- "Guess it really hard to die, I just survived again."
- ― Kaido after a failed suicide attempt (One Piece)
- "Dying tickles!"
- ― Ralph Wiggum (The Simpsons)
- "Oh.... Why doesn't anything kill me?"
- ― Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
The power to have a better survivability than what is naturally possible. Sub-power of Supernatural Condition. Advanced version of Enhanced Survivability.
Also Called
- Cheating Death
- Supernatural Vitality
Capabilities
The user is able to survive massive and even horrific injuries or damage, or almost any level of danger or circumstances. In some cases simply managing to cheat death even in seemingly inescapable and deadly situations.
Applications
Variations
Levels
- Enhanced Survivability
- Supernatural Survivability
- Absolute Survivability
Associations
- Anatomical Liberation
- Backed-Up Physiology
- Cartoon Physics
- Death Prevention
- Enhanced Durability
- Enhanced Endurance
- Enhanced Regeneration
- Escape Artistry
- Indomitable Will
- Immortality
- Invulnerability
- Pain Suppression
- Regenerative Durability
- Supernatural Condition
- Supernatural Self-Preservation
Limitations
- Doesn't allow the user to heal damage, simply survive it.
- Doesn't make the user immortal, just very hard to kill.
- Doesn't make the user immune to the pain.
Known Users
See Also: No One Could Survive That.
Comics/Cartoons
- Shard the Metal Sonic (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)
- Swampfire (Ben 10)
- Vilgax (Ben 10)
- Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom)
- Doomsday (DC Comics)
- Joker (DC Comics)
- Superman (DC Comics)
- Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Marvel Comics)
- James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
- Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Cyber Shadow/Brick Baxter (The Young Guardians)
Anime/Manga
- Honest (Akame ga Kill); via Supernatural Endurance
- Tyrant (Akame ga Kill); via Superior Adaptation
- Chirico Cuvie (Armored Trooper Votoms)
- Guts (Berserk)
- Baraggan Louisenbairn (Bleach); via Resurrección Enhanced Hierro
- Sosuke Aizen (Bleach)
- Broly (Dragon Ball Z: Broly - the Second Coming)
- Cell (Dragon Ball Z)
- Cooler (Dragon Ball Z: the Return of Cooler)
- Frieza (Dragon Ball Z)
- Naraku (InuYasha)
- Iris Eris (Legend of the Legendary Heroes)
- Madara Uchiha (Naruto)
- The Uzumaki Clan (Naruto)
- Tsunade (Naruto)
- Sakazuki/Akainu (One Piece)
- Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece)
- Brook (One Piece)
- Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece)
- Jinbe (One Piece)
- Kaido (One Piece)
- Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)
- Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)
- Edward Newgate/Whitebeard (One Piece)
- Clear Note (Zatch Bell!)
- Aoi Futaba (Asobi Ni Iku Yo)
- Shirou Emiya (Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya); Miyu's brother version only
- Keitaro Urashima (Love Hina)
- Shishio Makoto (Rurouni Kenshin)
- Tomoki Sakurai (Sora no Otoshimono)
- Nagi Springfield (UQ Holder)
Live Television/Movies
- Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
- Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Vengeance demons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
- Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
- Ashley J. "Ash" Williams (The Evil Dead franchise)
- Evil Ash (The Evil Dead franchise)
- Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
- Michael Myers (Halloween)
- Claire Bennet (Heroes)
- Leviathans (Supernatural)
- Neo (The Matrix)
- Super-soldiers (The X-Files)
Video Games
- Asura (Asura's Wrath)
- Cid (Final Fantasy IV)
- Yang (Final Fantasy IV)
- Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII)
- Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
- Raziel (Legacy of Kain)
- Ridley (Metroid)
- Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden)
- Alex Mercer (Prototype)
- James Heller (Prototype 2)
- Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)
- Mario (Super Mario)
- Luigi (Super Mario)
- Bowser (Super Mario)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda)
- Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
- Ciel (TYPE-MOON)
- Souren Araya (TYPE-MOON)
- Commander Shepard (Mass Effect)
Others
- Bryce Boltzmann (Never Dead)
- Sylth Vester (Loonatics Unleashed)
- Paul Metcalfe/Captain Scarlet (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons/Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet)
- Tagamori Shinta (Gan-Kon)
- Hellboy (Hellboy/BRPD)
- O-chul (Order of the Stick)
Gallery
Comics/Cartoons
Due to possessing the Mysteron power of "retrometabolism", Captain Scarlet (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons) has survived many fatal situations.
The Joker (DC Comics), despite being a normal human, has cheated death on numerous occasions, surviving being shot repeatedly, electrocuted, and thrown off buildings among other situations.
Peter Griffin and Ernie the Giant Chicken (Family Guy) both always survive their insanely destructive battles, with Ernie even surviving a fatal fall, beheaded by a propeller, smashed in the head, impaled and burned by a shuttle's engine.
Brick Baxter/Cyber Shadow (The Young Guardians) survived being burned alive and possibly being blown into space.
Midnighter (Wildstorm) has survived a broken neck, broken limbs, holes through his chest, and being burned alive; he even claims to have beaten AIDS in "six weeks."
The Daily Life of Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
Anime/Manga
Due to training his body to complete perfection, Honest (Akame ga Kill) not only survived disembowelment…
…but also being brutally tortured for long period of time before he finally died.
Tyrant's (Akame ga Kill) tremendous vitality allows it to survive on the hottest deserts and the coldest tundras, even after becoming a Teigu, his flesh and consciousness is still alive in Incursio.
Chirico Cuvie (Armored Trooper Votoms) has survived every type of horrible situation possible, including being exposed to the vacuum of space for an hour and even surviving a space station the size of a solar system landing on top of him.
The Hogyoku granted Sosuke Aizen (Bleach) immortality allowing him to survive Gin's Bankai Kamishini no Yari's deadly venom, Ichigo's Mugetsu and dismemberment by a Soul King empowered Yhwach.
Baraggan Lousenbairn's (Bleach) Resurrección grants him extremely resilient Hierro, allowing him to survive Suì-Fēng's Jakuhō Raikōben's massive explosion at point blank range.
Thanks to her regenerative powers, Saya Otonashi (Blood+) can survive virtually anything short of being injected with her sister's Poisonous Blood.
After fusing with the tainted Shikon Tama, Naraku's (Inuyasha) regeneration powers were enhanced to the point he survived being torn apart by Inuyasha's Meido Tessaiga.
While Madara Uchiha (Naruto) was naturally tough, after becoming the Ten Tails Jinchuriki, he could survive bisection by Sasuke and having half of his torso blown off by Guy.
Like all members of the Uzumaki clan, Kushina Uzumaki (Naruto) possesses incredible stamina and vitality, to the extent that she was able to survive the usually-fatal process of having a tailed beast extracted from her body.
Sakazuki/Akainu (One Piece) was able to survive powerful shockwave at point blank range.
Brook (One Piece) can survive the harshest injuries including decapitation due to his skeleton body and the power of the Yomi Yomi no Mi.
Charlotte Linlin's (One Piece) tremendous durability…
…allows her to survive a direct hit from a massive lightning bolt.
Donquixote Doflamingo's (One Piece) incredible drive to live stems from his childhood trauma when he was tortured to the point that he refused to die and swore revenge against those who did it. This tendency enabled him survive the likes of Trafalgar Law's Gamma Knife and Monkey D. Luffy's King Kong Gun.
Jinbe's (One Piece) tremendous tenacity allowed him to survive a magma blast straight through his chest.
Kaido (One Piece) attempting suicide from jumping off of a sky island…
…and surviving it without a scratch.
Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate (One Piece) survived over 400 injuries, a burn hole through his chest and even half his face blown off, and even with his old age, he fought onward until he died standing.
Shishio Makoto (Rurouni Kenshin) survived being burned alive and getting shot in the head.
Even after being stabbed straight through, Clear Note (Zatch Bell!) still managed to survive.
Live Television/Movies
Mohra Demons (Angel) can survive any wound so long as the red gem on their foreheads is unharmed.
As a vampire, Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) can survive and heal from near-limitless amounts of bodily damage so long as his head is not removed and/or his heart is not pierced by wood.
Alive or undead, Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) has survived being shot repeatedly, hanged, electrocuted, burned alive, and taking an axe blade to the face.
Vigo the Carpathian (Ghostbusters) originally died by being, in this order, poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered, and his severed head still lived long enough to warn that he would return.
Michael Myers (Halloween) has survived such situations as being burned alive, shot repeatedly, and being stabbed in the neck and chest.
Thanks to her regenerative powers, Claire Bennet (Heroes) has been able to survive, among other things, a broken neck, a nuclear explosion, and falls from virtually any height.
Video Games
Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect) survived being gunned down by a gunship, as well as a missile to the face.
Liquid Snake (Metal Gear) survived a helicopter crash, a 10-meter fall, multiple hits from surface-to-air missiles, getting caught in the explosion of a Metal Gear, and finally a jeep crash before succumbing to the FOXDIE virus.
Thanks to the nanomachines in his blood, Vamp (Metal Gear) can easily shrug off what would typically be a mortal wound, such as a bullet to the head.
Ryu (Ninja Gaiden) can survive the most brutal injuries, deadliest poison and even the ancient curse Grip of Murder.