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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.
Frequently occurs in [[Youth Is Wasted
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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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Kaneda in ''[[
* [[Mobile Suit 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.
** 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).
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* Keitaro from ''[[Love Hina]]'' is the king of this trope, surviving falls, [[Megaton Punch|insane punches]], being attacked by swords, and the largest injury he ever got was a broken leg. '''When a building fell on him'''. This is [[Lampshaded]] in the series when Keitaro is faced with imminent danger the girls of Hinata Sou will yell 'don't worry Keitaro, you're immortal!' to ease his fears.
* The Pandoras of ''[[Freezing]]''. While they are [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]] and that there is advanced medical practices in the future, the battles that they go through really make your eyes pop out.
* [[Joker Immunity|Team Rocket]] from the ''[[Pokémon]]'' anime. They fall into the gorge in the Butterfree episode, and survive every instance of "blasting off", and two falls which they themselves think will kill them (once in Haunter Versus Kadabra, and once in the second movie). The one that takes the cake is in ''Shell Shock'', when James is hit by a boulder and falls into the gorge WITH THE BOULDER ON TOP OF HIM. (The antagonist of [[Snow White
** 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.
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== [[Film]] ==
* This is the response of a random passerby in ''[[Monty
{{quote| ''"Oh you lucky bastard."''}}
* The ''[[Home Alone]]'' movies, particularly the second. In ''Home Alone 2'', Marv alone should've died 14 times. The most [[Egregious]] instance, however, was when Harry's head was lit on fire and he dunked it into a toilet, not knowing that Kevin had replaced all of the toilet's water with kerosene. The resulting explosion ''destroyed the entire first floor'', and yet Harry escaped with nothing more than a few minor burns and getting his hat ripped open.
* Dr Watson in [[Sherlock Holmes (
* [[The Pink Panther|Inspector Clouseau]] is a very frequent benificiary of this.
* In [[Flubber]], Wesson is repeatedly hit on the head with a bowling ball traveling at incredibly fast speed, or else falling from a great height, and all he gets is some bumps and bruises on his head.
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* The cast of ''[[
** 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.
** Then there's Ianto. Survived the Dalek and Cybermen massacre of [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S2 E13 Doomsday|Canary Wharf]] (may well have been the only employee of Torchwood One to come out alive and with their sanity intact), nearly killed by a pterodactyl, shot at, electrocuted by half-converted cyber-girlfriend, attacked by cannibals, Weevils... etc. {{spoiler|Eventually dies from a simple gas attack.}}
* On [[Saving Grace]], Grace and Neely fall off a building and survive. Given the nature of the show, it's heavily implied that God did it.
* Two minutes into the first episode of ''[[Harry's Law]]'', a suicidal man jumps off of a six-story building and lands on Harriet. Both survive with minor injuries. Two minutes later, she distractedly crosses a street and gets hit by a car. She lands on a mattress being loaded into a moving van, and doesn't even break any bones. In both cases, it's completely unexpected, even interrupting her internal monologue. It's portrayed as serendipity, because both the suicidal man and the car driver end up joining her law firm by the end of the episode.
* The final episode of ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]'' has Starsky being shot in the chest at least three times by hitmen with automatic weapons; he's taken to the hospital, where he's revealed to be weak but have miraculously survived (he does code out at one point in the recovery process, but revives when [[The Power of Love|Hutch comes running in]].
== [[Radio]] ==
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* [[Mass Effect 2]] opens with Shepard's death, where he/she is flung into bulkheads, suffocated by space, and then plummets to the surface of a nearby planet AFTER DYING. Everyone who meets him/her afterward notes that they all thought Shepard was dead. Subverted, though, in that Shepard actually DID die, but was brought back to life over the course of two years in a unique and extremely expensive process. Double-subverted in that there shouldn't be anything left to even salvage. If the corpse was just left in orbit, then there'd be a plausible explanation. But it was stated that the body fell from orbit. If the re-entry burn-up didn't utterly incinerate the body, the surface impact would have atomized it.
** Mass Effect 3 has the additional revelation that Shepard, along with being incinerated, battered and... well, ''dead'', was additionally {{spoiler|braindead as well. This leads to Shepard wondering if he/she's even still him/her, and not some AI that just thinks she is}}.
* [[Mafia:
* Phoenix Wright, the original protagonist of the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series. Aside from the near brushes with murder from Mafia hitmen, assassins, [[Amoral Attorney|Amoral Attorneys]], 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.
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* Goddamn [[Metal Gear Solid|Liquid Snake]]. Helicopter crashes, stinger missiles, three story freefalls, multiple bullets. Then in the second game we find out that not even killing him stops him.
* [[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.
* Lan/Netto in [[
* ''[[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 (
* 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.
* [[No More Heroes]]
** 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.
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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
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