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[[File:zabuza_dead_2258.jpg|link=Naruto|frame|"...Okay, let's try a ''fifteenth'' stab wound. Is he dead yet? ...''[[Why Won't You Die?|Dammit!]]''"]]

 

'''Skelter Helter''': Such [[Genre Blind|blind arrogance]]! Like the naked emperor...<br />

'''Travis''': Seriously! ''I cut off your '''head'''''?!|''[[No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle]]''<ref>The decapitated head spun in the air for a couple of seconds, spilling blood everywhere, and landed back on his shoulders. [[Serial Escalation|A cleaning crew had come to get rid of the mess and Travis was mid-conversation before Skelter started moving and talking again.]]</ref>}}

** ''Jojo'' is generally made of this trope, including a ''self-inflicted'' occurrence by {{spoiler|Bucciarati in Golden Wind}} to trick an opponent. ''Steel Ball Run'' has a doozy; Johnny is shot in the head by Ringo Roadagain and survives.

* In the third fight in ''[[Claymore]]'', a youma holds Raki hostage in order to force Clare to throw away her sword. She throws it some ways downhill, and the youma proceeds to impale her with its claws. Except then Clare grabs its arm, dives down the hill dragging it with her, retrieves her sword, and promptly kills it. It would not be fatal to a Claymore, who can self-regenerate. Also, Ophelia had her neck twisted and didn't die.

** Kiba is even more dramatic. He has been practically torn to pieces and ''still'' got up and continued fighting. You [[Determinator|just can't stop him!]]

* In ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'', Onizuka is about to take a national test in which he needs to have the highest score in the nation so he doesn't lose his job. One of his students is kidnapped, and he goes in pursuit. {{spoiler|While saving the female student from a very dark situation, he is shot three times.}} He manages to {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|make it back to the testing station, finish the test, and get a perfect score in half the given time of anyone else... while bleeding profusely.]]}}

* 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.<br /><br />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.

* 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 tranferred to one of his teeth, ejecting it from its socket and stopping the bullet there. He initially assumed the shot missed and kept coming, scaring the living hell out of the guy who hit him, who surrendered immediately. ''[[Snopes]]'' confirms it [http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/teeth.asp here].

* 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.