Immortality

"I intend to live forever, or die trying."

- Several

"Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."

- Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."

- Abraham Lincoln

The power to never die. Opposite to Induced Mortality.

Also Called

 * Death Immunity
 * Deathless
 * Endless/Eternal/Everlasting Life
 * Immortal Physiology

Capabilities
User possesses an infinite life span, as they can never die, never age, and can shrug off virtually any kind of physical damage. Some users are the defensive type, simply preventing all damages, to appear physically invulnerable, while others are the regenerative type, surviving and quickly recovering from anything you throw at them while at the same time they are capable of resurrecting themselves instantly after death and completely self-sustaining, free from all bodily necessities.

Variations
Some may only possess the power of:
 * Death: No body to destroy. The soul, one that is not of a physical being, does not inherit physical characteristics, such as concepts of destruction, therefore cannot be destroyed; in short, the user cannot die because it is already dead. Most common form of immortality.
 * Head Liberation: Survive decapitation.
 * Immortal Cloning: Transfer one's mind/soul into a clone to cheat death.
 * Infinite Resurrection: Death is omitted. Injuries may be inflicted, but complete annihilation is impossible.
 * Invulnerability: Cannot be harmed in any way or form. Therefore, death by physical damage is omitted.
 * Temporary Invincibility
 * Life and Death Transcendence: Be beyond the very concepts of Life and Death and immune to all life and death based powers.
 * Life Transcendence: Transcend the limitations of ones life/lifespan and conquer death itself.
 * Life Extension: Extend one's life.
 * Possession: Possess a new body/host upon death of the current, thereby surviving death and becoming immortal.
 * Retroactive Immortality: Cannot remain dead, always resurrecting or reincarnating oneself after being killed.
 * Quick Reincarnation: The power to be immediately reincarnated following "death"; can result in gaining powers in relation to how the user previously died.
 * Regeneration: High-level regeneration of body that heals any injuries, even fatal ones, preventing one from dying.
 * Self-Sustenance: Can survive without the need for bodily resources, such as food.
 * Self-Resurrection: Completely heal fatal injuries and resurrect upon death if body isn't entirely destroyed.
 * Semi-Immortality: Un-aging.
 * Spatial-Temporal Lock: Exist outside the normal space-time continuum, and thus immune to what happens in it.

Levels of Immortality
Semi-Immortality
 * Cannot age, thus preventing death via senescence.
 * Remains vulnerable to mortal wounds, severe injuries, diseases/viruses, and foreign substances.
 * Mental damage may still occur.

Reliant Immortality (Concept-Dependent Immortality, Self-Puppetry)
 * User acquires immortality by anchoring their life to a certain object, source, concept, etc.
 * Destruction of anchor ends the user's immortality.
 * The physical body remains mortal, only the soul is earthbound.
 * May require continuous intake of source or maintenance of object to remain immortal.

Immortality (Immortality via Regenerative Healing Factor)
 * Cannot age once reaching a certain point.
 * Immune to diseases, toxins and drugs.
 * Wounds, even crippling or fatal ones, heal near instantly.
 * Time-manipulating powers can erase the user's existence, as opposed to biologically killing them.
 * May apply only to biological immortality, as the mind and/or soul may remain mortal.
 * Immortality power may be removed, rendering the user mortal once again.

Unfettered Body
 * Cannot age once reaching a certain point.
 * Body is completely immune to physical damage, toxins and pathogens.
 * Soul and mind may remain vulnerable.
 * Per chance the body is harmed, regeneration may not occur.
 * Time-manipulating powers can erase the user's existence, as opposed to biologically killing them.

Absolute Immortality
 * Cannot age.
 * Immune to all diseases, toxins and drugs.
 * All wounds and injuries heal instantly.
 * Immortality applies to not only the body, but mind and soul as well, rendering the user truly "absolute".
 * Power is absolute, so it can never be removed, nor can the user's existence from timelines.

Associations

 * Amortality
 * Death Removal
 * Immortality Manipulation
 * Injury Immunity
 * Omnilock

Limitations

 * Immortality Bypassing/Immortality Negation/Immortality Removal
 * Cannot overcome the End of Time, unless the form of immortality is an absolute type, hence why just like Regenerative Healing Factor, it is unclear how long it would last.
 * May be erased from history via the effects of time-manipulating powers, killing the immortals in question before they become immortal.
 * While users are immune to the ravages of time, most are vulnerable against direct application used against them.
 * Nonexistence can wipe the user out of existence, as opposed to simply killing them biologically.
 * May have certain weaknesses that are lethal (i.e. decapitation, disintegration, and/or poison).
 * May have weaknesses to single source (item, event, person, etc.) that is lethal to them.
 * May be killable by certain specific way, item or people.
 * User may go mad, from the effects of time and boredom.
 * This can also cause madness overtime because the immortal is forced to watch those who aren't immortal die.
 * May forget events that happened long ago.
 * Some immortals could be infertile, or they're incapable of passing this ability to their descendants.
 * Immortality may depend on outside sources and objects (i.e. Horcruxes, Shikon shards).
 * Can be sealed/imprisoned in an empty dimension with no chance to escape.

Trivia
It is highly likely that various kinds of Immortality can become a curse because whoever is close to them or even their friends had past away, the user would be left behind, unless the user is also gifted the ability to teleport to both Earth and Heaven, or alternatively Meta Teleportation to keep the curse of being immortal at bay.

Known Users
See Also: Immortality and Complete Immortality.

Literature
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 * Morgoth (Tolkienverse)
 * Sauron (Lord of the Rings)
 * Saruman (Lord of the Rings)
 * Gods, Titans and Giants (Percy Jackson)
 * Randall Flagg (Stephen King)
 * Crimson King (Stephen King)
 * IT/Pennywise (Stephen King)
 * Beloved (The Unicorn Chronicles); via the tip of the unicorn, Whiteling's horn embedded in her heart
 * The Chrion (The Unicorn Chronicles); via having his vital essence placed in a jeweled golden egg; though his aging was slowed greatly
 * Golden Boy (Wild Cards)
 * Elves (Inheritance)
 * Brittany/Drake (Gone)
 * Tuck Family (Tuck Everlasting)
 * Haplo's dog (Death Gate Cycle)
 * Fanoxean (The Young Guardians)
 * Sir Angus Prize (Happy Ness: The Secret of the Loch)
 * Celestial Immortals (Desolate Era)
 * Empyrean Gods (Desolate Era)
 * True Gods (Desolate Era)
 * Daofathers of the Great Firmament (Desolate Era)

Video Games

 * Dominus Ghaul (Destiny)
 * Guardians (Destiny)
 * Bryce (NeverDead)
 * Shadow The Hedgehog (Sonic The Hedgehog)
 * Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Solaris (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Chip/Light Gaia (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * The Darkness (Skylanders)
 * Ancient Elementals (Skylanders)
 * Mammoth Mogul (Archie's Sonic The Hedgehog)
 * John White/The Beast (Infamous 2); eventually died from the Ray Field Inhibitor activated by Cole MacGrath or giving his powers to Cole.
 * Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)
 * Shinnok (Mortal Kombat)
 * Quan Chi (Mortal Kombat); via Amulet of Shinnok.
 * Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
 * William Black (Fable)
 * Kratos (God of War)
 * AZ (Pokémon)
 * Rosalina (Super Mario Galaxy)
 * Vincent Valentine (Compilation of Final Fantasy VII)
 * Caius Ballad (Final Fantasy XIII-2)
 * Clockwork (Sly Cooper series)
 * Akihiko Kayaba (Sword Art Online)
 * Wizeman the Wicked (NiGHTS into Dreams)
 * Dr. Henry West (Splatterhouse 2010)
 * Guardian of Metal (Brütal Legend)
 * Grima (Fire Emblem)
 * Pylich (TF2 Freak)
 * Kyrie Illunis (Sands of Destruction)
 * Snow White (Valkyrie Crusade)
 * Immortal Rahu (Valkyrie Crusade)
 * Merlin (Fate Grand Order); Lacks the concept of death
 * Tiamat (Fate Grand Order); Cannot die as long as there is life on earth
 * Goetia (Fate Grand Order); Lacks the concept of death
 * Demon Pillars (Fate Grand Order); Lack the concept of death
 * Jacob/The Deathless Prophet (Tomb Raider)
 * The Deathless Ones (Tomb Raider)
 * Tusk (Killer Instinct)
 * The Nerevarine (The Elder Scrolls; granted Immortality by The Corpus Disease)
 * The Hero of Kvatch (The Elder Scrolls; after becoming The New Sheogorath)
 * Daedra Princes (The Elder Scrolls)}}

Comics
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 * Mortigan Goth (Marvel Comics)
 * Yi-Yang (Marvel Comics)
 * Hulk (Marvel Comics)
 * Galactus (Marvel Comics)
 * Garokk (Marvel Comics)
 * Ulyssess Bloodstone (Marvel Comics); via the Bloodgem
 * Terror (Marvel Comics)
 * Ego the Living Planet (Marvel Comics)
 * Watchers (Marvel Comics)
 * Carina Tivan (Marvel Comics)
 * Nightmare (Marvel Comics)
 * Dormammu (Marvel Comics)
 * Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics)
 * Olympians (Marvel Comics)
 * Elders of the Universe (Marvel Comics)
 * Celestials (Marvel Comics)
 * Eternals/Homo Immortalis (Marvel Comics)
 * Selene (Marvel Comics)
 * Mr. Sinister (Marvel Comics)
 * Romulus (Marvel Comics)
 * Remus (Marvel Comics)
 * Cyber (Marvel Comics)
 * Thanos (Marvel Comics); cursed to never die
 * James "Logan" Howlett (Marvel Comics); via Healing Factor
 * Dakan Akihiro (Marvel Comics); via Healing Factor
 * Nightcrawler (Marvel Comics) sacrificed his soul
 * Sentry (Marvel Comics)
 * Joshua Foley/Elixir (Marvel Comics)
 * Wonder Man (Marvel Comics)
 * Atlas (Marvel Comics)
 * Count Nefaria (Marvel Comics)
 * Adam Warlock (Marvel Comics)
 * Sir James Jaspers/Mad Jim Jaspers (Marvel Comics)
 * Owen Reece/Molecule Man (Marvel Comics)
 * Ogun (Marvel Comics)
 * Mister Immortal (Marvel Comics)
 * Deadpool (Marvel Comics); cursed to never die
 * Corvus Glaive (Marvel Comics); via Glaive
 * The Endless (DC Comics)
 * Swamp Thing (DC Comics)
 * Lobo (DC Comics)
 * New Gods (DC Comics)
 * Kryptonians (DC Comics); via yellow sun radiation
 * Daxamites (DC Comics); via yellow sun radiation
 * The Source (DC Comics)
 * Doomsday (DC Comics); via Reactive Adaptation
 * Vandal Savage (DC Comics)
 * Immortal Man (DC Comics)
 * Resurrection Man (DC Comics)
 * Professer Ivo (DC Comics); via immortality elixir
 * Magus (DC Comics)
 * Jacob the Deathless Prophet (Rise of the Tomb Raider)
 * Hulk (Marvel Comics)
 * Juggernaut (Marvel Comics)
 * Maestro (Marvel Comics)
 * Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen)
 * Zahard (Tower of God)
 * 10 Great Warriors (Tower of God)
 * All Immortals (El Goonish Shive)
 * Anyone who reaches god tier (Homestuck); can still be killed permanently if their death is just or heroic.
 * Caliborn/Lord English (Homestuck); was granted unconditional immortality.
 * Zanta Claws (Eddsworld)
 * Spawn (Image Comics)
 * Ananke (The Wicked + The Divine)

Mythology/Folklore

 * Deities (Mythologies/Religion)
 * God (Christianity/Judaism/Islam)
 * Cain/Master Mahan (Judaism/Christianity)
 * Nicholas Flamel (Alchemy/Folklore); via Elixir of Life
 * Garterbelt (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt)
 * Angels (Christianity/Judaism/Islam)
 * The Eight Immortals (Chinese Mythology); via eating a Peach of Immortality.
 * Vampires (Folklore)
 * Santa Claus (Folklore)
 * Demons (Religions)

Web Original

 * Dr. Bright (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-682 - Hard-to-Destroy Reptile (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-1440 (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-138 - The Ever-Living Man (SCP Foundation)}}