It is one thing to cheat death and flee to safety.
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Sleeving allows humanity to travel across the galaxy, allows individuals to cheat death.
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Then he relents and gives Gilgamesh some tests whereby he might cheat death.
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PG: And occasionally, the crosscutting made me think you'd actually cheat death, that Beau would live.
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As a character that's managed to cheat death for several seasons, Hot Pie is in rarified company.
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The player isn't living off the land as much as they are exploiting it to cheat death.
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For once, she's not putting on a mask because she needs to cheat death or deal it out.
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The desire to cheat death, or at least uncover its mysteries, has existed as long as we've recorded our history.
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To try and cheat death, he's engineered a human body to house his consciousness for a chance at a second life.
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The females may gobble up the male before, during or after mating, so males have evolved various ways to cheat death.
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We can't seem to keep ourselves from pushing the world to its environmental limits; we're bound to hurt each other; we can't cheat death.
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To cheat death, she decides, she must give up all the coping mechanisms her siblings used to cling to their lives before their deaths.
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God-like beings, torpedoes that terraform planets and cheat death, and casual time travel — to name a few — turned Trek into its own bubble universe.
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But most excitingly, NASA confirmed in June that Juno, which has orbited Jupiter since July 2015, will cheat death for at least three more years.
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As it turns out, Delos decided to take part in this experiment to cheat death, but what he got instead was a new kind of hell.
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I don't claim to understand the inner workings of Alex's mind, but I know one thing for certain: Alex climbs to live, not to cheat death.
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If we can, we will cheat death at every turn, to continue living well... When someone we cherish dies, we regret the loss of a worthy companion.
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In Frozen Faith: Cryonics and the Quest to Cheat Death, Motherboard explores whether the patients and animals already preserved ever have a chance of coming back to life.
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This, to me, was tragic and beautiful—the vanity that you could cheat death, whether it's through Hollywood filmmaking and photography or by being preserved in a magical, mystical crypt.
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That's why I think she's probably dead — a big-ass clock fell on her head — but if anybody on this show is going to cheat death, it might be her.
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On a personal level, he likened biohacking to an intrinsic "human desire," citing historical examples of fasting and the way ancient rulers tried to cheat death by, for example, drinking mercury.
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Every time you cheat death, another problem crops up, and it's up to you to find a solution — or die, at which point you'll be given the opportunity to try again.
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And Johnny Knoxville's latest attempt to make people laugh while he continues to cheat death, Action Point, made just $5.1 million in its first 14 days, and then disappeared from theaters altogether.
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It's uncertain how 4Chan managed to evade its own destruction for the past 13 years, or if there's a willingness among users or advertisers to let it cheat death one more time.
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The promises of stem-cell research lie at the core of human desires—to understand our origins and to cheat death—and there is a great deal of money and prestige at stake.
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The questions of digital immortality -- humans created shells to cheat death -- also feels considerably less fresh than the way the show initially flipped the script on its source material, turning humans into the monsters.
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The Ghost Nation chief who whispers to Stubbs that "you live only as long as the last person who remembers you," seems to be part of this quest by William and Delos to cheat death.
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In 2014, PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel said he hopes to live for 120 years, and has invested heavily in technologies he believes could enable people to cheat death entirely, as has Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
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I eagerly follow along with others' ideas about how humans might cheat death, via medicine or technology, and nod to myself as if I might be the first man to live to 1,000, despite what the science says.
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Gilgamesh's assault on the cedars of Lebanon and his attempts to cheat death come forward in time to link with our own assaults on forests that extend from the watered earth beneath us to the blue sky above us.
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Fast forward to the aftermath of Tuesday's game against Nigeria, which saw Argentina through to the round of 16 (and Maradona seemingly cheat death (again)), and the reporter was back to ask about the little token from his mom.
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The show has revealed how Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) was able to cheat death — virtually, at least — and it has detailed how Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) was a key participant in the creation of host Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright).
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And there is no happy ending — the only way a character can cheat death is to make a copy of the VHS cassette and share it with someone else who then faces the same fate, a viral video before the age of social media.
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"We are not trying to cheat death, but help people be healthy and disease-free in their final years," said Linda Partridge, a professor at University College London's Institute of Healthy Ageing and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing who co-led the work.
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Nobody gets to live forever, but we keep breeding new generations and creating art and striking off toward the unknown as if we might cheat death anyway, as if achieving immortality is just finding a way to plant your flag on some new world, or at least a different corner of this one.
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Aside from the finishing move and corruption-inducing beam , he can cheat death from fatal attacks by having an alternate universe counterpart replacing his original body.
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The Myth of General Sineui is a Korean oral myth about General Sineui, who attempted to cheat death. Unlike other myths such as the Samani Bonpuli (in which the protagonist cheated death for forty thousand years), in this myth, the protagonist fails to revive.
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The mountain of Geumo, located in Chilgok County, was the home to the Pyeongsan Sin clan. Mount Geumo was an auspicious mountain, and Sineui was born under its power. Sineui grew into a fine boy, then a great general. Above all, Sineui wanted to cheat death.
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Warumbe learns of this and comes to claim Mpobe's life. Mpobe pleads a deal to first consume all of his possessions before dying, which Warumbe accepts. Mpobe attempts to cheat death by prolonging this process over many years; however, his life is inevitably claimed by Warumbe.
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Not only that he is capable of creating a doomsday devices but he has also managed to cheat death and return to the land of the living to wreak havoc not once, but twice. Kandrax - Celtic druid who wields mystical powers. Mortimer - Scheming genius and a conspirator. Inspired by A. C. Doyle's professor Moriarty.
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The tenth and final vignette would always be the murder of Mr. Boddy. Somehow, Mr. Boddy would always manage to cheat death, such as fainting before the shot was fired or being shot with trick bullets. However, at the end of the 18th book, Mrs. Peacock kills Mr. Boddy out of starvation and Mr. Boddy stays dead.
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Kimberly Corman is a fictional character in the Final Destination series, portrayed by A. J. Cook. Kimberly serves as the protagonist of Final Destination 2. She is a college student from White Plains, New York, and is one of the survivors of the Route 23 pileup. Kimberly remains the only known visionary of the series to successfully cheat Death.
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Set in an exotic location, it could also be seen as a prototype for the many "travelogue"-style Saint adventures that would follow in future years. # The Man Who Could Not Die. Miles Hallin claims to be able to cheat death, but he puts this ability to the test when he kills one of Templar's friends as part of a mining scam.
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Slade claims that this will bring him one step closer to his true goal: the ability to somehow cheat death itself. He also succeeds in recruiting Arsenal, a former member of the Teen Titans and Justice League, into the team.Titans (vol. 2) #26 Shortly after inducting Arsenal into the team, Slade accepts a mission to rescue a child from a drug lord named Elijah.
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He can hack some of the most protected computers. Cypher has been infected by techno- organic viruses on multiple occasions. The presence of the virus has allowed him at times to cheat death and to demonstrate techno-organic shapeshifting, transmode infection, and life-absorption abilities. Cypher was taught by an imprisoned Magik how to cast a mystical teleportation spell which allows him to transport himself and others to either Hell.
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The Mastermind Doom (KORPS Super Villain, Series 6-7), voiced by Brian Cox (Series 6) and Gavin Mitchell (Series 7). The dictatorial Head of KORPS. His consciousness was uploaded into a computer in order to cheat death and various cloned using his DNA were created in order to house his consciousness. He only ever appears onscreen as a digital interface in KORPS HQ, or in his neuron containment case.
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However, Rokkaku Yoshikata attempted to ambush Nobunaga, and Nobunaga slashed his way through the ambushers as he continued his escape. He proceeded on to defeat Azai Nagamasa and Nobunaga's own sister Oichi, and to reach the escape point. The fighting retreat at Kanegasaki enabled Nobunaga to once more cheat death, and to amass an army which would be victorious against the Azai-Asakura army at the Battle of Anegawa.
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The Puppet Master has exhibited an uncanny ability to cheat death, dodging mortal threats that have included bomb blasts, drownings, and even a giant squid attack. Liddleville would later be used against the Micronauts and X-Force. The jealous Puppet Master often uses his clay to manipulate the lives of the Fantastic Four, especially where his stepdaughter was concerned. He is particularly concerned with guarding his precious Alicia from marrying the likes of the Thing.
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The pair are locked in a seemingly endless cycle of death and rebirth throughout the centuries. While not a superhuman power per se, this propensity for reincarnation has allowed Hawkgirl to cheat death and return to active duty in her current incarnation. Like all modern Thanagarians, Shayera Hol has a pair of wings growing from her back which allows her to fly. As a Thanagarian, she has considerable physical strength, endurance and durability.
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When the bullets run out, Death beats Peter and gives him a glimpse into Hell. Death decides to spare Peter's life for the moment, as Peter had been able to fight him off the longest. Death then proposes a challenge: a fight, with the winner keeping Peter's soul. Death gives Peter 24 hours to rest up and train for the fight and cautions him regarding the consequences should he try to cheat Death in any way.
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Friday comes again and everyone goes to the forest. The alien appears, promising love, but the townspeople begin to riot, and charge at the alien. Lisa and Waylon Smithers stop them just in time, showing that the "alien" is actually Mr. Burns. Smithers explains that Burns receives longevity treatment once a week in order to cheat death; this leaves him disoriented, as well as giving him a soft, high pitched voice as a result of a vocal cord scraping.
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He had three known Sith apprentices: Darth Maul, Darth Tyranus, and Darth Vader. He was eventually betrayed and killed by his last, Vader, at the end of Return of the Jedi. He returned more than 30 years later in The Rise of Skywalker, having managed to cheat death through powerful mastery of the dark side of the Force. He was finally killed by his granddaughter, Rey, who deflected his Force lightning back at him using the Skywalker lightsabers.
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In G.I. Joe: Renegades, Doctor Mindbender appears as a young bio-scientist named Dr. Brian Bender who is wanted for his illegal experimentations. Hired by Cobra Commander, Mindbender uses Cobra Industries' connections to enable its leader to become immortal to cheat death. In the process, Mindbender developed the Bio Vipers which would serve as Cobra's militant power. However, the Joes infiltrated the lab where Mindbender created the first generation of Bio-Vipers and Ripcord sacrificed himself to destroy it.
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Gayley, p. 47. He cared little about what happened in the world above, as his primary attention was ensuring none of his subjects ever left his domain. left He strictly forbade his subjects to leave his domain and would become quite enraged when anyone tried to leave, or if someone tried to steal the souls from his realm. His wrath was equally terrible for anyone who tried to cheat death or otherwise crossed him, as Sisyphus and Pirithous found out to their sorrow.
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Chernang then causes the blade of Tien's sword to snap and slash across his throat, killing himself. Exhausted after all the fighting and devastated by the shocking revelation, Tien collapses on the ground. As Rajasena's soldiers close in and surround him, Rajasena orders Tien to be taken away and slowly tortured to death. As the movie ends, a voiceover explains that Tien "may find a way to cheat death again", and shows him with a fully-grown beard standing in front of a scarred golden Buddha statue.
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The first half of the anime's plot follows that of the manga, but the plots severely diverge from each other near the middle of the story. After Kimblee uses alchemy to transform Alphonse's armor into explosive material, Scar transfers all of his incomplete Philosopher's Stone into Al to save his life. As a result, Alphonse's armor becomes the Philosopher's Stone. Because he houses the Stone in his body, he becomes the primary target of the homunculi's leader Dante, who is trying to cheat death.
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However, Mindbender is quick to remind Cobra Commander that he still needs him to cheat death when threatening to expose his condition to the other subordinates. Though Cobra Commander allows Mindbender to live for now while punishing him with an electrical blast from his cane, promising the doctor that Ripcord's retrieval is vital for both of them to live. In "The Anomaly", Doctor Mindbender tries to create his human/Bio-Viper hybrid. The first one seems to fall apart but actually comes together in the sewers.
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A brilliant strategist and tactician with extensive combat tactical experience, Viper is highly skilled in the management of criminal organizations and very well connected in the international criminal underworld. She is also a master of stealth and espionage. Perhaps her greatest strengths are her influence, the financial resources at her disposal due to her stature in organized crime, and an uncanny luck which has allowed her to cheat death in situations where lesser people would have died. Viper may or may not have supernaturally augmented longevity.
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Scarlett is living in the small fictional village of San Pasquale near Venice with her lover, Benedict. The game begins with the village being attacked by assassins and Benedict dying in order to protect Scarlett. On the night after the attack, Death appears in her dreams and reveals that she, who thought herself an orphan, is actually his daughter, conceived shortly before he became Death, granting Scarlett many of Death's powers. He tells her that Victor, the Undead Archon, used a loophole in the rules that bind existence to cheat death and become nearly immortal.
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The only real input Hammer had was in the choice of Anton Diffring, who played Frankenstein very much like Peter Cushing. Diffring went on to star in Hammer's The Man Who Could Cheat Death the following year. Since the series was intended for an American audience, Columbia rejected all six of Hammer's scripts in favor of one written in-house. The film was co-written by Henry Kuttner and his wife C.L. Moore with Curt Siodmak, a veteran of Universal horror films including The Wolf Man, who also directed.
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She is seen once more in the following episode "Heaven Sent", as a grief- stricken Doctor imagines conversations with her to clarify his ideas. In "Hell Bent", the Doctor uses Time Lord technology on Gallifrey to extract Clara from her last moments of life, and attempts to run away with her and cheat death. He later realises from Ashildr that travelling together will only cause more harm than good, and prepares to wipe Clara's memories of him with a device. Clara tampers with the device so that it wipes the Doctor's memories of her instead.
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With nowhere else to go, Colin returns to the bar in Neverest, where he uses a $100 note to buy a beer. Recognizing the currency, the publican tells Colin an old middle eastern story about a woman who attempts to cheat death by fleeing to a different city, only to find death waiting there for her. After this, the publican demands to know where the rest of his money is, revealing himself to be the seller's contact in Neverest. However, before Colin can answer, the two see that the note has become wet and the ink has begun to run; it is counterfeit.
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Ancar, prompted by Falconsbane, launches an attack immediately, using magic-controlled troops. Valdemar responds with an assassination team composed of Elspeth, Skif, Darkwind, Nyara, Need, and Firesong, intending to eliminate Ancar, Falconsbane, and Hulda, an evil witch who tried to corrupt Elspeth in her youth. Disguised as a traveling show, they move towards the capital. The situation is complicated somewhat when the assassination team learns that Falconsbane has a secret agent in his head; the evil Adept had found a way to cheat death by arranging to 'take over' the bodies of any member of his bloodline with Adept potential.
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Four U.S. Army soldiers, with nothing in common other than having served in the same combat zone and been shot in the head with bullets cast from fragments of a meteorite, cheat death and begin working on a mysterious project. Intelligence officer Adam Ballard attempts to unravel the mystery behind the strange behavior of the men, who have each attained I.Q.s of over 200. :Opening narration: In the troubled places of the world, the Devil's Hunter finds rare game. For man-made savagery is only the instrument for a secret terror stirring from its dark place of ambush... Lt. Minns (Steve Ihnat) is shot in the head.
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In Jojolion, Johnny is revealed to have married a Japanese woman named Rina Higashikata with both the Higashikata Family and his universe's version of Yoshikage Kira as his descendants. ; :Funny Valentine is the main antagonist of Steel Ball Run, and a dishonorably discharged American soldier who became the 23rd President of the United States. His ultimate goal is to reassemble the Saint Corpse and use its power for world dominion, using the corpse's heart to gain the Stand or for short. D4C enables Valentine to travel between alternate dimensions by being pressed between two objects and transfer his mind into another version of himself, usually as a means to cheat death.
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He played an important part in the TV mini-series Flambards, that of the aeronautical pioneer who assists William Russell (Alan Parnaby), second in line of inheritance to the Flambards Estate, who is obsessed with flying. Diffring's character was a German living in Britain shortly before the beginning of the Great War. Diffring starred in a number of horror films, such as The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) and Circus of Horrors (1960) and played the lead in the television pilot Tales of Frankenstein (1958). He also appeared in quite a number of international films, such as Fahrenheit 451 (1966) directed by François Truffaut.
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Later, Candice bleeds to death during her gym practice from a chain reaction that causes her to fall off the uneven bars and snap her spine. The next day, Isaac is killed at a Chinese spa when his head is crushed by a falling Buddha statue during an acupuncture session. Bludworth, who has been present for both deaths, tells the remaining survivors that if they wish to cheat Death, they must kill someone who was never meant to die on the bridge and thereby claim their remaining lifespan. At the same time, Sam and Molly failed to save Olivia who falls out of the window to her death at an eye surgery clinic.
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The Master manages to cheat death, and while the Doctor is on Earth his spirit takes over the body of a paramedic named Bruce (Eric Roberts). The Master (Roberts) then attempts to steal the Doctor's remaining lives by opening the Eye of Harmony inside the Doctor's time machine, the TARDIS, nearly destroying the Earth in the process. However, the Doctor and his companion Dr Grace Holloway (Daphne Ashbrook) are able to prevent the Earth's destruction, and the Master is sucked into the Eye. The TV film did not lead to the commissioning of a revived television series, and while Eighth Doctor stories continued in other media, Doctor Who did not air again on television until 2005.
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24 The Hound of the Baskervilles was originally conceived as the first in a series of Sherlock Holmes films, but eventually no sequels were made. Immediately upon completion of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Cushing was offered the lead role in the Hammer film The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), a remake of The Man in Half Moon Street (1945). Cushing turned it down, in part because he did not like the script by Jimmy Sangster, and the lead role was taken instead by Anton Diffring. Cushing next appeared for Hammer when he played the Sheriff of Nottingham in the adventure film Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), which starred Richard Greene as the outlaw Robin Hood.
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The Master later returns in The Keeper of Traken, the role taken over by Geoffrey Beevers. Still dying, the Master came to the Traken Union to renew his life by using the empire's technological Source. Though the plot fails, the Master manages to cheat death by transferring his essence into the body of a Traken scientist named Tremas (played by Anthony Ainley) and overwriting his host's mind.. The Master then appeared on and off for the rest of the series, still seeking to extend his life – preferably with a new set of regenerations. Subsequently, in The Five Doctors, the Time Lords offer the Master a new regeneration cycle in exchange for his help.
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She had parts in A Woman of Mystery (1958), The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) and Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961) among others. By the early 1960s, Court had moved to the United States permanently. She was featured in the Edgar Allan Poe horror films The Premature Burial (1962) with Ray Milland, The Raven (1963) with Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff and The Masque of the Red Death (1964), the last two with Vincent Price. She appeared on occasion in the early 1960s TV anthology series, The Dick Powell Show (aka, The Dick Powell Theatre) and an entry in the British film series, the Edgar Wallace Mysteries (US: The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre) "The Man Who Was Nobody" (1960).
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However, many live along the coast in temperate climates (10) and around coastal environments where it is safer for the polyps to develop (1). As the temperature of the water increases, whether with global warming or seasonal, the number of medusae increases as well as the ratio of polyps to medusae (8). Without the influence of wind and water currents, Aurelia live alone, however, they are thought to be brought together into aggregations as a result of wind and water currents (10). With all of the variability from their environments, the medusae of Aurelia are able to “de- grow” which allows them to cheat death in a way until proper conditions are met in order to survive by becoming a smaller medusa (5).
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Like its Jeju equivalent, the Jangja-puri demonstrates that the gods of death can be swayed through injeong, even for a man as sinful as Sama-jangja, and therefore affirms the ritual efficacy of the ssitgim-gut funeral. The narrative's detailed portrayal of the afterlife and its gods as fundamentally akin to the world of the living, complete with corrupt officials, may seek to reduce the funeral attendees' fears and anxieties towards death. Hong Tae-han also argues that in the majority of versions where Sama-jangja survives, he serves as a contrast to the person for whom the funeral is being held—who, unlike in the myth, will never cheat death. As the shaman sings the Jangja- puri, the bereaved weep and reach emotional catharsis.
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Before the Guardians took a leave of absence from their universe to attempt mating with their female counterparts, the Zamarons, they constructed an inescapable prison for Sinestro and thousands of others on Oa. Sinestro managed to free himself through the mental manipulation of the Mad God of Sector 3600. Wielding nearly unlimited power, Sinestro murdered entire star systems until he was finally subdued by the Green Lantern Corps of Earth. Guilty of multiple acts of genocide, Sinestro was put on trial again by the assembled membership of the Green Lantern Corps. Finding him guilty, they condemned him to death and executed him, but Sinestro managed to cheat death itself by sending his essence into the Central Power Battery and shutting it down.
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By now, Fringe Division is aware of the alternate universe, and just as the ZFT manifesto predicted, they had intentions to destroy us. In the episode "August", an Observer called August contacted Walter to help correct a mistake, which Walter initially believed was to send Peter back to the alternate universe, but, it was in fact a method on how to "cheat death", which he had achieved before. In episode 2x10, "Grey Matters", Walter was kidnapped by Thomas Jerome Newton, the shape-shifters' leader, and had his missing brain tissue re-implanted for a short time. Walter, temporarily sane, was forced to reveal to Newton how he crossed over to the other universe, and nearly died because of it, driving Peter to great lengths to save him.
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His next film, The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), involved transforming Anton Diffring into "a living corpse": "To produce all the ravages of time and debauchery, I felt that the final effect should be a cocktail of fatal diseases spreading rapidly across his body. Glandular fever, smallpox, cholera, typhus and typhoid, represented some of the ailments that Bonner had come into contact with (through his unseen travels) as a crusading physician."Ashton, p. 49 The result was widely admired: over a decade later the American make-up artist, Dick Smith, consulted Ashton about the effect to create make-up to age Dustin Hoffman as a 103-year-old man in Little Big Man, and was to repeat the effect in several subsequent films.
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The Dynamiters (US) # The Last Man to Hang? (1956) # The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) # Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) # Dracula (1958) a.k.a. Horror of Dracula (US) # The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) # The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) # The Mummy (1959) # The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) # The Stranglers of Bombay (1959) # The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) a.k.a. Jekyll’s Inferno / House of Fright (US) # The Brides of Dracula (1960) # Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) # The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) # The Phantom of the Opera (1962) # Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) # The Horror of It All (1963) # The Gorgon (1964) # The Earth Dies Screaming (1964) # Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) # Island of Terror (1966) # Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) # Night of the Big Heat (1967) a.k.a.
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A creek runs diagonally through the site from the north-west to the south east between two ridges. Through Portion 10, the creek is formed by an open concrete lined drain passing under the road to Portion 6 from where it exits the site under Mt Coot-tha Road. Throughout the cemetery, the topography provides the social division of the cemetery with private graves occupying the highest ground in each portion, public graves along the lower sections and paupers and criminals occupying the low-lying, water logged ground along the creek. The contrast is stark between elaborate monuments built by the elite on the highest ground in an attempt to cheat death through immortality, when compared to the unmarked graves of anonymous paupers on low lying water logged ground.
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Barré Lyndon (pseudonym of Alfred Edgar) (12 August 1896 – 23 October 1972) was a British playwright and screenwriter. The pseudonym was presumably taken from the title character of Thackeray's 1844 novel. Born in London, he may be best remembered for his stage play The Man in Half Moon Street, which opened at London's New Theatre on 22 March 1939 and ran for 172 performances, starring Leslie Banks, Malcolm Keen and Ann Todd,Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection: An Annotated Repertoire by Amnon Kabatchnik, 2009 as well as for three screenplays from the 1940s: The Lodger (1944), Hangover Square (1945) and The Man in Half Moon Street (1945). The last was remade by Hammer Film Productions in 1959 as The Man Who Could Cheat Death.
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Despite managing to cheat death, Tenebrous' plan failed, because, during his time in Plagueis' body, he foresaw him being killed by his own apprentice before the appearance of the Chosen One, meaning that Tenebrous would never be able to possess him. Tenebrous then tried to escape from Plagueis' body, but only saw the mummified remains of his original body, as decades had passed since his death. As such, Tenebrous was cursed to remain a vague spirit for the rest of eternity, unable to gain a physical body ever again. In the Star Wars canon continuity, Darth Tenebrous is only mentioned in The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary, where, even though his backstory is never explained, it is revealed that Darth Sidious' Sith Eternal cult still had knowledge of Tenebrous many years after his death and had the 26th Legion of Sith Troopers named after him.
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A group of tourists: Chris, a wealthy American; Tate, Chris's temperamental fiancé; Kathy, an ex-nurse haunted by recurring nightmares of a young girl who died in her care; her boyfriend Zane; Big Dave, the owner and captain of a luxurious yacht; and his wife Suze set sail on a leisure trip to Fiji. The voyage is interrupted when they respond to a distress signal from a nearby vessel, and rescue its sole surviving crew member ("The Greek"). Unbeknownst to the group, The Greek is possessed by the malevolent spirit of a man who seeks to cheat death by using an enchanted dagger to swap souls with a succession of new hosts. The Greek attacks Zane, taking control of his body, before embarking on a murderous rampage of which Kathy, Zane (now trapped in The Greek's dying body) and Tate (who is ultimately possessed by the spirit) are the only survivors.
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Loki reincarnated, in Thor #617 Thor, missing his brother searched for Loki who had returned to life in the form of a young boy; as due to his schemes his name was removed from the Book of Hell, allowing him to permanently cheat death. Now located in Paris, France, Loki was a street hustler going by the name of Serrure (the French word for lock), who feigned simple card tricks in front of an audience while an accomplice pickpocketed them. Thor, in civilian disguise, gave chase, resulting in the restoration of Loki's memory, but not of his past life with the exception of a guilty conscience for things he cannot remember. With nothing to lose, Loki followed Thor, who restored part of his identity to him (though he remained in the form of a child), and asked when precisely Thor got so old, to which Thor smiled.
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She is able to summon her past selves to fight or take her place as they are essentially Kurumi herself. This not only allows her to cheat death by summoning herself from before her death, but also makes it more difficult for Shido to reach her; such as when Shido was able to persuade a clone on top of the school but was interrupted when she killed that version of herself for showing weakness, circumventing any emotional persuasions the same way as physical injuries. From within her shadow they can reach out their arms and grab people to hold them or to drag them into the shadow which somehow ends up with the person seeming to have exploded when the area is shown later. While in her Astral Dress, she wears her black hair in twin tails, with the hair on her left side longer than her right.
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In the Legends continuity, Darth Andeddu, also known as the Immortal God-King of Prakith, was an ancient Dark Lord of the Sith who lived prior to the invention of the "Darth" title for the Sith. He was a paranoid man, who believed that his followers were secretly plotting to overthrow him, which eventually came true, as they betrayed and attacked him, seeking to steal his power. Forced to flee from Korriban, Andeddu created the world of Prakith, where he would rule as a deity for several centuries until meeting his demise and entombing himself to prevent his followers from stealing his secrets even in death. Prior to his death, he would also create a Sith holocron to store all his knowledge, including the ability to cheat death by transferring one's essence into another vessel, and his cult, called "the Malevolence", would create a temple in the reverence of the Dark Lord, believing that one day he would return.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), with Cushing, Lee, and André Morell was an adaptation of the famous Sherlock Holmes novel given a horror slant, whilst Cushing and Lee also starred in The Mummy (1959), a pastiche of the Universal Mummy movies of the 1940s. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), with Cushing and Francis Matthews, was a successful sequel to The Curse of Frankenstein, whilst The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) was a remake of The Man in Half Moon Street (1945), and featured Lee in a more heroic role than usual, opposite Anton Diffring. Fisher directed another hit sequel, The Brides of Dracula (1960) starring Cushing, Freda Jackson, Martita Hunt and David Peel, whilst The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) had Paul Massie in the title role with Lee and Dawn Addams in support, but it was one of the first Hammer horrors to perform disappointingly at the box office. However, Hammer didn't only assign him to gothic chillers; The Stranglers of Bombay (1959) was a different kind of horror, a tale of the thuggee cult in Imperial India starring Guy Rolfe and Allan Cuthbertson.
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