History MadeOfIron / VideoGames

** Starting with the [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 2011 reboot]], this trope gets taken UpToEleven with the X-Ray Attacks, which explicitly show x-ray shots of the fighters' bones cracking and organs rupturing. Fighters can get up after having suffering a NeckSnap, broken spine, shattered skull, and other injuries that should leave them paralyzed for life if they didn't kill them instantly.

** Jill Valentine [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis has been brutalized by the Nemesis, directly infected]], and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 once fell several stories out of a window]] and CameBackStrong. The [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake remake]] of the third game really dials this UpToEleven, as she gets absolutely clobbered to ludicrous extremes throughout the game, to the point where she shouldn't able to stand, let alone run around or wield firearms.

** If Bowser is made of iron, Mario is made of freaking ''[[UpToEleven orichalcum]]''. For those who do not understand, let us note that Mario has survived a fall from the stratosphere after being struck by magical lightning and shot out a glass window. But even that is not what is being referred to. ''Super Mario Galaxy'', folks. At the end of the game, the universe is sucked into a supermassive black hole and renewed in a big bang -- but Mario and Rosalina are exempt from this. Rosalina can cast barriers, but Mario has no such power. Mario took a black hole to the face followed by a big bang to the everything and came out okay.

* This can happen in many games due to glitches or unexpected game engine behavior, for example falling from a great height, but glancing off a vertical surface so the fall distance resets and the drop counts as much shorter.
* {{Driving Game}}s often do this, especially arcade games where a severe drop in performance or an outright NonStandardGameOver via a fatal crash would take away from the [[RuleOfFun fun]] of the game. You can ram into a solid wall at 300 kilometers per hour and more often than not the worst that will happen is being brought from 300 to 0 in an instant, and depending on the game there won't even be any damage modeling!
* Almost every FirstPersonShooter player character falls into this by default, able to soak up gunfire like a sponge. This is more RuleOfFun than anything, though -- if he were humanly durable, then the game would be unrepentantly hard. Averted in first person shooters at the "realistic" end of [[FacklerScaleOfFPSRealism the scale]], where it's possible for anyone to die from one gunshot wound, even if it's "just" to the torso.
* Every FightingGame ever. Characters can survive attacks that would kill any normal person, many of them involving weapons or magic, with nothing more than a reduced life bar. Somewhat needed, though, otherwise these games could be very, very short.

*** The Warrior of Light takes an absolutely absurd amount of punishment over the course of their adventures. They have, in no particular order, [[{{BFS}}} deflected a sword the size of a small office building]], survived [[HolyHandGrenade divine judgment]] from a machine god, thunderbolts from various other gods, the BreathWeapon of one of the most powerful dragons in existence, and survived the "optimized" version of the [[FantasticNuke "ultimate magic"]] that their PatronGod Hydaelyn was gravely weakened defending the Warrior from earlier in their career.

*** The Warrior of Light takes an absolutely absurd amount of punishment over the course of their adventures. They have, in no particular order, [[{{BFS}}} deflected a sword the size of a small office building]], survived [[HolyHandGrenade divine judgment]] from a machine god, thunderbolts from various other gods, the BreathWeapon of one of the most powerful dragons in existence, and the "optimized" version of the [[FantasticNuke "ultimate magic"]] that their PatronGod Hydaelyn was gravely weakened defending the Warrior from earlier in their career.
--->'''Warrior of Light:''' You name it, I've been punched by it.

** Hildebrand Manderville of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', who also runs on RuleOfFunny. He's been launched skyward and across continents, buried alive and wandering a desert thinking he's a zombie, suplexed, piledrivered, smashed with a giant frying pan, the works. And the worst he gets is his fancy suit in ruins.

* By the end of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', [[spoiler:Mastermind Junko Enoshima]] goes through ''a lot'' of punishment when they go through ''every prior execution in succession''. Bear in mind that even ''one'' of those was enough to kill a person, [[RasputinianDeath yet they]] ''[[RasputinianDeath somehow]]'' [[RasputinianDeath live through all but the last of them]] (and they even [[TooKinkyToTorture enjoy it]])!

* ''VideoGame/RaptorCallOfTheShadows'' has a player ship that is like this too, and that's ''not'' counting in the extra shielding (which take the same amount of damage as the plane).
* In ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' many characters are MadeOfIron.
** Chris Redfield will not be put down. He's survived getting smacked around by Tyrants and taken multiple [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown No Holds Barred Beatdowns]] from the superhuman BigBad Albert Wesker. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' Chris recovers from getting his skull bludgeoned by several B.O.Ws, with only mild amnesia.
** Leon S. Kennedy may be just human but it's hard to tell at times. Especially when he walks off [[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation getting punched and thrown into a stone pillar by a Super Tyrant]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 turned into a pin cushion by a Iron Maiden]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 falling several stories onto his back]] and even [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 as a rookie cop]] getting shot in the shoulder and just shrugging it off for the rest of the ZombieApocalypse.
** Albert Wesker by the time of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' isn't bothered by a combat knife stabbing into his forearm, getting shot in the face, having a [=RPG=] missile going off in his hands or falling out of a plane. Hell, even a dip in molten lava isn't enough to kill him, and Chris and co [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill need to top it off with two more RPG rockets]] to actually defeat him. Consideirng he wasn't "human" after first game it isn't too surprising. Possibly justified too given he’s implied to have a HealingFactor.
** Jill Valentine [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis has been brutalized by the Nemesis, directly infected]] and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 once fell several stories out of a window]] and CameBackStrong. The [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake remake]] of the third game really dials this UpToEleven with Jill, as similar to Lara Croft in ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'' she gets absolutely clobbered to ludicrous extremes throughout the remake to point where Jill shouldn’t able to stand let alone run around or wield firearms.
** Claire Redfield has been knocked around by both Mr X and the G-Creature, got hit with an gasoline truck explosion from point blank range and blown into a car, got a beatdown from Wesker, had shrapnel embedded in her leg and even [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2 fell three stories into the ocean and survived]].
** Can't forget Ada Wong either. She gets ravaged by Mr X and is up and healthy (albeit bandaged) later on. In the ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake RE2make]]'' Ada gets shot in the torso and falls into a seemly bottomless pit, and yet appears (completely fine) later to help Leon escape.

** Ethan Winters, despite not being professional trained or having any lengthy combat experience might just put the aforementioned examples to shame with how much crap he shrugs off in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil7 RE7]]'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage''. [[spoiler: In the latter game Ethan even manages to keep fighting and defeat BigBad Mother Miranda ''with his freaking heart ripped out of his chest!'' prompting a WhyWontYouDie from Miranda. Ethan does eventually succumb to his wounds but the amount it took to kill him easily cements Ethan as the toughest son of a bitch in the whole ''RE'' universe.]]
** [[IncrediblyDurableEnemies Several monsters]] in the series take a [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill ludicrous amount]] of firepower to be put down. It’s especially troubling for the ones who canonically have no HealingFactor, e.g the common zombies in ''[=RE2make=]'' who will happily soak up the hundreds of bullets Leon and Claire fire at them. It often takes their [[BoomHeadShot entire head getting blown off]] for the ''[=RE2make=]'' zombies to stay down for good.

* Everyone in ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}''. Especially Maxwell himself. With the dizzying array of weapons in the game, you'd think SOMETHING would cause a lasting injury. But nope. CriticalExistenceFailure only here.

* All the Heroes in ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront2015'', even if their health varies, can take absurd amounts of punishment ranging from flurries of lightsaber swings to direct fire from [=AT-ATs=]. The only Heroes with excuses are Chewbacca, who's a Wookiee, and Vader, who's more machine than man. Everyone else is physically a normal member of their species, so they should die as easily as human, Rodian or Sullustautes n foot soldiers do.
* In the ''Hope'' cinematic trailer for ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', Jace Malcolm manages to tank force lightning for a few seconds, before getting in close and locking a powerful sith lord in a BrawlerLock. He then detonates a grenade in the sith lord's face. Both him and the sith lord get up afterward. The sith, Darth Malgus, takes it even further, as grand master Satele Shan proceeds to smash a mountainside in his face with the force, ''and he still gets back up!''

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' Bowser, definitely. From being [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros thrown]] [[VideoGame/SuperMario64 into]] [[VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii lava]], [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory crushed by two castles and a train]], and [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy knocked into a sun]] [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2 followed by a black hole]] among much more, the sheer amount of things he's survived with barely a scratch on him is amazing.
** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' lampshades this in his playable sections. He has literally infinite lives.
** Perhaps the Mario Brothers aren't the only ones who can benefit from One-up Mushrooms.
** It's worth pointing out the one time he actually [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath died]]. In VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros, the first boss is Bowser, who falls into lava after you cut the bridge. You've done this many times before, no big deal. But then he struggles in the lava as his skin and eyeballs melt out and only a skeleton is left as Mario just stared. Why is this worth pointing out? Because that's NOT when he died. You meet him again in world 8, completely fine. He's just missing his flesh and eyes. Being a skeleton is no big deal for him. However, this time the bridge doesn't have any lava under it, and when you cut the bridge, he simply falls a great distance. It's a confirmed death in the very last fight, where Bowser Jr. is seen with Bowser's remains (his skeleton broken into pieces from the fall) and promptly throws it all into a black magic pot to [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist resurrect him.]]
** If Bowser is made of iron, Mario is made of freaking ''[[UpToEleven orichalcum]]''. For those who do not understand, let us note that Mario has survived a fall from the stratosphere after being struck by magical lightning and shot out a glass window. But even that is not what is being referred to. Super Mario Galaxy, folks. At the end of the game, the universe is sucked into a supermassive black hole and renewed in a big bang -- but Mario and Rosalina are exempt from this. Rosalina can cast barriers, but Mario has no such power. Mario took a black hole to the face followed by a big bang to the everything and came out okay.

* While her other "siblings" probably are of the same quality, [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Lamia Loveless]] have displayed these features several times (considering she is a RobotGirl, of course she is made of steel):
** In ''SRW Advance'', she stood up in between two feuding expert martial artists [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Domon Kasshu]] and [[Anime/{{Daimos}} Kazuya Ryuuzaki]], about to punch each other. She takes full brunt of both punches from different sides. She just came back with mere bruises. Even when Domon said she got hit on the vitals...
** In the ''OG'' saga, this is shown in ''OG Gaiden'', where she goes through all the plugging in the ODE System, got plugged out of her mecha forcefully by Kyosuke, shot down in open air, [[spoiler:later got plugged out again by Axel]]... all while butt naked. NoOneCouldSurviveThat... well except her, that is. It's more fatal than the above example, but she always survives enough for further repairs to get her back to normal state. Oh, and there's also her surviving Code: ATA which is said to be able to take out two battleships at once, and still can get repaired, not utterly destroyed.
** See Also: Arado Balanga. People claim he's BornLucky, and they may be right. However, like Heero Yuy above, he's not only withstood one of Kushua's drinks, he actually ''liked it!''
** But even Arado had to admit he loses out to Kyosuke Nanbu. He has survived TWO explosions while being human (the second explosion he is in a mech that burnt down, fell over and sank into water, and he only comes out with just a few broken ribs.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' everyone gets burned, frozen, electrocuted, bludgeoned, bruised, stabbed, slashed, drilled, bitten, stomped, crushed, pelted, blasted, and shot at with all sorts of physical and elemental attacks... and they'll still have absolutely nothing to show for it. The games' vague LivingToys angle was created partly to justify this, even more so in that the characters are imaginary constructs based on toys in the "real world" and therefore don't have to obey said "real world"'s laws of physics. Little Mac is the first character to avert this trope as he gets bandages and bruises the higher his damage meter goes up.
* The player ship in the entire ''VideoGame/TheTaleOfAlltynex'' trilogy.
* Not strictly an example, but: in Yuri and Estelle's FriendshipMoment the night before the final battle in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', Estelle comments on how she's surprised that he can't sleep, and he replies "You say that like I'm made of iron or something." In a meta way, it's probably fair to say he is, in every sense of the word: both as a character and as a force in battle [[GameBreaker (being one of the most broken playable characters]] in the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'').

* Everything that ever lived in any ''Franchise/TombRaider'' game. In the first games you have to shoot any human being for minutes for it to die, not because they are hard to hit. Every. Single. Shot. Is a hit. Count the amounts of bullets you have to put through each enemy (taking into account the player uses two pistols at the same time. You'll be surprised how much stronger than 50 cent each little monkey in the jungle is.
** Of special note is Lara Croft in the 2013 reboot. She manages to keep going despite being impaled by rebar, crashing through trees and wooden barricades, routinely falling from over 20 feet onto dirt, rocks, concrete, and metal surfaces, being thrown around by explosions, forced to breathe toxic gases, being pummeled by angry Russians, slashed by bladed weapons, and soaking up potentially hundreds of bullets. While Lara often suffered a lot of injury in the other games, the latest release does a really good job of illustrating just how brutal the things she walks away from really are.
* Nathan Drake of ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'' is either this, BornLucky, or some combination of the two. He takes some mean bumps only to come away relatively unharmed (enough to keep fighting). He's also gone as far surviving days in the desert with absolutely ''nothing'' except the clothes on his back and still got into a firefight (and ''won'') upon coming across a destroyed settlement. Notable since earlier in that game a companion character ends up with a broken leg simply by falling off a ledge.
* Wario in the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' games will be put through every condition possible (to name a few, zombification, lit on fire, spun up into a ball of string, being trapped in a snowball, and more.) and he just shakes it off. All of them are also required to solve many of the puzzles.

** B.J himself, to the point of almost hilarious absurdity. Above all, he demonstrates a bizarre immunity to being stabbed. In one scene in ''The Old Blood'', a Nazi soldier ambushes him and the two basically just stand there repeatedly stabbing each other in the chest before the Nazi inevitably succumbs to his wounds, and in another scene in the same [=DLC=], [[TheDragon Rudi]] impales a section of lead pipe clean through his thigh during an ElectricTorture session, and Blazko is no worse for wear, not even a limp. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Deathshead [[TakingYouWithMe realises he's lost and tries to take Blazko out with a grenade]]. ''At point blank''. Blazko survives it, although he's badly hurt and nearing death's door, while that creepy bastard [[LudicrousGibs gets liquified]]]].
** Turns out Max Hass is this. [[spoiler:During the attack on the Kreisau Circle HQ, he gets riddled with several bursts of assault rifle fire and takes a burst of heavy machine-gun fire to the chest, yet is still shown during the evacuation no worse for wear]]. [[WMG/WolfensteinTheNewOrder This has lead to theories]] that he's some sort of rejected [[SuperSoldier Ubersoldat]] candidate.
** [[spoiler:Caroline Becker]] managed to survive [[VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 2009}} being shot and crippled from the waist down, the explosion of an otherworldly machine that hurled her out of another dimension and into a nearby ditch]], lingered in said ditch for ''three days'' before being found and rescued, and spent the rest of the war fighting a life-threatening illness.
** [[spoiler:Frau Engel]] survives getting [[spoiler:her]] jaw crushed by a giant robot, getting slammed into a tree, and thrown off a steep cliff... and still turns up at the end of the level, an assault rifle in each hand. [[spoiler:She also leads the assault on the Kreisau Circle HQ, her gruesome jaw injury still not fully healed]].

** Raid bosses can take a ton of punishment as well. And even your own character could be used as an example of this trope, as you're pretty much invulnerable to low level mobs or characters after you hit level 80.
** Though ironically subverted in the same game...if you are not a tanking class IN your tanking spec WITH your tanking gear? You should probably step back. Bonus points: Tanks visibly animate lifting their shield and dodging!
* Kazuma Kiryu's defining trait in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series; the man has taken knife wounds, gunshots, and massive explosions and walked away with only a few minor scratches. In one substory in ''Yakuza 2'', a big thug who had been impersonating Kiryu punched him square in the jaw, and Kiryu didn't even react.

* Ena from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance''. In a game where every mortal wound is either {{Permadeath}} or a mercenary career-ending injury, she can "die" ''three times'' and still be back for the end. The first is when the hero takes her out (reducing her to 0 HP). The second when the Black Knight strikes her down (somewhat justified because he says he [[TapOnTheHead checked his swing]]). And after joining your party, she can die a third time... but she is plot-relevant and lives to see the end.
** She can then die two more times in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn''. Note that the second example is part of a non-canonical [[MultipleEndings Bad Ending]].
** The kicker. Throughout all of this she's [[spoiler: in the early stages of pregnancy]].
* The pointman from the [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R series]]. Even taking into account a limited healing factor he survives things that would turn other men to paste, like getting throw several hundred meters onto the roof of a multi story car park...by an explosion. By F.E.A.R 3 he has full RegeneratingHealth.
* From the same people, ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' has several characters who stretch the limits of survivability, even without the player character's death-reversing powers:
** [[spoiler:Yomiel, in the alternate timeline]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext gets hit with a supersonic sweet potato]], stabbed in the back with the pointy part of a statue, then has his legs crushed by a free-falling megalith. [[spoiler:It appears he sustained nothing permanent, according to the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.]]

** The poor [[ButtMonkey rat]] living in Lynne and Emma's apartment complex. He gets flung around the room, dropped onto and dangles from a clock's pendulum, [[GrievousBottleyHarm smacked by an angry lady with a wine bottle]], galvanized with an electric cable, and has his tail set on fire.
---> '''Sissel:''' Now I REALLY owe that rat an apology.
* The player goat in ''VideoGame/GoatSimulator''. You simply cannot die. Hit by a truck? Set yourself on fire with a barbeque grill? Blew up the gas station and got caught in the blast? No problem! The worst that'll happen is that you get flung backwards high into the air, exhibiting RagdollPhysics along the way, and a simple press of the "Ragdoll" key while lying down will get you back up and running! Even better, NPC goats and humans also have the same degree of invulnerability, no matter how much the latter scream in pain!

* In ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'', Nima takes a fall during the prologue that would probably cripple her in real life, at the very least.

* ''VideoGame/{{Kikokugai}}'': Subverted by Gong Taoluo, even more so considering his specialized techniques do him lots of pain when he uses them too much.
* ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'' has its FinalBoss and PostFinalBoss:
** [[spoiler:Greg Nightmare starts off as a standard boss by this game's standards. Then you blow off his lower body, at which point he won't die no matter how many times you shoot him. In addition, he spawns seven Black Smiles, each of which kill a personality permanently and cannot be killed at all. What you're supposed to do is watch all six main personalities die until you get to Garcian, at which point he can pick up the Golden Gun, which will one-shot any remaining Smiles and Nightmare himself]].
** [[spoiler:The Last Shot Smile is an utterly pathetic boss, but the aforementioned Golden Gun takes five shots to kill it, meaning that from a plot perspective, it's likely immune to all other weapons, as well]].
* Joel from ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''. Depending on how one plays the game, he'll get shot, beaten up, knocked out, get into fist fights with infected and hostile survivors, knocked down or otherwise fall a good distance, all on a regular basis, but it never stops or even slows him down. [[spoiler: Until he falls from a walkway at the university and gets impaled by a piece of rebar. That knocks him out for a few weeks, but when he awakens to discover Ellie's been taken by the group of cannibals, he drags himself and his not-fully-healed impalement wound outside and goes full [[PapaWolf Papa Wolf]] on said cannibals anyway.]]

** Link seems to get this. He gets battered about with swords ''as big as he is'' and just shrugs it off. If he takes enough damage, he acts tired when he stands still. That's the extent of the damage.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DGYFtaYRYo The thieves]] and chickens are the only enemies in the game that you simply CANNOT kill.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' King Bulblin is no slouch, either. For a humanoid mini-boss with no magical protection, he handles being repeatedly sliced, diced, and thrown off bridges pretty damn well.
** Link in ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' slams facefirst into a ''stone'' wall after being launched several hundred feet by of a ''[[CatapultToGlory catapult]],'' and then falls hundreds of feet [[SoftWater into the water below]]. He shrugs it off after only a brief moment of looking a little tired.
* The RPG episodes of {{VIdeoGame/Lisa}} feature multiple istances of this, particularly the Joy Mutants. There's two particularly egregious istances of this:
** In ''LISA the Painful'', Brad ends up taking a LOT of punishment [[spoiler:during the finale, where he takes on his own companions, the entire Rando Army, and Rando himself. By the end of it, he's literally littered with arrows. It helps that he's overdosing on Joy and turning into a mutant]].
** In ''LISA the Joyful'', we've got one of the warlords: [[spoiler:Sindy Gallows. By the time Buddy meets him, he has been struck by multiple arrows (including some in the head) and hanged. Then he wakes up and fights you ''while still hanging from the gallows'']].
* In ''VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals'', there's an optional Title for Guy that reduces explosion damage he takes...which means he takes zero damage from '''getting shot by a tank'''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Lugaru}}'' averts this. A few well-aimed blows to the head can deal with most enemies (or ''you'') and the staff can ''kill'' with one swing (again, you too).
* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' Major Saelen Varn, STG (retired). The guy survives getting shot with a poisonous dart and left in out in the harsh desert of Elaaden to die, and lasts for what's implied to be some days before Ryder finds him. Then, rather than going to see a doctor about these life-threatening injuries, hunts down the man who tried to kill him. Did we mention Varn is a salarian, who are usually considered the most fragile species in the ME universe?
* Throughout ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorVanguard'', Keegan survives: jumping out of an exploding plane, [[spoiler:a glider crash]], being [[{{Pistol Whip}} Buttstroked]] by a Karabiner 98K, having an explosive charge detonate directly next to him, while a bridge then collapses on top of him, and that is only what happens during cutscenes.
** The game even [[{{Lampshade Hanging}} Lampshades]] this, with Private Slauson saying: 'Geez, Keegan, you've got a hard head, you took a good hit.'
* Dr. Wily's ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' incarnation defies imminent death at the end of each game in which he appears. He was at the center of a large explosion in the first game. In the third, he had his mind drained by a machine that promptly self-destructed with an explosion large enough to sink the entire island on which Wily's base was stationed. He somehow regained his mind and reappeared in the fifth game, in which he walks into a (exploding) computer room based [[ConvectionSchmonvection crater of a currently-erupting volcano]] and actually uses the computer while it is in the process of exploding. In the sixth and final game of the franchise, Wily stands in the center of an explosion that levels a large portion of town, yet is said in the epilogue to have survived with only a few scratches.
** Being Made of Iron seems to be hereditary, as Wily's son, [[spoiler:Dr. Regal, manages to survive high-voltage electrocution and subsequent fall off of a very high roof]]. He goes on to survive the same explosion and eruption that Wily survived after having his mind and memories completely drained.
** Wily has this quality even in the classic ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' series, being perfectly fine despite having his inventions blown up with him inside on numerous occasions, and even taking direct hits from Mega Man in some of them.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''
** Liquid Snake. While not nigh invulnerable, he survives things which should kill your average tank. First he survives having his Hind-D shot out from under him. (It's implied he parachuted out, but ''still''...) Snake then blows up his giant mecha by throwing missiles directly ''into Liquid's lap in the open cockpit''. He then survives the giant mecha exploding, which knocked Snake out, despite having been ''inside it at the time'', and in fact wakes up early enough to strip down Snake to his pants, and drag him and his Love Interest up to the top of the five-story tall now-derelict mecha, for a personal ''fist fight'' [[spoiler:between brothers]]. Then, when Snake knocks him off the giant mecha, he survives the ''five-story fall'' and comes at him as Snake escapes in a Jeep, driving his own and firing its machine gun. He is still hardy enough, even after all this, to ''drive with one hand'' and ''shoot with the other''. Snake shoots him with his own machine gun. The ''bare-chested bastard shrugs it off''. Then, after all that, he survives the crash of both Jeeps, and comes at you with a machine gun in one hand, in all his bare-chested glory. You only survive because [[spoiler:he then dies of a bloody ''virus'' of all things. Damn FOXDIE]]. That doesn't stop him coming back in the sequel; after TheDragon, who replaced his lost arm with Liquid's, ''gets possessed by Liquid from beyond the grave''. And he still thought Snake, who dies remarkably easily, got their clone-parent's dominant traits.
** The Gamecube remake, ''The Twin Snakes'', steps this up. After Liquid [[spoiler:seemingly drops dead from FOXDIE, he picks himself up and ''tries to fight the virus off'' whilst attempting to grab Snake ''twice'', then gets up on his feet to have ''a staredown'' with him.]] ''Then'' he [[spoiler:succumbs to the FOXDIE.]]
** The part about Liquid possessing Ocelot is because [[spoiler: Ocelot inherited his father's psychic abilities]]. It remains to be seen if the sheer badassitude is part of the transfer, but considering the ''Metal Gear'' aaga's tendency for thematic mirroring (Big Boss killing The Boss, Snake killing Big Boss, Raiden killing Solidus Big Boss killing Gene, Snake killing Liquid) it's not unthinkable.
** Not to mention in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'', [[spoiler:Raiden again. Dear God.]]
** All the playable characters are made of iron, though to a lesser extent than Liquid. Despite electroshock torture, repeated head trauma, poison gas exposure, and a scene where he's '''clearly shot through the chest prior to the second Sniper Wolf battle''', Snake manages to get through ''Metal Gear Solid''. Raiden gets knocked around a lot as well in part 2, and the abuse heaped upon Naked Snake in ''3'' is pretty ridiculous. In part 4 it's even mentioned that given all the abuse the now old Snake has endured, he shouldn't be able to stand, let alone save the world.
*** The part where Snake gets shot through the chest was removed in ''[[VideoGameRemake The Twin Snakes]]'' and replaced with a more realistic cutscene where Wolf's bullet narrowly misses him and he quickly dives behind cover. The other stuff, though, still applies.
** Even before he became a playable character, Big Boss survives a couple of rockets to the face and a nuclear explosion in ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' and it takes several blasts of an AerosolFlamethrower to put him down in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'' [[spoiler: which, as it's revealed in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', only puts him in a coma]].
*** [[spoiler: This is partially subverted as of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' where it's revealed by the end that the Big Boss you defeat at the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' was actually Venom Snake, Big Boss's body double. Still pretty impressive with the latter though who's still Big Boss.]]
* ''VideoGame/Metroid1'': Despite initial impressions, the weaker Rippers can be killed by your normal beam weapon—100 beam shots, to be precise. You're better off just freezing them with the Ice Beam or blowing them up with a single missile. Their hardier counterparts are immune to everything, even your Screw Attack.
** Ridley seems to be nigh-unkillable across the entire franchise. In his initial raid of K-2L in Manga/{{Metroid}}, his ''own ship'' crashes on top of him, and he only survives via eating the corpses of the innocent lives he and his pirates took. In the actual game series, he had been; shot to near-death by Samus, and manages to survive the process of himself becoming a {{Cyborg}}; defeated again by Samus and then blasted off the Artifact Temple by its concentrated lasers for defiling said temple, surviving even after he ''explodes'' on the way down; fighting Samus in freefall down a gigantic shaft and immolated by the generator at the bottom, still surviving via huge amounts of Phazon and ''then also'' surviving another battle with Samus; shot down by Samus ''three times'' and getting [[LifeDrain his life force drained]] by the Baby Metroid, and still managing to discard his cyber-implants; and then finally dies, not by the two encounters he had with Samus, but with a goddamn ''planetary nuke.'' '''''And there was still enough left of Ridley to make FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION CLONES OF HIM.'''''
* An interesting example in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare''. Most of the time in game, especially on Veteran and online this trope is averted; while you can take one to three shots standing without much issue, any more than that and you'll have just as much a chance of standing as the card tower you're trying to build before the hurricane hits, metaphorically. However, in the Campaign, this trope is played straight when your character, [[spoiler:Soap]], survives, in order, falling off of a waterfall, having his head bashed into the roof of a car, being stabbed in the chest, crawling to a gun with said knife in chest, being stomped on the face with a boot, and finally [[spoiler:pulling the knife out of his chest and throwing it into the eye of General Shepherd, finishing him off for good]].
* Every character in the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series. Every character. Players included. Jump off a cliff? No problem, you stumble a little, but take no damage. Hit by an exploding fireball that's bigger than you? Stop drop and roll, but otherwise, good to go! Stabbed, impaled, bitten, stomped, crushed, burned, eaten? Pff. Get back up and go. Nothing can stop a Monster Hunter! The absolute worst that ever happens is that you faint, then get escorted back to camp with full health and stamina bars, or back to town ready for another hunt if it was [[GameOver the party's third time]].

** Starting with the [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 2011 reboot]], this trope gets taken UpToEleven with the X-Ray Attacks, which explicitly show x-ray shots of the fighters' bones cracking and organs rupturing: fighters can get up after having suffering a NeckSnap, broken spine, shattered skull, and other injuries that should leave them paralyzed for life if they didn't kill them instantly.
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' removes the x-ray effects from its Fatal Blow mechanic, but as the name suggests, it makes up for it by having the attacks be even less plausible to survive. Many of these moves involve getting large, sharp objects jammed into your skull, sometimes to the point of coming out the other end. And the x-rays are still in the game, but just relocated to the new Krushing Blow mechanic, where under certain conditions, regular attacks will take on enhanced properties and show the brutal damage up-close in slow motion. Broken bones and brutal wounds don't cause any effects worse than slightly increased damage, a brief DamageOverTime effect, or an extended combo opportunity for your opponent.
** However, ''Mortal Kombat'', amazingly (and quite infamously), is one of the few mediums where the characters are MadeOfIron and MadeOfPlasticine at the same time. Over the course of the match, they can be beaten to a bloody pulp by blows from other superhumans and not show a hint of discomfort or fatigue; but the ''second'' the match is over and they enter the iconic "groggy" state, they can easily be torn apart by the very same types of attacks they were taking not 2 minutes ago.

* Travis Touchdown in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' is an interesting case of ''[[CutscenePowerToTheMax conditional]]'' Made of Iron. During boss introductions, he regularly takes blows that would normally leave his opponents dismembered, disemboweled, decapitated or simply blown to smithereens (at one point he has ''three'' hand grenades literally dropped in his lap, and later we see that only ''one'' of them is enough to blow a person's head off) with nary a scratch. Of course, in combat he can still have the crap beaten out of him, but a deathblow will still simply cause him to [[BloodFromTheMouth spit up blood]] and collapse. Not to mention he gets a hole punched in his heart with blood spurting everywhere and doesn't bat an eye, and comes out perfectly fine right after. [[AllThereInTheManual Apparently it is mentioned somewhere]] that Travis wears a magical vest that protects him from even fatal blows to the chest.
** [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle The sequel]] adds {{Determinator}} to this as well, as the player is given a finite number of times per fight to recover from a fatal blow and keep going with a tiny amount of health.
* ''VideoGame/NosferatuTheWrathOfMalachi'': Most monsters go down in a few shots with your weakest gun, but Demodus, Lesser Vampires, Demons, and Greater Vampires take quite a bit more punishment without stopping. And bosses take even more, in most fights they'll end up with at least four or five Wooden Stakes buried in their chest before they even flinch.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' has a literal example in Chapter 3 with the Iron Clefts/Armored Harriers/Iron Adonis Twins who [[NighInvulnerable cannot be beaten]] until Mario gets his [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Yoshi partner]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'': Chell can take far more punishment than one would expect. So can her Long Fall Boots, apparently.
** She can be shot or otherwise injured an unlimited number of times with no permanent effects, as long as she has a few seconds to rest after each hit. Faith of ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' is the same way. Neither of these cases make any sense; in all other respects they seem like normal humans, and there's no explanation for their endless bodily bullet capacity.
*** Of course, Portal handwaves this in the second game by an offhand comment that their turrets fire the entire bullet. As real life tells us, the result is that instead of piercing through the skin (and occasionally the entire body), the bullets just plain whack against Chell. A few seconds of rest and the bruises stop hurting.
* While it takes a bit of FridgeLogic to see it, since he isn't the toughest fellow around combat-wise, but the ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia'' in the ''Sands of Time'' trilogy probably counts. No "normal" person should be able to keep pulling off his brand of Babylonian Ninja LeParkour without at least getting bruises.

* VideoGame/PunchOut:
** [[WakeUpCallBoss Bald Bull]] is tough enough, but when you face him a second time in the World Circuit, suddenly he's immune to knock-downs by normal punches, and has to be knocked down either by Star Punches or exploiting his Bull Charge [[OneHitKill One-Hit Knockdown.]] Title Defense Bald Bull in the Wii remake is even tougher, as not even the Bull Charge trick will knock him down (though he ends up with just enough health that you can knock him down with a Star Punch afterwards.)

* If Bowser is made of iron, Mario is made of freaking ''[[UpToEleven orichalcum]]''. For those who do not understand, let us note that Mario has survived a fall from the stratosphere after being struck by magical lightning and shot out a glass window. But even that is not what is being referred to. Super Mario Galaxy, folks. At the end of the game, the universe is sucked into a supermassive black hole and renewed in a big bang -- but Mario and Rosalina are exempt from this. Rosalina can cast barriers, but Mario has no such power. Mario took a black hole to the face followed by a big bang to the everything and came out okay.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''
** The eleventh official expansion to the MMORPG added a new powerset, Willpower, specifically designed to let players create characters who are Made of Iron.
** That ability existed all along with Invulnerability, Stone Armor, etc... Willpower just gave another way to do it that seems more believable for the "Natural" Origin character. Willpower is a mix of defense, resistance, and regeneration rather than offering only 1 or 2 of those 3 like the other powers in the game do.
** To a lesser extent, ''every'' PC in ''City of Heroes'' qualifies for this -- even a relatively fragile psychic with no defensive powers is capable of taking a few machine-gun clips to the face with no lasting ill effect. And this goes double for the enemies, ''triple'' for Archvillain/Hero-class foes.
** A game mechanic that has been active for awhile, but frequently misses notice, is that players are protected against dying from most one-hit kills when at full health. It prevents certain annoying situations and cheap deaths. The result is that although not every hero or villain can leap skyscrapers, they can all survive falling off of one, even at level 1 with no defensive abilities, merely dropping down to a single hit point. Of course actual enemies don't stop after just one attack.
* By the end of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', [[spoiler:Mastermind Junko Enoshima]] goes through ''a lot'' of punishment when they go through ''every prior execution in succession''. Bear in mind that even ''one'' of those was enough to kill a person, [[RasputinianDeath yet they]] ''[[RasputinianDeath somehow]]'' [[RasputinianDeath live through all but the last of those]] (and they even [[TooKinkyToTorture enjoy it]])!

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' has one grievous example in the third game. Lady, who is fully human, gets the bayonet on her bazooka rammed through her thigh and twisted around. For a real person, that would render that leg useless for the rest of his or her life, assuming [[OnlyAFleshWound they didn't bleed out first]]. For Lady? One bandage around the leg later and she's climbing up the side of a building. When you fight her as a boss, she's just as durable as any of the demon bosses.
* ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' handwaves this trope: Various characters, including the protagonist and his allies, have "COMP" devices that summon demons and aid the user in combat. One of the COMP's functions is a "harmonizer" program that allows humans to fight and defend against demons with a fair chance; this is demonstrated when the protagonist and his friends activate their [=COMPs=] for the first time and are attacked by the demons that come out but don't suffer the horribly debilitating injuries that one would normally expect, something that both the party and the demons point out. Furthermore, the harmonizer doesn't just affect the user, but all humans within range, thus allowing non-COMP users in the surrounding area (often [[EscortMission mission escortees]]) to enjoy a lower mortality rate than those who aren't fortunate enough to be near a COMP user.
* The protagonist in ''VideoGame/DisasterDayOfCrisis'' qualifies, as does Evans... Jesus, that guy can take as much punishment as Liquid Snake. And he ''loves it''.
* King K Rool in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''. In the [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1 first game]] it's fairly standard punishment, but in the [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest second]], he gets his gun explode on him about ten times, gets punched out the window of an airship by a captured Donkey Kong, hits every single cliff face on the way down, torn apart by sharks, sinks into the ocean, has his gun explode AGAIN in the TrueFinalBoss battle, flies into the island core, is presumably there when it sinks like Atlantis and sails away on his ship afterwards. Then, in the [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble third game]], he gets electrocuted like ten times from his mad science laboratory equipment, and has a giant egg dropped on his head by the freed Banana Bird queen... Then gets beaten up by all five Kongs in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', hit by a rocket powered boot shot by Funky Kong, thrown straight through the roof of the boxing roof and into K Lumsy Island, where said giant locked up Kremling proceeds to beat K Rool senseless for locking him up. He's perfectly fine in later appearances.
* ''VideoGame/DoofusDrop'' has Doofus himself. He falls down a very large mountain, hits all kinds of obstacles, and yet he ends up without even getting a scratch. Even if he gets impaled by a spike or fork, he can keep going after a fart.

* The [[DeepSouth swampfolk]] of Point Lookout in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', who despite being dressed in overalls take ''much'' more damage than the PoweredArmor-clad stormtroopers of the Enclave (such that sneak criticals on the bigger ones frequently only deal {{scratch damage}}), and also dish out more damage, despite the Enclave mooks wielding high-tech energy weapons, and the swampfolk wielding axes and breech-loading shotguns. This may be due to the heavy mutations caused by a combination of radiation exposure and inbreeding.
** This has less to do with being Made of Iron than the [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard game being a cheating bastard]]. The Hillbillies' and Tribals' weapons (and most of the weapons in point Lookout for that matter) deal an extra 30-50 points of damage when used against the Lone Wanderer. They also happen to have raised health (WordOfGod says this is because the developers wanted Point Lookout to be one of the hardest expansions).
** This is somewhat applicable to several high-end baddies added in the expansions, the probable reason being that by the end of the vanilla game the Lone Wanderer can deal IMMENSE amounts of damage, Sneak attack critical + sniper rifle + headshot = dead almost anything from the vanilla game.
** Also applicable to some of your followers in Broken Steel, namely Dogmeat, Fawkes, and Seargent RL-3. When the ability to level up companions was added, there was a glitch that made these three gain ''hundreds'' of hitpoints per level. By level 30, they couldn't be killed by anything less than three shots from the Mysterious Stranger's .44 Magnum, a gun you can only get by cheating that does over ''9,000 damage per shot!''
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
** Joshua Graham, Caesar's former [[TheDragon Dragon]]. For starters, he was shot and confirmed dead by [=NCR=] snipers ''five times'' only to bounce right back. [[YouHaveFailedMe For his failure in the First Battle of Hoover Dam]], Caesar had him ''set on fire and thrown into the Grand Canyon'', and he was ''still'' in good enough shape to kill the pack of assassins Caesar sent down after him to confirm he was dead, then drag himself back home to Utah. In-game, he has a Damage Threshold of ''50'', which is more than the best Power Armor, and certainly more than his own armor. If asked, Graham merely states that for him it was a mix of HeroicResolve and [[BadassPreacher faith]].
*** This also makes him BlessedWithSuck, since his ridiculous toughness also makes him ImmuneToDrugs, meaning he can't heal the burns that cover his entire body or get any relief from the constant excruciating pain they cause him.
** Graham's replacement as Caesar's Dragon, Legate Lanius, as well. He is an absolute beast with a minimum of 845 hit points, only a bit behind a ''Legendary Deathclaw'', complete immunity to radiation and poison, near -- complete immunity to fire. While his Damage Threshold of 19 doesn't sound impressive, consider that this is coupled with his high fatigue levels, making him near -- impossible to disable, not to mention he can heal himself a lot and restore any crippled limbs. And he's fast. So fast that even if you cripple both his legs, he can still outrun you. And [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill to top it off, he has a]] [[{{BFS}} massive sword called the Blade of the East]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill which has a massive chance to knock you down.]]
*** Lanius's stats also put how insanely tough Graham is into perspective. It's stated that back when Graham was the Legate, he and Lanius were a BrainsAndBrawn pair... with ''Lanius'' as the ''brains''.
** The White Legs tribals are also surprisingly tough for their lack of armor, being able to sometimes survive a headshot from the Anti-Materiel Rifle. They also [[LevelScaling level scale]], meaning they are just as formidable to the player at Level 40 as at Level 15, if not more so.
** The main game's Praetorian Guards have 10% Damage Resistance, the equivalent of the player's Toughness perk, in addition to a Damage Threshold of 12 granted by their armor. They are also [[LightningBruiser 30% faster than normal NPC's]]. If you're Vilified by the Legion, prepare to face about a dozen of them when entering Caesar's tent, and be [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped]] if you're not leveled up enough.
** Can't forget [[PlayerCharacter the Courier]]. They get shot ''twice'' [[BoomHeadShot in the head]] and just walk it off after a couple days at the doctor's.[[note]]This could also be chalked up to GameplayAndStoryIntegration. [[ICallItVera Maria]] is hardly able to kill ''anything'' in two headshots.[[/note]] Ulysses from the ''Lonesome Road'' DLC sums it up best when giving you a VillainRespect speech.
-->'''Ulysses''': Thought carrying that Chip would end you, no... you got lives in you, hard to kill. Storms, bullets... sand and wind, [[TheDeterminator yet still you walk]]. For now.
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Shirou-"My body is made of blades"-Emiya. [[NightmareFuel Both literally]] [[{{Determinator}} and figuratively]].
* In an attempt to stop a bar fight early on in ''VisualNovel/FaultMilestoneOne'', [[spoiler: Rune]] blocks a hit from an ale-filled cask with no visible injuries. [[spoiler: This is used to foreshadow the reveal that Rune is an automaton]].
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
** Too numerous to mention. Not merely in bosses, but also in the characters before health reaches a certain point. A good example is whenever ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'''s "Doomsday" attack (a planet-destroying meteor) ''misses'' its intended target, [[SlapOnTheWristNuke leaving no mark on either the enemy or the landscape]]. Generally, in video games, only the [[CriticalExistenceFailure last hit point counts]]. And in fact, being beaten to near-death can even make you ''stronger'': in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', characters who are near death have a chance of performing a special, powerful attack only available in that state.
** The Turks from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. While they are supposed to be not enhanced unlike their SOLDIER counterpart, they seem to live through everything while SOLDIER members drop like flies. In the original game members of the Turks are seen surviving through being beaten up by the heroes several times (once hard enough for the Turk to be hospitalized), being stabbed in the stomach in the middle of an abandoned temple (though strangely you find that Turk at the entrance of the temple when the flashback showed him in the center of it -- indicating that he possibly traveled through the booby trapped and monster infested temple with a stab wound), getting shot then experimented on then shoved in a coffin for 30 years, being shot down in a submarine to the bottom of the WEAPON-infested ocean, being on a plane that got attacked by a WEAPON which then crashed to the bottom of the ocean and got infested by super strong monsters and a Meteor nearly crashing on the city.
** The trend continues in the movie sequel and remake ''Advent Children'' and ''Advent Children Complete'' when Tseng and Elena get captured and tortured by the villains, but still survive and show up near the end no worse for ware. Meanwhile the two remaining Turks (Reno and Rude) get beaten by the BigBad, hit in the face by a metal rod, pummeled by the henchmen, thrown from the top of a building and [[spoiler:falling a great distance from a crashing helicopter onto pavement]], but being appearing perfectly fine in the next scene to attempt a near-kamikaze moment with dynamite (which they also survive and appear at the end of the movie unharmed). Rude even has a ''billboard'' fall and hit square him on the head, only for him to shrug it off a second later. The most injuries seen on the Turks were a few bandages, a small cut and a bloody nose (the two latter which were gone a few scenes later).
** Continued in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', Reno gets absolutely wrecked by the {{BFS}} wielding Cloud (twice) as well as Tifa and Barret on the second occasion yet when we next see him, he’s just got a couple of bandages and sprawled on a couch, rather than hospitalised like any other man would be. Then there’s Rude who while piloting a helicopter during the fight at the Sector 7 pillar, is shot out of the air by Barret, despite he’s partner initial concern Rude casually walks out of the burning wreckage like the Terminator - no worse for wear and healthy enough to kick ass.
*** It should be remarked, though, that numerous examples of falling damage that should have been unsurvivable are probably justified -- there's A LOT of grounds to imply that ''FFVII's'' world gravity is very different from our own (both from characters falling from great heights and jumping ridiculously high). This would also make Cloud-is-saved-from-falling-death-by-Aerith's-flowers scene much less of an asspull.
** Cloud Strife, the main protagonist can also be seen as made from iron seeing how he can survive several deadly falls with nothing more than skinned knees. [[spoiler:Not to mention being stabbed through the chest by Sephiroth. Then there’s the FinalBoss Safer Sephiroth who hits Cloud and rest of the party members with [[SphereOfDestruction Supernova]] [[ThatOneAttack which destroys planets and does massive damage]] but is something Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Cid, Cait Sith, Yuffie and Vincent [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat can all survive]]. Better yet, GameplayAndStorySegregation isn’t in play here as according to the ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' [[AllThereInTheManual manual]], Supernova ''is indeed real'' as Sephiroth teleports the victims to a PocketDimesion where they are promptly nuked by Supernova. Given CriticalExistenceFailure is at play for Cloud and company MadeOfIron is to be expected.]]
** Basch fon Ronsenburg in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''. He's betrayed and locked in a dungeon for two years, hanging from his scaffolding by his arms. After he's rescued by the other characters, Basch is visibly tortured -- the bruises and red marks on his shoulders are absolutely horrifying to look at. He finds a corpse and loots its clothes, ties his hair back, finds his former friends and gets to ''work''.
** Galuf from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', especially during his one-on-one with the Big Bad. Bring his HP to zero? Eh, 'tis merely a flesh wound, he fights on undaunted. [[spoiler: Until the adrenaline rush wears off, anyway, at which point the injuries catch up with him and he suffers a CriticalExistenceFailure]].

* Almost every FirstPersonShooter player character falls into this by default, able to soak up gunfire like a sponge. This is more RuleOfFun than anything, though -- if he were humanly durable, then the game would be unrepentantly hard.
** Perhaps the best example is also the first example, the one and only VideoGame/{{Doom}}guy, who manages to survive everything hell can throw at him.
* Every FightingGame ever. ''StreetFighter''? Just as one example, the piledriver is capable of breaking necks in the real world when done in the somewhat controlled environment of ProfessionalWrestling; Zangief can perform one from effectively 20' in the air, and the victim can get up. Then there's ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' and ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]'', where you can shrug off a sword aimed through the chest. Somewhat needed, though, otherwise these games could be very, very short.
** ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': [[AntiHero Ragna the Bloodedge]]. While in gameplay he's a GlassCannon, but storywise he's been through ''absolute'' hell. And yet he finds it as nothing more than an inconvenience.
** For the aversion, see ''VideoGame/BushidoBlade'': weapon-based fighter like the two above, but one clean hit kills you automatically.
*** There are other aversions, but in general, these are games where the OneHitKill is [[GameBreaker much too easy]]. Exhibit A: ''VideoGame/TimeKillers''.
** There are some ''ridiculous'' stage effects in the ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' series that can range from being thrown into explosive containers to literally dropping over 10 stories below. Worst that happens is a KO and otherwise, everyone just gets up like nothing even happened.
* Averted in First Person Shooters at the "realistic" end of [[FacklerScaleOfFPSRealism the scale]] -- such as ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' and ''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint'' -- where it's possible for anyone to die from one gunshot wound, even if it's "just" to the torso.

** [[spoiler: Manfred von Karma]] was shot in the shoulder and left the bullet in there for ''15 years'' just so nobody would find out about it.

** [[spoiler: Wocky Kitaki]] ''does'' get shot in the heart, and survives for over six months!

*** He ate a poisoned ''glass'' necklace (and even mentions ''chewing'' it) without suffering any adverse effects or even visible pain.
*** He and Maya were tased with a stun gun, which their attacker said carried 600,000 volts, and he stood up again just a minute later, unharmed, whereas Maya still felt the aftereffects a day later.
*** He smashed through a massive heavy wood door meant to prevent [[DemonicPossession possessed]] people from escaping the room, and didn't even seem to carry away as much as a bruise.
*** He was clocked on the head with a fire extinguisher and only blacked out for a few moments before getting up, suffering temporary amnesia.
*** He fell 10 meters from a burning bridge, landed in a freezing cold river famous for it's horrifyingly fast and extremely lethal current, was carried along with said current of doom for a few miles, and ''came away with only a cold.''
*** And, finally, he was hit by a ''car'', thrown 30 feet across the street, and slammed headfirst into a telephone pole. All he got was a sprained ''ankle.''
** Apollo Justice got caught in a courtroom bombing and sustained severe injuries, but somehow only spent a grand total of two days in the hospital. Then again, Trucy constantly uses him as a guinea pig for her magic tricks, so it's possible he's built up a tolerance to most forms of pyrotechnics.
** Pearl Fey ''ran'' from Kurain Village to Japanifornia at the age of ''8'' without breaking a sweat. The trip takes two hours by train. Her LimitedWardrobe includes platform sandals, meaning [[AgonyOfTheFeet she either wore those while running or took them off and ran barefoot]]. Also counts as AchievementsInIgnorance, since she only did this because she had never heard of a train before, and assumed everybody made the trip on foot.
* In ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'', the ADFX-02 Morgan certainly doesn't look or perform like the properly armoured A-10 Warthog/Thunderbolt II, but can take at least six missile hits to down when most enemy planes go down in two. Even then, it still manages to pull off a SingleStrokeBattle-like flypast on Cipher's plane before it finally explodes.
* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed''
** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', [[spoiler: the Cardinal in the St. Peter's Basilica Lair of Romulus sidequest]] can take multiple crossbow bolts or blows from a heavy weapon, damage that would crumple a [[HeavilyArmoredMook Brute]], despite apparently wearing nothing more protective than cloth robes.
** [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII Ezio]] and possibly [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI Altaïr]] could count for this as well. Best seen in the trailer for ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'', during which Ezio, [[OneManArmy while working his way through an army one by one]], headbutts a guy wearing an actual iron helmet. Helmet-guy doesn't win this encounter. Desmond counts as well on the technicality that he doesn't have a health bar, meaning he can survive any fall or fight you can put him through.
*** Compounded in the extended trailer (and the second opening cutscene) of ''Revelations'', when Ezio freefalls from several stories high only to make a ThreePointLanding ''with no negative physical effects'', and all of his acrobatic abilities intact.

** The original game, ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'', the Pigs just die upon enough pain but they just keep returning regardless of beatings.
* Luka Redgrave in ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' suffers some pretty nasty abuse but is none the worse for wear by the ending. [[ButtMonkey Enzo]] takes a few bumps, too, like being thrown head-first into the driver's seat of his car.
* In ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite'' there's a particular guy who taunts you, and no matter what do you to him (which being a deity, there's a lot of possibilities) he will remain unscrached.

** Cloud Strife, the main protagonist can also be seen as made from iron seeing how he can survive several deadly falls with nothing more than skinned knees. [[spoiler:Not to mention being stabbed through the chest by Sephiroth.]]

* Ena from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance''. In a game where every mortal wound is either a FinalDeath or a mercenary career-ending injury, she can "die" ''three times'' and still be back for the end. The first is when the hero takes her out (reducing her to 0 HP). The second when the Black Knight strikes her down (somewhat justified because he says he [[TapOnTheHead checked his swing]]). And after joining your party, she can die a third time... but she is plot-relevant and lives to see the end.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' usually justifies this, as Dante and Vergil have a strong HealingFactor due to their being half-demons, but the third game has one grievous example. Lady, who is fully human, gets the bayonet on her bazooka rammed through her thigh and twisted around. For a real person, that would render that leg useless for the rest of his or her life, assuming [[OnlyAFleshWound they didn't bleed out first]]. For Lady? One bandage around the leg later and she's climbing up the side of a building. When you fight her as a boss, she's just as durable as any of the demon bosses.

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
** Too numerous to mention. Not merely in bosses, but also in the characters before health reaches a certain point. A good example is whenever ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'''s "Doomsday" attack (a planet-destroying meteor) ''misses'' its intended target, [[SlapOnTheWristNuke leaving no mark on either the enemy or the landscape]]. Generally, in video games, only the [[CriticalExistenceFailure last hit point counts]]. And in fact, being beaten to near-death can even make you ''stronger'': in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', characters who are near death have a chance of performing a special, powerful attack only available in that state.
** The Turks from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. While they are supposed to be not enhanced unlike their SOLDIER counterpart, they seem to live through everything while SOLDIER members drop like flies. In the original game members of the Turks are seen surviving through being beaten up by the heroes several times (once hard enough for the Turk to be hospitalized), being stabbed in the stomach in the middle of an abandoned temple (though strangely you find that Turk at the entrance of the temple when the flashback showed him in the center of it - indicating that he possibly traveled through the booby trapped and monster infested temple with a stab wound), getting shot then experimented on then shoved in a coffin for 30 years, being shot down in a submarine to the bottom of the WEAPON-infested ocean, being on a plane that got attacked by a WEAPON which then crashed to the bottom of the ocean and got infested by super strong monsters and a Meteor nearly crashing on the city.
** The trend continues in the movie sequel and remake ''Advent Children'' and ''Advent Children Complete'' when Tseng and Elena get captured and tortured by the villains, but still survive and show up near the end no worse for ware. Meanwhile the two remaining Turks (Reno and Rude) get beaten by the BigBad, hit in the face by a metal rod, pummeled by the henchmen, thrown from the top of a building and [[spoiler:falling a great distance from a crashing helicopter onto pavement]], but being appearing perfectly fine in the next scene to attempt a near-kamikaze moment with dynamite (which they also survive and appear at the end of the movie unharmed). Rude even has a ''billboard'' fall and hit square him on the head, only for him to shrug it off a second later. The most injuries seen on the Turks were a few bandages, a small cut and a bloody nose (the two latter which were gone a few scenes later).
*** It should be remarked, though, that numerous examples of falling damage that should have been unsurvivable are probably justified - there's A LOT of grounds to imply that FFVII's world gravity is very different from our own (both from characters falling from great heights and jumping ridiculously high). This would also make Cloud-is-saved-from-falling-death-by-Aerith's-flowers scene much less of an asspull.
** Cloud Strife, the main protagonist can also be seen as made from iron seeing how he can survive several deadly falls with nothing more than skinned knees. [[spoiler:Not to mention being stabbed through the chest by Sephiroth.]]
** Basch fon Ronsenburg in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''. He's betrayed and locked in a dungeon for two years, hanging from his scaffolding by his arms. After he's rescued by the other characters, Basch is visibly tortured - the bruises and red marks on his shoulders are absolutely horrifying to look at. He finds a corpse and loots its clothes, ties his hair back, finds his former friends and gets to ''work''.
** Galuf from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', especially during his one-on-one with the Big Bad. Bring his HP to zero? Eh, 'tis merely a flesh wound, he fights on undaunted. [[spoiler: Until the adrenaline rush wears off, anyway, at which point the injuries catch up with him and he suffers a CriticalExistenceFailure]].
** Hildebrand Manderville of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', who also runs on RuleOfFunny. He's been launched skyward and across continents, buried alive and wandering a desert thinking he's a zombie, suplexed, piledrivered, smashed with a giant frying pan, the works. And the worst he gets is his fancy suit in ruins.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''
** Liquid Snake. While not nigh invulnerable, he survives things which should kill your average tank. First he survives having his Hind-D shot out from under him. (It's implied he parachuted out, but ''still''...) Snake then blows up his giant mecha by throwing missiles directly ''into Liquid's lap in the open cockpit''. He then survives the giant mecha exploding, which knocked Snake out, despite having been ''inside it at the time'', and in fact wakes up early enough to strip down Snake to his pants, and drag him and his Love Interest up to the top of the five-story tall now-derelict mecha, for a personal ''fist fight'' [[spoiler:between brothers]]. Then, when Snake knocks him off the giant mecha, he survives the ''five-story fall'' and comes at him as Snake escapes in a Jeep, driving his own and firing its machine gun. He is still hardy enough, even after all this, to ''drive with one hand'' and ''shoot with the other''. Snake shoots him with his own machine gun. The ''bare-chested bastard shrugs it off''. Then, after all that, he survives the crash of both Jeeps, and comes at you with a machine gun in one hand, in all his bare-chested glory. You only survive because [[spoiler:he then dies of a bloody ''virus'' of all things. Damn FOXDIE]]. That doesn't stop him coming back in the sequel; after TheDragon, who replaced his lost arm with Liquid's, ''gets possessed by Liquid from beyond the grave''. And he still thought Snake, who dies remarkably easily, got their clone-parent's dominant traits.
** The Gamecube remake, ''The Twin Snakes'', steps this up. After Liquid [[spoiler:seemingly drops dead from FOXDIE, he picks himself up and ''tries to fight the virus off'' whilst attempting to grab Snake ''twice'', then gets up on his feet to have ''a staredown'' with him.]] ''Then'' he [[spoiler:succumbs to the FOXDIE.]]
** The part about Liquid possessing Ocelot is because [[spoiler: Ocelot inherited his father's psychic abilities]]. It remains to be seen if the sheer badassitude is part of the transfer, but considering the ''Metal Gear'' aaga's tendency for thematic mirroring (Big Boss killing The Boss, Snake killing Big Boss, Raiden killing Solidus Big Boss killing Gene, Snake killing Liquid) it's not unthinkable.
** Not to mention in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'', [[spoiler:Raiden again. Dear God.]]
** All the playable characters are made of iron, though to a lesser extent than Liquid. Despite electroshock torture, repeated head trauma, poison gas exposure, and a scene where he's '''clearly shot through the chest prior to the second Sniper Wolf battle''', Snake manages to get through ''Metal Gear Solid''. Raiden gets knocked around a lot as well in part 2, and the abuse heaped upon Naked Snake in ''3'' is pretty ridiculous. In part 4 it's even mentioned that given all the abuse the now old Snake has endured, he shouldn't be able to stand, let alone save the world.
*** The part where Snake gets shot through the chest was removed in ''[[VideoGameRemake The Twin Snakes]]'' and replaced with a more realistic cutscene where Wolf's bullet narrowly misses him and he quickly dives behind cover. The other stuff, though, still applies.
** Even before he became a playable character, Big Boss survives a couple of rockets to the face and a nuclear explosion in ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' and it takes several blasts of an AerosolFlamethrower to put him down in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'' [[spoiler: which, as it's revealed in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', only puts him in a coma]].
*** [[spoiler: This is partially subverted as of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' where it's revealed by the end that the Big Boss you defeat at the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' was actually Venom Snake, Big Boss's body double. Still pretty impressive with the latter though who's still Big Boss.]]
* Every character in the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series. Every character. Players included. Jump off a cliff? No problem, you stumble a little, but take no damage. Hit by an exploding fireball that's bigger than you? Stop drop and roll, but otherwise, good to go! Stabbed, impaled, bitten, stomped, crushed, burned, eaten? Pff. Get back up and go. Nothing can stop a Monster Hunter! The absolute worst that ever happens is that you faint, then get escorted back to camp with full health and stamina bars, or back to town ready for another hunt if it was [[GameOver the party's third time]].
* Ena from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance''. In a game where every mortal wound is either a FinalDeath or a mercenary career-ending injury, she can "die" ''three times'' and still be back for the end. The first is when the hero takes her out (reducing her to 0 HP). The second when the Black Knight strikes her down (somewhat justified because he says he [[TapOnTheHead checked his swing]]). And after joining your party, she can die a third time... but she is plot-relevant and lives to see the end.
** She can then die two more times in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn''. Note that the second example is part of a non-canonical [[MultipleEndings Bad Ending]].
** The kicker. Throughout all of this she's [[spoiler: in the early stages of pregnancy]].
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' usually justifies this, as Dante and Vergil have a strong HealingFactor due to their being half-demons, but the third game has one grievous example. Lady, who is fully human, gets the bayonet on her bazooka rammed through her thigh and twisted around. For a real person, that would render that leg useless for the rest of his or her life, assuming [[OnlyAFleshWound they didn't bleed out first]]. For Lady? One bandage around the leg later and she's climbing up the side of a building. When you fight her as a boss, she's just as durable as any of the demon bosses.
* In ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite'' there's a particular guy who taunts you, and no matter what do you to him (which being a deity, there's a lot of possibilities) he will remain unscrached.
* Several examples in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** Any racial leader (ex: Thrall for the Orcs) can take several (usually 15>) people whaling on him/her simultaneously with lighting bolts, flesh-eating zombie summons, fireballs, gunshots, etc.
** Raid bosses can take a ton of punishment as well. And even your own character could be used as an example of this trope, as you're pretty much invulnerable to low level mobs or characters after you hit level 80.
** Though ironically subverted in the same game...if you are not a tanking class IN your tanking spec WITH your tanking gear? You should probably step back. Bonus points: Tanks visibly animate lifting their shield and dodging!
* Travis Touchdown in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' is an interesting case of ''[[CutscenePowerToTheMax conditional]]'' Made of Iron. During boss introductions, he regularly takes blows that would normally leave his opponents dismembered, disemboweled, decapitated or simply blown to smithereens (at one point he has ''three'' hand grenades literally dropped in his lap, and later we see that only ''one'' of them is enough to blow a person's head off) with nary a scratch. Of course, in combat he can still have the crap beaten out of him, but a deathblow will still simply cause him to [[BloodFromTheMouth spit up blood]] and collapse. Not to mention he gets a hole punched in his heart with blood spurting everywhere and doesn't bat an eye, and comes out perfectly fine right after. [[AllThereInTheManual Apparently it is mentioned somewhere]] that Travis wears a magical vest that protects him from even fatal blows to the chest.
** [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle The sequel]] adds {{Determinator}} to this as well, as the player is given a finite number of times per fight to recover from a fatal blow and keep going with a tiny amount of health.
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''
** The eleventh official expansion to the MMORPG added a new powerset, Willpower, specifically designed to let players create characters who are Made of Iron.
** That ability existed all along with Invulnerability, Stone Armor, etc... Willpower just gave another way to do it that seems more believable for the "Natural" Origin character. Willpower is a mix of defense, resistance, and regeneration rather than offering only 1 or 2 of those 3 like the other powers in the game do.
** To a lesser extent, ''every'' PC in ''City of Heroes'' qualifies for this--even a relatively fragile psychic with no defensive powers is capable of taking a few machine-gun clips to the face with no lasting ill effect. And this goes double for the enemies, ''triple'' for Archvillain/Hero-class foes.
** A game mechanic that has been active for awhile, but frequently misses notice, is that players are protected against dying from most one-hit kills when at full health. It prevents certain annoying situations and cheap deaths. The result is that although not every hero or villain can leap skyscrapers, they can all survive falling off of one, even at level 1 with no defensive abilities, merely dropping down to a single hit point. Of course actual enemies don't stop after just one attack.
* While it takes a bit of FridgeLogic to see it, since he isn't the toughest fellow around combat-wise, but the ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia'' in the ''Sands of Time'' trilogy probably counts. No "normal" person should be able to keep pulling off his brand of Babylonian Ninja LeParkour without at least getting bruises.
* While her other "siblings" probably are of the same quality, [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Lamia Loveless]] have displayed these features several times (considering she is a RobotGirl, of course she is made of steel):
** In ''SRW Advance'', she stood up in between two feuding expert martial artists [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Domon Kasshu]] and [[Anime/{{Daimos}} Kazuya Ryuuzaki]], about to punch each other. She takes full brunt of both punches from different sides. She just came back with mere bruises. Even when Domon said she got hit on the vitals...
** In the ''OG'' saga, this is shown in ''OG Gaiden'', where she goes through all the plugging in the ODE System, got plugged out of her mecha forcefully by Kyosuke, shot down in open air, [[spoiler:later got plugged out again by Axel]]... all while butt naked. NoOneCouldSurviveThat... well except her, that is. It's more fatal than the above example, but she always survives enough for further repairs to get her back to normal state. Oh, and there's also her surviving Code: ATA which is said to be able to take out two battleships at once, and still can get repaired, not utterly destroyed.
** See Also: Arado Balanga. People claim he's BornLucky, and they may be right. However, like Heero Yuy above, he's not only withstood one of Kushua's drinks, he actually ''liked it!''
** But even Arado had to admit he loses out to Kyosuke Nanbu. He has survived TWO explosions while being human (the second explosion he is in a mech that burnt down, fell over and sank into water, and he only comes out with just a few broken ribs.
* The protagonist in ''VideoGame/DisasterDayOfCrisis'' qualifies, as does Evans... Jesus, that guy can take as much punishment as Liquid Snake. And he ''loves it''.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** Link seems to get this. He gets battered about with swords ''as big as he is'' and just shrugs it off. If he takes enough damage, he acts tired when he stands still. That's the extent of the damage.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DGYFtaYRYo The thieves]] and chickens are the only enemies in the game that you simply CANNOT kill.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' King Bulblin is no slouch, either. For a humanoid mini-boss with no magical protection, he handles being repeatedly sliced, diced, and thrown off bridges pretty damn well.
** Link in ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' slams facefirst into a ''stone'' wall after being launched several hundred feet by of a ''[[CatapultToGlory catapult]],'' and then falls hundreds of feet [[SoftWater into the water below]]. He shrugs it off after only a brief moment of looking a little tired.
* Dr. Wily's ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' incarnation defies imminent death at the end of each game in which he appears. He was at the center of a large explosion in the first game. In the third, he had his mind drained by a machine that promptly self-destructed with an explosion large enough to sink the entire island on which Wily's base was stationed. He somehow regained his mind and reappeared in the fifth game, in which he walks into a (exploding) computer room based [[ConvectionSchmonvection crater of a currently-erupting volcano]] and actually uses the computer while it is in the process of exploding. In the sixth and final game of the franchise, Wily stands in the center of an explosion that levels a large portion of town, yet is said in the epilogue to have survived with only a few scratches.
** Being Made of Iron seems to be hereditary, as Wily's son, [[spoiler:Dr. Regal, manages to survive high-voltage electrocution and subsequent fall off of a very high roof]]. He goes on to survive the same explosion and eruption that Wily survived after having his mind and memories completely drained.
** Wily has this quality even in the classic ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' series, being perfectly fine despite having his inventions blown up with him inside on numerous occasions, and even taking direct hits from Mega Man in some of them.
* Everything that ever lived in any ''Franchise/TombRaider'' game. In the first games you have to shoot any human being for minutes for it to die, not because they are hard to hit. Every. Single. Shot. Is a hit. Count the amounts of bullets you have to put through each enemy (taking into account the player uses two pistols at the same time. You'll be surprised how much stronger than 50 cent each little monkey in the jungle is.
** Of special note is Lara Croft in the 2013 reboot. She manages to keep going despite being impaled by rebar, crashing through trees and wooden barricades, routinely falling from over 20 feet onto dirt, rocks, concrete, and metal surfaces, being thrown around by explosions, forced to breathe toxic gases, being pummeled by angry Russians, slashed by bladed weapons, and soaking up potentially hundreds of bullets. While Lara often suffered a lot of injury in the other games, the latest release does a really good job of illustrating just how brutal the things she walks away from really are.

* Averted in First Person Shooters at the "realistic" end of [[FacklerScaleOfFPSRealism the scale]] -- such as ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' and ''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint'' -- where it's possible for anyone to die from one gunshot wound, even if it's "just" to the torso.
* Not strictly an example, but: in Yuri and Estelle's FriendshipMoment the night before the final battle in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', Estelle comments on how she's surprised that he can't sleep, and he replies "You say that like I'm made of iron or something." In a meta way, it's probably fair to say he is, in every sense of the word: both as a character and as a force in battle [[GameBreaker (being one of the most broken playable characters]] in the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'').
* Captain Cross from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', supposedly an unpowered BadassNormal with only weapons and skills to call his own, soaks up damage that would otherwise do a number on tanks and the explicitly superpowered {{Super Soldier}}s.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' everyone gets burned, frozen, electrocuted, bludgeoned, bruised, stabbed, slashed, drilled, bitten, stomped, crushed, pelted, blasted, and shot at with all sorts of physical and elemental attacks... and they'll still have absolutely nothing to show for it. The games' vague LivingToys angle was created partly to justify this, even more so in that the characters are imaginary constructs based on toys in the "real world" and therefore don't have to obey said "real world"'s laws of physics. Little Mac is the first character to avert this trope as he gets bandages and bruises the higher his damage meter goes up.
* In ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' many characters are MadeOfIron.
** Chris Redfield will not be put down. He's survived getting smacked around by Tyrants and taken multiple [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown No Holds Barred Beatdowns]] from the superhuman BigBad Albert Wesker. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' Chris recovers from getting his skull bludgeoned by several B.O.Ws, with only mild amnesia.
** Leon S. Kennedy may be just human but it's hard to tell at times. Especially when he walks off [[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation getting punched and thrown into a stone pillar by a Super Tyrant]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 turned into a pin cushion by a Iron Maiden]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 falling several stories onto his back]] and even [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 as a rookie cop]] getting shot in the shoulder and just shrugging it off for the rest of the ZombieApocalypse.
** Albert Wesker by the time of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' isn't bothered by a combat knife stabbing into his forearm, getting shot in the face, having a [=RPG=] missile going off in his hands or falling out of a plane. Hell, even a dip in molten lava isn't enough to kill him, and Chris and co [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill need to top it off with two more RPG rockets]] to actually defeat him. Consideirng he wasn't "human" after first game it isn't too surprising. Possibly justified too given he’s implied to have a HealingFactor.
** Jill Valentine [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis has been brutalized by the Nemesis, directly infected]] and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 once fell several stories out of a window]] and CameBackStrong. The [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake remake]] of the third game really dials this UpToEleven with Jill, as similar to Lara Croft in ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'' she gets absolutely clobbered to ludicrous extremes throughout the remake to point where Jill shouldn’t able to stand let alone run around or wield firearms.
** Claire Redfield has been knocked around by both Mr X and the G-Creature, got hit with an gasoline truck explosion from point blank range and blown into a car, got a beatdown from Wesker, had shrapnel embedded in her leg and even [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2 fell three stories into the ocean and survived]].
** Can't forget Ada Wong either. She gets ravaged by Mr X and is up and healthy (albeit bandaged) later on. In the ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake RE2make]]'' Ada gets shot in the torso and falls into a seemly bottomless pit, and yet appears (completely fine) later to help Leon escape.
** HUNK gets brutalized by Birkin (aka the G-Creature) and left for dead. He gets up later and fights through armies of zombies to reach the extraction point.
** [[IncrediblyDurableEnemies Several monsters]] in the series take a [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill ludicrous amount]] of firepower to be put down. It’s especially troubling for the ones who canonically have no HealingFactor, e.g the common zombies in ''[=RE2make=]'' who will happily soak up the hundreds of bullets Leon and Claire fire at them. It often takes their [[BoomHeadShot entire head getting blown off]] for the ''[=RE2make=]'' zombies to stay down for good.
* An interesting example in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare''. Most of the time in game, especially on Veteran and online this trope is averted; while you can take one to three shots standing without much issue, any more than that and you'll have just as much a chance of standing as the card tower you're trying to build before the hurricane hits, metaphorically. However, in the Campaign, this trope is played straight when your character, [[spoiler:Soap]], survives, in order, falling off of a waterfall, having his head bashed into the roof of a car, being stabbed in the chest, crawling to a gun with said knife in chest, being stomped on the face with a boot, and finally [[spoiler:pulling the knife out of his chest and throwing it into the eye of General Shepherd, finishing him off for good]].
* The [[DeepSouth swampfolk]] of Point Lookout in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', who despite being dressed in overalls take ''much'' more damage than the PoweredArmor-clad stormtroopers of the Enclave (such that sneak criticals on the bigger ones frequently only deal {{scratch damage}}), and also dish out more damage, despite the Enclave mooks wielding high-tech energy weapons, and the swampfolk wielding axes and breech-loading shotguns. This may be due to the heavy mutations caused by a combination of radiation exposure and inbreeding.
** This has less to do with being Made of Iron than the [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard game being a cheating bastard]]. The Hillbillies' and Tribals' weapons (and most of the weapons in point Lookout for that matter) deal an extra 30-50 points of damage when used against the Lone Wanderer. They also happen to have raised health (WordOfGod says this is because the developers wanted Point Lookout to be one of the hardest expansions).
** This is somewhat applicable to several high-end baddies added in the expansions, the probable reason being that by the end of the vanilla game the Lone Wanderer can deal IMMENSE amounts of damage, Sneak attack critical + sniper rifle + headshot = dead almost anything from the vanilla game.
** Also applicable to some of your followers in Broken Steel, namely Dogmeat, Fawkes, and Seargent RL-3. When the ability to level up companions was added, there was a glitch that made these three gain ''hundreds'' of hitpoints per level. By level 30, they couldn't be killed by anything less than three shots from the Mysterious Stranger's .44 Magnum, a gun you can only get by cheating that does over ''9,000 damage per shot!''
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
** Joshua Graham, Caesar's former [[TheDragon Dragon]]. For starters, he was shot and confirmed dead by [=NCR=] snipers ''five times'' only to bounce right back. [[YouHaveFailedMe For his failure in the First Battle of Hoover Dam]], Caesar had him ''set on fire and thrown into the Grand Canyon'', and he was ''still'' in good enough shape to kill the pack of assassins Caesar sent down after him to confirm he was dead, then drag himself back home to Utah. In-game, he has a Damage Threshold of ''50'', which is more than the best Power Armor, and certainly more than his own armor. If asked, Graham merely states that for him it was a mix of HeroicResolve and [[BadassPreacher faith]].
*** This also makes him BlessedWithSuck, since his ridiculous toughness also makes him ImmuneToDrugs, meaning he can't heal the burns that cover his entire body or get any relief from the constant excruciating pain they cause him.
** Graham's replacement as Caesar's Dragon, Legate Lanius, as well. He is an absolute beast with a minimum of 845 hit points, only a bit behind a ''Legendary Deathclaw'', complete immunity to radiation and poison, near - complete immunity to fire. While his Damage Threshold of 19 doesn't sound impressive, consider that this is coupled with his high fatigue levels, making him near - impossible to disable, not to mention he can heal himself a lot and restore any crippled limbs. And he's fast. So fast that even if you cripple both his legs, he can still outrun you. And [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill to top it off, he has a]] [[{{BFS}} massive sword called the Blade of the East]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill which has a massive chance to knock you down.]]
*** Lanius's stats also put how insanely tough Graham is into perspective. It's stated that back when Graham was the Legate, he and Lanius were a BrainsAndBrawn pair... with ''Lanius'' as the ''brains''.
** The White Legs tribals are also surprisingly tough for their lack of armor, being able to sometimes survive a headshot from the Anti-Materiel Rifle. They also [[LevelScaling level scale]], meaning they are just as formidable to the player at Level 40 as at Level 15, if not more so.
** The main game's Praetorian Guards have 10% Damage Resistance, the equivalent of the player's Toughness perk, in addition to a Damage Threshold of 12 granted by their armor. They are also [[LightningBruiser 30% faster than normal NPC's]]. If you're Vilified by the Legion, prepare to face about a dozen of them when entering Caesar's tent, and be [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped]] if you're not leveled up enough.
** Can't forget [[PlayerCharacter the Courier]]. They get shot ''twice'' [[BoomHeadShot in the head]] and just walk it off after a couple days at the doctor's.[[note]]This could also be chalked up to GameplayAndStoryIntegration. [[ICallItVera Maria]] is hardly able to kill ''anything'' in two headshots.[[/note]] Ulysses from the ''Lonesome Road'' DLC sums it up best when giving you a VillainRespect speech.
-->'''Ulysses''': Thought carrying that Chip would end you, no... you got lives in you, hard to kill. Storms, bullets... sand and wind, [[TheDeterminator yet still you walk]]. For now.
* ''VideoGame/{{Kikokugai}}'': Subverted by Gong Taoluo, even more so considering his specialized techniques do him lots of pain when he uses them too much.

* From the same people, ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' has several characters who stretch the limits of survivability, even without the player character's death-reversing powers:
** [[spoiler:Yomiel, in the alternate timeline]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext gets hit with a supersonic sweet potato]], stabbed in the back with the pointy part of a statue, then has his legs crushed by a free-falling megalith. [[spoiler:It appears he sustained nothing permanent, according to the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.]]
** Inspector Cabanela [[JumpingOnAGrenade jumps into an explosion]] (one that killed another person in the room) [[NonFatalExplosions and survives]]. Granted, both of his legs get mangled, and he sustains several more debilitating injuries.
** The poor [[ButtMonkey rat]] living in Lynne and Emma's apartment complex. He gets flung around the room, dropped onto and dangles from a clock's pendulum, [[GrievousBottleyHarm smacked by an angry lady with a wine bottle]], galvanized with an electric cable, and has his tail set on fire.
---> '''Sissel:''' Now I REALLY owe that rat an apology.

* VideoGame/{{Lugaru}} averts this. A few well-aimed blows to the head can deal with most enemies (or ''you'') and the staff can ''kill'' with one swing (again, you too).
* Wario in the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' games will be put through every condition possible (to name a few, zombification, lit on fire, spun up into a ball of string, being trapped in a snowball, and more.) and he just shakes it off. All of them are also required to solve many of the puzzles.
* ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'': Luca Blight ends up fighting eighteen heroes working in tandem, defeating at least twelve of them, and has to have half an army shoot him in order to weaken him enough to make a duel against him even remotely fair.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' Bowser, definitely. From being [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros thrown]] [[VideoGame/SuperMario64 into]] [[VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii lava]], [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory crushed by two castles and a train]], and [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy knocked into a sun]] [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2 followed by a black hole]] among much more, the sheer amount of things he's survived with barely a scratch on him is amazing.
** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' lampshades this in his playable sections. He has literally infinite lives.
** Perhaps the Mario Brothers aren't the only ones who can benefit from One-up Mushrooms.
** It's worth pointing out the one time he actually [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath died]]. In VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros, the first boss is Bowser, who falls into lava after you cut the bridge. You've done this many times before, no big deal. But then he struggles in the lava as his skin and eyeballs melt out and only a skeleton is left as Mario just stared. Why is this worth pointing out? Because that's NOT when he died. You meet him again in world 8, completely fine. He's just missing his flesh and eyes. Being a skeleton is no big deal for him. However, this time the bridge doesn't have any lava under it, and when you cut the bridge, he simply falls a great distance. It's a confirmed death in the very last fight, where Bowser Jr. is seen with Bowser's remains (his skeleton broken into pieces from the fall) and promptly throws it all into a black magic pot to [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist resurrect him.]]
* If Bowser is made of iron, Mario is made of freaking ''[[UpToEleven orichalcum]]''. For those who do not understand, let us note that Mario has survived a fall from the stratosphere after being struck by magical lightning and shot out a glass window. But even that is not what is being referred to. Super Mario Galaxy, folks. At the end of the game, the universe is sucked into a supermassive black hole and renewed in a big bang--but Mario and Rosalina are exempt from this. Rosalina can cast barriers, but Mario has no such power. Mario took a black hole to the face followed by a big bang to the everything and came out okay.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' has a literal example in Chapter 3 with the Iron Clefts/Armored Harriers/Iron Adonis Twins who [[NighInvulnerable cannot be beaten]] until Mario gets his [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Yoshi partner]].
* King K Rool in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''. In the [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1 first game]] it's fairly standard punishment, but in the [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest second]], he gets his gun explode on him about ten times, gets punched out the window of an airship by a captured Donkey Kong, hits every single cliff face on the way down, torn apart by sharks, sinks into the ocean, has his gun explode AGAIN in the TrueFinalBoss battle, flies into the island core, is presumably there when it sinks like Atlantis and sails away on his ship afterwards. Then, in the [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble third game]], he gets electrocuted like ten times from his mad science laboratory equipment, and has a giant egg dropped on his head by the freed Banana Bird queen... Then gets beaten up by all five Kongs in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', hit by a rocket powered boot shot by Funky Kong, thrown straight through the roof of the boxing roof and into K Lumsy Island, where said giant locked up Kremling proceeds to beat K Rool senseless for locking him up. He's perfectly fine in later appearances.

* The player ship in the entire ''VideoGame/TheTaleOfAlltynex'' trilogy.
* ''VideoGame/RaptorCallOfTheShadows'' has a player ship that is like this too, and that's ''not'' counting in the extra shielding (which take the same amount of damage as the plane).
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' is in love with this trope:
** In the klassic games, the cast, which includes normal humans, survive things like Scorpion impaling them through the chest with his spear, being uppercutted so hard they're sent flying several feet into the air (which requires enough force to break the neck, if not [[OffWithHisHead sever the head]] completely), or getting shot and blown up by Stryker's guns and grenades.
** Starting with the [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 2011 reboot]], this trope gets taken UpToEleven with the X-Ray Attacks, which explicitly show x-ray shots of the fighters' bones cracking and organs rupturing: fighters can get up after having suffering a NeckSnap, broken spine, shattered skull, and other injuries that should leave them paralyzed for life if they didn't kill them instantly.
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' removes the x-ray effects from its Fatal Blow mechanic, but as the name suggests, it makes up for it by having the attacks be even less plausible to survive. Many of these moves involve getting large, sharp objects jammed into your skull, sometimes to the point of coming out the other end. And the x-rays are still in the game, but just relocated to the new Krushing Blow mechanic, where under certain conditions, regular attacks will take on enhanced properties and show the brutal damage up-close in slow motion. Broken bones and brutal wounds don't cause any effects worse than slightly increased damage, a brief DamageOverTime effect, or an extended combo opportunity for your opponent.
** However, ''Mortal Kombat'', amazingly (and quite infamously), is one of the few mediums where the characters are MadeOfIron and MadeOfPlasticine at the same time. Over the course of the match, they can be beaten to a bloody pulp by blows from other superhumans and not show a hint of discomfort or fatigue; but the ''second'' the match is over and they enter the iconic "groggy" state, they can easily be torn apart by the very same types of attacks they were taking not 2 minutes ago.

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'': Chell can take far more punishment than one would expect. So can her Long Fall Boots, apparently.
** She can be shot or otherwise injured an unlimited number of times with no permanent effects, as long as she has a few seconds to rest after each hit. Faith of ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' is the same way. Neither of these cases make any sense; in all other respects they seem like normal humans, and there's no explanation for their endless bodily bullet capacity.
*** Of course, Portal handwaves this in the second game by an offhand comment that their turrets fire the entire bullet. As real life tells us, the result is that instead of piercing through the skin (and occasionally the entire body), the bullets just plain whack against Chell. A few seconds of rest and the bruises stop hurting.
* ''VideoGame/TheIncredibleMachine'''s CosmicPlaything mini-human Mel Schlemming can withstand anything outside of getting eaten, though falling from a great height will knock him out.
* The players in ''[[VideoGame/EASportsStreet NFL Street]]'' would be hit with tackles as hard as the average football game but without all the armor protecting them. Given that football in real life had commonly resulted in injuries even when wearing armor, the players must had been pretty tough.
* The snowboarders in ''VideoGame/{{SSX}}'' can take plenty of punishment. From hitting each other at the speed of a car to crashing after a massive jump, they always seem to be able to get back up uninjured. Crashing in such a fashion as to totally wipe out is incredibly rare.
* Everyone in ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}''. Especially Maxwell himself. With the dizzying array of weapons in the game, you'd think SOMETHING would cause a lasting injury. But nope. CriticalExistenceFailure only here.
* The pointman from the [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R series]]. Even taking into account a limited healing factor he survives things that would turn other men to paste, like getting throw several hundred meters onto the roof of a multi story car park...by an explosion. By F.E.A.R 3 he has full RegeneratingHealth.
* The Boss of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' can take fairly big amounts of damage even before you get upgrades. Magazines full of bullets, grenades, fire, getting run over, getting smacked by {{Giant Mook}}s who toss cars around, surviving a boat explosion with so few scares people think they changed their haircut... It takes a lot to faze them.
* VideoGame/PunchOut:
** [[WakeUpCallBoss Bald Bull]] is tough enough, but when you face him a second time in the World Circuit, suddenly he's immune to knock-downs by normal punches, and has to be knocked down either by Star Punches or exploiting his Bull Charge [[OneHitKill One-Hit Knockdown.]] Title Defense Bald Bull in the Wii remake is even tougher, as not even the Bull Charge trick will knock him down (though he ends up with just enough health that you can knock him down with a Star Punch afterwards.)
** At the other extreme, [[{{Jobber}} Glass Joe]] has a record of one win, and 99 loses. By all medical logic, he should be a brain-dead vegetable by now after taking beating after beating, but for some reason, he just keeps at it.
* In VideoGame/BadPiggies, regardless of how crazy and painful the inventions are, the Pig, the King Pig, and the Egg can survive all of them without even the smallest injury. The Birds, they just die upon hitting the Pigs' inventions.
** The original game, ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'', the Pigs just die upon enough pain but they just keep returning regardless of beatings.
* Greasy Steve from ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' can take several bullets to the face while driving a motorcycle through the forest without stopping. Of course, this may be more crappy programming than actual iron abilities, given [[ObviousBeta which game it is]].
* In ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'', Nima takes a fall during the prologue that would probably cripple her in real life, at the very least.
** Gerry is on the other end of two BarrierBustingBlow barriers in the first episode alone.
* Joel from ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''. Depending on how one plays the game, he'll get shot, beaten up, knocked out, get into fist fights with infected and hostile survivors, knocked down or otherwise fall a good distance, all on a regular basis, but it never stops or even slows him down. [[spoiler: Until he falls from a walkway at the university and gets impaled by a piece of rebar. That knocks him out for a few weeks, but when he awakens to discover Ellie's been taken by the group of cannibals, he drags himself and his not-fully-healed impalement wound outside and goes full [[PapaWolf Papa Wolf]] on said cannibals anyway.]]
* ''VideoGame/NosferatuTheWrathOfMalachi'': Most monsters go down in a few shots with your weakest gun, but Demodus, Lesser Vampires, Demons, and Greater Vampires take quite a bit more punishment without stopping. And bosses take even more, in most fights they'll end up with at least four or five Wooden Stakes buried in their chest before they even flinch.
* In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', Bandit Keith is fried by Ra's lightning and gets right back up after being possessed by Reshef.

* A startlingly common trait in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'':
** B.J himself, to the point of almost hilarious absurdity. Above all, he demonstrates a bizarre immunity to being stabbed. In one scene in ''The Old Blood'', a Nazi soldier ambushes him and the two basically just stand there repeatedly stabbing each other in the chest before the Nazi inevitably succumbs to his wounds, and in another scene in the same [=DLC=], [[TheDragon Rudi]] impales a section of lead pipe clean through his thigh during an ElectricTorture session, and Blazko is no worse for wear, not even a limp. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Deathshead [[TakingYouWithMe realises he's lost and tries to take Blazko out with a grenade]]. ''At point blank''. Blazko survives it, although he's badly hurt and nearing death's door, while that creepy bastard [[LudicrousGibs gets liquified]]]].
** Turns out Max Hass is this. [[spoiler:During the attack on the Kreisau Circle HQ, he gets riddled with several bursts of assault rifle fire and takes a burst of heavy machine-gun fire to the chest, yet is still shown during the evacuation no worse for wear]]. [[WMG/WolfensteinTheNewOrder This has lead to theories]] that he's some sort of rejected [[SuperSoldier Ubersoldat]] candidate.
** [[spoiler:Caroline Becker]] managed to survive [[VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 2009}} being shot and crippled from the waist down, the explosion of an otherworldly machine that hurled her out of another dimension and into a nearby ditch]], lingered in said ditch for ''three days'' before being found and rescued, and spent the rest of the war fighting a life-threatening illness.
** [[spoiler:Frau Engel]] survives getting [[spoiler:her]] jaw crushed by a giant robot, getting slammed into a tree, and thrown off a steep cliff... and still turns up at the end of the level, an assault rifle in each hand. [[spoiler:She also leads the assault on the Kreisau Circle HQ, her gruesome jaw injury still not fully healed]].
* In ''VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals'', there's an optional Title for Guy that reduces explosion damage he takes...which means he takes zero damage from '''getting shot by a tank'''.

* The RPG episodes of {{VIdeoGame/Lisa}} feature multiple istances of this, particularly the Joy Mutants. There's two particularly egregious istances of this:
** In ''LISA the Painful'', Brad ends up taking a LOT of punishment [[spoiler:during the finale, where he takes on his own companions, the entire Rando Army, and Rando himself. By the end of it, he's literally littered with arrows. It helps that he's overdosing on Joy and turning into a mutant]].
** In ''LISA the Joyful'', we've got one of the warlords: [[spoiler:Sindy Gallows. By the time Buddy meets him, he has been struck by multiple arrows (including some in the head) and hanged. Then he wakes up and fights you ''while still hanging from the gallows'']].

* All the Heroes in ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront2015'', even if their health varies, can take absurd amounts of punishment ranging from flurries of lightsaber swings to direct fire from [=AT-ATs=]. The only Heroes with excuses are Chewbacca, who's a Wookiee, and Vader, who's more machine than man. Everyone else is physically a normal member of their species, so they should die as easily as human, Rodian or Sullustautes n foot soldiers do.
* In the ''Hope'' cinematic trailer for ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', Jace Malcolm manages to tank force lightning for a few seconds, before getting in close and locking a powerful sith lord in a BrawlerLock. He then detonates a grenade in the sith lord's face. Both him and the sith lord get up afterward. The sith, Darth Malgus, takes it even further, as grand master Satele Shan proceeds to smash a mountainside in his face with the force, ''and he still gets back up!''
* Nathan Drake of ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'' is either this, BornLucky, or some combination of the two. He takes some mean bumps only to come away relatively unharmed (enough to keep fighting). He's also gone as far surviving days in the desert with absolutely ''nothing'' except the clothes on his back and still got into a firefight (and ''won'') upon coming across a destroyed settlement. Notable since earlier in that game a companion character ends up with a broken leg simply by falling off a ledge.
* By the end of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', [[spoiler:Mastermind Junko Enoshima]] goes through ''a lot'' of punishment when they go through ''every prior execution in succession''. Bear in mind that even ''one'' of those was enough to kill a person, [[RasputinianDeath yet they]] ''[[RasputinianDeath somehow]]'' [[RasputinianDeath live through all but the last of those]] (and they even [[TooKinkyToTorture enjoy it]])!

* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' Major Saelen Varn, STG (retired). The guy survives getting shot with a poisonous dart and left in out in the harsh desert of Elaaden to die, and lasts for what's implied to be some days before Ryder finds him. Then, rather than going to see a doctor about these life-threatening injuries, hunts down the man who tried to kill him. Did we mention Varn is a salarian, who are usually considered the most fragile species in the ME universe?
* ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' handwaves this trope: Various characters, including the protagonist and his allies, have "COMP" devices that summon demons and aid the user in combat. One of the COMP's functions is a "harmonizer" program that allows humans to fight and defend against demons with a fair chance; this is demonstrated when the protagonist and his friends activate their [=COMPs=] for the first time and are attacked by the demons that come out but don't suffer the horribly debilitating injuries that one would normally expect, something that both the party and the demons point out. Furthermore, the harmonizer doesn't just affect the user, but all humans within range, thus allowing non-COMP users in the surrounding area (often [[EscortMission mission escortees]]) to enjoy a lower mortality rate than those who aren't fortunate enough to be near a COMP user.
* Robots in ''VideoGame/MutantFootballLeague'', being the {{Mighty Glacier}}s of the player species, are the most durable on the field. Not only do they take less damage from hits, they're immune to electrical damage, heavily resistant to fire, and are the only species that can reliably survive explosions or lightning.
* ''VideoGame/DoofusDrop'' has Doofus himself. He falls down a very large mountain, hits all kinds of obstacles, and yet he ends up without even getting a scratch. Even if he gets impaled by a spike or fork, he can keep going after a fart.
* Kazuma Kiryu's defining trait in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series; the man has taken knife wounds, gunshots, and massive explosions and walked away with only a few minor scratches. In one substory in ''Yakuza 2'', a big thug who had been impersonating Kiryu punched him square in the jaw, and Kiryu didn't even react.

** Chris Redfield will not be put down. He's survived getting smacked around by Tyrants and taken multiple NoHoldsBarredBeatdown(s) from the superhuman BigBad Albert Wesker. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' Chris recovers from getting his skull bludgeoned by several B.O.Ws, with only mild amnesia.

** Albert Wesker by the time of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' isn't bothered by a combat knife stabbing into his forearm, getting shot in the face, having a [=RPG=] missile going off in his hands or falling out of a plane. Hell, even a dip in molten lava isn't enough to kill him, and Chris and co [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill need to top it off with two more RPG rockets]] to actually defeat him. Consideirng he wasn't "human" after first game it isn't too surprising.
** While the aforementioned trio are the most blatant, there's plenty other RE characters who are also Made Of Iron.
*** Jill Valentine [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis has been brutalized by the Nemesis, directly infected]] and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 once fell several stories out of a window]] and CameBackStrong.
*** Claire Redfield has been knocked around by both Mr X and the G-Creature, got hit with an explosion from point blank range and blown into a car, got a beatdown from Wesker, had shrapnel embedded in her leg and even [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2 fell three stories into the ocean and survived]].
*** Can't forget Ada Wong either. She gets ravaged by Mr X and is up and healthy (albeit bandaged) later on. In the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake RE2make]] Ada gets shot in the torso and falls into a seemly bottomless pit, and yet appears (completely fine) later to help Leon escape.
*** HUNK gets brutalized by Birkin (aka the G-Creature) and left for dead. He gets up later and fights through armies of zombies to reach the extraction point.
** [[IncrediblyDurableEnemies Several monsters]] in the series take a [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill ludicrous amount]] of firepower to be put down. It’s especially troubling for the ones who canonically have no HealingFactor, e.g the common zombies in [=RE2make=] who will happily soak up the thousands of bullets Leon and Claire fire at them. It often takes their [[BoomHeadShot entire head getting blown off]] for the [=RE2make=] zombies to stay down for good.

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Shirou-"My body is made of blades"-Emiya.[[NightmareFuel Both literally]] [[{{Determinator}} and figuratively]].

*** He ate a poisoned ''glass'' necklace (and even mentions ''chewing'' it) without suffering any visible pain.
*** He was electrocuted by a stun gun and stood up again just a minute later, unharmed (whereas Maya still felt the aftereffects a day later).

*** He was beaned by a fire extinguisher and only blacked out for a few moments before getting up, suffering temporary amnesia.
*** He fell 10 meters from a burning bridge, landed in a freezing cold river famous for it's horrifyingly fast current, was carried along with said current of doom for a few miles, and only got a ''cold''. [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne deliberately jumped off the same bridge when she was 14 and didn't even get that]].
*** And, finally, he was hit by a ''car'', hurled 30 feet across the street, and slammed headfirst into a telephone pole. All he got was a sprained ''ankle''.

** Chris Redfield will not be put down, he's survived getting smacked around by Tyrants and taken multiple NoHoldsBarredBeatdown(s) from the superhuman BigBad Albert Wesker. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' Chris recovers from getting his skull bludgeoned by several B.O.Ws, albeit getting some mild amnesia.
** Leon S. Kennedy may be just human but it's hard to tell at times. Especially when he walks off [[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation getting punched and thrown into a stone pillar by a Super Tyrant]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 turned into a pin cushion by a Iron Maiden]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 falling several stories onto his back]] and even [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 as a rookie cop]] he gets shot in the shoulder and just shrugging it off for the rest of the ZombieApocalypse.
** Albert Wesker by the time of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' isn't bothered by a combat knife stabbing into his forearm, getting shot in the face, having a [=RPG=] missile going off in his hands or falling out of a plane. Hell even a dip on molten lava isn't enough to kill him and Chris and co [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill need to top it off with two more RPG rockets]] to actually defeat him. Consideirng he wasn't "human" after first game it isn't too suprising.
** While the aforementioned trio are the most blatant, there's plenty other RE characters who also Made Of Iron.

*** Can't forget Ada Wong either she gets ravaged by Mr X and is up and healthy (albeit bandaged) later on, in the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake RE2make]] Ada gets shot in the torso and falls into a seemly bottomless pit and yet appears (completely fine) later to help Leon escape.
*** HUNK gets brutalized by Birkin aka the G-Creature and left for dead, he gets up later and fights through armies of zombies to reach the extraction point.
** [[IncrediblyDurableEnemies Several monsters]] in the series take a [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill ludicrous amount]] of firepower to be put down. It’s especially troubling for the ones who canonically have no HealingFactor, e.g the common zombies in [=RE2make=] who will happily soak up the thousands of bullets Leon and Claire fire at them. It often takes their [[BoomHeadShot entire heads to be blown from their necks]] for the [=RE2make=] zombies to stay down for good.

* The Boss of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' can take fairly big amounts of damage even before you get upgrades. Magazines full of bullets, grenades, fire, getting run over, getting smacked by {{Giant Mook}}s who toss cars around... It takes a lot to faze hir.

** While the aforementioned trio are the most blatant, there's other characters who also Made Of Iron.
*** Jill Valentine [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3 has been brutalized by the Nemesis, directly infected]] and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 once fell several stories out of a window]] and CameBackStrong.

* Joel from ''VideoGame/TheLastofUs''. Depending on how one plays the game, he'll get shot, beaten up, knocked out, get into fist fights with infected and hostile survivors, knocked down or otherwise fall a good distance, all on a regular basis, but it never stops or even slows him down. [[spoiler: Until he falls from a walkway at the university and gets impaled by a piece of rebar. That knocks him out for a few weeks, but when he awakens to discover Ellie's been taken by the group of cannibals, he drags himself and his not-fully-healed impalement wound outside and goes full [[PapaWolf Papa Wolf]] on said cannibals anyway.]]

** Leon S. Kennedy may be just human but it's hard to tell at times. Especially when he walks off [[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation getting punched and thrown into a stone pillar by a Super Tyrant]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 turned into a pin cushion by a Iron Maiden]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 falling several stories onto his back]] and even [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 as a rookie cop]] getting shot in the shoulder and just shrugging it off for the rest of the ZombieApocalypse.

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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Link seems to get this. He gets battered about with swords ''as big as he is'' and just shrugs it off. If he takes enough damage, he acts tired when he stands still. That's the extent of the damage.

** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' removes the x-ray effects with its Fatal Blow mechanic, but as the name suggests, it makes up for it by having the attacks be even less plausible to survive. Many of these moves involve getting large, sharp objects jammed into your skull, sometimes to the point of coming out the other end. And the x-rays are still in the game, but just relocated to the new Krushing Blow mechanic, where under certain conditions, regular attacks will take on enhanced properties and show the brutal damage up-close in slow motion.

* Robots in ''VideoGame/MutantFootballLeague'', being the {{Mighty Glacier}}s of the player species, are the most durable on the field. Not only do they take less damage from tackles, they're immune to fire damage and are the only species that can reliably survive explosions.

** Inspector Cabanela [[JumpingOnAGrenade jumps into an explosion]] (one that killed another person in the room) [[NonLethalExplosion and survives]]. Granted, both of his legs get mangled, and he sustains several more debilitating injuries.