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This is the thing that proves how [[Made of Iron|resilient]] or [[Badass]] the [[Big Bad]] or [[Monster of the Week]] is. Almost always produces [[Smoke Shield|large amounts of smoke or debris]], allowing the hero to think the enemy was killed, before his [[Beehive Barrier|shielded silhouette]] starts to show through. [[Out of the Inferno|At least you]] ''[[Out of the Inferno|hope]]'' [[Out of the Inferno|it's shielded...]]

 

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* ''[[Naruto]]'' offers several examples, most glaringly the Primary Lotus and Eight Chakra Gates. The only time Rock Lee successfully taps into the chakra gates is when he needs to show how totally awesome Gaara is. He uses the Primary Lotus twice and tries to use it two more times (He pulled it off against Gaara, and one of the Sound Ninja who knocks him around, and attempts it on Sasuke and Kimimaro, but is stopped before he can finish it both times).

** Although it should be noted that on the rare occasions Might Guy uses these powers, he wins. Apparently the [[You Suck|problem is with Lee]], not the techniques.

*** Done to a hilarious degree in the {{spoiler|Sasuke vs. Raikage}} fight, when {{spoiler|Sasuke uses Amaterasu and Susanoo, two techniques which though used by Itachi to deadly effect, ''at the same time''}}, it's overcome in ''six pages''.

**** Actually Sasuke lacked experience in using those techniques at that point of time, and still managed to force a draw with the Raikage, who is basically the strongest of the present generation of kages. In fact, the Raikage lost an arm in the fight.

**** Another case would be the one time Sasuke used Tsukuyomi, which was in his fight against Killer Bee, which didn't work on him {{spoiler|because the 8-tailed beast broke the genjustu}}.

*** [[Memetic Badass|Did you REALLY expect such child's play to stand against him?]]

*** Amaterasu is a subversion of this trope despite being a fire technique. {{spoiler|Till date it has been used to burn a hole through a powerful fire resitant barrier, kill off some of the snakes that form Orochimaru's body, one shotted Nagato's unkillable dog, caused a freaking Bijuu to scream out in pain and caused Ai to lose his arm.}}

** Though Sage Mode is Jiraiya's ultimate Super Mode, and gives his ninjutsu massive power boosts, all of them were renderd useless against Nagato even when he was barely using half of his full power.

* ''[[Yes Pretty Cure 5|Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'' made a point early on of establishing [[Playing With Fire|Cure Rouge]] and [[Making a Splash|Cure Aqua]] as being a ''particularly'' tough duo. The reason for this seems to have been to allow the writers to easily create [[Oh Crap]] moments by showing Rouge Fire ([[Mid-Season Upgrade|or Rouge Burning]] [[So Last Season|or Fire Strike]]), Aqua Stream (or Aqua Tornado or Sapphire Arrow), or [[All Your Colors Combined|the combination thereof]] failing to do anything to the enemy.

* The Worf Barrage of the ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' universe would have to be Aoshi's ''Kaiten Kenbu Rokuren''. Supposedly the [[Limit Break|Ougi]] of his fighting style, and practically unblockable, it only connects with three things in the series: {{spoiler|Okina, ''a bookshelf, and a tree''. Kenshin counters it, Shishio counters it, ''Wu Heishin's [[Elite Mook]]'', of all people, counters it, and Okina... well, I got nothing.}} Kenshin's own ''Kuzu Ryu Sen'' may count as well, since nearly all his opponents are either fast enough to block it (which is also supposed to be nearly impossible) or tough enough to [[No Sell]] it.

** Zoro's Shishi Sonson, a technique supposedly capable of cutting steel that enables him to defeat Mr. 1 in one hit, fails to make any impact on Kuma, {{spoiler|presumably because he is a Cyborg}}. This trope is lampshaded in the battle with Mihawk, as Johnny and Yosaku note that Mihawk is the first one to block Zoro's sword techniques, and with a knife at that.

* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', {{spoiler|Homura brings a truly epic level of firepower to bear in the final battle against Walpurgis Night -- [[More Dakka|dozens of AT-4 and RPG-7 rocket launchers, a battery of L-16 mortars, a battery of Type 88 Surface to Ship Missiles, lots and lots of land mines]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|an exploding semi-truck, and even a Goddamn BATTLESHIP]]. But in spite of all of Homura's furious effort, nothing in her extensive arsenal is successful in doing a thing to the massively powerful witch, and it turns out that magic is the only thing that will stop her}}.

* The end of ''[[Cloverfield]]'' (arguably, this happens ''twice'').

** [[Word of God]] subverts this. Eventually it actually ''did'' die from all the bombs.

** Except for making him angry. In the manga, keeping it from being fired again is a bit of a plot point just because of that, and {{spoiler|eventually it manages to piss him off enough that he goes and knocks it out of the sky...before he goes [[One-Winged Angel]]. Again.}} To be fair, it works against any non-psychics it's targeted at pretty well.

* ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)]]!'' has the desperate US military launching a nuclear missile against the Martian ships. Once the nuke detonates, a probe absorbs the mushroom cloud of helium, which is brought back to the Martian leader and inhaled to produce funny helium voices.

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