- "He's cold."
"Is he breathing?"
"No."
"Maybe Angels don't need to breathe." - ― Bobby Singer and Dean Winchester on Castiel (Supernatural)
- "I can see through her! I-Is she a ghost?"
"We don't know, She won't answer." - ― Glenn Quagmire and Su-Jin (Family Guy)
- "He doesn’t seem entirely dead"
"He’s not quite alive, either." - ― Victoria and Rosita after seeing Miguel (Coco)
- "So you're half ghost right?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Does that mean you're like, half-dead?"
"It's...complicated." - ― Ben Tennyson and Danny Fenton (5 Years Later)
The ability to be both alive and undead in equilibrium. Sub-power of Paradox Manipulation. Not to be confused with Amortality.
Also Called[]
- Life Scale
- Living Undead
- Perfect Undead
Capabilities[]
The user exists in a paradox state of being simultaneously alive and undead by all definitions of both states. They may appear to be alive for all intents and purposes, to any test or scan, but possess undead/necrotic energy sustaining and empowering them, their living and undead states may exist on a scale depending on how healthy they are.
Applications[]
- Defunct Physiology
- Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Condition
- Reactive Adaptation
- Self-Sustenance
- Undead Physiology
Techniques[]
- Afterlife Connection - By being both a perfectly living and dead/undead being that are also connected to the afterlife.
- Afterlife Traversal - By being both and neither of living or dead worlds.
- Selective/Ultimate Intangibility - As an incorporeal dead/undead being that can also be a tangible living being at the same time in unison.
- Undead Morphing - Transform between a living and dead/undead being.
- Undead Soul - Adopting the spiritual quintessence of the undead.
Variations[]
Associations[]
- Afterlife Merging
- Amortality
- Eternal Soul
- Cemetery Empowerment
- Death Empowerment
- Death-Force Manipulation
- Fear Inducement
- Half-Spirit Physiology
- Immortality
- Life and Death Transcendence
- Life Empowerment
- Paradox Manipulation
- Personal Liminality
- Personal Mortality
- Personal Transition
- Physical Restoration
- Regenerative Durability
- Restoration
- Undead Empowerment
- Undetermined Existence
Limitations[]
- User may be self crippling by their own power due to their paradoxical state.
- May be incapable/immune to any and/or all forms of healing or harmful spells rituals or ceremonies or hyper vulnerable to specific kinds of magic.
- May not receive any supernatural buffs or assistance unless its a specific form of magic.
- May have to take in/absorb a constant supply of something specific like blood or life-force in order to remain in peak optimal condition to prevent their undead side growing stronger.
- User's presence may be detrimental to their allies even if they don't mean to be.
Known Users[]
- Clover (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
- Valkyries (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
- Sentrakh (BIONICLE): via experimentation
- Fenrir (God of War: Ragnarök); after possessing Garm
- Siren (Bioshock Infinite)
- Miguel Rivera (Coco); temporarily
- Ouri Kagami (Corpse Princess)
- Eric Draven (The Crow)
- Kirika Ueno (CubexCursedxCurious)
- The Buzzard (Dark Horse Comics)
- Chiaotzu (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death to train at King Kai's planet
- Son Goku (Dragon Ball); kept body after death as reward for the good he has done
- King Kai (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death due to his position
- Old Kai (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death due to his position
- Piccolo (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death to train at King Kai's planet
- Tien Shinhan (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death to train at King Kai's planet
- Vegeta (Dragon Ball); allowed to keep his body by King Yemma in a special case
- Yamcha (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death to train at King Kai's planet
- John Milton (Drive Angry)
- Junpei Takeda (Dungeon Seeker)
- Mavis Vermillion (Fairy Tail)
- Half-ghosts (Danny Phantom)
- Miu Hinasaki (Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water)
- Cadderly Bonaduce (Forgotten Realms); via becoming the Ghost King
- Midas (Fortnite)
- Garm (God of War)
- Diavolo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
- Angelica/Armor Class Rep (Loner Life in Another World); as an Un-undead
- Riko (Made In Abyss)
- Imhotep (The Mummy: The Animated Series)
- Hiyori Iki (Noragami)
- Hel (Norse Mythology)
- Noya (Owari no Seraph)
- Vorlog (Ravenloft)
- Son of Hi-Five Ghost (Regular Show)
- Mineko (Shachibato! President, It's Time for Battle!)
- Sinbad (Sinbad)
- Kiriko Zubreska (Sunday Without God)
- Castiel (Supernatural)
- Will of the Whole Misaka Network (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- William's infectee's (Underworld)
- Amy Dyer (In The Flesh)
- Bonnie Bennett (The Vampire Diaries); as the Anchor of the Other Side
- Transitioning vampires (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)
- R (Warm Bodies)
- Ethan Winters (Resident Evil)
- New Death (Adventure Time)
- Gavin Land (Crossed Badlands)
- The Unkindled (Dark Souls III)
- Hector Cervantez/Spectro (Marvel Comics)
- Thaal Sinestro from the Dark Multiverse (DC Comics);as the Limbo Lantern
- Citizens of The Necropolis Litharge (DC Comics/The Sand Man)
- Crew of the Black Pearl (Pirates of the Caribbean);formerly
- The Returned (They Came Back)
Known Objects[]
- Relic Ring (Final Fantasy VI)
- Transmode Virus (Marvel Comics)
- Cursed Aztec's Gold (Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl)
Gallery[]
Midas (Fortnite) was killed and his soul was sent to The Underworld in Tartarus. However, he managed to escape and return to the world of the living in a half-life state. Since then Midas can turn partially or completely into a Shade and recover his human form at will.
After finding the Book of the Dead, Clover (Anima: Beyond Fantasy) was converted into a being neither alive nor dead.
Due to being born from death, Ouri Kagami (Corpse Princess) is considered to be both human and shikabane.
Crows (The Crow) are deceased beings empowered by a spirit of vengeance who tie them between both the land of the living and the realm of the dead.
Kirika Ueno (CubexCursedxCurious) is both alive and undead because of the cursed tool Ginstrnag's Love.
After his first and second deaths, Son Goku (Dragon Ball Z) was permitted to keep his physical body in the Other World.
John Milton (Drive Angry) being an escaped soul from hell is neither living nor extinguished. Ergo, no matter what is done to him, you can never kill a dead man.
Due to being still considered immortal despite being killed by Zeref's ankhseram's contradiction curse, Mavis (Fairy Tail) is both alive and dead at the same time.
As a Shadowborn, the product of a union between a dead man and living human, Miu Hinasaki (Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water) is effectively both alive and dead at the same time.
After nearly dying in a bus accident, Hiyori Iki (Noragami) became a half-Phantom, stuck between the human realm and the afterlife.
After being killed by Jack Baker and reanimated by the Mold, Ethan Winters (Resident Evil) retained his humanity, existing between life and undeath to the extent even he didn't realize he was infected/dead.
The Buzzard (Darkhorse Comics) was once a simple lawman in a rural town that fell to ruin when a nameless pastor blew in. Cursing him with an unliving state that's maintained by the consumption of inert and necrotized tissue. Making him a living man who feeds upon the dead.
Half-ghosts (Danny Phantom) like Danny or Vlad have a unique physiology that allows them to be either ghost or human which means they are alive and dead at the same time.
Born naturally soulless, Garm (God of War) cannot be truly killed as it is already alive and dead at the same time.


















