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* Flint, in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E19RequiemForMethuselah Requiem for Methuselah]]", was born on Earth in 3834 BC as Akharin ("A soldier, a bully, and a fool...") who was fatally wounded in battle and just didn't die. Over the years, [[JuliusBeethovenDaVinci he claimed to be Solomon, Leonardo da Vinci, and Brahms, among others]]. Once away from Earth's "complex fields", he began to age normally.

** Princess Bubblegum has been around for centuries and still looks the same. While she usually appears about 18, this "age" (and the maturity that comes with it) depends on her physical size.

** The crown made Ice King look like an old man when he was quite young, and when the power of the crown was taken away, a thousand years later, he reverted to his previous age as Simon Petrikov [[NoImmortalInertia then rapidly started dying of old age]]. He took care of Marceline when she was a child, and according to Death himself, may well live to see the Sun blow up.

* During the fifty year TimeSkip between seasons 4 and 5 of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', Jack realizes he stopped aging when Aku sent him to the future. Aku himself is frustrated at this since [[VictoryByEndurance waiting for him to die of old age]] is no longer an option. Jack himself is even more frustrated because he doesn't want to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever spend eternity]] stuck in a BadFuture.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', each Gem is BornAsAnAdult and never ages, and can only truly "die" if their [[HeartDrive gemstone]] is shattered (and even then, [[AndIMustScream the shards remain partially conscious, knowing nothing but their desire to be whole again]]). Steven being [[HalfHumanHybrid half-gem]] seems to have made his aging erratic and somewhat affected by his state of mind, though he still manages to look like a human his age by his late teens. WordOfGod suggested Steven would only die of old age if he chose to.

* As revealed in ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaV'', any CPU can get killed through any means, however they won't ever age at all.
** The [=CPUs=] can start aging [[spoiler: if they get their powers stolen, like what temporarily happened to Vert in ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaReBirth1''.]]

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' uses this trope as part of its 'immortal enemies hiding in wilderness' motif, with many of the forces of Disorder especially making use of this.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars,'' too much of G1 is forgotten/sketchy for most of its players to still be around, though Ravage still is.)

* The Immortal Vermin of Creator/BruceCoville's ''Literature/MagicShop'' series are this type. In ''Literature/JenniferMurdleysToad'', Bufo, the first of the Immortal Vermin to appear, says he can be killed, but barring such an incident, he will live forever. Jerome and Roxanne, the youngest of the Immortal Vermin, inform the protagonists of ''Literature/TheSkullOfTruth'' and ''Literature/JulietDoveQueenOfLove'' of their status as "killable, but otherwise undying". (It may also be mentioned in the updated version of ''Literature/TheMonstersRing''.)

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnon Ghidorah]]'s {{Backstory}} indicates as much, confirming that the alien monster has been around for billions of years. It's also suggested that the part-Ghidorah ArtificialHybrid Monster X might be this.

* The enigmatic magician Clow Reed from ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', and ''Manga/XxxHolic'' maintained his fairly youthful appearance for the duration of his several-centuries-long life with his vast powers. His apparent counterpart, the Dimension witch Yuuko Ichihara, is similarly unaging, [[spoiler:although the reason for it in her case is because Clow Reed [[PowerIncontinence accidentally]] trapped her in a state where she's neither truly dead nor alive.]]
* One of the mysteries surrounding the ''Manga/CaseClosed'' villain Vermouth is the fact that she has apparently not aged in at least two decades. Jodie Starling, who encountered Vermouth as a child and again as an adult, and Yukiko Kudo, a longtime friend before discovering Vermouth's true nature, both remark upon this fact. Vermouth ''is'' a MasterOfDisguise, but she seems to have used this to ''hide'' her lack of aging, such as by posing as her own daughter after FakingTheDead for her original public persona.
* The demons of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' appear to be this. There's some indication that they ''do'' age, but if so it's very slowly--they look the same age even over a span of 60 years.
* The half-yoma warriors from ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' are also ageless. Once it is mentioned that a warriorness never gets older, but always looks the same until she is killed in combat, or turns into an [[FaceMonsterTurn Awakened Being]].

* In both ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', dragons and Immortal Elves have this quality. Dunkelzahn was apparently tens of thousands of years old, and some immortal elves were thousands of years old in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''.
* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'', this is implied to apply by default to biomorphs other than Flats (baseline humans), but even that is beside the point when people can be [[BodyBackupDrive restored from backup]] if their body dies. Superseded further in that [[BodySurf resleeving]] is used for applications as mundane as travel, not just to provide a recovery option to the recently deceased.

* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Common [[PunyEarthlings humans]] and the Tau are the only ones that don't have [[FountainOfYouth a means to keep young]].

** Dark Eldar are [[ImmortalityImmorality notorious]] for their means of keeping them alive. They have to go on [[MadeASlave slave raids to abduct prisoners]], [[ColdBloodedTorture torture them to death]], and [[LifeDrinker drink in their suffering and their souls]] to rejuvenate themselves to youth. There are also a number of other, more creative ways of [[FateWorseThanDeath keeping a prisoner alive]] to extend their suffering.
*** However, whether it's because they have extended their lives far beyond even the natural Eldar lifespan or [[EvilMakesYouUgly because of their ghastly means of doing so]], the oldest Dark Eldar actually ''do'' look every bit as decrepit as one would expect thousands of years old beings would look like. They're just able to hide it with a lot of {{Magitek}} based {{Glamour}}. One of the reasons the Dark Eldar hate psykers and daemons is because [[GlamourFailure they can see the Dark Eldar for what they really are.]]
** [[OurOrksAreDifferent Ork]]s are like lobsters, in that they never grow old, they just keep growing and keep getting meaner. Theoretically, they could live like that forever. However, since they're constantly fighting, even when they come in the hundreds of thousands, Orks rarely ever [[AMillionIsAStatistic get past thirty, if that]]. There was once one Ork Boss known only as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Beast]]" which was apparently the size of a building, and it had tusks as thick as tree trunks and kicked Nobs around in the same way they kicked around Gretchin. Emperor knows how old that thing was.

* Rosalina from the VideoGame/SuperMarioBros series is the powerful guardian of the cosmos, and has physically remained a young woman for centuries or more. Despite this, she can still be harmed by common enemies when she's a playable character.

* ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'': If Sol gets close enough to ArtificialHuman Sym for the ModularEpilogue to include his WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, said eplilogues notes that Sym never ages.

* ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'': If Sol gets close enough to ArtificicialHuman Sym for the ModularEpilogue to include his WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, said eplilogues notes that Sym never ages.

* Creator/TrudiCanavan's ''Literature/TheAgeOfTheFive'': The majority of the Wilds fall into this category. The most extreme example is [[spoiler: The Gull - the oldest of the Wilds, who has the physical body of a prepubescent child]].

** The black [[{{Miko}} miko]] Tsubaki from ''Manga/InuYasha'' has used her magic to deprive other people of youth and to stay young herself. But later, her power is destroyed and she quickly ages until she is killed by this.

* On ''Series/TwelveMonkeys'', the serum required to survive using the Project Splinter time machine seems to render the user as this, or at the very least alters how the aging process works. [[spoiler: Ramse]], for instance, spends decades TrappedInThePast without visibly aging, only for a later medical exam to show that parts of his biology have in fact aged at a normal pace.
** The Pallid Man and Olivia, the CoDragons of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, also don't seem to age at all, leading to speculation that they're time travelers as well. [[spoiler: Season 2 reveals that it's actually because they're the biological and cloned (respectfully) children of one of the [[SuperSoldiers Messengers]], and share in her genetics, which were engineered specifically to work this way.]]

-->I was 132 years old. I didn't feel it though. In, fact, I felt ''[[LivingForeverIsAwesome awesome]]''.

* Both Henry and [[spoiler: "Adam"]] from ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}''...sort of. They do not age, however they '''can''' be killed, but only with [[spoiler: the weapon that caused their original "real" death]]. Henry's agelessness even becomes a subplot point when it's shown in flashback that his normally-aging second wife Abigail is uncomfortable being seen in public with Henry because she is afraid people will think he is either her son or a hired escort. Also, [[spoiler:Adam tries to kill Henry with the same musket pistol that originally killed him, but Henry still comes back to life, possibly negating that hypothesis]]. One downside is that an immortal can become paralyzed and stay this way for years until someone kills him ([[spoiler:Henry does this to Adam to neutralize him in the final episode]]).
* In ''Series/GoodOmens'', Angels and Demons do not age, at all. Aziraphale and Crowley look the same in the present day as they did 6000 years ago, when they first met (except for their period-appropriate clothes and hairstyles, of course). And when Angels' and Demons' human bodies are killed (discorporated), they simply get another one and return to what they were doing. The only way to actually kill an Angel or a Demon is to use Holy Water (Demons), or Hellfire (Angels). It's the same in the [[Literature/GoodOmens book]] the show is based on.

* The Immortals on ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' stop aging at the time they suffer their first death and become immortal.
** This can lead to unique turns such as Kenny who is 800 years old but forever stuck in the body of the ten-year old boy he was when he first died.

* Flint, in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode ''Requiem for Methuselah,'' was born on Earth in 3834 BC as Akharin ("A soldier, a bully, and a fool...") who was fatally wounded in battle and just didn't die. Over the years he claimed to be Solomon, Leonardo da Vinci, and Brahms, among others. Once away from Earth's "complex fields" he began to age normally.

* Downplayed in both ''Doctor Who'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' with Captain Jack Harkness. He initially thought he wouldn't age, but after a long time started to notice he was getting wrinkles and his hair was graying, so he was just ageing very slowly. As in "looks the same age after spending 2000 years buried alive" slowly. The ''Doctor Who'' episode "Last of the Time Lords" reveals that Jack ''may'' be destined to [[spoiler: transform over millions of years into a creature known as the Face of Boe, which is little more than a giant head.]]
* Walter Jameson, from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "Long Live Walter Jameson", was granted this form of immortality in Ancient Greece by an alchemist. He says that he came close to death many times over the centuries due to injuries and disease, "but never close enough". [[spoiler: At the end of the episode when he is shot, he begins to age rapidly as he dies until he is nothing but a pile of dust.]]

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s HealingFactor allows him to live far beyond the normal lifespan of a regular human. Despite being born in the late 19th century, he has the appearance, conditioning, health, and vitality of a man in his physical prime.

* Celica of ''LightNovel/AkashicRecordsOfBastardMagicInstructor'' is roughly four hundred years old by the time of the present. Finding out ''why'' she doesn't age is one of her major goals.
* Nanahoshi of ''LightNovel/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'' has not aged since [[spoiler:she was teleported from Japan]]. She highlights just how unusual her state is by the fact that her hair and finger nails haven't grown at all since that day. However she is still able to become sick and so limits her contact with people who might carry diseases for which she lacks an immunity.
* The Flame Hazes from ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana''. As soon as a human being makes a pact with a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent "Crimson Lord"]] and turns into a Flame Haze, they do not look any older. Khamsin is a Flame Haze that looked like a child for over 3000 years.
* ''LightNovel/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'': The effects of Baptism can slow down aging, but [[BigBad Fugil Arcadia]] is special in that his repeated Baptism operations completely stopped his aging, allowing him to survive for centuries without cold sleep.

** The Doctor zig-zags this as most of his incarnations never appear to age despite spending centuries in that particular body, with the Tenth Doctor claiming to Rose that part of the reason he lets go of his companions is because it pains him to see them age [[WhoWantsToLiveForever when he doesn't]]. The First and the Eleventh Doctors are the only numbered incarnations to have become elderly, the First being introduced as an old man and the Eleventh spending over 1200 years in that form before nearly dying of extreme old age. The implication is that Time Lords ''do'' age, but it takes an absurd amount of time (and is undone when they regenerate, anyway).

* In ''Series/GoodOmens'', Angels and Demons do not age, at all. Aziraphale and Crowley look the same in the present day as they did 6000 years ago, when they first met(except for their clothes and hairstyles, of course). And when Angels' and Demons' human bodies are killed(discorporated), they simply get another one and return to what they were doing. The only way to actually kill an Angel or a Demon is to use Holy Water(Demons), or Hellfire(Angels). It is the same in the [[Literature/GoodOmens book]] that it is based on.