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* ''[[Durarara!!]]'''s Shizuo Heiwajima is presented as pretty much damn near invincible for most of the series—so when Horoda manages to demonstrate that he's not as immune to bullets as he is to blades, it comes as quite a shock. {{spoiler|It's then subverted in the following episode when Shizuo shows up at [[Back-Alley Doctor|Shinra's]] place bloody and tremendously annoyed, but not particularly close to death.}}
* In ''Silent Sinner in Blue'', a manga supplement to the [[Touhou]] series of games, Watatsuki no Yorihime blows through Marisa, Sakuya, Remilia, and even Reimu without breaking a sweat. In ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'', another manga in the same story arc, she gets knocked out by one of Tewi's pitfall traps.
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' anime, this happens ''all the time''. As early as the first season, Seto Kaiba was considered unbeatable at ''any'' competition, until Yugi defeated him at Duel Monsters by using Exodia. Consequently, Exodia's reputation as unbeatable would last until the Battle City arc, when Yugi defeated a Rare Hunter who used it. Also in Battle City, Merrick assumed the Egyptian God Cards were invincible, only to be proven wrong on more than one occasion.
** Kaiba was on the winning side of this Trope a few times, such as during the Virtual Nightmare arc, with Lecter assuming his Satellite Cannon was invincible, until Kaiba proved him wrong. (More a case of lack of foresight on Lecter's end, as Satellite Cannon's edge was that it could not be harmed by any monster lower than Level 8 - Kaiba signature card is the most famous Level 8 monster at the time and his deck is never without three copies.) And of course, during the DOMA arc, the Seal of Orichalcos was considered an unbeatable magical power, even though only two duels shown in the arc ended with the one using it winning.
** This trend continued in other parts of the franchise. In [[Yu-Gi-Oh! R]]'', Tenma believed the Wicked Avatar to be unbeatable, only to be proven wrong in the final battle. In Zexal, V assumed Number 9: Dyson Sphere was indestructible, and it was easy to see why, as the thing was literally the size of a star. Kaito, however, proved it was not.
** Of course, as far as ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' is concerned, factors regarding a card’s invincibility, or lack thereof depend on both the competence of whoever is using it, and law of averages, seeing as all these cards were either incredibly rare or unique. In the first case, the Exodia using Rare Hunter had a poorly built deck, his multiple pieces of Exodia taking up fifteen slots of his 40-card deck leaving precious little to defend himself with if he couldn't assemble the five different components soon. In regards to the second, well, just how often did V even use Dyson Sphere (which he considered a secret weapon) competitively in a duel? It would have been hard to use a mon that size while concealing its existence, and if he won a duel using it two or three times, calling it unbeatable is technically true, but doesn't make the designation all that special.
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