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== Anime & Manga ==

* Keitaro Urashima of ''[[Love Hina]]'' is a paragon of this trope, largely to make his parade of unlucky injuries stay amusing. Eventually lampshaded when Su claims he is "practically immortal" and when everyone is surprised that his leg has been broken ''by having part of a building fall on him'' and it stays that way for a few chapters. Oddly, being in a cast in no way stops him from fighting Motoko's sister who sends him flying, crashing head first into streets, or getting possessed. The original injury was a bit of [[Tempting Fate]] where Mutsumi says he has used up all his luck (which is usually low) just to pass the Tokyo U entrance exam. Then [[Hilarity Ensues]].

** Naru herself asks exactly why Keitaro isn't able to go school just because of his leg. Assuming it was not just a [[Urusei Yatsura|shoutout to an older series]], more cynical fans noticed it was a convenient delay to the subplot of him finally entering the university of his choice.

** When Shinobu runs away, Keitaro comes flying in on Naru Knuckle Airlines, making a perfect head-first landing in front of her. A pair of guys who were going to hit on Shinobu run away screaming "That thing's still alive!"

** Other fans point out the apparent karmic rules of the series: every injury Keitaro sustains that actually lasts is a direct result of his own actions. Anytime someone ELSE tries to hurt him, it doesn't stick.

* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'''s Sgt. Sousuke Sagara.

* Yako of ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'' takes constant physical abuse from Neuro, but is almost never actually hurt by it.

* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' has Nozomu Itoshiki. Although most of the injuries are self-inflicted, he has survived: drowning in wine, getting run over by a trolley, many many hanging attempts (including one in which he was yanked so hard the rope broke), his name written in the [[Death Note]], surgery to get turned into a monster, and attempted murder by his students in a dream because {{spoiler|they didn't want it to end.}}

** 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.

* Youhei Sunohara in ''[[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.