History MadeOfIron / ComicBooks

** ComicBook/IronMan (no pun intended) is usually well protect by his PoweredArmor, but Tony has found himself in numerous scrapes where his armor is missing or has just failed on him and he's managed to survive. In one issue Tony unarmored is placed in some GladiatorGames by Recorder 451 and has to fight scores of aliens and a thirty foot KillerRobot with SuperStrength which throws massive stone pillars at him and rather than getting mashed to bits like any normal man would, Tony takes it like a champ and keeps fighting. This dates back to Iron Man's debut in ''Tales of Suspense'' where he activates a booby trap which kills his entire escort and imbeds shrapnel in his chest, after getting captured Tony manages to stay alive long enough to build his first Iron Man suit and fight his way to freedom and become a superhero in the process.

*** [[Characters/DaredevilSupportingCharacters Elektra]] being Daredevil’s {{Love Interest|s}} naturally takes after him in this department. She’s survived getting kicked off a building, clobbered by [[Characters/MarvelComicsSkrulls Super Skrull]], blasted by Iron Man 2099 and getting most of her own skull ''shattered'' in a brutal fight with Bullseye and stayed conscious long enough to defeat him and survived thanks to medics from ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}

* [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] although usually bundled up tight in PoweredArmor, has had many occasions where he'd be dead meat if he wasn't for his extremely high tolerance to pain. He's knocked around and slammed into walls by Kryptonians and once got sniped in the chest ''[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by Gorilla Grodd]]'' which made him fall out of the helicopter he was flying and land head first in canyon... and he was healthy enough to recover and sleep with {{Sexbot}} [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] shortly after. In the ''DC Universe Online Legends'' comic Superman is forced to redirect the falling Watchtower onto Lexcorp tower which crushes Lex inside, Lex got half his face ripped off, all four limbs severed and was impaled in five different places. Dead? ''Nope'' still alive enough to scream bloody vengeance at his ArchEnemy and of course refuse to let Supes take him to a hospital. Luthor soon recovered thanks to Brainiac.

* ComicBook/BlueBeetle specifically Ted Kord deserves a very special mention unlike both his predecessor Dan Garret and successor Jamie Reyes he does not possess the Scarab and is not superhumanly enhanced in any way. Yet in the ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'' Ted is able to [[https://external-preview.redd.it/69otEfSIZY20Kq-62RTxgAv01Gtc4H0ho06zKsde6LE.jpg?auto=webp&s=70a190352def863063d71556e442785914a5cc50 survive]] a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from goddamn Doomsday the behemoth that had strength to kill (comatose) Supes in a fight. While Ted is obviously grievously hurt it speaks to his fortitude that he’s still alive rather than being a bloody smear like any other man would be in his place.

* Characters/{{Daredevil|MattMurdock}}. One of the more memorable examples would be the time when he not only survives taking casual slaps from the [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Hulk]], but keeps getting back up to confront the not-so-jolly-green giant again. Not surprisingly, this trait was one of the things that Frank Miller left as his legacy with the character.

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' besides the likes of the [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Hulk]] and [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor]] who have SuperToughness, fall under this.

** ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} also finds himself in very painful situations where BadassNormal or not, he'd realistically be at best quadriplegic for the rest of his life or at worst LudicrousGibs, but survives every time. Clint's been smashed by Hulk and remained conscious, had mounds of debris and cars fall on him, hit with a missile explosion, punched at full SuperSpeed by Speed Demon and in ''Avengers Spotlight'' #30 got shot a dozen times with MoreDakka from a gang of crooks ''and survived'' thanks to one kid calling an ambulance in time.

** [[Characters/BatmanJasonTodd Jason Todd]] as Robin [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily famously survived a many swings from a crowbar]] from [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] and only killed for real when the building he was in blew up. As Red Hood nowadays he's tanked getting hit with RPG rounds, smacked around by [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Artemis]] and smashed through buildings by Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}}.
** [[ComicBook/Batgirl2011 Barbra Gordon]] has still endured things like getting stabbed in the liver, getting smashed into a cab, taken multiple grenade explosions which buried her in rubble. Most famously Babs [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke survived getting shot in the abdomen and through the spinal cord and left to bleed out]] albeit becoming paraplegic for years before recovering.

*** Once they broke an old fortune-teller's crystal ball... which prompted the old fortuneteller to reveal she was actually a buff thug in disguise. Cue Mortadelo and Filemón on their graves on a graveyard, apparently alive ("How are you doing, boss?" "Meh, [[BlackComedy kinda chilly in here]].) After escaping their graves, Filemón [[NoFourthWall tells]] [[AsideGlance the reader]] "[[YouDontWantToKnow You don't want to know]] how we did this." On the background we see an archangel chiding St. Bartholomew "I don't care if you're a fan of Mortadelo! The rules are clear; no miracles!"

* Often prominent with Characters/{{The Punisher|FrankCastle}}, particularly as written by Creator/GarthEnnis.

** Both Nick Fury and Tony Stark keep extensive files on all known superhumans, and it's a indication of how dangerous they consider him to be in that ''both'' of them keep a file on the Punisher. In addition, they each make a point of commenting that Frank has a nearly psychopathic ability to tolerate pain.

** Usually, Spidey's nemesis ComicBook/{{Mysterio}} is shown to be just a normal man hiding behind illusions and special effects, and gets easily beaten by Spider-Man once he's able to close the distance and figure out where the real Mysterio is. [[DependingOnTheWriter Some depictions,]] however, have him able to stand toe-to-toe with Spiderman and, while not able to beat him in a stand-up fight, can take a lot of punishment, usually enough to lure Spiderman into another trap. This has been [[JustifiedTrope explained]] sometimes as his stuntman training lets him roll with the blows and [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom exaggerate]] their effect, making it look like he's taking a lot more damage than he really is.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsTaskmaster Taskmaster]]. Neither getting rammed by a speeding car, nor shot repeatedly, nor being kicked in the face by an enraged ComicBook/SpiderMan so hard that his body punches an economy-sized hole through the (in all likelihood heavily armoured) wall of the armoury in his hideout/gym will do more than slow him down momentarily.

* Franchise/{{Batman}}:

** In one of the Ennis' ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX'' stories Frank takes a shotgun blast to the side that removes a big chunk, including an entire rib bone. One would expect Frank to stumble off and let himself heal in the manner that an ''extremely'' well-trained and diligent former Marine would do. But with the shotgun wound, Frank continues to fight on... not even bleeding. In the same story TheDragon gets impaled, shot, beaten, further impaled, his face quite literally blown off and lives several moments past that, before finally snuffing it.

** In Jason Aaron's ''[[Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX Punisher MAX]]'' run, the continuation of Ennis' run, Frank's years of injuries are finally starting to catch up to him. A doctor flat out tells him that his body is a wreck and will only get worse. However, in the same series Frank takes an extraordinary amount of damage. In one night he gets stabbed several times with a sai (including one through his forearm) and takes several gunshots (including one self-inflicted one through the left chest-shoulder area to hit someone behind him). Then he walks across town and is met with no less than six more gunshots, gets his head smashed both through a car window and against a fire hydrant. He remains conscious long enough to walk back into the city then back into the suburbs before passing out. [[spoiler:The trope is ultimate averted when Frank succumbs to his injuries.]]

* Comicbook/SpiderMan:

* [[Characters/MarvelComicsTaskmaster Taskmaster]]. Neither getting rammed by a speeding car, nor shot repeatedly, nor being kicked in the face by an enraged Franchise/SpiderMan so hard that his body punches an economy-sized hole through the (in all likelihood heavily armoured) wall of the armoury in his hideout/gym will do more than slow him down momentarily.

** Usually, Spidey's nemesis Mysterio is shown to be just a normal man hiding behind illusions and special effects, and gets easily beaten by Spiderman once he's able to close the distance and figure out where the real Mysterio is. [[DependingOnTheWriter Some depictions,]] however, have him able to stand toe-to-toe with Spiderman and, while not able to beat him in a stand-up fight, can take a lot of punishment, usually enough to lure Spiderman into another trap. This has been [[JustifiedTrope explained]] sometimes as his stuntman training lets him roll with the blows and [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom exaggerate]] their effect, making it look like he's taking a lot more damage than he really is.

* Characters/BlackCanary similar to her husband Green Arrow, has somehow survived things that would kill most normal people such as blows from the likes of Giganta and Mammoth, falling thousand feet [[SoftWater into the ocean head first]] and even recovering from hits from Wonder Woman and having her [[MakeMeWannaShout Canary Cry]] reflected back on her. This could be {{handwave}}d through the Meta-Human gene Dinah possesses also giving her enhanced toughness, but DC just keep using the harder to believe CharlesAtlasSuperpower excuse.

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' besides the likes of the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] and [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] who have SuperToughness, fall under this.
** ComicBook/CaptainAmerica thanks to the SuperSerum has [[CharlesAtlasSuperPower peak human condition]] meaning his metabolism and vitality is very high, but he's still technically (DependingOnTheWriter) as vulnerable as any other man without his Vibranium shield. But for a mere "peak human", Cap has survived things that would kill most {{Muggles}} including regularly jumping out airplanes without a parachute and doing a HALO jump from 10 miles up, getting knocked around by the Hulk, shot in the leg, electrocuted, having his armor blown off by ComicBook/{{Gambit}} and jumping into the engine core of ComicBook/{{Galactus}}'s ship and surviving. Averted in ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfCaptainAmerica'' where three bullets are enough to kill him, despite Cap's foe BadassNormal Crossbones [[FridgeLogic surviving the same]] a few issues later.
** ComicBook/IronMan (no pun intended) is usually well protect by his PoweredArmour, but Tony has found himself in numerous scrapes where his armor is missing or has just failed on him and he's managed to survive. In one issue Tony unarmored is placed in some GladiatorGames by Recorder 451 and has to fight scores of aliens and a thirty foot KillerRobot with SuperStrength which throws massive stone pillars at him and rather than getting mashed to bits like any normal man would, Tony takes it like a champ and keeps fighting. This dates back to Iron Man's debut in ''Tales of Suspense'' where he activates a booby trap which kills his entire escort and imbeds shrapnel in his chest, after getting captured Tony manages to stay alive long enough to build his first Iron Man suit and fight his way to freedom and become a superhero in the process.

* Franchise/{{Batman}}

** ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} has been punched through walls by Gorilla Grodd and Donna Troy, survived a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from ComicBook/LexLuthor after being gassed, stabbed multiple times in the chest, fell 140 feet off a building onto a bus and even survived getting shot in the head. Though just like his dear adoptive dad, Dick's body is a [[DentedIron patchwork of scars]] as a result.
** [[ComicBook/RedHood Jason Todd]] as Robin [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily famously survived a many swings from a crowbar]] from ComicBook/TheJoker and only killed for real when the building he was in blew up. As Red Hood nowdays he's tanked getting hit with RPG rounds, smacked around by ComicBook/{{Artemis}} and smashed through buildings by ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}.

** Most of the Batman's RoguesGallery who aren't explicitly superhuman appear to be this, as the likes of ComicBook/TwoFace, ComicBook/TheRiddler and ComicBook/ThePenguin have taken damage that would kill most {{Mooks}}. ComicBook/TheJoker however has the most cases of surviving things that should kill him, so much so that he even has a [[JokerImmunity trope named after his inability to be put down]]. Subverted with Joker in ''ComicBook/BatmanEndgame'' [[spoiler: as he's got a HealingFactor thanks to [[HealingSpring Dionesium]]]].
* ComicBook/BlackCanary similar to her husband Green Arrow, has somehow survived things that would kill most normal people such as blows from the likes Gingata and Mammoth, falling thousand feet [[SoftWater into the ocean head first]] and even recovering from hits from Wonder Woman and having her [[MakeMeWannaShout Canary Cry]] reflected back on her. This could be HandWaved through the Meta-Human gene Dinah posesses also giving her enhanced toughness, but DC just keep using the harder to believe CharlesAtlasSuperpower excuse.

* Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}. One of the more memorable examples would be the time when he not only survives taking casual slaps from the [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Hulk]], but keeps getting back up to confront the not-so-jolly-green giant again. Not surprisingly, this trait was one of the things that Frank Miller left as his legacy with the character.

*** ComicBook/TheKingpin has survived a superhuman NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Spider-Man, multiple shurikens thrown into his arm, getting shot in the back by Bushwacker and most incredibly [[https://i.imgur.com/BtvkZqn_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium the frame of a building falling on him]]. Matt himself has broken his fingers just slugging his ArchEnemy in the face.
*** ComicBook/{{Bullseye|MarvelComics}} is ludicrously hard to take down, even after getting his spine broken and most other bones broken in fights with Daredevil and other heroes, he just comes back crazier than ever with bones laced with Adamantium. One time he got his nervous system electrocuted and his neck snapped and recovered in a few weeks despite a doctor’s diagnosis stating he was done for.
*** Characters/{{Elektra}} being Daredevil’s LoveInterest naturally takes after him in this department. She’s survived getting kicked off a building, clobbered by [[Characters/MarvelComicsSkrulls Super Skrull]], blasted by Iron Man 2099 and getting most of her own skull ''shattered'' in a brutal fight with Bullseye and stayed conscious long enough to defeat him and survived thanks to medics from ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}.

* ComicBook/GreenArrow is [[DependingOnTheWriter usually]] not quite as ridiculous in regards to this as fellow vigilante Batman, but still dips into this frequently. Ollie has survived getting diced up by super assassin ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}, hit with a RPG and battered around by superpowered opponents like Hawkman.

* ''ComicBook/KickAss''. {{Hand Wave}}d by his dulled nerve endings but that fails to explain how he shrugs off the damage from repeated electric shocks and multiple beatings without requiring a lick of medical attention. The various pins and metal plates he got after the car accident would account for ''some'' of his resistance to injury, though this has clearly been turned up to eleven.
* ComicBook/LexLuthor although usually bundled up tight in PoweredArmour, has had many occasions where he'd be dead meat if he wasn't for his extremely high tolerance to pain. He's knocked around and slammed into walls by Kryptonians and once got sniped in the chest ''[[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext by Gorilla Grodd]]'' which made him fall out of the helicopter he was flying and land head first in canyon... and he was healthy enough to recover and sleep with {{Sexbot}} [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] shortly after. In the ''DC Universe Online Legends'' comic Superman is forced to redirect the falling Watchtower onto Lexcorp tower which crushes Lex inside, Lex got half his face ripped off, all four limbs severed and was impaled in five different places. Dead? ''Nope'' still alive enough to scream bloody vengeance at his ArchEnemy and of course refuse to let Supes take him to a hospital. Luthor soon recovered thanks to Brainiac.

-->'''Mortadelo:''' ''(after being rescued by Filemón when a bird attempted to eat him while he was in an insect disguise)'' What a dreadful experience, boss! I've seen its esophagus, its craw and its sternum... from '''inside'''!

-->Come on, boss, get up, that was just eleven floors! We've been through worse!
* Often prominent with ''Comicbook/ThePunisher'', particularly as written by Creator/GarthEnnis.

** Two characters who seem particularly adept at shrugging off damage are Manute and Marv, who require really extreme trauma to [[spoiler:be eventually killed: Manute in a hail of bullets courtesy of an army of prostitutes; Marv by being electrocuted in the electric chair - although notably, Marv doesn't die until the ''second time in a row'' he's electrocuted.]]
-->'''Marv:''' Is that the best you can do, you pansies?

** True to his {{Determinator}} attitude and overwhelming belief in responsibility, Spidey '''refuses''' to let grievous bodily harm stop him. This includes getting shot multiple times, getting shredded by explosions, getting clobbered by [[ComicBook/JuggernautMarvelComics Juggernaut]], having entire buildings fall on him as well as falling himself from great heights on a daily basis. One time after lifting tons of metal rubble off himself, Spidey exhausted was then faced with an army of {{Mooks}} who proceeded to [[DogPileOfDoom dogpile him]], a few panels later we see Spider-Man head bent and swinging his arms as goons lie defeated around him.
** ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' takes this to a brutal extreme as poor Spidey finds himself on the receiving end of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from the [[CosmicEntity Phoenix Force]] [[SuperPoweredEvilSide enhanced]] ComicBook/{{Colossus}} and ComicBook/{{Magik}}. Peter is [[https://comicnewbies.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/spider-man-vs-phoenix-five-colossus-and-magik-2.jpg beaten bloody to point where he's mask is full of blood, he can't feel his skull and even his thought bubbles are bloodstained]]. Colossus keeps telling him to stay down but as Spidey's inner monologue reaffirms ''[[HeroicSpirit staying down is not an option]]'' and he manages to survive long enough to trick Colossus and his sister into taking each other out.

* ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}}. Neither getting rammed by a speeding car, nor shot repeatedly, nor being kicked in the face by an enraged Franchise/SpiderMan so hard that his body punches an economy-sized hole through the (in all likelihood heavily armoured) wall of the armoury in his hideout/gym will do more than slow him down momentarily.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: The Golden Age version of ComicBook/SteveTrevor is able to shrug off at least two, attempted, executions and fight his way towards those who ordered said executions through waves of mooks. He also regularly hops back into fights after getting hit over the head with enough force to give most people rather serious brain damage.

** Roberto [=DaCosta=] from the subteam ''[[ComicBook/NewMutants The New Mutants]]'' has super-strength, but not super-durability. He's explicitly just as vulnerable as any Joe [=SixPack=]... but somehow still survives nonsense like getting tackled through a brick wall. A degree of superhuman durability is pretty much a RequiredSecondaryPower for any character possessing superhuman strength, as super-durable muscle fibers would necessarily result in super-durable muscle tissue, protecting most everything but the eyes.
** ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} while it might be easy to write him off as a GlassCannon has endured getting vicious clawed by Wolverine at close quarters and won. He's also tanked getting blasted by ComicBook/NormanOsborn wearing PoweredArmour, slammed into the ground by Colossus and even survived getting caught in the multiple explosions of two massive trucks and a helicopter.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsGambit Gambit]] despite being considered only "athlete level" has been knocked around and slammed into the ground by the likes of [[Characters/MarvelComicsShiar Gladiator]], ComicBook/{{Ares|Marvel}}, [[ComicBook/JuggernautMarvelComics The Juggernaut]] and even ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} and got back up again with only a few scrapes. One time ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} stabbed him in the gut and Gambit literally shrugged it off to rescue Marrow.
** ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} has gotten punched around by Colossus, Spider-Man, Sabretooth, several Skrulls and Dracula (seriously) and been no worse for wear. He's also been electrocuted with 10,000 volts, exposed to the vacuum of space, hit with the combined blast of Storm and Rachel Grey and at one point shot through the chest. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as Kurt's decision to leave {{Heaven}} might've granted him some divine protection.
** ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} has bounced back from getting clawed by both Wolverine and Sabretooth, smacked around by Rogue and Juggernaut, blasted by Magneto, had her liver and kidneys ruptured, fell off a building with only Wolverine and his UnbreakableBones to "cushion" her fall and even survived her own attempt at {{Seppuku}}.
** ComicBook/{{Storm}} once got hit with a “[[SpeedBlitz mach one]]” punch which blew her into [[MightyGlacier Stone Wall]] with air pressure alone and she recovered instantly. She's also fallen or been pulled to ground from several stories hard to enough to break the ground and gotten back up, though most of the times her friends are there to catch her.
** ComicBook/JeanGrey has gotten knocked around, blasted with lasers and Hex-Bolts, sliced up and in a more recent ''ComicBook/XFactor'' comic got thrown hard by Mojo and blasted by Jubilee’s powers, and she just shrugged it off. SquishyWizard she ain’t. Subverted when she’s [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Dark Phoenix]] who has NighInvulnerability and a [[ResurrectiveImmortality resurrection based]]-HealingFactor, as unlike the [[Film/XMenTheLastStand movie]] Wolverine’s claws aren’t enough to kill her.
** On the (anti)villain’s side ComicBook/{{Magneto}} has: taken beatdown from everyone from Namor to Blackbolt, survived getting blasted by Exodus and even Cyclops’s optic blast, kept fighting after Wolverine diced him up and once took a direct punch to the face from Colossus. Not even Nightcrawler who witnessed it can believe that Mags can still have his head on after that, though considering this is a man [[StartOfDarkness who survived Auschwitz]] maybe it’s not that surprising.

** ComicBook/{{Gambit}} despite being considered only "athlete level" has been knocked around and slammed into the ground by the likes of [[Characters/MarvelComicsShiar Gladiator]], ComicBook/{{Ares|Marvel}}, [[ComicBook/JuggernautMarvelComics The Juggernaut]] and even ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} and got back up again with only a few scrapes. One time ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} stabbed him in the gut and Gambit literally shrugged it off to rescue Marrow.

* Comicbook/SpiderMan, true to his {{Determinator}} attitude and overwhelming belief in responsibility, Spidey '''refuses''' to let grievous bodily harm stop him. This includes getting shot multiple times, getting shredded by explosions, getting clobbered by [[ComicBook/JuggernautMarvelComics Juggernaut]], having entire buildings fall on him as well as falling himself from great heights on a daily basis. One time after lifting tons of metal rubble off himself, Spidey exhausted was then faced with an army of {{Mooks}} who proceeded to [[DogPileOfDoom dogpile him]], a few panels later we see Spider-Man head bent and swinging his arms as goons lie defeated around him.

-->Come on, boss, it was just an 11th floor! We've been through worse!

* Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}. One of the more memorable examples would be the time when he not only survives taking casual slaps from the [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Hulk]], but [[UpToEleven keeps getting back up to confront the not-so-jolly-green giant again]]. Not surprisingly, this trait was one of the things that Frank Miller left as his legacy with the character.

* ''ComicBook/KickAss''. {{Hand Wave}}d by his dulled nerve endings but that fails to explain how he shrugs off the damage from repeated electric shocks and multiple beatings without requiring a lick of medical attention. The various pins and metal plates he got after the car accident would account for ''some'' of his resistance to injury, though this has clearly been turned UpToEleven.

* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': '''And HOW!''' The list of accidents they have survived [[UpToEleven is basically endless]]:

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' besides the likes of ComicBook/TheHulk and ComicBook/{{Thor}} who have SuperToughness, fall under this.

* ComicBook/LexLuthor although usually bundled up tight in PoweredArmour, has had many occasions where he'd be dead meat if he wasn't for his extremely high tolerance to pain. He's knocked around and slammed into walls by Kryptonians and once got sniped in the chest ''[[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext by Gorilla Grodd]]'' which made him fall out of the helicopter he was flying and land head first in canyon... and he was healthy enough to recover and sleep with {{Sexbot}} ComicBook/LoisLane shortly after. In the ''DC Universe Online Legends'' comic Superman is forced to redirect the falling Watchtower onto Lexcorp tower which crushes Lex inside, Lex got half his face ripped off, all four limbs severed and was impaled in five different places. Dead? ''Nope'' still alive enough to scream bloody vengeance at his ArchEnemy and of course refuse to let Supes take him to a hospital. Luthor soon recovered thanks to Brainiac.

*** ComicBook/{{Bullseye}} is ludicrously hard to take down, even after getting his spine broken and most other bones broken in fights with Daredevil and other heroes, he just comes back crazier than ever with bones laced with Adamantium. One time he got his nervous system electrocuted and his neck snapped and recovered in a few weeks despite a doctor’s diagnosis stating he was done for.

** ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} also finds himself in very painful situations where BadassNormal or not, he'd realistically be at best paraplegic for the rest of his life or at worst LudicrousGibs, but survives every time. Clint's been smashed by Hulk and remained conscious, had mounds of debris and cars fall on him, hit with a missile explosion, punched at full SuperSpeed by Speed Demon and in ''Avengers Spotlight'' #30 got shot a dozen times with MoreDakka from a gang of crooks ''and survived'' thanks to one kid calling an ambulance in time.

** [[ComicBook/Batgirl2011 Barbra Gordon]] has still endured things like getting stabbed in the liver, getting smashed into a cab, taken multiple grenade explosions which buried her in rubble. Most famously Babs [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke survived getting shot in the abdomen and through the spinal cord and left to bleed out]] albeit becoming quadriplegic for years.

** ComicBook/{{Gambit}} despite being considered only "athlete level" has been knocked around and slammed into the ground by the likes of [[Characters/{{Shiar}} Gladiator]], ComicBook/{{Ares|Marvel}}, [[ComicBook/JuggernautMarvelComics The Juggernaut]] and even ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} and got back up again with only a few scrapes. One time ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} stabbed him in the gut and Gambit literally shrugged it off to rescue Marrow.