8 Most Insane Instances Of Video Game Plot Armour
Nathan Drake is the luckiest video game protagonist EVER.
Video games are nothing if not an agreement to suspend one's disbelief, that heroes can typically absorb more punishment than any actual human being can in real life, because what are games if not escapism from this oft-wretched world?
But there are certainly levels to this - we may accept that a character can crouch behind cover and recover from a few gunshots, but sometimes a character is proven so hilariously invulnerable that it qualifies as plot armour.
Plot armour spares a character harm because that's what the story needs to happen - because the game would be in a pickle if the central character died when enduring a realistic amount of damage.
And that's absolutely the case with these eight video game characters, each of them undeniably iconic and each also wearing a blatant suit of plot armour.
These characters, no matter how badass they are, should've died countless times over, whether a result of the damage they took during gameplay or what they suffered through in the game's story.
And yet here they are, ready to fight another day - but we wouldn't have it any other way...
8. Lara Croft Fears Nothing, Not Even Infections - Tomb Raider
Let's kick things off with gaming's Patron Saint of Plot Armour - Tomb Raider's Lara Croft.
Throughout the franchise Lara has trotted the globe to myriad exotic locales without even the faintest hint of getting a jab.
Not that modern medicine would have much of an answer for the dormant viruses, bacteria, and pathogens she'd surely unleash after opening ancient ruins sealed for centuries, if not millennia.
And even if you can suspend your disbelief that far, Lara takes an absolutely absurd amount of punishment in the newer games in particular.
The incident in 2013's Tomb Raider reboot where she was impaled by a piece of rusty rebar and "cauterised" it with a flaming arrow should've been enough to finish her off, honestly.
The obvious infection that would set in, all while being frequently exposed to the elements in little more than a soggy tanktop, would surely be the end of Lara.
But Lara instead swiftly recovered to take down full-on armies, battle a grizzly bear, and survive a couple of aircraft crashes across the Survivor Trilogy.
And in the classic franchise she not only fought off ridiculously large supernatural beasties but managed to survive the Great Pyramid of Giza collapsing around her. What the hell, sure.