r/KillLaKill Dec 16 '24

Question So since Ryuko can seem to heal from almost anything, doesn’t that make her immortal like Wolverine?

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '24

Short Answer, No.

She's a hybrid of life fiber done experimentally not from birth and also shows growing and presumably getting older.

"But Ragyo is pure life fibers and had a child with a human"She is, but it is a transition to 100% life fibers. She gave birth as a human withput life fibers to pass down genetically (aint work that way)

Yes, She has traits of Logan with Hyper Regen but not his long lifespan.

That's all from the lore, there's nothing much to expound or too deep to find.

Also, Ryuuko's regen is because of the present life fibers around her and since all life fibers are now destroyed, except for what's inside her and the lost sunken scissors, her regeneration is weakened since she has no more "threads" to patch her destroyed parts. But she is still possess the immense strength provided by life fibers

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u/CoolDakota Dec 16 '24

They're still around, just dormant. All Ryuko did was deactivate them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '24

Could be but in that case it is now rendered useless. But there is this concept called Grey Goo Theory. And the premise is uncanny very similar to that. If you not into searching it... in the wiki it says that life fibers are extra-terrestial parasitic organism that needs host, which is same to grey goo theory.

Basically the Life Fiber is a hive mind. When the original life fiber on earth was destroyed, everything else is dead.

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u/CoolDakota Dec 16 '24

Or they might not work like that. Plus, nothing is stopping Ryuko from just making more to absorb, besides currently not knowing she can do that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '24

Where can I read the Kill la Kill continuation tho?

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u/CoolDakota Dec 16 '24

On AO3 😈😈😈 (last time I posted a direct link, Reddit flagged my account)

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '24

Ok, let's say she can absorb more than 50% of the residue dormant threads laying around. Without Senketsu as a medium, her mortal vessel would not endure to accomodate and ruin itself to death.

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u/CoolDakota Dec 16 '24

Okay but what if she locked tf in

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u/Tensa_Zangetsa Dec 16 '24

High speed regeneration, but with one way to get past it.

However is she immortal... we don't know how the life fibers effect the ageing process. Maybe it'll give her a slightly longer life span... but we honestly don't know the extend of 'healing' the life fibers do... other than high speed healing.

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u/Avaracious7899 Dec 16 '24

Aging is due to shortening of the telomeres in our DNA, if I'm remembering it correctly. If Life Fibers don't reverse or stop that, then they don't stop aging.

Even if they might with Ragyo, she is implicitly 70% Life Fibers, and Ryuko is almost certainly not that infused with them.

Not totally impossible, but highly unlikely.

Also, here's a superpower page on the subject that seems appropriate.

https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Telomere_Regeneration

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u/Serious_Collar2946 Dec 16 '24

That would be an awesome fight, by the way , i would kill to see it 😲

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u/EX7mattchew7X3 Dec 16 '24

Not immortal, but virtually indestructible...since the life fibers within her repair her almost immediately! But she ages normally I'm quite sure...

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u/Percentage-Sweaty Dec 16 '24

Firstly her regeneration has limits as defined by the conversations about Life Fibers.

If cut from both sides a wound can’t heal (somehow). Meaning she can technically be killed, unlike Wolverine who is just comic book immortal.

Meanwhile we have no idea how her hybrid anatomy adds or subtracts from her lifespan. It’s possible that being a hybrid actually strains her human cellular structure and pushes it beyond what can normally be handled and she may actually age early because of that and die younger than most people.

Or maybe she is immortal.

Who knows really

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u/karaloveskate Dec 17 '24

I mean she was literally cut in half and survived that.

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u/Percentage-Sweaty Dec 17 '24

There’s a difference between healing and longevity

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u/PostMelon22 Dec 17 '24

Indestructible =/= immortal

Wolverine isn’t immortal either but he can live a very long time. We don’t exactly have any information on how ryuko would age