History Main / ImmuneToBullets

** {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' with the Elementals. The reason why Nick Fury and Maria Hill's guns didn't work on [[DishingOutDirt Sandman]] [[spoiler:is because they are shooting at a illusion created by drones controlled by Mysterio]]. Played straight with Spidey in the same movie. In the FinalBattle as he shrugs off multiple small missiles, thanks in part to the suit he was wearing and his own SuperToughness.

* The Supers in ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'' are all of course bulletproof as Homelander and Queen Maeve showcase after killing a sniper in a building and remember [[VillainWithGoodPublicity they have to make it sound like self-defence for the people outside]], so Homelander picks up an assault rifle and fires harmlessly into Maeve's chest who doesn't even flinch. [[spoiler:Later in the first season Billy Butcher fires two rounds from a 50.BMG rifle into Starlight's chest and while it does painfully knock her down, she's otherwise unharmed.]]

** In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Sleeper", the sleeper agents emitted a field that made them invulnerable to needles, scalpels and bullets -- none could break their skin. However, by the end of the story, Torchwood had deactivated it, allowing them to fall to bullets.

* On ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', the Zerstörer was this, along with immunity to pretty much everything else, including a just-this-side-of-nuclear poison.

** In the episode "The Devil's Platform", a police officer fires 6 shots at Robert Palmer while he's in dog form. The bullets have no effect at all.
** In "Horror in the Heights", a police officer fires six shots into the rakshasa but it's completely unhurt. It takes being hit by a crossbow bolt blessed by Brahma to kill it.

** Deconstructed with ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''. ComicBook/{{Luke|Cage}} has impenetrable skin that bullets, blades, and other objects can't penetrate. However, only his skin is invincible, so when a weapon with enough concussive force is used against him, he can receive internal injuries.
** In ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'', the impact from Jessica firing a shotgun pressed directly against his neck in an attempt to break Kilgrave's control over him causes massive internal injuries and bleeding, which then can't be treated by conventional means because there's no way to get through his skin. Claire has to insert the needle through his eye socket to drain the fluid that builds up.

** Sam Wilson aka The Falcon in ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' blocks a hail of gunfire with his mechanical wings, though given Sam still has to dodge heavy artillery, this likely only applies to smaller firearms. His wrist gauntlet appear to be bulletproof as well.
** ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}'': In addition to granting an impressive HealingFactor, the Moon Knight armour is nearly indestructible. Marc protects Layla from a rain of gunfire with his cape, then [[CatchAndReturn launches all of the bullets right back at their assailants]]. [[spoiler:Once Marc is BroughtDownToNormal however, he's quickly killed by the BigBad with a regular handgun]].
** ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'': When a police officer shoots at Drax, he just laughs as if he's being tickled while showing no damage from the bullets.
* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Imprint", the disfigured prostitute and [[spoiler:her evil mutant twin]] shrug off being shot and taunt Christopher that they'll follow him everywhere. [[spoiler:This is because they are part of his deranged visions.]]

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]", Rocky Valentine discovers that Pip is not human when he shoots him and the bullets have no effect.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E69ThePassersby The Passersby]]", the Union soldier that Lavinia Godwin shoots suffers no ill effects from the bullet [[spoiler:as he is already dead]].
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E111PrintersDevil Printer's Devil]]", Douglas Winter shoots Mr. Smith three times in the chest at point-blank range but he is completely uninjured as he is the Devil.

* ''Series/{{The Umbrella Academy|2019}}'':

** In Season 2 in the DarkFuture sequence, Luther was shown able to shrug off a Russian missile fired at his back. It's implied this at the peak of his powers given he's able to be killed by bullets and hurt by a knife in the previous season.

* The Visitors in ''Series/{{V 1983}}'' wore [[JustifiedTrope body armor]] to ward off small-calibre weapons fire. However, the Resistance eventually gets better ammo that can punch through while Donovan has a stolen energy pistol that is effective as well.
* On ''Series/WynonnaEarp'', shooting [[OurDemonsAreDifferent revenants]] with anything other than the Earp AncestralWeapon "Peacemaker" will at best slow them down. And even with Peacemaker, only hitting them [[PrettyLittleHeadshots between the eyes]] will kill them and send them back to Hell.

** Early example with [[BadassNative Bora]] who just [[https://p1-tt.byteimg.com/origin/tos-cn-i-qvj2lq49k0/b4394f2f19c24b2f95b0253d23d34ce2.jpg mans]] through a hail of gunfire, worth noting Bora isn't an alien, god and nor does he have any Ki... he's just one strong Earthling.

* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': When the two male vampires (in human form) attack the guards, they are shot multiple times (resulting in bloody bullet wounds) but keep right on coming. They are only stopped by grenade explosions..

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Subverted, as while Peter has enough SuperToughness that bullets can't kill him like they would a normal person that doesn't mean they can't seriously hurt him. This is seen in one comic where Spidey decides to use his SuperReflexes to attempt a BulletCatch and he actually manages to snag one bullet harmlessly in his hand, the other bullet however goes straight through his palm and into his shoulder causing him to faint.

* Subverted with Franchise/SpiderMan; while Peter has enough SuperToughness that bullets can't kill him like they would a normal person that doesn't mean they can't seriously hurt him. This is seen in one comic where Spidey decides to use his SuperReflexes to attempt a BulletCatch and he actually manages to snag one bullet harmlessly in his hand, the other bullet however goes straight through his palm and into his shoulder causing him to faint.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* Franchise/WonderWoman is, strictly speaking, ''not'' immune to bullets -- she's simply fast enough to block them with her armored bracelets. If a smart criminal (like [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]]) had the sense to simply [[AgonyOfTheFeet shoot her in the foot,]] she'd be [[{{Pun}} hopping mad]]. Thanks to PowerCreepPowerSeep, Diana's relative invulnerability changes depending on the story being told and the title it's being told in. Sometimes (such as when she needs to fight Superman) it's up to Superman's levels. Other times... yeah, she needs those bracelets. There was some attempt to explain that bullets because they're much smaller and put pressure on a smaller area of skin, are much more dangerous to her, but it's a pretty feeble {{handwave}} for someone being vulnerable to bits of lead yet able to take a punch from a PhysicalGod.

* The frigate USS ''Constitution'' (the oldest commissioned warship still afloat) gained her nickname "Old Ironsides" during the UsefulNotes/WarOf1812, when her crew watched enemy cannonballs bounce off her thick oak hull plating.

** It only takes about 6 or 7 millimeters - that is, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2TBoP9Aoow 1/4 inch]] - of AR500 steel to be basically immune to standard ball rifle ammunition.[[note]]The 500 refers to the armor's Brinell hardness - 450-550, while standard armor steel (RHA) is usually 350. Note that these rounds as "green tips" are above standard ball in penetration due to their partially steel cores, yet nearly a hundred of them at close range still only manage to make two small holes in the plate.[[/note]] Even the thinnest armor panels of the lightest armored vehicles tend to match or exceed that (with the additional benefit of angling).

* In ''VideoGame/Bloodborne'', the lore states that the [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Beasts]] simply shrug off regular bullets, which means that Hunters' firearms instead use Quicksilver (aka mercury) bullets infused with the user's blood - and even then, firearms are still generally much less effective than hacking and slashing Beasts to pieces.

** In "Bart the General", Bart's nightmare about a giant Nelson has the former shooting at the latter with a Tommy gun, only for every bullet to bounce off. Once the clip runs dry, [[ThrowingYourGunAtTheEnemy he throws it at Nelson]], who catches and [[ExtremeOmnivore eats it]].
** The second WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror episode involved aliens attacking a disarmed human populace with bats and slingshots. It parodied the above line: "Your superior intellects are no match for our puny weapons."
** Another Halloween story has Homer killing Death, and we then cut to Fat Tony and his goons trying to shoot a man, but he keeps on living.

** Subverted for [[Series/KamenRiderFaiz The Orphnoch]], though they need more than a standard amount of bullets to be take down.

* Subverted by John F. Kennedy.

** While they're not immune to them if they get hit, attempting to attack a Jedi/Dark Jedi/Sith with a blaster is not only typically fruitless unless the plot demands it, but is in fact counterproductive. This is because they not only block blaster bolts with their lightsabers, but often reflect them back at the person that shot them. Reflecting blasterfire has become the effective primary purpose of the lightsaber when the Sith aren't around, with entire styles of saber fighting designed around it. This is averted, however, in the comic book ''Star Wars Infinities'' -- in the alternate retelling of ''The Empire Strikes Back'', [[spoiler:Darth Vader is killed when fired upon by Han Solo]].

** Like in most other portrayals, Kryptonians have this trope down packed in ''Film/ManOfSteel'', with even the 30 mm cannons they're hit by not damaging them at all. However subverted as they still realistically follow the laws motion and conservation of energy as a hail machine gunfire can slow Superman down in [=BVS=] and a high-speed homing missile to the face was able to knock out DarkChick Faora, so they're NotSoInvincibleAfterAll.

* There are a few enemies (mostly bosses) in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' have armor so tough that bullets bounce right off and have a chance to hit ''you''. Normal bullets, anyway; AbnormalAmmo in the form of E-Tech and explosive rounds do the truck.

** And indeed actually used for Dante who gets shot in the head by Lady and knocked down. It irritates him, but he's otherwise okay. When Lady shoots him [[ShootingSuperman again]], ''he catches the bullet with his teeth''.
** While it doesn't fit the immune to bullets trope word for word, Dante appears to be immune to bladed weapons. Dante has been slashed, stabbed, and impaled countless times in the series, with large amounts of blood squirting, with Dante not even appearing to be in pain. [[CutscenePowerToTheMax However, this only applies to cutscenes, where he's also inexplicably immune to anything and everything that his enemies can throw at him unless the plot demands that he is not; in actual gameplay he is harmed by every attack his enemies make, bladed or not.]]
*** Possible FridgeBrilliance, actually: Dante runs on CriticalExistenceFailure so he's fine getting shot or impaled a lot and can keep fighting in good form, just as long as it's not the blow that would kill him.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', due to his chimera transformation, Zelgadis is immune to bullets and cannonballs… though a cannonball will knock him out.

* In ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'' works like ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', it is briefly mentioned in supplemental material that Servants cannot be harmed at all by non-magical attacks, so guns, unless they are supernatural in nature, have no effect on them. In one scene in ''LightNovel/FateZero'', Kiritsugu Emiya has his sniper rifle trained on Lancer, but decides not to fire because it wouldn't do anything and would just give away his position. The same work then presents the aversion when [[BlackKnight Berserker]] gets his hands on some ordinary machine guns and, since one his abilities turns whatever he grabs into a low-ranking Noble Phantasm, he forces Saber to start running while he blasts away.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Vampires cannot be killed with bullets. Alderman Fenwick shoots his gun twice at Louis de Pointe du Lac, who doesn't even flinch, and the only thing that's damaged is his chic purple suit.