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* Jake Brown, 2007 X Games skateboard contender, lost control of his board and fell 45 feet to the deck below (clip is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q3PNj3tRW4 here]). After a dazed few minutes, he ''got up'' and was able to walk out under his own power.
* George Chuvalo, a former heavyweight boxer, was known to have one of the toughest chins in history. He faced some of the most devastating punchers in history and was never knocked down as a professional in 93 fights (his two technical knockout losses came when the referee stopped the fights). In fact in his fight against George Foreman (a man whose punch normally [[Megaton Punch|sends mere mortals to the moon]]), Chuvalo complained to the referee after the fight was stopped.
* Though both have become more vulnerable as they've aged, [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hunt:Mark Hunt|Mark Hunt]] and [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Antônio_Rodrigo_Nogueira:Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira|Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira]] were each known for this. Hunt was known for shrugging off life-threatening strikes as mere annoyances, while Nogueira was known for taking immense amounts of punishment, but still somehow managing to not only survive, but to ''win''.
* Bert Trautmann, football (soccer) goalkeeper active in the 1950s. During the 1956 FA Cup Final, he was injured in a collision with an opponent. With 17 minutes to go, and no substitutes allowed, he shook off the injury and continued. He saved several goals, preserving his team's lead and helping to win the match. The injury? Merely a broken neck.
* Jack Youngblood played the entire 1979 playoffs and Super Bowl, AND the meaningless Pro Bowl game with a broken tibula. Because of this, he was called “the John Wayne of football”.
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'''Roy:''' Are you kidding?!? How did you get this??<br />
'''O-Chul:''' One saving throw at a time. }}
* Steve from [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/LifeAndDeath[Life and Death (Webcomic)|Life and Death]] in his fight with himself.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)|Sluggy Freelance]]''
** Bun-Bun has shrugged off attacks that would kill an ordinary human being, made all the more impressive by the fact that he's a ''rabbit''. At one point he was actually eaten alive by an alien, and simply burst his way out of the alien's stomach and proceeded to kick its butt. Bun-Bun has an origin even he is not clear about; he was bought from a Magical Store.
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== Real Life ==
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy:Audie Murphy|Audie Murphy]]. There's no way to list the ways in which this man was made of Adamantium without repeating everything on the linked page.
** During the battle of Holtzwihr in France, Murphy's company (of which 19 out of the original 128 men remained in fighting condition) was attacked by tanks and infantry. He ordered his men to withdraw while he remained and directed artillery from his forward position. When the Germans got close, he climbed onto a still-burning tank destroyer and opened fire with its .50 caliber machine gun. Almost totally exposed to enemy fire, he nonetheless [[One-Man Army|single-handedly]] held off ''tanks and infantry'' -- '''''for an hour''''' (during which he was [[Immune to Bullets|shot in the leg]]) until the phone line connecting him with artillery got cut and he ran out of ammo. He then made his way back to his company, [[Only a Flesh Wound|refused medical attention]], and ''organized his company in a counterattack,'' which forced the Germans to withdraw. At the time he had just recovered from being shot in the arm and the day before had been hit by shrapnel from a nearby mortar strike that killed two members of his squad. He received a Medal of Honor for his actions during this battle, and this isn't even the most ridiculously [[Badass]] thing he did during WWII. Not bad for a guy who was 5'6" and 130lbs and lied about his age to enlist.
* Shaolin monks practice a rigorous regimen known as "Iron Body Technique", allowing wooden clubs to be broken across their bodies, limbs and ''heads'' with little effect, as well as great resistance to piercing weapons. One of the most extreme examples involved a single monk bending two spears (with metal heads) almost double against his throat and having a baseball bat broken on his back at the same time.
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** Most of those impressive feats are basically tricks that any moderately athletic individual could perform if they know the right technique. They're impressive in their own way, similar to magic tricks, but no great display of toughness.
** Well then let me introduce you to the technique [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4jT-AtpCSY iron balls]. Yeah it's actually testicles of steel. And thats not even counting their body temperature controlling feats, and many other crazy shit they do. You do not mess with the Shaolin.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviu_Librescu:Liviu Librescu|Dr. Liviu Librescu]], Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, scientist and [[Badass Teacher|academic professor]]. During the Virginia Tech massacre, Librescu [[You Shall Not Pass|personally kept the door shut]] to prevent gunman Seung-hui Cho from entering the classroom while his students escaped out the windows. He was shot through the door five times before finally succumbing to a shot to the head. Of course, he had a history, since surviving the Holocaust takes a [[Determinator]] in itself...
* The famous death of Grigori Rasputin, who was poisoned, shot, stabbed and finally thrown into the icy Neva River. Hard to say which [[Rasputinian Death|ultimately did him in]], or if his assassins were just totally incompetent.
** He died of drowning as they found water in his lungs and the position he was frozen in suggested he was trying to claw or force himself out of the carpet they wrapped his body in.
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** Then there was [http://www.americanheritage.com/people/articles/web/20070130-richard-lawrence-andrew-jackson-assassination-warren-r-davis.shtml the time Richard Lawrence tried to assassinate then-President Jackson]. Two pistols misfired, and Jackson promptly beat Lawrence so thoroughly with his cane that his aides had to physically restrain him. Jackson was 67 at the time, and reportedly having respiratory problems.
*** The respiratory problem is the only reason that the two aides were able to stop him before he added another name to his kill tally.
* Adrian Carton De Wiart... [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart:Adrian Carton de Wiart|just look him up]].
* Colonel [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp:John Stapp|John Stapp]], Ph.D, was the human precursor to crash test dummies. In his life conducting tests for human endurance in acceleration and deceleration, he subjected himself to over 50 potentially lethal experiments. He [[Science Marches On|shattered conventional wisdom]] of thinking people would be subject to lethal injury at 18 g-forces when he walked away with temporary blindness and some bruising after sustaining 45 g-forces for over a second. His research was prime material that led to better [[Every Car Is a Pinto|car]] and [[Ejection Seat|aircraft]] safety the world over. He was also a good friend and colleague of Chuck Yeager
* Speaking of Chuck Yeager, he walked away from an airplane crash after beating a fire out ''on his face'' with his bare hands.
* Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot point blank [[Boom Headshot|through the]] [http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/09/arizona.shooting/?hpt=T1 head] and was communicative when she arrived at the trauma center 38 minutes later. At this very moment she's in the ICU with half of her skull removed but doctors are cautiously optimistic about her chances for recovery. Of people with similar wounds, [http://www.slate.com/id/2175739/ 90% die on the spot and another 5% die before getting to the operating room]
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* This is a common trait of Wombats, which is probably the tank of [[Australian Wildlife|Australia]]. It is one of the few animals where you are advised to swerve to avoid because hitting one will generally wreck the car.
* Similarly, Moose. If you're driving anything smaller than a loaded transport truck in the Canadian Shield and hit a moose, it will walk away. You will need a new car. (They've been known to walk away from collisions with transport trucks too, but less often).
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Levitow:John Levitow|Airman First Class John Levitow, USAF]], lowest ranking airman to ever win the Medal of Honor. He was a loadmaster on an [[Death From Above|AC-47]] [[More Dakka|Gunship]] over Vietnam when his plane was hit by a stray artillery shell. Riddled with shrapnel, he saw a similarly wounded crewmate at risk of falling out of the open cargo door of the damaged plane. He crawled over to the crewmate and dragged him to safety, only to realize that a magnesium flare, used for night-time illumination of the battlefield, had fallen from its rack and begun to ignite, while rolling around on the floor amidst the cans of ammo used for the guns aboard the plane. Levitow threw himself upon the flare and body-dragged it to the door, where he threw it free of the plane. He died more than thirty years later of cancer.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Hayha:Simo Hayha|Simo Hayha]], a Finnish sniper in the Winter War (and current page image for [[Cold Sniper]]) spent months in severe winter conditions (-20 to -40 degrees Celsius) hiding in snow killing Russian soldiers and officers using his bolt-action rifle with iron sights and a sub-machine gun. The Russians dubbed him the White Death and often employed artillery fire, tanks and counter snipers against him to no avail. His confirmed kill count was 705 when he was finally hit with a headshot by an enemy soldier. He recovered and died of natural causes by the age of 97.
** [[Badass|And he killed the guy who shot him in the head a few moments later.]]
* [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade |Tardigrade, also known as "Water Bear"]] is the toughest animal on Earth. 1 millimeter in length, it can be found in the Antarctic, on the summits of the Himalayas, in the deep sea as well as in your backyard. The list of conditions it can withstand includes near absolute zero temperatures (1 Kelvin) as well as temperatures well over the water boiling point (100 degree Celsius), pressure ranging from 0 (vacuum) to 1200 atmospheres. It can also survive more than 10 years of dehydration and 1000 times the doses of radiation lethal to a human. In 2007 tardigrades were flown to the Earth's orbit and exposed to outer space conditions for 10 days. They survived.
** And had sex. In space.
* Juliane Köpcke, the 17 year old schoolgirl who was the sole survivor when her plane broke up in mid-air above Peru. She fell more than two miles but only broke her collarbone. She then trekked for 9 days through the rainforest to find help. [[Survivor Guilt|Some scars remain though.]]
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* There was a newspaper article about a cute little kitten that liked to play in the laundry basket, hiding beneath the clothes. One day, it was laundry time and the kitten ended up inside the [[Nightmare Fuel|washer machine]]. The poor thing spend the whole cycle in there before its owner heard the screams and came to the rescue. What happened to the little kitten? Absolutely nothing, just the shock.
* In 2010 a Frenchman fell over 75 feet into the Grand Canyon but somehow survived.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans:Deinococcus radiodurans|These]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermococcus_gammatolerans:Thermococcus gammatolerans|bacteria]] are [[I Love Nuclear Power|immune to radiation]]. Several other animals are capable of surviving crazy high and low temperatures and pressures that would kill most anything else; these are known as [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Extremophile |extremophiles]], and the most famous may be the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Tardigrade |water bear]].
* Subverted with the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic:RMS Titanic|RMS Titanic]]. It was claimed to be "unsinkable" by its owners. Pretty [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Ironic]], huh?
* [[World War II]] Airman [http[wikipedia://enHenry E.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_E._Erwin Erwin|Henry Erwin]]. A phosphorus flare exploded prematurely in his aircraft, leaving him blinded and burned. He knew that if the flare stayed where it was, it would burn through the floor of the aircraft and set off the bombs in the cargo bay, killing all 11 people on board. So he picked up the burning flare ''with his bare hands'', crawled into the cockpit with it, and threw it out the window, saving everyone. He received the Medal of Honor for his bravery. Doctors expected him to die from his horrific injuries, but he recovered and lived to age 80.
* 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.
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