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== Anime & Manga ==
* The Book of Darkness of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As (Anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As]]'' may fit, considering it has regenerative powers and can come back again and again even if completely obliterated. Basically the only theoretical way to stop it forever is to freeze it.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', the antique armor that Al's soul was [[Animated Armor|put into]] can somehow routinely completely deflect bullets without getting scratched and even the little tail ornament on his head could jam [[Chainsaw Good|Buccaneer's Alligator arm]] which was starting to shred up Ed's entire automail arm. Although Winry whacking him with her wrench [[Armor-Piercing Slap|seems to do the trick]], dramatically he was only ever damaged by attacks in some way based on alchemy.
* The titular objects in ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'' qualify for this. The four-star-ball once [[Pocket Protector|saved Goku's life]] when {{spoiler|it blocked Tao Pai Pai's Dodonpa from piercing his heart}}.
** The balls yes, but {{spoiler|unfortunately not the dragon part.}}
** Katchin/ Klangtite, the hardest metal in the universe. Snapped the Z Sword like a twig.
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* In ''[[One Piece]]'', the only reason the [[Government Conspiracy]] haven't completely erased all traces of the "Void Century" already is that the history is recorded on things called Poneglyphs, which are indestructible.
* In ''[[Lupin III]]'', Goemon's sword was forged by a secret process and is essentially indestructible (it actually broke in ''The Secret Of Twilight Gemini'' with no comment, but that was probably [[Did Not Do the Research]] on the writer's part and can be safely ignored).
* ''[[Gundam|Gundams]]'' are usually [[Made of Indestructium]] for one reason or another, but exactly ''how'' invulnerable they are depends on the series. Compare ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', in which a grand total of ''two'' Gundams get destroyed involuntarily (the rest self-destruct), to ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', which sees the destruction of more than a dozen Gundams in battle.
* In ''[[Digimon]]'', [[Power Levels|Mega-level]] Digimon often have armor or weapons made of something called Chrome Digizoid. It's rare to see it damaged by something other than a weapon made from the same stuff, though it can be done.
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' is an early Anime example. The [[Humongous Mecha]] titular is made with Alloy Z, an alloy made of Japanium, a rare metal can be found only in Japan. [[The Professor|Dr. Kabuto]] discovered the metal and built Mazinger Z with it, thinking Mazinger would become indestructible. Throughout the series, the mecha got hit by giant monsters, missiles, bombs, got burned and electrocuted, got dumped in lava and doused in acid... and even though it got damaged every so often, the Alloy Z endured all of that {{spoiler|until the last chapter,}} and kept [[The Hero|Kouji]] alive. Several times [[Big Bad|Dr. Hell]] and [[The Dragon|his dragons]] would try and get their hands on a sample of Alloy Z to build his [[Robeast|Robeasts]] with it because Mazinger's armor was too tough to break it, shatter it or dissolve it easily. The concept of chogokin ("Super Alloy") became so pervasive and widespread all Super Robots followed Mazinger were made of chogokin, and it baptised one whole toy line.
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** The Borg are sometimes presented as this (for example, in the first episode of ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', when Federation weapons don't even scratch the Borg cube) when they have [[Awesomeness By Analysis|adapted to your weapons]].
* The craft from ''[[Quatermass and The Pit]]''.
* The [[Stargate Verse|Stargates]] are very nearly indestructible (excluding the ones in [[Stargate Universe (TV)|Stargate Universe]], anyways), especially when active. They've survived direct hits from meteors, swallowed up by lava, nuclear explosions, dropped into suns (although that one had an energy shield to bolster it)... often, not only do they survive these ordeals, but they ''keep functioning perfectly''. That's not to say they never get destroyed; the Earth military eventually does make a bomb capable of it: the Mark IX "Gatebuster" Naquadriah-enhanced nuke. Stated at one point to have a blast radius of well over 1,000 km. The Gatebuster's blast is also enhanced by ''the Stargate itself''.
* Many robots of all kinds (though usually the humanoid, kill-everyone variant) can be considered part of this. Here it's usually not the robot itself that is indestructible, but the electronics inside. Cut off its head, punch a hole in its stomach, it will just keep going for you as if nothing happened. Guess all the important parts are in the toes.
 
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** It's not specifically stated as being indestructible, but it does reject harmful things (i.e., doesn't get dusty, doesn't rust), and imbues things that strengthen it (such as the aforementioned poison). But there's no actual proof that the metal can't be destroyed. A better example in the ''Harry Potter'' series would be the Unbreakable Charm, which causes objects to become Indestructium. Presumably, the charm can be reversed or removed, however.
* Critically subverted in the fourth-generation ''[[Tom Swift]]'' novel ''Mind Games'', where Tom surprises everyone during the ''Galaxy Masters'' game by destroying one of the two [[MacGuffin|Memory Cubes]], locking [[Big Bad|Dedstorm]] out of victory while still allowing the heroes to accomplish their goal. [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|The game's designer himself]] [[Subverted Trope|notes that he's effectively broken the game.]] {{spoiler|It's not the last time he does so.}}
* The character Monkey, from [[Journey to Thethe West]], is a living being Made of Indestructium. It's probable that the fact his mother was a mountain impregnated by the cosmic forces of the universe made him tough to begin with (he is described repeatedly as a "stone monkey"), but after he got into Heaven, he gorged himself on both Peaches of Immortality, Wine of Heaven and Elixir of Long Life. And even before he got to Heaven, he had caused trouble by beating up all of the gods and demons of the Underworld and crossing his name out of the Register of the Dead, meaning that his soul couldn't pass on to the afterlife if he died anyway. And then, after he ate all that immortality-granting foodstuff, he was finally captured and spent 49 days being cooked inside [[Laozi|Lao Tzu]]'s crucible, which should have been enough to kill even another god, but which only cooked him even harder then before... and he was thrown in the crucible in the first place because even the strongest god in Heaven couldn't scratch him with his sharpest sword!
* [[Subverted]] in the ''[[Wing Commander (Literaturenovel)|Wing Commander]]'' novel ''Fleet Action''. The Kilrathi launch a fleet of heavily armored super-carriers, designed to be able to fight their way deep into Confederation space despite the best efforts of a (recently downsized) Confederation Navy. The solution? {{spoiler|[[Space Marines]] board the carriers, and plant [[Nuclear Option|nuclear warheads]] as deep inside the ships as they can fight their way to. The very same armor that made the carriers immune to ''outside'' attack doom them as they prove equally capable at ''concentrating'' the destructive force of anything set off inside of them.}}
* The Two-Faced Ring in ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]'' will make its wearer indestructible. [[Subverted]] with the Ring itself, as it is targeted for destruction at the end of ''Darke''.
* Keill Randor, protagonist of the ''[[Last Legionary (Literature)|Last Legionary]]'', starts out with his bones full of deadly radiation that's slowly killing him. The Overseers replace his entire skeleton with an unbreakable organic alloy.
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* Up until ''Advanced [[Dungeons and Dragons]] 2'', artifacts and relics surpass normal mortal magic and could only be destroyed by one of a few very specific methods -- much like the One Ring from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.
* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'' features items made of Darksteel, ranging from ingots to [[Giant Robot|giant robots]]. They are indestructible -- as in, the cards literally say, "This is indestructible." <ref>This does not however, prevent them from being [[Deader Than Dead|Exiled from the game]], rendered incapable of doing anything, sacrificed, or killed by being reduced to 0 toughness via Wither or other weakening effects. Magic gives you a wide range of [[Take a Third Option|alternatives]].</ref>
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' features the ever-bemoaned [[Ominous Floating Castle|Necron Monolith]], made of a 'living metal' that can physically alter its shape. It was already immune to the tank-killing effects of heat based weapons (melta), targeting weapons (lance), rending weapons, and dedicated tank-hunting specialists, but thanks to a 5th edition rules change and a quirky Rules-as-Written interpretation, it physically cannot be destroyed by glancing hits.
** The Monolith can be destroyed provided you have a Strength 9 or higher weapon, but that's the only way to destroy it. However, a Strength 9 or 10 (10 is about as high as you can get in a normal game) weapon simply means you have a ''chance'' at destroying it. Actually completing the feat means you need 2 consecutive 5's or 6's, not to mention hitting the damn thing first. For most armies, it's just easier to destroy enough necrons to force a Phase Out.
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== Toys ==
* [[Bionicle]]: [[In -Universe]] we have Protosteel, which is basically adamantium light.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* Due to technical and resource limitations, just about everything in videogames tends to be this. Even though a Rocket Launcher is one of the [[Standard FPS Guns]], don't expect to be able to blow out a wall, or dent the ground, or even destroy a car depending on the game, especially prevalent in [[No Sidepaths No Exploration No Freedom|Linear Games]]. Although, there are a few aversions.
* The 'Far Jumper' hyperdrive in ''[[Homeworld (Video Game)|Homeworld]]'' -- even if a ship using it is completely destroyed, in the game it always emerges unscathed. Even a self-destruct with enough power to destroy nearby capital ships can't dent it.
* The Web Game ''IndestructoTank'' features a tank that is made out of a material called indestructanium. Ironically, once the fuel runs out, it's more like Explodium.
* ''[[Touhou]] Soccer'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqWRe_ZYyiw this soccer ball]. What happens in this video is actually a pretty minor punishment compared to some others... Compared to, say... ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkDT-OlkYTI this]''.
** It's worth mentioning that Ran's shot does bisect it, but it reforms almost instantly.
* In ''[[Razing Storm]]'', the shield you use to [[Take Cover]] withstands not only relatively mundane regular shots, missiles, lasers and plasma, but also ramming from [[Mini-Mecha]] or [[Humongous Mecha]], falling building debris and a [[Wave Motion Gun]].
* The briefcase from ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]''. While hails of gunfire, flames, explosions and everything else goes on around it, the flag sits exactly where it was left, calmly rotating 6 inches above the surface of the floor. Actually, most anything that isn't directly used by the classes themselves seems to be effectively indestructible.
* The Shinra building in the ''[[Final Fantasy VII|Final Fantasy VII Compilation]]'' appears to fit the trope. ''[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Dirge%20of%20Cerberus/Update%2064/4-ending58.jpg This]'' is what it looks like after Diamond Weapon, Meteor, the Lifestream, Sephiroth, Cloud, Chaos and Omega all threw everything they had at it.
* In [[Dwarf Fortress]], artifact items are apparently invulnerable to everything including being thrown down a volcano (they just sit around at the bottom). Furthermore, artifacts made of wood CAN catch on fire, but they take no damage from it and just keep [[No Conservation of Energy|burning forever]].
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* The Scrin Threshold Towers in the ''[[Command and Conquer]]'' verse are made of a Tiberium composite material whose exact contents are never revealed. While incomplete, blasting a Threshold once with an [[Kill Sat|ion cannon]] will topple it but once it finishes construction, the material partially phases out of reality and renders the whole tower invulnerable to everything up to and including [[Nuke'Em|nuclear detonations]], [[Colony Drop|cometary impacts]] and ''[[Hurl It Into the Sun|low-yield stellar events]]''.
* In ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' and its sequels, the pieces of eden are said to be indestructable (admittedly this was determined in the 12th and 17th centuries). The conspiracy files of subject 16 in AC2 claim that [[Nikola Tesla]] did manage to destroy one... [[The Tunguska Event|and a sizable chunk of the surrounding landscape.]]
* Professor E. Gadd notes that his Poltergust 3000 is almost indestructible in ''[[LuigisLuigi's Mansion]]''
* Certain buildings in the ''[[Fallout]]'' universe, considering what they had to have survived. During the development of ''[[Fallout 3]]'', Bethesda ran simulations to see what buildings in the D.C. area would survive a nuclear holocaust in [[Real Life]]. The answer: none of them. So they fudged it.
* Bedrock in ''[[Minecraft]]'' is immune to explosions of every size and cannot be mined with any tool. Only in creative mode can it be removed in any way. Obsidian, too, is immune to explosions and can only be removed with a diamond pick.
* {{spoiler|Porky}}'s Absolutely Safe Capsule in ''[[MOTHERMother 3]]'' is just that, Absolutely Safe. Nothing the main characters do can damage it, and {{spoiler|the battle is declared over after two turns. And additionally, not even Porky himself can do anything to the capsule, or even exit it for that matter. In other words, he's stuck in it forever.}}
* Played for laughs in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]''. Bianca accidentally destroys everything in your bedroom the first time you battle her. Your Nintendo Wii isn't even scratched.
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* Abraham from ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-06-09 claims this is why] he hasn't just destroyed the Dewitchery Diamond, though apparently he never considered [[The Lord of the Rings|using a volcano]].
* Lampshaded in [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0199.html this] ''[[Darths and Droids]]''.
 
 
== Web Originals ==
* In the [[SCP Foundation (Wiki)|SCP Foundation]], a good portion of the objects are indestructable. To the point where the rules for submissions specifically point this out as a [[Dead Horse Trope]].
** The specific reasons here are two, one meta and one in-universe. The Foundation, in-universe, ''does not make it its mission to destroy SCPs''. (That C? It stands for "Contain", as in "Secure, Contain, Protect". SCPs are ''Secured'' and ''Contained'' to ''Protect''...well, everyone in the world.) You want to try the Global Occult Coalition for that. (There are exceptions, such as SCP-682, but 682 is...a special case.) The meta reason is that Decomissions do not happen anymore - bad SCPs don't get killed off in flashy ways, the article is simply removed if it falls under a certain rating (-8, usually), therefore reasonless indestructibility is pointless, [[Retcon|because nothing can save an SCP from the site mods]].
* [[Minovsky Physics|Magmatter]] from ''[[Orions Arm]]'' is effectively impossible to damage. Not only does it have an incredibly high a binding energy but normal matter will pass right through it.
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** The [[Nintendo Gamecube]], that goofy purple lunchbox. The top of the disk case is a weak point, but with the open button taped down the system will survive most anything.
** Its portable equivalent, the Game Boy Advance SP, has an equally strong reputation for being impossible to destroy, the only weak point being the hinges. Nintendo was apparently using a prime lode of Nintendium for that generation.
** According to legend, one player [[Rage Quit|lit his Game Cube on fire in a fit of rage]]. ''[[Mario Kart (Video Game)|Mario Kart]]'' kept going for five minutes.
** [[X -Play]] once took this claim to task by attempting to destroy a PlayStation 2, an XBox, and a [[Game Cube]]. They performed three destructive stunts: dropping a weight on each system, hitting each console with a sledgehammer, and dropping each system from a height. After each stunt, the systems were tested to see if they still worked. The winner -- as in, the only one to still boot up properly after all three tests? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXT-CPWoHk Take a guess.]
*** The show references this further when it mentioned the next [[Star Wars|Death Star]] will be made of the hardest material known to man: used Gameboy Advances.
** On an episode of ''[[Mind of Mencia (TV)|Mind of Mencia]]'', a midget was smashing old electronics with a sledgehammer. Everything was smashed to bits in one go, save for a Nintendo 64, which took 3 hits before the casing began to dent.
** The Nintendo 64 once took a shotgun blast at point-blank range. There's a big gap in the casing but it works just fine.
** This is referenced in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'', when the player character's room gets trashed by holding a battle in it but the Wii is specifically noted as not being damaged.
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