History HealingFactor / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/Siren2018'': Merpeople can heal much quicker, from worse injuries, than humans. Within a few days they can go from close to death and come back.

*** In the final moments of her mortal existence, Claudia was covered with life-threatening burns to her body, but after her EmergencyTransformation into a vampire, the scorches on her skin are mostly gone by the time she explores Lestat's townhouse. There's only some scar tissue on the left side of her face.

** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA ...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding]]": Discussed when Lestat cautions Claudia about her careless driving; even though vampires live forever, acute injuries require months to heal.
--->'''Lestat''': ''Putain de merde'' [[note]]French for "Fucking hell"[[/note]], steer, steer.\\

* In ''Series/FortyFourHundred'', Claudette discovers that she can heal quickly from any injury.
* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Features two varieties:
** The Female turns out to have the traditional variety, as shown in the wake of her fight with Black Noir after he stabbed and slashed her multiple times. Black Noir himself is shown to have this as well, however [[spoiler:it wasn't strong enough to fully heal his disfigurement and SlashedThroat]].
** Gecko has the ability to regenerate entire limbs, which he monetizes by letting wealthy clients pay to cut off pieces of him and watch them grow back.

* ''Series/{{Continuum}}'' features Travis Verta, a cybernetic SuperSoldier whose blood is infested with nanites that let him survive gruesome injuries, although the healing is slow enough to take a few weeks to repair five bullets to the heart.

** Adric has this ability, thanks to [[HumanAliens his species']] capacity for incredibly rapid adaptation. It only gets mentioned in two of his stories, though.
*** The [[DVDCommentary Info-Text]] for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay "State of Decay"]] uses this to poke fun at a continuity error regarding a mysteriously disappearing patch and rip in Adric's trousers where he skinned his knee in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E3FullCircle "Full Circle"]], saying that apparently "Alzarian trousers heal as fast as their owners."
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]], the Doctor is shown to be able to quickly regrow severed limbs for up to 24 hours after regenerating, using leftover regeneration energy. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler "Let's Kill Hitler"]], [[spoiler: Melody, who has just regenerated]] is shot with many bullets, but regeneration energy prevents any damage.
* Revealed as an ability that Pilot's race has in a scary early episode of ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. [[spoiler:The crew of Moya, minus Crichton and Aeryn, cut off one of Pilot's arms to trade for maps to their home worlds. Predictably, they get double-crossed so they REALLY mutilated Pilot for no reason.]]
* In ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' the Atavus can regenerate from extensive damage. Several parties spend time and effort finding a way to kill them. It turns out they are weak to cold temperatures.

* ''Literature/Nos4a2'': Manx is capable of healing any injury, even coming {{back from the dead}}, so long as his car is running and intact.

--->'''Lestat''': ''Putain de merde'' [[note]]French for "Fucking hell"[[/note]], just steer, steer.\\

'''Lestat''': Well, you can still smash your pretty little head and then take long, dull months to recover. Eyes on the road.

** Taken to a disturbing extreme in the series two finale, where he is [[spoiler:trapped in a continual death-resurrection cycle for almost 1900 years after being BuriedAlive]].
** Taken to yet another disturbing extreme in the ''Children of Earth'' miniseries, where he has [[spoiler:a bomb implanted in his stomach. He regenerates from a few limbs and part of a head to a skeleton to his normal self over the course of the day... and starts regaining consciousness and screaming when his skin has yet to come back. The room he's locked up in is promptly filled with concrete, and he's rescued when the team breaks the concrete block by dropping it into a quarry]].
** This regenerating thing of his is not because of a natural, biological healing factor. Poor sod became [[spoiler: a universal constant in the parent series when Rose fixed the past a bit sloppily in her god mode. This peculiar being of his makes him too weird for the time sensitive Doctor]].
** He loses his healing factor in ''[[Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay Miracle Day]]'', and after the Miracle (which stops ''everyone'' on Earth from dying, no matter how badly they're injured) there is speculation that he many now be the only person on the planet who can die. [[spoiler:Once "the Blessing" is given, which is some of his blood from when he was immortal, he regains it, along with associate Rex Matheson]]. WordOfGod is that, while his Healing Factor is gone, his ResurrectiveImmortality remains.

* ''Series/GothamKnights'': The Talon is capable of healing from even injuries which would be otherwise lethal, such as multiple gunshots from close range or being crushed by debris.

** In "The New Breed", nanodevices injected into the body provide the test subject with this ability. He demonstrates it by burning his hand, which is repaired within seconds.
** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E4LastSupper Last Supper]]", an immortal woman who goes by the names "Laura" and "Jade" reveals that she was actually born in medieval Spain before her village was ravaged by the Black Death. She was the only one to survive, but hasn't aged or gotten sick since, and all her wounds recover soon enough. A government scientist takes samples of her blood to replicate the effect, [[spoiler:but vastly underestimates its potency when he injects himself with it and de-ages into a puddle of cells.]]
** An extreme form is seen in "Sarcophagus" in which the alien skeleton discovered in the burial chamber cocoon absorbs energy from Curtis Grainger to heal himself to the point that he regrows organs, tissue, skin, etc. in the space of a few hours.
** In "A New Life", Daniel stabs Father with a knife given to him by Thomas. In the chaos that follows, none of the community members notice that Father is bleeding and that his blood is green. Within seconds, Father manages to heal himself, covering his wound so that no one sees the green glow emanating from it. He stands up to show his flock that he has not suffered any injury and it is hailed as a miracle.
** In "The Vessel", Jake Worthy develops a strong healing factor due to the presence of an alien lifeform inside of him. When the space shuttle ''Inspire'' crashes on the launchpad of the Kennedy Space Center, Jake survives while the other six people onboard are killed. The second and third degree burns that he sustained in the crash heal by the time that the rescue team brings him back to the base. He later smashes one of the windows in the isolation room where he is being quarantined and a bad cut on his left hand heals within seconds. The presence of the alien altered his body chemistry so that he was able to use his body's electrical impulses to heal any injury.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Several monsters of the week have this.
** "Leonard Betts" played with the healing factor's similarity to the rapid cell growth of cancers; a man who could regrow his whole body almost at will showed up in lab reports as having a wide variety of cancers, and he needed to ''[[HorrorHunger eat tumors]]'' to survive.
** "Fire" featured a pyrokinetic villain who could control fire. He survived fifth and sixth-degree burns over his entire body and his tissues started to regenerate rapidly.
** In "Young at Heart", a MadScientist experimented with cell growth and salamanders' regenerative power. John Barnett was given a [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent horrifying salamander hand]] in the process.
* The TV corner of the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] has a few examples:
** The titular characters in ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' and ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' both have minor variations.
*** Jessica can walk-off broken ribs and non-fatal bullet wounds in a day, but is still vulnerable to minor firepower if surprised.
*** Luke starts off being mostly-invulnerable. In the rare exception that a weapon can penetrate his skin, his bodies heals remarkably quickly, as long as the foreign object is removed.
** Harold Meechum in ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' is gifted with ResurrectiveImmortality by The Hand. If killed, he comes back in full health and doesn't age. Other wounds don't seem to heal unless he dies. He also gets crazier every time comes back.
** ''Series/AgentsOfShield'' presents two Inhumans, Hive and Jiaying, with the ability to heal from deadly injuries, as long as they have people to feed on.
** ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' shows that people who take the SuperSoldier serum gain a minor one. They cannot, however, heal from fatal injuries.
** ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'': Jennifer Walters has incredibly fast healing as She-Hulk thanks to her body metabolizing gamma radiation faster than Bruce Banner's. A sample of her blood is able to heal Bruce's arm in a few hours, which was still badly burnt after ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. This is actually one of the Hulk's powers from the comics that was AdaptedOut for the MCU.

* ''Series/SweetHome'': The monsters are nigh-unkillable, and will eventually recover from just about anything, including having their head cut off. KillItWithFire when downed is the only reliable way to kill them, or in the case of monsterized or pre-monsterized humans, killing them while still in human form.