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* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' provides the {{Trope Namer|s}}. [[GoldfishPoopGang The Dark Hand]] is in possession of all 12 talismans, have split them up equally between the four of them, and are using them to wreak havoc. Finn notices that he has both the Dog and Horse talismans, which grant [[ImmortalityInducer immortality]] and [[HealingFactor healing]] respectively. Considering this redundant, he trades the Horse to Ratso for the Pig (EyeBeams). [[AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp This later comes back to bite him in the ass when he slams into a rock wall at 60 miles an hour]], and he learns that while the Dog might prevent him from dying, it most certainly does ''not'' prevent him from being injured or feeling pain.

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* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' provides the {{Trope Namer|s}}. [[GoldfishPoopGang The Dark Hand]] is in possession of all 12 talismans, have split them up equally between the four of them, and are using them to wreak havoc. Finn notices that he has both the Dog and Horse talismans, which grant [[ImmortalityInducer immortality]] and [[HealingFactor healing]] respectively. Considering this redundant, he trades the Horse to Ratso for the Pig (EyeBeams). [[AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp This later comes back to bite him in the ass ass]] [[LowClearance when he slams into a rock wall at 60 miles an hour]], and he learns that while the Dog might prevent him from dying, it most certainly does ''not'' prevent him from being injured or feeling pain.
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* ''Literature/Area51'': Though being immortal is sought after, its nature in the series means you still die from fatal wounds, but resurrect shortly after as your HealingFactor kicks in. As a result, an immortal can be continually tortured and or killed while still coming back. [[spoiler:Aspasia's Shadow and Lisa find this out the hard way.]]
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Immortality seems to be one of those things that needs a bunch of RequiredSecondaryPowers [[BlessedWithSuck not to become a curse]]. If you don't have some kind of {{healing factor}} or [[NighInvulnerability resistance to injury]], you have an eternity's worth of opportunities to get horribly maimed, and if anyone else finds out that you're immortal, [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap they won't think twice about putting you through things]] [[TheyWouldCutYouUp that would (painfully) kill an ordinary human being]], ''[[FateWorseThanDeath again and again and again]].'' If you do somehow manage to avoid getting horribly mutilated, [[AgeWithoutYouth escaping the ravages of timwe is another matter entirely]]. If you have immortality ''with'' youth, there's still plenty of things the Universe can throw at you to make you suffer horrific agony across the [[TimeAbyss vast ocean that is time and space]], such as [[HurlItIntoTheSun being incinerated inside a star]], spaghettified by UsefulNotes/BlackHoles, [[NoBodyLeftBehind reduced to plasma by a gamma ray burst]], [[SquashedFlat crushed]] or [[ImMelting dissolved]] into a seething paste by the atmospheres of [[DeathWorld hostile worlds]], and so on and so forth. Even if you ''do'' get a fully effective healing factor with your immortality, the fact that all the injuries listed above will heal back doesn't make them any less painful when they happen.

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Immortality seems to be one of those things that needs a bunch of RequiredSecondaryPowers [[BlessedWithSuck not to become a curse]]. If you don't have some kind of {{healing factor}} or [[NighInvulnerability resistance to injury]], you have an eternity's worth of opportunities to get horribly maimed, and if anyone else finds out that you're immortal, [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap they won't think twice about putting you through things]] [[TheyWouldCutYouUp that would (painfully) kill an ordinary human being]], ''[[FateWorseThanDeath again and again and again]].'' If you do somehow manage to avoid getting horribly mutilated, [[AgeWithoutYouth escaping the ravages of timwe time is another matter entirely]]. If you have immortality ''with'' youth, there's still plenty of things the Universe can throw at you to make you suffer horrific agony across the [[TimeAbyss vast ocean that is time and space]], such as [[HurlItIntoTheSun being incinerated inside a star]], spaghettified by UsefulNotes/BlackHoles, [[NoBodyLeftBehind reduced to plasma by a gamma ray burst]], [[SquashedFlat crushed]] or [[ImMelting dissolved]] into a seething paste by the atmospheres of [[DeathWorld hostile worlds]], and so on and so forth. Even if you ''do'' get a fully effective healing factor with your immortality, the fact that all the injuries listed above will heal back doesn't make them any less painful when they happen.

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Immortality seems to be one of those things that needs a bunch of RequiredSecondaryPowers [[BlessedWithSuck not to become a curse]]. If you don't have some kind of {{healing factor}} or [[NighInvulnerability resistance to injury]], you have an eternity's worth of opportunities to get horribly maimed, and if anyone else finds out that you're immortal, [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap they won't think twice about putting you through things]] [[TheyWouldCutYouUp that would (painfully) kill an ordinary human being]], ''[[FateWorseThanDeath again and again and again]].'' If you do somehow manage to avoid getting horribly mutilated, [[AgeWithoutYouth escaping the ravages of time is another matter entirely]]. If you have immortality ''with'' youth, there's still plenty of things the Universe can throw at you to make you suffer horrific agony across the [[TimeAbyss vast ocean that is time and space]], such as [[HurlItIntoTheSun being incinerated inside a star]], spaghettified by UsefulNotes/BlackHoles, [[NoBodyLeftBehind reduced to plasma by a gamma ray burst]], [[SquashedFlat crushed]] or [[ImMelting dissolved]] into a seething paste by the atmospheres of [[DeathWorld hostile worlds]], and so on and so forth. Even if you ''do'' get a fully effective healing factor with your immortality, the fact that all the injuries listed above will heal back doesn't make them any less painful when they happen.

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Immortality seems to be one of those things that needs a bunch of RequiredSecondaryPowers [[BlessedWithSuck not to become a curse]]. If you don't have some kind of {{healing factor}} or [[NighInvulnerability resistance to injury]], you have an eternity's worth of opportunities to get horribly maimed, and if anyone else finds out that you're immortal, [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap they won't think twice about putting you through things]] [[TheyWouldCutYouUp that would (painfully) kill an ordinary human being]], ''[[FateWorseThanDeath again and again and again]].'' If you do somehow manage to avoid getting horribly mutilated, [[AgeWithoutYouth escaping the ravages of time timwe is another matter entirely]]. If you have immortality ''with'' youth, there's still plenty of things the Universe can throw at you to make you suffer horrific agony across the [[TimeAbyss vast ocean that is time and space]], such as [[HurlItIntoTheSun being incinerated inside a star]], spaghettified by UsefulNotes/BlackHoles, [[NoBodyLeftBehind reduced to plasma by a gamma ray burst]], [[SquashedFlat crushed]] or [[ImMelting dissolved]] into a seething paste by the atmospheres of [[DeathWorld hostile worlds]], and so on and so forth. Even if you ''do'' get a fully effective healing factor with your immortality, the fact that all the injuries listed above will heal back doesn't make them any less painful when they happen.


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* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', at [[https://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/02/05/episode-951-when-life-gives-you-firelemons/ some point]] Red Mage is on fire and set up an AutoRevive that activates every time the fire kills him instead of, you know, stopping dropping and rolling. Thief is curious:
-->'''Thief:''' That doesn't hurt at all? The spell that brings you back.\\
'''Red Mage:''' Oh, it's quite excruciating. ''(beat)'' At least it's not as bad as the burning."
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Immortality seems to be one of those things that needs a bunch of RequiredSecondaryPowers [[BlessedWithSuck not to become a curse]]. If you don't have some kind of {{healing factor}} or [[NighInvulnerability resistance to injury]], you have an eternity's worth of opportunities to get horribly maimed, and if anyone else finds out that you're immortal, [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap they won't think twice about putting you through things]] [[TheyWouldCutYouUp that would (painfully) kill an ordinary human being]], ''[[FateWorseThanDeath again and again and again]].'' And even if you do somehow manage to avoid getting horribly mutilated, [[AgeWithoutYouth escaping the ravages of time is another matter entirely]]. And even if you ''do'' get a fully effective healing factor, the fact that those wounds will all heal back doesn't make them any less painful when they happen.

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Immortality seems to be one of those things that needs a bunch of RequiredSecondaryPowers [[BlessedWithSuck not to become a curse]]. If you don't have some kind of {{healing factor}} or [[NighInvulnerability resistance to injury]], you have an eternity's worth of opportunities to get horribly maimed, and if anyone else finds out that you're immortal, [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap they won't think twice about putting you through things]] [[TheyWouldCutYouUp that would (painfully) kill an ordinary human being]], ''[[FateWorseThanDeath again and again and again]].'' And even if If you do somehow manage to avoid getting horribly mutilated, [[AgeWithoutYouth escaping the ravages of time is another matter entirely]]. And even If you have immortality ''with'' youth, there's still plenty of things the Universe can throw at you to make you suffer horrific agony across the [[TimeAbyss vast ocean that is time and space]], such as [[HurlItIntoTheSun being incinerated inside a star]], spaghettified by UsefulNotes/BlackHoles, [[NoBodyLeftBehind reduced to plasma by a gamma ray burst]], [[SquashedFlat crushed]] or [[ImMelting dissolved]] into a seething paste by the atmospheres of [[DeathWorld hostile worlds]], and so on and so forth. Even if you ''do'' get a fully effective healing factor, factor with your immortality, the fact that those wounds all the injuries listed above will all heal back doesn't make them any less painful when they happen.
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* The Dammed in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'' are a group of homeless men that were suckered in by Sofia's promise of employment in her cosmetics company, only for her to perform terrible experiments on them and then booted down to the sewers when she presumed they were dead. Due to the experiments, the Dammed are immortal and cannot die, but their flesh is rotting due to their bodies decaying from their previous "deaths". The Damned all wear hoodies and masks to conceal their rotting flesh. The Damned's leader asks Lara to get them embalming fluid so that they can preserve what little skin they have left on their bodies.

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