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* Anu from [[Empire From the Ashes]] has 6000 {{spoiler|unwilling/unreliable}} accomplices in cryogenic stasis, and whenever his current body (or those of his subordinates) is getting old, has himself brain-transplanted into another. The subordinates have to make do with {{spoiler|abducted humans}}, though. {{spoiler|The displaced brains are incinerated.}}
* In Lupin III: The Secret of Mamo, {{spoiler|Mamo's method of immortality is making clones of himself; since he cloned his own mind perfectly, he always thought to carry on this operation. His plan hits a snag, though, as every clone is lacking in some way or another, and so eventually a newly made clone would be left with no value of life at all. In one dub Mamo even states: "The price is high for eternal life..." }}
* In Jeff Long's novel ''The Descent'', the leader of the hadals (an ancient race of [[Beneath the Earth|subterranean]] hominids) has this ability, and is apparently so old that he was the original inspiration for the concept of Satan.
* [http://egscomics.com/index.php?arcid=77 Sirleck] of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' is a former human who achieved this kind of immortality.
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