History MadeOfIron / AnimeAndManga

** Zoro. He's taken a giant sword-slash to the chest, tried to ''cut off his own feet to escape some chains'', and, during Thriller Bark, [[spoiler:shows his badassery by taking all of Luffy's pain in attack form]]- with the bloody result shown in the page picture (not shown is the blood covered ground spread out several feet around him). Although all he needs to do to recover is put on a few bandages and take a nap. [[spoiler:This is averted after the aforementioned incident with Luffy's pain as Zoro still suffered from those injuries for several battles following it. ]] Early on, Luffy tells Zoro not to pick up a heavy cage when injured because, according to Luffy, Zoro's guts would spill out. Zoro merely says that he'll stuff them back in. Later on, there's a fight where the opponent keeps going for Zoro's wound. Zoro decides to cut HIMSELF there when he gets tired of this. No wonder Nami won't let Luffy wake up Zoro later on, when he's resting after this fight. Face it, if there weren't laws against death in ''One Piece'', and if Zoro weren't made of iron, he'd be the deadest thing in the universe. [[spoiler: Subverted in the Wano Arc as Zoro takes a scythe to the shoulder and while he takes down the dude who did it with a SlasherSmile, Zoro immediately [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome drops like a rock]] afterwards]].

* Kimihito from ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' is regularly injured by his super strong roommates, and on his feet by the next panel. Lampshaded when hospital doctors are shocked they can't find a thing wrong with him despite the daily abuse. Subverted when [[spoiler:Lala explains that Kimihito ''does die'' from some injuries, but is simply to stubborn to stay dead and comes back.]]

** Zoro. He's taken a giant sword-slash to the chest, tried to ''cut off his own feet to escape some chains'', and, during Thriller Bark, [[spoiler:shows his badassery by taking all of Luffy's pain in attack form]]- with the bloody result shown in the page picture (not shown is the blood covered ground spread out several feet around him). Although all he needs to do to recover is put on a few bandages and take a nap. [[spoiler:This is averted after the aforementioned incident with Luffy's pain as Zoro still suffered from those injuries for several battles following it. ]] Early on, Luffy tells Zoro not to pick up a heavy cage when injured because, according to Luffy, Zoro's guts would spill out. Zoro merely says that he'll stuff them back in. Later on, there's a fight where the opponent keeps going for Zoro's wound. Zoro decides to cut HIMSELF there when he gets tired of this. No wonder Nami won't let Luffy wake up Zoro later on, when he's resting after this fight. Face it, if there weren't laws against death in ''One Piece'', and if Zoro weren't made of iron, he'd be the deadest thing in the universe. [[spoiler: Subverted in the Wano Arc as Zoro takes a scythe to the shoulder and while he takes down the dude who did it with a SlasherSmile, Zoro immediately [[RealityEnsues drops like a rock]] afterwards]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''

* ''Manga/GunsmithCats''

* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler''

* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''

* ''WebComic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':

* In ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'', Tsuna takes an inhuman amount of punishment at the hands of Reborn and his guardians - [[ComedicSociopathy especially in the beginning]]. As the series goes on and gets more serious, the damage Tsuna takes tends to be taken a bit more seriously (though, considering that he's just a human, it's still friggin' amazing that his body can easily take heat that ''melts metal'').
** Hibari was shown to be able to fight after a great beating and having most of his bones broken. Mukuro[[spoiler:, who can posses bodies and move them even when the actual user can't move]] was not able to use his body because it was so messed up. [[spoiler: In the battles against the Varia, he was injected with a poison that was so strong that even an an elephant couldn't move, yet he walks, breaks a pillar and gives himself the antidote.]]

* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' gives us Shouma Takakura. The guy gets [[spoiler:hit by a car at full speed to [[DivingSave save his friend Ringo]]'s life]] and ''barely suffers more than few bumps''. His brother Kanba lampshades the trope eagerly as he explains what happened to the hospita-bound Shouma:
-->'''Kanba''': Don't worry, you didn't break any bones. It's just some minor bumps and bruises. The doctor is amazed at how mild your injuries were!
** Kanba himself is like this too, having survived being dragged several miles by a speeding truck along asphalt, returning with only [[ClothingDamage ripped clothes]] and some scrapes and bruises. [[spoiler: It's not a genetic trait, actually: Kanba is adopted.]]

* ''WebComic/AxisPowersHetalia'':
** Russia. England who is greatly annoyed with America [[spoiler: decides to take a Busby's Chair (a chair cursed to give whoever sits in it a quick and painful death which has also sent at least 60 men to death) and put it so that America may sit in it and die, however Russia shows up and accidentally sits in the chair, however instead of dying the spell rebounds off Russia and the chair is broken with a disappointed England taping it back together. It's implied that Russia being TOO evil for the chair had something to do with it.]]
** During the ''Manga/HetaliaBloodbath2010'' event, adorable little Sealand is the only country to successfully fight off the mysterious assailant. A note next to his fist reads "Made of steel and concrete."

* Everybody in ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren'' seems to be made of iron, since Kaoru likes to throw people around as if there's no tomorrow, causing massive craters everywhere, without considerably hurting anyone.

** A lot of the cast in ''Bleach'' are like this, as most fights involve characters getting stabbed through both shoulders, one character Ishida has his internal organs ''crushed'' and got a massive hole in his torso and his hand blown off yet still kept going. Ichigo survived getting punched around by a Hollow long before he even got his [[AstralProjection Shinigami form]].

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has Touma, who's odd ability to keep going after taking wounds that would likely kill most people actually ''scares an enemy into insanity'' (of course there was a bit of acting involved with an epic EvilLaugh.)

** Post-timeskip, Eren Yeager [[spoiler: fights the ''entire'' troop of Marleyan Warriors while continously transforming repeatedly among his 3 different Titan forms, without any regard for his stamina. Galliard is even surprised at how little a crap Eren gives to the limitations inherent to Titan Shifters.]]

** Luffy, who was gored with a hook, thrown into a pit of quicksand and buried there for hours, but was still able to fight Sir Crocodile the next day. Only to have all the water in his body absorbed -- at least momentarily. Then he was poisoned and still managed to beat Crocodile, though it should be noted that the poison would have explicitly killed him had future-crewmate Robin not provided the antidote afterwards. Played straighter in Whole Cake Island as Luffy is impaled by Katakuri and not only does Luffy keep fighting with a massive hole in his torso for several hours but he manages to win through [[VictoryByEndurance sheer stamina]]. Overall Luffy seems revels in this trope, whether it be getting his fist punctured by Don Krieg's spiked cape while punching the said villain, or in Impel Down where Luffy let his arms get ''melted'' in order to damage [[TouchOfDeath Magellan]].

** Sanji is criminally overlooked when it comes to this trope, as just like Luffy and Zoro, Sanji has received horrific attacks and gone right on trucking in true MadeOfIron fashion. However taking into consideration that Sanji fights [[BareFistedMonk completely unarmed]] and has no Devil Fruit power that makes his feats of endurance all the more impressive. Apart from numerous beatings, Sanji has: had his ribs broken, spine cracked, torso sliced, arm shot, feet shredded, shot through the sternum ''with a laser beam'' and as early as Arlong Park survived decompression crushing his stomach when Kuroobi dragged him down into the ocean. In Skypeia, Enel blasts Sanji with "''[[ShockAndAwe El Thor]]''" an attack which for reference one-shot a humongous snake and ''vaporized'' a regular dude, however ''[[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlczobSU0AUC9VX.jpg:small Sanji survived it]]'' staying conscious long enough to taunt Enel. Later in Thriller Bark Sanji gets stabbed in the shoulder blade by Absalom with a knife long to reach his chest, similar wounds have debilitated multiple characters including Zoro (twice) but Sanji pulls the knife out like it's a thumbtack and proceeds to wreck the guy who stuck him.
** Every character has done this. BadassNormal Usopp took a four ton bat to the head after being run through some buildings and blown up several times, with the only effect after winning the battle being that he had to run around in a cast for the rest of the day. On the same day, ActionGirl Nami had her foot pierced through by a round spike about an inch in diameter, without even a limp after about a half hour. These are people without powers, considered almost as weak as regular humans. Most legendary, however, was Pell, who [[spoiler:carried a bomb with a two and a half kilometer blast radius, that's roughly a one megaton nuke, high up in the sky to save everyone]] and survived. At one point, a totally random {{mook}} gets an [[FlashStep infinite mass kick]] ''to the face'' and survives with only comic relief injuries. Wyper the Berserker uses the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Reject Dial]] ''three times'', which can kill the user at the first time and it's supposed to kill the user definitely at the second. ''Every single person'' in ''One Piece'' is Made of Iron.
** In the Marineford War there's also [[spoiler:Whitebeard.]] He takes such a ridiculous amount of damage before finally dying that when he eventually does the narrations list all his injuries [[spoiler:he lost half of his face, pierced by a high-power laser, was slashed and stabbed 267 times, hit by 152 bullets, and '''46 cannonballs''']]. And he '''still''' DiedStandingUp. [[spoiler:he was also suffering from an age related desease and at age 72 he was well past is prime, its implied that even this amount of damage wouldnt have killed him back in his prime]]
** Blackbeard is a unique case of this. Because of his power, he absorbs much more pain then a normal person does, which results in him usually yelling in pain. But, as soon as he recovers, it's usually like nothing happened to him.
** ''One Piece'' sometimes [[PlayedForLaughs plays this for laughs]]. When the Straw Hats crash through a wall with a train, a little girl, her pet rabbit and grandmother all comment that they have a nosebleed. Franky points out they should be more severely injured. Luffy comments that this was nothing and tells his crew to get up and they respond by stating "there is no way for a human being to stay uninjured" but when it comes to the "uninjured" part, they all shout it, standing up, completely unharmed.
** Donquixote Doflamingo. His durability is rather astounding. He casually shrugs off being frozen by Kuzan and an assassination attempt by Baby 5, and earlier he also left the Marineford War unscathed. Also note the fight with him lasts for around 30-40 chapters, beginning immediately after Law reached him after the Birdcage (Chapter 749) to his defeat (Chapter 791), (instead of the usual 20s for the other Big Bads) partly because of this. He only starts getting what could be his first real deep hit on-screen with Luffy's Gum Gum Red Hawk move, and then he keeps standing; he also calls Luffy's subsequent Gear Second and Third attacks (ones that flattened Rob Lucci, Hody Jones ''and'' Caesar Clown) as "weak". Even when Law uses his Gamma Knife to cut his insides, he can patch it up with his powers [[note]]Though the anime added scenes that imply that the damage really was severe and he had to divert focus to fighting Luffy and keeping his injuries in check. So it's very likely he was weakened by the time Luffy took over[[/note]]. It's only when Luffy goes Gear Fourth that his "toughness" starts to break, and it ends with his defeat. And even ''then'' he recovered from his initial pounding by Luffy and came dangerously close to killing him.
** Turning to more recent events and more serious, we have Kaido, one of the Yonko. As tough as everyone described before has been, Kaido currently seems to have them topped. They've tried to execute him numerous times, yet he left broken blades, snapped ropes, sunken ships, and (most recently) a large Kaido-shaped hole where the Kid Pirates' base used to be. That last was the result of Kaido jumping from a sky island ''10,000 meters up'', landing ''head-first''...[[NoSell and just ending up with a headache]]. At that point, he gave up [[DeathSeeker taking up attempting suicide as a hobby]].
** Big Mom (another Yonko) is as ridicous as Kaido, in fact people lampshade her sheer hardiness by dubbing her a "Iron Baloon". Cannon balls and bullets only tickle her, a giant lightning bolt only annoys her and a massive dynamite explosion at point blank range just staggered her for a bit. Even when [[WorfHadTHeFlu weakened due to hunger pains]], Big Mom took Jinble's MegatonPunch (which sent a moutain sized-fishman flying) to the gut and came back swinging.
*** This also applies to Big Mom's children, especially her fourth son Oven who tanked: an electric kick from Niji, getting kicked into a building by Sanji, shot in the face with a cannon ball by Bege, run over by Bege's ship (which has tank treads) and even blasted through the chest by Ichiji's laser beams. Later we see Oven has got a bandage on, and still healthy enough to keep kicking ass.
** Kozuki Oden even by One Piece's extreme Made of Iron standards takes this trope UpToEleven. He's shrugged off getting turned into a pincushion by arrows and survived getting dragged through the ocean for three days but that's nothing compared when he is sentenced to death by being StewedAlive in a massive pot of boiling oil which for reference scorched a normal guy to death. [[spoiler: Oden however endured getting boiled '''for a full hour''' all while [[LoadBarringHero holding all nine of his men above him]], the people who witnessed this reasonably questioned what the hell Oden's skin was made of. But the most badass thing of all was even the boiling oil ''wasn't enough to kill Oden'', who threw his men to safety after the hour was done and Kaido (who can't help but respect Oden) was forced to shoot him in the head to actually put the legend down]].

* Akira Inugami from ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' initially subverts as he's NighInvulnerable and has a HealingFactor but he plays extremely straight in the FinalBattle where he's BroughtDownToNormal. Inugami endures getting stabbed in the side, mauled by dogs, shot multiple times, having the entire forest he's in get blown up with landmines, having his fingers cut off, hit by a Humvee, his torso repeatedly sliced, more fingers cut off, his whole arm lopped off. impaled through the chest and shot once more until he finally dies. [[spoiler: Then it's revealed he survived even that]].

* Gladion was still able to stand after being blasted away by Sun's Z-Move, and later jumped off a 2 story house without even a scratch. But later got seriouly injured after being exposed to the energy from Silvally's evolution, which took over 6 months for him to recover. Later, his right arm got burned by one of Turtonator's spikes. But he survived all of this, and was able to free Moon as well as battle Ryuki without his injuries slowing him down.

* Akira Inugami from ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' initially subverts as he's NighInvulnerable and HealingFactor but he plays extremely straight in the FinalBattle where he's BroughtDownToNormal. Inugami endures endures getting stabbed in the side, mauled by dogs, shot multiple times, having the entire forest he's in get blown with landmines, having his fingers cut off, hit by a Humvee, his torso repeatedly sliced, more fingers cut off, his arm lopped off impaled through the chest and shot once more until he finally dies. [[spoiler: Then it's revealed he survived even that]].

** Donquixote Doflamingo. His durability is rather astounding. He casually shrugs off being frozen by Kuzan and an assassination attempt by Baby 5, and earlier he also left the Marineford War unscathed. Also note fight with him lasts for around 30-40 chapters, beginning immediately after Law reached him after the Birdcage (Chapter 749) to his defeat (Chapter 791), (instead of the usual 20s for the other Big Bads) partly because of this. He only starts getting what could be his first real deep hit on-screen with Luffy's Gum Gum Red Hawk move, and then he keeps standing; he also calls Luffy's subsequent Gear Second and Third attacks (ones that flattened Rob Lucci, Hody Jones ''and'' Caesar Clown) as "weak". Even when Law uses his Gamma Knife to cut his insides, he can patch it up with his powers [[note]]Though the anime added scenes that imply that the damage really was severe and he had to divert focus to fighting Luffy and keeping his injuries in check. So it's very likely he was weakened by the time Luffy took over[[/note]]. It's only when Luffy goes Gear Fourth that his "toughness" starts to break, and it ends with his defeat. And even ''then'' he recovered from his initial pounding by Luffy and came dangerously close to killing him.

** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Jotaro]], while he might seem like a SquishyWizard in contrast to his predecessors since he relies on his Stand Star Platinum is still pretty damn tough. In Part 3 Jotaro shrugs off: getting stabbed multiple times, having a fan wedged into his shoulder, smacked by a giant toungue, having his hands sliced by rasor blades, punched through multiple buildings and being set on fire with a combination of gasloine and electric wires. In Part 4, Jotaro takes explosion at point blank range and left bloody, Yoshikage Kira even mocks Jotaro for being too wounded to fight him. [[CurbStompBattle He wasn't]].

** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Jotaro]], while he might seem like a SquishyWizard in contrast to his predecessors since he relies on his Stand Star Platinum is still pretty damn tough. In Part 3 Jotaro shrugs off: getting stabbed multiple times, having a fan wedged into his shoulder, smacked by giant toungue, having his hands sliced by rasor blades, punched through multiple buildings and being set on fire with a combination of gasloine and electric wires. In Part 4, Jotaro takes explosion at point blank range and left bloody, Yoshikage Kira even mocks Jotaro for being too wounded to fight him. [[CurbStompBattle He wasn't]].

** Out of all the [[RoguesGallery villains]], Frieza displays this the most since unlike Cell and Buu who follow him, he lacks a HealingFactor. On Namek he takes several severe beatings from Gohan, Piccolo and eventually Goku (a fight which infamously lasted over an entire season) yet Frieza was only getting tired towards the very end of the saga and was still breathing even [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe when he got cut in half]] with his own [[DeadlyDisc Death Saucer]]. If that wasn't enough he survived getting blasted by Goku ''and then'' having the entire planet blowing up while he was still on it, leaving him drifting space barely alive. It took Future Trunks [[TheresNoKillLikeOverKill slicing him into confetti and blasting the chunks to actually kill Frieza]].

** Out of all the [[RoguesGallery villains]], Frieza displays this the most since unlike his Cell and Buu who follow him he lacks a HealingFactor. On Namek he takes several severe beatings from Gohan, Piccolo and eventually Goku (a fight which infamously lasted over an entire season) yet Frieza was only getting tired towards the very end of the saga and was still breathing even [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe when he got cut in half]] with his own [[DeadlyDisc Death Saucer]]. If that wasn't enough he survived getting blasted by Goku ''and then'' having the entire planet blowing up while he was still on it, leaving him drifting space barely alive. It took Future Trunks [[TheresNoKillLikeOverKill slicing him into confetti and blasting the chunks to actually kill Frieza]].

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', many characters come off as being Made of Iron even the ones that aren't Vampires or ancient Aztec superbeings. However, it does become a DownplayedTrope when the story focuses on [[GuardianEntity Stands]] and characters [[SquishyWizard are less sturdy]] . The three [=JoJos=] who best display their durability are:

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', many characters comes off as being Made of Iron even the ones that aren't Vampires or ancient Aztec superbeings, however, it does become a DownplayedTrope when the story focuses on [[GuardianEntity Stands]]. The three [=JoJos=] who best display their durability are:

** Out of all the [[RoguesGallery villains]], Frieza displays this the most since unlike his Cell and Buu who follow him he lacks a HealingFactor. On Namek he takes several severe beatings from Gohan, Piccolo and eventually Goku (a fight which infamously lasted over an entire season) yet Frieza was only getting tired towards the every end and was still breathing even [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe when he got cut in half]] with his own [[DeadlyDisc Death Saucer]]. If that wasn't enough he survived getting blasted by Goku ''and then'' the entire planet blowing up while he was still on it leaving him drifting space barely alive. It took Future Trunks [[TheresNoKillLikeOverKill slicing him into confetti and blasting the chunks to actually kill Frieza]].

** Kozuki Oden even by One Piece's extreme Made of Iron standards takes this trope UpToEleven. He's shrugged off getting turned into a pincushion by arrows and survived getting dragged through the ocean for three days but that's nothing compared when he is sentenced to death by being StewedAlive in a massive pot of boiling oil which for reference scorched a normal guy to death. [[spoiler: Oden however endured getting boiled '''for full hour''' all while [[LoadBarringHero holding all nine of his men above him]], the people who witnessed this reasonably questioned what the hell Oden's skin was made of. But the most badass thing of all was even the boiling oil ''wasn't enough to kill Oden'', who threw his men to safety after the hour was done and Kaido (who can't help but respect Oden) was forced to shoot him in the head to actually put the legend down]].

** Out of all the [[RoguesGallery villains]], Frieza displays this the most since unlike his Cell and Buu who follow him he lacks a HealingFactor. On Namek he takes several severe beatings from Gohan, Piccolo and eventually Goku (a fight which infamously lasted over an entire season) yet Frieza was getting tired towards the every end and was still breathing even [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe when he got cut in half]] with his own [[DeadlyDisc Death Saucer]]. If that wasn't enough he survived getting blasted by Goku ''and then'' the entire planet blowing up while he was still on it leaving him drifting space barely alive. It took Future Trunks [[TheresNoKillLikeOverKill slicing him into confetti and blasting the chunks to actually kill Frieza]].
** Cooler, Frieza's brother was even harder to kill as he survives [[HurlItIntoTheSun getting blasted into the sun by Goku]] and was "alive enough" to be absorbed by the [[MechanicalAbomination Big Gete Star]] and rebuild his body. In ''[[Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler The Return of Cooler]]'' Goku and Vegeta have to destroy the chunk of Cooler left remaining [[KilledOffForReal to put him down for good]].

** Kozuki Oden even by One Piece's extreme Made of Iron standards takes this trope UpToEleven. He's shrugged off getting turned into a pincushion by arrows and survived getting dragged through the ocean for three days but that's nothing compared when he is sentenced to death by being StewedAlive in a massive pot of boiling oil which for reference scorched a normal guy to death. [[spoiler: Oden however endured getting boiled '''for full hour''' all while [[LoadBarringHero holding all nine of his men above him]], the people who witnessed this reasonably questioned what the hell Oden's skin was made of. But the most badass thing of all was even the boiling oil ''wasn't enough to kill Oden'', who threw his men to safety after the hour was done and Kaido (who can't help but respect Oden) was forced to shot him in the head to actually put the legend down]].

** Kozuki Oden even by One Piece's extreme Made of Iron standards takes this trope UpToEleven. He's shrugged off getting turned into a pincushion by arrows and survived dragged through the ocean for three days but that's nothing compared when he is sentenced to death by being StewedAlive in a massive pot of boiling oil which for reference scorched a normal guy to death. [[spoiler: Oden however endured getting boiled '''for full hour''' all while [[LoadBarringHero holding all nine of his men above him]], the people who witnessed this reasonably questioned what the hell Oden's skin was made of. But the most badass thing of all was even the boiling oil ''wasn't enough to kill Oden'', who threw his men to safety after the hour was done and Kaido (who can't help but respect Oden) was forced to shot him in the head to actually put the legend down]].