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Unbreakable Bones

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Unbreakable Bones	comment	Not everyone can have a body that's nigh-invulnerable. So, what's the next best thing for creating a character who is highly resistant to injury? Why, giving them bones that can't be broken, of course. The character will still bleed and bruise, and will still be vulnerable to a slit throat, or a stab to the heart, yet will be immune to any number of potentially crippling injuries. From a storytelling perspective, this can be the best of both worlds, providing a character who can justifiably shrug off incredible beatings, while still being in a believable amount of danger from most weapons. How their bones became unbreakable can vary. Perhaps they were surgically reinforced or altered. Perhaps they were bonded with, or even replaced with, metal. Perhaps the character is a mutant, and bones with the tensile strength of titanium are simply a part of his or her natural makeup. This trope is most often seen in Science Fiction settings where mutation, genetic engineering, or advanced surgical techniques can justify its existence, though it can show up anywhere. May be a trait of the Cyborg or Super-Soldier. Might be combined with a Healing Factor to create a truly unstoppable warrior. See Super-Toughness and other Nigh-Invulnerability subtropes for when it's the entire body and not just the bones that are this hard to damage. Not to be confused with I Am Big Boned.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_12b2b8a6	comment	Unbreakable has David Dunn, who's a rather interesting variant of this. His bones are unusually dense, which helps him a lot whenever he fights crime, being able to hit harder and tank more damage. This also plays against Dunn; Due to having such high bone density, putting him in a relatively large body of water makes him sink like a stone and promptly drown. Which is also what happens to him in Glass.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_2570727d	comment	In The Sun Eater, after coming back from the dead, protagonist Hadrian Marlowe finds that his severed left arm has been regrown by a grateful Kharn Sagara (Hadrian protected Sagara's clones during a brain upload when Sagara's old body got murdered). As a little extra, Sagara had the bones of the regrown arm replaced with an adamant alloy, a substance so densely woven that even single atom-edged Highmatter blades can cut it.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_313b220b	comment	Last Legionary has protagonist Keill Randor, whose bones were surgically replaced, molecule by molecule, with an incredibly resilient organic alloy as part of an attempt to save his life from the radiation sickness that had settled into his skeleton. This, coupled with his Legionary training makes him a veritable One-Man Army. In an interesting contrast, his archenemy, The One, is a crippled dwarf in a suit of Powered Armour.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_3692a9bd	comment	Genocide Man has the Genocide Men whose bones are hardened via the implantation of ceramics. The process needs hardy skeletons to begin with, however; when applied to Lola, who had Osteoporosis at the time, it just made her cripplingly brittle.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: As detailed in the interview with the captain that captured it, SCP-096's skeleton is, at the very least, extremely durable through anomalous means. Its ribcage remained in perfect condition even after it sustained a direct hit from an anti-tank gun.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_468c2a7a	comment	One criminal in the Judge Dee series used his thicker-than-average bones to his advantage in fights but claimed to be haunted by bad luck throughout his life. Although there was a sizeable amount of Never My Fault in his Motive Rant, the judge's lieutenants can't help but see his point when the executioner has to chop at his neck two or three times before it finally takes due to the man's strong bones.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_5804255f	comment	The Cobra Trilogy features super soldiers whose bones are engineered to be unbreakable as part of their conditioning. Though in a catch, the process causes them to develop arthritis and anemia later in life.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_5b344855	comment	Wolverine: Wolverine himself is probably the most famous comic book example, having had the nigh-indestructible metal known as adamantium bonded to his bones, which was depicted in the Weapon X storyline. It's sometimes noted by authors that adamantium is a heavy metal and therefore toxic, and Wolverine's Healing Factor is the only thing keeping him from dying from heavy metal poisoning (which becomes a serious problem in instances where he loses his powers). This issue is ignored when it comes to characters who don't have a healing factor like Bullseye, Deathstrike, or Hammerhead. Wolverine's foe Lady Deathstrike believed that her father's process for bonding adamanitum to bone had been stolen by the people who created Wolverine. To gain revenge on him and claim his skeleton, Deathstrike had herself rebuilt as a cyborg, complete with her own adamantium skeletal structure. Several of Wolverine's major enemies, including Sabretooth and Romulus, have had adamantium infused into their own skeletons at various points, though they have rarely kept it.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_6f734712	comment	In early seasons of Smallville, Clark isn't fully invulnerable, as his powers are still developing; while bullets bounce off him, they do leave serious bruises. However, while his soft tissues can be harmed, his bones are explicitly unbreakable.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_7b039953	comment	Avatar briefly has Colonel Quaritch mention that Na'vi bones are reinforced with naturally occurring carbon fiber, with the implication being they're more resistant to breakage than human bones.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_7f5bc680	comment	The Fallout series features a perk called "Adamantium Skeleton" which massively reduces limb damage. The Fallout 4 iteration allows for the perk to be upgraded to entirely eliminate limb damage and prevent the player character from having their limbs crippled by enemy attacks, although the legs are still vulnerable to crippling caused by fall damage. It also doubles as an obvious Shout-Out to a mutant famously known for it in particular.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_95226eb6	comment	Cyberpunk 2020: Applying TuffBone cyberware skeletal enhancement to a person makes it more difficult to damage their bones. Bone Lace uses nanotechnology to wrap the skeleton in a weave of metal and plastic threads, making them stronger and thicker. This increases its ability to absorb physical damage.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_959f1374	comment	In Naruto, the Kaguya clan have bones that are as tough as steel as their Bloodline limit, and on top of that, they can actually grow extra bones at will and use them for a number of squicky effects, like growing new bones out of their skin and using them as bladed weapons, covering their skin in bony armour, or even summoning an entire field of spiky bones. As a result, the body-swapping villain Orochimaru brought the last survivor of the clan — Kimmimaro — into his cult and trained him as a ninja, hoping to use him as his next host; unfortunately, unbreakable bones don't stop you from getting tuberculosis and instead, Kimmimaro tragically opts to die fighting for the guy who basically brainwashed and no longer has any use for him.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_b4996199	comment	In his backstory, Spider-Man foe Hammerhead had his skull replaced with a strong steel alloy after he was attacked and left for dead in an alley. His skull is so strong it can withstand punches from Spider-Man and burst through brick walls. Later, Mr Negative had Hammerhead's entire upper skeleton replaced with adamantium after he was shot.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines have their bones coated with ceramite to harden them against most injuries. They also have their ribcages solidified into a single block so that no weapon can slide between their ribs. Their evil counterparts, the Chaos Marines benefit from the same modifications and may have their toughness further enhanced by deals with the Chaos Gods. Tyranids have naturally tough bones which, when sharpened, can serve as bladed weapons. They can also reinforce the Tyrannids already tough carpaces.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun: The cybertechnology technique called bone lacing uses metal and plastic to increase the strength of the subject's skeleton, making it more resistant to injury.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: Elka has a pymaric implant designed to make her bones harden or soften to prevent their breakage in response to their being hit with pressure. This helps explain why Toma came out of their waterfall jumping escape with more damage than her; her bones temporarily adapt to things that would otherwise break them.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	The Daredevil villain Bullseye had adamantium applied to parts of his skeleton and spinal column after one too many defeats at Daredevil's hands.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_cf7cbe6e	comment	Roxanne Furst, the titular heroine of Roxy Was Here, has bones that naturally convert into a unique, unbreakable golden metal. Being a lifelong comic book nerd, she of course names the metal Adamantium.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_d4d17cca	comment	Uglies: The Specials are super soldiers with aircraft metal in the place of their bones, alongside numerous other body modifications.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_f4c4f60	comment	Wolverine himself is probably the most famous comic book example, having had the nigh-indestructible metal known as adamantium bonded to his bones, which was depicted in the Weapon X storyline. It's sometimes noted by authors that adamantium is a heavy metal and therefore toxic, and Wolverine's Healing Factor is the only thing keeping him from dying from heavy metal poisoning (which becomes a serious problem in instances where he loses his powers). This issue is ignored when it comes to characters who don't have a healing factor like Bullseye, Deathstrike, or Hammerhead.
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Unbreakable Bones / int_f9603330	comment	Gamma World: The Skeletal Enhancement mutation increases the strength of a creature's bones, causing them to take less damage from attacks.
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