History MadeOfIron / ComicBooks

** It's implied in ''Punisher: Born'' that Castle's near-inhuman ability to survive damage that would kill anyone else is that he made an unconscious pact with [[TheGrimReaper death]] during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar that would let him continue to fight a war that never ended - for a price.

* It's actually pretty common that when comic book characters fight, characters with superpowers take superpowered hits without serious injury, ''even though their superpowers have nothing to do with superhuman strength or endurance''. I.E. a character whose ability is to shoot EyeBeams can be punched through a concrete wall, pick themselves back up, and continue fighting as though nothing happened.

* {{Taskmaster}}. Neither getting rammed by a speeding car, nor shot repeatedly, nor being kicked in the face by an enraged {{Spider-Man}} so hard that his body punches an economy-sized hole through the (in all likelihood heavily armoured) wall of the armoury in his hideout/gym will do more than slow him down momentarily.

* ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' subteam ''[[ComicBook/NewMutants The New Mutants]]''. Roberto [=DaCosta=] has super-strength, but not super-durability. He's explicitly just as vulnerable as any Joe [=SixPack=]... but somehow still survives nonsense like getting tackled through a brick wall. A degree of superhuman durability is pretty much a RequiredSecondaryPower for any character possessing superhuman strength, as super-durable muscle fibers would necessarily result in super-durable muscle tissue, protecting most everything but the eyes.

* Many characters in Creator/FrankMiller's ''SinCity'' exhibit this trait to an incredible degree. Made of Iron is probably Miller's all-time favorite character trope for male protagonists. He just loves guys who can take an appalling level of punishment from vastly superior opponents through force of will, strength of character, or just innate badassery.

* Many characters in FrankMiller's ''SinCity'' exhibit this trait to an incredible degree. Made of Iron is probably Miller's all-time favorite character trope for male protagonists. He just loves guys who can take an appalling level of punishment from vastly superior opponents through force of will, strength of character, or just innate badassery.

** This is sometimes subverted, as several older incarnations (''TheDarkKnightReturns'', ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'') are noticeably [[DentedIron battered by the years of combat]]. ''Kingdom's'' Bats must use a full-body exoskeleton just to get around.

* Subverted to tragic effect in an issue of ''ElfQuest'', where a couple of boys from a human tribe throw a stone from a sling to knock an elf off of a high tree branch, believing that elves are indestructible. They're not. The elf breaks his back. [[spoiler:The elves ''do'' have magical healers, but the injured elf is found and killed by the boys' grown-up relatives.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' subteam ''[[NewMutants The New Mutants]]''. Roberto [=DaCosta=] has super-strength, but not super-durability. He's explicitly just as vulnerable as any Joe [=SixPack=]... but somehow still survives nonsense like getting tackled through a brick wall. A degree of superhuman durability is pretty much a RequiredSecondaryPower for any character possessing superhuman strength, as super-durable muscle fibers would necessarily result in super-durable muscle tissue, protecting most everything but the eyes.

** Both Nick Fury and Tony Stark keep extensive files on all known superhumans, and it's a indication of how dangerous they consider him to be in that ''both'' of them keep a file on the Punisher. Both of them make a point of commenting that Frank has a nearly psychopathic ability to tolerate pain.

* JessicaJones of ''Comicbook/{{Alias}}'' and ''Comicbook/ThePulse'' has superhuman strength and durability, and was able to take a punch in the face from The Vision with only minor injuries(broken jaw, teeth knocked out, neck injured). In ''The Pulse'', it's revealed that her internal organs are also super tough.

* Often prominent with ''ThePunisher'', particularly as written by GarthEnnis.

** In one of the Ennis ''Punisher MAX'' stories Frank takes a shotgun blast to the side that removes a big chunk, including an entire rib bone. One would expect Frank to stumble off and let himself heal in the manner that an ''extremely'' well-trained and diligent former Marine would do. But with the shotgun wound, Frank continues to fight on... not even bleeding. In the same story TheDragon gets impaled, shot, beaten, further impaled, his face quite literally blown off and lives several moments past that, before finally snuffing it.

** In Jason Aaron's Punisher MAX run, the continuation of Ennis' run, Frank's years of injuries are finally starting to catch up to him. A doctor flat out tells him that his body is a wreck and will only get worse. However, in the same series Frank takes an extraordinary amount of damage. In one night he gets stabbed several times with a sai (including one through his forearm) and takes several gunshots (including one self-inflicted one through the left chest-shoulder area to hit someone behind him). Then he walks across town and is met with no less than six more gunshots, gets his head smashed both through a car window and against a fire hydrant. He remains conscious long enough to walk back into the city then back into the suburbs before passing out. [[spoiler:The trope is ultimate averted when Frank succumbs to his injuries.]]
** And '''OH GOD''', all the shit it took to kill Max! Bullseye, The Menonite and Barracuda, think Pittsy, TheDragon mentioned above, times five. And The Menonite was a Amish guy! Okay, he used to be a mob enforcer before turning Amish, but still!

** It's implied in ''Punisher: Born'' that Castle's near-inhuman ability to survive damage that would kill anyone else is that he made an unconscious pact with [[TheGrimReaper death]] during TheVietnamWar that would let him continue to fight a war that never ended - for a price.

* {{Daredevil}}. One of the more memorable examples would be the time when he not only survives taking casual slaps from the [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Hulk]], but [[UpToEleven keeps getting back up to confront the not-so-jolly-green giant again]]. Not surprisingly, this trait was one of the things that Frank Miller left as his legacy with the character.

** This is sometimes subverted, as several older incarnations (''TheDarkKnightReturns'', ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'') are noticeably battered by the years of combat. ''Kingdom's'' Bats must use a full-body exoskeleton just to get around.

* In one of the earlier issues of ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'', Superman ''punches'' SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor through a ''three-foot thick brick wall''. Lex's only reply? "You can hit!" He was electrically charged at the time, so he had superhuman attributes (though not to the extent of Superman).

* In one of the earlier issues of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'', Superman literally ''punches'' LexLuthor through a ''three-foot thick brick wall''. Lex's only reply? "You can hit!" He was electrically charged at the time, so he had superhuman attributes (though not to the extent of Superman).

* {{Batman}}

* Tallulah Black from ''JonahHex'' has survived things like being shot in the head, being horribly mutilated, and [[spoiler:having a baby cut out of her]]. And of course, Hex himself has gone through all of the above (except the last bit) and more ''many'' times, and with only 19th century frontier medicine (sometimes!) available to bring him back.

* In both the comic and movie versions of ''VForVendetta'' this trope enables V to pull off a subversion of the InstantDeathBullet and a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, no less: