Hypothetical Highlander Rules...

[Volpone]

I wanted to say "Highlights," but it was too stupid.

So the immortals in Highlander can only be killed by decapitation--possibly only by another immortal. So I got to thinking.

Living forever could wear on you. Get tired of watching people you care about die. You might want to check out. But also not contribute to The Game. What happens if an immortal arranges their decapitation? Does it kill them? Is their power lost? Distributed over all the other immortals? Does it go to the physically closest immortal when it happens? Or do they wind up like Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner? Still alive, but headless? Did any immortals get killed during the French Revolution? Did weak lazy immortals just kind of hang out around the guillotine to suck up free power?

 

[Volpone]

What happens if you chop an immortal in half? Do you get a clone, like worms? Or is it Deadpool movie rules--the legs (or the right half or whatever) dies and the missing bits regenerate? Do they need to save the missing bits and duct tape everything together until it heals back? Or do you wind up with horribly maimed immortals wandering around, missing limbs, etc? What if you're blown up? Vaporized? What happened to any immortals that might have been in Hiroshima in 1945?

 

[Volpone]

Do you need food and drink? You can't die. So do you get emaciated if you don't eat? Or stay the same? If so, you could skip food and never need to poop again. Are there fat immortals? What if you are an immortal but it never activates because you're never "killed"? Do you eventually die of old age? Or just keep getting older and older and weaker and more decrepit?

 

[The Question]

Only Christopher Lambert knows the answer to these questions. And you could theoretically ask him, of course, but then you'd have to listen to him talk.