History Main / OrganDodge

** They were still under the curse at that point; it would have just grown back as soon as he took the fork out.

* In one of Kazuki's fights in ''Manga/BusouRenkin'', he gets stabbed in the heart. But it doesn't do anything, because he had already been stabbed in the heart and had it replaced with a [[MineralMacGuffin Kakugane,]] which is now in his hand as his Busou Renkin.
** And at another time he is wounded in the chest and survives because the Kakugane stops the blade before it can cut too deeply.

* In ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', Loki's mind-control staff works by poking the target over the heart. It doesn't work on Tony Stark because his implanted arc reactor is in the way.

* In the first ''[[VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense X-COM]]'', Ethereals have the highest hitpoint and armor value of all the non terror unit aliens. Their [[MonsterCompendium UFOPaedia entry]] after an [[AlienAutopsy autopsy]] reads [[spoiler: "The muscles are severely atrophied and the internal organs appear to be under-developed. The sensory organs, including the eyes, do not appear to function at all. The brain, however, is well developed and draws on a high proportion of the body's blood supply. It is a mystery as to how this creature can sustain itself without external support." They are that tough because they don't have many organs to damage.]]

* One character on ''Series/GameOfThrones'' (whose name would be a major LateArrivalSpoiler) shrugs off a GroinAttack because he was castrated a few seasons back during a prolonged period of ColdBloodedTorture.

* .Variation in ''Series/{{Hercules}}''. Hercules is challenged to shoot the Ceryneian Hind with an arrow, but it is a sacred animal and to spill its blood is an offense punishable by the gods. Hercules proves skilled enough to shoot it without hitting any blood vessels, so it doesn't bleed.

* In the [[Synopsis/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty endgame]] of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'', [[spoiler:Ocelot disables the electromagnetic force field that protects Fortune from gunfire, and shoots her straight through the heart... which doesn't seem to faze her at all, because as Ocelot remembers afterwards, her heart is on the right. Of course, she still dies from the gaping hole in her chest some minutes later, but not before figuratively flipping him the bird]].

* In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', DarthWiki/DarthVader gets too close to lava but can still climb to safety because his prosthetic arm is the only bit of him that's not burned.

* After falling in lava after a duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader from ''Franchise/StarWars'' manages to climb to safety because his prosthetic arm remains intact.

* In "Appetite For Murder", a short story from ''[[Literature/{{Nightside}} Tales From The Nightside]]'', a magically-enhanced SerialKiller attempts to use his SuperStrength to rip open the buxom chest of Ms. Fate, the Nightside's resident superheroine. As the killer in question hadn't realized just ''how'' unexpected Ms. Fate's SecretIdentity is, he's befuddled to find that he's merely torn off one of the WholesomeCrossdresser crime-fighter's falsies.

* In the [[MGS2Ending endgame]] of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'', [[spoiler:Ocelot disables the electromagnetic force field that protects Fortune from gunfire, and shoots her straight through the heart... which doesn't seem to faze her at all, because as Ocelot remembers afterwards, her heart is on the right. Of course, she still dies from the gaping hole in her chest some minutes later, but not before figuratively flipping him the bird]].

* ''Fanfic/FatesCollide'': Cu Chulainn impales Ruby Rose with his spear Gae Bolg, and was skilled enough to deliberately miss all her organs.

** "A Private Little War". Spock is shot but survives because his heart is where is liver would be if he were fully human.

* Ani Toguro of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' could rearrange the organs in his body at will, theoretically making it impossible to strike a fatal blow to him. Kuwabara just finds a way to hit every single point on his body simultaneously. [[spoiler:That is enough to stun Toguro, yet still winds up being nonfatal.]]

* Happens occasionally with Professor X's wheelchair/hoverchair in ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}''.

* In one Story Corps piece, a man [[http://storycorps.org/listen/lendall-hill-lori-fitzgerald/ tells the story of his father's wooden leg]] and different potentially-dangerous scenarios where he avoided pain because of his leg.

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* During the Unification War, Mal Reynolds of ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' had a certain cluster of nerves moved due to getting torn up by a piece of shrapnel. As a result, during the Big Damn Movie ''{{Film/Serenity}}'', the nerve strike that the Operative uses to paralyze people and set them up for being killed with his sword doesn't work on him.

* The MadScientist du jour in ''Literature/JasonXPlanetOfTheBeast'' gets his artificial arm ripped off, though this trope is averted in the proceeding book, ''Literature/JasonXDeathMoon'', where the latest Mad Scientist is stabbed in his fake eye, but Jason just drives the blade in deeper and deeper until it reaches the guy's brain.

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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5th edition, the Warshaper is a PrestigeClass open to shapeshifters. One of the first powers gained is "Morphic Immunities", which allows them to redistribute vital organs whenever in a different form than their own, gaining immunity to critical hits.

* In the [[{{MGS2 Ending}} endgame]] of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'', [[spoiler:Ocelot disables the electromagnetic force field that protects Fortune from gunfire, and shoots her straight through the heart... which doesn't seem to faze her at all, because as Ocelot remembers afterwards, her heart is on the right. Of course, she still dies from the gaping hole in her chest some minutes later, but not before figuratively flipping him the bird]].

* There is a [[StockLateralThinkingPuzzle lateral thinking puzzle]] about a man who 'lived because his brother nearly died' which when solved is revealed to be a man stabbed who managed to survive due to an organ dodge; having donated his kidney to his brother earlier when his brother was sick.

* In one StoryCorps piece, a man [[http://storycorps.org/listen/lendall-hill-lori-fitzgerald/ tells the story of his father's wooden leg]] and different potentially-dangerous scenarios where he avoided pain because of his leg.

* ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'''s Shiki does this with her arm

Where a character gets stabbed or shot - usually in the kidney - and it should be fatal. Only it isn't, because they donated that kidney. Or they have dextrocardia. Or that limb was actually prosthetic. Usually given as justification for OnlyAFleshWound, but sometimes the central conceit around which a climax - or entire plot - is built. Usually used as an ironic counterpoint to the original injury. This is all but guaranteed to happen to people cheated out of organs earlier in the plot, because it's a good way of suggesting ambiguity - after all, if they still had that kidney they were tricked into donating, they'd be dead now.

If a character is shown to have donated an organ and the genre isn't MedicalDrama, they're extremely likely to suffer injury to that area later in the work. Anyone with dextrocardia - where the heart is on the right side of the body instead of the left - is virtually guaranteed to be shot or stabbed where the heart "should be" at some point.

* ''Manga/DragonHal'': Damuramu survives being stabbed in the head with his own energy blade, because his brain is that small - and he ''is'' the most stupid character in a show that handled out [[IdiotBall idiot balls]] to everyone!

* The MadScientist du jour in ''JasonXPlanetOfTheBeast'' gets his artificial arm ripped off, though this trope is averted in the proceeding book, ''JasonXDeathMoon'', where the latest Mad Scientist is stabbed in his fake eye, but Jason just drives the blade in deeper and deeper until it reaches the guy's brain.
* In Steve Harriman's thriller novel ''Sleeper'', the escaped monster tears off government bureaucrat Ed Jeffers' arm, and succeeds, as the arm is a prosthetic that he wears to cover up a birth defect(a small, only partially formed arm) caused by Thalidomide.

* InvokedTrope in the ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' sourcebook ''Cyberscape'' with the cybernetic implant Organ Remapping. This implant "is an extensive set of minor cybernetic devices that relocate a recipient’s internal organs and addsafety valves, cutoffs, back-ups, and alternatives to many of the more critical and fragile organic systems." In game, it increases the recipient's massive damage threshold, and gives him/her an increased save bonus against massive damage (that is to say, an increased probability to survive extremely damaging attacks).

* In the [[{{MGS2 Ending}} endgame]] of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'', [[spoiler:Ocelot disables the electromagnetic force field that protects Fortune from gunfire, and shoots her straight through the heart...which doesn't seem to faze her at all, because as Ocelot remembers afterwards, her heart is on the right. Of course, she still dies from the gaping hole in her chest some minutes later, but not before figuratively flipping him the bird]].
* In the first ''[[VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense X-COM]]'', Etherals have the highest hitpoint and armor value of all the non terror unit aliens. Their [[MonsterCompendium UFOPaedia entry]] after an [[AlienAutopsy autopsy]] reads [[spoiler: "The muscles are severely atrophied and the internal organs appear to be under-developed. The sensory organs, including the eyes, do not appear to function at all. The brain, however, is well developed and draws on a high proportion of the body's blood supply. It is a mystery as to how this creature can sustain itself without external support." They are that tough because they don't have many organs to damage.]]

** for added fun combine the two above puzzles by having one brother donate a kidney to the other, then have the first life saved when he is stabbed but lacks a kidney and the other sacrifice himself to the primitives. Properly phrased this puzzle will take many hours to solve and drive even the most skilled puzzler crazy.

Subtrope of DisabilityImmunity. Compare with ChekhovsSkill if the audience is told about the condition in advance.

* In the first ''VideoGame/XCom'', Etherals have the highest hitpoint and armor value of all the non terror unit aliens. Their [[MonsterCompendium UFOPaedia entry]] after an [[AlienAutopsy autopsy]] reads [[spoiler: "The muscles are severely atrophied and the internal organs appear to be under-developed. The sensory organs, including the eyes, do not appear to function at all. The brain, however, is well developed and draws on a high proportion of the body's blood supply. It is a mystery as to how this creature can sustain itself without external support." They are that tough because they don't have many organs to damage.]]

* ''Fanfic/FateStayNightUltimateMaster'': Lancer's spear, Gae Bolg, will [[AlwaysAccurateAttack always pierce it's target's heart]]. Fortunately for Ben Tennyson, when Lancer tries to use it on him, he was in the form of NRG, a creature that does not have a heart.

* ''Fanfic/Ben10UltimateAlien'': Lancer's spear, Gae Bolg, will [[AlwaysAccurateAttack always pierce it's target's heart]]. Fortunately for Ben Tennyson, when Lancer tries to use it on him, he was in the form of NRG, a creature that does not have a heart.