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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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