History NighInvulnerability / MarvelUniverse

* The Canadian superheroes ComicBook/AlphaFlight have a [[HeelFaceTurn villain-turned-hero]] called Diamond Lil --though she does not have superstrength, she effectively hits twice as hard as normal because her fists absorb none of the impact energy. (Given that she's also a six-and-a-half-foot-tall weightlifter, that's gotta hurt.) She's so nigh invulnerable that she has very little sense of touch and sometimes isn't even aware of low-power attacks against her. (She was created, like Bethany of the Next Men below, by Creator/JohnByrne.)
* Butterball, from ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'', has a variation on this power; he is completely immutable, and therefore cannot be harmed in any way. This power is apparently all-encompassing, as he has extreme difficulty learning new subjects, can't lose (or gain, for that matter) weight, can't get in shape, etc, etc....
* ComicBook/DoctorStrange has the unenviable task of fighting various demons, gods, and ''[[EldritchAbomination things]]'' that are almost impossible to kill or even hurt. The worst is Shuma-Gorath. It's extremely difficult to even hurt it in the first place, it can recover from just about anything, and if by some miracle someone does slay Shuma-Gorath its power will simply possess its killer and transform him/her into a new Shuma-Gorath! Even Death, as in the AnthropomorphicPersonification of death itself, can't permanently kill this monster.
* While a lot of superheroic characters have some level of invulnerability, the aptly-named [[ComicBook/TheEternals Eternals]] may stand out for special mention: they possess a "psychic lock" on their molecular structure that allows them to restore virtually any injury they can't flat-out ignore.
* While not nearly as durable as Plastic Man, [[ComicBook/MisterFantastic Reed Richards]] from ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' is Made of Rubber and can survive most attacks, at least as long as he sees them coming in time to stretch with the impact.
* ComicBook/{{Galactus}}'s armor is made of a metal-like substance so tough that nearly zero attacks can even ''scratch'' it. Galactus himself is somewhere between an {{Energy Being|s}} and an AnthropomorphicPersonification, making him immune to physical ailments. His Herald, the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, is a more straightforward case of diamond durability: His skin was designed to easily withstand the rigors of deep space and is virtually indestructible. He's also been shown to have a HealingFactor from time to time. Pretty much every Herald has some version of this. Galactus builds his minions to last.

* Craig "Mr. Immortal" Hollis from the ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'' (a comical offshoot of ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'', whose members all had powers considered too useless to be in the main organization). He had no special abilities, no power to withstand damage, but if he actually died, he just stood up again three seconds later, fully healed. Since he was a child, he's been haunted by Deathurge, a psychopomp-like being who convinces people to kill themselves, but decided to take Craig in as a sort of adoptive son. It's been said somewhere that he's destined to be the last living creature in the universe. In the ''GLA'' miniseries, he's revealed to be "Homo Supreme", [[EvolutionaryLevels one step beyond]] [[ComicBook/XMen mutant]] (which caused Flatman, who'd just come out as gay, to mutter "Always have to one-up me, don't you?").
* ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk is an extreme example; he is both super tough, invulnerable to all conventional weapons, and has an extremely fast healing factor, so fast that it was not discovered in the continuity until he was wounded while he was slowed down because he was Joe Fixit. Basically, he has shrugged off point blank heavy nuclear weaponry, planet-splitting impacts, solar temperatures, strikes from cosmic entities, has healed within seconds from having over 80% of his flesh repelled off of his body, and one incarnation eventually managed to restore itself from being blown to powder. This even extends to extreme resistance to mind-control or molecular manipulation of his body, and some adaptive evolution to build greater immunity or adapt to hostile environments. Even on those occasions when he ''is'' vulnerable enough to have a body part removed, he can either regenerate it or reattach it.

* ComicBook/LukeCage's skin is as hard as metal and his muscle and bone tissues are considerably denser than the tissues of an ordinary human, granting him much greater resistance to physical injury than an ordinary human. He can withstand conventional handgun fire and cannot be cut by any blade forged of conventional material. He can withstand up to one-ton impacts or blasts of 150 pounds of TNT without serious injury, and is highly resistant to extreme temperatures and electrical shocks. He has withstood impacts from superhumans a good deal stronger than him, destructive energy attacks including electricity, and falls from great heights such as ninety story high skyscrapers.
* Madcap has this as his primary power (his secondary power being [[IntoxicationEnsues inducing euphoria]] in others). He has been dismembered, decapitated, burned to ash, and even vaporized, yet always managed to regenerate within a few hours at most.
* Comicbook/ManThing is both something of a blob (he's a mass of plant matter with no internal organs to damage), and even if something manages to destroy him, he'll simply regrow from swamp matter back home.
* [[ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick Slapstick]] has been shot with bazookas, burned with fire, zapped with electricity, twisted into a knot, and kicked across New York City with no ill effects. The only thing that can really hurt him is a specific frequency of energy that disrupts the molecular bonds of his electroplasm body, and that only works temporarily.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is nigh-invulnerable due to being a literal PhysicalGod, what with being the son of Odin and Gaia. He's one of the few non-cosmic beings in the Marvel universe capable of going toe-to-toe with [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]] and can survive blows from him, Galactus, and other such powerful beings.
** His one time foe Harald Jaekelsson was so invulnerable that when Thor struck him in the head with Mjolnir it did no damage despite the fact both of Thor's wrists snapped from the force of the blow.
** Another foe, Jormungand the Midgard Serpent, is also insanely tough mostly due to [[GiantEqualsInvincible being big enough to encircle the Earth]]. Even Thor can't afford to hold anything back when he's fighting the planet-sized snake.
* Ben Grimm from ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour''. Pretty much nothing is capable of seriously hurting him. [[spoiler:Even more so after he evolves.]]
* ComicBook/{{Ultron}}, essentially being [[AIIsACrapshoot evil computer software]], falls under this, since no matter what, a portion of him always exists in cyberspace. And more importantly, most versions of Ultron are made entirely of adamantium. Destroying him in the first place is an epic challenge.
* ComicBook/TheVision covers so many bases at once, it's hard to tell which to mention first. He can control his own density, for starters -- meaning that he can be Made of Diamond ''or'' an [[{{Intangibility}} Intangible Man]], depending on what would suit his purposes. He's also a synthezoid (read: super-sophisticated [[ArtificialHuman android]]), so he can just replace any parts from attacks (like certain energy attacks or surprise attacks) that get around his density control. Finally, if push came to shove, he potentially could just be uploaded into a new body, much like his father Ultron (noted above).
* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, who possesses quick regeneration abilities and [[MadeofIndestructium a skeleton that's pretty much indestructible due to being laced with adamantium]]. He can survive pretty much any attack up to (and probably beyond) a direct hit from a nuclear warhead. The time it takes for him to regenerate depends on the severity of his wounds and [[DependingOnTheWriter who happens to be doing the writing]], but chances are, Wolverine will be back up on his feet by the end of the page.

** One other notable example is from the ''Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk'' series, in which the Hulk '''rips Logan in half''', throwing the lower portion of his body on top of a mountain, necessitating the need for him to climb a mile up with his intestines hanging out of him. Once the remaining issues of ''Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk'' [[ScheduleSlip were shipped]], readers were treated to an even better sight — [[spoiler:Ultimate Nick Fury interrogating Wolverine's '''disembodied head''', with the former surmising Ultimate Wolvie's ''real'' mutant power must be to [[AdaptiveAbility survive anything]], as he did things like drop the head into a complete vacuum to see if that would kill him]].

** Wolverine ''has'' survived direct hits (or near enough) from nuclear weapons, at least two times. Once in a Venom miniseries - while bonded with a clone of the Venom symbiote - and once in ''Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk''.

** From ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' to ''ComicBook/XForce'' to ''Comicbook/XMen'', Sam "Cannonball" Guthrie's power renders him Nigh Invulnerable ([[LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe as he repeatedly says himself]]), but only when he's "blasting" -- which is to say using his pyro-plasmodic forcefield in flight. And as if that didn't do it, he's supposedly also an External (an immortal mutant). This has since been quietly ignored.

** ''Comicbook/XMenRed'' character Orrdon the Omega Rocket riffs on Cannonball's catchphrase by claiming to be ''fully'' invulnerable when he's blasting. [[spoiler: But not, as it turns out, from the inside.]]
* Adam Destine of ''Comicbook/ClanDestine'' is completely invulnerable, as well as being immortal. He can withstand superpowered combat, large-scale explosions, lasers, crashing on Earth from space in a ''bus'' with broken windows (albeit with a spaceship engine attached, courtesy of his GadgeteerGenius son) and who knows what else with nothing more than ClothingDamage. He also apparently doesn't need to eat, drink, or breathe to survive - he once went a decade without doing any of the above, with no ill effects. The power was given to him by his wife, a very powerful genie.
* Similarly to Wolverine is ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}. He has a variation of Wolverine's healing factor that was accidentally super-charged by his own cancer. As such, Deadpool is ''always'' healing, no matter what. This has allowed him to effectively regrow limbs and possibly be effectively immortal (one possible timeline had Deadpool trapped in a refrigerator for a thousand years and came out of it with a split personality because he got bored.
* ComicBook/DraxTheDestroyer is almost impervious to conventional harm, able to stand up to the likes of ComicBook/TheMightyThor without worry. Unfortunately, his main opponent was '''''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}''''', who punches well above Thor's weight class[[note]]In one instance, Thanos managed to shatter Galactus's armor with a sustained assault, though Galactus wasn't ''physically'' harmed from the attack, only [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh pissed]][[/note]]. For the rare occasions when Drax's body ''was'' damaged, he also possesses a low-grade HealingFactor. For the even ''rarer'' occasions when his body is completely destroyed, he fortunately combines this with the Body Backup Drive option.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': The Liberators are a deadly group of genetically enhanced Super Soldiers... but Loki is ''a God''. He can completely NoSell punches from The Hulk and even shrugs off blows from Mjolnir before Odin strips him of his powers.
* ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight:''
** The titular Space Knights sit somewhere between the lower tiers of this trope and the upper tiers of SuperToughness. Their cybernetic armor is incredibly durable, and even has a HealingFactor-like self-repairing function, but sufficiently powerful foes can hurt or even kill them. Rom himself has tanked a full-force punch from Gladiator of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, although he admitted that it did hurt, as well as having been successfully cut by Wolverine's adamantium claws. On the other hand, human weaponry might as well be throwing spitballs at him.
** The horror known as [[HalfHumanHybrid Hybrid]] definitely counts as this trope. Thanks to a combination of Dire Wraith physiology, sorcerous defenses, and implied mutant telekinesis, he effortlessly tanked blasts from Rom's Neutralizer, which can normally one-shot pureblooded Dire Wraiths; if Kitty Pryde of the ComicBook/XMen hadn't lucked onto a higher setting that simultaneously tore Hybrid apart on a molecular level and banished the scattered molecules into Limbo, Hybrid would have killed Rom and the X-Men. And then Hybrid [[FromASingleCell reconstituted his sundered molecules]] and returned to the human dimension ''through sheer force of will''. This time, when Rom used his Neutralizer, Hybrid erected a psionic forcefield that held his molecular structure together against any attack; only the heroic intervention of ComicBook/{{Rogue}} to sap his psionic energies negated the forcefield and let Rom repeat Hybrid's destruction again. And then he reconstituted himself ''again'' in Rom Annual #3, only being killed off for seeming good by Ilyana Rasputin and her magical Soulsword... except it didn't stick, and Hybrid revived himself in ''ComicBook/XMan''. This time, Nate Grey managed to vaporize him yet again after awakening Jimmy's long-buried benevolent human side. But that didn't stick either, and he came back to terrorize ComicBook/AvengersAcademy before they vaporized him ''yet again''.

** ComicBook/{{Iceman}} in his living ice form. In that state, you can blow a hole through his chest, shatter him into a million pieces, melt him, evaporate him... it doesn't matter. His body will always re-form itself. The only way to harm him is via psychic attack or catching him in his normal form.

** TheJuggernaut. It's almost impossible to inflict even minor damage on him, he quickly [[HealingFactor regenerates]] in the rare cases (almost always involving magic) that somebody can can hurt him, and once he gets up some steam, he just plows right through any obstacle in his way. At full power, Juggernaut has a force field that he can summon at-will just inches away from himself. One time, a demon mystically melted his flesh and organs... ''and Juggernaut's bones still kept moving forward''. The demon was literally too stunned to do anything about that. He's practically a PhysicalGod, as he is an avatar of Cyttorak, an evil god thing.

** Another invulnerable mutant is the Blob that is a very large guy with that name -- who has stood up to everything from Wolverine's claws, to flamethrowers, to the Hulk's punches. Though not, apparently, Wolverine's head-banging in [[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine a certain 2009 movie]]... though this is probably because in the comics his head was always vulnerable compared to the rest of his body. He's generally more vulnerable to sensory assaults - [[MakeMeWannaShout Banshee]] once stunned the Blob with his sonic scream, while both [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]] and ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}} exploited his blubber. The Hulk stretched the Blob like a piece of taffy, while Sleepwalker used his [[EyeBeams warp vision]] to wrap a steel girder around the Blob and squeeze him. [[ColdBloodedTorture In both cases, it was pretty painful]].

** The horror known as [[HalfHumanHybrid Hybrid]] definitely counts as this trope. Thanks to a combination of Dire Wraith physiology, sorcerous defenses, and implied mutant telekinesis, he effortlessly tanked blasts from Rom's Neutralizer, which can normally one-shot pureblooded Dire Wraiths; if Kitty Pryde of the ComicBook/XMen hadn't lucked onto a higher setting that simultaneously tore Hybrid apart on a molecular level and banished the scattered molecules into Limbo, Hybrid would have killed Rom and the X-Men. And then Hybrid [[FromASingleCell reconstituted his sundered molecules]] and returned to the human dimension ''through sheer force of will''. This time, when Rom used his Neutralizer, Hybrid erected a psionic forcefield that held his molecular structure together against any attack; only the heroic intervention of ComicBook/{{Rogue}} to sap his psionic energies negated the forcefield and let Rom repeat Hybrid's destruction again. And then he reconstituted himself ''again'' in Rom Annual #3, only being killed off for seeming good by Ilyana Rasputin and her magical Soulsword... except it didn't stick, and Hybrid revived himself in ''ComicBook/XMan''. This time, Nate Grey managed to vaporize him yet again after awakening Jimmy's long-buried benevolent human side. But that didn't stick either, and he came back to terrorize ComicBook/AvengersAcademy before they vaporized him ''yet again''.

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is nigh-invulnerable due to being a literal PhysicalGod, what with being the son of Odin and Gaia. He's one of the few non-cosmic beings in the Marvel universe capable of going toe-to-toe with the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and can survive blows from him, Galactus, and other such powerful beings.

** Another invulnerable mutant is the Blob that is a very large guy with that name -- who has stood up to everything from Wolverine's claws, to flamethrowers, to the Hulk's punches. Though not, apparently, Wolverine's head-banging in [[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine a certain 2009 movie]]... though this is probably because in the comics his head was always vulnerable compared to the rest of his body. He's generally more vulnerable to sensory assaults - [[MakeMeWannaShout Banshee]] once stunned the Blob with his sonic scream, while both the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}} exploited his blubber. The Hulk stretched the Blob like a piece of taffy, while Sleepwalker used his [[EyeBeams warp vision]] to wrap a steel girder around the Blob and squeeze him. [[ColdBloodedTorture In both cases, it was pretty painful]].

** Short-term X-Man Paulie Provenzano had NighInvulnerability as his mutant power, but it came with the limitation that he had to be able to be generally aware of the attack. He learned of this limitation when he made the mistake of taunting ComicBook/{{Northstar}} with a homophobic slur, which resulted in [[SuperSpeed the speedster]] punching him so fast he couldn't even register it.

* The Comicbook/IncredibleHulk is an extreme example; he is both super tough, invulnerable to all conventional weapons, and has an extremely fast healing factor, so fast that it was not discovered in the continuity until he was wounded while he was slowed down because he was Joe Fixit. Basically, he has shrugged off point blank heavy nuclear weaponry, planet-splitting impacts, or strikes from cosmic entities, healed within seconds from having over 80% of his flesh repelled off of his body, and one incarnation eventually managed to restore itself from being blown to powder. Lampshaded in "The Last Titan" wherein the immortal Hulk just keeps on going alone in the wasteland after the rest of humanity destroys itself. (The alien empires were said to host an enormous celebration.)
** When ComicBook/AmadeusCho accused Reed Richards of killing the Hulk, Richards maintained that was impossible, "Because the Hulk doesn't die."

* [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]]'s skin is as hard as metal and his muscle and bone tissues are considerably denser than the tissues of an ordinary human, granting him much greater resistance to physical injury than an ordinary human. He can withstand conventional handgun fire and cannot be cut by any blade forged of conventional material. He can withstand up to one-ton impacts or blasts of 150 pounds of TNT without serious injury, and is highly resistant to extreme temperatures and electrical shocks. He has withstood impacts from superhumans a good deal stronger than him, destructive energy attacks including electricity, and falls from great heights such as ninety story high skyscrapers.