Immortal Infertility: Difference between revisions

So you're given the ability to live forever and now you want to become a parent...and then you find out that you can't sire or even have children. Well, [[Blessed with Suck|that totally sucks!]] However, for those who become immortal and either want to live hedonistically or just see the possibility that whatever children they may have may not inherit immortality, this may come as a blessing.

 

 

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [[Marvel Comics]]' [[The Eternals]] are not only immortal but nearly indestructible as well; however they can only have Eternal children with other Eternals, and even then, only once every millennium or so.

 

* The Immortals of the ''[[Highlander]]'' series of films face this trope as the downside of their having immortality.

 

== Religion ==

** This doesn't stop an Other Light member in the [[Left Behind]] book ''Kingdom Come'' from trying to impregnate a female "glorified" through an [[Attempted Rape]] that God foils by causing him to die in her arms before being incinerated.

 

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' there are multiple types of creatures immortal to various degree. "Immortals" (previously known as "Fairies") ''can'' have children with humans, always producing an [[Our Elves Are Better|elf]] - immune to old age, but sterile. At least, that's the relatively common knowledge - [[Unreliable Expositor|how reliable it is this time]] remains to be seen.

 

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[[Category:This Index Will Live Forever]]

[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]]