Retroactive Immortality

The power to be immortal by not staying dead. Variation of Immortality.

Capabilities
The user is immortal in the sense that when they do die, they won't stay dead. This could be the result of instant resurrection, being reborn, transferring one's mind/soul into a clone, etc. Unlike other forms of immortality they can still die from any cause, like physical trauma, disease or simply aging, but the user will always come back to life.

Applications

 * Immortality

Variations

 * Ash Resurrection
 * Enhanced Self-Resurrection
 * Immortal Cloning
 * Infinite Resurrection
 * Reincarnation
 * Self-Resurrection

Associations

 * Death Negation
 * Phoenix Physiology

Limitations

 * Can be negated or even removed entirely.
 * May only have a limited amount of times they can come back to life, i.e. Multiple Lives.

Known Users
See : Resurrective Immortality and Staying Alive. {{scroll box|

Comics/Cartoons

 * Hank Henshaw/Cyborg Superman (DC Comics)
 * Doomsday (DC Comics)
 * Mitchell Shelley/Resurrection Man (DC Comics)
 * Jean Grey (Marvel Comics); via the Phoenix Force
 * Mr. Immortal (Marvel Comics)
 * Kenny McCormick (South Park)
 * Master Shake (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
 * Carl Brutananadilewski (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
 * Happy Tree Friends (Happy Tree Friends)

Movies

 * Victor Crowley (Hatchet)
 * Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th film series)
 * Chucky (Child's Play series)
 * Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street Series)
 * Tomie Kawakami (Tomie franchise)
 * Matthew Cordell (Maniac Cop trilogy)

Folklore/Mythology

 * Jesus Christ (Christianity)

Literature

 * Marrow (Arkwell Academy); through his bond with the phoenix
 * Monsters (Camp Half-Blood chronicles)

Live Television

 * Humanoid Cylons (Battlestar Galactica)
 * Jack Harkness (Doctor Who)
 * Henry Morgan (Forever)
 * Nathan Young (Misfits)
 * Prometheus (Supernatural)
 * Wendy Beauchamp (Witches of East End); via Multiple Lives
 * Rayna Cruz (The Vampire Diaries); via Multiple Lives
 * Paul Metcalfe/Captain Scarlet (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons/Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet)

Manga/Anime

 * Ajins (Ajin: Demi-Human)
 * Kurenai Rin (Big Order); via her Oder called Rebirth Fire, the Flame of Resurrection
 * Szayelaporro Granz (Bleach)
 * Reinforce/Book of Darkness (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)
 * Phantom (Marchen Awakens Romance)
 * Tomie (Tomie)
 * The Lifemaker (Negima/UQ Holder)
 * Phoenix Ikki (Saint Seiya)
 * Dandy (Space Dandy)
 * Bernkastel (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)
 * Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)

Video Games

 * Susan Ashworth (The Cat Lady)
 * Count Dracula (Castlevania series)
 * The Flood/Gravemind (Halo)
 * Erim/Lufia (Lufia)
 * Ridley (Metroid)
 * Nameless One (Planescape: Torment)
 * TATARI's malignant copies (TYPE-MOON)
 * Snow White (Valkyrie Crusade)
 * The Tenno (Warframe)

Web Comics

 * Oasis (Sluggy Freelance)
 * God Tiers (Homestuck). Ability is conditional, and can only truly die a Just or Heroic death.

Other

 * SCP-076-2 - "Able" (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-607 - Dorian the Grey Cat (SCP Foundation)
 * The Smiling Man (Fear Mythos)
 * The Palm (Whateley Academy)}}