immortal living secretly among us theme
A character who doesn't age and who has lived an impossibly long time lives secretly among us run-of-the-mill mortals.
Examples
Flint is revealed to be an immortal human who had lived on Earth under various aliases for thousands of years in tos3x21 "Requiem for Methuselah".
6 total · 3 choice · 3 major
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: The Man from Earth (2007) | choice | John Oldman claiming to be a caveman who'd secretly survived for more than 140 centuries constitutes the film's primary novelty. |
| tos3x21 | choice | Flint lived on Earth for thousands of years |
| tz1959e5x23 | choice | Pamela was able to transfer other peoples' youth into herself, thus staying young indefinitely. |
| movie: The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957) | major | A group of doctors had secretly kept themselves alive for over 200 years. |
| rbt1985e2x05 | major | One gathers that Mr. Koberman had ceased aging since at least the fin de siècle. There was a photo of him posing in front of the Eiffel Tower as it was being built. |
| tz1985e1x24b | major | It turned out that a number of Arthurian characters were still around in present day. |