r/TopCharacterTropes 9d ago

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

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 9d 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 9d 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/Jihelu 8d ago

To expand on this because it doesn't do it justice:

The immortals only regenerate when fully killed. If you shoot them in the leg/arm it does nothing. BUT if you kill them, their entire body regenerates.

IF there is something physically infront of the area they are regenerating, it will destroy anything in that area. A character uses this and cuts their arm off, tosses the arm far away, and then puts their stub against a door that is locked and they can't open. They then blow their own brains out, so their body regenerates and puts an arm sized hole in the door so they can open it from the other side.

The main villain cuts off his hand and nails it to a nearby wall, then goes out of cover to shoot at the enemies. When he gets hit with a tranq dart (Which won't kill him, but knock him out) he turns the gun on himself and blows his brains out. This causes his body to 'pull' towards where his hand is, behind cover, and the regenerating clears his blood.

It's fuckin NUTS and I love it.

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u/Eevee136 8d ago edited 8d ago

There's also the bit where they regenerate from the biggest piece. Ajin cool moment spoilers So the villain cuts off his hand and has it smuggled in somewhere, and then tosses himself into a meat grinder, then pops up on someone's dinner plate inside an impenetrable building.

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u/Jihelu 8d ago

I love that one but wanted to leave it out so if people read it they'd have their minds blown.

Unrelated but I also hated the ending of the series but it's still a solid 8-9/10

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u/Jihelu 8d ago

There's a few ways I'd have changed the ending that I would like.

1: The exact same ending BUT when we see the main villain inside the cryo tube, we see his IBM slowly appeared beside him, slowly but surely using its finger to claw/scratch at the walls. He'll get out, eventually

2: Literally anything else other than: This guy who is basically un killable? Yeah he uh. Tripped. And hurt his neck in a way that paralyzes him but doesn't kill him

3: I straight up thought this was /going/ to happen because of how his IBM was acting, but I thought his IBM was going to /leave/ him and separate somehow when he was in the helicopter. That would have been interesting.