History MadeOfIron / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/HomeAlone'': Harry and Marv, as it has been scientifically proven that a human being could not possibly survive the traps they were victim to. Yet the thieves have inexplicably escaped death many times [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WKgNyvsNDM&list=PLFWHlH4koGZCGJ-9BWMKbTiKzlN_7-XLh&index=1 in both movies.]] Other characters from John Hughes’ family filmed to suffer this include Mr. Wilson and Switchblade Sam from ''Film/DennisTheMenace'', Horace and Jasper from ''Film/101Dalmatians'' and Smith and Wesson from ''Film/Flubber''.

* ''Film/HomeAlone'': Harry and Marv, as it has been scientifically proven that a human being could not possibly survive the traps they were victim to. Yet the thieves have inexplicably escaped death many times [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WKgNyvsNDM&list=PLFWHlH4koGZCGJ-9BWMKbTiKzlN_7-XLh&index=1 in both movies.]]

*** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'', [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OSKRQWFAXcQ&t=147s who make a count of nine times]] Natasha survives injuries that should’ve killed her twice over.

** In ''Film/BlackPanther'' during the first waterfall duel, T'Challa when BroughtDownToNormal and fighting the hulking M'Baku, gets smacked down repeatedly, gets a crushing BearHug and headbutted multiple times before getting stabbed in the shoulder. T'challa however endures all of this and overpowers M'Baku forcing him to yield. In the second waterfall fight T'challa gets an even worse beating from Killmonger and tossed off a cliff, [[spoiler: he's revealed later to have survived albeit in critical condition and requires the Heart Shaped Herb to recover]].

** In ''Film/BlackPanther'' during the first waterfall duel, T'challa when BroughtDownToNormal and fighting the hulking M'Baku, gets smacked down repeatedly, gets a crushing BearHug and headbutted multiple times before getting stabbed in the shoulder. T'challa however endures all of this and overpowers M'Baku forcing him to yield. In the second waterfall fight T'challa gets an even worse beating from Killmonger and tossed off a cliff, [[spoiler: he's revealed later to have survived albeit in critical condition and requires the Heart Shaped Herb to recover]].

* ''Film/JamesBond''

--->Durant: "That guy's a cockroach. You think you kill him, and he pops up someplace else."

* In ''Film/BloodDripsHeavilyOnNewsiesSquare'', Michael survives being run over twice, being hanged, being shot, and being burned at the stake.

* [[CatsHaveNineLives Catwoman becomes this at the end of]] ''Film/BatmanReturns''. We had previously seen her survive falls from three separate tall buildings, but two of those falls were played for dark comedy, making her an IronButtMonkey. What shifts her into this trope is her awesome act of defiance in the movie's climax, where the BigBad shoots her four times but she ''just keeps coming'', and then uses a stun gun, an exposed fuse box and her own saliva to electrocute them both....and ''lives''.

* [[spoiler:Wang Fuming]] from ''Bodyguards and Assassin'' walks is only killed when he gets stabbed several times each by dozens of times by assassins. What really makes this made of iron is that [[spoiler:it happens ''twice'' and he walks away from it the first time]].

* [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking Crime lord]] Bill takes this to ridiculous extremes in the film ''Beauty Investigators''. After being shot in the heart, he still manages to beat a ninja in a fight. Later, his leg is broken almost to the point of a compound fracture, and not five minutes later he's walking with a slight limp.

* ''Botany Bay''. This is an oldie loosely based on the sending of the First Fleet to Australia, and what the hero had to endure aboard ship should have turned him into shark-bait. Not just mercilessly flogged. but keelhauled ''twice over'', and then confined in a leaky brig with icy seawater constantly seeping in! To cap it off, the actor wasn't a big hulking man, but slightly built and delicate-featured Creator/AlanLadd.

* [[CatsHaveNineLives Catwoman becomes this at the end of]] ''Film/BatmanReturns''. We had previously seen her survive falls from three separate tall buildings, but two of those falls were played for dark comedy, making her an IronButtmonkey. What shifts her into this trope is her CrazyAwesome act of defiance in the movie's climax, where the BigBad shoots her four times but she ''just keeps coming'', and then uses a stun gun, an exposed fuse box and her own saliva to electrocute them both....and ''lives''.

*** As referenced in the page quote by WebVideo/HonestTrailers in ''Film/IronMan2'' Ivan Vanko aka Whiplish (a normal human man) somehow survives Happy repeating ramming him into a steel fence with a Rolls-Royce. He even keeps fighting after, his pelvis and legs unbroken.

*** In ''Endgame'' this takes trope to even greater extreme. [[spoiler: Such as in just prior the FinalBattle where the collective heroes in the Avengers's base Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, War Machine, Hawkeye, Ant-Man and Rocket Raccoon get nuked with a OrbitalBombardment from Thano's ship Sanctuary 2 and ''[[NoOneCouldSuriveThat everyone single one of them survive]]'' with only minor scrapes. While that level of durability is to expected from Thor or Hulk, the rest should reasonably have been blown into smoking chunks]]. Tony once again is the king of this however, like during the earlier time heist, he gets smashed by 2012 Hulk ''while unarmored'' and only needs a icepack for his head later.

** Utilized an exorbitant number of times in "Film/BlackWidow". Natasha and Yelena's hand-to-hand fight at the beginning alone should put them both out of commission for awhile, yet they continue to immediately get up and fight the bad guys in the next scene like nothing happened. They also survive multiple severe car crashes and explosions in addition to many, many would-be-serious hand-to-hand combat injuries, as well as a several-story fall on Natasha's part interrupted only by some large conveniently-placed pipes, just to name a few incidents. They usually are able to shrug it off and continue fighting within, at worst, a few minutes.

* Ethan Hunt from ''Film/{{Mission Impossible|filmseries}}'' (and by extension portrayer Creator/TomCruise, who insists on doing the death defying stunts himself). Most people wouldn't survive one of the falls and car crashes he suffered, along with fistfights such as the one that only ended with the other guy being ran over.

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* [[NoNameGiven The Narrator]] in ''The Perfect Sleep''. Although he does get sliced and shot, mostly he just gets punched...''a lot'': He gets beaten to a bloody pulp five times during the course of one night by five different groups of highly motivated thugs, yet somehow remains functional enough to kill most of them and make it to the FinalBattle with [[TheDon Nikolai]]. In the ShirtlessScene, we see he has hundreds of horrific scars from years of abuse--as his drug-dosing doctor pal calls it, "the tapestry of pain". His ability to withstand pain and death is pretty much supernatural, as he admits himself:

** King Kong is certainly MadeOfIron and considering unlike his aforementioned rival he lacks a protective scaled hide, his feats of toughness are all the more impressive. In ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' he endures getting shot and sliced at with biplanes (unlike the original Kong), attacked by a giant Octopus, set on fire by a napalm strike and gets further ravaged by Skullcrawlers but is no worse for wear by the end.
** In ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', Kong is repeatedly on receiving end of savage beatdowns at the claws, tails and teeth of Godzilla, but he keeps getting up and fighting regardless. At one point the big ape ''eats a blast of the [[BreathWeapon Atomic Breath]]'' (which oneshot the Mutos) straight to the back and while it clearly does hurt a lot, Kong does shrug it off.

** King Kong is certainly MadeOfIron and considering unlike his aforementioned rival he lacks any protective, his feats of toughness are all the more impressive. In ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' he endures getting shot and sliced at with biplanes (unlike the original Kong), attacked by a giant Octopus, set on fire by a napalm strike and gets further ravaged by Skullcrawlers but is no worse for wear by the end.

* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', Godzilla survived being nuked multiple times, and it's implied that this made him '''stronger'''. [[spoiler:First nuke he took? Castle Bravo, a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb. It did nothing to him.]] Artillery attacks, tank shells, and bullets, he doesn't even notice. Missiles? A mild nuisance. He even takes ''a skyscraper'' collapsing on him and manages to get back up. Only attacks from the Mutos put him in any mortal danger. If you know your Godzilla, this is to be expected.
* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' takes this UpToEleven as all four of the primary Kaiju show signs of this, but Godzilla himself not only comes BackFromTheDead, he survives being dropped ''from the'' '''''[[BeyondTheImpossible IONOSPHERE]]''''' by Ghidorah and while it hurt like hell, he was ''still alive''.

*** In ''Endgame'' this takes trope to even greater extreme. [[spoiler: Such as in just prior the FinalBattle where the collective heroes in the Avengers's base Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, War Machine, Hawkeye, Ant-Man and Rocket Raccoon get nuked with a OrbitalBombardment from Thano's ship Sanctuary 2 and ''[[NobodyWouldSuriveThat everyone single one of them survive]]'' with only minor scrapes. While that level of durability is to expected from Thor or Hulk, the rest should reasonably have been blown into smoking chunks]]. Tony once again is the king of this however, like during the earlier time heist, he gets smashed by 2012 Hulk ''while unarmored'' and only needs a icepack for his head later.

* Franchise/IndianaJones. As the pictures on our BombProofAppliance and NoOneCouldSurviveThat pages show, Frigidaire should use him as a celebrity spokesman. And that's not counting all the punching and jumping between\into vehicles.

* In ''Film/TheHeat'' Rojas somehow survives a three story drop onto the hood of his car with no injuries whatsoever. The car was less lucky.

** Hellboy. He survives [[spoiler:being impaled by multiple massive hunting spears, being electrocuted and virtually thrown off a bridge, followed immediately by being kicked and punched around by a pack of giants,]] without too much trouble. After that it takes [[HealingFactor only a couple hours at most plus some basic first aid for his wounds to heal]] almost completely.

* ''Film/HomeAlone'': Harry and Marv, as it has been scientifically proven that a human being could not possibly survive the traps they were victim to. Yet the theves have inexplicably escaped death many times [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WKgNyvsNDM&list=PLFWHlH4koGZCGJ-9BWMKbTiKzlN_7-XLh&index=1 in both movies.]]
* "Meat Cleaver" Max Jenke in ''Film/TheHorrorShow'' provides to be a one tough SerialKiller to off even before his ghostly antics, as his execution by electic chair takes far longer than usual ("All that did was give me a hard on"). The main character even readies himself for another fight before he goes down, but not after delivering a promise of revenge.

** In ''Film/GoldenEye'', somehow, some way, Janus is not killed by being inside a chemical weapons plant when it exploded... even though ''he is standing right next to the gas tanks with the explosives on them''. The worst he walked away with was slight scarring on the side of his face. Then he survived [[spoiler:what seems to be a ''1-mile-fall'' from a giant parabolic antenna and into an empty, concrete dam. Granted, he wasn't in great shape, but he was still alive.]] How a regular human could survive this is a downright impossibility. It took [[spoiler:the entire antenna collapsing on top of his head]] to finally kill him.

* In ''Film/JuliaX'', [[NoNameGiven The Stranger]] is suffocated, stabbed, beaten repeatedly over the head, bound in barbed wire, has his feet nailed to floor, is thrown down stairs multiple times, looses a ludicrous blood, and still keeps coming.

** Sing can also take an inhuman amount of punishment, as seen near the end of the movie where the Beast beats him hard enough to kill several normal men, until his head as been punched right through the floor. Not only does he survive (albeit barely), but [[CameBackStrong he manages to come back stronger than ever.]]