Exposition of Immortality: Difference between revisions

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{{quote| Evidence Of Immortality: When documentary and / or objective evidence is presented to expose an immortal character (or when they do so themselves).}}

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* In ''[[Clan Destine]]'', a group of villains figure out that Adam Destine is immortal based on finding portraits of him, all at the same apparent age, spanning several hundred years.

* ''[[Fables (Comic Book)|Fables]]'': Tommy Sharp plans to do this to the Fables living in Fabletown. He's been gathering evidence of their inhuman nature; following Bigby and photographing him shapeshifting, but also checking back on the title deeds of the land and buildings in Fabletown - all owned by members of the Fable community since old New York was New Amsterdam and early photos of them dating back into the 19th Century which show that none of them have aged.

* ''[[Preacher]]'': {{spoiler|Proinsias}} Cassidy. He's a vampire and was made one during the Easter Rising in Dublin 1916, which makes him 80+ during the series' run. He tells Jesse all about how he was turned and how he came to America and all the friends he's left behind and lost to old age through the years during a long conversation on top of the Empire State Building. [[Unreliable Narrator|Turns out he missed a few details, though.]]

* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'': {{spoiler|Proinsias}} Cassidy. He's a vampire and was made one during the Easter Rising in Dublin 1916, which makes him 80+ during the series' run. He tells Jesse all about how he was turned and how he came to America and all the friends he's left behind and lost to old age through the years during a long conversation on top of the Empire State Building. [[Unreliable Narrator|Turns out he missed a few details, though.]]

** The Saint Of Killers got a four-issue mini-series all of his own to tell us about his mortal life in the Civil War and the terrible winter of 1878. He dumps a silver dollar with just that date on the counter of a bar in ''Gone To Texas,'' too.

* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' features Orlando, an immortal [[Gender Bender]] who frequently makes passing mention of the historical figures s/he has met at various points their life.

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* [[Kim Newman]]'s ''[[Dark Future (Literature)|Dark Future]]'' novel ''Demon Download'' has a scene in which the resident [[Big Bad]] and [[Time Abyss]] Elder Nguyen Seth is revealed to Vatican agents as having been around for quite some time via a set of photos running from 1974 to 1868 and an etching of Vlad The Impaler's execution.

** ''[[Drachenfels]]'' has this a couple of times, between Genevieve and the eponymous villain. Drachenfels himself has his immense age pointed early on; the adventurers reminding themselves that he was around when Sigmar Heldenhammer was still alive, a least two thousand years ago and coming across the remains of his infamous [[And I Must Scream|Poison Feast]] in which an ancestor of Oswald's was a victim.

* [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Armageddon Trilogy'' features a version of [[Elvis Presley]] who evaded his own death and is [[Sharing a Body|bonded to a genetically-engineered sprout with TimeTravel powers]] who grants him near-immortality. Elvis looks the same and [[Paper Thin Disguise|conceals his identity]] with several new names like '''T'''heodore '''H'''enry '''E'''dward King and [[Punny Name|Noah Never]] (it's a play on the Elvis song ''No, I Never'').

* [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Armageddon Trilogy'' features a version of [[Elvis Presley]] who evaded his own death and is [[Sharing a Body|bonded to a genetically-engineered sprout with TimeTravel powers]] who grants him near-immortality. Elvis looks the same and [[Paper-Thin Disguise|conceals his identity]] with several new names like '''T'''heodore '''H'''enry '''E'''dward King and [[Punny Name|Noah Never]] (it's a play on the Elvis song ''No, I Never'').

* [[JRR Tolkien (Creator)|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' has more than a few instances of immortal characters and Elrond in particular evokes [[Exposition of Immortality]] as he pointedly reminds Boromir of ''who'' told Isildur what ''should'' have been done with the One Ring, 3000 years ago.

* In ''St. Austin Friars'' a short story in [[Robert Westall (Creator)|Robert Westall]]'s anthology ''[[Break of Dark (Literature)|Break of Dark]]'', William Henry Drogo invites the Reverend to dinner and tells him several detailed stories about the past of Muncaster, as if he witness them directly. When challenged he simply states: ''"I am one hundred and ninety-two years old."''

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* ''[[The Event (TV)|The Event]]'': The extraterrestrials look just like humans, but live much longer and age slowly. Photos of these characters taken decades ago, but still looking just the way they do now, are often the only clue the human characters get that reveal the true nature of friends and family members they thought they knew very well.

* ''[[Forever Knight]]'' has several types. Nick has Incriminating Evidence photos, mementos like Joan of Arc's cross and plenty of memories he likes to share, usually [[Once an Episode]].

* ''[[Lexx]]'': His Divine Shadow's Divine Predecessors have attained a [[Sid ~~Meiers~~ Alpha Centauri (Video Game)|clinical immortality]] by being a [[~~Brainina~~ Jar]]. The first episode of the run of TV movies, "I Worship His Shadow," has one the Predecessors sharing his memories of the destruction of the Brunnen-G two thousand and eight years before.

* ''[[Lexx]]'': His Divine Shadow's Divine Predecessors have attained a [[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Video Game)|clinical immortality]] by being a [[Brain In A Jar]]. The first episode of the run of TV movies, "I Worship His Shadow," has one the Predecessors sharing his memories of the destruction of the Brunnen-G two thousand and eight years before.

* ''[[Lost]]'': The character Richard never ages, which we first see in a flashback when Ben meets him as a child and Richard looks exactly the same. Through time travel and more flashbacks, we see Richard in various eras, still looking exactly the same as he does in the present.

* In an episode of the newer ''[[Outer Limits]]'', a character proves she's immortal by having her father-in-law-to-be look up a photograph of a portrait of the wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), who she is.