History NighInvulnerability / ComicBooks

* Unlike Superman, Franchise/WonderWoman can be physically wounded (if you can get past her lightning-fast reflexes), but she can still take far, far more damage than normal humans and still keep fighting.

* Battleships in ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' are a brutal {{deconstruction}} of this power: they are impervious to nearly all sorts of conventional damage and can survive injuries that would kill normal humans. However, this means that [[BlessedWithSuck anything that could conceivably harm them is next of impossible to treat]] since they lack regeneration and are immune to anesthetics. Not even the destruction of ''their hearts and brains will kill them instantly.'' One American battleship tried to fight a Nazi one that was fully enhanced had his [[BodyHorror entire upper body melted and twisted apart]] and he was [[AndIMustScream still alive and suffering during the whole time]]. It took a ''industrial drill'' to MercyKill him, and even that took hours to complete. The fastest manner of killing a Battleship-class Uber is through severe blood loss as seen with [[spoiler:Siegfried that required a DeathOfAThousandCuts to put him down and that is after half his head was blown up]].

** From ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' to ''ComicBook/XForce'' to ''Comicbook/XMen'', Sam "Cannonball" Guthrie's power renders him Nigh Invulnerable ([[LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe as he repeatedly says himself]]), but only when he's "blasting" -- which is to say using his pyro-plasmodic forcefield in flight. And as if that didn't do it, he's also an External (an immortal mutant).

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* [[Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew Captain Carrot of the Zoo Crew]] seemed to have about the same durability level as the Tick. His origin story paired him with Superman, and made it plain that he was nowhere near as tough as Supes, but that he could still withstand a lot of punishment.

** In ''Comicbook/YoungLove'', Linda tells her invulnerability saved her life when her rocket landed.

** Supergirl's invulnerabiliy is brought up in ''Comicbook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton''. Kara survives her rocket crashing when she arrives on Earth because she is invulnerable.

** In the modern version of that story, Kara survives a crash-landing, swims to the surface -ignoring water pressure-, crashes the Batboat into the Gotham's docks and is not harmed by the ensuing explosion, a car crashes into her and gets totaled, several cops open fire when they see her and the bullets bounce off her skin, she crashes into a dirigible... all of it happening in the first issue.

** In ''Comicbook/KryptoniteNevermore'', all Kryptonite has been reduced to ordinary iron, and people think that Superman "is really invulnerable". However Superman lost most of his power throughout the story, to the point a bullet could jurt him.

* The ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' villain, Trigon is more or less invincible to any form of damage from all of the Titans. Only Raven in her ultimate form was able to vanquish him.

** It should be noted, though, that his nigh invulnerability is only in effect when he's in metal form. If an enemy manages to catch him off-guard in human form, he can be taken down just as easily as any normal human. Well, as easily as any normal human who happens to be about seven feet tall, built like a bear and an extremely experienced hand to hand combatant.

* The Canadian superheroes ComicBook/AlphaFlight have a [[HeelFaceTurn villain-turned-hero]] called Diamond Lil --though she does not have superstrength, she effectively hits twice as hard as normal because her fists absorb none of the impact energy. (Given that she's also a six-and-a-half-foot-tall weightlifter, that's gotta hurt.) She's so nigh invulnerable that she has very little sense of touch and sometimes isn't even aware of low-power attacks against her. (She was created, like Bethany of the Next Men above, by John Byrne.)
* Butterball, from ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'', has a variation on this power; he is completely immutable, and therefore cannot be harmed in anyway. This power is apparently all-encompassing, as he has extreme difficulty learning new subjects, can't lose (or gain, for that matter) weight, can't get in shape, etc, etc....

* ComicBook/{{Galactus}}'s armor is made of a metal-like substance so tough that nearly zero attacks can even ''scratch'' it. Galactus himself is a somewhere between an EnergyBeing and an AnthropomorphicPersonification, making him immune to physical ailments.

* ''Comic/GhostRider''. When transformed, he's just bone, hellfire, and a biker outfit. He can take insane amounts of punishment, and only magic attacks can hurt him.

** Symbiotes usually have strong HealingFactor|s however they seem to get stronger the more attached they are to their hosts.

*** ComicBook/{{Carnage}} is even worse He's still alive after loosing his entire lower half at the hands of Sentry, also recently the symbiote was able to somehow fix his brain after a lobotomy and even more recently he was blown to bits after smothering [[ComicBook/{{Axis}} a bomb designed to kill every non-mutant in New York]] and came back only slightly weakened, the symbiote just dosen't want to give Cletus up.

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is nigh-invulnerable due to being a literal PhysicalGod, what with being the son of Odin and Gaia. He's one of the few non-cosmic beings in the Marvel universe capable of going toe-to-toe with ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk and can survive blows from Galactus, Hulk, and other such powerful beings.

** Another foe Jormungand the Midgard Serpent is also insanely tough mostly due to [[GiantEqualsInvincible being big enough to encircle the Earth]]. Even Thor can't afford to hold anything back when he's fighting the planet-sized snake.

* ComicBook/{{Ultron}}, essentially being [[AIIsACrapshoot evil computer software]], falls under this, since no matter what, a portion of itself always exists in cyberspace. And more importantly, most versions of Ultron are made entirely of adamantium. Destroying him in the first place is an epic challenge.
* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, who possesses quick regeneration abilities and [[MadeofIndestructium a skeleton that's pretty much indestructible due to being laced with adamantium]]. He can survive pretty much any attack up to (and probably beyond) a direct hit from a nuclear warhead. The time it takes for him to regenerate depends on the severity of his wounds and [[DependingOnTheWriter who happens to be doing the writing]], but chances are, Wolverine will be back up on his by the end of the page.

*** Once the remaining issues of ''Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk'' [[ScheduleSlip were shipped]], readers were treated to an even better sight—[[spoiler: Ultimate Nick Fury interrogating Wolverine's '''disembodied head''', with the former surmising Ultimate Wolvie's ''real'' mutant power must be to survive anything.]]

* John Byrne's ''ComicBook/NextMen'' had a group of teenagers who each had one of the classic 'stock powers'--one guy was super-strong, one was super-fast, one could see the entire electromagnetic spectrum, etc. Bethany was completely invulnerable, of the Made of Diamond type, and the series actually showed some of the logical extremes of this power: she could use a single strand of her hair to saw through an iron bar (and if you try to grab her hair, you lose your fingers), and she eventually lost the ability to feel hot and cold as the series went on.

** Colossus thta has the superhuman ability to convert the tissue of his entire body into an organic steel-like substance. In his armored form Colossus is invulnerable to most forms of bodily harm. His armor is capable of withstanding ballistic penetration, including that of a 155 millimeter Howitzer shell. He can survive extremes of temperature from 70 degrees above absolute zero (-390 degrees Fahrenheit) to approximately 9000 degrees Fahrenheit. He can survive a collision with a loaded, ten-ton flatbed truck at 100 miles per hour or an explosion of 4500 pounds of TNT. He can also survive falls from great heights while in his armored body. He can now go toe-to-toe with any incarnation of the Hulk (barring the tragedy-enhanced "Green Scar" incarnation from ComicBook/WorldWarHulk).

** Another invulnerable mutant is the Blob that is a very large guy with that name-- who has stood up to everything from Wolverine's claws, to flamethrowers, to the Hulk's punches.
*** Though not, apparently, Wolverine's head-banging in a certain 2009 movie... though this is probably because in the comics his head was always vulnerable compared to the rest of his body. He's generally more vulnerable to sensory assaults-the [[MakeMeWannaShout Banshee]] once stunned the Blob with his sonic scream, while both the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}} exploited his blubber. The Hulk stretched the Blob like a piece of taffy, while Sleepwalker used his [[EyeBeams warp vision]] to wrap a steel girder around the Blob and squeeze him. [[ColdBloodedTorture In both cases, it was pretty painful]].

** Partial subversion. From ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' to ''ComicBook/XForce'' to ''Comicbook/XMen'', Sam "Cannonball" Guthrie's power renders him Nigh Invulnerable ([[LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe as he repeatedly says himself]]), but only when he's "blasting" -- which is to say using his pyro-plasmodic forcefield in flight. And as if that didn't do it, he's also an External (an immortal mutant).
** Cell, one of The Morlocks from XMen-related comics, is a giant single-cell organism, meaning he can regenerate any damage done to him at all and absorb organic matter for nourishment. Basically the ''only'' catch to this is that he can't digest inorganic objects, meaning he had a bullet stuck harmlessly in his head for a while. His teammates Shatter and Litterbug, however, were just super-tough; Shatter was made of some kind of super dense obsidian-like rock, while Litterbug had a layered, chitonous exoskeleton.
** The XMen foe ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} is usually nigh invulnerable [[spoiler:his first powerless child incarnation was an exception]] thanks to a combination of his original mutant powers and Celestial technology. Any time he is killed, his followers Clan Akkaba take steps to ensure his rebirth.

* Adam Destine of ''Comicbook/ClanDestine'' is completely invulnerable, as well as being immortal. He can withstand superpowered combat, large-scale explosions, lasers, crashing on Earth from space in a ''bus'' with broken windows (albeit with a spaceship engine attached, courtesy of his GadgeteerGenius son) and who knows what else with nothing more than ClothingDamage. He also apparently doesn't need to eat, drink, or breathe to survive- he once went a decade without doing any of the above, with no ill effects. The power was given to him by his wife, a very powerful genie.

** Jackie does indeed have that power in the comic. One particular scene that springs to mind is his body being reconstructed from the surrounding organic matter after blowing up a warehouse.

* The Saint of Killers from ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}''. Scratch the "Nigh"; presumably a living saint walking the earth is considered a paradox by the laws of physics, and they find it comfortable to ignore him. His utter immunity to damage (of the Divine Protection sort) is first shown when he [[ImmuneToBullets ignores a hail of gunfire from a dozen cops]]. The villain, after he sees that the Saint is bulletproof, is smart enough to bring a battalion of tanks to their next clash, only for the Saint to shrug off multiple tank shells to the face and proceed to [[InstantDeathBullet kill everyone present]]. The villain, who anticipated even this, drops a [[NukeEm nuclear bomb]] on him as a coup de grace. Cut to the Saint, standing amidst the nuclear fire, ''[[NoSell completely unharmed]]''.
-->'''Saint''': ''[spits]'' Not enough gun.
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Cassidy]] also has this to a much lesser degree, of the HealingFactor variety. He can take damage but heals even "mortal" wounds quickly, much faster if he [[ImAHumanitarian feeds]], and nothing but the sun can actually kill him. Even [[LosingYourHead decapitation]] only inconveniences him for a while.
** Debatable. Decapitation outright incapacitates Cassidy until his allies stitch his head back on. Cassidy's HealingFactor is actually used against him when Starr's associate tortures him by repeatedly shooting him with a .303 rifle. It gets to the point where even Cassidy was unsure how much more he could take, physically or mentally.

* Deconstructed in the story of Element Girl in the ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' comics. She is tired of being an invulnerable superhero, but she cannot commit suicide because her body keeps involuntarily changing to a form that will survive each attempt.
** The "divine protection" form is tweaked slightly for Cain. He is not himself invulnerable to harm, but he has a [[AllMythsAreTrue mark from God]] that makes it clear anyone killing Cain will face God's wrath. The mark is sufficient to warn off deliberate attacks, but probably wouldn't save Cain from accidents and such. Lucifer however is not intimidated by the mark, presumably because he already suffered God's wrath in the past. He still lets Cain go unharmed out of amusement. Cain is deeply shaken by the encounter.

* Checkmate of ''Anime/UltimateMuscle'' is both an example and a subversion at the same time. He's been raised to be immune to pain, so he's able to go far longer than any other wrestler. However, the series plays that notion straight, as it's pointed out that someone immune to pain wouldn't know when they had gone past their limit. This ability magically disappeared, though, when [[RedemptionDemotion he joined the good guys.]]

* Immortal Man was [[RessurectiveImmortality endlessly reincarnated]] with his memories intact.

* Immortal Man was endlessly reincarnated with his memories intact.

** Superman's cousin Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} has this, too. In ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' she gets dumped in a star and survives.

** Bizarro also counts, since he is an EvilCounterpart of Superman.

** His OmnicidalManiac AlternateUniverse version, Superboy-Prime, a relic from a destroyed alternate universe that was left in a paradise dimension with several other refugees, only realizing his destiny as a great hero was "stolen" from him. In the end, it takes ''two'' other Super''men'', a ''legion'' of Green Lanterns, and being thrown through ''Krypton's sun'' to weaken him enough to be captured. Previously several Flashes were needed to restrain him. This is partly attributable to his having pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|on Infinite Earths}} power levels, unlike Superman himself.

** In Comicbook/KryptonNoMore'' both cousins endure radioactive energy blasts, lightning bolts, freezing beams, flames and faster-than-light space travel.

** One of course can't forget his OmnicidalManiac AlternateUniverse version, Superboy-Prime, a relic from a destroyed alternate universe that was left in a paradise dimension with several other refugees, only realizing his destiny as a great hero was "stolen" from him. In the end, it takes ''two'' other Super''men'', a ''legion'' of Green Lanterns, and being thrown through ''Krypton's sun'' to weaken him enough to be captured.
*** Don't forget the Flashes that were needed to take him down in the first place.
*** Partly attributable to his having pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|on Infinite Earths}} power levels, unlike Superman himself.
** Superman's cousin ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' has this, too. In ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' she gets dumped in a star and survives.

** Colossus, who can now go toe-to-toe with any incarnation of the Hulk (barring the tragedy-enhanced "Green Scar" incarnation from ComicBook/WorldWarHulk).

** TheJuggernaut : it's almost impossible to inflict even minor damage on him, he quickly [[HealingFactor regenerates]] in the rare cases (almost always involving magic) that somebody can can hurt him, and once he gets up some steam, he just plows right through any obstacle in his way.

* ComicBook/EmmaFrost is LITERALLY Made of Diamond. One of her powers is to take on a diamond form, while losing her psionic powers in the process. This can of course be reverted.

* Superman's cousin ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' has this, too. In ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' she gets dumped in a star and survives.
* The ComicBook/MartianManhunter has this naturally, but [[UpToEleven can augment it]] through his [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting abilities]]. Mostly MadeOfDiamond, but can become Made of Air through [[IntangibleMan Intangibility]] and Made of Liquid by altering his molecular structure. On top of that, he can also [[HealingFactor regenerate]].
* Bizarro also counts, since he is an EvilCounterpart of Superman.
* ComicBook/{{Ultron}}, essentially being [[AIIsACrapshoot evil computer software]], falls under this, since no matter what, a portion of itself always exists in cyberspace.
** And more importantly, most versions of Ultron are made entirely of adamantium. Destroying him in the first place is an epic challenge.
* ComicBook/TheTick, for whom this [[TropeNamer trope is named]]. His primary power is always listed as "nigh invulnerability."
** For God's sake, even a ''black hole'' isn't enough to beat this guy.
* While a lot of superheroic characters have some level of invulnerability, the aptly-named [[ComicBook/TheEternals Eternals]] of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse may stand out for special mention: they possess a "psychic lock" on their molecular structure that allows them to restore virtually any injury they can't flat-out ignore.
* Symbiotes from ComicBook/SpiderMan usually have strong HealingFactor|s however they seem to get stronger the more attached they are to their hosts.
** Anti-Venom had enough of Eddie Brock's personality that when the Punisher blew his brains out it reassembled them so that he cold protect [[MoralityChain Jenna Cole]].
** ComicBook/{{Carnage}} is even worse He's still alive after loosing his entire lower half at the hands of Sentry, also recently the symbiote was able to somehow fix his brain after a lobotomy and even more recently he was blown to bits after smothering [[ComicBook/{{Axis}} a bomb designed to kill every non-mutant in New York]] and came back only slightly weakened, the symbiote just dosen't want to give Cletus up.
* No mention of the [[Comic/GhostRider Ghost Rider]]? When transformed, he's just bone, hellfire, and a biker outfit. He can take insane amounts of punishment, and only magic attacks can hurt him.
* Madcap in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse has this as his primary power (his secondary power being [[IntoxicationEnsues inducing euphoria]] in others). He has been dismembered, decapitated, burned to ash, and even vaporized, yet always managed to regenerate within a few hours at most.
* The Marvel character SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} possesses several forms of nigh-invulnerability, but none work quite as well as they should. He is incapable of dying (sometimes ignored), but that is more of a curse than anything. He can also regenerate from almost any wound, but his healing factor unfortunately seems to work in proportion to how badly he was hurt (in other words, his healing factor would kick in much more quickly and effectively if he simply used a grenade and blew his whole arm off in order to heal some slash wounds on it).
* However, possibly the most famous nigh invincible character in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse would have to be ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, who possesses quick regeneration abilities and [[MadeofIndestructium a skeleton that's pretty much indestructible due to being laced with adamantium]]. He can survive pretty much any attack up to (and probably beyond) a direct hit from a nuclear warhead. The time it takes for him to regenerate depends on the severity of his wounds and [[DependingOnTheWriter who happens to be doing the writing]], but chances are, Wolverine will be back up on his by the end of the page.
** After Nitro's attack on an Elementary School, only Wolverine's BRAIN hadn't been completely incinerated because of his Made of Diamond skeleton, and he regenerated even when it was completely implausible that he could be ALIVE, let alone able to regenerate.
*** That wasn't his HealingFactor. Didn't you know? [[AWizardDidIt An angel of death did it.]] Which is sadly the more reasonable explanation. Anyway... his HealingFactor is back to ''"normal"'' after Wolverine ''had a talk'' with said angel.
** One other notable example is from the ''Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk'' series, in which the Hulk '''rips Logan in half''', throwing the lower portion of his body on top of a mountain, necessitating the need for him to climb a mile up with his intestines hanging out of him.
*** Once the remaining issues of ''Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk'' [[ScheduleSlip were shipped]], readers were treated to an even better sight—[[spoiler: Ultimate Nick Fury interrogating Wolverine's '''disembodied head''', with the former surmising Ultimate Wolvie's ''real'' mutant power must be to survive anything.]]
** In ''Uncanny X-Men'' Annual #11, Wolverine regenerated completely from a single drop of blood. To be fair, his healing factor was supercharged with the power of the Crystal of Ultimate Vision. We don't talk about what happened to the adamantium.
*** After he was resurrected with the Crystal of Ultimate Vision, he came back as an actual god. He was going to use his power, but then realized that as a man it was not right for him to have that much power, and smashed the Crystal with his claws. I think the implication was that he gave himself adamantium bones with his god-like powers in order to break the Crystal.
*** Marvel editors continually raise the question with this: If Wolvie's arm or finger gets cut off, could it [[SendInTheClones grow a new Wolverine?]]
** Wolverine ''has'' survived direct hits (or near enough) from nuclear weapons, at least two times. Once in a Venom miniseries - while bonded with a clone of the Venom symbiote - and once in ''Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk''.
* Immortal Man in Franchise/TheDCU was endlessly reincarnated with his memories intact.
** Also from the DCU is Mitchell Shelley, the ComicBook/ResurrectionMan. He has a similar ability to Immortal Man's; every time he dies, he comes back to life with a new superpower. [[spoiler:This is actually reincarnation, but when combined with nanotech regeneration, it gets interesting.]]

* Manhattan's source of inspiration, ComicBook/CaptainAtom, is also nigh invulnerable - at one point he survives a direct hit from a tactical nuclear warhead.
* Creator/ImageComics super-pensioner ''Brit'' is made of some material stronger than diamond -- he is totally indestructible. He has no super strength or special abilities other than indestructibility -- but when you can strap a nuclear device to your back and drop into enemy territory to detonate it, who needs super strength?
* As quoted above, Craig "Mr Immortal" Hollis from the ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'' (a comical offshoot of ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'', whose members all had powers considered too useless to be in the main organization). He had no special abilities, no power to withstand damage, but if he actually died, he just stood up again three seconds later, fully healed. Since he was a child, he's been haunted by Deathurge, a psychopomp-like being who convinces people to kill themselves, but decided to take Craig in as a sort of adoptive son. It's been said somewhere that he's destined to be the last living creature in the universe. In the ''GLA'' miniseries, he's revealed to be "Homo Supreme", [[EvolutionaryLevels one step beyond]] [[ComicBook/XMen mutant]] (which caused Flatman, who'd just come out as gay, to mutter "Always have to one-up me, don't you?").
* Flint of ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}} has the MadeOfDiamond variant as her entire superpower. SuperStrength seems to be more of a side-effect of having indestructible muscles.
* Alpha from Christos Gage's ''ComicBook/{{Absolution}}'' is functionally indestructible.
* Max Damage from ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}''/''Incorruptible'' grows more and more invulnerable to harm the longer he stays awake. However, it resets whenever he falls asleep.
* The primary power of the title character ''ComicBook/PainkillerJane'', a comic turned TV series, is to recover from anything. It still ''hurts'' though, hence her name.
* Checkmate of ''Anime/UltimateMuscle'' is both an example and a subversion at the same time. He's been raised to be immune to pain, so he's able to go far longer than any other wrestler. However, the series plays that notion straight, as it's pointed out that someone immune to pain wouldn't know when they had gone past their limit. This ability magically disappeared, though, when [[RedemptionDemotion he joined the good guys.]]
* In the game of ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'', one of the powers The Darkness grants Jackie Estacado is to protect him from virtually any harm... and if he does manage to die, it just rewinds time to a point when he's alive (the justification for the game's checkpoint system), or sends his spirit to The Otherworld while it rebuilds his body.
** Jackie does indeed have that power in the comic. One particular scene that springs to mind is his body being reconstructed from the surrounding organic matter after blowing up a warehouse.
* A running gag in Creator/PhilFoglio's comics is The Winslow, an immortal, indestructible being who is the focus of many violent religious sects. As the Platonic Essence of living beings (whatever that means), it was created during the Big Bang, and will exist through all successive Big Crunch/Big Bang cycles forever. The joke is that The Winslow is a small, cute, furry, green and yellow alligator-like creature with the attention span of a gnat.
** Just how indestructible is he? If you're a cultist looking for him, and you know what planet he's on, the simplest way to search is to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt reduce the whole planet to dust]]. When you sift through the remains, The Winslow will be the largest remaining piece.
* The Saint of Killers from ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}''. Scratch the "Nigh"; presumably a living saint walking the earth is considered a paradox by the laws of physics, and they find it comfortable to ignore him. His utter immunity to damage (of the Divine Protection sort) is first shown when he [[ImmuneToBullets ignores a hail of gunfire from a dozen cops]]. The villain, after he sees that the Saint is bulletproof, is smart enough to bring a battalion of tanks to their next clash, only for the Saint to shrug off multiple tank shells to the face and proceed to [[InstantDeathBullet kill everyone present]]. The villain, who anticipated even this, drops a [[NukeEm nuclear bomb]] on him as a coup de grace. Cut to the Saint, standing amidst the nuclear fire, ''[[NoSell completely unharmed]]''.
-->'''Saint''': ''[spits]'' Not enough gun.
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Cassidy]] also has this to a much lesser degree, of the HealingFactor variety. He can take damage but heals even "mortal" wounds quickly, much faster if he [[ImAHumanitarian feeds]], and nothing but the sun can actually kill him. Even [[LosingYourHead decapitation]] only inconveniences him for a while.
** Debatable. Decapitation outright incapacitates Cassidy until his allies stitch his head back on. Cassidy's HealingFactor is actually used against him when Starr's associate tortures him by repeatedly shooting him with a .303 rifle. It gets to the point where even Cassidy was unsure how much more he could take, physically or mentally.
* Marvel Comics' Comicbook/IncredibleHulk is an extreme example; he is both super tough, invulnerable to all conventional weapons, and has an extremely fast healing factor, so fast that it was not discovered in the continuity until he was wounded while he was slowed down because he was Joe Fixit. Basically, he has shrugged off point blank heavy nuclear weaponry, planet-splitting impacts, or strikes from cosmic entities, healed within seconds from having over 80% of his flesh repelled off of his body, and one incarnation eventually managed to restore itself from being blown to powder. Lampshaded in "The Last Titan" wherein the immortal Hulk just keeps on going alone in the wasteland after the rest of humanity destroys itself. (The alien empires were said to host an enormous celebration.)

* The Sandman. No, not [[ComicBook/TheSandman that one]]--the ''Comicbook/SpiderMan'' villain. He could change the density of his body so that one moment he was hard as a rock, and the next moment [[{{Intangibility}} Spider-Man's punches just hit loose sand]].

* Partial subversion. From ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' to ''ComicBook/XForce'' to ''Comicbook/XMen'', Sam "Cannonball" Guthrie's power renders him Nigh Invulnerable ([[LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe as he repeatedly says himself]]), but only when he's "blasting" -- which is to say using his pyro-plasmodic forcefield in flight. And as if that didn't do it, he's also an External (an immortal mutant).
** Rogue says it a lot too. At least when Claremont is writing her dialogue.
** [[ComicBook/XMen Colossus]], who can now go toe-to-toe with any incarnation of the Hulk (barring the tragedy-enhanced "Green Scar" incarnation from ComicBook/WorldWarHulk).

* J. Michael Straczynski's ''ComicBook/RisingStars'' series had a character, Peter Dawson, whose special power was that he was effectively indestructible: a microthin energy shield surrounded his entire body, protecting him from literally everything, and also lined the inside of his lungs and stomach, making poisons ineffective, too. However, the usefulness of this power is called into question, and the power as a whole subverted, in the issue where Dawson appears. Since the shield can't tell what is and isn't an attack, he can't feel any sensation whatsoever--the only sense he really has available (besides sight and hearing, of course) is taste, causing him to overeat until he's a pudgy blob. While he was in high school, the football coach tried him out on the team, but as he discovered, Dawson's invulnerability doesn't make him any tougher or stronger--the other team would just run right over him. Dawson later applied to be a bodyguard, a policeman, anything where his ability might conceivably be useful, but his obesity meant he failed all the physicals. The only job he ends up getting is as a mechanic in a local garage.
** Even more interesting, though, is that the only issue in which Dawson appears, he's been murdered. (That's not really a spoiler, since you know it from page one.) The doctor who's been called in takes most of the issue recounting his life before finally revealing how it was done: [[spoiler:his killer snuck in at night, while Dawson had fallen asleep in his armchair, and taped his arms and legs to the chair--since Dawson didn't have any feeling, thanks to the shield, he didn't notice. Then the killer simply pulled a plastic bag over Dawson's head and waited. Even though Dawson's shield could filter out inhaled poisons, he still needed ''oxygen''.]]

* Another invulnerable Marvel mutant is the Blob-- not ''Film/TheBlob1958'', just a very large guy with that name-- who has stood up to everything from Wolverine's claws, to flamethrowers, to the Hulk's punches.
** Though not, apparently, Wolverine's head-banging in a certain 2009 movie... though this is probably because in the comics his head was always vulnerable compared to the rest of his body. He's generally more vulnerable to sensory assaults-the [[MakeMeWannaShout Banshee]] once stunned the Blob with his sonic scream, while both the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}} exploited his blubber. The Hulk stretched the Blob like a piece of taffy, while Sleepwalker used his [[EyeBeams warp vision]] to wrap a steel girder around the Blob and squeeze him. [[ColdBloodedTorture In both cases, it was pretty painful]].
* And the Canadian superheroes ComicBook/AlphaFlight have a [[HeelFaceTurn villain-turned-hero]] called Diamond Lil --though she does not have superstrength, she effectively hits twice as hard as normal because her fists absorb none of the impact energy. (Given that she's also a six-and-a-half-foot-tall weightlifter, that's gotta hurt.) She's so nigh invulnerable that she has very little sense of touch and sometimes isn't even aware of low-power attacks against her. (She was created, like Bethany of the Next Men above, by John Byrne.)

* TheJuggernaut in the ''ComicBook/XMen'': it's almost impossible to inflict even minor damage on him, he quickly [[HealingFactor regenerates]] in the rare cases (almost always involving magic) that somebody can can hurt him, and once he gets up some steam, he just plows right through any obstacle in his way.
** At full power, Juggernaut has a force field that he can summon at-will just inches away from himself.
** One time, a demon mystically melted his flesh and organs... ''and Juggernaut's bones still kept moving forward''. The demon was literally too stunned to do anything about that. He's practically a PhysicalGod, as he is an avatar of Cyttorak, an evil god thing.
* The X-Men's ComicBook/EmmaFrost is LITERALLY Made of Diamond. One of her powers is to take on a diamond form, while losing her psionic powers in the process. This can of course be reverted.
** Before Emma, Penance of Generation X was as hard as diamond, and she ''couldn't'' turn it off.
** In a future, Emma Frost and Scott Summers' daughter, Ruby, has a similar ability. Contrary to the name, it is just as much diamond as her mother. The red hue is due to her father's powers.
* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' and other comics taking place in that universe are teeming with NighInvulnerable characters, but Guardians of the Globe member Dupli-Kate is a particularly good example of HiveMind-style invulnerability. When all her copies are apparently killed in a brawl, her [[FlyingBrick husband]], [[AxeCrazy brother]] and team mourn her death -- only to learn that her 'zero' has been holed up in a remote location for, apparently, ''years'' as proof against just this kind of scenario.
* Unlike Superman, Franchise/WonderWoman can be physically wounded (if you can get past her lightning-fast reflexes), but she can still take far, far more damage than normal humans and still keep fighting.
* This is the sole power of Turtle in ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}''. Literally, he's simply ''very nearly'' completely invulnerable. He ''can'' be harmed, but not much and not without an excess of effort. He was rejected from the Legion due to his lack of offensive capabilities, but joined the Legion Auxilliary along with Night Girl and his friend Sizzle with the hopes of eventually graduating to the Legion proper.
* Cell, one of TheMorlocks from ComicBook/XMen-related comics, is a giant single-cell organism, meaning he can regenerate any damage done to him at all and absorb organic matter for nourishment. Basically the ''only'' catch to this is that he can't digest inorganic objects, meaning he had a bullet stuck harmlessly in his head for a while. His teammates Shatter and Litterbug, however, were just super-tough; Shatter was made of some kind of super dense obsidian-like rock, while Litterbug had a layered, chitonous exoskeleton.
* Butterball, from ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'', has a variation on this power; he is completely immutable, and therefore cannot be harmed in anyway. This power is apparently all-encompassing, as he has extreme difficulty learning new subjects, can't lose (or gain, for that matter) weight, can't get in shape, etc, etc....
* Comicbook/ManThing is both something of a blob (he's a mass of plant matter with no internal organs to damage), and even if something manages to destroy him, he'll simply regrow from swamp matter back home.
** Similar to DC's ''Comicbook/SwampThing''. When Creator/AlanMoore took on the title [[spoiler:he retconned Swamp Thing as a mass of swamp growth with Alec Holland's memories, rather than a transformed Holland. He also explained the character's apparent death in the previous issue and subsequent survival with the summation "You can't kill a vegetable by shooting it through the head". Swamp Thing soon discovered he was the Earth's latest plant elemental (courtesy of John Constantine), and learned how to manipulate the planet's flora through the metaphysical plant-collective plane called the 'Green'; including growing new bodies for himself at an accelerating rate. (Several days with the first attempt, split-seconds soon after.) His invulnerability started at 'Blob' but soon encompassed 'Regeneration', 'Made of air', 'External Repair', 'The Proxy', 'Multiple Bodies', 'Can Only Kill Part of Him', and arguably 'Physical God'. Things only escalated when he absorbed the powers of Earth's other elementals...]]
* In the J-horror inspired Creator/DCComics comic, ''ComicBook/CrossingMidnight'', Toshi first discovered this when she jumps from the TreehouseOfFun in her yard and doesn't get impaled by the wrought iron fence.
** It should be noted, though, that his nigh invulnerability is only in effect when he's in metal form. If an enemy manages to catch him off-guard in human form, he can be taken down just as easily as any normal human. Well, as easily as any normal human who happens to be about seven feet tall, built like a bear and an extremely experienced hand to hand combatant.
* One of the Hulk's enemies is the superintelligent Leader. The Leader uses pink, rubbery biological androids called Humanoids as MechaMooks. They fall into the "made of rubber" category, being resilient and stretchy enough that punching them doesn't do any harm.
* ComicBook/PlasticMan can survive practically anything. He's nominally Made of Rubber, but he's essentially a Blob. He can be cut and pierced without bleeding or pain, he reassembles himself if broken into pieces, and he doesn't age. One time travel story had him blown to bits in the distant past and scattered across the ocean floor, only to be reassembled in the present day (not without psychological harm, though). He's even invulnerable to most psychic attacks, owing to the fact that his body is made of homogeneous plastic "stuff" and doesn't have a distinct brain. It has been repeatedly claimed that he could be killed by sufficiently intense heat, but the fact that he was able to survive a fight with ComicBook/MartianManhunter who had been turned into a flaming giant at the time, throws even this into doubt.
* While not nearly as durable as Plastic Man, [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] is Made of Rubber and can survive most attacks, at least as long as he sees them coming in time to stretch with the impact.
* [[Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew Captain Carrot of the Zoo Crew]] seemed to have about the same durability level as the Tick. His origin story paired him with Superman, and made it plain that he was nowhere near as tough as Supes, but that he could still withstand a lot of punishment.
* The poster boy for the Extreme Luck variation would have to be Gladstone Gander of the Creator/CarlBarks duck universe. Gladstone is officially the luckiest person on Earth (and is insufferably smug about it).
* The poster kids for External Repair would have to be the ComicBook/MetalMen. It's hard to name a Metal Men story that ''doesn't'' involve most of the team getting destroyed, and they make the sacrifice ''cheerfully,'' because they know that as long as Doc Magnus can gather up their broken bits, he can fix them as good as new. Deserving special mention is Lead, who is most often used as a shield for the others. Not only is he very dense and durable, he blocks radiation, doesn't conduct electricity, and has the highest melting point among the team -- there aren't a lot of ways to hurt this guy.
* [[ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick Slapstick]] has been shot with bazookas, burned with fire, zapped with electricity, twisted into a knot, and kicked across New York City with no ill effects. The only thing that can really hurt him is a specific frequency of energy that disrupts the molecular bonds of his electroplasm body, and that only works temporarily.
* Werecheetah Britanny Diggers, along with all other lycanthropes in ''ComicBook/GoldDigger,'' can only be harmed by silver or magic (other injuries regenerate almost instantly). Alas, magic is pretty common in the Diggerverse.
* Short-term [[ComicBook/XMen X-Man]] Paulie Provenzano had NighInvulnerability as his mutant power, but it came with the limitation that he had to be able to be generally aware of the attack. He learned of this limitation when he made the mistake of taunting [[SuperSpeed Northstar]] with a homophobic slur, which resulted in the speedster punching him so fast he couldn't even register it.
* Adam Destine of ''Comicbook/ClanDestine'' is completely invulnerable, as well as being immortal. He can withstand superpowered combat, large-scale explosions, lasers, crashing on Earth from space in a ''bus'' with broken windows (albeit with a spaceship engine attached, courtesy of his GadgeteerGenius son) and who knows what else with nothing more than ClothingDamage. He also apparently doesn't need to eat, drink, or breathe to survive- he once went a decade without doing any of the above, with no ill effects. The power was given to him by his wife, a very powerful genie.
* Doctor Doom is an example of the ''Proxy'' variant. Doom has been defeated and killed on many occasions, only to reveal later (whether intended at the time or [[{{Retcon}} retconned in later]]) that it was ActuallyADoombot and the real Doom would never be defeated by something so pathetic. This could imply that Doctor Doom isn't a true robotic villain, but a source of dark energy that makes those Doombots & possesses them in order to fight his foes.
* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} is essentially a god and there are very few things that could even slow him down. Only his son Orion and Superman have been able to stand a one on one match with him. Similarly, Darkseid is one of the few opponents who can hurt Superman by way of having powers that are just that strong (as opposed to having a Kryptonite ray gun or otherwise exploiting the rules of Superman's powers.)
* Creator/MarvelComics' [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is nigh-invulnerable due to being a literal PhysicalGod, what with being the son of Odin and Gaia. He's one of the few non-cosmic beings in the Marvel universe capable of going toe-to-toe with ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk and can survive blows from Galactus, Hulk, and other such powerful beings.
** His one time foe Harald Jaekelsson was so invulnerable that when Thor struck him in the head with Mjolnir it did no damage despite the fact both of Thor's wrists snapped from the force of the blow.
** Another foe Jormungand the Midgard Serpent is also insanely tough mostly due to [[GiantEqualsInvincible being big enough to encircle the Earth]]. Even Thor can't afford to hold anything back when he's fighting the planet-sized snake.
* The Shaggy Man is a giant ape with the toughness of Franchise/{{Superman}} & an extremely effective HealingFactor. General Wade Eiling transferred his mind into a Shaggy Man body to escape his brain tumor and gained these powers as a bonus. Unfortunately for Eiling, becoming the Shaggy Man also lowered his intelligence to [[DumbMuscle Shaggy Man level]], reducing the once brilliant general to just another dumb superpowered brute.
* ComicBook/{{Galactus}}'s armor is made of a metal-like substance so tough that nearly zero attacks can even ''scratch'' it. Galactus himself is a somewhere between an EnergyBeing and an AnthropomorphicPersonification, making him immune to physical ailments.
** His Herald, the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, is a more straightforward case of diamond durability: His skin was designed to easily withstand the rigors of deep space and is virtually indestructible. He's also been shown to have a HealingFactor from time to time.
** Pretty much every Herald has some version of this. Galactus builds his minions to last.
* ComicBook/{{Thanos}} is one of the Titans, a weaker offshoot of Earth's Eternals. Due to the mutation that made him resemble a Deviant he possesses strength and durability far greater than that of any other Titan. And that's before he gets his hands on sources of great power like the Infinity Gems.
* ComicBook/DoctorStrange has the unenviable task of fighting various demons, gods, and ''[[EldritchAbomination things]]'' that are almost impossible to kill or even hurt. The worst is Shuma-Gorath. It's extremely difficult to even hurt it in the first place, it can recover from just about anything, and if by some miracle someone does slay Shuma-Gorath its power will simply possess its killer and transform him/her into a new Shuma-Gorath! Even Death, as in the AnthropomorphicPersonification of death itself, can't permanently kill this monster.
* ComicBook/XMen foe ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} is usually nigh invulnerable [[spoiler:his first powerless child incarnation was an exception]] thanks to a combination of his original mutant powers and Celestial technology. Any time he is killed, his followers Clan Akkaba take steps to ensure his rebirth.
* The ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' villain, Trigon is more or less invincible to any form of damage from all of the Titans. Only Raven in her ultimate form was able to vanquish him.
* ''ComicBook/TheBlackKnight'': Arpin Lusène, aka ''[[BlackKnight Le Chevalier Noir]]'', was the most dangerous foe Scrooge ever faced. Already a master thief, he inadvertently stole Gyro Gearloose's Universal Solvent before using it to cover a black suit of armor coated in diamond paint (the one material impervious to the solvent), making him invulnerable. He could walk through walls, shrug of having buildings thrown on top of him, and even take a bath in an acid pool by soaking it up like a sponge.
* Ben Grimm from ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour''. Pretty much nothing is capable of seriously hurting him. [[spoiler:Even more so after he evolves]].

* Checkmate of ''[[Anime/KinnikumanNisei UltimateMuscle]]'' is both an example and a subversion at the same time. He's been raised to be immune to pain, so he's able to go far longer than any other wrestler. However, the series plays that notion straight, as it's pointed out that someone immune to pain wouldn't know when they had gone past their limit. This ability magically disappeared, though, when [[RedemptionDemotion he joined the good guys.]]

* Franchise/{{Superman}:

* Of course, the original FlyingBrick himself, Franchise/{{Superman}}. Can survive in the heart of a supernova. Most versions of him can, anyway, and some also add super-healing and immortality on top of that. Originally, his skin could be pierced by a "bursting artillery shell", but his powers [[PowerCreepPowerSeep creeped and seeped]].