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* The cast of ''[[Torchwood (TV)|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.

* 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.

* Real life example: Rasputin if the stories are to be believed. He was supposedly stabbed, shot, poisoned, and drowned, [[Rasputinian Death|naming another trope]] in the process. Cause of death? Hypothermia, from being drowned in an icy river. And he was in the process of clawing his way up from under the ice when he died.

* Has happened [http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffallers.html a few times] in real life.

* Hitler survived a briefcase bomb detonating just a few feet away from his legs. All that was ruined as a pair of trousers. Averted however since that while the blast appeared as something that should have been fatal or at least crippling, Mythbusters proved that the way Hitler stood made it much less dangerous than it had seemed. .

 

* [[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|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.

* ''[[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.

* 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.

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