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* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', Tsuna takes an inhuman amount of punishment at the hands of Reborn and his guardians - [[Comedic Sociopathy|especially in the beginning]]. As the series goes on and gets more serious, the damage Tsuna takes tends to be taken a bit more seriously (though, considering that he's just a human, it's still friggin' amazing that his body can easily take heat that ''melts metal'').
* Parodied in ''[[Detroit Metal City]]'', where the manager of the eponymous band is tough enough to stub out cigarettes on her own tongue.
* The title character in ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple|Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple]]'' could easily be the poster boy for this trope. In almost every major fight he's in, he not only takes far more damage than any normal human could even survive, but he often (though not always) goes on to win! His masters even lampshade this, stating that while he may not have any talent for martial arts, he's a genius at taking punishment. It seems to be an in-series joke that Kenichi is ''literally'' made of iron, as whenever he is lifted or thrown, it is noted that he's heavier than you'd expect of someone so short. Subverted by the fact that two of his masters have a thorough understanding of the human body, and can do things to bring back the recently deceased; and have, on more then one occasion. The one they revived, of course, being Kenichi. Curing a couple dozen broken bones is, by comparison, a trivial thing to them. (Of course, it still hurts... But he's use to pain. If not from the horrible fights, then from the [[Training
* In ''[[Airmaster]]'' there's Maki. You'd think taking a literal ''bear killing'' punch to the jaw or falling from several stories onto concrete would leave you at least out of commission for a while, but she's back like nothing happened next episode. Credit must be given to the minor characters too though for being able to take a drop kick from a 6' tall muscular girl jumping off a building.
* ''[[Read or Die]]'''s Drake Anderson isn't supposed to have any superpowers, but getting sliced to ribbons by the paper users doesn't do anything except make him grit his teeth.
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** This is sometimes subverted, as several older incarnations (''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]'', ''[[Kingdom Come]]'', ''[[Batman Beyond]]'') are noticeably battered by the years of combat. ''Kingdom's'' Bats must use a full-body exoskeleton just to get around.
** The more recent comic books (i.e. ''Hush'') tend to show Batman's upper body as pretty much a mass of scar tissue by this point.
** Cassandra Cain is at least as bad about this. She usually gets out of the way, but when obliged to take a bullet she can do so and not even flinch. It's mainly [[Training
{{quote|'''Robin:''' Are those... exit wounds? But they're so big.
'''Batgirl:''' I... grew. }}
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** Much of the plot of ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'' revolves around the fact that Bond gets a tough-to-heal-from injury early in the film. Doesn't stop him from kicking butt, he just winces manfully when the injury is smacked around.
** The Bond villain Jaws is an even better example, taking massive amounts of punishment in his appearances in ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]'' and ''[[Moonraker]]'' and still surviving. (His ''teeth'' are literally made of iron.)
** In ''[[
* While the blows sustained by Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' films may be explained by his newly acquired superpowers, no such explanation is given for how Doctor Octopus—a comparatively weak, fleshy human—can take more than a single punch to the jaw from the super-strong hero.
* In ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]'', [[Will Smith]]'s character climbs up the antagonist's giant robotic spider, only to be shot point blank in the chest with a flintlock pistol. It is explained how he survives the shot—as it turns out, he has a chain mail vest made to stop bullets—but there is no explanation how, after the shot knocked him off the spider, he was able to survive falling 5 stories to land on his back.
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** Day 7: Infected by a biological weapon. Quite possibly the worst one.
** Day 8: Superficial knife wound early in the season. Serious stab wound in the final hours. Didn't seem too bad at first but as Jack walks away from the wall he's leaning on there is a very serious bloodstain on the wall. Shot in the final episode and even survives a serious car wreck before the end.
* A humorous example would be Tim Taylor from ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', who despite his tendency for stupidity and [[Lampshade Hanging]] about being notorious at the local hospital, never receives scars or injuries of any severity.
* The companions on ''[[Doctor Who]]'', almost all of whom are human, are put through the physical and emotional wringer nearly every single time they step out of the TARDIS, yet are perfectly fine the moment they step back in. The Doctor himself partially justifies this by being a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]], but considering the things he's been through, it's amazing he can still walk.
** 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.}}
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** 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 [[BFG|FGMP]] and have a fair chance of making a full recovery, ''something is wrong''.
* Some units and characters in ''[[Warhammer
** 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.
** The fifth edition introduced a new special rule called "Eternal Warrior." An Eternal Warrior laughs at your Strength 10 attacks, taking a mere wound if he fails any applicable saves.
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** Honorary mention to Captain Cortez of the Crimson Fists. If he was to tread on a land mine, that might fracture the last two remaining bones in his body that have never been broken. He once disarmed an Ork Warboss by trapping the weapon in his own ribcage, and has also fought for six weeks without supplies and led charges into the breach with a broken back. Even the Apothecaries of the Fists maintain that he's breaking the rules when it comes to how much damage a Space Marine can sustain. He's currently missing presumed dead, but they [[Never Found the Body]] and his Chapter Master flatly refuses to accept him being dead until such time as an actual corpse turns up.
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]]'' 1st edition warrior characters (assuming that they survive their [[Made of Plasticine|squishy]] and [[You Suck|pathetic]] earlier careers) can acquire a condition that the fanbase [[Fan Nickname|used to call]] [[Fan Disservice|Naked]] [[Squick|Dwarf]] Syndrome, which is essentially the idea that a Dwarf [[Death Seeker|Giant Slayer]] or similarly high level character, even if he is [[Full-Frontal Assault|totally naked]], can take repeated [[Guns Are Worthless|gunshots]], [[Annoying Arrows|arrows]] and [[Almost-Lethal Weapons|sword strokes]] from [[Mooks|average combatants]] without ever taking a single point of damage due to his high Toughness characteristic.
* The ''[[Warhammer
* ''[[GURPS]]'' suggests a lot of Ablative Damage Reduction to replicate this. Basically it acts just like [[Hit Points]] except that you won't flinch, won't bleed and won't be "really" hurt until it has been worn away by, say, getting hit by a truck and then shot several times.
* The ''[[Serenity]]'' RPG turns Malcolm Reynolds' aforementioned toughness (see Live Action TV above) into the character trait "Tough as Nails". It gives an HP bonus.
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** This is somewhat applicable to several high-end baddies added in the expansions, the probable reason being that by the end of the vanilla game the Lone Wanderer can deal IMMENSE amounts of damage, Sneak attack critical + sniper rifle + headshot = dead almost anything from the vanilla game.
** Also applicable to some of your followers in Broken Steel, namely Dogmeat, Fawkes, and Seargent RL-3. When the ability to level up companions was added, there was a glitch that made these three gain ''hundreds'' of hitpoints per level. By level 30, they couldn't be killed by anything less than three shots from the Mysterious Stranger's .44 Magnum, a gun you can only get by cheating that does over ''9,000 damage per shot!''
* Joshua Graham of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''. This is a man who was set on fire and thrown down the Grand Canyon [[You Have Failed Me...|for losing a battle]], and ''managed to drag himself to Northern Utah after that''. In-game, he has a Damage Threshold of 50 (not counting the DT from his kevlar vest), which is more than the best Power Armor. If asked, Graham merely states that for him it was a mix of [[Heroic Resolve]] and [[Badass Preacher|faith]].
* ''[[Kikokugai]]'': Subverted by Gong Taoluo, even more so considering his specialized techniques do him lots of pain when he uses them too much.
* Steel-types in ''[[Pokémon]]'' are a literal example of this trope, with some of them (like Steelix) also living up to it.
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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 Bros.]]'' Bowser, definitely. From being [[Super Mario Bros.|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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* King K Rool in ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]''. In the first game it's fairly standard punishment, but in the second, he gets his gun explode on him about ten times, gets punched out the window of an airship by a captured Donkey Kong, hits every single cliff face on the way down, torn apart by sharks, sinks into the ocean, has his gun explode AGAIN in the [[True Final Boss]] battle, flies into the island core, is presumably there when it sinks like Atlantis and sails away on his ship afterwards. Then, in the third game, he gets electrocuted like ten times from his mad science laboratory equipment, and has a giant egg dropped on his head by the freed Banana Bird queen... Then gets beaten up by all five Kongs in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'', hit by a rocket powered boot shot by Funky Kong, thrown straight through the roof of the boxing roof and into K Lumsy Island, where said giant locked up Kremling proceeds to beat K Rool senseless for locking him up. He's perfectly fine in later appearances.
* In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'', {{spoiler|the Cardinal in the St. Peter's Basilica Lair of Romulus sidequest}} can take multiple crossbow bolts or blows from a heavy weapon, damage that would crumple a [[Heavily Armored Mook|Brute]], despite apparently wearing nothing more protective than cloth robes.
** [[Assassin's Creed II|Ezio]] and possibly [[Assassin's Creed|Altaïr]] could count for this as well. Best seen in the trailer for ''[[
*** Compounded in the extended trailer (and the second opening cutscene) of ''Revelations'', when Ezio freefalls from several stories high only to make a [[Three-Point Landing]] ''with no negative physical effects'', and all of his acrobatic abilities intact.
* Luka Redgrave in ''[[Bayonetta]]'' suffers some pretty nasty abuse but is none the worse for wear by the ending. [[Butt Monkey|Enzo]] takes a few bumps, too, like being thrown head-first into the driver's seat of his car.
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* [[VG Cats]] parodied this with (amusingly enough, considering the Trope Picture) Zoro from ''[[One Piece]]''. Zoro blows off some physical damage taken by earlier attacks... only for Chopper to tell him that he's taken such internal damage from the attacks that [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=226 most of his colon has to be removed].
* The title character of ''[[Princess Pi]]''. Watch as she survives [http://www.platypuscomix.net/princesspi/index.php?issue=1&page=5 an explosion], then ''two'' [http://www.platypuscomix.net/princesspi/index.php?issue=1&page=6 throws to the ground], then [http://www.platypuscomix.net/princesspi/index.php?issue=1&page=7 a gasoline fire].
* ''[[Memoria (2010 webcomic)|Memoria]]'': [http://memoria.valice.net/?p=303 The children realize their injuries should have been worse.]
* {{spoiler|Richard}} in ''[[Looking for Group]]'' may qualify as a double subversion, {{spoiler|given the huge number of [[Amusing Injuries]] he's survived with little ill effect. At first it seemed justified by the fact that he's undead, but recently some strips have dropped hints that he may be a flesh-and-blood human masquerading as an undead.}}
** Triple subversion! {{spoiler|His immortality is derived from some sort of magic which requires him to kill innocents and harvest their ashes.}}
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* Colloquially, NHL players who make it through a season without an injury are referred to as "Iron Men".
* Brett Michaels from ''Poison''. You don't survive an emergency appendectomy, a brain hemorrhage, '''AND''' a hole in the heart all within six weeks if you're not this.
* RAF pilot Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader lost both his legs in a fairly horrific aerobatics accident, but recovered and tried to return to work as a pilot on the grounds that his two tin legs were perfectly good for the job. He was retired on medical grounds, but returned to the service as a fighter pilot in [[World War II]], becoming a recognised fighter ace. When he was forced to bail out over occupied France and captured as a prisoner of war, he made so many escape attempts that the Germans actually threatened to take away his prosthetics unless he stopped. [[
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