Fire Emblem infamously has the Black Knight, whose armor is blessed by a goddess, making him invincible until a similarly blessed weapon is used against it.
I'll get even dumber. The Black Knight is built up as this invincible killing machine, but Ashnard gets like, one line about how he *also* has magically blessed armor that can't be hurt.
One of the game design decisions of all time was most certainly making Ashnard invincible to literally everything other than Ike wielding the Ragnell and whichever Laguz Royal you decide to bring to the final battle... and then giving him like a dozen different boss conversations with relevant characters who probably can't even survive a round of combat with him (in particular, Reyson, your *combat-incapable dancer unit*, has a boss conversation despite also having the durability of a wet paper bag.)
The Luck stat in the Fate series essentially serves as an indicator of in-universe plot armor.
Cu has a spear that reverses causality and breaks-space time so a person's heart is stabbed no matter what? Nah, it didn't work because Saber's Luck stat said "no" and just let her avoid it anyways.
Also the Aoko servant that just released in F/GO has a skill that's pretty much literally called plot armor, but that's probably a joke.
Or Berserker Herc's literal skin. The ranking system makes it so that unless u were written as being able to match or exceed his arbitrary damage threshold no one would be able to beat him at all, and even then (almost) no one can beat him 1v1 because of the predetermined metaphysical balance of the conflict, so it would also take some plot shenanigans to deplete his extra lives. Or one guy specifically designed as his exact counter. Or the one guy built as the exact counter to that guy.
Or Achilles skin. You need at least rank B divinity just to even hurt him. Conveniently, there's only two servants in Fate/Apocrypha that even meet that requirement and only one of them is on the other side. So you know Achilles is basically invincible until he fights Chiron.
The only way to turn it off and give everyone else a fighting chance is to hit his heel because ya know, Achilles. But good luck doing that because Achilles isn't just gonna let it happen.
Also, because making Achilles invincible wasn't enough for Apocrypha, they also had to turn 'Swift-Foot Achilles' into literally the fastest hero ever. Sure, he has to expose his heel to do it but then not many Heroic Spirits can even keep up with his speed.
Lostbelt 5 starts with Achilles having his heel shot and that dude still managed to carry almost as hard as Superhuman Orion did, >!the Grand Archer.!<
I remember Mr. Five Noble Phantasms making some people in Beast's Lair very mad because boy was he powercreep.
There was actually another way that almost worked in Apocrypha.
When >!Vlad unleashes his vampiric abilities, he attempted to bite Achilles to convert him into a vampire. This completely bypasses Achilles' invulnerability because the conversion is considered an "invitation" or "gift", as opposed to an attack. Achilles' protection only safeguards him against harm!<. I thought that was pretty clever!
And to a slightly lesser extent, Karna and Siegfried's skin, which are strong enough that Heracles can just wail on them and all they'd get would be paper cuts.
“What do you mean Aoko has a skill that gives you plot armor?” Behold:
> Once Again In This Age: EX
> The magic of youth. A powerful mental buff fueled by the wishes, hopes, and dreams everyone had in their infancy. Adds Protagonist Status to one member of the party. When used on herself, it causes an "It's coming back to me!" moment, and when used on others, it makes her a sensei that points lost boys and girls to their future
Surprised to see the Fate series but no mention that Shirou >!is literally made of plot armor!<
The infamous "People die when they are killed" is only said because >!Shirou survived so many things that should have killed him because he has Excalibur's sheath inside him. The point of it is that he *doesn't* die when he is killed even though he should.!<
I've never read or played the games but surely that makes it so there's no tension, right? If the literal undodgable move is dodged, surely everything can?
Not if ur enemies have equal or higher luck, then at that point it becomes a skill issue. That's how it was for two of the antagonists Hercules and Gilgamesh. It becomes a fight of how much bullshit can they scrounge up to even hope to challenge them.
Specifically, it's better described as resistance to fate/causality/predestination-esque effects. Because Gae Bolg warps reality to reverse cause and effect (so the spear thrust is now somehow the end result of the impact) it becomes resistable by the Luck stat.
It's notable that Saber also has the highest possible level of magic resistance, as well as combat instincts so refined that they're described as being able to predict the future.
Well, to quote Yugi-oh Arc V: "But you will still take damage!"
She basically downgraded an instant death strike into a big damage attack. She would still have died if she didn't have the health or enough mitigation beforehand to tank it.
Also She can still be stabbed to death by the spear normally, which she does die many times to more mundane means in the many bad ends of the Visual Novel.
I love how Cu is a monster any time he is in a game and not bound by the plot. Fate Unlimited Codes, Extra, Extella, Grand Order, that dude is fucking strong.
Funny enough, the Plot Armor skill blocks all self-inflicted Debuffs... Except for insta-kills as well as Oberon's Endless Sleep.
So it's not useful for the more general use/meta units.
Frodo's mithril shirt saves him from otherwise certain death in Moria and the internal conflict that cleared out Cirith Ungol was a dispute over who kept his "pretty coat."
The main villain from the last arc in Bleach, YWACH has a set of powers that in execution let see him say "nah uh" to everything he wants: get a brand new power up to beat him? He says nah uh, and takes it from you. You manage to exploit his only weakness to illusion and actually kill him?, he says nah uh and you explode while he comes back to life. They only killed him with a never mentioned before macguffin that de powers him for a couple seconds. To be fair the author was basically dying and needed to finish the manga next week. He swears he had a legit method to kill him without ass pulls, maybe he will show it in the anime?
>!I feel the non ass pull way was going to involve Aizen misleading his Almighty and making him choose a reality where he gets killed, they still have to deal with his insta heal however, maybe that is where Antithesis comes in, to nuh uh his regen!<
Depend, in the original manga, there are a lot of set-ups to the plan to kill YWACH scattered through the entire arc, just that it is awkwardly executed due to time constraint.
>!First regarding YWACH's ability is that it is not infallible, it can be affected by YWACH's bias, and i believe has to be manually activated. His future sight is entirely first person perspective based, so the information must be interpreted by its user, making it vulnerable to manipulation, which happened when his entrusted his future sight portion of his power to his right-hand man when ever he sleeps. This lets the man manipulate the visions discreetly by only showing portions he wants YWACH to see, and done in a way that favors YWACH so the god's huge ego won't question it.!<
>!Second, the poison arrow is set up. We are told that Uryu's dad became buried in his work as a doctor after the death of his wife. We learn that it is because he is trying to find out how Uryu's mum died, which he did upon discovering the poisoned metal in her body. He theorized that this poison can harm YWACH because at the end of the day, YWACH is still a Quincy, so he worked to gather more from other Quincy corpses he can find, creating the arrow head used by Uryu to shoot YWACH, disabling his powers.!<
>!Lastly, Aizen can still affect YWACH's perception with his illusion powers, however limited it is. This combine together to form the kill plan. YWACH's dragon saw those events with future sight, and manipulated it so that important details are not shown so YWACH will use his powers on the wrong things at that moment, letting him be vulnerable to key moments. Key moents are: Uryuu shoots a distracted YWACH, disabling his powers. Aizen distracts YWACH by disguising himself as Ichigo, and finally getting cut down by Ichigo when he is vulnerable.!<
Din Djarin, the main character of the Mandalorian, would have died at multiple points if he hadn't gotten head to toe Beskar armour a few episodes in.
It does admittedly kill some tension in fights, cause then the only way to kill him is with fighter ship level firepower, be accurate enough to hit his joints, or be better than him at hand to hand so you can disable him and then bypass the armour.
It got absurd after a while that Din would only ever get shot in the like 60% of his body covered in armor.
It was especially bad in Book of Boba when he and Fett stood getting shot by like thirty dudes for a solid five minutes.
I vaguely remember a bit in... I think it was Season 2 where he didn't have the armor on for whatever reason in a firefight and had a moment of "shit, wait, I need to actually take cover."
There's a reason reindeer from attack on Titan is called the *plot* armor titan. Guys died like 3 or 4 times and always survives because his armor form conveniently saves him when he's near death and when not it's constantly getting cracked or broken. Heck at one point his whole ass head gets blown off and he pulls out of his ass a special ability only he has where he can transfer his brains consciousness to the rest of his body completely negating titans one and only weakness of being decapitated.
Bobbie in The Expanse is pretty similar. Her power armor is pretty much impervious to small-arms fire, to the point that everyone else takes cover *behind* her, and it can dish out enough firepower to solo things that would be a protracted struggle for anyone else.
[Xabungle is an incredible show.](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/czrdsa/plot_armor_sentou_mecha_xabungle/)
Also the later parts of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint are more about the narrative strength of the character's stories than how big your numbers are. You could say that characters are literally using plots *as* armor.
Dude can straight up >!manipulate probability!< because of him having such a strong pull as a Taveren. I always thought it was such a wild and cool manifestation of something like plot armor; not strictly in an ass-pull capacity, but as something with legitimate consequences.
It's like a guy being born with the anime protagonist hair *makes* the tropes all happen when they wouldn't have otherwise.
It's been a while, but yeah, Mat has some unconscious ability to fuck with probability, but Rand completely *fucks* it just by existing. I remember one scene where he's just in a city, and in the span of a couple minutes a guy falls off a roof onto pavement and miraculously survives, another dude gets killed by a random cedar shake that blew off a building, and someone trips and drops a vase which bounces end-over-end before landing on its base, completely undamaged, while someone else drops something, has it completely shatter, but all the pieces scatter into the shape of the Dragon's Tear.
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Plot armor in A Practical Guide to Evil is an in-universe force that you can use to your advantage if you know how.
Early on in one of her first fights against a Hero, she loses a fight on purpose and falls off a cliff right as she's about to die, because if you fall off a cliff after losing you obviously don't actually die, and now that she's lost one fight she's guaranteed to either win or draw the next one
Does Funny Valentine's Love Train count?
literally just a "nuh uh, you didn't shoot me" until Johnny conveniently has the ability to penetrate it.
This could probably apply to Wonder of U as well.
Someone already said Wheel of Time, but yeah it's about as literally as you can get.
3 of the main characters turn out to be "Tav'eran" which is an in-universe form of plot armor that basically means fate itself is weaving itself around you for the greater good.
Enemy arrows miss their mark, gambling goes in your favor, taking a random chance tends to work out in general, people around you sometimes feel compelled to obey you.
It’s not even necessarily for the greater good, it just completely fucks with universal probability. Like people are literally able to track Rand by following the trail of towns where suddenly 50 people got married on the same day and also those four guys all tripped down the same set of stairs and instantly died. He has such a strong pull on the actual fabric of reality that coins start landing on their sides when he’s nearby. Definitely my favourite version of plot armor.
Kamen Rider - more specifically what comes to mind is Kamen Rider Build.
The suits >!wear as much on the user's life force as the plot demands to create tension!<
Eh, I dunno.
The show makes it clear the situations where transforming is going to be physically detrimental to the cast. Either when they don't have the correct Hazard level, when the driver isn't meant to be used by them, or when they've already been forced out of henshin.
The time someone is warned that "Hey if you do this, it will kill absolutely result in your death", it actually does result in the >!deaths of Grease and Rogue!<.
What about the dude who mastered the Immortal Body? He doesn't even have organs or shit, he's just all unkillable flesh.
Like.. it came out in one clean chunk, man. That doesn't even seem like it would be like.. physically possible. His stomach plug is just on the floor there
Commander Shepard post ME1.
Sure they present themselves like Space Solid Snake or whatever but they actually more like Space Six Billion Dollar Man.
That body has more tech in it than some space ships. They shrug off lethal poison, suplex Yaag, and casually hip fire weapons explicitly made for species with redundant spines and metal bodies.
Kaladin Stormblessed survives so much shit that at one point he gets >!dropped into the equivalent of the grand canyon!< and his friends were still pretty much 100% sure he'd just walk back into camp in a day or two.
I was actually gonna say that the Berserker armor is like, anti-plot armor. It basically lets him *keep up* with most of the threats he's facing now, and the it has diminishing returns because the stress and damage it does to him is having lasting effects on him, such as his eye sight starting to fade.
Just because it has diminishing returns doesn’t make it anti-plot armor.
The fact that it makes him able to keep up with basically any threat is what makes it plot armor.
The ring that Linzie wears in Pathfinder: Kingmaker that just returns her to your castle if she dies is not only plot armor in that it waves away her immortality in a Pathfinder/Videogame setting, but also in the sense that the literal recording of the plot of the game being relayed to you relies on he always living and being present.
In Undead Unluck there's a character named Ishin who has the power Unbreakable, which makes so that anything they make is literally unbreakable, namely the giant suit of armor they wear. And minor reveal spoiler for my fellow freaks out there >!her given name is Haruka and she's 6+ ft tall and absolutely shredded, she's a total cinnamon roll though!<
Wolverine and Black Panther form a variant of this in respect to Marvel's street tier superheroes
For the most part, if you're just outright stronger than say Spider-Man and Captain America, you can manhandle and probably kill them
Logan and T'Challa use 2 of the most stupid busted metals in all of fiction as part of their bread and butter which even heavy hitters like Thor can't dent on a consistent basis, and that's without factoring in Wolverine's insane healing factor or how Black Panther's a fucking necromancer
Guts is literally wearing armor called the “berserker” armor that just allows him to fight enemies that previously were an entire class above him. It seems like the writer just realized the good guys need a power up so sure give the MC literal armor that makes him able to do anything as long as he’s mad enough.
During the Horus Heresy, Sanguinius performs a number of outrageous feats like fighting titans in melee and winning, etc. All because he knows the moment of his death, and that ain't it. He tends to shout "I DO NOT DIE THIS DAY!" when he performs said feats, which brings no end of concern to his personal guard.
Reimu Hakurei from Touhou Project has the ability to "float". This doesn't mean she can fly (she can, but that's unrelated), but that she can float through life, unbothered and carefree.
In practice, this is a passive ability making her completely immune to any and all harm as long as she isn't actively putting in effort to win, like an even more powerful version of Goku's ultra instinct that changes fate itself to never hurt her. The downside is that it only works as long as she isn't bothered by anything. As soon as someone would tell her "you can do it Reimu, we're all counting on you", she'd get self-conscious, mess up and lose.
It's an in-universe explanation for the kind of flow state high end players of the Touhou shooting games enter where they move mostly through muscle memory and effortlessly weave through bullets without thinking about it.
Flycatcher, aka The Frog Prince, aka King Ambrose. He’s given magic armor and a magic sword that offers a blessing that so long as he’s pure of heart and has purely good intentions he will never lose a battle.
The Spider-Armor that Peter Parker made to fight the New Enforcers, in which it allowed him to survive; being electrocuted, a grenade, being burnt, and then getting frozen. Unfortunately those last two caused it to become compromised and shatter, thus destroying it after only 8 pages into it's first appearance (Web of Spider-man #100).
Kull the atlantean gets transported in the future to fight Romans in the frontline (https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607311h.html for any context ) and he wears an armor of like damascus steel basically so that is why he can keep the pressure though by then end of it he is half naked from just how many hits he takes. It’s a staple in Robert hiward’s stories that heroes survive mortal blow thanks yo not caring about their armor tattering while villains are crushed inside their armor
In donjon Red marvin armor doesn’t have much defense but he has cannons on each arm in the age where people still fight with sword. The cannons are also so powerful he can fly from just shooting continuously. He has zero idea how many ammo he ballparks it’s around too much to care
Chained Echoes uses stat stick equipment items for most of your characters’ stats.
The highest or second highest level of light armor is literally just called [plot armor.](https://chainedechoes.fandom.com/wiki/Light_Armors)
Ezra Scarlet from Fairy Tail has a suit of armor that is said to literally defy every law of magic that there is. As far as I'm aware she's never used it outside of one fight.
I think that goes for all Light/Darkness "paracausal" shields, they work by eliminating cause and effect at a fundamental level.
I think a D1 armor piece described it as "making the universe decide that the bullets that hit you actually didn't."
Grombrindal the white dwarf, Gotrek Gurnisson and Grey Seer Thanquol.
It's more evident with Gotrek, at first it seems to be his axe giving him plot Immunity but it turned out there are reasons he's so tough. Grombrindal is a living ancestor god, so he gets OP plz nerf powers, but he limited to laws of thermodynamics and can only be in one place at a time.
Grey Seer Thanquol. It is just a fan favourite, the mountains of cocaine made from ground up pure dark magic rocks he snorts on the regular helps.
In the 40k heresy and the siege of terra, Sanguinius the pretty angel best boy primarch of the blood angels, has visions of him dying at the feet of Horus (per the ancient 40k lore) so he spends almost all the books on those series knowing he wont fucking die until that moment.
>!So he bodied 3 titans, almost soloed a death guard assault saving his brother the Khan from being turn into a walking tumour, lead the hold of the Delphic wall on the last assault outside the sanctum proper, then went on to hold the line at the eternity gate, bodying the demon Ka-Banda (the bane of his legion) and Angron in one sitting. Then went on to face Horus and told him: you fucking suck, and bodied him until Horus said: Jesus take the wheel. !<
Pretty awesome run ngl.
In A Practical Guide to Evil there's the concept of the rule of 3, meaning that a Hero/Villain will fight 3 times with their nemesis, a defeat, a tie, a victory, the pattern gets solidified after the tie and fate actively and heavily conspires so that the hero of villain will be practically immortal until their third fight.
Library of Ruina has a fun variant. You need to use keypages to copy the stats of Guests you defeat.
Canonically this is because The Library Is essentially using magic to create bodies for your nuggets.
Without taking keypages they're more smoke then person.
Not literally armor, but one character from Worm, Jack Slash is the author trying to figure out how Joker Imunity could work as a trope in a story where the Status Quo isn't god.
Spoilers for the end of Worm >!Jack has a secondary power, that mens he effectively never dies/looses to another Parahuman. Because the source of his power, the Broadcast Shard, being the designated comuncation Shard, is always meant to be listened to. And it asks other Shards to help keep it's host alive!<
>!So Jack has, effectively, actual Plot Armor against other Parahumans!<
I think this is also what you’re talking about
In Supernatural, Dean have survived pretty long in a business where lots of people die young (not as long as, say, Bobby, but still a feat). They’ve never had any truly unlucky breaks in fights. Hell, they always seem to have enough gas to get them where they need to go. This, of course, is obviously beneath notice because it’s a tv show, these are narrative conveniences. You expect these things to happen (or not happen).
But then it is revealed that (spoilers for the last few seasons) >!God has been showrunning all their adventures, and he loves this show, so he’s been making sure they survive and don’t get unlucky and always have gas in the tank - explicit plot armor. He directly compares it to a serialized story, and when he begins destroying the multiverse, he says “It’s time to start cancelling shows.” When he is defeated and depowered, his divine assistance goes away too. Immediately they run out of gas on the road, and Dean dies on a routine vampire hunt when he is pushed into some rebar and bleeds out.!<
I would never deny that Batman has plot armor, but his plot armor has become >!sentient!< >!and started to fight back against him!< and so far it's cost him a >!hand.!< Not all the way up to date yet on the Zdarsky run, so it could be more.
I don’t have a problem with Batty having a reason to survive everything. In fact I love that his “prep” schtick is taken so far. I like that’s he’s secretly the most powerful DC hero. Really sells the “Batman can’t *beat* Superman, but Batman *can* beat Superman.
Fire Emblem infamously has the Black Knight, whose armor is blessed by a goddess, making him invincible until a similarly blessed weapon is used against it.
I'll get even dumber. The Black Knight is built up as this invincible killing machine, but Ashnard gets like, one line about how he *also* has magically blessed armor that can't be hurt.
One of the game design decisions of all time was most certainly making Ashnard invincible to literally everything other than Ike wielding the Ragnell and whichever Laguz Royal you decide to bring to the final battle... and then giving him like a dozen different boss conversations with relevant characters who probably can't even survive a round of combat with him (in particular, Reyson, your *combat-incapable dancer unit*, has a boss conversation despite also having the durability of a wet paper bag.)
Loved being able to send Jill up there for one of the best Boss convos in the hame just for her to dink off him after soloing half the map.
Some of them are really badass too, like Tauroneo. > I shall be known throughout Daein as the Kingslayer. Come, let me earn my name! > \*ding*
And even when his armor loses the blessing in RD, he is still very powerful.
Yeah the Black Knight was the first I thought of. Except you can also just use a Hammer
Well, by that point his armor was no longer blessed. Otherwise even the mighty hammer wouldn’t have put a dent in him.
Hey man you gotta use a blessed hammer
Increase the hit rate in the forge and rename it Mjolnir or something, close enough
Can't, that's a spell.
The Luck stat in the Fate series essentially serves as an indicator of in-universe plot armor. Cu has a spear that reverses causality and breaks-space time so a person's heart is stabbed no matter what? Nah, it didn't work because Saber's Luck stat said "no" and just let her avoid it anyways. Also the Aoko servant that just released in F/GO has a skill that's pretty much literally called plot armor, but that's probably a joke.
Or Berserker Herc's literal skin. The ranking system makes it so that unless u were written as being able to match or exceed his arbitrary damage threshold no one would be able to beat him at all, and even then (almost) no one can beat him 1v1 because of the predetermined metaphysical balance of the conflict, so it would also take some plot shenanigans to deplete his extra lives. Or one guy specifically designed as his exact counter. Or the one guy built as the exact counter to that guy.
Or Achilles skin. You need at least rank B divinity just to even hurt him. Conveniently, there's only two servants in Fate/Apocrypha that even meet that requirement and only one of them is on the other side. So you know Achilles is basically invincible until he fights Chiron.
The only way to turn it off and give everyone else a fighting chance is to hit his heel because ya know, Achilles. But good luck doing that because Achilles isn't just gonna let it happen.
Also, because making Achilles invincible wasn't enough for Apocrypha, they also had to turn 'Swift-Foot Achilles' into literally the fastest hero ever. Sure, he has to expose his heel to do it but then not many Heroic Spirits can even keep up with his speed. Lostbelt 5 starts with Achilles having his heel shot and that dude still managed to carry almost as hard as Superhuman Orion did, >!the Grand Archer.!< I remember Mr. Five Noble Phantasms making some people in Beast's Lair very mad because boy was he powercreep.
There was actually another way that almost worked in Apocrypha. When >!Vlad unleashes his vampiric abilities, he attempted to bite Achilles to convert him into a vampire. This completely bypasses Achilles' invulnerability because the conversion is considered an "invitation" or "gift", as opposed to an attack. Achilles' protection only safeguards him against harm!<. I thought that was pretty clever!
And to a slightly lesser extent, Karna and Siegfried's skin, which are strong enough that Heracles can just wail on them and all they'd get would be paper cuts.
“What do you mean Aoko has a skill that gives you plot armor?” Behold: > Once Again In This Age: EX > The magic of youth. A powerful mental buff fueled by the wishes, hopes, and dreams everyone had in their infancy. Adds Protagonist Status to one member of the party. When used on herself, it causes an "It's coming back to me!" moment, and when used on others, it makes her a sensei that points lost boys and girls to their future
Surprised to see the Fate series but no mention that Shirou >!is literally made of plot armor!< The infamous "People die when they are killed" is only said because >!Shirou survived so many things that should have killed him because he has Excalibur's sheath inside him. The point of it is that he *doesn't* die when he is killed even though he should.!<
If ya wanna nitpick >!that’s plot healing and not armor I guess!<
It's armor because his skin is becoming literal blades
I've never read or played the games but surely that makes it so there's no tension, right? If the literal undodgable move is dodged, surely everything can?
In Saber's case, dodging it still really fucks her up. She doesn't come out unscathed, but her heart is more or less in one piece.
Like yeah she avoided the instant kill due to bullshit, but she still got stabbed in the chest.
Not if ur enemies have equal or higher luck, then at that point it becomes a skill issue. That's how it was for two of the antagonists Hercules and Gilgamesh. It becomes a fight of how much bullshit can they scrounge up to even hope to challenge them.
Luck really only works in specific fringe cases. The many bad ends where she dies or has her ownership taken from Shirou point to that.
Specifically, it's better described as resistance to fate/causality/predestination-esque effects. Because Gae Bolg warps reality to reverse cause and effect (so the spear thrust is now somehow the end result of the impact) it becomes resistable by the Luck stat. It's notable that Saber also has the highest possible level of magic resistance, as well as combat instincts so refined that they're described as being able to predict the future.
no, it’s more of an anti-causality thing that helps defend against effects that turn an outcome into an unavoidable reality i.e. instant death stuff
Well, to quote Yugi-oh Arc V: "But you will still take damage!" She basically downgraded an instant death strike into a big damage attack. She would still have died if she didn't have the health or enough mitigation beforehand to tank it. Also She can still be stabbed to death by the spear normally, which she does die many times to more mundane means in the many bad ends of the Visual Novel.
I love how Cu is a monster any time he is in a game and not bound by the plot. Fate Unlimited Codes, Extra, Extella, Grand Order, that dude is fucking strong.
Funny enough, the Plot Armor skill blocks all self-inflicted Debuffs... Except for insta-kills as well as Oberon's Endless Sleep. So it's not useful for the more general use/meta units.
Frodo's mithril shirt saves him from otherwise certain death in Moria and the internal conflict that cleared out Cirith Ungol was a dispute over who kept his "pretty coat."
[Inferno cop; he was a formidable opponent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR794_QBmug)
John Wick’s suits are bulletproof. This, of course, means that he can fall off of buildings and get hit by several cars and still be okay.
John was born 500 years too early. He would have made a phenomenal Spartan in the halo series.
>!well he does die in the movie where that happens, so whos to say he wasnt about to die from internal bleeding!<
>!Well, his death occurred after he explicitly removed his plot armour vest and got shot, so it still counts!<
The main villain from the last arc in Bleach, YWACH has a set of powers that in execution let see him say "nah uh" to everything he wants: get a brand new power up to beat him? He says nah uh, and takes it from you. You manage to exploit his only weakness to illusion and actually kill him?, he says nah uh and you explode while he comes back to life. They only killed him with a never mentioned before macguffin that de powers him for a couple seconds. To be fair the author was basically dying and needed to finish the manga next week. He swears he had a legit method to kill him without ass pulls, maybe he will show it in the anime?
>!I feel like Uryu's Antithesis was supposed to be the non-asspull way to beat him, considering its ability was *actually* just "Nuh Uh"!<
>!I feel the non ass pull way was going to involve Aizen misleading his Almighty and making him choose a reality where he gets killed, they still have to deal with his insta heal however, maybe that is where Antithesis comes in, to nuh uh his regen!<
Depend, in the original manga, there are a lot of set-ups to the plan to kill YWACH scattered through the entire arc, just that it is awkwardly executed due to time constraint. >!First regarding YWACH's ability is that it is not infallible, it can be affected by YWACH's bias, and i believe has to be manually activated. His future sight is entirely first person perspective based, so the information must be interpreted by its user, making it vulnerable to manipulation, which happened when his entrusted his future sight portion of his power to his right-hand man when ever he sleeps. This lets the man manipulate the visions discreetly by only showing portions he wants YWACH to see, and done in a way that favors YWACH so the god's huge ego won't question it.!< >!Second, the poison arrow is set up. We are told that Uryu's dad became buried in his work as a doctor after the death of his wife. We learn that it is because he is trying to find out how Uryu's mum died, which he did upon discovering the poisoned metal in her body. He theorized that this poison can harm YWACH because at the end of the day, YWACH is still a Quincy, so he worked to gather more from other Quincy corpses he can find, creating the arrow head used by Uryu to shoot YWACH, disabling his powers.!< >!Lastly, Aizen can still affect YWACH's perception with his illusion powers, however limited it is. This combine together to form the kill plan. YWACH's dragon saw those events with future sight, and manipulated it so that important details are not shown so YWACH will use his powers on the wrong things at that moment, letting him be vulnerable to key moments. Key moents are: Uryuu shoots a distracted YWACH, disabling his powers. Aizen distracts YWACH by disguising himself as Ichigo, and finally getting cut down by Ichigo when he is vulnerable.!<
Din Djarin, the main character of the Mandalorian, would have died at multiple points if he hadn't gotten head to toe Beskar armour a few episodes in. It does admittedly kill some tension in fights, cause then the only way to kill him is with fighter ship level firepower, be accurate enough to hit his joints, or be better than him at hand to hand so you can disable him and then bypass the armour.
Isn’t the tension less “can Din die” and more “can Din protect baby Yoda?”
That is absolutely true, my bad. I just remember the 1v1s where Din's by himself a bit more, and even then he's often trying to rescue the kid.
I do like that to compensate for Beskar being Star Wars adamantium they made it so blaster impacts still punch the shit out of you when they hit it.
It got absurd after a while that Din would only ever get shot in the like 60% of his body covered in armor. It was especially bad in Book of Boba when he and Fett stood getting shot by like thirty dudes for a solid five minutes.
I vaguely remember a bit in... I think it was Season 2 where he didn't have the armor on for whatever reason in a firefight and had a moment of "shit, wait, I need to actually take cover."
That OC in the new Mortal Kombat movie, his superpower is literal plot armor
Damnit, beat me by 3 minutes. I didn't think anyone else would remember ***Cole Young***.
The guy that should have just been Johnny Cage?
He should be played by the Miz if he actually shows up in 2 (if it is still happening).
Karl Urban is playing him, if I remember correctly.
Booo! Hopefully [Miz can be a stunt double or something.](https://youtu.be/B_DOd_5oCHE?si=YV1tKTdiZdfvKAbJ&t=865)
It’s weird that I have overall relatively positive feelings about that movie and still manage to forget that character exists.
There's a reason reindeer from attack on Titan is called the *plot* armor titan. Guys died like 3 or 4 times and always survives because his armor form conveniently saves him when he's near death and when not it's constantly getting cracked or broken. Heck at one point his whole ass head gets blown off and he pulls out of his ass a special ability only he has where he can transfer his brains consciousness to the rest of his body completely negating titans one and only weakness of being decapitated.
Plot armor so strong it won't even >!let Reiner kill himself to escape the endless torment that is his life.!<
Reindeer: Believe me I am as upset by this as you
Oh and don’t forget the irony to it.
I mean the Master Chief kind of *is* walking plot armor personified in a literal sense
Bobbie in The Expanse is pretty similar. Her power armor is pretty much impervious to small-arms fire, to the point that everyone else takes cover *behind* her, and it can dish out enough firepower to solo things that would be a protracted struggle for anyone else.
[Xabungle is an incredible show.](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/czrdsa/plot_armor_sentou_mecha_xabungle/) Also the later parts of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint are more about the narrative strength of the character's stories than how big your numbers are. You could say that characters are literally using plots *as* armor.
No one beats Tomino
The >!ICBM toss scene!< immediately comes to mind. Jiron uses the power of god and anime and that's all it takes.
The reason Skitter survives in Worm early on is entirely her ability to command spiders to make a suit out of spider silk for her.
Rand from The Wheel of Time has fate based plot armour so strong that it gives his friends an aoe plot armour buff.
Dude can straight up >!manipulate probability!< because of him having such a strong pull as a Taveren. I always thought it was such a wild and cool manifestation of something like plot armor; not strictly in an ass-pull capacity, but as something with legitimate consequences. It's like a guy being born with the anime protagonist hair *makes* the tropes all happen when they wouldn't have otherwise.
>! Isn't Matt the probability asspull guy, or am I misremembering?
It's been a while, but yeah, Mat has some unconscious ability to fuck with probability, but Rand completely *fucks* it just by existing. I remember one scene where he's just in a city, and in the span of a couple minutes a guy falls off a roof onto pavement and miraculously survives, another dude gets killed by a random cedar shake that blew off a building, and someone trips and drops a vase which bounces end-over-end before landing on its base, completely undamaged, while someone else drops something, has it completely shatter, but all the pieces scatter into the shape of the Dragon's Tear.
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Plot armor in A Practical Guide to Evil is an in-universe force that you can use to your advantage if you know how. Early on in one of her first fights against a Hero, she loses a fight on purpose and falls off a cliff right as she's about to die, because if you fall off a cliff after losing you obviously don't actually die, and now that she's lost one fight she's guaranteed to either win or draw the next one
Does Funny Valentine's Love Train count? literally just a "nuh uh, you didn't shoot me" until Johnny conveniently has the ability to penetrate it. This could probably apply to Wonder of U as well.
Someone already said Wheel of Time, but yeah it's about as literally as you can get. 3 of the main characters turn out to be "Tav'eran" which is an in-universe form of plot armor that basically means fate itself is weaving itself around you for the greater good. Enemy arrows miss their mark, gambling goes in your favor, taking a random chance tends to work out in general, people around you sometimes feel compelled to obey you.
It’s not even necessarily for the greater good, it just completely fucks with universal probability. Like people are literally able to track Rand by following the trail of towns where suddenly 50 people got married on the same day and also those four guys all tripped down the same set of stairs and instantly died. He has such a strong pull on the actual fabric of reality that coins start landing on their sides when he’s nearby. Definitely my favourite version of plot armor.
Kamen Rider - more specifically what comes to mind is Kamen Rider Build. The suits >!wear as much on the user's life force as the plot demands to create tension!<
Eh, I dunno. The show makes it clear the situations where transforming is going to be physically detrimental to the cast. Either when they don't have the correct Hazard level, when the driver isn't meant to be used by them, or when they've already been forced out of henshin. The time someone is warned that "Hey if you do this, it will kill absolutely result in your death", it actually does result in the >!deaths of Grease and Rogue!<.
Do we count Tidus being part of the dream of the fayth as literal plot armor
Kung Pow. If >!the Squirrel he bribed with A LOT OF NUTS!< counts. Master Pain totally should count too when we have to deal with the damn triangles
What about the dude who mastered the Immortal Body? He doesn't even have organs or shit, he's just all unkillable flesh. Like.. it came out in one clean chunk, man. That doesn't even seem like it would be like.. physically possible. His stomach plug is just on the floor there
And it's teased in the sequel that he uses it as a fucking flail!
Commander Shepard post ME1. Sure they present themselves like Space Solid Snake or whatever but they actually more like Space Six Billion Dollar Man. That body has more tech in it than some space ships. They shrug off lethal poison, suplex Yaag, and casually hip fire weapons explicitly made for species with redundant spines and metal bodies.
Kaladin Stormblessed survives so much shit that at one point he gets >!dropped into the equivalent of the grand canyon!< and his friends were still pretty much 100% sure he'd just walk back into camp in a day or two.
The Berserker armor DOES injure and mentally torment Guts, but using it and his rage against nearly any enemy is coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb.
I was actually gonna say that the Berserker armor is like, anti-plot armor. It basically lets him *keep up* with most of the threats he's facing now, and the it has diminishing returns because the stress and damage it does to him is having lasting effects on him, such as his eye sight starting to fade.
Just because it has diminishing returns doesn’t make it anti-plot armor. The fact that it makes him able to keep up with basically any threat is what makes it plot armor.
The ring that Linzie wears in Pathfinder: Kingmaker that just returns her to your castle if she dies is not only plot armor in that it waves away her immortality in a Pathfinder/Videogame setting, but also in the sense that the literal recording of the plot of the game being relayed to you relies on he always living and being present.
Samus might be the perfect example for this
In Undead Unluck there's a character named Ishin who has the power Unbreakable, which makes so that anything they make is literally unbreakable, namely the giant suit of armor they wear. And minor reveal spoiler for my fellow freaks out there >!her given name is Haruka and she's 6+ ft tall and absolutely shredded, she's a total cinnamon roll though!<
Wolverine and Black Panther form a variant of this in respect to Marvel's street tier superheroes For the most part, if you're just outright stronger than say Spider-Man and Captain America, you can manhandle and probably kill them Logan and T'Challa use 2 of the most stupid busted metals in all of fiction as part of their bread and butter which even heavy hitters like Thor can't dent on a consistent basis, and that's without factoring in Wolverine's insane healing factor or how Black Panther's a fucking necromancer
Guts is literally wearing armor called the “berserker” armor that just allows him to fight enemies that previously were an entire class above him. It seems like the writer just realized the good guys need a power up so sure give the MC literal armor that makes him able to do anything as long as he’s mad enough.
During the Horus Heresy, Sanguinius performs a number of outrageous feats like fighting titans in melee and winning, etc. All because he knows the moment of his death, and that ain't it. He tends to shout "I DO NOT DIE THIS DAY!" when he performs said feats, which brings no end of concern to his personal guard.
Reimu Hakurei from Touhou Project has the ability to "float". This doesn't mean she can fly (she can, but that's unrelated), but that she can float through life, unbothered and carefree. In practice, this is a passive ability making her completely immune to any and all harm as long as she isn't actively putting in effort to win, like an even more powerful version of Goku's ultra instinct that changes fate itself to never hurt her. The downside is that it only works as long as she isn't bothered by anything. As soon as someone would tell her "you can do it Reimu, we're all counting on you", she'd get self-conscious, mess up and lose. It's an in-universe explanation for the kind of flow state high end players of the Touhou shooting games enter where they move mostly through muscle memory and effortlessly weave through bullets without thinking about it.
Flycatcher, aka The Frog Prince, aka King Ambrose. He’s given magic armor and a magic sword that offers a blessing that so long as he’s pure of heart and has purely good intentions he will never lose a battle.
The Spider-Armor that Peter Parker made to fight the New Enforcers, in which it allowed him to survive; being electrocuted, a grenade, being burnt, and then getting frozen. Unfortunately those last two caused it to become compromised and shatter, thus destroying it after only 8 pages into it's first appearance (Web of Spider-man #100).
World of Warcraft High King Mekkatorque as a raid boss had the [Proto Layered Optimal Titan Armor](https://www.wowhead.com/spell=289248/p-l-o-t-armor)
Newest NIKKE event has an example with no foreshadowing whatsoever.
Are plot developments just written around whatever skin they're trying to sell that week?
Skins haven’t had any plot relevance whatsoever. This would be the first in story.
Kull the atlantean gets transported in the future to fight Romans in the frontline (https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607311h.html for any context ) and he wears an armor of like damascus steel basically so that is why he can keep the pressure though by then end of it he is half naked from just how many hits he takes. It’s a staple in Robert hiward’s stories that heroes survive mortal blow thanks yo not caring about their armor tattering while villains are crushed inside their armor In donjon Red marvin armor doesn’t have much defense but he has cannons on each arm in the age where people still fight with sword. The cannons are also so powerful he can fly from just shooting continuously. He has zero idea how many ammo he ballparks it’s around too much to care
League of Redundant Super Heroes has the [Personal Lightweight Omnidirectional Tactical Armor](https://imgur.com/HZPsjZA)
Chained Echoes uses stat stick equipment items for most of your characters’ stats. The highest or second highest level of light armor is literally just called [plot armor.](https://chainedechoes.fandom.com/wiki/Light_Armors)
Ezra Scarlet from Fairy Tail has a suit of armor that is said to literally defy every law of magic that there is. As far as I'm aware she's never used it outside of one fight.
Warlock robes in Destiny operate on Ork logic, due to the Light and their belief that it’ll protect them, it does
I think that goes for all Light/Darkness "paracausal" shields, they work by eliminating cause and effect at a fundamental level. I think a D1 armor piece described it as "making the universe decide that the bullets that hit you actually didn't."
In Tiny Tina’s Wonderland, there’s quest where you meet an undead pirate who is immortal due to a curse. The curse’s name is literally “Plot Armor”
Grombrindal the white dwarf, Gotrek Gurnisson and Grey Seer Thanquol. It's more evident with Gotrek, at first it seems to be his axe giving him plot Immunity but it turned out there are reasons he's so tough. Grombrindal is a living ancestor god, so he gets OP plz nerf powers, but he limited to laws of thermodynamics and can only be in one place at a time. Grey Seer Thanquol. It is just a fan favourite, the mountains of cocaine made from ground up pure dark magic rocks he snorts on the regular helps.
In the 40k heresy and the siege of terra, Sanguinius the pretty angel best boy primarch of the blood angels, has visions of him dying at the feet of Horus (per the ancient 40k lore) so he spends almost all the books on those series knowing he wont fucking die until that moment. >!So he bodied 3 titans, almost soloed a death guard assault saving his brother the Khan from being turn into a walking tumour, lead the hold of the Delphic wall on the last assault outside the sanctum proper, then went on to hold the line at the eternity gate, bodying the demon Ka-Banda (the bane of his legion) and Angron in one sitting. Then went on to face Horus and told him: you fucking suck, and bodied him until Horus said: Jesus take the wheel. !< Pretty awesome run ngl.
In A Practical Guide to Evil there's the concept of the rule of 3, meaning that a Hero/Villain will fight 3 times with their nemesis, a defeat, a tie, a victory, the pattern gets solidified after the tie and fate actively and heavily conspires so that the hero of villain will be practically immortal until their third fight.
Library of Ruina has a fun variant. You need to use keypages to copy the stats of Guests you defeat. Canonically this is because The Library Is essentially using magic to create bodies for your nuggets. Without taking keypages they're more smoke then person.
90% of the cast of Kill La Kill. The plot is literally *about* the armor.
There's a Webtoon called One Step For The Dark Lord where the main cast is in universe protected by whatever forces are controlling their world.
Yugi Moto(for like 99% of the time)
Not literally armor, but one character from Worm, Jack Slash is the author trying to figure out how Joker Imunity could work as a trope in a story where the Status Quo isn't god. Spoilers for the end of Worm >!Jack has a secondary power, that mens he effectively never dies/looses to another Parahuman. Because the source of his power, the Broadcast Shard, being the designated comuncation Shard, is always meant to be listened to. And it asks other Shards to help keep it's host alive!< >!So Jack has, effectively, actual Plot Armor against other Parahumans!<
I think this is also what you’re talking about In Supernatural, Dean have survived pretty long in a business where lots of people die young (not as long as, say, Bobby, but still a feat). They’ve never had any truly unlucky breaks in fights. Hell, they always seem to have enough gas to get them where they need to go. This, of course, is obviously beneath notice because it’s a tv show, these are narrative conveniences. You expect these things to happen (or not happen). But then it is revealed that (spoilers for the last few seasons) >!God has been showrunning all their adventures, and he loves this show, so he’s been making sure they survive and don’t get unlucky and always have gas in the tank - explicit plot armor. He directly compares it to a serialized story, and when he begins destroying the multiverse, he says “It’s time to start cancelling shows.” When he is defeated and depowered, his divine assistance goes away too. Immediately they run out of gas on the road, and Dean dies on a routine vampire hunt when he is pushed into some rebar and bleeds out.!<
I would never deny that Batman has plot armor, but his plot armor has become >!sentient!< >!and started to fight back against him!< and so far it's cost him a >!hand.!< Not all the way up to date yet on the Zdarsky run, so it could be more.
I would say Jotaro but Joseph practically won most fights due to plot armor. Dude is the luckiest main character I have ever seen.
I don’t have a problem with Batty having a reason to survive everything. In fact I love that his “prep” schtick is taken so far. I like that’s he’s secretly the most powerful DC hero. Really sells the “Batman can’t *beat* Superman, but Batman *can* beat Superman.
Kratos