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11	* NighInvulnerability/TheDCU
12	* NighInvulnerability/MarvelUniverse
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18	* Alpha from Christos Gage's ''ComicBook/{{Absolution}}'' is functionally indestructible.
19	* From ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', Steeljack is 800 pounds of living metal, making him ''damn'' tough to hurt. He can still be incapacitated or killed by other, indirect means.
20	* ''ComicBook/TheBlackKnight'': Arpin Lusène, aka ''[[BlackKnight Le Chevalier Noir]]'', was the most dangerous foe Scrooge ever faced. Already a master thief, he inadvertently stole Gyro Gearloose's Universal Solvent before using it to cover a black suit of armor coated in diamond paint (the one material impervious to the solvent), making him invulnerable. He could walk through walls, shrug of having buildings thrown on top of him, and even take a bath in an acid pool by soaking it up like a sponge.
21	* Creator/ImageComics super-pensioner ''ComicBook/{{Brit}}'' is made of some material stronger than diamond -- he is totally indestructible. He has no super strength or special abilities other than indestructibility -- but when you can strap a nuclear device to your back and drop into enemy territory to detonate it, who needs super strength?
22	* In the game of ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'', one of the powers The Darkness grants Jackie Estacado is to protect him from virtually any harm... and if he does manage to die, it just rewinds time to a point when he's alive (the justification for the game's checkpoint system), or sends his spirit to The Otherworld while it rebuilds his body.
23	** Jackie does indeed have that power [[ComicBook/TheDarkness in the comic]]. One particular scene that springs to mind is his body being reconstructed from the surrounding organic matter after blowing up a warehouse.
24	* Werecheetah Britanny Diggers, along with all other lycanthropes in ''ComicBook/GoldDigger,'' can only be harmed by silver or magic (other injuries regenerate almost instantly). Alas, magic is pretty common in the Diggerverse.
25	* ''ComicBook/TheHeap'' is capable of withstanding a few gunshots or axe strokes without being impaired, and it is able to quickly heal any wounds that it did have.
26	* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' and other comics taking place in that universe are teeming with nigh-invulnerable characters, but Guardians of the Globe member Dupli-Kate is a particularly good example of HiveMind-style invulnerability. When all her copies are apparently killed in a brawl, her [[FlyingBrick husband]], [[AxCrazy brother]] and team mourn her death -- only to learn that her 'zero' has been holed up in a remote location for, apparently, ''years'' as proof against just this kind of scenario.
27	* Max Damage from ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}''/''Incorruptible'' grows more and more invulnerable to harm the longer he stays awake. However, it resets whenever he falls asleep. From the same series, The Plutonian (a Superman expy and an AxCrazy ex-hero who snapped when his "Lois Lane" had a response to the Big Reveal that can be summed up as "you mean all this time you've been ''lying'' to me?") is ... well, forget the "nigh" part.
28	* The various Miracle-people in Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/{{Miracleman}}'' all have skin-tight forcefields that render them invulnerable to pretty much anything in the universe. (It's also implied, though never explored, that this forcefield is also what gives them their super strength.) Of course, there are ways to get around this. [[spoiler:When Kid Miracleman, who's a psychopath, finally breaks free and begins tearing London apart, Miracleman, Miraclewoman, a pyrokinetic and two aliens with teleportation powers have to stop him. They throw cars at him, blow up gas mains in his face, throw him through buildings, and nothing does any real damage. One of the aliens tries teleporting KM into the side of a building, but he just busts free a second later: the forcefield doesn't let anything through. So, being the logical type of alien, he just tries the reverse: he picks up a small chunk of rock and teleports it ''within'' KM's forcefield, and into ''his head'', which does the trick. After a little while.]]
29	* John Byrne's ''ComicBook/NextMen'' had a group of teenagers who each had one of the classic 'stock powers'--one guy was super-strong, one was super-fast, one could see the entire electromagnetic spectrum, etc. Bethany was completely invulnerable, of the Made of Diamond type, and the series actually showed some of the logical extremes of this power: she could use a single strand of her hair to saw through an iron bar (and if you try to grab her hair, you lose your fingers), and she eventually lost the ability to feel hot and cold as the series went on.
30	* The primary power of the title character ''ComicBook/PainkillerJane'', a comic turned TV series, is to recover from anything. It still ''hurts'' though, hence her name.
31	* A running gag in Creator/PhilFoglio's comics is The Winslow, an immortal, indestructible being who is the focus of many violent religious sects. As the Platonic Essence of living beings (whatever that means), it was created during the Big Bang, and will exist through all successive Big Crunch/Big Bang cycles forever. The joke is that The Winslow is a small, cute, furry, green and yellow alligator-like creature with the attention span of a gnat.
32	** Just how indestructible is he? If you're a cultist looking for him, and you know what planet he's on, the simplest way to search is to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt reduce the whole planet to dust]]. When you sift through the remains, The Winslow will be the largest remaining piece.
33	* J. Michael Straczynski's ''ComicBook/RisingStars'' series had a character, Peter Dawson, whose special power was that he was effectively indestructible: a microthin energy shield surrounded his entire body, protecting him from literally everything, and also lined the inside of his lungs and stomach, making poisons ineffective, too. However, the usefulness of this power is called into question, and the power as a whole subverted, in the issue where Dawson appears. Since the shield can't tell what is and isn't an attack, he can't feel any sensation whatsoever--the only sense he really has available (besides sight and hearing, of course) is taste, causing him to overeat until he's a pudgy blob. While he was in high school, the football coach tried him out on the team, but as he discovered, Dawson's invulnerability doesn't make him any tougher or stronger--the other team would just run right over him. Dawson later applied to be a bodyguard, a policeman, anything where his ability might conceivably be useful, but his obesity meant he failed all the physicals. The only job he ends up getting is as a mechanic in a local garage.
34	** Even more interesting, though, is that the only issue in which Dawson appears, he's been murdered. (That's not really a spoiler, since you know it from page one.) The doctor who's been called in takes most of the issue recounting his life before finally revealing how it was done: [[spoiler:his killer snuck in at night, while Dawson had fallen asleep in his armchair, and taped his arms and legs to the chair--since Dawson didn't have any feeling, thanks to the shield, he didn't notice. Then the killer simply pulled a plastic bag over Dawson's head and waited. Even though Dawson's shield could filter out inhaled poisons, he still needed ''oxygen''.]]
35	* Flint of ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}} has the MadeOfDiamond variant as her entire superpower. SuperStrength seems to be more of a side-effect of having indestructible muscles.
36	* ''ComicBook/TheTick'', for whom this [[TropeNamers trope is named]]. His primary power is always listed as "nigh invulnerability." Like all of his abilities The Tick's invulnerability is tied to his Drama Power and thus he's exactly as invulnerable as the situation calls for -- to the point that he could safely poke his head in a ''black hole'' with no serious injury in order to save the galaxy from a DoomsdayDevice.
37	* IDW’s ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries'':
38	** Thunderwing is effectively invulnerable thanks to the experiments which turned him into a mindless PersonOfMassDestruction. The Autobots and Decepticons had to team up to stop him in the past, and even their combined firepower wasn’t enough to kill him. In the present they defeat him not through damage, but by forcing him to spend so much energy that he runs out of fuel and shuts down.
39	** Sixshot has a self-regenerating power core and a body made from the compacted metals of a star’s core. Together they let him shrug off most attacks and keep fighting indefinitely: direct hits from artillery cannons don’t leave a scratch, and a punch from the powerful Optimus Prime merely staggers him. His only weakness is a TriggerPhrase which forces him to shut down.
40	* Battleships in ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' are a {{deconstruction}} of this power: they are impervious to nearly all sorts of conventional damage and can survive injuries that would kill normal humans. However, this means that [[BlessedWithSuck anything that could conceivably harm them is next of impossible to treat]] since they lack regeneration and are immune to anesthetics. Not even the destruction of ''their hearts and brains will kill them instantly.'' One American battleship tried to fight a Nazi one that was fully enhanced had his [[BodyHorror entire upper body melted and twisted apart]] and he was [[AndIMustScream still alive and suffering during the whole time]]. It took a ''industrial drill'' to MercyKill him, and even that took hours to complete. The fastest manner of killing a Battleship-class Uber is through severe blood loss as seen with [[spoiler:Siegfried that required a DeathOfAThousandCuts to put him down and that is after half his head was blown up]].
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