Invincible Hero/Villain cleanup

Invincible Hero and Invincible Villain were recently cleaned up by TRS to remove complaining, but there are too many examples for the TRS thread to handle the examples cleanup, and there is a severe backlog at TRS. It's also probably prone to misuse, due to the stringent definition of the trope, so I have chosen to make this thread.

The caption on the former seems complainy.

I'll toss a few suggestions at the IP thread for captions.

Invincible Hero seems redundant with The Good Guys Always Win and Invincible Villain with You Can't Thwart Stage One (they can't lose until the ending) or Antagonist Abilities (they're just much more powerful).

How shall we go about defining Invincible for the sake of cleanup?

• Disqualify any heroes/villains who ultimately lose in the end (unless due to a Deus ex Machina or similar contrivance)
• Make it about narratives about them being (seemingly) impossible to defeat conventionally (maybe rename "Invincible Hero/Villain Plot"). I that as the best way to avoid complaints.
• Make YMMV as the threshold for when they seem too overpowered to beat without contrivances is subjective (I that as that's crossing over to Mary/Villain Sue).

Edited by Ferot_Dreadnaught on May 27th 2021 at 8:18:42 AM

I think OP is inactive, so they can't help much here.

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on May 27th 2021 at 11:17:19 AM