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** Also has an instance of "almost death": Vilbert is stabbed in the eye, hit with an impaled cow (later set ablaze), and impaled by an armoire, but being a vampire, doesn't die.
* In the Webcomic FafnirTheDragon, Edward (Yes, [[{{Twilight}} that]] Edward, dies first by consuming the blood of a dragon (you're supposed to bathe in it, drinking it is a major no no), setting him on fire internally (flames literally erupt from his mouth and ass). He panics and runs, trying to find water, but falls through a skylight, landing in the middle of an amateur [[ChainsawGood chainsaw juggling contest]], getting his arms cut off and having a chainsaw go [[AssShove straight into his ass]]. He gets up and runs, trying to find water, and does, only for it to be a pool of [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Thor's Holy Water,]] causing him to burn and dissolve at the same time, until only his head is left, which [[{{Dracula}} Vlad the Impaler]] stabs with a sword. Vlad even states that, despite having imagined a thousand ways he could have killed Edward, this was better than ANY of them.

* Let's not forget Gauron from ''FullMetalPanic''. He survives having his AS blown up, with the Lambda driver no less, at ''least'' five times. It's assumed he died near the end of the third season when Sousuke empties his gun into him and then jumps out the window when the room explodes. He's supposedly had a [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge dropped on him]], but then again it's Gauron so YourMileageMayVary.

** Come to think of it, Prince Alexi was also difficult to kill, even with the rampant hemophilia and his self-inflicted injuries before he was murdered!

# Someone really hates them.

* In ''OnePiece'', it takes 267 slashes and stabs, getting shot more than 152 times with bullets and 46 times with cannon balls, a [[HumanPopsicle mid-battle freezing]], and ''having half of his face melted off'' to kill [[PersonOfMassDestruction Whitebeard]].

* In Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of [[MAcbeth the Scottish Play]], the title character takes at least 20 arrows to the chest and still tries to walk and fight, finally falling to an over-dramatic arrow through the neck.

* In ''TheTerminator'', the titular villain gets shot countless times, hit by a semi truck, immolated in a fire, blown in half, and finally crushed by a hydraulic press.

* In ''{{Terminator}}'', the titular villain gets shot countless times, hit by a semi truck, immolated in a fire, blown in half, and finally crushed by a hydraulic press.
* In the ''{{Terminator 2}}'' he repeats as the hero, when he opens up with a bar brawl, goes face to face with the New and Improved T-1000, carves the skin off his own arm just to make a point (the point being, of course, "I am not human, and you, Mr. Dyson, are one of the few people who know what I am because you've seen an arm just like mine before."), uses a 40mm grenade at point blank range to blow open a vault door, wades through MoreDakka from a SWAT team, goes face to face with the T-1000 again (losing an arm and being stabbed through the torso this time), and still comes back for more. And then again and again and again with other variants in the other sequels and spinoffs. That's why he's The Terminator. "You have no idea how hard it is to KILL one of those things!" --Sarah Connor to John Connor
* In ''{{Terminator 3}}'', the Terminator gets to the extreme of a near decapitation (a few wires prevent it from falling).

** And he's back for the sequel, ''Crank II: High Voltage''. It's Jason Statham. He just won't die. A hilarious UK trailer for ''Crank 2'' gave no explanation whatever other than "He was dead. [[IGotBetter He Got Better]]".\\

* What happens to the teacher in ''{{Final Destination}}'' is a textbook example. An exploding computer monitor drives shards of glass into her throat, a trail of fire starts heading towards her down the trail of dripped vodka from her mug, and her attempt to pull down a towel drops a butcher-block full on knives into her chest. When the protagonist comes in to try to save her, to add insult to injury, a bookcase falls and drives the knife deeper into her chest.\\

* The Anti-Monitor in ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. Jiminy Christmas, but he was a doozy to take down, and then to make him ''stay'' down. And as recent developments in GreenLantern show...

** Considering the other reason(s) for a multiple gunshot suicide that even most honest cops will write it off as, makes me wonder...
* ErnestHemingway He survived being a war correspondant in two wars. Two car crashes, and two plane crashes, one where it exploded, and he got out after suffering burns, and an injury to his head, which had him ''leaking brain fluid''. He took his own life.

* ''FateStayNight'', Unlimited Blade Works route: Archer loses most of his mana and gains a nasty arm wound from a duel with Lancer, and then breaks his contract. This normally means he would fade away from mana loss, except he has a class ability that lets him stick around for another three days. That's reasonable. After a day of mana leakage he gets into a fight with Shirou and gets impaled. Then Gilgamesh shows up and he gets impaled about twenty times MORE and a piece of the building collapses on top of him. [[NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat Everyone assumes at this point he's gone]]. He shows up during the final battle a day later to rescue Rin and give the killing blow to Gilgamesh. And he still has enough time left to have a conversation with Rin before the Grail being missing removes any last anchors he has to the world.

* ''FateStayNight'', Unlimited Blade Works route: Archer breaks his contract with Rin, which normally means he would fade away, except he has a class ability that lets him stick around for another three days. That's reasonable. Then he fights Shirou and gets a sword stuck through him, which apparently doesn't wound him all that badly. Then Gilgamesh shows up and Archer gets about twenty MORE swords stuck in him, and a piece of the building collapses on top of him. Everyone assumes at this point he's gone, but no. He shows up during the final battle to rescue Rin and give the killing blow to Gilgamesh. And he still has enough time left to have a conversation with Rin. It's implied rather strongly that even this wasn't fatal if he didn't want it to be. He chose to make his exit on the proper dramatic note offered here.
%% Immediately before that, he also takes a Gae Bolg from Lancer, then gets beaten around by Saber, activates his Reality Marble and spends almost all his remaining prana THEN the above stuff happens almost immediately after. After all, he is the reason the word Gar came into being. Someone who actually knows the game should figure out a way to integrate this into the paragraph above -- I found it lying around in an extra bullet point.

* Duckman has Big Jack McBastard, who is trampled by a horse, eaten by vultures down to a skeleton, and then buried. At the end of the episode, he shows up to congratulate them on completing their job. When asked how he survived, he takes a drag on his cigar, and says "Long story."

practicly every cartoon villian is subjected to this when you think about it
i mean most shows have a never say die and never kill the viliian pollicy but that dosent stup them from getting nuked and surviving. now just thing about it every one will eventualy die so.....

->''[[WhyWontYouDie Don't you people ever die?!]]''
-->--'''Toad''', the ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' [[Film/{{X-Men}} movie]].

** Kakuzu was stabbed through the heart twice and blown up with a jutsu that essentially killed him on a cellular level. And then Kakashi had to kill him ''again'', albeit as an [[WhatTheHellHero execution when he was thoroughly disabled]].

*[[CompleteMonster First Mate Cox]] in ''{{Nation}}'' takes an axe to the chest (blood loss, probable major organ damage), falls into a lagoon (drowning) and ultimately gets eaten by [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks sharks]] ([[SoYeah ...yeah)]].

Then, at the end of the fourth game, he shows up again, perfectly healthy, with no explanation. He's just that awesome.