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[[File:zoroblood.jpg|link=One Piece|thumb|350px| [[Badass|He's all right.]] [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=226 Just get him some bandages.] ]]
{{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. This is the ability to shrug off blows that would disintegrate a human body when you technically shouldn't be able to. So Robots, Mutants, Mages, [[Ki Attacks|Ki using Martial Artists]] ''do not count.'' Having a story-enabled reason for not being a bloody smear immediately takes one out of the running for this trope. It can also be argued that certain [[Required Secondary Powers]] may also induce this. (For example, how can someone whose sole power is [[Playing with Fire|throwing flame]] take being thrown off a multi-story building?) If someone does not literally have "increased strength and endurance" in their portfolio, then they count. The line really gets fuzzy between [[Badass Normal]] and [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] where somehow a "normal" person has become something that does not exist in [[Real Life]].
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If a person has this kind of durability as a superpower, it's [[Super Toughness]]. See also, [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Russia from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''. England who is greatly annoyed with America {{spoiler|decides to take a Busby's Chair (a chair cursed to give whoever sits in it a quick and painful death which has also sent at least 60 men to death) and put it so that America may sit in it and die, however Russia shows up and accidentally sits in the chair, however instead of dying the spell rebounds off Russia and the chair is broken with a disappointed England taping it back together. It's implied that Russia being TOO evil for the chair had something to do with it}}
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