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* In ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', Goku survives a blast to the chest because he had a Dragon Ball under his shirt. Although, considering those are said to indestructible, it makes sense.

** In the movie 'Curse of the Blood Rubies', Yamcha's history as a thief [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Za3hWHlC8s pays off.]

* In the manga ''[[~~Jo Jo~~'s ~~Bizarre Adventure|Jo Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure]]'', Jotaro survived a storm of knives thrown at him by Dio during a [[Time Stands Still|timestop]] because of his [[Nice Hat|hat]] and several copies of Shonen Jump he had stuffed in his jacket (the fact his stand was able to move for 1 second during the timestop and deflect half of the knives helped, but he still would have died were it not for the hat and magazines).

* In the manga ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', Jotaro survived a storm of knives thrown at him by Dio during a [[Time Stands Still|timestop]] because of his [[Nice Hat|hat]] and several copies of Shonen Jump he had stuffed in his jacket (the fact his stand was able to move for 1 second during the timestop and deflect half of the knives helped, but he still would have died were it not for the hat and magazines).

* In ''[[Detective Conan]]'' {{spoiler|A mahjong tile in Takagi's breast pocket (taken as evidence) stops a bullet. Shiratori even [[Lampshade|lampshades]] how cliche it is. OTOH, Takagi ''did'' get injured anyway and had to be hospitalized}}

** Also, {{spoiler|once Conan almost gets stabbed in the gut by a suspect. He had an amulet with a piece of metal in his pocket (which he borrowed from Heiji), which stopped the knife}}

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* In ''[[Change 123]]'' a bullet shot into the back of a girl gets stopped by a (hidden) combat knife tucked into her belt.

* One chapter of the ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' manga has a bullet intended for the title character getting stopped by a "No War" button one of his students pinned on his back.

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team]]'' gives us Aina's pocket watch/locket, which saves her from a bullet by hanging in front of her heart during the final episode.

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team]]'' gives us Aina's pocket watch/locket, which saves her from a bullet by hanging in front of her heart during the final episode.

* A bag of gold coins takes a bullet for Tetsuro early in ''[[Galaxy Express 999]].''

* In ''[[Maiden Rose]]'', the [[Memento MacGuffin|textbook Taki wrote in]] slows down the bullets that Klaus takes at point-blank range in Volume 2, causing the wounds to be non-fatal.