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* The Typhoon weather effect in ''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' gives both players SuperArmor but also makes it impossible to block until the weather ends.
** Tenshi's "State of Enlightenment" spell card and the Dragon Star system card in ''Hisoutensoku'' temporarily gives this effect to the user.

* In ''Videogame/VirtuaFighter'' the wrestler character Wolf has a move called "Repel Wall" where he lunges forward slightly and will NoSell lighter punches & kicks, taking damage but not flinching. This gives him an opening to slap or grab his opponent.

* In ''Videogame/ForHonor'', most of the Heavy-class heroes and a few others, like the Kensei and Lawbringer, have the Uninterruptible property on many of their attacks, which allows them to carry through with the attack even if they are hit by their opponent, making them extremely effective at trading hits if they can bait out an opponent's attack. In earlier seasons, the Shugoki had this ability up at all times, only briefly losing it when he took a hit and thus letting him be devastating against newer players, since most of his moveset was built around letting the enemy hit him so he could inflict massive damage in retaliation.

* In ''Videogame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', [[TheBerserker Krieg]] was made to be heavier than the other characters so that he suffered less knockback and can go toe-to-toe with enemies for his melee-centric gameplay style. However, this also makes it so that he's incapable of grenade jumping or completing certain challenges that involve springing characters up to a certain point.

* ''Videogame/PlanetSide 2'''s soldiers are vulnerable to "flinch" which causes weapon accuracy to drop when the player is damaged or near an explosion. One of the implants significantly reduces the flinch, making reaction fire more accurate. A separate implant makes soldiers immune to the effects of Concussion grenades, which cripples movement and aiming speed in addition to copious InterfaceScrew.

* In the freeware re-release of ''Videogame/MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries'', the Advanced Gyroscope available to many of the games' HumongousMecha makes them far more resistant to the effects of screen-shake and knockback from high-powered weapons like the Gauss Rifle, and makes them all but immune to being knocked on their ass from massed high-power weaponry. A significant part of the multiplayer is timing your weapon's reloads with the enemies' to blast them and throw off their aim just before they fire, so the Advanced Gyro is ''very'' useful device for brawlers.

* In ''Videogame/UrbanReign'' Super Armor's one of the rarer self-buff abilities, most commonly available to characters with the "Mighty" moveset.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', if an attack does more damage than your current HP, the game doesn't calculate stun effects, because it expects the attack to kill you. However, if you have a ManaShield up, it might not ''actually'' kill you -- leading to the strategy of deliberately allowing a certain {{Demonic Spider|s}} to reduce your max HP so low that ''nothing'' can stun you.

** Masaharu Kaito makes his playable debut in his self-titled DLC for ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'', ''The Kaito Files''. He inherits the Brawler and Beast (as Bruiser and Tank, respectively) styles from Kiryu in the aforementioned game and with it, the latter's armor. He also has an ability in his Bruiser style that counters an enemy's attack as he's being hit, something that Kiryu would also inherit for his Yakuza style in [[VideoGame/LikeADragonGaidenTheManWhoErasedHisName Like a Dragon: Gaiden]]''.

* The Mr. Shakedown enemies in ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza 0}}'' all have this trait, which is part of what makes them so dangerous, as lengthy but normally incredibly effective attacks like Majima's bat nunchaku combo are extremely risky. Certain attacks from the player (like the aforementioned bat nunchaku combo) also can't be interrupted by normal attacks.

* In the original ''{{VideoGame/Doom}}'' games, each monster has what is called a 'pain chance', which is the probability that they will go into a pain state after being hit with an attack, which temporarily prevents them from retaliating. No monsters have a 0% pain chance but, in general, the stronger the monster, the lower the chance will be. The pinky demon is a special case: normally, it has a fairly typical pain chance and can therefore be stunlocked pretty reasonably, but on Nightmare difficulty, the pinky's speed is doubled. It remains as easy as ever to flinch, but the flinch duration is so short as to be meaningless, to the point that even shoving a chainsaw in its face isn't going to meaningfully slow it down.

* In the original ''{{VideoGame/Doom}}'' games, each monster has what is called a 'pain chance', which is the probability that they will go into a pain state after being hit with an attack, which temporarily prevents them from retaliating. No monsters have a 0% pain chance but, in general, the stronger the monster, the lower the chance will be.

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' gives every character a [[ChargedAttack focus attack]], which allows them to endure one hit without flinching while it is charging; they will also recover the damage taken during the charge if they don't receive another. Every character has a move that breaks this armor, but two fast Light attacks will also work. Some Ex attacks also grant this armor while in use.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'': Riku never gets stunned or reacts to taking damage during his BossFight in the Land of Dragons.

** The tougher enemies and more powerful opponents (particularly Saga bosses and final fights in Parallel Quests) of ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse'' pack exclusive Z-Souls that give them this kind of super armor, at least until you decrease their health enough that it turns off. It's technically surmountable in certain circumstances, but they don't give you the chance. Great Apes also get it again, but their battle mechanics invoke this by having to drain their stamina to leave them wide open for actual attack. In an inversion, however, the player can earn one of Broly's Z-Souls that essentially gives them the exact same immunity as bosses do - except, of course, the player's health is usually nowhere near as large as that of bosses to make the same use of it. It can also be used through two skills, Pose K and Pose F, the first of which grants the usual super armor, where the second works more like how Great Apes and Ultimate attacks do, making the user take damage to stamina instead of health, as well as making them immune to grabs.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'': In Re:Mind's BonusBoss Data Organization battles, the boss takes dramatically reduced damage and will not flinch if you attack them during a phase in which they are not vulnerable.

* In the original ''{{VideoGame/Doom}}'' games, each monster has what is called a 'pain chance', which is the probability that they will go into a pain state after being hit with an attack, which temporarily prevents them from retaliating. No monsters have a 0% pain chance, but in general, the stronger the monster, the lower the chance will be.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' this is one of the benefits from Rhino's "Iron Skin" and Valkyr's "Hysteria" powers. Some warframe mod cards can give a chance to resist knock-down, but never 100%.
** As of Update 17.5, Atlas plays the trope completely straight. The caveat? It's only in effect while his feet touch the ground.

** The ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series has given us quite a few. Mr. X, Nemesis, Jack Baker, and Lady Dimitrescu are the most infamous. The first three barely register hits from small arms but can all be temporarily downed if dealt enough damage. Lady Dimitrescu, on the other hand, will barely ever flinch, and that's only if she's hit with your most powerful ordnance. Otherwise, nothing you have will so much as break her stride.