History NoSell / LiveActionTV

* A SpecialEffectFailure version in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' as Kirk is fighting the [[LizardFolk Gorn]] in ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS]]''. Kirk hefts a massively heavy Styrofoam boulder and hurls it at the Gorn. His outfit is so bulky that he doesn't even notice he got hit until he heard the noise.
** In a non-Failure version, in the episode "Assignment Earth", when Gary Seven attempts to overpower the crew and try to teleport down to 1968 Earth, Spock immediately puts on the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, which usually drops people in an instant. It only stuns him momentarily before Gary turns around and decks Spock.

** In the episode "The Maquis, Part II", Gul Dukat is captured by the Maquis and a Vulcan member tries to use a mind meld to get information out of him. He basically laughs it off -- apparently Cardassian mental conditioning blocks it.
** Vorta are completely immune to poisons, as demonstrated by Weyoun in "Ties Of Blood And Water". He takes a drink from a heavily poisoned bottle of kanar (which he ''knew'' was poisoned), and suffers no lasting ill effects.
--->'''Weyoun:''' (shuddering) Ohh, that is ''quite'' toxic...

** "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II": after one of Trek's first (and most epic) season finale cliffhangers, the ''Enterprise-D'' finally unleashes its modified-deflector superweapon (an improvised WaveMotionGun that's the most powerful weapon any Federation ship had ever used) against the Borg... to no effect. (Then again, it ''was'' [[TheWorfBarrage Worf at the controls]]...)
** The Borg are basically No Sell personified. Any energy weapons used against them work once or twice, and then they adapt and the attack is useless. Plus their [[HiveMind assimilation process]] means they know everything that their drones knew in their former lives, making existing defenses and battle plans obsolete. When they later suffered from VillainDecay, this became an AchillesHeel; they were so dependent on this technique that they were literally incapable of learning anything any other way, and had no concept of tactics at all when they attacked an assimilation-proof species that could get around their shield adaptations.
** In the episode "Conundrum" a member of the Satarran race disguised himself as a human, erased the memories of the ''Enterprise'' crew, and altered computer records to make it seem like the Federation was at war with a spacefaring race called the Lysians. Vastly outclassing every Lysian starship they come across Picard and the crew suspect something is very wrong, a point driven home when they approach Lysian Central Command and learn that one photon torpedo could destroy the entire installation. When Picard refuses to fire on the Lysians, the Satarran tries to take control of the ''Enterprise'' weapons but is stopped by Riker and Worf. Contacting the Lysians they learn about how the Satarrans tried to manipulate them into ending their war for them.
** In the two-part episode "Gambit", a Vulcan weapon called the Resonator amplifies violent emotion to kill a target, but consequently has no power over those who clear their minds of violent thought. The climax of the episode has Picard, Riker, and Worf no-sell the weapon until its user gives up. This was the reason that the Resonator was abandoned by the ancient Vulcans in the first place; when their culture turned to stoic pacifism, it was useless even in the hands of the few remaining Vulcans who'd retained the older, violent ways.
** While the actual shrugging off part ultimately isn't shown, ''The Outrageous Okona'' reveals that the ''navigational deflectors'' of the Enterprise-D are quite sufficient to shrug off laser weapons until the enemy energy banks are drained. The Enterprise crew end up being more concerned that the kind of people that would target lasers on them despite almost certainly knowing it would do nothing even if the shields are down would be desperate enough to do other things that might not be quite so easy to just ignore.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': The 1998 episode "Warriors" sees the leader of a supremacist group kidnap a genetic researcher, so he can force her to share her secrets to help him in his ultimate goal ... create an army of genetically superior soldiers that can help him rob banks, murder, rape women and control the drug and black markets. The enforcer of the group is one of their creations, a muscle man whom Walker cannot faze at all, even with his trademark roundhouse kick. When the muscle man beats up Trivette and attempts to slam him into a concrete wall, Walker tries to shoot the man ... but he simply absorbs the bullets, thanks to the DNA that allows him to be instantly healed and not be hurt by gunfire. During the final confrontation, the man mountain has Walker beat ... but the researcher shows up, throws flammable liquid in his face and then a torch, which sets him aflame ... and stuns him long enough for Walker to recover and finally dropkick him to his death (out a plate-glass window and into a storage area conveniently full of gasoline barrels).

* ''Series/{{Willow}}'': Woodswoman Hubert appears to kill Bellantine, axing him in the back. However, he shrugs off this after a moment and [[spoiler:then kills her]].

** Subverted in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E13FaceOff Face Off]]". Gustavo Fring has just had one of his enemies successfully set off a bomb right in his face. The room is destroyed, but Fring walks out calmly, straightens his tie... then falls over dead, the camera revealing that half his face has been blown off.