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[[Complete Immortality]]?
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* The "Undying" of the ''Horseclans'' series are of this type (''not'', as one might think, type 2). They're vulnerable to suffocation and subject to the [[Immortal Procreation Clause]].
* ''[[Touhou]]:'' Kaguya Houraisan and Fujiwara no Mokou are immortals who drank the Hourai Elixir (the legendary Elixir of Immortality), which makes the drinker absolutely immortal by effectively ''removing their death''. Kaguya and her [[Foe Yay|"rival"]] Mokou (and possibly Eirin herself) are the only characters known to have drunk it, and as a result have lived for almost two millennia (and counting) and are impossible to kill. While it's possible to inflict "mortal" wounds on them, they don't actually die and will quickly regenerate to full health. When fighting Mokou, a character with the ''explicit ability'' to kill anything wasn't able to kill her, and in the end she only stops fighting because of the pain (she can get hurt but not a single part of her is capable of dying).
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* In the novels of Deverry, the wizard Nevyn is unable to die until he fulfills a rash promise he made in his youth. He continued to age normally until he got into his nineties. After that, his body remained that of a somewhat vigorous ninety-year-old. But by the time he died at four hundred and seventy five, he was having some memory
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* Paradox from ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' gained his immortality by existing outside of time for a hundred thousand years.
* The [[Animorphs]] (minus Jake) get temporary invulnerability at one point due to a deal made between the Ellimist and Crayak to recover the Time Matrix; Crayak demanded that one Animorph die in the ordeal, and the Ellimist insisted that it be ''only'' one. {{spoiler|And Jake's death doesn't even stick, thanks to time travel weirdness.}}
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''Golden Age'' trilogy, nomenual recordings allow effective immortality. Although it is a major plot point that the heat death of the universe will ensure that this is not actually living ''forever''
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* In the [[PPC]], canon characters cannot be genuinely killed by fanfic. They can be made to think they're dead, but only their original author has the power of life and death over them. (Luckily this doesn't apply to fan-created characters, or the PPC's job would be much harder.) This has led to such unpleasantnesses as [[The Simpsons (animation)|Snowball II]] surviving being crushed by a car, [[Lord of the Rings|Thranduil]] surviving being boiled alive, disembowelled and beheaded, and [[Redwall|Redtooth]] surviving having a spear forced an impressive distance into his lower intestinal tract.
* Nagato from [[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]] is a "data entity" and she can directly manipulate the physical matter of her body. She is able, for instance, to perfect her eyesight when Kyon suggests she's prettier without her glasses.
* The heroic spirits from ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' can be killed, but their spirits will remain in existence and can be brought back in a subsequent Grail War.
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* [[Tamora Pierce]] uses several different types of immortals for her books: the Lesser Immortals are Type II; the Animal Gods are Type IV; and the Great Gods are Type I.
* The idea of the Wandering Jew tends to fluctuate; at least one story puts him as a Type III or IV, but others show him as Type VI.
* Many MUDs and [[MMORPG
** The SWR codebase for MUDs is a bit of an exception. You usually need to buy a clone, which generally isn't cheap. Some codebases will give low-level players a free clone (or just have auto-cloning) but more often you have to buy one regardless of level. If you don't have a clone, death becomes quite permanent. Of course, [[Cloning Blues|cloning is hardly true immortality...]]
* The Status of Immortal in ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]'' is a mix of Type II and Type VII: Immortality is given by certain authorities, and once you have it you stop aging and eventually recover of any injuries at the same rate that normal people do (some do have some form of Healing Phlebotinium, though), to the point that you could be completely deprived of food and water and remain living (albeit weakened) for years. However, immortals can die if they are beheaded, and if its Immortality is revoked they return to age normally.
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* Alucard from ''[[Hellsing]]''. Being a vampire, he is type V and X; Is immortality takes form of a healing factor, making him a type III and; After {{spoiler|Absorbing Schrödinger's soul}}, he is no longer a type X (as he no longer depends on the souls of his victims) becoming a Type XI instead, as he is now "Everywhere and nowhere".
* ''[[Tsukihime]]'': Considering all the vampires, of course there's Type X (vampiric) and Type V (undead), though with their cannon-fodder status, calling the latter "immortal" would be pushing it. Any vampire of note is a Type III, but to be more specific...
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** At the end of Arc's route (and the anime), Arc disintegrates all but the feet of [[Big Bad]] vampire Roa in a single attack; [[Back From the Dead|moments later]], Roa comments that if it hadn't been a full moon he would have been toast... Not that would have mattered in the long run, though, as Roa is also an imperfect Type IV. If his body is killed, his soul simply transfers to his next host. However, his actual mind and persona have long since decayed and as such merely transfers memory and knowledge, which usually bend their host into a form similar to how he was in life.
** Roa also gives Shiki a case of Type VII in one route of the game, possessing him after his earlier body is destroyed and turning him into a vampire. {{spoiler|He gets better.}}
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