History Main / ImmuneToSlapstick

* ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' himself, while not entirely immune to getting hurt, is always portrayed as TheAce in cutscenes, as opposed to Luigi, Bowser, Wario and Waluigi who [[ButtMonkey are prone to slapstick]]. This is even more so the case with Princess Peach, she may be the victim of many shenanigans, but it is usually played for drama rather than comedy.

* ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'': The two elder Tendo sisters often come through the most insane of occurrences with hardly a scratch, though for very different reasons. For Kasumi it's that she's such a NiceGirl that there seems to be an unspoken taboo for harming her. Even when she gets taken over by an oni that can only be removed by knocking her unconscious, no one can bring themselves to do it, and so endure the "evil" actions she commits while possessed. For Nabiki it's often that she's manipulating the participants and has been known to sow wanton destruction simply for her own entertainment, and so makes a point to be somewhere else when the violence starts, thus never paying the price for her actions.

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* This is the standard modus operandi for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_clown#The_whiteface_clown "White Clown".]]

* When Joe Besser joined ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' he refused to partake in the ComedicSociopathy, but later relented.

* ''[[Anime/YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monsters]]'': Whenever the tone needed to become more comedic, Yami Yugi would stay inside the Millennium Puzzle and leave Yugi in control, not reappearing until things became more dramatic. Similarly, the stoic and humourless Seto Kaiba would never be present for any of the more slapsticky moments.

* ''[[Anime/YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monsters]]'': Whenever the tone needed to become more comedic, Yami Yugi would stay inside the Millennium Puzzle and leave Yugi in control, not reappearing until things became more dramatic.

* ''[[Anime/YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monsters]]'': Whenever the tone needed to become more comedic, Yami Yugi would stay inside the Millennium Puzzle and leave Yugi in control , not reappearing until things became more dramatic.

* ''[[Anime/YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monsters]]'':
Whenever the tone needed to become more comedic, Yami Yugi would stay inside the Millennium Puzzle and leave Yugi in control , not reappearing until things became more dramatic.

* ''[[Anime/YuGiOh!]]'': Whenever the tone needed to become more comedic, Yami Yugi would stay inside the Millennium Puzzle and leave Yugi in control , not reappearing until things became more dramatic.

* [[Anime/Yu-Gi-Oh!]]: Whenever the tone needed to become more comedic, Yami Yugi would stay inside the Millennium Puzzle and leave Yugi in control , not reappearing until things became more dramatic.

* [[Anime / Yu-Gi-Oh!]]: Whenever the tone needed to become more comedic, Yami Yugi would stay inside the Millennium Puzzle and leave Yugi in control , not reappearing until things became more dramatic.

* ''Anime / Yu-Gi-Oh!'': Whenever the tone needed to become more comedic, Yami Yugi would stay inside the Millennium Puzzle and leave Yugi in control , not reappearing until things became more dramatic.

* ''[[Anime / Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': Whenever the tone needed to become more comedic, Yami Yugi would stay inside the Millennium Puzzle and leave Yugi in control , not reappearing until things became more dramatic.

* Robin in ''Franchise/OnePiece'' to some degree. Although she doesn't balk at partying and laughing with her crewmates, she's the only member of the Straw Hat crew that never gets SuperDeformed and is never targetted by a gag. The manga finally submitted her to the odd cartoony moment, though less out of fully breaking the taboo and more because the series was such a LongRunner that there had to be an exception in there ''eventually''.

* ''[[WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'': [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} Meggy]], Saiko, Tari and Melony are, in most cases, the only main characters who never engage in physical humor, and the few times they get hurt are always PlayedForDrama (Although Tari did got injured [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]] in her debut video, but that was before CharacterizationMarchesOn).

* Shadow of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' for the large part upkeeps a DarkerAndEdgier tone and rarely engages in highly comical moments. This actually became a hinderance during his inclusion in the sitcom heavy ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', as writers stated they had trouble utilising him without turning him into a joke. His [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Archie comic]] counterpart will [[TheComicallySerious subvert it every now and then]] however.

** The Guild of Fools, Joculators, Clowns, Buffoons, Minstrels and Mime Artists in Ankh-Morpork specialises in physical comedy. pratfalls, tumbles, amusing escapades with custard pies, buckets of water and joke flowers that squirt liquid are their stock-in trade. But one Clown never, ever, lands in the middle of the pies or buckets or general pratfalling. In a funny sort of way, he is Ground Zero. But Ground Zero from the point of view of the nuke. Doctor Whiteface, the stern, austere and utterly joyless Head of the Guild, is above that sort of thing. He walks unscathed through the circus ring whilst physical humour happens to other people.

* Meta Knight in ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' to an an extent. Though he does have moments as TheComicallySerious he usually stays out of the lighthearted scenes in Papupu Village (known as Cappy Town in the 4Kids dub), only appearing when required to battle a threat to the village.

* Early on, ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' exempted most of the female cast from its copious painful physical humor. For example, the episode "The Pressure" is about a group or boy and a group of girl (plus Leslie): the boys' scenes including things like skateboarding into a car door and getting crushed under a tree, while the humor of the female group is all dialogue-based. A few seasons later, SlapstickKnowsNoGender is fully in effect. The difference can perhaps best be seen by contrasting [[PaperPeople Teri's]] roles in "The Virus" (second season) and "The Advice" (fourth season). Despite having a major role in the earlier episode, she suffers no physical injury, and when she appears to be decapitated, [[DisneyDeath the other characters react as if she died]]. Her minor role in the latter episode involves being [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn in half]] ''twice''.

Female characters were often prone to this, [[WouldntHitAGirl due to wariness to placing them in violent situations]] and still having the same comedic value, though as of recently, some works have become braver and shown slapstick knows no gender.[[note]]ThisVeryWiki once had an entire trope dedicated to female exceptions to this trope, but such exceptions have become so common they are [[NotATrope no longer tropeworthy.]] [[/note]]

There are some characters who just won't be part of the gag. They won't indignify themselves with zany acting, they won't take a pratfall on that {{banana peel}} on the floor and generally avoid doing anything clownish or potentially humiliating.

Female characters were often prone to this, [[WouldntHitAGirl due to wariness to placing them in violent situations]] and still having the same comedic value, though as of recently, some works have become braver and shown SlapstickKnowsNoGender.

* Played with in the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' anime. While the hero cast aren't immune to cartoon injuries, a lot of suspense in the show is reliant on their supposed inability to perform the same ToonPhysics as Team Rocket. One episode had the trio fall down a cliff in a manner reminiscent of a [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner]] cartoon, Ash even comments on this like [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight he expects them to return fine and dandy later on]]. When one of the protagonists almost did the same seconds after, it was ''totally'' PlayedForDrama. For extra insult she even suffered a Thundershock from a random Pokemon while clinging for her life, again completely dramatically[[note]]For those who don't know the RunningGag, Team Rocket suffer a comical Thundershock from Pikachu every single episode[[/note]]. Averted entirely in ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon Sun & Moon]]'' where practically every main character falls victim to slapstick or SuperDeformed antics due to the more comical nature of the era.

* Played with in the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' anime. While the hero cast aren't immune to cartoon injuries, a lot of suspense in the show is reliant on their supposed inability to perform the same ToonPhysics as Team Rocket. One episode had the trio fall down a cliff in a manner reminiscent of a Road Runner cartoon, Ash even comments on this like [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight he expects them to return fine and dandy later on]]. When one of the protagonists almost did the same seconds after, it was ''totally'' PlayedForDrama. For extra insult she even suffered a Thundershock from a random Pokemon while clinging for her life, again completely dramatically[[note]]For those who don't know the RunningGag, Team Rocket suffer a comical Thundershock from Pikachu every single episode[[/note]]. Averted entirely in ''Sun and Moon: The Series'' where practically every main character falls victim to slapstick or SuperDeformed antics due to the more comical nature of the era.

* ''[[Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'': [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} Meggy]], Saiko, Tari and Melony are, in most cases, the only main characters who never engage in physical humor, and the few times they get hurt are always PlayedForDrama (Although Tari did got injured [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]] in her debut video, but that was before CharacterizationMarchesOn).

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' NP ([=NewsPaper=]) edition's "Oblivious Hand-Waving" arc, in which Tedd buys a magic wand that randomly warps reality.
** In [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=149 one of the strips]] Susan is shown reading and totally unaffected by the weird goings-on (she was originally supposed to have turned part-armadillo) because of her serious nature.

* ''[[Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'': [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} Meggy]], Saiko, Tari and Melony are, in most cases, the only main characters who never engage in physical humor, and the few times they get hurt are always PlayedForDrama (Although Tari did got injured [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]] in her debut video, but that was before CharacterizationMarchesOn).