- For a gallery of examples for Enhanced Durability, see here.
The power to sustain numerous blows of internal or external assaults. A sub-power of Enhanced Condition and Invulnerability.
Also Called
- Damage Resistance
- Delayed Capitulation
- Enhanced Resistance
- High Resistance
- Super Durability
- Super Resistance
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Resistance
Capabilities
The user's physical durability (ability to endure/resist damage) is extremely high, allowing them to take numerous blows of internal or external assaults before succumbing to the effects.
Applications
- Bulletproof Durability
- Enhanced Endurance
- High level resistance to damage.
- The user can take an attack while feeling the effect later.
- The user will maintain optimal health if sickness is the aggressor, yielding to the sickness day’s later if the sickness is potent.
Associations
- Animal Mimicry; with more durable animals, such as dinosaurs, rhinos, crustaceans, turtles, etc.
- Bulletproof Durability
- Dermal Armor; usually through certain Animal Mimicries or Elemental Mimicries.
- Elasticity
- Elemental Mimicry; either through tough elements like stone or metal, or through Scattering with air or water.
- Enhanced Condition
- Enhanced Strength
- Invulnerability
- Organic Metal Skin
- Scale Manifestation
- Supernaturally Dense Tissue
Limitations
- Since this ability isn't the same as Invulnerability, the user can only take so much damage before it finally takes an effect.
- If the power is due to mimicking an element, the user might become even more vulnerable than normal to certain attacks. Ex: Someone with Metal Mimicry might be extremely weak towards someone with Magnetism Manipulation or a person with Water Mimicry will be very weak to those with Electricity Manipulation.
- The power might have a set amount of time.
- Might require Training from Hell to be acquired by normal people.
Known users
- Tekkai users (One Piece)
- Busoshoku Haki users (One Piece')
- Hierro users (Bleach)
- Blut Vene users (Bleach)
- Patrick Donovan via heat absorption (The Young Guardians)
- Derek Marvin (The Young Guardians)
- Hulk (Marvel)
- Luke Cage (Marvel)
- Odin (Marvel)
- Ghostface (Scream )
- Superman (DC comics)
- Doomsday (DC comics)
- Colossus (Marvel)
- Juggernaut (Marvel)
- Harley Quinn (DC Comics)
- Martian Manhunter (DC comics)
- Miss Martian (DC comics)
- Ghost Rider (Marvel)
- The Thing (Marvel)
- She-Hulk (Marvel)
- Mr. Incredible (The Incredibles)
- Kratos (God of War)
- Spawn (Image Comics)
- Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)
- Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)
- Rob Lucci (One Piece)
- Megabyte (ReBoot)
- Hexadecimal (ReBoot)
- Gigabyte (ReBoot)
- Daemon (ReBoot)
- The Lone Wanderer (Fallout 3)
- Dragonfly (Superhero Movie)
- Asura (Asura's Wrath)
- Yasha (Asura's Wrath)
- Mord Sith (Legend of the Seeker)
- A (Naruto)
- Third Raikage (Naruto)
- Kakuzu (Naruto)
- The One Being Sought (Code: Breaker)
- Agent Maine / The Meta (Red vs. Blue)
- Skull (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)
- James "Jim" Powell, Sr. (No Ordinary Family)
- Four Arms (Ben 10)
- Cannonbolt (Ben 10)
- Way Big (Ben 10)
- Chromastone (Ben 10)
- Ultimate Way Big (Ben 10)
- Ultimate Wildmutt (Ben 10)
- Inuyasha (Inuyasha/Inuyasha: The Final Act)
- Cole Macgrath (inFAMOUS)
- Emma Frost (Marvel comics/X-Men); via crystalline diamond form
- Hisako Ichikki (Marvel/X-Men); via armor-like energy form)
- One punch man (One punch man
- Sonic the hedgehog (Sonic the hedgehog)