History Main / ImmortalLifeisCheap

** This actually gets deconstructed in ''ComicBook/JudgmentDayMarvelComics'', when knowledge of this is exposed, and many people are outraged that the X-Men have essentially been ''hoarding immortality'' for themselves; indeed, the Eternals (lead by [[SmugSnake Druig]]) equate this with the Deviants, and launch a full on assault on Krakoa. [[spoiler: In a move to stop this, the Avengers and the Eternals who oppose Druig resurrect a Celestial, who proceeds to [[HumanityOnTrial put the whole of Earth on trial]], the Quiet Council of Krakoa (taking advantage of the more compassionate members being indisposed) to launch what they know is a suicide mission to try and destroy it, since they'll be resurrected, even though they know such an act could kill millions of humans (not that it works). Towards the end of the story, Ajak calls them out on this, noting how quick the mutants have been to unilaterally make this decision when they aren't the ones who are really at risk.]]

* Parodied with ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'' character Mr. Immortal, who has no other superpowers aside from his immortality. He ends up dying horribly at least several times in every issue he appears in. However, when he does die, he comes back in the throes of a [[UnstoppableRage beserker-style rampage]] due to the [[BerserkButton incredible pain he experiences when he dies.]]

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': The Akatsuki member Hidan takes sick pleasure in doing horrible painful things to himself in battle after performing a ritual to ensure that his opponent feels the same thing. Hidan is virtually immortal (e.g. getting his head cut off hardly slows him down), but the same cannot be said of his opponents who get trapped by the ritual. He's paired with Kakuzu specifically for this reason; Kakuzu has a habit of killing his partners, so the BigBad gave him a partner he couldn't kill.

* ''Film/MenInBlack'' has Jeebs, who can regrow his head. Knowing this, the [=MiB=] like to blow his head off any time they are angry, or if they want something from him, or even if they just feel like it. However, he still does feel excruciating levels of pain when they do it.

* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'': The Great Will of the Macrocosm will commonly resurrect any important character who happens to die. This leaves Lord Il Palazzo free to kill Excel for the slightest irritation. This happens several times in the very first episode and a few more times throughout the series. Near the end of the series, Pedro is killed and sent to the afterlife because the Great Will was distracted at the time. This is still PlayedForLaughs.

* ''Literature/MotherOfLearning'': Mostly defied by Zorian, who recognizes that the people around him will all be reset and unharmed at the end of the loop, but who is worried about what sort of person he'll become if he treats killing and MindRape casually. He's still willing to go after the [[AcceptableTarget Dragon Cultists]], but not willing to use his mind magic to forcibly take the secrets of mages all over the continent. However, he is quite capable of killing ''himself'' and taking advantage of the reset, if he's in a situation where his mind or soul (which will carry over damage) are threatened.

* ''Anime/AngelBeats'' is full of this, episode 2 probably being the most extreme. As the characters are in maybe-not-quite-purgatory, they'll wake up from any sort of death a few minutes later. The show uses this as an excuse to put the high-schoolers through some truly gruesome deaths. Typically, [[DoubleStandard the males receive far worse onscreen abuse]], with the females primarily put in positions where one can simply ''assume'' they suffered after the cut to something else. This leads to an interesting dichotomy, where boys will be brutalized outright onscreen far more often, but the girls can be presumed to have suffered far, far worse fates while offscreen. As an example, in the aforementioned episode 2, each of the male members of the SSS is quickly killed by a trap, crushed to death, sliced apart by lasers, etc.; however, Shiina and Tenshi, the two girls to "die", get ''much'' harsher deaths: Shiina falls off a massive waterfall and presumably either drowns before resurfacing or goes splat on the rocky ground at the bottom, and Tenshi is dropped into a collapsing, burning factory, and is presumably crushed to death as the explosions brought everything down around her. After which she'd of have to have dug herself out. ''Ouch''.

** Immortal Fujiwara no Mokou passes the time killing, [[CycleOfRevenge and being killed by]], fellow immortal Kaguya. In ''VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight'' where Mokou is the BonusBoss, the heroine Reimu begins the fight by pointing out that [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Imperishable_Night/Translation/Boundary_Team%27s_Extra ''if she's the sort that can't die, I can go all-out on her, right?'']]. This is reflected in the battle, when you deplete Mokou's health bar, she's shown to be dying, only to immediately come back for the next spell. Narrative-wise, you only win when she gets too tired from the battle and gives up.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': Several characters go to ''town'' with this trope, most notably Fermet, who spent a couple hundred years taking advantage of his and Czeslaw's immortality to perform every kind of gruesome "experiment" on poor Czes that he could think of. Then again, since almost everyone in the series is [[TheMafia a gangster]], a PsychoForHire, or just plain AxCrazy, life is pretty cheap in general, and it's not just the immortal characters who get maimed.

* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': The Dying Bird is a type of supernatural creature that reincarnates itself into human form; the resulting human is immortal, and will rapidly regenerate/recover from any injury or illness. The resident specimen, [[spoiler:Tsukihi]], ends up suffering this trope because of this. For example, Yodzuru and Yotsugi's plan for capturing her involved walking up to her house, ringing the doorbell a few dozen times, and then abruptly ''blowing off the entire upper half of her body'' when she finally answered the door.

* ''LightNovel/BeyondTheBoundary'': Throughout the first episode, Mirai repeatedly and brutally attacks Akihito, later giving the explanation that she's literally just using him as target practice because she's unaccustomed to killing youmu. This ultimately turns out to be a subversion [[spoiler:since the true reason she's attacking him is to try and kill the extremely dangerous "Beyond the Boundary" youmu that's trapped inside him]].
* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'': Dokuro feels free to beat Sakura to death with her spiked baseball bat any time she suspects him of impure thoughts, or indeed, any time she's bored because she'll just resurrect him for another round immediately anyway.

* ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' is an odd case. "Splatting" isn't killing, but with the body being destroyed and a little ghost seen flying away from the scene, only to respawn at the spawn point seconds later[[note]]the term "respawn" is actually widely used by characters in-universe to describe this process, and the terms like "spawn point" and "spawning drone" are likewise given in-universe as the names of machines that allow for this[[/note]], this trope appears to be in full effect, allowing for a sport that appears to involve lethal combat without any of the usual implications that would normally surround a BloodSport.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' and [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 its sequel]] are [[ImpliedTrope an ambiguous case]], in that it's not 100% clear that "splatting" is killing, but with the body being destroyed and a little ghost seen flying away from the scene, only to respawn at the spawn point seconds later[[note]]the term "respawn" is actually widely used by characters in-universe to describe this process, and the term "spawn point" is likewise given in-universe as the name of a machine that appears to used for regenerating an Inkling's body after it is splatted[[/note]], this trope appears to be in full effect, allowing the Inklings to have a sport that appears to involve lethal combat without any of the usual implications that would normally surround a BloodSport.

** Denji is told to bring Katana Man to Makima alive, but doesn't hesitate to ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe slice him in half]]'' before bringing him back to life in chains. As Katana Man was bisected vertically through the head, one wonders how Denji was able to feed him any blood off-screen.