No One Should Survive That: Difference between revisions

 

Not to be confused with [[No One Could Survive That]], where the person in question is ''thought'' to have died. If someone survives a [[Mortal Wound Reveal]], it is necessarily this trope.

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

** It's not just the trio. In the first movie, Mewtwo blows up Viridian City Gym, which Giovanni survives, while all the scientists who created him are killed when Mewtwo blows up their lab in a similar explosion. In ''Pokemon Live'', he also survives Mecha Mew2's selfdestruct.

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

** Rincewind does not actually sustain any life-threatening damage. He is just always saved just in time.

 

* The cast of ''[[Torchwood]]'' seem to get this a lot. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in that it's accepted by the characters that Torchwood agents are lucky if they live to see their first grey hair. Particuarly there's leader Jack, who is [[Immortality|immortal]]. You can make a case for whether he counts, since he ''doesn't'' usually survive, he just refuses to ''stay'' dead. His list of deaths to date include (but are in no way limited to): shot by a Dalek, thrown off a 100 foot building, being stuck on the outside of the TARDIS inside of the vortex, electrocuted, shot in the head, blown up via a bomb implanted in his stomach, encased in concrete, stabbed for days on end by Italians, poisoned... the list goes on.

** Also {{spoiler|Owen}}, who eventually ''does'' die. And comes back as [[The Undead|a sentient but not technically alive]], unhealing, never sleeping, never eating, incredibly grumpy corpse.

* [[Milton Jones]]. He falls from a plane above the former Yugoslavia but survives by landing on a snowman... he's pushed into a printing press by Chris Evans but rescued by Esther Rantzen... he's stranded in the Arctic but saved when Agnitha from Abba turns up and gives him a snowmobile...

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* [[Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven]], in a series of missions where you must kill the [[Big Bad]]'s little brother and right hand man, Sergio. Sergio goes on to survive four heavily planned assassination attempts through mostly dumb luck, and eventually Tommy just chases him down to his hideout and confronts him directly.

* Phoenix Wright, the original protagonist of the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series. Aside from the near brushes with murder from Mafia hitmen, assassins, [[Amoral Attorney]]s, etc., he also survived {{spoiler|a hundred foot fall from a burning bridge into a fast-moving freezing river in the middle of winter}} with a bare fever and head cold. He was still hospitalized, but even that is pretty lucky.

* Dr. Eggman from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' always manages to survive catastrophic ship failures, including one ''in a pit of lava''. [[Convection, Schmonvection]] indeed.

* ''[[Syphon Filter]]'': Logan has survived falling 50 feet through a glass ceiling, swan diving off a cliff, and jumping from an exploding bridge onto a moving train, etc., things you couldn't conceivably survive in real life.

* [[Uncharted|Nathan Drake]], full stop. The trick is ''he'' knows it, his ''enemies'' know it, and quite frankly, the entire cast is in disbelief at the sheer quantity and reliability of his luck.

* ''[[Halo|Halo Reach]]'': Noble Six plummets to Reach from space after {{spoiler|Jorge's [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}} and somehow survives with little more than a limp, whereas in Halo 3, the fall from the Forerunner ship over Earth was thought to kill Master Chief when he was found.

** Of course, Noble Six was wearing specialized atmosphere re-entry equipment, Master Chief was not.

* The cinematics alone should've killed ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]''.

* In ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]'', Nicolai lights the gas station on fire and is caught in the explosion, but shows up none the worse for wear later.

** Travis Touchdown survives several such episodes in [[No More Heroes]] and its sequel, one of the most notable occasions being in a cut-scene before his battle with Holly Summers in the first game. He ends up in a pit of sand, and has three hand-grenades dropped directly onto his chest. This merely means he is bounced out of the hole by consecutive explosions, and he continues the game with no lasting ill effects. Every cutscene before a boss fight has him surviving way more than anyone should. During the final battle with {{spoiler|Jeanne}}, she bloody [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now|PUNCHES THROUGH HIS HEART]], but he just shrugs it off.

** The same works for some of the bosses. Skelter Helter provides the page quote for [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now]], a couple of bosses from the first game return for the sequel, and then there's the terms on which [[Akashic Records|a few bosses in the sequel]] are fought.

* In ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R.]]'', the first clue (beyond his super-reflexes) that our protagonist is not normal is when he is launched out of a second story window by an explosion and just stands up slightly dazed. Then, {{spoiler|at the end, he survives getting thrown several miles through the air by a ''nuclear shockwave''. How? Erm... no one's really sure.}}

* At one point in ''[[Singularity]]'', [[Player Character|Nate Renko]] travels back to 1955 and shoots [[Big Bad]] Demichev in the head, causing him to fall out a window. Yet, when Renko returns to his own time, Demichev is still alive and ruling the world with an iron fist.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

** Later [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that [[A Wizard Did It|the Wizard That Did It]] wants to keep them alive for various less-than-altruistic reasons.

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** Beast Wars tried to hand-wave it by saying Starscream's spark was mutated in a way so it can never join the Matrix, but also made it completely indestructible. They also tried to clone his spark, resulting in Rampage, who's spark could apparently be cut by an energon blade without lasting damage (although it does cause him great pain) whereas other sparks in the situation are destroyed.

* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' alternates between being saved by Brain (who often takes the bullet in the process) and sheer luck. And it's hilarious.

* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'', especially in the earlier episodes, often experienced things that should've killed them like the tornado episode for instance.

* The Joker in the Batman series has survived falls and explosions, and seems immortal, hence the term [[Joker Immunity]]. {{spoiler|Ironically he is [[Killed Off for Real]] in the Batman Beyond movie}}

 

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