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:
Rincewind.
This feels like cheating.
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).
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.
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.
Thats a lot of basicallies though 👀
James Bond
"We have all the time in the world."😭😭😭😭😭
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 …
Mr. Magoo
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!
Goku. DBZ constantly reverses deaths by turning it into another form of training.
Kenny from South Park?
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.
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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
