History Main / MadeOfIndestructium

* Averting this was a selling point of ''Future Tactics''. Everything in that game, I mean ''everything'', could be destroyed. Scenery could be blown up, holes blasted in the ground, you name it. It was possible to kill tougher enemies in some levels by blasting the ground beneath them and sending them falling to their deaths, and the levels could even be rendered UnwinnableByInsanity thanks to some diligence on the player's part.* ''VideoGame/{{Gift|2001}}'': Justified. Many enemies are invincible, but it's implied that they are such only for Gift.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Freespace}}'', the Shivan superdestroyer Lucifer was protected by a 'subspace sheath' that rendered it invulnerable against any known type of weapon (in-game, this was represented by simply giving the ship an 'invincible' flag). Its weakness was that the shield didn't function while in subspace.

* In ''Fanfic/MyIronGiant'' Izuku has the ability to manifest a HumongousMecha around himself. Mei breaks multiple high-quality drill bits trying to access the inside of his head. [[spoiler:Only All Might and a specialy designed Nomu managed to cause any damage]].

** Adamantium functions as this in the Marvel 'verse. While its first appearance was as the metal that made up ComicBook/{{Ultron}}'s outer shell, it is best known as the substance that coats[[note]]or is plated onto, or is molecularly bonded to, depending on the writer and continuity[[/note]] Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'s bones, making them nigh-unbreakable. There are only two widely recognized incidents of true adamantium[[note]]As opposed to the lower grade "secondary adamantium"[[/note]] being damaged by pure, physical force; once at the hands of ComicBook/TheMightyThor and again at the hands of an extremely enraged ComicBook/IncredibleHulk. Other incidents often involve either magic or some form of molecular manipulation. It's also occasionally brought up that while adamantium may be unbreakable by anything else, it can still be damaged by more adamantium, demonstrated by the Hulk ramming Wolverine's claws through his own skull.

* {{Averted|Trope}} in ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs]]'', in which Farnsworth and Wernstrom both brag about their "indestructible" inventions: diamondium and diamondillium. Both are useless against Yivo. Played straight in that Yivo is made of electro-matter, which is impervious to anything from our universe.

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* There seems to be a general consensus amongst guitarists that most Fender instruments and amplifiers will be around after the nuclear holocaust. From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ_P1vfZYo4 Keith Richards using one to defend Mick Jagger]] (mind you, both these men are probably also made of Indestructium), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqf9AcEpJUw&feature=related to Pete Townshend - a man whose career has revolved around smashing guitars - not being able to consistently destroy them.]] How did the company founder go about showing how reliable his first guitar was in the '50s? He went to a trade show, placed it across two chairs, and proceeded to jump on a piece of wood about an inch and a half wide multiple times, repeatedly putting the full weight of a grown man on that tiny part. Then he picked it up, and it was in-tune. Hell, most of them even today have a completely user-dismantleable design, so in the off chance you toss it in a volcano and something does break, it's an easy fix.
** [[Film/WaynesWorld Keith Richards himself cannot be killed by conventional weapons.]] [[Creator/RobinWilliams "We may all be dead and gone, Keith will still be there with five cockroaches - 'I smoked your uncle once, did you know that?'"]]
* Apple achieved this with the iPod Touch. People have even shot them at point-blank, and the screen worked everywhere except for the bullet hole. And maybe even there.
** Averted for [[TheAllegedComputer the alleged Home button]]. There's a ''reason'' [=iOS=] has a function to put a button on the screen.
** Not to mention the screen can still easily shatter when dropped from knee height.
*** Mind you, it's not guaranteed. The people at How Ridiculous recently dropped an Iphone 11 from a helicopter at 1000 feet, and it not only survived two drops, it was intact enough that the screen was usable enough to record the second fall!
* Nokia phones are notoriously tough to break and have in fact done significant damage to anything they're thrown at without showing much more than a few scratches. They have achieved {{meme|ticMutation}} status as a result.
** [[AscendedMeme They've also begun using this as a selling point in the ads for their latest products]].
** While Smartphones are generally considered to be [[MadeOfExplodium extremely fragile]], Nokia's Lumia-series, and the Lumia 920 in particular, are made of indestructium. In fact, someone attempted to find out how much it would take to break the glass on the Lumia 920, using a variety of different devices and weapons. Having it first soaked in acid and then blown up by fireworks only damaged the rest of the thing!
*** The stereotypical fragility has further been subverted recently when a Nokia 3310, a Samsung S10, and an Iphone 11 were each dropped from a thousand feet up via helicopter by the people on the youtube channel How Ridiculous. All three phones survived multiple drops, and the most damage done was a bit of blurriness on the Samsung's camera. The two smartphones actually recorded the second drop all the way down!
* Those plastic sheaths that most small electronics are packaged in nowadays might as well be forcefields. Hope you have an acetylene torch handy next time you need a USB key![[note]]Or a can opener. Whichever is closer.[[/note]]
** They're referred to as "clam shells" due to the general design: plastic mold folds shut like a clam shell, then is sealed tight. They also sell "openers" for these hellish devices, which are effectively razor or exact-o blades in a safe holder. [[{{Irony}} These products are often packaged in a clam shell.]]
** They also earned the nickname "Fort Knox Boxes" (despite not being boxes) to people working in the computer business, due to how difficult it is to get into both of them.
** That's why a lot of electronics can now be bought on Amazon in "frustration-free packaging", which stands for "normal boxes".
* Chrysler's luxury Imperial marque in TheSixties built cars bordering on this. They wound up being used to win so many demolition derbies that they were eventually banned from competition. Likewise, Chevrolets (the '57 models in particular) were known for their extreme durability. Many of those are still in pristine condition today, after over fifty years.
** In a case of [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Good]], the old land arks of TheSixties and TheSeventies had the misfortune to be significantly more durable than the fleshy meatbags driving them. This often led to cars that were perfectly drivable after fatal crashes... crashes that killed the occupants precisely ''because'' the car's durability led to brutal whiplash upon impact. The invention of crumple zones made cars much more prone to being totaled in crashes but actually kept the passengers alive.
* [=GoPro=] cameras are designed with intense physical activity and conditions in mind, but sometimes they survive conditions that most wouldn't expect:
** There are several examples of cameras falling off of skydivers during freefall, surviving the landing, and continuing to film the whole time.
** One [=GoPro=] survived being ''[[https://www.healthyfoodhouse.com/this-gopro-camera-got-swallowed-by-lava-survived-and-recorded-everything/ covered in lava]]'' and, while somewhat damaged, still managed to record all the way through.
* Battleships were built as tough as they could possibly be while still floating. As a result, they could survive an amazing amount of punishment, with only torpedoes and aircraft-launched munitions (that bypass most of the armour) actually having a chance to take them down quickly... And even then, they could ''still'' survive an amount of those that would sink a dozen lesser ships.
* The Essex-class aircraft carriers had a reputation for being indestructible. However, despite persistent rumors that they were more armored than battleships or even flat out impenetrable, most of their durability comes from their sheer volume diminishing the relative size of any given breach. That, and the USN was absolutely obsessed with DamageControl and the Essexes were in particular designed to function even if very grievously damaged.
** The follow on Midway design was even more absurdly hard to sink. Unlike the Essexes, it did feature an armored flight deck like the British (see below) but also featured a thick armored belt and an additional layer of armor under the hangar just in case. The class also featured even more redundant bridges (including an armored conning tower like a battleship) and damage control stations. It’s almost a shame none of the class were actually hit in combat.
* British armored carriers, with their armored flight decks, even more so. Though just as vulnerable to torpedoes, they would {{No Sell}} Kamikaze hits and survived bomb damage in the Mediterranean that would have imperiled battleships.
* After the first air raid on Berlin, the Germans constructed [[EvilTowerOfOminousness huge anti-aircraft towers]] in Berlin, Hamburg, and Vienna, with four-meter-thick walls of reinforced concrete that could withstand any type of ordnance that existed at the time. In addition to several anti-aircraft cannons on top (which could be lowered enough to shoot at ground targets as well), they also included bunkers for thousands of people which were designed to protect even against gas attacks. During the final Battle of Berlin, the Red Army couldn't even make serious dents in them with direct fire from their largest field guns. After the war, attempts were made to demolish them, but it soon became apparent that the huge amount of work required wasn't worth it. Most of them still stand to this day. Many have been repurposed, the Hamburg one being a night club.\\\
The British only managed to destroy one tower, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_Tower the Zoo flak tower]], after several attempts. They first packed the tower with 25 tons of explosives which were detonated before the press. When the dust had cleared they discovered that the tower still stood. One of the witnessing journalists is said to have quipped "[[GermanicEfficiency Made in Germany]]" after the explosives failed to take down the tower. They then spent four months drilling over four hundred holes into the concrete which was then packed with 35 tons of dynamite. They were successful that time.
* The current black-colored La Baye 2x4 electric guitar used by Bob Mothersbaugh of Music/{{Devo}} for the solo on "Mr. DNA" has had all its strings break off and then be thrown in every imaginable direction (into an amplifier, onto the stage, and in Josh Freese's lap), yet even the headstock breaking is an easy fix. In fact, every guitar used for the solo has been "hurt" (in Bob's words) and always is back in action by the next show. In fact, if you dropped a La Baye 2x4 in a volcano, the darn thing would resemble it and that Game Boy that survived the Gulf War's freak baby.
* UsefulNotes/{{NASA}}'s Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft sent to study [[UsefulNotes/TheSun our daystar]] from very close, is protected by a reinforced carbon–carbon shield able to withstand the 1,370 °C (2,500 °F) at perihelion. It's expected that once the probe runs out of fuel and is unable to point it to the Sun the former will be vaporized by the intense heat leaving little more than said shield, that will happily keep orbiting the Sun as if nothing had happened.
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* The Vickers machine gun (see Real Life) appears in ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}'', where it's a described as a gun with ''infrastructure''. A truck-mounted Vickers is used to cut a jeep in half, turned vertical and used to rain bullets down on German soldiers and is only destroyed when it plays chicken with a German fighter.

* A standard test for Glock firearms: build the prototype, drop it 3 stories (unloaded), pick up gun, load, fire. If it fails to fire, redesign. A similar method was used to test Western Electric telephones. Drop the instrument ten feet onto a concrete floor, and it should still be able to make and receive calls.
* [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Russia]] takes this trope seriously.
** The [[CoolGuns/AssaultRifles AK-47]] is [[MemeticMutation memetically tough]]. In fact, all its good points are due to one aspect; its simplicity. Because it's simple, easy to take apart and clean (if you ever need to anyways) and has large tolerances, nearly any damage it takes is remarkably simple to fix. You could bury one in mud and leave it there for weeks - maybe even ''years'' - then come back and dig it up, and with just a little cleaning it'll be firing like new.
** On a similar note, the Russian counterpart of the American M4 Sherman, the T-34 tank. One was used by fleeing Nazis and driven into an Estonian bog, then abandoned. Discovered decades later and found with no corrosion, no leaks, and with a little bit of work (and mopping up the inside), it started. Unfortunately, [[MadeOfExplodium the ammunition they carried was a different story altogether]].
* The Sherman itself was no slouch, though closer to the Vickers .303 example than the AK-47 example. Simply put, the Sherman, in ordinary running, damn near never broke down by UsefulNotes/WorldWarII standards, with an average of 3000 miles between overhauls when most tanks would be lucky to pull ''300''. Many machines went through the entire war with ''one'' major maintenance overhaul. The differences were especially stark when the British ran a comparative test between the Sherman and their homegrown Charioteer and Cromwell tanks: the Shermans, despite lower road speed than the British tanks, regularly beat them during the day's running due to simply not breaking down.
* Vickers .303 Machine Gun. When first presented to the British Army, they had to get special dispensation to use it without knowing how much punishment it could take and survive. Because when they ran a test firing run, the test facility ran out of ammunition. After three days. This passage from a history of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI illustrates the point perfectly:
-->''The Vickers gun accompanied the BEF to France in 1914, and in the years that followed, proved itself to be the most reliable weapon on the battlefield, some of its feats of endurance entering military mythology. Perhaps the most incredible was the action by the 100[[superscript:th]] Company of the Machine Gun Corps at High Wood on 24 August 1916. This company had ten Vickers guns, and it was ordered to give sustained covering fire for 12 hours onto a selected area 2,000 yards away in order to prevent German troops forming up there for a counter-attack while a British attack was in progress. Two whole companies of infantrymen were allocated as carriers of ammunition, rations, and water for the machine-gunners. Two men worked a belt-filling machine non-stop for 12 hours keeping up a supply of 250-round belts. One hundred new barrels were used up, and every drop of water in the neighbourhood, including the men's drinking water and contents of the latrine buckets, went up in steam to keep the guns cool. And in that 12-hour period, the ten guns fired a million rounds between them. One team fired 120,000 from one gun to win a five-franc prize offered to the highest-scoring gun. And at the end of that 12 hours, every gun was working perfectly and not one gun had broken down during the whole period. It was this absolute foolproof reliability which endeared the Vickers to every British soldier who ever fired one. It never broke down; it just kept on firing and came back for more. And that was why the Mark 1 Vickers gun was to remain the standard medium machine-gun from 1912 to 1968.''
** In addition, you could [[MundaneUtility use the heat of the gun]] to [[SpotOfTea brew tea]]. Since the Vicker .303 is a water-cooled machine gun, the water needs to be replaced to prevent the barrel from warping. Said water is at a perfect temperature to brew tea.
** As [[https://youtu.be/HSG2Flnc1Rs?t=10m25s this Forgotten Weapons video]] explains, when the British military standardized to 7.62x51mm [=NATO=] ammunition around 1963, a large quantity of .303 ammunition became surplus. One armorer training depot used this opportunity to conduct a test on the reliability of the Vickers Gun: one Vickers was taken apart to make sure everything was within tolerance, put back together, then had ''five million'' rounds of ammunition fired through it nonstop except for reloading and barrel changes over the course of seven days, then was disassembled again for inspection. All parts were still within tolerance.
* The classic Zippo lighter's basic design hasn't changed in almost eighty years, and it hasn't had to. Sure, torch-style butane lighters may look nifty, but leave one of those babies in your jacket and spin it through the wash or bounce it off a concrete floor and you'll have a nifty-looking paperweight. Zippo? Still works like new. The only thing the company won't guarantee is the finish, but they're so confident in the lighter's construction that everything else is covered by a ''perpetual'' warranty, regardless of how many owners it's had or what caused the damage.
* There is a reason why the TonkaTough trope is named after the Tonka Mighty Dumptruck. They once had an elephant step on one, and the truck held the elephant's foot just fine, thanks.
* It's become a DeadHorseTrope joke that if airliners were made out of the same thing flight recorders are made out of, they'd survive crashes. Of course, this isn't really true, but people still think of them as being impossible to destroy. They're just steel: their strength is from their compact design more than material, and they're tucked away at the back where they're unlikely to take the brunt of a crash. Further, they often are found heavily, heavily damaged and require significant work to make them functional enough to get the recordings out of. All that needs to survive is the tapes, and even those are often damaged and valuable data is lost.
* Design requirements for nuclear waste containers are impressive. They must survive a derailed train running into them and many other extreme scenarios. Good thing too, given that this is cancer in a box. However, they may not survive extremely high-temperature fires. Let's hope they are wrong about this. One thing they can't survive is time. The best designs ''might'' last 10,000 years if kept in a perfect environment, but that isn't even halfway through the first half-life of most of the forms of waste they hold.
** In that regard, another design goal is to be able to keep away people of centuries or thousands of years in the future if the memory of those sites, and especially what's stored on them, is lost to the ages -by the use of symbols, the design of the surroundings of said sites, designing legends about the evil lurking there, etc-. Given human curiosity, cultural changes, and how said legends could either change or be replaced by others developed around said places in the interim (''if there were humans still around'', that is) is quite a challenge.
** Flasks designed to carry used nuclear fuel for reprocessing are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17mETJNBvOU most definitely made of indestructium.]]
** Western nuclear reactors are clearly intended to be as close to this trope as humanly possible. For example, they are designed to be able to survive someone flying an airliner into them.
*** One reason for this is that most Western nuclear reactors are water-cooled, for which the water '''must''' be in its liquid phase, but the coldest temperature a reactor can feasibly generate electricity at is 300 degrees Celsius. That water is pressurized. Heavily.
* Creator/DaveBarry believes that modern cars should be made out of the same material as Fisher-Price cars, as they are apparently unaffected by the destructive behavior of a four-year-old. Although this is a lot less impressive than it sounds; if one has ever had a 4-year-old leave a Fisher-Price toy car where it can be run over by an actual car, one will know that the real car wins.
* Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s video game systems are said to be "made of Nintendium". The UsefulNotes/GameBoy in the page image is an exemplar. The long list of durable Nintendo devices is on the TonkaTough page.
* The cartridges for the Atari 2600's ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraterrestrial'' that were recovered from the infamous New Mexico dumping grounds are [[http://i.imgur.com/qJXWEsv.jpg still playable.]] One of the worst games in history just refuses to die.
* Toys/{{Nerf|Brand}} foam is impervious to nearly all blunt attacks, and can't even be torn apart by hand, so it's really only vulnerable to some sort of cutting technique. And [[KillItWithFire fire]].
* For most of human history, diamond has been effectively indestructible under the cutting tools available. No wonder that one of its oldest names, ''adamant'', is the root for the names of some of fiction's most indestructible metals. On the other hand, that's a measure of its ''hardness'', or the difficulty of scratching it. It's much easier to destroy through blunt impact, being fairly brittle.
* Panasonic's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughbook Toughbook]] laptops have an indestructium casing (aka “magnesium alloy”) and also make for good [[http://www.trustedreviews.com/laptops/review/2005/11/24/Panasonic-ToughBook-CF-29-Rugged-Notebook/p2 bulletproofing.]]
* A company called Pelican makes padded and ''very'' sturdy containers for various uses. One of their ads tells how a US Special Forces team in Iraq blew up a damaged helicopter to keep its contents from falling into enemy hands. They used two Maverick missiles, which can be tank-killers. A few days later, the team went back to the helicopter and found their Pelican-made case intact with only minor burns and a broken latch. Its contents (lots of sensitive electronics and a block of C-4 explosive) were unharmed. The ad sums up: "Frankly, we don't want to know what it would take." Also, Pelican's slogan is apparently, "You break it, we replace it... forever." To drive that point home further, a similar incident involving a U.S. Federal Agent finding a Pelican brand crate from a car destroyed by a direct blast from an Improvised Explosive Device. Not as much as a ''scratch'' was found on the case considering the circumstances. At one point, the warranty said it covered all perils save for "shark bite, bear attack, or [[TheTriple children under 5]]."

Compare TonkaTough, which is mainly for real-life objects that have a reputation for extreme durability, and RagnarokProofing. See also MadeOfIron and SuperToughness, for characters.

* {{Nokia}} phones are notoriously tough to break and have in fact done significant damage to anything they're thrown at without showing much more than a few scratches. They have achieved {{meme|ticMutation}} status as a result.

* ''Literature/StarChallenge'': In the fifth book, "Galactic Raiders", novium -respectively the Gold Rush and gold RecycledInSpace- survives being put into an ''{{antimatter}}'' chamber for a couple of hours. [[RobotBuddy 2-Tor]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]], noting it has never seen something that does not disintegrate there before.

** Mandalorian Iron - known as ''beskar'' in ''[[{{Conlang}} Mando'a]]'' - is already extremely durable as an ore, but the special forging techniques used by Mandalorian armorsmiths make it one of the most versatile and durable metals in the galaxy, capable of resisting lightsabers and said to be nearly indestructible by conventional means. The shatterpoint Force technique, however, is decidedly ''not'' conventional.

* Major artifacts in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' surpass normal mortal magic and and only be destroyed by one of a few very specific methods -- much like the One Ring from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. When given in {{sourcebook}}s they get "Suggested Means of Destruction" entry, usually with more than one variant, but those are things like being trampled under the heel of a ''specific'' god or a thousand stone giants one after another, or melting it down in the specific forge where it was created (which is itself generally at least a legendary item), or crushing it [[ShootTheBullet between two]] colliding meteors, or leaving it to rust in the tears of elven princesses for 999 years.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' features the ever-bemoaned [[OminousFloatingCastle Necron Monolith]], made of a 'living metal' that can physically alter its shape. It was already immune to the tank-killing effects of heat-based weapons (melta), targeting weapons (lance), rending weapons, and dedicated tank-hunting specialists, but thanks to a 5th edition rules change and a quirky Rules-as-Written interpretation, it physically cannot be destroyed by glancing hits (the new Hull Point system in 6th edition thankfully reverses that last part).

* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress,'' artifact items are apparently invulnerable to everything, including being thrown down a volcano (they just sit around at the bottom). Furthermore, artifacts made of wood CAN catch on fire, but they take no damage from it and just keep [[NoConservationOfEnergy burning forever]]. [[GameBreakingBug This completely ruins your framerate, though.]]

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* Lampshaded in [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0199.html this]] ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids''.
* Discussed in ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'', where Nokia phones are so strong because Finland [[http://satwcomic.com/you-got-a-call throws them at Sweeden when Finland's upset.]] [[spoiler: Too bad they aren't bulletproof.]]

* This trope is brought up in ''Machinima/FreemansMind''. Gordon goes ballistic (no pun intended) when he realizes the glass in all the doors is bulletproof for no apparent reason. He also comments on the seemingly random mixing of crowbar-proof and non-crowbar-proof grates. Oddly enough, he doesn't seem to consider it odd that the rocket test-fire blows up the crates of explosives but the two grenades that were sitting on top of them are still in one piece.
* LetsPlay/Helloween4545 tends to refer to everything in games that should realistically be damaged easily, but can not be destroyed by the player, as "made of Decentanium".

* In ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', this trope is a pet peeve for Wiz as he's expressed annoyance at fictional metals stronger and lighter than titanium alloy. However, he's fine with these if they have some kind of drawback[[labelnote:*]][[Franchise/StarWars Mandalorian iron]], for example, is capable of resisting lightsabers, but it's ridiculously heavy, thus [[MightyGlacier the wearer sacrifices agility for durability]][[/labelnote]] or a reasonable justification as to its strength[[labelnote:*]]Marvel's vibranium can absorb vibrations, and while tough, it is not completely indestructible[[/labelnote]].

* ''Literature/LoneWolf'': The Sommerswerd, a sword gifted to mankind by the gods. It can be taken from Lone Wolf, but destroyed? Not a chance. Offensive magic is just absorbed or deflected, and physical force ignored. In ''The Caverns of Kalte'', to escape a trap Lone Wolf has the option to use it to pierce through a door made from a thick slab of stone. It takes several hours, but it's quite clear that breaking or even dulling the blade is not an option. The one time it was threatened it was while absorbing an energy vortex generated by a RingOfPower crafted by the GodOfEvil Naar himself in ''Dawn of the Dragons''. The Sommerswerd's tip becomes molten for a moment before it eventually triumphs and sends the vortex back at the ring's bearer.

Compare TonkaTough, which is mainly for real-life objects that have a reputation for extreme durability. See also MadeOfIron and SuperToughness, for characters.

* Toys/{{Bionicle}}: InUniverse, we have Protosteel, which is basically adamantium light.

** While Smartphones are generally considered to be [[MadeOfExplodium extremely fragile]], Nokia's Lumia-series, and the Lumia 920 in particular, are made of indestructium. In fact, someone attempted to find out how much it would take to break the glass on the Lumia 920, using a variety of different devices and weapons.
Having it first soaked in acid and then blown up by fireworks only damaged the rest of the thing!

*** In that regard, another design goal is to be able to keep away people of centuries or thousands of years in the future if the memory of those sites, and especially what's stored on them, is lost to the ages -by the use of symbols, the design of the surroundings of said sites, designing legends about the evil lurking there, etc-. Given human curiosity, cultural changes, and how said legends could either change or be replaced by others developed around said places in the interim (''if there were humans still around'', that is) is quite a challenge.

** The Gundams of the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Anno Domini]] continuity cheat as they have basic e-carbon that is reinforced with [[MinovskyParticles GN Particles]]. However, despite this, the suits get constantly wrecked.

** The Universal Century continuity (as well as the [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Future Century]] and [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX After War]] continuities has Luna Titanium or "Gundarium" alloy, which is heavily durable to the point of slightly resisting beam weapons.

* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}s'' are usually Made of Indestructium for one reason or another, but exactly ''how'' invulnerable they are depends on the series. Compare ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'', in which a grand total of ''two'' Gundams get destroyed involuntarily (the rest self-destruct)[[labelnote:Explanation]]Gundams in ''Wing'' were built with "Gundarium" a super-rare alloy which is canonically resistant to even some beam attacks[[/labelnote]], to ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'', which sees the destruction of more than a dozen Gundams in battle.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Gundams in ''00'' were built with "e-carbon" reinforced with [[MinovskyParticle GN Particles]].[[/labelnote]]

* Jeremy Clarkson and James May on ''Series/TopGear'' make multiple attempts to destroy a Toyota Hilux pickup truck including driving it into a tree, tying it to a jetty and letting it be submerged by the tide (it eventually got washed away and took 4 hours to find) dropping a caravan on it, hitting it with a wrecking ball, setting it on fire and finally putting it on top of a 240 foot block of flats that was subsequently demolished. No spare parts were allowed (Well, they did replace the windshield after the original was lost to the tide, but that was so that they could drive it ''through'' a shack without risking injury to the driver) and only equipment found in a basic toolkit was allowed to be used... it still works and now occupies a place of honor in the studio. The trio were told to make amphibious cars. Jeremy decided to use a Hilux, which turned out to not be the best choice because he needed the bullbar to come off the front. Cue a failure montage of trying to get the thing off, one attempt of which nearly set Jeremy's hair on fire.

** Seastone, besides acting as a KryptoniteFactor for Devil Fruit users, is also said to be as hard as diamond. When Robin's hands are locked up with shackles made of the stuff, the Straw Hats have to fight all the members of [=CP9=] to find which one has the right key. Likewise, when Zoro accidentally ends up handcuffed to Usopp in the same arc, they are stuck together (with Zoro using Usopp as a sword) until the right key is found; Zoro can cut through steel but he can't cut through seastone.

** The Four-Star Dragon Ball once [[PocketProtector saved Goku's life]] in [[Manga/DragonBall the manga]] when it blocked Mercenary Tao' Dodon Ray from piercing his heart.

* A company called Pelican makes padded and ''very'' sturdy containers for various uses. One of their ads tells how a US Special Forces team in Iraq blew up a damaged helicopter to keep its contents from falling into enemy hands. They used two Maverick missiles, which can be tank-killers. A few days later, the team went back to the helicopter and found their Pelican-made case intact with only minor burns and a broken latch. Its contents (lots of sensitive electronics and a block of C-4 explosive) were unharmed. The ad sums up: "Frankly, we don't want to know what it would take." Also, Pelican's slogan is apparently, "You break it, we replace it... forever." To drive that point home further, a similar incident involving a U.S. Federal Agent finding a Pelican brand crate from a car destroyed by a direct blast from an Improvised Explosive Device. Not as much as a ''scratch'' was found on the case considering the circumstances.

** The original ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' series has "The Doomsday Machine", which is made of solid neutronium and can only be destroyed by blowing up a starship inside it. However, even this rather extreme method only manages to disable it by damaging the sensitive equipment inside. The outside is ''entirely'' unscathed.

** The Four-Star Dragon Ball once [[PocketProtector saved Goku's life]] in [[Manga/DragonBall the manga]] when it blocked Tao Pai Pai's Dodonpa from piercing his heart. (The Ball, yes, but unfortunately not the Dragon part. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Ask King Piccolo.]])

** Katchin/Klangtite, the hardest metal in the universe. Snapped the Z Sword like a twig.

** Subverted as of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', where [[spoiler:{{Arc Villain}}s Zamasu and Black, after wishing Zamasu immortal from the wish dragon contained within, destroy the most powerful variant of the Dragon Balls: the Super Dragon Balls]]!

* The armor worn by the titular character in ''Series/TheMandalorian'' is made of an alloy called beskar, which is impervious to any blaster bolts from beyond point-blank range and can even deflect lightsaber blades.

** Subverted as of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', where [[spoiler:{{Arc Villain}}s Zamasu and Black, after wishing Zamasu immortal from the wish dragon contained within, destroy the most powerful variant of the Dragon Balls: the Super Dragon Balls!]]

* The human flagship Eltreum from ''Anime/{{Gunbuster}}'' has a hull made out of a material that completely shrugged off everything they threw at it during testing. It's so indestructible in fact that the scientists who made it weren't sure whether even '''antimatter''' could harm it, in direct defiance of the laws of physics. And it seems they were right: not only did the Eltreum survive the battle of the galactic core without any visible damage, ''Anime/{{Diebuster}}'' reveals the hull is ''still in one piece [[spoiler:ten thousand years later]]'', after the rest of the ship was hollowed out and turned into a space habitat. Not only MadeOfIndestructium but [[RagnarokProofing Ragnarok-Proof]] Indestructium at that.

* In [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Diamond is Unbreakable]], Kira's secondary ability Sheer Heart Attack is seen as this. Despite [[spoiler:repeated blows from Star Platinum, which is capable of destroying diamond-hard teeth, it barely shows signs of damage]]. It got to the point that repeatedly hitting it caused [[spoiler:Jotaro's knuckles to bleed]].

** In another prequel, ''Manga/FushigiYuugiByakkoSenki'', [[spoiler: Einosuke's heir/disciple]] Takao Osugi tried throwing it into a fire, using an industrial kiln, sealing it in a Shinto shrine, etc.. and NOTHING worked. He was about to either throw it into the nearest harbour or bury it in the mountains when [[spoiler: Tokyo was destroyed in the Big Kanto Earthquake, and he decided to use the trope to his advantage by sending his daughter Suzuno into the Book for protection, which ultimately let her become the Byakko Priestess.]]

** Adamantium functions as this in the Marvel 'verse. While its first appearance was as the metal that made up ComicBook/{{Ultron}}'s outer shell, it is best known as the substance that coats[[note]]or is plated onto, or is molecularly bonded to, depending on the writer and continuity[[/note]] ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s bones, making them nigh-unbreakable. There are only two widely recognized incidents of true admantium[[note]]As opposed to the lower grade "secondary adamantium"[[/note]] being damaged by pure, physical force; once at the hands of Thor and again at the hands of an extremely enraged Hulk. Other incidents often involve either magic or some form of molecular manipulation. It's also occasionally brought up that while adamantium may be unbreakable by anything else, it can still be damaged by more adamantium, demonstrated by the Hulk ramming Wolverine's claws through his own skull.

** ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield, ComicBook/TheMightyThor's hammer and ComicBook/SilverSurfer's Power Cosmic enhanced board are indestructible in most stories. [[note]]The exception here is The Molecule Man who has absolute control over chemical bonds. The Beyonder and Thor when Odinforce empowered are also exceptions.[[/note]] The shield is also an example of {{Unobtainium}}, so much so that even the Molecule Man described its molecules as the weirdest thing he had ever come across. It's made of a vibranium-iron alloy with a mystery catalyst that no one can identify. The guy running the experiment fell asleep when it was added and couldn't duplicate the results. [[note]] In fact it was from attempts at duplicating this process that led to the creation of the slightly less indestructible adamantium.[[/note]] It has only been shattered a few times, once by Doctor Doom wielding the might of the Beyonder in ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'', by Thanos bringing ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet down on it, and Cul in ''ComicBook/FearItself''. After the third instance, ComicBook/IronMan reforged it with Uru (the metal Thor's hammer is made of.) It's probably even MORE indestructible now. It was also once dented by Thor striking it with Mjolnir.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' had Metagal, an alloy Dr. Robotnik commissioned for his badniks which Tekno created. [[spoiler:The first of these resisted its brainwashing and promptly joined the fight against him, while the second [[TheStarscream attempted to seize power for itself]]. The third (and final) version was actually a relative success]].
** Metagal was only shown to be damaged four times: once by a combination of laser fire to weaken it and an attack by Sonic, once by corrosive acid, once by [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Super Sonic]], and once by FreezeRay to make it brittle.

* Interesting justification in the French comics ''ComicBook/{{Papyrus}}''. Pharaoh's soldiers encounter enemies who have swords made of indestructium. They capture the princess, but the soldiers manage to take an indestructium dagger. The author explains it in a footnote: that's just ''iron'', which may as well be indestructium against the Egyptian bronze swords!
** This is a serious error, though. The reason people stopped using bronze for weapons and switched to iron was that the prices of tin increased substantially due to decreased supply. Iron is not a very good material for weapons, so in the Bronze Age, bronze weapons were superior to iron weapons. Yes, iron was a cheap substitute for bronze once people figured out how to forge iron weapons. This changed only after people learned how to fiddle with carbon content in iron (i.e. when they started making and perfecting steel).
* In the Silver Age inertron was a futuristic material that was completely indestructible, capable of containing even Kryptonians, Daxamites, and their ilk. It showed up fairly frequently in ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperheroes'' storylines.
* Franchise/WonderWoman's Lasso of Truth cannot be broken by even the strength of Kryptonians, ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, or Doomsday. The rare times it is broken are due to RealityWarper powers (Bizarro was able to break it in a non-canon story). Her bracelets are also made from a metal called "feminum"/Amazonium, which is virtually indestructible and can stop virtually anything from Superman's HeatVision to the magical attacks of gods.
** In ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' The "armlets of Artemis" are outright said to be impenetrable and superior to any shield, but they lose this power when the gods retract their boons to Diana. On the other hand, her lasso retains its indestructible properties even after the Olympians attempt to destroy the powers of all of her items.

* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Ochaco's armored costume is revealed to be partially made from [[spoiler:feminum, the same metal used to create [[ComicBook/WonderWoman Wonder Woman's indestructible Bracelets of Submission]]. It's only a watered-down alloy mixed with plenty of other materials, but it still makes her costume so durable that Tenya's armor cracks when he tries to kick her.]]

** Captain America's shield doesn't disappoint. In its most impressive showing in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', it blocks Thor's hammer, which levels the forest they are in and sends Thor flying, while Cap is completely unharmed. [[spoiler: The shield suffers TheWorfEffect in ''Film/{{Avengers Endgame}}'' when [[BigBad Thanos]] breaks through it with his [[CoolSword double-bladed sword.]]]]

* ''Literature/StarChallenge'': In the fifth book, "Galactic Raiders", novium -respectively the Gold Rush and gold RecycledInSpace- survives being put into an ''{{antimatter}}'' chamber for a couple of hours. [[RobotBuddy 2-Tor]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]], noting it has never seen something that does not desintegrate there before.

* In Creator/TimothyZahn's ''Literature/TheConquerorsTrilogy'', the alien Zirrch have hulls which seem to be this, at first. The deadliest human missiles do nothing. It's not until the [[HumansThroughAlienEyes perspective flips]] that we find out they're very sturdy, yes, [[spoiler:but the shockwaves of the explosions devastate the ship's insides.]] Also, [[spoiler:humans eventually figure out how to destroy them]].

* In Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, ''cuendillar'' is "an indestructible substance created during the Age of Legends. Any known force used in an attempt to break it is absorbed, making it stronger." However, this doesn't stop [[spoiler: the Dark One's seals from breaking]]

** Also, Horcruxes. No matter what they're made of, the only known ways to destroy one are to use basilisk venom (or a goblin-made sword that has absorbed its power) or ''[[{{Hellfire}} Fiendfyre]]''. Everything else so far has failed... And given one attempt at destroying an Horcrux was a crazy house elf (which has more magical power than a human wizard) trying ''everything he could come up with''... A big factor in the resilience of a Horcrux is that, whenever it senses the presence of something that can actually damage it, it does ''everything'' it can to protect itself. This includes, as seen early in ''Deathly Hallows'', [[spoiler:the part of Voldemort's soul inside Harry defending itself even ''from its own creator''.]]

* {{Subverted}} in the ''Literature/WingCommander'' novel ''Fleet Action''. The Kilrathi launch a fleet of heavily armored super-carriers, designed to be able to fight their way deep into Confederation space despite the best efforts of a (recently downsized) Confederation Navy. The solution? [[spoiler: SpaceMarines board the carriers, and plant [[NuclearOption nuclear warheads]] as deep inside the ships as they can fight their way to. The very same armor that made the carriers immune to ''outside'' attack doom them as they prove equally capable at ''concentrating'' the destructive force of anything set off inside of them.]]
* The Two-Faced Ring in ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' will make its wearer indestructible. {{Subverted}} with the Ring itself, as it is targeted for destruction at the end of ''Darke''.

* In ''[[Literature/FormicWars The Swarm]]'', the fact that humans haven't yet figured out a way to even ''dent'' a [[InsectoidAliens Formic]] ship's hull is a major plot point. Even gravity-based weapons only harm the inside of a ship and only a few meters deep at that. While Formic fighter craft are a completely different case, there's no way to defeat the approaching Formic fleet without a weapon capable of destroying their capital ships. For that matter, scientists have absolutely no idea what the material is even made of, only knowing that silicon is involved somehow. The outer hull has no visible seams. It's no until later that someone suggests that the Hive Queen is using genetically-engineered organisms to fuse sections together using special enzymes, effectively turning the hull into a singular shell. [[spoiler:Eventually, Jukes, Ltd., comes up with a way of using nanites to eat silicon, but the delivery method is still unreliable]].

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate "Warrior's Gate"]], the hull of the slaver ship is made of dwarf star alloy to stop the enslaved Tharils from using their time-traveling powers to escape. Unfortunately after the slavers are trapped in a PocketDimension, the extreme density of the dwarf star alloy causes the dimension to [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard eventually collapse in on itself]].

** The Borg are sometimes presented as this (for example, in the first episode of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', when Federation weapons don't even scratch the Borg cube) when they have [[AwesomenessByAnalysis adapted to your weapons]]. The Borg Collective may be indestructible, but their individual drones and ships are damaged by weapons just like anything else. They're just really, really good at coming up with defenses quickly.

* The Lynda Carter ''Series/WonderWoman'' TV series has her indestructible bracelets made of "Feminum", a metal found only on Paradise Island. (The metal is called "Amazonium" in the comics, and has different origins.)

** The keyword "Protection from [X]" also grants this property related to whatever [X] is. For example, a card with Protection From Red can't be affected, targeted, or blocked by any [[ElementalPowers Red]] spell or creature. Other examples include such thing as Protection From Artifacts, From Creatures, and [[NighInvulnerable From Everything]]. The downside is they can't be ''aided'' by beneficial effects with the protected quality either.

* In the ''[[Franchise/TheElderScrolls Elder Scrolls]]'' series, the titular [[TomeOfEldritchLore Elder Scrolls]] themselves are "Fragments of Creation", which exist partially outside of time. As such, no one has ever been known to successfully destroy an Elder Scroll, though any Scroll left unattended and unaccounted for by a sentient mind may simply disappear. The PlayerCharacter in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' can [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this in one dialogue option, where you can say half-jokingly that you were hoping to use the indestructible Scrolls as armor.

* ''VideoGame/TouhouSoccer'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqWRe_ZYyiw this soccer ball.]] What happens in this video is actually a pretty minor punishment compared to some others... Compared to, say... ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkDT-OlkYTI this.]]'' It's worth mentioning that Ran's shot does bisect it, but it reforms almost instantly.
* In ''VideoGame/RazingStorm'', the shield you use to TakeCover withstands not only relatively mundane regular shots, missiles, lasers, and plasma, but also ramming from MiniMecha or HumongousMecha, falling building debris, and a WaveMotionGun.
* The briefcase from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. While hails of gunfire, flames, explosions and everything else goes on around it, the flag sits exactly where it was left, calmly rotating 6 inches above the surface of the floor.
** The Payload bomb cart as well--at least until it gets to the end, anyway.
** Actually, most things that aren't directly used by the characters themselves seem to be effectively indestructible.
* The Shinra building in VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII appears to fit the trope. ''[[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Dirge%20of%20Cerberus/Update%2064/4-ending58.jpg This]]'' is what it looks like after Diamond Weapon, Meteor, the Lifestream, Sephiroth, Cloud, Chaos, and Omega all threw everything they had at it.
* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress,'' artifact items are apparently invulnerable to everything, including being thrown down a volcano (they just sit around at the bottom). Furthermore, artifacts made of wood CAN catch on fire, but they take no damage from it and just keep [[NoConservationOfEnergy burning forever]].
** [[GameBreakingBug This completely ruins your framerate, though.]]
* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', "artifact" items are the only things that can be put in a player's inventory that can't be destroyed. Not all of them, though. The Amulet of Yendor, in particular, is the only item that cannot even be removed from the game's code by transference into the higher planes.

* The Scrin Threshold Towers in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars'' are made of a Tiberium composite material whose exact contents are never revealed. While incomplete, blasting a Threshold once with an [[KillSat ion cannon]] will topple it but once it finishes construction, the material partially phases out of reality and renders the whole tower invulnerable to everything up to and including [[NukeEm nuclear detonations]], [[ColonyDrop cometary impacts]] and ''[[HurlItIntoTheSun low-yield stellar events]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' VideoGame/{{a|ssassinsCreedII}}nd [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood its]] [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations sequels]], the pieces of Eden are said to be indestructible (admittedly, this was determined in the 12th and 17th centuries). The conspiracy files of subject 16 in ''ACII'' claim that UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla did manage to destroy one... [[TheTunguskaEvent and a sizable chunk of the surrounding landscape]].
* Professor E. Gadd notes that his Poltergust 3000 is almost indestructible in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''.
* Certain buildings in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' universe, considering what they had to have survived. During the development of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', Bethesda ran simulations to see what buildings in the D.C. area would survive a nuclear holocaust in RealLife. The answer: none of them. So they fudged it.

* Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''. Bianca accidentally destroys everything in your bedroom the first time you battle her. Your Nintendo Wii isn't even scratched.

* In ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'', Lance's [[NiceHat baseball cap]] can withstand ANYTHING in death scenes ([[HatDamage except in cases of fire or electric shock]]). And it must have been made out of a very special fabric that can withstand acid and sharp objects.
* Using Samus's scan visor on particularly large and gray Galactic Federation crates in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'' tells her that they are made from "the strongest metals in the cosmos and cannot be destroyed".
* In ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery'', there are a number of different materials of different durability and quality, culminating in eternium, which can't be destroyed at all except by divine intervention and, in the case of weapons, also cannot be partially damaged by any means (though a Blacksmith character can turn eternium items back into ingots). And yes, in this game, you may get a ''god'' going after your items. Artifact items are a step above that because even direct divine intervention cannot harm them. You [[DevelopersForesight can actually humiliate your god (which they will acknowledge as such)]] by getting them angry enough to try to destroy all your items while you're wearing only artifacts, so that it has no effect. It's possible to effectively destroy artifacts by offering them as a sacrifice, but presumably, the in-universe explanation to that is that they are just transported into your god's hoard.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} 2: World in Flames'', the only things in the game world that the player cannot destroy are the terrain, things that have already been destroyed, and... wooden crates, which are inexplicably indestructible. Not even a nuclear bunker-buster can do more than knock these unassuming boxes around.
* In the flash game ''Mike Shadow: I paid for it!'', the vending machine you're trying to get your snack from is apparently invulnerable. Ranging from beating the crap out of it to ''summoning the finger of God'', nothing can so much as scratch it.
* Averting this was a selling point of ''Future Tactics''. Everything in that game, I mean ''everything'', could be destroyed. Scenery could be blown up, holes blasted in the ground, you name it. It was possible to kill tougher enemies in some levels by blasting the ground beneath them and sending them falling to their deaths, and the levels could even be rendered UnwinnableByInsanity thanks to some diligence on the player's part.
* In the 2012 reboot of ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'', when Dollface [[ClingyCostume attempts to remove her mask]] she finds that it's this, as it's still intact following a blast from a loaded shotgun.
* Any given cell phone in ''VideoGame/Persona2''. Not even the ocean can stop them from working.
* ''Videogame/DeepRockGalactic:'' The dwarves may constantly grouse that the titular company needs to invest on better equipment, but seeing that absolutely ''none'' of their equipment seems in any way damageable while you're out digging, from the massive Drop Pods you arrive in to the M.U.L.E. mobile minecart and even Bosco the tiny robotic assistant, there's not much ground for complaints. The only damaged things you ever find are mini-[=MULEs=] and a previous expedition's old Drop Pod, and both are back in working order within a few minutes with some field repairs. And if you find the prototype BET-C armed minecart, you cannot damage it in any way; you need to kill the charge-sucking parasites scrambling its software, which will let it join you after a quick reboot. All in all, the only Deep Rock property that can be in any way destroyed is [[spoiler:the OMEN towers, which are made badly enough to go haywire in the first place]], and the dwarves themselves -- and even those [[UnexplainedRecovery get taken back to the infirmary alive with no explanation]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Gift|2001}}'': Justified. Many enemies are invincible, but it's implied that they are such only for Gift.

* The Creepypasta "The Beatles Cartoon Lost Episode", revolves around a tape with the titular episode on it. When the VCR plays it back, it catches fire. After applying a fire extinguisher to it, it's discovered the VCR is fine because it still plays back tapes.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' during the TwoPartEpisode Space Race, in which their spaceship was safe due to the fact that nobody figures out how to break the door open, they mention Mythril, Wolverine's bones and sarcastically say that it was made by Space Dwarfs' technology to exemplify how impossible is to break it open.

* A standard test for Glock firearms: build the prototype, drop it 3 stories (unloaded), pick up gun, load, fire. If it fails to fire, redesign.
** A similar method was used to test Western Electric telephones. Drop the instrument ten feet onto a concrete floor, and it should still be able to make and receive calls.

* The Sherman itself was no slouch, though closer to the Vickers .303 example than the AK-47 example. Simply put, the Sherman, in ordinary running, damn near never broke down by WWII standards, with an average of 3000 miles between overhauls when most tanks would be lucky to pull ''300''. Many machines went through the entire war with ''one'' major maintenance overhaul. The differences were especially stark when the British ran a comparative test between the Sherman and their homegrown Charioteer and Cromwell tanks: the Shermans, despite lower road speed than the British tanks, regularly beat them during the day's running due to simply not breaking down.
* Vickers .303 Machine Gun. When first presented to the British Army, they had to get special dispensation to use it without knowing how much punishment it could take and survive. Because when they ran a test firing run, the test facility ran out of ammunition. After three days. This passage from a history of UsefulNotes/WW1 illustrates the point perfectly:

** Flasks designed to carry used nuclear fuel for reprocessing are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17mETJNBvOU most definitely]] [[http://youtu.be/DjnqJSfSoKI made of indestructium.]]

** While Smartphones are generally considered to be [[MadeOfExplodium extremely fragile]], Nokia's Lumia-series, and the Lumia 920 in particular, are MadeOfIndestructium. In fact, someone attempted to find out how much it would take to break the glass on the Lumia 920, using a variety of different devices and weapons.

The British only managed to destroy one tower, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_flak_tower the Zoo flak tower]], after several attempts. They first packed the tower with 25 tons of explosives which were detonated before the press. When the dust had cleared they discovered that the tower still stood. One of the witnessing journalists is said to have quipped "[[GermanicEfficiency Made in Germany]]" after the explosives failed to take down the tower. They then spent four months drilling over four hundred holes into the concrete which was then packed with 35 tons of dynamite. They were successful that time.