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Healing Factor/Playing With

Basic Trope: An ability allowing for really fast regeneration.

  • Straight: Bob can heal from bullet wounds, burns, and missing limbs in a few hours
  • Exaggerated: From a Single Cell
  • Downplayed: Bob can heal from most major injuries in just a few weeks.
  • Justified: Bob is under some magic that makes him regenerate fast.
    • Bob is in a world/universe that has a strong connection to him. This means that the world/universe will constantly heal Bob, being a part of him allows it to do so easily.
  • Inverted:
    • Bob cannot heal from any wound, no matter how minor.
    • Bob's body is constantly deteriorating.
  • Subverted: Bob is said to have a healing factor. He is shot with a huge machine gun, but doesn't get back up...
  • Double Subverted: For a few minutes. He only needed more time than usual to heal from that.
  • Parodied: Bob's healing factor is Played for Laughs, and people get in line to beat him up. Bob might even charge a fee to make extra money.
  • Zig Zagged: Bob has an incredible Healing Factor, but it's Cast From Lifespan. Basically, in exchange for cheating death now, he'll die a little earlier several years down the road.
  • Averted: Bob has normal healing abilities.
  • Enforced: The writers wanted to create a character who can survive lethal situations without making him a Boring Invincible Hero.
  • Lampshaded: "How could you heal so fast, Bob?"
  • Invoked: Bob looks for a ring of regeneration.
  • Exploited: Bob starts selling his organs and his blood, earning him tons of money without doing much.
  • Defied: John knows of Bob's healing factor and maims one of Bob's friends via a method Bob can't heal.
  • Discussed: "Bob's ability to heal is great, he can recover from anything, so putting him on the front line makes sense."
  • Conversed: "Bob's ability to heal in Tropers Comics is really cool, right?"
  • Deconstructed:
    • Bob needs materials to regenerate, and can't get them from any other way than his food. He gets sick from hypoglycemia and other disorders normally associated with starvation.
    • Healing factors also extend to poison, too bad the body can't makes the difference between poison and anti depressive medications.
    • The ability to regenerate that fast allows for awful torture, since it isn't needed to make sure Bob will survive.
  • Reconstructed:
  • Played For Laughs: Good Thing You Can Heal
  • Played For Drama: Bob's healing factor goes Up to Eleven and gives Alice cancer which eventually kills her.

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