Super Toughness: Difference between revisions

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Ghost in ~~The~~ Shell]]'', Mokoto Kusanagi, courtesy of bionics. Batou even more so.

* 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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== [[Film]] ==

* In the case of ''[[~~Robo Cop~~]]'', this arguably is his main superpower, with super strength and ''[[Justified]]'' [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] as his secondary ones.

* 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.

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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[~~Buffy the Vampire Slayer (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]].

* ''[[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 (Tabletop Game)|~~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.

* 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 [[Super Toughness]].

* ''[[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'''''.

* ''[[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'''''.

== [[Web Original]] ==