The power to be immune to all diseases. Variation of Contaminant Immunity.
Capabilities
The user's immunity, digestive, and other organ systems are enhanced or evolved far beyond that of a normal human's. They are completely immune to every form of disease brought on by bacteria, viruses, or even parasites.
Applications
- Immunity grants the user the ability to eat very rotten food.
- Immunity to STDs gives the user ability to have unprotected sexual interaction with anyone without harm.
- User cannot be transformed via virus-based effects.
- User is immune to biological weapons.
- Higher-level users could survive extinction-level pandemics.
- User's DNA could be used to create cures for even the worst diseases.
Associations
- Contaminant Immunity
- Decelerated Aging
- Enhanced Condition
- Health Ailment Immunity
- Immortality
- Immune System Manipulation
- Invulnerability
- May accompany Disease Generation or disease-based powers.
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Semi-Immortality
Limitations
- While immune from diseases, users are still vulnerable to actual poisons or toxins.
- While they themselves are immune, user could accidentally pass diseases, carried on them or their clothes, to someone else.
- May need to contract the disease to develop any actual immunity.
Known Users
Folklore/Mythology
- Vampires (Mythology/Folklore)
- Werewolves (Folklore)
- Olympians (Greek Mythology)
Literature
- Neohumans (The Young Guardians book series)
- Hunters of Artemis (Percy Jackson Books)
- Zana (Tumor Fruit)
- Immunes (The Maze Runner); immune to the Flare virus
Live Television
- Demons (Charmed)
- Whitelighters (Charmed)
- Elders (Charmed)
- Chaya Sar (Stargate Atlantis)
- Merlin/Moros (Stargate SG-1)
Comics
- Lex Luthor (DC Comics)
- Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
- Infectious Lass (DC Comics)
- Miss Martian (DC Comics)
- Martian Manhunter (DC Comics)
- Kryptonians (DC Comics)
- Wonder Woman (DC Comics)
- Midnighter (Wildstorm/DC Comics)
- Plague/Pestilence (Marvel Comics)
- Thor (Marvel Comics)
- Captain America (Marvel Comics)
- Hulk (Marvel Comics)
- Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Marvel Comics)
- James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
- Akihiro Daken (Marvel Comics)
- Laura Kinney/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
- Simon Williams/Wonder Man (Marvel Comics)
- Tony Stark (Marvel Comics); via Iron Man Armor
- Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics)
- Robert "Bob" Reynolds/Sentry (Marvel Comics)
- Monet St. Croix (Marvel Comics)
- Deathlok Prime (Marvel Comics)
- Vampirella (Vampirella)
Manga/Anime
- Yujiro Hanma (Baki the Grappler)
- Inuyasha (Inuyasha); According to Rumiko Takahashi, but he still gets the common cold.
- Silva Zoldyeck (Hunter x Hunter)
- Boro (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
Cartoons
- Gooliope Jellington (Monster High)
- Glenn Quagmire (Family Guy)
- Archie (Class of the Titans)
- Cheese (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)
- Olympia (Hero Heights)
- Flashbees (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic); Immune to Swamp Fever
Video Games
- Fire Elementals (Crypt of the NecroDancer)
- Golems (Crypt of the NecroDancer)
- Ice Elementals (Crypt of the NecroDancer)
- Mushrooms (Crypt of the NecroDancer)
- Skeletons (Crypt of the NecroDancer)
- Slimes (Crypt of the NecroDancer)
- Zombies (Crypt of the NecroDancer)
- Black Phillips (Dusk)
- Fork Maidens (Dusk)
- Possessed Scarecrows (Dusk)
- Rats (Dusk)
- Turrets (Dusk)
- Survivors (Left 4 Dead Series)
- Zombies (Quake Series)
- Mummies (Quake: Dissolution of Eternity)
- Air Elementals (Serious Sam)
- Ice Elementals (Serious Sam)
- Stone Elementals (Serious Sam)
- Water Elementals (Serious Sam)
- Reimi Saionji (Star Ocean: The Last Hope)
Web Original
- SCP-017 - Shadow Person (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-122-1 - No More Monsters (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-280 - Eyes in the Dark (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-1002 - Demisers (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-1983-2 - Doorway to Nowhere (SCP Foundation)
- Sarkics (SCP Foundation)
- Grand Karcist Ion
Known Objects
- Healer's masks (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
See Also
For fan-fictional to non-canon characters, see here.
Gallery
Diana both as Wonder Woman (DC Comics) and the Goddess of War possesses an incredible immunity from poisons, toxins, as well as disease.
Under the effects of the yellow sun Kryptonians like Superman (DC Comics) possesses an incredible immunity from poisons, toxins, as well as disease.
Midnighter (DC/Wildstorm Comics)
Having this ability in conjunction of having immunity to contaminants, Possessed Scarecrows (Dusk) cannot be affected by various diseases and pathogenic agents.
Inuyasha (InuYasha) is a half-demon, and cannot contract any diseases, aside from the common cold.
As a subpower to Contaminant Immunity, Air Elementals (Serious Sam) are immune to diseases due to being made out of air.
As a substitute to Contaminant Immunity, Ice Elementals (Serious Sam) cannot be affected by disease due to being constructed of ice.
As a sub-ability to Contaminant Immunity, Stone Elementals (Serious Sam) cannot be affected by disease due to being magically constructed of rock.
Water Elementals (Serious Sam) cannot be affected by disease due to being mystically constructed of water.
Zana (Tumor Fruit) cannot get pregnant and cannot carry STDs no matter who she has sex with.
Glenn Quagmire (Family Guy) carries every disease known to man and is incredibly resistant to most of them.
Various members of the Avengers (Marvel Comics) showing immunity to the Symbiote virus.
James "Logan" Howlet/Wolverine (Marvel Comics) is immune to all known diseases.
As he is essentially a walking corpse, Deathlok Prime (Marvel Comics) is immune to Death's terminal touch.
Gods such as the Olympians (Greek Mythology) are immune to all known Earthly diseases and infection.