Cap’s shield was broken during SECRET WARS; a bolt from the blue by an omnipotent Dr. Doom (with stolen beyonder powder) did it, and residual beyonder energy repaired it. Nothing else has ever come close.
That said, I’d tie the shield with Diana’s bracelet’s and the surfer’s board for durability.
Yeesh. This is honestly the dumbest thing that I have ever read in a comic book.
Taped together? Realigned molecules? I hope everyone involved in this storyline from the Editor in Chief to the tracer was fired and wedgied within an inch of their lives.
Don’t forget the Saint of Killers’s (from Preacher) Walker Colts, forged from the Angel of Death’s sword. I’m not sure if they’re indestructable, but since the Sant of Killers is, I’d imagine they are by proxy.
I say no. As you mention, his revolvers used to be a sword. Presumably, a powerful enough supernatural force could destroy them.
The Saint isn’t indestructible either. The Lord, sitting in his Throne Of Judgement, could destroy the Saint. Possibly Genesis (Jesse and several others do describe Genesis as literally more powerful than God) could have done it as well. In fact, I’d say that Jesse could have used the Voice to destroy the Saint. (Unless I’m forgetting something from the early issues)
If I remember correctly, The Saint is impervious to the Word. It was one of the first things Jesse tried on him:
Jesse and the Saint were kind of at a stand off, with Jesse a wee bit scared, if I believe correctly. Shortly before, Jesse had told Cassidy to fuck off, and Cas left in a huff. Just then, Cassidy comes driving the truck, straight into the Saint. Needless to say, the truck is worse for wear.
Anyway, if Jesse could have used the Word there, I’m sure he would have. Though my memory is a bit foggy.
I did forget that God has/had limited power when not sitting in his Throne, though. Oh well, I still say the revolvers rank somewhere in the top 10 of durable comic book items.
The Saint is vulnerable to the Word: Jesse instructs him to holster his guns, and the Saint follows suit (although he by no means wants to). Later on he mentions that he’ll kill Custer before he can get a word out, confirming that it works on him.
That said, the Saint is still physically only vulnerable to God – a freakin’ nuclear bomb won’t destroy him (or his guns, or curiously, his clothes). and even then only when God is on his throne. Although I wonder what would happen if Jesse Custer instructed him to shoot himself…
Nah. The Hulk “Future Imperfect” storyline contradicts that. Norrin apparently dead, if memory serves, board still around (and damaged). Also, future-Norrin suffered the destruction of the board, and didn’t recreate it - It’s circumstantial, but I think it’s indicative that the board was a creation of Galactus - the Surfer can’t replicate it himself, no more than he could make someone a Herald.
I’d like to add Hercules’ Golden Mace to the list. Forged of adamantine, (the stuff Adamantium tries to imitate) and enchanted. Made by Hephaestus. Can withstand direct hits by Mjolnir with no ill effects.
The Surfer esapes the space-time barrier in the first issue of one of his series (mid-80s I think) after Ben Grimm figures out that the barrier affects the board and not him. The Surfer transforms the board into energy and re-creates it once he’s outside the barrier. Which doesn’t necessarily mean he can create a new board from scratch but IMHO strongly implies it.
Mark Waid wrote it. I give him a pass because the story he wrote where Cap loses his shield was one of the best sequences of shield-slinging ever printed.
OK, I knew that nobody knew how to actually make Captain’s shield, and I knew that he still had it. I inferred from this that it had never been destroyed. I see now that I was wrong. Given the circumstances, though, can we all pretend I was right anyway?
For another nomination, I told a friend of mine about this thread, and he recommended Linus’ blanket. While it hasn’t taken quite the beating that Cap’s shield or Wonder Woman’s bracelets have, it has endured far more than any mortal blanket could be expected to survive, and unlike indestructible objects typically associated with superheroes, it has never been destroyed (or even damaged), nor will it ever.
Actually, I don’t know that Diana’s braclets count as that indestructable. They’re nothing amazingly special. I seem to remember at one point, if you took them off her, she went insane, though.
Their deflective properties seem to be more a matter of skill than anything. Never meeting anything head on, just deflecting slightly. Though since she became a Goddess, they might have gotten some inherent ability.
She’s changed outfits a number of times, and the bracelets (manacles) have changed in design, too. There’s no reason to conclude that they havn’t succumbed to metal fatigue offscreen, and been swapped out or fixed.
I seem to recall Superman, or an evil version (Ultraman, Superman Robot, Bizarro) or maybe Black Adam, grabbing her by the arm and crushing one. No memory how, within the last five years.
Yeah, I’ll have to eat my words. I went back today and read the part where Jesse and the Saint meet, and my recollection was pretty wrong. Of course, if Jesse had told the Saint to shoot himself, he’d have to oblige, and his guns are never less than lethal… except when he shot Cassidy, and Cassidy still got up. I’ll have to chalk that up to the fact that Cassidy was technically already dead, being a vamp and all.
Anyway, with God and the Devil dead, pretty much the only force that could stop the Saint by the end is Genesis, and since he has no will of his own, he’s really got no reason to try to kill the Saint, so by the end of Preacher, the Saint and all his belongings are as good as indestructable.
While I will be happy to give your friends all kinds of props for out of the box thinking, I recall at least two storylines where Linus’ blanket was partially destroyed before returning “good as new” to Linus. 1) There was a storyline where Schultz had Lucy cut up Linus’ blanket and fashioned it to a kite. When Linus asks, “How could you do this?” Lucy replied, throwing up her hands, “It was easy!” where it was promptly blown away by the wind. This storyline went on for weeks a Linus tried to recover his blanket. Readers of PEANUTS wrote in letters claiming to have spotted Linus’ blanket/kite in real life in states as far away as New Mexico and Colorado! Eventually someone found it and mailed t back to Linus. 2) There’s at least one sequence where Lucy uses Linus’ blanket to make a three piece suit for Snoopy. Linus cries in horror: “You used my blanket to make a suit?” Lucy calmly replies, “Not A suit. TWO suits!” whereupon Woodstock appears with an identical miniature suit. Other than a vague recollection of Linus sucking on his thumb while holding Snoopy’s sleeve, I don’t recall that much about that storyline.