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{{quote|'''[[Wolverine]]:''' I've survived five different wars in my lifetime.

 

A character is hard to kill, not because he doesn't get hurt, but because he has the ability to rapidly recover from serious damage. While it depends on how fast he can heal and how much of a [[Chunky Salsa Rule|beating]] his body can take, a character with healing factor will bounce back from severe injuries that other beings can't, often with no scars or medical treatment.

 

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* Loosely implied to be a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire's]] source of immortality in ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]''. Their blood has a powerful regenerative effect on anyone, which Tsukune is quick to demonstrate once this is introduced. {{spoiler|To date, a quick infusion of vampire blood or the activation of the blood already present inside of him has saved him from being burned alive, slashed through the ''heart'', having his neck snapped ''twice'', taking two fatal slashes to the torso, having the entire left side of his body crushed, taking an absurdly long beating and a giant scythe-like appendage to the chest immediately after, and that's all in the first season.}}

* In ''[[Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou]]'', Sai gets an arm chopped off. The stump sprouts a new one, out of blood, which regenerates back to a regular arm in seconds.

* The eponymous warriors of ''[[Claymore]]'' are classified as Offensive or Defensive types based on their youki. Generally speaking, Offensive types can reattach recently severed limbs while Defensive types can grow new ones. As Awakend Ones become more common, this often results in Defensive types aiding the Offensives in [[Pulling Themselves Together]] mid-battle.

* Most of the major characters of ''[[Hellsing]]'', and the Nazi vampire [[Mooks]] that show up later in the manga, have impressive regeneration abilities; Alexander Anderson, for example, can take several headshots in rapid succession and keep fighting. Every single one of them is put to shame by Alucard, though, who ''allows'' himself to be near-liquified at the beginning of several fights just to completely demoralize his opponents before brutally killing them.

** Schrodinger's case is more a ''rejection of state'' than actual healing, of the '[[Retcon|he was never there in the first place]]' variety.

* Deoxys in the seventh ''[[Pokémon]]'' movie is depicted regenerating a vaporized limb. In fact it can [[From a Single Cell|regenerate its entire body as long its crystal core is intact]].

** It's not sure if they're actually unable to re-grow them, it might be a bit more complicated. The one time where an Wu was dismembered without re-attaching it instantly after the fight, the arm was kept in an sealed container. However, that might have been just to keep the arm from moving, after all, Wus can still move their body parts even if they're cut off.

*** When the container shattered and (more important) the seal on it, Yakumos arm instantly started to grow back, informing him something was going wrong. And in the mange, he almost regularly loses his limbs and regows them (often resulting in him losing his combat gloves).

* Abel from ''[[Trinity Blood]]'' has been shown regenerating a lost arm (from the leftover pool of blood) after it was blown off.

* In the third episode of ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu|Haré+Guu]]'', Guu regenerated her arm. After chopping it up and ''eating it.''

* C.C. from ''[[Code Geass]]'', who can recover from fatal injuries (such as a bullet to the brain or heart) in a matter of minutes. A few episodes imply that she might be near Wolverine in terms of regeneration: {{spoiler|Her former partner Mao intended to cut her into pieces so he could ship her to Australia in luggage, and fully expected her to survive. In the season finale, her current partner Lelouch witnesses her tormented memories, including being burned at the stake, the Iron Maiden, and apparently being guillotined. The first season also ends with her trapped at the bottom of the ocean in a [[Humongous Mecha]], meaning she had to purge the cockpit and die at least twice due to pressure and drowning before she floated to the surface; [[Word of God]] confirmed this because there was no way they would get away with showing anything that gruesome on television.}} And for all this, the only mark she bears is a very deliberate-looking scar under her left breast.

** In the [[Audio Commentary]], when the staff and cast discuss C.C.'s powers, voice actress [[Yukana]] jokingly suggests probably the cutest version of a Healing Factor ever: that when C.C. is killed, her body breaks apart into several miniature C.C.s that run together to re-form her original body