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== Literature ==
* In [[Cory Doctorow]]'s ''[[Down and Out
* In [[Richard Morgan]]'s ''[[Takeshi Kovacs]]'' series, everybody is implanted from birth with a "cortical stack" that records their personality in case of death. The hero occasionally kills people and steals said stack for later interrogation.
* ''Accelerando'': Taken to extremes in the last chapter of [[Charles Stross]]' novel. {{spoiler|Children, free to take backups of their personality, play war with real weapons. Additionally, they keep software copies running at faster-than-real-time to grow up and watch over them.}}
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': In the first season, Darla at one point shot Angel. She told Buffy, "Don't worry, guns can't kill vampires. Hurts like hell, though."
* ''[[Angel]]'': Played increasingly for comedy, to the point where Angel will walk around with a sword through his chest, looking only slightly miffed.
* In ''[[Smallville]]'', the [[Lesbian Vampire]]s have fun throwing each other off the balcony. Since this is done to [[Creator's Pet|Lana]], the scene might be [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|favored]] [[Take That, Scrappy!|more]] [[Karma Houdini|than]] [[The Woobie|it was intended]].
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'': The crew discovers that all (except one) of them are destined to survive the accident they are stuck in. Kryten proves this by shooting his gun at each of them. It jams each time. The Cat joins in by hitting Lister over the head with an iron bar, since he can't die. Lister is not amused and points out that he can still feel pain.
* The writers of ''[[Misfits]]'' seem to gain some kind of sadistic pleasure out of killing the immortal character {{spoiler|Nathan Young}} week after week in ways so gory and painful that it [[Crosses the Line Twice|quickly becomes hilarious]]. The fact that he's a total [[Jerkass]] might have something to do with it.
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* In ''[[Arkham City]]'', Batman follows his usual [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|no-killing rule,]] right up until the boss-fight with the giant immortal zombie.
* Inverted in ''[[Solatorobo]]'', where Red is upset at the thought of having to {{spoiler|leave the immortal Paladin Elh inside Lemures while he takes on Tartaros}}. She points out to him that she ''is'' technically immortal, and he notes that somehow, that doesn't make him feel any better about it. Considering {{spoiler|Baion wiped out the rest of the Paladins and}} her form of immortality is just "never ages but can be killed", he's right to worry.
* Taken quite literally in ''[[Disgaea]]''. Prinnies, no matter how strong they are, are impossibly cheap to revive since they're basically dead souls stuffed into penguin suits. This, of course, means that demon lords have very little reason ''not'' [[You Have Failed Me...|to violently murder them at the slightest annoyance.]]
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Looking for Group]]'': A certain undead warlock has been [[Rasputinian Death|stabbed by twin blades, shot with many arrows, buried under hot lava, nailed to a mast, beheaded]], [[Too Kinky to Torture|stuck with hundreds of knives]] and is still [[
* In ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'', Buck pits the very dangerous Der Rock the Destroyer against 35 [[Hive Mind|PSmIths]], and doesn't bat an eye when Der Rock kills them all.
{{quote|'''Buck Godot:''' The PSmIths? You heard him. He/it's not really dead. Embarrassed, yes. Dead, no.}}
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