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*** In ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic 3 & Knuckles]]'' and the UsefulNotes/{{PS3}}, UsefulNotes/XBox360 and PC version of ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', and ''VideoGame/SonicMania'', flame, bubble and lightning shields are available. While they are active, they protect the player from flames, let the player breathe underwater, and attract rings, respectively. All three will (at least in ''S3&K'') reflect projectiles without taking damage, but they still disappear after one hit from anything else (and in the case of flame and lightning, touching water). They even grant special powers to Sonic, activated on pressing the jump button while in midair (replacing his situational "insta-shield" move that slightly extends the range of his jump attack momentarily and gives him a short invincibility period): the flame shield lets him dash forward rapidly; the bubble shield lets him dash ''downward'' rapidly ({{Ground Pound}}!); while the lightning shield gives him a {{Double Jump}}.

* ''VideoGame/ALLTYNEXSecond'' allows the player ship to take one hit and keep going; the second results in a life loss, and there's no way to get a shield back for the rest of your current life if you lose it. This is significantly less per-life generosity than other games in the series; ''VideoGame/{{KAMUI}}'' offers four points of shielding per life that can occasionally be refilled, and ''Videogame/RefleX'' offers six with armor-refilling points in the game at the cost of giving you only one life. As compensation, however, it's the only game in the series to offer [[EveryTenThousandPoints point-based extra lives]].

* ''VideoGame/ChoRenSha68k'' features a triangular power-up that can give the OneHitPointWonder that is your ship a shield that can absorb one hit for your ship. Having your shield active at the end of the stage is worth 50,000 points, and you get extra lives [[EveryTenThousandPoints every 1,000,000 points]], so it's worth it to continue to avoid getting hit.

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* ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX'' had the "Nul Element" spells ([=NulFire, NulIce=], etc.) which could absorb one attack from the matching element (regardless of strength) when cast, the highest version, "[=NulAll=]", combined all four elemental shields.

* In ''Videogame/GhostsNGoblins'' and its sequels, the player character's armor disappears after one hit, but they do have the benefit of starting each life with armor equipped. ''Super Ghouls And Ghosts'' also offers a shield powerup that can block one projectile attack only.
** This is expanded on in ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'': Arthur stays behind to set off a powerful bomb, only to show up none the worse for wear, just in his skivvies. Although his armor is only good for one hit, it WILL protect you from that hit, no matter how powerful it may be.

* Explosive reactive armor, on tanks, is designed so that when hit by a shaped-charge it explodes. It actually works quite well, but the explosives get used up.
* Some "trauma plates", small slabs of armour plating that slip into pockets inside a BulletproofVest, are made of extremely strong ceramic materials like boron carbide. They're lighter than steel or titanium, but if they take a hit from a sufficiently powerful firearm they'll shatter. This is generally intentional as shattering dissipates the force of whatever hit the plate instead of sending it into the wearer.
* Shardplate from ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' can block a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Shard]][[SoulCuttingBlade blade]], but doing so causes the piece of Plate hit to shatter. Luckily, [[SelfHealingPhlebotinum it grows back over time.]]

*** The 3D games, the ''VideoGame/{{Sonic Advance|Trilogy}}'' series, and its [[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries handheld]] [[VideoGame/SonicGenerations successors]], have two shields available. They both act the same as in the first two games, but one will attract rings.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', the eponymous hero starts off using a triangular shield he picked up during his stage show (a MythologyGag to the characters' roots). The shield is used precisely once as a guard against the Red Skull's fist. The Red Skull caves it in and it is quickly discarded.

** In [[TabletopGame/AdvancedDungeonsAndDragonsSecondEdition 2nd edition]], the spell Stoneskin renders the target immune to a small number of physical attacks -- anything from a blow from a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Sword of Sharpness]] to a boulder hurled by a giant. The protection lasts until it's exhausted.

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