It ’s hard for the average person to understand why anyone would n’t want to be immortal . Immortality has been a fruitful lens for fiction to examine the human condition . But sometimes there are divinity who completely fail to get the horror of immortality across . Instead , you ca n’t help but think you ’d do better . Here are ten of them .
Last workweek see the premiere of Forever , which introduced another immortal to the meridian time billet - up . And like so many before him , Dr. Henry Morgan is an immortal who hates his talent , trying to find oneself out how to populate a normal , short life sentence . Time will tell if the show becomes one the classics address the issues of live on perpetually and losing loved I or if Henry angsts so severely and so long that it ’s impossible to empathize with him . If the latter happens , he ’ll find himself in the companionship of this inclination .
Warning : Spoilers bristle from here on out .
Let ’s get these Guy out of the direction from the very start . The Cullens are some of the bad example of immortality out there . They symbolize that specific sort of immortal who does nothing but sulkiness about the burden of immortality . There has been a draw of ink slop on Twilight by now , but the thing that lands them on this inclination with a bullet is that Edward et al . have decided to pass eternity attending gamey schooltime . That ’s a horrible decision . If you could croak as 18 , just bound off gamy school .
Adam Monroe was the chief baddie of time of year 2 of Heroes , and he had an origin tale that made him a scoundrel because of a love triangle . And then he establish the company and essay to loose a virulent strain of the Shanti virus because he thinks it ’ll repair the problem of human wipeout . He terminate that season buried alive . Actually , Adam spent a lot of fourth dimension being lock away by others . He could have used his immortality to live a life seek out everything Earth had to offer . Or become rich and sinewy through length of service . And yet , he gets caught up in a love life trilateral , loses a fight to a valet who can multiply himself , and keep getting caught an locked aside . Useless .
There are a lot of problems with the Ba’ku . They exist on a satellite that has granted them immortality , but they ’re entirely against letting anyone else using the major planet ’s properties to save lives . They ’ve take a stand on engineering that would make the Luddites go “ Dude , that ’s a little extremum . ” All of those things are personified in Anij , who take it a footmark further by being an immortal who has never bothered to study to swim .
Granted immortality when he fell in passion with the goddess of the sea and was charged with ferrying the dead to afterlife , Jones should have had a comparatively dewy-eyed animation . But then his erotic love missed one meeting , and he went off the rails . He could n’t just give himself to finding her and getting an account . No , he decided that “ Eldritch sea affright ” was more his speed . And even then , you ’d opine that would make him the enceinte bad of the moving picture . But no , he somehow ends up as a flunky to the milquetoast Cutler Beckett . My god man , have some pridefulness .
No discourtesy to the instalment , which is bully . But Fellig is trite of immortality after 149 geezerhood . really , he got tired style before that , since he start out devoting himself to photographing demise decades before we fulfil him in the episode . He says he ’s live everything when he was only a slight over 100 , which is n’t that far out from the average life-time . compare to the other immortal who have pick up this ennui , that ’s throwing in the towel very ahead of time .
Charmed fill on the The Little Mermaid and managed to make their version of Ariel even less logical than the Disney version . Here , instead of trading her vocalization for leg , Mylie has thirty days to determine passion on land . If she fails , she ’ll give her immortality to the ocean hagfish . She bet her immortality on find lovemaking in a month . In a foreign commonwealth . She did not deserve it .
This is someone who is n’t on this tilt because he wasted his immortality . No , Arvin Sloane ’s on this list because once he finally got it , he was directly caught in a cave - in that trapped him under a mountain for all infinity . jest on you , Arvin . Enjoy your completely wasted immortality .
Got ta love an indecisive divinity . Richard Alpert first involve Jacob to allow him immortality , which he got . Then , when Jacob died , he felt like he had lost all direction and wanted to cash in one’s chips . And then , he gets a gray hairsbreadth and see he ’s aging like a normal soul once more . And this makes him rediscover his will to live . Could have just skipped the immortality , then .
The House of Feanor are Tolkien ’s House of Fail . But Maedhros gain ground the stupefied slipstream his family ’s engage in . His father Feanor made the whole family swear an oath of vengeance on anyone who would keep the Silmarils from them . rather of becoming the sort of wise and beautiful elf that we associate with the Tolkien brownie , Maglor became so doltishly intent on getting the Silmarils back that he engaged in kinslaying , kidnapping , and thieving . He refused to let the Middle Earth combining weight of Angels explain to him that a ) he did n’t need to follow his father ’s stupid oath anymore and b ) he had done such dread affair that he would n’t be able-bodied to hold the Silmarils anymore . Of course the slip Silmaril burned him so ill that he then shoot down himself . Which , since he ’s an hob , is n’t actually death . rather , his soul gets to wait around until someone decides that he ’s realise a new body . Which he will waste again , belike .
All the movies after the first one do their right-down best to destroy how much we love the first one . Highlander : Endgame reached the peak of this by turn Connor MacLeod into the mopiest mope to ever mope . Instead of being goad to payback when Kell killed masses close to him , Connor forced his kinsman to kill him . So , you cognize , inflicting the same kind of pain on Duncan that had ram him to this point . Excellent fibre assassination , Highlander : Endgame .
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