History Main / ImmortalLifeIsCheap

* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', [[spoiler: Harry]] - who is self-sacrificing to being with - develops this opinion after discovering his ResurrectiveImmortality. However, this is considered a bad idea for several reasons. One, dying is still very traumatic. Two, the attitude indicates other emotional problems. Three, the immortality tends to come at a price (usually a rampage by the resurrecting entity in question, [[spoiler: the Phoenix Force a.k.a. the late Lily Evans-Potter]]), which has detrimental effects on the fabric of reality.
* In ''[[Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons]]'', Rampage's UpToEleven HealingFactor allows her to recover from any and all injuries, even averting the ChunkySalsaRule. Combined with her berserker tendencies, it gets her killed in a variety of ways. In fact, Blackjack's default method for stopping one of Rampage's {{Freak Out}}s before she gets out of control is to [[BoomHeadshot shoot her in the head]].

* In ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/227933/314-pm 3:14 PM]]'', Pinkie is trapped in a time loop that starts at the titular time on the day before the Summer Sun Celebration... and ends whenever she dies. While some loops end with a reasonable death (such as freezing to death from the neverending night or getting eaten by the manticore), a few have her die in rather implausible ways, such as slipping on a frog or Twilight's chariot landing on her. Most notably, when Rainbow Dash crashes into her, the injuries are lethal. When in the next loop she dodges, Twilight gets hit instead but - as in canon - only gets knocked into a mud puddle. Pinkie finds this somewhat unfair.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': The Homunculi get this a lot, as they can instantly regenerate. To be fair, several are eventually killed, but it still counts seeing as one can take three clips of bullets, get up, and ask, "Are you ''done'' yet?"
** Later really show how damn ''painful'' this trope can be. [[spoiler:Envy]] was burned alive several times, and at one point [[spoiler: Mustang]] let his [[EyeScream eyes explode]]. And [[spoiler:Sloth]] was impaled again and again, twice right through his face.

** A common criticism of ''Comicbook/JonathanHickmansXMen'' is that, now that the X-Men have a reliable and repeatable way of coming back from the dead, they seem to be getting killed a lot more often. On at least one occasion, X-Men have killed ''themselves'' to get out of a difficult situation.

* Creator/DCComics character ComicBook/ResurrectionMan gets this a lot, naturally. One issue has a confused Batman trying to figure out why the same guy keeps getting murdered by Gotham City criminals. A crossover with Comicbook/{{Hitman|1993}} sees Hitman repeatedly shooting him over and over until he gets a useful power. In the 853rd century, even Resurrection Man himself gets in on the act, wearing a gauntlet that lets him commit instant suicide.

* In ''[[Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons]]'', Rampage's UpToEleven HealingFactor allows her to recover from any and all injuries, even averting the ChunkySalsaRule. Combined with her berserker tendencies, it gets her killed in a variety of ways. In fact, Blackjack's default method for stopping one of Rampage's [[FreakOut Freak Outs]] before she gets out of control is to [[BoomHeadshot shoot her in the head]].

* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'': As a doll demon, Felucia Sonsta can [[GoodThingYouCanHeal survive and regenerate from literally anything]] so long as her [[SoulJar spirit artifact]] is intact. Naturally, she tends to get the worst of the battle damage; among other things, she's been impaled, shot in the head, blown up, incinerated, and dismembered.

* ''FanFic/StarWarsParanormalitiesTrilogy'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'':

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/{{Sorcery 101}}''; Danny casually shoots Brad in the heart to demonstrate how [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolves]] can't be killed by normal bullets. Turns out that you can cure a werewolf, but it reverts all the injuries they've suffered. So now Brad can never become human without getting an instantly fatal gaping chest wound. D'oh! To be fair to Danny, Brad already had all sorts of injuries that he couldn't survive that weren't Danny's fault... [[spoiler:except for the first one]]

* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' when Oasis's opponents want to contain her; killing her is what they ''don't'' want to do because she'd just mysteriously respawn in perfect health. Of course, it makes it kind of difficult to hold her that she's an unstoppable OneWomanArmy. At one point, she gets finally taken into custody after [[spoiler: both her legs are blown off]].

-->-- '''Lead Scout's Cloak''', ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}''

* Likewise, the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk is not only {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le, what damage he DOES take regenerates near-instantly. There's a few strategies that ''might'' be instant death, usually involving [[BoomHeadshot severe cranial damage]], but they're still not sure he'd stay down. He was once caught in a horrid explosion and reduced to a charred skeleton with a few bits of flesh left over. His response? "Give me a minute." Four panels later it was like nothing happened. For the record, it DID hurt, a lot, but it also [[HulkingOut got him even MORE angry]] than usual.

* Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' series features the immortal Cain and Abel, the former frequently murdering the latter over a minor dispute or simply to pass the time. Note that in this case, it has less to do with Abel being immortal and more with the brothers being the symbol of fratricide - Cain occasionally regrets killing his brother, but is still compelled by NarrativeCausality.

* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'': Dokuro feels free to beat Sakura to death with her spiked baseball bat any time she suspects him of ecchi thoughts, or indeed, any time she's bored because she'll just resurrect him for another round immediately anyway.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': C.C. sometimes gets this sort of abuse, such as when [[{{Yandere}} Mao]] decided he was going to "[[ChainsawGood make her compact]]". At one point, she takes out an opponent by having her mech drag theirs to the bottom of the ocean, and holding them there until they were both crushed completely by the pressure, having her enact this trope on ''herself'' — though given that she's a DeathSeeker, this makes some sense.

* Lots of it in ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'': every BigBad who knows about Rin's immortality prefers to snap her neck first, ask questions later. Goes especially for Sayara, who systematically hunts down Rin for the pleasure she'll get from killing her again. Immortality does come at a price though, as it takes time to come back to life depending on the injury. A gunshot to the head will only take a few moments. [[spoiler:Getting thrown into a jet engine and spreading your LudicrousGibs over the ocean]] will take decades.
* The [[spoiler:ES Members]] in ''Anime/KiddyGrade'' are commonly sent on suicide missions because GOTT can always resurrect them.
* In ''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.
* The Homunculi of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' get this a lot, as they can instantly regenerate. To be fair, several are eventually killed, but it still counts seeing as one can take three clips of bullets, get up, and ask, "Are you ''done'' yet?"
** Later really show how damn ''painful'' this trope can be. [[spoiler:Envy]] was burned alive several times, and at one point [[spoiler: Mustang]] let his [[EyeScream eyes explode]]. And [[spoiler:Sloth]] was impaled again and again, twice right through his face.
* [[BigBad Embryo]] from ''Anime/CrossAnge'' has a certain form of immortality that causes him to respawn anywhere he wishes as long as his Ragna-Mail, Hysterica, is intact. He uses this to his advantage by offing himself when Tusk has his hand grappled by killing himself, and also to troll Ange when the latter tries in vain to off him before he attempts to force himself on her.
* Tessai from ''Anime/NinjaScroll'', who can turn himself to stone all over... except for his eyes, which is how he gets beaten.
** And the BigBad, who suffered an AndIMustScream defeat. He couldn't be killed permanently, but the hero managed to cover him in molten gold and drop the resulting statue to the bottom of the ocean.
* Yakumo Fujii, from ''[[Manga/SazanEyes 3x3 Eyes]]''. Being unkillable is a lot less fun than you might think, especially when horrible monsters are trying to kill you ''anyway''.
* Several characters in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' 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.

* A couple of characters in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' are like this. 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. See Kakuzu has a habit of killing his partners so the BigBad gave him a partner he couldn't kill.
* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'' feels free to beat Sakura to death with her spiked baseball bat any time she suspects him of ecchi thoughts, or indeed, any time she's bored because she'll just resurrect him for another round immediately anyway.

* Throughout the first episode of ''LightNovel/BeyondTheBoundary'', 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]].
* ''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''.
* Hakamada from ''Manga/{{Aphorism}}'' has the power of revivability. He is frequently used as a scapegoat by his friend to dodge an attack.
* ''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.
** There's also Araragi himself, who thanks to retaining some powers from having been a vampire, possesses a strong HealingFactor and can survive from fatal injuries, like his heart being crushed into smush. He gets beaten to an inch of his life several times through the series in an excessively gory fashion to show off his determination.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Levi will occasionally take advantage of Eren's HealingFactor. He brutally beat him for speaking out in court, and his plan to avoid killing him if he rampages in titan form involves cutting him out, severing all four of his limbs in the process. [[spoiler:Annie, Reiner, and Bertholt couldn't afford to be gentle in their kidnapping attempts, either.]]
* People who have gained immortality by eating mermaid flesh in ''Manga/MermaidSaga'' can get their limbs chopped off, shot multiple times, get their liver removed while still alive and very conscious and similar - it doesn't matter, they'll come back to life after half a day, anyway, can apply a new limb to the one that was removed or similar. [[OffWithHisHead Except if you happen to remove the head...]]
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': Funny Valentine can survive being killed [[spoiler:by transferring his mind to a version of himself from another universe]]. As such, he's the rare JJBA villain who dies repeatedly.
* ''Manga/UQHolder'': ''all'' the main characters are subject to this. All of them have been blasted with what would normally be lethal damage on multiple occasions. Kirie is the most extreme example; her form of immortality is essentially SaveScumming (whenever she dies, she simply pops back to the last "save point" she set up and tries again). As a result, most of her strategy consists of trial and error, dying and resetting over and over until she finds something that works.
* Monsters with effects to return from the graveyard can often be used with this mindset in Yu-Gi-Oh. An example of this is the anime version of the Aesir cards in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': their real-life revival effects have the cost removed so they always come back at the end of the turn with damaging or hand advantage effects. Their users, Team Ragnarok (in particular Brave) use this to their advantage.
* In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', Ban is often subjected to the most brutal and otherwise lethal physical attacks such him being ripped apart to his bones broken. However, due to being immortal, these are just minor annoyances. It's the unconventional attacks though that give him cause for concern. As Guila notes, "unkillable" and "undefeatable" are two vastly different things.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'', the titular character previously succeeded in reanimating and gifting a rabbit named Scamper with immortality. One problem: Scamper has a death-wish and takes every opportunity to test the limits of his regeneration.

* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'', Captain Jack Sparrow has developed a habit of shooting the undead monkey whenever he is angry.
* ''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.

* ''Literature/{{Accelerando}}'': Taken to extremes in the last chapter of Creator/CharlesStross' novel. [[spoiler: Children, free to take backups of their personality, play war with real weapons. Additionally, they keep software copies running at faster-than-real-time to grow up and watch over them.]]

* In the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' series, [[DeathIsCheap resurrecting the dead is a little pricey]], but not too difficult (unless special steps are taken), so in the underworld, it's not uncommon to kill someone ''as a warning.''
* The main characters in ''Literature/EdenGreen'' are all infected with an alien needle symbiote that can resurrect them from any wound, even complete destruction of their heads. Whenever they have a disagreement, the resolution is sometimes horrifyingly violent, even between friends.

* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', Mat and his band come across a village where the people go crazy every night and kill each other, then wake up in their beds alive the next morning. In the final battle with The Dark One's forces, he uses these villagers to hold an important strategic location knowing that they can't be killed off for real.

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': The Undersiders don't really have a problem with using excessive force on [[NighInvulnerability Aegis]] despite him being a hero and their playstyle usually being NobleDemon. That's because his HealingFactor allows him to survive things like being mauled by colossal dogs, or thrown off a building. Against other heroes in the same fight, the group's a lot more merciful. Other {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le opponents are generally treated by similar force, even by completely upstanding heroes. Granted, most of these are [[PersonOfMassDestruction people of mass destruction]] and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown anything goes]].

* The cortical stack and backup memory upload are very common among {{transhuman}}ity in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase''. Which is good, because up to half of your characters' missions will be literal {{suicide mission}}s.
* In Brazilian RPG setting Tormenta, the city of Triunphus is a place where people get BackFromTheDead a few times after being killed. The net result? Death penalty for even mundane things!

* The Geth in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. Killing platforms only results in their consciousness being sent back to the mainframe. Short of destroying their hubs or being out of range of a Relay, they effectively exist forever as code.
* The Nameless One in ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' does this to ''himself'', since he'll always come back anyway from anything but a NonstandardGameOver. He can break his own neck to win arguments or let a woman pay for the opportunity to stab him, among other things. And then there's the Practical Incarnation's 'tomb', an elaborate deathtrap for his enemies where the only way to navigate it is to die. Repeatedly. [[spoiler: Subverted, though, when you find out that every time the Nameless One is "killed", someone else really dies in his place. You encounter their spirits in the end, and they're not happy about it.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'':
** 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.
** This trope is why [[ResurrectiveImmortality fairies]] in Touhou are treated as CannonFodder; they just regenerate offscreen after being blown away. In the games where she's playable, it's implied that ice fairy Cirno only gets a Game Over because she gets bored and/or gives up. In ''VideoGame/YouseiDaisensouTouhouSangetsusei'', which has Cirno as the only playable character, the life count is called [[CallAHitPointASmeerp Motivation]].
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'': [[spoiler:Near the end of Chapter 5, [=LeChuck=] gives zombie Guybrush [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown a terrible beating and maiming]] that [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow would have killed an ordinary human being]], often [[EvilGloating gloating about many ways to kill our hero]] and [[TrashTalk trash-talking him]], yet unaware that Guybrush can't die, thanks to the effects of the Spirit Gum inside him. And while Guybrush is continuously beaten, he feels so exhausted and in so much pain that he can't even ''quip'', indicating that [[ImmortalityHurts immortality]] ''[[ImmortalityHurts does]]'' [[ImmortalityHurts indeed hurt]]. He eventually finds a way to get back to the rip in the Crossroads and destroy [=LeChuck=] with help from Elaine and Morgan in the end, just to end our hero's [[FateWorseThanDeath continual suffering]]]].
* There is also Raziel from the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series. Managed to get yourself killed? No worries, you just get sent to the spectral realm where sucking on souls floating there gets you back to the land of the living. Managed to somehow get yourself killed in the spectral realm? No problem, you just get sent to an earlier checkpoint in the spectral realm where there are lots of free-floating souls to eat. There is no way to get a game over because you died.
* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', Batman follows his usual [[ThouShaltNotKill no-killing rule,]] right up until the boss fight with the giant immortal zombie. [[GodzillaThreshold Mostly because less-than-lethal force would get him killed.]] (Seriously, the thing's ''maggots'' are the size of Batman's thigh.) Similarly, he uses whatever force is necessary to take down [[spoiler:Clayface]], including electrocution in a giant vat of liquid.
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'', where Red is upset at the thought of having to [[spoiler:leave the immortal Paladin Elh inside Lemures while he takes on Tartaros]]. She points out to him that she ''is'' technically immortal, and he notes that somehow, that doesn't make him feel any better about it. Considering [[spoiler:Baion wiped out the rest of the Paladins and]] her form of immortality is just "never ages but can be killed", he's right to worry.
* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}''. Prinnies, no matter how strong they are, are impossibly cheap to revive since they're dead souls stuffed into penguin suits. This means that demon lords have very little reason ''not'' [[YouHaveFailedMe to violently kill them at the slightest annoyance.]]
* ''VideoGame/EveOnline''. The core sci-fi concept of the game is that you're an immortal spaceship-flying cyborg who will, at worst, suffer some minor memory loss from being vaporized. This results in the death penalty being the first resort for even minor infractions and schemes, and is the in-universe explanation for pilots trying to kill each other at random in {{P|layerVersusPlayer}}vP.
* The Materials of the ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable'' games are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s who could survive getting reduced to nothing since they could just reconstruct their physical bodies over a period of time. Despite being as strong as the heroes, they've been killed several times in the games they appeared in, especially in the first game where the Material were killed multiple times over the course of one night by all the playable characters, including TechnicalPacifist Nanoha.
* [[CuteGhostGirl Pamela Ibis]] from ''VideoGame/{{Mana Khemia|AlchemistsOfAlRevis}}'' has a passive skill called Immortal Body which causes her to AutoRevive a few turns after dying, provided she remains in the active party. [[{{Intangibility}} Physical Immunity]] [[NoSell makes her hard for enemies to kill]], but the player can still invoke this by over-using her "[[CastFromHitPoints Have Fun]]" skills.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Magicka}}'', you can revive teammates, so you can't lose so long as any one of you is still alive to rez the others. This often leads to players being quite clumsy with their powers and even killing each other intentionally for laughs, which was indeed intentional on the designers' part. The achievement for healing a certain amount of damage (presumably this was meant to just apply to healing each other, but it can be earned even in single-player mode) is even called "Killing Your Friends, You're Doing It Wrong".

* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', since the entire game is about battling your way out of the underworld – as the son of the god of death yourself, no less - this trope is exploited for all its worth. Many of the characters spend a whole lot of time repeatedly killing each other, knowing that it won’t result in much more than an unpleasant bath in the River Styx. The first boss of the game even shows up in the lounge area after either you have died to her, or you have killed her. It's even lampshaded when Zagreus learns that most living mortals think [[CessationOfExistence there's nothing after their one mortal life]] and is absolutely horrified by the implications and the emotional toll it must take on them.
* ''VideoGame/AtelierShallieAlchemistsOfTheDuskSea'': Since Homunculi have ResurrectiveImmortality, Solle Grumman, one of your party members, has absolutely no qualms about throwing them ''en masse'' at enemies during combat, even though they're his close friends. Some of his attacks (including his LimitBreak) even involve using them as suicide bombers, though thankfully they look mostly unharmed by the explosions.[[/folder]]

** Crucible, the PlayerVersusPlayer mode, involves Guardians using live rounds to shoot at each other with the intent to kill. It's just considered sport and good training since it doesn't do any permanent harm.

* Guardians in ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' are made immortal by the Traveler via a metaphysical bond with a RobotBuddy, the Ghost. This colors their perceptions of their own lives:
** A few of them called thanatonauts spend their days in a room with a loaded gun and a notebook, repeatedly offing themselves and writing about the experience. Certain [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Exo Guardians]] do the same, hoping to find [[LossOfIdentity something of their past lives amid the memories when they are resurrected]].

* Guardians in ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' are made immortal by the Traveler. This colors their perceptions of their own lives:

* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'':
** During one crossover, Bullseye slit Deadpool's throat with a straw because he was talking too much.
** Deadpool's sometimes-partner ComicBook/{{Cable}} has been known to telekinetically blow up his brain to get him to shut up for an hour or so.

It's worth noting that this trope is often applied on targets that can bleed and feel pain. No BloodlessCarnage here. The trope [[RuleOfDrama provides interesting opportunities]] mostly because it allows more drastic violence against important characters that has [[{{Gorn}} tangible results]] while avoiding the usual complications (moral and physical) for both attacker and victim.

* ''Fanfic/StarWarsParanormalititesTrilogy'':

** While not a beneficiary of ResurrectiveImmortality like Helms, Gahmah Raan (and the Krishari species as a whole) is capable of near-instantaneous regeneration. As such, he tends to under-react to injuries that would be harmful to any other species, such as getting his arms getting cut or torn off, getting cut in half, getting his face torn off, being eaten and digested alive, and having a thermal detonator explode next to him. While it hurts, he also has no problem undoing cauterizations or tearing off diseased/damaged tissue as an instant medical treatment. As a result, even when people aren't trying to kill him, they frequently inflict severe injuries on him.

* ''Literature/Reaper2016'': Averted. As people [[ArtificialAfterlife no longer die]], the attack that kills eleven thousand people on Avalon causes shock and outrage throughout society, so much so that even being questioned - and found innocent - is enough to make someone a Game reject and social outcast.

** Franchise/{{Wolverine}} has fallen prey to this many times. He is often burned to a crisp, has all of the metal pulled out through his pores by ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, and at one point ComicBook/ThePunisher shoots him in the crotch with a shotgun, where he then gets his legs sawed on by midgets, and then flattened by a steamroller. There is also an episode in the animated series where Proteus uses his reality-altering powers to rip Wolverine in half and then melt him into a puddle (he comes out crying). The other X-Men are also attacked by Proteus, but no one else gets the horrific treatment, even though in this case they may have survived afterward since Proteus's effects go away when he leaves the area.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', since the entire game is about battling your way out of the underworld – as the son of the god of death yourself, no less - this trope is exploited for all its worth. Many of the characters spend a whole lot of time repeatedly killing each other, knowing that it won’t result in much more than an unpleasant bath in the River Styx. The first boss of the game even shows up in the lounge area after either you have died to her, or you have killed her.

* The Nameless One in ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' does this to ''himself'', since he'll always come back anyway from anything but a NonstandardGameOver. He can break his own neck to win arguments or let a woman pay for the opportunity to stab him, among other things. And then there's the Practical Incarnation's 'tomb', an elaborate deathtrap for his enemies where the only way to navigate it is to die. Repeatedly.

Contrast GoodThingYouCanHeal, where the immortal character happens to take lethal injuries through bad luck (although the two can overlap). See also WhatMeasureIsANonHuman, UniquenessValue, SelfMutilationDemonstration, and ImmortalityHurts. FearlessUndead can fit this as well, depending on the nature of the undead. May be played alongside a WorldOfCardboardSpeech. Don't mistake it for LivingForeverIsNoBigDeal, which has nothing to do with it beyond both being immortality tropes.

* Baldur, the Myth/{{Norse|Mythology}} god of beauty, had a prophetic dream of his own death. His mother, the goddess Frigg, responded by making everything on Earth vow never to harm Baldur--effectively making him [[NighInvulnerability Nigh Invulnerable]]. The other gods react to this, in jolly Norse God fashion, by making a game of hurling things at him, all of which harmlessly bounce off. (Unfortunately for Baldur, his mother neglected to bother with getting the lowly mistletoe to take the promise, so Loki, the {{Jerkass}} [[TheTrickster Trickster]], made an arrow out of mistletoe and tricked Baldur's blind twin brother Hod into shooting Baldur with it, killing him dead.)

* In ''WebComic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'', Batman reveals to Robin that the reason both of them seem to survive mortal danger all the time ([[ComicBookTime and never age]]) is because they're memory clones. Whenever they ''do'' die, a new body is just taken out of storage and given an updated brain. This also leads to a cavalier attitude on Batman's part where he's fine with messing with Robin's head, killing him, and just getting a new one with no memory of that.

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* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': The Undersiders don't really have a problem with using excessive force on [[NighInvulnerability Aegis]] despite him being a hero and their playstyle usually being NobleDemon. That's because his HealingFactor allows him to survive things like being mauled by colossal dogs, or thrown off a building. Against other heroes in the same fight, the group's a lot more merciful. Other {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le opponents are generally treated by similar force, even by completely upstanding heroes. Granted, most of these are [[PersonOfMassDestruction people of mass destruction]] and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown anything goes]].
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'':

* [[BigBad Embryo]] from ''Anime/CrossAnge'' has a certain form of immortality that causes him to respawn anywhere he wishes as long as his Ragna-Mail is intact. He uses this to his advantage by offing himself when Tusk has his hand grappled by killing himself, and also to troll Ange when the latter tries in vain to off him before he attempts to force himself on her.