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by Alruneia » Sat Oct 08, 2016 1:24 pm
Depends on what kind of immortality the enemy has. I found a list of immortality types that I'll try to go through.
Type A: Age immortality, which means you can't die from becoming too old.
This is basically Master Roshi immortality. You can beat these people like you can any other enemy.
Type B: No-regen immortality, which means you can't die, but your body can be destroyed.
The best way to beat an immortal like this is simply to obliterate the body and then bury the remaining pieces.
Type C: Regen immortality, which means your body heals itself from all damage.
This requires more creativity. This is the kind of immortality Future Zamasu has. One way to beat this kind of immortal is to seal them away indefinitely. An Evil Containment Wave (Mafuba) works nicely there. You could also annihilate the immortal's body down to a small piece and then trap that piece in a continuously harming environment. For example, you destroy Future Zamasu so that only a finger is left, and then you put that finger in the centre of the sun. The finger will continue to regenerate, while the sun will continue to vapourise the finger. It's a dangerous equivalence, but it works.
Type D: God-given immortality, which means that you're immortal unless killed by a power greater than what granted you immortality to begin with.
Future Zamasu might count here as well, under the fact that his immortality was granted by Super Shenron, created by Zarama, the Dragon God. If this is the case, then Future Zamasu will still die if the power used to kill him exceeds Zarama's power. This would mean that Zen'ou could delete Future Zamasu from existence and he would actually die from it.
Type E: Actual immortality, which means that you literally cannot die.
This one is more about invincibility than immortality, really. If the enemy has this, the only solution is the indefinite seal from Type C.
Type F: Soul immortality, meaning that when your body is destroyed, you can jump to another. Also known as parasitic immortality.
This one seems a bit like Baby, except even worse. I'm not sure what you could do to stop this kind of immortal spirit. Trap it in a dimension from which it cannot escape? Assuming it can always find another body to possess, someone might just have to sacrifice themself and get banished to a place it's not possible to return from, where they would then die. It's both paradoxical and dark, but I don't know another way.
Type G: Undeath. Undead beings such as vampires and ghosts cannot be killed unless a specific weakness is used.
Including this here is a bit strange, but I'll cover it. It's a little bit like how Kid Buu could only be killed by having all of his matter get atomised at the same time under the Super Spirit Bomb.
Type H: Reliant immortality, which is that you're immortal as long as something else maintains its current state.
See Voldemort and the horcruxes. Destroy that "something else" to win.
The creativity usually comes from mixing two or more of these types of immortality. Before we got to know who Black really was, I speculated that Zamasu's immortality was a mix of Type C and Type H, and that if Black was killed, Zamasu would stop being immortal. This is not the case, but it would be a pretty different way of defeating a main villain. It seems he's Type C and maybe also Type D instead, though.
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