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{{quote|''"Any sufficiently durable individual is indistinguishable from immortals."''|Anonymous}}
The power of unambiguously superhuman durability, ranging from being "merely" capable of taking a dozen gunshot wounds and keeping walking like they were nothing, to getting hit by a train car and only suffering a few shallow cuts and minor bruises, to having enough explosives to take out a ''skyscraper'' strapped to your chest, have ''them'' detonate, and get a few second degree burns and ''maybe'' a couple of broken ribs for your trouble
This is a [[Required Secondary Power]] to be able to do anything with [[Super Strength]]; without it, Newton's Third Law would result in you breaking your hand every time you threw a super-punch, and every bone would snap under the tension of lifting a car.
[[Nigh Invulnerability]] (specifically, the [[Made of Diamond]] type) is this trope's [[Up to Eleven|big brother]], where almost '''nothing''' is able to harm the character. Compare [[Made of Iron]], where an explicitly non-superpowered character can take a lot more punishment that is normally possible for no apparent ''or'' explained reason, though [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] can blur the line between [[Made of Iron]] and
A standard component of the [[Flying Brick]] package. ''Sometimes'' a side-effect of [[Adaptive Ability|particularly adaptive]] [[Healing Factor
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== Media in General ==
* Applies to a lot of superpowered powerhouses, "lesser-tier" [[Flying Brick]]-type characters, as well as many of those who utilize [[Cyborg|extensive cybernetic enhancement]], [[Ki Attacks]], [[Supernatural Martial Arts]], and/or [[Functional Magic]]. Listing them all might be a bit too much to ask.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'', Mokoto Kusanagi, courtesy of bionics. Batou even more so.
* In ''[[Inuyasha]]'', Yokai and Hanyou can take more damage than a human can.
* In ''[[Macross]]'', lampshaded by Bretai:
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* This is basically Shioon's power in ''[[The Breaker]]''.
* The Shinigami from ''[[Bleach]]'' have this. Their life force equal their reiatsu, meaning both that they're more difficult to injure than humans and that they can survive far, far more damage than humans could.
** The Arrancar have a super-tough skin (called <ref>spanish for Iron</ref>) which makes it difficult to damage them.
* Shizuo Heiwajima from ''[[Durarara!!]]''. Someone once shot a ballistic knife into his chest at almost point blank range. It went in about half a centimeter.
* '''WHITEBEARD''' from ''[[One Piece]]''. When {{spoiler|getting half of your face punched off by a [[Magma Man]]}} is a minor annoyance, you are this trope.
* '''THE THIRD RAIKAGE''' from ''[[Naruto]]''. When you can [[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the case of ''[[RoboCop]]'', this arguably is his main superpower, with super strength and ''[[Justified]]'' [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] as his secondary ones.
* Not sure if ''[[King Kong]]'' or other [[Kaiju]] count or not, since relative to size, human weapons are rather puny.
* The ''[[Terminator]]'', especially in its debut film. It's ''not'' indestructible, it takes damage throughout the film. Actually getting what's left of it to ''stop'' is another story.
* In ''[[Unbreakable]]'' David Dunn discovers that he has this power when he's involved in a train crash:
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' gives us Buffyverse vamps, Slayers and many species of demons. All of them can take quite a beating, ranging from being able to take a full-force beatdown from someone with super strength to [[Weaksauce Weakness|needing a specific way]] [[Nigh Invulnerable|to be killed]].
** Also, while slayers are actually a little stronger than vampires, vampires can take a more thorough beating because they're technically not alive and thus don't have to worry about things like internal organ damage.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The discipline of Fortitude in the ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' is explicitly this, giving characters a larger 'dice pool' (i.e. a larger chance) to 'soak' (reduce or ignore) damage. It also allows those who have it to partially soak damage they normally couldn't, like a vampire reducing damage from [[Weakened by the Light|sunlight]] or [[Kill It with Fire|fire]]. Fortitude is not an automatic reduction, however, and a bad roll of the dice means you can still get just as carved up with a knife as anyone else. There's just a lesser chance you will.
** It shows up in ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' as Resilience. Activating it grants a temporary increase in health levels, and allows a vampire to downgrade a certain amount of aggravated damage to lethal.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Badass|Master Chief]] of ''[[Halo]]'' fame is a [[Super Soldier|Spartan-II]] who can survive atmospheric reentry and subsequent impact with the ground [[Power Armor|almost]] unaided. The fact that he didn't turn into a squishy soup like mixture is a testament to his
* ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'' gives us Alex Mercer. He isn't unkillable, but multiple RPGs, choppers, tanks and zombies aren't going to do the job ''unless the player is playing the game '''wrong'''''.
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