Road Runner. Pretty sure it was literally one of the rules the writers had for the show.
What character is the king of plot armor?
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BucketBong@p.hobo.social 1 day ago
Mr Bean
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thread over. The only three correct answers are Mr Bean, Mr Magoo, and Inspector Gadget.
All other answers are wrong.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
RandomStickman@fedia.io 1 day ago
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
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No because he’s constantly terrified and lives in ultimate fear.
gedfromgont@piefed.ca 20 hours ago
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.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
It’s hilarious. It’s also different. I enjoyed all three.
It did disappoint a lot of people, and that’s fine too.
JayGray91@piefed.social 20 hours ago
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).
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The Winchester brothers. They gave up even pretending as the show went on and just embraced the absurdity.
twjolson@lemmy.world 1 day ago
More than that, it actually became a canon feature / plot point.
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 day ago
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.
magnetosphere@fedia.io 1 day ago
James Bond
StillAlive@piefed.world 1 day ago
“We have all the time in the world."😭😭😭😭😭
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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 him to preserve his superior intelligence.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Isn’t that part of the plot though? He’s super depressed and part of it is because everyone else is so goddamn stupid
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.
isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
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 …
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
hes basically a god in his part of the multiverse, up until he met the “god-dinosaurs”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
Mr. Magoo
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
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.
Sabata11792@ani.social 18 hours ago
Don’t forget the cringy cult like fanbase.
nocturne@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
And the wild fanfic.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
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.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
bugs bunny
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ain’t I a stinker?
Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Goku
yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Sterling Archer.
DaGeek247@fedia.io 1 day ago
Well, he can't die or get permanent brain damage, but everything else is certainly on the table.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
…taking it you only watched the first few seasons?
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Been a while since I’ve watched Archer but didn’t he die several times? At least once I think.
ptc075@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Kenny from South Park?
Sexy-Animal-Fucker@thebrainbin.org 1 day ago
Harry Potter
I liked Fantastic Beasts better then the main series tbh
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
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.
homes@piefed.world 1 day ago
maybe in his own universe, but a character like Luke Skywalker blows him out of the water
arxaseus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Wolverine, who completely regenerated from a single drop of blood.
WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Does that, uh, mean that every time he bleeds he clones himself?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Not just blood…
Why you think he’s so grumpy all the time? He can’t risk a single drop of semen becoming an army of wolverines.
shyguyblue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Baby from Babies Day Out
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Google reckon he should have died about 30 times throughout the movie lol
shyguyblue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Huh, looks like we’re gonna need another 'Timmy '”…
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I think this answer wins
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 19 hours ago
King (one punch man)
Phunter@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
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.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hughie Campbell.
ziltoid101@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He’s got the strongest superpower of anyone in the show (plot armour)
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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.
Okokimup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Arya Stark.
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 day ago
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.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
First season?
My books didn’t come in seasons?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I vouch that
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daenerys targaryen will not die until the end.
I have only seen the first ep of GoT, and heard about some bits here and there. I don’t even know if they are already dead.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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.
ICastFist@programming.dev 18 hours ago
The same applies to most other shonen protagonists, really.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Well yea, but Luffy asks for it constantly like the dude’s entire stitche is “what is the most absurd way of trying to brute force my way” with little to no thinking involved at all. Most other shonens at least have the main protag make a battle plan or actually stop two seconds to think.
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 1 day ago
Batman any time any of the rest of the justice league are in the same feature.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Vile E. Coyote
jj4211@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Daniel Jackson
He may die a fair bit, but he won’t stay dead for long.
Agent641@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
When he gets his funeral card punched 10 times his next one is free.
palordrolap@fedia.io 21 hours ago
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.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
nocturne@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Batman
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This is the best answer I’ve seen so far imo.
He’s just a man yet he can keep up with literal gods just because money and physical/mental conditioning? Yeah not happening.
When you’re opponent can move faster than your brain can even perceive it doesn’t matter what kind of gadgets you have. You lose.
I’d also say that the flash is the opposite of plot armor. Realistically he’d be unstoppable.
wjrii@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 day ago
I disagree because
Blue Eye Samurai isn’t realistic, it’s authentic. Recall the thousands of arrows falling on Mizu during the ambush. The fucking sword bounce. The absurd technology and traps in Elijah’s house.
This isn’t a realistic depiction of feudal Japan, this is an authentic depiction of feudal Japan. It’s a show about how this period felt to live in. And people in feudal Japan believed in onryo. Mizu is an onryo. As their quest for vengeance progresses and they suffer more punishment, they become more and more obviously supernatural.
wjrii@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s a fair take, but for me it just went past the point of willing suspension of disbelief, and I don’t find that meta-narrative compelling. It may well be a reason for me to re-evaluate it though, to decide if I think it’s poorly done versus something where what they wanted to do simply didn’t connect with me.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It wasn’t that that ruined the show, it was the ending.
TAG@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
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.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 3 hours ago
His plot armor wasn’t total though. In the first book, or maybe even the second, there’s a moment where his power gets ‘flipped’ so that bad luck constantly gets in his way, and with very careful action it can be overcome. Also the power tried to keep people from knowing because once it was known it would be able to be defeated.
The xanth books were great. The one with the spider and time travel is just amazing. If you’re a dad, you could fill up your entire repertoire of puns from the series alone.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 4 hours ago
Rincewind.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This feels like cheating.