- "I don't remember much after the explosion, but somewhere amongst the planetary debris the core of my being still existed, one living cell survived, and that is all I needed for my regeneration... Soon that living cell began to multiply into many, it wasn't long before I became conscious of my transformation, I could feel every part of my body growing, crackling with new life and energy. My shapeless mass began to sprout new limbs, first my legs, then my arms, and in no time, my whole body was restored!"
- ― Cell (Dragon Ball Z)
- "What!? I thought we cut him!"
- "Yes, we did, I'm sure of it. But this monster... regenerates as fast as we can cut him!"
- "He won't die if we cut off his head... he regenerates so fast its impossible to slice up his body!""
- ― Demon Slayers in regards to Muzan Kibutsuji's (Kimetsu no Yaiba) instantaneous regeneration
The power to rapidly heal at a level drastically beyond what is naturally possible. Sub-power of Supernatural Condition. Supernatural version of Enhanced Regeneration.
Also Called[]
- Advanced Healing/Healing Factor
- Immense Healing/Healing Factor/Regeneration
- Immense Regenerative Powers
- Near/Nigh/Semi-Absolute Healing/Healing Factor/Regeneration
- Near-Godlike Healing/Healing Factor/Regeneration
- Supernatural Healing/Healing Factor
- Preternatural Healing/Healing Factor/Regeneration
Capabilities[]
Users possess a supernatural level of regeneration; allowing them to recover from virtually any injury that doesn't result in instant death, such as disintegration, incineration, or one-hit kill attacks. As long as their "core" remains undamaged, regeneration is possible. This exceptional regenerative power operates at the cellular level, continuously rejuvenating cells and telomere lengths, granting the user freedom from the aging process. Additionally, the need for sustenance is drastically reduced, pushing the user close to a state of true immortality. Even intricate body parts like damaged brain cells and nerves can be meticulously repaired, preserving the user's mental faculties.
This level of regeneration can extends to drugs, diseases, and harmful foreign substances, ensuring they remain in peak physical condition and optimal health indefinitely. Their immunity, or at the very least, their high resistance to telepathic attacks, arises from the regenerative power's ability to restore brain cells to their unaltered state, effectively shielding the user's mind from intrusion or invasive attempts.
Tier[]
- Tier I - Decapitation: At this tier, users can regenerate extremely severe brain damage and even survive decapitation. This would entail head regrowth or head reattachment.
- Tier II - Destruction: Users can regenerate from being blown/torn/slashed to pieces, being able to restore their entire body back to its original state from a single part of their body, such as the head, heart, or even fingers. As long as a solid portion of the user's body survives, they can regenerate. At this level, it's common for users to have a 'core' which must be destroyed in order to kill them.
- Tier III - Obliteration: This tier of regeneration entails healing from extreme physical destruction of the body. Users would be able to regenerate from a drop of blood, a single cell, or even having all biology completely annihilated. At this level, users would be able to effortlessly survive point-blank nuclear explosions, or even cosmic-scale explosions.
- Tier IV - Flawless: At this stage, the user's regeneration would be so advanced that they would not only remain at an optimal condition and peak health forever, being immune to anything from dementia to mutations, but would also essentially attain a form of Immortality that makes them unkillable and eternally youthful. They would also be able to survive without any form of sustenance and be completely immune to any form of harmful foreign substance, detrimental conditions, hereditary illnesses, unformed limbs, birth defects etc. Even telepathic attacks would be rendered useless as the user can simply restore their mind to its unaltered state. This type of regeneration is also adaptive and intelligent, preventing it from accidentally multiplying tumors but instead restore it back to its original forms. If something is jammed into the body, the healing factor would shift and remove the object to recover. At this stage, the user would most likely possess infinite or near-infinite stamina and pain tolerance.
- Tier V - Physical: Users are capable of regenerating from complete and utter bodily destruction of any scale. Most prominently, this includes restoring their entire body from ash, vapor, plasma, molecules, atoms, or even sub-atomic particles.
- Tier VI - Nonphysical: At this tier, users can use intangible and nonphysical aspects of themselves to heal, such as their mind (not to be confused with the brain), soul, a form of supernatural/esoteric energy, a metaphysical force etc. This would entail that even if nothing is left of their bodies down to the most micro-level, they would be restored back to their original forms flawlessly.
Applications[]
- Accelerating Regeneration
- Adaptive Regeneration
- Body Recreation - From Level III there on.
- Bone Regeneration
- Contaminant Immunity
- Intelligent Regeneration - From Level II there on.
- Injury Immunity
- Nerve Regeneration
- Organic Preservation
- Psychic Shield
- Supernatural Longevity/Immortality
- Self-Resurrection
- Self-Sustenance - From Level II there on.
- Sensory Regeneration
- Supernatural Body
- Supernatural Endurance
- Supernatural Health
- Supernatural Life-Force
- Supernatural Recovery
- Supernatural Stamina
- Supernatural Strength: From their muscles tearing so much, they'd heal back stronger and stronger.
- Supernatural Survivability
- Thermal Resistance
Levels[]
- Peak Human Regeneration
- Enhanced Regeneration
- Supernatural Regeneration
- Nigh-Absolute Regeneration
- Absolute Regeneration
Associations[]
- Absorbing Regeneration
- Adaptive Regeneration
- Alien Physiology
- Elemental Regeneration
- Healing Blood
- Infinite Supply
- Life-Force Generation
- Phoenix Physiology
- Regenerative Empowerment – for some users, their healing factor could empower them
- Regenerative Cloning
- Resurrection
- Superior Human Physiology
- Supernatural Condition
- Vampire Physiology
- Werebeast Physiology
Limitations[]
- Attacks that cause instant death, such as One Hit Kill, will end the user's life before regeneration can take place.
- Complete destruction of the body if fast and strong enough can kill the user.
- For tumorous cells, the regeneration power may consider it as a form of disease and repair it to the healthy and optimal state. For some users, however, it may consider the cells as part of the body, and actually regenerate these sick cells, causing them to grow painfully instead.
- Users of Healing Erasure can remove this ability outright.
- Radiation can affect the user on a cellular level and crippling the user's healing factor from within, to the point of being unable to function anymore.
- Users of Healing Factor Nullification/Irreversible Destruction may prevent wounds from healing.
- May still need to breathe, making Deoxygenation-based attacks effective.
- Methods such as permanent separation of the head or destruction of the "core" may still kill the user.
- Continuous attacks that out-speed the regeneration rate may exhaust, and potentially kill, the user.
- If any object is jammed into a wound area, regeneration may fail or be delayed.
- May feel pain.
Known Users[]
See Also: From A Single Cell.
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
- Ajin (Ajin: Demi-Human)
- Hong En-Lai (Akatsuki Otokojuku)
- Vlad (Aria the Scarlet Ammo)
- Tenzen Yakushiji (Basilisk)
- Joujin (Basilisk)
- Eternal Atoms users (Bastard!!)
- Skull Knight (Berserk)
- Hollows (Bleach)
- Hollow Ichigo (Bleach)
- Kaname Tōsen (Bleach); in his Resurrección
- Nnoitra Gilga (Bleach); in his Resurrección
- Sōsuke Aizen (Bleach); via the Hōgyoku
- Ulquiorra Cifer (Bleach)
- Wonderweiss Margela (Bleach)
- Pernida Parnkgjas (Bleach)
- Shaz Domino (Bleach); via The Sigma
- James (Bleach); via The Superstar
- Askin Nakk Le Vaar (Bleach)
- Giselle Gewelle (Bleach); via The Zombie
- Gremmy Thoumeaux (Bleach); via The Visionary
- Gerard Valkyrie (Bleach); via The Miracle
- Muramasa (Bleach)
- Genji Ikusabe (Buso Renkin)
- Homunculi (Buso Renkin)
- Aion (Chrono Crusade)
- The One Being Sought (Code:Breaker)
- Undead Victims (Code:Breaker)
- C.C. (Code Geass)
- Code users (Code Geass)
- Pochita (Chainsaw Man)
- Priscilla (Claymore)
- Road Kamelot (D.Gray-man)
- Shiro/Wretched Egg (Deadman Wonderland)
- Namekians (Dragon Ball series)
- Users of Godly Ki (Dragon Ball series)
- Garlic Jr. (Dragon Ball Z); after becoming immortal
- Meta-Cooler (Dragon Ball Z)
- Cell (Dragon Ball Z); Level III
- Majin Buu (Dragon Ball Z)
- Baby (Dragon Ball GT)
- Seven-Three (Dragon Ball Super); after coping Piccolo’s abilities
- Moro (Dragon Ball Super); after absorbing Seven-Three
- Kamin (Dragon Ball Heroes)
- Oren (Dragon Ball Heroes)
- Kamioren (Dragon Ball Heroes)
- Homunculi (Fullmetal Alchemist)
- Agni (Fire Punch)
- Utsuro (Gintama)
- John Nash (Hero Killer); Level III
- Ihwa/Hero Killer (Hero Killer); via Level I
- Jintae Yang (Hero Killer); Level II
- Alucard (Hellsing); Level II
- Jabberwocky (Highschool DxD)
- Naraku (Inuyasha)
- Users of Reverse Cursed Technique (Jujutsu Kaisen)
- Mahito (Jujutsu Kaisen)
- Isana Yashiro/Adolf K.Weismann (K Series)
- Ghouls (Kemono Jihen)
- Kabane Kusaka; Half-ghoul
- Moe Hanzaki (Killing Bites)
- Demons (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- Hardgore Alice (Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku)
- Miyoshi Isa Nyuudou (Mushibugyo)
- Miyoshi Sikari Nyuudou (Mushibugyo)
- Jinchūriki (Naruto)
- Hashirama Senju (Naruto)
- Tsunade (Naruto)
- Orochimaru (Naruto)
- Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto)
- White Zetsu (Naruto)
- Kisame Hoshigaki (Naruto)
- Karin (Naruto)
- Sakura Haruno (Naruto)
- Obito Uchiha (Naruto)
- Madara Uchiha (Naruto)
- Individuals revived by the Impure World Reincarnation (Naruto)
- Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto)
- Shinno (Naruto)
- Mukade (Naruto)
- Victor (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
- Delta (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
- Boro (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
- Sapient God Tree’s (Boruto: Two Blue Vortex)
- Jura
- Hidari
- Negi Springfield (Negima: Magister Negi Magi!)
- Evangeline A.K. McDowell (Negima: Magister Negi Magi!/UQ Holder)
- Genma Himuro (Ninja Scroll)
- Boros (One-Punch Man)
- Zombieman (One-Punch Man)
- Deoxys (Pokémon)
- Lee Geon (Return of the Disaster-Class Hero); via Level IV
- Ban (The Seven Deadly Sins)
- Yuji Sakai (Shakugan no Shana)
- Trolls (Slayers)
- Kojō Akatsuki (Strike the Blood)
- Kirito (Sword Art Online)
- Kakine Teitoku (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Aiwass (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Kazakiri Hyouka (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Qliphah Puzzle 545 (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Noro (Tokyo Ghoul)
- Midora (Toriko)
- Elg (Toriko)
- Heracles (Toriko)
- Touta Konoe (UQ Holder)
- Kuroumaru Tokisoka (UQ Holder)
- Demogorgon (Enrolling in the Transcendent Academy)
- Mubong Park (The God Of Highschool) Tier III
Cartoons
- Accelerated healing User (Danny Phantom)
- Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
- Tech E. Coyote (Loonatics Unleashed)
- Aku (Samurai Jack)
- Durge (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
- Fluffy and Uranus (Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man)
Comics
- Czarnians (DC Comics)
- Lobo (DC Comics)
- Various Metahumans (DC Comics)
- Wielders of the Star Brand (Marvel Comics)
- Various Mutants (Marvel Comics)
- James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
- Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Marvel Comics)
- Bruce Banner/Hulk (Marvel Comics)
- Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin (Marvel Comics)
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
- Roberto da Costa/Sunspot (Marvel Comics)
- Cain Marko/Juggernaut (Marvel Comics)
- Itsy Bitsy (Marvel Comics)
- Sir James Jaspers/Mad Jim Jaspers (Marvel Comics)
- Practitioners of the Hercules Method (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode)
Movies/Literature
- Shin Godzilla (Shin Godzilla)
- Abeloth (Star Wars Legends)
- Ainur (Tolkienverse)
- Valar (Tolkienverse)
- Maiar (Tolkienverse)
- Sauron
- Count Vladislaus Dracula (Van Helsing)
- James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine (X-Men film series)
- Laura/X-23 (X-Men film series)
- X-24 (X-Men film series)
- Wade Wilson/Deadpool (X-Men film series); Original/Revised Timeline
- En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse (X-Men film series)
- Yuriko Oyama/Lady Deathstrike (X-Men film series)
Live Television
- Whitelighters (Charmed)
- Claire Bennet (Heroes)
- Adam Monroe (Heroes)
- Peter Petrelli (Heroes); while copying Claire's power
- Sylar (Heroes)
- Original Vampires/Hybrid (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals/Legacies)
- The Beast (The Originals/Legacies)
Video Games
- Crawford Starrick (Assassins Creed); via Shroud
- Darkspawn (Dragon Age)
- The Hunter (Dead Space)
- The Ubermorph (Dead Space)
- Dante (Devil May Cry)
- Vergil (Devil May Cry)
- Nero (Devil May Cry)
- Ogrim (The Elder Scroll)
- Vampires (The Elder Scroll)
- Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII series)
- Kratos (God of War)
- Baldur (God of War 2018)
- Jak (Jak and Daxter); as Light Jak
- Kain (Legacy of Kain)
- The Vorcha (Mass Effect)
- The Krogan (Mass Effect)
- Ridley (Metroid)
- Alex Mercer (Prototype)
- James Heller (Prototype 2)
- Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)
- William Birkin (Resident Evil)
- Sherry Birkin (Resident Evil)
- Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Knuckles (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Shadow (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Trolls (Warcraft series)
- Albedo (Xenogear)
- Delsin Rowe (inFAMOUS: Second Son)
- People of Hourai (Touhou Project)
Other
- Dracula (Romanian Mythology)
- Vampires (Folklore)
- Werewolf (Folklore)
- Tarrasque (AD&D)
- SCP-083-D - Duke (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-096 - The "Shy Guy" (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-151-D "K" (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-352 - Baba Yaga (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-3396 - The Empyrean Parasite (SCP Foundation)
- Sophia/Olympia/Subject/Zero/Olympia Zero/The Original/Europa (SCP Foundation)
Known Objects[]
- SCP-596 - Cursed Regeneration Statue (SCP Foundation)
- Hourai Elixir (Touhou Project)