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* Ganon from ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' is both Type VII External and Type I Perfect (In addition to his obvious Joker Immunity), as he can't be killed as long as he holds the Triforce of Power (though he has shown a few signs of slow aging, before he turned from a human to a [[Pig Man]] form). There are also several incarnations of fellow Triforce bearers Link and Princess Zelda, definite cases of [[Legacy Character]] and [[Generation Xerox]] at least, and a few [[Epileptic Trees]] extend this into Type IV Reincarnation Immortality (which would also be Type VII External), but the series has never gone into the details.

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' has dropped some hints. {{spoiler|It's suggested that Link and Zelda do have Reincarnation Immortality, though it's not caused by the Triforce; instead the Demon King Demise cursed them into an endless cycle of conflict. In addition, Zelda is the mortal reincarnation of the goddess Hylia and Ganon is the manifestation of the hatred of Demise.}}

* {{spoiler|The [[Split At Birth]] halves of the Yorae Dragon}} from ''[[Breath of Fire]] IV'' would likely be a Type I had the god in question NOT been split in half via a botched summoning. (In fact, it's {{spoiler|pretty explicitly proven this is the case in the [[Bad End]] when Infini destroys your party.}}) Instead, Fou-lu and Ryu end up as (functionally) Type III {{spoiler|until in the Good End Ryu separates the worlds of gods and mortals and thus they become mortal, or in the Bad End the two merge as the Infini Dragon and thus become Type I}}.

** Fou-lu in particular is arguably a Type III/Type XI in that he is a literal [[God-Emperor]] whom ultimately exhausted himself, went into torpor for 600 years as the Fou Empire's [[King in the Mountain]], and (upon awakening and discovering that [[The Empire]] he'd founded considered his "resurrection" to be an [[Unwanted Revival]]) survived multiple assassination attempts by the sitting emperor (including, at one point, being at ground zero of a [[Fantastic Nuke]] powered [[Sacrificial Lamb|by his own girlfriend]] as the "warhead"). These attacks usually result in serious injury to Fou-lu that he ultimately recovers from.