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{{quote|'''Travis Touchdown''': Pain in MY ass. ''Why aren't you dead yet?''
'''Skelter Helter''': Such [[Genre Blind|blind arrogance]]! Like the naked emperor...
'''Travis''': Seriously! ''I cut off your '''head'''''?!
Despite the prominence of [[Only a Flesh Wound]] in media, there are some things that even writers would concede as pretty fatal. For example, if a character gets shot in the head or stabbed in the chest, they're pretty much done for, hopefully with enough time to give a [[Final Speech]] before their death.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]]
* Vita of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' was stabbed back to front, but still continued to fight in the final battle despite a gaping chest wound. Nanoha also gets badly injured. In both case they continue in large part because of their [[Determinator]] natures.
* Kamina of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' {{spoiler|takes a laser up his chest, visibly tearing his body, and his mech, nearly in two, then gets stabbed in the back with a laser spear, and then gets hit with his own swords/sunglasses. However, he manages to pull himself up, throws his own mech's arm at Simon, delivers a hotblooded speech from hell out, kills ''an entire [[Redshirt Army]]'', catches the same laser that injured him earlier, then proceeds to string the guy up on his mech's [[Cool Shades|freakin' sunglasses]] and then shoves a drill through him that'd make any dentist cringe. All while bleeding out on the floor. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|''Wow''.]]}}
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** In New Wave, he can now {{spoiler|heal from practically any wound in about half a day}}.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
== Comics ==▼
* [[Iron Man]]'s origin story involved a deadly shrapnel wound that would eventually penetrate his heart; to quote the movie, "I should be dead already." Instead of resigning himself to fate, he put his inventive genius to work—rigging up an electromagnetic pacemaker to keep his heart beating and keep the shrapnel out. And since the power source was putting out so much juice, he figured he [[Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids|might as well hook up some armor and guns to it.]]
* Cutter in ''[[Elf Quest]]'' is determined to keep fighting even after being speared through the gut. Not surprisingly this puts his continued survival in doubt.
* In ''[[Scud the Disposable Assassin]]'', the titular robot was shot with a laser beam through the torso. He then kept talking about how much it hurt in spite of his being a robot, implying that the wound was rather severe, then drove a semi truck off of a ''twelve-mile-high cliff'' - and he and the truck ''survived''. In fact, he drove the truck ''several miles'' through the desert after hitting the ground. Given that the main premise of the comics is that he's avoiding self-destruction (his model self-destructs after killing its intended target, so he instead incapacitates it and puts it in stasis, becoming a hit man to pay its hospital bills), it's strange such a thing would even be possible.
* ''[[The Punisher]]'' is a good example of this. Particularly in the Max Comics series, Frank Castle takes an insane amount of damage over the course of the series. In the "Punisher: Born" miniseries, Captain Frank Castle survives the obliteration of Firebase Valley Forge by attacking Viet Cong, surviving being shot ''seven times.'' It freaked the hell out of the reinforcements that came to see who survived. At one point, he gets shot in the side of his chest, point-blank, with a shotgun. After acknowledging that one of his ribs is "...gone. Not broken, gone.", he gets into an extended fistfight with the man who shot him, tosses him out of a window, and carries on. It seems like you can't finish an story arc without Castle experiencing some near-fatal damage.
** The Punisher's Nemesis Barracuda is the same. Shortly after meeting the Punisher, 'Cuda gets the fingers on his right hand chopped off, his eye stabbed out, and his teeth broken, not to mention later shot in the chest and hurled off a boat into ''shark-infested waters.'' Barracuda survives (he [[Lampshade Hanging|explains]] this by claiming he grabbed onto the back of the boat and got towed to shore), and comes after the Punisher again, and {{spoiler|later tortured by having his nutsack clipped to a car battery, shot several times, blown up, his ''nose ripped off,'' before the Punisher finally kills him by chopping his hands off with an axe and shooting his head to bits with an AK-47.}} As Punisher had noted, [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|"Barracuda was dead when you shot him to bits and shot the bits and burned them. Anything less just left that nagging doubt."]]▼
** The Punisher's durability is justified by him {{spoiler|making a deal with Death at the end of ''Punisher: Born'', at the cost of his family.}}▼
* '[[G.I. Joe]]'' comics. Scarlett is pretending to be a double-agent, so in order to maintain her cover, Snake-Eyes the ninja is forced to give her a survivable stab in the chest. Nobody counted on the Cobra ninja Slice, who realized if Snake-Eyes really wanted to kill, Scarlett would be dead instantly. So the whole thing is a load of B.S. Then [[Transformers Generation Two|Megatron]] shows up. No, really.▼
== [[Film]] ==
▲The Punisher's Nemesis Barracuda is the same. Shortly after meeting the Punisher, 'Cuda gets the fingers on his right hand chopped off, his eye stabbed out, and his teeth broken, not to mention later shot in the chest and hurled off a boat into ''shark-infested waters.'' Barracuda survives (he [[Lampshade Hanging|explains]] this by claiming he grabbed onto the back of the boat and got towed to shore), and comes after the Punisher again, and {{spoiler|later tortured by having his nutsack clipped to a car battery, shot several times, blown up, his ''nose ripped off,'' before the Punisher finally kills him by chopping his hands off with an axe and shooting his head to bits with an AK-47.}} As Punisher had noted, [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|"Barracuda was dead when you shot him to bits and shot the bits and burned them. Anything less just left that nagging doubt."]]
▲The Punisher's durability is justified by him {{spoiler|making a deal with Death at the end of Punisher: Born, at the cost of his family.}}
▲* '[[G.I. Joe]]' comics. Scarlett is pretending to be a double-agent, so in order to maintain her cover, Snake-Eyes the ninja is forced to give her a survivable stab in the chest. Nobody counted on the Cobra ninja Slice, who realized if Snake-Eyes really wanted to kill, Scarlett would be dead instantly. So the whole thing is a load of B.S. Then [[Transformers Generation Two|Megatron]] shows up. No, really.
== Films -- Animation ==▼
* The [[Trope Namer]] is the short "Den" from ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]]''. The hero is teleported to a savage land and turned from a wimp into a musclebound hero. While rescuing a gorgeous woman from death (as one does), he swims an enormously long time underwater without breathing, and quotes the trope title in voiceover in disbelief.
* Renard, [[James Bond (film)|James Bond's]] adversary in ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'', survived being shot in the head. A partial subversion in that the bullet is slowly killing him as it drills further into his brain. A bad case of [[You Fail Biology Forever]] as the part of the brain the bullet is in does not control physical sensation. Further, even if it did, try walking with all your limbs numb some time. You might find it almost impossible to control what you cannot feel.
* The Captain in ''[[300
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', Boromir is shot in the chest with arrows multiple times before he stays down.
* The main character of ''[[Hero (film)|Hero]]'' is revealed to be able to strike with surgical precision with a sword from a few steps away. This means that he's able to stab people apparently {{spoiler|fatally so he they can fake their deaths}} with many, many witnesses, and he can invoke this trope at will.
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* Inigo Montoya in ''[[The Princess Bride]]'' takes a sword through the gut, gets [[Heroic Second Wind]] and kills his enemy. What's less credible is that an hour or so later he seems to have got all better.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* Lampshaded several times in ''[[Harry Potter]]''. His nickname is The Boy Who Lived, after all. Everyone just thinks that "normally, he would be dead" part.
* In the Tamora Pierce novel ''[[Wild Magic]]'', the harpy/Stormwing Zhaneh Bitterclaws is shot through the eye. She pulls the arrow out, glares with her remaining eye at the protagonist, and flies off, swearing vengeance. Though, to be fair, Immortals are hardier than humans unless the wound is particularly lethal. Hence the name.
* Done to an over-the-top extent in one of Mark E Rodgers's ''[[Samurai Cat]]'' books, ''Samurai Cat Goes to the Movies''. The protagonist, samurai Miaowara Tomokato, ends up shot nearly to pieces by his enemies. The bullets are said to pass through the several places in his heart and brain where a bullet could pass through harmlessly. He (and his sidekick) are, if memory serves, 'millimetres more accurate' in their return fire.
* In ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur
* Edgar Freemantle and Wiseman in [[Stephen King|Stephen King's]] ''[[Duma Key]]'' both fit the example, and this condition is what opens them up to the key's... let's say environmental hazards.
* In ''[[The Girl Who Played With Fire]]'', [[Action Girl|Lisbeth Salander]] {{spoiler|is shot in the hip, in the back and in the head (the last bullet getting lodged in her brain), then [[Buried Alive|buried (barely) alive]],}} yet she still manages to not only {{spoiler|dig her way out and take axe revenge, but also survive all the way into and through the sequel}}.
* In the ''[[BattleTech]]'' novel ''Grave Covenant'', during a fight with a trio of ninja, protagonist Prince Victor Steiner-Davion ends up ''nailed to the floor'' by a katana through the chest. [[Heroic Willpower]], [[The Power of Love|fear for the woman he loves]], and arguably a lot of dumb luck let him pull the thing back out inch by bloody inch and kill his attacker with it instead. He passes out shortly afterwards and very nearly does die—thankfully, he's right in the capital city of the Draconis Combine as a guest of state and gets rushed to the hospital just in time.
** Played with in that for a little while he really does believe that he died then and there. While in the hospital he hallucinates his dead father appearing to him, telling him that he's dead, and offering to take Victor with him to the afterlife. His love's dead grandfather also appears and says that because he died heroically defending her, he's there to offer to take Victor to their afterlife (a different one, as the two families [[Feuding Families|were traditional enemies]] until the Clans forced an [[Enemy Mine]] between them). The two of them ask him to choose who to go with. As both options involve dying for good, he decides to [[Take a Third Option|take a third.]]▼
▲Played with in that for a little while he really does believe that he died then and there. While in the hospital he hallucinates his dead father appearing to him, telling him that he's dead, and offering to take Victor with him to the afterlife. His love's dead grandfather also appears and says that because he died heroically defending her, he's there to offer to take Victor to their afterlife (a different one, as the two families [[Feuding Families|were traditional enemies]] until the Clans forced an [[Enemy Mine]] between them). The two of them ask him to choose who to go with. As both options involve dying for good, he decides to [[Take a Third Option|take a third.]]
* In ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', (film also available) Sir Gawain of Arthur's Knights is challenged to a duel by the eponymous Green Knight. Given first blow Gawain decides to take advantage by chopping his opponent's head off and is somewhat put out when the headless body merely picks it up and slaps it back on again.
* In ''[[The Inkworld Trilogy|Inkspell]]'' {{spoiler|Mo}} survives having been {{spoiler|shot in the chest by The Magpie}} after he was transported to {{spoiler|the Inkworld}}.
* In ''[[Redwall|Mossflower]]'', Tsarmina is extremely unnerved by the fact that no matter how many times she seems to cut him down, Martin refuses to die and refuses to run.
** The Badger Lords often embody this, to a certain extent: while under [[Unstoppable Rage|Blood Wrath]], they will continue to fight, regardless of injuries, until they either drop dead or kill their enemy.
* This is one of the traits of Space Marines in the ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''. In the novel ''Rynn's World'', a Crimson Fists captain has his arm ripped off by an Ork. Said Marine proceeds to kill the ork, then exclaim he's ready for more. When his brothers point out that he's ''missing a goddamn arm'', the Marine's response is to say "No, I haven't. It's right over there."
* ''[[24]]'': Jack Bauer should have been dead several times but apparently was not willing to be pushed around by something as trifling as death when there were terrorists to fight.▼
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* [[24]] Jack Bauer should have been dead several times but apparently was not willing to be pushed around by something as trifling as death when there were terrorists to fight.
* The ''[[Lost]]'' season 3 finale, "Through the Looking Glass," appears to do this with {{spoiler|Mikhail}}. As well as with {{spoiler|Locke}}, who survives his shooting two episodes prior due to having {{spoiler|donated the kidney}} that the bullet would otherwise have hit.
* ''[[Firefly]]'': {{spoiler|After being shot in the stomach on a ship with diminishing heat and oxygen, Mal not only staggers up and forces his attackers to leave, but then manages to get to the medical bay, inject himself with adrenaline, get to the ship's engine, repair the ship's engine by putting in the one busted crucial part, and get all the way up to the cockpit before he collapses. He wakes up to see his crew have returned and are treating him, though he barely survives the ordeal and has to get significant medical care}}. That's just how tough Mal is.
** "War Stories": Mal {{spoiler|gets captured by [[Cold-Blooded Torture|Adelai Niska]], tortured to the point where he has, in fact, clinically died. Later, when his torturers' backs are turned, he gets up off the table, takes out the torture assistant, and proceeds to [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|'introduce himself']] to Niska. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] too, for that matter.}}
* ''[[Without a Trace]]'' sorta does this when FBI Head of Missing Persons is kidnapped himself by a somewhat unbalanced woman who thinks he's an assassin. She ''nailguns'' his hand to a chair and then in the chest. He even rips his hand out of the nail from the other end. End of the episode has him rescued, and all the paramedics do is bandage him up and he ''walks out of there'', commenting that he'll work on the paperwork. Not as [[Badass]] as other portrayals as he is weak and hurt by this, but no ''way'' the paramedics in real life wouldn't do their best to convince him to let them rush him to the hospital via stretcher at the very least.
* During [[Stephen Colbert]]'s appearance on ''[[Late Night|Late Night with Conan O'Brien]]'', his statements about Rosa Parks enrage Conan so much that he pulls a pistol and shoots him in the chest. Colbert falls back, apparently dead - then slowly sits up after a few seconds and continues his argument, completely unfazed. Conan complains, exasperated, "I shot you very near the heart!"
* On ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Buffy receives a severe electric shock intended to kill her. She manages to escape without severe harm thanks to Slayer toughness, but Giles implies that a normal human would have been killed by the shock. In the series finale: "Mommy, this mortal wound itches." Then again, being impaled through the midsection is demonstrably not always fatal in the Buffyverse. Still, the First Evil seemed to think it would do her in, and the First is probably an expert in fatalities. We see that that impaling a Slayer does little to stop them.
** There is also Xander, who survived being smacked around with a hammer that injures
▲There is also Xander, who survived being smacked around with a hammer that injures dieties.
* On the first episode of ''[[Deadwood]]'', a prostitute named Trixie shoots a customer in the head. The Doctor is summoned, and observes in fascination as the customer continues to babble half-coherently despite the bullet going straight through his head (demonstrated after he dies by sticking a metal probe straight through the wound channel.) The customer does die after some minutes, but even the Doctor seemed to think he should be dead, or at least not babbling.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''; That second heart time-lords have comes in handy. How many times have the villains managed to stop one of them, not to realise he's got a second?
** Jack Harkness might have bits of this trope as well. Normally, he would be dead, but comes back anyway.
*** Jack gets it
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* Any
▲== Video Games ==
▲* Any videogame. Just got machine-gunned in the chest from ten feet away? [[Hyperactive Metabolism|Take some painkillers and a herb you found in the flower garden in the lobby.]] You'll be fine.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', particularly the later games where you could have a sword lodged in your chest or forehead [[I Can Still Fight|yet still be able to fight!]]
* ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'' absolutely loves this trope, taking the [[Hollywood Healing]] approach to [[Action Hero]]es. By the end of the second game he has been shot through the chest and head, fallen twenty feet onto hard concrete and had the building he was in blown up, none of which slow him down much. Lampshaded in ''Max Payne 2''. When he is brought into the hospital after {{spoiler|Winters shoots him in the back}}. The doctors and nurses reference 'multiple gunshot wounds' 'severe head trauma' and use the phrase 'this guy is a trainwreck.'
* Several times in ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]''. Most notably, Cid leaps from the airship, presumably falling several ''miles'' onto either rocks or lava, ''with enough explosives strapped to his chest to seal off the route to the underworld to stop a pursuing fleet of airships'', which he sets off on-screen. And lives.
** Yang also survives the destruction of the robotic Giant of Babil, which he himself caused by ''jamming himself into its world-sundering laser cannon'' so it misfired. He shows up at the end of the game without a scratch.▼
▲Yang also survives the destruction of the robotic Giant of Babil, which he himself caused by ''jamming himself into its world-sundering laser cannon'' so it misfired. He shows up at the end of the game without a scratch.
* In a cutscene in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' where Sephiroth stabs Cloud with his extremely long sword, whereupon Cloud pulls himself down the blade until he has enough leverage to shake Sephiroth off.
* [[Fallout: New Vegas]] begins with the player character getting shot in the head. However, after a few days (with help from a friendly robot that thinks he's a cowboy and a local doctor) you're back on your feet and good to go. Naturally, the people who shot you are [[Oh Crap|extremely freaked out when you catch up to them.]]
* This happens an incredible amount of times in the ''[[Trauma Center]]'' series. Rifle wound to the heart in the middle of a snowstorm when the hospital is ten minutes away? No problem, and that's just in the first chapter. Never mind the parasites that ''slash your internal organs apart.'' I'm not even going to touch the guy who has multiple brain aneurysms burst before you even open him up.
** In ''[[Trauma Team]]'', there's a girl who {{spoiler|is holding a bomb when it explodes, yet survives.}} Did we mention that the same kind of {{spoiler|bomb}} has killed ''grown men'' in two different incidents?
* ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' has {{spoiler|Raven/Schwann}}, whose heart was speared through ten years ago during the Great War. {{spoiler|Alexei}} replaced it with a special blastia that kept him alive. Of course, you only discover this after beating the snot out of him {{spoiler|during his ten-minute [[Face Heel Turn]]}}.
** {{spoiler|Yeager}} received a similar heart replacement, which he reveals halfway through the fight against him. The secret mission for the fight is to destroy it by having Raven shoot him with a particular arte after you break his guard, but he's able to keep fighting even after you do this.
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', Liquid {{spoiler|after getting the crap beat out of him by Solid Snake, falls of Metal Gear Rex, supposedly to his death, then later on, it is revealed that he survived, only to die from FOXDIE}}.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid|Metal Gear Solid 2]]'' offers a unique example near its endgame:{{spoiler|After disabling Fortune's bullet deflecting plot device, Ocelot fires a bullet straight through the left side of her chest...which she survives, because as Ocelot quickly remembers, [[wikipedia:Dextrocardia|Fortune is dextrocardic]].}}
* Mentioned in ''[[Metal Gear Solid|Metal Gear Solid 3]]''. If the player reaches {{spoiler|the Groznyj Grad cells}} after a rough ride, Volgin remarks that lesser men would be dead by now.
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* In ''[[Tales of Maj'Eyal]]'', Berserkers can unlock the Unstoppable talent that prevents any effect at all from reducing them to less than 1 HP for a time, while Necromancers have the Blurred Mortality talent that changes their threshold for death from 0 HP to -50, or even less - at maximum talent level you have to get to -250 HP to die.
== [[Visual Novels]] ==▼
▲== Visual Novels ==
* Shirou in ''[[Fate/stay night]]''. Like with [[Tsukihime|Shiki]], it's practically his shtick that he can't pull off any impressive victories unless he's been rendered three-quarters dead first.
** Lancer and Berserker have the 'Battle Continuation' ability that allow them usage of this trope. In Unlimited Blade Works, {{spoiler|Lancer is ordered to kill himself with Gae Bolg by his master, which ''removes his heart from his body''. Keeping that in mind, he is still able to stay alive long enough to kill Kotomine in retaliation, stare down and wound Shinji, offer some [[Gallows Humor]], and use his runes to burn down the building before giving up the ghost.}}
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* ''[[Tsukihime]]'': Shiki is impaled in the guts by a black deer, has some animals eating him and then gets up and starts fighting in a rather [[Badass]] fashion. After winning, he falls down and gets back to bleeding to death. Obviously, he doesn't but...
** Kohaku pulls off one of these in the doujin game [[Battle Moon Wars]], when she takes a blast from [[Fate/stay night|Gilgamesh's]] [[Wave Motion Gun|Enuma Elish]]. Granted she was pretty goddamn torn up afterwards but the fact that she wasn't completely atomized makes this something of a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for her.
* ''[[Saya no Uta]]'': When {{spoiler|Dr. Tambo survives long enough to kill Saya after having her shoulder smashed and her left lung popped like a balloon by
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Dex Garritt in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' achieves this trope through the inversion of [[Redemption Equals Death]]. {{spoiler|Shortly after learning about his horrible past where he beat his girlfriend (only once, as he lamely defended himself) he gets into a fight where he is disemboweled and blown up with little to no chance of recovery.}} Since he is not forgiven for his past deeds, his survives on what seems to be sheer willpower.
* Parodied in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', where after being absolutely riddled with bullets and brought to the point of death, he proceeds to argue with [[The Grim Reaper]] that every single bullet missed his vital organs, and are therefore [[Only a Flesh Wound|only... flresh wounds!]]. To add to the effect, he survives by {{spoiler|kicking [[The Grim Reaper]]'s ass... tag-team style..."tagging" with ''himself'' (his Ninja side and his Doctor side).}}
* ''[[The
* ''[[A Miracle of Science]]'' has {{spoiler|Ben being shot through the torso with an energy weapon, after already having been shot and barely patched up. He manages to stay conscious just long enough get Haas to surrender before he finally collapses. He only survived because of Martian nanotech being able to stabilize him long enough to get replacements for the organs that got speared.}}
* The more extreme injuries Oasis and Kusari take in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' are justified, since they seem to possess an as-yet unexplained ability to come back from the dead. However, Kusari ''did'' get stabbed through the chest four times and was still able to ask for someone to pry her off the wall she'd been stuck to. Oasis, meanwhile, managed to survive for several days with untreated knife wounds in her stomach.
* Used as a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[8-
* Used frequently in ''[[Girl Genius]]''. For instance, Higgs [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101027
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' has several people who can pull this off. Tennyo and Jade, on Team Kimba's side, along with werewolves; Great Old Ones; other regenerators...there are a lot of people that you need to be really sure stay dead, if you think you've killed them. Tennyo periodically has chunks of her body blown off, and Jade's technically died {{spoiler|several times. In the same day.}}
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' has the Meta. Just watch Chapter 19 and 20 and you'll see just how much he can take.
** [[Up to Eleven]] in season 9. several sniper rounds to the chest? No problem. Eight pistol bullets to the face and neck at extremely close range? Not an issue. Thrown off a moving truck into a HUGE semi truck going 50 miles per hour the opposite direction and falling off the freeway which shown later on is about 200 to 300 feet up? Who cares. Out of all of these wounds only a single pistol shot to the neck does damage by {{spoiler|hitting his vocal cords, rendering him [[The Voiceless]].}}
* In ''[[Transformers Armada]]'', Smokescreen takes an almost point-blank hit from the Requiem Blaster that blasts a hole clear through his abdomen. He still manages to stagger upright as molten metal drips down his torso and stagger towards Megatron for another attack, and winds up surviving after having his body rebuilt. While they ''are'' robots, other Transformers in the series have died from lesser wounds. Laws of Fatality are not consistent in Transformers. Same person can be unharmed by some attack at one point and next dying after being hit by same attack.
* In [[The Movie]] of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' Shego is kicked from the roof of a building that is several stories high, into an electrical signal tower, which not only electrocutes her but also collapses right on top of her. And she comes out of the incident with slightly torn clothes and frazzled hair...
* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', Silver Sable is hit twice in the course of one episode by a limo but still gets up and continues fighting as if nothing's wrong.
** This also applies to Spidey himself in nearly every single episode, he can be beaten, scratched, smashed, burned, and hit with explosives from every villain he encounters, and he can still shake it off and fight normally. Most notably is one episode where he defeats the Sinister Six while sleepwalking. [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Granted, it was the symbiote doing all the work for him, but the fact that Peter still had all of his bones in the right place the next day is nothing short of a miracle.]]▼
▲This also applies to Spidey himself in nearly every single episode, he can be beaten, scratched, smashed, burned, and hit with explosives from every villain he encounters, and he can still shake it off and fight normally. Most notably is one episode where he defeats the Sinister Six while sleepwalking. [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Granted, it was the symbiote doing all the work for him, but the fact that Peter still had all of his bones in the right place the next day is nothing short of a miracle.]]
* ''[[Ace Lightning]]'': Chuck Mugel is hit by Ace's lightning bolt attack ''twice''. The first time (a "deflected shot") it ''gave him'' temporary superpowers. The second time just knocked him out for a few minutes, though granted, it freaked the main characters out a bit anyway.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* [[w:Phineas Gage|Phineas Gage]] got a six-foot iron tamping rod shot through his skull and survived.▼
▲== Real Life ==
* [[
▲* Phineas Gage got a tamping rod shot through his skull and survived.
▲* [[Rasputinian Death|Rasputin]], who according to legend was poisoned with about five times the usually fatal dose of <s>arsenic</s> cyanide in some food, then was shot four times, bludgeoned, hanged, by some accounts castrated,<ref>a museum claims to have his genitals</ref> and tossed into an icy river, and still managed to survive long enough to try and claw his way out from under the ice. The final cause of death? Hypothermia. After the February Revolution, the new government dug up his body and burned it, just to be sure he was ''really'' gone.
** He even sat up during the burning.<ref>Though this was likely caused by failure to sever his tendons before burning... the heat made them shrink and pull him into a sitting position</ref>
** Incidentally, the reason Rasputin didn't eat sweets was because of a condition stemming from a previous assassination attempt, in which he had his belly slit open so that his ''entrails hung out'' (
** Rasputin purportedly practiced Mithridatism, which is the practice of taking small non-lethal amounts of a poison in order to build an immunity to that poison over time, which might be the reason why Rasputin supposedly ingested five times the minimum amount of cyanide required to kill a normal man. Since his assassins did not know of his
** A good deal of the story was likely made up by the assassins to [[Demonization|demonize]] Rasputin further and make themselves appear vindicated. An unpublished autopsy performed in 1916 and reviewed in 1993 and 2004/5 found no poison in his stomach but determined that the third bullet wound (directly to the forehead) killed him instantly. The culprit? Lt. Oswald Rayner, an Englishman. The bullet was the only unjacketed round found in Rasputin's body, and the only gun that fired unjacketed rounds and was present at Rasputin's murder was a Webley .445 inch revolver, owned (and most likely fired) by Lt. Rayner. That said, three rounds and numerous bladed weapon wounds is still a lot to kill a man.
*** Although there is a possibility that the poison was destroyed when the food was baked.<ref>It was supposedly in a cake</ref>
** And to cap it all off, the autopsy showed that there was air in his lungs at the time of death, meaning ''he was still alive when he was thrown under the frozen surface of the water.'' Tenacious isn't the word.
* Blackbeard the pirate, whose [[Last Stand]] involved a half dozen pistol wounds and over a dozen saber cuts. The bit where his headless corpse kept swimming around the ship until they riddled it with musket-balls is a myth, though.
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* Anyone on [http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffallers.html this page], but Lt. Chisov in particular. He survived a fall of 22,000 ft without a parachute after bailing out of his crippled bomber.
* Similar to the Marine story mentioned above, a man was robbing a small town bank when, through pure coincidence, one of the tellers happened to be a former classmate who recognized him. Now needing to eliminate the witnesses, the crook took them to a back room and executed them each with a shot in the back of the head with a large-calibre handgun. Except, again coincidentally, for the woman who knew him: the bullet traveled around her skull and out the forehead, knocking her unconscious and (like all head wounds) causing so much blood that he assumed she was dead. She testified at his trial.
** Getting shot in the head and having the bullet not penetrate is surprisingly common, even with modern firearms. Given the strength and roundness of a skull, bullets can skip off or pull the "run under the scalp" thing described above. Of course more powerful rounds are less likely to fail to penetrate.▼
▲Getting shot in the head and having the bullet not penetrate is surprisingly common, even with modern firearms. Given the strength and roundness of a skull, bullets can skip off or pull the "run under the scalp" thing described above. Of course more powerful rounds are less likely to fail to penetrate.
* [[Mötley Crüe]] Bassist Nikki Sixx has been pronounced clinically dead ''on three separate occasions'' after overdosing on heroin. The first time, after being revived by ''two'' adrenaline shots to the heart and taken to hospital, he got up, checked himself out of hospital, and hitchhiked back to his house wearing only his leather pants. He did this ''again'' in London where he was dumped inside a dumpster after the dealer he OD'd in front of tried to ''beat him back to life with a baseball bat''.
* Army dentist Dr. AnnaLee Kruyer came back from Iraq with the story of an anonymous sergeant who was shot in the face in the exact right spot for all of the bullet's energy to be
* Merriweather Lewis (of Lewis and Clark fame) tried to kill himself by shooting himself in the head. This seems pretty foolproof, but a couple bullets in his brain (yes, ''two'') didn't quite get the job done. He wrote a short letter explaining the circumstances, slit his wrists, and finally bled to death.
* As though Simo Häyhä's being a [[One-Man Army]] [[Cold Sniper]] with [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] isn't enough to make him seem more unbelievable than most fictional [[Action Hero]]es, he survived getting half his face blown off by an exploding bullet near the end of the Winter War. He shot and killed his attacker, passed out, and would live on to a ripe old age of 96 as a successful moose hunter.
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* Then there's the well-known case of Curtis Jackson, better known as 50 Cent, who in the early 2000's was shot a total of nine times in the chest, hand, arm, hip, and both legs, but survived to become a multi-million dollar rapper.
* Notorious Depression-era bank robber George "[[Berserk Button|Baby Face]]" Nelson, who was cornered by a couple of FBI agents wielding a shotgun and a Tommy gun. Instead of retreating, Nelson advanced on them across an open field, emptying his bolt-action rifle into them as he went, and being hit nine times. The G-men died at the scene. Nelson got back into his car and drove off, dying several hours later.
* The autobiography of Sonny Barger (of Hell's Angels fame)
* Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest by an assassin and took the time to finish his speech before he sought medical attention. He was helped a bit by the bullet being partially stopped by his glasses and the thick, folded speech being held in his breast pocket, preventing the round from piercing his lung. He also willed himself to live through a near-fatal case of malaria which ate fifty pounds off his body weight.
* On January 8, 2011; Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head by a deranged
▲* On January 8, 2011; Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head by a deranged attempted assassin. Unfortunately, six other people, including a nine-year-old child and a federal judge, were killed in the attempt, but Congresswoman Giffords survived. Her doctors have called her recovery nothing short of miraculous and at the time of this writing, it's been just under two weeks since being shot and she has left the hospital to enter rehab for her injuries.
** Three months after and she's doing very well, while a bullet wound like her own would kill a normal man, she has no memory loss, and is expected to be up and around, completely rehabilitated, in under a year.
*** Congresswoman Giffords returned to office on August 1, 2011, and was met with a standing ovation.
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