Made of Indestructium: Difference between revisions

* Adamantium functions as this in the [[Marvel]] 'verse.

** Possibly best known as the substance that coats [[Wolverine]]'s bones, making them nigh-unbreakable.

*** In fact it was attempts at duplicating this process that led to the creation of the slightly less indestructible adamantium

*** In the Fear Itself story arc, Cap's shield finally meets its match and gets torn in half by the big bad. Flash forward to the end where Ironman reforged it - with Uru (the metal Thor's hammer is made of.) It's probably even MORE indestructible now.

** Adamantium serves a similar role in the Ultimate universe as well. It's not entirely indestructible there either; the Hulk was able to break an adamantium needle once.

*** Attempts to artificially replicate vibranium in labs have given birth to Antarctic Vibranium whose main characteristic is to ''melt'' any metal in the near vicinity.

* Inertron serves this role in the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' comics.

** Also, the walls of Orthanc and Minas Tirith are invulnerable to all known weapons and projectiles.

** Mithril isn't indestructible, but it's close.

* In the ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' universe the Molkex fall into this. The substance is created by chaosworm and is linked to an alternate universe. All standard energy weapon and nuclear bomb can't destroy it.

* Densecris and carbonex serve as this in Steve Perry's ''[[Matador Series|Matador]]'' series. It's mentioned that a few centimeters of densecris are enough to protect from a direct missile hit, and that a bunker with carbonex plating is 'going to take a long time to dig through'.

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' features items made of Darksteel, ranging from ingots to [[Giant Robot|giant robots]]. They are indestructible -- as in, the cards literally say, "This is indestructible." <ref>This does not however, prevent them from being [[Deader Than Dead|Exiled from the game]], rendered incapable of doing anything, sacrificed, or killed by being reduced to 0 toughness via Wither or other weakening effects. Magic gives you a wide range of [[Take a Third Option|alternatives]].</ref>

* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' features the ever-bemoaned [[Ominous Floating Castle|Necron Monolith]], made of a 'living metal' that can physically alter its shape. It was already immune to the tank-killing effects of heat based weapons (melta), targeting weapons (lance), rending weapons, and dedicated tank-hunting specialists, but thanks to a 5th edition rules change and a quirky Rules-as-Written interpretation, it physically cannot be destroyed by glancing hits.

* The Demon Hunter's Tassels from ''[[GURPS]]: Dungeon Fantasy'' are an amusingly mundane version of this. Cutting the threads is impossible, even a God must settle for untying them from whatever they are fixed to.

* One ''[[Paranoia]]'' module includes a [[Running Gag]] with a bunch of {{spoiler|Commie propaganda pamphlets}} that turn out to be this. At one point, they get superglued to the PCs!

* In ''[[Razing Storm]]'', the shield you use to [[Take Cover]] withstands not only relatively mundane regular shots, missiles, lasers and plasma, but also ramming from [[Mini-Mecha]] or [[Humongous Mecha]], falling building debris and a [[Wave Motion Gun]].

* The briefcase from ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. While hails of gunfire, flames, explosions and everything else goes on around it, the flag sits exactly where it was left, calmly rotating 6 inches above the surface of the floor. Actually, most anything that isn't directly used by the classes themselves seems to be effectively indestructible.

* In [[Dwarf Fortress]], artifact items are apparently invulnerable to everything including being thrown down a volcano (they just sit around at the bottom). Furthermore, artifacts made of wood CAN catch on fire, but they take no damage from it and just keep [[No Conservation of Energy|burning forever]].

* In ''[[Nethack]]'', "artifact" items are the only things that can be put in a player's inventory that can't be destroyed. Not all of them, though. The Amulet of Yendor, in particular, is the only item that cannot even be removed from the game's code by transference into the higher planes.

* Mass Relays in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' are composed of an unknown yet incredible resilient material, are equipped with self cleaning and maintenance cycles and internal power generation, and can emit powerful mass effect stasis fields in response to threats, preserving the relay's structural integrity at a quantum level and preventing even state-of-the-art laser drilling from extracting pieces for analysis. (It also helps that Mass Relays, which are natural choke points, are extensively guarded and patrolled, and Council species very heavily frown on anyone interfering with them.) It's revealed during the ''Arrival'' mission in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' that Relays ''can'' be destroyed, although it requires a [[Colony Drop|colossal]] force to do so.

* In ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' and its sequels, the pieces of eden are said to be indestructable (admittedly this was determined in the 12th and 17th centuries). The conspiracy files of subject 16 in AC2 claim that [[Nikola Tesla]] did manage to destroy one... [[The Tunguska Event|and a sizable chunk of the surrounding landscape.]]

* Professor E. Gadd notes that his Poltergust 3000 is almost indestructible in ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]''

== Web Originals ==

* In the [[SCP Foundation]], a good portion of the objects are indestructable. To the point where the rules for submissions specifically point this out as a [[Dead Horse Trope]].

* [[Minovsky Physics|Magmatter]] from ''[[Orion's Arm]]'' is effectively impossible to damage. Not only does it have an incredibly high a binding energy but normal matter will pass right through it.

* This trope is brought up in ''[[Freeman's Mind]]''. Gordon goes ballistic (no pun intended) when he realizes the glass in all the doors is bulletproof for no apparent reason. He also comments on the seemingly random mixing of crowbar-proof and non-crowbar-proof grates. Oddly enough, he doesn't seem to consider it odd that the rocket test-fire blows up the crates of explosives but the two grenades that were sitting on top of them are still in one piece.

* [[Dave Barry]] believes that modern cars should be made out of the same material as Fisher-Price cars, as they are apparently unaffected by the destructive behavior of a four-year-old.

* [[Nintendo]]'s video game systems, particularly the Game Boy. There are a lot stories of them surviving being thrown from apartment windows, run over by cars, flushed in toilets, and -- in one famous case -- getting hit by a military ''air strike'', as seen through the (still functional) Game Boy in the image.. They must be made from [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nintendium Nintendium].

** Nintendo of Japan finally stopped repairing the Famicom after 20 years. In other words, they expected the console to last 20 years.

** The [[Nintendo GameCube]], that goofy purple lunchbox. The top of the disk case is a weak point, but with the open button taped down the system will survive most anything.

* For most of human history, diamond has been effectively indestructible under the cutting tools available. No wonder that one of its oldest names, ''adamant'', is the root for the names of some of fiction's most indestructible metals. On the other hand, that's a measure of its ''hardness'', or the difficulty of scratching it. It's much easier to destroy through blunt impact, being fairly brittle.

* The ''[[Top Gear]]'' crew tested the supposed indestructible qualities of the Toyota Hilux, as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk here]. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|It lived up to the hype.]]

* A company called Pelican makes padded and ''very'' sturdy containers for various uses. One of their ads tells how a US Special Forces team in Iraq blew up a damaged helicopter to keep its contents from falling into enemy hands. They used two Maverick missiles, which can be tank-killers. A few days later, the team went back to the helicopter and found their Pelican-made case intact with only minor burns and a broken latch. Its contents (lots of sensitive electronics and a block of C-4 explosive) were unharmed. The ad sums up: "Frankly, we don't want to know what it would take." Also, Pelican's slogan is apparently, "You break it, we replace it...forever."

* [[Ozzy Osbourne]] is almost perfectly healthy nowadays (as well as [[Immune to Drugs]]) because [http://www.indyposted.com/123988/scientists-say-ozzy-osbourne-is-a-genetic-mutant-are-you-surprised/ of a mutation in his genes that makes them this trope].

* There seems to be a general consensus amongst guitarists that most Fender instruments and amplifiers will be around after the nuclear holocaust. From [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ_P1vfZYo4 Keith Richards using one to defend Mick Jagger] (Mind you both these men are probably also made of Indestructium.), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqf9AcEpJUw&feature=related To Pete Townshend, a man who's career has revolved around smashing guitars, not being able to consistently destroy them.] How did the company founder go about showing how reliable his first guitar was in the 50's? He went to a trade show, placed it across two chairs, and proceeded to jump on a piece of wood about an inch and a half wide multiple times, repeatedly putting the full weight of a grown man on that tiny part. Then he picked it up, and it was in-tune. Hell, most of them even today have a completely user-dismantleable design so in the off chance you toss it in a volcano and something does break, it's an easy fix.

* [[Nokia]] phones a notoriously tough to break, and have in fact done significant damage to anything they're thrown at without showing much more than a few scratches. They have achieved [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] status as a result.