Nigh Invulnerability / Web Original

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• Characters who are transformed in The Cartoon Man saga become immune to all pain, just like classic cartoon characters.
• In Dead West, this applies to quite a few aristocrats. The Porcelain Doctor has this, of course, since he is a very powerful Medice, and has psychic armor and shield. His big brother is Made of Diamond, and both have enough willpower to stand and fight even after sustaining life-threatening injuries.
• In Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Hero Antagonist Captain Hammer has Super-Strength plus apparent invulnerability, as in at least one scene he appears prepared to stop a runaway van with his body. This is subverted in Act III when the explosion of Dr. Horrible's malfunctioning Death Ray causes Captain Hammer to experience pain for the first time in his life, revealing him as a Miles Gloriosus.
• In Fine Structure, the Powers are all of the "made of diamond" version. It takes a diamond-tipped syringe to break Arika's skin, and even not even that will work on Jason. But both of them pale in comparison to Anne Poole, who is possibly the single most indestructible object in existence. When she gets thrown into a black hole, the Universe breaks before she does.
• Forenzik. In chronological order, Forenzik had the abandoned studio collapse on him, got hit with a car, and had his arm chopped off. And yet he somehow comes back every time. When Freddrick Gorgote dies, it's revealed why he keeps coming back: Freddrick had a bunch of followers that would act as Forenzik to make Freddrick seem like he was immortal.
• Hermann Fegelein of Hitler Rants fame has survived being killed many times; whenever he's killed, he usually walks back into the Führerbunker as if nothing ever happened, much to Hitler's dismay.
• Paragon, in Justice Wing: one of his epithets is even 'the Diamond-Hard Man.'
• The AI gods of Orion's Arm are so invulnerable that one of them engineered an all out war against itself just so it didn't have to expend any energy scraping off some outdated armor. It's theoretically possible to kill one, but only another AI god would have the means to do so, and they tend to prefer manipulation and extremely long-term plotting to direct combat.
• SCP Foundation:
  • SCP-682 has Adaptive Ability and the ability to regenerate From a Single Cell on top of its Super-Toughness. It has survived being placed in a chamber where the laws of physics were altered in such a way that normal matter couldn't exist, and its Adaptive Ability is strong enough that the Foundation doesn't want to nuke it for fear that they'll never be able to hurt it again.
  • Among several others, there is also SCP-073, whose powers end up making you take the damage that you try to deal him, SCP-096, who barely flinches from having a hailstorm of bullets thrown at him, SCP-458, which is indestructible despite being made of cardboard, & SCP-076-2, who can be killed, but will only respawn from the rock known as SCP-076-1. That's not even a quarter of the objects in the foundation's possession that can't be killed permanently, if at all!
  • They also have Doctor Bright, a researcher who ended up with his soul bonded to a small, jeweled necklace. Anyone who wears the necklace for long enough has their consciousness replaced with Bright's.
  • SCP-1504 ("Joe Schmo"). SCP-1504 is a human being who can't be killed by anything (he has survived being at ground zero of a nuclear explosion) and is almost impossible to harm. The only known things that can affect him are exposure to Halothane gas and blunt force trauma to the head, both of which incapacitate him.
  • SCP-1512 ("Irrational Root"). SCP-1512 is a set of roots that are incredibly hard. They're immune to lasers, corrosives (e.g. acids), burning, cutting and all other known means of destruction.
• Alex of S&D Tier has apparently survived having their brain removed, their heart destroyed, and all their molecules pulled apart. If anything can kill them, even they don't seem to know what it is. They find the heroes' attempts at fighting them hilarious because of this.
• James Toranaga of Touch has this by dint of being Made of Air whenever he wants to be. It has some drawbacks, though.
• In the Whateley Universe, they have all of the above. Lancer (and plenty of the villains) is Made of Diamond. Phase and Jinn Sinclair are Made of Air (due to completely different powers). Aqueous is the Blob, being composed of living water. Jody Cooms is Made of Rubber and even calls herself Plastic Girl. Carmilla and Tennyo have the regeneration thing down: Carmilla has been torn in half, and another time decapitated (she was meditating and literally didn't notice until she found the decapitated head which also hadn't died); both fall into the projected avatar/Fighting a Shadow category. The unstoppable supervillain Deathlist is of the Good Thing You Can Heal type: he's a forcefield-protected head on a robot body with the ability to teleport the head to safety in the worst case scenario; he has killed more superheroes than any other villain in history.
  • Note that a recurring theme of the series is the emphasis on the 'nigh' part of Nigh-Invulnerability: just about every one of the above have at least one inherent weakness which an opponent can exploit. It is explained repeatedly that the 'PK Superman' power set (the one Lancer has) is actually one of the easiest to overcome, if you know how; they are, in fact, the favorite first day of class targets of Sensei Ito, the Badass Normal martial arts instructor, because he can beat them so handily and dramatically.
• Worm
  • The Brute classification signifies this in some way, and usually comes with Super-Strength as well.
  • There are a number of regenerators, most notably Crawler and Echidna, who can both recover from incredibly devastating injuries in seconds, and Crawler becomes immune to whatever harmed him on top of that.
  • Alexandria's body is frozen in time, making her impossible to hurt by anything that doesn't at least break physics, or anything that stops her from breathing, although if something does manage to hurt her she also can't heal for the same reason.
  • The Siberian is absolutely invulnerable and unstoppable, and can bestow that inviolability to anyone she touches. Though she's actually a projection, and the person creating it lacks that invulnerability. The only thing that can stop her are similar "all-or-nothing" powers, like objects infused with Clockblocker's or Foil's power, and even that just causes both effects to cancel out.
  • The Endbringers are both insanely durable — to the point of tanking gigaton level energy blasts, and can regenerate from anything that doesn't destroy them outright.
    • The reason this works is because they are composed of layers, each twice as durable as the previous layer and starting at the durability of aluminum. There are two hundred of these layers between the skin and the core (the only vital part), resulting in a durability that is several orders of magnitude past the Made of Diamond type. The exact numbers can be seen here, and confirmed by Word of God here, but in summary the Endbringers are physics-breakingly dense at their cores.
  • Gray Boy possessed the ability to automatically rewind his body in time, instantly negating any injury he suffers, even if it kills him. He was killed by Glaistig Uaine invoking Your Soul Is Mine! on him, and his clone was killed by Foil.
  • Scion's "Stilling" ability can negate the effects of virtually any phenomenon before it can get close enough to harm him. And even when he does get injured, his body can regenerate so fast it's hard to tell he was even injured in the first place.

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