Immortality

## Summary

**Immortality** is the ability to simply not die by natural means for any number of reasons, ranging from simply having no limit to your lifespan, being able to regenerate from wounds that would normally be lethal, or being protected by a higher being, among other possible reasons. It should be noted that no Immortality is truly perfect, and no matter how much a character's immortality is hyped up within their own setting, it is very, very unlikely that they are truly completely unkillable when matched up against characters from other fictions.

Regarding types 2, 3, 4, and 8, it should be noted that the degree of the abilities should be specified with the same system used for Regeneration. For example, it should preferably be specified if a character has displayed the ability to withstand injuries up to a Mid level for the purposes of type 2, or has been shown to recover up to such a degree regarding the other types.

## Types

**1: Eternal Life:** Characters gifted with this type of immortality cannot die from natural causes, such as old age or conventional illness, but can be killed by unnatural causes. To clarify, this type of immortality can include both those who do not age at all, and those who still grow old, but will never die of old age. However, in the case of the latter, it should be made clear that this is not just Longevity, as characters with that ability will eventually die of old age, as opposed to Eternal Life, for which dying of old age is not possible.

* **Examples:** The Valor (Lord of the Rings), Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog), Dimentio (Super Mario Bros)

**2: Resilient Immortality:** Characters with this degree of immortality can indefinitely survive injuries that would otherwise be lethal to a normal person, without needing to heal. This type of immortality can have different levels of effectiveness and can be bypassed, for example, by causing extremely severe wounds or the complete destruction of the body or specific parts of it, such as the head, etc.

* **Examples:** Freeza (Dragon Ball), Hidan (Naruto), Magical Girls (Puella Magi Verse)

**3: Immortality via Regeneration:** Characters with this type of immortality can simply regenerate from wounds that would normally be lethal, though its effectiveness depends on the degree of the regeneration.

* **Examples:** Majin Buu (Dragon Ball), Deadpool (Marvel Comics), Zamasu (Dragon Ball)

**4: Immortality via reincarnation or resurrection:** Characters that are immortal because, whenever they die, they will simply reincarnate within another body or resurrect themselves at a later point in time.

* **Examples:** Majorita (Nippon Ichi), Neptune (Hyperdimension Neptunia), Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon), All versions of Doctor Who (Doctor Who), Doomsday (DC Comics), The Avatar (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

**5: Deathless Immortality:** Characters who exist unbound by conventional life or death, or do not exist at all, and thus cannot be traditionally killed. Typically, abilities such as Existence Erasure are needed to destroy them.

* **Examples:** Pain (Naruto), Phoenix Ikki (Saint Seiya), Nemurin (Magical Girl Raising Project), Ash (Nippon Ichi)

**6: Parasitic:** The character is able to attain a sort of immortality by abandoning bodies whenever necessary to transfer their consciousness to another body, whether they are possessing someone else or switching to a backup body.

* **Examples:** Orochimaru (Naruto), A.D.A.M. (Sonic the Hedgehog), Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts), Baby (Dragon Ball), Deadman (DC Comics), Cheap Trick (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

**7: Undead:** Characters who cannot die due to technically being already dead, often overlapping with other forms of immortality. This includes characters who can keep existing as spiritual entities upon dying.

* **Examples:** Dio Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure), Fencer (Trevor Henderson Mythos), Zombies (Yakuza), Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th), Edo Tensei zombies (Naruto), Nanashi (Shin Megami Tensei)

**8: Reliant Immortality:** The character gets benefited by 1 or more other types of Immortality as long as a certain being, object, place, and/or concept or more may grant them those benefits, losing them otherwise. What exactly a user is reliant over, the benefits given from it, and how the process of the ability operates must be explained. Simply having some weakness that will kill a character when exploited doesn't qualify if it doesn't grant a form of Immortality, and also having other powers that do grant Immortality but are unrelated to that weakness does not count as well. It is discouraged to list this type if it would be redundant due to the same power already being described in another ability of the profile.

* **Examples:** Travis Touchdown (No More Heroes), Voldemort (Harry Potter), Seven Great Demon Lords (Digimon), Hades (Saint Seiya), Melzargard (One Punch Man), Frisk (Undertale)

**9: Transcendental Immortality:** Characters whose true selves exist independently from the plane where they can be killed.

* **Examples:** Pennywise (IT), SCP-682 (SCP Foundation), Dark Schneider (Bastard!!), Featherine (07th Expansion)

## Important Notes

* While Types 6 and 8, as well as 4 and 8, **can** be paired, this may only be done if the reasonings are unrelated to each other. In other words, the character may still reincarnate, even if their Type 8 is negated through whatever means, meaning they do **not** have Type 4/6 solely based on them having Type 8.
* The reason why Type 3 wouldn't be given to characters with only levels of Regeneration lower than Mid is because they still have the ability to die if certain conventional injuries were applied which would instantly kill them. This distinction allows us to capable of differentiating a character with Type 1 and/or 2 Immortality and Low to Low-Mid Regeneration and a character with Type 3 Immortality. But as stated within the definition, a character having Mid levels of Regeneration does NOT inherently grant it Type 3, unless at least one of the prerequisites was made.