History MadeOfIron / VideoGames

** B.J himself, to the point of almost hilarious absurdity. Above all, he demonstrates a bizarre immunity to being stabbed. In one scene in ''[[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheOldBlood The Old Blood]]'', a Nazi soldier ambushes him and the two basically just stand there repeatedly stabbing each other in the chest before the Nazi inevitably succumbs to his wounds, and in another scene in the same [=DLC=], [[TheDragon Rudi]] impales a section of lead pipe clean through his thigh during an ElectricTorture session, and Blazko is no worse for wear, not even a limp. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Deathshead [[TakingYouWithMe realises that he's lost and tries to take Blazko out with a grenade]]. ''At point blank.'' Blazko survives it, although he's badly hurt and nearing death's door, while that creepy bastard [[LudicrousGibs gets liquified]]]].

** [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBastard Reina]]]] hits Devil Kazuya with a flying headbutt. [[spoiler: She]]'s not the one that's hurt from it. Shortly after, [[spoiler:she]] willingly took the full force of a massive beam from Devil Kazuya and got away with only scratches, bruising, and [[spoiler:an active Devil Gene]].

** [[HeroicBastard Lars]] is able to fight Devil Kazuya to a standstill repeatedly. [[spoiler:Reina]] does it as well, and hits him with a Heihachi-style headbutt without even flinching to boot.
** [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBastard Reina]]]] not only survived a massive beam from Devil Kazuya with only scratches and bruising, [[spoiler:it awakened her own Devil Gene]].

** Jinpachi (Kazuya's grandfather and Jin's great-grandfather) was not only touch to begin with, but is similarly possessed by an evil spirit.

* ''Franchise/Tekken'', being a fighting game, runs on this, but in the story every member of the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Mishima family]] is borderline indestructible.

* ''[[VideoGame/Tekken Tekken]]'', being a fighting game, runs on this, but in the story every member of the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Mishima family]] is borderline indestructible.

* ''Tekken'', being a fighting game, runs on this, but in the story every member of the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Mishima family]] is borderline indestructible.

* ''VideoGame/Tekken'', being a fighting game, runs on this, but in the story every member of the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Mishima family]] is borderline indestructible.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* Nugget from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}''. It's especially noticeable in ''VideoGame/Kindergarten2'', in which he [[ItMakesSenseInContext chews off his own arm]] and spends the entire day trailing blood everywhere he goes, yet survives the day with no ill effect beyond feeling rather woozy by lunchtime. In the same game, [[spoiler:he can take being struck by a ball thrown hard enough to lob the protagonist's head off]]. He even lampshades it in the former case:

*** Lanius's ridiculous stats also serve to further highlight Graham's inhuman level of toughness. It's stated that, back when Graham was the Legate, he and Lanius were a BrainsAndBrawn pair... with ''Lanius'' as the ''brains''.

** [[spoiler: Dhurke]] sustains three bullets to the chest at point blank range and stumbles for a moment only to simply stand up tall and ask [[spoiler: Inga]] if he thought that that would be enough to kill him. [[spoiler: Inga]] panics, asking [[spoiler: Dhurke]] if he's "some kinda freak" before running off. [[spoiler: Dhurke]] does succumb to his injuries, but not before [[spoiler: asking Maya to channel him as soon as he dies so he can free her from the temple and go to America to see Apollo one last time. He even comforts her as she cries and assures her that everything's going to be okay.]]

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', everyone gets burned, frozen, electrocuted, bludgeoned, bruised, stabbed, slashed, drilled, bitten, stomped, crushed, pelted, blasted, and shot at with all sorts of physical and elemental attacks... and they'll still have absolutely nothing to show for it. The games' vague LivingToys angle was created partly to justify this, even more so in that the characters are imaginary constructs based on toys in the "real world" and therefore don't have to obey said "real world"'s laws of physics. Little Mac is the first character to avert this trope, as he gets bandages and bruises the higher his damage meter goes up.

** Kazuma Kiryu's defining trait; the man takes knife wounds, gunshots, and massive explosions and walks away with only a few minor scratches. In one substory in ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'', a big thug who had been impersonating Kiryu punches him square in the jaw, and Kiryu doesn't even react.
** This even extends to the mooks as well as despite receiving extremely vicious (that border on sadistic) beatdowns, stabbed, and thrown off buildings that will, at best, hospitalize them, or at worst, killing or rendering them comatose. The mooks look no worse for wear save for small bruises and a wounded pride. It is not until the Dragon Engine era-games that they stay down for good.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'', the titular Cat suffers two major falls, being gnawed on by Zurks, and is shot at least once by a Sentinel taser gun. The Cat shows no sign of injury aside from briefly limping after the falls, and even that is cured with a short bout of licking.

%%*** Raiden gets knocked around a lot as well in ''Sons of Liberty''. Not to mention in ''Guns of the Patriots''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
%%*** The abuse heaped upon Naked Snake in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Snake Eater]]'' is pretty ridiculous.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}''
** Kazuma Kiryu's defining trait; the man takes knife wounds, gunshots, and massive explosions and walks away with only a few minor scratches. In one substory in ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'', a big thug who had been impersonating Kiryu punches him square in the jaw, and Kiryu doesn't even react.
** This even extends to the mooks as well as despite receiving extremely vicious (that border on sadistic) beatdowns, stabbed, and thrown off buildings that will, at best, hospitalize them, or at worst, killing or rendering them comatose. The mooks look no worse for wear save for small bruises and a wounded pride. It is not until the Dragon Engine era-games that they stay down for good.

* Greasy Steve from ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' can take several bullets to the face while driving a motorcycle through the forest without stopping. Of course, this may be more crappy programming than actual iron abilities, given [[ObviousBeta which game it is]].

** Bowser, definitely. From being [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros thrown]] [[VideoGame/SuperMario64 into]] [[VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii lava]] and [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory crushed by two castles and a train]] to getting [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy knocked into a sun]] [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2 followed by a black hole]], among much more, the sheer amount of things he's survived with barely a scratch on him is amazing. ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' lampshades this in his playable sections. He has literally infinite lives. It's worth pointing out the one time he actually [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath died]]. In ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'', the first boss is Bowser, who falls into lava after you cut the bridge. You've done this many times before, no big deal. But then he struggles in the lava as his skin and eyeballs melt out and only a skeleton is left as Mario just stares. Why is this worth pointing out? Because that's ''not'' when he dies. You meet him again in World 8, completely fine. He's just missing his flesh and eyes. Being a skeleton is no big deal for him. However, this time the bridge doesn't have any lava under it, and when you cut the bridge, he simply falls a great distance. It's a confirmed death in the very last fight, where Bowser Jr. is seen with Bowser's remains (his skeleton broken into pieces from the fall) and promptly throws it all into a black magic pot to [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist resurrect him]].

** [[IncrediblyDurableEnemies Several monsters]] in the series take a [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill ludicrous amount]] of firepower to be put down. It's especially noteworthy with the ones who canonically have no HealingFactor, e.g. the common zombies in ''[=RE2make=]'', who will happily soak up the hundreds of bullets Leon and Claire fire at them. It often takes their [[BoomHeadShot entire head getting blown off]] for the ''[=RE2make=]'' zombies to stay down for good.

*** All of this has started to catch up to him in his 30's, though; ''[[VisualNovelAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'' sees him sustain a back injury so severe he is rendered unconscious for a whole day.

*** Joshua Graham, Caesar's former [[TheDragon Dragon]]. For starters, he was shot and confirmed dead by [=NCR=] snipers ''five times'' only to bounce right back. [[YouHaveFailedMe For his failure in the First Battle of Hoover Dam]], Caesar had him ''set on fire and thrown into the Grand Canyon'', and he was ''still'' in good enough shape to kill the pack of assassins Caesar sent down after him to confirm he was dead, then drag himself back home to Utah. In-game, he has a Damage Threshold of ''50'', which is more than the best Power Armor, and certainly more than his own armor. If asked, Graham merely states that for him it was a mix of HeroicResolve and [[BadassPreacher faith]]. This also makes him BlessedWithSuck, since his ridiculous toughness also makes him ImmuneToDrugs, meaning that he can't heal the burns that cover his entire body or get any relief from the constant excruciating pain they cause him. The stats of Legate Lanius, who himself is mentioned just below, also put how insanely tough Graham is into perspective. It's stated that back when Graham was the Legate, he and Lanius were a BrainsAndBrawn pair... with ''Lanius'' as the ''brains''.
*** Graham's replacement as Caesar's Dragon, Legate Lanius, as well. He is an absolute beast with a minimum of 845 hit points, only a bit behind a ''Legendary Deathclaw'', complete immunity to radiation and poison, and near-complete immunity to fire. While his Damage Threshold of 19 doesn't sound impressive, consider that this is coupled with his high fatigue levels, making him near-impossible to disable, not to mention that he can heal himself a lot and restore any crippled limbs. And he's fast. So fast that even if you cripple both his legs, he can still outrun you. And [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill to top it off, he has a]] [[{{BFS}} massive sword called the Blade of the East,]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill which has a massive chance to knock you down]].

*** He falls 10 meters from a burning bridge, lands in a freezing cold river famous for its horrifyingly fast and extremely lethal current, is carried along with said current of doom for a few miles, and ''comes away with only a cold''.

* Kazuma Kiryu's defining trait in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series; the man takes knife wounds, gunshots, and massive explosions and walks away with only a few minor scratches. In one substory in ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'', a big thug who had been impersonating Kiryu punches him square in the jaw, and Kiryu doesn't even react.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' series: