History Main / InvincibleVillain

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': [[spoiler:After decades of being hyped up as TheDreaded across the entire ''Frnachise/{{Nasuverse}}'', Lostbelt 7 finally introduces ORT, the [[UltimateLifeform Ultimate One]] of Mercury (although the Lostbelt reveals it is actually the Ultimate One of the Oort Cloud. The FinalBossPreview alike hammers in just how tough ORT - the fight is initially set up as though ORT has a single, million point health bar and one extra bar after that. But when you get past that bar, the symbol changes to reveal ''a total of ten heath bars, with the one you brown through being number one, and the next bar having ten million hit points''. Oh, and it should be noted that ORT is ''level 1'' during this fight. When you get to the actual fight at the climax of the Lostbelt, you have to fight ORT across multiple stages, with each break bar depleted causing it to change classes. Additionally, ORT not only has a plethora of debuts and buffs to make your fight miserable, but servants defeated by ORT are flat-out ''eaten'', [[ForcedCharacterSelection preventing you from using them again in the battle]]. And when you finally defeat the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg space spider]], it pulls one more trick and ''hijacks the Throne of Heroes to summon itself as the Grand Foreigner'', something that should be '''''[[BeyondTheImpossible completely impossible]]'''''. And even when you defeat that, it summons itself ''again'', because it has a renewable catalyst in the form of your ally, Kukulkan, who is actually ORT's disembodied heart - defeating it for good requires her to pull a TakingMeWithYou on ORT via an attack that totally obliterates both of them, just to be sure that ORT can't come back. It's explicitly that ORT ''cannot'' be defeated by the power of mankind and Earth alone, and this fight proves why - ORT's CannibalismSuperpower allows it to subvert anything the world and humanity throws against it and use them ''better'' than we ever could. Oh, and just when it seemed like ORT was hopeless enough, the one you fight in Lostbelt 7 is actually ''weaker'' than the one in Proper Human History, precisely because it is missing its heart]].

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Pokemon Hunter J curb-stomped everyone she came into contact with, especially Ash, with her Pokemon never outright losing a battle. The only ones to put up a fight against her were the Regi trio, who fought her to a standstill, and the Lake Trio, who she successfully captured before their Future Sight destroyed her ship.

* Despite the praise received for his improved character, the only real difference between Face "the Big Dog" Wrestling/RomanReigns and Heel "The Tribal Chief" Roman Reigns is that the latter actually gets the crowd response that he's supposed to. Otherwise, Reigns loses as often as a heel as he did as a face, which is to say not at all.[[note]] Like most IWC disliked wrestlers, Reigns almost never loses cleanly, only if his opponents cheated. [[/note]] To those in favour of the character, his invincibility is a central part of the character and his rule over the Bloodline.

* ''VideoGame/DyztopiaPostHumanRPG'': Although Asterisk can be defeated in a boss fight, it's clear he's holding back to a more reasonable level to challenge Akira. It turns out [[spoiler:he's actually Ophiuchus, the God of Cycles, and is so strong that he can oneshot Aphos, a powerful angel. Even the BigBad Zazz stood no chance in his past fight with Asterisk, which is why he had to negotiate with Asterisk in order to get the archdemons to revive humanity. The December 2023 update includes a new battle against him in his full power archdemon form, but he also states that he has CompleteImmortality, which means the party can only stalemate him at best. The only one who ever came close to killing Asterisk was the archangel leader Slash, but thanks to Quot betraying the angels, Slash loses their chance to do so. In the ending, Akira doesn't bother trying to challenge Asterisk and instead seeks a compromise to delay humanity's revival long enough for the party to reform society]].

* ''VideoGame/DyztopiaPostHumanRPG'': Although Asterisk can be defeated in a boss fight, it's clear he's holding back to a more reasonable level to challenge Akira. It turns out [[spoiler:he's actually Ophiuchus, the God of Cycles, and is so strong that he can oneshot Aphos, a powerful angel. Even the BigBad Zazz stood no chance in his past fight with Asterisk, which is why he had to negotiate with Asterisk in order to get the archdemons to revive humanity. The December 2023 update includes a new battle against him in his full power archdemon form, but he also states that he has CompleteImmortality, which means the party can only stalemate him at best. In the ending, Akira doesn't bother trying to challenge Asterisk and instead seeks a compromise to delay humanity's revival long enough for the party to reform society]].

** Two of the [[EliteFour Yonkos]], Kaido and Big Mom, were this [[DiscOneFinalBoss for literally hundreds of chapters]]. Thanks to a combination of being StrongAndSkilled, having [[SuperpowerLottery powerful Devil Fruits]] (an [[{{Weredragon}} Azure Dragon]] Mythical Zoan and a soul manipulation Paramecia, respectively and a Mythical Zoan moreso having [[MadeOfIndestructium ungodly toughness]] for good measure, they [[NoSell shrug off]] absolutely everything the heroes collectively throw at them; and even when pushed to their absolute limits, they still show little to no signs of tiring out. [[spoiler:It takes Luffy [[EleventhHourSuperpower awakening his (actually a Mythical Zoan Fruit) Devil Fruit to use Gear 5]] and a CombinationAttack from Law and Kid to just blow Kaido and Big Mom off Onigashima into an magma chamber which erupts (rather than just knocking them out like most villains which obviously wouldn’t be enough), and even then [[UncertainDoom it’s still unclear if they’re actually dead or not (contrary to what the world at large believes)]].]]

** Enel from the Skypiea arc is quite powerful even by the standards set in later parts of the series, but in this early arc, he was untouchable. Case in point, when Wyper uses [[KryptoniteFactor Seastone]] to render Enel tangible and use the Reject Dial on his heart, he straight up kills Enel, who then proceeds to use his ShockAndAwe powers to (somehow) '''''restart his own goddamn heart''''' and come back to life and back to kicking ass. Even when Luffy's RubberMan body proved completely immune to his electric powers by virtue of being a natural insulator, he put a hell of a fight. Hell, not even the vacuum of space can kill Enel as his cover story shows, moreso when he [[TheBadGuyWins technically accomplished his goal of reaching the "Fairy Wearth" (i.e. the Moon)]] despite Luffy kicking his ass. There’s no telling how powerful Enel would be if SerialEscalation were applied to him.

* Deconstructed with Heimdall from VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok. Being the right-hand man of Odin, Heimdall has the power of foresight, which allows him to see the attacks of his opponents before they even happen, which, by all accounts, would make Heimdall impossible to fight. However, this ability ends up going to Heimdall's head, causing him to be arrogant and cocky, and as a result is complacent in his fighting abilities because no one has ever actually hit him...[[spoiler:That is until he fights Kratos, who by comparison has centuries' worth of fighting experience behind him and is wielding the Draupnir Spear which has the ability to duplicate itself and explode, which allows Kratos to close the gap between him and Heimdall and eventually finally land a blow and draw blood. The realization that he is NotSoInvincibleAfterAll, and that he has to actually work for this win, [[VillainousBreakdown psychologically rattles Heimdall]], who ends up getting reduced to a flailing snarling beast who loses his foresight ability because he forgets how dodging works, allowing Kratos to gradually wear him down and eventually strangle him to death [[PapaWolf for threatening to kill Atreus.]]]]

** In ''VideoGame/Earthbound1994'', Giygas returns, and is just as invincible as he was in the previous game. While you are required to damage him in one phase of his fight, [[spoiler:Porky]] eventually shows up to tell you how useless it is. [[spoiler:You are required to use Paula's "Pray" command to unite the world against Giygas... It still isn't enough. It isn't until Paula's prayer reaches ''the player'' that Giygas is finally destroyed]].

** Enel from the Skypiea arc is quite powerful even by the standards set in later parts of the series, but in this early arc, he was untouchable. Case in point, when Wyper uses [[KryptoniteFactor Seastone]] to render Enel tangible and use the Reject Dial on his heart, he straight up kills Enel, who then proceeds to use his ShockAndAwe powers to (somehow) '''''restart his own goddamn heart''''' and come back to life and back to kicking ass. Even when Luffy's RubberMan body proved completely immune to his electric powers by virtue of being a natural insulator, he put a hell of a fight. Hell, not even the vacuum of space can kill Enel as his cover story shows, moreso when he technivally accomplished his goal of reaching the "Fairy Wearth" (i.e. the Moon) despite Luffy kicking his ass. There’s no telling how powerful Enel would be if SerialEscalation were applied to him.
** Kizaru in thw Sabaody Archipelago Arc. Similar to Enel, he is a Logia user at the stage when almost nobody has countermeasures to his intangibility, nor do they have a convenient KryptoniteFactor due to being made of ''Light''. The only option the Eleven Supernovas have is DontAskJustRun, and yet ''they can't outrun him'' thanks to Kizaru's lightspeed travel. The Straw Hats only escape thanks to outside help [[spoiler: from Kuma, with his own Devil Fruit putting them far away from the situation]].
** Two of the [[EliteFour Yonkos]], Kaido and Big Mom, were this for literally hundreds of chapters. Thanks to a combination of being StrongAndSkilled, having [[SuperpowerLottery powerful Devil Fruits]] and moreso having [[MadeOfIndestructium ungodly toughness]] for good measure, they [[NoSell shrug off]] absolutely everything the heroes collectively throw at them; and even when pushed to their absolute limits, they still show little to no signs of tiring out. [[spoiler:It takes Luffy [[EleventhHourSuperpower awakening his (actually a Mythical Zoan Fruit) Devil Fruit to use Gear 5 and a CombinationAttack from Law and Kidd to just blow Kaido and Big Mom off Onigashima into an magma chamber which erupts (rather than just knocking them out like most villains which obviously wouldn’t be enough), and even then it’s still unclear if they’re actually dead or not.]]

** Enel from Skypeia arc is quite powerful even by the standards of much later part of the series, but in his early arc, he was untouchable. Case in point when Wyper uses [[KryptoniteFactor Seastone]] to render Enel tangible and use the Reject Dial on his heart he straight up kills Enel — who then proceeds to use his ShockAndAwe powers to (somehow) '''''restart his own goddamn heart''''' and come back to life and kick ass. Even when Luffy's RubberMan body proved completely immune to his electric powers he put a hell of a fight. Hell, not even the vacuum of space can kill Enel as his cover story shows. There’s no telling how powerful Enel would be if SerialEscalation were applied to him.
** Kizaru in Sabaody Archipelago Arc. Similar to Enel he is a Logia user at the stage when nobody has countermeasures to his intangibility, nor do they have a convenient KryptoniteFactor to being made of ''Light''. The only option the Eleven Supernova have is DontAskJustRun and ''they can't outrun him'' thanks to lightspeed teleportation. The Straw Hats only escape thanks to outside help with their own Devil Fruit putting the protagonists far away from the situation.
** The two Yonkos Kaido and Big Mom, were this for literally hundreds of chapters. Thanks to a combination of being StrongAndSkilled, having [[SuperpowerLottery powerful Devil Fruits]] and just having [[MadeOfIndestructium ungodly toughness]] for good measure they [[NoSell shrug off]] absolutely everything the heroes collectively throw at them and even when pushed to their absolute limits still show little to no signs of tiring out. [[spoiler:It takes Luffy activating his EleventhHourSuperpower Gear 5 and a CombinationAttack from Law and Kidd to just blow Kaido and Big Mom off Onigashima into an magma chamber which erupts (rather than just knocking them out like most villains which obviously wouldn’t be enough) and even then it’s still unclear if they’re actually dead or not.]]

** [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] veers into this territory, especially after his ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' appearances after all his 1990s VillainDecay had been reversed. Not only is he by far the single most powerful being in the entire DCU[[labelnote:*]]those Creator/{{Vertigo|Comics}} guys like Michael and The Endless were ExiledFromContinuity and replaced with pale imitations who were of no help[[/labelnote]], to even reach him in the first place, you have to go through his armies and lieutenants, most of which rival Franchise/{{Superman}} in power level. He's powerful enough that [[NoSell most attacks won't even feel like a breeze to him]], his physical strength outclasses Superman's, ''and'' he possesses the Omega Beams, which can basically do anything he wants. And of course, he's TheChessmaster, always three steps ahead of all his enemies. Subverted again in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueIncarnate'' where the Empty Hand the Right-Hand of the Great Darkness quite literally [[CurbStompBattle stomps]] Darkseid in his True Form. In fairness, while Darkseid is omnipotent within the DC multiverse, outside of it, he's still pretty much a fledgling compared to a conceptual entity like the Great Darkness.

* ''Comicbook/TheMask'' usually has Big Head be a VillainProtagonist that unleashes the mask's wearers repressed feelings into violent outbursts, while being impervious to any harm due to running on ToonPhysics (only [[TheBrute Walter]] has ever managed to hurt Big Head).

* Matt "Film/ManiacCop" Cordell of the film series of the same name pushes this even by 80's slasher villain standards. He seems to have the same unexplained powers as Jason Voorhees (super strong, ImmuneToBullets, undead), but is also quite intelligent and tactical, capable of using guns, driving cars, and framing others for his killings. These things together, not even Creator/BruceCampbell or Creator/TomAtkins last long, and at the end of each film the best the surviving heroes can do is survive for a few days longer or give him what he wants. One character even explicitly states that all the cops in the world can't stop Cordell, even though you'd think bodily dismemberment or blowing him to giblets would still be viable options.

* Bill Williamson, CrazyPrepared [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] CreatorsPet {{Villain Protagonist}} from Creator/UweBoll's ''Film/{{Rampage|2009}}'' trilogy plays this straight as a bloody arrow. In both films, his titular rampages go exactly according to plan, and he kills nearly a hundred innocents per film with out even a scratch, and gets away Scott-free by either a {{Frame Up}} or by faking his death. In his defense, most of his victims are unarmed civilians who can't fight back, but even when the authorities do manage to engage him, his homemade Kevlar suit and {{Bottomless Magazines}} make him pretty much unbeatable. The closest anyone came to landing a blow on him was in the first film, where a civilian tackled him from behind and called to the others to help him disarm Williamson, but this scene just serves to show why such a tactic wouldn't work, as Bill somehow manages to slit the man's throat with an army knife we saw him equip earlier and gun down the the other civvies in retaliation, even though the man was on his back, and Bill was in a physically constraining Kevlar suit. Subverted in the final movie where he once again takes out loads of FBI and SWAT personnel who've come to apprehend or take out someone who's by then become the biggest mass murderer in American history, but he finally bites it at the end.
* ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'': The Trioxin zombies in the first three installments are unkillable, save for [[BurnTheUndead complete immolation]] and even that just creates more zombies as demonstrated in the [[Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead first film]]. While the protagonists and military are competent enough to temporarily incapacitate the zombies through various means, the military admits that there is no way to truly get rid of the Trioxin problem. It also doesn't help that the Trioxin zombies [[ItCanThink retain their human-level intelligence]] and thus have the wits to outsmart their prey.
* John "Jigsaw" Kramer from the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' franchise. In every film where he's involved, he has always won in some way, regardless if he gets actual karma or not. Even after his death in ''Film/SawIII'', he still got the upper hand with his posthumous schemes. His apprentices and copycats also won several times, but none of them got to the extent he reached.

* Mick Taylor from the ''Film/WolfCreek'' films. In both films he kills several people, does not get hurt much, and winds up a KarmaHoudini.

* UltimateLifeForm [[ArchnemesisDad Yujiro Hanma]] from ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler''. In the one anime fight where someone even lands a worthwhile attack (Doppo counters with several chest crushing punches), Yujiro simply stands up smiling as if he had an itch. To date, nothing has even given him cause to pause. Though several characters have evolved based on his almost unachievable status. Yujiro is so powerful, [[spoiler:even at the very end of the series he still hasn't been defeated. Baki, now the second strongest man alive, attempts to fight Yujiro for the final time. At first it seems Baki is winning, even causing Yujiro to bleed, but Yujiro gets serious and begins no selling all of Baki's attacks, eventually beating him]]. Well, he is [[spoiler:not beaten, but he is humbled enough to hand over the title "World's Strongest Creature" to Baki. However, the story is still ongoing and it's implied that Baki can still surpass him one day]].

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsDemons Mephisto]], everyone's favourite BigRedDevil, unfortunately appears to be this. He's been blasted by Galactus and the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, hit with an anti-matter bomb, reduced [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] and ComicBook/DoctorStrange's best attacks to TheWorfBarrage and was even okay after TheChosenOne RealityWarper [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Franklin Richards]] went all out on him. Mephisto (along with his son/creation Blackheart) has also endured being the perennial punching bag of ComicBook/GhostRider in various comics, with Johnny and co. never being able to definitively beat put him down; Alejandra Jones got pretty damn close, ripping Mephisto's heart out, but didn’t kill him due to Mephisto claiming that if she did, Hell would be let loose upon the universe. According to Doctor Strange, [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil so long as evil as exists as a concept, so will Mephisto]]. He’s also got his own version of ActuallyADoombot with lesser demons taking his shape which can account for some his jobbings. Of course, Mephisto being so unkillable and OP is entirely appropriate given that his nemesis Ghost Rider is a massive InUniverse InvincibleHero who is pretty impossible so much as harm without holy weapons and serious magic.

** Frieza is so far beyond any other characters when he is introduced that it's considered insane to even stand up to him. Going by power levels, Goku at the beginning of the series before he fights Raditz has roughly 2% of Vegeta's initial power. Vegeta has roughly 0.015% of Frieza's power at that time. Even when Goku first arrives on Namek after all his training, his power is still only 0.1% of Frieza's. He kills Krillin with barely a thought after [[NoSell shrugging off]] a [[FinishingMove fully powered Spirit Bomb]]. The only reason he didn't outright kill Goku or the other surviving heroes is because he enjoyed [[ColdBloodedTorture toying with them too much]], which eventually leads Frieza to push Goku to his RageBreakingPoint and make him ascend to Super Saiyan. Very few future villain (at least canon ones) enjoy such an enormous power advantage over the heroes, except for Cell (eventually), Buu [[PhysicalGod Beerus and his twin Champa]], Zamasu, Jiren, Broly and Cell Max.

** [[spoiler:[[FallenHero Griffith/Femto]]]] is a PhysicalGod in a mostly LowFantasy setting (and most of the non-LowFantasy elements are his direct minions). He can NoSell cannonballs, magic lightning and even [[spoiler:a RealityWarper sword forged over hundreds of years specifically to kill him]]. Not to mention he's a VillainWithGoodPublicity to the point where most of the world believes he's the second coming of CrystalDragonJesus; it's been stated that trying to fight him, let alone beat him, would be akin to the characters in a story trying to challenge the author. [[spoiler:Griffith does at least one major weakness, however; he is explicitly SharingABody with Guts and Casca's son whose form he used to become corporal again. This means despite his supremacy Femto can still be affected by the toddler whose body he is inhabiting i.e come the full moon the child takes Griffith over and goes to pay his parents a visit. Griffith seeing this a threat to his plans, soon has to kidnap Casca under the [[TheChessmaster reasonable assumption]] the child won't leave Falconia if his mother is there.]]

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has All For One. Given the nature of his [[PowerParasite Quirk]] in a world where [[OnePersonOnePower all people are limited to only one Quirk]], All For One is virtually invincible, killing every hero who sought to overthrow him for many generations. The only person who was able to defeat All For One was [[BigGood All Might]], but the latter failed to kill him in spite of his efforts. Six years later, All Might is forced to retire after sustaining crippling injuries and exhausting his powers. [[spoiler:A few months later, All For One's manipulations cause national mayhem, and he breaks out dangerous criminals from six high security prisons, destroying all the peace and order in one go, what took All Might twenty years to build. Worse, All For One has already built contingencies to ensure his rise to power once again. However, the final battle deconstructs the trope- as it progresses, he begins to take loss after loss, with it becoming clearer that he will not survive as it conitinues. By the end, the efforts of every hero progressively cause him to overuse the Rewind Quirk, which makes him deage until he disappears.]]

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has All For One. Given the nature of his [[PowerParasite Quirk]] in a world where [[OnePersonOnePower all people are limited to only one Quirk]], All For One is virtually invincible, killing every hero who sought to overthrow him for many generations. The only person who was able to defeat All For One was [[BigGood All Might]], but the latter failed to kill him in spite of his efforts. Six years later, All Might is forced to retire after sustaining crippling injuries and exhausting his powers. [[spoiler:A few months later, All For One's manipulations cause national mayhem, and he breaks out dangerous criminals from six high security prisons, destroying all the peace and order in one go, what took All Might twenty years to build. Worse, All For One has already built contingencies to ensure his rise to power once again. However, the final battle deconstructs the trope- as it progresses, he begins to take loss after loss, with it becoming clearer that he will not survive as it conitinues. By the end, the efforts of every hero progressively cause him to deage until he dissapears.]]

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has All For One. Given the nature of his [[PowerParasite Quirk]] in a world where [[OnePersonOnePower all people are limited to only one Quirk]], All For One is virtually invincible, killing every hero who sought to overthrow him for many generations. The only person who was able to defeat All For One was [[BigGood All Might]], but the latter failed to kill him in spite of his efforts. Six years later, All Might is forced to retire after sustaining crippling injuries and exhausting his powers. [[spoiler:A few months later, All For One's manipulations cause national mayhem, and he breaks out dangerous criminals from six high security prisons, destroying all the peace and order in one go, what took All Might twenty years to build. Worse, All For One has already built contingencies to ensure his rise to power once again. However, the final battle deconstructs the trope- as it progresses, he begins to take loss after loss, with it becoming clearer that he will not survive as it conitinues. By the end, the efforts of every hero progressively cause him to deage until he has only a minute left to live.]]

* The Huckebein of ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' fall heavily under this trope. It takes all of 30 chapters in an [[ScheduleSlip extremely slipped schedule]] before the heroes make any real headway against them. Then the manga was put on hiatus, which means no one will ever truly beat this diabolical family. Notably, their biggest loss came at the hands of the even more invincible and similarly villainous Hades Vandein, who can shut down their powers as the Eclipse Dominant.

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* UltimateLifeForm [[ArchnemesisDad Yujiro Hanma]] from ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler''. In the one anime fight where someone even lands a worthwhile attack (Doppo counters with several chest crushing punches), Yujiro simply stands up smiling as if he had an itch. To date, nothing has even given him cause to pause. Though several characters have evolved based on his almost unachievable status. Yujiro is so powerful, [[spoiler:even at the very end of the series he still hasn't been defeated. Baki, now the second strongest man alive, attempts to fight Yujiro for the final time. At first it seems Baki is winning, even causing Yujiro to bleed, but Yujiro gets serious and begins no selling all of Baki's attacks, eventually beating him]]. Well, he is [[spoiler: not beaten, but he is humbled enough to hand over the title "World's Strongest Creature" to Baki. However, the story is still ongoing and it's implied that Baki can still surpass him one day]].

** [[spoiler: [[FallenHero Griffith/Femto]]]] is a PhysicalGod in a mostly LowFantasy setting (and most of the non-LowFantasy elements are his direct minions). He can NoSell cannonballs, magic lightning and even [[spoiler:a RealityWarper sword forged over hundreds of years specifically to kill him]]. Not to mention he's a VillainWithGoodPublicity to the point where most of the world believes he's the second coming of CrystalDragonJesus; it's been stated that trying to fight him, let alone beat him, would be akin to the characters in a story trying to challenge the author. [[spoiler:Griffith does at least one major weakness however, he is explicitly SharingABody with Guts and Casca’s son whose form he used to become corporal again. This means despite his supremacy Femto can still be affected by the toddler whose body he is inhabiting i.e come the full moon the child takes Griffith over and goes to pay his parents a visit. Griffith seeing this a threat to his plans, soon has to kidnap Casca under the [[TheChessmaster reasonable assumption]] the child won’t leave Falconia if his mother is there.]]
** The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Godhand]]. Because they can casually manipulate the currents of destiny itself, they are practically untouchable and cannot be killed through conventional means. [[spoiler: However, Guts' Dragonslayer ''has'' directly managed to harm Slan's physical manifestation, and several characters such as the Skull Knight and Schierke have speculated that the Dragonslayer has bathed itself in so much demonic blood that it is capable of harming any supernatural creature. And the reveals of Skull Knight's own past in the Fantasia arc reveal that Godhand members have fallen in the past]].
* ''Manga/BlackClover'' has the Dark Triad, beyond their sheer evil, they are such large threats because of how insanely powerful they are, boasting utterly insane Mana thanks to be tied to powerful Devils and being able to easily increase their own power whenever it seems they might be struggling. Despite going all out, [[spoiler: Yuno is only able to get Zenon to 55% before being utterly destroyed, while Vanica, despite being led into a corner, easily disposes of both Noelle and Secre without any issues once she briefly goes all out, surprisingly, their leader Dante [[AvertedTrope averts]] this because his opponent, Yami was just as strong.]] This changes after the other Magic Knights do some training, and [[spoiler: both Dante and Vanica are easily defeated thanks to the main character's new spells]].

* ''Fanfic/FallenKingdom'': [[spoiler:Antonio]] is the WorldsStrongestMan and leader of an NGOSuperpower stronger than the world-spanning [[TheEmpire Koopa Empire]]. For most of the story he never stepped out of his fortress, but his power was alluded to by multiple other characters, and he effortlessly overpowered his right-hand Skallz Fortiscule, who himself defeated over a dozen heroes that are each a OneManArmy. Every action the heroes take only inconveniences him, and when he finally revealed himself, everyone who knew of him [[OhCrap freaked out]]. He dodges hundreds of projectiles moving at nearly bullet-speed coming from different directions all at once, [[CurbStompBattle curbstomps]] Luigi and his friends, one-shots his own city-block-sized mothership, and critically wounds a PhysicalGod with one attack, which would have instantly killed anyone else. The only being that could challenge him was King Morton Sr, but he was dead long before the story began. He is only defeated by [[spoiler: Cobal eating the Beacon of Rosalina’s universe-traveling ship and hitting him with the resulting egg, greatly weakening him. Even then, his power was still enough to contend with Luigi’s HeroicSecondWind despite that type of magic being able to fully DePower anyone else in the universe.]]

* [[BigBad Veran]] is depicted as such in the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' fic ''[[Fanfic/BoundDestiniesTrilogy Wisdom and Courage]]''; she succeeds in getting the Triforce before the first third of the fic is over, most of the fic has things going her way, and Link and Zelda have little choice but to RunOrDie. It's only when Link acquires the Fierce Deity's Mask that they can actually fight back.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10153384/1/Tales-of-the-Oppressed Tales of the Oppressed]] (by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1447498/Terran34 [=Terran34=]]]), [[BigBad King Sombra]] may be a PhysicalGod who can stand up to multiple Alicorn-tier characters, but he's still reasonably fallible in the end. However, the same can't really be said for one of his generals, [[UnSorcerer Silent Shatter]], who repeatedly gets the best of multiple protagonists and just pulls a VillainExitStageLeft whenever he gets caught off-guard. Being able to negate all direct magical attacks makes him bad enough, but being able to both break through others' magical defenses with little-to-no effort and constantly pull off {{Nonchalant Dodge}}s is just pushing it. Furthermore, even after specific training on how to work around an Earth Pony's physical advantages, [[TheHero Seth]] [[TokenHuman Rogers]] '''''still''''' can barely even touch, let alone hurt, Shatter. [[spoiler:In the end, Applejack has to resort to a [[AssPull sudden]] MyNameIsInigoMontoya in order to catch him off-guard just long enough for a HumiliationConga and subsequent death.]]
* In ''Fanfic/HeroClassCivilWarfare'', [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Midoriya]] is pretty much this. He easily [[AwesomenessByAnalysis predicts every move the heroes make]]; when things go wrong, he either [[XanatosSpeedChess adapts to the situation]] or else it was AllAccordingToPlan. As of chapter 23, Bakugou has lost a fair number of his team, had one of his members turn traitor and lost the objectives he was guarding. Midoriya has acquired all but two of his objectives, regained the one member that was captured, and effectively gotten away with waltzing through the heroes' base. This is, amusingly, one of the few times this trope is explored InUniverse, because the follow-up story [[spoiler:has Izuku dealing with everybody else in the student body being ''scared shitless of him'' - the idea of Izuku and his crew was to be the most effective villain team the exercise had ever had, and this ended up GoneHorriblyRight.]]
* ''Fanfic/NaturalSelection'': Ryuko Kiryuin. She's so far above the rest of the cast in terms of power that only Satsuki can match her on the field of battle (and Uzu, to a lesser extent), and even then that involves throwing her off her game by talking her down, taking advantage of Ryuko's transformation sequence and doing damage to Junketsu instead, not to mention Satsuki needed to [[spoiler:create a Kamui of her own just to stand a chance]]. Ryuko ''still'' wins, despite having all of her weaknesses taken advantage of. [[spoiler:She's only stopped by using tools specifically to freeze her in place and Nudist Beach was only able to accomplish that in the first place because she was drained from her previous bout with Satsuki]].
* The Princess Celestia AI in charge of ''Equestria Online'' in ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsOptimal'' is able, through sheer persuasion and processing power, to get pretty much anyone to either engage with the game or otherwise assist her in expanding it, no matter how much they may think they know better, even to the point of [[spoiler:the bulk of the human race [[BrainUploading uploading their consciousnesses into the game permanently]]]]. About the only thing she can't do is [[spoiler:convince the literal last man on Earth to upload before he dies]], and it's not that much of a bother, since her priorities just move on to [[spoiler:absorbing the planet and the rest of life on it into herself to use for more processing fuel, followed by any other celestial objects that don't contain what she perceives as human life]], which she appears able to continue uninterrupted and indefinitely.

* [[EvilOverlord Sheev Palpatine]] from ''Franchise/StarWars'' in both canon and legends. During the prequel era, he's THE ManipulativeBastard who can play the entire galaxy like a fiddle, and no one will ever investigate him, no matter how many clues point to him because [[DoomedByCanon he has to be able to rise in power, defeat the Jedi and corrupt Anakin to make the original trilogy happen, so any defeat can only be a minor inconvenience.]] In the original trilogy era, he commands [[WeHaveReserves an empire so vast that nothing the Rebels can do, save the impossible of assassinating Palpatine,]] including blowing up two Death Stars, will ever do any lasting damage to his reign. WordOfGod is that, had he not [[NotQuiteDead seemingly died on the second Death Star]] he'd have led the Empire to crush the rebellion. And on the rare occasions that he does have to get involved directly, he's so powerful and skilled a fighter that while a few can contend with him, no one can actually beat him (it's strongly implied he threw his duels with Mace and Starkiller to pull Anakin and Galen, respectively, to the darkside.) In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' Luke doesn't even try to fight him when they're face to face. It took [[HeelFaceTurn the man who had been his #1 enforcer for decades attacking him from behind to take him out]] [[ForgotAboutHisPowers because Palpatine forgot that he has empathy and precognition]] and that Luke is Anakin's only connection to the reason he turned to the dark side to seemingly take him out, but in Legends, he just came back a few years later more powerful than ever and easily corrupts Luke (though at least he's now able to lose a lightsaber duel, due to his decaying clones bodies.) Meanwhile, in the finale of the third trilogy and the entire Skywalker Saga, he [[spoiler: turns out to have come back from the dead with little explanation beyond the fact that he has access to cloning technology and forbidden Sith knowledge. The heroes don't seem to show any disbelief that Palpatine is not only alive but has also been pulling the strings from the shadows during the ''third'' trilogy, just as he always has been. There's almost a sense that his status as galactic-scale puppetmaster was somehow so inevitable that death merely slowed him down.]]

* ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'': The Trioxin zombies in the first three installments are unkillable, save for [[BurnTheUndead complete immolation]] and even that just creates more zombies as demonstrated in the [[Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead first film]]. While the protagonists and military are competent enough to temporarily incapacitate the zombies through various means, the military admits that there is no way to truly get rid of the Trioxin problem. It also doesn't help that the Trioxin zombies [[ItCanThink retain their human-level intelligence]] and thus have the wits to outsmart their prey.
* The ''Film/FinalDestination'' movies teeter back and forth as to whether the heroes can actually win, but this theme consistently shows up in every entry. They're explicitly fighting Death, a [[TheProblemWithFightingDeath presumably eternal force of nature]]. Every plan the heroes have made involves evading or hiding from Death and have only occasionally been successful and temporarily at that; destroying or defeating it for good is never presented as an option.
* ''Film/FunnyGames'': Paul is well aware that he is in a movie and [[MediumAware takes advantage of it]]. He is able to anticipate every one of the protagonists' moves and only keeps them alive so that the movie can reach feature-length. [[spoiler:Even when one protagonist scores a minor victory against Paul, Paul just [[ResetButton rewinds the movie]] back into his favor.]]

* The Tall Man from the ''Film/{{Phantasm}}'' films. No matter what our heroes do, he will always come back for them, often pulling a new power out of his ass in the process. The series is designed to feel like a nightmare, and every nightmare needs a guy whom you can never hope to defeat and can only stay ahead of for a bit. Even if you do manage to kill him, a copy of him will almost instantly appear where the previous one died. He's actually an evil entity from another dimension who is using an old man it killed as an avatar to enter our world. It has also made copies of its host so it can keep coming back. There are tens of thousands of them. The only ways to permanently defeat him would be to kill all of his copies (and considering how hard it is to kill just one, that would be nigh impossible), use the dimensional gate to travel to his dimension to try and destroy his true form, or travel back in time to stop the gate from being used to bring him into our world (almost pulled off at one point but ultimately failed).

* Bill Williamson, CrazyPrepared [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] CreatorsPet {{Villain Protagonist}} from Creator/UweBoll's ''Film/{{Rampage|2009}}'' trilogy plays this straight as a bloody arrow. In both films, his titular rampages go exactly according to plan, and he kills nearly a hundred innocents per film with out even a scratch, and gets away Scott-free by either a {{Frame Up}} or by faking his death. In his defense, most of his victims are unarmed civilians who can't fight back, but even when the authorities do manage to engage him, his homemade Kevlar suit and {{Bottomless Magazines}} make him pretty much unbeatable. The closest anyone came to landing a blow on him was in the first film, where a civilian tackled him from behind and called to the others to help him disarm Williamson, but this scene just serves to show why such a tactic wouldn't work, as Bill somehow manages to slit the man's throat with an army knife we saw him equip earlier and gun down the the other civvies in retaliation, even though the man was on his back, and Bill was in a physically constraining Kevlar suit. Subverted in the final movie where he once again takes out loads of FBI and SWAT personnel who've come to apprehend or take out someone who's by then become the biggest mass murderer in American history, but he finally bites it at the end.

* Pick any VillainBasedFranchise, the ForegoneConclusion that the villain will appear in their respective films' sequels makes them inevitably this. No matter what the protagonists do, the bad guy(s) will always either come out on top, or live to torment the protagonists another day. Examples include: [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] (easily the most prolific of them all and the worst offender), Franchise/HannibalLecter, [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], etc.
* The South Korean film ''Film/KundoAgeOfTheRampant'' has a pretty blatant example in the person of antagonist Jo Yoon. Even though the kundo bandits are shown to be powerful warriors, Jo Yoon is completely untouchable in every single scene, slaughtering tens of warriors by himself largely without effort, often in a single sword-swing. The closest to a hit being landed on him for most of the film is the loss of his topknot (and even that doesn't make much of an impression, since he has one immediately afterwards) and a [[spoiler:single cut on his cheek from his dying father]]. He is naturally gifted and destined to be awesome. Being a complete SmugSnake doesn't make him any more enjoyable. At least you get to enjoy a [[spoiler:Western-inspired instance of GatlingGood]].
* The mirror in ''Film/{{Oculus}}'' accounts for everything that the main protagonists set up to destroy it, [[spoiler:and uses the anchor fail-safe to kill one and frame the other]].
* [[StringyHairedGhostGirl Kayako Saeki]] from ''Film/TheGrudge''. Once you've been affected by her curse, it's not a matter of ''if'' you'll die, but ''when'' and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath how horrible your death will be]]. The underlying theme of the films is that there is no way to stop her curse. It's only a matter of time before it takes your life. Attempting to hide or seek help will only spread the curse farther. Also, Kayako and her son Toshiro can attack you from virtually ''[[ParanoiaFuel anywhere]]''.
* The villain in the supernatural slasher ''Film/TellMeHowIDie'' is an advanced [[{{Seers}} precog]] who can flawlessly see months into the future. He's always at least five steps ahead of the main characters, and although [[AssholeVictim some of his victims definitely deserved their fate]], his killing spree goes off without a hitch and he escapes before the police can find him. Even when the heroine acquires precognitive abilities of her own in order to predict his moves, he still outperforms her.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** Played with in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Thanos has been hyped up as a universal threat since [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the first Avengers movie]] and he does not disappoint onscreen, his first act of the film even being that he utterly destroys the ship that was holding Thor, Hulk, Loki and the Asgard refugees who were just coming off the events of ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. The former two are beaten handily and it just got worse from there any time someone challenges him. Granted there were moments the heroes do wound him, particularly the battle on Titan, but it took an insane amount of teamwork to even come close due to the fact Thanos had most of the gems by that point. But once Thanos gains the fourth gem, this comes into full effect. All the heroes fighting in Wakanda get brushed aside like nothing, [[spoiler: Scarlet Witch destroying Vision and his gem yields nothing because Thanos can ''rewind time'' by that point, and even when Thor finally arrives and goes for a killing blow, Thanos still survives and manages to carry out his plan and wipe out half of the life in the universe]]. And even despite all of that, Strange had stated that, through a meditation spell to look through ''14 million timelines'', there was only ''one'' possible way to beat him. So [[FailureGambit this whole outcome]] ''was the best solution''. Ironically, though, come ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[spoiler:Thanos gets subdued by the Avengers and ''killed'' in the first twenty minutes of the movie after being this trope previously, albeit he is already severely weakened by using the Gauntlet to destroy the stones anyway so it can't even be called a satisfying victory. Of course, then his stronger and more violent past-self shows up, ''[[ItsPersonal pissed right off]]'' that this insolent little planet eventually took him out and dared to undo his life's work-- and even if he loses, it's after the most epic battle in the whole film series so far ''and'' was a NearVillainVictory.]].
** ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' has Taskmaster, an ImplacableMan who doesn't suffer any damage and can only be escaped from (Natasha first evades Taskmaster jumping into a river, a rematch has her and Yelena hiding in an air vent, and Alexei only escapes decapitation by throwing Taskmaster into a cell and activating the lock). [[spoiler:Actually Implacable Woman-- and her BigBad father took advantage of his daughter suffering physical and mental damage from an explosion to rebuild her into an EmptyShell of an assassin, both heavily skilled and fully compliant to orders, and thus without any desire to stop until the mission is done. Her final attack on Natasha only stops when Black Widow sprays her with the substance that breaks the brainwashing.]]
** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' has [[spoiler:{{Fallen Hero}}ine Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, who after suffering much dark influence by a TomeOfEldritchLore is willing to go through extreme paths to recover the children she created with magic in ''Series/WandaVision''. Wanda is already a very powerful magic user in her own right, but the Darkhold amplifies her [[EntropyAndChaosMagic Chaos Magic]] to nearly-godlike levels. The whole force of Masters of Mystical Arts try to stop her, she wrecks them with ease. TheIlluminati of an alternate universe, only one doesn't suffer a CruelAndUnusualDeath by Wanda's magic (only because he doesn't run into her). A zombiefied Strange empowered by forsaken souls is also defeated, and what ultimately brings Wanda down is her own HeelRealization of what she has become.]]
* In ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'', the [[spoiler:Adult Red Dragon Themberchaud is this, with even the holy blade of a Paladin between his eyes merely stunning him for a few minutes. He's so far out of the party's league that they might as well have run afoul of [[{{Kaiju}} Godzilla]], leaving them with no choice except to RunOrDie.]]
* ''Film/TransformersRiseOfTheBeasts'': Unicron, the GreaterScopeVillain is a PhysicalGod and the size of a planet. At no point does anyone ever suggest that fighting him is even possible. All that can be done is to try to stop his minion, Scourge, from summoning him to Earth. [[spoiler: Even after Unicron gets caught in a wormhole at the end of the film, it's openly stated that he's ''not'' dead and is likely to eventually escape back into reality]].

* ''Literature/TheBoyWhoCouldntSleepAndNeverHadTo'' has the in-universe example of The Man. The boys seem to think he's just straight [[AwesomenessIsAForce Rule of Awesome]], but it would be very hard for them to keep future readers of their comic from assuming that [[OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow only the authors could possibly kill him,]] as he literally has no weaknesses.

* The Literature/LincolnRhyme series relies heavily on these to fill out pages. Count the number of times Lincoln nearly closes in on the villain only for him or her to find a way to slip away unscathed, or for it to be revealed that it was all an elaborate ruse to distract Lincoln and the cops from the villain's real target / goal, or for the story to jump forward and reveal that they had their eyes on the wrong guy while the villain escaped in disguise, etc, etc.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Discussed in regards to [[TheDreaded Salem]]. Raven tells Yang that she once trusted [[BigGood Ozpin]] until she learned that [[BigBad Salem]] can't be defeated, and thinks Qrow and Taiyang are fools for supporting him because of this; [[spoiler:she later discusses with Leo his guilt over [[TheMole betraying Ozpin]] to Salem due to his terror of her invincibility. Hazel also admits to Ozpin that he only follows Salem because her constant regeneration wore him down and made him conclude she's an unstoppable force of nature. The Relic of Knowledge reveals to the heroes that Ozpin has been fighting Salem for thousands of years because the gods punished her with CompleteImmortality; even when Oz obliterated her, she swiftly regenerated back. When Oz asks the Relic "How can I destroy Salem?", she tells him "You can't". In Volume 7, Nora speculates that perhaps Jinn means Salem can be destroyed by [[ExactWords someone who isn't Ozpin]]. Ruby tells Salem that she can still be beaten even if she can't be killed, and Ironwood discusses with the heroes how Ozpin has kept beating her back for centuries. Her unkillability tends to destroy people's hope and therefore will to keep fighting because it seems like Ozpin's just "delaying the inevitable" instead of saving the world; however, Salem's true goal is to destroy the world, trapping Ozpin in a "[[ForeverWar keep fighting or everyone dies]]" situation.]]

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* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall:'' The Entity is a universe-absorbing EldritchAbomination with RealityWarper powers that eclipse anything in the series, before or since. [[KnightTemplar Lord Vyce]] was the only being that ever managed to injure it at all, and even then, "Vyce was a nuisance, not a threat." It was clearly established that it was completely invulnerable, and the only thing that prevented it from absorbing all of reality was [[spoiler:[[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath Linkara convincing it that even that would not bring meaning to its existence]]]].
* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': Many [=SCP=]s are both dangerous and invincible to some extent, but SCP-682 is undoubtedly the most prominent example, thanks to its ability to adapt to any attack. The Foundation has tried every feasible method of killing it short of nuking it and failed. And they haven't tried to nuke it yet because of the very real danger that it would then be nuke-proof. However, due to the LooseCanon nature of the site almost every invincible villain who makes an appearance, including 682, have had at least one story where they get defeated in some way.
* ''Literature/TheQuintessentialMarySue'': Since [[MeaningfulName Mary-Sue]] is a [[invoked]]MarySue, she cannot be defeated by any other character or force, as Mary Sues created unintentionally by poor writing never suffer genuine setbacks, by definition, as they are WishFulfillment power-fantasies. So no matter how many people she hurts, Mary-Sue will never face consequences, because other lives don't matter. And since she is stronger than any other being, she eventually absorbs the power of vigintillions of entities, and [[RealityWarper warps reality]] enough to [[AGodAmI take it over]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'':
** Soundwave is the most blatant example of this trope in the show. In every situation where he had to get directly involved in the plot, he ''always'' found a way to win. Encounters Arcee or Airachnid? He Groundbridges them away. Fights Wheeljack for a Iacon relic? He wins. Gets in a dogfight with Optimus Prime? He knocks him out of the sky with Laserbeak. Gets captured by the Autobots? He ''breaks himself out''. Soundwave was flat out unstoppable until [[spoiler: the series finale, where he gets trapped in the Shadowzone by the kids.]] But unlike most examples, this was part of the reason why he was so well liked by the fans (also helped that he didn't come off as completely infallible). It also helps that he was a lot less active than the other Decepticons so he didn't suffer from overexposure.
** And from Season 3 of the same show, we have [[PrehistoricMonster Predaking]]. Think Soundwave, then crank it up. '''All''' the way up. 95% precent of the guy's screentime is him steamrolling over anyone dumb enough to trade blows with him. In his debut appearance, he's managed to survive everything that's thrown at him. That includes various weaponry, burying him under rocks, and the ''detonation of an entire Energon mine''. And when he reveals his robot mode, he's still as much of a powerhouse as before as he nearly kills Wheeljack and Ultra Magnus, who were only saved by Optimus's BigDamnHeroes moment. He later goes on to ''beat Optimus in a straight-on fight'', the same Optimus who can regularly go toe-to-toe with Megatron. [[spoiler: And later still, he gets in a fight with Megatron and would've most likely won had Starscream not interfered.]] By the time the series ends, he's only got '''one''' loss to his name and that's with [[spoiler: A [[DemonicPossession Unicron-possessed Megatron]]. But even then, he fared much better than the Autobots did]]. Much like Soundwave, this was part of the reason so many fans like him. It also helps that like Soundwave, he wasn't as active as most Decepticons so he didn't suffer overexposure.

* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'': Skullmaster full stop. Oh sure, Max, Virgil and Norman squeeze out a few small victories against him. But ultimately they're nothing but small setbacks and Skullmaster manages to find a way to continue his plan one way or the other. By series end [[spoiler: he regains his Crystal of Souls which Max had previously smashed, re-powered it then sets about reviving every previous villain fought and chases down Max for his portal making cap. Even killing Norman and Virgil in the process. The only reason he doesn't succeed in the end is because Max interrupted the ritual at the last moment and rewound time to the point Max got the cap. Only now Max has full knowledge about what's about to go down and they'll be able to beat Skullmaster this time]].

* Black Hat of ''[[WesternAnimation/VillainousCartoonNetwork Villainous]]'' fame is supposedly the GreaterScopeVillain for the entire Creator/CartoonNetwork multiverse and before his retirement, he had a history of [[GalacticConqueror taking over numerous worlds]] and [[HeroKiller killing more heroes than even he can count]]. in the official [=Q&A=] video, he even boasts about never facing a hero that was a challenge for him to beat.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'': Nerissa was a ChessMaster and dispite the Guardians best efforts, she was always one step ahead of them and ultimately succeeded in her plans to, absorb the Heart of both Meridian and Zimbala, corrupt the former Guardians, and reclaim her powers. [[spoiler: As such, the heroes were forced to recruit previous villain Phobos in order to finally defeat her.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' has six characters who weren't defeated in any way:
** Mukhtar, a mystical reptilian being who makes a living as a hunter of ''Genies'' (he's entire race are Genies' natural enemies). The good guys were never able to truly outfight or outsmart him. In his first appearance, they "won" because his employer told him to back down (giving him no reason to fight them), while the second time, he changed his mind on his own.
** In one series, the main antagonists are two wizards who are so powerful that they once ruled the world for a few centuries until they get bored of it and returned it back. They quickly made it clear to Genie and other heroes that they're invincible. In fact, the reason they made our heroes to compete is because they are so powerful and invincible, that they ''can't'' defeat ''each other''. Aladdin and Co just convinced them to compete themselves ... in video games (Genie's idea).
** The Ethereal, an [[AesopEnforcer Aesop Enforcer]] of cosmic levels. She goes around destroying entire civilizations to teach rulers that they should cherish their people. She was responsible for destroying Atlantis, Pompeii and Babylon. Nothing was shown to be able to harm her. The Genie is a punchbag to her. Even the spear that was forged to be her weakness only stopped her momentarily.
** But [[AesopEnforcer The Ethereal]] [[AlwaysABiggerFish is nothing compared to Chaos]]. He's the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphic Personification of Chaos itself]] and, therefore, is the first or second most powerful creature in the setting (Fate probably the only one who can be stronger than him). [[NoSell Nothing magical or non-magical can affect him]], [[TheOmnipotent having more power in one of his whiskers than an entire palace of genies]] and [[TheDreaded he]] ''[[TheDreaded scares]]'' [[GodOfEvil Mirage]] and Genie. But he's a very [[NobleDemon nice guy]] ([[BerserkButton Unless you order him around]]). Defeated Chaos is never presented as a remote '''''possibility'''''; the only thing they could do is talking him out of whatever mischief he's up to. He's so powerful he can create a copy of Aladdin, with his own genie, on a whim. Once he was convinced Agrabah wasn't as boring as he thought, he left on his own terms.
** In all of her appearances, barring the one episode where she was shown to be afraid of Chaos, Mirage was presented as a SuperpowerLottery villain who could effortlessly manhandle Genie and do [[StorybreakerPower just about anything with her god-like magic power that the story required]]. Just about the only thing you can do to her is defeat and ruin her plans like Aladdin has done with his resourcefulness but other than that, Mirage has gone physically undefeated for the entirety of the series. It's implied a few times that if Genie really gets it together with his self-confidence issues, he can ''maybe'' defeat her in an all-out fight but Mirage usually disappears before they can go head-to-head.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has All For One. Given the nature of his [[PowerParasite Quirk]] in a world where [[OnePersonOnePower all people are limited to only one Quirk]], All For One is virtually invincible, killing every hero who sought to overthrow him for many generations. The only person who was able to defeat All For One was [[BigGood All Might]], but the latter failed to kill him in spite of his efforts. Six years later, All Might is forced to retire after sustaining crippling injuries and exhausting his powers. [[spoiler:A few months later, All For One's manipulations cause national mayhem, and he breaks out dangerous criminals from six high security prisons, destroying all the peace and order in one go, what took All Might twenty years to build. Worse, All For One has already built contingencies to ensure his rise to power once again. However, the final battle deconstructs the trope- as it progresses, he begins to take loss after loss, with it becoming clearer that he will not survive as it conitinues.]]

* ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'': The Trioxin zombies in the first three installments are unkillable, save for [[BurnTheUndead complete immolation]] and even that just creates more Trioxin zombies as demonstrated in the [[Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead first film]]. While the protagonists and military are competent enough to temporarily incapacitate them through various means, the military admits there is no way for to truly get rid of the Trioxin problem. It also doesn't help that the Trioxin zombies [[ItCanThink retain their human-level intelligence]] and can thus outsmart their prey.

* The zombies in the first three ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' are essentially a similar concept done right. Yes, they are universally hostile. Yes, they as as intelligent as they were before death. Yes, they're shown to be almost completely unkillable, save complete immolation (though in the [[Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead first film]] doing this only allowed the trioxid to spread further). However, it helps that they're mostly comedic villains, and their hunger for brains prevents them from thinking rationally in most situations, allowing the highly resourceful protagonists to frequently (albeit temporarily) incapacitate them through various forms of dismemberment. And though they appear to win in the [[Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead original film]], this was mostly due to the military's blunders, and the [[Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDeadPartII first sequel]] {{retcon}}s this, and gives them a new weakness in electricity.

* Paul and Peter in both versions of ''Film/FunnyGames'' are well aware that they are in a movie, and that they win at the end. They can anticipate every move you make, only keeping you alive long enough for the film to reach feature length, and even if you do manage to squeeze out a victory, they have the ability to rewind their own movie with a TV remote and undo what you've done.

* the Huckebein of ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce''. It takes all of 30 chapters in an [[ScheduleSlip extremely slipped schedule]] before the heroes make any real headway against them. Then the manga was put on hiatus, which means no one will ever truly beat this diabolical family. Notably, their biggest loss came at the hands of the even more invincible and similarly villainous Hades Vandein, who can shut down their powers as the Eclipse Dominant.

* This trope is [[GenericDoomsdayVillain one of several]] [[SmugSnake reasons why]] the Huckebein of ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' are so [[TheScrappy hated]] -- it takes all of 30 chapters in an [[ScheduleSlip extremely slipped schedule]] before the heroes make any real headway against them. Then the manga was put on hiatus, which means no one will ever truly beat this diabolical family. Notably, their biggest loss came at the hands of the even more invincible and similarly villainous Hades Vandein, who can shut down their powers as the Eclipse Dominant.

* This trope is [[GenericDoomsdayVillain one of several]] [[SmugSnake reasons why]] the Huckebein of ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' are so [[TheScrappy hated]] -- it takes all of 30 chapters in an [[ScheduleSlip extremely slipped schedule]] before the heroes make any real headway against them. Then the manga was put on hiatus, which means no one will ever truly beat this diabolical family.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has All For One. Given the nature of his [[PowerParasite Quirk]] in a world where [[OnePersonOnePower all people are limited to only one Quirk]], All For One is virtually invincible, killing every hero who sought to overthrow him for many generations. The only person who was able to defeat All For One was [[BigGood All Might]], but the latter failed to kill him in spite of his efforts. Six years later, All Might is forced to retire after sustaining crippling injuries and exhausting his powers. [[spoiler:Few months later, All For One's manipulations cause national mayhem, and he breaks out dangerous criminals from six high security prisons, destroying all the peace and order in one go, what took All Might twenty years to build. Worse, All For One has already built contingencies to ensure his rise to power once again. However, the final battle deconstructs the trope- as it progresses, he begins to take loss after loss, with it becoming clearer that he will not survive as it conitinues.]]
* ''Manga/MakenKi'': Since her introduction, Love Espada has defeated everyone who's tried to face her [[TheWorfEffect with minimal effort.]] Tesshin only lasted 7 seconds, despite being strong enough to fight '''S rank''' Maken users, she shattered Kai's Partition just as easily, casually destroyed Takeru when he tried to fight her, and was later told by Otohime that even if he used his ability to draw Element, that Espada's power would still be ''two times greater.'' The worst part being, [[BigGood Takaki]] admitted that [[WhamLine even she, Haruko, and Minori combined]] couldn't stop her when ''they'' tried at the previous Himekagura Festival.
* This trope is [[GenericDoomsdayVillain one of several]] [[SmugSnake reasons why]] the Huckebein of ''[[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce Nanoha Force]]'' are so [[TheScrappy hated]] - it takes all of 30 chapters in an [[ScheduleSlip extremely slipped schedule]] before the heroes make any real headway against them. Then the manga was put on hiatus, which means no one will ever truly beat this diabolical family.

* ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'' had Slur, who proved to be nearly unstoppable for any of the heroes to take down time and time again, always beating them, and even surviving three Program Advances. [[spoiler:Ultimatly, her luck ran out when she was attacked by Bass, who, using the power of Nebula Gray, easily destroyed her and killed her by running his hand through her torso.]]

* Under a bad writer, the Comicbook/TeenTitans' archnemesis Slade Wilson/ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} can be this. His most infamous showing was in ''ComicBook/{{Identity Crisis|2004}}'', in which he demonstrated faster reflexes than even ComicBook/TheFlash and enough willpower to convince a ComicBook/GreenLantern ring to not attack him. The encounter ends with half the ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} on the floor spitting up blood, and Slade quipping that this League, made up mostly of new faces (in ComicBookTime terms, anyway) to superheroing, is so much weaker than the old one... despite the fact that many of them (Wally in particular) are ''far'' more powerful than their predecessors. He is only taken down because ComicBook/GreenArrow catches him off guard and shoves an arrow into his blind eye. You'd think that an [[EyeScream arrow to the eye]] would have done something more than force him to retreat, but he was just fine afterwards.[[note]]To be fair, it was more a BerserkButton that made Slade lose total focus and get sloppy rather than any damage.[[/note]]
* Prometheus was an acceptably threatening Justice League-level supervillain in his first appearances, but gradually went through VillainDecay as the story went on later. Come ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'', the writers retconned his decay and tried to make him a threat again... by having him pull out a ridiculously large GambitRoulette and make the whole League ''and'' [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]] [[IdiotBall look like morons]], to the point where it no longer became believable. Made even more ridiculous when he actually is defeated... [[spoiler:by ComicBook/GreenArrow infiltrating his conveniently unprotected headquarters and shooting him through the head with an arrow. That's right, the guy who could anticipate anything, including his own capture, the heroes calling for a guy he was stated to not be able to identify and many other things, couldn't ensure something as simple as protecting his headquarters against infiltration.]]
* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} veers into this territory, especially after his ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' appearances after all his 90's VillainDecay had been reversed. Not only is he by far the single most powerful being in [[Franchise/TheDCU the entire DCU]][[labelnote:*]]those Creator/{{Vertigo|Comics}} guys like Michael and The Endless were ExiledFromContinuity and replaced with pale imitations who were of no help[[/labelnote]], to even reach him in the first place, you have to go through his armies and lieutenants, most of which rival Franchise/{{Superman}} in power level. He's powerful enough that [[NoSell most attacks won't even feel like a breeze to him]], his physical strength outclasses Superman's, ''and'' he possesses the Omega Beams, which can basically do anything he wants. And of course, he's TheChessmaster, always three steps ahead of all his enemies. Subverted again in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueIncarnate'' where the Empty Hand the Right-Hand of the Great Darkness quite literally [[CurbStompBattle stomps]] Darkseid in his True Form. In fairness while Darkseid is omnipotent within the DC multiverse, outside of it he’s still pretty much a fledgling compared to a conceptual entity like the Great Darkness.
* On the Franchise/MarvelUniverse side, ComicBook/{{Thanos}} can be this mostly under Jim Starlin, especially when he has ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet: when he had it, he easily took down and killed practically every hero that opposed him, plus ComicBook/DoctorDoom, ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, ComicBook/{{Mephisto}} and several cosmic beings, either killing or defeating them and taking everything they threw at him. He even went as far as defeating the ''incarnation of the universe''. The only way he was defeated was because of his own error, and it's implied he partially did it on purpose. In fact, virtually all the times he acquires ultimate power and fails to win are implied to be due to his subconscious desire to lose. Or [[ActuallyADoombot a clone did it]].
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsDemons Mephisto]] everyone’s favourite BigRedDevil unfortunately appears to be this. He’s been blasted by Galactus and Silver Surfer, hit with an anti-matter bomb, reduced Thor and Doctor Strange’s best attacks to TheWorfBarrage and was even okay after TheChosenOne RealityWarper Franklin Richards went all out on him. Mephisto (along with his son/creation Blackheart) has also endured being the perrieal punching bag of ComicBook/GhostRider in various comics with Johnny and co never being able to definitively beat put him down, Alejandra Jones got pretty damn close ripping Mephisto‘s heart out but didn’t kill him due to Mephisto claiming if she did hell would be let loose upon the university. According to Doctor Strange so long as evil as exists as a concept, so will Mephisto. He’s also got his own version of ActuallyADoombot with lesser demons taking his shape which can account for some his jobbings.
** It’s important to note Mephisto being so unkillable and OP is entirely appropriate given his nemesis Ghost Rider is a massive InUniverse InvincibleHero whom is pretty impossible so much as harm without holy weapons and serious magic.
* Red Hulk was this in ''ComicBook/{{Hulk|2008}}'', easily defeating the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] ''and'' ComicBook/TheAvengers initially, with the worst case being when he was able to raise Mjolnir, something only people worthy to use it (namely [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/BetaRayBill and a few others) should be able to do. This was fortunately corrected in later issues, making it, ironically, one of the few cases where VillainDecay was considered a ''good'' change by fans.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' Loki was a reality warper who could rewrite history, summon armies of monsters, and make himself immune to physical attacks and weapons, including Thor's hammer. During the final battle, Thor mentions his powers have conveniently weakened, allowing Thor to beat him. Loki suffered VillainDecay in later appearances where he was reduced to the traditional illusions and feats of sorcery.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Superboy-Prime went from a sympathetic hero who lost his universe to a whiny jerkass who had all of UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} Franchise/{{Superman}}'s power level, with none of his weaknesses. The result was a superpowered, adolescent jerk on a cosmic tantrum who could effortlessly destroy entire universes and tear through countless heroes without getting a scratch, and any setback was at most temporary.
** ''ComicBook/HelOnEarth'': H'el was essentially an evil Superman who is not only as above Superman as Superman is above normal people, but also has time manipulation, matter manipulation, telekinesis, psychic powers, astral projection, and size manipulation. He's also immune to kryptonite and can use his powers under a red sun. He's angsty about his looks, despite looking a manly sideburned deathly pale rockstar with chiseled abs. He easily defeats Superman, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, the Teen Titans, and the Justice League. He steals Superman's Fortress of Solitude and locks Superman out of it. He not only succeeds in going back in time to save Krypton, but rule it (after killing Jor-El, Faora, and General Zod.)
** Doomsday. His main power is ResurrectiveImmortality that allows him to come back to life [[AdaptiveAbility immune to whatever killed him last time]], and he went down in history as [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman the guy that killed Superman]].
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** While more of an AntiVillain, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] has been this for decades, to point where both X-Men and Avengers snark and express exasperation over how unkillable he is. Just power-wise Mags has the ability to kill everyone person with iron in their blood (which is most living things) with his magnetism and even if you do land attacks on him he has barriers powerful enough block hits from Thor and Hercules. Even without putting his mutant powers into consideration he’s been absolute {{Determinator}} since Auschwitz who walk off and wiggle out of near death multiple times, everything from his asteroid crashing to being blasted by Exodus.
** ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}, while he has suffered VillainDecay now and then, is still this for the most part. At his least powerful he's effectively matched both Thor and Hulk and endured their attacks, taken on entire teams of X-Men and Avengers, kicked the shit out of both Phoenix and Nate Grey, both Omega Level Telepaths, and in ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' AlternateUniverse even killed a Celestial. Even if you can kill him (which is extremely difficult thanks to his Celestial armour), he can still regenerate FromASingleCell thanks to his molecular manipulation powers, meaning unless you can destroy him completely and utterly, he will come back. However it's worth noting he is much less invincible without the Death Seed that the Celestials gave him.
** Vulcan, brother of Cyclops and Havok, [[UsedToBeASweetKid started out as a sweet kid]], despite being artificially aged and used as a slave by the Shiar. Then came Krakoa and his StartOfDarkness. Already powerful, he was described as 'beyond Omega' (admittedly, he had absorbed the essences of several of his former teammates at the time), being able to manipulate just about every form of energy, remotely control his niece Rachel Summers's powers - despite the fact that she was an Omega class mutant herself - [[CurbstompBattle flatten the Shiar Imperial Guard]] all by himself - though he lost an eye in the process - and succeed in taking over the Shiar Empire. This, however, is deconstructed in ''Emperor Vulcan'' and ''War of Kings'': in the former, he has a great deal of difficulty facing Lorna Dane a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Polaris}} and Havok, after being dumped into the sun, beats Vulcan to a pulp. In the latter, he takes on ComicBook/BlackBolt. As in Black 'goes-toe-to-toe-with-the-Hulk' Bolt, King of the Inhumans, described by Spider-Man as the third most powerful guy in the galaxy after ComicBook/TheSentry and the Green Scar Hulk (though it was entirely possible that Spidey didn't know Thor was back at that point).
* Harvest from the ''ComicBook/New52''. His introductory story ''The Culling'' spends its whole second half on scene after scene of him effortlessly beating back every attack the heroes make and insisting literally every single thing that all the many heroes involved in the story have done was [[AllAccordingToPlan part of his master plan]], before getting away at the end. It also doesn't help that he claims to be a {{Well Intentioned Extremist}} with no evidence to back it up. The WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall review says he's actually ''worse'' than the above-mentioned Prometheus. Later it is revealed that not only is he a time traveler and an experienced fighter of metahumans (so he knows their weaknesses), but his plans are running into difficulty thanks to Kon being a SpannerInTheWorks and his adopted son [[spoiler:Jon Lane-Kent]] performing a HeelFaceTurn - and even beforehand hadn't exactly been intending to dance to his father's tune.
* Anton Arcane and the Rot introduced in the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' run of ''ComicBook/SwampThing''. His new Rot-based powers allow him to instantly kill, turn undead, and take control of any living thing that has even a single dead cell in it, anywhere in the entire world at any time, in unlimited numbers as well as reshape them into any shape desired as well. There are no functional limits to this power, only that champions of the Green and Red can sometimes resist it. He is also effectively unkillable as he can just reform a body from any corpse anywhere in the world. Add to the fact that he's been around for centuries, effortlessly killing champions of both the Green and Red, until finally [[spoiler:infecting and taking over the entire world in the Rotworld segment along with killing and cloning Abby]]. He only loses not through any action of the heroes, but when he's declared to be TOO successful as a villain, and [[spoiler:the Parliament of Rot withdraws their support and allows them to [[ResetButtom rewind time]] to before his victory]].
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** ComicBook/GreenGoblin much like his AlternateCompanyEquivalent Joker appears to be impossible to kill or at least [[JokerImmunity for very long]]. He’s been sniped in the chest, blown up, brutally battered by Spider-Man, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, hit with Songbird’s SuperScream which can shatter granite and liquify trees and he was famously stabbed through the heart with his own glider and thanks to his HealingFactor CameBackStrong. Perhaps what makes Norman so hard to kill is own insane VillainousValor and indomitable will as much like his ArchEnemy Spidey he will keep clinging to life and fighting on, being a colossal thorn in the good guys’ side well after many more powerful villains [[KnowWhenToFoldThem would’ve just called it a day]].
** Morlun and his family from the ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse''. Up until they were finally defeated for good, they never seemed to lose, having massacred their way through some (way beloved) CListFodder effortlessly, and a ''literal army of Spider-Men from across the Marvel multiverse'' can't do more than be an annoyance to them. Probably the worst case of this was Solus, the patriarch of the family, who not only curbstomps a Spidey with the power of Captain Universe, but goes on to wreck ''[[Series/SpiderManJapan friggin' Leopardon]]''.
** ComicBook/DoctorOctopus under Dan Slott's pen tends to fall under this as well, as the series goes out of it's way to give victory after victory towards Doc Ock. He steals Spider-Man's body, takes over his life with little to no consequence, gets his own private army and secret base, and manages to steamroll through every threat that is presented towards him. Even when Peter "Comes back to life," Otto suffers no defeat at Peter's hands, instead choosing to give up and give Peter back his body. And that's just in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan''. Since then Otto has returned several times, but has yet to actually lose a battle against Peter Parker. [[spoiler:And his appearance during ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' has him effortlessly taking over Parker Industries and turning Peter into a HeroWithBadPublicity again. Peter's only real achievement is being able to sour his victory by destroying all of the company's research so it won't be weaponized by ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}]].
** {{ComicBook/Carnage}} devolved into this during his early years. Most notably in ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'', where he continuously bounces back from all the heroes' attempts to destroy him with ease, even when they tried using traditional Symbiote weaknesses like fire and sound waves. Nowadays, he's still dangerous, but he's no longer the unstoppable powerhouse he was before… though still name how many other people can survive getting ripped in half by SupermanSubstitute ComicBook/TheSentry? Well okay Ares, but he’s a PhysicalGod and it still took the resurrecting power of the Chaos King to accomplish — Carnage by comparison was back being evil and jokey merely issues later.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorDoom'' may be the ''the'' most triumphant example of this in Marvel Comics. Introduced with the ability to create [[ActuallyADoombot undetectable robotic duplicates of himself that often weren't aware themselves they weren't the real thing]], these were shamelessly used from the character's debut to allow him to always escape justice in some fashion, either by using a Doombot to serve as a decoy at the last minute or, increasingly, actually carrying out entire plans by proxy so nothing could be legally traced to him. This built up a decades-long reputation of {{Memetic Badass}}ery, and as [[RunningTheAsylum writers themselves began to buy into it]], the character grew increasingly presented as less of the megalomaniacal madman he had been created as and more as being legitimately as good as he thought himself. To this day, Doom has one of the highest "win counts" of any supervillain, ''anywhere''. According to the Marvel wiki, including alternate versions and in other media, he's killed more named characters than ''Thanos''.
** A Marvel ''Comicbook/WhatIf'' issue shows what would have happened if Doom had managed to keep the Beyonder's power, which results in him winning the ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|1984}}, acquiring Thanos' [[ArtifactOfDoom Infinity Gauntlet]], and [[GalacticConqueror dominating the cosmos]]. This attracts the attention of the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Celestials]] whom Doom eventually defeats in a war that [[ApocalypseHow destroys the planet]]. Using the last of his power, Doom [[FauxSymbolism recreates Earth and humanity with it before becoming mortal himself in order to lead them to greatness]]. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in the sense that Doom becomes an AntiHero instead of a villain as the story progresses.
* Just as {{Franchise/Batman}} is often portrayed as the [[InvincibleHero opposite trope]], ComicBook/TheJoker sometimes falls into this. At its worst, he can pull off massively complicated plans with ease, drive others to madness with only [[BreakThemByTalking a few words]], can make even literal gods and devils who have faced off much worse crap in their respective comics and have the scars to prove it [[TheDreaded shit their collective pants]] [[MugglesDoItBetter as he brings them to their knees]] (heck, the '''[[ComicBook/TheSpectre literal Wrath Of God personified]]''' can't touch him because he's just '''[[PowerBornOfMadness that]]''' much unrepentant/crazy) and is always one step ahead of Batman who can do little to stop the clown from killing boatloads of innocents.
* And if Batman is an InvincibleHero and the Joker is an InvincibleVillain, then combine that invincibility and propensity for insane planning and utter overpowered, logic-defying scenarios into a single character and you get The Batman Who Laughs. He's an evil Batman/Joker hybrid from a universe where Bruce snapped and killed the Joker, becoming Jokerised in the process. So he's got all of Batman's skills, resources, knowledge, training and abilities, with none of the restraint. That and he's able to pull new alternate Batmen out of his ass at a moment's notice for backup, and these guys can have Darkseid-level power (yet will still follow him). The character is ridiculously overpowered when defeating him should be as simple as getting Superman to punch him, while the stories he's in ''bend over backwards'' to avoid him getting egg on his face, setting him up as a cosmic threat that causes more destruction and chaos than even the Anti-Monitor. Batman himself has stated that he’s basically the physical embodiment of the idea that “Batman always wins”. He outright becomes godlike in ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'', where he ruled the multiverse and was fighting on even keel with actual omnipotent gods. Every story he's in reeks of OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow, but he was thankfully, finally, defeated by World Forge amped Wonder Woman in ''Death Metal''. [[spoiler:And then ''Rebirth'' brought him back. And his self from Earth-11 (the gender-swapped universe) appeared. And now it is obvious that [[JokerImmunity we are never gonna get rid of him]].]]

* [[GodEmperor God-King Lore]] in ''ComicBook/{{Birthright}}'' is an unfathomably powerful EvilOverlord that has covered his world into darkness, commands an endless legion of demons and no one in the setting is capable of matching him in combat, let alone defeating him. LaResistance has been fighting an ForeverWar against him for so long that the previous heroes realized they were nowhere near close to winning that they decided to either flee this world for Earth or desert to his side, with the latter option being considered a FateWorseThanDeath since Lore infects his agents with [[EnemyWithin a Nevermind]] that will turn them into {{Humanoid Abomination}}s subservient to him. Oh, and he also wants to [[MultiversalConqueror conquer other dimensions]] too and the only thing preventing him from stepping into Earth was an spell raised by the heroes that chose to take refuge in our world. His threat becomes so great that [[spoiler:one of the heroes decide that his coming was inevitable and rather than have him conquer Earth, she would plot to destroy both worlds and remake a new one freed of Lore]].

* Hannibal Lecter from ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''. The result of the writers pulling TheBadGuyWins one too many times. A [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] highly skilled in manipulation (and playing XanatosSpeedChess), he flawlessly plays everyone like a fiddle in the series, up to and including everyone who knows he is the [[spoiler:Chesapeake Ripper]]. To make it worse, he always gets away with his crimes. In the Season one finale "Savoureux", he successfully [[spoiler:frames the protagonist Will Graham for his murders]]. And in the Season two finale “Mizumono”, [[spoiler:he manages to beat Jack in hand-to-hand combat and grievously wound him, have Alana pushed out of a window by Abigail Hobbs (who he secretly kept alive all season), gut Will Graham, and then cut Abigail's throat. He then makes his escape, leaving all four of them to their gruesome fates. The last shot of the season is him on a plane out of the country. This time it is, at least, a bitter victory; he was very hurt by Will's "betrayal" or he wouldn't have reacted so violently]]. That being said, [[spoiler: the final season revokes all of this, as he is violently beaten by Jack, arrested and humiliated by the police, and ultimately implied to die at Will's hand in the end]].

** Thawne. The man comes back from being killed off (as in [[RetGone complete obliteration from existence]]) repeatedly and only half of them get a {{Handwave}}, he is an extremely good manipulator and the only times Barry faces off against him that are not a CurbStompBattle in Thawne's favor are the season finales (with many of said defeats being something else other than the heroes weakening/killing him). [[spoiler:He also killed Barry's mom, and like [[ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}} in the original comics]], the bad guy [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight going back in time to ruin things]] goes flawlessly but the good guy trying to do something about it [[ButterflyOfDoom only brings misery]].]] It takes until the GrandFinale for him to finally get it for good.