Nigh-Absolute Immortality

Nigh-Absolute Immortality
After becoming a vampire and stealing the Forgotten One's power, Gabriel Belmont/Dracula (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) became immortal and near invulnerable; only the Vampire Killer can truly kill him.
Power/Ability to:	Be almost completely immortal.

The power to be almost completely immortal. Sub-power of Nigh-Omnipotence. Lesser version of Absolute Immortality.

Also Called

• Near Perfect/Nigh/Complete Immortality

Capabilities

The user enjoys near-complete immortality: they do not age, possess rapid healing abilities, and essentially have an eternal lifespan. Most methods are ineffective in causing their demise, though a some few exceptions exist that have the capacity to harm and ultimately end their existence.

Applications

• Death Negation
• Evolutionary Immortality
• Infinite Resurrection
• Nigh-Absolute Invulnerability
• Nigh-Absolute Regeneration
• Immortal Memory Capacity
• Supernatural Survivability
• Supernatural Endurance
• Supernatural Health
• Supernatural Recovery
• Supernatural Stamina
• Unfettered Body

Variations

• Accelerated Immortality
• Concept-Dependent Immortality
• Core-Reliant Immortality
• Delayed Immortality
• Emotion-Connective Immortality
• Immortal Aging
• Immortal Sleep
• Memory-Based Immortality (limited if the memory is powerful enough to serve)

Levels

• Peak Human Longevity
• Enhanced Longevity
• Supernatural Longevity
• Immortality
• Nigh-Absolute Immortality
• Absolute Immortality

Associations

• Absolute Immortality
  • Immortality
• Alien Physiology
• Life and Death Transcendence
• Nigh-Omnipotence
• Superior Human Physiology
• Transcendent Physiology

Limitations

• Users of Absolute Character Erasure and Absolute Erasure can wipe out the user from existence.
• Absolute Death Inducement and Eternal Rest Inducement can bring death to the user.
• Users of Immortality Negation/Immortality Bypassing/Immortal Slayers can harm and even kill the users, If powerful enough.
• May be driven mad by having to watch countless loved ones die while they live on.
• May be removed by Immortality Removal.
• May be put in a state of extreme suffering to which death is preferable.
• Can make the user evil when they realize that they are unkillable by any means and therefore unstoppable and get away with everything.

Known Users

• Angels (Abrahamic Religions)
  • Barachiel
  • Gabriel
  • Michael
  • Raphael
  • Sandalphon
  • Uriel
• Demons (Abrahamic Religions)
• Hringham (Anima: Beyond Fantasy); as the King of Non-Life
• The Nameless (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
• Immortals (Baccano)
• Celestialsapiens (Ben 10 series)
• Sōsuke Aizen (Bleach); via the Hogyoku
• Old Ones (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Dracula (Castlevania)
• Gabriel Belmont/Dracula (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow)
• Denji (Chainsaw Man)
• Cain (Christianity/Judaism)
• Aion (Chrono Crusade)
• Users of the Code of Immortality (Code Geass)
  • C.C.
  • Charles zi Britannia; after stealing V.V.'s Code
  • V.V.
• Zalgo (Creepypasta)
• Vandal Savage (DC Comics)
• Swamp Thing (DC Comics)
• Lobo (DC Comics)
• Doomsday (DC Comics); via Reactive Adaptation
• Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (DC Comics)
• Muzan Kibutsuji (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Tanjiro Kamado (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba); after temporarily becoming a Demon
• Garlic Jr. (Dragon Ball Z); after wishing to be immortal using the Dragon Balls
• Majin Buu (Dragon Ball Z); killed when every last molecule of his being was destroyed
• Future Zamasu (Dragon Ball Super); after wishing to be immortal using the Super Dragon Balls
• Merged Zamasu (Dragon Ball Super); killed when compromised immortality was overtaxed
• Infinite Zamasu (Dragon Ball Super); killed when erased from existence
• Angels (Dragon Ball Super)
  • Whis
  • Vados
  • Merus
  • Grand Minister
• Mechikabura (Dragon Ball Heroes); manga only
• Eternals (Fablehaven)
• Victims of Ankhseram's Curse (Fairy Tail)
  • Mavis Vermilion
  • Zeref Dragneel
• The Evangelist (Fire Force)
• Erika Ainsworth/Pandora (Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya)
• Cloud of Darkness (Final Fantasy III)
• Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII series); after falling into the Lifestream
• Caius Ballad (Final Fantasy XIII-2); via the Heart of Chaos
• Ardyn Izunia (Final Fantasy XV)
• Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
• Utsuro (Gintama)
• Kouka (Gintama)
• Baldur (God of War)
• Immortal Beings (The Good Place)
• Hydra (Greek Mythology)
• Alucard (Hellsing)
• Schrödinger (Hellsing)
• Nations (Hetalia: Axis Powers)
• God-tiers in Homestuck (Homestuck)
• Herrscher of the Void (Honkai series)
• Naraku (Inuyasha)
• Kars (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency); after becoming the Ultimate Lifeform
• Undead (Kamen Rider Blade); cannot be killed but can be sealed instead
  • Category Ace
    • Mantis Undead
    • Spider Undead
  • Categories 2-10
    • Human Undead
  • Royal Club Undead
    • Tiger Undead/Hikaru Jo
    • Tarantula Undead/Noboru Shima
  • Joker Undead
    • Hajime Aikawa/Kamen Rider Chalice
    • Kazuma Kenzaki/Kamen Rider Blade
• Kan-Ra (Killer Instinct 2013)
• Kumoko/Shiraori (Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?/So I'm a Spider, So What?)
• Kain (Legacy of Kain)
• Raziel (Legacy of Kain)
• Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda); via the Triforce of Power
• Cain (Lucifer TV series)
• Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Marvel Comics)
• Ghost Riders (Marvel Comics)
• Living Tribunal (Marvel Comics)
• Hercules Panhellenios (Marvel Comics)
• Ebony (Mirror)
• Merit-Set (Mirror)
• Geras (Mortal Kombat)
• Indivduals revived by the Impure World Reincarnation (Naruto)
• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto)
• Madara Uchiha (Naruto); after absorbing the God Tree
• Baldur (Norse Mythology)
• Immortals (The Old Guard)
  • Andromache "Andy" of Scythia
  • Yusuf "Joe" Al-Kaysani
  • Nicolò "Nicky" di Genova
  • Sébastien "Booker" Lelivre
  • Nile Freeman
• The Collector (The Owl House)
• Dracula (Romanian Mythology)
• Alucard (Rosario+Vampire)
• Salem (RWBY)
• Aku (Samurai Jack)
• Sophia (SCP Foundation)
• Adam El Ansem (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-014 - The Concrete Man (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-073 - "Cain" (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-682 - Hard-To-Destroy-Reptile (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2747 - As Below, So Above (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3125 - The Escapee (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3396 - The Empyrean Parasite (SCP Foundation)
• The Scarlet King (SCP Foundation)
• Hosts of Gaia's Bees (The Secret World); can be killed if somehow prevented from resurrecting.
• The Ascended (Stargate)
  • Ancients
  • Ori
  • Anubis
• The Q (Star Trek); until depowered by other Q
• The Ones (Star Wars)
  • The Father
  • The Son
  • The Daughter
• Abeloth (Star Wars Legends)
• The Darkness/Amara (Supernatural)
• God/Chuck Shurley (Supernatural)
• Death (Supernatural)
• Dean Winchester (Supernatural); with the Mark of Cain, not even Death can kill him.
• Neo (Toriko)
• Rampage (Transformers: Beast Wars)
• Mumm-Ra (Thundercats series)
• Sauron (Tolkien’s Legendarium)
• The Valar (Tolkien’s Legendarium)
  • Melkor/Morgoth
• Fräulein Kreutune (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
• Jack Harkness (Torchwood)
• Heracles (Toriko)
• Karin Yuuki (UQ Holder)
• Duke Gilzen (Vampire Hunter D)
• Toons (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
• Photino Birds (Xeelee Sequnce)
• True Gods (IMDC)
• Immortals (IMDC)
• Primus (Transformers)

Known Objects

• Cure-All Elixir (Baccano)
• Grand Panacea (Baccano)
• Eternal Atoms (Bastard!!)
• Hogyoku (Bleach)
• Dedication (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Mark of Cain (Supernatural)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Aion (Chrono Crusade)

C.C. (Code Geass) possesses the Code of Immortality, allowing her to never age, never be killed by conventional means, and allow her to heal from any wound...

...with burning at the stake just one of many fatal situations she survived and recovered from. The only way she can die is by transferring the Code to someone else.

Muzan Kibutsuji (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba), due to being the progenitor and most powerful demon, never gets killed by decapitation by any Nichirin weapons, except for sunlight.

Tanjiro Kamado (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba), temporarily became a Demon due to Muzan Kibutsuji transferring all his blood, powers and abilities to him, plus gaining immunity to sunlight, until he gets cured and turned back into a human.

Due to his agelessness, regeneration, and infinite stamina Majin Buu (Dragon Ball series) is nigh-impossible to kill unless every last molecule of his being is vaporized at once by overwhelming force.

Garlic Jr. (Dragon Ball Z) wished for immortality upon the Earth's Dragon Balls, allowing him to never age, never be killed, and causing any injury to heal instantly...

...with the Z-Fighters being forced to trap him in the Dead Zone because they can't kill him.

Future Zamasu (Dragon Ball Super) wished for immortality upon the Super Dragon Balls, allowing him to never age, never be killed, and causing any injury to heal instantly...

...however, due to the contradiction caused by the fusion of the absolutely immortal Zamasu and the mortal Goku Black, Fused Zamasu (Dragon Ball Super) has imperfect immortality allowing his mortal self to be killed with significant injuries...

...and what remained of his immortal self was ultimately erased from existence.

Angels (Dragon Ball Super) are fully immortal as long as they do not break the divine laws they have to obey, but doing so will cause them to be erased...

...as was Merus' fate when he broke the angels' law of non-interference by helping Goku defeat Moro.

After using his Chaos Ball to absorb vast amounts of space-time, Mechikabura (Super Dragon Ball Heroes) became an immortal with infinite regeneration, necessitating him being sealed away since he can't be killed.

Erika Ainsworth/Pandora (Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya) cannot die because her "death" itself is also within the Pandora's Box, which was never opened in Miyu's World.

Between his regenerative abilities, power to absorb other demons, and possession of the Shikon Jewel, Naraku (Inuyasha) was immortal and near invulnerable, to the extent that he was only destroyed for good when Kagome used the Shikon Jewel to wish him out of existence completely.

After becoming the ultimate life form, Kars (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency) cannot age, is immune to such things as sunlight/Ripple, and is virtually unkillable, able to adapt to survive various scenarios...

...though when launched into space, he adapts by becoming an immobile statue who eventually ceases to think, effectively "dying" mentally.

After eating the Chakra Fruit, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto) gained immortality and tremendous regenerative abilities in addition to achieving godhood and extremely powerful Jutsu, making her impossible to kill, not even her two sons have the power to kill her, they can only seal her away.

Fräulein Kreutune (Toaru Majutsu no Index) is a mysterious human girl who has existed since the age of witch hunts, an immortal being who has lived for hundreds of years. Fräulein has survived 308 witch trials, including burning, suffocating, imprisonment for months, having been thrown into a lake and even struck by lightning. Fräulein became a legend during her long history and multiple theories spread regarding her origin.

Karin Yuuki (UQ Holder) possesses Immortality Level: S, meaning she is "not permitted to die or get hurt" and will survive virtually anything...

...with only Juuzou Shishimi capable of bypassing her immortality and causing her any lasting harm.

Cartoons/Comics

Celestialsapiens (Ben 10) are immortal cosmic entities but can be killed by other Celestialsapiens or the complete erasure of the entire multiverse.

As an avatar of the Green, Swamp Thing (DC Comics) is effectively immortal and can easily reconstruct his body; the only way to kill him is to destroy all plant matter in the universe.

Due to his adaptive ability, Doomsday (DC Comics) is effectively immortal and invulnerable; while he can be killed, he will always return to life, unable to be killed the same way twice.

Between his Regenerative Healing Factor and being afflicted with a curse that rendered him untouchable to Death itself, Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Marvel Comics) is immortal and virtually unkillable...

...to the extent his counterpart in the Earth-80521 reality was still alive and active as Deadpool 800 years into the future.

Ghost Riders (Marvel Comics) can only be destroyed by Marvel's Yaweh.

Externals (Marvel Comics) are Mutants who are immortals & can only be killed by other Mutant Externals.

As an embodiment of evil, Aku (Samurai Jack) is immortal and invulnerable, only able to be harmed by divine powers and magic and killed by Jack's sword.

Toons (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) are ageless and cannot be killed by anything that would kill a human...

...with only Judge Doom's invention, the Dip, capable of doing so.

Live Television/Movies

Already ageless, by performing the Dedication, Mayor Wilkins (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) became fully immortal and invulnerable, healing from any injury almost instantly without any visible signs of pain. However, the effects only last for 100 days.

As primordial forces, the Old Ones (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) can never truly die, living for eons and able to find ways to come back into being even if their physical bodies are slain...

...with Mayor Wilkins surviving being blown to smithereens by the explosion of Sunnydale High and spending the next decade regenerating himself after becoming the avatar of Olvikan...

...and Illyria (Angel) reincarnating herself by possessing Winifred Burkle.

While he can be put out of commission and incapacitated, Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) will eventually resurrect each time unless killed by one of his own family members...

...such as his niece Jessica Kimble...

...but even then, Freddy Krueger was able to revive him to continue his killing spree.

The Undead (Kamen Rider Blade) are the immortal ancestors of all creatures on Earth that cannot be killed by conventional means, so they must be sealed with the Rouse Cards.

The Mantis Undead (Kamen Rider Blade) is the immortal best fighter of all Undead and the embodiment of combat.

Spider Undead (Kamen Rider Blade)

The Human Undead (Kamen Rider Blade) is the immortal ancestor of all humans on Earth and the embodiment of kindness.

Tiger Undead/Hikaru Jo (Kamen Rider Blade)

Tarantula Undead/Noboru Shima (Kamen Rider Blade)

The original Joker Undead/Hajime Aikawa/Kamen Rider Chalice (Kamen Rider Blade) is an Undead that is the embodiment of death.

Kazuma Kenzaki/Kamen Rider Blade (Kamen Rider Blade) after becoming the second Joker Undead.

The Mark of Cain (Supernatural) renders the bearer virtually immortal, reviving them as demons if killed; not even Death himself knows of a way to kill someone who bears the Mark.

Jack Harkness (Torchwood) was turned into an immortal being by Rose Tyler, no longer aging and able to survive and reassemble himself after being blown into scraps of flesh by a bomb.

Video Games

While his physical bodies can be destroyed, Sephiroth's (Final Fantasy VII series) will and consciousness live on within the Lifestream as a kind of poison, allowing him to endlessly resurrect himself.

As the Immortal Accursed, Ardyn Izunia (Final Fantasy XV) is immortal and invulnerable, not aging and able to regenerate endlessly from such things as his body being destroyed completely because his soul is separated from his body...

...with only Noctis, as the True King, being capable of truly killing him.

Due to the curse placed on him, Baldur (God of War) is immortal and invulnerable to all physical and magical threats, except for mistletoe.

Due to all the magic placed on him, Kan-Ra (Killer Instinct 2013) has lived for over 3500 years and survived such things as being sent into space and burned into ash; only his ongoing curse of rot can truly kill him, though he has found numerous means to slow the process down.

No matter how much Kain (Legacy of Kain) is damaged or decomposes into bats, only the Soul Reaver can truly kill him due to his nature as the Scion of Balance.

As a native of the Spectral Realm and the Elder God's agent, Raziel (Legacy of Kain) is beyond death, merely shifting back into the Spectral Realm if slain in the Material Realm, and reforming if destroyed in the Spectral Realm...

...only dying when he submitted to his fate and became the Soul Reaver.

As bearer of the Triforce of Power, Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda) is immortal and invulnerable to conventional methods...

...as well as some magical ones...

...with only the Master Sword being capable of harming or killing him; even then, he will eventually resurrect/reincarnate as per Demise's curse.

Others

The Nameless (Anima: Beyond Fantasy) cannot die no matter how much his body or soul its destroyed or damaged, only divine entities can ultimately eradicate him.

SCP-682 - Hard-To-Destroy Reptile (SCP Foundation) although possessing the ability to adapt to absolutely everything can actually be permanently killed via SCP-2935 - O, Death

Zalgo (Creepypasta) is an abstract entity that will exist as long as chaos exists in minds. Likewise, because it exists beyond the veil, it cannot be separated from reality and therefore must be destroyed before it can be completely erased from the plane in which it manifests. And yet, it can reemerge from its dark dimension, fully revived after the complete destruction of a reality. The only way to influence him is to influence his concept or alter reality at a higher level.

Cursed by the gods, Salem (RWBY) is immortal and invulnerable to all mortal and supernatural threats, only able to die by learning and accepting the importance of life and death.

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