Brief Summary[]
"Regeneration" (more commonly dubbed a "Healing Factor") is a term applied to those who can heal wounds at an accelerated rate, far exceeding that of humans.
The lowest levels are basic wounds like cuts or scrapes that would normally take weeks to heal being healed in days, hours, minutes or even seconds. The higher levels go into regenerating entire limbs, vaporization, complete physical destruction and even complete conceptual destruction at the highest levels.
Levels[]
Low: Faster healing ability for normal wounds. In machines and vehicles, this would be regenerating basic exterior damage.
- Examples: Tanjiro Kamado (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba), Brandon Breyer (Brightburn), Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Mid-Low: Able to heal wounds that would normally leave large scars, like severe burns, deep injuries and stab wounds. In machines and vehicles, this would be regenerating damage that would normally leave large dents and openings.
- Examples: Jeff the Killer (Creepypasta), Batman (DC), Scrooge McDuck (Ducktales)
Eric Draven (THE CROW 1994 & Comic Series)
High-Low: Able to regenerate some severed body parts like fingers or minor organ damage, and in some cases reattach missing limbs. In machines and vehicles, this would be regenerating some interior damage, and some minor critically damaged or destroyed parts.
- Examples: Frieza (Dragon Ball), Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star), Edea Lee (Bravely Default)
Low-Mid: Able to regenerate limbs/fatal wounds, and regenerate from things such as disembowelment and severe organ damage. Still die from decapitation. In machines and vehicles, this would be regenerating minor parts and more extensive internal damage.
- Examples: Postal Dude (Postal), Broly (Dragon Ball), Terrarian (Terraria)
Mid: Able to regenerate from decapitation or severe brain damage. In machines and vehicles, this would be regenerating from the destruction of critical parts such as the engine.
- Examples: Camp Spirit Moon Residence (Goosebumps), Art the Clown (All Hallows' Eve), Wolverine and Sabretooth (Marvel Comics).
High-Mid: Able to regenerate from being blown or chopped into pieces.
- Examples: Dark Mind (Kirby), Foxy (Five Nights at Freddy's), Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
Low-High: Able to regenerate from a non-solid state, such as a puddle, a drop of blood, a single cell, or mush. This level of regeneration can also be obtained by regenerating from a small piece of the user's body.
- Examples: Bendy (Bendy and the Ink Machine), Pennywise (IT), Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Verse]])
Mid-High: Able to regenerate from being reduced to ash, dust, smoke, vapor or a form of plasma.
- Examples: Deadpool (Marvel Comics), Garfield (Garfield), Hulk (Marvel Comics)c
High: Able to regenerate from a few or a single molecule, atom or particle.
- Examples: The Masked Mutant (Goosebumps), Zamasu (Dragon Ball), The Sentry (Marvel Comics)
Low-Godly: Able to restore their physical body from some sort of disembodied consciousness, like a soul, mind or some other nonphysical aspect of themself. This also includes being restored from another realm.
- Examples: Skitzo (COMICK), Dr. Maniac (Goosebumps), Spawn (Image Comics)
Mid-Godly: Able to regenerate from complete destruction of not only their physical form, but their non-physical aspect such as their soul or mind.
- Examples: SCP-682 (SCP Foundation), Cthulhu (Cthulhu Mythos), Virgo Shaka (Saint Seiya)
High-Godly: Able to regenerate even if their existence is erased from all temporal points, usually including other timelines as well.
- Examples: White Face (Imscared), Unicron and Primus (Transformers)
True-Godly: Able to regenerate even if every aspect of one's self is erased along with their potential to exist in any form; often equated to someone's concept or essence.
- Examples: Alovenus (A Wild Last Boss Appeared!)
Notes[]
NOTE #1: For characters that don't have a soul, consciousness, or some other nonphysical aspect of themselves but can regenerate their entire body from complete destruction. That would qualify as Mid-Godly regeneration.
Note #2: It is important to distinguish the difference between a character's soul and a character's essence as described in Mid-Godly and True-Godly respectively. Mid-Godly is specifically referencing a character's disembodied consciousness alone - that is to say that it is referring to an immaterial aspect of a character which exists independently from their physical body. By contrast, True-Godly is referring to a character's ability to exist in any sense, whether it be materially, immaterially, conceptually or even just potentially. That being said, it is not unheard of for a verse to merge these two concepts together, and describe one's soul as being similar, if not the same, as their essence in the context provided under True-Godly. The inverse is also true, and a verse might instead choose to describe a character's essence as being nothing more than a disembodied consciousness. In such scenarios, it is best to elaborate on the context of such statements and demonstrate which manner a character's "soul" or "essence" is described, rather than simply assuming that it must mean one or the other based on shared words alone.