8 Most Insane Instances Of Video Game Plot Armour

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.