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* [[StalkerWithACrush Mitsurugi]] [[CampGay Hana]][[TheLibby gata]] in SaberMarionetteJ tends towards this. Particularly notable in a few scenes where he only takes ClothingDamage from attacks explicitly stated to be fearsomely deadly to Otaru and even the [[RobotGirl Marionettes]].

* Grif from ''RedVsBlue''. Seriously, this guy once took a [[GroinAttack punch to the groin]] hard enough to ''dent'' the metal floor beneath him. The fact that he was able to walk straight is nothing short of extraodinary. Oh, but not just punched. ''Hammered'' by a shotgun, a gas tank, and a concrete roadblock (which partly cracked upon impact around the area), all to the groin. Tex is a mean, mean girl.
** "Why don't you just kill us?"

* [[MortadeloyFilemon Filemon]] is the god of this trope, he receives constantly horrible beatings, explosions and large falls, he recovers one panel later. The rest of the cast qualifies, but Filemon overshadows all of them.

[[MortadeloyFilemon Filemon]] is the god of this trope, he receives constantly horrible beatings, explosions and large falls, he recovers one panel later. The rest of the cast qualifies, but Filemon overshadows all of them

** He is actually somewhat of a subversion as he has been shown to still have cuts and burses hours after Kirie or another girl beats him. Fukuyama on the other hand just bounces back from similar abuse but he is TooKinkyToTorture and just brushes it off.

* TheBluesBrothers survive a whole mess of stuff at the hands of a crazy woman [[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!

* Baby Huey of 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.]]

* Waspinator of ''{{Transformers}}: BeastWars''. It helps that, being a Transformer, he's made of metal. Also, his spark is in his head, which means it's harder to get a 'kill-shot'.

** And those are the ones that don't involve super-advanced medicine.

* Youhei Sunohara in ''{{Clannad}}''. Not only survive being a punching bag or beaten up with a baseball bat, but for once he was dropped from a garbage chute SEVERAL FLOORS DOWN and walk away.

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* Ensign Shirt (first name [[RedShirt Red]]) of ''LegostarGalactica''. It is eventually explained that he gets his superhuman resiliency from being the descendant of the Claire of a ''{{Heroes}}'' parody.

* Nip of NipAndTuck has been dropped from immense heights, blown up, set on fire, rocketed across the countryside in a homemade rocket-sled, and shot from a giant slingshot. His aptitude for this sort of thing was so bad his parents were ''relieved'' to learn he'd taken up a career as a stunt man.

* HomestarRunner has Strong Sad. He is constantly getting beaten up or worse by other characters. He ends up doing all the dangerous stunts in the Dangeresque films. And in one email, The Cheat decides to curry favor with Strong Bad. We don't see what happens, but we hear what sounds like a power drill and Strong Sad shouting "Ow! My face and eyes!"
* Grif from RedVsBlue. Seriously, this guy once took a [[GroinAttack punch to the groin]] hard enough to ''dent'' the metal floor beneath him. The fact that he was able to walk straight is nothing short of extraodinary. Oh, but not just punched. ''Hammered'' by a shotgun, a gas tank, and a concrete roadblock (which partly cracked upon impact around the area), all to the groin. Tex is a mean, mean girl.

* {{Family Guy}}. 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?

* Tom of {{Tom And Jerry}}. 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 it never sticks.)
* {{Pinky And The Brain}} regularly get smashed, beaten, exploded, so forth, as Brain's schemes fail. 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]]".
* 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, Ed zapped Edd with a static electricity bolt powerful enough to blow up the latter's house...

* 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.
* BeavisAndButthead.
* This trope was used occasionally in AvatarTheLastAirbender when earthbending gets involved, then subverted in one of the few deaths in the series.

* Mentioned by BillyWest in a commentary, Fry from {{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.

Obviously a form of {{Acceptable Breaks From Reality}}. Primarily an animation trope, {{Western Animation}} is particularly fond of this one.

* Sawbuck in ''MSPaintAdventures'' takes horrendous abuse in the comic, but still survives due to his corpulence. What makes him a ButtMonkey to begin with, though, is that his time power only activates ''when'' he's hurt.

** [[FirdgeHorror That's probably because]] [[AndIMustScream it has no arms, legs or mouth, however]]...

* Keitaro of LoveHina is reputed to be immortal based on this trope. OrSoIHeard.
** Though he actually subverts this at one point: he breaks his leg, and it lasts for a several chapters. They even [[{{Lampshade}} talk about how he usually just bounces back after getting hurt]].
*** Then again, it took the '''top of a building''' falling on him, if I remember correctly, to break his leg. SoYeah...
****After breaking his leg he ends up fighting Motoko's sister who sends him flying, crashing head first into streets, gets possessed and other assorted bad things in a '''cast''' and bounces back fast but yet is still asked "why he couldnt go to school?" by Naru
****The leg breaking also was a bit of [[{{Temptingfate}} Tempting Fate]] where Mutsumi says he has used up all his luck, then {{Hilarity Ensues}}
*** Considering that LoveHina is a tailor made satire of every manga RumikoTakahashi has ever made, the broken leg incident can be considered a reference to the UruseiYatsura example. So can Keitaro as a whole.
** In Keitaro's case, every injury he sustained that actually lasts is a direct result of his own actions. Anytime someone ELSE tries to hurt him, it doesn't stick.

* Grif from RedVsBlue. Seriously, this guy once took a [[GroinAttack punch to the groin]] hard enough to ''dent'' the metal floor beneath him. The fact that he was able to walk straight is nothing short of extraodinary.