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{{quote|''"Duffman can never die! ([[Beat]]) ...Only the actors who play him!"''|'''(A fatally wounded) Duffman''', ''[[The Simpsons]]''}}
A character is said to have [[Immortality|lived for centuries]]; his name found all throughout the history books. When our hero or heroes finally meet him, he reveals his deepest, darkest secret-- he's not actually immortal. As it turns out, he is merely the latest in a long line of [[Spell My Name With a "The"|Bob The Immortals.]] Apparently, the original Bob secretly trained a second to take up his name, appearance and personality. The second continued this with a third, and so on until present day. (There was always someone to [[Take Up My Sword]], or for [[Passing the Torch]] to.)
This can be made much easier if first Bob The Immortal wore a mask all the time (possibly while [[From a Certain Point of View|claiming]] that [[Mask of Power|the mask is what gives him immortality]]) or [[Shrouded in Myth|no one can agree on what the original looked like]] beyond 'he wears a [[Badass Longcoat]] and carries around a [[BFS|huge sword]].'
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** And Jack-In-The-Box from the same series has recruited an understudy for exactly this purpose when he realizes he's getting a bit old for the tights.
** And it's heavily implied that the Gentleman isn't actually ageless, but rather he was gradually replaced by his partner the Young Gentleman as he grew up.
* In one of the ill-fated series offered by Atlas Comics in the 70's, it was left [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|completely up in the air]] whether the [[Campbellian Hero]] was an immortal superman or the latest in a long (family) line of adventurers.
* The main antagonist of the ''[[Blake and Mortimer]]'' two-part book ''The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent'' claims to be none other than the ancient Indian emperor Ashoka the Great. Mortimer met him during his youth in Colonial India and meets him again in 1958. However {{spoiler|the latter Ashoka turns out to be the ''daughter'' of the former. [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|We never learn who the previous Ashoka was, though...]]}}
* Although it has never been seen through for any long period of time, [[Batman]] often hints, outright states or puts into action the idea that Batman must live even if he dies. This idea was the driving force behind the "Bat-Azrael" [[Dork Age]].
** {{spoiler|With Bruce Wayne's death/transportation back in time, Dick Grayson took up the Batman mantle in his place, holding onto it for a while even with Bruce's return to the cowl. While a lot of heroes were aware of the change - even guys like [[Booster Gold]] or [[Deadman (Comic Book)|Deadman]] - the villains seemed to be mostly oblivious.}}
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