King (one punch man)
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Kenny from South Park?
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.
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.
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.
BJ Blazkowicz literally got his head chopped off and survived.
Mr Bean
Thread over. The only three correct answers are Mr Bean, Mr Magoo, and Inspector Gadget.
All other answers are wrong.
Vile E. Coyote
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:
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.
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 ..
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.
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.
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?
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Batman any time any of the rest of the justice league are in the same feature.
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 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.
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
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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 👀
bugs bunny
Ain't I a stinker?
Mr. Magoo
Hughie Campbell.
He's got the strongest superpower of anyone in the show (plot armour)
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.
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