| | This article does not cite any references or sources. (November 2007) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. | A healing factor is a term used to describe the ability of some characters in fiction to recover from bodily injuries or disease at a superhuman rate. The term itself is most commonly applied to comic book characters in the Marvel Universe, although other quickly-regenerating characters exist. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
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The efficiency of a character's healing factor, as with all "powers", varies frequently, depending on the situation and the writer writing it, with, as a story is being told, drama being the key factor. Broad displays of artistic license have often led to debates among fans of particular comic book characters that have superhuman rates of healing, such as Wolverine, Deadpool, Sabretooth, Hulk, et cetera, as to which comic characters heal faster, or exactly which level their healing factors are. The Artistic License is a software license used for certain free software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation, most of CPAN modules and Parrot, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License (GPL). ...
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Marvel Comics There are numerous characters within the Marvel Universe that possess some form of accelerated healing ability. The source of these "healing factors" ranges from genetic mutation to artificial enhancement to magic. The exact limits of some character's healing powers is often a source of debate among fans since that many of their healing powers have fluctuated in efficiency. This article is about the shared universe setting used by many Marvel Comics titles. ...
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DC Comics There are also numerous characters within the DC Universe that possess some form of accelerated healing ability, including: Cover to the History of the DC Universe trade paperback. ...
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Other comics - Hellboy, from Dark Horse Comics[citation needed]
- Eric Draven, from The Crow[citation needed]
- Hellspawns, angels and demons, from the comic Spawn[citation needed]
- Savage Dragon, from the comic of the same name[citation needed]
- Painkiller Jane, from the comic previously published by Event Comics (published currently by Dynamite Entertainment), as well as the television series based on both[citation needed]
- Midnighter, from the comic The Authority.[citation needed]
- Dark Claw, from Amalgam Comics[citation needed]
- The wielders of the Witchblade and the Excalibur, from the comic Witchblade[citation needed]
- The wielders of the Darkness and the Angelus, from the comic The Darkness[citation needed]
- Bloodshot and Rai, from Valiant Comics[citation needed]
- Ghoul, Rune and Hardcase, from Ultraforce[citation needed]
- Voodoo, Grifter and Daemonites, from the comic WildC.A.T.s[citation needed]
- Elementals, from Comico Comics[citation needed]
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Outside of comics Non-comics characters who can heal rapidly in one manner or another include: - Traditional werewolves, unless confronted with silver[16]
- Defensive silver-eyed witches and the Yoma, from the manga Claymore[citation needed]
- Alucard, Alexander Anderson, Tubalcain Alhambra, Schrödinger, The Captain, Rip van Winkle and vampires from the anime and manga series Hellsing[citation needed]
- Amberites from Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber[citation needed]
- The Ancients, Goa'uld hosts (including Tok'ra and Jaffa), Priors and Wraith of Stargate, and users of the DNA Resequencer[citation needed]
- Ciel and Arcueid Brunestud[17]
- Claire Bennet from Heroes[18]
- Peter Petrelli from Heroes after acquiring the power via contact with Claire Bennet[19]
- Adam Monroe from Heroes[20]
- Leonard Betts from The X-Files, Season 4 Episode 14 [1] and Super Soldiers.
- The Creeper from the Jeepers Creepers series regenerates by devouring whatever body part he needs[21][citation needed]
- Dante and Vergil[22]
- The Doctor from Doctor Who (only during the first 15 hours of his regenerative cycle)
- Godzilla, and some other Kaiju such as SpaceGodzilla, Gyaos, Biollante and Orga[citation needed]
- Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who and Torchwood[citation needed]
- Immortals from Highlander[citation needed]
- Jordan the Barbarian of Xanth[citation needed]
- Georgia Lass and her fellow reapers in Dead Like Me[citation needed]
- Naraku, Mōryōmaru, Akago and Hakudōshi from the manga/anime Inuyasha[citation needed]
- Orphenochs from Kamen Rider 555[citation needed]
- The Orks from Warhammer 40,000.
- Namekians, Cell and Majin Buu from the Dragon Ball series[citation needed]
- The Slayers, Vampires, Demons, Adam, Jasmine and Willow Rosenberg from the Buffyverse[citation needed]
- Arvin Sloane from Alias, after falling into a vat of the strange liquid created by The Horizon[citation needed]
- Trolls from the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game.
- Trolls from Warcraft.
- Isabelle Tyler and Kevin Burkhoff from The 4400[citation needed]
- Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto due to the power of the Demon Fox within him. Medical ninjas can also channel their chakra to accelerate healing in others.[citation needed]
- Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th film series[23]
- Freddy Krueger[24][25]
- Michael Myers from the Halloween film series[citation needed]
- Whitelighters and Zankou, from Charmed[citation needed]
- Homunculi from the anime and manga Fullmetal Alchemist[citation needed]
- The Twins from the movie The Matrix Reloaded, their ability to be incorporeal heals injuries they sustain while in corporeal form.
- Vampires, Lycans, Hybrids and True Immortals from the Underworld (series).
- Yuki Nagato from the anime and manga The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya[citation needed]
- Some Angels and the Evangelion Unit 01 from the anime and manga series Neon Genesis Evangelion[citation needed]
- Max Evans and the others alien hybrids, however, they can only heal small injuries with their molecular manipulation powers, from the book series Roswell High and the tv series Roswell[citation needed]
- Lucifer Hawks, from the manga and anime Silent Möbius[citation needed]
- Vash the Stampede and other Plants seem to display a limited healing factor in Trigun. They recover quickly from wounds (even seemingly fatal ones), but do not regenerate limbs and can receive scars[citation needed]
- Jenova, from the video game Final Fantasy VII and its spin-offs.
- Some Hollows, from the manga and anime Bleach[citation needed]
- Demons, from the manga and anime Berserk[citation needed]
- Methuselah, from the light novels Trinity Blood[citation needed]
- Tatsumi Saiga, from the anime Speed Grapher[citation needed]
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