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* Jeebs from ''Film/MenInBlack'' has an incredibly effective healing factor as his alien ability. Every scene with Jeebs involves him getting his head shot off, only to have it grow back in the space of seconds. The RPG specified that he had a limited number of several vital organs, including his head. [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries The animated series]] said his species didn't need to breathe oxygen, but needed it to regenerate. The healing factor didn't apply to ''all'' his physiology. After shooting him, K threatens to shoot him again in a place "where it don't grow back." By the sequel, his head looks misshapen from the repeated shootings by J. WordOfGod is that his organs don't grow back exactly as before.
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* Jeebs from ''Film/MenInBlack'' has an incredibly effective healing factor as his alien ability. Every scene with Jeebs involves him getting his head shot off, only to have it grow back in the space of seconds. The RPG specified that he had a limited number of several vital organs, including his head. [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries The animated series]] said his species didn't need to breathe oxygen, but needed it to regenerate. The healing factor didn't apply to ''all'' his physiology. After shooting him, K threatens to shoot him again in a place "where it don't grow back." By the sequel, his head looks misshapen from the repeated shootings by J. J and one time he complains that he was shot in the mouth and now "nothing is going to taste right". WordOfGod is that his organs don't grow back exactly as before.before.
* ''Film/{{Old}}'': The beach that causes RapidAging also causes injuries to heal incredibly quickly, first shown when Mid-Size Sedan gets slashed with a knife and almost immediately the wound is gone and now a scar is in its place. [[spoiler: This is later PlayedForHorror when Prisca's tumor begins to grow and they need to remove it, but others have to hold the incision open with their hands because otherwise it closes on its own (but at least it removes the need for stitches). Then much later, Chrystal's calcium deficiency causes her to break her arm, which immediately heals wrong in a crooked, horrific way]].
* ''Film/{{Old}}'': The beach that causes RapidAging also causes injuries to heal incredibly quickly, first shown when Mid-Size Sedan gets slashed with a knife and almost immediately the wound is gone and now a scar is in its place. [[spoiler: This is later PlayedForHorror when Prisca's tumor begins to grow and they need to remove it, but others have to hold the incision open with their hands because otherwise it closes on its own (but at least it removes the need for stitches). Then much later, Chrystal's calcium deficiency causes her to break her arm, which immediately heals wrong in a crooked, horrific way]].
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* In ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Mina and Dorian actually wonder if they can be killed. They both heal from their wounds in seconds during their fight, prompting Dorian to note, "We'll be at this all day." Their healing factor is based on different abilities, though. In Mina's case, it's because she's been [[spoiler:bitten by {{Dracula}} and is now a vampire]]. In Dorian's, it's because [[spoiler:his [[Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray portrait]] takes all his age and damage for him]].
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* In ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Mina Harker and Dorian Gray actually wonder if they can be killed. They both heal from their wounds in seconds during their fight, prompting Dorian to note, "We'll be at this all day." Their healing factor is based on different abilities, though. In Mina's case, it's because she's been [[spoiler:bitten by {{Dracula}} and is now a vampire]]. In Dorian's, it's because [[spoiler:his [[Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray portrait]] takes all his age and damage for him]].
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* Brandon Lee's character in ''Film/TheCrow'' seemed to possess this ability. Right to the point of making a very bad religious joke in between successive on-target shotgun blasts. [[FatalMethodActing Too bad the actor wasn't so endowed.]]
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* Brandon Lee's character in ''Film/TheCrow'' ''Film/TheCrow1994'' seemed to possess this ability. Right to the point of making a very bad religious joke in between successive on-target shotgun blasts. [[FatalMethodActing Too bad the actor wasn't so endowed.]]
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Contrasts WoundThatWillNotHeal. See AntiRegeneration on ways to defeat these.
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CarnivorousHealingFactor is for when healing is triggered by eating raw food. Contrasts WoundThatWillNotHeal. See AntiRegeneration on ways to defeat these.
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** In ''Film/GodzillaMinusOne'', Godzilla is shown to have an accelerated healing factor that can heal many injuries swiftly. Godzilla gets part of his face blasted off by a sea mine, but the injury almost completely regenerates within seconds (although not perfectly, as he retains a scar from the injury for the rest of the film). Even using the atomic breath damages Godzilla now, and he relies on his regeneration to keep from incinerating himself from repeated use. [[spoiler:Even at the end, where he's reduced to large chunks of ragged decompressed flesh, he's shown regenerating from his injuries.]] Interestingly, the novelization establishes he already had it before being mutated and it's how he survived being hit by the atomic blast and mutated in the first place.
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* ''Literature/SagasOfTheDemonspawn'', in the first book if your hero, Fire*Wolf prevents a slave girl's rape then he'll be rewarded with the Heal Stone which can regenerate a dice roll of Life Points each new entry between combat. But once he has recovered 50 Life Points, the stone is out of power and takes 48 hours to self-charge.
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* ''Literature/BloodSword'' has a Downplayed example in the final book, there's a pile of treasure full of useful items and if the party has an Enchanter, they may find and use an armor of enchanted Electrum. This armor has the power to regenerate a bit of health each battle.
* ''Literature/LoneWolf'' can learn the very useful skill of Curing which lets Lone Wolf regenerate some health each new entry in the book.
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* ''Literature/BloodSword'' has a Downplayed example in the final book, there's a pile of treasure full of useful items and if the party has an Enchanter, they may find and use an armor of enchanted Electrum. This armor has the power to regenerate a bit of health each battle.
* ''Literature/LoneWolf'' can learn the very useful skill of Curing which lets Lone Wolf regenerate some health each new entry in the book.
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If regenerators have an AchillesHeel, it's most often a nasty one: either suffocation, decapitation, poison, gas, [[KillItWithFire fire]], ice, or acid. Other times, the weakness is similar to CloneDegeneration; each re-growth results in HarmfulHealing and increasingly damaged appendages/organs/[[CastFromLifespan shorter lifespan]].
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If regenerators have an AchillesHeel, it's most often a nasty one: either suffocation, decapitation, poison, gas, [[KillItWithFire fire]], ice, or acid. Other times, the weakness is similar to CloneDegeneration; each re-growth results in HarmfulHealing and increasingly damaged appendages/organs/[[CastFromLifespan shorter lifespan]].
lifespan]]. DependingOnTheWriter, [[TheTopicOfCancer cancer]] may also be a LogicalWeakness for a regenerator if their healing ability can't differentiate the body's own healthy cells from malignant ones.
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A character is hard to kill, not because he doesn't get hurt, but because he has the ability to rapidly recover from serious damage. Although it depends on how fast he can heal and how much of a [[ChunkySalsaRule beating]] his body can take, a character with healing factor will bounce back from severe injuries that other beings can't, often with no scars or medical treatment.
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A character is hard to kill, not because he doesn't they don't get hurt, but because he has they have the ability to rapidly recover from serious damage. Although it depends on how fast he they can heal and how much of a [[ChunkySalsaRule beating]] his their body can take, a character with healing factor will bounce back from severe injuries that other beings can't, often with no scars or medical treatment.
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*''Literature/{{Katabasis}}'': The protagonist, Phoebe, is [[ResurrectiveImmortality immortal]] and her wounds also heal incredibly fast as a side effect. This includes injuries that would typically be fatal, such as having her torso ripped open.
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*''Literature/{{Katabasis}}'': The protagonist, Phoebe, is [[ResurrectiveImmortality immortal]] and her wounds also heal incredibly fast as a side effect. This includes injuries that would typically be fatal, such as having her torso ripped open.
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*** In the prequel ''LightNovel/FateZero'', Irisviel and Kiritsugu had this at times due to [[spoiler:possessing Avalon.]]
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*** In the prequel ''LightNovel/FateZero'', ''Literature/FateZero'', Irisviel and Kiritsugu had this at times due to [[spoiler:possessing Avalon.]]
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** ''Film/FrankensteinVsBaragon'': One of Frankenstein's hands was left behind after escaping some shackles. It regrows.
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** ''Film/FrankensteinVsBaragon'': ''Film/FrankensteinConquersTheWorld'': One of Frankenstein's hands was is left behind after escaping some shackles. It regrows.
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** ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'': [[Characters/{{Godzilla}} Biollante]] has arguably the best one in the entire series; she can split herself into spores and fly away, then recombine later with her injuries healed.
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': This turns out to be the unique power of the [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah MonsterVerse incarnation of King Ghidorah]]; he can regenerate severed appendages ''in seconds'' (if there's a source of radiation handy). During his second tussle with Godzilla, his left head along with a good chunk of his neck are ripped off. After {{No Sell}}ing the Oxygen Destroyer, which hits him moments later, he proceeds to Rodan's volcano[[note]]The novelization states the volcano's radiation was indeed used for the regeneration[[/note]] and regrows his lost head in less than a minute. [[spoiler:While his healing factor is overcome by Burning Godzilla's nuclear pulse, his middle head is still alive despite being completely detached from the body. He's finally killed after being incinerated by Godzilla's atomic breath, though in the novelization it's speculated that he might be able to grow new bodies from dismembered pieces.]] Ghidorah's middle head is seemingly the source of his life-force or Healing Factor, since [[spoiler:it was still both alive and kicking after the rest of Ghidorah was vaporized, whereas the left head that was severed earlier is dead as a doornail and its flesh is rotting away, although ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' reveals that the skull afterwards retains remnants of Ghidorah's consciousness]].
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': This turns out to be the unique power of the [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah MonsterVerse incarnation of King Ghidorah]]; he can regenerate severed appendages ''in seconds'' (if there's a source of radiation handy). During his second tussle with Godzilla, his left head along with a good chunk of his neck are ripped off. After {{No Sell}}ing the Oxygen Destroyer, which hits him moments later, he proceeds to Rodan's volcano[[note]]The novelization states the volcano's radiation was indeed used for the regeneration[[/note]] and regrows his lost head in less than a minute. [[spoiler:While his healing factor is overcome by Burning Godzilla's nuclear pulse, his middle head is still alive despite being completely detached from the body. He's finally killed after being incinerated by Godzilla's atomic breath, though in the novelization it's speculated that he might be able to grow new bodies from dismembered pieces.]] Ghidorah's middle head is seemingly the source of his life-force or Healing Factor, since [[spoiler:it was still both alive and kicking after the rest of Ghidorah was vaporized, whereas the left head that was severed earlier is dead as a doornail and its flesh is rotting away, although ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' reveals that the skull afterwards retains remnants of Ghidorah's consciousness]].
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** ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'': [[Characters/{{Godzilla}} Biollante]] Biollante has arguably the best one in the entire series; she can split herself into spores and fly away, then recombine later with her injuries healed.
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': This turns out to be the unique power of the[[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah MonsterVerse Franchise/MonsterVerse incarnation of King Ghidorah]]; Ghidorah; he can regenerate severed appendages ''in seconds'' (if there's a source of radiation handy). During his second tussle with Godzilla, his left head along with a good chunk of his neck are ripped off. After {{No Sell}}ing the Oxygen Destroyer, which hits him moments later, he proceeds to Rodan's volcano[[note]]The novelization states the volcano's radiation was indeed used for the regeneration[[/note]] and regrows his lost head in less than a minute. [[spoiler:While his healing factor is overcome by Burning Godzilla's nuclear pulse, his middle head is still alive despite being completely detached from the body. He's finally killed after being incinerated by Godzilla's atomic breath, though in the novelization it's speculated that he might be able to grow new bodies from dismembered pieces.]] Ghidorah's middle head is seemingly the source of his life-force or Healing Factor, since [[spoiler:it was still both alive and kicking after the rest of Ghidorah was vaporized, whereas the left head that was severed earlier is dead as a doornail and its flesh is rotting away, although ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' reveals that the skull afterwards retains remnants of Ghidorah's consciousness]].
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** As a zombie in Season 4, [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Slade Slade]] has a gruesome one which allows him to contort and snap his joints back into place.
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** As a zombie in Season 4, [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Slade Slade]] Slade has a gruesome one which allows him to contort and snap his joints back into place.
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* The title character of the ''Film/{{Tomie}}'' series of J-horror films has this ability to the extent that [[FromASingleCell every single individual piece of her that is cut off will eventually become a new Tomie]]. This is justified, at least in the manga it was based on, by Tomie being radiotrophic, feeding on background radiation in the air & somehow converting it into mass.
