No One Should Survive That: Difference between revisions

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Some people are just born lucky. It's no surprise that this should extend to death as well.

Basically, this is when a character falls into a situation that [[Death Tropes|should, by all accounts, be lethal]], and survives through sheer luck or coincidence. This can be only a one time thing, or, more often, you have a character who constantly bumbles around, surviving things they shouldn't. Characters like this are often oblivious to the danger they find themselves in, or recognize that they are lucky and count their blessing, but, in the worst cases, they can get pretty arrogant about it, to the point where [[Why Won't You Die|you wish they]] ''[[Why Won't You Die|would]]'' [[Why Won't You Die|die]].

Basically, this is when a character falls into a situation that [[Death Tropes|should, by all accounts, be lethal]], and survives through sheer luck or coincidence. This can be only a one time thing, or, more often, you have a character who constantly bumbles around, surviving things they shouldn't. Characters like this are often oblivious to the danger they find themselves in, or recognize that they are lucky and count their blessing, but, in the worst cases, they can get pretty arrogant about it, to the point where [[Why Won't You Die?|you wish they]] ''[[Why Won't You Die?|would]]'' [[Why Won't You Die?|die]].

A staple of the [[Inspector Oblivious|bumbling investigator]]. Compare [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now]], in which a character survives a normally lethal situation by [[Determinator|sheer force of will]]. An inverse of this would be a [[Death Seeker]] who, through sheer luck, finds himself ''unable'' to die.

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* Kaneda in ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]'' (the manga version, especially), who constantly survives point-blank automatic weapons fire and ''being sucked into a black hole with a large chunk of Neo-Tokyo only to be expelled, alive, months later.''

* [[Gundam 00]]'s Patrick Coulasour has managed to survive energy blasts, suicide cruise-missile robots, and having the top of his mecha blasted off then falling into the Earth's atmosphere... all without a ''scratch''. [[Lampshaded]] in Season 2, where Patrick has picked up the nickname "the Immortal Coulasour" for ability to survive situations where anybody else's luck would've run out.

* Kira Yamato in [[Gundam Seed]] has a tendency to survive things he shouldn't, as his mecha needs to be destroyed for his [[Mid Season Upgrade]]. In the first series he survives a mobile self destructing while attached to his MS's chest. By no means a death sentence in a Gundam show, but the cockpit was shown to be scorched and damaged by those that find the wreckage, to the point that it is partially exposed. SEED Destiny is even more unlikely, his mecha simply explodes. This is [[Handwaved]] by saying that he shut down his suit's nuclear reactor.

* Kira Yamato in [[Gundam Seed]] has a tendency to survive things he shouldn't, as his mecha needs to be destroyed for his [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]. In the first series he survives a mobile self destructing while attached to his MS's chest. By no means a death sentence in a Gundam show, but the cockpit was shown to be scorched and damaged by those that find the wreckage, to the point that it is partially exposed. SEED Destiny is even more unlikely, his mecha simply explodes. This is [[Handwaved]] by saying that he shut down his suit's nuclear reactor.

** The second time seems to be the fault of his attacker, Shinn Asuka, who apparently can land kill-shots on named characters, but somehow miraculously misses them. When facing Athrun, he managed to clearly stab Athrun's suit through the cockpit, which was by no means spacious or empty (considering Athrun at the time had someone else aboard with him), yet there were no fatalities (or much in the way of injuries).

** Both cases are given explanations in supplemental material: in ''[[Gundam SEED Astray]]'', Kira survived the Strike's destruction because Lowe had been watching the battle and pulled him free just barely in time. Kira wasn't in the cockpit when it got scorched. As for ''Destiny'': the Freedom's design is different from the standard (due to the inclusion of a nuclear reactor), and its cockpit is located higher in the chest than normal. Shinn stabbed the Freedom's abdomen, which is where the cockpit is usually located, but not where Freedom's cockpit was.

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** Mao. He survived multiple gunshot wounds and then says "I got better thanks to Britannian medicine."

* [[Mahou Sensei Negima]] gives us [[Crazy Awesome|Jack Rakan]]. One of his [[I Have Many Names|many titles]] is "That Damn Guy You Can Stab With Swords All You Like and It Won't Do a Thing, Damnit", which really tells you all you need to know about him. He repeatedly emerges unscathed from attacks that would have vaporized anyone else. {{spoiler|He at one point survives ''being erased from existence''.}}

* [[Bleach]] oh, boy. Here we go. To the point where people even survive [[He's Dead Jim|multiple declarations of death and complete loss of spiritual pressure]] We've got a main character {{spoiler|cut clear in half at the waist}} and while she is out of the fight, with some healing it's implied that she can still make it. A certain evil character got stabbed through the ''brain'' and managed to hang on for a little while. Most recently, {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] survived being disintegrated from the inside out ''and'' having his [[Phlebotinum]] stolen}}.

* [[Bleach]] oh, boy. Here we go. To the point where people even survive [[He's Dead, Jim|multiple declarations of death and complete loss of spiritual pressure]] We've got a main character {{spoiler|cut clear in half at the waist}} and while she is out of the fight, with some healing it's implied that she can still make it. A certain evil character got stabbed through the ''brain'' and managed to hang on for a little while. Most recently, {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] survived being disintegrated from the inside out ''and'' having his [[Phlebotinum]] stolen}}.

* Shuda solidifes himself as the hardest person in ''[[Rave Master]]'' to kill not when he doesn't die from ''cutting off his arm so he can fall almost a mile to his near death'' but when he later has a sword stabbed all the way through him and is not only alive, but active a week later.

* Abused to death in [[Naruto]] Shippuden 167. {{spoiler|Pain}} gets [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Megaton-Punched in the face, slammed head-on with a boulder, pounded INTO THE GROUND with another boulder, blasted with chakra, heavily facepalmed, and thrown like a ragdoll, colliding head-first into a cliff MILES away, with falling chunks of dirt burying him]]... while still alive ''and without a scratch''. {{spoiler|This was all done by the 4-, and then 6-tailed Naruto.}}

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== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Several examples from ''[[~~Eight~~ Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]''. Most of the main characters fall into this at least once, but the king of this is Fighter, who has survived tons of stabbings, explosions, murder attempts and accidents, but always survives: half of the time due to his own ability to shrug off injury, the other half due to sheer serendipity. A good example of this would be when he is crushed by the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Armoire Of Invincibility]], but emerges unscathed since the bottom was made of cheap plywood.

* Several examples from ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]''. Most of the main characters fall into this at least once, but the king of this is Fighter, who has survived tons of stabbings, explosions, murder attempts and accidents, but always survives: half of the time due to his own ability to shrug off injury, the other half due to sheer serendipity. A good example of this would be when he is crushed by the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Armoire Of Invincibility]], but emerges unscathed since the bottom was made of cheap plywood.

** 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.

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* ''[[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}}

* In [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E15 Feeling Pinkie Keen|Episode 15]] of [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]], Derpy Hooves drops several heavy objects on Twilight Sparkle, among them an anvil and a piano. She survives, although not unscathed.

* In [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E15 Feeling Pinkie Keen|Episode 15]] of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]], Derpy Hooves drops several heavy objects on Twilight Sparkle, among them an anvil and a piano. She survives, although not unscathed.