Road Runner. Pretty sure it was literally one of the rules the writers had for the show.
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Road Runner ran so the rest of us could relate to Coyote:
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
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Mr Bean
Thread over. The only three correct answers are Mr Bean, Mr Magoo, and Inspector Gadget.
All other answers are wrong.
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, deus ex machina is his gimmick.
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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?
Sterling Archer.
Well, he can't die or get permanent brain damage, but everything else is certainly on the table.
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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.
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James Bond
"We have all the time in the world."😭😭😭😭😭
Hughie Campbell.
He's got the strongest superpower of anyone in the show (plot armour)
Luffy- One Piece. He 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.
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Goku. DBZ constantly reverses deaths by turning it into another form of training.
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.
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Kenny from South Park?
Daniel Jackson
He may die a fair bit, but he won't stay dead for long.
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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.
King (one punch man)
Batman any time any of the rest of the justice league are in the same feature.
Spongebob Squarepants
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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