Basic Trope: A character is able to take an absurd amount of punishment with little consequence.
- Straight: Bob can take a bullet wound to the heart without any lasting damage.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob can survive a barrage of bullets, a meteor crash, a nuke, a fiery explosion, and a BB pellet without any ill effects.
- Bob is literally Made of Indestructium. It's less about hurting him and more about trying to slow him down.
- Damien empties an entire shotgun clip into Bob's chest. Bob just looks at the bloody wounds and shrugs.
- Downplayed:
- Bob takes blunt impacts like falls and punches relatively well, but even a single bullet is a serious injury.
- Bob is still capable of fighting at essentially full capacity with mortal wounds but he will still die without major intervention and be crippled for life if he is lucky.
- Bob has Resurrective Immortality but is explicitly an ordinary human in body. He is just in the unique position of learning how to fight effectively while mortally wounded.
- Justified: Not applicable. The trope itself relies on there being no explanation for the inhuman toughness, otherwise it counts as a different trope.
- Inverted: Made of Plasticine - Bob falls apart rather easily from a blow that should realistically only do light damage.
- Subverted:
- Bob appears to survive a bullet wound to the heart, but he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
- Bob manages to take a lot of damage without dying or passing out. However, he is later informed that this will have detrimental effects on his body.
- Bob thought he was only a Badass Normal until he was only scratched by a Hell Hound when they are strong enough to reduce humans to bloody chunks with a single blow. Once the adrenaline fade he realizes it is proof that he was demon-blooded himself.
- Double Subverted:
- However, the bulletproof vest is ineffective, and Bob baffles hospital staff with a bullet in his left ventricle, in a heart that is still beating.
- The bulletproof vest did not work, but Bob only received a small scar.
- Parodied:
- Bob is an Iron Butt Monkey.
- In one scene, Damien tries many different ways to kill Bob, who just stands there bored.
- Zig Zagged: Bob's body switches back-and-forth every episode from being Made of Plasticine to Made of Iron.
- Averted: Bob is able to survive what most humans can, and unable to survive what most humans can't.
- Enforced:
- "We need to show how strong Bob is. Let's make him survive six shots to the chest!
- "I want to make a humorous scene in which Bob is inexplicably able to survive what no human can."
- Lampshaded: "What are you, made of iron?" "Nope, just my blood."
- Invoked: Alice creates a vitamin that causes those who consume it to gain the ability to survive the most impossible attacks.
- Exploited: Bob uses his exceptional resilience to become a Stone Wall.
- Defied: Charlie exposes Bob to radiation that causes Bob to lose his invulnerability.
- Discussed: "This guy is unstoppable!"
- Conversed: "Oh, is this the one where Bob is invulnerable for no reason?"
- Implied: Bob is a soldier who has fought through many wars, some of them quite brutal and horrific. While the mental scars are shown thoroughly, any physical injuries are either glossed over or just not mentioned to begin with.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob believes he is superior to the rest of the human race because of this unexplained invulnerability and proceeds to take over the world. Military from all around the world are unsuccessful in trying to stop him, and he eventually reaches his goal.
- Bob is literally made of iron, and the oxygen in the air causes him to rust, slowly rendering him useless.
- Bob does not heal properly due to the sheer volume of damage he receives. He eventually dies from all his wounds.
- Bod heals from wounds,but receives a large amount of scars.
- Bob's durability is given to him from stacked up pain or repeated injuries from past times.
- Bob isn't durable at all, he just has an incredible tolerance for pain.
- The reason Bob is so durable is because he isn't human.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob uses his invulnerability to stop evil in the world.
- Bob trains his body to the point where he can take more damage than most humans.
- Played For Laughs: Bob needs to regularly apply lubricant to his skin to prevent it from rusting.
- Played For Drama: Bob's invulnerability results in him coming across as rather cold because he cannot sympathize with the injuries of others.
- Played For Horror: Bob's uncanny ability to handle extreme amounts of damage and seemingly not expire from it all is a hint that he is an Ambiguously Humanoid Abomination.
Go back to Made of Iron while walking away unfazed from a hail of shrapnel. Don't worry, it won't slow you down!
