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** Nozomu has actually been murdered a couple of times by Chiri and/or most of the class, and he turns up fine at the end of the episode/next segment.
* ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]'' has Jelly Jiggler/Tokoro Tennosuke, who has a jelly body which Bo-bobo uses for attacks and physical abuse. Also Don Patch.
* Youhei Sunohara in ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]''. Not only did he survive being a punching bag or beaten up with a baseball bat, but once he was dropped from a garbage chute SEVERAL FLOORS DOWN and walked away. Tomoyo was briefly worried if he'd be okay, but Tomoya assured her he was impossible to kill. Probably.
* Ataru from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''. He is basically the very incarnation of this trope. It's even lampshaded in one book, where he gets a broken arm, and everyone can't believe it.
* This was forever happening to Zelgadis on ''[[Slayers]]''. He's been used as an anchor and shot in the face with a cannonball and come out of it fine every time due to his part-golem nature.
** He ''does'' bleed and gets injuries, from time to time. What does it mean? [[It Got Worse|The story's gonna take a turn for the worse]].
* Ryoko from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]''. More justified in the OVA continuity, where she's capable of regenerating from just about anything. Interstingly, she tends more to be the one inflicting the pain in said continuity.
* Yakumo Fujii from ''[[
* Yukinari from ''[[Girls Bravo]]''.
** He is actually somewhat of a subversion as he has been shown to still have cuts and bruises hours after Kirie or another girl beats him. Fukuyama on the other hand just bounces back from similar abuse but he is [[Too Kinky to Torture]] and just brushes it off.
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* ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' has Charlie, especially when Mac and Dennis attempt to train him to box by breaking things (chairs, bottles) over his head.
* Bill on ''[[The Red Green Show]]'' is Canada's standout example. Red himself is a lesser example, considering how often Bill injures him by accident during the Adventure segments.
* [[Professional Wrestling]] is crammed with such characters. One need only mention [[
* Freddie on ''[[iCarly]]''.
* Nathan from ''[[Misfits]]'' is a pretty literal example of this, {{spoiler|considering he's immortal.}} Plus, in more mundane terms, he's virtually impossible to insult or embarrass.
* ''[[The Muppets]]:'' Beaker [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcXiUSZPuWA recently died]. ''Still'' doesn't get any respect.
* Given the accidents [[
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* Vice Admiral Arthur Norbank in ''[[Nexus the Jupiter Incident]]'' has a really hard time dying, despite his numerous failures as a commander and despite the players' sincerest wishes. His ships have been blown up so many times (due to his own incompetence), it's always an unpleasant suprise whenever he shows up safe and sound. In a later mission, the player has a chance to leave Norbank to die. This troper imagines most players did just that.
* [[Hook Hand|Fritz]] from ''[[Brain Dead 13]]''. During his big hunt he's often hurt and damaged in several ways, including being stomped, locked in an iron maiden, having a Frankenstein monster fall on him, getting shot in the face by his own cannon and so on. And let's not mention the [[Overly Long Gag|stairs]]....
* [[Jobber|Glass Joe]] from ''[[Punch-Out!!]]''; with his abysmal record of 1 win and 99 loses, this guy should, by all logic, be a brain-dead vegetable from being pummeled into submission so many times, but he never seems to consider giving up his gloves.
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* Sawbuck in ''[[Homestuck]]'' takes horrendous abuse in the comic, but still survives due to his corpulence. What makes him a [[Butt Monkey]] to begin with, though, is that his [[Time Master|time travel power]] only activates ''when'' he's hurt.
* Nip of ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'' has been dropped from immense heights, blown up, set on fire, rocketed across the countryside in a homemade rocket-sled, and shot from a giant slingshot. His aptitude for this sort of thing was so bad his parents were ''relieved'' to learn he'd taken up a career as a stunt man.
* Tiff of both ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' and ''[[Magick Chicks]]'' is showing signs of this. Her first appearance in ''Cuties'' had her spend the day dead after accidentally impaling herself, and so far in her first arc in ''Chicks'' she's busted her nose and been knocked senseless by a
** She was implied to be [[Badass Abnormal|not only trained, but a metahuman]], however. For one, she is parody of ''Buffy'' (but since vampires and demons in Cutie-verse work differently, her augmentation probably does too). Her status as "Slayer" (whatever this means) appears to be hereditary. And she shows very good (but not absolute) resistance to mind-affecting whatevers for ''some'' reason (it's [[Cloudcuckoolander|clearly not raw mental strength, in her case]]).
* Phil from ''[[Yosh!]]'' is initially this, but after the series [[Grew the Beard]], this ability got [[Cerebus Retcon|expanded]] to include all forms of harm, [[Mage Killer|especially]] [[Anti-Magic|magic]].
* Familiars in ''[[
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* [[Popeye]] usually goes through this ''[[Sealed Badass in a Can|until he eats his spinach...]]''
{{quote|'''Popeye:''' ''[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Dat's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!]]''}}
* Many characters in ''[[Archer]]'':
** The title character's butler, Winston. Somwtimes you have to wonder if "punching bag" is in the poor guy's job description.
** Brett's reputation as a magnet for stray bullets was a [[Running Gag]] on the show. Whether it was enemy fire, friendly fire, or even practice shots at a shooting range, it seemed impossible to miss him. {{spoiler|Sadly, one of these shots eventually killed him, but hey, at least he died doing what he did best...}}
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