History Main / Immortality

* Sasori from ''{{Naruto}}'', due to the fact that he turned himself into a puppet. [[spoiler:Madara]] also seems to fit in here, though it's possible that he is a full fledged TYPE I (the First Hokage certainly thought he was dead) but they may simply be some other ability of his. In it's current state it needs to be "renewed" eventually.

* Though not yet confirmed, this seems to be the case for [[{{Lost}} Richard Alpert]]: he has been the same age since before the 50s, but he reacts to threats like a mortal would, implying that if someone shot him, he would die, but otherwise he'll live normally.
** A recent episode hints that he was a crew member on ''The Black Rock'', making him at least 250 years old.

* Jacob from {{Lost}} does not age and has immense spiritual power, but he can be killed by anyone other than [[spoiler:his unnamed brother, the [[BigBad Smoke Monster]].]]

* The "Undying" of the ''Horseclans'' series are of this type (''not'', as one might think, type 2). They're vulnerable to suffocation and subject to the ImmortalProcreationClause.

* I think someone forgot, if not the TropeMaker, at least the most famous example: ThePhantom himself. ''Ghost who walks... cannot die...''

One of the oldest of human desires (besides ''[[FreudWasRight that]]'' one, you pervert) is to counteract [[WeAreAsMayflies the fleeting nature of our short human existence]]. Eternal life is ingrained in the collective human consciousness, having been present in literature and OralTradition for [[OlderThanDirt as long as they've been around]].

* King Elias from ''[[MemorySorrowAndThorn Memory, Sorrow and Thorn]]'' is [[XanatosSucker tricked]] into thinking he's going to get Type II, but ends up with this instead thanks to DemonicPossession. Or rather, would have ended up with it if [[spoiler:his own daughter wasn't forced to kill him]].

* [[Ghostbusters The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man]] is actually listed as a Class 7 Projected Avatar of Gozer in Tobin's Spirit Guide in the video game. Whenever it enters a new plane of existence, Gozer is given a new form and [[ModeLock ed]] into it, but it cannot be totally destroyed, only removed from the plane.

* In ''Death Becomes Her'', the Goldie Hawn character and the Meryl Streep character both exemplify this trope.

See Also the SortingAlgorithmOfDeadness, ImmortalityHurts, ImmortalLifeIsCheap and LivingForeverIsAwesome.

* In '{{'Devilish}}'' by Maureen Johnson, demons live this way.

* In ''Devilish'' by Maureen Johnson, demons live this way.

* Vandal Savage from the DCUniverse ... sometimes. DependingOnTheWriter he might be a Type VI, who depends on harvesting organs from his descendents to prevent his eventual decay. (How he managed for the thousands of years before medical technology made this feasible is not explained.)

* Mammoth Mogul from the ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comics, is essentialy an AlternateCompanyEquivalent of Vandal Savage. When he finally realizes he can't beat Sonic, he decides to simply wait until he is too old to oppose him.

* HPLovecraft's Great Old Ones, or at least Cthulhu, have this form of immortality. In ''Call of Cthulhu'' Cthulhu gets a boat driven through his skull, turning his head into green paste. It reforms pretty much instantly. In writings of one of the later mythos writers, he's also gotten vaporised by a nuclear strike, only to reform himself. According to some writers, they can be killed by another Great Old One (or other godlike entity) while other sources state that they are completely unkillable.

* The women in {{Mnemosyne}}. As long as the spore that makes them immortal remains inside their body they can take pretty much anything, up to pretty grusome deaths including being put through a jet engine and being dropped in the middle of a radiation plant meltdown. However, if the spore is ever removed they can easily be killed.

* [[spoiler: Mirar]] one of the Wilds in [[TrudiCanavan Trudi Canavan's]] trilogy "The Age of Five". He gained immortality through his great knowledge of healing magic. This even allowed him to [[spoiler: survive being crushed under the rubble of a collapsed buiilding, as he used his healing magic to keep his brain and vital organs alive whilst his body repaired itself.]]

* From the MarvelUniverse, Nick Fury. His brand of immortality stems from the Infinity Formula, for which he was the lab rat during World War 2 (without his consent, he was half-dead at the time, having just stepped on a landmine). The formula took about a quarter of a century to work on his biology, and now, although being nominally 90 years old (born 1917-1918) he is physically in his 40s, 50s tops and will not age another day. He can however be wounded, and presumably killed; nobody really achieved that, since he's ColonelBadass, with an EyepatchOfPower

* Originally the alt-universe version of Arnold Rimmer, Ace Rimmer in ''RedDwarf'' becomes a hero across all known realities. Whenever he dies, he passes his legacy along to the Rimmer who is native to the reality he happens to be in (or can get to quickly). In the episode that this is revealed in, it finishes with a view of millions of dead "Ace Rimmer" light-bees making up an entire planetary ring system....all of them died heroically in the 4 years or so since the character first reality-jumped.

** Also, in ''Energon'', after Demolisher is blown up, Megatron builds him a new body and sticks his spark into it, but not before reformatting it to remove Demolisher's persky morality.