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| 10 | [[quoteright:335:[[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wile_e_coyote_montage.jpg]]]] |
| 11 | [[caption-width-right:335:Not flames nor falls nor [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe phinicky fysics]] shall stay Wile E. Coyote from his chosen hunt.]] |
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| 13 | ->''"Since I started working at ISIS, I've been shot, stabbed, set on fire, poisoned, shot, sexually assaulted, partially chewed, shot, ''and'' declared legally dead. Twice on the same day!"'' |
| 14 | -->-- '''Sterling Archer''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' |
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| 16 | So, you've got a funny character in a {{Slapstick}}, just lining up a wave of truly incredibly bad and unlucky physical traumas for the character to wade through for your audience's [[ComedicSociopathy twisted amusement]]. Just one problem. The things your character is about to go through would kill any normal being. Enter the Iron ButtMonkey, who can render lethal trauma into mere AmusingInjuries... at least [[RuleOfFunny when it's funny]]. |
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| 18 | A type of AcceptableBreaksFromReality, the Iron Butt Monkey is, simply put, [[NighInvulnerability practically immune]] [[MadeOfIron to harm]]... purely for the purpose of having hilarious injuries happen to him. [[AnvilOnHead Drop an anvil on him?]] [[CranialEruption He simply gets a nasty looking lump]] or is SquashedFlat only to reform once the weight is removed. Throw him off a cliff and watch him bounce down in a brutal manner? He'll be fine [[UnexplainedRecovery by the next scene]]. [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Incinerate him?]] He'll reform from the ashes or [[TheyKilledKennyAgain even simply be back next episode.]] One wonders how many lives this guy could save in the military. |
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| 20 | Primarily an animation trope, WesternAnimation is particularly fond of this one. Bonus points if the Iron Butt Monkey is merely annoyed or embarrassed by his injuries when he should be screaming in pain. |
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| 22 | Related to ButtMonkey, MadeOfIron, {{Slapstick}}. When this is used on characters who in-canon have explicit [[HealingFactor super-healing]], see GoodThingYouCanHeal and ImmortalityHurts. Unrelated to the IronWoobie, although they can overlap at times. |
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| 25 | !!Examples Subpages: |
| 26 | [[index]] |
| 27 | * IronButtMonkey/WesternAnimation |
| 28 | [[/index]] |
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| 30 | !!Other Examples: |
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| 34 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 35 | * Yakumo Fujii from ''Manga/SazanEyes''. It's ''really'' [[GoodThingYouCanHeal A Good Thing He Can Heal]]. |
| 36 | * Eita Touga from ''Manga/TwelveBeast'' cannot catch a break [[RuleOfFunny whenever he's not fighting Gigas.]] |
| 37 | * In ''Anime/AngelBeats'', due to the fact that everyone is already dead and in the afterlife, everyone will fully recover from any injuries, no matter how fatal or violent. This leads to several scenes where characters are killed for humor. |
| 38 | * Dallas (immortal) of ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' when his deaths are being PlayedForLaughs. |
| 39 | * Keigo Asano from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' is beaten and walked all over in pretty much every one of his appearances, but he never seems to get tired of it, keeps trying to get the girls that smack him around, and at one point actually blocked a kick from Rangiku, {{Shinigami}} who tend to be at least slightly stronger than normal humans. |
| 40 | * Played with in ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan''. Most of Dokuro's antics actually ''kill'' Sakura, but she always resurrects him good as new on the spot, so there's never actually any lasting harm done. [[BloodyHilarious Except to the wallpaper.]] |
| 41 | * ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' has Jelly Jiggler/Tokoro Tennosuke, who has a jelly body which Bo-bobo uses for attacks and physical abuse. Also Don Patch. |
| 42 | * In ''Manga/ChibiDevi'', the principal of the daycare center is constantly set on fire, electrocuted, and frozen, but he always recovers after a bit of bed rest. |
| 43 | * Youhei Sunohara in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}''. Not only did he survive being a punching bag or beaten up with a baseball bat, but once he was dropped from a garbage chute SEVERAL FLOORS DOWN and walked away. Tomoyo was briefly worried if he'd be okay, but [[LampshadeHanging Tomoya assured her he was impossible to kill. Probably.]] |
| 44 | ** Pretty much every time Sunohara shows up, you can be guaranteed that someone is going to deliver him a MegatonPunch or [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom kick him across the room]] by the end of the scene. Not only that, but he pretty much just gets up like nothing happened and walks away, when any other cast member would likely need a stretcher to leave. |
| 45 | ** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Tomoyo at one point in the VisualNovel. |
| 46 | --> '''Tomoyo''': You exist solely for gags. |
| 47 | * Mamoru Onodera of ''Manga/DeadlineSummoner'' frequently suffers [[BenevolentBoss for the sake of]] [[BattleHarem his girls.]] While he does end up in the hospital, most of his injuries should have ''killed him outright.'' It doesn't help that his most powerful ability is a DesperationAttack. |
| 48 | * Mr. Satan from ''Manga/DragonBall'' gets smacked by [[RoboticPsychopath Perfect Cell]] and goes flying into a mountain, survives getting smacked around by [[ChaoticEvil Kid Buu]], is hilariously drowned in a bathtub by Fat Buu, obliterated in a public fight against Kid Trunks, dropped by Dende from 100-something feet and [[GroinAttack crushes his crotch against a rock]], and more. Although he is hopelessly outpowered by the main cast, it is agreed that he is [[WeakButSkilled very skilled for a human that cannot use ki]]. |
| 49 | * Excel in ''Manga/ExcelSaga'', but also Hyatt and Elgala in the manga, as well as Ropponmatsu and Iwata on the opposite side. Of these Ropponmatsu and Iwata are justified by their artificial bodies, and Hyatt by her explicit HealingFactor, but Excel and Elgala just seem to be that tough; once both got stuck in a massive explosion in the top floor of a building that collapsed on them, and they got out "just" practically covered in bandages. |
| 50 | ** There was also an incident where Hyatt received severe burns in a fire, but was shown peeling off her bandages to reveal her usual unburnt self the following day. [[LampshadeHanging Much to Elgala's shock.]] |
| 51 | ** Matsuya has started to notice though that the technology the Department of City Security uses (which may come from a lost civlization) simply does not work on Excel. |
| 52 | * Yokoshima from ''Manga/GhostSweeperMikami''. He always gets injured, and has spent some time in a hospital from some of his nastier injuries, and has even ''died'' on a few occasions, but always gets right back up at the mention of booty. He has also survived getting struck by lightning and ''falling from orbit'' with just EasyAmnesia as a side effect in the last one. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/GirlsBravo'' |
| 54 | ** Yukinari is actually somewhat of a subversion as he has been shown to still have cuts and bruises hours after Kirie or another girl beats him. |
| 55 | ** Fukuyama, on the other hand, just bounces back from similar abuse but he is TooKinkyToTorture and just brushes it off. |
| 56 | * ''Manga/{{Hayate|TheCombatButler}}'' is the focus of physical and emotional torment that would kill a lesser man a thousand times over. He has been compared to a Franchise/{{Gundam}} in show for his ability to survive things such as getting ''run over'' or ''attacked by a tiger repeatedly''. |
| 57 | * Tomoki from ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty''. Not only does he get hit by [[MegatonPunch megaton karate chops]] (one time being held up against an electrical fence), but also beam weapons to the crotch, being launched through roofs, crushed by several [[FacePalmOfDoom face-palms of doom]], squashed by giant fly-swatters, dragged into the open air at Mach 17, and his most notable achievement, getting hit point-blank with a [[{{BFG}} beam cannon]] that's able to annihilate planets and [[spoiler:[[NearDeathExperience having his heart pierced]]]]. There is ''nothing'' that can kill this guy. |
| 58 | * Keitaro Urashima of ''Manga/LoveHina'' is a paragon of this trope, largely to make his parade of unlucky injuries stay amusing. Eventually lampshaded when Su claims he is "practically immortal" and when everyone is surprised that his leg has been broken ''by having part of a building fall on him'' and it stays that way for a few chapters. Oddly, being in a cast in no way stops him from fighting Motoko's sister who sends him flying, crashing head first into streets, or getting possessed. The original injury was a bit of TemptingFate where Mutsumi says he has used up all his luck (which is usually low) just to pass the Tokyo U entrance exam. Then HilarityEnsues. |
| 59 | * Yako of ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'' takes constant physical abuse from Neuro, but is almost never actually hurt by it. |
| 60 | * Kumagawa Misogi of ''Manga/MedakaBox'' is defined by his being perpetually defeated, and of course this entails him getting as greviously injured as possible whenever appropriate. But no matter how badly he's beaten up, he either maintains his unshaken false smile or expresses pain in his similarly insincere fashion. One would think he can do this so well because of his ability "All Fiction", with which he can make all such injuries like they "never happened"... [[spoiler:but they'd be gravely mistaken. As the Successor Candidates found out after soundly wrecking him once, he was like that since long before he ever got "All Fiction", as he demonstrates by reconfronting the five of them after having been stabbed, electrocuted, burned with acid, sniped, sent falling down stairs, and tortured in an unseen manner all in one go. His continued attitude is remarking that he's used to stuff like that.]] |
| 61 | * Mitsuba from ''Manga/{{Mitsudomoe}}'', once she lampshades it in the first couple episodes. |
| 62 | -->'''Mistuba''': "[[BreakingTheFourthWall How many time are you going to try and kill me in this anime.]]" |
| 63 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'': Patrick Colasour is a decent but not ace-level pilot who gets shot down in just about every battle he's in, yet is somehow always unharmed afterward. This is acknowledged in the show, with him being labelled "The Immortal Colasour" as a disparaging nickname. [[spoiler:Even when he appears to pull a HeroicSacrifice in the final battle, he's right back there in the epilogue.]] |
| 64 | * Kimihito Kurusu of ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' is a regular guy, stuck in the same house as a very strong Lamia, a Centaur, a dippy Harpy, an enthusiastic Slime, an... eccentric... Mermaid, and a jaded Arachne. He takes a hell of a lot of abuse, but he's always up a few pages later. [[spoiler:Noteably, Kimihito is confirmed to ''actually die'' on a regular basis. He just keeps coming back through sheer willpower. Also, people actually notice and comment on the injuries he takes -- at one point he went to a hospital and the doctors were outright alarmed that the injuries that sent him there had spontaneously disappeared when by all rights he should have needed weeks to heal from them]]. |
| 65 | * ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'' treats both Saru and Nagasumi like this. In Nagasumi's case, it's actually a minor plot point; he has to continually avoid/survive [[ItMakesSenseInContext his mermaid bride's mafia family's various attacks against him]] whenever they just feel like offing him, from certain family members that already hate him and are also ''very'' easily provoked (most notably the bride's father/mafia boss), if it's not just an assassin hired by the aforementioned mafia boss who is just trying to outright kill him. Despite how serious this might sound, it's really just meant as a means for [[HilarityEnsues hilarity to ensure.]] In praticular, he's subjected so often to the Mermaid Voice over the course of the series, that he eventually builds up an immunity to it. |
| 66 | * The titular character of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', thanks to his HealingFactor, gets this treatment every now and then. [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale A single punch from Sakura or Tsunade]] would kill most men, but Naruto just gets some lumps and bruises. |
| 67 | * In ''Manga/OnePiece'', we have Usopp, who, despite being practically useless, survived a Gastanet attack from Caesar Clown, an attack that destroyed a good bit of '''''AN ISLAND''''', and nearly killed the rest of the crew and the marines at Punk Hazard. Note that he not only has the second lowest (No, not counting Chopper because that's an error made by the marines) bounty, he is also shown to have the least fighting power of them all. That said, Gastanets are similar to to ''Nuclear bombs'' in power, but not in range. |
| 68 | ** In the 10th movie, he is also the only of the crew to remain conscious after being ''encased in a pillar of solid rock''. |
| 69 | * Chuck from ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' dies in some grotesque manner at least OncePerEpisode. |
| 70 | * Tatewaki Kuno from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. If it's painfully hilarious it will happen to him, usually without leaving a dent in his stoic expression. |
| 71 | * Tsubasa Jumonji of ''Manga/{{Rinne}}''. To list a few of the things that have happened to him: fallen out a two-story window, got his head chewed on by a lion at the zoo, has gotten run over by a team of ''sumo wrestlers'', had bowling balls fall on his head, and has fallen into multiple kinds of holes. Those are only some of the things he's suffered, in two chapters ''alone'' -- and he came out fine. (Albeit, he did have multiple casts on, but only for a week. At the end, he had a single bandage around his head.) |
| 72 | * Takara from ''Manga/RisingXRydeen'' constantly gets [[ShockAndAwe electrocuted by Mikan]] for doing something perverted, usually by accident. Mikan's lightning blasts leave most people unconscious and smoldering but thanks to Takara's powers, one of which makes his body highly insulative, he gets by with a few bruises. |
| 73 | * [[StalkerWithACrush Mitsurugi]] [[CampGay Hana]][[AlphaBitch gata]] in ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'' tends towards this. Particularly notable in a few scenes where he only takes ClothingDamage from attacks explicitly stated to be fearsomely deadly to Otaru and even the [[RobotGirl Marionettes]]. |
| 74 | * ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' has Nozomu Itoshiki. Although most of the injuries are self-inflicted, he has survived: drowning in wine, getting run over by a trolley, many many hanging attempts (including one in which he was yanked so hard the rope broke), his name written in the Manga/DeathNote, surgery to get turned into a monster, and attempted murder by his students in a dream because [[spoiler:they didn't want it to end.]] Nozomu has even been murdered a couple of times by Chiri and/or most of the class, and he turns up fine at the end of the episode/next segment. |
| 75 | * This was forever happening to Zelgadis on ''Literature/{{Slayers}}''. He's been used as an anchor and shot in the face with a cannonball and come out of it fine every time due to his part-golem nature. |
| 76 | ** He ''does'' bleed and gets injuries, from time to time. What does it mean? The story's gonna take a turn for the worse. |
| 77 | * Ryoko from ''Anime/TenchiMuyo''. More justified in the OVA continuity, where she's capable of regenerating from just about anything. Interestingly, she tends more to be the one inflicting the pain in said continuity. |
| 78 | * From ''Manga/ToLoveRu'', the extremely perverted, morbidly obese principal of Sainan High School. Is the only explanation he's still alive after all the beating Yami delivers to him on a regular basis. |
| 79 | * Ataru from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura''. He is basically the very incarnation of this trope. It's even lampshaded in one book, where he gets a broken arm, and everyone can't believe it. |
| 80 | * Souta Takanashi of ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'', who regularly takes punches from a co-worker who can put holes in walls and damage utility poles with little more damage than a bloody nose and bruises that last no more than a few hours. Actively analyzed multiple times -- two fellow co-workers want to keep him around (to keep the aforementioned co-worker from attacking ''them'' instead), plus it's shown how Souta got to be so resilient (regular training from one of his older sisters, a professional self-defense instructor). |
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| 83 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 84 | * ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': |
| 85 | ** Deadpool himself often enters this territory due to effectively being immortal, meaning that at various points he's been shot through the head with an arrow, eaten alive by parasites, dropped out of a plane with no parachute, etc., all with no lasting effects. Handwaved in that all of this, healing factor aside, is due to a curse from Thanos to keep him away from Death -- with whom ''both men fell in love''. |
| 86 | ** Deadpool's evil(er) counterpart Madcap has also been on the receiving end of horrific injuries ever since he first appeared. There's a twist, though: he's an AxCrazy loon who doesn't feel pain and is not above provoking some of the aforementioned injuries. |
| 87 | * Mr. Immortal of the ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'' is regularly killed in gruesome ways, much to ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s chagrin, but his powers ensure that he'll resurrect shortly thereafter. |
| 88 | * Filemón from ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' is the god of this trope, he constantly receives horrible beatings, explosions and even gets burned and frozen several times, only for him to recover one panel later. The rest of the cast qualifies, but Filemón overshadows everyone. |
| 89 | * ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'': |
| 90 | ** The titular character is been beaten, decapitated (Ten times on the same page in one issue), burned, frozen, digested, crushed, skewered, turned into a goldfish, disintegrated... If it's painful and/or lethal, it's probably happened to him, and every time he's always duct-taped back together by the team's cleric, Piffany. Plus, it's explicitly stated that (to the irritation of his guardian angel, who has no idea what to do with him) he's actually not allowed to stay dead, due to the rules of the Henchmen's Union (and the fact that his absence would completely screw up the universe). |
| 91 | ** Henchmen in general in ''Nodwick''. They get tied to catapult payloads as messengers to make sure the message arrived, and get to drag the giant stone back with them afterward. Their health plan comes in monthly flavors including "hemlock." Or the [[PseudOlympics Hench Games]], which... let's put it this way, people with heart conditions are advised to avoid the javelin toss because the henchmen compete to see how many they can ''catch''. Nodwick just gets it the worst, which is [[CrapsackWorld really saying something.]] |
| 92 | * Exploited in ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic''. The Sky pirates black cat Simpson is an iron buttmonkey, so when they need to get past some booby trapped stairs, Captain Plunder just kicks Simpson straight down the stairs to set them all off. |
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| 95 | [[folder:Eastern Animation]] |
| 96 | * Wolffy from ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf''. He's been blasted into the sky, bitten by piranhas, hit with frying pans, blown up, beaten up, sliced, stabbed, and stomped on (to name a few things he goes through). |
| 97 | * [[TuxedoAndMartini Agent 00X]] from ''Animation/AdventuresOfCaptainVrungel'' spends the series in hot pursuit of two mobsters named Banditto and Gangsteritto, and it doesn't go well for him as the criminals beat him up, try drowning him, crush him under heavy objects, electrocute him, set him on fire, and more to get him off their backs. However, 00X always manages to either survive the attacks or is able to get out of situations with his cunning, and the whole time the [[PerpetualSmiler smile on his face]] almost never goes away. |
| 98 | * Bobby from ''Animation/AdventurerCarly'' has had plenty of blunt force trauma and other injuries come his way, but also has a peculiar knack for [[PainToTheAss injuries to his butt]]. |
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| 101 | [[folder:Film]] |
| 102 | * ''Film/BatmanReturns'': Catwoman. She's pushed out a window to the street below, burned on the arm by a vial of acid and sent plummeting down into a truck full of sand, nearly strangled by one of the Penguin's umbrellas and sent crashing through the roof of a glass greenhouse (which rips her costume to shreds), and finally shot four consecutive times in the stomach. But all this just makes her angrier and crazier than before. |
| 103 | * ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' survive a whole mess of stuff at the hands of Carrie Fisher's character [[spoiler:that Jake abandoned at the altar.]] Drive by with a rocket launcher, demolishing the entrance of the building they were standing in front of? They just stroll through the rubble, and go inside. Apartment building blown up? Stand up, brush themselves off, and go to work. Propane tank explodes, launching their phone booth into the air? Hey, there's at least seven dollars in change in the wreckage of the payphone! |
| 104 | ** The cops are probably this to a certain extent as well -- they chase the Brothers through a mall, end up either submerged in a pile of cereal boxes or with their car upturned; the apartment building explodes, and they stand up, brush themselves off, continue as normal; finally catch up with the brothers, only to end up crashing into a speeding winnebago. In the final chase, they get into a pile up (and in one case, end up landing in the side of a truck). All completely unharmed (and in Mercer's case, highly amused). |
| 105 | ** The movie even (subtly) offers an explanation for all this: the brothers are on a MissionFromGod, and so He's keeping anyone from getting hurt while they're doing it. |
| 106 | * ''Franchise/EvilDead'': Badass he may be, but Ash is still this quite often. |
| 107 | * The titular character from the Italian film series ''Film/{{Fantozzi}}'' is BornUnlucky and thus the target of every kind of humiliation, abuse and disasters, akin to a live-action cartoon. He literally can't even die, since he has been kicked out of Heaven, reincarnated against his will, and cloned in a near future. |
| 108 | * Out of the plethora of horror villains, Jason Voorhees of the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series gets the most abused. which says something. |
| 109 | * [[DastardlyWhiplash Professor Fate]] in ''Film/TheGreatRace'', who survives being crushed by a falling hot air balloon, run over by a train, blasted into the ground by a rocket, blown up by a primitive grenade launcher (twice), and falling down a manhole. And that was just in the first half-hour. |
| 110 | * The villains from ''Film/HomeAlone'' should have died several times over from Kevin's traps. A movie for kids manages to go further than a [[Film/StrawDogs1971 Sam Peckinpah film]] when it comes to makeshift household protection. |
| 111 | ** The second movie features even deadlier traps, including several bricks to the face thrown from the roof of a building and an explosion that ''destroys an entire floor of the house'' yet somehow leaves the bad guys largely unscathed. |
| 112 | * ''Film/HotRod'' has stuntman Rod Kimble. Though he may shrug off injuries and accidents that would otherwise kill or permanently cripple people and still be determined to save his step dad...very little actually goes right for him throughout the whole movie. You could probably count on one hand the number of times something does go right for him without a hitch on one hand. |
| 113 | * ''Film/JamesBond'' |
| 114 | ** Jaws from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' goes through many things that would normally kill a person: he survived falling from a cliff while trapped inside a car, attacked by a shark (which he got out of by ''biting the shark''), stabbed and thrown from a building, etc. Each time he experiences one of these he just gets up and dusts himself off. |
| 115 | ** Count the number of times Alec Trevelyan from ''Film/GoldenEye'' lives through something that should kill him. Before the opening credits, he's already been supposedly shot in the head (which was likely staged) and caught in an explosion. The last one at least left him scarred on half his face. He later survives a great fall (albeit badly-likely mortally-injured), and only dies because [[spoiler:a satellite system drops on him]]. |
| 116 | * Iron Bar's name fits him, because he gets whacked ''a lot'' in ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. |
| 117 | * Jeebs, from ''Film/MenInBlack''. But only if you shoot him in the face. There are other parts of him that ''don't'' grow back. |
| 118 | ** By the sequel, his face is misshapen from multiple shots. When Jay shoots him to keep him from talking about Kay, he complains that nothing's going to taste right since it was "right in the piehole". |
| 119 | * The Brothers in ''Film/MouseHunt'' take similar abuse to the wet bandits in ''Film/HomeAlone'', and likewise are never seriously harmed and recover very quickly. |
| 120 | * O.J. Simpson's character in the ''Film/TheNakedGun'' movies gets injured regularly and severely, especially when compared to the other cops. |
| 121 | * ''Film/PainAndGain'': Kershaw is essentially immortal. |
| 122 | * ''Film/RogueOne'': Orson Callan Krennic. He gets shot in the shoulder in his very first scene. After the TimeSkip, he has apparently completely recovered from this, but then gets bombed and knocked unconscious (in the novelisation the bombing also leads to him [[{{Squick}} coughing up black stuff from smoke inhalation]], and in the same scene of the book he punches the screen of his datapad in anger, cutting his hand as a result) In the rest of the film, he gets Force-Choked and shot in the other shoulder, along with a lot of humiliation by Tarkin and Darth Vader. He is eventually killed by a direct hit from the Death Star, which would have completely vaporised him. |
| 123 | ** And all this (except the first scene) takes place over the course of a few days. Any normal person would be dead, unconscious, or at the very least curled up on the floor begging for mercy. Yet Krennic somehow manages to remain ''smug''. |
| 124 | * ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' have suffered plenty of injuries that would maim or even kill a normal human being, like having bricks fall on their heads, being shot several times in the buttocks, falling from great heights, having a stick of dynamite go off in their pants, and that's only scratching the surface. |
| 125 | ** Although if you've got to be shot, the buttocks are pretty much the healthiest place to do it. No organs, very few major blood vessels, lots of force-absorbing muscle. |
| 126 | *** Except if you get hit with shrapnel in one of the iliac arteries and bleed out within minutes. It may be the healthiest spot, but still not healthy enough. |
| 127 | ** Curly seemed the most resilient -- a common gag was to have Moe pound him over the head with a hammer or run a saw over his scalp, and the tool would be irreparably damaged. |
| 128 | * ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' lampshades this. Roger Rabbit is the Iron Buttmonkey both as character and actor in the Roger Rabbit/Baby Herman cartoons. After repeatedly "blowing his lines," Roger begs the director to drop the refrigerator on him one more time, saying he can take it. The director says he's more concerned about the refrigerator. |
| 129 | ** It's actually a plot point that Toons are indestructible/unkillable... almost. |
| 130 | ** When Eddie visits ToonTown, he becomes the Iron Buttmonkey, surviving abuse pretty much like a Toon. |
| 131 | * The Black Knight in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' may be one of the most notorious (and incorrigible) examples in all of film history. Even when all four of his limbs are missing and he's a hapless torso in the dirt, he still wants to go another round. |
| 132 | * ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Felix can fix anything, including injuries from a flurry of punches to his face. |
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| 135 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 136 | * The title character from ''Captain Scarlet'' is blessed (or cursed) with a Wolverine-type Healing Factor, and has been "killed" and resurrected more times that Kenny from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. He has become something of a cultural icon; Simon Cowell once told a particularly dire stand-up comedian auditioning for ''Series/TheXFactor'', "You just died more times than Captain Scarlet". |
| 137 | * In Season 2 of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', a Fulcrum agent named Vincent Smith suffers extremely AmusingInjuries such as getting blown up, shot, poisoned, shot again, run over by Chuck, knocked out by Sarah and finally blown up again for good during an Air Strike. |
| 138 | * Sid on ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' went into anaphylactic shock from an allergic reaction to something he ate, got radiation poisoning from a victim he was performing an autopsy on, has to autopsy an ex-colleague's wife and in the same episode, [[spoiler:finds out that said ex-colleague stole organs from victims who were junkies when working at the ME's office and used them to make drugs,]] got almost blinded by an exploding bullet when trying to remove it from a victim's head, and in the final season not too long after [[spoiler:becoming a millionaire]], [[spoiler:gets diagnosed with cancer]]. And he still carries on working at the ME's office. |
| 139 | * In ''Series/FatherTed'', every time Ted calls Father Larry Duff's mobile phone, the distraction always causes Larry to suffer a horrible misfortune, often taking the form of an accident that would kill a normal person. He always turns up alive somehow, ready for the next misfortune. |
| 140 | %%* Freddie on ''Series/ICarly''. |
| 141 | * ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has Charlie, especially when Mac and Dennis attempt to train him to box by breaking things (chairs, bottles) over his head. |
| 142 | * ''Series/TheGoodies'' of course, seeing as they're like a live-action Looney Toons. Invoked when a germ warfare virus turns the population of the UK into clowns prior to a US invasion, so the Goodies use the natural immunity of a clown to harm to take down the invaders in a serious of slapstick gags. |
| 143 | * Nathan from ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' is a pretty [[PersonalityPowers literal]] example of this, [[spoiler:considering he's immortal.]] Plus, in more mundane terms, he's virtually impossible to insult or embarrass. |
| 144 | * Adam Young of ''Series/MrYoung'' has been struck by lightning, fought an alligator, had multiple weights dropped on him, fallen out of a building, and many other things, and never even breaks a bone. |
| 145 | * ''Franchise/TheMuppets:'' Beaker [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcXiUSZPuWA recently died.]] ''Still'' doesn't get any respect. |
| 146 | ** Gonzo's career as stuntman thrives off the fact that constantly ''failing'' his stunts never seems to seriously hurt him. In fact, sometimes he [[TooKinkyToTorture enjoys it]]. |
| 147 | * ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'': |
| 148 | ** Given the accidents Tory Belleci has suffered over the course of the series (especially [[NeverLiveItDown that bike accident]]), it's a wonder he's so rarely had to be treated for serious injury. |
| 149 | ** Every Mythbuster has taken a knock or two. Considering the extreme danger they create, it's a credit to their safety protocols that it wasn't more. But one member of the team stands out as a shining paragon of this trope: Buster. He's been exploded, dropped from great heights, and struck with great force countless times. In fact, there's very little that Wile E. Coyote has been subjected to that Buster hasn't, and Buster went through it ''for real'' in a live-action show without the benefit of special effects. You just have to overlook the fact that he's a crash test dummy; the rest of the cast do. |
| 150 | * Bill on ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' is Canada's standout example. Red himself is a lesser example, considering how often Bill injures him by accident during the Adventure segments. |
| 151 | * Poor, poor [[Series/SuperDave Super Dave Osborne]]. Whether it's jumping off the CN Tower without a parachute, being crushed by a giant tanker truck, being pulverized by a massive piledriver, getting hit in the crotch with a golf club or a baseball, falling out a window to fall two stories and crash-land on the pavement, being [[ItMakesSenseInContext eaten by Mr. T]], or having a piano dropped on him, Super Dave was made of this trope. |
| 152 | * Richard Hammond on ''Series/TopGear'', especially in the earlier series, always seems to get the physically unpleasant challenges (sitting in a car filling with water, running to the North Pole with a dogsled, etc.) When [[MadeOfIron he actually did bounce back]] from a NoOneCouldSurviveThat accident, his co-presenters were courteously solemn about it for at least half a series -- but now it's open joke fodder. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 156 | * [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Entertainment]] Superstar Colin Delaney, who repeatedly got [[CurbStompBattle squashed by wrestlers a great deal bigger than he was]], only to [[{{Determinator}} be back to wrestle the next week with increasingly more bandages covering his body]]. |
| 157 | * Perhaps the most notorious example is former United States Women's Champion Wrestling/MaeYoung, especially at the start of her WWE career in the late 1990s. Already well into her seventies by that point, Mae's initial gimmick was that she was an Iron Buttmonkey senior citizen who constantly took "bumps" on behalf of her best friend, The Fabulous Moolah. (She once even was smashed through a conference table by Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys!) As if that weren't demeaning enough, Mae was also made into an AbhorrentAdmirer stereotype who (among other exploits) almost gave birth to Wrestling/MarkHenry's baby, French-kissed Vince [=McMahon=], and was revealed as the object of Jerry Springer's (reluctant) lust on an unforgettable episode of ''Monday Night Raw''. The sad thing, really, is that Mae was actually an accomplished wrestler back in the day (starting her career during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when many male wrestlers went off to Europe or Japan, besides, the Wrestling/WWEMaeYoungClassic wasn't named after her for nothing), but that younger viewers watching WWE programming are likely to think she's just some repellent old lady that's kept around backstage purely for comedy purposes. |
| 158 | * Oh gosh, [[Wrestling/{{Francine}} ECW's Francine]] absolutely belongs here. After her [[FaceHeelTurn heel turn]] at ''Wrestling/{{ECW}} [=HeatWave=] 96'', she took ''so'' much verbal abuse from the crowds and drew so much mockery from announcer Wrestling/JoeyStyles. Then there was all the ''physical'' abuse she took as well. |
| 159 | * Los Ben Dejos, two small brightly clothed guys who became mainstays of Vintage Wrestling, Premier Wrestling Xperience, FIP and Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA FUW and Ring Warriors, best known for being thrown off high places and being beaten up bigger/more vindictive wrestlers for little reason. After three years of constant abuse [[TookALevelInBadass they actually started winning a lot]] but never really stopped being go to targets. |
| 160 | * Lince Dorado, who was beaten so much he ended up blind in one eye, but he just won't give up. Appropriately, after being kicked out of Wrestling/{{Chikara}} FIP paired him up with Los Ben Dejos as The '''F'''ull '''I'''mpact '''P'''uerto Ricans PowerTrio. |
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| 162 | |
| 163 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 164 | * Bluebottle (and to a lesser extent, Eccles and most of the other characters) in ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' are certainly in this territory [[TheyKilledKennyAgain though they sometimes die]]... and don't always notice. |
| 165 | [[/folder]] |
| 166 | |
| 167 | [[folder:Religion and Mythology]] |
| 168 | * Baldur of Myth/NorseMythology makes this OlderThanPrint. He was practically immune to everything since his mother made all things in the world swear not to harm him (except mistletoe, [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong because it's so harmless]]). Being the [[HornyVikings archetypal Norse]], the rest of the gods immediately came up with a hilarious game where everybody throws rocks and blades at him because they know nothing would happen anyway. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt And the rest is history.]] (Yeah, Loki was kind of a dick about that.) |
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| 170 | |
| 171 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 172 | * A Henchman class for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3rd Edition was published in the aforementioned ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'' comic, based on playing one of these. They had no useful offensive options, so all class abilities were based on improving their carrying capacity, or more importantly make them take hits for others and even take advantage of death (such as spying around as a ghost until resurrected, plus being easier to resurrect). They got a d12 for hit points (matched only by the Barbarian class) to put the "Iron" in the Buttmonkey. |
| 173 | [[/folder]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 176 | * Phoenix in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' series has been whipped into unconsciousness, been hit in the face by scalding hot coffee mugs, and had birds peck at his face, and yet none of this ever leaves so much as a mark on him. At one point, he's even ''hit by a car'' and gets out of it with nothing more serious than a sprained ankle. He also once ran across a burning bridge, and fell off halfway across because the bridge fell apart, into a raging river noted that anything that falls in there goes missing forever in the middle of an enormous storm. He caught a cold. |
| 177 | * [[HookHand Fritz]] from ''VideoGame/BrainDead13''. During his big hunt (which lasts ''literally'' the entire game) he's often hurt and damaged in several ways, including being stomped, locked in an iron maiden, having bits of a Frankenstein monster fall on him, getting shot in the face by his own cannon and so on. And let's not mention the [[OverlyLongGag stairs]].... Yet no matter how big a beating he gets, he's right behind you at almost all times. |
| 178 | * ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity'' has this as a play-style. Dr. Neo Cortex takes a lot of punishment in this game, and in some levels Crash is outright using him as a [[GrievousHarmWithABody blunt weapon]] or as a BodySled. Since Cortex is Crash's arch-nemesis and spent several past games (Including the beginning of this one) trying to kill Crash, you already know he deserves it. |
| 179 | * In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs]] have long suffered as a ButtMonkey race. Their bestial appearance and "barbaric" culture (as it is perceived by the other races of Tamriel) make them frequent victims of FantasticRacism. Several times the Orcs have tried to unite and create their own city-state known as Orsinium, but each time, their neighboring nations (the Bretons of High Rock and Redguards of Hammerfell) have forced them to abandon it. By the 4th Era, the Orcs were forced at swordpoint by the Bretons to officially renounce the kingdom of Orsinium and assimilate into High Rock as slaves in all but name. Only a few Orc tribes still live independently in destitute, scattered "strongholds", scorned by all. Notably, their patron deity, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] Malacath, teaches them to take these trials in stride, as he preaches "strength through adversity." |
| 180 | * ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': [[IneptMage The]] [[LastOfHisKind Protagonist]] ([[PlayerCharacter You]]) end up becoming this. Due to being the Master of [[StoneWall Mash Kyrielight]] makes them significantly hardier to physical and mystical injury than most mages. Buuutt... this mindset encourages their other Servants to drag them into ''all'' sorts of dangerous scenarios or shenanigans without paying any sort of attention to their safety (emphasis on all). So as long as they remember to shanghai Mash, they can cut loose without fear. ...or pain. |
| 181 | * [[CluelessDetective Hildibrand Manderville]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' gets subjected to a ''lot'' of physical abuse over the course of his quests, such as getting [[NonFatalExplosions blown up]] by his assistant's homemade bombs (twice, even!), {{suplex|Finisher}}ed into the ground with enough force to create a shockwave, or hurled through a stone roof. The only harm he suffers from any of this is ClothingDamage. |
| 182 | * Elliot from ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance 2'' certainly qualifies. Over the course of the game, he sustains cumulative wounds from Deidrenna's abuse, culminating in getting shot in the head by her when the player enters the last city- this is, as always, played for laughs when Elliot gets back up and apologizes for not being able to even die properly. |
| 183 | * Daxter, of ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter,'' has this status sometimes. The example that comes to mind is the cutscene where Daxter narrowly avoids getting blown up after RidingTheBomb. He gets up and walks away unscathed... only to be flattened underneath a piece of debris. |
| 184 | * The Black Baron in ''VideoGame/{{Madworld}}'' always demonstrates the various level's death traps...by getting thrown into them by his assistant. It's either this tropes, or he has a loooot of stunt doubles. |
| 185 | * [[TheDitz Ratbag]] [[LovableCoward the Coward]] from ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' is characterized by his lack of friends, stupidity, and sheer ineptitude. His last scene in the game involves him getting BlownAcrossTheRoom, courtesy of a blow from Sauron's own mace (albeit not wielded by Sauron himself, but one of his underlings). In the sequel, ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar,'' it's revealed that [[spoiler:not only did Ratbag survive, but the mace did nothing more than knock him senseless for a while (he had a headache upon waking up, but that's hardly complaint-worthy). In the meantime, he's taken up the job of Overlord for the first fortress that Talion and co. encounter.]] |
| 186 | * Vice Admiral Arthur Norbank in ''VideoGame/NexusTheJupiterIncident'' has a really hard time dying, despite his numerous failures as a commander and despite the players' sincerest wishes. His ships have been blown up so many times (due to his own incompetence), it's always an unpleasant surprise whenever he shows up safe and sound. In a later mission, the player has a chance to leave Norbank to die. |
| 187 | * ''VideoGame/NobodySavesTheWorld'': Every time you defeat a plot dungeon, Randy gets more and more injured. But he keeps coming after you to get the Wand and to save his Mentor. [[spoiler:This makes his evolution into TheDeterminator not only organic but something to make the audience cheer for him.]] |
| 188 | * ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' has the stranger in the black hat viewing the scenery between the ranch and Armadillo. Normally you are prompted to talk him, but instead of doing so, you can push him off the cliff. Since this counts as a failure in completing a Stranger mission, you can come back to the same spot and push him over every single time; on rare occasions will he survive the fall and run all the way up the trail to where you are, seeking revenge. |
| 189 | * [[BornUnlucky Unlucky]] Sims from ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' are considerably more prone to disasters than Sims without this trait. The Grim Reaper finds their misfortuned experience so amusing, he will automatically revive any Unlucky Sim that dies prematurely. Unlucky Sims that consume any effect that [[TheAgeless freezes aging]] becomes immortal. Just by being unfortunate by nature. |
| 190 | * Tails in the 2D ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games. When you play the Sonic/Tails co-op, whether AI controlled or by a 2nd player, Tails is completely [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR2JzK-y5_g immortal and cannot die]] (well he can die, he just comes back right away). This of course leads to a huge [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_-iZMkeuOs potential for abuse...]] |
| 191 | * This is how the Mummy's powers work in ''VideoGame/SphinxAndTheCursedMummy.'' He's ''dead,'' so being set on fire/electrocuted/smashed flat[=/=][[MesACrowd cut into three different copies]] doesn't affect him at all. Granted, he's still not a fan of it... |
| 192 | * Bowser from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros '', at least in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' series. If there's any otherwise likely death inducing humiliation in those series, it's probably going to happen to him, and he keeps on going. Castle about to explode? Bowser wakes up just in time for it to come crashing down on him. Volcano erupts? He flies straight out the top of it. ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' is basically this: the game, with Bowser having to do every stupid thing possible to progress and getting flattened by every castle, robot and train in the kingdom. |
| 193 | * Sandbag from the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games feels no pain at all, and apparently likes to see how far it can get hit. |
| 194 | * ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' |
| 195 | ** During the course of ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', Dist survives near-drowning, almost freezing to death, falling from an extremely tall tower while also being caught in an explosion (!), and a blast to the face from the most powerful magic user in the game, and is also hinted to have suffered years of abuse at Jade's hands in his childhood. Yet he never seems the worse for the wear; not only does he not die (and in fact is the only one of the Six God Generals still alive at the end), he has no scars and we never even see him injured. No wonder Jade says he's as [[LampshadeHanging tenacious as a cockroach]]. |
| 196 | ** Ivar from ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'' and ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'', among other things, gets trampled by an oversized boar, accidentally lodges his own sword in his forehead, and faceplants into the ground from dozens of feet in the air, but barely is fazed by any of it. He also gets beaten up by the party on multiple occasions, but always seems more annoyed then anything else in the aftermath. |
| 197 | * Hong Meiling is perhaps the best known Iron Butt Monkey of the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' series, as she is often caught by [[NinjaMaid Sakuya]] slacking off during her job of guarding Scarlet Devil Mansion's gate. Fanon depicts that Meiling becomes a cushion for Sakuya's knives on a daily basis, but since Meiling is youkai, she doesn't die. |
| 198 | ** She's also fanonly depicted as a chew toy for [[PersonOfMassDestruction Flandre]]. |
| 199 | * VideoGame/{{Wario}} is outright invincible in the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' games (after the first one); any enemies encountered there either serve as obstacles that make him drop his precious coins or as a means of transforming him in some way to reach otherwise inaccessible areas. Such transformations involve his getting [[ManOnFire set aflame]], [[HarmlessFreezing frozen solid]] or SquashedFlat, and becoming a HumanSnowball, an AccordionMan or [[ZombifyTheLiving a zombie]], among other things. In any event, he's able to shrug off anything that happens to him. |
| 200 | * Weaponized in ''VideoGame/{{Whiplash}}''. Redmond the rabbit is rendered indestructible due to the experiments of [[MegaCorp Genron]]. As such, he serves as the game's weapon, functioning like a [[EpicFlail Flail]] due to being [[ChainedHeat chained to]] Spanx. He can also be "powered up" by sticking him into machines that either set him on fire, electrocute him, irradiate him or inflate him like a balloon and can break machines by being tossed into the mechanisms and jamming them. |
| 201 | * Mooks or thugs that you faced in ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' are considered this trope as in if you use a Heat Action on them they somehow limp away from the fight despite most of the Heat Actions being extraordinarily lethal. |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 205 | * Geo, the AuthorAvatar protagonist of ''WebAnimation/GwainSaga is prone to slapstick more than anyone in his series, a perfect demonstration is his ahem... ''entrance'' into Teora where he falls from the sky, crashes into multiple mountains, falls through a canopy of trees and gets tangled in vines before getting screamed at by Ami. The main reason Geo can take all this punishment is due to humans being MadeOfIron superhumans in Teora. |
| 206 | * ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Just about everyone, even ''''Lumpy'''' and '''''Flippy''''', even though the show is called ''Happy Tree friends''! |
| 207 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has Strong Sad. He is constantly getting beaten up or worse by other characters. He ends up doing all the dangerous stunts in the Dangeresque films. And in one email, The Cheat decides to curry favor with Strong Bad. We don't see what happens, but we hear what sounds like a power drill and Strong Sad shouting "Ow! Both my face and hands!" |
| 208 | * Grif from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''. Seriously, this guy once took a [[GroinAttack punch to the groin]] hard enough to '''dent''' the metal floor beneath him. The fact that he was able to walk straight is nothing short of extraodinary. Oh, but not just punched. '''Hammered''' by a shotgun used as melee weapon, a gas tank, and a concrete roadblock (which partly cracked upon impact around the area), all to the groin. Tex is a '''VERY''' mean girl. |
| 209 | ** "Why won't you just kill me...?" |
| 210 | ** And this is all ''in one episode.'' This isn't getting into all the times he's taken shotguns to the back, fallen several feet, and taken a shot from a tank. |
| 211 | ** The entire Blood Gulch crew qualifies for this, actually -- even [[StraightMan Washington]]. Everyone there is a ButtMonkey to somebody, has survived horrible injuries, and/or been victim to NoOneShouldSurviveThat at least once, Grif's just the one who survives the funniest ones. |
| 212 | [[/folder]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 215 | * Fighter and Black Mage in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'': [[MightyGlacier The former]] is repeatedly stabbed in the head, often with no ill effects (it made him smarter once), while [[SquishyWizard Black Mage]] more or less always survives what's thrown at him (having ''Australia'' dropped on him comes to mind) and when he does die that one time, it comes as quite a surprise, but he still gets resurrected in fairly short order [[FateWorseThanDeath so as to continue suffering]]. It's even a JustifiedTrope in Black Mage's case. Both good ''and'' evil sides of the PowersThatBe don't want him to die, because when he does he takes over Hell; the forces of Good don't want that because Black Mage without his meat body is the apocalypse given form, and the forces of Evil don't want that because he's the ''wrong'' apocalypse given form and [[CelestialBureaucracy that leads to an awful lot of paperwork]]. |
| 216 | * This is basically Riku's entire purpose on ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'', as he can inexplicably take fatal injuries without missing a beat in his nonstop whining. [[DeadlyDoctor Zexion]] and [[AxCrazy Axel]] actively exploit this for as much schadenfreude as possible, being trapped in a reality show specifically for their capacity for cruelty. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that Riku is a Time Lord with a birth defect: [[CursedWithAwesome he can regenerate indefinitely, but never changes his appearance]].]] |
| 217 | * Balder of ''Webcomic/BratHalla'' is immune to everything, as everything promised his mother, Frigg, they would not harm him. (Except mistletoe, of course.) Since Balder is immune to all damage, he makes an excellent club when wielded by his brother Thor. (Which is not to say he doesn't ''feel'' it...) |
| 218 | * Gordon Frohman of ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'' has been shot multiple times, tossed around by exploding barrels, had his face eaten, was set on fire, attacked by zombies, sliced, knocked around by a giant antlion, [[http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-09-26 held a live grenade while standing knee-deep in radioactive sludge and setting himself on fire]], had an ornate axe stuck in his head, had his midsection pierced by a pipe, and went through many other ordeals... and survived. [[spoiler:It's because he accidentally used a cheat code on himself before the beginning of the comic.]] |
| 219 | * Tiff of both ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' and ''Webcomic/MagickChicks'' is showing signs of this. Her first appearance in ''Cuties'' had her spend the day dead after accidentally impaling herself, and so far in her first arc in ''Chicks'' she's busted her nose and been knocked senseless by a miss aimed spell. |
| 220 | * Sawbuck in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' takes horrendous abuse in the comic, but still survives due to his corpulence. What makes him a ButtMonkey to begin with, though, is that his [[TimeMaster time travel power]] only activates ''when'' he's hurt. |
| 221 | * ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND'' plays on Liquid Snake's RasputinianDeath in the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid source material]] by explicitly making him NighInvulnerable (though he's still treated as the resident BadassNormal, which is {{Lampshaded}}). Combine with a dose of AdaptationalDumbass and ArrogantKungFuGuy and you get this trope. The ButtMonkey part eventually starts to fall away as CharacterDevelopment and CerebusSyndrome kick in, but he remains MadeOfIron till [[DoomedByCanon the bitter end]]. |
| 222 | * Ensign Shirt (first name [[RedShirt Red]]) of ''Webcomic/LegostarGalactica''. It is eventually explained that he gets his superhuman resiliency from being the descendant of the Claire of a ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' parody. |
| 223 | * Largo in ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' -- if we ignore the broken arm that occurred in the first dozen strips. Piro has even commented that for a long time it was Largo's job to get physically hurt and Piro's to get emotionally hurt, until their roles started blurring slightly. |
| 224 | * Nip of ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'' has been dropped from immense heights, blown up, set on fire, rocketed across the countryside in a homemade rocket-sled, and shot from a giant slingshot. His aptitude for this sort of thing was so bad his parents were ''relieved'' to learn he'd taken up a career as a stunt man. |
| 225 | * Therry from ''Webcomic/TheRedacverse'' has been stabbed many times, got hit on the head with his own guitar, and Matt even sent him to an icy exoplanet without any kind of protection. He's always back for the next page, or even the next panel. Of course, it [[{{Slapstick}} helps]] that the comic doesn't take over-the-top violence too seriously. |
| 226 | * The Guy in ''Webcomic/{{Tellurion}}''. He typically gets the rough end of things earlier in the comic, but it [[TookALevelInBadass toughens him up]] noticeably later on. |
| 227 | * Phil from ''Webcomic/{{Yosh}}'' is initially this, but after the series GrowingTheBeard, this ability got [[CerebusRetcon expanded]] to include all forms of harm, [[MageKiller especially]] [[AntiMagic magic]]. |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 231 | * Linkara from ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' makes a living reviewing bad comic books where he's semi-routinely attacked by [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]], [[EvilKnockoff a vicious robotic doppelganger]], [[Franchise/SilentHill macabre monsters and spirits]] and a planet-conquering WellIntentionedExtremist '''in his own home'''. Previously, this happened in his own apartment, but [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome his landlord got tired of the constant invasions and battles then raised his rent.]] Outside of his own show, fellow Website/ChannelAwesome contributors have tied him up, kidnapped him, tricked him, blamed him for things he didn't do and yes attacked him. |
| 232 | * Liam the Leprechaun in ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange''. Most of the episodes he's in end with a heavy object falling on him. The rest are just one big HumiliationConga. |
| 233 | * ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'': Adolf Hitler is frozen in carbonite at the end of his first battle, and dropped into a Rancor pit in the second. He gets cut in half in the third and still survives [[spoiler:long enough to finish the line.]] |
| 234 | * ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' presents Gordon Freeman as this, as he desperately tries to navigate his way out of Black Mesa, while being nailed with every hazard in the game and complaining hilariously about it. [[DoorToBefore Dead ends]], [[NoOSHACompliance fragile catwalks]], toxic waste, aliens trying to kill him, soldiers trying to kill him, the building trying to kill him, being trapped on an alien planet with no way out... there is really no end to Freeman's suffering. [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist It's a good thing he deserves it.]] |
| 235 | * ''WebVideo/JosephsMachines'': Downplayed. There is a lot of footage of Joseph being humorously injured by his inventions (or his attempts to build them), but never seriously. |
| 236 | * ''Website/NobodyHere'': Despite all the damage Teddy goes through in "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/bear.here Bear]]", he always makes it out okay, if a bit shaken. |
| 237 | * ''WebVideo/ResidentEvilAbridged'': During Richard's final hours at [[MalevolentArchitecture the Spencer Mansion]], he gets bitten twice by a giant snake, then inoculated by his teammates [[RunningGag who keep abandoning him]] afterward. And when he finally tries to get even with Chris for suggesting they ditch him the first time, [[spoiler:a shark leaps out of the tank and eats Richard]]. |
| 238 | * The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has SCP-682. The Foundation is always trying to kill it because [[OmnicidalManiac it wants to kill us]]; they've managed to, among other things, throw it into the Sun and reduce it to 1% of its body mass (two separate occasions), but it still hasn't died. When they're ''not'' presently trying to kill it, it's kept contained in a vat of hydrochloric acid. {{Justified|Trope}}, as it has an AdaptiveAbility and HealingFactor to the point of CompleteImmortality. |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
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