History Main / IronButtmonkey

* The ''Wiki/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.

** Downplayed but otherwise played strait for [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender 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.]]

* ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' presents Gordon Freeman as this, as he desperately tries to navigate his way out of Black Mesa, while being nailed with every hazard in the game and complaining hilariously about it. [[DoorToBefore Dead ends]], [[NoOSHACompliance fragile catwalks]], toxic waste, aliens trying to kill him, soldiers trying to kill him, the building trying to kill him, being trapped on an alien planet with no way out... there is really no end to Freeman's suffering. [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist It's a good thing he deserves it.]]

* Grif from ''Machinima/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 used as melee weapon, a gas tank, and a concrete roadblock (which partly cracked upon impact around the area), all to the groin. Tex is a '''VERY''' mean girl.

Primarily an animation trope, WesternAnimation is particularly fond of this one. Bonus points if the Iron Butt Monkey is merely annoyed or embarrassed by his injuries when they should be screaming in pain.

Primarily an animation trope, WesternAnimation is particularly fond of this one.

Not to be confused with ''Film/IronMonkey'', a [[HongKongFilms Hong Kong action film]] set within the mythology of ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina''.

* ''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 ''[[UpToEleven smashed into the sky, shattering into pieces.]]''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gawayn}}'': Sir Roderick takes this trope UpToEleven and is a ''literal'' example, actually being encased in armour.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' the Urpneys take this trope UpToEleven, 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.

* ''Franchise/TheMuppets:'' Beaker [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcXiUSZPuWA recently died]]. ''Still'' doesn't get any respect.

** Count the number of times Alec Trevelyan from ''Film/GoldenEye'' lives through something that should kill him. Before the opening credits, he's already been supposedly shot in the head (which was likely staged) and caught in an explosion. He later survives a great fall, and only dies because [[spoiler:a satellite system drops on him]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Cracked2016'''s 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.

Not to be confused with ''Film/IronMonkey'', a UsefulNotes/HongKong action film set within the mythology of ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina''.

* Freddie on ''Series/ICarly''.

* Souta Takanashi of ''Manga/{{Working}}'', who regularly takes punches from a co-worker who can put holes in walls and damage utility poles with little more damage than a bloody nose and bruises that last no more than a few hours. Actively analyzed multiple times -- two fellow co-workers want to keep him around (to keep the aforementioned co-worker from attacking ''them'' instead), plus it's shown how Souta got to be so resilient (regular training from one of his older sisters, a professional self-defense instructor).

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* 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]].

* Souta Takanashi of ''Manga/{{Working}}'', who regularly takes punches from a co-worker who can put holes in walls and damage utility poles with little more damage than a bloody nose and bruises that last no more than a few hours. Actively analyzed multiple times - two fellow co-workers want to keep him around (to keep the aforementioned co-worker from attacking ''them'' instead), plus it's shown how Souta got to be so resilient (regular training from one of his older sisters, a professional self-defense instructor).

* Mr. Immortal of the ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'' is regularly killed in gruesome ways, much to ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s chagrin, but his powers ensure that he'll resurrect shortly thereafter.
* 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.

** Curly seemed the most resilient - a common gag was to have Moe pound him over the head with a hammer or run a saw over his scalp, and the tool would be irreparably damaged.
* Out of the plethora of horror villains, Jason Voorhees of the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series gets the most abused. which says something.
* ''Franchise/EvilDead'': Badass he may be, but Ash is still this quite often.
* ''Film/JamesBond''
** Jaws from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' goes through many things that would normally kill a person: he survived falling from a cliff while trapped inside a car, attacked by a shark (which he got out of by ''biting the shark''), stabbed and thrown from a building, etc. Each time he experiences one of these he just gets up and dusts himself off.
** Count the number of times Alec Trevelyan from ''Film/GoldenEye'' lives through something that should kill him. Before the opening credits, he's already been supposedly shot in the head (which was likely staged) and caught in an explosion. He later survives a great fall, and only dies because [[spoiler:a satellite system drops on him]].
* ''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!
** The cops are probably this to a certain extent as well -- they chase the Brothers through a mall, end up either submerged in a pile of cereal boxes or with their car upturned; the apartment building explodes, and they stand up, brush themselves off, continue as normal; finally catch up with the brothers, only to end up crashing into a speeding winnebago. In the final chase, they get into a pile up (and in one case, end up landing in the side of a truck). All completely unharmed (and in Mercer's case, highly amused).
** The movie even (subtly) offers an explanation for all this: the brothers are on a MissionFromGod, and so He's keeping anyone from getting hurt while they're doing it.

* O.J. Simpson in ''Film/TheNakedGun'' movies. Which, in light of later events, could be seen as HilariousInHindsight, or perhaps a reverse KarmaHoudini?
* [[DastardlyWhiplash Professor Fate]] in ''Film/TheGreatRace'', who survives being crushed by a falling hot air balloon, run over by a train, blasted into the ground by a rocket, blown up by a primitive grenade launcher (twice), and falling down a manhole. And that was just in the first half-hour.
* ''Film/PainAndGain'': Kershaw is essentially immortal.
* Iron Bar's name fits him, because he gets whacked ''a lot'' in ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''.
* ''Film/HotRod'' has stuntman Rod Kimble. Though he may shrug off injuries and accidents that would otherwise kill or permanently cripple people and still be determined to save his step dad...very little actually goes right for him throughout the whole movie. You could probably count on one hand the number of times something does go right for him without a hitch on one hand.
* ''Film/RogueOne'': Orson Callan Krennic. He gets shot in the shoulder in his very first scene. After the TimeSkip, he has apparently completely recovered from this, but then gets bombed and knocked unconscious (in the novelisation the bombing also leads to him [[{{Squick}} coughing up black stuff from smoke inhalation]], and in the same scene of the book he punches the screen of his datapad in anger, cutting his hand as a result) In the rest of the film, he gets Force-Choked and shot in the other shoulder, along with a lot of humilation by Tarkin and Darth Vader. He is eventually killed by a direct hit from the Death Star, which would have completely vaporised him.
** And all this (except the first scene) takes place over the course of a few days. Any normal person would be dead, unconscious, or at the very least curled up on the floor begging for mercy. Yet Krennic somehow manages to remain ''smug''.
* ''Film/BatmanReturns'': Catwoman. She's pushed out a window to the street below, burned on the arm by a vial of acid and sent plummeting down into a truck full of sand, nearly strangled by one of the Penguin's umbrellas and sent crashing through the roof of a glass greenhouse (which rips her costume to shreds), and finally shot four consecutive times in the stomach. But all this just makes her angrier and crazier than before.
* The titular character from the Italian film series ''Film/{{Fantozzi}}'' is BornUnlucky and thus the target of every kind of humiliation, abuse and disasters, akin to a live-action cartoon. He literally can't even die, since he has been kicked out of Heaven, reincarnated against his will, and cloned in a near future.

* Richard Hammond on ''Series/TopGear'', especially in the earlier series, always seems to get the physically unpleasant challenges (sitting in a car filling with water, running to the North Pole with a dogsled, etc.) When [[MadeOfIron he actually did bounce back]] from a NoOneCouldSurviveThat accident, his co-presenters were courteously solemn about it for at least half a series -- but now it's open joke fodder.
* 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.

* Bill on ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' is Canada's standout example. Red himself is a lesser example, considering how often Bill injures him by accident during the Adventure segments.
* Freddie on ''Series/ICarly''.

* 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.
* Adam Young of ''Series/MrYoung'' has been struck by lightning, fought an alligator, had multiple weights dropped on him, fallen out of a building, and many other things, and never even breaks a bone.
* 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.
* The title character from ''Captain Scarlet'' is blessed (or cursed) with a Wolverine-type Healing Factor, and has been "killed" and resurrected more times that Kenny from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. He has become something of a cultural icon; Simon Cowell once told a particularly dire stand-up comedian auditioning for ''Series/TheXFactor'', "You just died more times than Captain Scarlet".

* 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...]]
* VideoGame/{{Wario}} is outright invincible in the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' games (after the first one); any enemies encountered there either serve as obstacles that make him drop his precious coins or as a means of transforming him in some way to reach otherwise inaccessible areas. Such transformations involve his getting [[ManOnFire set aflame]], [[HarmlessFreezing frozen solid]] or SquashedFlat, and becoming a HumanSnowball, an AccordionMan or [[ZombifyTheLiving a zombie]], among other things. In any event, he's able to shrug off anything that happens to him.

* Phoenix in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' series has been whipped into unconsciousness, been hit in the face by scalding hot coffee mugs, and had birds peck at his face, and yet none of this ever leaves so much as a mark on him. At one point, he's even ''hit by a car'' and gets out of it with nothing more serious than a sprained ankle. He also once ran across a burning bridge, and fell off halfway across because the bridge fell apart, into a raging river noted that anything that falls in there goes missing forever in the middle of an enormous storm. He caught a cold.
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': [[IneptMage The]] [[LastOfHisKind Protagonist]] ([[PlayerCharacter You]]) end up becoming this. Due to being the Master of [[StoneWall Mash Kyrielight]] makes them significantly hardier to physical and mystical injury than most mages. Buuutt... this mindset encourages their other Servants to drag them into ''all'' sorts of dangerous scenarios or shenanigans without paying any sort of attention to their safety (emphasis on all). So as long as they remember to shanghai Mash, they can cut loose without fear. ...or pain.

* Daxter, of ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter,'' has this status sometimes. The example that comes to mind is the cutscene where Daxter narrowly avoids getting blown up after RidingTheBomb. He gets up and walks away unscathed... only to be flattened underneath a piece of debris.

* Sandbag from the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games feels no pain at all, and apparently likes to see how far it can get hit.
* Vice Admiral Arthur Norbank in ''VideoGame/NexusTheJupiterIncident'' has a really hard time dying, despite his numerous failures as a commander and despite the players' sincerest wishes. His ships have been blown up so many times (due to his own incompetence), it's always an unpleasant surprise whenever he shows up safe and sound. In a later mission, the player has a chance to leave Norbank to die.
* [[HookHand Fritz]] from ''VideoGame/BrainDead13''. During his big hunt (which lasts ''literally'' the entire game) he's often hurt and damaged in several ways, including being stomped, locked in an iron maiden, having bits of a Frankenstein monster fall on him, getting shot in the face by his own cannon and so on. And let's not mention the [[OverlyLongGag stairs]].... Yet no matter how big a beating he gets, he's right behind you at almost all times.

* Bowser from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros '', at least in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' series. If there's any otherwise likely death inducing humiliation in those series, it's probably going to happen to him, and he keeps on going. Castle about to explode? Bowser wakes up just in time for it to come crashing down on him. Volcano erupts? He flies straight out the top of it. ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' is basically this: the game, with Bowser having to do every stupid thing possible to progress and getting flattened by every castle, robot and train in the kingdom.
* [[CluelessDetective Hildibrand Manderville]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' gets subjected to a ''lot'' of physical abuse over the course of his quests, such as getting [[NonFatalExplosions blown up]] by his assistant's homemade bombs (twice, even!), {{suplex|Finisher}}ed into the ground with enough force to create a shockwave, or hurled through a stone roof. The only harm he suffers from any of this is ClothingDamage.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs]] have long suffered as a ButtMonkey race. Their bestial appearance and "barbaric" culture (as it is perceived by the other races of Tamriel) make them frequent victims of FantasticRacism. Several times the Orcs have tried to unite and create their own city-state known as Orsinium, but each time, their neighboring nations (the Bretons of High Rock and Redguards of Hammerfell) have forced them to abandon it. By the 4th Era, the Orcs were forced at swordpoint by the Bretons to officially renounce the kingdom of Orsinium and assimilate into High Rock as slaves in all but name. Only a few Orc tribes still live independently in destitute, scattered "strongholds", scorned by all. Notably, their patron deity, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] Malacath, teaches them to take these trials in stride, as he preaches "strength through adversity."
* [[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.]]
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' has the stranger in the black hat viewing the scenery between the ranch and Armadillo. Normally you are prompted to talk him, but instead of doing so, you can push him off the cliff. Since this counts as a failure in completing a Stranger mission, you can come back to the same spot and push him over every single time; on rare occasions will he survive the fall and run all the way up the trail to where you are, seeking revenge.

** The entire Blood Gulch crew qualifies for this, actually - even [[StraightMan Washington]]. Everyone there is a ButtMonkey to somebody, has survived horrible injuries, and/or been victim to NoOneShouldSurviveThat at least once, Grif's just the one who survives the funniest ones.
* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Just about everyone, even ''''Lumpy'''' and '''''Flippy''''', even though the show is called ''Happy Tree friends''!
* ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' presents Gordon Freeman as this, as he desperately tries to navigate his way out of Black Mesa, while being nailed with every hazard in the game and complaining hilariously about it. [[DoorToBefore Dead ends]], [[NoOSHACompliance fragile catwalks]], toxic waste, aliens trying to kill him, soldiers trying to kill him, the building trying to kill him, being trapped on an alien planet with no way out... there is really no end to Freeman's suffering. [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist It's a good thing he deserves it.]]

* Balder of ''Webcomic/BratHalla'' is immune to everything, as everything promised his mother, Frigg, they would not harm him. (Except mistletoe, of course.) Since Balder is immune to all damage, he makes an excellent club when wielded by his brother Thor. (Which is not to say he doesn't ''feel'' it...)

* Largo in ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' - if we ignore the broken arm that occurred in the first dozen strips. Piro has even commented that for a long time it was Largo's job to get physically hurt and Piro's to get emotionally hurt, until their roles started blurring slightly.

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

* Tiff of both ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' and ''Webcomic/MagickChicks'' is showing signs of this. Her first appearance in ''Cuties'' had her spend the day dead after accidentally impaling herself, and so far in her first arc in ''Chicks'' she's busted her nose and been knocked senseless by a miss aimed spell.
* Phil from ''Webcomic/{{Yosh}}'' is initially this, but after the series GrowingTheBeard, this ability got [[CerebusRetcon expanded]] to include all forms of harm, [[MageKiller especially]] [[AntiMagic magic]].
* 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]].]]

* 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 ''Wiki/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.

* ''WebVideo/JosephsMachines'': Downplayed. There is a lot of footage of Joseph being humorously injured by his inventions (or his attempts to build them), but never seriously.

* 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.

* ''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 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.

A type of AcceptableBreaksFromReality, the Iron Butt Monkey is, simply put, [[NighInvulnerability practically immune]] [[MadeOfIron to harm]]... purely for the purpose of having hilarious injuries happen to him. [[AnvilOnHead Drop an anvil on him?]] [[CranialEruption He simply gets a nasty looking lump]] or be SquashedFlat only to reform once the weight is removed. Throw him off a cliff and watch him bounce down in a brutal manner? He'll be fine [[UnexplainedRecovery by the next scene]]. [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Incinerate him?]] He'll reform from the ashes or [[TheyKilledKennyAgain even simply be back next episode.]] One wonders how many lives this guy could save in the military.

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

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', we have Usopp, who, despite being practically useless, survived a Gastanet attack from Ceaser Clown, an attack that destroyed a good bit of '''''AN ISLAND''''', and nearly killed the rest of the crew and the marines at Punk Hazard. Note that he not only has the second lowest (No, not counting Chopper because that's an error made by the marines) bounty, he is also shown to have the least fighting power of them all. That said, Gastanets are similar to to ''Nuclear bombs'' in power, but not in range.

* 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 [[RealityEnsues 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.

** Unusually, he later deconstructs this, pointing out that [[RealityEnsues 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]].

* [[HookHand Fritz]] from ''VideoGame/BrainDead13''. During his big hunt he's often hurt and damaged in several ways, including being stomped, locked in an iron maiden, having bits of a Frankenstein monster fall on him, getting shot in the face by his own cannon and so on. And let's not mention the [[OverlyLongGag stairs]]....