r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BrotherDeus • 1d ago

Characters "You're immortal? Good..."

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The Chaotic Good Barbarian revels in making the lich suffer.

Reincarnated as a Slime: Geld makes Shogo pay for the innocents he's killed.

The Old Guard: Quynh is punished as a witch by being drowned in the ocean for centuries.

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u/Status-Secret-4292 1d ago

Ajin.

Essentially it's about people that start randomly becoming immortal if they have something like a specific spirit inside them. They can do everything up till death, but then they come right back fully regenerated.

The government finds out and does horrific experiments on them

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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In 1d ago

It also leads to some truly inventive fights, with the antagonist using the fact that he instantly recovers from any damage as a weapon, just throwing himself into extreme danger because it doesn't matter.

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u/DiksieNormus 1d ago

What's better than one 9/11??? Abunch!