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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.

The reason for this is that a race that reproduces but doesn't die will eventually overcrowd the world. Also, immortal characters aren't as unique if there are too many of them.

== [[Comic Books]] ==

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* [[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.

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* 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.

== Film ==

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

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