• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 minutes ago

      Thread over. The only three correct answers are Mr Bean, Mr Magoo, and Inspector Gadget.

      All other answers are wrong.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    3·
    1 hour ago

    Walker, Texas Ranger, or Michael Knight in Knight Rider?

    Or how about Jean Luc Picard in ST:TNG? It even got so bad that they kept him going by rebooting the universe.

    Looking at it a different way: the lead character from Infinity Blade: no matter how often he died, he was resurrected on the table until he actually won (at which point he essentially became the man he had spent eternity attempting to destroy).

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
    1·
    14 minutes ago

    Rick Sanchez.

    He’s supposed to be the smartest person in the universe. The rub is that the writers aren’t as smart as they want him to be, so that leads to them writing his enemies to be dumber than how smart they can write him, to preserve his in-universe superior intelligence.

    He can make anything out of anything. He has cybernetic implants that can do anything the plot needs.

    I actually like the show (a social crime in 2026) but being an overpowered, plot armored, deus ex machina is his gimmick.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    3 hours ago

    The Winchester brothers. They gave up even pretending as the show went on and just embraced the absurdity.

      • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
        5·
        2 hours ago

        Yeah, for those who don’t know, in the last season (spoiler ahead)

        spoiler

        Basically god reveals basically all universes were basically attempts at crafting a winchester story, God basically turns off their plot armor and their car breaks down, Dean gets sick from eating stupidly unhealthy crap, their car breaks down, their infinite money credit card stops working, dean needs a dentist.

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 hours ago

    One Punch Man.

    It’s his entire schtick.

    OPM is what you get when somebody asks themselves, what would the story be for someone that is completely, totally, absolutely, and indefatigably invincible in every regard?

    In my defense, I have not seen the third season yet.

    • RandomStickman@fedia.io
      12·
      2 hours ago

      I feel like King fits more. OPM is depressed Superman, but King is literally taking all the credit and get out of deadly situations alive by being at the right place at the right time

        • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zipEnglish
          4·
          2 hours ago

          Plot armor has nothing to do with fear or bravery, though. King constantly gets out of situations that absolutely should have killed him. Situations that he was not actually equipped to handle. But he’s not only alive, but completely unscathed (with the exception of his one scar)

          • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world
            21·
            1 hour ago

            Except that’s his whole character arc. That’s literally his entire purpose. A normal human being placed into situations where you are dead only to be saved by one reoccurring character our hero.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      It’s quintuple ironic because like the first season was basically so good at setting up a “this isn’t like other series’s, no one is safe”, keeps that tone up through the red wedding. Then after

      spoiler

      John snow is fake killed

      It becomes obvious that if a good guy has lived up to this point, they are probably fine for a while.

  • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 hours ago

    The only correct answer is Ciaphas Cain.

    Sly Marbo comes in at a close second but Sly Marbo never actually needs the plot armor.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 minute ago

      I’m unclear if I’m too old or too young to know these characters.

      Tell me, are they from the 1800s? Or are they from the year 2149?