How about this one?
It's a "widescreen" image that doesn't scale as well as one might like, but I don't think it's an image that needs to be all that big in this case.
edited 5th Oct '10 12:07:05 PM by suedenim
Jet-a-Reeno!I've got a picture of Superman taking a beating from the Hulk without flinching
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kthanks. I don't know why I didn't think of that. My brain is kinda mushy today.
Reaction Image RepositoryI actually like Superman Vs Hulk though I am sure we can find better. The Superman Returns image is hard to make out because of the darkness and smoke.
edited 5th Oct '10 10:16:10 PM by Ghilz
Here's the Superman Returns pic, brightened:
I also like the Superman/Hulk image. The dialogue will be illegible when shrunk, but is hardly the point, and the Hulk is a good stand-in for "immense strength" that everyone will get.
I kinda prefer the Superman Returns image for being live-action and quasi "realistic," not to mention the ultimate "bullets bouncing off his chest" moment. That movie made a lot of odd decisions, but that one scene was pretty darn perfect.
Jet-a-Reeno!how about this? (final panel not really a suggestion and its from way later in the series just a funny lampshade on this trope.)
edited 19th Jan '11 5:47:05 AM by Raso
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!Other subjects I guess. I'm honestly fine with that last Superman pic. Even if you can't tell it's a massive gun, it's some kind of death beam and it's bouncing off of him.
Fight smart, not fair.So far, the only pic I'm really comfortable with is the last Love Hina pic of Keitaro in the cast, since it actually describes the conditions of the trope - someone who has to take a ridiculous amount of punishment to actually be hurt. The Saint of Killers is a bad example because he really is invulnerable IIRC, and the Superman pics just show that guns don't faze him and he can take an incredible pounding. Keitaro finally had something happen to him that he couldn't recover from in a matter of seconds.
You seem to be misunderstanding it. The "nigh" isn't particular important to the trope. Gods are described as Nigh-Invulnerable.
That's one thing I love about Love Hina. Keitaro is subjected to Megaton Punch style accidents left and right throughout the series and usually gets away with only a scratch or two. This is lampshaded quite often. However, when he breaks his leg by having something fall on him and crush it, all the girls flip that he can actually be somehow injured.
I think the Superman pic is good. I was watching that movie just the other day. The mook is shooting a chain gun at him. When Sups gets too close, he pulls out a handgun and starts firing. One bullet hits him right in the eye and just bounces off on impact like every other bullet did with every other part of his body.
But I also think the 2nd Love Hina pic is good since everyone is amazed that he's been injured.
edited 19th Jan '11 5:41:47 PM by DRCEQ
Keitaro's special requirement: He can take any type of injury from burning to crushing to high speed impacts and quickly shrugs it off. He walks to school one day and gets his leg crushed by a flimsy building attachment and he's walking on crutches for a couple weeks.
As Mitsune is saying, it seems that there is only so much damage that he can shrug off.
^But the trope isn't "only so much damage he can shrug off." It's "can shrug off an infinite amount of damage, with the exception of a certain weakness."
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Nigh Invulnerability

A man standing in fire and not burning is somewhat demonstrative of the trope, but it falls lower than decent in my opinion.
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