Road Runner. Pretty sure it was literally one of the rules the writers had for the show.
Road Runner ran so the rest of us could relate to Coyote:
Mr Bean
Thread over. The only three correct answers are Mr Bean, Mr Magoo, and Inspector Gadget.
All other answers are wrong.
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?
I don't think that's plot armor. It is just character design. They don't keep him alive for plot reasons, the whole plot is that he is not defeated, ever.
It's hilarious. It's also different. I enjoyed all three.
It did disappoint a lot of people, and that's fine too.
They put the bar too high up with the quality of season 1. I haven't watched season 2 and 3 but still read the manga sometimes (not the web version. No offense but I couldn't get on board with the art lol).
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)
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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.
Thats a lot of basicallies though 👀
James Bond
"We have all the time in the world."😭😭😭😭😭
Mr. Magoo
Damn, beat me to it.
Rick Sanchez.
He's supposed to be the smartest person in the universe. The rub is that the writers aren't as smart as they want him to be, so that leads to them writing his enemies to be dumber than how smart they can write him, to preserve his in-universe superior intelligence.
He can make anything out of anything. He has cybernetic implants that can do anything the plot needs.
I actually like the show (a social crime in 2026) but being an overpowered, plot armored, walking deus ex machina is his gimmick.
Isn't that part of the plot though? He's super depressed and part of it is because everyone else is so goddamn stupid
Yes, but my point is that his hyper-intelligence is to a point something we just have to believe in since he is being written by people who aren't hyper-intelligent themselves.
Its also a plot point in (after the recast) that he did this to himself. Evil Morty's goal was to escape the cluster of multi-verses that Rick curated where he was the smartest person in that universe. I like the newer plot driven episodes, but writing this im noticing that while I like the show as its airing, I have never really rewatched it...
The intelligence to curate universes to ensure you're the smartest person in them is like some sort of self sustaining Gary Stu feedback loop.
hes basically a god in his part of the multiverse(finite curve), up until he met the "god-dinosaurs". assuming the show is going to explore universes outside the curve, htere might be other beings that are equivalent to his. the only thing he couldnt do is resurrect his wife.
A social Crime ? I get it but I love Rick and Morty and I miss Roiland doing stuff. I'm so tired of the hiperconsequencialism ..
bugs bunny
Ain't I a stinker?
Sterling Archer.
Well, he can't die or get permanent brain damage, but everything else is certainly on the table.
........taking it you only watched the first few seasons?
I've seen all of them. The coma arc should have ended up with brain death. He got hallucinations about dying before he recovered just fine instead.
Been a while since I've watched Archer but didn't he die several times? At least once I think.
UPDATE: a quick and inthorough inspection of clips on youtube has yielded nothing, so I may have been mistaken. Also, there's a lot more Archer than I remembered. I guess I stopped watching fairly early on.
UPDATE 2: I did not expect to be emotionally blindsided during this investigation but I just watched a clip of Mallory's letter to Stirling. Oh Jessica, you stick of velvet dynamite. 💔
He technically died in the second Sea Tunt episode, intentionally drowned since they were short a set of SCUBA gear. He also did get permanent brain damage at least once, so I think the other commenter was being sarcastic. Classic Lana.
Making internet comments about a TV show I only half remember, I should have known I was entering the...
zone of danger.
Look pal, this ain't a crossover episode, this is a Sealab!
Harry Potter
I liked the series only because of the magical creatures and I liked Fantastic Beasts better then the main series tbh
I think HP is a strong contender. Plot armor as a concept exists because character-centric stories need their characters to stay alive in order to keep telling the story, so the character survives against unbelievable odds because the character has to live to advance the plot, even if it doesn't make for a credible story.
That's your everyday, ignoble, garden-variety plot armor. HP is on another level because his plot armor isn't just in service to the plot, his inevitable survival and triumph over Voldemort is also a central component of the actual plot of the series*. If that doesn't make him the king of plot armor, it at least merits some title of plot armor nobility.
* I'm like 80% sure. It's been a few years and IIRC, the reasons Potter survived and triumphed were hard to tease out. Rowling is many things, but one thing she ain't is good at articulating the metaphysics of magic. Her theory of magic is inconsistent and contradictory and left me with the impression that she didn't actually care all that much about the worldbuilding of the series. So I think there's plenty of room to argue Potter isn't the king of plot armor just by dint of plot confusingness. I think he's an honorable mention at least.
maybe in his own universe, but a character like Luke Skywalker blows him out of the water
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
Back in 2017 over on reddit I made a post that they should do a shot for shot remake of that movie, using the original cast, and original script......in 2017. Change nothing.
I don't even remember the movie. I remember the concept. I remember a baby crawling on a construction beam. But mostly I remember the movie for being the first time I had sour patch kids. I remember being only able to eat one at a time. This was back when they were actually sour.
Jesus. no wine? miracle. dead friend? raise em up. not enough food? miracle some up. get crucified? rise from the dead.
the whole letting himself get captured plot was so out of left field.
Don't forget the cringy cult like fanbase.
And the wild fanfic.
no wine? miracle.
Metaphor for conspiracy.
dead friend? raise em up.
Metaphor for a friend leaving the cult and coning back. See "X is dead to me"
not enough food? miracle some up.
Metaphor for inciting wealth redistribution
get crucified?
Brother.
rise from the dead.
Metaphor for leaving cult, but coming back for transition when terms of separation were agreed.
Hughie Campbell.
He's got the strongest superpower of anyone in the show (plot armour)
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.
The same applies to most other shonen protagonists, really.
Well yea, but Luffy asks for it constantly like the dude's entire stitche is "what is the most absurd way of trying to brute force my way" with little to no thinking involved at all. Most other shonens at least have the main protag make a battle plan or actually stop two seconds to think.
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
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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.
I vouch that
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daenerys targaryen will not die until the end.
I have only seen the first ep of GoT, and heard about some bits here and there. I don't even know if they are already dead.
First season?
My books didn’t come in seasons?
Literally no one likes gatekeepers
I'm sure the key masters think otherwise.
They also didn't come with an ending, which is a lot better than the ending the series came with.
Batman
This is the best answer I've seen so far imo.
He's just a man yet he can keep up with literal gods just because money and physical/mental conditioning? Yeah not happening.
When your opponent can move faster than your brain can even perceive it doesn't matter what kind of gadgets you have. You lose.
I'd also say that the flash is the opposite of plot armor. Realistically he'd be unstoppable.
Kenny from South Park?
Batman any time any of the rest of the justice league are in the same feature.
Vile E. Coyote
Its Wile E.
Thanks!
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.
That's a fair take, but for me it just went past the point of willing suspension of disbelief, and I don't find that meta-narrative compelling. It may well be a reason for me to re-evaluate it though, to decide if I think it's poorly done versus something where what they wanted to do simply didn't connect with me.
It wasn't that that ruined the show, it was the ending.
King (one punch man)
Goku. DBZ constantly reverses deaths by turning it into another form of training.
Spartan 117 from Halo. It's pretty explicitly said that he has luck on his side. Hypothetically, he's quantum immortal (we might all be actually) and the checkpoint system in the games is based around this immortality.
Daniel Jackson
He may die a fair bit, but he won't stay dead for long.
When he gets his funeral card punched 10 times his next one is free.
Rincewind.
This feels like cheating.
James Bond.
The Doctor (Doctor Who) and maybe a couple of his nemeses from his home world. Sure, he dies every few years, but regeneration into a new body is literally written into the lore. But then occasionally the Doctor is literally female, so at that point I assume she's the queen of plot armour instead.
Wolverine, who completely regenerated from a single drop of blood.
Does that, uh, mean that every time he bleeds he clones himself?
Not just blood...
Why you think he's so grumpy all the time? He can't risk a single drop of semen becoming an army of wolverines.
In one of the Frozen short films, Elsa creates an army of living snowmen by sneezing
Truly a #nofap for the sake of humanity
Spongebob Squarepants
I love Akira but Kaneda has serious plot armor. He gets shot at by soldiers with automatic weapons countless times and survives. That and the collapsing buildings, psychics, and other hazards he just shrugs off. Meanwhile, Chiyoko gets stabbed by some random scumbag.
The only correct answer is Ciaphas Cain.
Sly Marbo comes in at a close second but Sly Marbo never actually needs the plot armor.
I'm unclear if I'm too old or too young to know these characters.
Tell me, are they from the 1800s? Or are they from the year 2149?
They're from somewhere around the year 41900
A bit earlier than that, more like 40,300 - 40,700
Bink from the Xanth novels. He is a magician who jahcndustbdrmicyd vjsybfkauchd auchwnzkhfmaicybfkaubd w
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He has a magical ability that prevents him from suffering harm by conjuring impossible coincidences. It also prevents anyone from being told about the nature of the ability or discovering it via magical means.
Also, I am pretty sure he becomes the King of Xanth in one of the later books.
His plot armor wasn't total though. In the first book, or maybe even the second, there's a moment where his power gets 'flipped' so that bad luck constantly gets in his way, and with very careful action it can be overcome. Also the power tried to keep people from knowing because once it was known it would be able to be defeated.
The xanth books were great. The one with the spider and time travel is just amazing. If you're a dad, you could fill up your entire repertoire of puns from the series alone.
Candide.
That book's sex euphemisms are still among my favorite memories.
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).
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.
shinji in evangelion, the angels were able to wipe the floor with all the other eva, but somehow his doesnt even get damaged at all or not enough to completely disable it, even the strongest angel isnt able to damage his eva, plus they never go into detail how the eva is able withstand a poweful energy blast, and yes the berzerk mode is a plot armor/device, never explains where they get the boost of power that gives them the same AT field/gamma blasts of the angels, yea we know his is vessel of the adams. but the evas dont have a s2 engine core LIKE THE ANGELS DO. other than the ones evas cant touch, like ramiel who can fire an indefinte particle cannon which comes close to destroying the eva, arael, or armisael. EVAs are mostly Melee units, and long range attacks are th eonly things that remotely damages them. Naruku from inuyasha, his is more like plot twist/trap card. he comes up with a more powerful barrier with each evolution he goes through, and also able to instantly regenerate despite being completely obliterated but not destroyed, removing his own heart/soul apparently makes him effectively semi-immortal, because inuyasha has a wierd trope going on that demons can age and die, instead of being supernaturally immortal.
This is true, but shinji still loses in every version (old skool version), and the human race dies with him....Because
Shinji loses? Is that what happened in the original fever dream ending? I swear, I watched it, I read about it, and I even rewatched it, and what is actually happening (as in any movie/show/production where the 'mind' is able to be tricked by illusions and such, but that's a rant for somewhere else) never makes any sense even 'in-universe.' It just came out of nowhere, it seems. The directors seemed to think, "oh, throw some weird existential horror at the audience and then they'll just eat up whatever the writers shit out."
You are right. It skipped the ending and went to shinji being like: "I do matter!" roll credits
Then they made 2 movies w diff endings. In all of them humanity looses....or rather evolves/merges back into a super god, lillith.
Amazon remade it w a different ending of humanity surviving. Hella confusing unless you go into YouTube, research, etc.
Okay, so the shinjji+roll credits that I remember is correct. I never watched the movies with the different endings.
Ash Ketchum
BJ Blazkowicz literally got his head chopped off and survived.
Gandalf
Frank Gallagher
I dont know, those types of people in real life tend to either die young or live wayyyyyyyyyy too long.
Bobby in Dallas.
Reiner Braun
Mr. Magoo.
Probably the protagonist of “My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me!” He can kill anyone with a thought. You can't kill him because he eliminated the possibility of killing him.
LeChance, obviously
This is tangential to the request, but HackingNoises in the second episode of “Craft a lie”. Which is a Minecraft speed running challenge.