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trdl23 posted...

Here's a thing for me. Slayer's "tankiness" in-game relies on having tons of fodder for him to chainsaw/sword and gobble up health from. How is that flavored? He doesn't have any easy snacks to crack open and eat up if he gets hit here.

That's pure gameplay mechanics because it serves the combat loop. If you want the lore on how unkillable he is, well...

Yet as the mighty Titan fell and dread engulfed the armies of Doom, the demon priests of the Blood Temples laid a trap to capture this scourge of Hell. Insatiable, even by the vanquishing of the Great One, the Hell Walker sought prey in the tombs of the Blood Keep. And blinded by his fervor, the lure drew him in. The priests brought down the temple upon the Doom Slayer, and in his defeat entombed him in the cursed sarcophagus. The mark of the Doom Slayer was burned upon his crypt, a warning to all of Hell that the terror within must never be freed. There he lies still, and ever more, in silent suffering.

(Needless to say, 'bring down an entire building upon him' didn't take, it just KO'd him so they could bind him, but he was unharmed otherwise)

He also, off the top of my head...

-Tanks three point blank explosions of hell energy on his face, in a row, that he causes without being able to shield himself from them in Doom 2016. Said explosions are from killing elemental beings that are powering a significant chunk of hell, so it's not exactly like blowing up an explosive barrel.
-Uses himself as a human cannonball that punches clean through a solid steel wall at high velocities, shot from a cannon, in Doom Eternal.
-On the gameplay side of things, his minigun has a shield that can take getting hit by Tyrant (Cyberdemon) lasers and missiles and even stomps for multiple volleys. Said shield also detonates violently and pulps whatever's nearby when it explodes.

So yeah, fairly beefy all things considered, unless you go by nothing other than Nightmare mode damage values.