Road Runner. Pretty sure it was literally one of the rules the writers had for the show.
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James Bond
"We have all the time in the world."😭😭😭😭😭
Sterling Archer.
Well, he can't die or get permanent brain damage, but everything else is certainly on the table.
Walker, Texas Ranger, or Michael Knight in Knight Rider?
Or how about Jean Luc Picard in ST:TNG? It even got so bad that they kept him going by rebooting the universe.
Looking at it a different way: the lead character from Infinity Blade: no matter how often he died, he was resurrected on the table until he actually won (at which point he essentially became the man he had spent eternity attempting to destroy).
Ash Ketchum
Arya Stark.
It's quintuple ironic because like the first season was basically so good at setting up a "this isn't like other series's, no one is safe", keeps that tone up through the red wedding. Then after
spoiler
John snow is fake killed
It becomes obvious that if a good guy has lived up to this point, they are probably fine for a while.
First season?
My books didn’t come in seasons?
Bobby in Dallas.
bugs bunny
Ain't I a stinker?
One Punch Man.
It's his entire schtick.
OPM is what you get when somebody asks themselves, what would the story be for someone that is completely, totally, absolutely, and indefatigably invincible in every regard?
In my defense, I have not seen the third season yet.
I feel like King fits more. OPM is depressed Superman, but King is literally taking all the credit and get out of deadly situations alive by being at the right place at the right time
No because he's constantly terrified and lives in ultimate fear.
Plot armor has nothing to do with fear or bravery, though. King constantly gets out of situations that absolutely should have killed him. Situations that he was not actually equipped to handle. But he's not only alive, but completely unscathed (with the exception of his one scar)
Except that's his whole character arc. That's literally his entire purpose. A normal human being placed into situations where you are dead only to be saved by one reoccurring character our hero.
So one might say the only reason he gets through those is... The plot requires it?
Mr. Magoo
The Winchester brothers. They gave up even pretending as the show went on and just embraced the absurdity.
More than that, it actually became a canon feature / plot point.
Yeah, for those who don't know, in the last season (spoiler ahead)
spoiler
Basically god reveals basically all universes were basically attempts at crafting a winchester story, God basically turns off their plot armor and their car breaks down, Dean gets sick from eating stupidly unhealthy crap, their car breaks down, their infinite money credit card stops working, dean needs a dentist.
The only correct answer is Ciaphas Cain.
Sly Marbo comes in at a close second but Sly Marbo never actually needs the plot armor.
Batman
The Baby from Babies Day Out
Google reckons he should have died about 30 times throughout the movie lol
"Huh, looks like we're gonna need another 'Timmy '"...
I think this answer wins
Harry Potter
I liked the series only because of the magical creatures and I liked Fantastic Beasts better then the main series tbh
maybe in his own universe, but a character like Luke Skywalker blows him out of the water
Luffy- One Piece. He(and honestly a few of his crew) should have died SO LONG AGO. Hands down. There is zero reason he should have made it to the time skip, and it only gets worse plot armor wise from there.
Spongebob Squarepants
Hughie Campbell.
All For One in My Hero Academia. That motherfucked died four different times and every time he got revived it was almost an asspull.
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First All Might punched the top half of his head off and he got necromanced back to life into looking like a potato, then Endeavor turned him into Kentucky Fried Chicken but he used Eri's quirk from the bullets to rewind himself, then all the heroes combined + All Might in an Iron Man suit + Bakugo damaged him enough for him to turn back into a fetus, and then he came back on Tomura's psyche and Deku had to hit a continental-level punch alongside Tomura interfering with his quirk to delete him for good.
I recently finished Blue-Eyed Samurai, and Mizu's increasingly powerful plot armor comes very close to ruining the whole show.
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They make a point of inflicting fairly realistic injuries, and of showing the required treatment, and in the early going they even need time to heal, but the farther we get into the plot, the more intense and more frequent the injuries, while at the same time the less time it takes for Mizu to heal enough to function at a superhuman level. The arrow through the ankle is one that comes to mind. It's not that there's anything wrong with power-fantasy anime (or anime-adjacent animation), but it felt like a bait and switch, especially since no one else seems to have it so the stakes end up yawningly low.
I disagree because
Blue Eye Samurai isn't realistic, it's authentic. Recall the thousands of arrows falling on Mizu during the ambush. The fucking sword bounce. The absurd technology and traps in Elijah's house.
This isn't a realistic depiction of feudal Japan, this is an authentic depiction of feudal Japan. It's a show about how this period felt to live in. And people in feudal Japan believed in onryo. Mizu is an onryo. As their quest for vengeance progresses and they suffer more punishment, they become more and more obviously supernatural.
Candide.
This is tangential to the request, but HackingNoises in the second episode of “Craft a lie”. Which is a Minecraft speed running challenge.