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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort	comment	The less actively a combatant puts an effort to defend themself, the less likely they need to. The corollary: Any attack that forces someone who normally ignores self-defense to dodge (or block) the attack is usually an attack that can cripple or kill the defender. Frequently seen in Implacable superheroes/villains and Big Bads trying to make an impression. The Logical Extreme is the No-Sell, when the recipient of the attack makes no effort whatsoever to avoid or block it, and doesn't react at all when it hits. Although there are some real-life examples, attempting to use this in Real Life is more likely to cause quick and stupid deaths. It just doesn't work if you do it on purpose. The sad (terrifying) fact is that this is an instinctive response called the Peltzman effect, where someone will take more risks according to how safe they are in some kind of internal (insane) sense of balance. But since humans tend normally to overestimate their benefits... the result is nasty. Worse is that it's a constant effect that people do without realizing day after day. Not so different from pain tolerance; expected pain "hurts" less than surprise pain. Compare Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh.... See also Good Thing You Can Heal (when fighters with a Healing Factor don't bother defending because "meh, I can grow that spleen back") and Nonchalant Dodge (a fighter expends the minimum effort to avoid an attack, but doesn't seem remotely fazed by it). A Not So Invincible After All moment usually occurs when said character bumps into the thing that poses a genuine threat.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_1214cdbd	comment	Frederica from Avesta of Black and White actively invokes this trope by having a Commandment that forbids her from ever dodging or blocking attacks made against her, but gives her near complete immortality in return as long as she doesn't do anything to violate it.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_12557dc4	comment	Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: Defied during the Battle of Narita - Lelouch explicitly advises the Paladins to use Voltron's shield to block a hail of gunfire and misssiles from Cornelia's army in order to make the Britannians think they might have a chance to win.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_131dd753	comment	In Tower of God: "52th Floor: Vs. Kallavan", as Baam and Karaka (try to) fight against Kallavan, they realise they have one attack that could affect him, since he doesn't just ignore it and let it hit like all the others.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_1331990c	comment	In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, when Sayaka Miki starts to go Laughing Mad due to learning Magical Girls like herself are pretty much liches, she charges straight at Elsa Maria, relying on her Feel No Pain and regeneration to tank the witch's attacks, until she gets close enough to kill her. Everyone comments that she had to be out of her mind to fight that way, even if she can't feel pain and can heal from injuries. Doing so actually makes the Magical Girls lose their minds and become Witches even faster than normal.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_18d2fbe8	comment	In Annual #2, Hawkeye defeats both the Hulk and Iron Man by exploiting the fact that they're parallel versions who know nothing about him, hence they'll not even try to dodge one arrow of the guy who has developed projectiles capable to bypass Hulk's invulnerability or melt Iron Man's armor down.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_19ac551d	comment	Kimura is physically indestructible, so she doesn't even flinch when a gun is pointed at her head, or when faced with X-23's adamantium claws. Her arrogance bites her in the ass when she faces Emma Frost, and learns that her mind is not nearly as invulnerable as her body.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Kimura is physically indestructible, so she doesn't even flinch when a gun is pointed at her head, or when faced with X-23's adamantium claws. Her arrogance bites her in the ass when she faces Emma Frost, and learns that her mind is not nearly as invulnerable as her body. It comes back to bite her again during All-New Wolverine when she drops her guard to taunt Laura, knowing that Laura couldn't hurt her even with a stolen Iron Man suit. Laura admits she's right, but points out that no matter how invulnerable Kimura is she still has to breathe, and drowns her in the ocean. Nimrod doesn't make much of an effort to defend itself during battle. Being an android endowed with immense regenerative capabilities, it doesn't need to.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_1c649ab3	comment	Happens with the Replica Weapon used by the Pope in The Rising of the Shield Hero, while the Replica Weapon does contain 1/4th of the total power of all four Cardinal Weapons and can shift forms to those weapons, because of the ideology of The Three Heroes Church treating the Shield Hero as their religions' Anti Christ, Pope Bisca refuses to use the Replica Weapons' Shield Form to instead rely upon a magical barrier to defend himself with, a barrier that is fueled by the mana of his own Churchs' Followers just like every other attack that the Replica Weapon is capable of producing. Suffice to say, Pope Biscas' barrier is eventually worn down through attrition by all Four Heroes working together.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Kenpachi Zaraki is perfectly content to let his opponents attack him, and actually encourages them to go for the eye or the throat. The first time Ichigo tried to hit Kenpachi with his sword, Ken was unharmed, and Ichigo's hands got hurt from the impact. However, even when his enemies show they can cut him, he still rarely bothers to dodge or defend and lets them keep hitting him so he can get in the perfect range to strike back. This almost got him in trouble fighting Nnoitra, as he underestimated how much damage Nnoitra was actually doing to his body and made him sober up on the realization that if he didn't take him out now, he'd bleed to death in the long run. Also, Nnoitra Gilga fits it pretty well, especially the corollary during his fight with Kenpachi. He doesn't actually dodge any of Kenpachi's attacks until Kenpachi aims for the head, giving Kenpachi the proof he needs that Nnoitra's hierro isn't actually invincible. However, Nnoitra replies that it's just natural instinct to dodge a sword coming for the head, and when Kenpachi goes for a stab through the eye, he makes the mistake of aiming for his Eyepatch of Power, which actually covers Nnoitra's Hollow hole and opens him to a retaliatory strike. That said, Nnoitra's smugness quickly fades once Kenpachi finally figures out the trick to cutting him and he's forced to start parrying and dodging rather than tanking. Aizen averts this for a while, using his illusions to avoid attacks he could probably easily tank anyway. But when he reveals his Healing Factor, he adheres fully to this trope.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_1cf9029e	comment	DEATH BATTLE!: In "Crash Bandicoot vs Spyro the Dragon", after a scuffle in the air causes him to plummet towards the water from a height, Crash confidently folds his arms, smiles and relaxes, knowing that Aku Aku would save him from harm like he did earlier in the fight against Spyro's fire breath — not even bothering to dodge when Dark Spyro unleashes his Aether Breath. This winds up being a fatal mistake as the attack overpowers Aku Aku's protection, vaporizing the mask and the bandicoot.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_1de036cc	comment	Kamen Rider Wizard usually prefaces getting the tar beaten out of him by switching to Land Style and chain-casting Defend. Conversely, when he first unlocks his Super Mode he gives Legion several free hits just to prove how hopelessly outclassed he is.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_1e90e11d	comment	In his second appearance, The Vision believes he can withstand Thor's attacks by making himself super-dense. He changes his mind after getting punched across the room.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index: Accelerator has control over vectors, so anything that makes contact with him will bounce off, even if it hits him without him being aware of it. His arrogance bites him in the ass in his fights against Touma and Amata Kihara. As a testament to Accelerator's Character Development, much later in the series, he faces Umidori Kuroyoru. Kuroyoru launches an attack that can hurt him, expecting Accelerator to take the attack and get himself killed. Accelerator dodges, causing her to have a Villainous Breakdown as she didn't see that coming.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_226f6b3f	comment	In the Haven episode "Fear and Loathing", Ian Haskell steals Nathan Wuornos' Feel No Pain ability, and while it makes him tougher, he assumes he's invincible. When the heroes shoot at him, he laughs off his injuries until the damage and blood loss makes him collapse and start dying.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_230609e7	comment	Kabbalah: The Passive Conqueror: Discussed and subverted. When Mashu Kyrielight gets attacked by the AST, she remembers that Servants are immune to non-magical attacks and is highly tempted to tank their bullets, but decides to block them with her shield. It was a good call because when a few bullets go past her shield and hit her, though they bounce off, they really hurt.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_291e9857	comment	Dark Souls has the Rolling mechanic, that lets you roll to get invincibility frames for a quick instance. Since in the game armor slows you down, if you put it on and it surpasses a certain weight threshold (that you can increase with certain items) you have less invincibility frames in your rolling. Because of this, and the fact that you can avoid almost any kind of damage by rolling in time, many people that are too confident of their skills and reaction times tend to use as little amount of armor as possible, or not use armor at all â€“ of course, at risk of dying even faster if they fail in the process, and since less armor gives you less Poise it also means you will get stunlocked by incoming attacks easier. This mechanic, of course, makes some Player Versus Player interactions a circus of men rolling all over the place really fast while wearing nothing but a loincloth and a potato sack on their heads, or a giant fat armor rolling incredibly slow yet somehow dodging all incoming damage.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_2ba1d958	comment	In The Matrix, during the climax when Neo becomes The One, he becomes so masterful over Agent Smith that he can fight him off with only one hand. In the sequel, he starts off the same way with the first Agent who tries to attack him, but eventually finds that he actually needs to use both again:
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	In the first season of Heroes, the show's supervillain Sylar would use his telekinesis as a passive force field to blunt the impact of surprise bullet hits, and could even stop bullets in mid-air Neo-style if given enough time to actually react. After he absorbed a Healing Factor in the later seasons, though, he just stopped bothering and let himself get riddled with holes, even though doing so clearly inconvenienced him much more than simply stopping the bullets with telekinesis. It kind of makes sense, though. If he uses telekinesis, they'll keep shooting, hoping he slips up once. If he uses healing, then they're more likely to stop shooting, since there's clearly no point.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha: During Fate and Signum's first battle, Signum calmly put a field around her and just stood there with her eyes closed as Fate launched Photon Lancer. The energy missiles just bounced off of her. Later in the battle, when Fate charged at Signum with her axe, Signum actively dodged it. In the next episode, it's revealed that Fate had managed to wound her then. Averted with Reinforce Eins, who isn't averse to using external barriers to stop her opponents' attacks. Nanoha pierces her barrier, fires an Exelion Buster point-blank at her... and she isn't even scratched. In StrikerS, Fate develops a "defensive costume" that trades all protection for a massive speed boost. The Numbers' best fighter immediately recognizes that a single hit that connects will kill Fate. What she fails to realize is that in a high-speed battle, you CAN'T land a hit on Fate. Yuuno was good at two things, barriers and teleportation. When he's seen fighting Vita in the second episode of A's, he nearly completely ignores her, throws up a defensive barrier, and keeps working on teleporting the entire gang out of the Wolkenritter's barrier. This ALL WITHOUT THE USE OF A MAGICAL DEVICE. Vita had demolished Nanoha and would have won if the others hadn't interfered just the episode before.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_2fa6ae81	comment	Played straight with a twist in Blade of the Immortal, as the main character, the titular immortal swordsman Manji, is bothered by the fact that his reliance on his regeneration induced immortality means that, consequently, his sword skills are slipping.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_2fee008d	comment	Subverted in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Simon puts up a barrier of Spiral power that effortlessly deflects a barrage of Anti-Spiral attacks. He mocks the Anti-Spirals when they immediately try another barrage - but this one penetrates the barrier and causes serious damage. This is an example of the Anti-Spirals rewriting the laws of the universe, basically, to make "the impossible possible".
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_303eced	comment	Averted in go (a.k.a. igo, weiqi, baduk) — if the stronger player can forget defense, the handicap is too small - and according to the game etiquette, they should play weaker in order to avoid crushing their opponent. Especially if the handicap was purposefully omitted or too small. The stronger one is supposed to "gently" show where a mistake was done, and not take too great advantage of obvious blunders. It's supposed to be a sign of a good player that they can defeat a weak player of any level by a small margin.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Hidan is entirely immortal, and thus has almost no strategy or moves beyond "get opponent's blood for voodoo technique". Both his partner Kakuzu and eventual opponent Shikamaru tell him how stupid that is. They are proven completely right when Shikamaru buries his severed head deep underground. He was also shown to be at least partially vulnerable to dismemberment as unlike Kakuzu he can't pull his bodyparts back together automatically. Thus, Hidan gets to be an immortal decapitated head buried in the middle of nowhere. Orochimaru plays this trope completely straight, often taking hits and regenerating his body afterwards. He can deal with nearly any physical injury this way, even a broken neck at one point. However, some things still mess him up. When facing against Kyuubi-overtaken Naruto, he pulled regeneration trick several times, but once the monster starts charging up 4 Tails Menacing Ball he puts forth a serious effort to defend himself, commenting on how it could kill even him in one shot. Said "serious effort" being to summon the Triple Rashomon Gate in the blast's path. A pair of his Elite Mooks had previously described a single Rashomon Gate as the "ultimate defense". All three gates were destroyed (alongside some nearby mountains), but the blast was slowed enough for Orochimaru to avoid destruction. In his battle against Itachi, this habit also bites him in the ass, as he takes a stab to the chest from a blade that he thought couldn't harm him, only for it to turn out to be a spiritual blade that sealed him in an endless illusion. Suigetsu partially averts this though as despite being able to avoid damage by turning into water, he still prefers to avoid attacks in a more conventional fashion (except in that one filler episode, but that was against someone he really didn't consider a threat and to scare him by showing the power off). Granted, this might simply be because he can't attack while reforming or a limit on how much he can regenerate before losing consciousness/dying. The series is otherwise an aversion, as it's shown that even with heavy use of Charles Atlas Superpower, there's a limit to the raw physical ability any person can normally achieve (as detailed in this helpful essay). Thus, even insanely powerful ninja have to avoid simple things like kunai and explosives and the strongest techniques are the ones that make being hit nearly impossible. Subverted with both Gaara and later Sasuke who tried to rely on their "ultimate defense" (the Sand Shield and Susano'o) technique to mean they don't need to do anything else to defend themselves, but eventually have both of them defeated.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_30b255fb	comment	Supergirl and Power Girl are more reckless and more hot-headed than their older cousin and just so invulnerable, so they're prone to take more risks and head-diving into a situation with little concern about their safety.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_32c541e6	comment	Father from Fullmetal Alchemist can do pretty much the strongest alchemy in the entire series without moving at all. He spends several chapters just standing there, arms crossed, blocking everything the good guys can throw at him. And when he finally raises his arm to block, that's when they know he's finally losing it.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_32d026ec	comment	Ogre from Rave Master is stupidly overconfident because his Dark Bring makes physical attacks phase through him. He tends to forget it doesn't protect him from energy or spiritual attacks, like Silver Bond.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_35af2104	comment	The Fifth Elephant shows this only applies if the person has some knowledge of combat: an ordinary policeman dodges when Vimes tosses an orange at him, but someone who doesn't flinch from gently-flung fruit presumably knows how to fight.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_366a284d	comment	In Fist of the North Star, Souther's Nanto Ho'oh Ken has no defensive stance. In the initial fight against Kenshiro, he manages to No-Sell every technique Kenshiro uses (due to having every pressure point on his body reversed due to his heart being on the opposite side).
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_36bd	comment	In Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Superman tries to catch a bullet, but it pierces through his hand. It leads to the revelation that someone has turned the Sun into a red star.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: While Wonder Woman has been impervious to small arms fire for decades and can usually tank much more impressive hits she usually blocks and/or catches bullets and other projectiles especially when she's in a city, which prevents a ricochet from hurting someone else. If the fight is in the wilderness she'll just walk through a hail of bullets without flinching, since even if it is something that can harm her she's got a Healing Factor that'll make short work of the damage.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Very common in the Dragon Ball franchise, whether between one of the ridiculously powerful main characters and an ordinary human, or by a villain to show how far above the hero they are. As early as the second episode of Dragon Ball Z, Raditz makes light of Piccolo's power, stands there and allows himself to be blasted, and when the smoke clears... Played with by Cell, who lets Vegeta taunt him into standing still to take a Final Flash, an attack that notably takes a few minutes to properly execute. As he is about to be struck, he cries out in surprise, and moves aside, but his arm and a part of his upper torso are blown off. Vegeta, seeing the damage he's done, is very pleased with himself, until Cell reveals that it was all a ruse, regenerates the damage, and proceeds to beat the snot out of Vegeta. Up until the Cell Saga, Kuririn/Krillin had a technique called Kienzan/Destructo-Disc, which was powerful but easy to dodge. So powerful, in fact, that it was the only technique among the secondary characters to actually break their enemies Diminished Effort. When he uses it against Nappa in the Saiyan arc, he is the first to do some actual damage to Nappa, and only because Nappa actually dodged it at the last moment thanks Vegeta's warning (Vegeta is later seen using a similar technique to cut off Great Ape Gohan's tail, which is how he knew it was dangerous enough to kill Nappa). In the Frieza arc, Krillin uses the technique again on Frieza and is the first to actually damage him in his first transformation by cutting his tail off (though, again, one has to wonder how Frieza figured out the attack would actually hurt him). It is only in the Cell arc that the Law of Diminishing Efforts comes back to haunt him as Krillin uses a barrage of attacks against Perfect Cell, including the Kienzan, and the Kienzan uselessly breaks against Cell's neck who does absolutely no effort in dodging this attack. Note that Perfect Cell isn't any more or less arrogant than both Frieza or Vegeta, and yet both of these figured they actually HAD to dodge this attack while Cell figured he didn't have to. However, Cell was capable of regenerating from just a head anyway so it wouldn't have killed him even if it HAD worked and Cell knew this. Later one of the Cell Jrs. uses the Disc against Super Saiyan 2 Gohan, and it's the only technique out of all of the ones they throw at him Gohan doesn't just stand/float there and take the blow and instead dodges. Its worth nothing that Cell resisting the Kienzan was an anime only scene. It did not appear in the manga, and general statements by Toriyama related to the Kienzan mean that it's generally interpreted as being a mistake on the part of the anime. During Goku's fight with Spike the Devil Man, Spike decides to use his Devilmite Beam attack. Master Roshi freaks out, quickly explains that the attack is a One-Hit Kill to any being with a shred of evil in them, and yells at Goku to dodge it. Goku takes it head-on because he couldn't understand what Roshi was saying and he thought the beam was pretty. It's a good thing Goku is pure of heart or else he would have died. In Dragon Ball Super, at one point in the Tournament of Power, Jiren just finds a secluded spot and meditates. A bunch of other competitors see this as an opportunity to defeat him, but they're repelled back by the force field surrounding him.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_3e374b30	comment	In The Dark Knight Rises, Batman's battle with Bane in the sewers has Bane speechifying to him about how "victory" has cost him, and conspicuously tanking shots to the face while telling Batman how weak he has become — with dozens of loyal mooks ordered to stand back and watch. It's kind of not hard to see which way the wind is blowing.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_3f5ec5bb	comment	For much of Armed Girl's Machiavellism's first arc Amou was surrounded by an aura of invincibility due her apparent invulnerability after she had taken two strikes from Rin and Mary's (blunted) swords and shrug them off, and that, combined with her ability to pierce flesh and bone with her hands, left everyone else wondering what was her deal or how she could be countered. Near the end of the arc, however, Rin and Mary face her again and aim to the same spot on Amou's body, and her parrying not only reveals she can in fact be harmed but also how (if hit in the same spot in a very quick succession, as the first hit will make her muscles relax and make them vulnerable to the second) and that she's a traditionally trained Uechi-ryu Karateka with a rare skillset.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_40852654	comment	Medaka Box: Zenkichi states that this is the common weakness shared by the strongest students at the academy: they never dodge their opponents' first attack (Medaka being an exception thanks to the "Auto-Pilot" Abnormality she copied before). Any attack that could take them out of the fight in one hit will work on them.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_40c936e6	comment	In The Vampire of Steel, Kara confidently dives into a fight to save her new acquaintance Buffy, confident that her invulnerable body can't be harmed by whoever has ambushed her. Swiftly Kara finds out they're vampires, hence they are able to hurt her.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_41b0198a	comment	In The Dresden Files, Ivy the Archive is a Great Big Library of Everything in human form. She knows everything that has ever been written down. In the Dresdenverse, knowledge equals power, and she has a lot of it. In a spectacular display of power, she manages to take on seven very Elite Mooks, blocking or redirecting every attack with seemingly minimal effort. But when the leader of the Elite Mooks throws a spell at her, Ivy devotes most of her attention, as well as one of her hands, on defending against her attack.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_42aa7ed7	comment	In Crisis on Earth-X, Supergirl's Earth-X counterpart Overgirl laughs when Oliver threatens her with an arrow. She confidently stands still when he fires it, only to learn it is a kryptonite arrow when it penetrates her shoulder. After angrily pulling it out, she catches or dodges any other arrows he fires.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_4368553e	comment	During an Amazons Attack tie-in, Kara leaps in the way of an arrow to protect civilians. Unfortunately, Amazon arrows are magic-imbued, so it gets embedded in her midsection.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_469771d2	comment	While The Powerpuff Girls usually fight kaiju or supervillains that can pose an effective threat to their durability, common criminals are a different story. In one episode, bank robbers pepper the girls with a hail of gunfire to no effect other than a bored comment while the bullets bounce off them.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_4715c532	comment	The Red Dragon's Saber: Averted. While fighting the Fallen Angels, Artoria Pendragon becomes tempted to try to tank one of their light spears to test her Magic Resistance skill. She decides it is not worth the risk and continues dodging and blocking them.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_489c6d22	comment	Lost to Dust: Because Yang Xiao Long has Avalon which heals her injuries, combined with her Semblance, she's started to become arrogant and just stand there tanking damage. Kairi Sisigou scolds her and points out those abilities aren't foolproof and she almost got killed by Beowulf.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_4a617988	comment	Fates Collide: The RWBY characters often confidently stand still, believing their Aura will protect them, only to find out the hard way Noble Phantasms are powerful enough to wound them.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_4ce5263e	comment	In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the enemies that don't bother to Take Cover!, like Sectopods or Ethereals, are also the ones with the highest HP and innate Defence. This also applies to MEC Troopers in the Enemy Within expansion. Too big to hide, they are pretty tough, and some upgrades allow them to generate a force field that sheds some incoming damage. Naturally, their Evil Counterpart the Mechtoid has similar limitations and qualities.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_4f46b380	comment	Sebastian Shaw in X-Men: First Class. When Magneto sends a storm of metal at him, he doesn't even seem to notice it as all the metal harmlessly bounces off him. Which makes sense, since his mutant power (in the comics at least) explicitly is to absorb kinetic energy, so simply hitting him tends to leave him both unhurt and stronger than before. He's still vulnerable to less straightforward attacks (he still needs to breathe, for one) and knows it, though.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_53bd0aaf	comment	Paul in With Strings Attached. Given that the super-strong Paul has absolutely no interest in hitting anyone (unless one of the others is threatened) and no combat training whatsoever, he has no moves at all in case something penetrates his invulnerability, as with the wraiths or the Hunter's BFS.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_56e1779c	comment	In Kill Six Billion Demons, Jagganoth averts this trope. Despite being stated to have Complete Immortality and being Nigh-Invulnerable to the degree that it is conceptually impossible to harm him, he still engages in defensive maneuvers and parries, dodges and intercepts incoming attacks he could logically simply No-Sell and power through with The Slow Walk. White Chain hypothesises from this that, despite being invulnerable, Jagganoth still feels the pain of every attack that hits him and thus attempts to avoid that pain. She also hypothesises that any being capable of enduring as much pain as Jagganoth constantly does is likely not to be trifled with.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_5b422f2c	comment	ClanDestine: Adam Destine can't be harmed, period. As he has lived several centuries with this condition, he tends not to react to any attack. His usual tactic is to stand still while his opponent gets tired or leaves.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_5c599059	comment	Subverted in Warp. Back when she was a teenager, Antares usually charged headfirst in any situation, trusting her force field to deflect any physical strike. Her adult self is reluctant to take unnecessary risks, so she fights more carefully and cleverly.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_5ce2f08b	comment	Averted in Black Butler, where Sebastian regularly dodges when shot at despite being Immune to Bullets. This is suggested to be because getting shot ruins his clothes, and as a Battle Butler, he must look impeccable.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Soul Eater: Free hardly ever bothers with blocking or dodging because he has Complete Immortality. In fact, the one time he went out his way to dodge Black Star's sword strikes Kid immediately realizes something's up and that "Free" is really a projected illusion used for distraction. The only times he's ever bothered with blocking is when he's acting like a meat shield for the much more vulnerable ally Eruka. Asura also plays this straight after his fight with Lord Shinigami. Attacks seem to damage him he still just No Sells, and it turns out he's the personification of fear and can't die as long as fear exists, so he had no reason to be concerned about them. He only had reason to concern himself with Shinigami since he defeated him prior to the series.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted has the hardness mechanic, which prevents any enemy who hasn't sufficiently grasped the Advantage Ball through withering attacks from inflicting injury. However, it is all or nothing, so anyone depending entirely on hardness against decisive attacks is going to have a short lifespan once a few attacks get through.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_5f76cba1	comment	This trope was a major reason why the New 52 "armored Superman" design didn't last long; the wide perception among audiences was that, while it makes some sense for a Badass Normal to wear some kind of body armor, Superman wearing it doesn't do much more than make his design unnecessarily busy.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_60d3c8e9	comment	The Mission Stays the Same: Inverted. When Shepherd first sees Captain Gallardi fighting on Purgatory, she notes that he seems oddly over-cautious, never leaving cover for more than a fraction of a second. Then she remembers that Gallardi is used to fighting without kinetic barriers, where even a single bullet could kill him. Similarly, Gallardi absolutely butchers the Blue Sun mercs, in large part because they're used to being able to rely on barriers instead of dodging or taking cover and Gallardi is armed with a lasgun that ignores kinetic shielding.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_60e6b2da	comment	In Harmony Theory, Nightmare Umbra is a Physical God, so she tends to ignore most attacks. Even if by some miracle you manage to injure her, she heals almost instantly. She usually only avoids attacks if she is low on energy.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_61a39969	comment	Thanos's signature pose in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame is to simply sit down, arms on his lap with his head down in a contemplative pose. He'll do this even when his enemies are nearby, ready to attack him. He is such a skilled fighter that he can afford to let his guard down like that and still hold his own. He also assumes this pose when he is about to be disintegrated once the Infinity Stones are taken from him, suggesting that he really is defenseless like that.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_638624c8	comment	In Slayers, to demoralize Lina into using her Dangerous Forbidden Technique, Hellmaster tells the Slayers that they can attack him all they want and he won't counter-attack or even attempt to defend himself, and then spends a while laughing off everything they throw at him (even more so in the novel version, where all of the Slayers actively participate in the fight). The first thing that forces him to react is two simultaneous Dragon Slaves from Lina and Sylphiel, which "might have hurt a bit if I hadn't dodged it". The only thing that he really considers worth defending against is the Giga Slave - at which point he discovers that ultimate destructive power is not a toy.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_705bb59a	comment	The fluff of Vampire: The Masquerade mentions that Ventrue with the Fortitude Discipline often like to use their supernatural toughness as an intimidation tactic, standing still and letting muggles throw away bullets, knives, etc. (which they shrug off) as a way of psyching them out.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_7393c0ce	comment	In Hellsister Trilogy, Superman, Supergirl and a third Kryptonian crash into Darkseid's stronghold and bump straight into Kryptonite Man. After rescuing them from the trap they had been lured into, Lightray considers the trio too cocky, but he'd probably also get cocky after shrugging off the attacks of thousands of parademons.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_7421f19e	comment	In the final battle of Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends, Big Bad Shishio initially shows off his Made of Iron credentials this way, by using a battle style that is entirely offensive and simply shrugging off all of Kenshin's blows. Shishio only begins dodging and blocking when people who are using regular swords enter the battle on Kenshin's side.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_75e9b784	comment	Whenever Valeria Trifa from Dies Irae fights it mostly involves him simply just standing there while his opponent just pointlessly wails away on him. Being in possession of the Divine Vessel, the physical body of the Big Bad, his defenses are so obscene that he doesn't really have to fear anyone. This all changes in his battle against Machina however where he is forced into a defensive stance to try a weather the relentless attacks.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_761813a6	comment	In Band of Brothers, the more time soldiers spend trying desperately not to die, the more likely they are to get killed, while those who simply focus on completing their mission tend to do better. As in the case of Lt., later Captain Speirs, who runs through occupied Foy to link up with another company assaulting Foy from the other direction, then runs back through in order to lead his own men into the now-coordinated attack.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_7668653a	comment	In Mass Effect 2, when Harbinger takes control of a Collector, he makes absolutely no effort to hide or avoid taking damage. The Collector he takes over stands out in the open behind intensely powerful barrier and armor protection and keeps pounding Shepard's squad, ignoring gunfire, tech attacks, and biotics until his armor and shields have been completely depleted. Then he takes control of the next Collector in line. He even lampshades how little he cares that you're blasting away at him, calling your attacks "insults." At the end of the Suicide Mission, he releases control of the Collector General as the station explodes around it, implying that such a thing might have actually hurt Harbinger himself. The death of a host body was shown to weaken or distract Sovereign in Mass Effect 1. One can assume Harbinger left prior to the deaths, or that this is phenomenon is why Harbinger has a brief lag between possessions. If you watch the cutscenes carefully, you'll note that Harbinger took direct control of the leader of the Collectors before the first time you fight one of his puppets, and relinquishes that control just before the leader is killed. Harbinger was lying to you every time he said "assuming direct control;" he was actually forcing the one Collector he'd taken control of to control those fighting you, giving him indirect control. Because Harbinger knew what you did to Sovereign.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_78f53d16	comment	In Kara of Rokyn, Starfire -not that Starfire- is given Kryptonian powers. She quickly becomes cocky and overconfident, allowing enemies to hit her invulnerable body... until a real Kryptonian jumps into battle all of sudden and punches her into orbit.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_81692f99	comment	This is a Borg policy in Star Trek, as they will ignore anything they do not perceive as a threat. The very first drone to appear on the Enterprise makes a point of this, as it ignores not only Picard's attempts to communicate, but a low-level phaser blast. Since individual drones are just about as important to the Borg as individual cells are to humans, this does make some sense. Much less in the later incarnations, where the Borg are starting to resemble zombies led by a quite individualistic queen. Especially since Starfleet members have on multiple occasions taken advantage of the drones ignoring them to seriously sabotage their efforts. Of course, since the Borg's hat is adapting to what's hurt them, one can take this as the Borg adapting to Starfleet exploiting the drones.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_83551418	comment	A Force of Four: After her cousin's death, Power Girl was de facto the world's most powerful being. So she was quite shocked when she leapt into a battle and got unexpectedly hurt by two men. It was her first clue that she was engaging other Kryptonians.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_84377fd8	comment	The Cobra gunship from GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra lets anti-aircraft 50 cal bounce off its armored shell, but actively engages incoming missiles.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_884c73d9	comment	In Ip Man 2, the Twister asks Master Hung's students to hit him as hard as they can and laughs off their blows as wimpy. When he actually throws down with Master Hung and Ip, though, he properly blocks and evades their attacks.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Superman usually trusts his nigh-invulnerability to tank anything. Sometimes this results in him awesomely standing still while bullets ricochet off his body. Other times, it bites him in the ass when he runs into goons armed with anti-Kryptonian weaponry. In Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, he just stands still while Spider-Man punches him uselessly. In Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Superman tries to catch a bullet, but it pierces through his hand. It leads to the revelation that someone has turned the Sun into a red star. In The Supergirl from Krypton (2004), a squad of winged Darkseid's parademons tries to stop him by kamikazing against his body. Superman just ignores their relentless assault as he continues his march forward. In Kryptonite Nevermore, the Man of Steel is so preoccupied with his fluctuating powers he barely notices a gang of thugs knocking themselves out by "hitting" his indestructible body. Supergirl and Power Girl are more reckless and more hot-headed than their older cousin and just so invulnerable, so they're prone to take more risks and head-diving into a situation with little concern about their safety. During an Amazons Attack tie-in, Kara leaps in the way of an arrow to protect civilians. Unfortunately, Amazon arrows are magic-imbued, so it gets embedded in her midsection. Subverted in Justice when Green Arrow states he has a Kryptonite-tipped arrow, prompting Supergirl to move aside when he fires. In Who is Superwoman?, the titular villain becomes so cocky and overconfident after gaining superhuman invulnerability she believes she can stand still and endure an enraged Kryptonian's blows. She learns otherwise when she's punched across a street and through a building. In a crossover with He-Man called From Eterniaâ€” With Death!, when Superman is attacked by Skeletor, he confidently stands still, thinking the villain will only hurt himself or damage his weapon, only to be shocked when Skeletor's magic sword slashes his chest. Superman then properly dodges or blocks attacks after this. This was the first time in the comics that Superman's vulnerability to magic was brought up. This trope was a major reason why the New 52 "armored Superman" design didn't last long; the wide perception among audiences was that, while it makes some sense for a Badass Normal to wear some kind of body armor, Superman wearing it doesn't do much more than make his design unnecessarily busy.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_90c73170	comment	Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance: Almost all of the bosses in the game do what they can to avoid your attacks or stop them in their tracks where it's possible, knowing Raiden's HF blade can put some actual damage on them. This isn't the case with Senator Steven Armstrong, whose unique brand of Nanomachines (SON!) harden his body so much that most of the time he just plainly does not give a fuck what you're throwing at him; he just plows straight through your myriad slashes anyways to punch your face off the rest of your body. Most of his blocks are just to show off how little Raiden's blade does to him.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_90d11dbe	comment	The Crow: Phoenix Rising: More often than not Harry lets deadly spells just hit him because he's already dead.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_985ad25d	comment	In Dragon Ball Super, at one point in the Tournament of Power, Jiren just finds a secluded spot and meditates. A bunch of other competitors see this as an opportunity to defeat him, but they're repelled back by the force field surrounding him.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_9db1766a	comment	Dante from Devil May Cry, at least in cutscenes. He will let enemies impale him with pointy objects, crush him underneath them etc. because of his Healing Factor, usually leaving a wisecrack or two. If he starts blocking or evading properly then you know the fight's serious. The actual gameplay also demonstrates the corollary very well, especially on the harder difficulty modes: if you aren't jumping around like a frog on meth, you will be torn to shreds by most of the enemies you face, even if their attacks don't do a lot of damage. It's easy to get ganked to death, and there are not many health restoring items available.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_9db3a320	comment	In Kryptonite Nevermore, the Man of Steel is so preoccupied with his fluctuating powers he barely notices a gang of thugs knocking themselves out by "hitting" his indestructible body.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_9e202b7b	comment	Averted in Chapter 280 of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple. The Karate club is taught Muy Thai by one of the members of Yomi, but he only taught them how to attack. As such they could not defend against Kenichi at all when he counterattacked.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Inverted with Luffy in Supernova (One Piece). Because he was trained to avoid accidentally turning intangible, he tends to reflexively dodge attacks rather than let them harmlessly pass through him.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_9f89a5f0	comment	In PokÃ©mon fanfic Traveler, Cynthia's Spiritomb won't bother to defend itself against most attacks due a combination of its power, ghostly nature, and ability (Pressure). But once Ash starts aiming for its base, it freaks out and focuses entirely on defending.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Subverted with Godzilla in Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex. While he's as capable of taking hits as other Godzillas, he's not solely reliant on his durability, preferring to parry, block, and dodge to create openings for counterattacks.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_a15ee289	comment	In Last Child of Krypton, Shinji is warned that he shouldn't be overconfident since he may be invulnerable, but his friends are not. It comes back to bite him in the ass later when Gendo keeps him at bay with a piece of Kryptonite.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_a4514a75	comment	Played with is Iji where late-game boss Asha, in his rematch is able to dodge all your attacks, but doesn't bother to dodge shotgun or autogun rounds, believing them to be beneath him. His defensive ability is otherwise perfect — no weapon, not even a nuke can even touch him. He doesn't count on Iji surviving as long as she does, constantly chipping down his health until his pride gets him killed.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_a48c2483	comment	Subverted in Justice when Green Arrow states he has a Kryptonite-tipped arrow, prompting Supergirl to move aside when he fires.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_a5c833e9	comment	* In Kemono Jihen, protagonist Kabane is a Khoular, a type of kemono with an extraordinarily powerful Healing Factor and an inability to feel pain. This leads Kabane to simply throw himself at his opponents recklessly because it's nearly impossible to for him to die. But even if he can't feel pain, he can still be injured and temporarily incapacitated, as shown when Kabane gets his neck broken while training with the tanuki of Yajima Village. Kabane's experiences slowly beat this mindset out of him, making him fight more carefully than before. But his inability to remain wounded still allows him to make reckless plays that no one else can, such as using himself as kindling for Kaede's fire powers.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_a7bb29b0	comment	In Mega Man X3, Neon Tiger will use his laser claws to block any Charged Attacks fired at him. He isn't bothered to block weak, uncharged shots, however.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_acc117e8	comment	The God of Destruction comes to Remnant: Godzilla is sent to the world of RWBY in the form of a Faunus. When he gets into a fight with a thug, he stands still when the thug throws a punch, thinking that he's still invulnerable and the thug will just break his hand, only to get hurt and knocked down. He learns his lesson after that and fights smarter.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_ae727300	comment	In the Paradox Trilogy, this is the downfall of Anton Mikel. After Devi's initial attacks are stopped by his armor, he assumes that she is unable to harm him at all and stops bothering to block or dodge. Devi then locates a weak spot in his armor and is able to kill him with an attack that he doesn't react to until it's too late.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_b1f436be	comment	The Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition book Drow of the Underdark states that drow consider wearing Stripperiffic clothing to be a warning that the person in question is quite capable of defending themselves with magic without needing protective gear.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: This can be seen in Jaime Lannister's sword-fighting strategies, before and after his maiming. Before his sudden limb removal, Jaime fought very aggressively, always putting his opponent on the defensive and never letting them even consider attacking him. After he loses the ability to kill most men with a flick of his wrist, he fights completely defensively, relying on his still-perfect footwork and maneuvers where his lackluster hand can't win.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_b60b7a6b	comment	In The Supergirl from Krypton (2004), a squad of winged Darkseid's parademons tries to stop him by kamikazing against his body. Superman just ignores their relentless assault as he continues his march forward.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_b834beb1	comment	During the scene in Fury (2014) where three Sherman tanks engage a German Tiger, the Tiger just powers towards the Shermans as their shells bounce helplessly off it, while its cannon systematically reduces them from three to one (an example of Hollywood Tactics as the Tiger had no need to advance, or even leave cover, to destroy its opponents). It's only when Fury begins to get around behind it to Attack Its Weak Point that the Germans change tactics; at one point you can hear the German tank commander shout (in unsubtitled German) "Oh, Crap!! Reverse! Reverse! Don't let them get behind us or we're dead!"'
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_b8e7bb8	comment	Super Sentai, a Monster of the Week or villain with any significance, outside of human looking ones, don't make much effort to avoid attacks outside of occasionally blocking them. This results in the attack either hurting them, or the attack does nothing. Also zigzagged with the series Humongous Mecha, which usually leads to them getting damaged but if it's Mid-Season Upgrade making its debut, it will No-Sell the attacks, mostly because the costumes are too bulky for the actors in them to make any sort of evasive moves.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail: Juvia has a body of living water that normally feels no pain and can effortlessly regenerate when splattered. When Meredy throws a Storm of Blades at her, Juvia confidently stands still, but they turn out to be magical swords that can hurt her, and she gets badly injured. Midnight's Reflector Magic allows him to bend attacks that come at him harmlessly away from his body or to create illusions that take the attacks for him. Erza realizes, however, that there are limits to this power when he performs a Nonchalant Dodge on one of her thrown swords while he's throttling her with said magic rather than just reflecting it like all previous attacks. She realizes due to this and other actions he's been taking during the fight that he can't use his power to attack and defend at the same time and proves it by unleashing a Storm of Blades while he's using his power on her again, which causes him to visibly panic and jump away from the attack. Played with by Acnologia, who occasionally takes strikes head on and at worst just gets knocked back before acting like he didn't even feel it because he has natural Anti-Magic thanks to his Dragon Slayer element being magic itself, but other times he can be seen blocking strikes or jumping away from them. However, the ease and almost casual way he does both makes it clear he doesn't actually feel threatened by them in any way.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_b96cfdc2	comment	The Faraway Paladin: Will realizes while fighting the dragon Valacirca that the wyrm's unnatural strength and toughness means he's never had to actually practice fighting, which means there are lots of blind spots and openings in his attack patterns that Will's war party is able to exploit.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive has Vlad showing this trope off here. Damien never bothered even learning how to fight offensively, much less defensively.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_c17bf191	comment	In Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, he just stands still while Spider-Man punches him uselessly.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_c51b8d7a	comment	Implied to be happening during the final battle with Lucifer on the True Demon path in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne. His basic attack is simply pointing his finger and hitting you with a pulse of magic, and he resists every element, even Almighty. As you deal damage to him and it becomes obvious you're an actual threat, Lucifer starts using moves that clearly take more effort.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_c97b081b	comment	Secret Wars (1984): Amora the Enchantress stood still against She-Hulk, believing that the mortal would not be able to harm her, only to be knocked out with a single blow.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_caf902ee	comment	The Games We Play (The Gamer/RWBY): In "Expansions", Gilgamesh tanks three Brahmastra and a point-blank Lux Aeterna without bothering to dodge, but when Jaune uses a Longinus, the foe tries to get out of the way.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_cb7e4986	comment	One-Punch Man: Saitama rarely ever bothers to dodge or block his opponent's attacks, as they never do anything to him anyway. Although early on in the series he would sometimes dodge attacks from the likes of Sonic and Beast King, who were far weaker than many opponents whose blows he took unfazed.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_d0744832	comment	The Avengers: In Annual #2, Hawkeye defeats both the Hulk and Iron Man by exploiting the fact that they're parallel versions who know nothing about him, hence they'll not even try to dodge one arrow of the guy who has developed projectiles capable to bypass Hulk's invulnerability or melt Iron Man's armor down. In his second appearance, The Vision believes he can withstand Thor's attacks by making himself super-dense. He changes his mind after getting punched across the room.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_d50ee4b7	comment	Beowulf has the titular hero starting out battling a monster naked—but by the time the dragon comes around, he's an old man and prudently equips himself with mail and a shield.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_d56c92f3	comment	In Who is Superwoman?, the titular villain becomes so cocky and overconfident after gaining superhuman invulnerability she believes she can stand still and endure an enraged Kryptonian's blows. She learns otherwise when she's punched across a street and through a building.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_d5e9cf36	comment	XCOM 2: Just like in the previous game, the aliens that can't Take Cover! are those that are so hardy they don't need to, or they have innate Defense that confers the same advantage anyway. Or both. You also don't get the 40% bonus to critical hit chance that flanking normally does. Subverted by the Berserker variant of Mutons. They actually turn on their pod if you score two consecutive hits on them when they are not in cover. It's actually easier for the player when Berserkers arrive.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_da50377d	comment	Subverted in Finishing the Fight, as while little the Drow have can seriously dent MC's shields or those of the Sangheili, he isn't standing around letting them have free hits either.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_e0a4c7be	comment	In Rokas's Falling Stars, Celestia attempts to fight an entire Battalion of mechs by herself by standing still, right in the open with no cover, apparently in the belief that her shielding spells are just that good. She's proven wrong and nearly gets killed for it. Of course, her enchanted armor does take quite a bit of punishment, so she probably just got complacent.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_e23ff2b1	comment	In a crossover with He-Man called From Eterniaâ€” With Death!, when Superman is attacked by Skeletor, he confidently stands still, thinking the villain will only hurt himself or damage his weapon, only to be shocked when Skeletor's magic sword slashes his chest. Superman then properly dodges or blocks attacks after this. This was the first time in the comics that Superman's vulnerability to magic was brought up.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Big Bad of Season 3, Mayor Richard Wilkins III, never lifts a finger to defend himself until he gets Scaled Up. Of course, by then it's a bit late.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_e5065bd6	comment	It comes back to bite her again during All-New Wolverine when she drops her guard to taunt Laura, knowing that Laura couldn't hurt her even with a stolen Iron Man suit. Laura admits she's right, but points out that no matter how invulnerable Kimura is she still has to breathe, and drowns her in the ocean.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_e6758d93	comment	Cited for several characters in Scion. For example, Sisyphus, having managed to push the rock onto the top of the cliff thanks to a lucky break, has escaped Tartarus and received incredible power as per the deal with Hermes. Specifically, anyone with a Legend less than his can't hurt him at all. The text specifies that if he knows a person can't hurt him, he won't even try to dodge.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_e9c7b01b	comment	Done a few times in Dissidia Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012: The Cloud of Darkness lets loose a death beam, which the Onion Knight just blocks. Sort of convoluted as Onion Knight SHOULD be a lot weaker, but there is a forced Aesop about running from danger being a sign of weakness. In the opening cinematic for Dissidia 012, Tifa fights Sephiroth. She finally manages to counter with a roundhouse kick. Sephiroth merely grabs her foot and smiles. When Tidus finally fights his father, Tidus performs a somersaulting slashes down his torso. Jecht takes it, receives no wound, and sends Tidus flying. Notably, this is one of Tidus's Overdrives.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_eae8ef96	comment	Shining Force II has Kiwi, who starts off this way. He will take 1 damage from any attack (except magic and exceptionally strong enemies), but he only starts with 8 HP, and doesn't get much better. The main problem with his is the fact that the farther in the game you get, the more magic the enemies cast on him and his term of "exceptionally strong" gets looser and looser. He usually finished off the game with approx. equal defense as everyone else, but only half (if not less) the HP.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_eeb69732	comment	Darth Bane: In Rule of Two, Bane is parasitized by a swarm of orbalisks, creatures created with Sith alchemy that form a lightsaber-proof suit of living armor around him. He takes advantage of this by adopting a hyper-aggressive variation of Form V "Djem So", trusting the armor to protect him from attacks while he batters down his opponent's defenses with pure brute force.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_eef5470a	comment	Rurouni Kenshin: Justified where Kenshin's best Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu moves have two parts, greatly reducing blind spots and successful counterattacks. Sanosuke Sagara hardly ever bothers with dodging or blocking, relying on his Made of Iron body to tank attacks until he can hit his opponents and knock them out. Saito Hajime treats him with derision for this attitude, demonstrates that he's strong enough to hurt Sanosuke and fast and skilled enough to avoid his attacks, then tells Sanosuke that unless he learns defense, he's useless. Sanosuke doesn't take his advice, instead learning the powerful Futae no Kiwami technique to improve his attack power, which at least makes him more useful.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_ef4cccbd	comment	In The Court Jester, when Danny Kaye is enchanted to be a perfect swordsman, it's shown by him effortlessly parrying the villain's attacks while pouring and drinking a cup of water.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_f0688fff	comment	PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire has Shedinja. Shedinja has an ability called Wonder Guard, which makes it impervious to all attacks that its type combination isn't weak to. It also has only 1 HP, so any attack that isn't stopped by Wonder Guard, including any environmental effects or status effects, will knock it out.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_f2da188a	comment	The Batman: In "The Batman/Superman Story", Black Mask attacks Superman with a ray gun. Superman confidently stands still and even points out that it won't work because he is invulnerable. His arrogance backfires when the ray gun shoots red solar energy that drains his powers.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_f8705c18	comment	Alucard from Hellsing, not because he can't be damaged (rather the opposite, really) but because his Healing Factor is so powerful that it makes him practically unkillable. He likely also doesn't because it's scary as hell for those attacking him with absolutely no clear actual permanent effect. When he begins employing anything approaching tactics (i.e. stopping to think in any way whatsoever), you can tell the fight is very serious.
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The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_f8956ef3	comment	YuYu Hakusho: Used by Sensui when he fights 3/4 of the protagonists at once. He completely shrugs off Kurama's Rose Whip and Hiei's Dragon of the Darkness Flame, which have sliced through and vaporized past opponents respectively, but he noticeably avoids Kuwabara's new Dimensional Sword, which can cut through absolutely anything. The fact that Sensui knows how powerful this technique is, but is still confident that he'll win is a bad sign.
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