History Main / IronButtmonkey

* Tails in the 2D ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games. When you play the Sonic/Tails co-op, whether AI controlled or by a 2nd player, Tails is completely [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR2JzK-y5_g immortal and cannot die]] (well he can die, he just comes back right away). This of course leads to a huge [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_-iZMkeuOs potential for abuse...]]

* ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'' treats both Saru and Nagasumi like this. In Nagasumi's case, it's actually a minor plot point; he has to continually avoid/survive [[ItMakesSenseInContext his mermaid bride's mafia family's various attacks against him]] whenever they just feel like offing him, from certain family members that already hate him and are also ''very'' easily provoked (most notably the bride's father/mafia boss), if it's not just an assassin hired by the aforementioned mafia boss who is just trying to outright kill him. Despite how serious this might sound, it's really just meant as a means for [[HilarityEnsues hilarity to ensure.]] In praticular, he's subjected so often to the [[MakeMeWannaShout Mermaid Voice]] over the course of the series, that he eventually builds up an immunity to it.

* ''Series/TheGoodies'' of course, seeing as they're like a live-action Looney Toons. When a germ warfare virus turns the population of the UK into clowns prior to a US invasion, the Goodies use the natural immunity of a clown to harm to take down the invaders in a serious of slapstick gags.

A relation of ButtMonkey, MadeOfIron, and {{Slapstick}}. Where this is used on characters who in-canon have explicit [[HealingFactor super-healing]], see GoodThingYouCanHeal and ImmortalityHurts. Unrelated to the IronWoobie, although they can overlap at times.

* Linkara from ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' makes a living reviewing bad comic books where he's semi-routinely attacked by [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]], [[EvilKnockoff a vicious robotic doppelganger]], [[Franchise/SilentHill macabre monsters and spirits]] and a planet-conquering WellIntentionedExtremist '''in his own home'''. Previously, this happened in his own apartment, but [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome his landlord got tired of the constant invasions and battles then raised his rent.]] Outside of his own show, fellow Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses contributors have tied him up, kidnapped him, tricked him, blamed him for things he didn't do and yes attacked him.

* Website/NobodyHere: Despite all the damage Teddy goes through in "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/bear.here Bear]]", he always makes it out okay, if a bit shaken.

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} himself often enters this territory due to effectively being immortal, meaning that at various points he's been shot through the head with an arrow, eaten alive by parasites, dropped out of a plane with no parachute, etc., all with no lasting effects. Handwaved in that all of this, healing factor aside, is due to a curse from Thanos to keep him away from Death -- with whom ''both men fell in love''.
* Deadpool's evil(er) counterpart Madcap has also been on the receiving end of horrific injuries ever since he first appeared. There's a twist, though: he's an AxCrazy loon who doesn't feel pain and is not above provoking some of the aforementioned injuries.

* The villains from ''Film/HomeAlone'' should have died several times over from Kevin's traps. A movie for kids manages to go further than a [[Film/StrawDogs Sam Peckinpah film]] when it comes to makeshift household protection.

* Bluebottle (and to a lesser extent, Eccles and most of the other characters) in Radio/TheGoonShow are certainly in this territory [[TheyKilledKennyAgain though they sometimes die]]... and don't always notice.

* Elliot from ''Videogame/JaggedAlliance 2'' certainly qualifies. Over the course of the game, he sustains cumulative wounds from Deidrenna's abuse, culminating in getting shot in the head by her when the player enters the last city- this is, as always, played for laughs when Elliot gets back up and apologizes for not being able to even die properly.

* Hong Meiling is perhaps the best known Iron Butt Monkey of the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' series, as she is often caught by [[NinjaMaid Sakuya]] slacking off during her job of guarding Scarlet Devil Mansion's gate. Fanon depicts that Meiling becomes a cushion for Sakuya's knives on a daily basis, but since Meiling is youkai, she doesn't die.

* Fighter and Black Mage in ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'': [[MightyGlacier The former]] is repeatedly stabbed in the head, often with no ill effects (it made him smarter once), while [[SquishyWizard Black Mage]] more or less always survives what's thrown at him (having ''Australia'' dropped on him comes to mind) and when he does die that one time, it comes as quite a surprise, but he still gets resurrected in fairly short order [[FateWorseThanDeath so as to continue suffering]]. It's even a JustifiedTrope in Black Mage's case. Both good ''and'' evil sides of the PowersThatBe don't want him to die, because when he does he takes over Hell; the forces of Good don't want that because Black Mage without his meat body is the apocalypse given form, and the forces of Evil don't want that because he's the ''wrong'' apocalypse given form and [[CelestialBureaucracy that leads to an awful lot of paperwork]].

* Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND plays on Liquid Snake's RasputinianDeath in the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid source material]] by explicitly making him NighInvulnerable (though he's still treated as the resident BadassNormal, which is {{Lampshaded}}). Combine with a dose of AdaptationalDumbass and ArrogantKungFuGuy and you get this trope. The ButtMonkey part eventually starts to fall away as CharacterDevelopment and CerebusSyndrome kick in, but he remains MadeOfIron till [[DoomedByCanon the bitter end]].

* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has SCP-682]]. The Foundation is always trying to kill it because [[OmnicidalManiac it wants to kill us]]; they've managed to, among other things, throw it into the Sun and reduce it to 1% of its body mass (two separate occasions), but it still hasn't died. When they're ''not'' presently trying to kill it, it's kept contained in a vat of hydrochloric acid. {{Justified}}, as it has an AdaptiveAbility and HealingFactor to the point of CompleteImmortality.

* Dallas (immortal) of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' when his deaths are being PlayedForLaughs.

* This was forever happening to Zelgadis on ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}''. He's been used as an anchor and shot in the face with a cannonball and come out of it fine every time due to his part-golem nature.

* Played with in ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan''. Most of Dokuro's antics actually ''kill'' Sakura, but she always resurrects him good as new on the spot, so there's never actually any lasting harm done. [[BloodyHilarious Except to the wallpaper.]]

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* O.J. Simpson in ''Film/TheNakedGun'' movies. Which, in light of later events, could be seen as HilariousInHindsight, or perhaps a reverse KarmaHoudini?

** It's actually a plot point that Toons are indestructible/unkillable....almost.

* In Season 2 of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', a Fulcrum agent named Vincent Smith suffered extremely AmusingInjuries such as getting blown up, shot, poisoned, shot again, ran over by Chuck, knocked out by Sarah and was finally blown up again for good during an Air Strike.

* Perhaps the most notorious example is former United States Women's Champion Wrestling/MaeYoung, especially at the start of her WWE career in the late 1990s. Already well into her seventies by that point, Mae's initial gimmick was that she was an Iron Buttmonkey senior citizen who constantly took "bumps" on behalf of her best friend, The Fabulous Moolah. (She once even was smashed through a conference table by Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys!) As if that weren't demeaning enough, Mae was also made into an AbhorrentAdmirer / ChristmasCake stereotype who (among other exploits) almost gave birth to Wrestling/MarkHenry's baby, French-kissed Vince [=McMahon=], and was revealed as the object of Jerry Springer's (reluctant) lust on an unforgettable episode of ''Monday Night Raw''. The sad thing, really, is that Mae was actually an accomplished wrestler back in the day (starting her career during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when many male wrestlers went off to Europe or Japan, besides, the Wrestling/WWEMaeYoungClassic wasn't named after her for nothing), but that younger viewers watching WWE programming are likely to think she's just some repellent old lady that's kept around backstage purely for comedy purposes.

* Kimihito Kurusu of ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' is a regular guy, stuck in the same house as a very strong Lamia, a Centaur, a dippy Harpy, an enthusiastic Slime, an... eccentric... Mermaid, and a jaded Arachne. He takes a hell of a lot of abuse, but he's always up a few pages later. [[spoiler: Noteably, Kimihito is confirmed to ''actually die'' on a regular basis. He just keeps coming back through sheer willpower. Also, people actually notice and comment on the injuries he takes -- at one point he went to a hospital and the doctors were outright alarmed that the injuries that sent him there had spontaneously disappeared when by all rights he should have needed weeks to heal from them]].

* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' has Nozomu Itoshiki. Although most of the injuries are self-inflicted, he has survived: drowning in wine, getting run over by a trolley, many many hanging attempts (including one in which he was yanked so hard the rope broke), his name written in the Manga/DeathNote, surgery to get turned into a monster, and attempted murder by his students in a dream because [[spoiler: they didn't want it to end.]] Nozomu has even been murdered a couple of times by Chiri and/or most of the class, and he turns up fine at the end of the episode/next segment.

* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' survive a whole mess of stuff at the hands of Carrie Fisher's character [[spoiler: that Jake abandoned at the altar.]] Drive by with a rocket launcher, demolishing the entrance of the building they were standing in front of? They just stroll through the rubble, and go inside. Apartment building blown up? Stand up, brush themselves off, and go to work. Propane tank explodes, launching their phone booth into the air? Hey, there's at least seven dollars in change in the wreckage of the payphone!

* Sid on ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' went into anaphylactic shock from an allergic reaction to something he ate, got radiation poisoning from a victim he was performing an autopsy on, has to autopsy an ex-colleague's wife and in the same episode, [[spoiler: finds out that said ex-colleague stole organs from victims who were junkies when working at the ME's office and used them to make drugs,]] got almost blinded by an exploding bullet when trying to remove it from a victim's head, and in the final season not too long after [[spoiler: becoming a millionaire]], [[spoiler: gets diagnosed with cancer]]. And he still carries on working at the ME's office.

* Nathan from ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' is a pretty [[PersonalityPowers literal]] example of this, [[spoiler: considering he's immortal.]] Plus, in more mundane terms, he's virtually impossible to insult or embarrass.

* Poor, poor SuperDaveOsborne. Whether it's jumping off the CN Tower without a parachute, being crushed by a giant tanker truck, being pulverized by a massive piledriver, getting hit in the crotch with a golf club or a baseball, falling out a window to fall two stories and crash-land on the pavement, being [[ItMakesSenseInContext eaten by Mr. T]], or having a piano dropped on him, Super Dave was made of this trope.

* [[TheDitz Ratbag]] [[LovableCoward the Coward]] from ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' is characterized by his lack of friends, stupidity, and sheer ineptitude. His last scene in the game involves him getting BlownAcrossTheRoom, courtesy of a blow from Sauron's own mace (albeit not wielded by Sauron himself, but one of his underlings). In the sequel, ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar,'' it's revealed that [[spoiler: not only did Ratbag survive, but the mace did nothing more than knock him senseless for a while (he had a headache upon waking up, but that's hardly complaint-worthy). In the meantime, he's taken up the job of Overlord for the first fortress that Talion and co. encounter.]]

* This is basically Riku's entire purpose on ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'', as he can inexplicably take fatal injuries without missing a beat in his nonstop whining. [[DeadlyDoctor Zexion]] and [[AxCrazy Axel]] actively exploit this for as much schadenfreude as possible, being trapped in a reality show specifically for their capacity for cruelty. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that Riku is a Time Lord with a birth defect: [[CursedWithAwesome he can regenerate indefinitely, but never changes his appearance]].]]

* ''WebVideo/ResidentEvilAbridged'': During Richard's final hours at [[MalevolentArchitecture the Spencer Mansion]], he gets bitten twice by a giant snake, then inoculated by his teammates [[RunningGag who keep abandoning him]] afterward. And when he finally tries to get even with Chris for suggesting they ditch him the first time, [[spoiler: a shark leaps out of the tank and eats Richard]].

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* Comic relief jerkass Earl of Lemongrab of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. Thanks to his super-hard lemon candy skin, he has supercandyperson strength. He falls head-first out of the window of a castle and smashes his head into the ground hard enough to leave a big indentation in the earth, but he was fine. (Pissed-off, though.) Then, he fell from a tree and had a pretty nasty fall right on his back. Again, he was fine -- just angry.
* Iago the parrot took a ''lot'' of damage in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. The only time it was ''not'' played for laughs was near the end of the sequel, when he's just destroyed Jafar's lamp and Aladdin is mystified because he seems to be dead, but Genies can't kill anyone. [[IronicEcho You'd be surprised what you can live through]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has Steve who is always getting attacked by animals, bullies or suffering other injuries. He often injures himself horribly but always comes back in the next episode as if nothing has happened. Interestingly, he very rarely breaks his glasses, unlike what would probably happen in real life.
** The entire family isn't exactly exempt. Stan, Francine, Hayley, Klaus, and yes, even Roger have all been shown to get horribly injured on a regular basis, some are even worse than Steve's mentioned above (Francine for instance, has been shown to suffer brain injury) and all would show up next episode relatively not phased at all.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
** {{Deconstructed}}: Every single stray bullet that gets fired in or around ISIS headquarters hits Brett. However he's shown to have serious injuries in later episodes, bad enough to qualify for a disabled parking space. [[spoiler:Outright subverted in the fifth season, where he finally takes one in the head and immediately dies.]]
** Played straight with Archer himself.
--->''Since I started working at ISIS, I've been shot, stabbed, set on fire, poisoned, shot, sexually assaulted, partially chewed, [[RuleOfThree shot]], ''and'' [[NoodleIncident declared legally dead. Twice on the same day!]]''
** Unusually, he later deconstructs this, pointing out that [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome logically, all of this would be likely to leave marks on his body that would get worse with age, and he claims that he hopes he has dementia before the effects really happen]].
** Downplayed but otherwise played strait for Pam and Cheryl who are regularly subjected to low-grade physical abuse that never seems to really bother them. Mostly because Pam is legitimately tough enough to endure it while Cheryl [[TooKinkyTotorture is a raging masochist.]]
* This trope was used occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' when earthbending gets involved, then subverted in one of the few deaths in the series.
** Sokka is the king of this in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSuperDeformedShorts the chibi shorts]], particularly "Bending Battle." He gets used as a ''human pinball''.
** Prince Zuko is right behind Sokka. Despite being beaten and slammed into something almost every time he goes up against the Gaang, he always gets back up again, [[{{Determinator}} chasing Aang from one end of the world to the other]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BabyHuey'' of [[Creator/FamousStudios Harveytoons]] is built on this trope. He's invulnerable to the point where many of the gags of his shorts are centered around his enemies attempts to kill him [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfiring horribly on them.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''. Tornados, huge car crashes, lightning & former [[DrillSergeantNasty drill]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking segreants]] are barely enough to ''[[NoSell stun them]]'' for more then a few seconds.
** In the more recent season they even manage to bounce back after being bitten by a hobo and recieving multiple incurable diseases.
* [[RobotBuddy XR]] from ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' exemplifies this trope. The name's short for "X-pendable Ranger," and he was designed to be easily repaired after massive damage, so OnceAnEpisode he meets a brutal fate, complaining all the while.
** He insists it stands for "X-perimental Ranger". His presence on this page begs to differ.
* In ''Franchise/CareBears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot'', Oopsy Bear was noted for his ability to "fall over and over and over and over without hurting himself."
* The title character from ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has taken many injuries and is shown to still be fine in the next scenes, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction even letting out a dazed laughter as if it was nothing]]. Eustace, however, [[ChewToy has him rivaled for this trope]], for he has suffered far worse injuries than Courage and is still alive in the next episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/Cracked2016'': The protagonist Ed puts himself through all sorts of pain and suffering as he protects his eggs from whatever threat they're under in the episode, frequently putting himself through AmusingInjuries as a result.
* Chris in ''WesternAnimation/DanVs''. The guy survived eating ''poisoned meatloaf'' for crying out loud!
* ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'' has Dave. While everyone takes a bit of punishment, Dave is the most often in line to be beaten up, set on fire, blasted with magic or pummelled with heavy objects, but given that he is the size of a house and recovers almost instantly, it never seems to have any effect other than aggravating his usual cowardice.
* Fluffy and Uranus of ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' are effectively living teddy bears, and routinely get eviscerated in elaborate ways by the title character.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. Ed has dropped houses on Edd and Eddy, the Kankers' trailer fell on the Eds, a pile of garage sale junk fell on Ed, all three suffered spontaneous combustion after eating some jalapeno hot sauce, Ed zapped Edd with a static electricity bolt powerful enough to blow up the latter's house. If all that's not enough, all three once ''smashed into the sky, shattering into pieces.''
** Special mention goes to Eddy, seeing as he's the biggest [[JerkassWoobie butt monkey]] of the three; he's been beaten up more than anyone else on the show, had his arm smashed against a filing cabinet repeatedly, run through a thorn bush naked, [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext been attacked by a psychotic rooster,]] trampled by hippos, been struck by lightning, shattered into bits like glass, had his hair used as a violin, had his head sucked into a vacuum, used as the ball in a giant set of Newton Balls, had his head smashed into a tree God knows how many times, been smashed on against a metal trailer like a super ball, had his head pecked by a chicken for twenty-four hours then shrunk, run over by a truck ''and a train,'' but for the most part walks it off.
%%* Denzel Crocker from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. The entire family. Peter falls down stairs (repeatedly), Brian (being a dog) gets hit by cars, Stewie's had large pieces of glass stuck in his head, Lois has fallen off the roof and been drenched in scalding-hot french fry oil... and yet its Meg who's the series {{Buttmonkey}}. Ironic, huh?
** Not to mention that Meg's suffered such indignities as having her hair set on fire, having a piano fall on her (something that also befell Peter) and been shot full of poison darts.
* Mentioned by Creator/BillyWest in a commentary, Fry from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': getting slammed into a wall at full speed by those transport tubes, surviving a fall from a helicopter without deploying his parachute, eating a big heaping bowl of salt, three cola induced heart attacks in high school. And those are the ones that don't involve super-advanced medicine or symbiotic worms.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gawayn}}'': Sir Roderick is a ''literal'' example, actually being encased in armour.
* WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, especially in the ''How to...'' shorts.
* Stumpy the squirrel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}''. He even survived [[spoiler: being left on an '''exploding planet''']]!
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** Wile E. Coyote is practically the PatronSaint of this trope. He's been crushed, blown up, fallen hundreds of feet, been [[DiggingToChina knocked all the way through earth and back]], and that's just the tip of a long list of abuses. He not only survives, but [[StatusQuoIsGod is right back at the same thing again.]]
*** In fact, in the sort of spin-off series ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'', being an Iron [=Butt Monkey=] is Tech. E. Coyote's ''superpower''.
** Daffy Duck's been shot enough times, his face (or at least his beak) should no longer be recognized. Sylvester's gone through many of the abuses that WesternAnimation/{{Tom|AndJerry}} has suffered over the years, being beaten, smashed, electrified, and so much else. Still other villains like Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Marvin the Martian and the Tasmanian Devil have also survived incredible injuries.
*** Likewise Plucky Duck, Daffy's counterpart in Tiny Toons. Glorious, hysterical [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r1knpIlcV8 case in point.]]
*** Lampshaded in a Cartoon Network commercial that asked a bunch of questions people wondered about cartoons. They ask "How come you guys never get hurt?" and Sylvester, Daffy, and Elmer answer, respectfully, "A good diet." "Exercise." "Flexibility, really."
* Jeebs, from ''[[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack Men in Black: The Animated Series]]''.
* Spike in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has armored scales, and has been literally used as a pincushion without ill effect. Twilight can take a surprising amount of punishment as well, though this has yet to be lampshaded.
** All ponies seem capable of taking pretty big punishment: Rainbow Dash breaks her wing in one episode and walks it off within a matter of days, Pinkie Pie is run ragged by the Cake twins, Applejack almost works herself to death in "Applebuck Season". The only ponies out of the Mane Six who haven't had a lot of physical punishment yet are Rarity and Fluttershy.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** Doofenshmirtz. Every day, Perry ends up foiling his plans in some way, leading to the destruction of one of his many -Inators in a massive explosion or something that will bring some harmful treatment to Doofenshmirtz. In spite of this, he rarely ever seems hurt or displays any kind of bodily damage. So far he's survived fiery explosions, being hit by a giant ball of aluminum, the eruption of a volcano, the sinking of his lair while perched over a crocodile's mouth, crashing headlong into his own building several times, and multiple other situations.
** Candace. She is very durable, having remained uninjured after suffering from perilous falls and even lightning strikes.
* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' regularly get smashed, beaten, exploded, so forth, as Brain's schemes fail (a memorable one being the time they are blasted from the top of the Space Needle, all from Pinky's perspective). Of course, Pinky doesn't really mind when Brain bops him on the head, so perhaps he's okay with it. Brain, however, gets the worst of it. Naturally, they're still standing (if bruised) at the end of every episode, ready to do "[[OnceAnEpisode the same thing we do every night]]".
* ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} usually goes through this ''[[SealedBadassInACan until he eats his spinach...]]''
-->'''Popeye:''' ''[[PreAssKickingOneLiner Dat's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!]]''
* Pretty much all the characters in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' have fallen to this trope at least once in an episode, Rocko being the occasional victim of this.
* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' subjects the ''entire'' cast to some form of physical abuse ([[SlapstickKnowsNoGender yes, even the girls]]), but the most frequent victims are Eggman and Knuckles. To be fair, though, both of them tend to invite suffering upon themselves, such as when Knuckles went through a minefield of exploding baby ducks and ''[[TooDumbToLive picked up almost every single one]]''...
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s Ike was like this right up until about the time he started going to school. Most of his appearances involved Kyle playing "Kick the Baby!" and punting him through windows.
** However, special mention goes to no one other than Kenny, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain who has died in more than one episode]].
* Squidward from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': His unfortunate fates include being shot out of a cannon, run over by a giant boulder, hit in the face with a pie bomb, zapped by the Flying Dutchman, attacked by a bear, and blown up from eating too many krabby patties, as well as having his toenail ripped off and ''[[YourHeadAsplode his head explode]]''. Yet he always manages to get right back to the way he was, and even managed to [[TookaLevelinBadass take a level in badass]] in "Spongebob, You're Fired!".
** Plankton, Mrs. Puff and sometimes even [=SpongeBob=] himself are just as unlucky.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Amethyst gets way more physical abuse than any other character. Nine times out of ten she'll walk it off no problem.
** Peridot suffers [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Wile E. Coyote-level trauma]] in "The Kindergarten Kid".
--->'''Steven:''' You don't [[FromASingleCell poof]] easily, huh?\\
'''Peridot:''' [whilst under a boulder] Us Peridots are stronger than we look![[note]]If "Reunited" is anything to go by, one of the few things that can poof her is a direct electrocution from Yellow Diamond[[/note]]
** Though it pales in comparison, Ronaldo has brushed off a number of comical injuries, which is especially notable given [[MadeOfIron he's completely human]]. He once got in a fight with the Crystal Gems that realistically would have broken his hand and jaw, as well as possible his skull, neck, or back, then recovers instantly. ''Blog/KeepBeachCityWeird'' mentions a ''refrigerator'' falling on top of him, whereupon his only concern was being stuck under it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** Gumball suffers from AmusingInjuries in almost every episode. In "The Procrastinators" he's shattered, eaten, lit on fire, disintegrated, and blown up in just one episode.
** Anton as well. "The Recipe" subverts this by revealing that he ''does'' die, but his parents know how to clone him using a toaster.
** Alan (a balloon) gets popped in most of his speaking roles. He's back to normal by the next.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'': The Urpneys. Aside from the [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment cartoon abuse]] they take from [[BadBoss Zordrak]], nearly each and every new scheme involves them being transformed or horribly injured in some slapstick manner (to name a few, being [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrunk]], zapped with electric bolts, beaten up by [[CuteBruiser Amberley]], fell victim to numerous vehicle crashes and [[ItMakesSenseInContext mauled by a band of vicious leaves]]). Out of any of these situations, only being fed to Frazznats or [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] has lasting effect.
* This was a plot point of all things in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''. Mort, our resident {{Buttmonkey}}, is so dumb that he can take lethal blows without serious damage. The penguins decide to suction out their own brains so that they, too, can have this "Halo of Ignorance". It works until they are too stupid to carry out their mission.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons:''
** Homer Simpson is the king of this trope. He goes through everything from falling off a cliff (twice), to slamming into a tree in his car, suffering from skiing incidents, waterfall plunges, animal maulings, getting shot by a nailgun, amateur brain-surgery, amateur heart surgery, and ''getting hammered by a champion boxer!!!'' Not to mention getting shot by a cannon daily for a living as one of his many, many jobs. One has to wonder if he is truly immortal...
*** He did die once briefly of a heart attack but he went back into his body when he heard his family was getting a ham, [[YankTheDogsChain which is then cancelled when Homer resurrects]].
*** One of the later episodes had Homer being forced to perform in a circus act in which he's bitten by several cobras (some of which aren't even real snakes, but robots with venomous needles fitted into their mouths) and then [[FromBadToWorse has his throat ripped open by a mongoose sent in to kill the cobras]]. Not only is all this PlayedForLaughs, but the entire act is shown to be more humiliating than life-threatening for Homer.
** Sideshow Bob counts in ''Cape Feare'' when he manages to be unhindered by a parade trampling him. Said parade also had about six or so ELEPHANTS that trampled him. Before that he had survived hitting his head against the speeding road, scalding hot coffee ("Ugh! This coffee is too hot!" *Pours it down the side and we hear scalding noises* GAHHHH!!), a drive through a cactus patch, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmNObROcBOo rakes. Lots and Lots of rakes.]]
** Scratchy of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Itchy and Scratchy]]'' is this as well. Every episode he appears in, he dies [[BloodyHilarious in a variety of amusing ways]], barring the [[NoodleIncident one episode where he gets Itchy]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'': All three main characters; Larry has been electrocuted, smashed by a washing machine, been shot at, several times his body has been reduced to just a head, and has had his computer system scrambled by magnets. Otto gets frequently beat up by people from history, chased by a grizzly bear, viciously attacked by an evil Franchise/MyLittlePony (seriously), suffers from Tuddrussel's stunts, was crushed by a bookcase (off-screen), left in a hurricane, and was practically the resident buttmonkey at the orphanage. Tuddrussel takes a good amount for himself when it comes to getting beaten up by people, like Joan of Arc for example, has been slammed into the ground after destroying a giant fly monster, attacked by a lion, took on lava from the top of a volcano and really takes an equal amount as his comrades.
* Tom of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''. Like Wile E. Coyote, he seems to be genuinely impervious to damage, with the exception of a few episodes where he does actually die. And even then, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain it never sticks]].
** [[DeconstructiveParody Deconstructed and spoofed]] in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=207 this]] ''Webcomic/VGCats'' comic, where Jerry's actions in the "Lost Episode" of Tom and Jerry do have lasting repercussions.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' seems to love this trope, as many characters have held this title over the years, including Tyler, Harold, Brick, and Max.
** Tyler specifically receives a ton of injuries whenever he competes. His first action on the show is to fall off some waterskis, hit the dock, fly through the air and crash into a pile of luggage. From there, he has hit a buoy jumping off a cliff, had a kayak thrown on him, fallen into piranha-infested waters, and stepped on a working landmine. And yet he still makes it out ready for more.
** Harold gets it even worse. The guy has the record for most injuries out of any character in the show, and holds the record for most hits in the groin. He is *somehow* still able to compete even with the amount of daily abuse he gets.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'', Cody constantly gets injured, almost on a OncePerEpisode basis, and also {{lampshades}} it a couple of times.
* Waspinator of ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars''. The writers found his speech pattern, which combined a buzzing emphasis on any S or Z sounds with being a ThirdPersonPerson and TheNicknamer, [[CreatorsPest annoying to work with]], but they still had to include him in episodes [[MerchandiseDriven for marketing purposes]], so they opted to have him make those appearances [[WriterRevolt in pieces]]. This shoddy treatment made him, ironically enough, [[EnsembleDarkhorse very popular with the fans]], and the writers eventually came around on him...at which point they started to ''really'' go to town on him, since the comically unpleasant treatment he endured was the cornerstone of his appeal. Expanded universe material would explain that his spark ([[OurSoulsAreDifferent basically his soul]]) was unusually small and located in his head, explaining why he could be shot to pieces, blown up, run over, folded, spindled, mutilated, crushed into a cube, blown up ''again'' and repeatedly decapitated without dying.
* H.E.L.P.eR. of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. This household staff robot has been dismantled by rogue Monarch henchmen, had his legs ground off by acting as surrogate landing gear, been beaten to death and ejected to space ''by the Venture brothers'', been burned up on re-entry, had his [[ElectricTorture nipples electrocuted]], and been detonated and lodged in the chest of Brock Samson. [[FridgeLogic Upon reflection]], H.E.L.P.eR. can be seen as something of a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] (no pun intended) of the Iron Woobie automaton. One of the reasons he sees so much action these days is because Dr. Venture has watched him take punishment for thirty-odd years and has become desensitized to it. (There's a moment when arch-enemy The Monarch demands Venture's cooperation because he has H.E.L.P.eR as a hostage, and Venture reacts as though The Monarch is insane.) The rest of the family treat H.E.L.P.eR much more like a person. Brock Samson is probably his healthiest friend (and maybe vice-versa?).
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* Yokoshima from ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami''. He always gets injured, and has spent some time in a hospital from some of his nastier injuries, and has even ''died'' on a few occasions, but always gets right back up at the mention of booty. He has also survived getting struck by lightning and ''falling from orbit'' with just EasyAmnesia as a side effect in the last one.