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More of the time the good guys win but This is taking it to the extreme. A Invincible Hero is a hero who never loses they always win they defeat the villains effortlessly. more of the time poeple (myself in clouded) find Invincible Heros very Boring, unbelievable, unrealistic, and just plain ridiculous.

Heroes win in the end. It's a general rule of fiction. Sometimes, though, you want the hero to lose a few battles. As a result, you have an occasional instance of The Bad Guy Wins. This also shows another generally good consequence: the importance of the struggle, the need to make an effort, and the necessity of Character Development.

Also see Invincible Villain, their Evil Counterpart chaser1992.deviantart.com/art/… .

Examples

Bugs Bunny only a hand full of poeple have beten him and even then its hardly happens. Tweety or Speedy are this too.

Most Looney Tunes protagonists leaned into this trope

Gaz from Invader Zim She's a Black Hole Sue.

In Tom And Jerry or Road Runner cartoons the Designated Villain is always condemned to failure. It gets tiresome after a while and makes one want to go Rooting for the Empire.

Your sympathy is supposed to lie with Wile E. Coyote. The thing of it is, he could stop the pain at any time by not chasing the Roadrunner.

Tom occasionally got a victory over Jerry (especially in later shorts), often when the mouse started their Escalating War without provocation. Add to that as often as Jerry won, he was still vulnerable to Amusing Injuries, albeit not nearly as often as Tom.

Jerry's Invincible Hero status is partially owed to Weird Al Effect. There are a deceptively large amount of shorts where Jerry wasn't the clear victor (either due to Tom getting the last laugh, or the two falling into a stalemate where neither was better off). Even in the instances Jerry was victorious, the times he won handily were rather uncommon, with him often shown struggling against Tom, or taking nearly as much slapstick pain and humilation as he did.

Adverted with Dragon Ball Z main protagonist Son Goku. Yes he powerful there's no denying that. But he is given limits that he as to surpass. And he as had quite a few defeat he's had to deal with. Played straight however with Goku and Vegeta fusion Vegtto.

Superman, with a few exceptions, such as never being able to beat archvillains such as Darkseid or Lex Luthor, though that's mostly due to Joker Immunity.

Squirrel Girl

Wolverine, thanks to his ridiculous regenerative abilities, can now regenerate from only a few cells in a matter of minutes. While still a very popular and interesting character, his ability kills any dramatic tension.

Doesn't mean Wolverine always wins, though.
And you always know he isn't going to win against Magneto, who nearly killed him at least once

In Sonic X, Sonic the Hedgehog leans into this territory on occasion.

Alucard from He losing is a Invincible Sociopathic Hero who almost all his battles are curbstomp battles with his enemies hitting the curb.

Description
More of the time the good guys win but This is taking it to the extreme. A Invincible Hero is a hero who never loses they always win they defeat the villains effortlessly. more of the time poeple (myself in clouded) find Invincible Heros very Boring, unbelievable, unrealistic, and just plain ridiculous.

Heroes win in the end. It's a general rule of fiction. Sometimes, though, you want the hero to lose a few battles. As a result, you have an occasional instance of The Bad Guy Wins. This also shows another generally good consequence: the importance of the struggle, the need to make an effort, and the necessity of Character Development.

Also see Invincible Villain, their Evil Counterpart chaser1992.deviantart.com/art/… .

Examples

Bugs Bunny only a hand full of poeple have beten him and even then its hardly happens. Tweety or Speedy are this too.

Most Looney Tunes protagonists leaned into this trope

Gaz from Invader Zim She's a Black Hole Sue.

In Tom And Jerry or Road Runner cartoons the Designated Villain is always condemned to failure. It gets tiresome after a while and makes one want to go Rooting for the Empire.

Your sympathy is supposed to lie with Wile E. Coyote. The thing of it is, he could stop the pain at any time by not chasing the Roadrunner.

Tom occasionally got a victory over Jerry (especially in later shorts), often when the mouse started their Escalating War without provocation. Add to that as often as Jerry won, he was still vulnerable to Amusing Injuries, albeit not nearly as often as Tom.

Jerry's Invincible Hero status is partially owed to Weird Al Effect. There are a deceptively large amount of shorts where Jerry wasn't the clear victor (either due to Tom getting the last laugh, or the two falling into a stalemate where neither was better off). Even in the instances Jerry was victorious, the times he won handily were rather uncommon, with him often shown struggling against Tom, or taking nearly as much slapstick pain and humilation as he did.

Adverted with Dragon Ball Z main protagonist Son Goku. Yes he powerful there's no denying that. But he is given limits that he as to surpass. And he as had quite a few defeat he's had to deal with. Played straight however with Goku and Vegeta fusion Vegtto.

Superman, with a few exceptions, such as never being able to beat archvillains such as Darkseid or Lex Luthor, though that's mostly due to Joker Immunity.

Squirrel Girl

Wolverine, thanks to his ridiculous regenerative abilities, can now regenerate from only a few cells in a matter of minutes. While still a very popular and interesting character, his ability kills any dramatic tension.

Doesn't mean Wolverine always wins, though.
And you always know he isn't going to win against Magneto, who nearly killed him at least once

In Sonic X, Sonic the Hedgehog leans into this territory on occasion.

Alucard from He losing is a Invincible Sociopathic Hero who almost all his battles are curbstomp battles with his enemies hitting the curb.