History Main / TooBrokenToBreak

* At the beginning of ''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea'' episode two, Elizabeth, [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack having come back to Rapture to save Sally]] (the Little Sister whose adoptive father she killed out of spite and then left for dead) makes a deal with Atlas in exchange for Sally's safety; fragments of Elizabeth's memory that remain from when she had her temporal powers [[BroughtDownToNormal (returning to a timeline where that version of her had died erased them along with her omniscience)]] tell her that Fontaine wants "the ace in the hole" so she claims to be Suchong's lab assistant who knows where it is. When Atlas' patience begins to wear thin, [[spoiler: he ties Elizabeth to a chair, slowly drags an icepick through the top of her eye socket to rest on her skull, and [[ToThePain taps it repeatedly as tells her how all her individuality, creativity, and personality can be easily erased if he hits just a little harder.]] Although you can hear her shaky breathing, she finally laughs invites him to erase her memories and make her stop caring about all the horrific things around her. He's visibly unnerved and becomes so enraged that he rips the pick out of her eye and [[OohMeAccentsSlipping lapses back into his natural Brooklyn accent]]; it's only when Sally is brought in on a stretcher and he moves to give ''her'' a lobotomy does Elizabeth panic and beg him to stop. Thankfully, her subconscious gives her a clue in the nick of time and the situation is diffused.]]

* At the beginning of ''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea'' episode two, Elizabeth, [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack having come back to Rapture to save Sally]] (the Little Sister whose adoptive father she killed out of spite and then left for dead) makes a deal with Atlas in exchange for Sally's safety; fragments of Elizabeth's memory that remain from when she had her temporal powers [[BroughtDownToNormal (returning to a timeline where that version of her had died erased them along with her omniscience)]] tell her that Fontaine wants "the ace in the hole" so she claims to be Suchong's lab assistant who knows where it is. When Atlas' patience begins to wear thin, [[spoiler: he ties Elizabeth to a chair, slowly drags an icepick through the top of her eye socket to rest on her skull, and [[ToThePain taps it repeatedly as tells her how all her individuality, creativity, and personality can be easily erased if he hits just a little harder.]] Although you can hear her shaky breathing, she finally laughs at his efforts and invites him to go ahead and make her stop caring about all the horrific things around her. He's visibly unnerved and becomes so enraged that he rips the pick out of her eye and [[OohMeAccentsSlipping lapses back into his natural Brooklyn accent]]; it's only when Sally is brought in on a stretcher and he moves to give ''her'' a lobotomy does Elizabeth panic and beg him to stop. Thankfully, her subconscious gives her a clue in the nick of time and the situation is diffused.]]

* At the beginning of ''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea'' episode two, Elizabeth, [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack having come back to Rapture to save Sally]] (the Little Sister whose adoptive father she killed out of spite and then left for dead) makes a deal with Atlas in exchange for Sally's safety; fragments of Elizabeth's memory that remain from when she had her temporal powers [[BroughtDownToNormal (returning to a timeline where that version of her had died erased them along with her omniscience)]] tell her that Fontaine wants "the ace in the hole," so she claims to be Suchong's lab assistant who both knows where it is. When Atlas' patience begins to wear thin, he ties Elizabeth to a chair, slowly drags an icepick through the top of her eye socket to rest on her skull, and [[ToThePain taps it repeatedly as tells her how all her individuality, creativity, and personality can be easily erased if he hits just a little harder.]] Although you can hear her shaky breathing, she finally laughs at his efforts and invites him to go ahead and make her stop caring about all the horrific things around her. He's visibly unnerved and becomes so enraged that he rips the pick out of her eye and [[OohMeAccentsSlipping lapses back into his natural Brooklyn accent]]; it's only when Sally is brought in on a stretcher and he moves to give ''her'' a lobotomy does Elizabeth panic and beg him to stop. Thankfully, her subconscious gives her a clue in the nick of time and the situation is diffused.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

** In one ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' story, a villain who could [[IKnowWhatYouFear generate people's worst fears]] tried summoning the ghost of [[DeathByOriginStory Uncle Ben]] to break the webslinger. The villain is shocked when Spider-Man greets his uncle happily and starts chatting with him. Peter explains that he lives with the grief of [[MyGreatestFailure failing to save Uncle Ben]] ''every single day'', and at this point, that pain and sorrow is simply a part of who he is.

** In the ''[[ComicBook/DaredevilBornAgain Born Again]]'' storyline, [[ComicBook/TheKingpin Wilson Fisk]] does everything in his power to make Matt's life living hell, and destroy everything he had. When Matt is left homeless and penniless with barely any of his sanity left, Fisk thinks he has beaten him... Only to realise that he has created a man with nothing to lose, and thus a man without fear.

** This happens again in a later storyline when Mysterio tries to break Daredevil as his dying act, only for him to deliver a ''scathing'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and explain why that's not possible.

* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Catra is exiled to the Crimson Waste as punishment for failure, and encounters the meanest of outlaws, who bully her for heckling them about Adora's whereabouts, as they cruelly remind her that only the strong make the rules. Catra outright tells them that they're making a mistake if they think they can threaten her, that those methods only work on people who have something to lose. Catra, however, lost ''everything'' and doesn't even care anymore. From that, she asserts her dominance.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Blue Diamond's pathokinesis [[EmotionBomb takes her grief and pushes it onto anyone around her]], making even the most resilient Gem break down and sob... except for Lapis Lazuli in "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E23Reunited Reunited]]", who, after spending most of the last 5,000 years [[AndIMustScream imprisoned in a mirror]] and then the last few months [[SealedEvilInADuel using herself as a jailer to contain Jasper in their fusion at the bottom of the ocean]], is [[InsanityImmunity barely fazed by Blue's powers]].

* Heavily implied in the climax of the first episode of ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}''. After the reactor core has exploded, a hapless engineer has been ordered by his idiotic superiors to "inspect the damage" to the reactor (or, to put it more accurately -- be marched at gunpoint to the roof and forced to stick his head into toxic smoke to stare into the radioactive pit where once a nuclear reactor was). The last we see of the poor man in the episode is a distance shot of him slumped in a chair staring blankly into space while his superiors, unable to ignore the obvious evidence of radiation burns on his face, are pacing around clearly screaming all manner of threats and abuse at him, none of which he reacts to in the slightest. Because he knows full well that he's been doomed to a slow, lingering death by radiation poisoning and there's absolutely nothing they can say or do to make his life worse, so there's no reason for him to care whatsoever about their empty threats.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E23Reunited Reunited]]" Blue Diamond's pathokinesis [[EmotionBomb takes her grief and pushes it onto anyone around her]], making even the most resilient Gem break down and sob... except for Lapis Lazuli, who, after spending most of the last 5,000 years [[AndIMustScream imprisoned in a mirror]] and then the last few months [[SealedEvilInADuel using herself as a jailer to contain Jasper in their fusion at the bottom of the ocean]], is [[InsanityImmunity barely fazed by Blue's powers]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The Society of the Blind Eye try to use their memory-wiping machine on crazy Old Man [=McGucket=], but it has no effect on him because "you can't break what's already broken!" [[spoiler:It's later revealed that using the machine multiple times to forget the things he's witnessed while working for the Author is what drove him insane in the first place.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Blue Diamond's pathokinesis [[EmotionBomb takes her grief and pushes it onto anyone around her]], making even the most resilient Gem break down and sob... except for Lapis Lazuli, who, after spending most of the last 5,000 years [[AndIMustScream imprisoned in a mirror]] and then the last few months [[SealedEvilInADuel using herself as a jailer to contain Jasper in their fusion at the bottom of the ocean]], is [[InsanityImmunity barely fazed by Blue's powers]].

'''Lapis:''' ''(wipes a single tear from her eye)'' I've felt worse.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' there's [[http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/36400000/obito-uchiha-image-obito-uchiha-36448412-500-286.jpg this image]] of [[spoiler: Obito Uchiha]] against Kakashi Hatake in which the latter made a hole in the former's chest and he stands up as if nothing happened to him. This image quickly became a MemeticMutation, being used by loners about love deceptions as they have no heart to be broken, and having a lot of derivated memes, some funnier (or ''more'' depressed) than others.

* Present in the comic prequel of the game ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2: Ghost''. The protagonist, Simon "Ghost" Riley, is captured among other soldiers. Then they are put under torture for months until their will breaks, as the first stage of a long-term program of brainwashing. This works with all of them, except for Simon. The reason? His infancy was so ridiculously abusive and traumatic, that the only thing the torture did for him on a psychological level was reawaken those traumatic memories. And as he explains to a thug before killing him, they could not break someone who is already broken.
-->'''Simon "Ghost" Riley:''' There isn't a man alive that doesn't have a breaking point. Your mistake with me was that I'd already reached mine a long time ago. I was already broken, mate.

* ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'': Combined with DisabilityImmunity in one early arc, when an Angel's MindControl powers fail to affect Asuka. [[spoiler: Turns out that [[AbusiveParents Kyoko's A+ parenting]] has messed her up so badly that she's developed ''dissociative identity disorder''.]]

* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'': As Bootstrap Bill helps his son Will escape from the ''Flying Dutchman'', Will points out that the other crewmen will know he did so and will hold him accountable. Bootstrap, having already pledged to serve on the hellish ship for all eternity, merely laughs and says, "What more can they do to me?" [[TemptingFate Jones sends the Kraken on a detour to try and kill Will once the deception is discovered and later reduces Bootstrap to a living part of the ship]].
* In the original movie, what made Film/{{Godzilla|1954}} so hard to kill wasn't his incredible durability but the fact that his mutation into his current form caused him more pain than anything humanity could do to him.
* Discussed in ''Film/ConspiracyTheory'': after Dr. Jonas captures Jerry and (falsely) tells him Alice is dead, a despondent Jerry mutters, "Then you can't hurt me anymore." Jonas's smirking response: "I'll be the judge of that."
* Played with in the dramedy film ''Film/IntoTheNight''. Creator/JeffGoldblum's character Ed Okin has been suffering from chronic insomnia, apparently for years. During the course of his two-night adventure, he encounters threats, violence, and murder, including Creator/DavidBowie's assassin character sticking the barrel of a Walther PPK in his mouth while interrogating him and, later, the need to try and talk down a surrounded former Iranian secret police agent who has taken Creator/MichellePfeiffer's character hostage. For the most part, Ed barely reacts with anything more than mild bemusement or disbelief (although a jump scare with a barking dog briefly panics him). His condition has left him mostly detached from the reality of the dangers around him.

* In ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodMothers''. Frida spends a year at the school so she can regain custody of her daughter, [[spoiler:but despite her best efforts, the judge terminates her parental rights. She won't be allowed to have any contact with Harriet until she turns 18, and only if she wants to. Frida ends up abducting Harriet, figuring that any time with her daughter is worth going to jail when (not ''if'') she gets caught.]]

--> '''Laszlo:''' You can't break someone that is already broken, Mr. Byrnes.

* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': In one episode, Francis is taken by a secret society at the MilitarySchool to be tortured. When they suspend him blindfolded over a "bottomless pit," threaten to flog him to death, and even put his head inside a cage with some hungry rats, Francis responds that he's not scared at all. When the leader asks how their tactics are not scaring him, Francis says that his mom had humiliated him so much, that he had lost the ability to be afraid of anything else.
* In the fifth season of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Dean Winchester has returned from hell, where he had taken up torture and kicked off the apocalypse. When one of the Four Horsemen, Famine, arrives, he inspires gluttony in everyone around him. Random people die via cannibalism or alcohol poisoning. Sam drinks Demon blood. Castiel devours red meat. But Dean wants nothing; needs nothing. Dean tries to pass this off as a good thing, but Famine points out it is because Dean is dead inside.

* In the pilot of ''Series/UprightCitizensBrigade'', the centerpiece of the long-form sketch is a "Bucket of Truth" in the the middle of the living room, said to contain knowledge that is so uncompromisingly, unadulteratedly true, that anyone who looks in it will go mad. Throughout the sketch, various characters look in the bucket, and instantly go mad (usually escaping into the Hot Chicks Room). At the end of the sketch, the tough-as-nails cop, angry at God, decides to take the plunge … and is unfazed.
-->I'm going to look in your damned bucket! [''He looks in for a moment, then emerges.''] DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT!

* ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'': Fraulein Schneider is [[StepfordSmiler implied to be this]] in her IAmSong, "So What." The gist of this song is that she's lost so much in her life, such as a luxurious house, that the promise of Cliff not paying enough for his room in her boarding house just doesn't matter.

* For the most part, the Abomination from ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' is numb to pain and sorrow. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation While he can still have his]] SanityMeter sapped and suffer a HeroicBsod, he claims that the various monsters of the Darkest Estate don't scare him, because the beast inside him is way scarier than they'll ever be. Best exemplified during the fight with [[spoiler:the Heart of Darkness]]. If you hover him when [[SadisticChoice Come Unto Your Maker]] is active, he'll have the following to say:
-->''"Whatever awaits, it cannot be worse than what I've endured."''
* At the beginning of ''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea'' episode two, Elizabeth, [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack having come back to Rapture to save Sally]] (the Little Sister whose adoptive father she killed out of spite and then left for dead) makes a deal with Atlas in exchange for Sally's safety; fragments of Elizabeth's memory that remain from when she had her temporal powers [[BroughtDownToNormal (returning to a timeline where that version of her had died erased them along with her omniscience)]] tell her that Fontaine wants "the ace in the hole," so she claims to be Suchong's lab assistant who both knows where it is. When Atlas' patience begins to wear thin, he ties Elizabeth to a chair, slowly drags an icepick through the top of her eye socket to rest on her skull, and [[ToThePain taps it repeatedly as tells her how all her individuality, creativity, and personality can be easily erased if he hits just a little harder.]] Although you can hear her shaky breathing, she finally laughs at his efforts and invites him to go ahead and make her stop caring about all the horrific things around her. He's visibly unnerved and becomes so enraged that he rips the pick out of her eye and [[OohMeAccentsSlipping lapses back into his natural Brooklyn accent]]; it's only when Sally is brought in on a stretcher and he moves to give ''her'' a lobotomy does Elizabeth panic and beg him to stop. Thankfully, her subconscious gives her a clue in the nick of time and the situation is diffused.
* ''VideoGame/PrayerOfTheFaithless'': In the Tired and Judged endings, [[spoiler:Aeyr and Mia gain the Faithless passive, which prevents them from having any emotional ailment. This is because the guilt of killing their best friend means they've hit rock bottom emotionally and have nothing more to lose.]]

* Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' could very well be the TropeCodifier. No matter what horrible things can happen to him in the show, [[TraumaCongaLine he's been through worse.]] An abusive childhood has made him incredibly callous. When the Monarch tries ColdBloodedTorture on him, nothing has any effect due to him having experienced almost all of it at some point. Trying to crush his spirit doesn't work either, because he's so [[JadedWashout depressed and bitter]] that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness old college friends of his consider it almost creepy to see him looking happy.]] The Monarch puts it best:
-->'''The Monarch:''' What can I do to this guy that life hasn't already?

'''Lapis:''' ''[wipes a single tear from her eye]'' I've felt worse.

* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': In ''The Malloreon'', Emperor Zakath keeps interfering with the heroes' quest; even after he learns what they're really up to, being forced to accept the truth that he can no longer pursue revenge against the Murgos, and being threatened with sorcery. He's been so broken by the trauma Taur Urgas inflicted upon him when he was nineteen that he's an EmptyShell, who pursues world domination as something to do while [[DeathSeeker awaiting death]]. At their wits end, they petition the Seeress of Kell to intervene because they've noticed Zakath will listen to her when he'll heed no one else. Even she struggles, as threatening him with dying by winter if he doesn't stop hindering Destiny doesn't bother him. Only when Cyradis insists they become each other's hostage for the duration of the quest does he finally crack; he's left shaken by its inappropriateness and confused by his inability to refuse the offer. [[spoiler:It's a secret ThePowerOfLove gambit by Cyradis, as she [[RedStringOfFate already knows]] that she is [[LoveRedeems his future wife]] -- something neither he nor the heroes are aware of.]]

* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': In ''The Malloreon'', Emperor Zakath keeps interfering with the heroes' quest; even after he learns what they're really up to, being forced to accept the truth that he can no longer pursue revenge against the Murgos, and being threatened with sorcery. He's been so broken by the trauma Taur Urgas inflicted upon him when he was nineteen that he's been left an EmptyShell, who pursues world domination just because it's something to do [[DeathSeeker while he waits to die]]. At their wits end, they petition the Seeress of Kell to intervene because they've noticed Zakath will listen to her when he'll heed no one else. Even she struggles, as threatening him with dying by winter if he doesn't stop hindering Destiny doesn't bother him. Only when Cyradis insists they become each other's hostage for the duration of the quest does he finally crack; he's left shaken by its inappropriateness and confused by his inability to refuse the offer. [[spoiler:It's a secret ThePowerOfLove gambit by Cyradis, as she [[RedStringOfFate already knows]] that she is [[LoveRedeems his future wife]] -- something neither he nor the heroes are aware of.]]

* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': In ''The Malloreon'', Emperor Zakath keeps interfering with the heroes' quest; even after he learns what they're really up to and he's forced to accept the truth that he can no longer continue his quest for revenge against the Murgo race, he still keeps interfering even when they threaten him with sorcery. He's been so broken by the trauma Taur Urgas inflicted upon him when he was nineteen that he's been left an EmptyShell, who pursues world domination just because it's something to do [[DeathSeeker while he waits to die]]. At their wits end, they petition the Seeress of Kell to intervene because they've noticed Zakath will listen to her when he'll heed no one else. Even she struggles, as threatening him with dying by winter if he doesn't stop hindering Destiny doesn't bother him. Only when Cyradis insists they become each other's hostage for the duration of the quest does he finally crack; he's left shaken by its inappropriateness and confused by his inability to refuse the offer. [[spoiler:It's a secret ThePowerOfLove gambit by Cyradis, as she [[RedStringOfFate already knows]] that she is [[LoveRedeems his future wife]] -- something neither he nor the heroes are aware of.]]

* In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Stephen Strange is attempting to bargain with Dormammu to make him leave Earth alone, and he's enforcing it via TimeLoop, forcing Dormammu to live in the exact same moment for as long as is needed. Dormammu threatens Stephen with torment and suffering, as seen in the quote image. Stephen, who'd already lived through agony and hopelessness earlier in the film, shakes it off.

* TheProtagonist of ''LightNovel/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected'' is a young boy who experimented with the deception of human relationships at short age, especially about the rejection of girls and ostracism of his class towards him. All of that makes him a [[IWorkAlone lone wolf who doesn't want/interest to make any kind of relationship]], sees the youth as a big lie, and has a misogynistic vision of women in general ([[BigBrotherInstinct with the exception of his little sister]]); reasons more than enough for his teacher to force him to be part of the Service Club in order to [[DefrostingIceking "save his soul" and "being more human"]]. During the series, it's seen how Hachiman commits [[ZeroApprovalGambit social suicide acts]] to achieve his goals for the Service Club, which could be left devastated if it's made by anyone else, but he isn't affected a bit... except when he sees the collateral damage he makes to [[FireForgedFriends Yukino and Yui]] every time he does this in the series, which makes him question his own methods for the first time.

-->I'm going to look in your damned bucket! [He looks in for a moment, then emerges.] ''Don't you think I know that!''

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' there's [[http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/36400000/obito-uchiha-image-obito-uchiha-36448412-500-286.jpg this image]] of Obito Uchiha against Kakashi Hatake in which the latter made a hole in Obito's chest and he stands up as if nothing happened to him. This image quickly became a MemeticMutation, being used by loners about love deceptions as they have no heart to be broken, and having a lot of derivated memes, some funnier (or ''more'' depressed) than others.

[[TemptingFate Occasionally]] subverted when the person trying to break the broken character either manages to find [[AnythingButThat that one little thing the character still cares about]] (often [[IHaveYourWife a loved one]]) or they pull off a FateWorseThanDeath (or horrible death) that the broken character [[DidntSeeThatComing was unable to expect]].

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]": An alien minotaur [[EmotionEater feeds on]] [[spoiler:the faith]] of those trapped in its prison by revealing [[YourWorstNightmare their worst fears]]. When Rory shows up, all it does is show him the exit because [[spoiler:he is neither religious nor superstitious and, unlike Amy, does not have an abiding faith that the Doctor will always save the day]]. Also, because after the events of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]"... there isn't really anything left for him to be afraid of.
* In an episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Francis is taken by a secret society at the MilitarySchool to be tortured. When they suspend him blindfolded over a "bottomless pit," threaten to flog him to death, and even put his head inside a cage with some hungry rats, Francis responds that he's not scared at all. When the leader asks how their tactics are not scaring him, Francis says that his mom had humiliated him so much, that he had lost the ability to be afraid of anything else.

-->-- ''Film/DoctorStrange''

* TheProtagonist of ''LightNovel/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected'' is a young boy who experimented with the deception of human relationships at short age, especially about the rejection of girls and ostracism of his class towards him. All of that makes him a [[IWorkAlone lone wolf who doesn't want/interest to make any kind of relationship]], sees the youth as a big lie and has a misogynistic vision of women in general ([[BigBrotherInstinct with the exception of his little sister]]); reasons more than enough for his teacher to force him to be part of the Service Club in order to [[DefrostingIceking "save his soul" and "being more human"]]. During the series, it's seen how Hachiman commits [[ZeroApprovalGambit social suicide acts]] to achieve his goals for the Service Club, which could be left devastated if it's made by anyone else, but he isn't affected a bit... except when he sees the collateral damage he makes to [[FireForgedFriends Yukino and Yui]] every time he does this in the series, which makes him question his own methods for the first time.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': By the end of ''End of Evangelion'', Shinji has witnessed so much absolute horror he doesn't even flinch upon seeing [[spoiler: the corpse of his best friend after transmuting into a PhysicalGod surrounded by an entire ocean containing liquified humans]], and is indicated to face it with hesitant determination according to the poster, which takes place shortly after the ending of the movie.

* In an episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Francis is taken by a secret society at the MilitarySchool to be tortured. When they suspend him, blindfolded, over a "bottomless pit," threaten to flog him to death, and even put his head inside a cage with some hungry rats, Francis responds that he's not scared at all. When the leader asks how their tactics are not scaring him, Francis says that his mom had humiliated him so much, that he had lost the ability to be afraid of anything else.

'''Rhaenys''': The Stranger has visited me more times then I can count, Grand Maester. I assure you... he cares little whether my eyes are open or closed.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The Society of the Blind Eye try to use their memory wiping machine on crazy Old Man [=McGucket=], but it has no effect on him because "you can't break what's already broken!" [[spoiler:It's later revealed that using the machine multiple times to forget the things he's witnessed while working for the Author is what drove him insane in the first place.]]

Occasionally subverted when the person trying to break the broken character either manages to find [[AnythingButThat that one little thing the character still cares about]] (often [[IHaveYourWife a loved one]]) or they pull off a FateWorseThanDeath (or horrible death) that the broken character [[DidntSeeThatComing was unable to expect]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Catra is exiled to the Crimson Waste as punishment for failure, and encounters the meanest of outlaws, who bully her for heckling them about Adora's whereabouts, as they cruelly remind her that only the strong make the rules. Catra outright tells them that they're making a mistake if they think they can threaten her, that those methods only work on people who have something to lose. Catra, however has been through too much crap in her life that she's lost ''everything'' and doesn't even care anymore. From that, she asserts her dominance.

See also ConditionedToAcceptHorror, in which is not that the person is too broken to react, but that they actually find this normal and mundane. Similar to InsanityImmunity, except in this case, the character still holds to their sanity, to DisabilityImmunity, where the disability in this case is psychological rather than physical, and to EmptyShell and StoppedCaring, with the difference that this character can still feel and care normally. Also, TheLastDance, when the character achieves this state shortly before their unavoidable death.