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Immortals are a group of fictional characters seen in the movies and series of the ''Highlander'' franchise. Since they are immune to disease and stop aging after becoming Immortal, they can live forever and they only die when they are beheaded. ==Origin== The Immortals were first introduced in ''Highlander'' in 1986. They were created by script writer Gregory Widen who, according to Bill Panzer, producer of the ''Highlander'' franchise, "was a student at film school, and he wrote this as his writing class project. (...) He was apparently travelling through Scotland on his summer vacation and he was standing in front of a suit of armor, and he wondered, 'What would it be like if that guy was alive today?' And that's where everything fell into place — the idea that there are Immortals and they were in conflict with each other, leading secret lives that the rest of us are unaware of."〔Bill Panzer, at (Thedigitalbits.com ), last accessed September 4, 2007〕 In the ''Highlander'' universe, the origin of the Immortals is unknown. Panzer states, "We don't know where they come from. Maybe they come from the Source."〔Episode "Avenging Angel", Bonus Material, Bill Panzer's interview, in ''Highlander: The Series'' (season 1) (DVD, Davis-Panzer Productions, Inc., 2001), disk 7.〕 It is not known yet what the Source actually is. An attempt to explain the origin of the Immortals was made in the theatrical version of ''Highlander II: The Quickening'' (1991), which revealed that Immortals are aliens from the planet Zeist. Yet this was edited out of the director's cut of the film made in 1995, ''Highlander II: The Renegade Version'', in which the Immortals are from Earth, but from a distant past. Neither of the two versions is mentioned in either later movies or the television series. In either version of ''Highlander II'', Immortals themselves do not know where they come from or for what purpose they exist. In ''Highlander'', the Immortal mentor Ramírez, when asked by newly Immortal Connor MacLeod about their origins, answers, "Why does the sun come up? Or are the stars just pinholes in the curtain of night? Who knows?" In ''Highlander: Endgame'', protagonist Connor MacLeod says, "We are the seeds of legend, but our true origins are unknown. We simply are." In the television series episode "Mountain Men", protagonist Duncan MacLeod expresses the same ignorance when he tells Caleb Cole, a fellow Immortal, "Whatever gods made you and me... made us different," and his next line, deleted from the episode, has him say, "They're just having a little fun."〔Episode "Mountain Men", Final Shooting Script, p.47, in ''Highlander: The Series'' (season 1) (DVD, Davis-Panzer Productions, Inc., 2001), disk 9.〕 Wherever they come from, the ''Highlander'' franchise assumes that there have always been Immortals on Earth, well before the beginning of civilization. In ''Highlander'', Ramírez's narrative starts, "From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives..." and in ''Highlander: Endgame'', Connor's narrative says, "In the days before memory, there were the Immortals. We were with you then, and we are with you now." The End .. ---- 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Immortal (Highlander)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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