Mortality

Mortality
After the Heart of the Island was off, The Man in Black (Lost) found that he was mortal and vulnerable again.
Condition to:	Become vulnerable to injuries and death.

"Idiots... Nothing can live forever."

― Magus (Chrono Trigger)

"Anything less than immortality is a complete waste of time!"

― Bender Bending Rodríguez (Futurama)

"Dying and coming back again and again. The old death thought it was funny. But now there's one hard, fast rule in this universe. What lives...dies."

― Billie to Sam Winchester (Supernatural)

The condition to be vulnerable to injuries and death. Opposite to Immortality and Invulnerability.

Also Called

• Vulnerability

​Capabilities

The user is or becomes vulnerable to injuries and death. This condition is usually fulfilled through loss of immortality, loss of invulnerability, falling from grace, etc. whatever the case may be, the user becomes a mortal being and/or were always mortal.

This can come in handy, if the user is forced to live a cursed existence, as an undead, subjugated, etc..

Applications

• Negation
  • Amortality
  • Immortality
  • Undead Physiology

Examples

• Divinity Nullification
• Healing Erasure
• Healing Factor Nullification
• Immortality Negation
  • Immortality Removal
• Invulnerability Negation
• Mortalization
• Reincarnation Denial
• Resurrection Negation

Associations

• Death Inducement
• Dependency
• Human Physiology
• Humanization
• Power Destruction
  • Power Erasure
  • Power Negation
• Vulnerability Inducement
• Weakness Inducement

Known Users

See Also: Anyone Can Die.

• Shiro (Deadman Wonderland); after the Branch of Sin was destroyed
• Tyrael (Diablo)
• Merus (Dragon Ball Super)
• Celestial Spirits (Fairy Tail); if trapped in the natural world
• Bender Bending Rodríguez (Futurama)
• Utsuro (Gintama)
• Kouka (Gintama)
• Kratos (God of War)
• The Man in Black (Lost); after the Heart of the Island was extinguished
• Nathan Young (Misfits), while his power was reversed
• Raiden (Mortal Kombat)
• Demigods (Mythology); half-mortals
• Clark Kent (Smallville); temporarily
• Anna Milton (Supernatural); after removing her grace
• Castiel (Supernatural); when his grace was removed
• God (Supernatural); when Jack absorbed all his powers.
• Metatron (Supernatural); when his grace was removed
• Imhotep (The Mummy franchise); twice
• Katherine Pierce (The Vampire Diaries); after she was cured of her vampirism
• Screamapillar (The Simpsons)
• Third Corvinus Son (Underworld)

Known Objects

• Mortal Potion (Disney's Hercules)

Gallery

For violating Angel law, Merus (Dragon Ball Super) was eradicated by the Grand Minister...

...and revived as a mortal with a definite lifespan and none of his Angel capabilities.

Bender Bending Rodríguez (Futurama) is a robot built without a backup unit, so he does not possess the immortality that he boasts about, rendering him a mere "mortal coil".

Utsuro (Gintama) was on the verge of becoming mortal when Umibozu jammed the Altana of a foreign planet into his body.

Kouka (Gintama) became mortal once she left Kouan, ceasing to draw from its Altana, and when the supply she accumulated ran dry, she died.

After being tricked into draining his godly power into the Blade of Olympus, Kratos (God of War) became mortal and vulnerable, allowing Zeus to kill him.

When Castiel (Supernatural) lost his grace to Metatron, he became human and mortal.

Metatron (Supernatural) became mortal when Castiel removed his angelic grace.

Chuck Shurley/God (Supernatural) was mortalized by Jack when he absorbed all his god power, forcing him to live the rest of his life as a weak and defenseless mortal.

After the destruction of the branch of sin. Shiro (Deadman Wonderland) lost her nigh-meta regeneration healing factor, leaving her weakened to the point that she requires constant medical care in order to survive.