History MadeOfIron / LiveActionFilms

*** 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 ''[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat everyone single one of them survive]]'' with only minor scrapes. While that level of durability is to be 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.

** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', the titular sorcerer is very much Made of Iron, though it's worth noting that unlike the previous examples, he has no superpowers, armored suit, cybernetics or alien physiology to justify how he survives the amount damage he gets throughout the movie. Even before he learns magic the good doctor survives a massive car crash that involved his Lamborghini go spiraling off a highway and smashing into power station, this alone should've killed Stephen but the worst he gets is crippled hands. As a sorcerer Strange tanks a combined beatdown from Kaecilius and his followers and even a [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation Space Shard]] through the torso [[spoiler: the same thing that mortally wounded the Ancient One]]. ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' continues this with Strange getting smashed through buildings by tentacle demons and put through the absolute wringer by the BigBad [[spoiler:by Scarlet Witch]] but besides a brief unconsciousness, a couple of scratches and being out of breath the Sorcerer is totally fine. Same goes for [[spoiler:Wanda]] herself or more accurately the alternate version of herself she possesses who survives a brutal fight with Illuminati, goes through AgonyOfTheFeet and even when she gets her mind back, is still healthy enough to fly back home. This should be expected coming from the [[Creator/SamRaimi director]] of ''Film/EvilDead'' though.

* Cactus Jack Slade in the Western parody ''Film/TheVillain'' casually survives numerous examples of violence up to and including getting hit by a train. Not surprising, since the movie is essentially a live-action [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Roadrunner cartoon]], with Jack playing the part of Wile E. Coyote.

*** Obvious jokes aside, the Tony Stark appears to be able to shrug off blows that should render his head the consistency of [[ChunkySalsaRule chunky salsa]], both in and out of the power suit. The flight tests, for example. He also seems to ignore a [[spoiler:GAPING HOLE IN HIS RIBCAGE]], that should make it impossible for him to breathe unassisted, let alone fight. While [[spoiler:escaping from the terrorists in the first act]], he also falls in a "powered descent" (!) into a dune with enough force to destroy a solid-metal power suit, yet all his squishy meat and bones remain unharmed.

* Before Jason Voorhees of ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' became the demon zombie killer we all know, he was just an ordinary mentally handicapped and deformed backwoods killer who could shrug off things like [[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 a machete through his collarbone]] and [[Film/FridayThe13thPartIII being hanged]].
** Don't forget having an [[Film/FridayThe13thPartIII axe embedded in his head]].
* In ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' Storm Shadow is slammed ''through'' a wall by Ripcord wearing an Accelerator Suit, which moves at least as fast as a car, and he comes out almost unscathed.

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

* In ''Film/JurassicPark'', Tim survives nearly being eaten by Rexie, getting knocked off a cliff while still in the jeep, having said jeep fall down a tree and then almost crush him, getting shocked on the high-voltage paddock fences, and finally being stalked and attacked by a group of escaped ''Velociraptors''. He's a limping, frazzled mess by the end of the movie.

** [[spoiler:"What eye?"]]

** ''Film/IronMan''
*** Obvious jokes aside, the recent movie version of Tony Stark appears to be able to shrug off blows that should render his head the consistency of [[ChunkySalsaRule chunky salsa]], both in and out of the power suit. The flight tests, for example. He also seems to ignore a [[spoiler:GAPING HOLE IN HIS RIBCAGE]], that should make it impossible for him to breathe unassisted, let alone fight. While [[spoiler:escaping from the terrorists in the first act]], he also falls in a "powered descent" (!) into a dune with enough force to destroy a solid-metal power suit, yet all his squishy meat and bones remain unharmed.

** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', the damage inflicted on Thor, Captain America, and the Hulk can be explained away by superpowers, but Natasha takes a ribcage-shattering backhand from the Hulk that barely stuns her, Tony is [[DestinationDefenestration hurled through a glass window]] and falls several dozen stories, and Clint [[SuperWindowJump swings through the glass window of an office]] and is still able to at least kneel upright and aim an arrow into Loki's face shortly afterwards (these last two are staples of Joss Whedon works). To be fair, Tony isn't seen standing or walking without the Iron Man armor any time in the immediate aftermath of the window fall, so it's possible he could've been more badly cut up inside the suit, and Hawkeye is later seen sitting with his leg propped up on Natasha's chair in the shawarma joint, so he may have been somewhat injured by that. However, they're all seen effortlessly walking about in a cut to a few days later, so any injuries they may have sustained are relatively minor.

** In ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', all the major characters get knocked around quite a bit, but special mention goes to Rocket: physically the weakest, but is able to survive getting thrown and blasted long distances and crashing a ship with the only effect being getting temporarily knocked out by the latter.

** In ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' the titular sorcerer is very much Made of Iron though worth noting unlike the previous examples he has no superpowers, armored suit, cybernetics or alien physiology to justify how he survives the amount damage he gets throughout the movie. Even before he learns magic the good doctor survives a massive car crash that involved his Lamborghini go spiralling off a highway and smashing into power station, this alone should've killed Stephen but the worst he gets is crippled hands. As a sorcerer Strange tanks a combined beatdown from Kaecilius and his followers and even a [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation Space Shard]] through the torso [[spoiler: the same thing that mortally wounded the Ancient One]]. ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' continues this with Strange getting smashed through buildings by tentacle demons and put through the absolute wringer by the BigBad [[spoiler:by Scarlet Witch]] but besides a brief unconsciousness, a couple of scratches and being out of breath the Sorcerer is totally fine. Same goes for [[spoiler:Wanda]] herself or more accurately the alternate version of herself she possesses who survives a brutal fight with Illuminati, goes through AgonyOfTheFeet and even when she gets her mind back, is still healthy enough to fly back home. This should be expected coming from the [[Creator/SamRaimi director]] of ''Film/EvilDead'' though.
** In ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' 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/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame''

*** 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 ''[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat everyone single one of them survive]]'' with only minor scrapes. While that level of durability is to be 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.

*** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'', [[https://youtu.be/OSKRQWFAXcQ?t=108 who make a count of nine times]] Natasha survives injuries that should’ve killed her twice over.
* 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 run over.

* The villainous CleanupCrew in ''Film/{{Momentum|2015}}'' are few in number, but prove difficult to kill even for the badass ActionGirl protagonist.

* Franchise/{{MonsterVerse}}:
** 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.

** Mild LampshadeHanging in the unofficial film ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''. Bond visits a health spa in the opening of the film and a doctor notes that his body "seems to be mainly scar tissue".
** The Creator/DanielCraig era took this up to eleven with Bond. He survives his Aston Martian flipping over seven times and then brutally tortured in ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', falling from a plane and pulling his parachute at the last second in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', getting shot multiple times in the chest, falling from a moving train and off a bridge into a river from several stories in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' and walks off getting his skull drilled into in ''Film/{{Spectre}}''. [[spoiler: In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' Bond tanks several explosions at point blank range and during the climax is shot multiple times and poisoned by the BigBad Safin, but that doesn't seem to prevent Bond from breaking the guy's arm and headshotting him with a coup de grace. It literally takes a MacrossMissileMassacre [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill from the Royale Navy]] targeting the IslandBase, for 007 to be KilledOffForReal.]]

** In ''Film/DoctorStrange'' the titular sorcerer is very much Made of Iron though worth noting unlike the previous examples he has no superpowers, armored suit, cybernetics or alien physiology to justify how he survives the amount damage he gets throughout the movie. Even before he learns magic the good doctor survives a massive car crash that involved his Lamborghini go spiralling off a highway and smashing into power station, this alone should've killed Stephen but the worst he gets is crippled hands. As a sorcerer Strange tanks a combined beatdown from Kaecilius and his followers and even a [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation Space Shard]] through the torso [[spoiler: the same thing that mortally wounded the Ancient One]]. ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' continues this with Strange getting smashed through buildings by tentacle demons and put through the absolute wringer by the BigBad [[spoiler:by Scarlet Witch]] but besides a brief unconsciousness, a couple of scratches and being out of breath the Sorcerer is totally fine. Same goes for [[spoiler:Wanda]] herself or more accurately the alternate version of herself she possesses who survives a brutal fight with Illuminati, goes through AgonyOfTheFeet and even when she gets her mind back, is still healthy enough to fly back home. This should be expected coming from the [[Creator/SamRaimi director]] of ''Film/EvilDead'' though.
** 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]].

* Creator/JasonStatham as Chev Cellios in ''Film/{{Crank}}''. The original film was already well within RefugeInAudacity territory. The sequel is even more so, with a healthy dose of WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs.

* Jim Evers in ''Film/TheHauntedMansion'' is thrown through the attic window, lands on the greenhouse roof (which doesn't break) then slides off it landing on his back on his car's windshield. He gets up like nothing happened nor a scratch on him.

* [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking Crime lord]] Bill takes this to ridiculous extremes in the film ''Film/BeautyInvestigators''. 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.

** Utilized an exorbitant number of times in ''Film/BlackWidow2021''. 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.

** 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.

* Pretty much all the ''Film/FastAndFurious'' characters.

* ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle': The Angels are often get hit, kicked, thrown and land on hard surfaces or objects with a hard thud, but they always manage to get up and fight again 'till their last breathe. The villains; Seamus walks out of an inferno unarmed and Madison is thrown from a car moving 40 or 50mph and not only survives but continues to fight without showing any pain reactions.

* ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle'' is full of these moments. The Creator/DemiMoore character is thrown from a car moving 40 or 50mph and not only survives but continues to fight.

* Creator/JasonStatham as Chev Cellios in ''Film/{{Crank}}''. The original film was already well within RefugeInAudacity territory. [[UpToEleven The sequel is even more so]], with a healthy dose of WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs.

** The Creator/DanielCraig era took this UpToEleven with Bond. He survives his Aston Martian flipping over seven times and then brutally tortured in ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', falling from a plane and pulling his parachute at the last second in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', getting shot multiple times in the chest, falling from a moving train and off a bridge into a river from several stories in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' and walks off getting his skull drilled into in ''Film/{{Spectre}}''. [[spoiler: In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' Bond tanks several explosions at point blank range and during the climax is shot multiple times and poisoned by the BigBad Safin, but that doesn't seem to prevent Bond from breaking the guy's arm and headshotting him with a coup de grace. It literally takes a MacrossMissileMassacre [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill from the Royale Navy]] targeting the IslandBase, for 007 to be KilledOffForReal.]]

** ''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 ''Film/DoctorStrange'' the titular sorcerer is very much Made of Iron though worth noting unlike the previous examples he has no superpowers, armored suit, cybernetics or alien physiology to justify how he survives the amount damage he gets throughout the movie. Even before he learns magic the good doctor survives a massive car crash that involved his Lamborghini go spiralling off a highway and smashing into power station, this alone should've killed Stephen but the worst he gets is crippled hands. As a sorcerer Strange tanks a combined beatdown from Kaecilius and his followers and even a [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation Space Shard]] through the torso [[spoiler: the same thing that mortally wounded the Ancient One]].

*** 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 ''[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat 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.

* While the blows sustained by Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' may be explained by his newly acquired superpowers, no such explanation is given for how Doctor Octopus -- a comparatively weak, fleshy human -- can take more than a single punch to the jaw from the super-strong hero.

* Subversion: Matt Murdock in ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' is shown spitting out a broken/dislodged tooth after his first on-screen fight, and it might take less time to show how much of his body ''isn't'' scarred. His medicine cabinet is also shown to be absolutely stuffed full of painkillers like Percocet and Vicodin, suggesting that he could teach Dr. Series/{{House}} a thing or two about living with pain.

* ''Film/TheDarkTower2017''. Played for BlackComedy when Roland is taken to a hospital on Keystone Earth. Not only is he showing TaintedVeins from a demon sting, a bunch of doctors turn up to inform him that he's suffering everything from hepatitis to chronic radiation poisoning. When they want him to remain overnight for observation, Roland just pulls out his IV tubes and walks away.
* Averted in ''Film/Destroyer2018'': Erin takes a LOT of hits throughout the present-day action, but just keeps going. [[spoiler: It's only after she's done what she had to do that the audience learns she's suffering serious physical consequences, and the movie ends with her being very strongly implied to have died as a result of her injuries.]]
* The ''Film/DieHard'' movies:

* Averted in ''Film/{{Destroyer}}'': Erin takes a LOT of hits throughout the present-day action, but just keeps going. [[spoiler: It's only after she's done what she had to do that the audience learns she's suffering serious physical consequences, and the movie ends with her being very strongly implied to have died as a result of her injuries.]]

** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaWinterSoldier'' much like in The Avengers, the cast go through the wringer. Nick Fury during his first assassination attempt has his wrist fractured and gets several more broken bones as Hydra {{Mooks}} crash multiple police cars into his SUV and only "dies" after the Winter Solider snipes him through the chest. [[spoiler: It's revealed later Nick survived and apart from a lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum, shattered collar bone, perforated liver, collapsed lung and one hell of a headache he's "fine"]]. Natasha for her part survives getting brutalized by the Winter Solider, shot in the shoulder and recovers quickly from her taser disk in the FinalBattle. Cap himself endures falling from 30 stories getting repeatedly punched in the face with [[spoiler: Bucky's]] bionic arm and shot multiple times, this can by HandWaved due to the SuperSerum.
** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', all the major characters get knocked around quite a bit, but special mention goes to Rocket: physically the weakest, but is able to survive getting thrown and blasted long distances and crashing a ship with the only effect being getting temporarily knocked out by the latter.