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{{quote|''"It'll take more than being tied to a lit keg of explosives and tossed into a pit of acid filled with mutant, acid-resistant flying piranhas equipped with flamethrowers and battle axes while venomous, mechanical, missile-launching [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Morris dancers]] armed with liquid hydrogen harpoon guns are overhead; riding giant rabid killer bees with side-mounted death rays to kill Othar Tryggvassen!"''|'''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date{{=}}20090617 Othar Tryggvassen, GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!]''', ''[[Girl Genius]]''}}
Simply put, damage is done to characters that really, really should hurt them but is easily shaken off. Nobody ever breaks a rib or other bones unless [[Chekhov's Gun|that specific broken bone becomes important later on]]. Note, this isn't [[Super Toughness]] or [[Nigh Invulnerability]], where the character actually ''is'' supernaturally protected from harm.
By extension, blunt damage, [[Hard Head|concussions]], and other side effects of "non-lethal" fights or a [[Tap on the Head]] never have unintended fatal consequences—death can only happen with intentionally-lethal weapons, like swords or guns. And even with [[Set Swords to Stun|normally-lethal weapons]], the hero may intentionally inflict [[Only a Flesh Wound|flesh wounds]] instead of shooting to kill.
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** In an early episode, a doctor observing Heero comments that he has over 200 bruises and broken bones and yet was still walking around as a normal person would. (It should be noted that this was the same episode where he later fell down that cliff.)
** It should be noted that in ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]'', Heero is also apparently one of the few people in the universe capable of remaining conscious after one of Kushua Mizuha's [[Gargle Blaster|Health Drinks]], which has been known to knock out ''androids''.
* The mages of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' evoke this appearance since they're frequently smashed through walls and perform [[It's Raining Men|hard drops from helicopters]]. However, they wear Barrier Jackets which, while appearing to be made of cloth, give off magical fields for protection. The one time that a non-[[Artificial Human]] character's Barrier Jacket was completely penetrated, it resulted with said character being hospitalized for nearly a year. The reason she was hospitalized for so long was due to both the injury and the fact that she had overstressed her magic.
* ''[[Berserk]]''. Guts is superhumanly tough, able to survive being impaled, carried off several hundred feet into the air, flown at the speed of sound without any protection, than falling hundreds of feet and still be able to fight. And given what he [[The Legions of Hell|has]] [[Eldritch Abomination|to]] [[The Juggernaut|face]], you better believe the guy needs it.
* Quite a few characters in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' can take inhuman amounts abuse with relatively little effect.
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** The End of Time. {{spoiler|Never mind the fatal radiation poisoning, the fall from the Vinvocci ship should have had him ready for his next regeneration.}}
** Jack Harkness, who keeps dying and getting better. Whatever keeps him tethered to life is Made of Iron.
* ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]''{{'}}s Malcolm Reynolds can take insane amounts of damage; in the episode "War Stories" he gets ''[[Cold-Blooded Torture|tortured to death]]'', only to be revived and then get up, stick the [[Hoist by His Own Petard|torturer with his own weapon]], and start beating up the [[Big Bad]].
* ''[[Farscape]]''
** The series has an entire ''race'' of Made of Iron's, the Scarrans. To drop just one takes [[More Dakka|a whole lot of firepower]]: God help you if you run into more than one of them.
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** How do you know you're Made of Iron in ''D&D''? When it becomes literally impossible for orbital reentry to kill you, you're a little bit too tough to exist. If you can then fly back out of the atmosphere and do it again for kicks? Now you've reached the level of absurdity. Some of the meanest things in the game can literally do this all day long, while on fire and immersed in acid.
** Specifically to avert this, 2nd Edition introduced a rule that required a saving roll to be made if a character took more than a certain (admittedly, quite high) amount of damage in a single attack.
* ''[[Traveller]]: The New Era'', especially compared to the more realistic wound rules in previous and subsequent editions. When you can take a blast from an [[
* Some units and characters in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' have the special rule "Feel No Pain." They have a 50% (roll a 4 or more on a six sided dice) chance of ignoring any wounds inflicted that didn't kill them outright.
** Units aligned to the [[Cosmic Horror|Chaos]] [[God of Evil]] [[Plaguemaster|Nurgle]] almost invariably have this rule. [[Blessed with Suck|Blight]] [[Space Marine|Marines]], for example, who are already superhuman killing machines with [[Hyperactive Metabolism|basic regenerative powers]] that would make ''clerics'' jealous, are so bloated and disease-ravaged by their various maladies that not much can hurt them further. Also, they don't feel pain. At all.
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** Shepard [[Up to Eleven|turns this up to eleven]] in [[Mass Effect 3]] when {{spoiler|s/he is blasted by Harbinger's main gun on the way to the Citadel during the endgame. Bear in mind this is a gun that fires molten metal at near-lightspeed, and it has been shown to destroy dreadnoughts in other appearances. Shepard just gets up and keeps going, albeit with major injuries.}}
* ''[[Suikoden II]]'': Luca Blight ends up fighting eighteen heroes working in tandem, defeating at least twelve of them, and has to have half an army shoot him in order to weaken him enough to make a duel against him even remotely fair.
* ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' Bowser, definitely. From being [[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|thrown]] [[Super Mario 64|into]] [[New Super Mario Bros. Wii|lava]], [[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story|crushed by two castles and a train]], and [[Super Mario Galaxy 2|knocked into a sun followed by a black hole]] among much more, the sheer amount of things he's survived with barely a scratch on him is amazing.
** ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' lampshades this in his playable sections. He has literally infinite lives.
** Perhaps the Mario Brothers aren't the only ones who can benefit from One-up Mushrooms.
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