Made Of Iron / Anime & Manga

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• In Airmaster there's Maki. You'd think taking a literal bear killing punch to the jaw or falling from several stories onto concrete would leave you at least out of commission for a while, but she's back like nothing happened next episode. Credit must be given to the minor characters too though for being able to take a drop kick from a 6' tall muscular girl jumping off a building.
• Allison and Lillia: Used to absurd effect in the last episode. Treize was on the roof of a train that crashed off a cliff into a ravine. He was missing and presumed dead... then he shows up a couple weeks later in good enough shape to dance.
• Partially justified for Seiichirou Kitano in Angel Densetsu. His inhumane reflexes allow him to move in the same direction of the blows he's receiving, considerably lessening the damage. Played straight with his father who's The Juggernaut on top of that.
• Chirico Cuive from Armored Trooper VOTOMS survives countless bouts of physical abuse throughout 49 TV episodes and several OVAs, including a shot in the chest.
• While most characters in Attack on Titan don't stand a chance, there's a few that manage to be this. Levi, Mikasa, and Reiner all manage to survive being manhandled and knocked around by Titans, something which leaves most folks little more than bloody stains. Reiner actually subverts it, since he's got Super-Toughness and a Healing Factor.
  • Post-timeskip, Eren Yeager fights the entire troop of Marleyan Warriors while continuously transforming repeatedly among his 3 different Titan forms, without any regard for his stamina. Galliard is even surprised at how little a crap Eren gives to the limitations inherent to Titan Shifters.
• A lot of characters in the manga Baki the Grappler qualify, but none so well as the Yakuza boss Kaoru Hanayama who, at one point, gets force-fed bullets which explode in his mouth. All that after taking damage which, were it to be accumulated and released all at once, would end all life as we know it. And in his own short spinoff manga series he is shown as being able to withstand enormous water pressure by diving to the bottom of the ocean to release the angling hook which was stuck to a rock below prior to killing a 22 foot long shark. Underwater. Pro angler.
• University headmaster Grant Oldman from Battle Athletes Victory qualifies. After a botched hijacking attempt means a space shuttle carrying new students is going to crash into the University (it's in space) he simply orders the main training field cleared, steps out onto it, then catches the incoming shuttle and forces it to stop. See this video at the about 4:30 mark.
• The characters from the Battle Royale manga went further and further into this as it went on. Kiriyama was the worst offender; over the course of the manga he gets beaten up, shot, blown up (diving inside a car to avoid the explosion), engaged in a knock-down martial arts fight, shot by a machinegun (he was wearing a bullet-proof vest, but at least one bullet goes through his arm), and blasted in the stomach with a shotgun. His hair and face stay as perfect as when he first came on the island. (This is possibly due to the tendency of characters to point out that No One Could Survive That! each time he looks like he's dead.)
• Berserk. Guts is superhumanly tough, able to survive: getting struck with many arrows, set on fire, being impaled multiple times, carried off several hundred feet into the air, flown at the speed of sound without any protection, stabbed through both cheeks, than falling hundreds of feet and still be able to fight. And given what he has to face, you better believe the guy needs it. Also can't forget the time Guts hacks his own arm off to free himself from the jaws of a monster and attack the Big Bad who was raping his girlfriend at the time.
• Black Lagoon. One of the main characters takes an RPG at point blank (not the explosion, but getting hit by the physical object) and escapes with lightly burned skin and a concussion. At a later date, another character survives getting shot in the gut, falling from a second story window and then having the building she fell from collapse on top of her while it's on fire, though she admits that the injuries are more or less fatal and she was lucky to be alive long enough for help to show up. And then there's Roberta, who isn't Made of Iron so much as diamond on a solid titanium-tungsten alloy base.
• Bleach:
  • Sado was born with power that was locked away inside his soul, completely inaccessible until forcibly awakened early in the manga. Prior to its activation, which granted him supernatural strength and toughness, he was a normal, powerless human. Even then, he could lift things others couldn't and shrug off falling steel girders without injury. He was even hit by a motocycle and had to carry the motorcyclist to the hospital. He was barely injured.
  • Quilge Opie just won't go down, not even after being pummeled and having his neck snapped by Ayon (he just casually pops it back into place) and a massive hole shot in his chest by Urahara (he uses Ransoutengai to keep fighting). It takes Grimmjow slicing him in half before he finally takes a hint and dies.
  • After Kenpachi Zaraki's true power is restored in the final arc, Gremmy Thoumeaux can't imagine anything capable of hurting him. The closest he gets is subjecting Kenpachi to the vacuum of space; while it does evaporate a large amount of his blood and boils his eyes, it still only barely slows him down.
• Vampires in Call of the Night are vastly sturdier than humans, and have a Healing Factor on top of that; injuries that would cripple or even kill a human, such as a severed limb, being shot point-blank in the face, a broken spine, a snapped neck or even a hole in their chest will only slow them down for a bit while they reattach the limb or heal the damage.
• Captain Tsubasa: During the National Middle School Cup, Tsubasa suffered severe injuries throughout the tournament. He got his legged injured by Souda, he dislocated his shoulder during the match against the Tachibana Twins and said shoulder got bodychecked by Jito. Those handicaps often bothered Tsubasa during the matches and he still managed to make all his way to the grand finale. But for the final match, he had to ask for a pain-killing medicine, and he wasn't allowed to play in the first half of the match. Tsubasa endured it from the beginning of the second half up to the end of the extra time. Story-wise, the handicaps were necessary to make the audience still route for Tsubasa, given that he already won the previous two tournaments, whereas his rival Hyuuga lost to him three times in the past and the audience are made to route for him as well.
• A Certain Magical Index has Touma, who's odd ability to keep going after taking wounds that would likely kill most people actually scares an enemy into insanity (of course there was a bit of acting involved with an epic Evil Laugh.)
• Almost every character in Chaosic Rune can count. Each character fights with creatures that give them sympathy damage of equal magnitude whenever harmed. Since the battles between the creatures usually involve dismemberment, crushing, eating, and acid attacks, most fights end with the characters covered in the most terrifying wounds ever seen in a manga. Since the winner of the battle gets fully healed afterward, the damage usually doesn't stick, though they still have to feel all of the pain every time it happens. The loser usually leaves a horrifying corpse, if they leave one at all. Oddly enough, crosses over with Made of Plasticine.
• City Hunter: All the recurring characters are this. Apart Ryo's Amusing Injuries when Kaori hammers him, Umibozu barely felt being shot twice with a .38 caliber pistol, and Ryo, Kaori and Mick survived the explosion of the building they were in.
• Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop. Over the course of the series, he's taken considerable amounts of pain, among other things he was thrown out of the tower window of an old-style cathedral after a gutshot and then stabbed through the shoulder with a sword. In fact, this, coupled with the demonstrated and implied effectiveness of futuristic medicine in the series, is one of the reasons why some fans believe he survived the final episode.
  • Likewise, Spike's arch-enemy Vicious, the one who stabbed him and tossed him out of that church tower, can also withstand incredible punishment. As Spike flew out the window, he dropped an impressively powerful grenade that blew up the church. Vicious was still inside when this happened and yet reappears in later episodes without so much as a scratch, let alone any physical impairments.
  • Vincent Volaju the Big Bad of The Movie is superhumanly tough even compared to Spike and Vicious, as seen in his prolonged and brutal fistfight with Spike where at one point he gets shot through the freaking palm, doesn't even flinch, using the same hand to keep fighting no problem◊.
• In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba most of the human cast are absurdly tough. The titular demons slayers regularly get brutalized by demons several times stronger than they are and have superpowers. The protagonist Tanjiro gets his ribs and a leg broken in one fight with demons, walks for miles in agony and has another fight with another strong demon while still injured and wins. In the Mugen Train arc, Kyōjurō has the Upper Rank demon Akaza punch a hole through his torso, but he keeps holding Akaza in place until the sun comes up and Akaza breaks free and flees at which Kyōjurō finally succumbs to his injuries.
• In Death Note, Light Yagami is shot no less than FOUR times, and still has the strength to run to the next building in the anime. In manga, he would have continued to live for long life despite being shot that many times.
• Parodied in Detroit Metal City, where the manager of the eponymous band is tough enough to stub out cigarettes on her own tongue.
• Digimon Frontier: The Seasonal Rot envelope is pushed farther near the end, when power levels reach the DBZ scale. The human characters (who have no superhuman powers whatsoever when not in Digimon form) survive planetwrecking attacks with little more than a few bruises. DigiEggs are seen floating by and non-plot-important Digimon aren't, proving that even the highest-level Digimon (who can have at least city-wrecking power) weren't so lucky.
• You wouldn't think so, but Impmon of Digimon Tamers can take a lot of pain, surviving a very brutal Curb-Stomp Battle and being thrown in lava. This gets taken up to eleven when he evolves into Beelzebumon—aside from taking two of Dukemon's strongest attacks and walking away a few minutes later, he gets crucified by the D-Reaper, shot several times in the back, and thrown into a sea of deletion, all occurring within hours if not minutes of each other, and lives, although the wounds are treated as very serious and he's unable to fight for the rest of the series.
• Taken to insane levels in Dragon Ball, where even characters like Yajirobe and Mr. Satan who don't know how to throw a ki blast survive things that should turn most tanks into dust.
  • Considering a major theme in the series is pushing beyond one's limitations, it should be expected that this applies to a whole lot of the main characters. Later on a lot of characters will brush off attacks, but there are some specific, spectacular moments when characters are severely injured and keep going because they just refuse to give up.
  • The non-serial movies make it their mission statement to beat the tar out of poor Goku until he's bent and bloody. Lord Slug, Cooler, Android 13 and Broly in particular brutalize Goku to ludcious extremes, but Goku always refuses to give in.
    • Subverted with Goku after the fight with Vegeta as having both his legs broken and his body totally wrecked, he was hospitalized for weeks and needed a senzu bean to recover fully.
  • Chi-Chi is this, overlapping with Iron Butt Monkey. She's one of the few fighters in the series who doesn't utilize ki energy but, much like Yajirobe, has taken hits and attacks that would've killed or hospitalized the likes of Mr Satan or Videl. In Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug, she runs through a ki explosion fired by of Slug's soldiers no problem and later in the Buu Saga while training Goten she gets kicked and sent flying into a tree by Goten when he accidentally turns Super Saiyan, but Chi-Chi recovers quickly and is more upset than hurt. Keep in mind, grown men got KO-ed by SSJ Gohan's strikes and Freeza himself got beaten bloody by even Goku's casual lovetaps while he was Super Saiyan, making Chi-Chi's fortitude all the more impressive.
  • The first battle between Goku and "Jackie Chun" at the end of the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament. They each pull out all of their most powerful abilities until they're both so exhausted that they can barely move. In the end the tournament is decided based on who can get to their feet and say "I'm the new world champion" first.
  • General Blue of the Red Ribbon Army. He gets slammed into a wall and knocked unconscious by Goku, buried under a ton of rock when the Pirate Cave collapses, somehow escapes that only to crash his plane into a mountain trying to evade Goku's flying nimbus, then gets headbutted into the horizon by Arale, and none of this manages to stop him. He finally dies as a victim of The Worf Effect, courtesy of Mercenary Tao.
  • Out of all the villains, Freeza displays this the most since unlike Cell and Buu who follow him, he lacks a Healing Factor. On Namek he takes several severe beatings from Gohan, Piccolo and eventually Goku (a fight which infamously lasted over an entire season) yet Freeza was only getting tired towards the very end of the saga and was still breathing even when he got cut in half with his own Death Saucer. If that wasn't enough he survived getting blasted by Goku and then having the entire planet blowing up while he was still on it, leaving him drifting through space barely alive. It took Future Trunks slicing him into confetti and blasting the chunks to actually kill Freeza.
  • In Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Freeza surpassed his previous experience, as he took a beating from an extremely enraged Super Saiyan Broly for one straight hour, as Goku and Vegeta used him as a distraction as they scooted off in order to learn Fusion, pretty impressive for him as even they were unable to handle the fury of Broly for more than a few minutes. In end of his well-deserved beatdown, it's still thanks to his resilience he ended up smarting his wounds in the end, rather than being a smear on the rocks.
  • Cooler, Freeza's brother was even harder to kill as he survives getting blasted into the sun by Goku and was "alive enough" to be absorbed by the Big Gete Star and rebuild his body. In The Return of Cooler Goku and Vegeta have to destroy the chunk of Cooler left remaining to put him down for good.
  • Recoome is probably one of the most standard examples. Unlike most of the other villains who just laugh everything off Recoome actually gets battered around quite a bit smashed into mountains, has his entire uniform nearly destroyed most of his teeth knocked out and gets cut up pretty good with minor scrapes and bruises. It just doesn't really seem to bother him and he keeps getting back up and dishing it back worse. The blow that actually takes him out, Goku giving a quick jab to his solar plexus, honestly looks minor compared to the damage he'd taken thus far.
• Durarara!!:
  • The three kidnappers from the first episode. Celty hits one of them with her motorcycle and smashes another's face into a wall which leaves behind a huge mess, yet they show up later on no worse for wear. Plus anyone who Shizuo hits, throws, or punches. Special mention goes to Rokujo Chikage, who takes four steel-crushing punches to the face, yet still has the energy to taunt Shizuo about his lacking sex life.
  • Speaking of Shizuo, he's a guy who became Made of Iron the hard way. Due to inherent Super-Strength combined with a Hair-Trigger Temper (both he's had since he was a kid), he grew up constantly overstressing his body with rage-induced feats of inhuman strength. It's only because he's survived these mishaps throughout his early years that he's reached the point in his mid-20's where he shrugs off getting clubbed in the back of the head, stabbed repeatedly with pens, shot, and hit by a truck.
  • Mention must also be given to Izaya Orihara who is the regular target of Shizuo's inhuman rage. In their first on-screen confrontation, Shizuo nails Izaya by chucking and hitting him in the head with a convenience store trashcan so hard Izaya is thrown several feet. The snazzily-dressed Psycho Knife Nut just gets up like nothing happened. Finally subverted in the finale. Shizuo gets some serious blows on him, most notably nailing him with a steel I-beam "like a baseball," and while he keeps fighting for a while, Izaya eventually has to be carried off while Shizuo is distracted. If sequel manga are to be believed, he suffered multiple broken bones and is currently confined to a wheelchair; the fight finally put the fear of Shizuo into him.
• Elfen Lied usually doesn't qualify for this trope as most characters tend to die instantly, but does in Bandou and Nana's cases, as they somehow managed to survive brutal injuries that would have killed anyone else.
• Natsu, Gray, and all the other determinators and Plucky Girls of Fairy Tail. Special mention goes to Erza, who seems that she can survive nearly everything. She seems to have gotten it from her mom, who can survive even worse things than her, though she has the excuse of being a dragon.
  • Not to forget Gajeel, who is literally made of iron to boot.
• Fist of the North Star largely seems to be written about entirely unhealthy deformation of flesh and bones or the lack thereof, so it's not that surprising that its main characters are more than a little sturdy. The hero Kenshiro weathers attacks that can effortlessly shear through solid steel with little but superficial cuts to show for it. The antagonist, Raoh, completely ignores the same, and at one point, basically strangles a suicide fire-bomber AFTER he ignited himself, without being burned.
• Normally you'd think anyone would probably have to be severely hospitalized if they got hit in the head with a Vespa or a guitar. But in FLCL, Naota is only ever moderately knocked out and somewhat inconvenienced by this despite being probably the youngest member of the cast as a middle schooler, and by episode 5 he gets hit by a small truck and recovers in mid-air. Seems Haruko's insanity was really rubbing off on him.
• In Fullmetal Alchemist, the Armstrong Secrets of Durability have been passed down the family line for GENERATIONS!!! With the amount of punishment Major Alex Louise Armstrong withstands, you'd think he was a Homunculus. But he's not.
  • Besides the Major there's Roy Mustang, Izumi, Sig, Ling Yao, Scar, Kimblee, Bradely and especially Ed all of whom have taken grievous injuries that would kill or cripple a normal human. Ed in particular once remained conscious and still able to use Alchemy after getting impaled by a steel bar.
• In Future Diary Hinata Hino and Mao Nonousaka, two Unfazed Everymen, survived multiple stab wounds, and suffered no worse than falling down. Hinata got at least six in her body, scattered around her arms and stomach, and Mao took a knife to the back. They are hospitalised after this. In the same chapter, Yukiteru Amano survives being dropped two stories in a burning building and is fine after two days, and Yuno Gasai is perfectly fine a day after being stabbed in the stomach.
• Golden Kamuy: Saichi Sugimoto has survived, among other things, tuberculosis, the worst battles of the Russo-Japanese War, multiple bear attacks, falling into a river during a blizzard, numerous injuries from his skirmishes with the elite 7th Division, and even losing part of his brain after getting shot in the head. He is also known as "the Immortal," both for surviving mortal injuries and for recovering from them almost immediately.
• Great Teacher Onizuka can easily survive falling off a building or getting hit by cars with minimal injury. Perhaps the most extreme case is when he was shot three times rescuing someone from being kidnapped (and before that ran his scooter into their car when it suddenly stopped), but managed to walk all the way back to school and spend an hour taking an exam before he passed out from blood loss and went into a coma which he got out of in days.
• Here's a fun Drinking Game for those up for it: Watch Guilty Crown and take a shot every time a character is inside the 'near-miss' zone (i.e. about five feet away from the impact site) of an explosion and comes out of it untouched. You'll be drunk after five minutes. You'll be pickled after two hours if you marathon episodes. At one point, someone (it's Shuu, for those interested) gets their arm severed at the elbow without medical attention and doesn't even start bleeding, much less bleed out.
• Heero Yuy of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing is most definitely made of iron (well, Gundanium Alloy to be more precise...) Among his greater feats are self-detonating his Gundam while standing just outside the cockpit and surviving, and falling down a cliff just to get up once he reached the ground. If memory serves, he actually dislocated his leg in the latter, but only had to push the bone back into place afterward, which squicks the heck out of Duo.
  • In an early episode, a doctor observing Heero comments that he has over 200 bruises and broken bones and yet was still walking around as a normal person would. (It should be noted that this was the same episode where he later fell down that cliff.)
  • Heero didn't fall off the cliff. He jumped...willingly...from the military hospital he was being held which happened to stand over the cliff (meaning add about 30 or so stories to the height)...after he broke himself free from his bonds through sheer strength (meaning he was already bleeding). And while he had a parachute, he barely used it, released it, and then rolled the rest of the way to the ground. Both Duo and Sally Po (the UESA officer observing him) were stunned he not just survived, but essentially walked away from that landing.
  • It should be noted that in Super Robot Wars Alpha, Heero is also apparently one of the few people in the universe capable of remaining conscious after one of Kushua Mizuha's Health Drinks, which has been known to knock out androids.
  • Endless Waltz sees Heero push the Wing Zero Custom past the breaking point, using three shots from the Twin Buster Rifle to penetrate Mariemeia's bunker at the cost of Wing Zero destroying itself. In midair, mind you. That's the whole Gundam blowing up around him, immediately followed by a massive fall to the surface of the Earth. And yet, Heero is not only alive afterwards, but it takes a good few minutes for him to pass out from the injuries he received.
• Gunsmith Cats:
  • Bean Bandit from. Some of it can be attributed to his subversion of Armor Is Useless, but that can only go so far. He's been rammed by cars (in Riding Bean he rams one back), mauled at close range with 12 gauge shotgun slugs (and in Riding Bean, he's even taken a bullet in the head!), punched through walls, and ejected out of his car going over a hundred miles an hour on the highway. And in nearly every one of these case's he has been able to more or less shrug it off and keep fighting. In that last case he tried to go on, but quickly lost consciousness and needed medical attention. And then just kept going a couple of days later, although it's implied that he used drugs to block the pain until his job was done. He's also seen acting tough and dangerous, and then almost collapsing as soon as he's gotten away the people he wanted to intimidate.
  • Gray is another good example, also qualifying as a Scary Black Man. He's muscular enough that he can effectively shield his head and vitals from handgun fire by shielding them with his arms. What does he do after his arms have been shot up? Pop the rounds out by flexing his muscles, and bandage up the arm.
• The main character of the boxing manga Hajime no Ippo Makunouchi Ippo is the embodiment of this trope. After almost 900 chapters he has received more hits than all of the other characters combined. During the more critical ones he has been going in and out of consciousness while still standing.
• Hayate the Combat Butler:
  • Hinagiku hasn't been shown to be able to withstand things like some of the others on this page, but she was described by one of her friends as a Gundam, and there's no evidence to counter this belief, given that she has the strength and endurance to knock out title character Hayate, continually, who himself doesn't qualify for this trope because of Charles Atlas Superpower.
  • Luca herself might lack the same physical strength of Hina, but having a serious head injury and still putting on a full show as a Idol Singer, shows she has the endurance, also without the background to explain it away.
• Hellsing:
  • Towards the end of the manga, Integra gets shot in the eye, nearly point blank. She barely even falters and moves forward to finish her task. She also got shot in the shoulder when she was twelve and it barely seemed to bother her. She was even able to pick up a gun and shoot it.
  • Pip Bernadotte gets attacked again and again by Zorin and her mooks, including getting a load of shrapnel in the stomach. It takes a few shots into his torso and being stabbed through the back by Zorin's scythe to finally bring him down, and even then he's able to light a cigarette and give one last Rousing Speech before he kicks the bucket..
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • Russia. England who is greatly annoyed with America decides to take a Busby's Chair (a chair cursed to give whoever sits in it a quick and painful death which has also sent at least 60 men to death) and put it so that America may sit in it and die, however Russia shows up and accidentally sits in the chair, however instead of dying the spell rebounds off Russia and the chair is broken with a disappointed England taping it back together. It's implied that Russia being TOO evil for the chair had something to do with it.
  • During the Hetalia Bloodbath 2010 event, adorable little Sealand is the only country to successfully fight off the mysterious assailant. A note next to his fist reads "Made of steel and concrete."
• Inazuma Eleven watchers may wonder why the hell isn't the freaking goal net destroyed as many of the shooting moves are at least half powerful as those in Dragon Ball Z.
• Inuyasha, where even the ordinary humans survive fifty-foot drops and deadly poison with little to no adverse effects. The three "ordinary" members of the group, Kagome, Sango and Miroku, have had their fair share of falls, off cliffs or otherwise. They have been poisoned and then trapped in a burning temple, only to recover within minutes after Myoga sucks the poison out.
• In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, many characters come off as being Made of Iron even the ones that aren't Vampires or ancient Aztec superbeings. However, it does become a Downplayed Trope when the story focuses on Stands and characters are less sturdy. The three JoJos who best display their durability are:
  • Jonathan, from the start he was getting the shit kicked out of him by Dio and other bullies (including getting a thumb shoved into his eye) but never gives in. As an adult, Jonathan gets Speedwagon's spinning blade through his hand and just shrugs it off winning the respect of the hoodlums who attacked him. When Dio becomes a vampire, Jonathan gets a spear in his shoulder, 6 ribs cracked, both arms broken, a broken leg and many burns. Yet he still defeats Dio and even uses one of his wrecked arms to catch his childhood sweetheart Erina when she's swooning. Really getting shot through the neck with Eye Beams by Dio feels like it shouldn't been enough to kill Jonathan (even if he did regardless live on for several minutes to stop Dio and buy Erina enough time to escape).
  • Joseph in his first battle with a Vampire he gets eye-beamed through the shoulder, in his second battle he gets his forearm snapped by Santana, in his third battle he gets shredded with Wammu's Divine Sandstorm and has his wrist slit open, in his fourth battle he gets burned with Esidisi's 500 degrees Celsius boiling hot blood, in his fifth battle he gets hit in the side with an iron ball fired from a crossbow, in his sixth battle he gets his foot sliced and in the Final Battle Joesph even has his forearm lopped off by Kars. Yet Joseph still wins all these battles, except the third one. Even as a old man in Part 3, Joseph still tanks getting stabbed in the neck and takes several beatings just as easily as did when he was young, hell he even comes back from having his blood drained by DIO.
  • Jotaro, while he might seem like a Squishy Wizard in contrast to his predecessors since he relies on his Stand Star Platinum is still pretty damn tough. In Part 3 Jotaro shrugs off: getting stabbed multiple times, having a fan wedged into his shoulder, smacked by a giant toungue, having his hands sliced by razor blades, punched through multiple buildings and being set on fire with a combination of gasloine and electric wires. In Part 4, Jotaro takes an explosion at point blank range and left bloody, Yoshikage Kira even mocks Jotaro for being too wounded to fight him. He wasn't.
• The title character in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple could easily be the poster boy for this trope. In almost every major fight he's in, he not only takes far more damage than any normal human could even survive, but he often (though not always) goes on to win! His masters even lampshade this, stating that while he may not have any talent for martial arts, he's a genius at taking punishment. It seems to be an in-series joke that Kenichi is literally made of iron, as whenever he is lifted or thrown, it is noted that he's heavier than you'd expect of someone so short.
  • Subverted by the fact that two of his masters have a thorough understanding of the human body, and can do things to bring back the recently deceased; and have, on more then one occasion. The one they revived, of course, being Kenichi. Curing a couple dozen broken bones is, by comparison, a trivial thing to them. (Of course, it still hurts... But he's use to pain. If not from the horrible fights, then from the Training from Hell.) It's also averted when Tirawit tricks Kenichi into fighting his high school's Karate Club. They are decisively not Made of Iron as he only taught them attack and not defense moves and Kenichi's attacks leave them badly injured.
• In the second Kino's Journey movie, Land of Sickness, Kino is kicked hard directly in the breasts by a guy wearing combat boots and sent flying across the room. He then steps on her wrist to prevent her reaching her gun, and with little more than a grimace, she still fights him off with one of her legs.
• Given the amount of abuse that Keitaro takes in Love Hina, it's a good thing that he is seemingly immortal. From the very day he entered Hinata-Sou, he's been at the receiving end of countless Naru Punches from Naru, Rock-Splitting Slashes from Motoko, flying kicks to the head from Su. Not to mention attacks from turtle-based mecha (again from Su), kicks to the shin (Sara), and a Frying Pan to the head (Shinobu). The only time he suffers physical damage that lasts for more than a page happens when he breaks his leg... after falling off the rooftop, which would normally kill or seriously harm anyone else. Actually the ROOFTOP fell on HIM!!
• The mages of Lyrical Nanoha evoke this appearance since they're frequently smashed through walls and perform hard drops from helicopters. However, they wear Barrier Jackets which, while appearing to be made of cloth, give off magical fields for protection. The one time that a non-Artificial Human character's Barrier Jacket was completely penetrated, it resulted with said character being hospitalized for nearly a year. The reason she was hospitalized for so long was due to both the injury and the fact that she had over stressed her magic.
  • Vita. There's a reason both of her titles contain the word "iron" in them. She may very well have the most endurance and fortitude out of all the main characters. Best exemplified during the finale of StrikerS when she was throwing around attacks that were Cast from Hit Points for an hour-and-a-half while she had a hole straight through her chest.
  • Miura is also very impressive by dealing great damage despite being heavily damaged herself. Unfortunately, Vivio isn't Made of Iron.
• Mazinger Z: Butt-Monkey and Lethal Joke Character Boss had to be to endure the punishment he received and come out of alive.
  • Great Mazinger: The Hero Tetsuya Tsurugi, withstood an incredible punishment throughout the series, being wounded and harmed constantly, and still pushing himself beyond his limits and forcing himself to battle even if the pain was tearing him apart. Several times his adoptive father — The Professor Kenzo Kabuto — had to command him to go back to the Home Base. In the first episode one of the Bridge Bunnies marvel at his physical endurance, and Kenzo states it is his strong and sturdy body what lets him pilot Great Mazinger.
• Kimihito from Monster Musume is regularly injured by his super strong roommates, and on his feet by the next panel. Lampshaded when hospital doctors are shocked they can't find a thing wrong with him despite the daily abuse. Subverted when Lala explains that Kimihito does die from some injuries, but is simply to stubborn to stay dead and comes back.
• Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid sees Tohru take 30 shots of flaming acid when fighting Ilulu, as well as several good hits from her claws. This only merits an "Ow" from Tohru.
• Played for Laughs and lampshaded in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun. Kashima endures Hori physically throwing her across the hall, flinging large objects at her, and kicking her to high heaven, but no matter what Kashima always walks it off with at worst a few cuts and scratches. Sometimes she even laughs about it.
• Lunar's father in My Bride is a Mermaid. The guy can take a missile to the face and a direct hit from a Kill Sat without even blinking.
• In Naruto most characters fall off cliffs, are slammed into rock faces so hard they crack them, and land on their heads after falling or getting throw dozens of feet without getting visibly injured, even if they're not using a jutsu to augment their Charles Atlas Superpower.
• Just about any major character in Nichijou could qualify for this trope, since they get hit by things that would logically kill a real person, and yet they come out alive. Nano is a justified example as she technically is a robot.
• Kibagami Jubei of Ninja Scroll seems to have a delightful tendency to be put in situations where he is repeatedly smashed in the solar plexus by giants of men, and then still be well enough to kick their asses after a nice glob of vomited blood.
• The titular character in Ojamajo Doremi gets hit hard many times throughout the series and usually comes out none the worse for wear. The crowning example was when she crashed through a door while flying on her broomstick; it's even lampshaded!
• Almost every character from One Piece; characters seem only to die in flashbacks (or if you watch the 4Kids dub, never).
  • Luffy, who was gored with a hook, thrown into a pit of quicksand, and buried there for hours, but was still able to fight Sir Crocodile the next day. Only to have all the water in his body absorbed — at least momentarily. Then he was poisoned and still managed to beat Crocodile, though it should be noted that the poison would have explicitly killed him had future-crewmate Robin not provided the antidote afterwards. Played straighter in Whole Cake Island as Luffy is impaled by Katakuri and not only does Luffy keep fighting with a massive hole in his torso for several hours but he manages to win through sheer stamina. Overall, Luffy seems to revel in this trope, whether it be getting his fist punctured by Don Krieg's spiked cape while punching said villain, or in Impel Down where Luffy lets his arms get melted in order to damage Magellan. Part of it is justified, since his rubber body shrugs off damage far easier than a non-rubber body would, which is later visually demonstrated at the end of the Thriller Bark arc.
  • Zoro. He's taken a giant sword-slash to the chest, tried to cut off his own feet to escape some chains, and, during Thriller Bark, shows his badassery by taking all of Luffy's pain in attack form — with the bloody result shown in the page picture (not shown is the blood covered ground spread out several feet around him). Although all he needs to do to recover is put on a few bandages and take a nap. This is averted after the aforementioned incident with Luffy's pain as Zoro still suffered from those injuries for several battles following it. Early on, Luffy tells Zoro not to pick up a heavy cage when injured because, according to Luffy, Zoro's guts would spill out. Zoro merely says that he'll stuff them back in. Later on, there's a fight where the opponent keeps going for Zoro's wound. Zoro decides to cut HIMSELF there when he gets tired of this. No wonder Nami won't let Luffy wake up Zoro later on, when he's resting after this fight. Face it, if there weren't laws against death in One Piece, and if Zoro weren't made of iron, he'd be the deadest thing in the universe. Subverted in the Wano Arc as Zoro takes a scythe to the shoulder and while he takes down the dude who did it with a Slasher Smile, Zoro immediately drops like a rock afterwards. Played straight later as Zoro to protect the fellow Supernova, blocks a Combination Attack from Kaido and Big Mom. As a result Zoro gets horrifically wounded and is coughing up blood, but is not out for the count. He's just covered from head to toe in bandages, cannot move and has to be carried by Sanji.
  • Sanji is criminally overlooked when it comes to this trope, as just like Luffy and Zoro, Sanji has received horrific attacks and gone right on trucking in true Made of Iron fashion. However, taking into consideration that Sanji fights completely unarmed and has no Devil Fruit power, that makes his feats of endurance all the more impressive. Apart from numerous beatings, Sanji has: had his ribs broken, spine cracked, torso sliced, arm shot, feet shredded, shot through the sternum with a laser beam, and as early as Arlong Park survived decompression crushing his stomach when Kuroobi dragged him down into the ocean. In Skypeia, Enel blasts Sanji with "El Thor" an attack which for reference one-shot a humongous snake and vaporized a regular dude, however Sanji survived it staying conscious long enough to taunt Enel. Later in Thriller Bark, Sanji gets stabbed in the shoulder blade by Absalom with a knife long enough to reach his chest; similar wounds have debilitated multiple characters, including Zoro (twice), but Sanji pulls the knife out like it's a thumbtack and proceeds to wreck the guy who stuck him.
  • Every character has done this. Badass Normal Usopp took a four-ton bat to the head after being run through some buildings and blown up several times, with the only effect after winning the battle being that he had to run around in a cast for the rest of the day. On the same day, Action Girl Nami had her foot pierced through by a round spike about an inch in diameter, without even a limp after about a half hour. These are people without powers, considered almost as weak as regular humans. Most legendary, however, was Pell, who carried a bomb with a two and a half kilometer blast radius, that's roughly a one megaton nuke, high up in the sky to save everyone and survived. At one point, a totally random mook gets an infinite mass kick to the face and survives with only comic relief injuries. Wyper the Berserker uses the Reject Dial three times, which can kill the user on the first time and it's supposed to kill the user definitely on the second. Every single person in One Piece is Made of Iron.
    • In Wano arc Nami and Usopp are subjected to a devastating headbutts from Dark Action Girl Ulti, who for reference in her Pachycephalosaurus hybrid form could overpower Luffy’s Haki-coated headbutt with her own. Nami and Usopp get badly hurt but unlike normal people survive and recover quick, though Nami says her skull would’ve broken had she taken another one.
  • Spandam in the Enies Lobby Arc is explicitly weaker than even a regular Marine mook yet somehow endures getting blown up twice, flying headfirst down a huge set of stairs easily more than a hundred-feet high, slapped so hard his face swelled up like a balloon, punched in the head by a metal rocket fist, and then flattened by a full-grown elephant, all in rapid succession, without even getting knocked out! It takes his spine being snapped to finally put him out of commission. Post-Time Skip he's also completely recovered from all of this. And this is a guy who was permanently scarred from just a regular bat to the face!
  • In the Marineford War, there's also Whitebeard. He takes such a ridiculous amount of damage before finally dying that when he eventually does the narrations list all his injuries: he lost half of his face, was pierced by a high-power laser, slashed and stabbed 267 times, hit by 152 bullets, and 46 cannonballs. And he still Died Standing Up. He was also suffering from an age-related disease and at age 72 he was well past his prime. It's implied that even this amount of damage wouldn't have killed him back in his prime.
  • Blackbeard is a unique case of this. Because of his power, he absorbs much more pain than a normal person does, which results in him usually yelling in pain. But, as soon as he recovers, it's usually like nothing happened to him.
  • One Piece sometimes plays this for laughs. When the Straw Hats crash through a wall with a train, a little girl, her pet rabbit, and grandmother all comment that they have a nosebleed. Franky points out they should be more severely injured. Luffy comments that this was nothing and tells his crew to get up and they respond by stating "there is no way for a human being to stay uninjured" but when it comes to the "uninjured" part, they all shout it, standing up, completely unharmed.
  • Donquixote Doflamingo. His durability is rather astounding. He casually shrugs off being frozen by Kuzan and an assassination attempt by Baby 5, and earlier he also left the Marineford War unscathed. Also, note the fight with him lasts for around 30-40 chapters, beginning immediately after Law reached him after the Birdcage (Chapter 749) to his defeat (Chapter 791), (instead of the usual 20s for the other Big Bads) partly because of this. He only starts getting what could be his first real deep hit on-screen with Luffy's Gum Gum Red Hawk move, and then he keeps standing; he also calls Luffy's subsequent Gear Second and Third attacks (ones that flattened Rob Lucci, Hody Jones, and Caesar Clown) as "weak". Even when Law uses his Gamma Knife to cut his insides, he can patch it up with his powers ^note Though the anime added scenes that imply that the damage really was severe and he had to divert focus to fighting Luffy and keeping his injuries in check. So, it's very likely he was weakened by the time Luffy took over. It's only when Luffy goes Gear Fourth that his "toughness" starts to break, and it ends with his defeat. And even then he recovered from his initial pounding by Luffy and came dangerously close to killing him.
  • Turning to more recent events and more serious, we have Kaido, one of the Yonko. As tough as everyone described before has been, Kaido currently seems to have them topped. They've tried to execute him numerous times, yet he left broken blades, snapped ropes, sunken ships, and (most recently) a large Kaido-shaped hole where the Kid Pirates' base used to be. That last one was the result of Kaido jumping from a sky island 10,000 meters up, landing head-first... and just ending up with a headache. At that point, he gave up taking up attempting suicide as a hobby.
  • Big Mom (another Yonko) is as ridicous as Kaido, in fact people lampshade her sheer hardiness by dubbing her a "Iron Baloon". Cannon balls and bullets only tickle her, a giant lightning bolt only annoys her, and a massive dynamite explosion at point blank range just staggered her for a bit. Even when weakened due to hunger pains, Big Mom took Jimbei's Megaton Punch (which sent a moutain sized-Fishman flying) to the gut and came back swinging.
    • This also applies to Big Mom's children, especially her fourth son Oven who tanked: an electric kick from Niji, getting kicked into a building by Sanji, shot in the face with a cannon ball by Bege, run over by Bege's ship (which has tank treads), and even blasted through the chest by Ichiji's laser beams. Later, we see Oven has got a bandage on, and is still healthy enough to keep kicking ass.
  • Kozuki Oden has shrugged off getting turned into a pincushion by arrows and survived getting dragged through the ocean for three days but that's nothing compared when he is sentenced to death by being Stewed Alive in a massive pot of boiling oil, which for reference scorched a normal guy to death. Oden, however, endured getting boiled for a full hour, all while holding all nine of his men above him. The people who witnessed this reasonably questioned what the hell Oden's skin was made of. But the most badass thing of all was even the boiling oil wasn't enough to kill Oden, who threw his men to safety after the hour was done and Kaido (who can't help but respect Oden) was forced to shoot him in the head to actually put the legend down.
• Everyone in the Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt universe appears to be indestructible, all the better to enable the slapstick and Comedic Sociopathy.
• Penguindrum gives us Shouma Takakura. The guy gets hit by a car at full speed to save his friend Ringo's life and barely suffers more than few bumps. His brother Kanba lampshades the trope eagerly as he explains what happened to the hospita-bound Shouma:
  Kanba: Don't worry, you didn't break any bones. It's just some minor bumps and bruises. The doctor is amazed at how mild your injuries were!
  • Kanba himself is like this too, having survived being dragged several miles by a speeding truck along asphalt, returning with only ripped clothes and some scrapes and bruises. It's not a genetic trait, actually: Kanba is adopted.
• Pokémon:
  • Pokémon: The Series:
    • Pretty much everyone is able to shrug off high voltage electrical shocks and burns.
    • The Team Rocket trio would definitely qualify for this. It's a big part of their Joker Immunity.
    • Over the course of the anime and movies, Ash has been electrified, burned, had a chandelier dropped on him, petrified at least once, eaten by a tree (long story), and much more. The worst he ever gets is several cuts and bruises.
  • Pokémon Adventures:
    • Criminal agents see the Dex Holders and Gym Leaders as giant crosshairs during battle, so they're expected to take some huge attacks, but Gold earns the medal here. After taking loads of abuse from the Mask of Ice throughout the GSC arc, you'd think the kid would back down at some point, but no. He gets piss drunk on Heroic Resolve, goes right back in, and takes some more. The kid takes punishment that would kill a normal human every time and just comes back for another helping. He may be an Idiot Hero, but brute force isn't going to cure him any time soon.
    • Amazingly enough, a villain beats Gold in this department. Sird took an explosion to the face, causing her to fall thousands of feet to the ground, crawled from somewhere around Viridian to Vermillion, and got her leg frozen by Lorelei's ice shackles. Despite all this and being battered and bleeding, she somehow manages to stay on her feet, break free of Lorelei's ice shackles on her own, and turn five Dex Holders to stone. Damn.
    • Gladion was still able to stand after being blasted away by Sun's Z-Move, and later jumped off a 2 story house without even a scratch. But later got seriously injured after being exposed to the energy from Silvally's evolution, which took over 6 months for him to recover. Later, his right arm got burned by one of Turtonator's spikes. But he survived all of this, and was able to free Moon as well as battle Ryuki without his injuries slowing him down.
• Pretty Cure in all forms. Enemy attacks are always treated as a serious threat (so it's probably not Nigh-Invulnerability), and yet somehow nobody ever has any injuries after getting thoroughly pummeled. (Heck, even the aforementioned enemies are perfectly fine until they eventually die.) You can tell the Magical Girls are losing if they and their costumes have gotten slightly dirty.
• Everybody in Psychic Squad seems to be made of iron, since Kaoru likes to throw people around as if there's no tomorrow, causing massive craters everywhere, without considerably hurting anyone.
• The title character of Pucca, although it doesn't come up much. A Running Gag on the series involves a heavy object falling on her head, and her being entirely unaffected, and sometimes said object even breaking.
• Deconstructed in Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The reason why magical girls are made of iron is because they are really Empty Shells. The true weak spot is their Soul Gems, which are more meaningful in name. This is also Invoked by Kyubey, the person who forms the contracts with the girls and knows full well what will happen if their souls weren't in compact objects and are in their person at the time of their death.
• Randel Orland from Pumpkin Scissors. Slightly subverted in that while he can ignore injuries that would incapacitate a normal man, he often ends up bedridden in the hospital after the fight's over. (But he's almost always back on duty in time for the next episode.)
• Read or Die's Drake Anderson isn't supposed to have any superpowers, but getting sliced to ribbons by the paper users doesn't do anything except make him grit his teeth.
• In Reborn! (2004), Tsuna takes an inhuman amount of punishment at the hands of Reborn and his guardians — especially in the beginning. As the series goes on and gets more serious, the damage Tsuna takes tends to be taken a bit more seriously (though, considering that he's just a human, it's still friggin' amazing that his body can easily take heat that melts metal).
  • Hibari was shown to be able to fight after a great beating and having most of his bones broken. Mukuro, who can posses bodies and move them even when the actual user can't move was not able to use his body because it was so messed up. In the battles against the Varia, he was injected with a poison that was so strong that even an an elephant couldn't move, yet he walks, breaks a pillar and gives himself the antidote.
• Everyone from REDLINE qualifies for just surviving in their cars, but JP and Sonoshee deserve props. JP for surviving at least 4 car crashes (One was at 300 km/h. JP was miraculously unharmed.) that we know of over the course of the movie, 3 without any sort of bodily harm. Sonoshee was in his car in the final crash, both of them with no noticeable harm. Oh, and they were both on fire at the time.
  • Also, Tetsujin. He swallowed not one, but TWO steamlights and survived.
• Quite a few characters in Rurouni Kenshin can take inhuman amounts abuse with relatively little effect.
  • Big Bad Makoto Shishio is without a doubt, the most over the top example. During the final battle against him, he, despite having been shot in the head and burned alive, proves capable of, among other things, blocking the blows of the other superhumanly powerful swordsmen with his fingers, taking a direct punch to the face from superhuman Badass Normal Sanosuke with no effect (Sanosuke's hand shatters though), shrugging off a string of sword strikes from the main character, Kenshin that ends up shooting him through a brick wall, and taking a direct blow from Kenshin's ultimate attack (and probably the most powerful attack in the series) and still being able to stand. In the end, it is not these attacks that kill him but his own inhumanly high blood temperature, which causes him to spontaneously combust when he fights for too long. The other characters even assume that he is immortal from all the abuse he takes, although the iron plate in his head may have something to do with surviving a lot of cranial abuse.
  • Jinchu arc Big Bad Yukishiro Enishi is also an extreme example. The characters remark that he's in such an advanced state of mind over matter that his brain doesn't even recognize pain anymore, to the point where he can even inflict massive pain upon himself and still get up for more.
  • Sanosuke was originally this. Later on, the only real purpose it served was for him to be defeated to show how strong other villains are.
• Subverted with Kazuma of Scryed: his right side is unusable outside of battle, and his glove is always on just to hide the scarring from using his Alter.
• Sengoku Basara "My lord, most men would *die* from a punch like that." Not Yukimura, though — he just pulls himself out of the wall he was embedded in and comes right back for more.
• Ban from The Seven Deadly Sins starts out as a subversion. He is constantly able to recover from even fatal injuries because he was given the Immortality of the Fountain of Youth. However, late in the story, Ban exploits this to great effect when he went into Purgatory to rescue the lost "emotions" of his captain, Meliodas. Due to Year-Inside, Minute-Outside time dilation, this trek into Purgatory ends up taking him about a thousand years. The end effect is that his body ends up getting used to the hellish conditions there, to the point that by the time he escapes from there and eventually gives up the Fountain of Youth (to restore Elaine's life), he's able to play the trope straight: withstanding incredible abuse without going down, able to hold out long enough to recover or be healed.
• Kiichi from Shootfighter Tekken is essentially a Made of Iron Determinator who is able to pull off incredibly flexible grappling moves despite always getting hit first, and getting hit first hard enough to permanently incapacitate professional career wrestlers! A week or so after barely eking out a victory, he's back to normal with the standard handful of bandages.
• Silver Diamond: Chigusa takes most of the damage for the team, usually to such extremes that would kill a normal man — and all of his wounds heal in seconds. In his case, though, it's more being made of plant than being made of iron.
• Throughout Sk8 the Infinity The Dreaded Adam is established as the greatest danger to any one skateboarder of the illegal skate park, S. While the protagonist Reki is, by episode 11, known for surviving injuries, within the episode, Adam, who's decided It's Personal between them, puts him through an ordeal that would kill most people and should at least have left him at least partially incapitated, but he's so fully embraced the role of Determinator that he not only keeps skating, he eventually does the one thing no one else in the series managed to do at that point, even his so-far-assumed "chosen" friend — leave Adam chasing after him. Oh, and this is after Adam decides after the initial ordeal that he will actually try to murder him.
• The characters in Soul Eater seem to take great amounts of physical damage without it affecting them. In Kid's case, this is justified because, as he states, he is a god. The black blood only enhances this, an example being the fight between Maka and Crona.
• Spy X Family: Yor repeatedly shrugs off damage that would be lethal multiple times over to a normal person. She effectively NoSells a cloud of poison gas and being struck with an electric baton, and while fighting a team of multiple assassins never gets more than annoyed by any hits they manage to get on her, with her only real injury from the fight being a sprained finger. She also takes a direct hit from a speeding car without any sign of injury whatsoever (in the anime it gives her a nose-bleed while the car has an enormous dent in its front). In fact, the only injury she received in the first 60 or so chapters of the manga that actually had lasting effects was played strictly for comedy: she got Shot in the Ass during a job and couldn't sit down normally for a few days. And while suffering from that injury, an enemy agent attempts to kill her by giving her a full glass of blowfish poison, which does absolutely nothing except numbing the pain from the gunshot wound.
  • Her brother Yuri is no slouch either; due to being raised by Yor, he often took the brunt of her klutzy nature and bad cooking, so that by the time he's an adult he can survive getting hit full speed by a truck with almost no injuries.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Kamina is tough enough that he can survive being killed for long enough to avenge his own death.
• Averted in The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer. It doesn't matter how much Kung-Fu a character knows getting punched by a golem will liquify their internal organs.
• Trigun
  • Vash the Stampede always shoots only to cause flesh wounds. The trope was subverted at one point, however, when he inflicted just such a wound... and then panicked and rushed to stop the bleeding — the wound was far more serious than he'd intended.
  • Not to mention Vash himself has taken ungodly amounts of damage, presumably due to his reluctance to kill aggressors. In two separate episodes, we are given a look at Vash's upper body, and he is a patchwork of scars and metal. What's more we learn later Vash does has a Healing Factor as a Human Alien, he just refuses to use it out of principle.
• Urusei Yatsura has Ataru Moroboshi, who routinely takes terrifying beatings, electric shocks, and even gets burned, and it barely slows him down. Other characters were actually surprised when he showed up at school with his arm in a cast, and wondered what had happened (it was eventually shown that Ten, had bit him and didn't want to move, so Ataru wrapped the cast around him to try and force him to stop and thus wasn't actually harmed at all).
• Taki from Wicked City is repeatedly stated as being an ordinary (if Badass Normal) human. Just as frequently, he shrugs off impacts and falls that should've put him in the hospital, at a minimum. The only attack that he doesn't immediately get up and walk away from is taken in equal measure by his demonic partner, Maki. And they seemingly recover from it at the same time.
• Akira Inugami from Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest initially subverts as he's Nigh-Invulnerable and has a Healing Factor but he plays extremely straight in the Final Battle where he's Brought Down to Normal. Inugami endures getting stabbed in the side, mauled by dogs, shot multiple times, having the entire forest he's in get blown up with landmines, having his fingers cut off, hit by a Humvee, his torso repeatedly sliced, more fingers cut off, his whole arm lopped off, impaled through the chest and shot once more until he finally dies. Then it's revealed he survived even that.
• Yaiba: The title character too is quite resilient for his age. Though usually he rarely gets slashed in vital parts, he has also suffered many vicious wounds and he always managed to survive.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • Yusei Fudo has survived a huge amount of beatings, including being bombarded with scrap metal, numerous electrocutions, having shrapnel the size of a dinner plate lodged into his gut, surviving an explosion followed by a 10 plus story drop down a chasm, and just getting up and walking away. And if you see all of his crashes, Jack's is also a main player in this trope.
  • Jonouchi/Joey from the original series, he once managed to recover from a horrible beating and Electric Torture (before card games became the series focus). Later however, he does this often during major duels (mainly with Marik, Valon and Mai), getting back up from extremely damaging attacks from monsters, as well as the physical exhaustion he endures after doing so. He also LITERALLY DIED as a result of his duel against Marik, but he recovered surprisingly quickly.
    • Jonouchi's durability seems to extend to his monsters as well; Red-Eyes Black Dragon had its wing blown off, Panther Warrior spent about two episodes of Electric Torture, Garoozi survived being hit by missiles, etc. Yusei's monsters also share this trait, Stardust Dragon has a Healing Factor, Fortress Warrior has an effect that keeps himself from destroyed twice per turn and receive no damage, and Sonic Chick can survive being attacked by 1900+ ATK monsters.
• Zombie Land Saga:
  • Due to their nature as zombies, the girls of Franchouchou are able to take a substantial amount of physical damage without lasting consequence or visible pain. The first episode has Sakura being shot through the chest and only looking down with surprise at the bullet hole rather than showing any discomfort, and Ai getting impaled with a fireplace poker through her skull and still remaining unfazed.
  • The girls' producer Kotaro counts too. After a massive flood sweeps through Saga, Kotaro is trapped inside the flooded New Jofuku bar, with the flood water up to his mouth, for three whole days. When he is finally rescued, not only is he perfectly fine, but he immediately sprints all the way to Franchouchou's mansion, then most of the way to the disaster shelter after learning that the mansion was destroyed. And he isn't even slightly tired by the end of it all.

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