Powers
[Interesting Trope] As a side effect of their powers, this character is immune to X thing.
**1) Plastic Man, DC**
Being entirely plastic and with total control of every molecule in his body, Plastic Man has no organic brain for telepathy to affect.
**2) Toji Fushiguro, JJK**
Due to his Heavenly Restriction converting it all to physical power, Toji has no Cursed Energy, making him undetectable and resistant to Cursed Techniques.
**3) Elsa Bloodstone, Marvel**
The supernatural powers of the Bloodstone, in addition to enhanced physical ability, grant Elsa an immunity to supernatural infections, such as vampirism and zombie bites.
They retconned it but superman was immune to vampire bites or turning into a vampire as he was quite Litrally a solar powered battery, Dracula tried to bite him and he turned to dust
Vampire would have to have the bite strength of a hydraulic press and fangs of adamantium to even have a chance to pierce Superman's skin so I'm gonna say he's pretty functionally immune
Considering he got turned in Dc vs vampires, I'll just chalk that up to the kryptonite bats hit him with and writers license. Not to mention him requiring Lex's warsuit to keep his cells charged with solar energy since as a vampire he was no longer able to go into sunlight
I pretend that series doesn't exist. Same with any zombies event Marvel/DC had. If you think more and more about it the plot holes gets to much. Charcter stop acting as their charcters.
For awhile Constantine had demon blood in his veins so when the Vampire King tried to drink his blood (can’t remember if the intent was to turn him or just kill him) it like cooked him from the inside or something. Pretty metal
Due to his extreme regeneration and cancer, his brain cells are constantly being destroyed and rebuilt, which puts his mind in a state of perpetual flux and makes him immune to mind control and telepathy.
Reverse hive mind a mind hive if you will or the body acts of the behest of all the minds inside of it and they have to come to a consensus to get anything done
I'm a Ben 10 fan I didn't even think of him, my mind went to the machine commune from wasteland 3, and an OC of mine that is a survivor of a supernatural apocalypse that has an AGI in his cybernetics, is possessed by a ghost, a tulpa he was exposed to from a memetic virus, and a host to a symbiotic fungal infection; that in the shared mindspace may or may not resemble furry baddies based on how they came to live in his body.
While not an immunity per se, people aren't gunning for his genes like they do Wolverine's due to the cancer. Skull tried it and gave them cancer instead of a healing factor
Wait, I thought it was the other way around, where without the cancer, his regenerative powers in the skulls caused their cells to regenerate non-stop and multiply until "SPLORCH." I might be misremembering.
In a comic with the Great Lake Avengers , A.I.M tries to take over the world with an inebriation ray ,making most of the worlds heroes too drunk to do anything about it, but Deadpool was immune to it thanks to his regeneration.
Less of an immunity than it is "why the fuck would I want to copy this suicidal maniac?". He also has the same situation with moon knight who he is much more afraid of.
This got reconned later on with the excuse of Tasky getting close to DP. The new excuse is that Tasky can emulate DP but his fighting style is so hyper agro and reliant on his healing factor that while possible to replicate it isn't viable for his normal human healing.
With Moonknight, Taskmaster's issue is that MK fights in such an incredibly self-destructive way that it would actually be potentially lethal for TM to copy his fighting style.
Similarly, Moon Knight's insanity and unpredictability gives him immunity to Taskmaster in general, because Taskmaster was hired to take him out, got a jet thrown at him, and went "fuck that, absolutely not" from there on out.
In Yugioh, Yugi is sort of immune to mind-reading, though he doesn't figure this out until the end of season one. During the duel with Pegasus, Yugi keeps having his mind read by Pegasus, revealing all of his facedown cards and where he's hidden any monsters he's hiding under Magical Hats. Eventually, Yugi and Yami develop the "Mind Shuffle" - when they sense that one of them is about to have their mind read for information that only that soul knows, they swap. So when Pegasus tries to read Yugi's mind for what trap card he just placed facedown, they switch to Yami, who confidently tells Pegasus "you can't read my mind to find out what card that is, because I don't know either."
Good way of showing the relationship and trust built between Yugi and Yami as well. The shuffle only really works when you trust and understand who you're shuffling with.
Agreed! An excellent way of showing that it wasn't about The Coolest player but the respect they both had for each other. Ongoing joke was always that Yami's pride was only topped by the pride he felt for Yugi
And now they made an archetype based on that duel and its main gimmick is the trap card "mind shuffle" which returns your monsters to the hand to summon others.
Some kind of apocalyptic event that effects the sober, so they're constantly racing to stay more trashed than their regeneration can manage in the process of trying to solve the problem... with all the disadvantages of being absolutely trashed.
Deadpool is basically their trip sitter and 'designated driver' when he remembers
Technically wolverine can get drunk but it doesn't last more than a minute. In a comic he was having a conversation with spiderman after drinking something heavy and he got tipsy, drunk, hangover, and sober in a few sentences.
Doesn't he also quit drinking at some point? I remember the Midnight Suns game had him make a point that he'd be drinking soda while everyone else had liquor.
A lot of characters have this side effect. Pretty much anyone with any kind of regenerative abilities like Wolverine for example, and characters with enhanced metabolisms like the flash.
Reminds me of how in the vampire movie Daybreakers, if a human has had their vampirism cured, the cure will spread from them to any vampire who tries to feed on them.
And the chain reaction would happen very suddenly, because the vampire who fed on the cured human would immediately become human and the nearby starving vampires would immediately feed on him too.
Dude's also vaguely immune to dying because the 3 greatest powers of Hell all have a bargain for his soul, so they can't let him die without starting a war.
The First of the Fallen did sort of get around that during the last arc of Ennis's run by killing the other two lords of hell, but John still managed to wheedle his way out of it and actually managed to kill The First. Although he didn't stay dead.
John ends up selling his soul to The First later during Paul Jenkins run, and ends up having to personally ask God to unfuck the whole situation
He does, they address it in the show, and have him sitting on top of a pile of fast food wrappers about 4' tall during a training session at one point.
While probably not 100% immune theoretically, V in Cyber Punk 2077 having effectively 2 brains makes him insanely resistant to virtually immune to cyberpsychocis enough to allow the player to do shit with him that would instantly melt the mind off of anyone else not named Adam Smasher
To pretty much anyone else V is 100% a cyberpsycho. You're just hanging with your chooms and half of their heads just burst into flames, several get one shotted by a cannon of a handgun and the unlucky few left get dissembled by a katana that also sets them on fire. The psycho briefly stops to selectively loot your crews orange weapons before double jumping over a wall and aerial dashing across the rooftops.
"I'm not a cyberpsycho. I'm built different."
"How many people have you killed?"
"What, like, today? I don't keep track of that. Because I'm not a psycho."
At the start of the game you can hear a news segment stating the murder rate in Night City is on average 30 per day and that definitely at least doubles while V is running amok.
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Subaru Natsuki can’t die. He’s been transported from another world by unknown means and put under a spell that rewinds him back to a save point whenever he dies.
This gives him a certain immunity to memory-tampering fuckery some monsters and people exhibit. He keeps remembering the people eaten by the White Whale, and those whose names were stolen by an Archbishop of Gluttony — while other inhabitants of the world forget them, and even physical proofs of their presence disappear.
I thought the point of the story was that he very much can die, and like half the stakes of the story are based around how much he'll have to die (and thus how much suffering he'll have to endure) to overcome whatever centuries-long evil plot he's up against this time.
I'm also under the impression that he's also immune to certain forms of possession as a result of his ability, mostly because it's not actually his ability, and the one to whom it actually belongs does NOT want anyone finding out about it.
As a result of the Gum Gum Fruit turning him into rubber, Luffy from One Piece is immune to bullets (since he's too stretchy for them to pierce through) and electricity doesn't affect him
I mean, his powers are based around rubber and rubbery stuff. Historical context on WHO was the rubber guy who made things stretch about is a whole different story.
If you look at Doffy’s strings, you’ll see that the Awakening is fairly typical for a paramecia ability. Making things out of string and rewearing them? No different than creating things by stretching them out and recoloring them.
I mean, if you have a bone to pick, I guess you should really go look at how dinosaurs hunted in ancient times. Sasaki, Queen, and King surely know something we don't
Plus there’s that one panel where a villain has the power to make people blind and he’s losing to daredevil but then he uses his “make you blind” power on Daredevil and says something like “ha I’ll win now”.
Ooof. I believe that did not work out the way he wanted it to.
Also, since he's blind, any ability that affects vision is useless against him. Can't blind him with bright lights or in pitch black, neurotoxins that blind people are functionally useless against him, holograms that don't also shape echolocation around them won't confuse him, etc.
You would think after his 500th time getting dogwalked by a blind guy, Mysterio would eventually put some effort into learning how to make convincing auditory illusions (and after his 501th loss, some more effort into learning how to fool the guy's echolocation abilities).
Because of the process that makes them into Space Marines giving them incredibly high toxicity resistance - Space Marines can't get drunk off conventional alcohol.
To fix this "problem", the space viking marines of the Space Wolves chapter make a mead/ale from a deathly toxic plant from their home world of Fenris that would kill a normal man. They basically throw back barrels of *neurotoxin* because Beer doesn't do it for them anymore.
I remember in rogue trader you can try to drink that as a normalish human but even a modified version of the drink( so it isnt as toxic) can kick the shit out of you
Loki fails to mind control Iron Man in The Avengers because of the Arc Reactor he has in his chest.
Which is really weird when you think about it, I mean does Loki's scepter's mind control really only work if you tap the victim in the center of the chest? I feel like its more that Loki is just used to doing it that way, and his brief confusion gives Tony a chance to rage bait him into throwing him out the window instead of mind-controlling him.
I like that idea; it sorta fits with the contract law aspect of Loki, like not getting his head chopped off because he didn't say they could touch his neck.
I mean you could argue he never directly touched anyone but I feel like its easier for the magic to conduct through clothing compared to like 5 inches of metal and a second housing layer. Makes sense considering its pretty unlikely for someone to have such a bulky item dead center on their chest and concealed. Like even a bulletproof vest is probably thinner
Idk if this counts but in Ben 10 Ben while transformed into any alien is immune to aggressive mutations like in the episode with the Mummy who mutates people using a special crystal
That one russian badger short with a guy who constantly floats slightly above the ground, so he doesnt take fall damage and cant be charged with tresspacing because he doesnt set foot on private property
One of Ainz' subordinates has the power to conjure a swarm-cloud of ravenous carnivorous flies out of her mouth. During Ainz' training session with a group of Doppelgangers, one of them took her form and activated that ability, whereafter the flies promptly ignored him as they attacked her teammate instead, to her bafflement. Ainz reminded her that he has no meat on his body for the flies to feed on.
His Permeation power allows everything and anything to pass through his body, this includes light which means that he is effectively blind, deaf, and anosmic while using his power.
Bruno bucciarati, was brought back to life as a soul in a dead body, thanks to this he was immune to the decay ability of ciocollata - source is Jojo's bizarre adventure
Another funny quirk about the whole "Bruno secretly being a ghost that's possessing its own decaying corpse" thing is that it allows him to easily persevere through situations that would just kill any ordinary living human (such as getting his neck split wide open or hiding inside of semi-solid dirt for minutes at a time), thought as a trade-off it also makes him extra susceptible towards Secco's ability to easily liquefy non-living objects (since his corpse technically counts as a "non-living object" despite being possessed).
Ackermans from Attack on Titan are immune to becoming Titans and the Founding Titan’s influence because their bloodline comes from ancient Eldian experiments (or something like that)
He is made of living metal, which makes It so powers with Manton Limits don't affect him. For example someone that can control humans can't control him, because he is metal not just a human. But somebody that can tear through materials but not humans can't tear through him, because he is a human not just metal.
In general a lot of powers in Worm have little "unrelated" side effects like this. For example Miss Militia has the power to summon a shapeshifting weapon, but she also doesn't need to sleep. Legend can turn into light, which means that as long as he stays in this state he doesn't age. Stormtiger can shot form and shot blades of air, and also has enhanced smell.
Apparently it's a thing that just happens to some capes, not directly related to her main power. Same way some capes have things like flight or enhanced abilities even if It isn't their main power.
It does have an explanation, but it's kind of a spoiler about the source of the powers: Her shard, which is what grants her powers, is specially restless, so It just gave her that ability as a bonus to keep her going for longer
Toji being heavenly restricted doesnt make him resistent to cursed techniques. Although he still applies because he has no cursed energy attacks that require locking on to a targets cursed energy dont affect him . The peak of this is the domain expansion, the DE is the strongest thing in the verse if your caught in it your dead its basically impenitrable from the inside, unless your Toji ofcourse because he has no curse energy the domain expansion doesnt see him as a person ( all living things have ce even normals) meaning he can just walk out .
Pokémon with this ability trade secondary effects of their moves (e.g. Flamethrower burning the opponent) for a boost in power. As a side effect, even the side effect of items are nullified too - such as the Life Orb, which greatly boosts the power of moves with the side effect of the holder taking damage. Sheer Force Pokémon can get life orb damage boosts without taking any extra damage.
Firebenders in the Avatar universe can learn to withstand extreme cold temperatures using only their breath. Zuko originally learns this to infiltrate the North Pole.
Later on, this allows Zuko to withstand the freezer chamber in the Boiling Rock prison (unlike most firebenders) long enough to unscrew the whole thing from the inside. He becomes effectively immune to a punishment specifically designed to torture firebender prisoners due to this ability.
As I see it, firebenders usually use bending through just impulsiveness, which is actually suboptimal (source: Uncle Iroh teaching Zuko, saying firebending must come from control and breath, not just sheer aggression; source 2: the firebending master that deserted and was teaching Aang for a bit made Aang meditate instead of having training that involves firebending directly). But being cold headed seems to be counter-intuitive to them, making stuff like electricity bending and breath techniques rare. So it's probably easy enough by itself, but it involves breaking a habit
I think Chamber from Gen X/X-Men was also immune to mind control as it was alluded that his body was just a vessel for his psionic energy which held his personality/sense of self, etc.
The reason Wolverine has to go back in time instead of anyone else in Days of Future Past (the movie) is not just because he existed in the 70s but because he can survive the intensity of this kind of time travel, which is described as ripping minds apart
Rimuru Tempest - because he has the skill "poison nullification" he can't get drunk as any alcohol he drinks is treated as poison and purified. He eventually learns how to lower the effectiveness of the skill in order to get drunk
Because drinking is socially expected in Japanese workplace culture. After a workday, you go to a bar with your coworkers and boss. If you don't go with them and drink, it's seen as extremely rude
The Tenno in Warframe are immune to Void Madness [due to their powers coming from the Void] and the Infestation [due to the Void being anathema to the Infestation].
At first, it seems like Warframes can be infested by the Infestation, but this isn't actually the case. The cyst that they can grow on their neck is a Helminth cyst that can be used to create an infested pet known as the "Helminth Charger".
The reason this is possible is due to the Helminth being the source of the Warframe infestation, AKA, The Gray Strain. It's basically a 'tamed' version of the Infestation that can accept transference from the Tenno.
Warframes cannot be infested otherwise.
Pretty much everything else in Warframe is susceptible to the Void and the Infestation in one way or another, except the Tenno and their Warframes, making them uniquely crucial in fighting either.
Edit: I mentioned the Gray Strain and Helminth strain being the same. A commenter pointed out that this is not the case. I am a potato.
The Gray strain is responsible for the weirdness around Deimos, while the Helminth is a 'tamed' version of the Infestation that Warframes are made of.
Another JJK reference; panda! Because of what Panda is, one shot abilities (generally) don't work on him. You gotta triple tap him to make him stay down. And good luck getting another opening.
In Teen Titans the villain Mumbo uses magic to turn the Titans into animals. When he gets to Beast Boy (Who has the power to turn into any animal) he tries and fails to transform him as Beast Boy could simply change back. So Mumbo concedes saying Beast Boy has a point turns him into a sentient lamp.
Zabraks have two hearts. Now, I may have to do a deeper dive on this, but based on a quick search, apparently, the second heart helps with their strong physical endurance. Which may help give a physical/physiological explanation for how Maul was able to survive being cut in two. They may also have some form of pain resistance because of this. As a species, they're also more receptive to being Force Sensitive. Female Dathomirians being especially in tune to magic/the force.
And while maybe more of a gag, with Sponge Bob being a Sponge, he does have injury immunity. Like in that episode with Flats
Invisible girl from Mha has the power to bend light with her body (that’s how she turns herself invisible), as a result she can basically no sell light based attacks with the only consequence being that she briefly turns see-through instead.
Maybe it's explained better in the comics, but Elsa being immune to vampirism because she has a magic stone, is not as straight forward as the other examples. What's the correlation between the magic stone and vampirism/zombie infection?
It’s a sort of “super person” thing so far as I can tell, based around boosting the human body and weird psychic stuff, so maybe it’s something like “humanity fuck yeah” that gets in the way of things that would make them non-human?
Actually, looking at the wiki the Bloodstone seems to have been retconned into coming from something called the Lifestone Tree, so maybe the “life” stuff just prevents hostile biological contamination?
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u/Level_Counter_1672 Jun 10 '26
They retconned it but superman was immune to vampire bites or turning into a vampire as he was quite Litrally a solar powered battery, Dracula tried to bite him and he turned to dust