History PlayingWith / ImmunetoBullets

** [[BoringButPractical It would be incredibly boring]] and [[AntiClimax Anti-Climatic]] if the hero/villain [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim could just shot whatever/whoever is causing them problems.]]

** Bob boasts about how toy bullets can't harm him.

** Small arms our characters have at hand don't have enough stopping power. [[BFG Military anti-materiel rifle]] [[LudicrousGibs on the other hand...]]

** [[BoringButPractical It would be incredibly boring]] and [[AntiClimax Anti-Climatic]] if the hero/villain [[WhyDontYouJustShootThem could just shot whatever/whoever is causing them problems.]]

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* '''Double Subverted''': Turns out the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness goofed-- the monsters ''really are'' ImmuneToBullets.

** A villain or monster is protected by advanced magic or technology.

* '''Downplayed''': Only special bullets are effective against them.

** Or: Its a huge monster with thick skin. The bullets barely penetrate, and, even if they did, the scale is just so massive that a normal-sized bullet can't do any real damage.

** Casualties and quitting among law-enforces and soldier skyrocket because their weapons are useless against the monsters, leading to even more depression and fear.

* '''Exploited''': A company that makes laser weapons, markets them to the army by saying "The monsters may be bullet proof, but this is not a bullet".

** the monsters are slack dodge because of their immunity, which leaves other weaknesses that can be exploited.

* '''Deconstructed''': The uselessness of bullets leads to an increasing reliance on heavy weaponry by the monster hunters, which in turn breeds monsters who are even tougher, creating an escalating cycle of violence and lots of collateral damage.

* '''Exploited''': A company that makes lasers weapons, markets them to the army by saying "The monsters may be bullet proof, but this is not a bullet".

* '''Exploited''': A company that makes lasers, markets them to the army by saying "The monsters may be bullet proof, but this is not a bullet".

* '''Exploited''': a company that makes lasers markets to the army by saying 'the monsters may be bullet proof, but this is not a bullet'

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': The uselessness of bullets leads to an increasing reliance on heavy weaponry by the monster hunters, which in turn breeds monsters who are even tougher, creating an escalating cycle of violence and lots of collateral damage.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** The monster is only one of several antagonists, the rest of whom are not bulletproof, making that monster a special threat.
** Another option is that the monster gets stronger, but the heroes are adaptable and intelligent, leading to a LensmanArmsRace.

Back to ImmuneToBullets.
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* '''Double Subverted''': Turns out the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness DidNotDoTheResearch-- the monsters ''really are'' ImmuneToBullets.

* '''Justified''': The monster is incorporeal, so of course guns can't hurt it.

* '''Inverted''': [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter Projectile guns harm the monster]], [[RockBeatsLaser while more futuristic weapons such as lasers and particle beams do not.]]

* '''Subverted''': All the research the heroes can do suggests that guns are useless, but that turns out to be misinformation put out by the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness to make the monsters seem more scary.

* '''Parodied''': Just because the monster can't be killed by gunfire, doesn't make the bullets hurt any less.

* '''Reconstructed''': The monster is only one of several antagonists, the rest of whom are not bulletproof, making that monster a special threat.

* '''Invoked''': The MadScientist realizes that his enemies' first reaction will be to shoot the monster he's creating, so he ''makes'' it ImmuneToBullets.

* '''Defied''': "This is the most powerful gun in the world. ''Nothing'' is immune to this baby."

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* '''Parodied''': The monster is actually healed by bullets, and finds being shot refreshing.
** alternately, the monster is ''exclusively'' immune to bullets.

* '''Deconstructed''': The uselessness of bullets leads to an increasing reliance on heavy weaponry by the monster hunters, which in turn breeds monsters who are even tougher, creating an escalating cycle of violence and lots of CollateralDamage.