This troper found out that all through high school he had a rapidly growing tumor in his chest that had been crunching his lung and carotid artery more and more as time went on. He still managed to have steadily improving grades, held down a job, worked out regularly, and found a girlfriend (who he is still with) despite that getting worse and worse. Only noticed it when his chest started hurting like hell at work and thought he was having a heart attack. Calmly asked his boss to go home, went to the ER after checking WebMD, and a tumor the size of a football came up on a chest X-ray. After that the NEXT in a long, long sequence of Of Iron happened when he only got long-term hospitalized a month later and had a biopsy done when he should've been gone, flatlined on the operating table, and his heart started again without any intervention other than sitting him up. After that, he had about 6 hours left and was being transferred to a cancer hospital in NYC (a point if you guess which one). The directions were gotten by FUCKING MAPQUEST, and it took 8 hours to get there. Got in too dehydrated for them to find a vein, so they had to dig around in his leg for a bit and gave him an anesthesia free spinal tap. They started me on huge doses of chemo sufficient to kill me in and of themselves, I suspect because "if we don't he's dead, if we do he's probably dead. Why not let's see what happens". The tumor shrank 75% and over the course of treatment my blood counts rarely dropped below normal levels, and recovered quickly when they did. Four years later and he's entirely fine except for walking with a cane while his legs fix themselves from some minor bone damage, when he should be dead, maimed, or have experienced serious brain damage. His IQ actually went UP from all this because of getting used to thinking on no oxygen.

This troper's friend must be indestructible, because he has taken this list without so much as broken or dislocated bone, a torn muscle or tendon and has yet to get knocked the fuck out: 3 shots (.357 at 4 feet away), 1 shot (9mm pressed to the gun), 2 shots (.22 at ten yards), 48 knifes, run over with a car, hit with 3 other cars, hit and thrown by a truck, blown up and pumped with three pieces of sharpnel from his home made explosive( him and four other friends were going to use it to chop down a tree......he is smart and stupid all at once), a baseball bat to the head and he splintered the tip, well over 200 fights ( he has sorta of knightly thing going on and me and our other friends tend to make enemies.......the knight ends up kicking a whole helluva lota ass and the way he fights has gotten him nick-names such as "hound of war" and "iron ribs") and some..ehem...rather brutal sex with me and his other fuck buddy

This Troper apparently has a selective sense of pain. And having crazy ideas doesn't help his case. To date, he had an electric fan nearly lop a piece off his right middle finger after a dare to catch the blade, then a double-or-nothing that he doesn't dare hold his fist against the blades, which resulted in his knuckles being ground skinless; he cut a sponge in half with his newly sharpened knife, slicing his left palm open about a millimeter deep; and he grasped a pot of boiling water to decant it. His response to his adopted sister's inquiry on why: "I regenerate.". None of his injuries lasted more than two-three days, even the skinless knuckles.

A friend of Da_Nuke was put in a wheelchair... after falling from a ''fourth'' floor, head first, and after an entire catwalk fell on him. Two months later, he was good enough to use his wheelchair.

This troper has had a ton of odd incidents happen to him without permanent (or even noticeable) injuries; being bounced off a trampoline several times (once landing flat on his back on the hard Arizona dirt with his head smacking into a nearby wood pile), splitting his chin on the head of a friend he accidentally landed on while jumping into their swimming pool, ''purposely getting shocked repeatedly in the genitals with a stripped electrical cord'', among others. Only things he had to go to the hospital for was the split chin.

Going on the fact that you were willingly shocked, your obviously too stupid to realize you've been hurt. Like some kind of reality altering level of idiocy.

This troper's been shocked plenty of times by stripped cords/misplugged plugs/touching the plug while plugging it in. There's never been any sort of effect. 140V with standard wall current hitting a human wont kill them. When it's lethal, it blows a fuse.

This troper has stepped on exposed electrical cords a few times as well, in Australia where mains electricity is 240V. It just tickles.

This troper's grandfather fell down 7 concrete steps face first while carrying/dropping two large metal deck chairs. He only broke his nose and got two relatively minor facial cuts. Considering the man is 82 years old and has had several health problems in the past, this troper would say her grandfather's pretty tough to survive a fall like that.

ThisTroper is MadeOfIron. (And, he suspects, a low-level HealingFactor.) He has survived falling down a flight of concrete steps, slept through a sheet of plywood falling on him, accidentally shutting his head in a door, and fell skidding down a hill into a bandstand, all without a scratch. The HealingFactor kicks in on the rare occasions where he has been hurt, the injuries have all disappeared quickly, leaving scars for no more than a few months.

When Dialga X was 4, he fell down a flight of wooden steps onto a concrete floor and landed on his head. He was totally unharmed.

He also has and Ipod Shuffle that was MadeOfIron as well. It survived being run over by a 7 ton ambulance (possibly more than once), a solid month or two of exposure to the elements ''and'' it still had enough battery power to play a few songs. Of course, the fact that it was wearing "armor" (an aluminum case might have helped).

JET73L has a Skull of Iron (not literally), scalp included. He has flattened the corner of solid shelving when the top of his head contacted it at high speed. Sharp (sometimes heavy) metal objects have been driven into his scalp at high speed without breaking the skin. He walks into stopsigns and low ceilings when distracted. And unfortunately, his MadeOfIron powers are painfully averted from the hairline down.

This troper has oddly enough managed to NEVER be in the hospital for an injury. I fell off my bike and once skinned my back. Almost fell out of a 70 r so MPH truck. Almost drowned twice. Almost struck by lightning. Routinely gets hit in the head, HARD. I'm surprised I'm not dead.

This troper's Jack Russel Terrier has survived many falls and multiple injuries, with a limping leg the only noticeable injury yet, despite being barely larger than a Chihuahua. Justified by having a rather husky build.

This troper somehow managed to withstand being boarded (in non hockey terms, being rammed into the boards at full speed) and break the ankle of the boarder/rammer. Brutally subverted due to the fact that this was during PRACTICE and both of us still don't know how the hell it happened.

Also note, troper has also been the bullet magnet for multiple hits/injuries that should keep anyone else out for a couple of games at the least and was still able to play in the same game. For example, once received a ricochet puck to neck which by all means is NOT FUN AT ALL. I was able to convince the coaches to let me return to my normal line based on the fact that a mere puck hasn't stopped this troper before.

A friend of this troper seems to be this. To list a few of the injuries I've seen him shrug off, he's been dragged down a gravel road for three miles (foot got caught in a hole in the bed, driver didn't notice) a fall from the second story building, his little 'mishap' during a school trip to Spain (ran with the bulls...) got hit by a pickup truck going fifty something, landed perfectly on his feet and being able to run after. He's also taken some nasty falls from stairs, out of moving vehicles, bikes, motorcycles, skateboard and never broken a bone... Maybe it's because he's Russian?

This female troper baffles all the doctors she's gone to. After listing all the injuries she has suffered and not gone to the hospital for,they wonder what the hell i'm eating. To date,since the age of 9,she has fallen down concrete steps headfirst,hit by a car riding her bike,pushed into the spray of an uncapped fire hydrat and skidded on her bare shoulder across the street,onto a sidewalk and hit a chainlink fence,fallen off a 10 ft wall,belly-flopped onto a hardwoodfloor face-first and chipped her tooth,had a door fall on her,kicked by a stallion,dragged by a dog downhill on a sidewalk on her stomach,trampled by a 300lb sow,body slammed by a 200lb ram,had her head slammed in the hood of a car,had a wooden swingset fall onto her legs, and several more i don't remember.The only ones i had to go to the hospital for was when i srtuck my head on a post diving out of the way of a erratic car and had bad headaches,only for the doctors to find that i had a cracked hip i didn't even feel or know i had and nothing wrong with my skull. Ironically,the other times was when i developed acid reflux and spat up blood...and my thyroid acted up and gave me a heartattack. Go figger...

This troper also notes an animal made of iron. A goose. This troper's father was driving down the driveway in a F350 pick up and the silly thing wouldn't move. So my dad ran it over. We watched it slowly roll under the tire,tailfeathers first,along its spine,off its head, and off its beak. it stood up and walked onto the grass,honking.UNHARMED.

This troper once captured a very large ant and took it to school to show off. The ant proceeded to survive being stuffed in a tissue-filled box for hours, being tortured, squashed by my classmates while I wasn't looking, by my mother when I was, and was still fine and dandy. I nicknamed the little bugger Wolverine before releasing it.

When This Troper herself was struck by a car while crossing the street as a pedestrian, hard enough that I was knocked off my feet and bounced on the pavement-- I got up, assured the driver and bystanders I was fine, and was about to ''walk home'' when it was pointed out to me that I would need to give a police statement... I ended up bruised and sore for a few days, and that was about it.

This Troper's grandfather fought in the Korean War. One time, right after charging down a hill, an artillery shell hit nearby. (Real close by, like what happened to Tony Stark.) The blast knocked him almost back to the top of the hill. After a few moments, he stood up and charged back down again. He says it made his ears ring really bad for a few hours, but that's about it.

This Troper's dad. Let me list them off...had most of his palm ripped off by barbed wire, the top of his middle finger chopped off, been whacked in the head by a falling crowbar, had a boulder roll over his foot and drag him several yards down a hill, tearing off his shoes, been STRUCK BY LIGHTNING (and then told by HIS dad to keep working on the metal fence they were putting up on top of a treeless HILL during a THUNDERSTORM), jumped off a roof, FALLEN two stories off a roof and walked away, had his appendix explode, *takes breath* . Are you surprised that I'm even alive right now? Once, when he was putting up a mailbox with his brother, he got stung by a wasp. He slightly felt it, and couldn't find where it stung him. When this troper was walking in the woods with him, he punched down a small tree. Made of Iron.

Does falling down hard wooden stairs as a baby with absolutely no damage done count? Especially if you tumble on the way down? I think so, but I don't remember it happening. Suspicious.

This troper's dog once fell directly from more than twice her height, onto hard stone steps...and promptly got up after whining a little, then raced back up to where he'd fallen. No lasting side effects have been seen.

My cat has jumped out of my arms toward the counter, missed, hit her side on the corner, fell on her back and hit her head, only to get up and walk away with no pain whatsoever... multiple times.

(same troper as above) The first time said cat met one of our dogs she dove across the room, grabbed onto the dog with her claws, rode the dog down the hall while biting and scratching her (the dog), then went at the dog again after falling off before I grabbed the cat and put her in another room. Me and my brother got scratched several times from when the cat first struck (including several cuts under our clothes, which weren't damaged at all). The dog? Not a scratch at all (though she was pretty freaked out).

(again from the above troper) My neighbor's dog, Buster, is made out of friggin adamantium. He was the only one in his litter to survive Parvo, he has fought packs of coyotes and won (and has probably tangled with other animals), he's broken both hips, he once got hit in the head by a horseshoe and (after a few minutes of unconsciousness) got up and was just fine, he has been hit by cars, and god only knows what else.

This Troper has an odd example. As a child, he had several serious injuries for the age(3-8). I'd fall off the high chair regularly, had my tongue split in half by a spring, slammed against the concrete, got into a CurbStompBattle or two, and had all the skin on my chest ripped off twice. Never once went to the hospital. Around the time I got a PS2, I was so frail, that a five year old could push me down. This lasted until I was in grade 9, when I was inexplicably immune to getting punched. Whenever someone hit me, I barely felt it. Even when a softball slammed my face, I just had a bit of blurred eyesight. The bullies would punch my head, and break a finger... and the only time I've been to the hospital in my life(for me), is when I was born, and when I was admitted into the Psyche Ward for a few hours.

I know a guy who has been hit by a car 13 times, stabbed 6 times, shot twice, and has had sulfuric acid dumped on his right arm. He is 15. I don't really believe it either.

This troper grew up with two older brothers who love to rough house, which has caused her to toughen up quite a bit. Pinches, punches, even hair pulling doesn't phase her. She's also fairly clumsy but has fallen down stairs many times or out of trees with nothing but maybe small scrape or bruise.

This troper knows a man who is sometimes called a tank. For example- Playing Rugby, he was pushing against everyone on the opposite team. He pushed them out of the way without trying.

troper is unfortunate enough to have an extremely high pain threshold... And sensory hypersensitivity due to his AS. The only reason he can't kick everyone's ass is not because he's a weakling, it's because everything hurts him a lot more then normal. Punching someone usually does hurt him more than it hurts them. However, the high pain threshold comes into effect. A particularly glaring example was 3 summers ago at camp, this troper fell from a tree, whammed against the roof of his bunk, K.Oing him, and rolled down to fall 12 feet. His lip was almost bit through, and his wrists were displaced from the rest of his arm; it looked like someone replaced my wrist bone with a golf ball. In extreme pain, he declined his counselor's offer to carry him to the nurse, and walked the 1/8th of a mile to the nurse by himself, before promptly collapsing.

This troper has never sustained an injury more serious than a sprained ankle despite falling down a long flight of concrete stairs at age 5, being hit by a van on his bike, getting into a few 5+ on 1 encounters, being on the side of the car that was actually hit in a wreck (when his mother and brother on the other side were actually injured), being beat down with an aluminum bat(several strikes to the skull no less) until IT was dented, bleeding about 5 pints (yes, at once), and being a professional wrestler. Oddly the sprained ankle came from an awkward landing jumping down from a tree.

This troper fell off his bike, catching his leg in the frame to stop him from twisting all the way around, and skidded about 10-15 feet on his elbow. Upon getting up, he immediately began arguing with his friend as to the exact reason he fell, before having his arm pointed out to him. The road rash needed a bit of cleaning (the alcohol was more painful than the wound) and a large bandage on it for about a week before he was back to normal. He has also sprained his wrist at a roller rink and immediately begun playing light gun games afterward and getting great scores, had his foot crushed by a tire with little to no injury, and at the age of 5 had an entire dresser fall on him with nothing beyond mild discomfort and sheer terror.

This troper's step-father is Made of Iron. He's been working as a logger pretty much all of his life, and is still going strong in his mid-fifties. This summer alone, he had a tree fall onto him while he was working, pulled himself out from under it, and went right back to work. When he finally came home he was forced to see the doctor by my mother, and finds out he's been walking around on a broken leg for three weeks. After learning that his leg has already healed improperly, and that they will have to rebreak his leg so it can set properly in a cast, he declines. He says if he can walk on a broken leg, he can walk on an improperly healed leg, and goes right back to work. Later that summer, he ends up in a full on collision with another car. The entire car was almost destroyed, and he walks out with a minor headache. Again, he went right back to work. I have seen this man fall down rock faces, drop logs and stumps on his feet, burn himself, fall off rooves, fall off ladders, have his ears bleed due from hearing damage, and, in my favorite incident, rub poison oak all over himself to prove to my mother that it wasn't poison ivy. I have seen this man injured in just about every way possible, and none of it has ever been more than a minor inconvenience to him. He just picks himself up, shoos away the doctors, and goes back to work in the bush to put food on the table.

My laptop (no pun intended). It's been dropped, thrown, thrashed, and had water spill on it, but it still runs perfectly fine and only has trouble charging.

This troper found out the hard way. Lets just say, like 5 of your average jocks, each 150 pounds of complete muscle, raining punches and kicks all on a guys balls. All I did was to just walk it off. They didn't like that, so they went and tried to experiment and see what happens when you forcefully insert an elbow between a head and a shoulder. I went and read a book. Getting pissed off, they went and decided to charge at me full force, and try to smash me against a wall. Once again, protocol dictated that I walk it off without a word. Looking back on that completely true story, the only thing that really pissed me off or hurt was time spent not reading, and the fact that adults are either blind or idiots, cause they did this in the middle of lessons. In a crowded classroom. Without receiving any consequence other than relieving pent up rage.

This Troper doesn't really know whether he's just crazy or determined. Once, he was going to be late for lesson and was riding his bike at full speed, and caught a tree by riding too much near the borders. He fell two meter further, almost scrapped his bike, which hit a nearby car. He got up one second later with a headache (and some bruises and injuries, thankfully they were all covered by whether the hair or the clothes, save for a thin stream of blood that he quickly swiped away), excused himself to the conductor, and just went to the high school anyways. Miraculously, he wasn't late in the end, though he had to follow the lessons with a headache and got some drips of blood on his sheets. He was pretty much fine after a good night of sleep. Another day, he was almost going to miss the tram and while he was running, he tripped on the rugged sidewalk and sprained both his palms and his knees. He still caught the train and managed to not be late at his meeting with his classmates, and that was because we scheduled to play ''Paintball'' (in order to celebrate the end of high school, mind you). In the end, he was playing with busted hand palms and knees, and still lasted to the end. Yeah, maybe he's just plain crazy.

Giratina has heard many stories about various {{Nintendo}} games and systems being MadeOfIron (before we go any further: no pun intended). She can attest to the dropping stories (she's a total butterfingers), but the one she was most proud of was this: her copy of Pokemon Pearl. It sat in the middle of a heavily forested New Jersey backyard, faced curious animals and the sometimes hellish weather, for a ''year and a half''. Since that game contained almost all of this Troper's very dear Pokemon (yes, they're pieces of data, but she's a fanfiction author so shut up), she can't help but think of it as a {{Determinator}} of sorts...

You too? I've lost track of how many times I've dropped my [=iPod=] on a hard floor, but it's still okay. My earphones too - my cat yanks them out of my ears all the time (which I'm always afraid will break the wires), but somehow they still work.

This troper knows two people who are basically ''unstoppable'' in a game of rugby. One of them is actually known as "tank" because of his reputation as someone who can push against the ''entire'' opposing team and keep going.

Growing up, this troper often heard the story of how her Grandfather (in his 60s at the time) had insisted on climbing a ladder to fix the top shelves in his library, fell off and landed, rear end first, through a ''two tier glass table''. Once his wife had managed to extricate him from the table, he reportedly had no injuries aside from a few scratches.

Hah! You cannot harm those who have The Lady's favor.