History Main / UndyingWarrior

** Several of the major Apostles (humans transformed into demonic beings) qualify, and the new Band of the Hawk that Griffith builds after his resurrection includes a number of them. Special mention, however, goes to Nosferatu Zodd, whom Guts and Griffith chronologically first encounter during the Golden Age Arc while assaulting a castle, but who is an infamous "battlefield god" who has been appearing at warzones to slake his bloodlust for three centuries. Zodd is a furry giant resembling a minotaur who lives under the castle and slaughters a squad of soldiers that stumble across him, then goes mano a mano with Guts and Griffith and throws them around like ragdolls. He's only forced to turn tail when he spies Griffith's Crimson Behelit. Following Griffith's resurrection as the Fifth Angel of the Godhand, Zodd serves as Griffith's bodyguard and steed.

** Several of the major Apostles (humans transformed into demonic beings) qualify, and the new Band of the Hawk that Griffith builds after his resurrection includes a number of them. Special mention, however, goes to Nosferatu Zodd, whom Guts and Griffith chronologically first encounter during the Golden Age Arc while assaulting a castle. Zodd is a furry giant resembling a minotaur who lives under the castle and slaughters a squad of soldiers that stumble across him, then goes mano a mano with Guts and Griffith and throws them around like ragdolls. He's only forced to turn tail when he spies Griffith's Crimson Behelit. Following Griffith's resurrection as the Fifth Angel of the Godhand, Zodd serves as Griffith's bodyguard and steed.

** The Skull Knight is a mysterious {{undead}} WarriorPoet who opposes the Godhand, and previously wore the Berserker Armor that Schierke and Flora give to Guts. Something happened long ago that reduced him and his horse to an armored skeleton with GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath, but also made him one of the few characters besides Guts able to kill Apostles. [[spoiler:He's implied to be Emperor Gaiseric, the founder of the Kingdom of Midland.]]

* ComicBook/VandalSavage's millennia-long life could be summed up as a bloody-minded marauding cro-magnon who has never really needed to adapt his strategy once he got immortality. Even in modern times fighting superheroes, he leads armies and gets his hands dirty, and regularly gets killed but only to rise again and continue his ways.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'': ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and his archnemesis [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]] are both described as being ''old''. At times, it's implied they've been around since UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar and participated in both World Wars. This can be chalked up to their HealingFactor, which also had the side effect of dramatically slowing their aging to the point of near-immortality.

Compare and contrast ImmortalAssassin, MilitarySuperhero, and SuperSoldier. Can overlap with WarriorUndead, but these guys are generally, ah, "better fleshed".

* Kyril Sutherland from ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'' has ResurrectiveImmortality and is heavily involved in martial careers, like [[HunterOfMonsters beast-hunting]] and [[FourStarBadass the military]]. [[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-shocked]], he yearns for a day where he could [[CallToAgriculture get a farm]], lay down his weapons, and fade away.

* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' has two groups of MagicKnights with ResurrectiveImmortality in the [[EternalRecurrence cyclic]] war against [[GodOfEvil Odium]]: the Fused, Odium's elite warriors; and the Heralds, the champions of humanity. When a [[EndOfAnAge Desolation]] begins, both groups are returned to the planet Roshar to take up the fight again. Seven thousand years of this have left them [[WhoWantsToLiveForever exceedingly tired]] and [[SanitySlippage more than a bit insane]].

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': Able is a violent and deranged HumanoidAbomination who lives solely for combat, slaughtering anyone in his path; he's also capable of ResurrectiveImmortality, is believed to have been alive since the days of ancient Sumeria, and is even implied to be Abel from the Bible.

** Mordrek the Damned, a warrior in the service of Chaos, has ResurrectiveImmortality and is brought back every time he's killed (and he's not happy about it). HeroKiller {{Literature/Wulfrik}} the Wanderer has fought him twice and been victorious both times, which still hasn't kept him down.
** In fact, many heroes of Chaos are blessed with [[TheAgeless a mild form of immortality]] so they can continue doing the work of their gods without falling to disease or old age, though they can still be slain in battle. Sigvald the Magnificent, the champion of Slaanesh, has been a 16-year-old sociopath for three centuries now. Worse still, the most successful of these champions may eventually be rewarded with ascension to the role of Daemon Princes, who are blessed with CompleteImmortality.

** Perpetuals are immortal mutant humans who never age and [[FromASingleCell can recover from even atomic disintegration]]; for good measure, given the state of the setting, it's kind of inevitable that they'll see frontline combat sooner or later. Known Perpetuals include the Emperor of Mankind, who lead a crusade to regain control of the galaxy, Vulkan, the Primarch of the Salamander Space Marine chapter, and Ollanius Pius. The latter may take the cake, as Pius is ''even older'' than the Emperor, and has participated in many conflicts throughout humanity's history, including the Napoleonic Wars and the Gulf War.

* ComicBook/VandalSavage is this, his millennia-long life could be summed up as a bloody-minded marauding cro-magnon who has never really needed to adapt his strategy once he got immortality. Even in modern times fighting superheroes, he leads armies and gets his hands dirty, and regularly gets killed but only to rise again and continue his ways.