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| 9 | * In ''VideoGame/ArcanaFamiglia'', Luca's Arcana power (Il Bacio dell'Angelo) allows him to disable another Arcana users' powers. |
| 10 | * The Fleet of Fog, the antagonists of ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel'', are equipped with neigh-invulnerable DeflectorShields that let them No Sell any attack short of a nuclear detonation (and maybe even one of those but we've never seen it attempted). Fortunately for humanity, the Fog are vulnerable to their own weapons and [[DefectorFromDecadence one of them is on our side]]. |
| 11 | * In ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', Irina lures Koro-sensei into a shed where he's bombarded by hundreds of rounds of machine gun fire courtesy her henchmen. Instead of dodging, he allows them to fire away to prove that lead bullets, unlike the [[AppliedPhlebotinum anti-sensei ammo]] that they chose not to use, will simply dissolve on contact with his body. |
| 12 | * In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' attacking the [[HumanoidAbomination God]] [[GodOfEvil Hand]] has produced poor results so far. |
| 13 | ** Guts tries blasting ArchEnemy Griffith aka Femto with his ArmCannon but the latter just uses a telekinetic force field to explode the cannonball before it even touches him. |
| 14 | ** Skull Knight tries to stab Void when he interrupts The Eclipse but Void [[ThinkingUpPortals just opens a portal the reflects the blade back at the knight]]. |
| 15 | ** Guts blows up most of Slan's torso with his arm cannon and follows up by running her through with his {{BFS}} (which can hurt even demons like her)... but Slan [[CombatSadomasochist just gets an orgasm from it]]. |
| 16 | ** When Griffith is reincarnated the Kushans sends a volley of arrows at him which all land harmlessly around him since he's a InvincibleVillain. |
| 17 | ** Later Skull Knight attacks Griffith with his CoolSword that cut open dimensions and [[HopeSpot could possibly hurt even Femto]], but he uses spacial powers to grab the attack before it reaches him and redirects it. |
| 18 | ** [[spoiler:When Griffith comes to Elfhelm, Guts tries everything to at least put a damn scratch on him, but because Griffith, much like the other God Hands, is a spatial manipulator, the [[{{BFS}} Dragonslayer]] doesn't do anything except cut off a single strand of his hair, and Guts is ForcedToWatch as Griffith makes off with Casca]]. |
| 19 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' |
| 20 | ** Ishida had a chance to fight the Espada, Szayel in Hueco Mundo -- too bad that Szayel in question ''just happened to be'' immune to Quincy powers... in fact, he claimed he could make himself resistant to ''any'' powers, [[AwesomenessByAnalysis provided he got a chance to study them beforehand]]. |
| 21 | ** Mayuri later does the exact same thing to the Espada. |
| 22 | ** The villain of a filler arc had the power to negate all Shinigami powers, even the Head Captain's. [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman Conveniently]], Ichigo has Hollow powers he can use instead, making him the only one who can fight back. [[spoiler:Nevermind that the Head Captain has amply demonstrated that [[BroughtDownToBadass he doesn't need his powers to beat you down]].]] |
| 23 | ** [[BigBad Aizen]] does this a lot, even in the face of ever more powerful attacks directed his way by the heroes. For a while, his favorite phrase was "That ''would'' have worked on me before I [[AdaptiveAbility evolved]]" |
| 24 | ** Post-[[TrainingFromHell Dangai]] Ichigo pulled Aizen's stunt on Aizen himself, brushing off his most powerful attacks like they were nothing and forcing Aizen to [[AdaptiveAbility evolve]] two more times to even put a scratch on him. In fact, Ichigo got hit with this hard when Getsuga Tensho became SoLastSeason. |
| 25 | ** The Arrancar have an ability called Hierro that makes their skin extremely hard, Nnoitra possessing the strongest of all. After Chad uses an attack to critically injure a former Espada's [[OneWingedAngel released form]], Nnoitra is completely unaffected by the same move. He later goes on to shrug off several hits from Ichigo's bankai. |
| 26 | ** Ulquiorra bitch slaps Benihime's (Urahara's zanpakuto) shikai ability out of the way. The same special ability that just seconds ago negated Yammy's cero. Keep in mind Urahara's abilities are [[spoiler:captain level]]. |
| 27 | ** Charlotte's strength and speed is so great Yumichika is thrown around like a ragdoll during their fight until Charlotte activates his FinishingMove. As soon as Yumichika realizes the killer rosebush has completely isolated him from the rest of the battlefield, he promptly throws off Charlotte, then activates his CoverBlowingSuperpower and curb-stomps Charlotte. Not only does he completely ignore the rosebush that's supposed to kill him, but Charlotte's strength and speed is now utterly negated the moment Yumichika stops being WillfullyWeak. |
| 28 | ** The Quincies have Blut (Blood Guise). By making reishi flows in their blood vessels, they drastically raise their defensive power to the point a point-blank Getsuga Tensho to the neck or a Bankai's attack doesn't leave a scratch. It can also stop bleeding or make it look like a broken neck is a casual wound. |
| 29 | ** When Ichigo attempts to attack [[spoiler:Yhwach]] in Bankai, his Bankai suffers this from [[spoiler:Haschwalth]] who not only one-shots Ichigo's bankai, but even breaks Tensa Zangetsu in half in the process. |
| 30 | ** When Rukia fights As Nodt, she claims she no longer knows fear and therefore cannot be harmed by As Nodt's powers. [[spoiler:The reason for this is that she is able to temporarily freeze the molecules in her body at anywhere from -1 degrees to absolute zero. As a result of this, she is technically not alive, and therefore cannot feel emotion.]] Cue the curb-stomping. |
| 31 | * ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' doesn't so much shrug off enemy attacks as he does alter what they do to him in order to confuse them. For example, one enemy he faced could turn people into [[TakenForGranite stone]] through his stare. When he does it on Bo-bobo, he turns into a [[AnthropomorphicFood cabbage]]. When he tries it again, Bo-bobo becomes an eggplant instead. |
| 32 | ** Don Patch once shrugged off machine gun fire from an enemy, claiming it didn't work on him because he's an idiot. |
| 33 | * Maple, the main heroine from ''Literature/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'' has such a high defense that most enemies can't do even ScratchDamage to her. |
| 34 | * ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' |
| 35 | ** Touma's right hand, Imagine Breaker, lets him negate any and all things supernatural. It's not perfect -- things with an outside power source, such as the fire elemental Innocentius, can regenerate faster than he can negate them -- but the vast majority of the time he can just punch through any problems. Of course, if one were to, say, sever his right arm, he would be relieved of this power. Good thing Touma is the sort of person who can no-sell ''[[LaughingMad losing a]] [[Awesome/ACertainMagicalIndex freaking arm]].'' [[spoiler:In the later light novels, severing his arm just unleashes something ''worse'']]. |
| 36 | ** Terra of the Left's power is to assign numbers to people and objects. Nothing can be harmed by something of a lower number. By doing this to himself, he's practically invulnerable. This also works in reverse, allowing higher-ranked flour to slice through lower-ranked brick walls. [[spoiler:Its AchillesHeel, however, is that he can only assign numbers to two objects at once, and he has to consciously activate this power. Touma defeats him by blocking his higher-ranked flour to his lower-ranked body with a discarded shotgun, which dissipates harmlessly upon contact, and knocking him out before he can switch up numbers again. Acqua later kills Terra with a surprise attack he couldn't react to in time.]] |
| 37 | ** The Knight Leader has a similar ability to Terra's, possessing a spell that makes the opponent's attack power change to zero. The trick is that he has to consider what's coming at him a "weapon" and he needs to have a basic understanding of what it is before casting. Also, it has no effect on spells or attacks wielded by a member of the British royal family [[spoiler:or anyone who can trace their bloodline back to it.]] |
| 38 | ** The nature of Accelerator's [[AttackReflector power]] means that he can NoSell ''everything'' (unless your name is Touma), theoretically up to and including ''nukes''. The only things he can't automatically NoSell are things whose laws of physics don't match up with his vector calculations (such as magic or Kakine's Dark Matter) and even then if he analyzes them long enough to grasp how they work even that wouldn't be enough. In one memorable scene, Mikoto is fighting him, and it takes him a minute to even realize that she just used her most powerful attack on him. |
| 39 | --->'''Accelerator:''' What's wrong? Why'd you stop? ...oh, I get it. That was your [[SignatureMove killer move]], right? |
| 40 | ** Acqua of the Back has the ability to "negate the sin of murder", essentially making him or anybody he chooses invulnerable as long as the ability is active. He's also immune to divine punishment, because he's a completely sinless human. |
| 41 | ** Due to her RequiredSecondaryPowers, [[ShockAndAwe Mikoto]] is completely immune to electrical attacks. You might be able to [[ScissorsCutsRock theoretically overpower her]], but a standard-issue taser isn't gonna cut it. |
| 42 | ** Aiwass is the first supernatural being to be completely unaffected by Imagine Breaker. |
| 43 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'' used a mecha version of this trope with the introduction of the Guren-Seiten in R2:18. Most of Kallen's strategy when she's not attacking is to simply no-sell everything the enemy throws at her. In fact, Suzaku actually breaks one of his swords when she does this. |
| 44 | ** Toward the end of Suzaku Of the Counterattack, as BigBad [[spoiler:Schneizel]] prepares to become immortal, Lelouch tries to use Geass on him, but fails because he is now immune [[spoiler:and [[EyeScream loses his eye]] for his trouble]]. One 4koma shows Rolo using [[TimeStandsStill his geass power]] on [[spoiler:Schneizel]], only for him to shrug it off and [[FaceDoodling draw on the immobilized Lelouch's face]]. |
| 45 | ** In ''Manga/CodeGeassTalesOfAnAlternateShogunate'', [[spoiler:Suzaku defeats Matthew Perry by preventing him from using his Geass, presumably with his sword's reflection]]. |
| 46 | * In the first chapter of the ''Dash & Spin: Chousoku Sonic'' manga, when Dr. Eggman tries getting Sonic's feet stuck to the floor by some glue substance to make him helpless. However, Sonic just pulls his feet out and gives chase, mildly annoyed that he now got chunks of concrete stuck on his shoes. |
| 47 | * In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', Marcille's incredibly explosive spell does absolutely nothing to the kraken they're fighting. [[spoiler: Turns out she just hit the wrong spot.]] |
| 48 | * ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02:'' |
| 49 | ** A sign that the Chosen Children are really outgunned by [[OlympusMons Daemon]] is when they attack him, and it does absolutely nothing. The dub even adds him dryly joking they haven't even wrinkled his robe. |
| 50 | ** Davis no sells [=MaloMyotismon's=] LotusEaterMachine spell in the penultimate episode. The villain has tricked all the heroes into illusions where they have their greatest desires, but all Davis was wishing for at the time was to get strong enough to defeat him. |
| 51 | * ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasGreatAdventureIntoTheUnderworld'': The first confrontation between Doraemon and gang, including their new friend Miyako, against the feared Demon Lord, Demaon ends up like these. Earlier on, Miyako reveals that she knew Demaon's sole weakness is [[AttackOnTheHeart having his heart pierced by silver darts]], giving her new friends several darts to be flung at Demaon when they confront him. Alas, despite several darts hitting ''exactly'' where the heart should be, Demaon instead shrugs off all their attacks and mocks their attempt to kill him, before pulling a CurbStompBattle on the heroes. It turns out later that Demaon's heart is ''not'' inside his body - it's a floating, heart-shaped star in the middle of outer space, that the heroes should target instead. |
| 52 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'' uses it as a pretty frequent feature, often for TheWorfEffect at the early stages in each fight to establish the strength of the latest foe. |
| 53 | ** ''Manga/DragonBall'': |
| 54 | *** In the very first chapter, Bulma shoots Goku in the face and accomplishes little more than annoying him (after hitting him into a tree with her car in the anime). Being that Goku is a Saiyan, human weapons aren't going to be of much help against him. |
| 55 | *** During the Red Ribbon Saga, General White, a big, husky man, gives Goku a punch directly to the gut. Goku remarks that it felt like a fly landing on him, and returns the blow with an uppercut that sends White bouncing off the ceiling. |
| 56 | *** Tao Pai-Pai cannot be harmed by the Kamehameha no matter how powerful it is. It just glances around his body like water. [[ClothingDamage His clothes can't say the same]]. But after some training with Karin-sama, Goku replies in kind by catching and No Selling Taopaipai's Dodonpa with nothing but slightly-scorched hands. |
| 57 | *** When Goku was fighting his dead grandpa he took a flying kick to the chest and didn't even flinch. |
| 58 | *** Tien does this to Yamcha's first Kamehameha when they fought in the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai. In the next tournament, he No Sells Taopaipai's cybernetically-enhanced Dodonpa. Both were done using [[{{Kiai}} Kiai's]]. |
| 59 | *** Goku casually blocked Krillin's Kamehameha with his hand in the same tournament, although Krillin knew the Kamehameha was useless against Goku and did it as a distraction. |
| 60 | *** King Piccolo did one better. He not only took a full Kamehameha, his clothes weren't even damaged. |
| 61 | *** Mr. Popo once ate a Kamehameha Wave fired by Goku in their first meeting. Literally, he swallows it to no effect. |
| 62 | *** During the 23rd Tournament, Goku takes a blast from Piccolo that completely flattens the island they were fighting on (every other character dives into a makeshift bomb shelter). Other than some burn marks, Goku was left unharmed. |
| 63 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' |
| 64 | *** The fight against Vegeta and Nappa has every energy attack used against them being practically a No Sell until Goku shows up. |
| 65 | *** Piccolo's energy attack against Raditz did absolutely nothing, with the Saiyan mocking him over the attack's effectiveness at kicking up dust. Raditz also cancels out Goku's Kamehameha when the two team up, blocking it with his hand. |
| 66 | *** Any time a [[TheWorfBarrage barrage]] of [[KiManipulation Ki Attacks]] leaves a cloud of dust/smoke obscuring the target, you can rest assured that they'll emerge completely unscathed once a convenient gust of wind blows the cloud away. At most, you'll see some ClothingDamage. |
| 67 | *** When Goku arrives to take on Frieza, he's fired at by death beams, attacks which have one-shot two protagonists only recently. Goku slaps it and [[TheWorfBarrage a sustained barrage of them]] away like a ping pong ball. |
| 68 | *** Goku does a variation of it to [[BigBad Frieza]] after achieving [[SuperMode Super Saiyan form]]: Frieza is getting frustrated at how Goku [[NonchalantDodge effortlessly dodges]] all of his Ki Attacks and demands he stay still so he can hit him, prompting Goku to reply "[[BadassBoast Hit me]]". It connects right on the kisser and Goku's head snaps back as if he took real damage, but then he raises his head and reveals the attack didn't even leave a scratch. |
| 69 | *** Some episodes later, Super Saiyan Trunks no-sells ''every single blast'' Cyborg Frieza shoots at him, up to and including the infamous [[EarthShatteringKaboom planet-killing Death Ball]] and proceeds to [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut the evil emperor in half]] [[CurbStompBattle with a single slice of his sword]], just before slicing him into pieces and disintegrating him. |
| 70 | *** Android 17 no sells Piccolo's hellzone grenade. The amount of buildup given to the setup for the attack, the size of the blast, and the look of concern on 18's face (for the first time ever) shows how powerful he is. Though actually 17 only No-Sold it thanks using a ForceField; had he taken it directly, Piccolo would've destroyed him right there. |
| 71 | *** Tien used this deliberately: he used Shin Kikoho to keep slamming Semi-perfect Cell into the ground to buy Androids 16 and 18 time enough to flee despite the Shin Kikoho slowly killing him with every blast. Even though it barely scratched the Bio-Android, it bought just enough time for the team until Goku arrived to save both Tien and Piccolo. It's one of Tien's best moments before he stopped being able to even compete anymore. |
| 72 | *** When Cell achieved perfect status, he ''didn't even notice'' Krillin attacking him. Even when Krillin used the same Destructo Disc attack which has previously cut enemies who were ''vastly'' more powerful than Krillin (like when he cut off second-form Frieza's tail), it simply shatters when it hits Cell's neck. |
| 73 | *** Effectively done by Cell when hit by Vegeta's Final Flash, thanks to his regeneration ability. Cell takes the time to pretend like the attack worked by cutting off his shoulder and ruining his pride, before mocking Vegeta on his wasted attack and effortlessly growing it back. |
| 74 | *** Like with Krillin above, Cell doesn't move at all when he's attacked by [[FakeUltimateHero Mr. Satan]]. |
| 75 | *** Gohan got decked across the face after he went Super Saiyan 2 and Cell revealed his full power. It did absolutely nothing. |
| 76 | *** All forms of Majin Buu have this thanks to his bubble gum-like body that just absorbs attacks, and his ability to reform [[FromASingleCell from even a single smoke particle]]. Kid Buu in particular uses this to reform good as new ''after blowing up planets in his own face''. It takes Vegetto, the most powerful character in the original run, to even tire him out with an attack. |
| 77 | *** A mutual example in Goku's fight with Fat Buu. First, Goku took a direct punch to the face by Fat Buu after he went Super Saiyan 3. Goku only smiled, followed by an amused Buu giving a slightly surprised ReactionShot. Up until that point, no one was able to withstand even one of Buu's hits. Then, Goku follows it up by grabbing Buu's head tentacle and punching him in the face over a dozen times consecutively before tossing him away -- which ''also'' results in Buu just smiling after with no signs of harm. Goku mentally admits in a shocked tone that he didn't hurt Buu at all. |
| 78 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallZCoolersRevenge'': Frieza's big brother Cooler performs a variation by flying ''into'' a Kamehameha Wave like a fish swimming, and upon reaching Goku, popping out to punch him in the face. |
| 79 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallZSuperAndroid13'': After obtaining his OneWingedAngel form, Android 13 doesn't budge when Goku attempts to punch him. |
| 80 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'': The titular villain Broly takes a Kamehameha Wave point-blank. The look of horror on Goku's face when Broly taunts him for it is priceless. In fact more often than not he dodges the first attack, then while going on the offensive, No Sells the second just to show that ''it wouldn't have worked '''anyway'''''. |
| 81 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': |
| 82 | *** Beerus practically does this to everyone in ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'', with ''Super'' {{Retcon}}ing Vegeta's beatdown of Beerus to show that even that had no real effect (the original did have Vegeta knock Beerus around, even if he wasn't fazed much). |
| 83 | *** In ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'', Goku tells Frieza that he cannot possibly win even in his Golden form due to his rapidly dropping energy levels. Frieza retorts by punching him as hard as he can, to which Goku ''pushes back'' Frieza's fist even as it's still connected to his jaw! |
| 84 | *** In the same film, at one point Vegeta goes SSGSS and is fighting a tired Golden Frieza. In a desperate attempt to regain control of the fight, Frieza fires dozens of energy beams at Vegeta. Vegeta keeps strolling forward with absolutely no indication of damage or notice whatsoever. It's even better when one remembers that Frieza took the same kinds of blows from him back on Namek. |
| 85 | *** Future Zamasu loves doing this, not because he's necessarily stronger, but because [[spoiler:he's immortal, and cannot be permanently damaged no matter what kind of attack hits him]]. |
| 86 | *** In the Universe Tournament in ''Super'', some of the fighters appear immune to attacks. Goku, while in his [[spoiler:Ultra Instinct mode]] dodges every single attack thrown at him; Jiren doesn't avoid any attack (he's just so strong that only [[spoiler:Ultra Instinct Goku]] can make him even flinch); Toppo uses his Destruction energy to nullify any attacks thrown at him, Hit uses Time-Skip to avoid getting hit; and [[spoiler:both Berserk Kale and Kefla, the Potara Fusion of Kale and Caulifla]], simply either dodge or charge through attacks. |
| 87 | *** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' the titular berserker displays this again, as he no-sells attack after attack as he gets stronger. At one point, Goku uses '''[[TheParalyzer God Bind]]''' on him and Broly just muscles out of it. Towards the end, Goku and Vegeta use [[CombinedEnergyAttack Kamehameha Galick Gun]] and Broly just plows through it. Even Gogeta's [[MoralityGuidedAttack Stardust Breaker]] only damages Broly slighty despite it disintegrating Janemba in the non-canon movie. |
| 88 | * In ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'', [[spoiler:Saika]] transmits TheVirus through cutting people, adding them to its HiveMind. This doesn't work on Shizuo, because TheVirus requires that the victim be afraid of it, and Shizuo is only afraid of himself. It also didn't work on [[HeadlessHorseman Celty]], but she's technically undead, and it might not have been ''trying'' to infect her. |
| 89 | * From ''Manga/FairyTail'': |
| 90 | ** Any Dragon Slayer can No Sell an attack of their own element by eating it and giving themselves a power upgrade in the process, such as [[TheHero Natsu]] with [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[LittleMissBadass Wendy]] with [[BlowYouAway air]], [[spoiler:and [[BigBad Acnologia]] with [[SuperpowerLottery magic itself]]]]. |
| 91 | ** The legendary evil-destroying magic Fairy Glitter had no effect, when [[spoiler: Cana tried to use it on Bluenote]]. The latter even explains that the difference in their sheer magical power is so great, that no matter what spell she uses, the result will be the same. |
| 92 | ** And then there's [[BigBad Hades]], who simply No Sells everything thrown his way [[spoiler:thanks to the fact that he has an ImmortalityInducer that provides unlimited magic power and vitality as long as it's working. When the Exceeds take it out around the time the heroes get a recharge of their own magic power, the tables swiftly turn on him as his strength rapidly leaves him.]] |
| 93 | ** Ultear's Time Arc allows her to No Sell Creation magic [[spoiler:Unless it's made of blood]].[[note]][[spoiler:It has no effect on living things, to be precise.]][[/note]] |
| 94 | ** Zancrow cannot be harmed by fire [[spoiler: until Natsu combines his and Zancrow's flames into a YinYangBomb]]. Also, Natsu punches him hard enough to send him flying, then drops a tree on him, with no effect. |
| 95 | ** Gajeel's Iron Dragon Scale armor lets him No Sell all of Natsu's flame attacks when they first fight... [[OminousCrack at first]]. |
| 96 | ** Taken to absurd levels with the Dragons themselves. As everyone found out, anything short of Dragon Slayer magic did ''nothing'' to them, even if the person was a Wizard Saint. Even ''with'' Dragon Slayer magic, the effects still are far from noticeable unless it's sufficiently powered, [[spoiler:and the Black Dragon Acnologia, as mentioned above, takes it up to eleven with presumably how since magic itself is his element, even extremely powerful magic won't hurt him]]. The only other hope you have is sheer physical power such that only another dragon could reasonably hope to unleash [[spoiler:as shown with Igneel and Acnologia ripping into each other]]. |
| 97 | * In ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Complete'', Cloud attempts to use the Omnislash, his ultimate LimitBreak from the game, on Sephiroth. Unlike the original ''Advent Children'', Sephiroth proceeds with evading the first strikes, blocking a couple more, deflecting one strike with enough force to push Cloud back, and finally [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales]] Cloud on the Masamune when Cloud attempts the final cut. |
| 98 | * ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': |
| 99 | ** Souther was able to [[TheWorfEffect literally laugh off Kenshiro's pressure point moves]] during their first fight and sent poor Ken face-down onto the pavement with X-shaped face lacerations from his attacks directly afterward. The reason for this is that [[spoiler:Souther has the medical condition ''dextrocardia'' with ''situs inversus totalis'', a condition that reverses the positioning of all the internal organs and blood vessels in his body, and thus the same with his pressure points as well.]] |
| 100 | ** {{Subverted}} in Souther's fight with Raoh: Souther took Raoh's pressure point attack, hit back with his [[RazorSharpHand Nanto techniques]], and then staggered back from ''the sheer physical power Raoh had put in his attack'', at which point [[OhCrap Souther realized that Raoh could just beat him to death]]. It plays a part in Souther [[spoiler:offering to subordinate himself to Raoh for the time being, with the understanding one day they'd fight to the death]], because continuing to fight would most likely end with a mutual kill but [[spoiler:they just couldn't let the other live unless as a subordinate.]] |
| 101 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' |
| 102 | ** When Scar tries to pull his signature YourHeadAsplode FacePalmOfDoom on [[spoiler: Father]], there's the characteristic red arcs dancing around his target's head and then... "Interesting, an alchemical deconstruction." |
| 103 | ** When Ed and Al decided to try and fight [[spoiler:Father]] with their alchemy, [[spoiler:Father simply ''put his foot down'' and alchemy ''stopped working everywhere'']]. Soon afterward however, [[spoiler:Mei showed up and her Xingese alkahestry actually ''did'' work]]. A [[Awesome/FullMetalAlchemist CMOA]] for both characters, really. |
| 104 | ** When Envy boasted on how [[NoBiologicalSex it]] was the one who sparked the Ishval Civil War, thus resulting in Scar's StartOfDarkness and the demise of Winry's parents, Ed got so pissed that he calmly walked up to Envy and punched it in the face with his [[ArtificialLimbs automail arm]], which was apparently enhanced by alchemy judging by the emission of red sparks... [[spoiler: Envy simply took it and didn't budge an inch, which, in addition to [[ShapeshifterBaggage its unusual weight and deep footprints from earlier]], clues Ed in on [[OneWingedAngel just how big Envy really is.]]]] |
| 105 | ** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', Wrath is unharmed by the usual weakness of homunculi because unlike the others, who were put together from other raw materials, he was born from the actual body of the person being "resurrected", [[spoiler:namely that of Izumi Curtis's stillborn child]], so he has no mortal remains to use against him. It's one of ''several'' ways that Wrath [[WrongContextMagic breaks the usual rules for homunculi]]. |
| 106 | * In ''Manga/GakuenAlice'', Mikan's power [[PowerNullifier nullification Alice]] has this effect, leading to her being even unaffected by Natsume's awesomely aggressive fire powers. |
| 107 | * In ''Anime/GaoGaiGar''[='s=] FinalBattle, the Zounda Robo effortlessly blocks and destroys the titular machine's upgraded weapons without a single thought. However, when Mamoru is injured protecting the machine from Zounda Robo's counter attack, Guy flips out and performs a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on the machine. |
| 108 | * Gin, Akame, and John from ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'' stop Nero and his dogs from picking on Hook, only for Nero's lackeys to attack. However, they seem too tough to throw down, and even one dogs biting on Gin's throat remarks that they're as tough as lead. Even Gin's calm smile told them that he and his friends are too tough for them to beat. But Hougen...[[CardCarryingVillain is another story]]. |
| 109 | * A lot of the early events of the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' metaverse paints the namesake Mobile Suits as being able to do this. |
| 110 | ** The original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' has the Gundam be this way, taking little to no damage from Zaku machine guns, since the Gundam's Luna Titanium armor is much stronger than the Zaku's normal titanium armor. |
| 111 | *** [[GoneHorriblyRight And promptly turned against him]] by Char, who, knowing his physics, starts ''kicking'' the Gundam to ricochet Amuro around the cockpit and then capture the Gundam intact once its pilot is a smear inside it (Char is driven off before Amuro's seatbelts give up, but [[TheDreaded he's now Amuro's worst nightmare]]). The following battle instead [[SubvertedTrope subverts it]], as Char this time shows up with a heat hawk that can cut through Luna Titanium armor and a bazooka that can, having been developed to penetrate ''battleship armor'' and make its warhead explode inside, can pierce the tougher but much thinner Gundam's armor like it wasn't even there. |
| 112 | ** ''Manga/MobileSuitGundam0083Rebellion'': The Neue Ziel is an immense powerhouse of a machine with an [[DeflectorShields I-Field]] to repel beam attacks and thick armor that standard munitions can barely scratch. The 90mm machine gun's that most units have do next to nothing to it and it takes what is essentially a mini rail gun to punch through the armor. The Cime fleet even busts out the chain mine from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket 0080]]'' and while that tears a gash in the armor the beast keeps going. |
| 113 | ** The Gundams of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'' has powerful "Gundanium" armor, able to withstand anything short of a powerful Buster Rifle. Later on, there's the Planet Defensors, devices that can form a nearly impenetrable force field, tanking anything up to and including Wing Zero's Buster Rifle |
| 114 | ** The Phase Shift Armor of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' was ''meant'' to be this, as [=ZAFT=] did not have MS-sized beam weaponry, once they [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere stole four out of the five Gundams...]] |
| 115 | ** In ''SEED'', the [[ChromeChampion Akatsuki Gundam]] has this in the ''opposite'' direction of the Phase Shift Armor: it's more or less invulnerable to beam weapons, to the point of ''reflecting'' them. |
| 116 | ** A ''non-''Gundam example occurs in Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' with Argo Gulskii, the enormous wrestler from Neo-Russia. [[https://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m72bqvaPma1r4y7cjo1_400.gif This is how Domon meets him]]. Sai Saici has the same problem in Guyana--a flying kick just results in Argo brushing off the dust and giving him a DeathGlare. |
| 117 | ** The Nano-laminate Armor present on all standard-issue mobile suits in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' no-sells all but the highest caliber projectile weapons, requiring battles to be fought in brutal close-quarters combat with weapons like oversized maces and pincers. It's especially capable at defending against [[spoiler:beam weaponry, where it was shown that a massive WaveMotionGun that was capable of destroying an entire city was nonetheless unable to make so much as a scratch against a grunt mobile suit with Nano-laminate Armor]]. |
| 118 | * Phantom of ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' easily overwhelms any and all Precure who cross him. In fact, the day he battled Cure Lovely and Cure Fortune, he couldn't help to admit that this battle would be the first time he drew ''his sword''. |
| 119 | * ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': [[spoiler: Machina]] is apparently immune to ''the most powerful'' [[spoiler: Isumi]]'s incantations. No explanation for this yet. |
| 120 | * ''Manga/HellsParadiseJigokuraku'': Gabimaru is able strengthen and manipulate his body to a point where normal means of death are able to even scratch him. He spends the first chapter practically walking through several executions; beheading, fire, pulled apart by ox, and boiling. At worst, he just complains about his clothes getting wrecked. |
| 121 | ** In one hilarious case, he casually gets back up from Warped Keuin hurling a flail into his head. Then he spends the start of their [[CurbStompBattle "fight"]] tying his hands together on Sagiri's demand while Warped Keuin is wailing on him hard enough to shatter his own weapons. |
| 122 | -->'''Gabimaru:''' There. All tied. |
| 123 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': A young [[UsedToBeASweetKid Russia]] calls down his [[BlessedWithSuck "ally"]] [[AnIcePerson General Winter]], the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the Russian winter, to dissuade Denmark, Sweden, the Teutonic Knights and Mongolia from chasing and attacking him, only for it have absolutely no effect on them, since the aforementioned countries were born in a cold area, and are used to the cold. |
| 124 | * During the FinalBattle of the ultimate arc in ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai]]'', [[spoiler:a TookALevelInBadass Akasaka]] mows his way through the Yamainu goons, when their leader finally manages to land a good, solid punch straight to his ribcage. [[spoiler:Akasaka]]'s sole reaction? "How weak...", followed by a return punch that makes the Yamainu leader pass out even though it ''technically missed him by an inch''. |
| 125 | * ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'': In one episode, Rin attempts to jump and kick someone. However their teacher, Chifuyu, turns up a the wrong time and gets kicked by accident. Rin falls to the ground while Chifuyu is completely unmoved. |
| 126 | * ''Manga/InuYasha'': |
| 127 | ** [[EvilWeapon Toukijin]] is revealed to be so powerful it can [[DemonicPossession possess]] anyone even its own creator, resulting in not even TheProtagonist or UltimateBlacksmith from being able to approach it. They try to warn Sesshoumaru away from the sword saying it's too dangerous to touch, but he picks it up anyway. Sesshoumaru immediately chastises the sword for trying to take control of his will and the evil aura promptly vanishes in response. The UltimateBlacksmith is extremely disquieted upon seeing that Sesshoumaru's will is so powerful he didn't even have to make an effort to squash the sword's will. |
| 128 | ** Sesshoumaru also completely no-sells Mukotsu's poison gas attacks. His primary defense, in fact, seems to be using his innate power to no-sell or his stoic nature to feign a no-sell (i.e. things like Mt Hakurei's holy shield and Tessaiga's no-youkai aura do hurt him, but he doesn't acknowledge them). |
| 129 | ** [[NoNameGiven Madame Exorcist]] is an amateur exorcist who doesn't seem to have any powers and cannot even sense auras. However, she is completely unaffected by demonic auras, even ones that paralyze others or cause them to become angry and depressed. |
| 130 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' |
| 131 | ** There is a Stand with this ability, [[spoiler:Gold Experience Requiem, the [[NextTierPowerUp evolved form]] of Giorno's Gold Experience,]] which reverts any hostile action against him (even ones he's not aware of) back to zero. This is actually more terrifying than it initially sounds, as it lets the enemy's action ''almost'' play out, then [[TheBattleDidntCount rewinds time right back to when the foe 'started' to act]], but without them actually doing it this time, [[MyRulesAreNotYourRules more or less denying the attack ever happened to begin with]]. It even denies [[spoiler: enemies who can accurately predict the future and remove time for everyone else except the user]]. Combined with the fact that anything it hits dies forever, over and over again (because it keeps resetting the death it inflicted to zero, and lets it happen again in a different way), and it's little wonder that [[spoiler:Giorno was immediately PutOnABus never to return after Part 5]]. What puts this example heads and shoulders above all others is the fact that ''nobody knows this ability exists'', not even its own user, and nobody ''can'' know it exists, because the moment an attack is initiated, everyone, including all observers, will simply be reset to zero, and remain completely unaware of what just happened. Even worse is that it is highly implied that this ability activates automatically against any threat, regardless of whether the Stand or its user is ''even aware of any danger''. The ''only'' time on record it went up against something it couldn't No Sell (and in fact found ''itself'' on the receiving end of the No Sell before being pummeled) was in ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven'' when it went up against [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Heaven Ascension DIO's]] ultimate evolved Stand The World Over Heaven]], a Stand which is an explicit RealityWarper on a universal scale and StoryBreakerPower incarnate. |
| 132 | ** The Stand Yellow Temperance is a BlobMonster that can change its own characteristics to counter any kind of damage. Physical attacks? It can absorb their impact, no matter their strength. Heat? It makes it grow faster. Cold? Not only it won't cause any damage to it, but it'll grow frozen spikes to attack you with. On top of that, it can be used to protect its user. However, there are some kinds of attacks that cannot affect the Stand but ''can'' affect the user -- like throwing the user underwater so that it cannot breathe. |
| 133 | * ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': |
| 134 | ** Satoru Gojo's [[{{infinite}} Limitless]] allows him to pretty much tank everything, since he has a layer of infinite space surrounding him like a membrane; the closer anyone gets to him, the slower their attack becomes to the point of appearing to be perfectly still. When Jogo tries attacking him with increasingly stronger techniques, he becomes increasingly shocked to find that Gojo doesn't have so much as a scratch on him. Even his [[DomainHolder Domain Expansion]], which inherently makes it so that [[AlwaysAccurateAttack attacks cannot miss]], fails to reach Gojo. |
| 135 | ** Kasumi Miwa's Simple Domain, combined with her [[IaijutsuPractitioner sword drawing technique]], allows her to automatically attack anyone who enters her attack range. [[SuperReflexes Yuji has such fast reflexes]] that he's still able to dodge her attack. When Miwa tries using it against [[MultiMeleeMaster Maki]], the latter simply distracts the former by throwing weapons at her until she's forced to move her feet, undoing the technique. |
| 136 | ** Mai has just about enough cursed energy to create a single bullet once a day, [[DeathOrGloryAttack allowing her to shoot enemies who get closer after she runs out of real bullets]]. When she attempts this against her sister Maki, however, [[BulletCatch Maki manages to catch the bullet with her bare hand]], leaving Mai completely defenseless. |
| 137 | ** When Haruta tries attacking [[TranquilFury a very pissed off Nanami]], his sword not only fails to cut him, but Nanami doesn't even flinch from being kicked in the stomach, making Haruta wonder if he just kicked a wall. |
| 138 | * During a party in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', the Principal has a highly skilled debater from the French Shuchiin Academy give Shirogane a [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] as a SecretTestOfCharacter. He is completely unaffected because [[spoiler:[[AchievementsInIgnorance he's the only one at the party that doesn't speak French]].]] |
| 139 | * In ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'', when Screwkid stabbed his 'you've failed me' boss Big the Buddo, he was so overpowered he ''disintegrated due to how ineffective his attack was.'' That's right, the villain who killed two major superheroes in one blow and gave two others a real run for their money was so weak by comparison that the recoil of hitting the guy killed him. And Budo was holding back. Budo then took finisher attacks from other heroes without flinching at all, even moves that would have defeated major villains from the previous arcs. [[spoiler:In fact, it took THREE supreme attacks to finally defeat him.]] |
| 140 | * When Kirby tried using his inhale ability on Meta Knight in an episode of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'', he is completely unaffected for some reason. [[spoiler:This is likely to hint that Kirby and Meta Knight are of the same race; the list of things Kirby's race ''can't'' inhale is pretty short, but it's likely another of his kind is on that list.]] |
| 141 | * In ''Anime/LastExile'', the ''Silvana'' pulls this during its "[[CurbStompBattle duel]]" with the ''Goliath''. |
| 142 | * ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': |
| 143 | ** After the end of the second season goes all out, Nanoha puts [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Raising Heart]] into its [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Excelion mode]], does a super charge attack to break a barrier and fires everything she has point blank at [[spoiler:The Book of Darkness]]... who just looks at her when the smoke clears with a clear sense of "Didn't I just tell you that that isn't going to work? Twit". Because she's so much stronger [[spoiler:(and also not evil)]] that using harsher insults would be a waste. |
| 144 | ** In TheMovie, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWUI3pPrH3Y the attack]] ended up pushing [[spoiler:The Book of Darkness]] through five ''skyscraper sized'' stone pillars and pinning them against a sixth before even firing the blast, and it still did nothing. |
| 145 | ** [[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce The Huckebein Family]] mainly No Sells almost EVERYTHING thrown against them. |
| 146 | * ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'''s first episode has the titular robot tanking a [[ChestBlaster Breast Fire]] from a Baron Ashura-piloted Anime/MazingerZ and a Breast Burn from Anime/GreatMazinger. Both attacks are supposed to be powerful enough to liquefy ''metal''. |
| 147 | * Dark and light magic are both fairly obscure abilities in ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''. Light magic is just very rare while dark magic is not naturally occurring and a closely held government secret. When a dark magician tries to use mind control powers on Maria, a light magic user, it turns out that light magic grants immunity to dark magic. Dark magic's emotional manipulation also fails against Katarina because to make someone crazy with jealousy they need to feel at least a little bit of it first and then amplify it, but Katarina feels no such thing (all other dark magic works just fine on her though). |
| 148 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 149 | ** OhCrap ensues when the Third Raikage, who became famous for no-selling practically everything, no-sold a Rasenshuriken, a OneHitKill attack in the series. The only thing (we ever saw) that damaged him were his own attacks, something that Naruto exploited during his fight with him after learning about it from a Tailed Beast. |
| 150 | ** In a non-physical example, genjutsu gets TheWorfEffect thanks to Kabuto's Snake Sage Mode where his snake corneas prevent Sasuke and Itachi from using their Sharingan against him, because Kabuto is essentially blind and cannot make eye contact. [[spoiler: Itachi defeats him with [[AssPull Izanami]].]] |
| 151 | ** Killer Bee [[IgnoreTheFanservice is completely unaffected by Naruto's Harem Jutsu.]] |
| 152 | ** Nagato [[spoiler: tanks Bee's V2 Lariat without even getting injured. Same V2 Lariat was strong enough to gut Kisame like a fish.]] |
| 153 | ** The [[EldritchAbomination Ten-Tails]] [[spoiler: No Sells a combined Bijudama from Naruto and Bee despite the power of the technique (it can be seen from orbit and the curvature of the globe). And it was only the Ten-Tails ''[[OhCrap first form]]'']]! |
| 154 | ** [[spoiler: Upon gaining mastery of the Ten-Tails, Obito tanks an assortment of attacks: from Hashirama's massive Myojin no Jutsu, to even a Enton: Rasenshuriken from Naruto and Sasuke without any or minimal damage. He even tanks a Senjutsu enhanced Kurama powered giant Rasengan from Sage Tailed Beast Mode Naruto and Tailed Beast Mode Minato without getting damaged.]] |
| 155 | ** [[spoiler: Upon getting the Six Path's upgrade, Naruto can tank and kick away like a soccerball the Gudodama's Madara uses. Same ones that are anti-Ninjutsu.]] |
| 156 | * One of the examples where the hero frequently benefits is in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', whose protagonist regularly shrugs off attacks and abilities far beyond other characters, through dint of good power and good training. Exemplified by Jack Rakan, who at one point [[spoiler: takes a massive chain of specialized, unique attacks dead-on, culminating in being run through on a titan-slayer lance and left pinned.]] He promptly removes the obstruction and stands back up ''smiling''. |
| 157 | ** And then he manages to [[spoiler:will himself back into being after being ''erased from existence. Twice!'']] |
| 158 | ** An earlier incident had Madoka attempting to slap Kotaro after he accidentally walked in on Ako while she was changing. He blocks the slap, so she [[MegatonPunch punches him in the face]]. His reaction is a completely deadpan "Ow." |
| 159 | ** A humorous interlude in which everyone is confessing their worries and Makie's only problem is that she can't think of any worries turns out to foreshadow her [[spoiler:being completely unaffected by "Poyo"'s LotusEaterMachine artifact]]. The funny part about that is the other character who no-sells the same spell: [[spoiler:the resident complainer Chisame]]. |
| 160 | ** Also Asuna's trademarked and [[GameBreaker absolutely broken]] innate [[AntiMagic Magic Cancel]]. As in, she's immune to anything but beneficial magic, and this is especially notorious when she's walking through a gigantic Great Magic mine and canceling it around her as she goes. |
| 161 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': The entire reason why Evangelions are used to fight Angels. AT Fields are basically No-Sell fields to anything without an AT field or weaponry many powers of magnitude greater than nuclear weaponry. This allowed Asuka Langley Soryu to [[AcePilot wipe out an entire army by herself]], after ''just'' waking from a coma, in ''End of Evangelion''. |
| 162 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 163 | ** Happens whenever the ill-defined ElementalRockPaperScissors system of powers comes into play. The most famous (and satisfying) is the beginning of the fight between Luffy (made of rubber) and Eneru (made of lightning), in which Luffy takes multiple OneHitKill moves in a row without a hair on his head being harmed. |
| 164 | ** During the early parts of the East Blue saga, Luffy shrugs off blunt force with the phrase, "That won't work on me, I'm a rubberman." Over time, his enemies tend to 1) realize earlier that blunt force and guns won't work on him and switch tactics accordingly, 2) supply enough blunt force to actually hurt him, albeit less than he should be (Shadows Asgard, Rokuougan), or 3) use Haki to get past his Devil Fruit power. However, at times, his powers work to protect him, such as when he survives human form Lucci's Shigan aimed at the neck because he is a rubber man. |
| 165 | ** Almost any Logia Fruit user worth their salt is able to No Sell almost any attack that isn't Haki enhanced (or isn't of a element that trumps the Logia's element) by turning into their constituent element. A skilled Logia user can even No Sell attacks that ''are'' Haki enhanced by simply shapeshifting their body around it, as seen when Aokiji creates a hole in his ice body for Whitebeard's Haki-embued bisento to pass through, leaving the non-Haki wielding observers to briefly think Whitebeard had struck a fatal blow. |
| 166 | ** Brook is able to No Sell Ikaros Much's moisture-sucking squid spears thanks to the fact that he's a living skeleton. There's nothing to drain. |
| 167 | ** Since his upgrade, Brook is able to survive [[spoiler:most physical harm (even decapitation) due to his newfound 'soul' powers. Turns out his true form is that of a spirit, and he's merely possessing his old body]]. |
| 168 | ** Buggy, one of the weakest pirates in the series, can No Sell any sword strike whether it's embedded with Haki or not. Not even Hawk-Eyes Mihawk can cut him. Or rather, no one can ''hurt him'' by cutting because his Chop-Chop powers mean he can break up into as many pieces as he wants. Cutting him just splits him into more pieces. WordOfGod also states that he's also immune to Doflamingo's Bird Cage, as he can simply split himself up and slip out. |
| 169 | ** Usopp is completely immune to Perona's [[EmotionBomb Negative Hollow]] since he's already a pessimist. He is so pessimistic the Hollows fall down in despair from coming into contact with him. |
| 170 | ** In Dressrosa, Sanji was able to No Sell Viola's [[{{Telepathy}} Peeping Mind]] thanks to being so [[DirtyMindReading filthy minded that she was stricken]], effectively preventing her from reading his thoughts for infortmation on his crew. |
| 171 | ** In the "3D2Y" special, two of the villains are able to resist Boa Hancock's "Mero Mero" powers. Sebastian is blind and as such, can't see Hancock's beauty. Nighthin is able to ingest extremely bitter herbal medicines to resist Hancock's powers [[spoiler:but in the end, she gets defeated and [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] all the same]]. Luffy in the main series is also entirely immune due to being too oblivious to her stunning looks and charms. |
| 172 | ** Armament Haki is also often used to do this -- when Luffy battled Boa Marigold, she was able to effortlessly No Sell every one of Luffy's attacks during their battle. At least until he start using [[CurbStompBattle Gear Second]]. |
| 173 | ** And then there is Donquixote Doflamingo. Everything short of strongest attacks is unable to even scratch him -- after Luffy attacks him in full force with both Haki and Gear Second on, he just tells him that his attacks feel like he's trying to tickle him. It takes [[spoiler:Luffy in Gear Fourth throwing him around the town]] to deal serious harm to him, and even after that he gains the upper hand, because [[spoiler:Luffy simply runs out of stamina before he's able to defeat him. Luckily, his allies come to his aid, give him the time he needs to recoup, and he ''finally'' shuts Doflamingo up with one solid Gear Fourth hit]]. |
| 174 | ** In [[spoiler:Gear Fourth mode]], Luffy takes one of Doflamingo's building-slicing attacks directly to the gut... only to bounce it back, without suffering as much as a scratch. |
| 175 | ** Jimbei is able to No-Sell [[spoiler:Big Mom’s TouchOfDeath powers]] through sheer NervesOfSteel. [[spoiler:Big Mom’s]] powers rely on the victim being scared of her; Jimbei ''isn’t'' scared of her and hasn’t been for years, completely neutralizing the effect. Big Mom herself also shrugs off any and all attacks that actually reach her, casually blocking the same attack that took out Doflamingo while laughing at how pathetic it was. |
| 176 | ** Luffy manages to land a heavy barrage of Gear Fourth punches on [[spoiler:Kaido in his dragon form, drunk off his ass and partially passed out]], one that would've likely put some actual hurt on a Marine Admiral, and of the sort not even Katakuri wanted to try and tank. All that achieved was ''sobering him up from annoyance''. |
| 177 | ** During their rematch, Luffy is struck by [[spoiler:Big Mom]]'s lightning bolts without any ill effects, due to ElementalRockPaperScissors. He then tanks [[spoiler:Kaido's [[BreathWeapon Blast Breath]]]] with sheer guts, [[ThisCannotBe leaving the latter flabbergasted that fire isn't working either]]. |
| 178 | ** Zoro manages to land a [[IaijutsuPractitioner Shishi Sonson]] slash on King after the latter mockingly gives him a free shot. Most enemies struck by the technique [[FinishingMove do not get back up]]; [[SuperToughness King doesn't even flinch]]. |
| 179 | ** An unusual one happens with [[spoiler:Saint Jaygarcia Saturn of the [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Five Elders]]]]. When Bonney runs him right through the chest with a katana, it goes right in, he bleeds, and all the Marines in the area are shocked... only for [[spoiler:Saturn]] to insult them for even thinking he'd allow something actually harmful to land, and pulling the sword out. As soon as he does, the injury disappears in an instant complete with the spilled blood vanishing completely, as if the attack had never happened. |
| 180 | * As part of his NighInvulnerability, Saitama of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' is effectively invincible. He often ignores most attempts to hurt him -- sometimes not even acknowledging he's being attacked. In one instance he was kicked into space and crashed into the moon. He simply held his breath, picked himself up, and ''jumped back to Earth''. When he lands he is totally unharmed from the blow that launched him into space, and his trips to and from the moon and simply says "Oh! I made it." In the end, his totally inability to get hurt only serves to depress him, because at his current level of ridiculous power, even the most dangerous, planet-destroying powerful beings simply pose no challenge to him whatsoever. |
| 181 | * In ''Manga/OutlawStar'', Aisha Clan-Clan (and virtually all Ctarl-Ctarls) are stupidly durable and can only really be defeated by others of their species. Gene Starwind learned that the hard way when he tried to slash Aisha with a knife; he didn’t even cut her clothes more or less break her skin while his knife broke into fragments. |
| 182 | * Literally the entire premise of ''Literature/Overlord2012''. The main character, Ainz, along with his dozen or so subordinates is infinitely times more powerful than even the God-tier level magic of New World, bar other high-level players who also crossed over. One notable instance is his fight with Clementine, a {{sadist}} who relished in torturing and No-Selling enemies herself, yet compared to Ainz is so weak that he purposefully spends their entire fight severely handicapping his powers. Once he decides he's [[LetsGetDangerous done playing around with her]], he considers her so worthless that, rather than using magic to kill her, simply [[KillerBearHug gives her a giant]] bearhug until he crushes her to death]]. |
| 183 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 184 | ** In a rare case of actually adhering to the type relationships of the Pokémon games the anime/movie is based on, Ash's Pikachu's electric attacks ended up being shaken off by the Quagsire owned by the GirlOfTheWeek in the beginning of ''Anime/{{Pokemon 3}}''. |
| 185 | ** This is especially frequent whenever legendary Pokémon show up, often crossing over with TheWorfEffect when fighting powerful friendly Pokémon. [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Mewtwo]] is capable of ignoring and redirecting a [[WaveMotionGun Hyper Beam]] back at the Gyarados who fired it at him, and [[OutOfTheInferno barely notices Charizard's Flamethrower attack]], among other feats. |
| 186 | ** In Advanced, a Wishcash swallowing a thrown Master Ball and not get caught. Yeah, '''THAT MASTER BALL''' that catches a Pokemon without fail. |
| 187 | ** In Advanced, the infamous Thunder Armor. Pikachu uses Thunder on himself and Swellow. Instead of frying Swellow due to being flying type, it granted Swellow a powerful golden armor, high speed, and high attack enough to destroy the 2 opposing Pokemon and winning it. |
| 188 | ** Cynthia's Garchomp does this often. During a fight with Paul's Weavile, Weavile uses Blizzard to hit Garchomp. Garchomp took it like a champ and just one-shotted Weavile. |
| 189 | ** Shortly after its capture, Iris' Dragonite demonstrates how strong it is when it takes multiple Ice attacks head-on without slowing down, despite its typing making it extremely weak to Ice moves. |
| 190 | ** In a non-Pokemon example, the RunningGag of clumsy Bianca running into people, most notably Ash flying into a body of water. Stephan was able to absorb the impact of Bianca running. |
| 191 | ** Iris' battle against Drayden had his Druddigon no-selling Iris' Dragonite's Ice Beam and Dragon Rush. [[ElementalRockPaperScissors As a Dragon-type, Druddigon should have taken increased damage from ''both'' of those attacks]]. |
| 192 | ** [[spoiler:When Charizard came back he had a round with Iris's Dragonite. The guy didn’t sell anything Dragonite threw at him.]] |
| 193 | ** Over in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', [[spoiler:Pryce]], having been [[spoiler:trapped in the time stream for several years,]] is completely immune to Dialga's Roar of Time attack. |
| 194 | * The [[SmartGun Dominator]] cannot be used on either of the [[BigBad Big Bads]] in ''Anime/PsychoPass'', albeit for differing reasons. |
| 195 | ** Shogo Makishima [[spoiler:is [[TheSociopath criminally asymptomatic]], so his Psycho-Pass goes ''down'' as he performs criminal acts. Therefore, he cannot be identified as a criminal, and the Dominator is prevented from firing]]. |
| 196 | ** Kirito Kamui [[spoiler:cannot be judged by the Sibyl System ''at all.'' Due to extensive surgery after a plane crash which involved [[MixAndMatchMan getting transplants from nearly two hundred people]], the resulting clash of biometric data renders Sibyl unable to register him as an individual. The Dominator will not fire on him because as far as the Dominator is concerned, there's nothing there to fire at]]. |
| 197 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': |
| 198 | ** During their fight in Episode 5, Sayaka charges at Kyouko, only to be blocked by Kyouko, who stands with a bored expression and only one hand on her lance ([[BigEater she is eating with the other]]), while Sayaka is clearly putting all of her strength into the attack. |
| 199 | ** During Homura's fights with Walpurgisnacht in [[Recap/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaEpisode11TheOnlyThingIHaveLeftToGuideMe "The Only Thing I Have Left to Guide Me"]], she launches a massive attack against the witch, utilizing a variety of weapons such as rockets, mines, and missiles. [[spoiler:It doesn't affect the witch, and Homura's attempts to stop or slow her down fail.]] |
| 200 | * [[spoiler: Ghost, the last Real Funeral Wreath,]] in ''Manga/Reborn2004''. Try to use Dying Will Flames on him results in him just absorbing them, and physical attacks aren't any more effective. |
| 201 | * ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': A certain character who uses [[PowerIncontinence unconscious]] MoreThanMindControl, [[spoiler:Katsuya]], has this ability resisted by certain characters. Those who notice it happening before resisting consist of the GuileHero Sheryl as well as Inabe, who both have cunning minds. [[IHaveManyNames Kain/Nergo]], on the other hand, is outright ImmuneToMindControl due to [[spoiler:the fact that Katsuya’s mind control stems from him being an Old World Connector. The reason it works on most people, is that in the east most people are low-sensitivity Old World Connectors due to being descendant from Old World {{Precursors}}, the further west people are from, the less psychically sensitive they tend to be, including Kain.]] |
| 202 | * After Hendrickson from ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' goes into [[spoiler:[[OneWingedAngel gray demon mode ]]]], attacks of entire army of [[OneManArmy Holy Knights]], wasn't able to put even a scratch on him. Only Sins actually manage to do some damage to him, and even them wasn't strong enough. |
| 203 | ** The last Sin's introduction:[[spoiler:Once the sun is up, Escanor takes on Galand (who [[CurbStompBattle curb stomped]] Meliodas, Merlin and Diane while in a weakened state earlier). Galand uses magic to double his strength and throw a full power attack. The surrounding mountains are cut in half... and Escanor barely got a scratch and [[IsThatTheBestYouCanDo sighed]]]]. As seen later, This guy LOVES this trope. |
| 204 | * ''Manga/SoulEater'': |
| 205 | ** Stein, in his first appearance, he negates Black*Star's [[KiManipulation Ki Attacks]] and [[BarehandedBladeBlock caught]] Maka and Soul's Witch Hunt. According to both Shinigami and Stein himself, this is due to changing his own Soul Wavelength to counter and cancel out his opponent's in the former case, and while such an ability is incredibly difficult to master, there's a reason Stein is known as a mad genius. The latter is due to his own toughness. |
| 206 | ** Also Asura No Sells Black*Star's KiAttacks as well. Heck, in the final battle he shrugs off everything Kid in True Shinigami form, Black*Star using the full extent of his strength, Maka and Soul as a Death Scythe/Meister, Marie, Stein, and Azusa can hit him with. Only a handful of attacks even reach his skin. |
| 207 | ** Anyone with the Black Blood active can shrug off any physical blows. Not so much with wavelength-based attacks. |
| 208 | * All versions of ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' use it to show just why [[HopelessWar Earth couldn't win against Gamilas]] and then to show the tide had turned: |
| 209 | ** In the live action movie, Earth's last fleet fires a salvo against a Gamilan squadron [[https://youtu.be/GenQSOl1OMQ?t=58 to absolutely no effect]]. It's also hinted it used to be the other way around, with human ships being superior to their Gamilan counterparts but [[AdaptiveAbility the Gamilans adapted and outpaced Earth ships]]. |
| 210 | ** In both the original series and [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199 the remake]], the Battle of Pluto features an Earth fleet (Earth's last fleet in the original, ''Japan''[='=]s last fleet operating under UN banner in the remake) firing at the Gamilan's squadron based on Pluto and their fire ''[[https://youtu.be/sSrYskeie-s?t=34 bouncing off the Gamilan ships' hull]]'', as Earth weapons are too weak to even scratch them unless heavily concentrated. The only exception is the ''Yukikaze''[='=]s missiles and, in the remake, the spinal-mounted shock cannons (or so it's hinted), [[{{Foreshadowing}} the former being prototypes of the latest missile type to provide to the]] ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} Yamato]]'' [[{{Foreshadowing}} and the latter a less advanced version of what would provide the main battery of Earth's last battleship]]. |
| 211 | ** The ''Yamato'' always shrugs off Gamilan weapon fire unless heavily concentrated-something the Gamilans cannot do in the early battles. It's always understood this is a temporary situation, as the Gamilans ''will'' eventually concentrate enough ships to damage the ''Yamato'' (or, in the live action, adapt and produce sufficiently powerful weapons), as it happens -- and in the two anime series [[OhCrap well before anticipated]]. |
| 212 | ** When caught in a trap by Domel's enormous fleet, the ''Yamato'' tries to get out by destroying his flagship and fires on it, only to have the shock cannons ''bounce on its hull'' due a combination of the ''Domelaze III'' being a ''Zoelguut''-class Class-1 Astro Battleship (Gamilas' newest battleship design barring [[spoiler:Deslar's ''[[SuperProtype Deusura II]]'']], and heavily armored due perceived deficiences in the armor of the previous' ''Gaiderohl''-class), not being at 100% power, and long distance (a later salvo, fired at point blank, ''does'' penetrate). |
| 213 | ** Gatlantis' White Comet proves just how formidable it is by tanking a salvo of [[spoiler:''{{Wave Motion Gun}}s'']] from the entire Earth's fleet without damage. For perspective, the same fleet had just massacred ''the entirety of Gatlantis' fleet'' [[spoiler:(without using the wave motion guns in the original series, and spamming them in the remake due the difference in numbers)]]. |
| 214 | * ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'': In the post-TimeSkip episode "Satan's Dolls", Minmay and Kaifun are kidnapped by Kamujin and Laplamiz. Minmay begins to sing, knowing that music and culture in general has the effect of soothing Zentradi. At first, Kamujin and Laplamiz react in horror and fascination as if the song is having an effect on them, before slamming the table, gloating that they were putting on an act and [[WhamShot kissing]], declaring they can produce their own [[SexualEuphemism culture]]. |
| 215 | * In ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', environmental features are invincible, and display a sign saying "Immortal Object" when a player attempts to damage them. Gamemasters can do the same; [[spoiler:the AI Yui]] no sells an attack from an end-game boss this way, while [[spoiler:Akihiko, masquerading as Heathcliff]], becomes invincible right before his HP hits the yellow zone. |
| 216 | * ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'': |
| 217 | ** The series has the [[SuperMode Blastor]] transformation. When it first appears, Lance attacks, we get a little explosion and Lance thinks he's won. [[SmokeShield Cue Blade standing completely unharmed.]] Later in the fight, Lance fires a Voltekka ''point blank''. [[OutOfTheInferno Cue Blade flying through the blast to attack Lance again.]] The fight ends when D-boy uses [[WaveMotionGun Blastor Voltekka]] to show that Lance's No Sell skills are NOT up to par. |
| 218 | ** The scene where Blade takes a nuke head on and completely no sells it. |
| 219 | * ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Lordgenome's Lazengann has a hidden row of teeth on its abdomen -- which, coincidentally, are strong enough to stop and shatter a [[FinishingMove Giga Drill Break]] from Simon. |
| 220 | ** ''Anyone'' in this show can No Sell ''anything'' if they are generating enough Spiral Power. Case in point: Thymilph's Condemn Glaize [[GratuitousEnglish or whatever it's called]]. It puts a fair-sized hole in the Gurren [[spoiler:and Kamina]], but when they combine and are leading up to the series' first Giga Drill Break, it's deflected effortlessly. "It can't break this hand!" It's a good thing the villains never twig that people currently delivering a BadassBoast are impossible to even scratch, or TTGL would have been a very short and uninteresting show. |
| 221 | * Often used in ''Manga/{{Toriko}}''. However, three characters do this particularly often: |
| 222 | ** Midora no sells almost anything that gets thrown on him, including an opponent's ability to [[TimeMaster manipulate time]]. [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Joie]]]] at first wasn't even be able to put a scratch on him, and after he lowered his defenses enough to cut him in pieces, his regenerative abilities kicked in, allowing him to reattach his cut off limbs ''before they fall off''. In the end, [[spoiler:he had to seal him since he was unkillable, and ''even this didn't work'']]. |
| 223 | ** Later in the story, Midora manage to take it even further by [[spoiler:copying Joie's [[WindsOfDestinyChange Gourmet luck]]]]. After that, most attacks stopped working on him [[spoiler:simply because he was really lucky]]. Because of this, in his final showdown with Joie, he simply [[spoiler:stood there and reminisced about how much he loved his adoptive mother while Joie attacked him with everything he got, leaving only a couple of scratches.]] |
| 224 | --->'''Joie''': Those are the devil's gastric juices. Why aren't they digesting you? |
| 225 | ** [[TheParalyzer Knocking master Jirou]], after [[spoiler:taking off his [[PowerLimiter seals]]]], gained the ability to stop damage from enemy attacks within his body. That ability allows him to take mountain-leveling attacks without even a scratch. However, [[spoiler:he not nullifying damage -- he just stops it inside his body. And when someone with his level of skill releases all that damage...[[PentUpPowerPeril things get messy]]]]. |
| 226 | ** The main reason that [[spoiler:[[BigBad Neo demon]]]] is so hard to kill is the fact that he can eat [[ExtremeOmnivore virtually everything, including enemy attacks]]. So far, he managed to eat [[spoiler:attacks that can stop the Earth, attacks that sends ripples trough Earth, several giant meteorites and even a tiny supernova capable of destroying the planet]]. One time he [[spoiler:got swallowed by Mother Snake and simply drank all her stomach acid before it was able to dissolve him]]. And even when he is not eating the attack, he still can take ridiculous amounts of damage -- even an attack that punches him through entire planet ''several times'' only lightly bloodied him up. |
| 227 | * In ''Literature/UnlimitedFafnir'', none of the attacks the girls use against the White Leviathan have any effect against it due to its DeflectorShields. Fortunately, Yuu figures out a way to utilize Iris's attacks to get around them so they can defeat it. |
| 228 | * This happens several times in the ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' franchise: |
| 229 | ** In ''Anime/YuGiOh's'' Virtual Nightmare arc, Noah tries to take over Yugi's body the way he'll later do to Mokuba and Nesbitt already did to Tristan. He encounters the Pharoah's presence in his mind and gets pushed out. |
| 230 | ** Isis is stunned in Season 2 when Kaiba is able to evade her power to see the future (the spirit of the Blue Eyes White Dragon, aka Kisara, interferes and prompts Kaiba to make a different maneuver than he was planning). |
| 231 | ** In Season 2 of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', Judai partially No Sells Saiou's attempt to brainwash him after he loses to Edo. He loses his ability to communicate with monster spirits or even to see Duel Monsters cards, but he's not under the Light's control. |
| 232 | ** Later, Kenzan completely No Sells Saiou's brainwashing-through-defeat power, walking away from his loss to him completely unchanged and unharmed. |
| 233 | ** In Season 4 of ''GX'', Fujiwara tries to use his memory-altering powers on Judai. Now having full access to Yubel's power since they became one, he simply undergoes an EyeColorChange and coldly says that won't work on him. |
| 234 | * In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho's'' [[TournamentArc Dark Tournament]] finals, during the [[LightningBruiser Bui]] vs. [[TokenEvilTeammate Hiei]] battle, [[spoiler: after Hiei absorbs the power of the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Dragon of the Darkness Flame]],]] he No Sells a MeteorMove. |
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