- "Guess it’s really hard to die. I just survived again!"
- ― Kaido after a failed suicide attempt (One Piece)
- "Dying tickles!"
- ― Ralph Wiggum (The Simpsons)
- "Oh.... Why doesn't anything kill me?"
- ― Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
- "Plastic Man survived for 3,000 years as little more than crumbs scattered around the Atlantic. If that doesn't give you an idea of the level of powers he hides behind that doofy smile of his, then You're Brain Dead."
- ― Bruce Wayne/Batman to Ronnie Raymond/Firestorm (JLA # 76)
The power to have a drastically better survivability than what is naturally possible. Sub-power of Supernatural Condition. Advanced version of Enhanced Survivability.
Contents
Also Called
- Cheating Death
- Immense Survivability/Vitality
- Supernatural Vitality
Capabilities
The user is able to survive massive and even horrific injuries or damage, or almost any level of danger, conditions or circumstances. In some cases simply managing to cheat death even in seemingly inescapable and deadly situations.
Applications
Variations
Levels
- Peak Human Survivability
- Enhanced Survivability
- Supernatural Survivability
- Absolute Survivability
Associations
- Anatomical Liberation
- Backed-Up Physiology
- Cartoon Physics
- Death Prevention
- Enhanced Durability
- Enhanced Endurance
- Enhanced Regeneration
- Escape Artistry
- Indomitable Will
- Immortality
- Invulnerability
- Pain Suppression
- Regenerative Durability
- Supernatural Condition
- Supernatural Self-Preservation
- Ultimate Regeneration
Limitations
- Doesn't allow the user to heal damage, simply survive it.
- Doesn't make the user immortal, just very hard to kill.
- Doesn't make the user immune to the pain.
Known Users
See Also: No One Could Survive That.
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
- Honest (Akame ga Kill); via Supernatural Endurance
- Tyrant (Akame ga Kill); via Superior Adaptation
- Chirico Cuvie (Armored Trooper Votoms)
- Titan-Shifters (Attack on Titan)
- Guts (Berserk)
- Askin Nakk Le Vaar (Bleach)
- Baraggan Louisenbairn (Bleach)
- Sosuke Aizen (Bleach)
- Isshiki Ōtsutsuki (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
- Aoi Futaba (Cat Planet Cuties)
- Denji (Chainsaw Man)
- Cell (Dragon Ball Z)
- Frieza (Dragon Ball Z)
- Broly (Dragon Ball Z: Broly - the Second Coming)
- Cooler (Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler)
- Mr. Satan/Hercule (Dragon Ball series)
- Sale (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
- Shirou Emiya (Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya); Miyu's brother version only
- Tagamori Shinta (Gan-Kon)
- Tomoki Sakurai (Heaven's Lost Property)
- Naraku (InuYasha)
- Iris Eris (Legend of the Legendary Heroes)
- Keitaro Urashima (Love Hina)
- Madara Uchiha (Naruto)
- Obito Uchiha (Naruto)
- The Uzumaki Clan (Naruto)
- Tsunade (Naruto)
- Sakazuki/Akainu (One Piece)
- Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece)
- Brook (One Piece)
- Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece)
- Jinbe (One Piece)
- Kaido (One Piece)
- Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)
- Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)
- Sanji (One Piece)
- Edward Newgate/Whitebeard (One Piece)
- Makoto Shishio (Rurouni Kenshin)
- Sung Jin-Woo (Solo Leveling)
- Nagi Springfield (UQ Holder)
- Clear Note (Zatch Bell!)
Cartoons/Comics
- Barry Dylan (Archer)
- Shard the Metal Sonic (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)
- Vilgax (Ben 10)
- Vulkanus (Ben 10)
- Swampfire (Ben 10: Alien Force)
- Danny Fenton/Phantom (Danny Phantom)
- Doomsday (DC Comics)
- Joker (DC Comics)
- Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman (DC Comics)
- Patrick "Eel" O'Brian/Plastic Man (DC Comics)
- Dick Dastardly (Hanna-Barbera)
- Hellboy (Hellboy/BRPD)
- Allen the Alien (Image Comics)
- Savage Dragon (Image Comics)
- Viltrumites (Image Comics)
- Mark Grayson/Invincible
- Nolan/Omni-Man
- Thragg
- Sylth Vester (Loonatics Unleashed)
- Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Marvel Comics)
- Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 (Marvel Comics)
- James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
- Ethan G. Warren/Fallout (Marvel Comics)
- Ezekiel Rage (The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest)
- The Addams Family (The Addams Family)
- Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Baxter Stockman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 series)
Literature
- Cyber Shadow/Brick Baxter (The Young Guardians)
Live Television/Movies
- Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Vengeance Demons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
- Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
- Paul Metcalfe/Captain Scarlet (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons/Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet)
- Ashley "Ash" J. Williams (The Evil Dead)
- Evil Ash (The Evil Dead)
- Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
- Michael Myers (Halloween)
- Claire Bennet (Heroes)
- Neo (The Matrix)
- Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
- Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
- Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
- Castiel (Supernatural)
- Leviathans (Supernatural)
- Super-soldiers (The X-Files)
Video Games
- Asura (Asura's Wrath)
- Cid (Final Fantasy IV)
- Yang (Final Fantasy IV)
- Several Returners (Final Fantasy VI)
- Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII)
- Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
- Raziel (Legacy of Kain)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda)
- Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
- Commander Shepard (Mass Effect)
- Ridley (Metroid)
- Bryce Boltzmann (Never Dead)
- Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden)
- Alex Mercer (Prototype)
- James Heller (Prototype 2)
- Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)
- Mario (Super Mario)
- Luigi (Super Mario)
- Bowser (Super Mario)
- Ciel (TYPE-MOON)
- Souren Araya (TYPE-MOON)
Web Animation
- O-chul (Order of the Stick)
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Anime/Manga/Manhwa
Tyrant's (Akame ga Kill) tremendous vitality allows it to survive on the hottest deserts and the coldest tundras, even after becoming a Teigu, his flesh and consciousness is still alive in Incursio.
Due to training his body to complete perfection, Honest (Akame ga Kill) not only survived disembowelment…
…but also being brutally tortured for long period of time before he finally died.
Chirico Cuvie (Armored Trooper Votoms) has survived every type of horrible situation possible, including being exposed to the vacuum of space for an hour and even surviving a space station the size of a solar system landing on top of him.
The Hogyoku granted Sosuke Aizen (Bleach) immortality allowing him to survive Gin's Bankai Kamishini no Yari's deadly venom, Ichigo's Mugetsu and dismemberment by a Soul King empowered Yhwach.
Baraggan Lousenbairn's (Bleach) Resurrección grants him extremely resilient Hierro, allowing him to survive Suì-Fēng's Jakuhō Raikōben's massive explosion at point blank range.
Thanks to "The Deathdealing", Askin Nakk Le Vaar (Bleach) can survive almost anything as long as he has been sufficiently exposed to it before.
Thanks to her regenerative powers, Saya Otonashi (Blood+) can survive virtually anything short of being injected with her sister's Poisonous Blood.
Among other things Frieza (Dragon Ball series) was able to survive being sliced in half, blasted by Goku, the explosion of an entire planet, and being beaten up nonstop by a berserk Broly for over an hour.
Mr. Satan (Dragon Ball) may let his love of fame go to his head, but he was able to survive being sent flying into a mountain by Cell, or punched by the destructively insane Kid Buu.
After fusing with the tainted Shikon Tama, Naraku's (Inuyasha) regeneration powers were enhanced to the point he survived being torn apart by Inuyasha's Meido Tessaiga.
Like all members of the Uzumaki Clan, Kushina Uzumaki (Naruto) possessed incredible stamina and vitality, to the extent that she was able to survive the usually-fatal process of having a Tailed Beast extracted from her body…
…and Kurama/Nine-Tails’ talon strike just long enough to say goodbye to her son.
While Madara Uchiha (Naruto) was naturally tough, after becoming the Ten Tails Jinchuriki, he could survive bisection by Sasuke Uchiha and having half of his torso blown off by Might Guy's Night Guy enhanced kick.
In the Third Great Ninja War, Obito Uchiha (Naruto) survived being crushed by a boulder thanks to his latent Mangekyō Sharingan and Indomitable Will…
…and in the Fourth Great Ninja War, he was forced to use the Forbidden Jutsu Outer Path - Samsara of Heavenly Life Jutsu/Gedo Art of Rinne Rebirth which eventually kills the caster…
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…survived being impaled and holed…
…he also survived the extraction of the Ten-Tails and Black Zetsu attaching itself to his body…
…finally he died after being stabbed by Kaguya’s All Killing Ash Bones jutsu crumbling to dust.
Sakazuki/Akainu (One Piece) was able to survive Whitebeard's Kaishin/Seaquake, a powerful unblockable shockwave at point blank range…
…and his Gekishin/Severe Earthquake, a concentrated vibration punch to the face.
Due to his skeleton body and the power of the Revive-Revive Fruit/Yomi Yomi no Mi, Brook (One Piece) can survive the harshest injuries including decapitation.
Jinbe's (One Piece) tremendous tenacity allowed him to survive Akainu's magma blast punch straight through his chest.
Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom's (One Piece) tremendous durability…
…allows her to survive a direct hit from a massive lightning bolt.
Donquixote Doflamingo's (One Piece) incredible drive to live stems from his childhood trauma when he was tortured to the point that he refused to die and swore revenge against those who did it. This tendency enabled him survive the likes of Trafalgar Law's Gamma Knife and Monkey D. Luffy's King Kong Gun.
Kaido (One Piece) attempting suicide from jumping off of a sky island…
…and surviving it without a scratch.
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Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) has survived wounds that no normal person could survive all without even having a Devil Fruit, getting sliced by Dracule Mihawk, and in addition to him being at the brink of death, he took all Luffy's pain and fatigue and survived using sheer willpower.
Shishio Makoto (Rurouni Kenshin) survived being burned alive and getting shot in the head.
Even after being stabbed straight through, Clear Note (Zatch Bell!) still managed to survive.
Thanks to his Kraft Works power over kinetic vectors, Sale (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo) survived being shot in the head.
Even after having been declared biologically dead, Tomura Shigaraki was able to come back to life through sheer force of will
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Cartoons/Comics
The Joker (DC Comics), despite being a normal human, has cheated death on numerous occasions, surviving being shot repeatedly, electrocuted, and thrown off buildings among other situations.
Peter Griffin and Ernie the Giant Chicken (Family Guy) both always survive their insanely destructive battles, with Ernie even surviving a fatal fall, beheaded by a propeller, smashed in the head, impaled and burned by a shuttle's engine.
The daily life of Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
Ezekiel Rage (The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest) survived the explosion that killed his family, and so many death/near-death situations that it took sending him back in time to the Chicxulub Asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs to finally kill him.
Midnighter (Wildstorm) has survived a broken neck, broken limbs, holes through his chest, and being burned alive; he even claims to have beaten AIDS in "six weeks."
Allen the Alien (Image Comics)
Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 (Marvel Comics) once suffered a punctured lung, broken ribs, and major abrasions from a fall off a building, and effortlessly walked to the hospital, with doctors baffled he was even capable of standing, much less survive.
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Literature
Brick Baxter/Cyber Shadow (The Young Guardians) survived being burned alive and possibly being blown into space.
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Live Television/Movies
Mohra Demons (Angel) can survive any wound so long as the red gem on their foreheads is unharmed.
Ashley "Ash" J. Williams (Ash vs. Evil Dead)
As a vampire, Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) can survive and heal from near-limitless amounts of bodily damage so long as his head is not removed and/or his heart is not pierced by wood.
Due to possessing the Mysteron power of "retrometabolism", Captain Scarlet (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons) has survived many fatal situations.
Alive or undead, Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) has survived being shot repeatedly, hanged, electrocuted, burned alive, and taking an ax blade to the face.
Vigo the Carpathian (Ghostbusters) originally died by being, in this order, poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered, and his severed head still lived long enough to warn that he would return.
Michael Myers (Halloween) has survived such situations as being burned alive, shot repeatedly, and being stabbed in the neck and chest.
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Thanks to her regenerative powers, Claire Bennet (Heroes) has been able to survive, among other things, a broken neck, a nuclear explosion, and falls from virtually any height.
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Video Games
Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect) survived being gunned down by a gunship, as well as a missile to the face.
Liquid Snake (Metal Gear) survived a helicopter crash, a 10-meter fall, multiple hits from surface-to-air missiles, getting caught in the explosion of a Metal Gear, and finally a jeep crash before succumbing to the FOXDIE virus.
Thanks to the nanomachines in his blood, Vamp (Metal Gear) can easily shrug off what would typically be a mortal wound, such as a bullet to the head.
Ridley (Metroid) lives up to his title of "Cunning God of Death," surviving being injured in a raid on colony K-2L by eating the dead bodies...
...being reconstructed as a cyborg after nearly dying on planet Zebes, surviving long falls twice...
...disappearing without a trace of Phazon after being defeated while augmented by said substance, returning from his defeat on SR388 to invade the space colony Ceres...
...despite being legitimately killed in a rematch on Zebes, he was cloned from cells found on Samus's Power Suit, to die again at the hands of a Queen Metroid...
...and said clone was later mimicked by an X-Parasite, giving rise to a revived Neo-Ridley.
Ryu (Ninja Gaiden) can survive the most brutal injuries, deadlist poisons and even the ancient curse Grip of Murder.
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