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* ''Everyone'' in the ''ComicBook/XMen'' suddenly started getting injured more in battles shortly after they were joined by [[Characters/NewXMenAcademyX Elixir]], a mutant whose power is to heal himself and others. It's almost like they were deliberately being more careless just so the new guy could feel more useful.

* Franchise/TheDCU's [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]], who was originally created as a parody of Wolverine and character types like him. He is able to regenerate [[FromASingleCell from even one remaining drop of blood]]. In one issue of his book, he resorts to blowing himself up just to take out all the enemies surrounding him.

Contrast ImmortalLifeIsCheap, where someone who can't die permanently gets killed repeatedly not out of chance, but because those around them know they won't die. Also contrast SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration, which can go from this to ''no healing'' at all. The comedic version of this is TheyKilledKennyAgain, where a character who isn't established as immortal is repeatedly killed (usually for laughs), and always [[UnexplainedRecovery brought back without any reason]].

* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': During the Battle of Gravesfield, Luz remarks to herself that if it wasn't for her "[[HealingFactor Super Regeneration]]", she would have died a long time ago and has become more and more reliant on that Quirk ever since she [[PowerParasite stole it]]. Her injuries that she survived the past 4 hours alone include: {{Fingore}}, EyeScream, {{Jawbreaker}}, FacialHorror, TearOffYourFace, multiple cases of AnArmAndALeg, TorsoWithAView twice, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice several times, GuttedLikeAFish, HalfTheManHeUsedToBe and '''''even being reduced LudicrousGibs!'''''

* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': During the Battle of Gravesfield, Luz remarks to herself that if it wasn't for her "[[HealingFactor Super Regeneration]]", she would have died a long time ago and has become more and more reliant on that Quirk ever since she [[PowerParasite stole it]]. Her injuries that she survived the past 4 hours alone include: {{Fingore}}, EyeScream, {{Jawbreaker}}, FacialHorror, TearOffYourFace, multiple cases AnArmAndALeg, TorsoWithAView twice, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice several times, GuttedLikeAFish, HalfTheManHeUsedToBe and '''''even being reduced LudicrousGibs!'''''

* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': During the Battle of Gravesfield, Luz remarks to herself that if it wasn't for her "[[HealingFactor Super Regeneration]]", she would have died a long time ago and has become more and more reliant on that Quirk ever since she [[PowerParasite stole it]]. Her injuries that she survived the past 4 hours alone include: {{Fingore}}, EyeScream, {{Jawbreaker}}, FacialHorror, TearOffYourFace, multiple cases AnArmAndALeg, TorsoWithAView twice, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice several timews, GuttedLikeAFish, HalfTheManHeUsedToBe and '''''even being reduced LudicrousGibs!'''''

* The comparatively minor character Characters/{{Shatterstar}} from the spinoff ''ComicBook/XForce'' has correspondingly less extreme healing abilities... but he needs them because his signature attack is [[DeliberateInjuryGambit stabbing himself through the gut to impale somebody standing behind him]].

** During the period where he lost his healing factor, he picked a fight with Comicbook/BlackPanther. Panther easily overpowered him while noting that Logan's entire fighting style hinges on his body's ability to absorb damage, a style that was useless in his current state.

** In his first meeting with Al, Greed invokes this deliberately, having a henchman literally smash his face off with a [[DropTheHammer big hammer]] to demonstrate the Homunculi's healing factor. In general, all the homunculi have a tendency to get sliced, diced, and shot to pieces throughout the series.

* ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' showed the downside of this trope: when Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} sparred with [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]], they end up having to call Commander Badass for help because Wolverine's body healed ''around'' Kratos's [[InstantChucks blades]], trapping them in. The Commander's later seen basically constantly injuring Wolverine so he could remove the blades.

* ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}}'': Logan cuts off Deadpool's arm. In several pieces. Deadpool, as usual, is completely unfazed by this (although he is upset about losing his favorite gun) and has to get the parts aligned just right for it to re-attach properly.

** [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]] is said to have this in the ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''. This is what makes his blood so invaluable to Harry Osborn, who's dying of a rare genetic disease and explains how Peter can get pounded on so much and then wake up the next day feeling 100%.

* In ''Literature/LoneWolf'', if you choose the Kai discipline of healing, you recover 1 Endurance each story section where there's no combat. This is a lifesaver as healing items are rare and don't recover much.

* Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}}, the Merc with a Mouth. His regeneration ability is actually in part derived from Wolverine's own. A high tolerance of pain and insanity allow him to frankly not care about any damage he receives and keep fighting regardless. The only problem is, [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity his brain is constantly in flux as a result, which is why he's... unstable.]]

** In ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'', Characters/{{Cable|NathanSummers}}'s ''preferred'' method of getting Deadpool to leave him alone, at least at first, is to telekinetically ''blow up his brain'', resulting in a nasty-looking head wound and Deadpool being down for about an ''hour''.

* ComicBook/IronMan has a variant of this, in that his power comes from his armor and he can build a new one basically whenever he wants. Because of this, despite the fact that his armor is supposed to be really powerful, it tends to get torn apart really easily.
* ''ComicBook/MarvelComics2'': Played hilariously straight in the ''Last Hero Standing'' story set in the Creator/MarvelComics possible-future [=MC2=] universe. The [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Hulk]], under [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]]'s influence, goes on a killing rampage against the Avengers Next and various other future heroes. Despite his massive strength, insane rage, and lack of holding back, he does no permanent damage to anyone. What he ''does'' do is pound Wolverine into the dirt (who, of course, can regenerate), tear off [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]'s prosthetic leg and Characters/TheThing's robot arm, shatter the Big Brain (a robot) into pieces, and break the arms and head off Characters/TheVision (an android). So every injury is repairable. He hits a bunch of regular heroes too, but they just get knocked flying.

* In the pages of ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', Characters/TheSentry ripped Characters/{{Carnage|CletusKasady}} in half and threw him into the sun. [[DeathIsCheap Of course]], Carnage came back about five years later. How? It turns out that [[spoiler:because the Carnage symbiote is part of Cletus Kasady's bloodstream, it was able to put Cletus in a coma and keep it alive, nearly dying to do so]]. Considering the random stuff Carnage, ComicBook/{{Venom}} and other symbiotes have done, this is completely believable compared to some other resurrections.

** Wolverine from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' combines his regeneration with MadeOfIron to be pretty damn careless. In one instance, his ''entire body'', save his adamantium skeleton, is incinerated by a WaveMotionGun, and he [[FromASingleCell regenerates from a handful of brain cells left in his cranial cavity.]] Said skeleton is actually an example. Should he ever lose his healing factor, the metal in his skeleton will kill him.

** [[Characters/X23LauraKinney X-23]] and [[Characters/WolverineSupportingCharacters Daken]] are beginning to give Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} a run for his money. X-23, at least, is a ''better'' healer than Wolverine because she isn't constantly fighting massive adamantium poisoning. However, this is somewhat subverted in her case, in that her lack of a full adamantium skeleton means she's much less durable than Wolverine and more vulnerable to injuries that can disable or outright kill her. Laura will at times take advantage of her ability to heal if necessary, but she generally relies more on WaifFu to avoid getting hit in the first place, or her assassin skills to avoid a direct confrontation altogether. Laura finally averts this in ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'' #19 where she starts wearing a new costume with body armor.

* ''Literature/Aeon14'': Medical nano and BioAugmentation gives humans the ability to bounce back from grievous wounds. In '"Destiny Lost'', Tanis Richards takes an antipersonnel railgun round through the chest and bounces back from it. TaughtByExperience, she later gets an auxiliary heart installed that can keep her going if her main heart is damaged; this gets put to use in ''Orion Rising'' when she's stabbed in the chest during an AssassinationAttempt.

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%%* Yukiko Hirohara from ''VisualNovel/ElevenEyes''.
* Yakumo in ''Manga/SazanEyes'' has been turned into a "wu", an immortal guardian of the last known Sanjiyan (Triclops) who regenerates even if he has been turned into paste. He cannot die until either the Sanjiyan, Pai, is killed, or she manages to find a way to release him from said condition. At the start of the series, he regularly gets beaten, chopped up, and blown up (it started when he was hit by a bus). At one point, he deliberately grabs a lighter and jumps into a fountain full of gasoline in order to kill a monster. Some of his deaths are simple random bad luck, like the aforementioned car accident; one wonders if he had that kind of bad luck ''before'' he was immortal.

* The [[AnthropomorphicPersonification nations]] of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' have a powerful HealingFactor that lets them regenerate near-instantly from wounds that would be fatal to humans: For example, [[ChivalrousPervert France]] at one point is ''shot in the head'' by the [[TheGunslinger rifle-wielding Switzerland]], only to be fine moments later. [[PsychopathicManchild Russia]] breaks all of his bones after jumping from a plane with no parachute[[note]]He thought the snow on the ground would cushion his fall[[/note]] and is fine with no recovery time that we can see. [[BigBrotherMentor China]] is stabbed in the back by the [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana-wielding]] [[TheStoic Japan]], and except for a [[PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars scar]] remaining there, shows no ill effects afterwards, and a young [[NiceGuy Lithuania]] continues holding a conversation as normal with an arrow sticking ''straight through his head''.

* Rin in ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'' seems very prone to being captured and tortured quite gruesomely and having things happen like her arm being shot off by a sniper rifle, being blown up with a massive charge of explosives, and even [[spoiler:getting sucked through a running jet engine]]. Being immortal, she manages to walk them off, though not without quite a lot of pain in the process of regrowing/reattaching lost parts(understandably, the TurbineBlender took a while).

* ''Literature/TorturePrincessFremdTorturchen'':
** Title character Elisabeth Le Fanu can regenerate from just about any injury that isn't immediately fatal. During the first battle with one of the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils fourteen ranked demons]], the Knight, she takes a sword through the abdomen in a surprise attack that leaves her intestines trailing on the ground. Her response is to [[EvilLaugh laugh maniacally]], ''rip the remnants of her guts free'', and inflict a CurbStompBattle on the Knight.
** Viewpoint character Kaito Sena, being a {{golem}} crafted by Elisabeth using her own blood, is almost as durable: as long as he doesn't lose too much blood, he can recover. Just during the first volume he shrugs off limb loss and disembowelment.

* ''Literature/TrinityBlood'':
** The Crusniks, to an almost absurd level. When main character Abel Nightroad gets into a fight, especially in his Crusnik form, he's almost guaranteed to get mangled in some way. If someone pulls a gun, he usually takes at least one bullet. In one instance, he survives[[spoiler: having the left half of his torso, including an arm, a wing, and (presumably) his heart obliterated by a tank. He regrows them in a matter of moments by having the nanomachines in his blood actually eat the charred hunks of flesh before returning to his body, much to his enemy's horror]]. Father Tres, being an android, has a similar propensity to take damage (a [[PlayingWithFire flame-wielding vampire]] once hit him point-blank in the face), though not to the same extent.
** In an even more extreme example, BigBad [[spoiler: Cain Nightroad survives being thrown out of a space station, burning to ash upon entering the atmosphere, and subsequently hitting the ground. Granted, regenerating from that took him about 900 years, but the fact that he survived it at all (not to mention the fact that he can ''live'' for 900 years) is a little over-the-top]].

%%* In ''Literature/{{Vamp}}'', the vampires can heal from almost anything, and the characters tend to make use of this by beating each other bloody with their super-strength.

** Deadpool has jumped face first into concrete from a 10 story building to try to "fix" looking like Tom Cruise.
*** That's ''Thom Cruz''.

* Lampshaded by [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]] in ''[[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]]'' #5, after his latest self-repair: "There. I am walking, with my new feet on the floor. Let's see if I can go the weekend without getting them blown off."

* [[Characters/X23LauraKinney X-23]] and [[Characters/WolverineSupportingCharacters Daken]] are beginning to give Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} a run for his money. X-23, at least, is a ''better'' healer than Wolverine because she isn't constantly fighting massive adamantium poisoning. However, this is somewhat subverted in her case, in that her lack of a full adamantium skeleton means she's much less durable than Wolverine and more vulnerable to injuries that can disable or outright kill her. Laura will at times take advantage of her ability to heal if necessary, but she generally relies more on WaifFu to avoid getting hit in the first place, or her assassin skills to avoid a direct confrontation altogether. Laura finally averts this in ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'' #19 where she starts wearing a new costume with body armor.

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Wolverine in all the movies. The movie version went with "painful and suicidal because he can", including an instance where he punctured his own lungs to get out of restraints (and another, less fatal, of putting out his cigar on his palm, complete with wince). As usual, he takes a lot of punishment throughout ''Film/TheWolverine'', but his survival of an ''atomic bomb'' really stands out.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]] and Deadpool in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', and again for the latter in ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'', who ''cuts off his own hand'' to escape custody, and breaks both of his arms ineffectually punching [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Colossus]].
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesMagneto Magneto]] deals with humans and mutants other than Wolverine by shooting them, threatening to shoot them, or restraining them with metal. Magneto deals with Wolverine by [[spoiler: weaving steel rebar through his body and throwing him about a mile away. [[DrowningPit Into the river]]]]. InUniverse, this is the reason why Wolverine is sent back in time instead of [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor Xavier]], whose mind would not survive the trip.
** Used again for Wolverine and [[spoiler:X-24]] in ''Film/{{Logan}}''. They both take numerous beatings from each other, including when the latter takes a shotgun blast without wincing. What ends up [[spoiler:killing both is a tree through the heart for Logan (and the fact that his healing factor is slowing down), and an adamantium bullet in the head for X-24]]. Not even Laura is immune, as she is run through several times.
* Used multiple times in ''Film/TheFaculty''. However, it's subverted in the case of Creator/JonStewart's character, who after being turned back human isn't able to regenerate and is subjected to an eyepatch and four missing fingers at the movie's [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue closing]].

* ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'':
** Dorian Gray brings this up after suffering a [[GroinAttack particularly nasty injury]].
--->'''Dorian:''' If that had been permanent, I'd have been very upset!
** During a sword fight between Dorian and Mina Harker (vampire) they run each other through repeatedly and Dorian whines "We're going to be at this all day!"
* Used rather often in ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'', much like the TV series. Except that there was no temporary death in the films, they just got shot and kept on going.
* ''Film/TheLastStarfighter''. [[spoiler:Centauri]] is killed during the movie. At the end it's revealed that he didn't die, he was just dormant while his body healed itself.
* While PoliceAreUseless was the norm in [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy the Raimi films]] so that the villains didn't get taken down too fast, in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' the Lizard gets attacked by a dozen SWAT officers who proceed to fill him full of bullets, all to demonstrate his HealingFactor.
* [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]] is said to have this in the ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''. This is what makes his blood so invaluable to Harry Osborn, who's dying of a rare genetic disease and explains how Peter can get pounded on so much and then wake up the next day feeling 100%.
* ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'': During Snow White's climactic fight with Queen Ravenna, the latter demonstrates how impervious she is by stepping right into a fire while boasting about her immortality, letting her skin burn and healing it at the same time.
* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'': The Federation's advanced medical technology allows characters to undergo a lot of punishment, and allows the DrillSergeantNasty to get away with a lot of casual brutality. Zim breaks a recruits arm with a compound fracture and sticks a knife through Ace's hand; Zim's arm appears in a blue futuristic liquid cast in the next scene and appears fine in the next scene after, and Ace's hand injury is shown briefly covered in a bandage. Rico gets a Bug mandible through his thigh during the [[CurbStompBattle Clusterf-, uh, Battle of Klendathu]] but spends a few weeks in an AutoDoc tank and is soon back into fighting shape (in real life a wound like that would take months of healing and rehabilitation, at best; most likely he would have been disabled for life).

* In ''Literature/LoneWolf'', if you choose the Kai discipline of healing, you recover 1 Endurance each story section where there's no combat. This is a lifesaver as healing items are rare and don't recover much.

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Oreg is an immortal being with a traumatic past. However, due to his powerful magic, he doesn't just experience normal, run-of-the-mill flashbacks, which would be horrible enough, but things ''actually repeat themselves'', to the point that Ward can see how Oreg's shirt falls apart under the strikes of an invisible whip, and a wound gashes open on his face, with the bone visible. Oreg's body recovers quickly once he's snapped out of the flashback.

* Literature/TheZombieKnight is practically built on this. Given how destructive servants tend to be when fighting, it's not uncommon for hector to end fights with several parts of himself missing, his skull showing, or cut in half. Regeneration is so prevalent in this world ''decapitating someone'' and encasing the head is considered standard procedure for taking prisoners.
* Creator/FredSaberhagen's ''Literature/BookOfSwords'' series has a magic sword named Woundhealer which cannot be used to kill living creatures because it heals whatever it's stabbed into. Woundhealer's abilities are so potent that one use on an amputee's arm causes the arm to grow back over a period of time. Slicing it through a broken limb will instantly restore the limb. It's also possible to impale one's self on the blade and benefit from constant healing. In an extreme example, a character escaped pursuit by impaling himself and jumping off a cliff. He survived and suffered no lasting physical injury, but it ''did'' hurt and he had some psychological trauma after that.
* The ''Literature/WildCards'' series has Billy Ray aka Carnifex. In this case, there's a little twist: his regenerative ability is somewhat inaccurate, so his face looks rather deformed from all the times it has needed to recover from massive damage.
* In homage to the frequency with which private detectives (like Literature/PhilipMarlowe) get beaten up by corrupt cops or gangsters, P.N. Elrod's [[VampireDetectiveSeries vampire detective]] Jack Flemming sustains brutal torture and beating [[OncePerEpisode in just about every novel]].
* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', morphing resets the body from injuries -- so an injured animal just has to morph into something else. The books deal with this in alarmingly visceral ways. Most noticeable is Tobias, who has no morphing ability for the first few books and remains almost totally unharmed (he rarely entered combat as a hawk, preferring to do espionage for the rest of the characters), but once he gets his morphing ability back, he's suddenly prone to horrific injury in his hawk form. Just one highlight: Being ''swallowed'' by a [[SeaMonster Kronosaurus]]. He gets out with a broken wing that somehow stays whenever he morphs, for reasons that were never quite explained in that book. Either way, the injuries the Animorphs have taken include being shot, dismembered, disemboweled, fourth degree burns, fourth-degree frostbite, partially vaporized, partially digested, and even swatted while in insect morph.
* In one of the ''Literature/ThievesWorld'' novels regenerating character was subdued and ''sold as a slave to local [[PlayingWithSyringes vivisector]]''. This was supposed to 'solve' two problems at once: both his regular wanton murder of poor little mobsters and vivisector cutting up slaves again and again counted as 'a bit too much' even by [[WorldHalfEmpty local standards]]. [[spoiler:Well, one problem -- but hey, it's still better than nothing.]]

* In Creator/LarryNiven and Creator/JerryPournelle's ''Literature/InfernoLarryNivenAndJerryPournelle'' and its sequel ''Escape From Hell'', the damned souls in Hell can and do heal from injuries up to and including [[StuffBlowingUp being exploded into a cloud of vapor]]. Of course, they're really BlessedWithSuck (after all, they are in Hell), since healing is often a slow painful process during which one is [[AndIMustScream fully conscious but incapacitated]], and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever one can never die]]. For example, the protagonist tries to comfort Vlad the Impaler, who has a wooden stake partially inserted somewhere humorously painful, with the knowledge that he will heal. Vlad protests that he ''has'' almost healed, just before a demon pushes the stake all the way back up.
* This is evidently the case in Dante's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''. One soul is burned to ash and then reforms. Although healing in Hell may not be such a good thing after all.
* While this never ''really'' happens as extreme as others in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', in the final book, Dionysus is seen as splitting his consciousness to speak to Percy...while he was thrown into a ditch and was recovering. He even says that it's quite painful. Also related to mythology because of Kronos...
* Wizards and witches in the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' books are frequently shown to be more resilient than a normal human, surviving accidents that would kill a muggle, or only sustaining minor injuries. [[WizardsLiveLonger Wizards and witches also have much longer lifespans than their muggle counterparts]]. Add to that magical medicine, with potions such as a Skelegrow, which regrows bones.

* Handled consistently in ''Needle'' by Creator/HalClement. A symbiotic intelligent virus can heal many minor injuries and consistently defeat disease. Cue the protagonist getting careless about handling sharp objects, and nearly dying from an infection when the symbiote leaves.
* Mages in ''Literature/TheDemonata'' series can use magic to reattach their limbs and repair severe damage in battle, often fixing their arms and legs back on as they continue to fight. Unfortunately, it still hurts just as much as it would to a normal human.
* The werewolves in ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' heal very quickly, and normally this is a good thing (like when Jacob slices his hand open at Bella's house, but the cut is already healed before Bella can get a towel to stop the bleeding). However, this is subverted when Jacob has the right side of his body broken during the battle against the newborns- in wolf form, he heals too quickly and Carlisle has to re-break his bones to fix them.
* Largely averted in ''Literature/CascaTheEternalMercenary'' where Casca feels the full and complete pain both of the wound and of the rapid healing, so he takes great pains to avoid getting injured wherever he can. Generally, he only suffers a fatal injury once per book, and only receives that in situations of overwhelming odds.
* ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'':
** Wayne has the ability to store health in order to heal quickly later, so of course he gets hurt a lot more then his partner Wax, including once catching the brunt of an explosion and getting his entire back badly burned, being shot multiple times, being poisoned, etc. He makes more of an issue of it early in the series ("It's like taking someone's beer because he can always order more.") but by the end, someone genuinely mistakes him for a CombatSadomasochist due to how much punishment he takes.
** Also [[spoiler: Miles]] from ''Literature/TheAlloyOfLaw'' has a truly ridiculous HealingFactor and probably gets shot almost as many times as everybody else in the book combined, including the mooks. Even his [[spoiler:execution after taking away the Metalminds he needs to heal requires multiple volleys from a firing squad to actually kill him]].
** Kandra have VoluntaryShapeshifting and as a result can take a pretty severe amount of punishment. Breaking their bones is just about the only conventional injury that they can't just ignore, and even then it's only inconvenient because they can't make their own bones and will have to find new ones to get back to normal. Acid and a few other things can actually do meaningful damage, but everything from bullets to knives are generally ignored. [=MeLaan=] even mentions shutting off her nerve endings to prevent traps from hurting when she intentionally sets them off.

* In ''Villains Inc.'' (sequel to ''Literature/WearingTheCape''), [[spoiler: Max Fisher]] turns out to have the ability to recover from pretty much anything, by virtue of being [[spoiler: the self-sustaining projection of a fictional character]].
* ''Literature/TheRifter'': After John finds out that no ordinary wound can kill him, he begins to charge straight into armies, shaking off innumerable bullet, pike, etc. wounds. The first time he deliberately let someone shoot him, he had to steel himself against the anticipation of pain, because he does feel it in full; but he found that pain awakened his Rifter powers, and he soon becomes able to go into a divine version of a [[TheBerserker berserk state]] where he ignores pain, feels only rage, and draws on his power to heal instantly.

* In ''Literature/UkiahOregon'' Ukiah and Atticus, once aware that they heal from anything and come BackFromTheDead, constantly go around TakingTheBullet and generally more risks than their human partners. Atticus and Ru's boss have noticed that Atticus is constantly getting injured and Ru isn't and assumes Ru is a coward.
* In ''Literature/TheBehemoth'' Roger suffers a number of injuries after developing his healing factor, including [[{{Fingore}} mangling his hand punching a television]], having several things [[ImpaledPalm stabbed through his hand]], [[SickeningCrunch breaking a number of bones]], several [[DramaticDislocation dramatic dislocations]], and [[NightmareFuel losing both his liver and his heart at different points.]]
* ''Literature/EdenGreen'' and friends become infected with an alien needle symbiote that keeps them alive no matter how badly they are hurt or killed. This is a very good thing because their city is being invaded by monsters that like to chomp, impale, and/or crush anything that moves.
* This is a plot point in Damon Knight's novella ''Dio'' (or ''[[https://books.google.com/books?id=nZl0CwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT8&dq=Damon%20Knight%20The%20Dying%20Man&pg=PT9#v=snippet&q=noon&f=false The Dying Man]]''), which takes place in TheFuture where humans have genetically engineered themselves to be [[TheAgeless glamorous immortals]] who can [[WeWillAllFlyInTheFuture levitate]] and regenerate injured body parts. Practically the first thing that happens is a mid-air wrestling match in which the protagonist loses his ability to fly and he and his opponent crash to the ground. The opponent's injuries heal in a few minutes, but Dio's not... that's how he finds out what's going to happen to him. Later on his friend Claire is underwater with her friend Ross, who drowns; his lungs exude a jelly that protects him until the responders get there. It looks gross, but he is safe.
* Played with in a novel of the Literature/{{Drenai}} saga. One of Waylander's enemies has magically-endowed [[HealingFactor regenerative capabilities]] that make him effectively unkillable. All well and good against Waylander's knives and crossbow bolts, but when [[UnwittingPawn his plan to use Waylander as a human sacrifice backfires and a demon arrives to claim HIM]]..."Ah. I see you have learned the secrets of regeneration. You will wish that you had not. For now [[AndIMustScream it may take you twenty centuries to die]]."
* This trope is ruthlessly exploited by the instructors of Aveum Academy in ''Literature/AeonLegionLabyrinth''. The recruits all have a device called a ''shieldwatch'' that can restore most injuries by [[TimeMaster rolling back time]] to when they were uninjured. As a result, the instructors can make their training regimen extremely brutal. Lycus explains that the training is designed to encourage this. Since the recruits can survive most injuries and be instantly restored, the main limitation becomes a recruit's ability to endure pain.
* A less injurious variation occurs in ''Literature/TheFellowshipOfTheRing'': Frodo is given a shirt of {{mithril}} mail that makes him nigh-invulnerable. Thereafter, on several occasions, the Fellowship is ambushed by orcs who take potshots at them. Frodo is always the only person to get hit (with one exception of Gandalf's [[HatDamage hat]]), but because of his armor is perfectly fine.
* Aeduen of ''Literature/TheWitchlands'' is the only POV character gifted with the HealingFactor, so it follows that he gets shot, stabbed, cut, maimed and otherwise damaged several times more than all other POV characters combined.
* Visconde de Sabugosa from Literature/SitioDoPicapauAmarelo is, much to his frustration, frequently chosen to do the most dangerous and arduous parts of the adventures by the other characters, because since he is [[LivingToys a doll made from a corn cob]], he can be rebuilt later in case he gets damaged.
* In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', people with Surgebinding abilities can regenerate almost any injury as long as they have a reserve of Stormlight, which leaves them pretty cavalier about getting creatively hurt. [[spoiler:Shallan]] even weirds out a trusted subordinate by (muzzily) giving him orders while she has a crossbow bolt sticking through her head.
* Tennyo in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse has such a phenomenal regeneration ability that literally nothing seems to stop her. She once had her leg blown off by cyborgs with vulcan cannons, and she regrew the leg by the time it took her to fly over and grab the cyborgs. If you think that's good, Carmilla had her head chopped off and just grew a new one, but she's an EldritchAbomination.
** Tennyo later on, as the above example is only her base-line healing factor. When she gets mad, she has regrown entire limbs and parts of her face in time to continue up an attack she was already doing, ''before she even realized the body parts were missing''. Other characters have theorized that she isn't being healed so much as restored from a master copy woven into the very fabric of the universe.
* Veldron of ''Literature/SuperStories'' regenerates when fatally injured. Unfortunately, others seem to take this as an invitation to hurt him or put him in danger, assuming he'll just heal and not realising that he has to be just about dead for the power to kick in.
* ''Literature/StoneBurners'', Olivia have been shot, pummeled, thrown through a wall and suffered through broken bones. She got better.

* Every human has great recovery because they all have medical nanites in them soon after birth in K.C Alexander's ''[=SINless=]'' series. With a badly contaminated atmosphere and insane levels of global warming, humanity needs those medical nanites to repair cellular damage and snip out the inevitable cancers. They also greatly speed a person's ability to get back to normal after having broken bones or various other injuries. These nanites have their limits and aren't going to regrow a lost limb and contemporary drugs are designed to override the nanite protection so the drug trade is still a constant.
* Sven Tveskoeg has people wondering what he has floating in his DNA in David Gunn's ''Death's Head'' series. While he can't regrow his lost arm which has been replaced with a bionic one, Sven once got up after stuffing his intestines back inside himself after he was disembowelled. He also occasionally hides knives inside his organic arm, which requires him to cut out and pull a large chunk of meat.
* ''Literature/NonaTheNinth'': PlayedForHorror with Nona, a KindheartedSimpleton with an unstoppable HealingFactor, a habit of swimming near deadly jellyfish, and a rare few {{Berserk Button}}s. When she has a tantrum, she tears her body out of its restraints, bashes herself through a reinforced door, and throws herself at the people shooting at her, all while screaming fit to liquefy her throat.
* No-one knows why [[RussianGuySuffersMost Lieutenant Kerensky]] of ''Literature/{{Redshirts}}'' heals so fast and completely, but he's always healed up from one horrifying injury ''just in time'' to sustain another, generally on an away mission. [[spoiler:Justified, as it turns out: all the characters are, in fact, characters on a bad ''Franchise/StarTrek''-esque TV show, and Kerensky is the one the writers use to prove that even the leads can be injured. Every time.]]

** When he resurfaced in the third series of ''Torchwood'', Jack Harkness exploited his ability for the team's benefit. However, it's seriously downplayed, and he can often go entire episodes without his power coming up. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]], Jack has obviously spent an entire year being killed in whatever gruesome ways the Master could come up with, all for his own personal amusement.

** Pilot once had this trope ''forced upon him'' by the rest of the crew, because a MadScientist had demanded one of his limbs in exchange for assistance.

** The Vorta have backup clones in case they die. Weyoun's later appearances consist of him getting killed ''every single time'' because he can get better. He pretty much becomes [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Kenny]]. [[spoiler: Subverted late in the series, after the good guys mount a successful operation to destroy the Dominion's cloning facility. Weyoun dies, and the Changeling Leader comments, in a tone of mild disappointment, "That was Weyoun's last clone". As he's been a thorn in the heroes' side for quite some time, they are [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing delighted to hear]] that he's finally gone for good.]]

* Literature/TheQuran, in contrast, gives a very explicit description that the damned regularly have their skins burnt off, and then are provided new ones so that the burning can continue forever. Either way, [[BlessedWithSuck pity for them that they can heal]].
* Prometheus was chained to a rock and an eagle tore out his liver every day until he was rescued. Boy Prometheus, it's a good thing you can heal, now isn't it? Of course, the regeneration was part of his punishment for giving humans fire-so that his liver could be torn out every day for the rest of eternity and not just once.
* Ares would be injured a bit in [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]...thank you Diomedes for stabbing him.

* ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising:'' Rampage, who has the ability to survive wounds that would kill any other Cybertronian. Although, as a DeathSeeker, he's a little bit pissed every time he tries to die, and wakes up to find himself back in good condition. [[spoiler:In the final story, he turns out to have CompleteImmortality.]]

* In a general case, games that provide a health bar either allow RegeneratingHealth or allow quick and rapid healing by using one of the healing items (carried potions, medi-kit pickup, hamburger, etc.) This is more of a practical abstraction rather than being a character's superpower.

* The character Yoshimitsu, who has appeared in every single ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' game, has healing abilities beginning in ''Tekken 3''. He can heal through meditating, or through draining lifeforce from an enemy. Like Shatterstar, he has an attack where [[DeliberateInjuryGambit he stabs himself]], inflicting damage but is able to hit an enemy for even more damage with it. He is also able to spin while in this state to further damage someone hit with this attack, with his sword still in him. Yoshimitsu can also spin away from his opponent at an incredibly rapid speed, an attack that requires expending his own life to do, and which causes him to lose his balance and faint temporarily if done excessively. Yoshimitsu from the ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]'' series has similar techniques including flying into the air, lighting his sword on fire, then stabbing it through his own chest and dropping out of the air onto your opponent for massive damage to both you and your opponent. You can regain your health in identical ways to Tekken.
* Played straight in ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}''. Albedo has a powerful healing factor (he can regrow his own head!), but is driven to madness upon the knowledge that he cannot be killed while his brothers can.
* The player can do this in ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''. Since the main character can't die and has a HealingFactor as part of the parcel, they can willingly allow themselves to be [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap mangled in all sorts of ways]]. You can allow a woman to pay for the privilege of fatally stabbing you, snap your own neck to prove a point not once but ''twice'', allow a hag to [[EyeScream claw out your eye to give you power]], remove a magical ring from the dead finger it's stuck on by '''biting your finger off and sticking the dead finger onto the stump''', allow a mortician to sew up your wounds, have a crazy dissectionist cut your various body parts open (including pulling out your own intestines and cracking open your skull), gouge out your eye to put a preserved one in its place, and gain spells from a PyroManiac wizard by allowing him to burn your finger, hand, eyeball, and intestines to charred cinders.
** Hilariously, although ''you'' can't die, you ''can'' kill people in a number of increasingly ridiculous ways. The most well-known and memorable is when you ''convince a man that he doesn't exist'', and he simply [[PuffOfLogic poofs out of existence]] when he realizes that he believes your logic. And it doesn't count as murder, because...''he never existed!''
* Dark Samus from the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy''. It took the destruction of one and a half planets to finally kill her.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', Shirou takes frequent and painful abuse from enemy Servants no matter what you do -- but he takes noticeably ''less'' of it in routes where his contract with Saber gets broken. This is because [[spoiler:Shirou has unknowingly been imbued with Saber's lost Noble Phantasm, Avalon, which will heal him from any damage as long as he's connected to her. Without her, it's just there]].
** In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Brynhildr is compelled to murder whomever she's attracted to, but ''especially'' her true love Sigurd. During the chapter where he becomes playable, Sigurd reassures her that one of his skills grants him auto-revive, so [[AscendedMeme he won't die when she kills him]].
** Also in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is Yu Mei-ren, who can reconstitute herself whenever she dies thanks to being a Fairy Elemental. In the Servant Summer Camp event, she ends up being the DesignatedVictim of horror movie tropes six different times but comes out no worse for wear (although the event later reveals that [[spoiler: the entire Singularity was an attempt to find a way to [[KilledOffForReal permanently kill her]], and if she'd died a seventh time it would have stuck]]). Her Lancer form even makes this a gameplay mechanic, combining taunt and guts skills to make sure she takes a lethal attack instead of someone else who can't revive from it.
* Dante in the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series: he gets stabbed and impaled so many times and then shrugs it off that it's just funny...but only in the cut scenes...that don't involve his fights with Vergil in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening DMC 3]]'' where he actually DOES get hurt...but then gets better by going Devil Time.
* Many Characters in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series, particularly Dissidia, know that they can come back to life, & use it to their fullest advantage. Sephiroth, Emperor Mateus of Palamecia, & Garland [[spoiler:although, he uses time travel]] are notable examples.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', there are sometimes very high places that would take a long time to climb back down from. Of course, the solution is obvious, and several classes have abilities to make it a perfectly survivable tactic, including the Priest's Levitate, Rogue's / Druid Cat-Form's reduced falling damage, etc. Warlocks and Shamans don't have these... but they ''do'' have the ability to occasionally self-resurrect, leading to a lot of Warlocks and Shammys going 'splat'.
** Then there is Divine Intervention, a Paladin skill that kills the Paladin but makes the target invulnerable when things go badly. The saved ally can then resurrect the Paladin and the others.
*** Sadly, Divine Intervention was removed from the game in patch 4.0, back in 2010. At least for players. NPC paladins can still use it in cut scenes though!
** Demonstrated in [[http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=050409 this]] ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' comic.
* There's been a ton of video games that make use of Wolverine's ability to regenerate, but ''VideoGame/XMenOriginsWolverine,'' is the first to show grievous bodily harm actually occurring to him, up to and including parts of his face and torso being completely torn off, only for them to slowly come back. For game balancing issues, he has two health meters; his "internal vitals" meter regenerates more slowly, so you're in trouble if you get that far gone. His shirt rarely survives this punishment, though his [[MagicPants pants never suffer quite so much.]] The MagicPants are sort of justified since he is attacking military soldiers who are trained to target the chest area, where all the vital organs are, not the legs, though his pants should be at least torn up from all the shit he went through. In ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelSuperHeroes'', if Wolverine falls to one heart, he loses his body and runs around as ''just'' his Adamantium skeleton. He's also equipped with passive regeneration, so the skeleton regrows its "flesh" when he moves up to two hearts.

* Less prominent than most examples here is Chidori in ''VideoGame/Persona3''. She's a messed-up girl with a bad habit of cutting herself, but her wounds heal rapidly.

* Both Vorcha and Krogans in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe can heal: Vorcha heal very quickly as a natural ability, which gives them a somewhat horrifying appearance from the mass of scars they receive, and Krogans are so naturally tough and resilient that their anatomy allows them to continue functioning even when they shouldn't be capable, while their body heals the injuries. Both can have their regeneration shut down (temporarily, but permanently in the games based on how combat works) through inflicting incredible amounts of simultaneous, wide-spread damage (the Warp biotic effect) or [[KillItWithFire burning them]]. Wrex forgets that most species don't have this ability. This leads to an amusing conversation in [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 the second game]], where he initially seems to be under the impression that Shepard survived being spaced because of this.
-->'''Wrex:''' Ah, the benefits of a redundant nervous system!\\
'''Shepard:''' Yeah, humans don't have that.\\
'''Wrex:''' Oh... it must've been painful, then.
* Fujiwara no Mokou from the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' series is [[CompleteImmortality completely immortal]] and will [[FromASingleCell recover from even fatal injuries in moments]], which lets her completely disregard personal safety when fighting. It's explicitly stated that the only way to really beat her is to kill her over and over again until the pain simply prevents her from being able to counter-attack. In ''Urban Legend in Limbo'', her gimmick that she has fast and powerful attacks, but any attack that [[PlayingWithFire involves fire]] will damage herself as well. She can incinerate herself in a pillar of fire, which will undo all the self-damage she's sustained up to that point but leaves her vulnerable to counter-attacks while she regenerates, making playing as her a careful balance between pressing the offense and recovering HP.

* Bonnie Hallet from ''Webcomic/{{Chiasmata}}'' has HealingFactor that has been put to the test several times so far during the adventure since the "puzzles" she has to do to move on in the Location have all involved [[AnArmandALeg deliberately chopping off body parts]]. Unfortunately for her, [[PowerIncontinence the stuff she regrows tend to be mutated in some way]]. The first time she regrows something (her hand) it has an extra thumb, the second time (her entire arm) it barely resembles a human limb at all.
-->[[DeadpanSnarker Bonnie: This healing thing is awful. I want a refund.]]

* Gregory of ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan: Oracle For Hire'' does this to some extent. He once proposed selling his organs to make money, since he could get them back with healing magic. Which doesn't make a lot of sense considering he could use his magic to heal other people just as well.

* "The Unstoppable Higgs" from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is able to recover from a broken leg and arm plus a concussion in just a few days, at the end of which he is able to succeed remarkably in a Jäger bar fight. That can be explained away given that their world has odd yet strangely advanced medical devices that are able to heal very quickly, but this is justified when he is later thrown into walls by a clank with no apparent setbacks, not to mention his encounters with Zola, when he gets punched by a highly drugged and dangerous woman, plus shot and run through with a sword.

** Some of Higgs' dialogue suggests that he's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld centuries old]], and in one instance he [[OohMeAccentsSlipping slipped into a Jäger accent]].

* Lampshaded in ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' [[http://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/748 here]]. Sydney suspects that if she had regeneration, which she doesn't (''as far as she knows''), she'd get hurt with alarming frequency. Maxima counters that it's mainly because the only way comic writers can show off the power is by having the person be hurt to begin with.
** It bears note that their team's invulnerable guy, Achilles, goes through things that would cripple anyone else with alarming frequency... in part because he's reckless and because he enjoys showing off. (He once blocked a sword thrust with his ''[[EyeScream eye]]'' [[ExploitedTrope just to unnerve the assailant]].) Good Thing You Don't Need To Heal?

* Richard of ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'', regularly gets [[AnnoyingArrows impaled by arrows]] or loses limbs, then again he is undead.
** [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/248 His village]] is the [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/251 same]].

* Goblin Dan of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' became a millionaire by selling roast hydra-head burgers as goblinoid fast food, so for him, it's a Good Thing Hydras Can Heal.

%%* Part of the vampiric power set in ''Webcomic/SchwarzKreuz''.

* ''Bartleby Tales'' directly addresses the PowerPerversionPotential in this -- as early as the first chapter, a character not only survives after swallowing a live grenade but actually gets off on being blown to pieces and [[PullingThemselvesTogether reassembling himself]].
* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', this is Taylor's justification for [[EyeScream how she deals with Lung]], the regenerating gang leader who transforms to a stronger form the longer he fights. Unfortunately, the first time she fought him he was given a specially made tranquilizer that would shut off his regeneration for safe transport, so the cocktail of spider and insect venom she hit him with very nearly killed him anyway, and did necrotize his genitals, before he was brought to a superpowered healer.

* [[RobotBuddy XR]] stands somewhere between this, TheyKilledKennyAgain, and IronButtmonkey in ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand''. Thanks to easily repairable parts, the "X" no longer stands for "[=eXperimental=]," but "[=eXpendable=]." (It helps that he [[LaserGuidedKarma often deserves it]].)

* The Horse Talisman in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' gives whoever holds it the ability to immediately recover from any injury. This includes [[spoiler:even being turned completely to stone]]. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] after the introduction of the [[ImmortalityInducer Dog Talisman]], which gives the user CompleteImmortality. However, it by itself comes with the drawback of not instantly curing all injuries, nor the pain that comes with them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' Tech E. Coyote inherited his famous ancestor's regenerative ability (oddly none of the others have), and it gets tested often.

* Not realized, but [[WordOfGod according to Noelle Stevenson]], [[WhatCouldHaveBeen there were plans]] for an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' where Adora discovers HealingHands are part of the She-Ra power suite, which would then lead Glimmer and Bow to use increasingly reckless maneuvers in battle because they could just get patched up. [[https://twitter.com/Gingerhazing/status/1283179323206152194 "We did not do this because it is... terrifying."]]

So for writers who don't want to go the route of "LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe" every issue, they have to find new and inventive ways for the hero to show off their regeneration, whether by their own clumsiness, being an accident magnet, or the [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap target of lethal attacks]]. Accidents usually include: deep cuts, lost limbs, third-degree burns, and otherwise flirting with [[JustForFun/HowToKillACharacter sure death.]] The problem is that while redundant exposition is avoided, the character in question gets a reputation as clumsy to the point that should they lose their regeneration they'd die or be seriously crippled, prompting onlookers to go "Good Thing You Can Heal".

** [[spoiler: After obtaining the All For One quirk [[BigBad Tomura Shigaraki]] has made the most use of the [[HealingFactor hyper regeneration quirk]], allowing him to survive being [[KillItWithFire nearly incinerated]], having his hands shot off, and [[NoKillLikeOverKill hit directly by a Missile]].]]

* Ban from ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' has CompleteImmortality after drinking from the Fountain of Youth, meaning that he can shurg off basically anything anyone can do to him. Unfortunately for him, this also means that [[TheChewToy he's inevetiably the one getting hurt]], and even his allies don't feel the need to hold back when giving him a smack.

** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Characters/{{Ma|rvelComicsMagneto}}gneto deals with humans and mutants other than Wolverine by shooting them, threatening to shoot them, or restraining them with metal. Magneto deals with Wolverine by [[spoiler: weaving steel rebar through his body and throwing him about a mile away. [[DrowningPit Into the river]]]]. InUniverse, this is the reason why Wolverine is sent back in time instead of [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor Xavier]], whose mind would not survive the trip.

* The werewolves in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' heal very quickly, and normally this is a good thing (like when Jacob slices his hand open at Bella's house, but the cut is already healed before Bella can get a towel to stop the bleeding). However, this is subverted when Jacob has the right side of his body broken during the battle against the newborns- in wolf form, he heals too quickly and Carlisle has to re-break his bones to fix them.

** ''Series/KamenRiderRevice'': Olteca and the Gifftarians have healing factors that seemingly only exist to let them be repeatedly brutalized in combat. The Gifftarians in particular are just enough of an EliteMook to appear threatening, and just capable enough of regenerating that any new Rider or form debut can use them as a punching bag.

* ''ComicBook/MarvelComics2'': Played hilariously straight in the ''Last Hero Standing'' story set in the Creator/MarvelComics possible-future MC2 universe. The [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Hulk]], under [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]]'s influence, goes on a killing rampage against the Avengers Next and various other future heroes. Despite his massive strength, insane rage, and lack of holding back, he does no permanent damage to anyone. What he ''does'' do is pound Wolverine into the dirt (who, of course, can regenerate), tear off [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]'s prosthetic leg and Characters/TheThing's robot arm, shatter the Big Brain (a robot) into pieces, and break the arms and head off Characters/TheVision (an android). So every injury is repairable. He hits a bunch of regular heroes too, but they just get knocked flying.

* Played hilariously straight in the ''Last Hero Standing'' story set in the Creator/MarvelComics possible-future [[ComicBook/MarvelComics2 MC2]] universe. The [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Hulk]], under [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]]'s influence, goes on a killing rampage against the Avengers Next and various other future heroes. Despite his massive strength, insane rage, and lack of holding back, he does no permanent damage to anyone. What he ''does'' do is pound Wolverine into the dirt (who, of course, can regenerate), tear off Franchise/SpiderMan's prosthetic leg and Characters/TheThing's robot arm, shatter the Big Brain (a robot) into pieces, and break the arms and head off ComicBook/TheVision (an android). So every injury is repairable. He hits a bunch of regular heroes too, but they just get knocked flying.

* Used multiple times in ''Film/TheFaculty''. However, it's subverted in the case of [[WTHCastingAgency Jon Stewart's]] character, who after being turned back human isn't able to regenerate and is subjected to an eyepatch and four missing fingers at the movie's [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue closing]].

* Most amphibians can regenerate lost and damaged limbs to a degree that reptiles, birds, and mammals could only dream of. The African hairy frog takes advantage of this by using ''its own intentionally broken toe bones as DIY claws''. Males grow structures of dermal papillae during the breeding season that look uncannily like sideburns. This huge coincidence has earned the species some fame on the Internet as "the Franchise/{{Wolverine}} frog".

* Kenji Murasame in his appearance in ''Manga/GiantRobo'' is so known for this it earned him the nickname 'Murasame the Immortal' and is instrumental to the finale.

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':

** In ''Series/Constantine2014,'' Chas Chandler has ResurrectiveImmortality due to a spell John cast on him, which caused him to absorb the souls of 47 people who died in an accident. He dies repeatedly just in the single season the show ran for.
* Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}:

* [[spoiler: After obtaining the All For One quirk [[BigBad Tomura Shigaraki]] has made the most use of the [[HealingFactor hyper regeneration quirk]], allowing him to survive being [[KillItWithFire nearly incinerated]], having his hands shot off, and [[NoKillLikeOverKill hit directly by a Missile]].]]