Retroactive Immortality

Retroactive Immortality
As the avatar of the Phoenix Force, Jean Grey (Marvel Comics) keeps coming back from the dead as the Phoenix continually resurrects her.
Power/Ability to:	Be immortal by not staying dead.

The power to be immortal by not staying dead. Variation of Immortality.

Capabilities

The user is immortal in the sense that when they do die, they won't stay dead. This could be the result of instant resurrection, being reborn, transferring one's mind/soul into a clone, etc. Unlike other forms of immortality they can still die from any cause, like physical trauma, disease or simply aging, but the user will always come back to life.

Applications

• Immortality

Variations

• Ash Resurrection
• Enhanced Self-Resurrection
• Immortal Cloning
• Infinite Resurrection
• Reincarnation
• Self-Resurrection

Associations

• Death Negation
• Phoenix Physiology

Limitations

• Can be negated or even removed entirely.
• May only have a limited amount of times they can come back to life, i.e. Multiple Lives.

Known Users

See : Resurrective Immortality and Staying Alive.

Comics/Cartoons

• Master Shake (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
• Carl Brutananadilewski (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
• Hank Henshaw/Cyborg Superman (DC Comics)
• Doomsday (DC Comics)
• Mitchell Shelley/Resurrection Man (DC Comics)
• Happy Tree Friends (Happy Tree Friends)
• Jean Grey (Marvel Comics); via the Phoenix Force
• Mr. Immortal (Marvel Comics)
• Kenny McCormick (South Park)

Movies

• Chucky (Child's Play)
• Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th film series)
• Victor Crowley (Hatchet)
• Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street Series)
• Matthew Cordell (Maniac Cop Trilogy)
• Tomie Kawakami (Tomie)

Folklore/Mythology

• Jesus Christ (Christianity)

Literature

• Marrow (Arkwell Academy); through his bond with the phoenix
• Monsters (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles)

Live Television

• Humanoid Cylons (Battlestar Galactica)
• Jack Harkness (Doctor Who)
• Henry Morgan (Forever)
• Nathan Young (Misfits)
• Prometheus (Supernatural)
• Wendy Beauchamp (Witches of East End); via Multiple Lives
• Rayna Cruz (The Vampire Diaries); via Multiple Lives
• Paul Metcalfe/Captain Scarlet (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons/Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet)

Manga/Anime

• Ajins (Ajin: Demi-Human)
• Kurenai Rin (Big Order); via her Oder called Rebirth Fire, the Flame of Resurrection
• Szayelaporro Granz (Bleach)
• Reinforce/Book of Darkness (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)
• Phantom (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Tomie (Tomie)
• The Lifemaker (Negima/UQ Holder)
• Phoenix Ikki (Saint Seiya)
• Dandy (Space Dandy)
• Bernkastel (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)
• Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)

Video Games

• Susan Ashworth (The Cat Lady)
• Count Dracula (Castlevania)
• The Flood/Gravemind (Halo)
• Erim/Lufia (Lufia)
• Ridley (Metroid)
• Nameless One (Planescape: Torment)
• TATARI's malignant copies (TYPE-MOON)
• Snow White (Valkyrie Crusade)
• The Tenno (Warframe)

Web Comics

• God Tiers (Homestuck); ability is conditional, and can only truly die with a Just or Heroic death.
• Oasis (Sluggy Freelance)

Web Original

• SCP-076-2 - "Able" (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-607 - Dorian the Grey Cat (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1166 - Perfect Lab Specimen (SCP Foundation)
• The Smiling Man (Fear Mythos)
• The Palm (Whateley Academy)

Gallery

The most famous quality of Ajins (Ajin: Demi-Human) is that they never stay dead.

Humanoid Cylons (Battlestar Galactica) continuously resurrect in new bodies upon their current bodies' deaths.

After being killed by the Daleks and then resurected by Rose Tyler, Captain Jack Harkness (Doctor Who) gained the abillity to come back from death

After becoming a spirit, if Victor's (Hatchet) body is somehow destroyed or "killed", he'll come back because he has to repeat the night he died for eternity until he finds his father.

Mr. Immortal (Marvel Comics) is a Homo Supreme, having evolved beyond death, he will always come back to life no matter how many times he is killed

Nathan Young (Misfits) will always come back to life upon death, no matter how long it takes.

Snow White (Valkyrie Crusade) is an absolute immortal in that while she can die, she NEVER can stay dead, and will always comes back to life, not matter how she dies.

Phantom (Marchen Awakens Romance) cannot stay dead as long as he has the Zombie Tattoo. It’ll take a few years, but Phantom will indeed be eventually resurrected.

After being killed and reconstructed by the Mysterons, Captain Scarlet (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons) gained the Mysteron power of "Retrometabolism" which allows him to heal from serious injuries and return from death.

Resurrection Man's (DC Comics) power is the ability to die and resurrect with a random power, usually associated somehow with his death.

As the central hive mind of the parasitic Flood, the Gravemind (Halo) can keep resurrecting itself ad infinitum as long as even a single Flood spore still exists to infect other creatures.

Henry Morgan (Forever)

Ke mira prro.jpg

Tomie (Tomie)