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== Comics ==
* Happens occasionally with Professor X's wheelchair/hoverchair in ''[[X -Men]]''.
** Also [[Played With]]: [[X -Men|Mystique]] once managed to move her organs around in order to survive an attack that should have been lethal.
 
 
== Film ==
* Mal's displaced nerve cluster in ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]''.
* A major plot point and running theme in ''[[Ninja Assassin]]''.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' characters with artifical limbs frequently lose them again.
* The glass eye in ''[[Waterworld (Film)|Waterworld]]''
* Inspector Krogh's wooden arm in ''[[Son of Frankenstein (Film)|Son of Frankenstein]]'' provides an Organ Dodge when the Monster attempts to rip his arm off.
* The main character in ''HellBent'' gets stabbed in his fake eye with a sickle.
* Another instance of a glass eye dodge is in ''[[Black Christmas (Film)|Black Christmas]]'' remake. There, a two-pronged barbecue fork is the penetrating object.
* There's an interesting example in the 2012 film ''[[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|The Avengers]]''. Loki attempts to put his spear into Tony Stark's heart. (Doing so would effectively 'brainwash' the victim.) Unfortunately for him, Stark doesn't exactly have one.
 
 
== Literature ==
* In the novel ''[[James Bond (Literaturenovel)|Dr No]]'', the eponymous doctor explains how he survived being shot through the heart by his former Tong masters because of his dextrocardia.
* The [[Mad Scientist]] du jour in ''[[JasonFriday Xthe 13th (film)]]: Planet of the Beast'' gets his artificial arm ripped off, though this trope is averted in the proceeding book, ''Death Moon'', where the latest Mad Scientist is stabbed in his fake eye, but Jason just drives the blade in deeper and deeper until it reaches the guy's brain.
* In Steve Harriman's thriller novel Sleeper, the escaped monster tears off government bureaucrat Ed Jeffers' arm, and succeeds, as the arm is a prosthetic that he wears to cover up a birth defect(a small, only partially formed arm) caused by Thalidomide.
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* A major plot point in an episode of ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' is repeatedly simulating the loss of an arm. Also shows up in subtle forms after Buster's run-in with a certain performing animal.
* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' has a couple of these due to Mr. Spock's half-Vulcan ancestry.
** "A Private Little War". Spock is shot but survives because his heart is where is liver would be if he were fully human.
** "Operation: Annihilate!". Spock is hit with a brilliant light and is apparently blinded. Later it's revealed that he has an extra eyelid that protected him and made the effect only temporary.
* Sylar from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' can avoid mortal harm by using his shapeshifting powers to move his organs around.
* A missing organ is a pretty standard revelation in the [[Autopsy Scene]], although ''[[CSI]]'' has also done at least two episodes about ironically-fatal dextrocardia.
* On ''[[Lost]]'', Locke survives being {{spoiler|gut-shot by Ben}} because he donated his kidney. Though the Island's healing powers and {{spoiler|Taller Ghost Walt}} may have been involved.
* The Doctor suddenly revealing he has a respiratory bypass system' as an explanation for him surviving strangulation in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S13 E3 Pyramids of Mars|Pyramids of Mars]]".
* In ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'', the most efficient way to kill Jaffa is to aim for the symbiote pouch in their abdomen, which both kills the symbiote and causes a serious gut injury ... unless said Jaffa uses tretonin, a drug that obviates the need for a symbiote. Thus in "Lost City", Bra'tac survived being stabbed in his pouch by [[The Mole]].
 
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the [[MGSMetal Gear Solid 2 EndingSons of Liberty/Recap|endgame]] of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'', {{spoiler|Ocelot disables the electromagnetic force field that protects Fortune from gunfire, and shoots her straight through the heart...which doesn't seem to faze her at all, because as Ocelot remembers afterwards, her heart is on the right. Of course, she still dies from the gaping hole in her chest some minutes later, but not before figuratively flipping him the bird}}.
* In the first [[X-COM]], Etherals have the highest hitpoint and armor value of all the non terror unit aliens. Their [[Monster Compendium|UFOPaedia entry]] after an [[Alien Autopsy|autopsy]] reads {{spoiler|"The muscles are severely atrophied and the internal organs appear to be under-developed. The sensory organs, including the eyes, do not appear to function at all. The brain, however, is well developed and draws on a high proportion of the body's blood supply. It is a mystery as to how this creature can sustain itself without external support." They are that tough because they don't have many organs to damage.}}
 
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