History MadeOfIron / AnimeAndManga

* In ''Manga/FutureDiary'' Hinata Hino and Mao Kousaka, two {{Unfazed Everym|an}}en, survived multiple stab wounds, and suffered no worse than falling down. Hinata got at least six in her body, scattered around her arms and stomach, and Mao took a knife to the back. They are hospitalised after this. In the same chapter, [[spoiler:Yukiteru Amano survives being dropped two stories in a burning building and is fine after two days, and Yuno Gasai is perfectly fine a day after being stabbed in the stomach.]]

* ''LightNovel/AllisonAndLillia'': Used to absurd effect in the last episode. [[spoiler:Treize was on the roof of a train that ''crashed off a cliff into a ravine''.]] He was missing and presumed dead... then [[spoiler:he shows up a couple weeks later in good enough shape to ''dance''.]]

* ''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.)

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

* In the second ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'' movie, Land of Sickness, Kino is kicked '''hard''' [[BreastAttack directly in the breasts]] by a guy wearing combat boots and sent flying across the room. He then steps on her wrist to prevent her reaching her gun, and with little more than a grimace, she [[BadassAdorable still fights him off]] with one of her legs.

* ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'': During the National Middle School Cup, Tsubasa suffered severe injuries throughout the tournament. He got his legged injured by Souda, he dislocated his shoulder during the match against the Tachibana Twins and said shoulder got bodychecked by Jito. Those handicaps often bothered Tsubasa during the matches and he still manages to make all his way to the grand finale. But for the final match, he had to ask for a pain-killing medicine, ''and'' he wasn't allowed to play in the first half of the match. Tsubasa endured it from the beginning of the second half up to the end of the extra time. Story-wise, the handicaps were necessary to make the audience still route for Tsubasa, given that he already won the previous two tournaments, whereas his [[TheRival rival]] [[{{Deuteragonist}} Hyuuga]] lost to him three times in the past and the audience are made to route for him as well.

*** Jonouchi's durability seems to extend to his monsters as well; Red-Eyes Black Dragon had its wing blown off, Panther Warrior spent about two episodes of ElectricTorture, Garoozi survived being hit by missiles, etc. Yusei's monsters also share this trait, Stardust Dragon has a HealingFactor, Fortress Warrior has an effect that keeps himself from destroyed ''twice'' per turn and [[FeelsNoPain receive no damage]], and Sonic Chick can survive being attack by 1900+ ATK monsters.

*** Jonouchi's durability seems to extend to his monsters as well; Red Eyes Black Dragon had its wing blown off, Panther Warrior spent about two episodes of ElectricTorture, Garoozi survived being hit by missiles, etc. Yusei's monsters also share this trait, Stardust Dragon has a HealingFactor, Fortress Warrior has an effect that keeps himself from destroyed ''twice'' per turn and [[FeelsNoPain receive no damage]], and Sonic Chick can survive being attack by 1900+ ATK monsters.

** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Jonathan]], from the start he was getting the shit kicked out of him by Dio and other bullies (including getting a thumb shoved into his eye) but [[TheDeterminator never give in]]. As an adult, Jonathan gets Speedwagon's spinning blade ''through his hand'' and just shrugs it off winning the respect of the hoodlums who attacked him. When Dio becomes a vampire, Jonathan gets a spear in his shoulder, 6 ribs cracked, both arms broken, a broken leg and many burns. Yet he still defeats Dio and even uses one of his wrecked arms to catch his [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood sweetheart]] Erina when she's swooning. [[spoiler:Really getting shot through the neck with EyeBeams by Dio feels like it shouldn't been enough to kill Jonathan (even if he did regardless live on for several minutes to stop Dio and buy Erina enough time to escape)]].

* ''LightNovel/AllisonAndLillia'': Used to absurd effect in the last episode. [[spoiler:Treize was on the roof of a train that ''crashed off a cliff into a ravine''.]] He was missing and presumed dead... then [[spoiler: he shows up a couple weeks later in good enough shape to ''dance''.]]

** Post-timeskip, Eren Yeager [[spoiler: fights the ''entire'' troop of Marleyan Warriors while continuously 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.]]

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' most of the human cast are absurdly tough. The titular demons slayers regularly get brutalized by demons several times stronger than they are and have superpowers. The protagonist Tanjiro gets his ribs and a leg broken in one fight with demons, walks for miles in agony and has another fight with another strong demon while still injured and wins. In the Mugen Train arc, [[spoiler: Kyōjurō has the Upper Rank demon Akaza punch a hole through his torso, but he keeps holding Akaza in place until the sun comes up and Akaza breaks free and flees at which Kyōjurō finally succumbs to his injuries]].

* You wouldn't think so, but Impmon of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' can take a lot of pain, surviving a very brutal CurbStompBattle and being ''thrown in lava''. This gets taken up to eleven when he digivolves into Beelzebumon--aside from taking two of [[KnightInShiningArmor Dukemon's]] strongest attacks and walking away a few minutes later, he gets [[spoiler: crucified by the D-Reaper, shot several times in the back, and thrown into a sea of deletion, all occuring within hours if not minutes of each other,]] and ''lives'', although the wounds are treated as very serious and he's unable to fight for the rest of the series.
* Taken to ''insane'' levels in ''Franchise/DragonBall''. Where even characters like Yajirobe and Mr. Satan, that don't know how to throw a ki-blast, survive things that should turn most tanks into dust.

*** Subverted with Goku after the fight with Vegeta as having both his legs broken and his body totally wrecked, he was hospitalized for weeks and needed a Senzu Bean to recover fully.
** Chi-Chi is this, overlapping with IronButtMonkey. She's one of the few fighter in the series who doesn't utilize Ki energy but much like Yajirobe has taken hits and attacks that would've killed or hospitalized the likes of Mr Satan or Videl. In ''Anime/DragonBallZLordSlug'', [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerlisting/images/9/96/Chi-Chi_explosion_no_sell_kick.gif/revision/latest?cb=20211014050024 she runs through a Ki explosion]] fired by of Slug's soldiers no problem and later in the Buu Saga while training Goten [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerlisting/images/2/2a/Chi-Chi_kicked_by_Goten.gif/revision/latest?cb=20211207120752 she gets kicked flying into a tree by Goten when he accidently became Super Saiyan]] but Chi-Chi recovers quickly and is more upset than hurt. ''Keep in mind'', grown men got KO-ed by SSJ Gohan's strikes and Frieza himself got beaten bloody by even Goku's casual lovetaps while he was Super Saiyan, making Chi-Chi's fortitude all the more impressive.

** General Blue of the Red Ribbon Army. He gets slammed into a wall and knocked unconscious by Goku, buried under a ton of rock when the Pirate Cave collapses, somehow escapes that only to crash his plane into a mountain trying to evade Goku's flying nimbus, then gets headbutted into the horizon by Arale, and none of this manages to stop him. [[spoiler: He finally dies as a victim of TheWorfEffect, courtesy of Mercenary Tao.]]

** [[spoiler: In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', Frieza surpassed his previous experience, as he took a beating from an ''extremely enraged'' Super Saiyan Broly for one straight hour, as Goku and Vegeta used him as a distraction as they scooted off in order to learn Fusion, pretty impressive for him as even ''they'' were unable to handle the fury of Broly for more than a few minutes. In end of his well-deserved beatdown, it's still thanks to his resilience he ended up smarting his wounds in the end, rather than being a smear on the rocks.]]

** Towards the end of the manga, Integra gets [[spoiler: ''shot in the eye'', nearly point blank]]. She barely even falters and moves forward to finish her task. She also got shot in the shoulder when she was twelve and it barely seemed to bother her. She was even able to pick up a gun and shoot it.
** [[BadassNormal Pip Bernadotte]] gets attacked again and again by Zorin and her mooks, including getting a load of shrapnel in the stomach. It takes [[spoiler: a few shots into his torso and being ''stabbed through the back'' by Zorin's scythe to finally bring him down]], and even then he's able to light a cigarette and give [[spoiler: one last RousingSpeech before he kicks the bucket.]].

** 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.]]

** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Jonathan]], from the start he was getting the shit kicked out of him by Dio and other bullies (including getting a thumb shoved into his eye) but [[TheDeterminator never give in]]. As an adult, Jonathan gets Speedwagon's spinning blade ''through his hand'' and just shrugs it off winning the respect of the hoodlums who attacked him. When Dio becomes a vampire, Jonathan gets a spear in his shoulder, 6 ribs cracked, both arms broken, a broken leg and many burns. Yet he still defeats Dio and even uses one of his wrecked arms to catch his [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood sweetheart]] Erina when she's swooning. [[spoiler: Really getting shot through the neck with EyeBeams by Dio feels like it shouldn't been enough to kill Jonathan (even if he did regardless live on for several minutes to stop Dio and buy Erina enough time to escape)]].
** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Joseph]] in his first battle with a Vampire he gets eye-beamed through the shoulder, in his second battle he gets his forearm snapped by Santana, in his third battle he gets shredded with Wammu's [[BlowYouAway Divine Sandstorm]] and has his wrist slit open, in his fourth battle he gets burned with Esidisi's 500 degrees Celsius boiling hot blood, in his fifth battle he gets hit in the side with an iron ball fired from a crossbow, in his sixth battle he gets his foot sliced and in the FinalBattle Joesph even has his forearm lopped off by Kars. Yet Joseph still wins ''all'' these battles, except the third one. Even as a old man in Part 3, Joseph still tanks getting stabbed in the neck and takes several beatings just as easily as did when he was young, [[spoiler: hell he even comes back from having his blood drained by DIO]].

* Given the amount of [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale abuse]] that Keitaro takes in ''Manga/LoveHina'', it's a good thing that he is seemingly [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap immortal]]. From the very day he entered Hinata-Sou, he's been at the receiving end of countless [[MegatonPunch Naru Punches]] from Naru, [[CleanCut Rock-Splitting Slashes]] from Motoko, [[DynamicEntry flying kicks to the head]] from Su. Not to mention attacks from turtle-based mecha (again from Su), kicks to the shin (Sara), and a Frying Pan to the head (Shinobu). [[spoiler: The only time he suffers physical damage that lasts for more than a page happens when he breaks his leg... after falling off the rooftop, which would normally kill or seriously harm anyone else.]] [[spoiler: Actually the ROOFTOP fell on HIM!!]]

** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': TheHero Tetsuya Tsurugi, withstood an incredible punishment throughout the series, being wounded and harmed constantly, and still pushing himself beyond his limits and forcing himself to battle even if the pain was tearing him apart. Several times his adoptive father -TheProfessor Kenzo Kabuto- had to command him to go back to the HomeBase. In the first episode one of the BridgeBunnies marvel at his physical endurance, and Kenzo states it is his strong and sturdy body what lets him pilot Great Mazinger.

** 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. Played straight later as Zoro to protect the fellow Supernova, blocks a CombinationAttack from Kaido and Big Mom. As a result Zoro gets horrifically wounded and is coughing up blood, but is not out for the count. He's [[BandageMummy just covered from head to toe in bandages]], cannot move and has to be carried by Sanji.]]

** Kozuki Oden has 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 [[LoadBearingHero 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]].

** 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.]]

*** Amazingly enough, a ''villain'' beats Gold in this department. Sird took an explosion to the face, causing her to fall thousands of feet to the ground, crawled from somewhere around Viridian to Vermillion, and got her leg frozen by Lorelei's ice shackles. Despite all this and being battered and bleeding, she somehow manages to stay on her feet, break free of Lorelei's ice shackles on her own, [[spoiler: and turn five Dex Holders [[TakenForGranite to stone]]]]. '''Damn'''.

* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. [[spoiler: The reason why magical girls are made of iron is because they are really {{Empty Shell}}s. The true weak spot is their Soul Gems, which are more [[SoulJar meaningful in name]].]] This is also {{Invoked}} by Kyubey, the person who forms the contracts with the girls and knows full well what will happen [[spoiler: if their souls weren't in compact objects and are in their person at the time of their death.]]

* In ''Manga/Reborn2004'', 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.]]

* ''Manga/SilverDiamond'': Chigusa takes most of the damage for the team, usually to such extremes that would kill a normal man- and all of his wounds heal in ''seconds''. In his case, though, it's more being made of ''plant'' than being made of iron.
* Throughout ''Anime/SK8TheInfinity'' TheDreaded Adam is established as the greatest danger to any one skateboarder of the illegal skate park, S. While the protagonist Reki is, by episode 11, known for surviving injuries, within the episode, Adam, who's decided ItsPersonal between them, [[spoiler:puts him through an ordeal that ''would'' kill most people and should ''at least'' have left him at least partially incapitated, but he's so fully embraced the role of {{Determinator}} that he not only keeps skating, he eventually does the one thing no one else in the series managed to do at that point, even his so-far-assumed "chosen" friend with a HundredPercentAdorationRating - leave Adam ''chasing after him.'' Oh, and this is after Adam decides after the initial ordeal that he will actually ''try'' to murder him.]]

** Not to mention Vash himself has taken ungodly amounts of damage, presumably due to his reluctance to kill aggressors. In two separate episodes, we are given a look at Vash's upper body, and he is a patchwork of scars and metal. [[spoiler: What's more we learn later Vash does has a HealingFactor as a HumanAlien, he just ''refuses'' to use it out of principle]].

* 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]].

** In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':

* {{Deconstructed}} in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. [[spoiler: The reason why magical girls are made of iron is because they are really {{Empty Shell}}s. The true weak spot is their Soul Gems, which are more [[SoulJar meaningful in name]].]] This is also {{Invoked}} by Kyubey, the person who forms the contracts with the girls and knows full well what will happen [[spoiler: if their souls weren't in compact objects and are in their person at the time of their death.]]
* Randel Orland from ''Anime/PumpkinScissors''. Slightly subverted in that while he can ignore injuries that would incapacitate a normal man, he often ends up bedridden in the hospital after the fight's over. (But he's almost always back on duty in time for the next episode.)

*** In Wano arc Nami and Usopp are subjected to a devastating [[UseYourHead headbutts]] from DarkActionGirl Ulti, who for reference in her [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs Pachycephalosaurus]] hybrid form could ''overpower'' Luffy’s Haki-coated headbutt with her own. Nami and Usopp get badly hurt but unlike normal people survive and recover quick, though Nami says her skull would’ve broken had she taken another one.

* You wouldn't think so, but Impmon of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' can take a lot of pain, surviving a very brutal CurbStompBattle and being ''thrown in lava''. This gets taken UpToEleven when he digivolves into Beelzebumon--aside from taking two of [[KnightInShiningArmor Dukemon's]] strongest attacks and walking away a few minutes later, he gets [[spoiler: crucified by the D-Reaper, shot several times in the back, and thrown into a sea of deletion, all occuring within hours if not minutes of each other,]] and ''lives'', although the wounds are treated as very serious and he's unable to fight for the rest of the series.
* Taken to ''[[UpToEleven insane]]'' levels in ''Franchise/DragonBall''. Where even characters like Yajirobe and Mr. Satan, that don't know how to throw a ki-blast, survive things that should turn most tanks into dust.

** 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 [[LoadBearingHero 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]].

** ''Endless Waltz'' sees Heero push the Wing Zero Custom past the breaking point, using three shots from the Twin Buster Rifle to penetrate Mariemeia's bunker at the cost of Wing Zero destroying itself. In midair, mind you. And yet, Heero is not only alive afterwards, but it takes a good few minutes for him to pass out from the injuries he received.

** Mention must also be given to [[MagnificentBastard Izaya]] [[KnowledgeBroker Orihara]] who is the regular target of Shizuo's inhuman rage. In their first on-screen confrontation, Shizuo nails Izaya by chucking and hitting him ''in the head'' with a convenience store trashcan so hard Izaya is thrown several feet. The [[FurAndLoathing snazzily-dressed]] KnifeNut just ''gets up like nothing happened.'' [[spoiler:Finally subverted in the finale. Shizuo gets some serious blows on him, most notably nailing him with a steel I-beam "like a baseball," and while he keeps fighting for a while, Izaya eventually has to be carried off while Shizuo is distracted. If sequel manga are to be believed, he suffered multiple broken bones and is currently confined to a wheelchair; the fight ''finally'' put the fear of Shizuo into him.]]

** Chi-Chi is this, overlapping with IronButtMonkey. She's one of the few fighter in the series who doesn't utilize Ki energy but much like Yajirobe has taken hits and attacks that would've killed or hospitalized the likes of Mr Satan or Videl. In ''Anime/DragonBallZLordSlug'', [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerlisting/images/9/96/Chi-Chi_explosion_no_sell_kick.gif/revision/latest?cb=20211014050024 she runs through a Ki explosion]] fired by of Slug's soldiers no problem and later in the Buu Saga while training Goten she gets kicked flying into a tree by Goten when he accidently became Super Saiyan Chi-Chi recovers quickly and is more upset than hurt. ''Keep in mind'', grown men got KO-ed by SSJ Gohan's strikes and Frieza himself got beaten bloody by even Goku's casual lovetaps while he was Super Saiyan, making Chi-Chi's fortitude all the more impressive.

* Lunar's father in ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid''. The guy takes a direct hit from a KillSat without even blinking.

** The girls' producer [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaKotaroTatsumi Kotaro]] counts too. After [[spoiler:a massive flood sweeps through Saga]], Kotaro is [[spoiler:trapped inside the flooded New Jofuku bar, with the flood water up to his mouth]], for '''''three whole days'''''. When he is finally rescued, not only is he perfectly fine, but he immediately sprints all the way to Franchouchou's mansion, ''then'' most of the way to [[spoiler:the disaster shelter after learning that the mansion was destroyed]]. And he isn't even ''slightly'' tired by the end of it all.

** Chi-Chi is this, overlapping with IronButtMonkey. She's one of the few fighter in the series who doesn't utilize Ki energy but much like Yajirobe has taken hits and attacks that would've killed or hospitalized the likes of Mr Satan or Videl. In ''Anime/DragonBallZLordSlug'', [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerlisting/images/9/96/Chi-Chi_explosion_no_sell_kick.gif/revision/latest?cb=20211014050024 she runs through a Ki explosion]] fired by of Slug's soldiers no problem and later in the Buu Saga while training Goten she gets kicked flying into a tree by Goten when he accidently became Super Saiyan Chi-Chi recovers quickly and is more upset than hurt. ''Keep in mind'', grown men got KO-ed by SSJ Gohan's strikes and Frieza himself got beaten bloody by even Goku's casual lovetaps while he was Super Saiyan, making Chi-Chi's fortitude all the more impressive

* Just about any character in ''Anime/Nichijou'' could qualify for this trope, since they get hit by things that would logically kill a real person, and yet they come out alive. Nano is a justified example as she technically is a robot.

** 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]].

** The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime:

** Vincent Volaju the BigBad of TheMovie is superhumanly tough even compared to Spike and Vicious, as seen in his prolonged and brutal fistfight with Spike where at one point [[https://haningtonbrothers.xyz/image/144474-full_cowboy-bebop-the-movie-gifs-wifflegif.gif he gets shot through the freaking palm, doesn't even flinch, using the same hand to keep fighting no problem]].

** 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. Played straight later as Zoro to protect the fellow Supernova, blocks a CombinationAttack from Kaido and Big Mom. As a result Zoro gets horrifically wounded and is coughing up blood, but is not out for the count. He's just covered from head to toe in bandages and cannot move.]]

** 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 to revel in this trope, whether it be getting his fist punctured by Don Krieg's spiked cape while punching said villain, or in Impel Down where Luffy lets his arms get ''melted'' in order to damage [[TouchOfDeath Magellan]].
** 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]]. Played straight later as Zoro to protect the fellow Supernova, blocks a CombinationAttack from Kaido and Big Mom. As a result Zoro gets horrifically wounded and is coughing up blood, but is not out for the count.
** 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, Eneru 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 Eneru. Later in Thriller Bark, Sanji gets stabbed in the shoulder blade by Absalom with a knife long enough 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.