved from a bullet to the heart by the Bible he had previously stuffed in his jacket, and lampshades the cliche. Then he reveals that he has at least seven other books inside his jacket. | |
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Dylan Dog (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Stripped to Kill: During their final fight, Cody plunges the killer's own knife into their chest. However, he is saved by the fake breasts he was wearing as part of the bodysuit that allowed him to impersonate his sister. | |
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Stripped to Kill | hasFeature |
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Married... with Children: In "Desperate Half-Hour", Al takes a bullet to the chest, however, the bullet was stopped by the lucky shoehorn in his shirt pocket. | |
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Married... with Children | hasFeature |
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A variation in Big Game, as Moore defends himself from a knife with a book so thick the blade isn't long enough to punch through. | |
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Big Game | hasFeature |
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Spoofed in the Discworld novel Jingo: Sergeant Colon recalls how a book of prayers kept an arrow from entering his great-grandfather's chest. Unfortunately, said book didn't stop "the other seventeen arrows". In response, Nobby briefly wears the Book of Om, a holy book that is five inches thick and wide enough to cover his entire chest in this manner. He reckoned that "even a longbow could only get an arrow as far as the Apocrypha". | |
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Discworld | hasFeature |
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In Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, The Chosen One is saved from Master Betty's deadly technique by having... a squirrel hidden in his clothes. And the squirrel is still alive, accepting peanuts in his hand-shaped imprint of a body! This was actually done in the original Kung Fu movie that Kung Pow was an edit of as well, only there the hero had a metal plate under his clothes. Using a squirrel was just funnier. | |
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In The Legend of Zorro, Father Quintero appears to die from a shot, but then he comes back later and reveals that he was saved by his crucifix necklace. | |
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The Legend of Zorro | hasFeature |
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The Mandalorian has one of the most justified examples in all of fiction. Greef Karga is spared from a blaster shot by not one but two ingots of Beskar steel he had taken as payment. Beskar is so incredibly valuable because it makes for such effective armor. Incidentally, the writers only stuck the steel into his pocket after his actor's audition convinced the showrunners to keep him on for more than two episodes, necessitating a revision to what originally marked the character's early demise. | |
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Used as a plot point in The Man Who Would be King. Danny's bandolier beneath his coat stops an arrow. All the villagers who see it assume that he's impervious to harm and worship him as a god. This gives them idea of using the God Guise trick that eventually causes their downfall. | |
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In Babylon Berlin, Kardakow survives being shot at close range due to a book in his pocket. | |
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Babylon Berlin | hasFeature |
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Exaggerated in The B-Movie Comic, where a disguised Winston Churchill catches a Big Bertha shell with his cigar box. | |
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In a pinch, Rin Asougi of Mnemosyne uses a hotel Bible to block a bullet from an assassin's small caliber, silenced pistol. And then dug out the bullet and threw it into the assassin's face, blinding her in one eye. | |
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Mnemosyne | hasFeature |
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Hot Fuzz, with Nicholas' trusty police notebook! In this case, the knife wasn't blocked, but rather Danny faked stabbing Nicholas Angel and used the ketchup to make the deception more convincing. | |
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In one The Adventures of Dr. McNinja arc, one of the good doctor's patients is shot by the velociraptor-riding banditos, and appears to be bleeding to death. However, in the next strip, it is revealed that the bullet had been stopped by a ketchup packet in his breast pocket. | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Critical Role: Exploited in the second campaign. One of Caleb and Nott's many secret plots is "modern literature", which they use to great effect in a battle against a group of goblins. Nott, who is a goblin herself, poses as one of the assailants and shoots Caleb, aiming for a book he keeps under his armpit that only she knows about. Caleb immediately collapses and plays dead, resulting in the goblins no longer seeing him as a useful target. | |
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In the Supergirl episode "Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Stand Up?", Eve stabs Lena in the chest, but Lena just shoves the blade aside and knocks her out. Then she pulls Kara's handheld recorder from her pocket. | |
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The protagonist of Labyrinths of Echo once was hit by a high-explosive slingshot pellet in the chest... pulverizing a bottle of psychostimulant he carried. In the same fight when a homing magical weapon instead of beheading him annihilated an amulet. So he had to sleep without any protection, which he normally avoided — Sir Max is supposed to be a Cosmic Plaything. | |
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In the final game of the Galaxy Angel II trilogy, Eigou Kaiki no Toki, Kazuya is saved from being fatally impaled by a light spike from Herea (who at the time is possessing Roselle's body) by Roselle's pendant he was carrying in his uniform. The spike also cuts off the pendant's chain, making it fall off and allowing Roselle to see it and drive Herea out of his body. | |
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Bang! has a card that involves being saved by a bible in your pocket. | |
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In Beach Party, Von Zipper punches Sutwell in the stomach, but only succeeds in breaking the tape recorder he's wearing under his shirt. | |
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In the female protagonist's route of the Persona 3 PSP remake, maxing Shinjiro's social link will save his life thanks to a pocket watch, although he remains in a coma until after the final battle. | |
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In The Aggression Scale, Owen is saved from Lloyd's bullet by the hubcap he had stolen and shoved down his sweatshirt to use as a weapon. The bullet still goes through it, but is slowed down enough that lodges in his sternum rather than pentrating his chest cavity. | |
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A similar sequence happens in Rush Hour 2, where Carter is saved from a sword wound by a wad of counterfeit 100 dollar bills. | |
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Rush Hour 2 | hasFeature |
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James Bond In Octopussy, Bond is saved from an assassin's knife by a wad of cash he had earlier won while gambling with the Big Bad Kamal Khan. In The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond tries to shoot Jaws in the face, only for the bullet to ricochet off his steel teeth. |
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In The Magnificent Seven TV series, Ezra Standish pulls this in two consecutive episodes. In one, the bullet hits a diamond he had in his shirt pocket (to his great distress), and in the other, it fails to penetrate a satchel of money he had under his coat. | |
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A bag of gold coins takes a bullet for Tetsuro early in Galaxy Express 999. | |
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In GUN×SWORD, a turtle (conveniently hanging around her chest) saves Wendy's life within the first 2 minutes of the first episode, and the damned thing shows up in every episode with that hole in its shell. | |
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In Pokémon Adventures, Blue would have been killed off by a Razor Wind aimed at his heart had it not been blocked by a pendant given to him by his grandfather, Professor Oak. | |
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Pokémon Adventures (Manga) | hasFeature |
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In Lupin III: Island of Assassins, Zenigata is shot in the opening segment, and the bullet hits the badge in his pocket. While it keeps the shot from being instantly fatal, it still injures him severely. He's hospitalized immediately, but still flatlines. | |
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Father Brown: In "The Penitent Man", Flambeau is saved from a warder's bullet by the gold medallion he is wearing around his neck. | |
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Father Brown | hasFeature |
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In Deewaar, Vijay's "786" badge saves him this way when he's shot by one of Samant's men while stealing the gold back. | |
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Trick 'r Treat has a variation. When the killer trick'r'treater Sam tries to stab Grumpy Old Man Mr. Kreeg with a sharpened lollipop, the lollipop impales a candy bar that had fallen on Mr. Kreeg's chest. Sam takes this as an offering ("Something good to eat") and leaves Kreeg alive. | |
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In the novel From Russia with Love, James Bond is saved from Red Grant's bullet by his trusty cigarette case. Which Bond surreptiously put in place while the mentally dubious Grant explained how they'd set him up: Grant was using a special gun disguised in a book. Meant for public executions, it used a special low-power cartridge for minimum noise, and an expanding (dum-dum) bullet for maximum damage from the low power. As Fleming tended to play such tropes more realistically, the bullet still knocks the wind out of Bond and leaves him with a relatively shallow wound as he plays dead on the ground. | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who story "Return of the Rocket Men", Steven is able to survive a shot to the heart by stuffing a 1967 diary given to him as a birthday present into the front of his spacesuit, although this is Justified in two ways — first, he had already witnessed exactly where the bullet was going to hit him thanks to a Stable Time Loop, and second he put a sheet of improvised metal armour in the back cover (turning it into a Shout-Out to A Fistful of Dollars to match the story's Spaghetti Western theme). | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who (Audio Play) | hasFeature |
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New Tricks: Ted Case's lucky charm is a cigarette case that stopped a bullet and saved his life (or so he claims — Sasha keeps pointing out that the bullet went straight through the case and he spent months in hospital, while Ted maintains that if the case hadn't slowed the round down, he'd have died). He goes into a mild panic when he loses it in "Life Expectancy." | |
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New Tricks | hasFeature |
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Sin City plays this straight in the yarn The Big Fat Kill. Dwight is apparently killed by a shot to the heart, and we only realize he's alive when his attackers find the badge he'd lifted from a dead cop earlier...with the bullet lodged in it. Needless to say, this is an Oh, Crap! moment for Dwight's would-be killer, just before Dwight comes back with a vengeance. | |
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Sin City (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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In the Matthew Hawkwood novel Resurrectionist by James McGee, what should have been a killing thrust from Colonel Hyde's Sword Cane deflects off the tipstaff Hawkwood carries inside his coat. This buys Hawkwood enough time to draw the tipsatff and start defending himself properly. | |
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Matthew Hawkwood | hasFeature |
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In Dwarf Fortress, Dwarven mothers often carry something of great sentimental value into battle which sometimes takes a blow that would have otherwise struck them. This being Dwarf Fortress, the 'object' in question is their baby. | |
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Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In Yakuza 4, in the finale, the defeated Munakata, in an angry fit after understanding Date's newspaper will ruin him, picks up Arai's weapon from the ground and shoots Akiyama in the chest. Akiyama falls down with all the drama necessary to the scene, and after a few seconds, pats his chest pocket, finding the bullet completely lodged inside a stack of dozens of 10,000 yen notes. Money saves lives indeed. | |
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Yakuza 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Berserk: During the Hawks arc, General Julius tries to have Griffith assassinated with a poisoned arrow during the royal hunt, but the arrow is stopped by Griffith's Behelit (or as Berserk Abridged calls it, the "Portable Deus Ex Machina Generator") before it can reach his heart. Justified in that Behelits are supernatural instruments of fate that want to keep their owners alive until they can cross the Despair Event Horizon, and are likely Made of Indestructium to boot. Parodied in the manga, when the fanatically religious Knight Templar Bishop Mozgus is apparently stabbed with Guts' BFS, but then gets up and pulls out the book of scriptures he always keeps in his robes to show where it caught the thrust. He states that the scriptures are what his faith is based on, and that because of his faith he cannot be harmed by a "tainted blade". A couple characters point this out as complete nonsense, as the book was easily torn through and he was protected from the sword by his own incredibly hard scales. What's more, once he took his One-Winged Angel form, the Bible was incorporated into his flesh... making it the one part of his body not protected by scales and thus his Achilles' Heel for Guts to exploit. |
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Gettysburg: During the Twentieth Maine's epic defense of Little Round Top, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) is hit and knocked flat by an enemy musket ball, but when he gets up he discovers that it merely dented his (very skinny) sword scabbard. His reaction? He examines the bent scabbard and remarks calmly, "I'll be damned." This was loosely based on an actual incident which happened to the real Colonel Chamberlain. | |
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Gettysburg | hasFeature |
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Code Name: Gravedigger: In Men of War #10, Gravedigger is shot in the middle of the chest by the Nazis, only for the bullet to be stopped by a locket given to him by an elderly Jewish man earlier that evening. This allows him to seemingly rise from the dead a few minutes later and inflict righteous vengeance on the Nazis. | |
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Call of Cthulhu campaign Masks of Nyarlathotep. The NPC Jack "Brass" Brady has a magical metal plate that attracts attacks that can cause impaling, such as bullets. | |
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Time Lord RPG, based on Doctor Who. A Player Character may trade in some of his initial ability scores for a pocket watch that will automatically stop the first bullet that hits the character. | |
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Time Lord (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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The back cover of the book version of What If? warns that it will not stop a bullet, and anyone wanting to use it as armour should buy a lot more copies. | |
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What If? (Blog) | hasFeature |
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Spoofed in the Australian series The Adventures of Lano and Woodley . Col hits Frank in the chest with an arrow. Frank screams and staggers backwards, but then discovers his autumn leaf album was in his pocket and stopped the arrow. His massive autumn leaf album. | |
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The Adventures of Lano and Woodley | hasFeature |
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In The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, Bert Baxter shows Adrian a pocket Bible with a bullet hole, which, he claims, saved his life in World War I. Adrian notices that the Bible was printed in 1956. | |
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Tales of Symphonia can have this at some point, depending on a choice made earlier in the game: at one point, Lloyd maneuvers through a hallway full of arrows, dodging them all. At the end, one last arrow shoots straight at Lloyd, and either this happens (with a key item given to Lloyd by the character you chose earlier) or Lloyd just dodges it. | |
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Tales of Symphonia (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In the climax of Bayonetta, the titular witch unwittingly causes a Time Paradox by giving Cereza AKA herself as a child her metallic makeup canister, this results in Jeanne failing to fully seal Bayonetta away as her sword hits the canister, causing her to have all her memories in the present. It's a little hard to follow. | |
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Bayonetta (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In Whispering Smith, Smith shoots Leroy and Gabby Barton and is saved when a bullet is deflected by a harmonica in his pocket. | |
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Gintama: An episode opens with Okita appearing to be fatally stabbed by a passerby on a busy street, only for him to catch his fall and suplex the offender into the dirt before revealing they had stabbed a bottle of Tabasco sauce he was concealing in the front of his pants. He was keeping it handy for the sake of playing a prank on Hijikata and others, as per usual. This is also used in the Benizakura arc: when Katsura is supposedly killed by Nizou, he shows up later on to save the day. The reason why he survived was that he carried an old textbook of his beloved teacher around. It's the same story for Takasugi. |
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Oni Ga Shiku Series: Doubled with Chekhov's Gun, Nishiki's old lighter that Izuku carries as a good luck charm saves his life when he takes the bullet for Akatani. | |
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Oni Ga Shiku Series (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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In Far Cry 3, after Vaas finally quits screwing around and straight-up shoots Jason in the chest, Jason's life is saved by a lighter in his chest pocket. Even better is that it's the same lighter Vaas had earlier tried to torch Jason with, and that he himself put it in that pocket when it wouldn't light up properly — Vaas even comments at the time "so much for poetics". | |
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Far Cry 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In the Red River manga, Kail was saved from a fatal arrow strike, thanks to Yuri's letter to him being conveniently kept and shattered near his heart. This letter was a clay tablet, however, and he still had a nasty wound from it afterwards. | |
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Red River (1995) (Manga) | hasFeature |
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The Golden Child: When the demon tries to stab Chandler Jarrell with the Dagger, it hits the medallion the old man/priest gave him. | |
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The Golden Child | hasFeature |
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Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online: In Sword Art Online and games developed from its engine, some things are coded as "Immortal Objects", meaning they can't be destroyed. One such item is the "Satellite Scan Terminal" in Gun Gale Online's Bullet of Bullet and Squad Jam tournaments. At least until LLENN survives a full clip to the heart because she had her Scan Terminal in her breast pocket. In the next game, the Scan Terminal is no longer an Immortal Object. | |
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Batman: Happens in one early story featuring Two-Face. Two-Face tosses his coin to decide if he should reform. The coin lands on its edge; stuck in a gap in the floorboards. Two-Face refuses to flip it again and puts the coin away in his breast pocket, saying it is now up to fate to determine if he should be good or evil. When a policeman shoots at Two-Face, the bullet deflects off the coin. When Two-Face looks at the coin, he sees that the bullet struck the scarred side of the coin. He takes this a sign that he is supposed to be a criminal. In The Return of Bruce Wayne, an amnesiac Bruce Wayne wakes up in hospital; his life apparently having been saved by Mordecai Wayne's journal he was carrying in his pocket. |
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Averted in Episode 1x10 of Warehouse 13: a convict is apparently shot. The team pulls a Bible from his pocket; it's bloody. The bullet went right through it. | |
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Colonel March of Scotland Yard: In "Death in the Dressing Room", the killer throws a Javanese throwing dagger at March, but the blade is blocked by the hardback book March is holding. | |
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The NES version of Bionic Commando has an entire item dedicated to this trope. It's a tiny pendant which, by a certain chance, may or may not deflect an enemy shot. There's a helmet in the game too, which increases your odds, but the pendant is modeled after the trope. The Rearmed remake also features two enemy captains who wear an absurd amount of medals on their chest, making them near-completely invincible to attacks from the front*Their medals can't protect against the Iron Boots. | |
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Peter Pan: The arrow the Lost Boys shoot at Wendy doesn't kill her because it hits an acorn button Wendy was wearing around her neck after Peter gave it to her as a present. | |
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An impressive variation in Gargoyles where Demona shoots Elisa with a poisonous dart, then leaves with a challenge for Goliath to get the cure. Upon Demona's departure, Elisa opens her jacket to reveal that her police badge stopped the dart. Goliath still shows up for the challenge, because Elisa would just be targeted again if he doesn't. As it is, it probably takes a while for Demona to realize she is still alive. | |
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In The Drawing of the Three, the second book of The Dark Tower series, Jack Mort is saved from a bullet by his cigarette lighter; the lighter, however, shatters, and Mort's shirt catches fire. Five minutes later, Roland makes him jump in front of a train. | |
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Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies: Morgana is shot in the chest by one of the gallery guards, but the bullet is stopped by the gem she had snatched out of the statue and stashed in her top. This saves her life, but splits the gem and releases the Djinn. | |
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In Final Fantasy VI, the Memento Ring protects against instant death, which may be a case of this. | |
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Final Fantasy VI (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In an episode of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy Leo is saved from the effects of a freezing monster due to the monster's weapon striking his brother's dog tags. | |
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Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | hasFeature |
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Girl Genius: Inverted with an agent of the Incorruptible Library when he comes under attack after finding a rare book. | |
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At the end of Azure Striker Gunvolt, Gunvolt after rescuing Joule from Nova is confronted by his mentor Asimov, who reveals his true colors and gives him the We Can Rule Together speech. When Gunvolt refuses, Asimov shoots him with Copen's gun first with its Septima-disabling function before firing an actual bullet through his heart to finish him off, followed swiftly by shooting Joule too. That's the ending...until you get the true ending from collecting the seven jewels hidden through the levels and give them to Joule, who fashions them into a necklace. It doesn't seem to have any purpose at first, but if you go through the final level again with it equipped, when Asimov shoots GV the necklace breaks but slows the bullet down, leaving GV in critical condition and allowing Joule, dying from her own gunshot wound, to gain the time and strength to merge her spirit with Gunvolt and bring him back with permanent Anthem for the True Final Boss fight. | |
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In one horoscope from The Onion: | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: A boy is saved from a bullet by having a locket with a picture of his deceased mother hidden underneath his shirt. Made more poignant by the fact that this locket had been a point of strife between the boy and his brother, who had held a grudge against their mother for a certain misunderstanding. Adding to the Emotional Torque is that the bullet causes the locket, which was stuck up to that point, to open, its contents clearing up the misunderstanding. Done in the bonus OVA Yet Another Man's Battlefield, with Mustang surviving because his state alchemist pocket watch stopped the bullet. |
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Bill Mauldin drew a Willie and Joe cartoon during World War II that shows a soldier writing a letter to Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind. The letter's opening makes it clear her book saved his life during the invasion of Italy. | |
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Murdoch Mysteries: In "Anything You Can Do", a bullet hitting Murdoch is stopped by an English poetry analysis book that he borrowed from Dr. Ogden. In "Glory Days", Bat Masterson receives a bullet in the chest from a derringer, but it is stopped by his sport columnist notepad. Murdoch comments that he was lucky to have changed profession. |
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In Glass Onion, Helen Brand survives a gunshot to the chest from an unknown assailant, which looks like it kills her, but it later turns out that her sister's journal in her coat pocket stopped the bullet, saving her life. It helps that said gun appears to be low-calibre and was first fired through a thick pane of glass, and even then, it still came close to piercing her skin, just barely stopping short. | |
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In a non-pocket variant, Bob on The Walking Dead gets chomped on the shoulder by a walker, making both the audience and his companions think he's done for. Lucky for him, closer inspection reveals it'd bit him directly on top of a thick gauze bandage he'd been wearing over a previous injury, so its teeth didn't penetrate. | |
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The Walking Dead (2010) | hasFeature |
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Gundam: Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team gives us Aina's pocket watch/locket, which saves her from a bullet by hanging in front of her heart during the final episode. In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray, an angry Rondo Gina Sahaku tries to shoot Lowe and the Red Frame In the Back after the latter defeats him and the Gold Frame. To Gina's shock, his beam rifle shot is reflected off the shattered piece of the Red Frame's "Gerbera Straight" katana that he broke. |
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The French TV series Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin has an episode titled "La Tabatière de l'Empereur" (The Emperor's snuff box) in which the title Gentleman Thief inherits from a friend a snuff box that saved that friend's life during the war. | |
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Arsène Lupin | hasFeature |
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Batman '66: The batarang in the back of Batman's utility belt prevented Bane from crushing his spine. | |
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Inverted on Lost: Locke survives a shooting because of the kidney that isn't there. | |
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Lost | hasFeature |
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NCIS: Gibbs keeps a silver flask with a bullet still embedded in the side. | |
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NCIS | hasFeature |
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Niebezpieczni Dżentelmeni: The copy of Volaire's "Candide" in Å»eleÅ„ski's pocket saves him from being shot by the bolshevik assasin | |
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Popeye: In a 1940s-era cartoon, Bluto pretends to be Superman in order to woo Olive Oyl. Popeye and "Superman" have a one-upsmanship contest culminating in shooting each other with a Thompson sub-machine gun. Popeye is left for dead, then slowly gets to his feet, reaches into his sailor suit, and pulls out the can of spinach that has been in front of his chest, now riddled with bullet holes. He gives a Popeye chuckle, and says, "Saved by me spinach!" Also in one episode, at the losing end of a fencing duel against Bluto, disguised as the International, Popeye is saved from a finishing thrust by none other than a can of spinach hidden in his shirt. |
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Sailor Moon is forced to stab a Brainwashed and Crazy Mamoru in the chest, and she's so traumatized that she attempts suicide... except he lived because the sword was stopped by the crystallized forms of the Shitennou, and she did too because the blade hit the pocket watch Mamoru had let her borrow. | |
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The film Marty saw in the Back to the Future example above is A Fistful of Dollars, where Clint Eastwood as the Man with No Name hides a metal plate under his poncho before the final showdown. In that fight, Blondie deliberately goads his opponent to aim at his chest, which is the only part of his body that is armored. | |
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The Brittas Empire: In series 7, Gordon gets shot three times by Julie's police bodyguard. Luckily for Gordon, all three of the bullets hit his cigarette case with "I've been to Gravesend" inscribed on it, making Gordon worried that it might upset his wife (who had gave him the case as a 'gift’). | |
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In Stranger Than Fiction, the main character doesn't stop a bullet, but rather a bus. The icing on the cake? It's with his watch. Granted, they slammed on the brakes, but the metal shards from the watch jammed into his veins and stopped him from bleeding to death. This was an absolutely shameless in-universe Author's Saving Throw. | |
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Parodied in Hot Shots! Part Deux: Ramada is saved by a locket about the size of a dime, which upon examination still has the perfect condition, large caliber bullet — including the cartridge — lodged in it. | |
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In Batman: The Animated Series, villain Kyodai Ken has discovered a special technique that can kill a target by striking a specific point on the chest. When he confronts Batman, he strikes him and thinks he killed him, only for Batman to rise again and take him down. It turns out he'd hidden a plate under his shirt to protect him, but even the plate was deformed from the strike. | |
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The BattleTech novels bring us a specialized assassin's laser that can only deal with flesh or regular clothing. Candace Liao is shot and goes down with a smoking hole in place of her right breast. The damage turns out to be purely cosmetic. She had an aggressive single mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer, and they used myomer artificial muscle extensively in reconstructive surgery. Myomer is also known for its use as secondary armor and motive power on Humongous Mecha. | |
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A US soldier stationed in Iraq was wounded in a fire fight only to find out later that an ammo round had embedded itself in the copy of The Eye of the World (which is about 685 pages long depending on the version) he happened to be carrying in his pack, rather than embedding in his side. | |
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The Wheel of Time | hasFeature |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, Yuri Cosmos is shot by Candice Arme when she discovers the murder of Clay Terran, only to be saved by the medal on his jacket. | |
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In Octopussy, Bond is saved from an assassin's knife by a wad of cash he had earlier won while gambling with the Big Bad Kamal Khan. | |
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Octopussy | hasFeature |
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In Boarding School Juliet, with their Secret Relationship under threat of getting exposed, Romio and Juliet have to stage a sword duel in front of the whole school to keep up the image of being mortal enemies. Romio's brother Airu, the one who accused them in the first place, doesn't buy the farce, until the two threaten to (really go for) literally aim for their necks. Airu had to step in before the swords connect lest the two kill each other. What's another secret to everybody was that Juliet sent Romio a sign to aim for the rosary he gave her (and vice-versa), which were the ones who actually took the hit. | |
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Subverted in The Power of One: Peekay's grandfather knew someone during the Boer War whose Bible blocked a bullet to the chest. He gave all the credit to having God in his pocket, then got shot in the head after underestimating the range of the Boer rifles. | |
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Almost every time someone is shot in the chest in Et Cetera, expect them to survive thanks to a trinket they kept in their pockets. Mingchao and Alternate both survived a shot thanks to Goldy's coin, while Baskerville was saved by his rosary when he was almost killed by Cavanaugh. | |
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The German western parody Der Schuh des Manitu has a character saved by a gingerbread heart, which is at least 10 years old and has become hard as rock. | |
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Inverted in Forbrydelsen (The Killing): Jan Meyer is shot twice in the chest; the first bullet goes straight through, but the second is diverted by his cigarette lighter and nicks his lung. He doesn't survive. | |
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Hard Boiled: A cigarette lighter blunts the force of a bullet enough that the guy shot only goes into intensive care after managing to relay important information to the cops. The lighter was sleight-of-handed into his pocket by an undercover cop, shortly before firing the "killing shot" into that area. | |
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The Boondocks: In the third season finale, Gin Rummy is protected by his iPhone after being shot by a rogue government agent. After he spent the rest of the episode deriding the thing and even dismissing Ed's claim that it would stop a bullet. Ed III was saved by his chain when shot during Aggressive Negotiations with the chocolate mafia that proceeded to turn into a firefight with another gang and the FBI. |
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In The Winter Queen, Erast Fandorin's life is saved when an attacker's knife is turned away by his corset. | |
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Ellen Brand's Supernatural series of Case Closed fics mentions this in the fifth story, where it's noted that the professional assassin and sniper Snake, AKA Jackal (who'd murdered the first Kaito Kid by sabotaging his stage equipment), had twice shot the second and current Kaito Kid. Both times, Kid survived — once from a well-hidden Bulletproof Vest, and once because of this trope, when the bullet struck a gem in the thief's pocket. | |
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Lupin III: In Lupin III: Island of Assassins, Zenigata is shot in the opening segment, and the bullet hits the badge in his pocket. While it keeps the shot from being instantly fatal, it still injures him severely. He's hospitalized immediately, but still flatlines. The movie Lupin III: Missed by a Dollar has a more plausible example, with a bullet bouncing off of Lupin's gun. Unfortunately, the animators depict the bullet (in a slow-motion flashback) bouncing off at an angle that would have buried it in Lupin's head... |
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In Big & Rich's Somewhere Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace[1], the main character gets saved in this fashion. Well, y'know, after he got saved in a more metaphysical fashion. | |
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The Three Musketeers (1993): Aramis is shot, but his crucifix stops the bullet. He quips, "I told you there's a God!" | |
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In the first part of the The Three Musketeers (2023), D'Artagnan gets shot point-blank with a musket during his first skirmish against Milady's men. Luckily, he had a Bible in his coat's pocket that stopped the bullet. | |
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In Good Omens, a man is saved from a bullet by his wallet, but is still shocked at how many credit cards were ruined in the process. This is justified shortly afterwords as explicit supernatural intervention (which was, to be fair, the reason he was being shot at in the first place.) | |
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Murder, She Wrote: In "Lone Witness", a killer takes a shot at the grocery delivery boy who witnessed the crime. The bullet is stopped by the sack of sugar in the box of groceries he is carrying. | |
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Futurama: In the episode "Insane in the Mainframe", Fry gets stabbed in the chest by Bender's crazy friend Roberto, but the knife hits an oil can that he picked up earlier. As an added bonus, in this episode Fry is convinced that he's a robot, and the sight of him "bleeding" oil makes Roberto Freak Out and jump out the window. In "Benderama", Bender is shot and the bullet is stopped by a Bible he had in his compartment. The tiny Bender clone inside said Bible, however, wasn't so lucky. |
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Shanghai Noon also subverts this; the corrupt sheriff dies when a bullet goes right through his sheriff star badge, which dramatically fails to stop it. There has to be An Aesop in there somewhere. | |
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The climax of the kung-fu film, The Bloody Blade of King Lanling, ends with the heroine, Duan Mu-Lan (no relation) sacrificing herself by allowing the evil vizier responsible for her father's death to stab her, allowing the hero, Lanling, to impale the vizier. Cue the heroine seemingly succumbing in Lanling's arms, sad music plays in the background, a scene later Lanling is a newly-promoted minister and building an orphanage in Mu-Lan's honour... and cue Mu-Lan, alive, riding up beside Lanling. It turns out the jade pendant Lanling gave Mu-Lan on their first meeting absorbed what would've been an otherwise fatal stab. | |
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The Ambition of Oda Nobuna: Yoshiharu gives Nobuna his cellphone. It ends up blocking a bullet and then a sword strike, and doesn't even get damaged. | |
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In the first episode of Code Geass, Suzaku is shot in the back; in the second, we learn that the bullet hit a pocket watch that belonged to his Disappeared Dad. Unlike many examples, the bullet still injures him even if it's not fatal. Note also that Code Geass uses something that's basically low-velocity railguns instead of actual gunpowder guns. Bullet weight and speed are significantly lower then in the real life. | |
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The Bible version happens again in Temple (Matthew Reilly). Justified in that the shot was from a flintlock. | |
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In The World Ends with You, after Shiki learns that Neku has two Player Pins, which allow people to participate in the Reapers' Game, she proposes that he keep the second near his heart so it can "stop a bullet like a miniature shield." The second pin actually does come in handy, but not for this reason — it allows him to continue playing after Kitaniji destroys the other Player Pin. | |
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In Book 4 of The Iliad, Pandarus shoots an arrow at Menelaus, but Athena intervenes so that the arrow hits Menelaus's belt. He's still injured, but the arrow is slowed down enough that it doesn't kill him. | |
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Happens twice in The Returner. Miyamoto accidentally shoots Milly when she appears, but she's protected by a metal plate in her jacket. Justified by the fact that she's a time traveler from After the End and was probably wearing it for just such a reason. Later on, Miyamoto gets shot in the heart but is saved by the same metal plate, which a further-future version of Milly put in his jacket. Again justified, because Milly knew exactly where and when he was going to get shot (presumably from looking up his coroner's report). | |
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The Beeb's Young Dracula has this happen when van Hellsing, by accident because he gets frightened by a loud noise, shooting Vlad's dad in the chest with a crossbow bolt. It is stopped by a small decanter of poisoned holy water which Hellsing tried to slip him earlier... which has a blood red liquid in it. Coincidental. | |
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The Legend of Tian-ding have this happening in the Good Ending, where the titular character is saved from an otherwise fatal gunshot by a metal plaque in his coat. It's not evident to the players at first, but halfway in the credits' "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, the Inspector Javert pursuing him finds a dented plaque... | |
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Get Smart: Parodied when a villain shoots at Agent Smart and he holds up a book to stop the bullet. The villain asks how Smart knew that would save him, and Smart says back, "Nobody gets through War and Peace!" He did again, with the same book and same quote, against a knife in the movie Get Smart Again! In the first episode of the 1995 Get Smart reboot, Zack Smart is shot but the bullet is stopped by his pocket copy of the CONTROL Field Manual, steel coated for just such an emergency. A similar joke is told among Mormons, with a missionary being shot at, and finding that his pocket copy of The Book of Mormon stopped the bullet. He jokes that the bullet couldn't get through 2 Nephi either. |
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Another Michael Keaton movie, Johnny Dangerously, featured this trope, with Jack Dundee's cigarette case (which Johnny fills with chewing gum instead once Dundee gives it to him). It has a dent from an attempt on Dundee's life, and it later saves Johnny's brother Tommy from an assassin's bullet as well. | |
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Akame ga Kill!: In their first meeting, Akame stabs Tatsumi, but he is saved by a small idol in his shirt. | |
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In Mage: The Ascension this is a popular method of stopping a bullet, since it is entirely coincidental if done properly (and thus incurs no Paradox) — as long as an observer cannot be fully certain the mage didn't have a Bible or cigarette case or other object there beforehand, it can happen. Even though both player and Storyteller will know that Bible never existed five seconds ago. | |
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In Father Ted, a whistle has sentimental value because it saved a man from a firing squad in this way... except that they simply reloaded and shot again. | |
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In The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond tries to shoot Jaws in the face, only for the bullet to ricochet off his steel teeth. | |
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DCI Gene Hunt of Life on Mars was saved from a bullet by a whiskey flask tucked in a pocket. Instantly parodied when, after being asked what the odds of such a thing are, he produces two more flasks from other pockets and states that the odds were quite good. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray, an angry Rondo Gina Sahaku tries to shoot Lowe and the Red Frame In the Back after the latter defeats him and the Gold Frame. To Gina's shock, his beam rifle shot is reflected off the shattered piece of the Red Frame's "Gerbera Straight" katana that he broke. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: In part 3 Jotaro survived a storm of knives thrown at him by Dio during a timestop because of his hat and several copies of Shonen Jump he had stuffed in his jacket (the fact his stand was able to move for 1 second during the timestop and deflect half of the knives helped, but he still would have died were it not for the hat and magazines). In Diamond is Unbreakable, happen to Kira (the Big Bad). After Hayato Kawajiri uses the time loop caused by "Bites the Dust" to spill hot coffee on Kira, he puts his wrist watch inside of his shirt pocket instead of wearing it on his burned wrist. It saves his life when Hayato later tries to kill him with Stray Cat's air bullets. In the end, this destroyed watch makes Kira realize that his final desperate attempt to use Bites the Dust failed and he got turned into a ghost, as it should have been restored had the time loop succeeded. |
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In Outlaw Star, Gene takes a surprise shot to the gut that fortunately only succeeds in ruining his rather bulky PDA. | |
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In Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, the final duel between Captain Marvelous and Basco ta Jolokia ends with what seems like a Mutual Kill when the former slashes the latter in the chest, and the latter shoots the former at point-blank. After the two power down, it's revealed that Basco's bullet was caught by a piece of Sally's necklace that Marvelous had kept in his coat, saving his life. The biggest irony is that Basco had given Sally the necklace saying that it was a protective charm, when it was actually a bomb meant to kill Marvelous (which failed because Sally tried to contain the blast with her body at the last minute), and he ends up smiling at the realization as he dies. | |
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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: Near the end, a hodgepodged Sweet Pete tries to hit the chipmunks with a cannonball fired from a robotic Arm Cannon, and Dale jumps in front of Chip to take the blow. Fortunately, Dale had his special golden Rescue Rangers pog hidden in his shirt. | |
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In The Ickabog, when Flapoon shoots Bert, the bullet hits his father's medal that he's wearing under his shirt. | |
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Parodied in The Vinyl and Octavia Series. Vinyl survives a stabbing from a sword thanks to a miniature subwoofer she has strapped to her chest. | |
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In Paul Ruth's father gets shot in the chest, only to show up later, showing the bullet lodged in his copy of The Bible. | |
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One of the routes in Corpse Party: Blood Covered uses the cellphone variant when somebody is seemingly stabbed by a pair of scissors. This leads to a Bad Ending, as the cellphone is vital to preventing another character's death. | |
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In an episode of McMillan & Wife, Sgt. Enright is saved by the very thick hero sandwich, wrapped in aluminum foil, that he'd stuffed in his jacket pocket. | |
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The "Bandits" episode of The Very World of Milton Jones ends with Milton surviving death by firing squid when the bullets are deflected by the Tesco Clubcard in his pocket. "Now that's what I call a saving!" | |
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In Hard Target it happens twice. The first time is a subversion since the homeless man's dog tags fail completely to stop an arrow fired at his heart. Later, it happens when Chance's uncle gets stabbed in the chest with an arrow. It it later revealed that the arrow only pierced the hip flask he kept some moonshine in. | |
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Happens in one early story featuring Two-Face. Two-Face tosses his coin to decide if he should reform. The coin lands on its edge; stuck in a gap in the floorboards. Two-Face refuses to flip it again and puts the coin away in his breast pocket, saying it is now up to fate to determine if he should be good or evil. When a policeman shoots at Two-Face, the bullet deflects off the coin. When Two-Face looks at the coin, he sees that the bullet struck the scarred side of the coin. He takes this a sign that he is supposed to be a criminal. | |
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In the Danish CGI movie Journey to Saturn, the Iranian-Danish Jamil Ahmadinejad carries a huge collection of photos of his extended family under his shirt. Enough to subvert an impending Middle-Eastern Dude Dies First moment. | |
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Happens twice in the Japanese film Branded to Kill. The main character gets shot by his psycho wife and falls over, but he was hit in his large belt buckle. Later, he figures out that the assassin hired to kill him always hits his victims with a perfect headshot to the center of the forehead. Just before entering the final showdown, he puts his girlfriend's hairband over his forehead. As he steps out of hiding, he's immediately shot and falls over. As the assassin turns to leave, we see the broken hairband on the floor as the hero jumps up and shoots the assassin. | |
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In The Fall, the Black Bandit tries to shoot his love (because she's engaged to be married to Odious, the man he's sworn to kill), but his bullet is stopped by her heart-shaped locket. It then falls open — she's been unable to open it for years — and reveals a message left by her father, telling her to marry for no reason other than love. The characters take this as a sign that they should get married. (Amusingly, the tale of the Black Bandit is actually a story being told to a young girl. At this point, she gets upset because she thinks people in love should get together. Since he has to keep his sole audience happy, the story teller winds up having to invoke this trope and everything afterwards as a blatant Ass Pull.) | |
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Averted in the penultimate cutscene of They Bleed Pixels, where our heroine stabs the Headmaster clean through the book. | |
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In Devil May Cry: The Animated Series, Dante gets possessed by a cursed pocket watch he was wearing as a necklace. Lady shoots him and he falls, but when the demon who set this up shows up to gloat, Dante gets up and reveals Lady's bullet destroyed the pocket watch and snapped him out of it. Slightly subverted because Dante points out the bullet actually penetrated the pocket watch and hit his heart anyway, but the bullet was slowed down enough that it just bruised his heart (which really hurt) instead of penetrating it. A simple matter for his Healing Factor to fix. | |
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Spriggan. Yu shows Rie the message plate left as a warning to future generations by Advanced Ancient Humans, saying it's Made of Indestructium. Later he's slashed with an Hihiirokane saber wielded by Moroha, who's surprised because No One Could Survive That! It's implied this trope happened because Yu then uses the plate to block Moroha's sword directly. | |
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In Batman (1989) with Michael Keaton, the Joker shoots Bruce Wayne in the chest at close range with a small pistol. Luckily Bruce had hidden a metal tray under his jacket in the scene before expecting just this (good thing the Joker didn't shoot for the head). There's a reason it's called a Batman Gambit. | |
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In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story arc "Body Count" near the end Casey Jones gets shot near the heart Raphael thinks he's dead and carries his body around with him, it is later revealed that he is alive his lucky Wayne Gretsky autographed hockey puck had been strapped to his chest for such an emergency. | |
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Suicide Squad: While assaulting the federal building, Captain Boomerang gets stabbed in the chest by one of the zombies. After he cuts the zombie's head off, it is revealed he was saved by a huge wad of cash he had apparently stashed in his jacket offscreen. | |
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Played for laughs in The Simping Detective. Jack and Demarco get into a firefight with some mooks, during which Jack takes a hit. Demarco asks him if it's bad, only for Jack to pull out his hipflask, which has a large hole in it and is now leaking whiskey. | |
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Blackadder: In the second season, there's a scene where Blackadder and Percy are practicing archery with a target held by Baldrick. Blackadder psyches out Percy, who slips and accidentally fires an arrow into Baldrick's groin. Baldrick comments that fortunately, his "willy" prevented the arrow from going into his body. Blackadder the Third has a parody example; Edmund manages to avoid death by cannonball thanks to a cigarillo case he had in his chest pocket. "I always knew smoking was good for you," he remarks. It is then immediately invoked when Prince George is shot (this time with a flintlock) for his insolence. He then gets up, explaining that he too has a cigarillo case in his breast pocket. While trying to show it off, however, he can't find it and realizes that he left it on his dresser that morning, and promptly dies. |
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At the end the first part of the Sci-Fi channel miniseries Tin Man, Wyatt Cain and Zero engage in a conversation of great revelation, with a side of epic battle, which ends with Zero trying to put a bullet through Cain's chest. This is conveniently stopped by his long lost son's small toy horse. The shot retains enough force to knock him backwards through a window and into a frozen lake. He survives anyway. | |
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In one possibly anecdotal case, a brony in the Marines was saved by a Fluttershy toy when it stopped a bullet fragment. | |
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Doctor Who. In "The Ark in Space", the Doctor is repairing something on the Nerva space station and puts a metal object in his famous roomy pockets. This serves as a Chekhov's Gun for "The Sontaran Experiment" (which follows directly on from this episode) when the bit of metal stops the Doctor from being killed by the Sontaran's Ray Gun. | |
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In Unlimited Psychic Squad, Andy's Power Limiter stops a bullet from his boss's attempt at You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. Rather impressive, since the savior trinket is about the size and shape of a quarter; he's lucky the bullet didn't force the whole thing partway into his chest. | |
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Yancy Derringer: In "Return to New Orleans", Yancy gets slugged over the head and tossed off the side of a riverboat. He is saved from unconsciousness, and therefore drowning, by the derringer hidden inside his hat. | |
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In Seven, Mailei doublecrosses Cowboy, shoots him, and leaves him for dead. However, Cowboy survives because the bullet the deflects off his lucky medal he wears on a chain round his neck. | |
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In the second episode of The Pirates of Dark Water, Atani archers shoot at the Wraith, and Ioz apparently gets hit in the chest. It turns out that he had a golden goblet — the theft of which was one of the reasons the Atani were chasing them in the first place—hidden under his robe. | |
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Invoked in The Land of Stories, in Connor's short story Starbordia , Admiral Jacobson is shot by Smoky-Sails Sam. He is saved by the massive ruby briefly discussed earlier. Invoked in that Connor actually wrote the trope into the story. | |
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JAG: In "Déjà Vu", Colonel Patano's life is saved by a metal plate in his chest that stops a bullet. The plate itself was the result of an old war wound. | |
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A rather realistic example in Dragnet. A cab driver had been shot in the chest by the criminal gang of the episode. However he had placed a few silver dollars in his shirt pocket before hand. He still wound up in the hospital but the silver dollars were enough to slow the bullet. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Joey uses the trap card "Silver Dollar" to stop Siegfried's attack. This results in a silver dollar in Sasuke Samurai's shirt blocking Valkyrie Erste's sword. | |
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A variant appears in The Avengers. Loki needs to touch a person over their heart with his scepter to control them. He tries this on Iron Man, but the arc reactor in Tony's chest gets in the way. | |
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Hec Ramsey: In "The Century Turns", Hec blocks a bullet with the brass-bound trunk that holds his portable crime lab. | |
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Parker survives his wife's attempt to kill in The Hunter because her first shot hits his belt buckle. This knocks him down (and knocks him out) and causes her remaining five wild shots to pass over the top of him. | |
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When Koark is shot at with arrows in Order of Tales, they hit the book he's always carrying in his pocket. | |
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In Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure, Elisabeth is shot by Napoleon, but her life is saved thanks to the bullet bouncing off a locket with Marie's picture. | |
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Goku survives Tao Pai Pai's Dodonpa to the chest at one point in Dragon Ball because he had the 4-Star Dragon Ball under his shirt. Considering those are said to be indestructible, it makes sense. | |
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In Sera Myu: La Reconquista, when Zoisite dies, his body turns into a small crystal, which Queen Beryl gives to Endymion. Endymion later survives being slashed with the Holy Sword because Zoisite's crystal deflects the blade away from his heart. | |
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In a 1940s-era cartoon, Bluto pretends to be Superman in order to woo Olive Oyl. Popeye and "Superman" have a one-upsmanship contest culminating in shooting each other with a Thompson sub-machine gun. Popeye is left for dead, then slowly gets to his feet, reaches into his sailor suit, and pulls out the can of spinach that has been in front of his chest, now riddled with bullet holes. He gives a Popeye chuckle, and says, "Saved by me spinach!" | |
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They Call Me Bruce: Bruce wins the jackpot from a slot machine and so many coins pour out, he has to stuff them down his pants and shirt because his pockets are full. As he's staggering to his hotel room, a mafia hitman tries to stab him only to hit the coins instead. | |
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Hack/Slash: In Fame Monster, Vlad is saved from a magical blast fired by an assassin when it strikes the machete he is carrying in the pocket of his Badass Longcoat. | |
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Used as the origin of the Marvel Noir-verse version of Luke Cage. Unlike his mainline counterpart he's not really invulnerable, people just think he is because he survived being shot in the chest, which turned out to be the result of the bullets lodging in a flask he was carrying. | |
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Henkyou no Roukishi Bard Loen: Bard is saved from death at Jogg's hands by keeping his cutlery set on his chest, which hinders his greatsword from slicing his chest and saves his life. Said silverware is not only a gift from Lady Aidra, but contains the royal family seal inside. | |
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In the Ben Snow short story "The Trail of the Golden Cross", Ben is saved from being shot in the back when the bullet deflects off the eponymous cross, which he had concealed by hiding it in the small of his back under his shirt. | |
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The Mother series had the Franklin Badge which would deflect, respectively, a certain instant-kill attack and all lightning attacks just by having it in your inventory. In the first two games, it took up an inventory slot of the character you chose to equip it to, while, in Mother 3, it's classified as a key item, and is always equipped to Lucas once you acquire it. The badge returned in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. When worn, it deflects projectiles for a set period of time. | |
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A similar joke is told among Mormons, with a missionary being shot at, and finding that his pocket copy of The Book of Mormon stopped the bullet. He jokes that the bullet couldn't get through 2 Nephi either. | |
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At the end of Sword of the Stranger, Nanashi and Luo Lang's sword duel ends when they both stab each other in the chest at the same time, they collapse to the ground both seemingly dying, it is then revealed that Nanashi survived because Lang had stabbed the gem Kotaro had given him earlier as payment for being his bodyguard which caused his sword to miss his heart. | |
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Psychoville has one character get saved by a watermelon he is carrying. | |
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In Bat Lash #2, a young girl is saved from a bullet when it hits the doll she is carrying. Earlier, her father (who was a U.S. Marshal) had hidden his metal cigar case inside the doll; the case containing proof that the local undertaker was running guns to the Indians. The bullet bounces off the case. | |
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In White House Down, President Sawyer is saved from a bullet by Lincoln's pocket watch. Didn't stop him from getting shot earlier, but then those guys had automatic weapons that certainly wouldn't have been hampered by the watch. | |
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A side story of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines focused on Sanpei has him confronting a villain named Capriccio, who is part of Team Cipher. He takes his kunai and stabs him in the chest with it. Sanpei drops himself on the ground and plays dead until Capriccio leaves, revealing that a scroll he was keeping in his chest pouch saved him. | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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Spoofed and possibly lampshaded in Mercenaries when Fiona is telling Matthias about the PDA. When asked by Matthias if the "gadget" could stop a bullet, she responds by saying "No, but it can keep you from wandering around Korea like an idiot." | |
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Demonseed Redux: When Rhoda goes into the bar the second time, Hal shoots her with a Silver Bullet to the chest. The Binding Medallion under her shirt takes the hit instead, slowly undoing Chico's brainwashing. | |
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In End of Watch, the villain shoots a former co-worker point-blank and leaves her for dead. While the bullet did penetrate enough to cause blood loss, several layers of clothes and an almost absurd number of objects in her breast pocket kept the impact from being lethal. | |
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In the Yo-kai Watch manga, a manga volume under Nate's shirt saves him from being stabbed in the gut. | |
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5 Second Films presents, "Assassination Attempt." | |
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In Once Upon a Time in China, Lian Quan is saved by the pocket watch Sun gave him earlier from a bullet. Luke lampshaded this. Subverted the next second where Luke himself was shot in an area that his own watch couldn't protect him. | |
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Subverted in Fortune De France. "This medal would later save my life, but not in the manner that you think." | |
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In the first episode of R.O.D the TV, the paper sisters are flying alongside Nenene's plane, trying to save the author from an assassin. The youngest pokes her head out to look in windows, and we see the assassin shoot at the girl a few times, breaking windows of the airplane. The girl ducks back into the paper beast, readying her rescue attempt, and, after Nenene is saved, reveals the signed copy of Nenene's book, with a huge bullet hole through the cover, digging down through most of the book. She then says, "You need to write thicker books, my defense isn't so good..." Subverted as the Paper Sisters have control over the elemental powers of paper, and use loose sheets of paper to stop bombs exploding, among other things. | |
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In GURPS: Tactical Shooting disputes the realism of this, suggesting that the main factor is luck (angle of impact, incomplete burn, long range). However the steel magazines of the AK-47 give some real protection if they're hit. | |
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There's a non-canonical Goblins strip in which Dies-Horribly is saved from a stray arrow by a very thick book. We see the group again much later, with Dies-Horribly wearing the book on his chest, with various signs of damage, including what look like attempts to cut through it (and failed, obviously); the goblins find a merchant who carries another book by the same author, this one noticeably thicker still, making Dies immediately pick it up to replace his old "armor". This being an RPG Mechanics 'Verse, they also say that, since the book are masterpieces, they have a bonus to Armor Class because of their quality.note They make you harder to hit; apparently, they are that good. | |
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Referenced in Love at First Bite, where Dracula is revealed to have survived his 1931 staking by Van Helsing because of a cigarette case Renfield gave him for his 650th birthday. | |
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In It's Garry Shandling's Show, Garry's life is saved when a bullet is stopped by a videocassette of the Bible in his pocket. Which he'd taped over. | |
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Spoofed in Rat-Man: when our hero was mistaken to have killed The Punisher's aunt, Castle eventually shot him, but a Bible stopped the bullet to the heart... And given Castle emptied a Colt 1911's magazine into him, a Quran stopped the one to the spleen, Das Kapital the one to the stomach, a copy of The Betrothed another, and so on. | |
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Spoofed in Family Guy when Mayor Adam West tells a gunman (Brian) that he has, implanted somewhere in his body, a piece of bullet-proof armor ...the size of a bullet ... and if Brian happens to shoot him there, his plan will be foiled. The mayor tells him this before he tries shooting. | |
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In Diamond is Unbreakable, happen to Kira (the Big Bad). After Hayato Kawajiri uses the time loop caused by "Bites the Dust" to spill hot coffee on Kira, he puts his wrist watch inside of his shirt pocket instead of wearing it on his burned wrist. It saves his life when Hayato later tries to kill him with Stray Cat's air bullets. In the end, this destroyed watch makes Kira realize that his final desperate attempt to use Bites the Dust failed and he got turned into a ghost, as it should have been restored had the time loop succeeded. | |
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A variant in Diaries of a Madman, where a throwing knife aimed at Navarone is randomly deflected by a stud in his clothing. It doesn't do much to stop the next two aimed at his wings, though. | |
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While you need to have the necessary item on your person, this is the justification for Fate-based magical protection in its successor, Mage: The Awakening — bullets are attracted to items that can deflect them. | |
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Stay Tuned: In the western, when Spike shoots Roy, much to his family's horror...But upon investigating, the remote Roy had on him took the bullet. | |
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Parodied when a villain shoots at Agent Smart and he holds up a book to stop the bullet. The villain asks how Smart knew that would save him, and Smart says back, "Nobody gets through War and Peace!" | |
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Jon Sable, Freelance: One of the evil poachers who killed Jon's family is saved from Jon's Roaring Rampage of Revenge by the AK-47 he was carrying at chest height. Jon's bullet hits the rifle and the impact is enough to knock the poacher out, leading Jon to assume he is dead. In #20, Jon gets shot by a rookie cop. The doctor tells Capt. Winters he is lucky, but stable. He shows Winters the jacket Jon wore and says one round hit him in the hip and 5 in the torso, though 3 rounds were stopped by the folded manuscript that Jon had inside his jacket. The doctor asks if they are shooting marshmallows and Winters says .38 cal, the next best thing. |
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Sword Art Online: In the finale of the Death Gun arc, Kirito is stabbed by Kyouji with a syringe containing a lethal drug that he and his brother had used for their other murders as Death Gun. The syringe is stopped by an electrode that had been left on when he ran to Shino's house from the hospital. That same electrode ends up saving Sinon during War of Underworld, stopping Subtilizer's last' bullet and giving her an opening to recharge her weapon and fire to finish him off. |
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Mysterious Doctor Satan. Doctor Satan shoots Bob Wayne (who is totally not a rip-off of Bruce Wayne) with a silent air pistol that fires a poisoned dart, leaving him for dead. After he leaves, Bob gets up and reveals the dart was caught in the chainmail Copperhead cowl that once belonged to his father, that Bob had tucked into his coat pocket. It's this experience that first makes Bob put on the cowl as The Copperhead. | |
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Played with in Martian Successor Nadesico. "Do you suppose the bullet was stopped by a silver dollar in his pocket?" "The Bible and a metal lighter are also options." | |
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In Rurouni Kenshin, Sanosuke punches Anji in the heart, which should have killed or crippled him, but Anji's Buddhist prayer tablet inside his robes took the hit. | |
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In The Killer Dame (a parody of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Killing Game") a member of La Résistance has a bullet stopped by his cigarette case, only to drop dead from the blunt-force trauma to his heart. | |
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Rudyard Kipling was sent a copy of his book Kim (368 pages), complete with bullet hole stopping only at the last 20 pages, together with the Cross awarded to the soldier who owned it. He later became said soldier's son's godfather. | |
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In one of MacGyver's time-traveling dream sequences, he is saved from an assassin's bullet by the wooden swiss army knife he'd been given at the beginning of the sequence. For Or Was It a Dream? credit, when he wakes back in the real world, he finds that he's still carrying the knife, complete with bullet hole. | |
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In Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Sully gets a bullet to the chest early in the game then returns very much alive. It turns out he survived due to having Francis Drake's journal in his pocket. Nathan even lampshades the trope saying "I thought this only happened in the movies!" | |
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In The Return of Bruce Wayne, an amnesiac Bruce Wayne wakes up in hospital; his life apparently having been saved by Mordecai Wayne's journal he was carrying in his pocket. | |
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In Expiration Date, the protagonist is shot by the villain in the final confrontation, but is saved by a memento of his father he's carrying inside his shirt. | |
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In the final episode of the first season of Afro Samurai, the titular character is saved from being decapitated by the Big Bad's third arm by a comb he kept as a memento of a Girl of the Week from episode 2. | |
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In Bringing Down the House, Charlene is saved by Peter's titanium-cased phone in her bra when her ex-boyfriend Widow is revealed as the Big Bad and shoots her. The impact is still bad enough to have briefly knocked her out and she wakes up groaning loudly about how much it hurt. | |
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Parodied on Only Fools and Horses. Grandad launches into the story about the cigarette case belonging to his grandfather, which deflected the bullet aimed at his heart, saving his life... at least, until it went up his nose and blew his brains out. | |
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Used with a twist in Megalo Box: Aragaki is given a losing dog-racing ticket as a memento by Nanbu before shipping off to war, with Nanbu joking that the ticket couldn't buy them a goodbye dinner but might stop a bullet for him. The ticket ends up saving Aragaki's life by falling out of his jacket when he was about to shoot himself, causing him to break down crying instead of going through with it. | |
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The movie Lupin III: Missed by a Dollar has a more plausible example, with a bullet bouncing off of Lupin's gun. Unfortunately, the animators depict the bullet (in a slow-motion flashback) bouncing off at an angle that would have buried it in Lupin's head... | |
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In the Strontium Dog "Outlaw" story, Middenface's money belt saves him from Stix's blaster. Unfortunately, it costs him about 40,000 credits. | |
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The New Avengers: In "The Midas Touch," smuggler Hong Kong Harry is shot by an assassin to prevent him from reaching a meeting. He is saved because he is wearing a quarter of a million dollars' worth of gold dust inside a Fat Suit. In "Faces," Steed is saved when his doppelgänger's bullet hits the pocket watch given to him minutes earlier by his best friend's widow. In "K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail," Steed is saved by because he is a gentleman. Although he doesn't smoke, he carries a cigarette case for those of his friends who do, and an assassin's bullet strikes the cigarette case. |
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I Killed Adolf Hitler: Hitler is saved by (of course) a copy of Mein Kampf in his pocket. | |
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Rough Riders: When General Linares shoots Annie Oakley, the bullet is stopped by a hip flask (a gift from Wild Bill Hickcock) that she has stuffed down her cleavage. | |
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