No Sell / Fan Works

No-Selling in fanfiction.

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• While fighting Tatsuki in After The Fairy Tale Ends, Ichigo realizes he has to end the fight quickly or someone will notice her attacks aren't even bruising him.
• The Amazing Spider-Luz in: Across the Owl-Verse!:
  • Luz's powers, particularly her Spider-Sense, make her essentially immune to illusions, as she can always tell that they're fake images with no real substance. She manages to clue into Adaghast's true nature and defeat him easily offscreen as a result.
  • The barrier around the portal door's exit on Earth doesn't affect plants, inanimate objects, or Palisman and similar magical creatures (the latter being why Owlbert never noticed it when gathering human trash).
  • Amity learns to create mental barriers from Doctor Strange that allow her to dispel Grometheus' fear illusions and utterly ignore her mother's magical efforts to control her.
• Downplayed in the fan novel Batman: Angel of Death; The Sword of Sin's power to Mind Rape a person with their darkest sins does not incapacitate Catwoman because she literally has no shame, but she can be wounded by it, since it is a sword.
• Ben 10: Unlimited: Darkseid shrugs off Toepick's Nightmare Face with mild amusement, even as his Parademon army begins screaming and clawing their eyes out around him. Ben then tries punching him as Ultimate Way Big, with similar results.
• Naruto in Black Flames Dance in the Wind: Rise of Naruto can outright ignore fire jutsu due to his immense affinity for the element.
  • During their spar, Sakura blocks an axe kick by Ino and the latter notes it felt like kicking a steel bar and that she'd likely have broken her heel if not for her sandal.
• Blood Sisters:
  • Unlike in canon, the Norn cannot take Dyson’s love for Bo as she is his imprint, which is the kind of bond even the Norn cannot break.
  • Bella's immunity to Edward's mind-reading appears to be genetic, as Bo is also immune to Edward's ability.
• The Godzilla and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic crossover The Bridge (MLP):
  • The story showcases this trope spectacularly when Anguirus engages Garble's greed-grown gang. Whenever the drakes attempt to use their fire breath on a kaiju who swims through lava on a regular basis, they do about as much harm to Anguirus as they would throwing soot on him. Garble even tries taking a deep breath, focusing his fire into a large, high powered cone that engulfs the kaiju. Result? Anguirus just walks through it unharmed and counterattacks.
  • Big Good Harmony can summon a chain made of stars which binds a target harder the more evil they are. When she uses it against Bagan, he is able to break free of the chain because he genuinely doesn't believe what he is doing is evil. Keep in mind he's an Omnicidal Maniac...
• In The Bug Princess, Erebos is a Living Shadow who likes to Break Them by Talking, and gets inside people's heads and uses their bad memories and guilt against them. But when the title character shows up, he is absolutely powerless against her - not only because she's got almost nothing he could really use, but also because she's currently in possession of Beetlejuice's magic, and it's far stronger than anything he could throw at her.
• In two of the Catch Your Breath crossovers, this comes into play for the shinobi because of Wrong Context Magic problems.
  • In Ocean Stars Falling, the jinchuriki don't have the Devil Fruit users' weakness to water (and most of them don't even know it exists until someone tells them), which makes several characters comment that it looks like this trope is in play. More accurately, Kei learns that Blackbeard's Yami Yami no Mi lets him nullify other Devil Fruit powers just in time to let him know it doesn't work on her V1 jinchuriki transformation by punting him into the ocean.
    • In a further spin-off of this story, Kei also demonstrates the ability to shrug off haki-powered blows if her V1 transformation is up, even from opponents as dangerous as Garp.
  • In Shell Game, Kei shrugs off All For One's Forcible Quirk Activation power because she doesn't have a Quirk factor to twist and because her "Quirk" (actually the Tailed Beast Isobu) doesn't count.
• Pokémon of a sufficiently higher level in Challenger can basically ignore attacks from lower level ones. As a test, Giovanni lets Ash's Charmander attack his Nidoqueen and the latter is at most mildly amused by said attacks.
• In A Charmed Ascension, the Charmed Ones meet the Scooby Gang when Piper attempts to freeze the group after they nearly discover the Haliwells in the library and her power has no effect on Willow; as Willow is a good witch (albeit one still in training), she counts as being immune to Piper's freeze effect.
• Child of the Storm:
  • Daken's Healing Factor allows him to do this to Harry's Attack! Attack! Attack! approach (which mostly involves throwing a lot of fire at him) in chapter 70 of the first Book, before picking his moment and killing him. He's less fortunate against the Phoenix, the source of Harry's protection, who promptly resurrects him and roasts both him and the entire HYDRA strikeforce with him, or against Harry in their rematch, when the latter fights smarter.
  • HYDRA's Dreadnought helicarrier proves capable of this in the finale of Book 1, as it's got a vibranium hull. Even Mjolnir bounces off it. However, this only works up to a point: its unarmoured parts (such as its weapons) can be crippled (with effort) and its defences are circumvented by an irritated Magneto, who crumples it into a ball of indestructible tinfoil.
  • Harry gets startled in chapter 16 of the second book, and having experienced a brutal Trauma Conga Line just beforehand, lashes out violently with a psychic blast described as being capable of levelling a full capacity Wembley Stadium or lobotomising everyone in it (Wembley holds 90,000 people). The person who startled him, Jesus, is surprised. Why? Because he even felt it.
  • By the sequel, Harry tends to outright ignore most psychic attacks thrown, save by the likes of Maddie Pryor (and even then, she has to sucker-punch him), partly because of his raw power, partly because after having had his brain pounded into pulp by Chthon and the Red Room, he's built up an extraordinary degree of resilience. Even Surtur barely fazes him in chapter 52, which was noted as extraordinary even given that Surtur was limited by attacking from the future, through a seeing bowl of sorts, and Harry being a Phoenix host of sorts means that he's inoculated against the fires of a Dark Phoenix - he'd slaughtered armies of gods when similarly restricted, and mere contact with his mind had vaporised multiple powerful psychics in the recent past when he wasn't even really paying attention.
• In The Corrupted Innocent, this basically describes Bela’s immunity to Lucifer’s powers; as Bela is an unbroken Seal, she is immune to direct application of Lucifer’s powers in the same way that Lucifer was unable to break the Seals himself, with the result that Lucifer cannot sense her presence or use his powers to injure her directly (although he can still see her if he’s looking at her with the eyes of his Vessel and injure her by throwing things at her even if he can’t throw or hurt Bela herself).
• In the Heroes/The Twilight Saga crossover Dark Days, when the Cullens and Peter fight alongside the Volturi to stop vampires infected with a madness-inducing virus, Jane's abilities are useless against the infected vampires as they're already in such pain from the infection that they don't notice the pain she's causing.
• Demon In Fodlan: Even when turned into a human, Goetia retains his Independent Manifestation ability that grants him immunity to time manipulation powers, such as Byleth's Divine Pulse. Not only does Goetia retains the memories of events before they are altered, but he can also move while time is halted, which proves to vital when fighting against Demon Pillar Sitri alongside Sothis. Though to other characters, Goetia appears to be teleporting at random whenever Byleth uses Divine Pulse, much to his annoyance.
• A Diplomatic Visit: In chapter 11 of the third story, Diplomacy Through Schooling, after assuming her full-powered form as the Lady of Magic, Twilight shrugs off Tirek's Mana Drain abilities.
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • During Goku's fight against Freeza, Freeza manages to no sell God himself. Goku, who has been losing the fight so far, tries to muster some Heroic Resolve by telling himself how evil Freeza is, and that Goku has to stop him. Freeza challenges God to strike him down if he is really so evil. Freeza doesn't even finish his sentence before being hit by a Bolt of Divine Retribution, but is utterly unaffected by it. If anything, he's mildly amused and tells God to try harder next time.
    Freeza: If I'm really as evil as you say I am, then let God strike me down where I st- [Bolt strikes, Freeza is completely unharmed] Ha! Nice try, jackass! Next time, give it your A-game!
  • Recoome (who is apparently a professional wrestler as well an enforcer for Freeza) makes a direct reference to the trope when he's completely unharmed after a combination of blows by Vegeta.
    Vegeta: What?! How can you possibly get up after a hit like that?!
    Recoome: Silly Vegeta. The only thing that Recoome sells is merchandise!
  • In the side series "Cell Games", various characters, such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Yugi, Ash Ketchum, and Light come up to challenge Cell, only to find their powers are effectively worthless against Cell, if they did anything at all.
    [Light writes Cell's name into the Death Note]
    Cell: Did you... did one of my hearts just stop?
    [Light gasps]
  • Two of the movies ended up turning Aversions into Played Straights:
    • In The World's Strongest Abridged, Kochin attacks Krillin with his Gatling Gun arm. Unlike the actual movie, where Krillin wildly ran around the room dodging the gunfire, here Krillin just stands there, taking the hits (which bounce harmlessly off him), and wonders whatever happened to the machine gun toting character Launch from the original Dragon Ball.
    • In Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan, King Vegeta's attempt to stab baby Broly fails when the knife breaks on his skin due to his high power level.
• In An Entry with a Bang!, this happens multiple times during the pirate attack on C-Earth due to their far more advanced armor. The crowning example is probably when a pirate dropship on course for San Diego wades through a barrage of Standard missiles fired from multiple AEGIS cruisers and destroyers large enough to, according to the narration, wipe out a large chunk of the Soviet Air Force, and keeps going.
• The Equestrian Wind Mage: The Triforce of Power's holy power enables Ganon to shrug off the Elements of Harmony, allowing him to easily defeat the Mane Six and Vaati.
  • At the end of the Boss Battle with Grey Hoof, Applejack manages to recover her Element of Honesty, which protects her from Grey Hoof's death magic, allowing her to plow through and defeat him.
  • There's an earlier example that's played for laughs — when Rainbow Dash is facing Maulgrim in a joust at the Crystal Fair, she bodyslams him full force in the chest... and only succeeds in knocking herself out.
• In The Faith Chronicles, Glory is immune to staff blasts and Zat bolts. Unfortunately for her, she's not immune to the unstable vortex from an activating Stargate.
• For the Glory of Irk: Certain races, like Irkens, are immune to the Parasites' psychic abilities due to having integrated a lot of technology into themselves, which as a side effect means that they can't hear Parasites speak. This is used to expose the fact that Syndicate engineer "Ron" is actually Tenn in disguise.
• In Fractured, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands crossover and its sequel Origins, this happen several times.
  • Ship-sized example: Star Destroyers utterly ignore the most powerful Reaper weapons that tear normal Citadel ships in half.
  • Jack, shown to be an immensely powerful biotic during her introduction unleashes attacks that end up being The Worf Barrage against Sarah because she's a Force-sensitive Siren who can shrug off almost anything.
  • Sarah gets this again when she appears on Omega; Shepard's entire team unloads into her. Her response? You done?
  • When the Master Chief appears, he echoes Sarah's line, though against a smaller show of force.
  • You might think a Mad Scientist would ensure this trope would be in play so that anything created For Science! can't harm them. Nope! The Eridians learn this the hard way—and it's precisely why they Mind Wipe Sarah because they fall like leaves when she gets pissed.
  • The geth response to Flood-Reapers. "We shall not be intimidated. Your technologies and mental abilities cannot influence us."
• The Fundamental Essence of Villainy: Izuku no-sells most of the USJ Nomu's attacks.
  Tomura doesn’t know what he dislikes more, the way the green brat kept smirking, or how he blocked nomu’s punch. He really is underleveled.
• In Guardian, Lady Ginnem's pilgrimage meets a fatal end in Yojimbo's Cavern when they encounter a skeletal monster that brushes aside every attack she, Lulu, and her Warrior Monk sister can throw at it, including Shiva. The best they can do is ensure Lulu's escape.
• The Gunslinger Hero: Flintlock:
  • In chapter 4, Izumi does this against Shoto’s ice, being able to effortlessly break out of the ice prison he had made for her after some taunting.
  • Izumi uses Gjallarhorn against the Nomu, along with Shigaraki and Kurogiri. However, due to the quirks of Shock Absorption and Regeneration, the Nomu is able to completely tank the attack.
• In the AU fic Harry Potter and the Daft Morons, Harry is immune to mind magics such as Obliviation, Confundis charms, or Compulsion Charms. By the last chapter posted, at least two people independently of each other have concluded that Harry is somewhere on the autism spectrum.
• Harry Potter and the Natural 20: The Death Eaters are alarmed to discover that all three Unforgivable curses are useless against a summoned skeletal troll. As an undead, it's immune to instant death, feels no pain, and can't be mind-controlled.
• In Hellsister Trilogy, Desaad's instruments of torture blow up in his face when he tries to use them on Pariah. Pariah smugly reveals he can't be physically damaged.
• Here There Be Monsters: During a battle between the Marvel Family's allies Squadron and the Monster Society, Bulletman and Bulletgirl hurl themselves towards their old enemy, Black Rat. To their shock, he stands calmly still as they bounce off his body.
  Bulletman and Bulletgirl hurtled themselves towards the Black Rat, their old enemy, who wore his familiar rat costume. Both were empowered by the gravity helmets they wore, and the sera that coursed through their bodies. The Black Rat only had his clawlike finger extensions to rely on.
  At least, that was what the heroes thought before they bounced off his body like rubber balls.
• Holo-Chronicles has a few examples. A mild one is Coco only really getting slightly singed on the hand by a shot from Roboco's blaster, while a somewhat insane one is Suisei, who can no-sell the laws of aerodynamics due to her "Star Trait".
• To the shock of all who witness it, Ranma Saotome can tank blaster shots with ease in A Horse for the Force. Due to his sheer physical toughness, a blaster pistol is little more than a bee sting to him and a blaster rifle causes a mild burn. And that's without taking his ki shield into account.
  • After undergoing the same toughness training but using repulsors, Darth Maul can basically ignore even lightsabers. They only cause significant injury if held in place for long periods of if he's hit dozens of times in the same spot.
• Done hilariously by Pinkie Pie in I Against I, Me Against You when she reveals that the Mad King Hayworth's attempt to brainwash her didn't work, and that she'd just been playing along with him the whole time so he wouldn't feel bad.
  • Tex does this to most of the mane 6's attacks during their brief fight. A few chapters later, the Meta does this much more darkly, even to Fluttershy's Stare!
• In Imaginary Seas, Percy's multiple layers of Nigh-Invulnerability render most attacks meaningless against him. Lostbelt Chiron flings everything he has at Percy in hopes of taking him down: explosions, swords, arrows, magic, brute force, surprise attacks... but the worst they can do to him is knock him to the ground. A soldier who tries to choke Percy dangles uselessly off him. Even Lostbelt Chiron's attempts to cage him in with plant life are fruitless, as Percy easily plows through the cage with brute force. The invulnerability provided by his father proves especially important, as Percy notes that Lostbelt Chiron could have broken at least his jaw with his blows were he not immune to damage.
• The Immortal Game:
  • Applejack is able to do this to most attacks due to her Healing Factor and some armor that Twilight enchants for her. Then the rest of the Mane Cast learn to tap into said Healing Factor via the Psychic Link created by the Elements of Harmony.
  • Titan later does this to the Elements of Harmony and De Powers them at the same time by simply saying no.
• Because they are all extremely powerful, characters from The Infinite Loops can easily shrug off various attacks. While it varies from looper to looper, a constant is that loopers can not be Brainwashed in anyway. Even if they were brainwashed while Unawake, Awakening will instantly snap them out of it.
• In The Institute Saga, the Blob completely fails to overpower Superman. Clark uses the opportunity to make fun of him.
• Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends: Unlike the other DIR models, the CADIRs are able to shrug off MiMi's EMP attacks, due to being powered by Aldrich's self-generating Electro-blobs.
• In It's A Dangerous Business, Going Out Your Door, Earth Ponies have the ability to Stand Firm, allowing them to tap into the Earth itself to No Sell anything, including a direct tackle from a World Snake, a snake large enough to have a mountain range form on its back.
• It's Always The Quiet Ones: Cthulhu and the Wrackspurts are alien abominations that can't be hurt by magic spells, which pass straight through them. Even the Killing Curse, instantly fatal to a human when properly cast, is merely an annoyance to them.
• Jackie Chan Adventures: Olympian Journey:
  • In her first appearance, Eris shrugs off Uncle's blast, even though it had a triple dose of garlic powering it, because her magic is Greek in nature, and therefore not effected by chi magic.
  • The second time Jackie is exposed to Phobos' fear power, he manages to break out of the illusion by reminding himself that it's not real.
  • Hestia, Athena, and Artemis are, as in the myths, the only beings that Aphrodite could never charm, with Hestia using this to charge thread with the powers of her and Athena to protect the heroes in Chapter 17.
  • Eris is immune to the spell that makes people think that the Six-Eared Macaque is the Monkey King. This is partly because of the fact that she helped make it, and partly because it affects the world, and as a goddess she isn't exactly of the world.
  • Captain Lewis actually manages to catch Uncle's Dope Slap.
• Jewel of Darkness: Midnight's powers allow her to block most attacks, including Jinx's magic, though she has to concentrate for that to work. (Un)Fortunately, the new armor she gets during the second arc built from Ai's remains actively neutralizes Jinx's magic on its own.
  • The metal composing Razor's body not only blocks energy attacks, but the strength of the metal makes it painful for anyone performing a physical attack.
  • Guerra has a tendency to No Sell attacks due to a combination of his body mass and super strength.
• Jonathan Joestar, The First JoJo: The "fight" with Heaven Ascension Dio, where he heals from the effects of everyone's Stands almost instantly.
• From the Professional Wrestling series The JWL: Triple H hit Brock Lesnar with his sledgehammer on Episode 49, but, as pointed out in the story, "This is BROCK FREAKING LESNAR!" Brock broke the sledgehammer over his knee, hit the F5 on HHH and Brock's The Dangerous Alliance stablemate 911 Chokeslammed HHH to end the show and send everyone home happy.
• Invoked in Kara of Rokyn when two politicians discuss how to deal with two villains whom Lex Luthor has transferred Superman's powers.
  We could hit those women with themonuclear missiles. So could you. But if their powers really are on a level with Superman's, we wouldn't be doing much more than throwing beer cans at them.
• Karma Circle: Judgement: When he's confronting her, it's made clear that Daan Yel is far more powerful than Gaz, with all of her attempts to bully him into submission completely failing. He throws her into a nightmare when she tries to physically assault him, and after she wakes up he easily disables her flesh-eating security dolls with a single wave of his hand before she can even finish activating them.
• Knows if You've Been Naughty: During his break-in at the Membrane house to confront Gaz, one of her security dolls hits Krampus with a blast from a pair of flamethrowers, but he just shrugs it off.
• A surprisingly mundane version in The Last Seidr. Shortly after Loki stole the Tesseract, Fury took Harry Potter and Fawkes aboard the Helicarrier in an attempt to get some answers (also because he's a twelve-year-old with no guardians who just popped in out of no where with a giant magic bird). Fury attempts to scare Harry into talking with his Death Glare...but Harry isn't phased, as he's been dealing with rude, abusive, bullying adults for most of his life.
• Deadshot in Lex Marks the Spot tries to snipe Lex Luthor. As Lex has Plastic Man's powers, no amount of bullets accomplishes more than damaging his office.
• Scott Free is the New God of Freedom in Life Ore Death and correspondingly has the power to ignore, No-Sell, and generally escape any restraints, as seen when Robin tried to bind him. However, Ferris can cancel this out with physical contact, causing a mild Freak Out when she pins him and he stays pinned.
• Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami has so, so many of these, mostly introduced by way of convoluted plot twists. One of the simplest is that Blud is immune to poison because he is the king. One of the more complicated is that a Royal Death Note cannot be used to kill someone in the past unless their name would have been written in it in all possible futures.
• In Loved and Lost, Princess Cadance tries to use her trademark love spell in order to make her cousin Jewelius reasonable with the way he's dispensing "justice" for the heroes. Much to everybody's shock, however, Jewelius' attitude doesn't change at all, and he laughs while calling the spell a pathetic trick. The explanation turns out to be that Jewelius is a sociopath who doesn't feel love toward anyone, and even Changelings cannot find from him love to feed on.
• In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Stargate SG-1 crossover "The Magic of Wormholes", it is revealed that Daniel Jackson is immune to magic to the point that he actively repels even an attempt to assess his status with a simple spell, which Daniel speculates is a side-effect of his Ascension.
• Maim de Maim's version of Nui Harime does just this to several clips of assault rifle rounds; the kinds and number that would render a human body a heaping pile of mush. She'd be dead if she didn't have Life Fibers in her DNA. Later on, Satsuki does this to everything that one Evelyn Adams tried when the latter tried to kill her and the former shrugged it all off for the same reasons above.
• Per her source games' elemental triangle, Leviathan in Manehattan's Lone Guardian is immune to electricity. She takes advantage of this at one point to save a citizen from a lightning strike.
• The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: Katie Kaboom's monstrous form is complete unfazed by anything Danny does to fight back. He is left with no choice but catering to her whims in order to keep her from morphing.
• MLP Next Generation: Know Fear!: Starburst's Fear Lantern ring has an ability called Fear Shine, which causes those exposed to it to experience and be crippled by their worst fears. However, when she tries to use this on Shadow Wing, it has no affect, since he apparently has no fear.
• In the Touhou Project/Pokémon crossover Monsters In Paradise, Flandre is unable to "kyuu" (translation: explode by concentrating magical energy) Skarmory because of his Sturdy ability, that negates one-hit KOs.
  • In the next chapter, Yukari shrugs off a gang of delinquents' Pokémon without even being aware that she was attacked, taking down a Linoone and a Swalot simultaneously (mistaking their attacks for itches to be scratched), a Ninjask (thought it was a housefly), and two Vigoroths (their attacks feeling more like a cool breeze than anything else). And this was after her border manipulation ability was inaccessible.
• My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator:
  • In terms of Quirks, when Aizawa uses his Quirk on the Slayer, it fails because the Slayer's Hyperspace Arsenal is technology-based, as well as the fact his strength was given by God. He also doesn't have a Quirk to erase, which makes Aizawa effectively useless in fighting him.
  • In terms of his Praetor Suit, it no sells everything. These range from bullets, rockets, bombs, tank shells, nuclear explosions, lightning, hair-based attacks, acid, brute strength (excluding All Might-levels of strength), nanomachines, hellfire and lava.
• My Little Mages: The Nightmare's Return:
  • Nightmare Moon is so insanely powerful that she's able to shrug off the attacks of every mage in Magiville at once.
  • Chrysalis, as an Undead Necromancer, is unaffected by most attacks, not even minding having an arrow shot through her brain. Since Applejack is a Paladin, her attacks are more effective.
  • Iron Will, thanks to sheer strength and muscle mass. Rarity is ultimately only able to beat him by immobilizing him.
• In The Night the Magic Died, Fluttershy uses the Stare on Nahmat... only for the wolf to become so angry that the Element of Kindness would do something so cruel and show no remorse for it that she Mind Rapes Fluttershy into seeing all the times she used the Stare or yelled at someone.
• The Night Unfurls: In Chapter 5, remastered version, Olga tries to one-shot Kyril with fire. He simply dispels the flames with a Beast Roar, while revealing himself to be unharmed save for minor Clothing Damage.
• Nor Hell a Fury sees Dennis Guilder (Christine) meet the Winchester brothers (Supernatural) and discuss how his main challenge in dealing with Christine has been working out how to stop her as he can't work out what kind of supernatural monster she is. As Dennis notes, he already tried to salt and burn the corpse of Christine's original owner, so he's satisfied that she isn't "possessed" in that sense, but that doesn't initially help him work out what Christine is.
• Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse):
  • Thanks to the Chronomage soul, Soma is immune to time stops. This comes in handy when he uses the Dark Hour to escape from his kidnapers. In the rebooted fic A Game of Cat and Cat, Jun has the same immunity courtesy of his Persona Chronos.
  • Naoki is immune to all the elements from his game save Almighty (said elements are Fire, Ice, Force, Lightning, Light, Dark, and whatever he defines as Physical). Unfortunately for him, the rest of the world uses a far greater variety of elements, which leads to a Running Gag of Naoki adding new elements to the list of "things I'm not immune to" every weekend because he picks a drunken fight with a user of said element.
  • Overlapping with Required Secondary Powers, the Suou brothers, who can manipulate fire, are immune to fire and heat.
  • Leon is completely immune to Holy Magic, to everyone's bafflement including his own.
• Operation Forging Steel sees a prototype Atlas Paladin Mech attack an American Paladin Main Battle Tank. The Mech's missiles are slapped out of the sky by the tank's laser defence system while said mech's cannon fire leaves a minor scratch on the tank's armour (and damages one of the track links). And then the Americans respond with a single APFSDS round and the mech falls to the ground.
• In The Passing of the Shades of Black, Xander is shown to be completely immune to neuralyzers due to a rare gene.
• The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: In chapter 29 of the sequel Picking Up the Pieces, Discord is very nearly able to manipulate Gentle Step with just his words in the same way he did the Mane Six in The Return of Harmony. However, she is able to shrug it off at the last moment, just like Fluttershy did, and Discord even remarks on this. Unlike with Fluttershy, Discord opts not to forcibly turn her afterward. Later in the same chapter, all six of the new Bearers pull the same thing; unlike with Gentle, Discord is pleased by this.
• In Ward/The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim crossover Point Me at the Skyrim, arrows just bounce harmlessly off Antares' forcefield. Ditto for Frost Bite Spider venom, wooden logs, and the Fire/Frost breath of Dragons.
• In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Red has the Bloodline Victory Sight, which allows him to analyze opposing trainers and Pokémon in miliseconds, allowing him to determine the most likely ways to win any battle. Attempting to use it on Ash utterly fails, due to his unpredictable battle style.
  • Following the Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors chart (see below in the Video Game folder), any Bloodliner of a type or species that possesses a type immunity will No-sell any attack of said type, at least in the case of Heart and Species Bloodliners.
• The Pony POV Series:
  • During the Duel of Tears in the Dark World timeline, Derpy is able to use her Element of Loyalty to negate the Pony Puppets ability of Traitor Dash's Element of Treachery.
  • A villain example, the Valeyard No Sells Twilight's Memory Spell, because he isn't the Discorded Doctor, but a pure evil regeneration of him. Though Twilight later states that the Memory Spell likely DID affect base Time Lord, allowing the Doctor to return after they kill the Valeyard persona for good.
  • There's one moment in the Shining Armor Arc that solidifies the Blank Wolf's status as an Implacable Man. And that's when Shining shoots a flare at it, and the Wolf eats it.
  • The Changeling General Hercules has Instant Armor on his forelegs that lets him easily block most attacks without flinching, but most attacks that actually make contact don't really phase him at all. Note, this includes blunt force attacks, which most Changelings are more vulnerable. This is most likely due to being the World's Strongest Man among his race. When he goes One-Winged Angel, this basically becomes his fighting style, as his armor becomes so tough that he doesn't even feel a rocket launcher to the chest. It takes the heroes hammering away at him for an entire chapter to finally break through it and beat him.
  • Subverted when the Mane Six use the Elements on Chrysalis. At first, it appears that all it did was cause her to complete and become an Alicorn (as she planned), but it had a different but still devastating effect on her: giving her a heart.
  • Princess Anasi (Alicorn Trixie who ascended in a previous loop of Dark World and survived her timeline's erasure by becoming a Concept) No Sells Nightmare Mirror's Truth Vision, even fooling her with a Ninja Log. She explains that this is because Mirror is an incomplete Nightmare and Anasi is the complete Concept of Trickery and thus her powers trump Mirror's, while Mirror's corresponding Alicorn is her even match.
• In Princess Celestia Gets Mugged, Princess Celestia, while disguised as a pegasus named Sunny Skies, is ambushed by muggers who decide to kidnap her once they discover she's nobility. They hit her in the back of the head to knock her out...and she just feels like someone hit her with a pillow. It takes her a few seconds to realize the blow was meant to knock her out and she plays along for her own amusement.
  Before Celestia could respond again, she felt something akin to being struck with a pillow in the back of the head. Oh, right. They're trying to knock me out.
• Principal Celestia Hunts the Undead: Ms. Harshwhinny and Cranky were both unaffected by the Dazzlings' magic. The reason, according to the author, is that "The sirens worked by spreading suspicion and anger, and the two of them were already dour-faced assassins of joy."
• In A Prize for Three Empires, Rogue tries to take on Binary, who merely stands her ground before punching Rogue across the landscape.
• Early in Reaching for a Dream Naruto accidentally creates a technique that renders him immune to genjutsu by making his chakra too dense for enemy chakra to navigate. This does have the side effect that Naruto is sometimes confused by area genjutsu because he's not sure what everyone is reacting too, not even noticing said illusion.
  • Both Naruto and his wife Xanna in the sequel Sekirei? Is That Some New Species of Little Sister? are targeted by snipers. The armor piercing round bounces off Naruto's forehead and Xanna simply plucks the one aimed at her out of the air before throwing it back.
• A Red Rose in the Blue Wind: Neopolitan's fighting style involves creating illusions to fool her opponents. However, these illusions are merely visible illusions and fool only those who see. So when we're introduced to Rouge, a bat with a strong sense of hearing, her Semblance is rendered completely useless; she's on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle that ends up in Rouge's favor, which causes her to lose it and fight far more aggressively.
• Resurgence Series:
  • At one point, Claire takes Bella to help her capture an escaped criminal who has the ability to induce heart attacks; since Bella is immune to such powers, the man has no effect on her.
  • Bella is also unaffected when Hiro stops time in her vicinity, and is able to share that immunity with Claire.
  • Peter’s ability to copy Bella’s power is such a part of him that he retains her shield even when Arthur drugs him to try and weaken his focus, preventing Arthur from stealing Peter’s powers.
• SAPR: Salem is able to completely tank any attack. Any attack. Her reaction when struck by the most powerful blast of that the Silver Eyes of Summer Rose had ever produced was merely to raise an eyebrow and ask, "Is that all?"
• In Sonic X: Dark Chaos, Maledict is basically immune to Super Sonic, Super Shadow, and Super Eric combined. Needless to say, it's a Curb-Stomp Battle when they actually do fight in Episode 64.
• The Stars Will Aid Their Escape: The Stare doesn't work on Herald at all.
  • A flashback shows that Nyarlathotep was able to shrug off the thermonuclear explosion Celestia used on him last time he showed up.
  • Subverted with the Elements of Harmony, which not only does he admit might actually work on him, when unleashed vaporize him completely. While it doesn't kill him, it still banishes him back from whence he came and allows Celestia and Luna time to seal the way he got to Equestria before.
• In The Swarm of War, Theq’aras shoots the Blood Master with a full volley from a Meltagun. The guy gets knocked back a few meters… and then thanks the Chaos Terminator for the experience – now the Swarm knows what a point blank Meltagun blast is like.
• This Bites!:
  • Out of rage, Cross attempts to punch Mr. 3 after he realizes that it his presence and intervention allowed Mr. 3 to get a second chance from Crocodile, and allowed him to kill countless civilians and Marines in Rainbase. Mr. 3 neutralizes it with hardly a thought, and even lampshades it.
  • Enel's Logia-powered Mantra is completely unaffected by Soundbite's attempts to block him out.
  • Bartolomeo, Miss Goldenweek, Apis, and Lindy are all immune to Boa Hancock's Love-Love Beam. Miss Goldenweek due to having basically emotionally castrated herself, Lindy due to having such bizarre sexual preferences, Bartolomeo because he's too dedicated to Luffy, and Apis... because she's too young to feel lust (and she's too scared of Hancock to feel the more platonic types of love for her). The Marineford arc adds that Izo is immune for the same reason as Bartolomeo - he's too dedicated to another (specifically, Kozuki Oden) to be swayed by her power.
  • Garp completely ignores Vivi's Sovereign's Will, since he doesn't respect her authority.
  • Luffy attempts to use his Conqueror's Haki on Sheepshead after he tries to kill Porche. While the other Paradise pirates are nearly pushed into unconsciousness, Sheepshead and the other New World pirates are externally unaffected, though they do take interest that Luffy has such an ability.
• In Thousand Shinji, a Rubric Marine took a missile to his face during the siege of NERV. It didn't even slow him down.
• Combines with Logical Weakness in The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Date Twilight Sparkle when Princess Cadence blasts Queen Chrysalis with as much power as she can manage. Cadence is the Princess of Love and as a changeling, Chrysalis feeds on love. Chrysalis even mocks her by asking how is shooting love at her supposed to do anything but make her stronger.
• Unbreakable Red Silken Thread: Heather tried to seduce or bribe Scarlett into teaching her to dance like she does. Neither option worked, at least not until Heather agreed to pay double what she wanted to for each lesson.
• In Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams, Sleepwalker's human host Rick Sheridan gets mugged and seriously injured in his already damaged knee. He passes out from the pain and releases Sleepwalker, who's boiling with rage. One of the muggers is so terrified after Sleepwalker boxes him in and approaches with The Slow Walk that he shoots Sleepwalker right between the eyes. Sleepwalker doesn't react, and the panicking thug shoots Sleepwalker four more times. Sleepwalker doesn't seem to care, and the mugger wisely surrenders.
• In Vigil, XCOM's first encounter with the geth result in them discovering that their plasma weaponry just harmlessly bounces off the geth's kinetic barriers.^note The author Showed His Work by explaining that plasma has mass, meaning that it can be stopped by kinetic barriers, and space is an extremely effective insulator preventing most of the heat from reaching the hulls of the geth ships. Laser beams, kinetic barriers, and fusion lances, on the other hand, are much more effective, and later on, XCOM learns that the geth, having fought the Ethereals before and confusing humanity for Ethereals, specifically tailored their defenses to defeat their enemies' primary weapons.
• The Violet Demon: Gaz tries to kick Captain Wrennock in the crotch during their fight, only for it to fail because he's a reptile, and thus his genitals are internal.
• Vow of the King:
  • The Gillian accidentally summoned during the hollow killing contest easily breaks right through Ichigo's strongest bakudo.
  • During their two fights, Shunsui basically ignores Ichigo's attacks, though the second time was because Ichigo didn't understand the rules of Irooni.
  • Bambietta ignores Tosen's shikai because her explosions gave her tinnitus.
  • After the Soul Society arc, a random punk tries to punch Ichigo in the back of the head, only to seemingly break his hand due to the sheer amount of spirit energy Ichigo leaks passively.
• Weight of the World:
  • America and Canada are completely immune to Emerald's hallucination Semblance, much to her frustration. This immunity puts them on Cinder's radar as potential threats to her plans.
  • Silver Eyes cannot latch onto and disintegrate Italy since he has Intangibility.
  • The robotic Penny 2.0 is completely immune to a Semblance that paralyzes organic bodies.
• A teenager tries to punch an inattentive Jaune Arc in What Happens in Vacuo Stays in Vacuo, only for Jaune to feel a slight tap on his cheek and the teenager to break his hand on Jaune's aura.
• White Sheep (RWBY):
  • Early on, Jaune and Cardin are in a training match when Cardin hits Jaune full-force with a two-handed mace. Jaune is annoyed that he wasn't ready, while everyone else is shocked into Stunned Silence that it barely made his Aura go down a sliver.
    Cardin: What the hell? This is a two-handed mace!
    Jaune: Yeah! It hurt!
  • In the final battle, the God of Darkness completely ignores almost everything three entire armies throw at him. Even after they discover that the divine Relics can damage him, he barely reacts. With a heroic effort, they are able to cut off his leg. He stands there on one leg, as if nothing happened, until he gets bored and regenerates it.
    God of Darkness: I could fight without my arms and annihilate you all. I could refuse to move from this spot and cause the planet to tumble into the sun. I could give you a thousand years to try and destroy me and it would be in vain.
• In The Witch of the Everfree, Nightmare Moon's magical aura is sufficiently powerful to absorb everything Sunset Shimmer throws at her before it even hits her, at least until Sunset realizes what's going on.
• In Wizard Runemaster the last 23 Veela use their allure on Harry's party. Harry ignores it and Onyxia considers it "an amusing parlor trick". On the other hand, Kudrii and Jessir are completely enthralled by it; Jessir actually has to be stopped from leaping across the table at the Veela.
• During a siege in A World of Bloody Evolution, a traitor marine attempts to set Yang on fire with a heavy flamer. Considering Yang fights by setting herself on fire, this does absolutely nothing other than amuse her.
• Occam Razor's Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Messiah features the card Double Pinaska, a Dashing Hispanic capable of negating one attack per game.