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The power to be immune to all forms of physical damage. Not to be confused with Immortality, although some users are Immortal. A physical equivalent to Psychic Shield.
Also Called
- Impenetrable Skin/Impervious Skin
- Imperviousness
- Indestructibility
- Invincibility
- Unharmable
Capabilities
The user is immune to all forms of conventional physical damage, unable to feel physical pain, is immune to bleeding or loss of limb. Death due to old age (as opposed to preemptive death) is seemingly the only cause of death to the user.
Applications
Techniques
- Atomicity: to never be physically divided.
Variations
- Absolute Defense: simply block any and all attacks.
- Bulletproof Durability: a form of invulnerability that only applies to gunfire.
- Density Manipulation: increase one's density to make it much harder and more difficult to be harmed.
- Elasticity: users body simply absorbs attacks.
- Immutability: the ability to be impervious to all forms of external physical change.
- Impact Absorption: absorb mechanical and physical impacts.
- Intangibility: becoming intangible to allow all offensive attacks to phase through.
- Mobile Invulnerability: a form of invulnerability that only works if the holder of the power is in motion
- Reactive Invulnerability: a form of Invulnerability that only works if the user is in danger.
- Regenerative Healing Factor- Heal rapidly from any wound
- Selective Invulnerability: a form of invulnerability that only works on a certain attack, similar to Evolution.
- Supernaturally Dense Tissue: users body-tissue is supernaturally dense making them incredibly hardy.
- Temporary Invincibility: a form of invulnerability that only works for a limited period of time.
Associations
- Absolute Defense
- Defense Powers
- Immobility
- Immortality
- Immutability
- Reflective Immutability
- Self-Molecular Manipulation
- Unfettered Body
Limitations
- May be vulnerable to certain conditions, substances or simply have a place that is vulnerable to damage.
- May become Immobile.
- Doesn't mean immortality unless otherwise bestowed.
- Highly vulnerable to toughness-altering abilities such as Fortitude Weakening, Density Manipulation or even Carbon Manipulation.
- May require learning defenses to particular dangers.
- May be vulnerable to telepathic abilities.
- May only protect against external attacks, so internal attacks, such as Internal Rupturing, Dehydration and Deoxygenation, can bypass this ability.
- Power Erasure/Aversion Field may remove this power.
Known Users
See Also: Made of Iron, Nigh-Invulnerability and Super Toughness.
- Steelheart (The Reckoners Series)
- The Ethereal (Aladdin: the Animated Series)
- Duryodhana (Mahabharata)
- Juggernaut (Marvel Comics)
- Latonya Jefferson (Marvel Comics)
- The Sentry (Marvel)
- Redmond (Whiplash)
- David Dunn (Unbreakable)
- All Kryptonians under a yellow sun (DC Comics)
- Captain Marvel (DC Comics)
- Icon (DC Comics)
- Black Adam (DC Comics)
- Marvel family/Black Marvel family (DC Comics)
- Lar Gand (DC Comics)
- All Daxamites under a yellow sun (DC Comics)
- John Hancock (Hancock)
- Invincible (Image Comics)
- All Viltrumites (Image Comics)
- Achilles (Greek Mythology); except his heel
- WordGirl (WordGirl)
- The Tick (The Tick); described as "nigh-invulnerability"
- Baron Samedi (Heroes)
- Butterball (Marvel Comics)
- Omerta (Marvel Comics)
- Rogue (Marvel); formerly with Ms. Marvel's power set
- Lionblaze (Warriors)
- Golden Boy (Wild Cards)
- Demi-Fiend with Masakados (Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne)
- Instructo-Bob (Yin Yang Yo!)
- Hexadecimal (ReBoot)
- GigaByte (ReBoot)
- Daemon (ReBoot)
- Elie/Resha Valentine (Rave Master); by the Etherion
- Gods (Charmed)
- Tull (Charmed); via the Eternal Spring
- Cole Turner (Charmed)
- The Man in Black (Lost)
- The Guardian (Ultima)
- Aku (Samurai Jack)
- Paragon (Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects)
- Grandma (The Twilight Zone: I Sing the Body Electric)
- Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight)
- Angel/Twilight (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight)
- Conner McKnight (Power Rangers: Dino Thunder)
- G-Girl (My Super Ex-Girlfriend)
- Akua Shuzen (Rosario + Vampire)
- Saitama (OnePunch-Man)
- Shedinja (Pokemon); unless hit with Soak.
- Rahkshi or Kraata of Invulnerability (Bionicle)
- Warp/Kaiba (Kaiba)
- Pulgasari (Pulgasari)
- Galgameth (The Adventures of Galgameth)
- Poli Truper (Supertorpe)
- Captain Man (Henry Danger)
- Trevor Philips (Grand Theft Auto 5)
- Yaya (Unbreakable Machine-Doll)
- Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus); under the Achilles curse
- Clarisse La Rue (Percy Jackson and the Olympians); under Ares's blessing
- Frank Zhang (Heroes of Olympus); under Marte's blessing
- Varwik (Between Worlds)
- Berserker (TYPE-MOON)
Known Items
- The Medal of Everlasting Life (The Book of Life)
- Eternal Spring (Charmed)
- Etherion (Rave Master)