History NighInvulnerability / LiveActionTV

* On ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' the humanoid Cylons have the ability to "download" and resurrect in shiny new bodies after they're killed, but only when there's a resurrection ship nearby. Even if one manages to make death stick for one of them, though, there are plenty of copies. It ''is'' possible to shut an individual Cylon (or even an entire model) down for good, but the only ones with the technology to do this are the other Cylons. This was subverted in Season 4 , where the Cylons have lost the ability to resurrect due to the destruction of the resurrection hub.

* ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker''. In the episode "The Devil's Platform", Robert Palmer has been granted the power to turn into a dog by Satan. In dog form, he is ImmuneToBullets (surviving being shot six times by a police officer). Later, he is completely uninjured from being in a head-on car crash that kills the other driver and that Kolchak himself says he couldn't have walked away from.
* In ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'', beings like angels and demons are invulnerable to any sort of mortal weapons, but can be hurt, or even killed, with divine weapons. The one exception to this is Lucifer himself, who can also be made vulnerable when he's near [[LoveInterests Detective Chloe Decker]].

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': The 1998 episode "Warriors," where a white supremacist hopes to take over the world with an army of superhuman warriors, created using a formula he stole from a scientist who was hoping to use it for medical purposes. The prototype warrior is used to take out the Rangers, and at one point not only is Walker and Trivette unable to harm the warrior, he shrugs off dozens of gunshots as though he were a stone wall. [[spoiler: In the end, Walker is able to defeat the warrior ... after the scientist stuns it briefly by throwing flammable liquid in its face and then Walker a flaming torch before kicking it into an oil field, where it is blown up.]]
* ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': Bryce Candle, the title PoorlyDisguisedPilot hero in "The Man Who Could Not Die", was this. He got shot, thrown three stories up by Wonder Woman, and mauled by a lion with nary a scratch.

* In ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'', Murdoc survived just about ''everything'' sometimes seems to be of the "dumb luck" variation.

* Jesse Kilmartin of ''Mutant X'' is both the [[IntangibleMan Made of Air]] ''and'' Made of Diamond version of this trope. His favorite tactic is to wait for someone to hit him, then punch them out while they nurse their now-broken hand. He's also used as [[MightyGlacier cover]], since he's not only ImmuneToBullets, but he's been shown to [[AttackReflector reflect]] lasers and even [[ShockAndAwe Brennan's]] electrical attacks. However, he can only do it as long as he's holding his breath.

* On ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' the humanoid Cylons have the ability to "download" and resurrect in shiny new bodies after they're killed, but only when there's a resurrection ship nearby. Even if one manages to make death stick for one of them, though, there are plenty of copies. It ''is'' possible to shut an individual Cylon (or even an entire model) down for good, but the only ones with the technology to do this are the other Cylons. This was subverted in season 4 , where the Cylons have lost the ability to resurrect due to the destruction of the resurrection hub.

** Also in the Buffyverse are the Beast, [[MadeOfIndestructium whose hide is so tough]] that the only thing that can hurt him is [[spoiler:a piece of himself]]; The First, who's made of air; the mystic orbs that the Geek Trio use towards the end of season 6--whoever holds them is made of diamond and super strong; and Jasmine, who seemed immune from physical harm except by [[spoiler:her parents]].

*** Aim for the eyepiece! The eye- ZZZAAAPP! Even THAT apparently doesn't work anymore:

*** Their PlotArmor is even stronger than their physical defenses — if even a single Dalek survives extermination, it will inevitably end up traveling back in time and regrowing the whole species. Again and again and again...

** Captain Jack Harkness (of ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'') has a direct link to the Heart of the TARDIS, and just regenerates whenever he dies — which he does quite often (over 1,000 times in the twentieth century alone). Eventually Gwen Cooper, the other main character of ''Torchwood'', stops screaming whenever Jack dies, realising that it's really no big deal. However, Jack does age very slowly.

* In ''Series/EmeraldCity'', killing a witch in Oz is a singularly difficult proposition as they have a tendency to not stay dead unless killed by another witch. The Wizard thinks he found a way - guns, but it turns out they work no better than any other weapon against witches. [[spoiler:The only reason it worked on East is because she herself pulled the trigger, while being tricked to do it by the protagonist (who turns out to be a witch herself)]].

** Claire and Peter, for the same reason. Both have healing powers so strong that they both regenerated after being dead for several hours, and Claire proved her resilience by being at the core of a nuclear reaction and having her skin burned off - then having it grow back leaving her perfectly unharmed just ten seconds later. Since Peter's powers are taken from Claire, he has the same potential (though, for full resurrection, she might have to be with him).

** In season three, [[BigBad Sylar]] [[spoiler:finally gets his hands on Claire's power and becomes immortal as well]]. Peter, on the other hand, is [[spoiler:un-immortal'd]] due to the sudden alteration of his power [[spoiler:(he can only use one at a time, and therefore ages normally whenever he isn't using Claire's power - which is most of the time)]].

* This - specifically the Resurrection version - was what made BigBad Master Org so hard for the rangers to take down in ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce''. While they had won a number of prior battles simply by the sheer number of Zords they had available to throw at an enemy, Master Orge was able to absorb all their attacks, regenerate without a scratch, and eventually wear down and destroy 4 different Megazords as well as the leftover stragglers. [[spoiler: They get better.]]

* There are many examples of this trope in the ''Franchise/StargateVerse'' — almost every category has an example:

** ''The Blob'': Human-form replicators are robotic regenerators made up of millions of smaller cells. Not even weapons fire can harm them, but there's another Ancient energy weapon which can — until they figure out an immunity.
** ''Regeneration'': The Wraith, the first Unas. The Wraith [[LifeDrinker feed on lifeforce]], so as long as they can continue to replenish themselves they are biologically immortal — sufficient gunfire can still take any Wraith down.

** The Changelings from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' are immune to any "regular" damage — they simply liquify and reshift. Odo survives being shattered (while being a glass) and run through in human form. Laas can even travel in vacuum. The only things that can kill them are beam weapons at high setting (it took over 100 hits to finish off the Martok impersonator), radiation and [[spoiler:a special virus developed by Section 31]].

** Also Q, though godlike aliens have weapons to kill each other - which are ''powerful enough to make stars go supernova as a side effect''.

** ''God'': Pagan gods can be killed by mere mortals, but the trope does apply to the Big G, since it seems like Death is the only entity that could kill him. In season 11, we find out that [[spoiler:God ''can'' be killed by someone other than Death -- his sister, who, at full strength, is at the same power level and has similar Nigh-Invulnerability.]]
** ''Divine protection'' mixed with ''Resurrection'': In season 5 Sam and Dean are functionally incapable of staying dead. If they do die then the Angels (and in Sam's case, also Satan) will just resurrect them because [[CosmicPlaything they can't be used]] as Angelic vessels if they're dead.[[note]] After season 5, this no longer applies, though they are still protected by other forms of PlotArmor.[[/note]]

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has the Alien Bounty Hunter, a shape-shifting alien Terminator with toxic blood. He can only be killed in a very specific manner, at which the protagonists invariably fail. In later seasons, there's the Super Soldiers, half-alien/half-human villains with regenerative metal skeletons.

* In ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'', beings like angels and demons are invulnerable to any sort of mortal weapons, but can be hurt, or even killed, with divine weapons. The one exception to this is Lucifer himself, who can also be made vulnerable when he's near [[RomanticInterest Detective Chr

* In ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'', beings like angels and demons are invulnerable to any sort of mortal weapons, but can be hurt, or even killed, with divine weapons. The one exception to this is Lucifer himself, who can also be made vulnerable when he's near [[RomanticInterest Detective Chloe Decker]].

* In ''Series/MacGyver'', Murdoc survived just about ''everything'' sometimes seems to be of the "dumb luck" variation.

* The Changelings from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' are immune to any "regular" damage — they simply liquify and reshift. Odo survives being shattered (while being a glass) and run through in human form. Laas can even travel in vacuum. The only things that can kill them are beam weapons at high setting (it took over 100 hits to finish off the Martok impersonator), radiation and [[spoiler:a special virus developed by Section 31]].
** [[spoiler: Although Mirror!Odo is destroyed by a common phaser blast]]

* In ''Series/MacGyver'', Murdoc survived just about ''everything''.
** Also an example of JokerImmunity.

* On ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' the humanoid Cylons have the ability to "download" and resurrect in shiny new bodies after they're killed, but only when there's a resurrection ship nearby. Even if one manages to make death stick for one of them, though, there are plenty of copies. It ''is'' possible to shut an individual Cylon (or even an entire model) down for good, but the only ones with the technology to do this are the other Cylons.
** This was subverted in season 4 , where the Cylons have lost the ability to resurrect due to the destruction of the resurrection hub.