History Main / ImplacableMan

* Generally speaking, this trope is {{inverted}} with humans. Their hides are very easy to penetrate, and many sorts of injuries and diseases can kill them instantly. Even worse, their abnormally-shaped bodies and bipedal gaits put enormous strain on their spines and legs (causing them major neck and back pain and forcing them to give up their hunts after just a few ''seconds'' of running), and [[FromBadToWorse worse still]], their lack of tails with which to balance themselves also means they're easy to trip up and knock over with rocks, fallen logs, flash floods, other creatures' front legs, and ''lots'' of other things. Other disadvantages arise in the form of their inability to move through thick vegetation and dangerous terrain very easily (or track their targets due to their massively {{nerf}}ed senses compared to those of other species). In short, [[YouAreAlreadyDead if another creature starts attacking you for any number of reasons, you might as well stand still and accept your painful demise]].

* [[HumansAreWarriors Humans in general]]. We are one of the few species that can hunt prey by '''chasing it to death'''. It's a practice called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting Persistence Hunting]]. Our two-legged gait is highly efficient compared to quadrupeds, and we have excellent heat-regulation systems (sweating), plus extremely dense muscles. To compare, an adult man weighs about as much as a jaguar. Women are, on average, about 5" shorter and much lighter than their brothers, but they still outweigh adult male wolves by about 40lbs.
* Humans under the effect of some substances, even more so.

** The Dreen. Everyone who's worked with the Baron rightfully fears them, seemingly nothing can stop them and they don't allow anything to get in their way. One inbred idiot tried crushing one with his HumongousMecha, only for the Dreen to dismantle it [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121031 from the inside]] and keep coming. [[spoiler:Not even a time-stopping artifact can halt them, it just reveals their [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20240408 true forms]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Parodied in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E20TheBoyWhoKnewTooMuch The Boy Who Knew Too Much]]". Bart, on the run from Principal Skinner for truancy, cuts a rope bridge across a raging river. Skinner, maintaining a deadpan expression, marches down into the river, disappears under the water, and reappears when he surfaces on the other side. Bart exclaims, "He's like some sort of... NonGivingUpSchoolGuy!" The scene is a direct parody of ''Film/{{Westworld}}''.

** Ben lured Vilgax to the sewers where his dad (Who had recently learned Ben's secret) lit a flammable substance and, after Ben turned into [=XLR8=] and got him and his dad out, Vilgax was left to be caught in the fiery explosion.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** Rampage from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', who is only held in check by Megatron because Megatron has the power to torture his ''soul'' if he steps out of line. Without this it's quite possible he'd simply torture, murder, and ''eat'' everyone on the planet. Frequently subject to TheWorfBarrage. It's the same with Lugnut in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. Especially if it involves GLORIOUS MEGATRON.
** Optimus Primal temporarily becomes this in the ''Beast Wars'' episode "Gorilla Warfare", when he's infected with a berserker virus. Efforts by the lower-ranking Predacons to stop him are dispensed with in brutal fashion.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
** Season 5 features an Implacable Woman: Madame Rouge. Like the T-1000 in the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' films, it takes her only a few moments to reconstitute after being frozen and shattered into pieces. The episode that really spotlights her is practically a horror movie.
** Slade becomes this in the fourth season after having become TheDragon to Trigon. He shrugs of all attacks (except for Raven's magic) like they're nothing, even snapping his neck back into place after ''Robin breaks it''. [[spoiler:He ''was'' undead at the time.]] Even Raven fails to so much as slow him down in "Nevermore", the first time he appears as such, or even halt his [[BreakThemByTalking speech]]. (Not for lack of trying; she even slams him between ''two'' walls at one point using telekinesis, and he doesn't even blink.)
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** [[PsychoForHire The Combustion Man]], who won't stop his assassination attempts even when the [[spoiler:person who hired him tries to call the hit off]]. On his first appearance he just blew up everything that was thrown at him. He also seems to be pretty damn MadeOfIron as he shrugged off a barrage of ice-shards and both a rock and a boomerang hitting him in the head (however, said head injuries did [[spoiler:make his power backfire and lead to him ''blowing himself up'']]).
** [[TheDragon Princess Azula]] is this in her first few episodes of the second season, [[WakeUpCallBoss establishing herself as a threat unlike any the heroes faced before]]. No matter what the heroes try, barely anything they do really slows her down. In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheChase The Chase]]", it takes all four of them, [[EnemyMine plus her brother Zuko and uncle Iroh]] for her to finally KnowWhenToFoldEm and retreat. Afterwards, they adjust to her ability, though she remains a massive threat for the rest of the series.
** ''The Avatar State''. During the finale, it [[spoiler: punches through everything Ozai throws at it, demolishes about 50 giant rock columns and generally kicks ass without stopping, slowing or even ''noticing'' anything that would have instantly KO'd anyone else who tried to do the same]].
* In the SequelSeries, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', when [[spoiler:[[BigBadWannabe Tarrlok]] attempts to bloodbend him]], [[BigBad Amon]] simply powers through it and keeps on coming. Then only a minute later, Korra sends ice-spears directly at him and he doesn't even break his stride as he weaves through them, coming for her. Then there's the season finale, where he comes off like a villain from a slasher movie, complete with MenacingStroll.
* The Beast Planet from ''WesternAnimation/ShadowRaiders[=/=]War Planets'' is an ''Implacable PlanetEater''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has a good-guy version of this with Batman in the episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE6TheUnderdwellers The Underdwellers]]". First, one of the sewer kids tries to elude Batman through the tunnel system he knows like the back of his hand, only to find to his shock that The Batman is waiting for him. The Sewer King gets his own surprise in a quiet moment when he thinks that he has eluded Batman and locked the door behind him, only to suddenly have it blown open seconds later as he realizes that the Dark Knight is after him and ''will not stop''.
* Elmyra from ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''. Nothing can stand between her and anything unfortunately cute enough to catch her attention. At one point, a sea monkey pulled a plug at the bottom of the ocean, which ended up draining ''the entire universe'' in order to get away from her. She still caught him.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** Ice King places a hit on Finn and Jake intending the hit man, The Scorcher, to hit them, "like on the shoulder or something". Anyways he has trouble getting the Scorcher to stop hunting them down. [[spoiler:He does by tricking the scorcher into thinking Finn and Jake dead.]]
** [[OurLichesAreDifferent The Lich]], to everyone. Not only does he have determination, he's got the patience and brains to the point of actually invoking ItOnlyWorksOnce.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSnowQueen1995'' and its sequel, the Snow Queen survives being frozen solid and being imprisoned in ''lava''.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'':
** In "[[Recap/SamuraiJackS2E9JackAndTheHunters Jack and the Hunters]]", there are the Imakandi, the greatest trackers and hunters in the galaxy. After Aku approaches them with the offer to hunt Jack, absolutely nothing the hero does can stop their pursuit or lose them for more than a few seconds. They chase him from a city's sewers to its very highest point until finally bringing him down; fortunately for Jack, they regard it as the greatest hunt of their lives, and as such, refuse to turn him over to Aku.
** In "[[Recap/SamuraiJackS3E5JackInEgypt Jack in Egypt]]", there are the Minions of Set, a trio of implacable demons. They attack swiftly, brutally and relentlessly. They do not tire and can heal from any injuries instantly. They do not stop to gloat; they do not give their victims a chance to gather their senses, power up, or otherwise prepare any kind of counter. They never stop attacking for an instant until their prey is either out of sight or dead. And even if you manage to get away, their super-senses will track you down before you even catch your breath. Jack ends up having to call upon the power of a ''god'' to defeat them.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' has Blow-Hole, who is a weird variation. A giant whale with arms and legs dressed in overalls, his goal isn't to hurt anyone (at least not on purpose, although he does a lot of collateral damage), but he ''is'' determined for some odd reason to jog from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, and isn't going to let anything stop him until he makes it.
* Jasper from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. Neither a spaceship crash, nor falling into a crevice, nor being punched past the horizon can keep her from coming after the heroes. She is generally shown to be one of the most durable single gems in the series, [[UltimateLifeform later revealed to be an exceptional specimen even among her homeworld's soldier caste.]]
* An interesting variation is introduced in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' with Bombie the Zombie. Reinterpreting the character to be a very [[Characters/GreenLantern1941 Solomon Grundy]]-esque monster, he exists as a curse on whoever is the richest duck in the world, chasing them down relentlessly until they give him the one thing they lack: [[spoiler:humility.]] It took Scrooge investing all of his resources in a magical defense network to even contain the creature, and that ends up falling apart when Louie temporarily ends up with all his wealth and squanders his newfound fortune to the point the Board of Directors make severe budget cuts to areas they deemed "unnecessary." When Bombie does break loose, he won't stop until Louie [[spoiler:realizes that he's not ready to handle such a big responsibility and happily hands the money back to Scrooge, who in turn admits Louie performed far better in the role than he ever could of. Bombie is thus allowed to rest at long last]].

!!Examples:

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* Yakumo from ''Manga/SazanEyes'' is immortal. The only way to kill him would be to kill Pai, and if you lay even a single finger on her, Yakumo gets unlimited power, meaning his healing ability becomes instantaneous and he can use his attack spells without restriction. Unfortunately, the same applies to his nemesis Benares, who also has the advatage of being a vastly more powerful Dragon God in human form who invented the SummonMagic used by Yakumo, making him an even more dangerous example.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': The Female Titan. Her relentless pursuit of Eren leaves a gruesome path of death and destruction in her wake, and is our first glimpse of just how terrifying [[spoiler:humans with a Titan form]] truly are. She has the highest body count of any single Titan in the series, making her MoreDeadlyThanTheMale in so many ways.
* Creed in ''Manga/BlackCat'' has some Phletbotinum juice that repairs his body from anything as long as there remains a single surviving cell of his DNA. [[spoiler: To stop him takes a Phlebotinum bullet that can destroy every cell of his body, but because the one who fired it was a merciful sweeper who does not kill people it only hit him in the wings. More Phlebotinum, this time in the form of a syringe was used this time to destroy the nanomachines that made him implacable in the first place.]]
** In the original manga, Creed's only weakness is his brain, and Train would need to shoot him in the head (which would kill him, which Train refuses to do) in order to stop him. Otherwise, he's unbeatable. He takes Train's best shot, a stronger version of the attack that flattened [[SuperpowerLottery Shiki]], and gets up without a scratch. Instead, Train wins by breaking Creed's Imagine Blade (which is linked to his mind), and then having Eve purge his nanomachines while he's incapacitated.
* Roberta from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', who in the space of two episodes hunts the protagonists through half of [[WretchedHive Roanapur]], implacably getting through, in order, one shoot-out against twenty people all intent on killing her, the building said shoot-out was taking place in being detonated (by her, while she was inside, no less!), [[OutOfTheInferno the ensuing inferno]], a car chase that ends with her car ''flying from a rooftop and crashing into the side of a building'', hanging onto the protagonists' car ''with a knife'' as they try to shake her off at top speed, being flung from said car into the side of a cargo container, a shootout with the DarkActionGirl heroine and finally a several-hour long fistfight. Which she stands up and ''walks away from'' after drawing with a CrossCounter. And she's a ''[[{{Meido}} maid]]'' by profession.[[note]]Though her former life as a ruthless FARC geurilla probably helped a little..,[[/note]]
** Lampshaded when the Lagoon Company directly compare her to the Franchise/{{Terminator}}.
** The ''El Baile de La Muerte'' manga arc/''Roberta's Blood Trail'' OVA sees her go beyond even this, the whole arc being a one-woman killing spree against everyone standing in her way. [[spoiler:In the OVA, is permanently crippled, losing a leg, an eye, two fingers on her right hand and the entire left arm to Grey Fox... And yet she keeps coming, though by the end it's ambiguous who is the hunted and who is the hunter.]]
* ''Manga/{{Blame}}'' by Creator/TsutomuNihei has plenty. For one, there are Safeguard agents who can not be killed, only temporarily disabled/blown into pieces/vaporized, as they actually reside in virtual reality and can create remotely controlled bodies anywhere where a certain device is nearby. Oh, and they can instantaneously generate endless amounts of brainless robot Mooks who have razor sharp claws that cut metal like hot butter, are near impervious to conventional weaponry, and are really really fast and insanely strong. And then there's Killy, ArtificialHuman who walks through the whole world to find what he is looking for and is really really really durable. He was once buried under tons of molten metal and concrete and his near indestructible flesh was burned to his bone, but give him 14 years and he recovered completely, ready to continue his [[PerfectPlayAI walk]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** The Espada. One of them takes the hero's ultra-powerful, last-ditch attack which has defeated his previous opponents with ease... and gets off with a slight burn. He's not even the [[TheDragon most powerful]]. Their [[BigBad leader]], Captain Aizen, also does this: he effortlessly blocked the hero's best attack using '''''one finger'''''. The finger didn't even bleed.
** Zaraki Kenpachi, who just grins after being impaled ''multiple times'', and lets someone stab him just so he can get close enough to stab back.
* Almost every Awakened Being in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}''. They do eventually die from MonsterThreatExpiration, but boy do they take a lot of punishment. Some Claymores can as well. The Abyssal Ones are the worst of them, but [[spoiler:they were eventually wiped out by ''even worse'' Implacable Women, namely the abyssal feeders, who were specifically designed to be relentless killers for the Abyssal Ones by the Organization, and Priscilla, who is obviously even stronger and more Implacable than the Abyssal Ones]].
* Apocryphos from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' DEFINITELY counts as one. He or "It" is a sentient Innocence whose sole purpose is to protect the "Heart" of Innocence but upon his debut, his goal changes to assimilating Allen Walker [[spoiler: although seeing as how he states he wants to do this to suppress the Fourteenth, this could also constitute as protecting the heart]]. How far is It willing to go to achieve Its goal? [[spoiler: It infiltrated the Black Order as a yet unnamed Cardinal; "killed" Cross Marian who has so far been shown as the strongest and certainly most Bad Ass Exorcist; erased the memories of countless stooges; wiped Howard Link's memory and nearly killed him too if it hadn't been for a timely save; fought off ''two'' Noah simultaneously while trying to absorb Allen, damaging Road to the point that her "dream" was broken and she disappeared; has stalked Allen Walker for the past 3 months NONSTOP, through different cities and possibly countries; and most recently curb stomped Yu Kanda, erased his memories of the brief ordeal and may have killed Timcampy.]] And It's still going.
* ''Anime/DenNohCoil'' has the anti-virus program Satchii, a KillerRabbit who relentlessly hunts down Illegal programs and illegal program users. Satchii and the little mechanical balls, Kyuu-chans, that come from him, are the general bane of the main characters of ''Den-noh Coil''. But once his limits are learned and Satchii becomes familiar, the even-more unstoppable version 2 hunters show up!
* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
** After Piccolo shows up, villains often come in this variety. Any time a villain is more powerful than the heroes, said heroes will momentarily get an opening and attack at full force, only for it not to work, even when they make a direct hit. [[SmokeShield Smoke Shields]] are often used to give the impression that the villains are no more, but come on. They'll always be fine.
** Cell can regenerate all wounds and come back if there is even a ''[[MeaningfulName single cell of his body left]]''.
** Majin Buu. He's been destroyed and ''vaporized'', only to reform in the smoke and goes on to easily destroy Earth and nearly ''every character in the series''.
** Recoome from the Ginyu Force. He gets thrashed by Vegeta, takes a ki blast ''to the face'', and while firing his [[BreathWeapon Eraser Gun]], Krillin knees Recoome in the back of the head. This makes him abruptly close his mouth, causing the Eraser Gun to blaze ''out of his nostrils''! And each time, he gets right back up with ease, showing no fatigue whatsoever. Vaporized body armor, torn-up jump suit, small blood stains on his face, some patches of hair on his head were missing, and some teeth were lost... that's all Vegeta and Krillin managed to do to him. It was to the point that when [[BigDamnHeroes Goku showed up]] and took down Recoome with one hit, everyone was having a hard time believing what they just witnessed!
** For heroic example, Goku during his raid on the Red Ribbon Army to obtain two of the Dragon Balls. Nothing the army did could stop him. He shrugged off sniper fire, side-stepped rocket launchers, took down jets and tanks, could take out dozens of soldiers at once, and deflect bullet fire. Not even the ceiling crushing him or a giant power suit could stop Goku. The horrors he struck within the army inspired Dr. Gero to create the androids and Cell.
** Spopovich, who lost quickly to [[FakeUltimateHero Mr. Satan]] in the 24th World's Martial Arts Tournament, has become one in the 25th Tournament, where he {{No Sell}}s every one of Videl's hits before he proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle pound her into the floor]]. The Z Fighters would've been able to beat him, but they don't get the chance, as [[spoiler: the Supreme Kai needs him alive so that he'll able follow him back to his boss Babidi, and when he does return to his master's ship, Babidi decides that Spopovich has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]]]].
** Jiren of Universe 11 is widely regarded as the most powerful mortal in the multiverse. He's one of the few opponents Goku is unable to match even at Super Saiyan Blue, as well as someone that Hit's Time Stop was unable to help him keep up with. Not even using Time Freeze was able to slow him down. The only thing that ever genuinely did serious harm to Jiren was Ultra Instinct, and [[spoiler:the only way to defeat him was with a RingOut to disqualify him from tournament he was competing with the heroes in rather than by actually physically incapacitating him.]]
* Diclonius in ''Manga/ElfenLied'' are practically immune to bullets (they won't even slow them down) thanks to a large number of invisible hands that block them. They are not invincible when fighting each other however.
* Yamato from ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' is an inverted example. He's a fullback who wants to get away from the opposing defence and the simple fact that he can't get away from them isn't going to stop him, even if he has to drag the entire defence along with him.
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'':
** Berserker had 12 lives and easily took any damage dished out to him. In the end it took some Phlebotinum to kill him. By easily took the damage we don't mean "he tanked that sword in the gut like a boss" we mean "unless that sword was at least an A-rank magical artifact ''[[OhCrap it didn't even bruise his skin]]''"... and that's before Berserker starts tanking hits like a boss.
** [[Literature/TheGardenOfSinners Souren Araya]], a Buddhist monk who's been alive for 200 years. He has charms embedded in his body, allowing him to take blows that would otherwise kill him. Cut off his arm? [[GoodThingYouCanHeal He regenerates it without a problem.]] Cut off his ''other'' arm? It'll strangle you. Stab him? He won't even get wounded. Stab him in his [[OneHitKill point of death]]? No effect. [[spoiler:Stab him in his point of death a ''second'' time after falling off a building? He's still alive for around 10 more minutes to converse with Touko before fading away to dust.]] His origin is stillness, after all.
** The second half of the second season of the SpinOff ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'' features [[BadassInANiceSuit Bazett]], who tanks ''everything'' from Luvia's BattleButler who uses MoreDakka and grenades, to [[spoiler:a ''room'' full of [[GemstoneAssault gems]]]] without even so much as dirtying her nice suit. And this doesn't even involve the use of her trump card [[spoiler:[[CounterAttack Fragarach]]]]. This is rather egregious, because Berserker above lost one life to [[spoiler:a mere ''handful'' of gems]], making her even tankier than he is.
* Kenshiro of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' might be a BruiserWithASoftCenter, but as the Zeed Gang, the Fang Clan, and Jackal's gang found out, [[{{Determinator}} nothing will stop him]] in his pursuit of oppressors. Not even intervening skyscrapers, which he just ''walks'' through.
* Every homunculus from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', thanks in part to their Philosopher's Stone giving them unbelievable regeneration powers. Some specific examples include:
** Lust gets shot several times, exploded, and has her Philosopher's Stone ''forcibly yanked from her chest'' by Roy, and keeps on going. If Alphonse and Roy hadn't promptly cornered her and [[KillItWithFire applied liberal amounts of flame]], respectively, they'd all have been toast.
** Then there's Greed[[spoiler:!Ling unleashing his fury toward Amestris soldiers after Bradley killed Fuu, his trusted bodyguard]]. There's a reason Greed got called "Ultimate Shield".
* Ryudou Hishiki from ''Manga/GetBackers''. To get you an idea of how an Implacable Man he is, in a later chapter of the manga, he's chasing Ban and Ginji on a ''granny's bicycle'' [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower at over 100 km/h]], [[FoeTossingCharge all while tossing around police cars out of the way!]]
* The Necrolyzed dead in ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}'' are invincible and always get back up even when riddled with bullets. Yes even the mooks. Their muscles continue to move even when it should be physically impossible. The series' protagonist is one as well. Brandon 'Beyond the Grave' Heat won't stop until he settles his score with Harry.
* PsychoForHire [[RenegadeRussian Natasha Radinov]] from the ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' OVA is directly compared to the ''Terminator''. With a Franchise/{{Batman}}-esque bulletproof coat that lets her shrug off small arms fire, she easily [[OneManArmy storms through a police safehouse]] and [[CopKiller mows down a dozen or so officers and federal agents]], before surviving an exploding car plummeting into a river. [[spoiler: It takes Rally magdumping into her at close range while she's recovering from May's flashbangs to put her down for good.]]
* Almost all of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'''s non-humans, including the mooks, and at least one empowered human count as Implacable Men. Hails of normal rounds barely faze them and they heal almost instantly.
** One extreme case is ChurchMilitant Father Alexander Anderson, who takes two ''headshots'' from ''explosive'' [[HandCannon .454 bullets]] in rapid succession and gets back up almost immediately.
** Another is DesignatedHero and ''somewhat'' FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Alucard, who gets shot to pieces on three separate occasions only to rise, [[HealingFactor heal]] and mop the floor with his assailants. Admittedly, both of the above are anti-heroes instead of villains, but the bad guys do get their own Implacable Men, including aforementioned army of vampire mooks.
** The BigBad has on his side a Werewolf who's practically MadeOfIron and a [[CatGirl Catboy]] by the name of Schrödinger. He got his head shot off in England. He showed up in Brazil in the time it took the BigBad to walk down the hall. That [[DeathIsCheap "dead"]] thing? It got better. And there's [[spoiler: the good guy's former BattleButler Walter, as a vampire]].
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Tarkus from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' proves to be this, shrugging off any damage done to him while delivering a grueling CurbStompBattle onto [[TheHero Jonathan]], with [[spoiler:[[TheMentor Zeppeli]]'s [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice]] being the only thing capable of turning the tables]].
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'':
*** Straizo, after [[SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome becoming a vampire at the beginning of]] the Part, takes the vampire's HealingFactor to its absolute limits. Being riddled with bullets from a Tommy Gun and completely blown up by multiple grenades only temporarily slows him down in his battle against [[TheHero Joseph]].
*** The same Part shows another one with [[spoiler:Kars, after he becomes the UltimateLifeForm. Now immune to almost everything, including the sun and the [[ThePowerOfTheSun Ripple]], and with the ability to transform any part of his body into any living thing (even when it's detached from his body,) he spends the final part of the story unrelentingly chasing Joseph (even when he steals a plane to escape) all the way to an active volcano. He gets cooked in the ''magma'' of said volcano and endures long enough to adapt his body to protect himself via an air barrier. It takes using the volcano to ''rocket him into space'', where he freezes solid and drifts through the cosmos until he finally [[GoMadFromTheIsolation Goes Mad From The Isolation]], to finally defeat him]].
*** The [[HumanoidAbomination Pillar Men]] in general have shades of this. Sunlight only petrifies them, and they need to be constantly exposed to it to keep them immobilized. Their skin is immune to the Ripple, meaning someone has to somehow puncture them and deliver the Ripple from inside, and they can absorb and digest any living thing via mere physical contact (though trying to do that to a Ripple User is a bad idea, as Joseph demonstrates against Santana). Even when someone has the means to hurt them, they're still ''extreme'' die-hards [[{{Determinator}} and refuse to go down]] (one even keeps going as ''a disembodied brain with tentacles'').
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'':
*** Pet Shop, DIO's [[AngryGuardDog villainous guard falcon]]. Despite having only one fight with Iggy, the bird makes itself clear that it will chase its target to [[JumpScare the most unexpected places]]. Its relentless killing machine-like attitude also makes it comparable to the Terminators themselves.
*** DIO's [[TheDragon Dragon]], Vanilla Ice and his Stand, Cream. The inside of Cream's mouth is a void that destroys anything it swallows (except Ice himself), and it has the ability to turn itself inside out, effectively turning it into an invisible ball of void that simply ''[[PowerOfTheVoid erases]]'' whatever it runs into. Most of the fight against Ice is spent running away from him, and nobody lands a hit on him until he's already done quite a bit of damage, and even then, ''stabbing him through the mouth'' only seems to piss him off. [[spoiler: This turns out to be because he's a vampire, which does let Polnareff figure out how to finally get rid of him: [[WeakenedByTheLight throw him into the sunlight]]]].
** [[ActionBomb Sheer Heart Attack]], the Sub-[[FightingSpirit Stand]] of [[BigBad Yoshikage Kira]] from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'', a nearly indestructible tank that will always track the hottest object near it, and will not stop until its target has been destroyed.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'':
*** Yo-Yo-Ma, D an G's Stand, will stop at nothing to kill its targets, and thanks to its powerful HealingFactor, it can regenerate from just about any injury it takes.
*** Bohemian Rhapsody, Ungalo's Stand, brings characters from famous stories to life, which will then act as if they still were at the story they're from, and ''absolutely nothing'' can stop them from completing it.
** Blackmore from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', even after receiving fatal wounds, will not stop in his pursuit of the heroes, though this is mostly due to [[HazardousWater Catch the Rainbow]] plugging his wounds with water.
** [[spoiler:Tusk Act 4, the final evolution of Johhny's Stand, is this trope incarnate. When it can outright NoSell a ''Time Stop'', you know it's time to start running.]]
* Ogami Ittō from ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub'' is a textbook (and particularly ruthless) example. He's a [[ProfessionalKiller master assassin]] who completes the job no matter what -- plenty of people have tried to stop him, but nobody succeeds. And that's not even getting into his personal goal of getting revenge on the Yagyu clan, second only to the Shogun in terms of overall power -- they command legions of ninja and can force ''entire armies'' to obey their orders. Ittō cuts through every last thing they throw at him.
* ''Franchise/LupinIII'' is a franchise about the titular GentlemanThief. The cop chasing him, [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Inspector Zenigata]], is powered in his hunt by Justice. If he so much as lays an eye on Lupin, he'll start chasing the thief to the ends of the earth! Even killing him won't stop the Inspector. After being shot by the villain of ''Anime/LupinIIIIslandOfAssassins'', he had been in coma for a while, and then his heart stopped. Upon seeing this, a fellow cop declared he would avenge Zenigata by capturing Lupin... And Zenigata promptly awakened from the coma, fully healed, trying to arrest Lupin, before returning to sleep.
* The personified [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Book of Darkness]] in the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs''. Her implacability was best displayed when Nanoha activated [[SwissArmyWeapon Raising Heart's]] brand new DeadlyUpgrade, pierced the Book of Darkness' DeflectorShields, blasted her in the face with an [[WaveMotionGun Excelion Buster]] at point blank range... and didn't even leave a scratch on her.
* [[TheDragon Roberto]] and [[InspectorJavert Inspector Lunge]] from ''Manga/{{Monster}}''. One can wonder what sort of chaos would ensue should they ever have to face ''each other''. [[spoiler: They do. It's awesome.]]
* Luna's father in ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid''. The guy takes a KillSat to the face without even flinching.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** Has a variation that can only be described as...odd. Due to an unfortunate incident involving the PowerIncontinence of the WorldTree and a request for a kiss, Negi gets turned into an Implacable Man with the stated goal of french-kissing somebody, and the best efforts of several mages and fighters are powerless to stop him. He turned back to normal when [[spoiler: he succeeds in kissing Asuna, nearly killing her by suffocation in the process]].
** Jack Rakan is the [[BoisterousBruiser comedic]] version of this. The man ''will not'' go down, no matter how hard you hit him. One of his [[IHaveManyNames many titles]] is "That Damn Guy You Can Stab With Swords All You Like And It Won't Do A Thing Damnit", and for good reason. [[spoiler: The BigBad is forced to resort to use RealityWarper powers to erase him from existence to take him out, and he puts up quite a fight. Furthermore, Rakan comes back one more time [[BeyondTheImpossible AFTER his existance is erased]] to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan shake Negi back to his senses.]]]]
* Himuro Genma from ''Anime/NinjaScroll'' survives decapitation and more through his mastery of reincarnation. It takes being impaled by a roof timber and then covered in molten gold to finally stop him... for now at least. Theoretically, he may crawl out of the ocean someday as a homicidal gold-plated terror.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Luffy's rubber body and [[{{Determinator}} Determinator nature]] give him shades of this, particularly when upset. His fight against Arlong and more so against Enel -- whose powers are useless against Luffy -- are good examples where he keeps coming after them. Lately he's lost this status and goes to full Determinator since everybody they fight has a power that can hurt him. Notably, Luffy is very much this to Rob Lucci during their fight. Late during said fight, Lucci hits Luffy with his [[SecretArt Rokuougan]] technique not once, not twice, but ''three times''! The second one floors Luffy and it takes Usopp giving him a speech to stand up and fight, which gives him a HeroicSecondWind, but not before declaring to Lucci that he'll never fall to the ground again until he defeats him. Then, he gets hit by the third Rokuougan and it looks like it did the job, as we see Luffy collapsing... then ''stubbornly catching his footing'' and, with his last burst of strength, [[DesperationAttack desperately unleashing Jet Gatling]]. Luffy defeats Lucci with this powerful attack (putting the latter ''into a coma'') and surely enough, [[PostVictoryCollapse falls to the ground shortly after]].
** Mihawk was this to Krieg's crew -- he single-handedly sank most of his 50-ship fleet, leaving the remains of his crew fleeing from Grand Line on the last remaining ship. Then he proceeds to track them down and cut their last ship in half -- and all of it, just because he was bored. If Zoro didn't call him on a duel (thus giving him enough entertainment), he would probably finish them off. He comes back to that role in the Marineford, in which his fight with the main character consists him barely putting effort into attack, with said main character [[CurbStompBattle desperately trying to stay alive]].
** Smoker is like this to Luffy pre-Timeskip, back before Luffy could hurt Logia-types, and Smoker pursued Luffy relentlessly whenever their paths crossed and they weren't forced into an EnemyMine scenario.
** Due to being partially inspired by the Terminator, Bartholomew Kuma fits here, being an incredibly resilient cyborg and being able to redirect anything you throw at him. The [[{{Teleportation}} short range teleportation]] and his primary method of movement being TheSlowWalk just makes it ''worse.''
** Magellan, the prison warden of Impel Down. During Luffy's escape from prison, Magellan chases them the entire time, and it gets to the point that anybody that's caught by him is considered already dead as the prisoners run away from him, so what starts out as a riot of 5 floors and thousands of prisoners leads to less than 300 making it out alive. It's not that he's just unreasonably tough: his power is producing large amounts of poison, so that even touching him is suicide.
** Though with that said, he did shrug off blows from [[AgentPeacock Emporio Ivankov]], which appeared to have bruised him up a bit but otherwise fine. He also took multiple cannon-fire like a cake-walk.
** Soon after Admiral Akainu gives Magellan a serious run for his money. Like Magellan, touching him is suicide ([[MagmaMan made of lava]]), like Magellan he gives chase to the protagonists and no one seems to be able to stop him, only buy a little time before being defeated, and ''unlike'' Magellan [[spoiler:he's actually made good on his promise to not let anyone escape by actually killing Ace.]]
** Even after receiving the beating of a lifetime throughout the last hour, Doflamingo still has enough strength left in him to get back on his feet and search Dressrosa for Luffy, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice violently skewering anyone who gets in his way]]. The entire scene plays out like a horror movie as he furiously demands that Luffy show himself while impaled bodies hang about.
** Jack of the Beast Pirates is an unreasonable brute who does not make requests: he makes ''demands''. When he shows up in Zou, he tells the Minks to bring Raizo the ninja to him, and smashes a building when told they don't know who he's talking about and that he can search the island if he likes. He's not in Zou to search for Raizo, he's in Zou to ''find'' Raizo. If the Minks don't know where he is, then that's their own fault. Naturally things escalate into violence, and both the Musketeers and the Guardians take turns to fight Jack and his men for ''four days'' by shifting through day and night cycles. And no, there's no indication that Jack slept through any of it.
** One she goes into one of her hunger pangs, Big Mom becomes virtually unstoppable. She cannot be reasoned with, she will push past any and all obstacles in her path by merely walking ''through'' them, and she absolutely will not stop until she's been fed the exact meal she's after. The climax of the Whole Cake Island arc has Big Mom pursue the Straw Hats ''for an entire day'' to retrieve a wedding cake they don't even have, with them throwing everything they have at her as they flee and only barely slowing her down, while her cooks scramble to actually bake the damn thing before Totto Land is destroyed in her wake.
* Zombieman from ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' is this, and it's what gave him a spot in the S-Class despite not having the physical attributes to compete with the other S-Class heroes. As a zombie, he ''cannot die'', does not need to eat, sleep, breathe or drink. A monster "killed" him 200 times, and he simply got up the 201st time and came right back to kill it.
* ''Manga/PetopetoSan'' has a character named Nuriko, who is a ''Nurikabe'' -- Essentially, a wall monster. She is made of concrete. She only gets mad once, but the only way to stop her forward progress was to shove her off of the stage she was on at the time.
* In ''Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew'', the Regis fit this trope to a T. No matter how many Aura Spheres Lucario chucks at them, and no matter how many passageways are knocked down, they just keep walking slowly, inevitably, towards the heroes. Especially interesting is the fact that they manage to be implacable even while being constantly pegged by their mutual weakness to Fighting-types.
* ''Anime/PokemonKyuremVSTheSwordOfJustice'', fifteenth movie, runs with this trope and combines it with SuperPersistentPredator for the titular Kyurem. The mon, in a fit of rage at their opponent fleeing, goes on a hellish chase throughout a good part of Unova to find Keldeo, pulverizing and freezing anything that even gets in his way. Any attempts to so much as stall him are ''[[NoSell absolutely ineffective]]''.
* Randel Oland of ''Manga/PumpkinScissors'' becomes an implacable man when he uses his blue lantern. The twist is that he's just a large, strong, completely human GentleGiant -- he gets injured like anyone else would. It's a good thing that most of his opponents are tanks crewed by [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy rotten shots]].
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ryoga Hibiki takes this to [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] levels. Throughout the series, he has literally been smashed through solid concrete and through cliff walls and had the rubble collapse on top of him, only to emerge undaunted and continue to fight. More impressive, is his ability to traverse large distances on foot, in pursuit of his target and won't rest until he's caught up to them. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unhl3t6aJE0 Just ask Ranma.]]
* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'':
** Downplayed when Akira storms TheDon Rogelt's fortress in a RoaringRampageOfRescue, and the ex-hunter mercenaries there have functions installed in their PoweredArmor to keep them fighting on the edge of death by applying HealingPotion, adrenaline, and stimulants automatically, even making one of them shrug off an anti-tank CWH round.
** The RemoteBody copies of himself Tiol makes after he becomes a TragicMonster are like this when trying to dog pile Akira from the rooftops, some even shrugging off his bursts of CWH rounds as he flees on his CoolBike.
** TheRemnant ArtificialIntelligence of the Old World, when using an automaton body, are like this, shrugging off pretty much anything thrown as them as a OneWomanArmy. It's a testament to how powerful Halmers is as a SuperStrength DifferentlyPoweredIndividual that he can damage one.
* Shishio Makoto, one of the {{Big Bad}}s of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''. He goes through the entire cast without stopping, takes a hit from the hero's strongest attack and stands back up, you name it. It takes [[spoiler:his own body overheating to kill him]]. To be specific, he takes a direct punch from [[BadassNormal Sanosuke]], hit ''very'' hard by Saito's in the forehead, and that's not even including Kenshin's attacks...
* Minako Aino in the manga version of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' and [[Manga/CodenameSailorV her solo manga]]. Her greatest feat was when, after donating over a liter of blood while too young to do so, she finally found where the [[MonsterOfTheWeek youma]] was and she ''climbed a large hospital in the middle of a heat wave'' to kill it, only taking the time to drink eight cans of tomato juice before the climb to restore her energies.
* Sabrac from ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana''. His physical humanoid form is only a small part of his actual body, so he's able to recover and regenerate from any attack.
* [[SatanicArchetype Vassago Cassals]] aka [[DarkMessiah POH]] from ''Anime/SwordArtOnline''. Almost nothing can put this guy down for good. Getting a severe beatdown by gives him a TorsowithaView, but he gets right back up as if nothing happened. He then gets frozen in ice by a Perfect Weapon Control Art, to which he breaks out using sheer willpower. The only way to put a stop to him is Kirito subjecting him to a FateWorsethanDeath by forcibly turning him into a tree and leaving him in the Underworld, and even that's hinted to not be enough, if his body disappearing from the Ocean Turtle with no explanation is anything to go by.
* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'':
** Noro, a strange and silent Ghoul working directly for Aogiri's leader. Even other ghouls consider his HealingFactor to be abnormal and his lack of reaction to damage disturbing. During the battle in the 11th Ward, he's pumped full of hundreds of rounds of ammunition without even reacting, and later is stabbed through the chest and then decapitated. He merely [[PullingThemselvesTogether pulls himself together]] and is only stopped because he's apparently called back by his superiors. Noro seems to have two default settings: "Ignore Completely" and "Reduce to Chunky Salsa". [[spoiler: In the sequel, he's finally put down for good......but only after the Quinx repeatedly blow him to pieces and Shirazu dies helping bring the monster down. It's then revealed that Noro was actually a mummified body kept going by Eto's powers.]]
** Kishou Arima, the legendary "undefeated" Ghoul Investigator. Rather than simply shrugging off injury, he seems capable of dodging literally ''anything'' thrown at him and leaves his targets with a literal RunOrDie scenario. Even the strongest of ghouls have no choice but to run as far and as fast as possible to survive an encounter with him. For this reason, ghouls call him {{Shinigami}} and consider him death incarnate.
* Vash ''and'' Knives from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', seeing as, in addition to just not dying, even when pushed to the very limit of their powers, they never relent in their ideals either. A potent example is when Vash fires a clip of bullets at Knives. Knives turns the parts of his body where the bullets hit into ''guns'' and fires back. They both recover.
* ''Manga/{{Ajin}}'': Sato is technically nothing more than a human with military training who can't die (and can sometimes summon a sort of battle ghost), but his sociopathy and love of action are so extreme that he will do absolutely anything to get a thrill in battle. What makes him scary is his resourcefulness: try to kill him, lock him, incapacitate him, he ''will'' find a way to turn the table on you by some [[CrazyEnoughToWork insane and unpredictable method]] that takes advantage of his immortality. That includes [[spoiler:chopping his own hand, sending it in a food-delivery package to the building he wants to infiltrate, ''grinding himself to smithereens in a wood-cutting machine'', and then reappearing inside the building when his body regenerates from the previously chopped-off hand. In other words, he effectively died and let a double of himself replace him]]. No one seems able to stop him for more than a minute.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The Drones and Warriors from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. Absolutely nothing can ever seem to be able to kill off or even hurt a Drone/Warrior at all during the first ''Film/{{Alien}}'' film as Ash describes the Drone as being indestructible and unkillable, but Ripley still manages to get rid of the Drone by sending him right out into the vacuum of space after opening up the airlock of the Narcissus while the Drone manages to survive within the vacuum of space, but Ripley manages to blast him right out into the void with the ship's engines.
* ''Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}'': FrankensteinsMonster is often stereotyped as this, even though most of the time he's simply wandering aimlessly around or trying to escape pursuit, rather than actively pursuing someone. One of the few actual examples of the Monster being an implacable pursuer is in ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein''.
* ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': In "S", nothing Roxanne does to the hooded man stops him, including torching him with a flamethrower. When he finally catches her, he congratulates on her leading him a better chase than any of his other victims.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainMarvel'' features the title character as a heroic version of one of these. Often times the criminals will fire bullet after bullet at the [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] hero, while the Captain calmly walks forward with a 'you are SO going to get your asses kicked' smile on his face as the bullets shatter against his body.
* Played for laughs with the random assassin in ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'': she survived a knife in the back, a dozen bullets shot in the back, a shot from a bazooka in the face, and a ridiculously high fall out of a window with Austin landing on top of her. A spot of LampshadeHanging occurs when Austin [[WhyWontYouDie cries "Why won't you die?!"]] A deleted scene shows that he keeps her in the trunk of his car to deflect gunfire.
* ''Film/BillyClub2013'': We only see one real example of this in the movie. Billy gets a pickaxe driven into the right side of his chest, and it does absolutely nothing to slow him down. [[spoiler:Though in the end, three baseballs to the face is what does him in.]]
* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' are a rare ''heroic'' example of this Trope. Once put on their divine mission to save an orphanage, they're shot at, bombed, and chased by every force imaginable. None of this can do anything more than slow them down.
* In the anthology film ''Film/BodyBags'', the killer in "The Gas Station" segment suffers a lot of abuse by the heroine, but keeps getting up each time to pursue her once again until [[spoiler:he finally gets crushed underneath a car]].
* Realistically played by the main character from ''Film/{{Brick}}''. Takes a few beat-downs but stands up again regardless (though his attempts to be truly implacable fail spectacularly when he swallows too much of his own blood and makes himself sick).
* ''Film/{{Brimstone}}'': The Reverend essentially becomes a slasher villain by the end, murdering anyone in his way and refusing to let injuries slow him down.
* The elite Marshall squad in ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''. Butch eventually comments, "Don't they ever get tired? Don't they ever get hungry?...I wish they'd even speed up, at least it'd be different."
* The Winter Soldier in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', who devastates the fray with a cold demeanor and calculating efficiency and shrugs off blows by anyone that isn't Captain America.
* ''Film/DeathWarrant'': The Sandman seems to be superhumanly durable. He is shot once, but keeps trying to kill Burke. Multiple gunshot wounds are just a temporary inconvenience. He even survives [[InfernalRetaliation being set on fire]].
* Colonel Reza in ''Film/DuckYouSucker''. Over the course of the film he is repeatedly blown up, only to get up and come after Juan and Mallory again and again. It takes having a machinegun emptied into him to put him down for good.
* In ''Film/{{Duel}}'', businessman David Mann is traveling along a desert highway when he is stalked by a mysterious tanker truck, who seems to have no driver.[[note]]The truck was actually driven by Carey Loftin, a legendary Hollywood stunt driver. In the few scenes where a driver can be discerned, Loftin's face is not seen.[[/note]] No matter what Mann does to elude and shake his antagonist, the truck is always on his tail, at times speeding well above the speed limit or at a speed that is reasonably safe or what the car -- a 1970 Plymouth Valiant sedan, presumably with the basic 6-cylinder engine -- can endure, the driver (or the truck-with-a-mind-of-its-own(?) itself) seeming to want to brutally kill him for some unknown reason. In the end, just as Mann's car is about to break down and all hope seems lost, Mann finally is able to stage an accident at the edge of a cliff, and the truck -- which heretofore had seemingly been smarter than Mann -- falls for the trick, plunging over the side to its doom.
* {{Satan}} in ''Film/EndOfDays'' possesses the body of a stock broker, who proves impervious to bullets and other blunt trauma. He's eventually worn down by repeated explosive blasts and being mowed down by a subway train. When he can no longer walk, he simply leaves the broker's body and possesses a new one. In the end, Satan isn't beaten, only outlasted as the New Year rings in, and he's forced to retreat for another 1000 years.
* A couple in the ''Film/JakaSembung'' series, an Indonesian series of fantasy martial arts films:
** Kohar from ''Jaka Sembung'' has bulletproof flesh impervious to blades and other weapons, introduced shoving his way through the Dutch soldiers and hired goons with ease to declare himself as the "champion" eager to claim the bounty on Jaka Sembung's head and beating up everyone in his way without any effort.
** In ''Jaka Sembung Dan Bergola Ijo'', the villain Demang Asmara shrugs off every attack thrown at him and rips out a whole tree as a weapon when fighting the resistance. Jaka Sembung tries to hit him in a [[GroinAttack weak spot]]... [[BallsOfSteel guess how that works]].
* Jason Voorhees from the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' movies is nearly impossible to stop, and it's always temporary.
** By the time he was finally KilledOffForReal in the fourth film, ''[[Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter The Final Chapter]]'', by way of a pissed-off Tommy hacking his head and body to pieces with his machete, Jason had survived: drowning in the [[DeathByOriginStory backstory]], a machete to the shoulder in ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 Part 2]]'', and hanging and an axe to the head in ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartIII Part III]]''.
** The sixth film ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives Jason Lives]]'' made him explicitly supernatural by bringing him back as a RevenantZombie, and after that, every attempt to kill him merely immobilized him. The eighth film, ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan Jason Takes Manhattan]]'', has him boarding a ship and then sinking it with him still aboard, then trudging through the ocean waters to follow the survivors to New York. There, he's finally stopped by getting dissolved in toxic waste, and even that merely de-ages him back to an adolescent boy.
** ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' opens with the FBI, [[GenreSavvy in full anticipation of this]], going to town on him with heavy artillery and blasting him into LudicrousGibs. It doesn't put down his ''soul'' (which survives through DemonicPossession and {{Body Surf}}ing), but it is sufficient to finally destroy his body.
** ''Film/JasonX'' adds a more heroic Implacable Man to the mix with Sgt. Brodski, who seems to repeatedly survive all sorts of damage on [[{{Determinator}} sheer force of will]] alone. As for Jason himself, KM-14 manages to destroy him just like the FBI did in ''Jason Goes to Hell'' (i.e. with MoreDakka), but since this is the future, the technology exists to [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuild him]], and when Jason's body lands on the medical station's bed, he gets revived as the even deadlier {{cyborg}} "Uber-Jason". The ending implies that not even blowing up the spaceship with him aboard and then having him burn up in the atmosphere of Earth II managed to kill him, as we see a pair of teenagers camping on a very familiar-looking lake watch a shooting star and [[CuriosityKilledTheCast decide to go check out where it landed]].
** In ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', Jason proves how implacable he is even during a fight in the dream world. Despite being near-omnipotent in the dream world, Freddy finds himself unable to kill Jason, before discovering his hydrophobia.
** Jason remains true to form in [[Film/FridayThe13th2009 the remake]], surviving a machete to the chest and his head getting shoved into a woodchipper to come back at the end for one last scare.
* The Neo-Vipers from ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' are first shown walking calmly through massed assault rifle fire with all the rounds bouncing harmlessly off. While they are later shown to be susceptible to explosives or a MoeGreeneSpecial, it does make them look intimidating.
* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, Franchise/KingKong, and other [[{{Kaiju}} similar giant animal monsters]]. Guns? Tanks? Fighter jets? Nuclear weapons? Shrug. You need a seriously plot-specific item to take out one of these guys. Well, Kong was killed pretty easily, by beauty.
* Michael Myers in the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' series.
** In the [[Film/Halloween1978 first film]], he gets his throat slashed, stabbed in the eye with a coat hanger, stabbed in the gut, shot six times, and falls out a second-story window, and still gets right back up.
** [[Film/HalloweenII1981 The second film]] has him take five gunshots to the chest, two more to the eyes which merely impair his vision instead of blowing off his head, and he's at the center of an explosion which, while rendering him unconscious, doesn't kill him.
** [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers The fourth film]] has him at the center of an ambulance crash down a hill, take a shotgun, get run over by a truck, then absorb a barrage of gunfire which knocks him down a mine shaft. As evidenced by [[Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers the fifth film]], none of this kills him.
** [[Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers The sixth film]] made his invincibility explicitly supernatural. Apparently, he was cursed by a Celtic pagan cult to murder each and every member of his family, and ''nothing'' will stop him.
** ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' was a partial reboot that removed from continuity the last three films and the supernatural explanation for his invincibility in an attempt to [[RevisitingTheRoots get the series back to its roots]], though he's still extraordinarily tough. After getting an axe in the chest, he nonchalantly rips the weapon out and keeps going.
** The only person who ever beat Michael in a hand-to-hand fight, without guns, cars, tranquilizer darts, explosions, or outside interference was Music/BustaRhymes' character Freddie in ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' -- and not coincidentally, most fans try to pretend that [[FanonDiscontinuity that film never happened]]. Even then, in their first fight, Freddie wraps a cable around Michael's neck and knocks him out a window, but Michael [[TheManTheyCouldntHang does not die and simply cuts himself down]]. In their second fight, when Freddie defeats him by [[PowerCableAttack jamming a live wire into]] [[GroinAttack his crotch]], then leaves him to die in a burning building, he still survives.
** ''Film/Halloween2018'': This reboot also does away with the supernatural explanation and Michael is in his sixties, [[FeelingTheirAge making him slightly weaker]], but he is still implacable. He shrugs off getting hit in the face with a crowbar twice, doesn't slow down after getting shot in the shoulder, and wakes up after getting hit with a car. In the final battle with the Strode family, he gets two of his fingers shot off, is shot in the jaw, and is knocked down a flight of stairs, but he still gets up. He is stabbed in the hand twice, then is only temporarly defeated when he is locked in a panic room and then the whole house is set on fire.
** ''Film/HalloweenKills'': Michael escapes the burning house and continues his rampage. He shrugs off Lindsey hitting him in the face twice with a sack full of bricks, Allyson knifing him several times in the gut, and Karen stabbing him in the back with a pitchfork and then stomping on his head. He is then lured to a angry mob which gives him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and shoots him several times, but then he gets up and slaughters them all.
** ''Film/HalloweenEnds'':
*** Michael [[DentedIron was weakened by all his past injuries]], enough that a kid named Corey Cunningham is able to steal his mask and [[JackTheRipoff go on a killing spree while pretending to be him]], but Michael follows him and gets his revenge brutally. In his final battle, Laurie [[ImpaledPalm pins his hands to a kitchen counter with knives]] and stabs him in the chest before pinning his legs with a refrigerator, stabbing him in the side, and [[SlashedThroat slitting his throat]]. He ''still'' gets a hand free to strangle her. He finally dies when Allyson saves Laurie by breaking his arm and then they slit his wrist, and he bleeds out. Not taking any chances, they hurl his body into an industrial shredder to [[MakeSureHesDead make sure he doesn't rise again]].
*** Corey is also one. He falls off a building and immediately sits up the same way Michael does. He gets shot in the chest twice and falls down a flight of stairs, but sits up again, before deciding to stab himself in the throat to frame Laurie for his murder. He ''still'' doesn't die, and when Michael shows up, he grabs his arm before Michael finally kills him by breaking his neck.
* The Golden Army of ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy''. Even after getting torn apart, they rebuild themselves every time from near-nothing, and they're otherwise a horde of {{Perpetual Motion Monster}}s; the only way to give them pause is [[spoiler:to challenge their controller, which engages a stand-down protocol until the control crown's ownership is resolved]].
* The Hellcop from ''Film/HighwayToHell'' ''will not stop'' until his objective is complete, whether kidnapping Rachel or killing Charlie.
* Mal from ''Film/{{Inception}}'' is a character that suddenly invades dream worlds and attempts to assassinate the dreamer. In a sense she's even worse than her counterpart Agent Smith in ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' movies in that she doesn't need to possess anyone, she just appears and wreaks havoc. What's really scary is that even in constructed dream worlds with trained dream operators, she's nearly impossible to stop.
* ''Film/{{Innerspace}}'': Mr. Igoe will pursue you to get those chips, even if it means [[spoiler: shrinking himself down, and entering your body just to obtain them, and who is only defeated by an ocean of stomach acid]].
* The titular ''It'' in ''Film/ItFollows''. A [[HumanoidAbomination vaguely humanoid]] ''thing'' that hunts down and kills whoever is cursed with it, before moving on to the second most recent cursed person, then the next, then the next, and so on. It takes the form of random people, and nothing can kill it or permanently disable it. More a force of nature than a thinking creature (though ItCanThink when it needs to), it never moves at a pace faster than a slow walk, and no matter how far the person it's chasing runs, they'll always get tired eventually.
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** Jaws from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' lives through the two movies by sheer force of not stopping ever.
** For that matter, Bond himself. Especially in the Creator/DanielCraig films he gets some truly epic chase scenes.
** Nearly every ''Bond'' movie has had a Dragon who is much tougher and better in a fight than Bond that he only beats through quick thinking. [[DragonTheirFeet And returns to kill Bond after the villain's defeat]].
* ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' features The Creeper who, as Jezelle puts it in the first film, [[spoiler: stops at nothing to hunt down and feed on those it likes the scent of]].
* This is the reason that ''Franchise/JohnWick'' is TheDreaded among those who know his name (practically everyone in the criminal underworld). He's normally a ReluctantWarrior, but press his buttons enough and nothing stops him from killing the one that's responsible...even if it means gunning down a lot of mooks along the way. It's for this reason that even Jimmy, the cop that's pretty civil with him, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere knows not to get in his way as soon as he sees corpses in his house]].
-->'''Viggo Tarasov:''' ''[to his son Iosef]'' John is a man of focus. Commitment. Sheer will. Things you know very little about.
* The Hunter [[GreatWhiteHunter Van Pelt]] from ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', once summoned from the eponymous board game, stopped at nothing in hunting Alan down. While all of the other board events summoned dangerous creatures and weather phenomena, each of those passed and didn't actively pursue the cast as Van Pelt did. Even upon running out of ammo for his oversized hunting rifle and finding out that it wasn't possible for him to acquire more (as it had long since fallen out of production), he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUv875PH7LA simply purchased new, more modern armaments]] with which to threaten his quarry.
* The ''Indominus rex'' in ''Film/JurassicWorld''. The only weapon that even fazes ''Indominus'' is a near-direct hit from an ''antitank weapon''. [[spoiler:It takes a ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'', a ''Velociraptor'', and a ''Mosasaurus'' ganging up on her to take her down.]]
* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', Harry Hart becomes this at the church congregation [[spoiler:after being driven to mindless rage by Valentine's HatePlague, methodically killing dozens and ignoring several gunshot and stab wounds]].
* The Beast from the film ''Film/KungFuHustle''. Takes being punched through walls and flattened into the ground and still keeps going.
* Dorian Gray, as portrayed in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. In an early scene in the movie, he's seen getting riddled with bullets, which only succeeds in destroying his suit and making him mildly annoyed.
-->'''Terrified {{Mook|s}}:''' ''[[WhatTheHellAreYou What are you!?]]''\\
'''Dorian:''' I'm complicated.
* Mobius Lockhardt, the demonic ghost in ''Film/LeftForDead''. Once he starts pursuing you, nothing will stop him. He is shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, and impaled; all without slowing him down. His only limitations are that he cannot pass beyond the limits of the graves, or enter the church.
* The Ringwraiths from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' (see also Literature).
-->'''Aragorn''': They are the Nazgûl, Ringwraiths, neither living nor dead. At all times they feel the presence of the Ring, drawn to the power of the One. ''They will never stop hunting you.''
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** Steve Rogers. His whole thing is that he just will never, ever give up - he even ''temporarily restrains a helicopter mid-take off''. In his own words: "I can do this all day."
** The Winter Soldier will just mow through everything and everyone in his path. When his programming is reactivated in ''Civil War'', unarmed, he goes through Tony Stark (armed only with a small gauntlet), Black Widow, Black Panther, among others.
** Ikaris in ''Film/{{Eternals}}''. In the climax, [[spoiler:every single one of the living Eternals bar Kingo, who's team Switzerland, Sprite, who's team Ikaris, and Sersi, who's busy, has a go at him, alone and together, and he bulldozes his way through ''all of them''. Druig, the mind-controller? Hurled into the bedrock, with a laser blast to finish him (though he just about survives). Thena, the best warrior, who slices a Deviant with the powers of two Eternals? Casual BarehandedBladeBlock and a very one-sided fight. Makkari, a speedster fast enough to criss-cross the entire planet in a couple of minutes, tops, who's also enraged by the aparent murder of Druig? Does her level best to beat him to death at SuperSpeed, dragging ''his face through rock walls at mach speeds'' to ''start''... and gets beaten to a pulp the moment Ikaris lays his hands on her. Phastos, who builds all the super-tech, including stuff immune to Ikaris' eye-beams? Tries to restrain Ikaris, succeeds for a short while while pummelling him, before Ikaris lets out a roar of rage and shrugs the restraints off so hard an actual ''shockwave'' sends Phastos flying. None of them even ''bruise'' him. The only person who stops Ikaris is Sersi, because he can't bear to hurt her.]] You don't stop Ikaris. If you are lucky, you slow him down and perhaps you annoy him. If you are ''very'' lucky, perhaps you survive him.
** Wanda Maximoff once she becomes the Scarlet Witch. In Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness she bulldozes literally everyone who tries to stop her, including [[spoiler:a version of herself from another universe]].
* Agent Smith (and the other Agents) in ''Franchise/TheMatrix''. Not only are Agents ridiculously powerful and ridiculously hard to kill, but if you do manage to kill one, all the Agent needs to do is find another human to possess in order to continue trying to take you down. There's a reason that standard Resistance procedure before Neo came along was to "run your ass off" when an Agent showed up.
* The killer in ''Film/MidnightMovie'' gets shot several times. Justified in that he's just a character from a film brought to life.
* Imhotep from ''Film/TheMummy1999''. Immortal, the only way to actually stop him is to magic him back to mortality and ''then'' kill him.
* Kharis the mummy from ''Film/TheMummysHand'', ''The Mummy's Tomb'', ''The Mummy's Ghost'', and ''The Mummy's Curse'', a series of mummy films Universal made in the 1940s that were vaguely InspiredBy the original 1932 ''Film/TheMummy1932''. He's immortal, ImmuneToBullets, and generally unstoppable, [[KillItWithFire unless he's expose to flames]]. He'd be a terrifying villain if he was capable of moving at any pace other than a slow walk.
* Robert Mitchum's character in ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter''. "Don't he never sleep?"
* Anton Chigurh from ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'' definitely counts, although the film handles it more realistically than most. The next-to-final scene proves Anton is definitely killable -- he's just single-minded, completely [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] by any conventional morality, and very good at [[PsychoForHire his job.]] Then again [[spoiler:his car crash at the end shows that he is not completely invincible, and that pure luck might also play a part in keeping him alive]].
* [[HumanoidAbomination The Tall Man]] from the ''Film/{{Phantasm}}'' films. He can make his victims hallucinate that they killed him only to come back to torment them. He's telekinetic and super-strong, so it doesn't matter if someone's close to him or not, he can still get them and cause their weapons to misfire or remove them from their grasp. If parts are cut off of him, those parts will each become miniature monsters that will make the attacker's life hell. If frozen, his head will release an unstoppable golden sentinel sphere. Finally, if someone somehow manages to burn him with fire, acid or blow him up... an identical Tall Man steps out of a dimensional doorway and picks up the corpse of the previous Tall Man, hurls it back through the portal, and then takes over immediately where the previous one left off. ''And'' he is a RealityWarper who can undo his own defeats, and has an ever-growing legion of the undead and alien technology at his command.
* The titular ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}'' is this, as it's a monster conjured forth by the rage and grief of the one that summons it, and will stop at ''nothing'' to brutally kill the targets of its conjurer's ire. The only means to stop it prior to completing its task is to [[spoiler: [[CantLiveWithoutYou kill the one that summoned it]]]].
* The film ''Film/ThePunisher2004'' as well as [[VideoGame/ThePunisherTHQ the game]], features The Russian who seems to be almost completely impervious to any kind of pain imaginable (in the game he is even immune to bullets even though he doesn't have any super powers). He is based on the Russian character from the original comics, who is a lot more talkative, but just as supremely strong and relentless; he was only defeated when the Punisher ''suffocated him under his obese neighbor'' and then cut off his head, but he ''still'' came back after having his head reattached and his skeleton augmented with powerful metal alloys (he also received a pair of breasts due to hormone injections, which he took in stride by actually dressing up like a woman on occasions).
* The killer in ''Film/TheRedwoodMassacre'' takes a shotgun blast to the neck at one point and falls to the ground. A couple scenes later, he gets right back up.
* The Repo Men in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' are hired on the basis of their having this trait, though usually it's displayed in more... subtle ways before they get the job (for example, Nathan's relentless search for Marni's cure.)
* The titular KillerRobot of ''Film/{{ROTOR}}'' will not stop until it executes its suspect.
* Probably the [[SoBadItsGood least potent]] film distillation: Ro-Man, the title character of BMovie ''Film/RobotMonster''. All of our weapons have failed to kill it, and it's wiped out all of humanity, save about seven people. Under some circumstances, such feats would be really scary. However, since Ro-Man is [[SpecialEffectFailure a gorilla in a space helmet]], this isn't one of those circumstances.
* The Film/SyFyChannelOriginalMovie ''Scarecrow'' has the title entity. It literally can't be killed, period. Shooting it, burning it, even being shredded into tiny bits do nothing but slow it down. It will ''always'' regenerate and keep coming. The only way it can be defeated is to [[SealedEvilInACan imprison it somehow.]] And even if you can do that, the moment it gets loose, it'll resume it's hunt as if nothing happened.
* Drug usage seems able to confer apparent-Implacability. A lesser kind of Implacable Man appears in ''Film/Scarface1983'': Tony Montana snorts cocaine and then takes on an army of assailants. Despite being shot numerous times with automatic weapons, he doesn't flinch and kills every one of his would-be assassins. Only a double-barrel shotgun blast delivered from behind at point-blank range is enough to finally take Tony down.
* ''Film/{{Scream}}'', as part of its DeconstructiveParody of SlasherMovie tropes, makes a point to avert this with Ghostface. The series' killers are ''not'' invincible, but only about as dexterious as a normal human being, and given that they're wearing a mask that obscures their vision, they are constantly tripped up by the heroes. When they ''do'' prove to be ImmuneToBullets, [[spoiler:it's because they're wearing a BulletproofVest, and a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] will still finish the job]].
* The Black Brother in ''Film/{{Shrooms}}''. Absolutely nothing slows him down, and he will vanish from one spot to reappear at another, often just behind his victim. [[spoiler:But, then again, he's not real.]]
* Marv from ''Film/SinCity''. He's so tough he [[spoiler:''taunted his own executioners'' after they gave him his first round on the electric chair.]] He defeated the psychopathic Kevin by [[spoiler:handcuffing them together and taking everything Kevin could dish out [[FragileSpeedster until he could get one good punch in]].]] Throughout the film, he takes an almost superhuman amount of punishment without flinching.
* The Headless Horseman from ''Film/SleepyHollow'' cannot be stopped by any means as he is controlled by the one who owns his skull. The only way to stop him is to return it to him. In fact, this is lampshaded late in the movie.
-->'''Young Masbath:''' ''[after an explosion]'' Is he...?\\
'''Ichabod:''' Dead? That's the problem... he was already dead to begin with...
* Another bulletproof Russian (Uzbekistani) appears in the movie ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', and hilarity ensues. Even when not dodging bullets, he manages to survive being hit directly by a car travelling at high speed with no real injury, then taking almost a full magazine from a desert eagle at the hands of Bullet-Tooth Tony, all while yelling "fuck you!" with each bullet that Tony puts in him. It's heavily implied by his tenacity that he would have survived if the frustrated Tony hadn't used his last bullet for a well-aimed [[BoomHeadShot headshot]].
-->'''Bullet-Tooth Tony:''' ''[interrogating a mook]'' Boris the Blade? As in... [[MeaningfulName Boris the Bullet-Dodger]]?\\
'''Avi:''' Why do they call him the Bullet-Dodger?\\
'''Bullet-Tooth Tony:''' ...because he ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin dodges bullets]]'', Avi.
* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' has John Harrison take half a dozen of Kirk's best haymakers to the face without so much as a bruise. In the end, a mildly-annoyed Harrison resorts to snark. Harrison also shrugs off [[spoiler:crashlanding a starship into parts of San Francisco]] and is still conscious after [[spoiler:being stunned about six times in succession with a phaser]]. He even successfully [[spoiler:weathers out a Vulcan nerve pinch]]!
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Kylo Ren in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' after taking a bowblast to the gut is able to keep moving. He is able to intercept Finn and Rey and fight them both, albeit separately. Finn gets a hit in with a lightsaber but Ren is able to take him out. When Rey takes up the saber Ren keeps her on the run for most of the fight. Even when the fight shifts in her favor and she gets a couple of hits in he still keeps going. Rey has to destroy his lightsaber and give him another wound for him to finally go down. Even then he appears to want to get up and keep fighting.
** Darth Vader also easily fits into this. IE: What he did to those poor folks on the Blockade Runner in ''Film/RogueOne''.
** General Grievous is shown to be capable of tearing through regular troops with even greater ease than Vader in ''The Clone Wars'', but his greatest show of implacability comes in his sole film appearance, ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. There he engages Obi-Wan in a decently even minute-long lightsaber duel before the latter gets the upper hand. After this, he was two of his arms cut off, is Force-Pushed sixty feet vertically and into a metal ceiling hard enough to leave a crater, falls sixty feet to hit the hard concrete floor, gets hit by stray blaster fire, tumbles out of his vehicle and onto a landing pad after it catastrophically crashes, gets whacked in the face by an electrostaff, has said electrostaff stabbed into his chest, and has his chest plate ripped open by Obi-Wan's Force-enhanced strength. Even after all of this, he still smacks around Obi-Wan and is about to deliver the killing blow before his opponent quickly grabs a blaster and shoots him ''directly in his exposed heart.'' His final action is to make last attempt to inch closer to finish Obi-Wan off immediately after this, prompting Obi-Wan to fire several more shots at his vulnerable organs, finally killing him for good.
* For a non-superpowered or supernatural slasher the titular villain from ''Film/TheStepfather'' films commonly survives things no normal man possibly could -- in the first movie alone he gets shot several times and knifed in the chest, getting only a small scar from the encounter. It takes being [[BloodierAndGorier chewed up and liquefied in a woodchipper]] in the third film to [[DeaderThanDead finally kill him]].
* Perhaps the most potent distillation: the title character of the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series is a killing machine, as discussed in the page quote.
** The key example occurs near the end of ''Film/TheTerminator'', where Kyle Reese manages to explode the fuel tanker truck that the Terminator is driving to try to destroy it. Immediately afterward, Kyle and Sarah Connor embrace with romantic music playing as they feel the crisis is over. However, the music abruptly changes back to ominous as the Terminator, now stripped to its endoskeleton frame, [[OutOfTheInferno arises from the flames]] to shock both the heroes and the audience that the killer robot '''is still coming'''. Even after Kyle '''blows its legs off''', the damn thing keeps crawling after Sarah with murderous intent, and as it's being crushed in a hydraulic press, it claws at her with its metallic skeletal hand to the very last.
** Taken to further extremes in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', where the T-1000 gets frozen by liquid nitrogen and breaks into a million pieces...and ''still'' survives to continue pursuing the heroes[[note]]in the special edition, however, it sustained some damage to its shapeshifting ability due to getting frozen[[/note]]; he also manages to continue running at the same speed as a reversing car while being shot repeatedly with a pistol. Moreso with Sarah Connor's attack on Dyson's home, where she all but becomes a Terminator herself and is halfway to shooting a defenseless, wounded man dead in front of his wife and family.
** ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' takes the trope even ''[[ExaggeratedTrope further]]'' with the T-X, which treats giant electromagnets, rocket launchers and a beating from Arnold Schwarzenegger with nothing more than mild annoyance. When the T-850 hits her with a military helicopter, crushing her underneath it and reducing her to a legless torso, she keeps going in true Terminator fashion. His solution? [[TakingYouWithMe Shove his own power source in her mouth and blow it up]], complete with a PreMortemOneLiner.
** ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' has the original T-800 chasing relentlessly after John Connor through the [[NoOSHACompliance very factory that is building more of them]]. It is impervious to any kind of damage Connor throws at it [[spoiler:even after having molten steel poured onto it, with said steel cooling off and being broken out of to continue the chase]]. The [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Harvester]] also counts.
* ''Film/UniversalSoldierTheReturn'': Romeo is ordered by S.E.T.H. to capture Deveraux, since only he possesses the code that can avoid the automatic resetting of S.E.T.H.'s memory. Romeo proceeds to get fired at, slammed through walls, set on fire, and run over by a truck, but nothing seems able to stop him permanently. Even when Luc managed to destroy S.E.T.H. and a majority of Uni Sols, Romeo still proved to be impossible to destroy as he managed to pummel down Luc without breaking a sweat. It eventually took the explosion of an entire building to finally bring Romeo down.
-->'''Erin:''' You just flattened him!\\
'''Deveraux:''' That's only gonna slow him down!
* Subverted in ''Film/VForVendetta'': title character V takes a massive barrage of bullets with a comparatively very minimal reaction, has a teensy bit o' trouble breathing just afterward (after ''all'' the bad guys are ''completely out of bullets'')... and then proceeds to completely annihilate everyone and everything, until he gets the BigBad alone, hoists him up in the air and snaps his neck with one twitch. The subversion part comes when he opens his cloak to reveal the medieval breastplate that only "sort of" protected him. [[spoiler:Cue long-winded HeroicSacrifice.]]
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Sebastian Shaw in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', most notably in the scene where he invades a CIA base to try to recruit the mutants being housed there. Getting repeatedly hit by volleys of machine gun fire doesn't even muss up his suit. He {{No Sell}}s an energy blast that's later shown slicing through the walls of a nuclear fallout shelter like butter. The only thing they can hit him with that even slows him down is a bazooka, and then only because it takes him a couple of seconds to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb the blast]].
** Ichirō Yashida from ''Film/TheWolverine'', in his Silver Samurai armor.
* The KillerRobot from ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' continuously attempts to kill Walter all while getting himself stuck in a fireplace, blasting himself out of the Budwings' floating house, damaging himself upon reentry into the basement, and finally repairing himself, and once Walter successfully [[HeelFaceTurn reprograms him]], nothing stops the KillerRobot from relentlessly slaughtering the encroaching Zorgons.
* The title creature from ''Film/{{Zeiram}}''.

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* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'': Vain, the magically constructed being in the ''Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'', is an Implacable Man but not a villain. Instead, he spends most of the time doing very little and being vaguely ominous while he follows the heroes around and shrugs off all attacks.[[note]]Well, ''almost'' all attacks; there are a very few things that do injure him though they don't stop him from... doing whatever it is he's doing.[[/note]] Vain normally wears an impassive, even almost beatific, expression, but in order to get a mistrustful Covenant to accept Vain as a companion, the Ur-Viles who constructed him put a compulsion on him to obey Covenant's direct orders one time. When following those orders, Vain's expression changes to one of savage glee; the only other times he shows any emotion are when he goes and [[ItMakesSenseInContext grins at the ship's mainmast]] and when his purpose is about to be fulfilled (which prompts him, after three books of being TheVoiceless, to speak, though even then he mostly just expresses quiet satisfaction that he's finally getting to do what he was built to do).
* The Nazgûl in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. The only way they can be killed is if the One Ring is destroyed.
* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' has Fëanor, [[BerserkButton you steal his shit he will find you]] and fight your '''entire''' army of fire and shadow demons to get them back. Remember that one time [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]] fought a Balrog? [[ExaggeratedTrope Now picture a bunch of them]].
* Merlin, the main character of ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'' series. He's an android made of battlesteel, his "nerves" are optic fibers that grant him inhuman reflexes, he's super strong, doesn't have to eat or drink because he's powered by a pocket fusion generator, and has to rest only for few hours every five days. His "brain" is not in his head but in his body, and is protected by a few inches of battlesteel; a cannonball might behead him, but it would take high-tech [[LostTechnology Federation gear]] to actually put him down. Shown clearly in ''Like A Mighty Army'', in a form of MookHorrorShow.
* The Cauldron-Born in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain''; they are invulnerable, and all strategies for dealing with them revolve around drawing them away from Annuvin (because they grow weaker when outside it) or delaying them. [[spoiler:At the end it is revealed that they can be killed by Dyrnwyn, the black sword.]] In TheFilmOfTheBook, ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', that Implacable ''Army'' can only be defeated by the HeroicSacrifice of someone jumping into the titular cauldron (which is fatal).
* Shrike from ''Literature/MortalEngines'', last of the Lazarus Brigade, survives being shot and stabbed (a lot), being blown up, being ''run over by a mobile city'', and ten thousand years of entropy.
* A definite candidate for this trope is Verroq, the 'bearded mercenary' from ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' who, though a prominent baddie, [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep is only named in the last book]]. He survives... well, anything and everything, really. Bartimaeus himself puts it best:
-->''"Whether I squished him under a statue, blew him up with a Detonation or (as in our last encounter) simply set him on fire and hurled him down a mountainside, he never seemed to suffer the slightest injury."''
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', having one of these sent after him (in the form of Mr. Pump, a {{golem}}) is what convinces Moist von Lipwig to give in and serve as postmaster. As Vetinari putts it: "You need to eat; Mr. Pump does not. You need to sleep; Mr. Pump does not". Golems do have a weakness, though: [[spoiler:they can handle fire, and they can handle water, but being living clay, they can't handle both at the same time]].
** Another, earlier golem example comes in ''Literature/FeetOfClay'', in which Angua remarks that, despite its cracks, the golem [[spoiler:king]] would probably keep attacking even if it became nothing more than floating dust.
** The Luggage. Even if you go to the ends of the earth, the Luggage will be heading there with its hundreds of tiny feet. (It's also rather vicious.) It will follow you to the beginning of time or its end, into another dimension, or through the gates of Hell itself, [[TheJuggernaut utterly destroying whoever and whatever gets in its way]].
** And a human example: Sam Vimes. "As far as they're concerned, '''''I''''' am far-reaching consequences!" Yes, he is. In ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', his usual unstoppable determination is augmented by [[spoiler:an ancient quasi-demonic spirit of vengeance]] which makes him, briefly, the scariest being on the Disc.
* OlderThanSteam: In book V of Edmund Spenser's 1596 poem, ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'', Talus, the iron sidekick with a penchant for incredibly violent justice, proves unstoppable by any of his enemies.
* Many Creator/DeanKoontz antagonists fit this trope to a T. If they want the heroes they will hunt them, and hunt them, and hunt them until they are killed or incapacitated. Often very competent and capable of tracking their quarry through their connections. But thankfully the same can be said of the protagonists, whose spirit to live and DivineIntervention save the day.
* In ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'', all magic users tend to be hard to kill, but the worst by far is [[spoiler:the Limper]]. For starters he gets stabbed a few hundred times, hacked apart, mutilated, knocked out of the sky, then ''decapitated''. It doesn't stop him. Eventually he is [[spoiler:shredded to tiny pieces and boiled in a giant pressure cooker, and the gooey mass of flesh and gore]] ''still'' breaks out and tries to keep going.
* Vago the {{golem}} from ''Literature/StormThief''. Not only is the guy next to impossible to harm with conventional weaponry, Revenants, which instantly kill everything else by brushing up against them die the instant they touch him and give him energy. Granted, he was designed to kill them, so that bit is justified.
* Croup and Vandemar in ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', who cannot be killed and doggedly pursue the heroes until the end.
* ''Literature/TheBible'', in the Literature/BookOfJob, mentions a "[[KrakenAndLeviathan leviathan]]" and "behemoth" that apparently shrug off all human attempts to subdue them, at least if the quite literal WordOfGod is to be trusted.
* Rare hero example: Roland of Gilead, protagonist of ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'', especially in [[Literature/TheGunslinger the first book]].
* The gods of the ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' series are, not surprisingly, rather hard to kill. You know, being gods and all. However, what is required to actually kill them varies according to book. At first, they can be killed only by another god or the weapon of a god. Period. Later on, it is said that Hel could've been vanquished by an enchanted sword, and one character says that a fall into a crater the group is at would kill even an immortal. Nonetheless, gods are stabbed with swords, cut with blades, and shot full of arrows with little effect over the course of the books. It is possible that the books' Coo-Hatch steel could kill an immortal, however.
* The Warrior Bugs from ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', at least according to Johnnie. It takes losing all four limbs on one side to topple one, and it's not out of commission till the nerve case is damaged. If it hasn't been toppled by then, it can still charge forward until it bumps into something like a wall.
* The Steel Inquisitors from ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' can only be killed by [[spoiler:decapitation or pulling out the metal spike embedded in their back]] -- they'll recover almost instantly from anything else. Their boss, [[EvilOverlord the Lord Ruler]], is ''even tougher'' -- prior to the beginning of the book he had reportedly been stabbed, shot, decapitated, burned and ''flayed alive'' and shrugged it all off like nothing. WordOfGod says the decapitation was an exaggeration, he was only partially decapitated and would have died if he'd actually been completely decapitated.
* Hyde from ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' is a chilling example of this. Although we don't see him shrug off lots of damage, the point is made clearly -- if absolutely, positively nothing is going to stop you, then surely that must include [[WouldHurtAChild even the innocent little girl who just got in your way]], which is indeed what happens when Hyde callously walks into, and then ''over'', her. In the face of this monstrous behavior, the observers are disgusted.
* Several characters from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', but most notably Cowl, whom [[spoiler:a fallen angel-powered Harry flipped a car onto, and it did ''nothing'']]. Wizards are the {{Glass Cannon}}s of [[TheVerse the Dresdenverse]]. Also Nicodemus. He gets shot full of a full cylinder of bullets without even flinching. After the second bullet he actually started making the quintessential "can we hurry it up" gesture.
* ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' has a BadassNormal example. Sure, the Man in Black is technically just an ordinary human without any superpowers or invulnerability, but... When following Buttercup's kidnappers, he outraces the fastest ship in the land, [[ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity climbs the original Cliffs of Insanity]], even after they cut the rope, beats [[MasterSwordsman Inigo Montoya]] in a duel, wrestles [[WorldsStrongestMan Fezzik]] unconscious, and finally [[spoiler:deliberately drinks poison without suffering any effects]] to beat Vizzini in cunning.
* Those using the Tin Man PoweredArmor or CID MotionCaptureMecha in Creator/DaleBrown's books are ImmuneToBullets, allowing them to appear this way. The illusion is shattered when anti-tank weaponry is brought out, though.
* All of TheUndead armies in ''Literature/TheMalazanBookOfTheFallen'' (the T'lan Imass, Forkrul Assail, and K'Chain Che'Malle) have this as their [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. From what we've seen of the Jaghut Tyrants they also count, as do Annomander Rake and many of the series other badass characters.
* The Golem of Flesh, Everyman from ''Literature/WayOfTheTiger''. Every time you kill him, he reappears, repeating his line "I am Everyman." After the first few fights, even if you take no damage (through fudging the dice, or just being really good at rolling them), you still lose hit points on each subsequent attempts, as "exhaustion" kicks in. The only way to get away from him: [[spoiler:lure him to a cliff and make him fall. Incidentally, said cliff leads to hordes of monsters who will gladly keep him occupied for eternity]].
* The Irrha from ''Literature/TheWarOfTheFlowers'', a mindless disease spirit that someone sends to kidnap the main character. It follows him everywhere, even between dimensions, constructing a new body from whatever's handy (trash, stray cats, parts of a homeless guy, whatever). [[spoiler:In the end, it ''can't'' be stopped from carrying out its mission -- but it can be sidetracked onto the EnfantTerrible for whom the changeling protagonist was switched at birth.]]
* Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian in ''Literature/TheHourOfTheDragon'', when he's after the Heart of Ahriman. All right, he has to quell one LeaveYourQuestTest when he thinks of less complicated adventures with lower stakes, but only one.
* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': Durza, the Shade. Not only is he a powerful magician, he's also as physically powerful and agile as an [[OurElvesAreDifferent elf]], with extra regeneration too. The worst part, and what qualifies him for the trope, is that being a Shade he ''cannot'' die unless you stab him right through the heart; other injuries are either shrugged off or, if lethal, simply discorporate him back to a mass of spirits that can regenerate its physical form very quickly and come right after you again. It's noted that this is ''very'' painful, but he stopped caring long ago.
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': In ''The Last Olympian'' has Hyperion, TheDragon to BigBad Kronos, plus Kronos himself. [[spoiler:Percy Jackson, once he takes a dip in the River Styx,]] is almost a {{deconstruct|edTrope}}ion as he is an Implacable Man when he needs to be, but once the need has gone, he feels all the more tired for it. There are also the skeleton soldiers from ''The Titan's Curse'', who chase the heroes across the country ''on foot'' and can only be stopped by [[spoiler:children of Hades]].
* Nearly any greater dead or free magic construct in the ''Literature/OldKingdom'' trilogy unless you have exactly the skills and equipment needed to handle them, and any of the dead are this when faced with modern weaponry.
* Michael is a heroic version of this in the ''Literature/KnightAndRogueSeries''. Due to suffering from ChronicHeroSyndrome he eagerly pursues the villains, and when they finally confront him and throw him over a 300 ft high cliff he just gets ''winded''.
* In Creator/SimonRGreen's 'Verse, the Walking Man is an agent of holy wrath who cannot be stopped by any force short of divinity. Anyone who becomes one will believe God is backing his play, and he'll be ''right''.
** It's possible that the Walking Man is more powerful than even other gods, as The Punk God of the Straight Razor [[spoiler:went toe to toe with him and still got his ass kicked in the end]].
** Note that the Walking Man's invulnerability and powers [[spoiler:only last as the Walking Man is punishing sinners. As soon as he tries to kill an innocent, he becomes a mortal man again]].
* The Lifeless in ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'' are an implacable ''army''. They're essentially zombies that are perfectly obedient to whoever has the authority to command them. As such, they're completely fearless, completely tireless, don't need to eat, and can shrug off any injury as long as it doesn't directly impair their functioning. Furthermore, though they lose their free will they ''do'' retain learned skills, so where other undead would just ZergRush, Lifeless who were soldiers in life are fully capable of using advanced combat techniques and tactics. [[spoiler:Taken [[ExaggertedTrope Up to Eleven]] with Kalad's Phantom's, legendary ultra-Lifeless created as EliteMooks by a SorcerousOverlord and ultimately revealed to be composed of skeletons sealed inside solid stone, making them all but impossible to destroy. Good thing for the heroes that their creator did a HeelFaceTurn and is now TheAtoner...]]
* [[HumanoidAbomination Cophthera-gn]] of ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' definitely fits. The heroes empty their guns, and it seems they'll be able to defeat him... and then he gets right back up, [[HealingFactor all his wounds healing themselves]], and the heroes run in panic. [[AssholeVictim Feschera]] stabs him with her scimitar, only for him to rip it out and nail her to a tree with it. The heroes then cause him to fall into a chasm, which does nothing more than wash him downstream, where he's picked up by his allies.
** Pathruushkè further demonstrates Cophthera-gn's implacability by ''stabbing him through the face with his staff'', then pulling it right back out. Not only does Cophthera-gn heal within seconds, he doesn't even ''flinch''.
* In the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' book ''Literature/KnightsOfDoom'', your character inevitably encounters the assassin's dagger, an invincible, disembodied hand clutching a dagger whose only purpose is to kill the you. You can run away, you can fend it off, you can even trap it inside a heavy box, but the assassin's dagger will keep catching up with you at multiple points throughout the adventure. If you don't find a way to banish it before the end of the book then it will sneak up on you and bury itself in your back just as you confront the BigBad.
* Arenadd from ''Literature/TheFallenMoon'', at least in book three. After suffering multiple mortal injuries, he is eventually killed by drinking a bottle of the deadliest poison in universe. He gets better in a few days. For some examples, he was turned into a human pincushion, fell off a mountain, starved to death, likely broke his neck a few times, and stabbed through the heart twice, one of which was with a magic {{BFS}} designed by a ''god'' to kill him.
* In a collection of Pacific Coast Indian folktales, one story has a group of hunters find that the "old woman" who took shelter from the winter in their lodge is actually a [[BrainFood brain-eating]] monster. They hit it on the head with a hatchet, then burn the lodge with its body inside. They then led it on a chase across the country-side, setting traps for it as they go until they finally lure it onto thin ice and it falls through, and was presumably released again come spring. Since there were no other versions of the story from other tribes, it was probably made up on the spot by a storyteller who would have been writing for Hollywood, except it was the 19th century.
* In ''Literature/TheKnifeOfNeverLettingGo'', by the time of Todd and Viola's final confrontation with him, Aaron has pulled through being mauled by a crocodile, almost drowning, getting his nose torn off, and more through the power of his own twisted faith. Horrifying disfigurement is a small price to pay for the fulfilment of his mission. [[spoiler:He only dies for good when Viola puts a knife through his neck and he goes over a waterfall.]]
-->'''Aaron:''' I am a ''saint!''
* The gholam is that in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''. It is a supernatural assassin immune to both [[MagicByAnyOtherName the one power]] and conventional weapons, it lives forever (the only one active in the series is thousands of years old), and it also has super-strength, super-speed and the ability to alter its shape as will (for example it can "spill" itself under a door, through a grid or through a keyhole). And it never, ever, gives up on its target. The only reason why the one set after Mat hasn't killed him yet is that Mat has [[BornLucky supernatural good luck]], owns a unique AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome that helps him defend itself, and is very smart whereas the gholam is kind of stupid (it usually doesn't have to be smart to be a threat, "kill everyone" is often a good enough plan). The fan community actually maintains a [[http://wotfaq.dragonmount.com/node/177 webpage discussing how you could possibly kill a gholam]]. [[spoiler:It turns out one of the possibilities discussed there is the way the gholam is actually dispatched in the final books: he is flung through a portal to the VoidBetweenTheWorlds. Even then it is not dead, just thrown out of the heroes' world with no chance of returning. [[FateWorseThanDeath And condemned to keep falling in a totally empty world. Forever. And it is immortal.]]]]
* In ''Literature/ThoseThatWake'', the Tower Guardian is impossible to take in a straight fight, and is only defeated by tricking it.
* Kazuo Kiriyama is this in all three versions of ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' (book, movie and manga). Even after brutal hand-to-hand combat with a highly skilled martial artist, a leap out of a speeding car, [[EyeScream a spearhead to the eye]], and several gunshot wounds, including one to the ''face'', he still gets back up, [[FrozenFace his expression just as dead]], and shoots the offender. Egregiously shown during [[spoiler:the fight with Shinji Mimura, who blows up a building with his homemade bomb trying to kill Kazuo... only for Kazuo to calmly step out of a car that'd been hurled out of the building and mercilessly gun him down]].
* The Giants from ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' have this as their primary power. They lack the vast magic or weapons of gods or demigods, but can only be killed by a god and demigod working together. Otherwise, they reform if destroyed and heal any other damage. The longer the battle lasts the faster their injuries heal and they never tire. Of course, get a demigod and even a minor god working together this power becomes useless and they fall over like a house of cards.
* [[RapePillageAndBurn Ser Gregor Clegane]] from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Also known as "The Mountain that Rides", [[WorldsStrongestMan Gregor is possibly the biggest and most physically powerful man in the world]]. Standing around eight feet tall, he is able to wear plate armor that any other man would be unable to even move in, in addition to chain and leather armor underneath that. He is also strong enough to wield a [[{{BFS}} two-handed greatsword]] with one-hand and carry a shield with it. Mixed with his UnstoppableRage from migraines (possibly due to his size) and implied use of painkillers to dull said migraines makes him a nearly unstoppable force. Eventually, [[DeconstructedTrope it works against him]] when he's fatally poisoned by Oberyn Martell, and his physical resilience keeps him alive and in agony for weeks.
* In ''Literature/NoCountryForOldMen'', Anton Chigurh is a {{downplayed|Trope}} example. He isn't a killer robot from the future, and he can bleed and get hurt, but Anton is still as close to a Franchise/{{Terminator}} as could conceivably be found in real life. Like a [[Creator/FyodorDostoevsky Dostoyevskian]] character, Anton is completely driven by an idea. In this case, the idea is that every action that a person takes will ultimately decide their fate. If Anton is [[ProfessionalKiller hired to kill someone]], that means to him that somewhere along the line, they have committed an action that warranted it, [[DisproportionateRetribution whether or not they realized this at the time]], and there is ''NO'' amount of begging and pleading that will save them once they're in Chigurh's sights. Anton simply views himself as fate's messenger, [[BreakThemByTalking and calmly and methodically makes sure that his victims realize how poor their decisions were before he blows their brains out]]. Compare with UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan and his "I am the flail of God" quote, to see where he is coming from.
* In the young adult novel ''Death in the Deeps'', Prisoner One is the epitome of this trope, fighting off Lycans, Leviathans, a Basilisk and Wraiths during his single minded rampage through the prison. The only thing that actually hurts him is an explosion that decimates the surrounding ice for a mile in every direction yet does little but burn his hair and sear his skin, which quickly regenerates.
* In the ''Literature/{{Drenai}}'' saga, Angel is famous for his tolerance for injury.
* The [[RobotDog mechanical hound]] in ''Literature/Fahrenheit451'' will stop at nothing to kill whatever it has been programmed to kill, using its acute sense of smell.
* The Creator/AlgisBudrys story "Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night" has Burr, who the protagonist Sollenar attempts to kill by shooting him multiple times, and who is described as "shredded, leaking blood and worse than blood". He later falls many stories from a high-rise office building, but nevertheless, he ''just keeps coming''. Justified in that Burr has gotten a special device from an alien engineer. Sollenar thinks it's an immortality device, but it turns out to be [[spoiler:a generator of fully realistic illusions; Burr is long dead, but knowing that Sollenar would kill him, programmed the device to make Sollenar believe his maimed body is still seeking vengeance]].
* ''Literature/{{Patternist}}'': Doro the {{Body Surf}}er has two rules for the people he claims as his own -- never disobey him and never run from him. His power works regardless of distance, destroys the minds of the people he possesses, triggers automatically when he's in danger, and lets him sense people's locations, so they almost never try. When Anyanwu flees him, he shows up at her doorstep over a century later.
* ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'' has [[PayEvilUntoEvil Ryn]], an ancient [[TheOldGods deva]] who has gained something of a reputation over the [[TimeAbyss incalculable time]] she's been alive. She's actually known as The Implacable One, as well as [[SuperPersistentPredator The One From Whom There's No Escape]]. When she decides on a target, whether it's a monster, a deva, or a [[KillTheGod god]], she will hunt them relentlessly through the ages and slaughter without mercy. She's powerful enough that her past battles have left entire continents scarred for millennia, and even if her body was destroyed, [[CompleteImmortality she would simply be reborn]] and continue the hunt. Those who hear she's involved in a situation generally have a very justified OhCrap reaction.
-->'''[[TwoPlusTortureMakesFive Ghorm]]:''' The Fates named her the Implacable One. When the oldest, most vengeful [[TheOldGods deva]] call you ''that'', it's a clue that maybe this monster holds a fucking grudge.
* ''Literature/DyingEarth'' has the aptly-named Chun the Unavoidable. He eats the eyes of people who steal from him. And as one thief discovers, even hiding in an empty pocket dimension won't stop him from finding you.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Lezian [[RedBaron the Pursuer]] is TheDreaded for this trope, backed up by his ResurrectiveImmortality. He obsessively hunts and kills anyone who defeats him, no matter what it takes. Kaladin becomes his ArchEnemy for repeatedly besting him, but ultimately, [[spoiler:Kaladin forces him to flee in front of hundreds of witnesses, utterly destroying his legend.]]
* ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy'': Lampshaded in ''Only You Can Save Mankind''. The Screewee Empire are genuinely fearful of the protagonist's ability to keep coming back every time they kill him, since they're a video-game antagonist race who are somehow real. When he points out it must surely be the same for them being as he's played one level many times and there's always three ships, they simply answer "different ships".

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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Due in no small part to his size, it takes quite a bit of damage from Oberyn before Gregor finally goes down, and even then, he's strong enough to turn the tables and kill Oberyn before he collapses. During [[spoiler:his final fight with The Hound in Season 8, he takes part of the roof collapsing on him, getting impaled, and several stabs with a knife, including one through the eye. He has to be tackled out a window into an inferno to be killed]].
** Despite not giving the first toss about defending himself and subsequently being struck repeatedly by blows during the attack on Yara's fleet, Euron proves borderline unstoppable, not even slowing his pace an inch.
* The [[SuperSoldier Kull Warriors]] of Anubis and The Replicators from ''Series/StargateSG1''. Anubis himself is a border-line example: he has the survive-anything-you-can-throw-at-him part, but since he is a GalacticConqueror he doesn't just show up trying to gut the heroes but sends armies after them instead. Sadly, they have this trait.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** The Mayor.
** Caleb. After Glory, he's the most physically powerful villain the gang faces.
** Glory will stop at ''nothing'' to get the Key. In her very first appearance, she brings down an entire building on top of her while having a hissy fit, and even that doesn't slow her down for long.
** Adam, up until the spell the Slayettes use on Buffy... then Buffy turns into this.
** Willow from during her evil magic moments.
** ''Buffy'' did a lot of these. Subverted with the Judge. All the mystical texts declare that "[[NoManOfWomanBorn no weapon forged]]" can stop him. However, as Xander realizes, those texts predate many modern weapons. Therefore Buffy takes out the Judge with a rocket launcher.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** The Beast from season 4 couldn't walk very fast due to huge posture and massive, cloven feet. It pursued its intended targets without haste but relentlessly. Bullets bounced off of it, swords and axes broke on its skin, even a pair of hand grenades blowing up in his face failed to slow it down. Angel did try to drive a stake through its one possible weak spot, being [[EyeScream the eye]], but quickly found his strength was no match for the Beast's, who promptly caught the stake and stopped him using it.
** Marcus Hamilton (aka Jayne Cob, aka John Casey), [[spoiler: at least until he revealed his weakness to Angel]].
* In ''Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'', this is the basic super-power possessed by any Mysteron clone. Emphasized a little more in the original series, where their implacability was due to being Nigh-Invulnerable, but even [[WesternAnimation/GerryAndersonsNewCaptainScarlet the remake version]] count, as they're implacable in the sense that if you kill them, ''they come right back to life and come after you again''. Fortunately, the main character is a [[PhlebotinumRebel free-willed Mysteron clone]], so he too never stops, no matter what is done to him.
-->''"Captain Scarlet was killed, but is expected to make a full recovery."''
* Many of ''Series/DoctorWho'''s aliens chose to invade Earth during the late 20th century, and inevitably the army would find that bullets/bombs/missiles/tanks barely scratched the surface.
** In the 26th-season serial ''Battlefield'', the Brigadier shows the Doctor gold bullets for dealing with Cybermen, Teflon non-stick bullets that "go right through a Dalek" and muses that, just once, it would be nice to encounter an alien menace that wasn't ImmuneToBullets.
** The Doctor himself would seem to be a good candidate for this title. He may not be physically invulnerable, but Regeneration combined with his legendary stubbornness means that he Will. Not. Stop. The basic arithmetic of Doctor Who is this: Five million Cybermen < Four Daleks < One Doctor. This is illustrated in two episodes of Series 9 in 2015: in "Face the Raven", the Doctor threatens to "rain hell" upon the immortal Ashildr "until the end of time" if she cannot stop [[spoiler: his companion, Clara, from dying as a result of her gambit (which wasn't ''good,'' but wasn't ''intended'' to endanger Clara.) Clara literally spends the rest of her life talking him down from this. After she dies, the Doctor is transported to a bespoke torture chamber where he issues a BadassBoast to become this towards the true mastermind behind the plot that led to the death of Clara, while himself being pursued by an implacable man ... for ''billions'' of years.]]
--->'''The Doctor:''' "If you think because she is dead, I am weak, you understand very little. If you had any part in killing her, and you are not afraid, then you understand nothing at all. So for your sake, understand this -- I am the Doctor, and I'm coming to find you. And I will never, ever stop."
* [[BadassLongcoat The Huntsman]] of ''Series/The10thKingdom''. Not only does he get [[spoiler:caught in one of his own traps]], in a world where presumably medicine is at a medieval level and magic may not be able to combat infections, he gets hit over the head (twice!), once by an extremely heavy iron torch swung with incredible force which should have smashed his skull or at least given him a concussion. And yet he still keeps waking up and coming after the heroes. His analysis? "I move slowly...but I always get what I want. Nothing escapes...the Huntsman." It finally takes a HoistByHisOwnPetard moment to bring him to his KarmicDeath.
* The Borg, from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration.'' You defeat one or two of them, and the rest are able to adapt to whatever you used against the first ones. We did see a submachine gun kill two Borg drones, however they probably would've adapted their shields afterwards to deflect bullets too. Their ships are far more impressive, being far beyond the combat capabilities of the series' protagonists. On top of that, putting up any kind of defense that harms them will make them interested enough to dissect and assimilate everything about their "victim". They will then pursue this goal with a Terminator-like doggedness.
--> '''Q:''' They will follow this ship until you exhaust your fuel. They will wear down your defenses. Then you will be ''theirs''.
--> '''Q:''' You can't outrun them. You can't destroy them. If you damage them, the essence of what they are, remains. They regenerate and keep coming. Eventually you will weaken. Your reserves will be gone. They are relentless!
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The Gorn from the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E18Arena Arena]]" is pretty implacable for most of the episode, even shrugging off a small avalanche caused by Kirk. Kirk is unable to harm the Gorn or stop its attempts to kill him ([[MightyGlacier sluggish]] as they are) until he improvises a primitive cannon.
* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'':
** The T-888 Terminator called "Cromartie": In the first episode he was shot multiple times, run over by a car, had a live wire shoved into his neck, is blown up as the same car that ran him over exploded and ripped in half by a terminator-destroying gun. He reactivates himself eight years later, dresses up like a post-apocalypse survivor (complete with gas mask), gets its head back, steals medical supplies, gets a scientist to help him ''regrow his skin'', then takes the guise of an FBI agent, working to find Sarah Connor from the inside. The first season finale has him [[spoiler:take out a SWAT team raiding his apartment]](!), but spares the life of an FBI agent who is also tracking the Connor family.
** In a Season 2 episode, a Terminator is sent back to kill the governor of California during a specific time. He is accidentally sent back to the 1920s and kills the architect who designed the building that the speech was held in. The terminator proceeds to start his own architecture firm, go to great lengths to acquire the land, and ''construct the building himself'' just so he can pull off the termination as he was ordered to do.
** Also, in the second season opening, [[RobotGirl Cameron]] goes berserk and becomes an Implacable Woman as she pursues Connors, trying to kill them.
* Claire from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' became this. Her HealingFactor is a big help.
* Divine Assassin Kai from ''{{Series/Lexx}}''. Chop him to bits, and he'll reassemble himself -- but he'll probably finish killing you ''first''. {{Energy Weapon}}s are ''completely'' useless, even when they're [[WaveMotionGun mighty enough to destroy whole planets]]. On one occasion, he singlehandedly fought his way through 50,000 heavily armed soldiers, killing 2,807 of them, in order to assassinate a single man whom they were guarding.
* [[TheDreaded Takeshi Asakura]]/[[Series/KamenriderRyuki Kamen Rider Ouja]] can't be stopped by being nearly burnt alive or acid eating at his face. Shooting squad had to put him down and that was only after [[SanityHasAdvantages he completely lost it]].
* Rook from ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' is a truly frightening MightyGlacier whose incredible toughness and intimidating appearance and reputation allow him to play the role of Implacable Man for about a third of the series. His reputation was such that when an AlternateUniverse version was defeated handily by ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'', fans [[TheWorfEffect cried foul]].
* Machine Chaser/Chase of ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'' combines this with ridiculous strength, StealthHiBye and savviness into truly terrific foe regardless what side he is on.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Hustle}}'' had an implacable bounty hunter (or "tracer") named [[FluffyTheTerrible Pinky]] Byrne.
* ''Series/RedDwarf''.
** Rimmer suggests that tax collectors are like this, and that even being three million light years from Earth in a universe where the number of surviving humans is in single figures doesn't guarantee safety from them.
** Rimmer himself becomes one of these after being upgraded to HardLight. This is well balanced though, because his light bee is still vulnerable in extreme situations (like potentially being sucked out into space), and he is also a complete coward with a low tolerance for pain.
** Played straight with Hudzen 10, [[RobotBuddy Kryten's]] replacement. What defeats him in the end is a LogicBomb.
* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'':
** Theokoles. Besides his tremendous size and strength, he takes incredible damage without stopping. He allows Crixus to impale him so he can grab his wrist and trap him. His neck is so thick that he can't be decapitated in one strike.
** The Egyptian is incredibly huge and strong, and he does not stop when he is shot with several arrows. In his final fight, he keeps going when he is slashed across the stomach and then the wound is punched.
* Duncan Macleod on ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' tended to get this way when pursuing Immortals who had murdered innocents.
-->"Run, little boy. I will find you."
* In the ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Halloween]]", Reese and Dewey accidentally egg an old man who took too long to show up to the door. He spends the rest of the episode chasing them down with his walker, until he catches them in a trap. [[spoiler: He then proceeds to [[LaserGuidedKarma throw eggs at them while they can't escape.]]]]
* Season 3 of ''Series/StrangerThings'' gives us Grigori, a ''very'' [[TerminatorImpersonator Terminator-esque]] implacable killer relentlessly pursuing the heroes.
* The seventh season of ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' introduces Rayna Cruz, an infamous vampire hunter who will stalk her victims to the ends of the earth so she can send them to a FateWorseThanDeath. She is also [[ResurrectiveImmortality immortal]], so killing her will just slow her down. It eventually turns into a {{Deconstruction}}. Aside from the unpleasantness of having to die over and over again it is revealed that she is driven by a constant magic-induced urge to slay vampires, even though she would rather just live a normal life.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': Siegbarste, the typical ogres of Wesen society. Due to their tendencies to [[ItsPersonal take grudges to the grave]] (typically the other person's grave) and being nearly impossible to kill due to their incredibly dense bones and [[FeelNoPain congenital analgesia]], Siegbarste number among the most dangerous Wesen and have to be killed with extreme amounts of force or rare poison that will cause their bones to shatter. [[NoSell Not even the typical]] Wesen OhCrap upon seeing a [[TerrorHero Grimm]] applies to them.

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* Parodied in the Music/RayStevens song "Erik The Awful". No matter how far the peasants run, Erik is on their heels the second they stop for a breath.
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* The Silent One in ''Podcast/DarkDice'' constantly follows the party undetectably, cannot be killed, and attacks them every time they attempt to rest.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The Queen of Hearts' Executioner in ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'' is a giant, undead card guard wielding a scythe who will relentlessly pursue Alice once she enters the castle. At most, her weapons -- from the [[ImprobableWeaponUser acid-lobbing teapot]] to the [[MoreDakka pepper-grinder gun]] only make him stumble. [[spoiler: A bite of familiar cake brings the whole chase to a very satisfying end.]]
* The Alien in ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'' is almost completely invincible to everything that the player has. It is incredibly fast (much faster than [[PlayerCharacter Amanda]]), and if it grabs Amanda then it's [[OneHitKill game over]]. The only options are to avoid it as best as possible and, later in the game, drive it off temporarily with a flamethrower. Of course, even with the flamethrower, [[ArtificialBrilliance it learns to adapt if over-relied on]].
* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' has a collection of {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that serve only to pursue and murder the player. So you've blocked the monster's only entrance with about fifteen crates and plenty of furniture? '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkWr_CBSxGI&t=180s Good luck with that.]]'''''
* ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'': Executor Federico of the Laterano Notarial Hall is depicted as this, befitting his TerminatorImpersonator image.
** His resume lampshades this.
--->''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Be careful what you wish for]], because he really can accomplish things that border on absurdity or impossibility.''
** In the chapter ''Survival Notorization'' of the event Operational Intelligence, he is seen pursuing the young huntress Vermeil through her homestead in Siracusa, disarming booby traps and catching arrows coming his way without much trouble. At the end of the event he offered to help her fight off the Ursus mercenaries coming for her, and since both of them made it to Rhodes Island as operators it's safe to assume he killed them all.
** His profile states that executors like him are only deployed on the most challenging of missions. His work records included: killing 41 hardened criminals to deliver an item, damaged six buildings to shutter a company, killing a chief executive of a city state guard unit over a money dispute, and almost caused a war when fulfilling the wishes of the contracted citizens.
--->''Most of Executor's mission record is like this. It is clear that the Notarial Hall deploys its executors only to the most challenging of missions.''
* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': Altaïr is a mortal man. Altaïr is [[BlatantLies apparently susceptible to regular weapons]] such as swords, arrows, daggers, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking small thrown rocks]]. Altaïr will slaughter his way through an ''ambush'' of roughly fifty EliteMooks in about fifteen to twenty minutes without bothering to rest afterwards because he has sworn to [[NeverSayDie remove you from this mortal coil in a timely fashion]], and anything that gets in his way is just one more thing to cut down. There is a reason he is a MemeticBadass, and there is a point where a "normal person" just can't be defined as a {{Determinator}} anymore. For Altaïr, that point is probably about when he mercilessly cuts fifty-plus men into chunks (or runs them through, if he wants to spice things up), including the archers who are ''shooting him as he fights''. Then, just to make completely certain that you know he's an Implacable Man, he goes straight from the trail of bodies to TheDragon, stopping only to accuse the man of treason and kill ''another'' twenty Elite Mooks before finally taking on TheDragon one-on-one and administering a fatal CurbStompBattle. Yes, that's right. Altaïr [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomps]] ''TheDragon'' after having spent probably the last half-hour fighting off over ''seventy soldiers''. If you see [[http://i34.tinypic.com/bedhmq.jpg this man]] heading in your direction, DontAskJustRun.\\\
Whether he's aiming for you or not, it generally seems like a good idea to flee from a man [[FightMagnet whose very existence]] tends to incite bloody battles to the death that often rage across multiple streets in a frenzy of blades and blood. You might not be his target, but you should probably get out of his path. You should start running if you see Altaïr, but...[[ParanoiaFuel chances are you won't see him]] until he rams a metal spike into your neck.
** The same goes for Ezio from the sequel. The man fights his way into the Vatican, merrily slaughtering the Pope's [[EliteMooks personal guard]] as he goes. He then shrugs off a blast from said Pope's [[spoiler: {{Magitek}} staff]] (which incapacitates the other dozen or so people present), engages in a [[spoiler: {{Magitek}} Wizard's Duel]] with said pontiff, is [[spoiler:STABBED IN THE GUT by same]], before sucking it up and going on to [[spoiler:beat the aforementioned most powerful man in Europe to a bloody pulp with his bare hands]]. There is a reason he is named only one breath after Altair when someone talks about the greatest Assassins of all times.
** Shay from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue''. The Assassins (the deadliest people on the planet) try to kill him and ''fail miserably''.
* Asura from ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', patron saint of UnstoppableRage. He gets killed ''four'' times, and every single time he escapes the underworld, even angrier than before. Hell, the only thing that kills him off for good [[spoiler: is killing Chakravartin, who is basically God!]]
* The first game with an Implacable Man was ''VideoGame/{{Berzerk}}'' and Evil Otto, who shows up if you are slow in clearing the room of robots. Not only was he invulnerable, but could pass through the electrified walls that would kill anything else that touched them, including the robots that were also trying to kill the player. Otto would also destroy any robots that were in his way, and in some rooms the only way to get the bonus points for killing all the robots was to lead Otto through a walled off chamber in which the last robot was hiding. Otto would gradually speed up over time, and instantly go to maximum speed (twice as fast as the player) once all robots in a room were destroyed, making death at his hands unavoidable unless the player was very close to an exit.
** In the sequel to Berzerk, Frenzy, Otto could actually be killed by four laser shots (either from players or robots). Every time he died, however, he would return from the same spot he spawned one second later, moving slightly faster than before. Killing him was worth quite a few points, but his movement pattern (bouncing vertically like a ball viewed from the side, even though the game actually used a top down perspective) made scoring hits very difficult unless directly above or below him, and this was the most dangerous place to be while fighting him due to the horizontal screen and the bouncing movement making Otto able to cover vertical distances much more quickly. It didn't help that missing Otto with a laser blast could result in the player's death from his own beam, due to new laser-reflecting walls present in the sequel. Finally, Frenzy included some special rooms, including the nightmare inducing "Mama Otto" room, dominated by a giant (but thankfully motionless) Evil Otto. Until you set it off...
* ''VideoGame/BinaryDomain'': Subverted with the rank and file robot mooks; sure, they'll keep shooting no matter how many limbs you blow off, but destroy their head and they revert to their default 'protect humans' mode, convincing them to spare you and kill the other robots[[note]]Just don't expect their backup systems to do more than walk and fire in the general direction of robots from their secondary sensors[[/note]].
* The ''VideoGame/BioShock'' series has one for each setting:
** Big Daddy in [[VideoGame/BioShock1 Rapture]] and The Songbird in [[VideoGame/BioshockInfinite Columbia]]. The former, an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot underwater cyborg steampunk Papa Wolf]], is a loose example as he won't attack you unless you provoke him. You might assume from his dense armor that Big Daddy can't keep up a hot pursuit. You would be mistaken. There are several models throughout the game, and two variations (one with a drill, and another with a rivet gun.)
** The Songbird, a giant robotic sparrow who patrols the tower [[LivingMacGuffin Elizabeth]] is imprisoned in. It's only goal is to return Elizabeth to her gilded cage, meaning it's possible to appease Songbird by simply handing her over. It takes the entire game to finally turn Songbird to scrap metal.
** And then there is the Motorized Patriot, who in his introductory video is actually described as being this, He feels no pain, he does not falter, no sense of self-preservation, he has no CranialProcessingUnit, so really, you can shoot at him until he's dead but he will not stop.
* Hedrox in ''VideoGame/BloodRayne'' is an Implacable ''Vampire''. He is a beastial vampire monster with large claws and extremely powerful regenerative powers that make him immune to bullets and any blade damaged done to him heals very fast. Worse, if he gets dismembered, then several clones will emerge from the severed parts and create new Hedrox's that will keep pursuing you. [[spoiler:The only way Rayne can beat him is thinking outside the box and drop him into water, which burns vampires like acid. Even then, one of his copies survives and it takes being incinerated by the demonic BigBad to finally destroy him.]]
* Wilhelm in ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel''. Most characters, when they run out of health, go into "Fight For Your Life mode", where they slump to the ground and frantically try and gun down targets until they either bleed out or score a kill and earn a "second wind". Wilhelm's "Dreadnought" skill tree, however, has a skill called "Termination Protocols". With this, instead of a normal FFYL, Wilhelm gets a shorter period of full activity where he keeps walking and killing normally, plus electrifies the area around him -- and if he fails to kill anyone in that time, he sets off a huge, if low-damage, explosion as a final "screw you" -- and can score a Second Wind off any of these.
* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'': Fritz. No matter where you are, no matter how much distance you put between you and him, no matter what you have just done to him, no matter how many times he falls prey to the castle's other dangers and his own vast armament, Fritz is almost always five seconds away from killing you.
* Solus from ''VideoGame/{{Breakdown}}'' is indestructible to the point where all you can do is run, dodging laser traps only to see him just ''walking through them'' -- these laser traps would kill you the second you touch them, and yet he just walks straight through them without even a burn mark to show for it.
* ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'' series:
** The Welder
** The invincible Tall Man. Depending on his mood, he'll just walk towards you, or teleport Manga/DragonBall Z style and butcher you effortlessly.
* ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying'': The Covenant siblings cannot be killed by any mortal weapon, only with the Scythe of the Celt. Even then, Lizbeth's head snarls and spits at Patrick before he lights it on fire and throws it off a cliff.
* Scissorman from the ''VideoGame/ClockTower'' series, and the Subordinates from ''VideoGame/ClockTower3''. The stalkers from ''Ghost Head/The Struggle Within'' as well, zombies excluded.
* In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'', Kane has survived being shot at by a giant space laser, and also being run through by a piece of debris. He comes back for yet another sequel. Where he gets shot by the space laser ''again'' and is [[VillainousBreakdown very angrily surprised]] when he finds out his followers thought it was going to stick this time.
* The King Tiger Tank in ''VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes''. Its armor is so thick that no Allied tank can penetrate its frontal armor. It has a really powerful gun, multiple machine guns, and max veterancy. The only way to defeat it is to surround it with multiple tanks or to use its natural enemy in real life: bridges. Destroying a bridge with demo charges will oneshot it, just like anything else. There is a reason why calling this into battle is the last ability received on the [[http://www.gamereplays.org/companyofheroes/portals.php?show=page&name=company-of-heroes-terror-doctrine-units-abilities-strategy-tactics-guide&st=3]] terror doctrine commander tree.
** The lesser known Jagdpanther tank destroyer is also a bitch to kill.
* ''VideoGame/TheCrookedMan'': The titular character will ''never'' desist from chasing David until the good ending of the game is reached. He can't be killed before then due to [[spoiler: already being dead]].
* The Pursuer in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' "will not rest until his target is slain". He backs this up, particularly in ''Scholar of the First Sin'', by constantly dogging your steps, popping up again and again no matter how hard you put him down. In Scholar's NewGamePlus you can end up killing him nine times, more if you use bonfire ascetics. (That being said, part of this is a mistranslation from the original Japanese, in which the Pursuer is a member of an organisation of similar warriors, who are presumably the ones harassing you; in English, his boss soul's text implies he is a lone warrior with a particular grudge against those with the Undead Curse.)
* Combining this trope with RasputinianDeath, the Gibbering Prophet of ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' is certainly made of this trope. He continuously warned the townsfolk of the Ancestor's evil and for being a harbinger of doom, much to the annoyance and worry of the Ancestor. The prophet faced StockPunishment, was thrown into icy waters to freeze and drown, and was stabbed multiple times with various weapons, but every time the prophet would come back and continue to decry him, and wear the knives and what remained of the pillory to taunt the Ancestor. It took a HannibalLecture and a showing of what exactly the Ancestor had planned to finally break the prophet, causing him to GoMadFromTheRevelation and end up becoming a boss you'd have to face.
* In addition to what has been mentioned about ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the ''Dark Crusade'' expansion to ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' gives [[OurElvesAreDifferent Eldar]] Fire Dragons the effective mass of super-heavy tanks without compromising their agility. Although they do not have the durability of most other examples on this page, the not-too-shabby health they possess results in a bunch of base-wreckers that can sprint through air strikes, artillery, orbital bombardment and God-Emperor knows what else without being tossed around like most other infantry. Yes, that list of infantry includes [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Da Ork Warboss]]. They form a point of contention regarding Eldar imbalance.
* The killers in ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' are unable to be harmed or damaged in any way, although the survivors are free to disorient and slow them down using the environment. Even when caught in their own BearTrap, the Trapper just opens it up and sets it aside.
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' has The Hunter, aka the Regenerator Necromorph, an artificial Necromorph created by the ship's resident MadScientist that steadily pursues you through the ship over several chapters. Notable for not only enduring all damage the player can inflict and brush off the effects of being cryogenically frozen, but after luring it into the path of a ship's thrusters and testing them, ''it can still be seen trying to crawl towards you as it melts to death''.
** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' does this again through The Übermorph in the final chapters; whilst it is still relentless and able to regenerate limbs in moments, it is presented as an Elite Mook by sudden unexplained appearance (and by it functioning primarily as an invincible mook rather than a plot device like the aforementioned Hunter).
** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'' ups the ante by throwing ''several'' Regenerators at Isaac in one level. He remarks that he [[DemonicSpiders REALLY hates those things]]. They're put down for good when the docking bay vents and they wind up spaced (this doesn't kill Necromorphs, but a Necromorph floating in perfect vacuum isn't in a position to kill anyone).
* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' has The Vex, basically a race of Terminators that can keep coming after you even if you blow their heads clean off. While they can be killed, it's implied that destroying their physical constructs doesn't really do much to slow them down since [[spoiler: they can alter the flow of time and just call more troops in from the past, present, or future to throw at you. There is also the experiment they were working on in the Vault of Glass, which would have made their own existence and dominion over the universe a ''law of reality'', taking them up to true implacability.]]
* In the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series, enemies on [[IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels Dante]] [[NintendoHard Must Die and higher difficulties]] have a [[SuperMode Devil Trigger power]] that they can use, making them nearly immune to flinching and much harder to kill. Vergil in the third title represents the Implacable Man ideal more accurately. When he uses his Devil Trigger (on ''any'' difficulty, BTW), he doesn't flinch from attacks, [[NighInvulnerability takes them without being scratched at all]] and [[HealingFactor regenerates health]]. While he can be knocked out of it, showing the state to be merely a brief flirtation, it is hard enough to do so. When he assumes the Super/Desperation Devil Trigger in the final fight, he can't be knocked out of it, but he does halt after some time, though not before regenerating at a higher rate than in his normal Devil Trigger.
** This is justified in that when ''you'' DT, you get the stun resistance yourself also, as well as the regenerative factor.
** Enemies? Dante gets impaled with his own sword in every installment. This somehow fazed him only the first time it happened. Must have been the novelty.
* In ''VideoGame/DisasterDayOfCrisis'', Ray is practically this -- he survives several natural disasters while fighting an elite former special forces unit, and he just still keeps coming after them on his own out of sheer willpower to save Lisa. Major Evans also has this trait, taking an ungodly amount of bullets to the face (and calls their first fight a ''draw'' after he takes so many bullets!), mans a Metal Gear expy while still taking even more bullets (or rockets) to the face, and can give Ray a hand-to-hand battle before [[spoiler:Colonel Haynes finally shoots him square in the forehead. That guy must have a really special gun]].
* The Cyberdemon in ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' can mow through masses of lesser mooks with its rocket launcher and {{One Hit Kill}}s the player unless your health and armor are at nearly 200%. It takes roughly 400 bullets to be put down, which is twice as many as you can carry without a backpack, and it's resistant to missiles[[note]] Specifically, it is immune to the splash damage that is normally what causes most of a rocket's damage output[[/note]], which are unfortunately the only kind of ammo that you'll find in its lair. The fact that you don't have the {{BFG}} at that point doesn't help. Not to mention it had better stats (health, speed, pain chance) than the final boss, who shows up one whole episode later.
* This trope is completely flipped on its head in ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' and ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', wherein various [[EncyclopediaExposita Codex]] entries make it abundantly clear that [[PlayerCharacter you]], the Doom Slayer, are ''by far'' the most [[TheDreaded horrifying]] and [[OneManArmy unstoppable]] opponent that Hell has ever seen. Any attempt by any of Hell's leaders to bargain or plead with the [[NoNonsenseNemesis Slayer]] is silenced without a moment's hesitation. One level in the former game features the corpse of a {{Kaiju}}-sized demon, which the nearby lore tablet explains the Doom Slayer killed ''by himself'', armed with nothing but ''an ordinary sword and shield''.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', the Arcane Warrior when built correctly becomes a virtual god. With right spells and a good armor, they will take practically zero damage against most enemies, even High Dragons. The rest of your party may be dead, including your tank, but Arcane Warrior will keep fighting. If you also give him/her Spirit Healer as a second specialization s/he will be practically immortal.
** [[PlayerCharacter The Warden]] is seen as this by many of their enemies. It doesn't matter what the enemies try in order to stop the Warden, they always keep coming. In fact, they even try to stop them by trapping them in the Fade in two different ocassions. They fail. Both times. Completely.
** [[ActionGirl Aveline]] from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' is the game's resident StoneWall. In addition to the usual warrior skills, her special tree has skills which make her immune to every status effect in the game, including critical hits. After taking enough of this, the only thing that can stop her is magically lifting her from the ground and confining her in a telekinetic prison, and she has better-than-even odds of saving against it. An illustration: in a contest between [[UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject Aveline and a charging Ogre]] (read: horned sixteen foot wall of muscle), when the two meet, Aveline will still be standing. The ''Ogre'' will be on the ground.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' has the Champion [[PrestigeClass specialization]] for warriors, focused on tanking. Along with abilities that boost their defensive and guard-building abilities, they have an activated ability that makes them completely invulnerable for a short period and a passive that makes them completely invulnerable [[CriticalStatusBuff when they would otherwise be reduced below 5% health]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'', BigBad [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] [[TheCorrupter Molag]] [[GodOfEvil Bal]] creates an implacable BadassArmy out of the Xivkyn, a form of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] Bal created by combining the [[GiantMook massive]] and [[EliteMooks powerful]] but unruly and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder untrustworthy]] Xivilai with the {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} [[TheLegionsOfHell Legions Of Hell]] Dremora (who refer to themselves as the "Kyn" in the Daedric language). The result is an implacable fighting force which very nearly takes over Mundus.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'':
*** There's Frank Horrigan, a 12 foot super mutant in PoweredArmor who laughs at the idea that plasma fire can kill him. It takes concentrated fire from several turrets and an Elite Mook squad to even have ''even'' chances.
*** The Great Khans are an entire organisation of this. Go ahead: march into their base and slaughter them to the last man -- this has happened twice in their history. There is always some survivor who runs off and reforms the Khans to continue their raiding.
** In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', one can find audio logs detailing the experiments in Vault 92 aimed at using subliminal messages and infrasound to create obedient super soldiers incapable of feeling pain. The experiments were partially successful, with the test subjects requiring upwards of 20 bullets to put down, but also becoming violently unstable and eviscerating each other with their bare hands.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
*** Joshua Graham, the former [[TheDragon right-hand man]] of Caesar. NCR snipers have reported confirmed kills on him ''multiple'' times, only for him to reappear just fine a few days later. He was at Boulder City when the Hanlon's rangers blew it up. When he failed to win the Battle of Hoover Dam for the Legion, Caesar ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill set him on fire and threw him into the Grand Canyon]]'' to ensure he'd stay dead. Then, just in case that didn't do it, Caesar sent assassins down after him to finish the job. [[AssassinOutclassin That didn't do it either]]. In ''Honest Hearts'', he has a Damage Threshold of 50, which is more than the biggest, heaviest, tankiest Power Armor in the game provides. His own armor is just a standard bulletproof vest worn over his normal clothes, which provides only 15 DT.
*** The [[PlayerCharacter PC]] "The Courier" also qualifies: at the start of the game, they are shot twice in the head by a 9mm at point-blank range (granted, [[LittleUselessGun you probably won't be able to kill anything with two shots from a 9mm either]]). After spending a few days in the local clinic, they get back up march out into the Mojave and slaughter everything in their path. With the DLC's included, they also have their brain, heart and spine removed and are actually better off for it (they have synthetic replacements installed), get stranded in a poisoned city filled with other unkillable monsters (see below), and simply walk away with all the guns and gold they can carry.
*** The Ghost People of ''Dead Money'', after years of exposure to the toxic cloud, are nigh-immortal. They silently stalk you through the city, unable to talk through the heavy clothing they wear, dragging travelers off to beneath the city to do... God only knows what to them. After being left alone for 30 seconds, a 'killed' Ghost Person will simply start up again like a wind-up Terminator. The only way to stop them is the four Ds: Disintegration, Decapitation, Dismemberment, and Dog (who eats them). And in order to get into the Sierra Madre Casino, you have to start up the Gala event. Which attracts the attention of every single Ghost Person in the city, including the ones underground. Have fun.
* In ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' Jason Brody makes just about everyone who isn't on his side assume that he is invulnerable [[spoiler: because Vaas' otherwise lethal bullet was deflected by a cigarette lighter. Naturally, everyone who knew about Brody's apparent death jumped to the extremely logical conclusion that he just came back to life]].
-->'''Vaas:''' The thing is... alright, the thing is: I killed you once already... and it's not like I am fucking crazy.
** Technically Brody does fulfill this trope, as Vaas foiled his attempts on revenge [[spoiler: three times: first by shooting Jason, second by kicking him into deep water tied to a cement block, third by stabbing him with a machete. Brody survives all of them and manages to kill Vaas (just a few minutes after being stabbed), where he (finally) falls unconscious and presumably nearly dies.]]
* A tradition of ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' series thus far goes as this: Any hostile spirit that serves as the BigBad of the game is also unbeatable until the designated final battle against said ghost. This includes Kirie in ''[[VideoGame/FatalFrameI I]]'', Sae and the Kusabi in ''[[VideoGame/FatalFrameII II]]'', Reika in ''[[VideoGame/FatalFrameIII III]]'', Sakuya in ''[[VideoGame/FatalFrameMaskOfTheLunarEclipse IV]]'', and Ouse in ''[[VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater V]]''. (That said, Sakuya has a twist: You DO battle her weaker form early on and must defeat her to proceed, but then she TurnsRed and plays this trope straight.)
* Zouken Matou from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. [[spoiler:He actually gets 'killed' so often and eventually so effectively by Kotomine that he moves his soul into the Crest Worm that was in Sakura's heart, at which points she rips it out. Then crushes it. And he's ''still'' not dead.]] Also Kotomine, who had his [[spoiler: heart ripped out and was still around two days later to kick Shirou's ass despite the latter's body currently turning into swords]].
* Alma from ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]''. You actually do face her head-on at the end of the game... but even then, you don't so much defeat her, or hurt her, as vaguely annoy her into leaving you alone [[spoiler: by detonating a nuke on her head.]]
** It also appears to be [[spoiler:genetic. It does not matter ''how'' many clones, helicopters, or psychic phenomena you throw at the Point Man. He'll tear through it all without so much as grunting]]
* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series has various examples:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Sephiroth. [[DoomedHometown Destroying Cloud's hometown]] [[OutOfTheInferno and walking through the ensuing flames without a scratch,]] [[KillTheCutie killing]] [[LastOfHisKind Aeris]], [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity ascending to near godhood]], [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and trying to destroy all life]] shows how far he'll go to prove his desire to [[GodhoodSeeker "inherit" the planet he feels is rightfully his.]]
** Subverted with [[SpiderTank X-ATM 092]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''. Despite its self-recovering system and its ability to ambush you during an escape from Dollet in a limited time that make you think you need to run, this giant spider can be destroyed for real, and you're encouraged to do so because of some extra See-D ranks. You just need enough firepower to blow it up before it can fully recover itself.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': Auron, a [[TheMentor veteran Guardian]] and BadassLongcoat [[spoiler: who died years before]]. He didn't like that, so [[spoiler: he ''willed himself'' back into existence]].
** Llednar from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' received no damage at all if you try to attack him with ''anything''. [[spoiler:It was actually because of the "Fortune" law, so Ezel created an [[AppliedPhlebotinum antilaw card]], making Llednar vulnerable to any attacks.]]
* In ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy2015 Dissidia Final Fantasy NT]]'', [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]'s playstyle is based around relentlessly chasing down his opponents. He can dash-cancel many of his attacks, and his EX Skill, JENOVA, slows down nearby opponents, making them easier to pursue.
* The Black Knight/[[spoiler:General Zelgius]] from ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' definitely qualifies. He's invincible to all but the main character's ''BFS'' (which you get in the last few chapters of the game...), at least in the first game. [[spoiler:A whole castle falls on him, and he comes back just fine in the sequel.]]
* All/most of the animatronics in ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' are this. In fact, the only thing that could stop most/all of them is getting scrapped/destroyed/burned alive. Honorable mentions go to:
** Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Golden Freddy and the Puppet try to kill the guard since 1983. They stopped it in 1993, only because the restaurants closed down for 30 years.
*** Bonnie the Bunny. In 1987, he lost his face and arm, but he ''still'' tries to kill the guard.
** The Mangle. It is a victim of '''''gigantic''''' BodyHorror, yet it still somehow walks. By 2023, the only thing found is it's mask, so you can imagine how much it took to finally stop it.
** The main four animatronics in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' are extremely desperate to escape the establishment. They eventually merge their wires and endoskeletons to become Ennard. And how do they escape once they became Ennard? ''Rip out our organs and skeleton only to replace it with themselves.''
*** They were stopped ''decades'' later by being burned alive.
* ''VideoGame/{{Gloomwood}}'': One of the things that makes the Goatman so dangerous is the fact that it will ''relentlessly'' chase the player around the area it's in. Lock the doors? It'll smash them down. Go to another floor? It will slowly home in on you and find you eventually. Try to run? It will make a mad dash forward and quickly begin to outrun you. It can be brought down in combat, but that's far easier said than done -- [[MadeOfIron it can survive upwards of]] ''[[MadeOfIron ten]]'' [[MadeOfIron shotgun blasts point-blank]] in a game where most enemies go down in a single shot.
* Aquiles from ''VideoGame/FobiaStDinfnaHotel'' is a mutant monstrosity who repeatedly comes after you, again and again, no matter how many times you try to put him down. He's fought as a boss around 6 times, and it takes [[DIsneyVillainDeath dropping him into a chasm of acid]] to kill him for good.
* Kratos from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''. And when he does die, he just slaughters his way back to the land of the living.
** In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', he finally meets his match in the Stranger, who pursues him across the Nine Realms and ''never'' gives up; even killing him ''three times in a row'' can't stop him, and the only way to progress the story is to toss him somewhere he can't get out of for a while, like the bottom of a ravine or Hel.[[spoiler: He's Baldur, the Aesir given CompleteImmortality by his mother's spell; until the enchantment is broken by him accidentally cutting himself on a mistletoe arrowhead, the worst anyone can do is toss him around.]]
* You as Aldo Trapani in ''VideoGame/TheGodfather: The Game'', despite his not-so-invulnerability in-game. Hundreds of enemy mobster corpses? Those [[TotallyNotACriminalFront totally-not-criminal establishments]] converted to the Corleone cause? All stepping stones on the RoaringRampageOfRevenge leading to Don Emilio Barzini, the man who [[YouKilledMyFather ordered your father's death]].
* Jake and Francis Fratelli in ''VideoGame/TheGoonies (NES)''. The sequel introduces a third brother, but he can at least be defeated.
* Assassins can become this in [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]] matches of ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' when they use their Shadow Form enchantment. It makes them completely ''invincible to every attack or spell in the game''. If an Assassin using this skill targets you in a match, your only option is to run. Unless you have a signet that can remove enchantments...
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'':
** The G-Man is a variant: you don't fight him, but he does follow Gordon Freeman all over the place, finding routes through places that Gordon must fight through and getting to spots before Gordon can. However, if you do feel like popping off a few rounds at him before he disappears round whatever corner, they simply bounce off with the bullets-on-metal sparks effect and sound (at least in the original ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''; in ''[=HL2=]'', like all important or allied [=NPCs=], he simply cannot be hit by weapons).
** Gordon Freeman, the "[[RedBaron One Free Man]]" himself. By ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' he is [[TheDreaded feared]] as a OneManArmy by the Combine, and [[HopeBringer worshipped as a hero]] by the humans in equal amounts.
* ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'': The game's main claim to fame is that the player is chased by this type of individual once a chapter. These beings have different approaches to chasing the heroine, such as their attention span or diligence in finding her hiding spots. The best one can do before their boss fight is to run away, or knock them out via dog-mauling or alchemic munitions.
** Debilitas (The Caretaker) serves as an introduction to the game's premise. He's not as durable or persistent as later stalkers can be, and can be knocked out somewhat more easily. That being said, he shouldn't be underestimated.
** Daniella (The Maid) is made of this trope; she is incredibly difficult to knock out, and when that's achieved, she gets up quite quickly. She will relentlessly stalk Fiona, pretend to not know where her hiding spots are and will purposely lock Hewie in rooms and attack him to draw Fiona out if she genuinely has no idea where she is. This is even lampshaded during her Boss Fight if she's knocked out:
---> '''Fiona:''' ''[in journal]'' Even ''that'' didn't stop her?! What is she, the maid from hell?!
* ''VideoGame/HelloKittyRollerRescue'' has this for a final boss; to win, you have to stall it until Keroppi can destroy it with a WaveMotionGun.
* Death (the security guard boss) from ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead 3'' shows up not just once but TWICE! One of the characters comments on its one-track mind and persistence.
* ''VideoGame/{{Iconoclasts}}'' has two examples, late in the game near the rocket.
** While you are trying to get the elevator working, [[spoiler:Black]] can not be stopped. Defeating the boss is not an option; you must fix the elevator and get out of there.
** A more classic version is [[spoiler:Elro, going up against Lawrence. Lawrence can shoot Elro, throw knives, punch him if he gets too close, but unless he runs out of HP, Elro keeps. On. Coming. Good thing you're playing Elro, and your job is just to No-Sell Lawrence's attacks while you keep marching up and stabbing him.]]
* The eponymous heroine of ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' winds up viewed this way by the enemy troops, according to their logs -- whether or not you're playing a pacifist run.
* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Beast]] from ''VideoGame/InFamous'' is [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a huge]] monster in the shape of a man seemingly made of lava. The military can't stop it, it just blows them into dust and keeps walking. Cole, the Electric Man himself, can't stop it, it just gets right back up after being hit by a storm of lightning called down on it from the sky. [[spoiler: A ''nuke'' going off in its face can't stop it, it just reassembles [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Doctor Manhattan-style.]] The only way to kill it for good is to kill every Conduit on the planet.]]
* Death's Hand from ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', who is also ''TheDragon''.
* The Sheriff in ''VideoGame/LakeviewValley'' is not about to let a little thing like a shotgun blast to the face at point-blank range stop him from bringing anyone he can prove has broken the law [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner to justice]].
* The Creator/{{Infocom}} InteractiveFiction game ''VideoGame/LeatherGoddessesOfPhobos'' has your henchman Trent (or, depending on a choice you make early in the game, Tiffany), who continuously dies in very unlikely ways and pops up again a few dozen moves later with an even more unlikely explanation for how he/she survived.
* Definitely fitting the description on later difficulties is the Tank from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', which can survive magazines upon magazines of high-powered rifle and shotgun rounds and complete immolation for upwards of a minute. Combined with how hard he swings, he is NightmareFuel.
** The amount of his HP varies from 4500 to over 6000, depending on difficulty, with a wee bit over five goddamn thousand in the Versus mode. When in doubt, KillItWithFire.
** Common Infected could occasionally become ''absolutely immortal'' thanks to a bug. Using a cheat engine that displays Infected health doesn't even give comforting high numbers (like 999,999), it reveals that they simply do not exist as far as the computer is concerned. AIs will simply give up and let the Implacable Zombie kill them, and the only way to survive is to shove it into a room, close the door, and rush through the rest of the level.
** Due to a bug in damage collision, it's entirely possible to hit a zombie with a melee weapon (almost always a one-hit kill on anything not a Charger, Witch or Tank) and see it's head get taken clean off, only to have the game register it as a miss. The zombie in question is perfectly killable if you can land a second swing, but until then it will come at you bleeding and without a head.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'':
*** The Postman. It doesn't matter where you go, what you do, or what lies between you -- he ''will'' bring you your mail! Even if you pull off the glitch of making him fall into the abyss of Hyrule Field, he'll STILL bring you your mail.
*** The two Wallmasters in the Palace of Twilight. You can stun it with your Bow and Clawshot, but you can't kill it and it will KEEP COMING FOR YOU AS LONG AS YOU HOLD ITS SOL. Although, it'll give up after you go to the "outside" area and place the Sol in the ground.
*** Then there's the Bublin King, who you have to fight four times. And in two of the fights he falls into a cliff upon defeat.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'': The Phantoms cannot even be ''stunned'' until you get the bow about halfway through the game, and cannot be defeated until you get the necessary legendary sword shortly before the end of the game.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'':
*** The Cursed Bokoblins are described as returning from death by way of sheer hatred and will to mess up the world. And, supposedly due to a penchant for undergarments...
*** In the Silent Realm, there's two sorts of guardians; land based and flying. The land ones are faster and carry larger weapons, but they only pursue you when you're within a certain range. The flying ones, however, will ''never stop hunting you.'' They know where you are at all times and can phase through solid objects to hunt you down. They'll just keep following you until they eventually corner you.
* The Security Officer of ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' is this trope to the nth degree. Depressurization, shuttle crashes, kidnappings, literal armies on all sides, torture, being stripped of all of his weapons and dropped on a DeathWorld, insane AIs, [[spoiler:''solar systems being blown up, '' and '''the literal embodiment of chaos itself.''']] All of them have one thing in common, and it's that they couldn't even come ''close'' to stopping him.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'':
** Harbinger is relentless, focused, and entirely devoted to killing ''you'', ''personally''. Since [[VillainOverride he's remotely controlling]] the Collectors, he has no problems with letting you kill his current form and possessing the next one. In his own words, '''"I WILL FIND YOU AGAIN."'''
** Then in the [[DownloadableContent DLC]], Lair of the Shadow Broker, there's Tela Vasir. She gets tackled by Shepard out of a four story window, gets in a really nasty car wreck, loses an enormous amount of blood, gets slammed in the face by a flying table yet she still provides one of the toughest (and most awesome) fights in the entire series.
** The Shadow Broker himself probably counts. He fought you for a bit, got bored, and decided to activate his own personal shield, forcing you to hit him. [[spoiler: he only dies when Liara dumps a load of plasma on his head]].
** Shepard him/herself counts given how many cybernetic enhancements and upgrades have been put into his/her body over the course of the game and his superhuman determination to defeat the Reapers. Death isn't enough stop him/her. Probably best illustrated during the ''Arrival'' DLC, when Shepard forces his/her way to consciousness through increasingly high doses of sedatives, breaks out of his/her cell without weapons, and proceeds to ''[[OneManArmy single-handedly]] [[CurbStompBattle destroy the entire facility]]'' to keep the Reapers at bay. The mooks are absolutely terrified by him/her. Lampshaded during the main game by Garrus pointing out that the Reapers killing Shepard only meant pissing him/her off.
** Zaeed Massani survived being shot in the head. At the end of his loyalty mission, an enormous beam falls on his leg, which doesn't seem to affect him. He also killed a Krogan and all his Mooks.
--> '''Zaeed''': Rage is one ''hell'' of an anesthetic.
** Garm, the Krogan in command of the Blood Pack on Omega probably qualifies as this -- Garrus remarks on how quickly he can regenerate his health. In the end, it takes Shepard, Garrus and two other members of Shepard's crew to kill him.
** Krogan in general. More pronounced in the first game where they would get back up after death unless killed by ammo that caused disintegration.
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'':
** Max can get plugged with hundreds of bullets in the course of the games, but doesn't seem any worse off, as long as he has a supply of painkillers to dull the pain. Lampshaded by the BigBad of the first ''VideoGame/MaxPayne1'' and again by the BigBad of ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'':
--->[[spoiler:'''Nicole Horne:''']] (''Max Payne'') What do you mean, "he's unstoppable"? You are superior to him in every way that counts. You are better trained, better equipped, [[JustOneMan you outnumber him at least 20 to 1]]. Do... your... job!\\
[[spoiler:'''Vladimir Lem:''']] (''Max Payne 2'') What the fuck is wrong with you, Max?! [[WhyWontYouDie Why don't you just die?!]]
** In the second game, he survives being shot ''in the face''. He doesn't become mentally disabled or dysfunctional from it, either.
* All rampant in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series:
** Liquid Snake from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' survives a helicopter crash, an arseload of missiles that only succeed in blowing up his HumongousMecha '''while he is inside the said mech''', a forty foot fall from the top of yet again the same HumongousMecha after being punched off it during a fistfight, and then a barrage of gunfire to the face followed by a jeep crash. He is finally killed by a [[spoiler:tailored supervirus-induced heart attack.]] And then he [[spoiler:comes back in the sequel as a talking arm. But not really.]]
** Vamp from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots 4]]''. Survives being shot in the head and heart, filled with lead and dumped in a vat of no-resistance fluid, shot in the head again, stabbed multiple times (with he himself pulling a blade stuck in his chest out through his back), and shot a few more times [[spoiler: before the AppliedPhlebotinum keeping him alive is finally deactivated.]]
** Ocelot (before he gained the nickname "Revolver") in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''. While not entirely murderous, he seems obsessed with besting Snake after tasting humiliating defeat early in the story. However, he is hogtied by his own sense of honor, which forbids anyone else helping him (or Snake dying at anyone else's hands [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou but his own]]).
** Raiden becomes this in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. Once he learns that World Marshall is planning to create an army of child soldiers using the same training regimen that was used on Raiden, he decides to take them down. And no one, not Maverick, not enemy cyborgs, not the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Winds of Destruction]], hell; not even [[TheDragon Sam]] could stop him in their rematch. Oh, and Raiden can now slice open his foes and steal their nanotech to heal himself completely, making him even more difficult to stop.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' has The Man On Fire, a wraith WreathedInFlames with an EnergyAbsorption ability that can take '''any''' physical force you throw at him and send it back at you ten-fold. This can be anything from a sock to the face or small arms fire to taking an ''RPG-7, Sidewinder Missiles, and a goddamn '''tank shell''' to the face'', and being barely more than fazed before he unleashes death upon whoever tried to fight him conventionally. [[spoiler: His death didn't even come by conventional means, but after he realized that Venom Snake was not the person [[PowerOfHate fueling his rage]], and he basically ''shut himself down''.]]
* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'':
** Humorously done by [[TheDragon Allen O'Neil]]. In the second game, he gets eaten by a killer whale upon defeat and ''still'' comes back for the sequels. When asked about his immortality, the game staff responded that the reason he never dies is because he both "has a body of steel and guts", and he has a wife and son to return to at the end of the day (a strange inversion of FatalFamilyPhoto there).
** When one of your OneHitPointWonder characters comes back from the dead -- either through using an extra life or using a continue -- all enemy soldiers on-screen briefly ''freak out'' over their inexplicable resurrection.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'':
** The SA-X in ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion''. Somewhat more complicated in that it's a copy of the heroine, with all the Metroid-killing equipment she wielded at the end of the last adventure. The real heroine starts off pitifully unpowered by comparison, and ''is now part Metroid'' to boot. Talk about stacking the odds against you. At first you can't do anything against it and just have to run away, but later on you can freeze it to slow it down.
** Samus herself is also an example. This is especially clear in the ''Prime'' series where you can read Space Pirate logs that speak of "The Hunter" as an unstoppable killer capable of obliterating their entire armies singlehandedly.
** The [[LifeDrinker Metroids]] themselves, unless you're packing a [[KillItWithIce cryo-based weapon.]]
** Dark Samus, a near unkillable doppelganger of Samus who thrives on Phazon and can come back FromASingleCell. Best displayed after beating her near the end of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'', where she uses the last strength she has left to crawl towards Samus and attempt to grab her for one last attack before collapsing, eerily similar to [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} another Implacable Man]]. Then she returns in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', and [[HeroKiller is more dangerous]] [[TheChessmaster than ever.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' as long as healing crystals are intact, the Ender Dragon is unstoppable. If placed in overworld, it can fly right though anything that's not Obsidian, End Stone or Bedrock. Still feel secure in your cobblestone home?
* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' has the Wizard of Yendor. He's certainly killable, but that doesn't stop him from coming back to torment you all the way through the Elemental Planes, steal the [[MacGuffin Amulet of Yendor]] and create copies of himself to help with this.
* ''VideoGame/NeverDead'': The protagonist. Dismember him, run him over, or pierce him through. He [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin never dies]].
* The Blood Hound is an enemy from ''VideoGame/ThePersistence'' who wanders from room to room on a deck hunting you down. It has by far the most health of any enemy and doesn't flinch upon being hit or shot in the head.
* ''VideoGame/Persona3'': [[TheGrimReaper The Reaper]], also known as "Death." It exhibits the "slow walk" by showing up whenever you take too long to advance to the next area. Even your support character warns you that you "can't defeat it!!", and tells you to get out immediately. It can be defeated it very high levels, but even if you do, it will still come back for more.
* ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'': The Waterwraith, is invincible unless you have purple Pikmin at your disposal. Unfortunately for you, you don't have any purple Pikmin when you enter the cave he dwells, and won't get access until you've reached the final floor.
* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'':
** The Nameless One, unless he wishes himself out of existence or screws up when meeting the BigBad.
** [[KnightTemplar Vhailor]] plays this trope as straight as can be. He is basically an avatar of Justice who will stop at nothing carry it out. He grows more powerful when hunting those who've committed greater crimes. [[spoiler:During your confrontation with [[BigBad The Transcendent One]], you can inform Vhailor about who you and The Transcendent One are, which transforms him into a [[WarGod God of War]]]].
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Primeape will beat the ever-loving shit out of [[HairTriggerTemper anything that pisses it off]], even if it has to chase it to the end of the world. But what ''really'' pushes it into this territory is the fact that, as of ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', even death does not stop its rampage; it simply evolves into Annihilape instead, gaining the Ghost-type in the process.
* The Dahaka from ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin''. Subverted in that [[KillItWithWater it can be killed]], but there is only one weapon in the game that can actually do that and getting it is less than easy.
* In ''[[VideoGame/WingCommander Privateer]]'', later in the game when you find and equip the [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum discovered Steltek gun]] on your ship, a Steltek drone will appear at random and attack only you. Your weapons won't scratch it, and although you may give it the slip using jump points, it will eventually show up again. You only finally get the ability to kill the drone just before the final mission [[spoiler:when an actual Steltek comes along and charges up the mounted Steltek gun to give it the ability to harm the drone]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'': Alex Mercer, and he's on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge all across Manhattan. He survives [[spoiler:being torn to pieces in the blastwave of a ''nuke'', regenerates FromASingleCell by absorbing nothing but a ''crow'', and states that his work is ''almost'' done. Not done. ''Almost'' done]]. Imagine being the guys assigned to take him down. Over the course of the game, he murders his way through what has to be three-quarters of [[SemperFi the marine forces]] -- by way of kicking their helicopters out of the sky, tearing their tanks to shreds with his bare hands, and ripping apart ''entire bases'' -- and comes out no worse for the wear. He ''is'' the Implacable Man. And he makes sure they ''know it''.
-->'''Alex:''' '''''NOTHING CAN PROTECT YOU FROM ME! NOT MEN! NOT WEAPONS! NOT ARMOR!'''''
* In the MMO ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'', the Monk character class gets access to the skill "Steel Body", or "Mental Strength" in one translation, that cuts all damage, magical or physical, to 1/10 if you have no vitality or intelligence, and if those two stats are high, any attack will do ONE damage! Another class (the tank furthermore) has a skill that does big damage in an area, but returns some to its caster. But a glitch can be exploited to make it HEAL you instead, thus doing huge damage to your foes while filling your own life gauge back up. In either case you get a nearly unstoppable character.
* ''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc'' has a level full of these called The Desert Of The Knaaren. The Knaaren are virtually indestructible, not even flinching from any attacks, and will chase you on sight. Word of advice: RUN.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
** Lisa Trevor in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRemake'', though [[spoiler:thankfully she's not after you specifically but [[TearJerker just wants her mother]] -- she'll chase you when you enter her cabin or her territory in the caves, and she'll attack you when you're too close to the crypt where her mother's remains are, but if you leave the area she lets you go and if you open the crypt for her she morosely takes her mother's skull and retreats by hurling herself off the ledge never to be seen again by Jill or Chris]]. She shows up again, no worse for wear, in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles The Umbrella Chronicles]]'' to chase Wesker, though this time is ''far'' more determined to hunt him down and kill him as she [[ItCanThink apparently recognizes him]] as [[ItsPersonal one of the men responsible for ruining her life and killing her mom]].
** Tyrants (games ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil0 0]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 1]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 2]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code: Veronica]]'') also count. You will always have to fight a Tyrant ''at least'' twice, and with the exception of the Proto-Tyrant in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'', killing one ''always'' requires the use of [[StuffBlowingUp high explosives]]. Guns, grenades and ''immersion in molten metal'' will not be enough to kill one. Given that Tyrants are meant to be {{Super Soldier}}s, this is to be expected.
** The Tyrant T-103, encountered in [[NewGamePlus Scenario B]] of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', deserves special mention. He wants [[spoiler:Sherry's locket, which contains a sample of the G Virus]], and absolutely nothing will stop him from getting it. Towards the end Leon/Claire drops him into a smelting pit, and it ''[[TurnsRed only pisses him off]]''.
*** He's even worse in the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake remake]], where instead of scripted events where he appears, he's always somewhere in the police station looking for you[[note]]There are still a few scripted events where he finds you no matter what, and it's rumored you can encounter two at once by happening to encounter the roaming Mr. X in the same area where a scripted encounter takes place[[/note]]. ''Always''. Shoot a gun nearby and he'll come running to investigate so you'd better keep moving. Worse still, pumping him full of bullets will only drop him to a knee stunned, giving you maybe half a minute at most to run away before he gets back up and resumes hunting. It takes a lot of bullets too, and they [[ImmuneToFlinching barely even stagger him]], so your best bet is to just run your fool ass off and hope you can ditch him. In short, he's become less of an Implacable Man and more TheJuggernaut.
** The Nemesis from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''. He's the only enemy in the game that can follow you from room to room ''and'' outrun you. It takes at least ''14 shotgun shells'' to kill him on ''EASY MODE''. No, wait, it gets better. [[spoiler:That doesn't actually kill it. You just knock it out. Nemmy'll show up later. Throughout the course of the game, he gets repeatedly shot, blasted out of a train with a grenade, has a rocket launcher blow up in his face, passes out into burning helicopter wreckage, soaked with acid, and by the end, he's been decapitated, falls into a pit of acid designed to break down [=BOWs=], and ''still doesn't stop''.]] Even worse, is this time he's after '''Jill''', not lashing out at all life, not trying to retrieve a locket, not "cleaning up" by killing generic cops or survivors, he wants the S.T.A.R.S. members specifically and he introduces himself by killing Brad, leaving you as the last and only one on his hit list. [[spoiler:During the boss battle against him as Carlos, he's more than content to walk right past the mercenary and into the room where the incapacitated Jill is unless you press your attack enough to [[RageBreakingPoint keep him focused on you]].]]
*** On top of that, in the ending [[spoiler:you must hit it with two shots from a railgun the size of a train car; and after that, you get the option to put six bullets right in its head. That finally kills it]].
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' subverts this with the Regenerators. From the first meeting it seems that nothing can stop them... Unless you're ''really'' lucky with blind firing or high-end explosives, as it's later revealed that they simply have [[AttackItsWeakPoint hidden weak points]] that can be revealed with a special weapon. Bad guys like Mendez and Saddler, however, still play the trope straight, with Saddler [[spoiler: [[ImmuneToBullets ejecting the bullets from his body through his hands]]]]. And then there's [[ThatOneBoss El Verdugo]], though it is possible to finish the game without killing this guy, which is probably what most players do their first few times around. The Verdugo is ''so'' hard to kill, that some players are left with the impression that he's a HopelessBossFight and that he simply ''can't'' be killed, only escaped. He's more vulnerable under the effects of liquid nitrogen but it still takes a ton of firepower to take him down.
** [[BigBad Albert Wesker]] himself. He survived being slashed/impaled by Tyrant due to his regenerative PsychoSerum, and having a load of girders dropped on him, and can dodge bullets and catch rockets ''Matrix'' style. [[spoiler:Until he [[BodyHorror mutates]] into a OneWingedAngel form at the end of ''RE 5''.]] Even then he can survive the heat of lava, and takes a barrage of rockets to the heart before dying for good. [[spoiler:He plunged his hand into the container, laughing maniacally as the Uroboros swarmed up his arm.]]
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has Ustanak, the monster whose only goals are to brutally murder Jake and Sherry and try to outdo Nemesis for the coveted title of "Most Unstoppable Killing Machine". Even getting a DRILLING MACHINE THROUGH THE CHEST only takes him down for about 5 literal minutes. It also has the Rasklapanje, an {{expy}} of the Regenerator, who are fought in all the four campaigns. In a cutscene, Leon and Helena kill one only to watch it pull itself back together effortlessly. While it seems they can be killed by separating their body parts and killing each part individually, after sometime the parts revive and the creature reassembles itself. However, most of the times you meet them are in areas where they spawn infinitely, which makes going through the trouble of killing them a pointless endeavor.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'': Jack Baker, the patriarch of the [[CannibalClan psychotic]] and [[HealingFactor nigh-indestructible]] Baker family. Part one of the game involves you trying to find a way out of the house while he wanders around, chasing you if he sees you, and any attempt at fighting him will annoy him and waste your resources. It's only when you defeat him in an epic chainsaw duel that you put him down...[[spoiler: only for him to come back as a completely mutated mold creature for one more go at you. He seemingly dies for good after being calcified by a serum. In the DLC Chapter ''End of Zoe'', TheReveal is that the Swamp Man is none other than Jack. A document in this chapter explains that Jack's unique genetic makeup allowed his Mold mutation to give him a more potent Healing Factor, more so than any of the other members of the Baker family. Calcification is the nail on the coffin for those infected with the Mold, but he was able to survive and mutate again! Later on in ''End of Zoe'', his brother [[TheProtagonist Joe]] ''decapitates him'', but he reattaches his head off-screen and makes a comeback. Nothing short of a MegatonPunch from Joe with the [[PowerFist AMG-78]] to Jack's head actually kills him, causing it to ''[[YourHeadASplode explode]]'' and calcifying his remains.]] His wife Marguerite acts much the same way, but she usually relies on her insects to protect her and overwhelm her prey, and she's not nearly as stubborn as her husband.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' has [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Alcina Dimitrescu]] to fill this role. After a couple of scripted encounters, Lady Dimitrescu freely roams the castle just like the Tyrant in [=RE2=] remake and Jack Baker in ''[=RE7=]''. Unlike them though, her regenerative abilities are so strong that you can't even take her down temporarily; she just shrugs off any and all attacks (even from New Game+ weapons) without even blinking. [[spoiler:The only way she can be defeated is by stabbing her with a [[PoisonedWeapons poison dagger]] created specifically to kill her, and even then she keeps herself alive by mutating into her OneWingedAngel form for one last fight.]]
* The Ballistikraft robots from ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad''. Invincible, hulking robots that roll towards you very slowly, shrugging off anything and everything you fire at it and spewing rockets at you. The only thing you can do is run.
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' had a couple of these guys that you saw that is implacable in general:
** First one is Lucien in While Guthix Rests, an evil [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mahjarrat]], during a cutscene where a series of heroes go and [[spoiler:try to]] fight the guy.[[spoiler:.. well, needless to say most of them bit the dust for good and [[KilledOffForReal they DO NOT come back.]]]]
** Second Nomination will be the Corporeal beast, a result of NiceJobBreakingItHero. It comes to the corporeal realm to deliver a can of whoop ass for anyone willing to take a one way trip back to Lumbridge. Before it came to the corporeal realm, it was MERELY [[SealedEvilInACan trapped in the]] [[SoulJar Spirit Realm]], siphoning energy off the souls of a dead family for two quests. [[spoiler:And then you show up. Naturally, living soul energy is much more potent than dead soul energy...]]
** The final nomination will be [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampyres and Vyrewatch]], monsters that can't be beaten with even a [[InfinityPlusOneSword Godsword]], instead until you have a silver weapon, good luck fighting these guys. Even then, merely silver weapons will only work on Juvinates, the weakest form of the species; anything higher than that has limited mind reading and impossibly good reflexes, meaning any weapon with a predictable pattern (that is, all of them except a flail) can't even hit them to begin with.
** On the flip side, there's you, the PC. While quests generally act as if you don't die and do entire sections in one trip rather than individually (such as the finale of Dragon Slayer 2), you're known to be a warrior on par with the Wise Old Man and Robert the Strong, able to slay a Dragonkin's finest creation, which is so strong it can take out a Dragonkin itself in one blow[[note]]Robert the Strong is famous for being capable of killing Dragonkin ''at all''[[/note]] and a corrupted fragment of a god, capable of getting around any obstructions regardless of what they are, and being one of the few characters capable of canonically surviving dying.
* The Death spell in ''VideoGame/{{Sacrifice}}'' summons TheGrimReaper temporarily, who is treated by the game engine as a spell effect and not a creature; he cannot be targeted, shielded against, blocked, halted or damaged in any way, and will not stop hunting his target until he has killed it. If Death targets one of your creatures and you teleport away with it to the other end of the map, Death will immediately realign his course and slowly start following, ignoring everything else in his path.
* Both in and out of gameplay in the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series, assuming you do enough diversions. Blowing up The Boss just gets them pissed off, and in the second game, the full complement of perks means that The Boss can jump out of a plane, get hit by three exploding trucks [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]], and take a point-blank shotgun blast to the face without going down. ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' turns this [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]] once you get close to max respect, with several upgrades making them immune to each type of damage. It can get to the point where The Boss can only be harmed by melee attackers.
* ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours'':
** Tony can enter a [[SuperMode Blind Rage]], where he exhibits true Implacability. He becomes immune to attacks, doesn't flinch, gains auto-aiming and the quasi-vampiric ability to heal by attacking enemies. Although it lasts for only brief periods, it can be reused and the meter needed to fuel it can be filled up fairly quickly. For that matter, Tony in general; he's gonna take Miami back and kill Sosa, and heaven help the [[ForeignCussWord chazzers]] stupid enough to get in his way.
** BigBad Alejandro Sosa exhibits apparent-Implacability the way Tony did at the end of the film, taking whole clips to the chest without flinching. Even from the mighty [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]] that instant-kills everyone else. [[BoomHeadshot A good few headshots]] are needed to end him.
* As [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil an anti-piracy]] measure, ''VideoGame/SeriousSam 2'' will [[DevelopersForesight set one of these loose on you if it detects a pirated copy of the game]]: An indestructible [[LightningBruiser lightning-fast]] giant-scorpion creature will follow you from practically the start of the game. It can't be killed and it's too fast to escape from for long. Of course, this merely [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing spawned a sub-set of players who seek out pirate copies just to see how long they could last against the beast]].
* Fox Face from ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts1''. If your Malice meter is filled, he ''will'' appear and hunt you down. You can beat him, but he will come back again and again, until you either clear the Malice or die.
* Most of the colossi in ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' qualify for this, with the only exceptions being Avion and Phalanx. Once the others have spotted Wander, they will not stop trying to attack him until he becomes physically inaccessible, dies, or kills them. Particularly notable is Dirge, which is reputed as being unique in that it is the only Colossus who seems to genuinely hunt Wander in order to devour him rather than just try to kill him. In fact, the reason Dirge's [[GlowingEyesOfDoom unnervingly large eyes]] are always [[RedEyesTakeWarning orange]] is because it is one of the few colossi who is ''constantly'' attacking.
* ''Franchise/SilentHill'':
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' has the Pyramid Head: Usually the only way to survive an encounter with him is to run your damn fool ass off, and hope he doesn't catch you. The game suggests the Pyramid Head is merely a gatekeeper whose purpose is to herd you in the right direction. He is never truly defeated; he merely strolls away menacingly or kills himself once his purpose is fulfilled. In that sense, he is closer to a Juggernaut.
** Walter Sullivan from ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'', at least until the boss battle when his defenses are finally lowered. The Ghost Victims of the game also apply, since they will keep chasing Henry from level to level unless pinned down by a (very rare) sword.
* Officer Carmelita Fox from ''VideoGame/SlyCooper''. Wherever Sly is, Carmelita soon follows in hot pursuit.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Dr. Eggman's robot ZERO chases Amy in every level for the bird with her, and whenever Amy loses ZERO, he soon catches up. [[spoiler:His tenacity even after his target has been obtained and is no longer of use to Eggman gets him killed.]]
* Played with in ''VideoGame/SouthOfReal''. Yes, the shadows are chasing [[PlayerCharacter Alex,]] but all they want is a lovely little family reunion. You happen to be still alive, but don't worry--they can fix that.
* ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'': The Torrasque is a special, one-of-a-kind super-Ultralisk that just gets reincarnated back at the base when it's killed, over and over and over again. It makes a return in ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm'' as a possible mutation for all of Kerrigan's Ultralisks: the ability to revive once upon death.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''VideoGame/JediKnightJediAcademy'' has four levels that involve different variations of the theme of an enemy (or several) chasing you that can't simply be killed, and three of the enemies fit this trope.
*** The sandworm will eat you in one bite if you stay on the sand long enough.
*** The rancor. If you actually want to kill it, it's harder than many boss battles... and when you do kill it, another one replaces it. So you'll end up avoiding it anyway. Its powers of following you are less impressive, as it gets lost and can't fit under doors.
*** Boba Fett. He's opposed to the idea of your finishing your mission, so he'll pit his BadassNormal powers against your Jedi ones at every turn, only to fly away if you manage to damage him enough and return soon after returning to full strength.
*** And finally, the mutated rancor. It's practically Godzilla, and it's completely immune to damage, so it's actually TheJuggernaut as well. Breathing poisonous gas and flailing at things, it will follow you all over the complex in the level, its steps making the floor quake, and demolish the scenery and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard eat the badguys who released it]] when it can't find you. When you find a way to sneak into the next hall through an exit it can't fit through, it will bang the wall until it yields and resume pursuit. [[spoiler: At the end, you'll be able to kill it by crushing it on a conveyor belt between a giant crate and an energy field that only lets giant crates through.]]
----> '''Jaden Korr:''' What did I ever do to ''him''?
** In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', Darth Malak sets the entire Star Forge against the protagonist, sacrificing thousands of his own men with the sole intention that it might potentially ''slow'' them down. Part of the reason such [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill overkill]] is justified is because he's facing [[spoiler: an amnesiac Darth Revan, his former Master]]. Darth Sion from [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords the sequel]], who you can only kill by [[spoiler: [[WarriorTherapist convincing]] him that his life isn't worth living]]. According to the KOTOR Campaign Guide, Sion was once a living man, filled with so much hatred that when he finally was killed, his hatred and strength in the dark side allowed him to keep living, AND kill his assailant RIGHT THERE ON THE SPOT. He is bound together purely by his hatred. Oh, also, according to the medical records aboard the ''Harbinger'', his flesh has been cut into a bunch of rotting chunks that now make up his body, and and each of his bones has been absolutely splintered and pieced back together.
* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRogue'': The Killer Robot Disaster has HP in the ''thousands'', and will slowly march towards your character while shooting an unlimited supply of rocket-propelled grenades. It cannot be hacked, possessed, or bribed to leave, but it is susceptible to water -- barely. Most players just try to get their chores done so they can leave the floor as soon as possible.
* ''VideoGame/StringTyrant'': Has The Stranger, an ominous trenchcoated figure that will continually search for Mary. It respawns about 20 turns after defeat stronger than ever. [[spoiler: It's finally defeated by using a church's bell to shake it to pieces.]]
* The Inspector and his dog in ''VideoGame/SubwaySurfers'': No matter how fast or far you're running, no matter how big a lead you get, thanks to a jetpack or mega-headstart powerup -- one stumble and The Inspector will appear right on your heels.
* Luca Blight from ''VideoGame/SuikodenII''. Just look at [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat what it takes to finally kill him]]; it includes several battles against several elite warrior squadrons (plural) whaling on him, enough arrows stuck in him to build several houses with and one final duel with the opposite army's champion, and even then he goes down laughing because it took ''that'' much.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', there's Phantos, the creepy EvilMask that guards keys. If you take a key its guarding, it comes to life and chases you non-stop. It can't be killed (unless you grab a Starman) and the only way to shake it is to drop the key, although this is a temporary solution, because picking the key up again (and you'll always need it) causes the thing to resume the chase until you reach the key's door.
** [[TheUndead Dry Bones]] take as many jumps as you can dish out and still come back for more, that is unless [[spoiler: you had [[GameBreaker an invincibility star or a cape]] from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'']]. In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', however, jumps are considered magical attacks, which Dry Bones are very weak to. As such, they can be felled quite easily with a single jump, whereas physical attacks such as Mario's punches, hammers and shells cannot do shit to them. It's ''still'' only enough to take them down only temporarily: about 10 seconds after the fight and they'll get right back up and come after you again.
** In ''VideoGame/PaperMario'', Jr. Troopa takes everything you can dish out and comes back for more time and time again. If you use Goombario's tattle ability, he'll keep getting more impressed with Troopa's tenacity each time. Tubba Blubba is completely unstoppable until you find his heart and make him mortal again. Mario and co. are aware of this, and immediately run for their lives in a chase sequence when he catches you in his castle. Attempting to attack him at this point is an unwinnable battle.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'': Chain Chomps don't like Mario standing there staring at them; they'll keep launching themselves at him over and over. After the 46th launch, the chain starts flashing to show it's weakening... And the 50th launch will '''[[OhCrap snap the chain]]'''. The now-free Chomp will pursue you quite fast, taking huge leaps where necessary to catch up and bite you, its tormentor. ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'''s Chomps cannot be stopped except by an invincibility star.
* David Leatherhoff of ''VideoGame/SvenCoop''. Admin-controlled, he's on the players' team so friendly-fire is impossible (against him, that is). David is by no means "friendly" and will relentlessly stalk and harass the players no matter what.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
** The mod "Freak Fortress" pits the entire team against one of these, which can vary from [[BadassNormal psychotic offshoots of the main characters]] to [[HumanoidAbomination full-blown monstrosities]], but will always be ''[[DamageSpongeBoss really]]'' tough, and strong enough to one-shot almost anything.
** In Mann vs. Machine mode, some of the harder rounds feature a [[GiantMook Super-Huge]], [[KingMook Super-Strong]], Super Unstoppable Robot--they can only be knocked back by the Heavy's Rage powerup, and (excepting Giant Scouts) will simply ''walk over'' any obstacles that they can't immediately destroy.
** Furthermore, a Medic with the stock Medigun can make himself and his current healing target Implacable Men (or Implacable Man and [[AmbiguousGender Pyro]]) for several seconds at a time, thanks to his Ubercharge ability (though they can still be bounced around by airblasts and bombs). [[TheBigGuy Heavy]] says it best.
--->'''Heavy, being Ubercharged:''' Is good time to run, cowards!
** Parodied by the Soldier with one of the lines he speaks while wearing his [[PaperThinDisguise cardboard robot costume]]: in an [[LiteralMinded overly-literal]] reinterpretation of the page quote, he claims: "I will find you! That's what I do! That's '''all''' I do! THERE YOU ARE! ... ''Shutting down''..."
* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' has a few of these as well.[[spoiler:From Arcueid being cut into 17 pieces and coming back to life the next day, Roa being taken down to nothing but his ankles and immediately regenerating, and Nero having his body ripped in two only to make fun of the person who did it. They have this trope covered.]]
* [[spoiler: The PlayerCharacter in]] ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' [[spoiler:''canonically'' has the ability to load their save file upon death through [[{{Determinator}} Determination]], meaning that killing them will only slow them down until they learn your patterns and breeze past you without you even touching them. They especially resemble this trope in the genocide route, where they will [[LevelGrinding walk around in circles and kill anyone unlucky enough to cross their path]] and only move on once the area is devoid of life. On top of their effective immortality, they become so powerful later on that they OneHitKill would-be [[BossBattle bosses]] with [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill millions of damage]]. What most players consider to be the hardest boss in the game, [[BewareTheSillyOnes Sans]], knows that it's impossible to actually beat you, and instead attempts to wear you down mentally by killing you repeatedly and guilt-tripping you so that you eventually give up. As his final "attack", he simply doesn't take his turn, thus trapping the both of you there for all eternity until you get bored and quit. But even the ''RULES OF THE GAME'' aren't enough to stop you, as you push the bullet box over to the fight button and strike Sans twice in a row, finally landing a hit and one-shotting him.]]
* Selvaria in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' is this when her Valkyrian powers are activated. No attacks you fired at her did any damage. When she showed up, your only option was to make your units take cover and hurry to finish the objective. Even when she isn't a Valkyria, she's still pretty powerful.
* After it is released in the third section of ''VideoGame/VivisectorBeastWithin'', the Overbrute Panther becomes an Implacable Man; while you can blast whole chunks out of it, it won't be slowed one iota by it, and will instantly regenerate, and unless you find some way of locking it out temporarily, it will ''always'' catch up with you and kill you with a casually-placed detonator to the chest. Oh, and it can turn invisible at will, as well, to both sight and radar, making it even harder to avoid the monster. Games designers are sadists, clearly.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' features the Stalker, a creepy-looking warrior in black carrying a decent scythe and one of the best bows of the game. He marks you for death everytime you kill a boss (killing more bosses, even for farming purposes, just adds more marks) and has a random chance to appear during almost any mission. He'll make himself known by flickering lights and taunting you over your comms, then lock you in your current room before teleporting inside. Either you kill him, either he kills you. No other alternative. And he can walk his talk, being able to tear apart players who aren't carrying high-quality gear. Think the mooks or your allies will stop him? He will just ignore or (if attacked) kill everything in the room if it means getting to you. And after [[spoiler: you do the Second Dream quest]], he turns into the even stronger Shadow Stalker.
* Wario in ''VideoGame/WarioLand'', where he has infinite health. The main gimmick is that he ''has'' to hurt himself with the various obstacles and enemies in order to solve puzzles.
* You as Rubi in ''VideoGame/{{Wet}}'', you will regularly tear through rooms stacked to the brim with {{Mooks}} and survive. A more pure example is the ending, [[spoiler: where Pelham sicks his pet Albino Tarantula on you. After you kill her, you come after Pelham and he tries shooting you, it doesn't work and you behead him]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Wick}}'' features a family a murderous ghost children that pursue the player relentlessly, but special mention goes to Caleb. Once he spawns on the map he slowly, but surely digs towards the player until the hour is up.
* Asgard in ''VideoGame/WildArms3''. Guns and spells? Barely fazes him. A structure collapses on him? Minor inconvenience. Sending him to the distant past? [[TheSlowPath Ha ha, yeah right]]. The only reason you even manage to kill him [[spoiler: [[SuicideByCop was because he allowed you to kill him]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate so he can follow his masters to hell]]]].
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfHorror'' has the being known only as Something Truly Evil. If you're unfortunate enough to attract its attention, it starts popping up in other random encounters, relentlessly stalking your character until it finally attacks. When it does, you're [[HoplelessBossFight unable to harm it or run away]], and your only options are to sacrifice your Health and Reason until you either perish, go mad, or manage to appease Something Truly Evil and it lets you go.
* While Death Knights in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' are [[MightyGlacier not very fast]], they are hard to slow down: Wraith Walk resists snares, Icebound Fortitude cancels most stuns, Pillar of Frost [[NoSell No-Sells]] knockbacks, and [[AntiMagic Anti-Magic]] Shell is a Swiss army knife for ignoring control effects.
* The Lobstermen of ''VideoGame/XComTerrorFromTheDeep'', like their predecessors the Chrysalids, will give this impression when you first encounter one. You fill it with harpoons, your squad opens fire with Gauss pistols, you launch torpedoes at it... and you watch in horror as it somehow survives it all and proceeds to mow down your troops.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' has Ramsus. The guy's been blown up, had his HumongousMecha thrashed repeatedly, and nearly drowned. Yet all of that doesn't stop him from trying to fight his rival [[LetsPlay/TheDarkId FEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!]]
** Id. If he has to "step in" to handle [[spoiler: Fei]]'s problems... everything in sight is going to be very dead very soon. Including ''an entire continent'' except for one person, a small village, a fortress city of TheEmpire, entire fully armored batallions...
* ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'': Yoneda, Kuze's NumberTwo, becomes a recurring enemy throughout Kiryu's rampage through Dojima HQ at the start of the game. No matter how many times Kiryu knocks him flat on his ass or uses him to [[OpenSaysMe unlock doors]], [[MadeOfIron Yoneda will get back on his feet within minutes]] and attempt to ambush Kiryu while he's distracted. It takes Kiryu smashing his face against a urinal and [[DivingKick dropkicking]] him [[DestinationDefenestration off a fifth story window]] before Yoneda stays down for a meaningful amount of time.
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* The G-Man from ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' is a variant: You don't fight him, but he does follow Gordon Freeman all over the place, finding routes through places that Gordon must fight through and getting to spots before Gordon can.
** However, if you do feel like popping off a few rounds at him before he disappears round whatever corner, they simply bounce off with the bullets-on-metal sparks effect and sound (at least in the original ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''; in ''[=HL2=]'', like all important or allied [=NPCs=], he simply cannot be hit by weapons).
** Gordon Freeman, the "Free Man" himself. By ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' he is feared as a OneManArmy by the Combine, and worshipped as a hero by the humans in equal amounts.

** The Dreen, everyone who's worked with the Baron rightfully fears them, seemingly nothing can stop them and they don't allow anything to get in their way. One inbred idiot tried crushing one with his HumongousMecha, only for the Dreen to dismantle it [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121031 from the inside]] and keep coming. [[spoiler:Not even a time-stopping artifact can halt them, it just reveals their [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20240408 true forms]].]]