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7 Anime Characters With The Strongest Plot Armor

Plot armor, for those who have been on a break with the internet, is the invisible protection granted to a character in anime or any other media in which prevents them from dying because the plot demands it. As the character is so interwoven into the story, or sometimes because they are so popular with the fans, you can throw them into a wood chipper and they would come out with a handsome sheer of blood, but still ready to fight and win.

Some characters have no plot armor. In fact, they may have negative plot armor. Some character you can just look at and be like, “They are totally going to die for that emotional outburst from the main character.” However, those other characters, they couldn’t die if the world crumbled underneath their feet. So just who are they?

Anime Characters With Strong Plot Armor

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Erza from Fairy Tail

Actually, that title should say “Everyone from Fairy Tail,” if we are being honest. No one dies in Fairy Tail. Even the dead in Fairy Tail aren’t actually dead, but I suppose that is what you get when magic is a thing. Regardless, Erza might even rival the main character in terms of plot armor, and it is pretty visible, just bouncing right there on her chest.

It doesn’t matter if you are too fast or strong for Erza like Kyouka was. It doesn’t even if your claws can rip through her armor. None of it matters… Because she’s Erza.

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Ichigo from Bleach

Remember way back when literally Ichigo’s only power was being able to see dead people? Simpler times, that. Fast forward to now, and he has every power in the book. Certainly Ichigo has lost in the past, but now they have made him essentially unbeatable. Throughout the series, Bleach has followed a formula. Just when things look dire for Ichigo, someone either swoops to his rescue or he gains a new secret power locked inside his inner vault, the combination to which only known by the plot gods.

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Sasuke from Naruto

At least Naruto actually goes through training sessions to get his new powers, but unfortunately his rival Sasuke doesn’t get off as easily. Sure, he trained with Orochimaru, but as a villain in the series, you think Sasuke would take more of a beating. He has a rather nasty habit of picking fights with stronger opponents only to get beat down, but just at the last moment he either whips out a new power or someone comes to whisk him away. The plot rescues are strong, and pretty much just so Sakura can have someone to love in the end.

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Eren Yeager from Attack on Titan

All his friends die around him, and then he does too. Oh well, show’s over! But nope! Comes back as a titan. What? Couldn’t it just be about humans fighting titans?  Couldn’t Mikasa have taken over the role as main character? Nope, it had to be about kids wearing flesh mechas.

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Akame from Akame ga Kill

For a series that prides itself on having no plot armor, its titular character sure seems like she escapes death a whole lot. And she isn’t even really the main character, so why the plot armor? Regardless, one of her biggest plot armor examples comes when she fights Esdeath and cuts herself with Murasame. One cut and its lethal poison will kill its victims, she even states that it is the reason cleaning the weapon is so dangerous. She got the big power boost from it, but also should have died. Well, right up until her teigu decided that she shouldn’t, anyway.

Kirito from Sword Art Online

Kirito from Sword Art Online

Kirito is lousy with plot armor. Want to be special? How about a dual wield ability just for you. Want to be powerful? As a beta tester, I guess you can just beat Guild leaders like they are flies. Unfortunately, the worst part is that while everyone else dies when their HP reaches zero, not him or Asuna. He just manages to beat the game’s death timer by killing Heathcliff. It is kind of some bullshit.

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Gutts from Berserk

You can cut him, you can fill him full of arrows (unless his magical arrow-proof cloak is on), you can try to drown him in a dead sea monster in full armor, but this guy … This guy won’t ever die. Well, at least not until the time is right. There is no other character in any series, not even in the shounen sect, that can survive as much damage as Gutts has taken over the years. At this point, his bones should be dust and his organs should be a watery soup. However, in the manga he does have literal plot armor.

16 thoughts on “7 Anime Characters With The Strongest Plot Armor”

  1. Sasuke from naruto? You say sasuke doesn’t go through training. Hello have you seen any of naruto’s fight? Naruto so far is the one with biggest plot armour in the whole Anime world.

    1. Compared to other Shounen protagonists like Ichigo and Natsu, Naruto has far lower plot armor he lost against Madara he draw against sasuke and he was beat down in the movie…

    2. Yo that guy really is irrelevant. He just oppened his fat mouth and said Sasuke has plot armor. Does he realize how stupid that sound? Does he even realize that naruto KCM is a plot armor why does a tailed beast have a mode oh wait no tailed beast have any mode the only one who does is naruto. Usually someone had a mode based on actual chakra nature like lava style lightning style blah blah blah Naruto’s mode has zero explanation many ninjas got to control their tailed beast THEY DONT GET MODES. It’s literally just Naruto’s thing. Naruto the guy who has the tailed beast save his live everytime and right when the tailed beast is about to come out his father saves him and when it happens again his mother saves him. Is this guy in his right mind. Sasuke left the village and trained everyday with Orochimaru. He had no friends nothing just training is this guy actually serious?!!

  2. Here is another people talking out his ass and spreading mis accusations. Mainly sao, If you reading this don’t believe anything this person said on here.

    It’s just nitpicking.

  3. Did you really watch aot.there’s a reason why eren transform into a titan plot armor is basically a thing who survived in a nonsensical way but eren there’s a proper explanation why he survived

  4. No Goku? Goku is just a moron with plot armor. The reason to watch the franchise is all the other characters except him.

    1. nah he does have but wrong there have been moments where he has lost and died this is ridiculous some ppl do but there are characters other than him who ppl watch

  5. Goku. Goku has more plot armor than everyone in all fiction combined. Seriously, not even the Abrahamic god has the level of plot armor that Goku has.

  6. Erza the plot armor titania

    You say everyone in fairy tail Nah it is only Erza who got plot armor, others got different things.
    Like luck, helping, friendship power or emotional power. But Erza is not even the main character compare to all those characters who are main characters, Erza is just part of the main characters team!

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