Good Thing You Can Heal: Difference between revisions

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

*** That's ''Thom Cruz''.

** Lest we forget, in ''Cable & Deadpool'', Cable'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 headwound and Deadpool being down for about an ''hour''.

* Pretty much the entire reason for being for Mr. Immortal, who can come back from any fatal injury... and has no other powers.

* Lampshaded by Cyborg in ''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."

* Bill Willingham's supernatural superheroes ''[[The Elementals]]'' got mangled fairly regularly. Being that they were dead already, it was only a temporary inconvenience.

== Literature ==

* Most of the characters in [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''[[Book of Amber]]'' belong to a family of immortals who can regenerate from any injury that doesn't kill them. When the villainous brother takes his sister hostage and threatens to maim her if he doesn't get his way, for some reason he's surprised when one of the good brothers points out that "She can regenerate just as well as the rest of us" and calls his bluff. (To be fair, most of the family had only recently learned the full extent of their regenerative powers, so he may simply not have thought through all the implications yet.)

* [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s Swords 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.

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' includes a "Regrowth" feature that can be bought on [[Regeneration]] and [[Healing Hands|Healing]] that allows one to regenerate lost limbs and other bits of the body. Handy, except that there's no way in the rules for one to lose limbs or bits of the body, so the only time this comes up is when the GM wants to make the Regrowth seem useful.

* The eponymous protagonist of ''[[Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy]]''. She seems to be getting used to it, too - in [http://creamybeamy.comicgenesis.com/d/20090511.html this strip] she's merely frowning after getting half her skull bashed in.

** Which is nothing compared to a later part of the same story arc, when she has to {{spoiler|regrow her entire body!}}

* Goblin Dan of ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' became a millionaire by selling roast hydra-head burgers as goblinoid fast food, so for him it's a Good Thing Hydras Can Heal.

* ''[[Bob and George]]'': See the Mega Man entry above. The robot cast are regularly taken out by the villains and are just rebuilt by Doctor Light (who the villains never take out before being stopped). The title characters are also human but either their shielding makes attacks ineffective or involuntary time travel happens.

* ''[[Homestuck]]'': More like Good Thing You're Immortal, but going God-Tier and being a God-Tier player means you can go through massive physical trauma and still be okay, as long as certain conditions aren't met. The best example of this would have to be {{spoiler|Dave and Rose, who had to travel through a sun that was double the mass of the universe. Not to mention that the thing that allowed them to reach God Tier was being at the source of the explosion which created said sun.}}

* Lexx in ''[[Alien Dice]]'' takes a lot of punishment during duels, losing and regenerating limbs on a couple occasions. Though both times he was out of commission for at least a day and needed nutritional supplements to prevent his nanites from cannibalizing the rest of his body.

== Western Animation ==