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So, you've got a funny character in a [[Slapstick]], just lining up a wave of truly incredibly bad and unlucky physical traumas for the character to wade through for your audiences [[Comedic Sociopathy|twisted amusement]]. Just one problem. The things your character is about to go through would kill any normal being. The solution? Enter the
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Obviously a form of [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality]]. Primarily an animation trope, [[Western Animation]] is particularly fond of this one.
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* Tatewaki Kuno from ''[[Ranma ½]],'' if it's painfully hilarious it will happen to him, usually without leaving a dent in his stoic expression.
* Keigo Asano from ''[[Bleach]]'' is beaten and walked all over in pretty much every one of his appearances, but he never seems to get tired of it, keeps trying to get the girls that smack him around, and at one point actually blocked a kick from Rangiku, [[Shinigami]] who tend to be at least slightly stronger than normal humans.
* Tsubasa Jumonji of ''[[RIN-NE]]''. To list a few of the things that have happened to him: fallen out a two-story window, got his head chewed on by a lion at the zoo, has gotten run over by a team of ''sumo wrestlers'', had bowling balls fall on his head, and has fallen into multiple kinds of holes. Those are only some of the things he's suffered, in two chapters ''alone''
* [[Stalker with a Crush|Mitsurugi]] [[Camp Gay|Hana]][[Alpha Bitch|gata]] in ''[[Saber Marionette J]]'' tends towards this. Particularly notable in a few scenes where he only takes [[Clothing Damage]] from attacks explicitly stated to be fearsomely deadly to Otaru and even the [[Robot Girl|Marionettes]].
* Excel in ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'', but also Hyatt and Elgala in the manga, as well as Ropponmatsu and Iwata on the opposite side. Of these Ropponmatsu and Iwata are justified by their artificial bodies, and Hyatt by her explicit [[Healing Factor]], but Excel and Elgala just seem to be that tough; once both got stuck in a massive explosion in the top floor of a building that collapsed on them, and they got out "just" practically covered in bandages.
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** Count the number of times Alec Trevelyan lives through something that should kill him in Goldeneye. Before the opening credits, he's already been supposedly shot in the head and caught in an explosion.
* ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' survive a whole mess of stuff at the hands of <s> a crazy woman</s> Princess Leia {{spoiler|that Jake abandoned at the altar.}} Drive by with a rocket launcher, demolishing the entrance of the building they were standing in front of? They just stroll through the rubble, and go inside. Apartment building blown up? Stand up, brush themselves off, and go to work. Propane tank explodes, launching their phone booth into the air? Hey, there's at least seven dollars in change in the wreckage of the payphone!
** The cops are probably this to a certain extent as
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' lampshades this. Roger Rabbit is the Iron Buttmonkey both as character and actor in the Roger Rabbit/Baby Herman cartoons. After repeatedly "blowing his lines," Roger begs the director to drop the refrigerator on him one more time, saying he can take it. The director says he's more concerned about the refrigerator.
** It's actually a plot point that Toons are indestructible/unkillable....almost.
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== Live Action Television ==
* In ''[[Father Ted]]'', every time Ted calls Father Larry Duff's mobile phone, the distraction always causes Larry to suffer a horrible misfortune, often taking the form of an accident that would kill a normal person.
* Richard Hammond on ''[[Top Gear]]'', especially in the earlier series, always seems to get the physically unpleasant challenges (sitting in a car filling with water, running to the North Pole with a dogsled, etc.) When [[Made of Iron|he actually did bounce back]] from a [[No One Could Survive That]] accident, his co-presenters were courteously solemn about it for at least half a
* Poor, poor [[Super Dave Osborne]]. Whether it's jumping off the CN Tower without a parachute, being crushed by a giant tanker truck, being pulverized by a massive piledriver, getting hit in the crotch with a golf club or a baseball, falling out a window to fall two stories and crash-land on the pavement, being [[It Makes Sense in Context|eaten by Mr. T]], or having a piano dropped on him, Super Dave was made of this trope.
* ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' has Charlie, especially when Mac and Dennis attempt to train him to box by breaking things (chairs, bottles) over his head.
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* During the course of ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', Dist survives near-drowning, almost freezing to death, falling from an extremely tall tower while also being caught in an explosion (!), and a blast to the face from the most powerful magic user in the game, and is also hinted to have suffered years of abuse at Jade's hands in his childhood. Yet he never seems the worse for the wear; not only does he not die, he has no scars and we never even see him injured. No wonder Jade says he's as [[Lampshade Hanging|tenacious as a cockroach]].
* Daxter, of ''[[Jak and Daxter]],'' has this status sometimes. The example that comes to mind is the cutscene where Daxter narrowly avoids getting blown up after [[Riding the Bomb]]. He gets up and walks away unscathed... only to be flattened underneath a piece of debris.
* Hong Meiling is perhaps the best known
** She's also fanonly depicted as a chew toy for [[Person of Mass Destruction|Flandre]].
* Sandbag from ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Melee'' and ''Brawl'' feels no pain at all, and apparently likes to see how far it can get hit.
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== Web Original ==
* Linkara from ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' makes a living reviewing bad comic books where he's semi-routinely attacked by [[Mad Scientist
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** From the [[Show Within a Show]] "The Itchy and Scratchy Show" - Scratchy (the cat) is perhaps the best example. He's been blown up, chopped up, burned, frozen, eaten, thrown into space, drowned, ''and even at one point appeared as a ghost'', but he's always alive again for the next episode.
* ''[[Family Guy]]''. The entire family. Peter falls down stairs (repeatedly), Brian (being a dog) gets hit by cars, Stewie's had large pieces of glass stuck in his head, Lois has fallen off the roof and been drenched in scalding-hot french fry oil... and yet its Meg who's the series [[Butt Monkey]]. Ironic, huh?
** Not to mention that Meg's suffered such indignities as having her hair set on fire, having a piano fall on her (something that also befell Peter) and been shot full of poison darts. Really, the only family member who has ''not'' been an
* ''[[American Dad]]'' has Steve who is always getting attacked by animals, bullies or suffering other injuries. He often injures himself horribly but always comes back in the next episode as if nothing has happened. Interestingly, he very rarely breaks his glasses, unlike what would probably happen in real life.
* [[Looney Tunes|Wile. E. Coyote.]] He's been crushed, blown up, fallen hundreds of feet, been [[Digging to China|knocked all the way through earth and back]], and that's just the tip of a long list of abuses. He not only survives, but [[Status Quo Is God|is right back at the same thing again.]]
** In fact, in the sort of spin-off series ''[[Loonatics Unleashed]]'', being an
*** On the subject of [[Looney Tunes]], Daffy Duck's been shot enough times, his face (or at least his beak) should no longer be recognized. Sylvester's gone through many of the abuses that [[Tom and Jerry|Tom]] has suffered over the years, being beaten, smashed, electrified, and so much else. Still other villains like Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Marvin the Martian and the Tasmanian Devil have also survived incredible injuries.
**** Likewise Plucky Duck, Daffy's counterpart in Tiny Toons. Glorious, hysterical [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r1knpIlcV8 case in point.]
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