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** In ''Anime/DragonBallZDeadZone'', [[spoiler:Garlic Jr. tries trap Goku in the titular Dead Zone dimension, however, Gohan averts this and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard pushes Garlic Jr. into his own trap]]. And since he has CompleteImmortality, he's going to be trapped there for all eternity.]]
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** In the first "Z" movie, Garlic Jr. wishes for immortality which he gains, [[spoiler:he then attempts to try and trap Goku in a dimension called Dead Zone which is averted by Gohan pushing Garlic Jr. into his own trap. It's bad enough being trapped in a place called the Dead Zone but it's even worse when you're immortal thus trapped for all eternity, though in the main series he escaped only to be trapped yet again though when he returned he didn't seem traumatized, he actually looked rather smug, meaning it probably wasn't that bad as the name implies.]]
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* In ''Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:Yuko Tani is ''technically'' still alive but it's only due to the nanometal acting as a life-support system and she's left in a permanent braindead state.]]
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* ''Anime/MadeInAbyss'' has the [[BalefulPolymorph Hollows]] - humans afflicted by the {{curse}} to the point of losing their humanity. In a human experiment, Nanachi's friend Mitty became a Hollow who was unable to die. Even after the most brutal violence, Mitty's body would regenerate. This is a ''child'' who was [[UnwittingTestSubject manipulated]] into being a test subject in an experiment which [[PainfulTransformation painfully]] [[TransformationHorror transformed]] her into a deformed lump of flesh unable to communicate, able to feel pain and unable to die. Nanachi watched all of this, knowing that it could have been her if their randomly assigned roles in the experiment were switched. Nanachi became Mitty's carer, seeking [[spoiler:a way to kill Mitty and relieve her suffering. Reg's Incinerator]] was successful.
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** In Part 5 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'', Giorno Giovanna uses [[spoiler:the newly arrow-enhanced powers of]] his Stand Gold Experience [[spoiler:Requiem]] on TheDon Diavolo, which [[spoiler:returns anything to a state of zero and traps Diavolo in an alternate reality that forces him through an infinite loop of repeated deaths]].
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** [[spoiler: Killer]] is revealed to have been force-fed a dud SMILE fruit, which causes them to constantly laugh and express no other expression other than smiling. For [[spoiler: Killer]] who never laughs due to despising the way they laugh and even wears a mask to hide their face, this is pure torture as they now can't ''do anything but laugh''.
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* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The fate of Judge Death at the end of "The Torture Garden" is to be once again encased in Boing (hollow super-plastic), then floating in space after an EarthShatteringKaboom, and forced to eternally ponder a passage on the beauty of life.
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* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The fate of Judge Death at the end of "The Torture Garden" is to be once again encased in Boing (hollow super-plastic), then floating in space after an EarthShatteringKaboom, and forced to eternally ponder a passage on the beauty of life.
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** Part 1, ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'', ends with Dio, an immortal vampire, stuck as a severed head in a casket at the bottom of the sea [[spoiler:enduring the painful process of trying to merge his head with Jonathan's body]]. He stays there for about a hundred years before being fished back up at the start of part 3.
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** In Part 3 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', the [[LivingWeapon sword stand]] Anubis gets half of his blade destroyed, and the other half falls into the Nile River. Since it can only [[DemonicPossession possess]] people that actually touch it, Anubis is trapped at the bottom of the river until it rusts away into nothing. A process that could take centuries.
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*** One example that has nothing to do with Josuke is Okuyasu's father. Back in the 1980s DIO implanted him with a [[BodyHorror flesh bud]], turning him into an unwilling servant. Upon DIO's death the bud mutated him into a squat, frog-like creature with diminished mental capacity, rendering him incapable of normal human speech -- and on top of that he has [[FromASingleCell regenerative immortality]] and thus can never die. And just to cap it all off, there doesn't seem to be any way to cure him, since he didn't respond to the healing powers of either Josuke or Tonio's Stands.
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** Also from part 5, Doppio had his mother BuriedAlive underneath his house. It's not explained how, but she was somehow kept alive during this whole time, which lasted at least several months if not years. By the time she was found, she had lost all sense of time.
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* In ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'', one of Mahito's--the humanoid curse--powers is that killing people by contorting their bodies and keeping their consciousness intact while they act as a personal attack dog for him.
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** As we learn in ''Resurrection 'F''' this is Frieza's fate after he dies. In Hell, he is trapped to a tree for the rest of eternity unable to move while angels and toy-like creatures sing and dance around him. Much harsher than the free roaming Hell from the ''Z'' fillers and ''GT''.
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-->'''Frieza:''' I realized something while I was trapped in Earth's Hell, hanging from a tree unable to move: Not being able to die would likely result in ''unending'' misery.
-->'''Frieza:''' I realized something while I was trapped in Earth's Hell, hanging from a tree unable to move: Not being able to die would likely result in ''unending'' misery.
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** In Part 5 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'', Giorno Giovanna uses [[spoiler:the newly arrow-enhanced powers of]] his Stand Gold Experience [[spoiler:Requiem]] on TheDon Diavolo, with his new ability to [[spoiler:return anything to a state of zero, to trap Diavolo in an alternate reality that forces him through an infinite loop of reapeated deaths]].
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* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': In the climax of the Alicization arc, Kirito subjects [=PoH=] to this. After [=PoH=] declares he'll never stop coming after Kirito and Asuna until he's killed them in real life, Kirito declares that [[YouAreAlreadyDead he's never logging out of Underworld]] and traps him in a tree, leaving him to rot in Underworld forever. It's made even worse by the fact that time in Underworld runs on YearInsideHourOutside.
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* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': In the climax of the Alicization arc, Kirito subjects [=PoH=] to this. After [=PoH=] declares fully expects Kirito to just kill him in-game, remarking that he'll never stop just keep coming after Kirito and Asuna again and again until he's killed he finally kills them in real life, life. This is the final nail in his coffin; rather than kill him, Kirito declares that [[YouAreAlreadyDead he's never logging PoH will ''never'' log out of Underworld]] and traps the Soul Translator, instead trapping him in a tree, tree and leaving him to rot in Underworld forever. It's made even worse by the fact that time in Underworld runs on YearInsideHourOutside.YearInsideHourOutside; years can pass in-game while mere days pass in the real world.
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* Episode two of ''Anime/VampirePrincessMiyu'', "At The Next Station". This is the fate of the women who fall prey to the temptation of the Shinma Rho-Ah, and take him up on his offer of enhanced beauty... only to end up frozen in time, like beautiful mannequins dressed in expensive clothes, never to age or decay... at the end, even the one who got decapitated during the battle between Rho-Ah and Miyu is still alive, just like the rest of them -- whimpering and sobbing quietly through paralyzed lips.
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* Yuki in the Endless Eight arc of the LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya series is forced to [[GroundhogDayLoop relive the same two weeks over and over again]] for nearly ''600 years''. And while she's the only one of the SOS Brigade to remember it all (while the others just get an odd sense of deja vu,) she's unable to do anything about it because her orders forbid her from directly interfering.
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* In ''Manga/VampireKnight'', [[spoiler:Kaname kills the vampire senate by manipulating them into ripping off their own heads.]]
** Aido is unable to resist [[spoiler:Rido calling him with mind control with the intent to eat him. Yuuki saves him at the last minute however.]]
** The pureblood Hanadagi pulls the same on [[spoiler:Aido's father, who is then saved by Kaname.]]
** Aido is unable to resist [[spoiler:Rido calling him with mind control with the intent to eat him. Yuuki saves him at the last minute however.]]
** The pureblood Hanadagi pulls the same on [[spoiler:Aido's father, who is then saved by Kaname.]]
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*** One example that has nothing to do with Josuke is Okuyasu's father. Back in the 1980s DIO implanted him with a [[BodyHorror flesh bud]], turning him into an unwilling servant. Upon DIO's death the bud mutated him into a squat, frog-like creature with diminished mental capacity, rendering him incapable of normal human speech -- and on top of that he has RegenerativeImmortality and thus can never die. And just to cap it all off, there doesn't seem to be any way to cure him, since he didn't respond to the healing powers of either Josuke or Tonio's Stands.
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** In Part 8 ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion JoJolion]]'', as the disfigured Rock Human Dolomite prepares to use his Stand Blue Hawaii to drown our hero Josuke Higashikata, our heroine Yasuho Hirose appears and starts beating him with a metal rod and threatens to push him into a muddier part of the lake he calls home until he frees Josuke of his control. He would have been completely immobilized in the mud and reverted to his stone state, if not dying entirely, if he did not acquiesce and free Josuke and give up his part on the whole scheme over the Rokakaka fruit.
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** In Parte 5 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'', Giorno Giovanna uses [[spoiler:the newly boosted powers of]] his Stand Gold Experience [[spoiler:Requiem]] on TheDon Diavolo, with his ability to speed up the human mind to the point that the body cannot catch up [[spoiler:powered up to the point that it makes Diavolo experience an eternity of different deaths in his mind, leaving his body seemingly comatose]].
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** InParte Part 5 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'', Giorno Giovanna uses [[spoiler:the newly boosted powers of]] his Stand Gold Experience [[spoiler:Requiem]] on TheDon Diavolo, with his ability to speed up the human mind to the point that the body cannot catch up [[spoiler:powered up to the point that it makes Diavolo experience an eternity of different deaths in his mind, leaving his body seemingly comatose]].
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* In ''Manga/{{Ajin}}'', the treatment of the Ajin at the hands of human "researchers" is this with a heavy dose of NightmareFuel. Blindfolded, vocal cords removed and strapped down on a table while various experiments are performed but all the experiments end in death. A fair amount of the experiments are simply done to see how much pain the Ajin can take. Once the Ajin die they wake up back on the experiment table whole and ready to start the whole process over. The Ajin are immortal and near as anyone can find they cannot die.
* ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'' has a doubly terrifying version revealed towards the end. [[spoiler:The most powerful angel, Adam Kadamon, said to be mother/father of all angels, was imprisoned for probably thousands of years by God because he was afraid of its power and was slowly taken apart to be fed to its children the angels. Yes, you got it right, the cute little angels are fed their mom/dad; no wonder most of them are [[LightIsNotGood not so pure]]. By the events of the books only a deformed head is left which is still conscious and able to talk, but gets finally released by the good guys.]]
* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', the true nature of the [[HumanoidAbomination Ti]][[ImAHumanitarian tans]] is revealed to be this. They were all [[spoiler:once humans who were somehow transformed into Titans a century earlier. Unable to control their new forms, they're only driven by their basic instincts to feed. With at least some form of awareness left.]] Many of the characters are [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone understandably horrified]] by of the implications of this discovery. What's worse is that [[spoiler:it's not even clear ''how'' it occurs, but that it could happen to anyone. As Connie found out [[TearJerker the hard way]].]]
* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' has a lot of immortal characters, and a couple of them end up like this. Perhaps the most clear-cut case is [[spoiler:Dallas Genoard]], who ''really'' annoyed the Gandor mafia family, overconfidently assuming that since he could regenerate from any wound, they couldn't hurt him. So they did what the mafia does best and gave him CementShoes, leaving him to eternally drown at the bottom of the Hudson River until he either got dredged up or died of old age[[note]]Most immortals in the series had CompleteImmortality, but he only had FromASingleCell regeneration so he still aged and would die from it[[/note]].
* In ''Manga/{{Bakugan}}'', this was intended to be the fate of [[spoiler:Emperor Barodius]] by Code Eve, the god of the Bakugan, as punishment for [[spoiler:attempting to destroy a peaceful planet in persuit of power]]. And she was quite thorough about it. [[spoiler:She imprisoned him in armor [[MadeOfEvil crafted from his own evil]], [[SealedEvilInACan sealed him in another universe]], and [[OrcusOnHisThrone left him tied to his throne]] for all eternity with only his own madness and his equally insane guardian Bakugan to keep him company. By the time we actually see him again, he's gone ''completely insane'', [[ThatManIsDead declared his old self dead]], and invented a new persona for himself called Mag Mel. Unfortunately, he had a PsychicLink to [[TheHero Dan]] that let him absorb Chaos Energy to escape, but if it weren't for that it'd be a rather [[KarmicDeath karmic end]]]].
** Bakugan sent to the doom dimension suffer from this. The place is so inhospitable that they are forced into a dormant state where all they can do is think about how much they hate their situation, except for Reaper who stays conscious but gets hideously wounded.
* Griffith from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' suffers a non-supernatural, realistic version of this: [[spoiler:after sleeping with Princess Charlotte out of grief, he is imprisoned by the Midland King and tortured for a year. By the time Guts, Casca and the other come to rescue him, he's horribly emaciated; his tendons have been severed, preventing him from holding a sword or even standing up right; and [[TongueTrauma his tongue has been cut out]]. All the while he was conscious of it, and speculates whether or not he's still sane... all of this pushes him to both the {{Despair|EventHorizon}} and {{Moral Event Horizon}}s to escape from it.]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** The end of the fight between Mayuri Kurotsuchi and the Espada Szayel Aporro Granz. [[spoiler:Due to implanting an egg of himself into Nemu to resurrect himself, Szayel ingests a massive dose of a drug that grants superhuman senses, speeding up his perception of time. With seconds seemingly taking centuries for him, and his body unable to keep up, he is utterly incapacitated. Kurotsuchi then stabs him through the hand and chest, not quite piercing his heart. While in real time he died only a couple seconds after the drug took effect, to him it felt like being stuck in place for several hundred years.]]
** The comic in UNMASKED reveals that [[spoiler:Ulquiorra]] was unable to hear, speak, smell, feel, eat, or sleep due to [[spoiler:his mask covering everything but his eyes]]. He ''was'' able to move, but since he lived in [[CrapsackWorld Hueco Mundo]], it didn't matter where he went; each pile of sand was exactly like the one before it.
** [[spoiler:The Vandenreich Emperor Yhwach]] was born blind, deaf, mute, and paralyzed. However, by transplanting portions of his soul into others and then absorbing their souls when they die, he was able to cure himself. He must constantly absorb souls or else he will revert to his previous state.
* The manga ''Manga/BloodAlone'' has a killer who can [[GrandTheftMe jump to other bodies when he dies]]. Unfortunately, the last people he fights are a vampire and rather savvy human. She turns him; and then he breaks his neck just as he turns into a vampire. The killer is now frozen in the body of an permanently broken necked vampire. They lock him up in a room in the basement of a hospital.
* In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', the electronic 'uploading' cult SCRATCH turns out to be led by [[spoiler:a teenaged hacker with [[DigitizedHacker a unique form of surfing-induced brain damage. His mind no longer has any connection over his body, leaving him a vegetable with a functioning mind that can only exist on the internet]]. In the end Jet pulls his connection to cyberspace and traps his mind in his non-functional body, alive and on life support but unable to interact with the outside world for the rest of the 70+ years he's got left of his life.]]
* Light Yagami from ''Manga/DeathNote'' is implied to have this in the film version ''Visions of a God''. He has eternal life as a shinigami (God of death) with his precious Death Note - everything he wanted. The problem is a shinigami's life is eternal monotony and meaningless existence. All the excitement and power Light once wielded is gone forever, although it's implied that he travels to the human world to relive Ryuk's interesting experience with him with another human.
* One [[KarmicDeath sinner]] from ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' is BoundAndGagged, and then placed inside a slowly filling bathtub.
* [[MonsterClown Piedmon]] suffers this fate near the end of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', when he's thrown into [=MagnaAngemon=]'s Gate of Destiny, which according to WordOfGod leads to a pocket dimension from which there's no escape. And since Digimon are functionally immortal, barring being killed by someone else... this was a well-earned {{Karmic|Death}} FateWorseThanDeath.
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ''
** In the first "Z" movie, Garlic Jr. wishes for immortality which he gains, [[spoiler:he then attempts to try and trap Goku in a dimension called Dead Zone which is averted by Gohan pushing Garlic Jr. into his own trap. It's bad enough being trapped in a place called the Dead Zone but it's even worse when you're immortal thus trapped for all eternity, though in the main series he escaped only to be trapped yet again though when he returned he didn't seem traumatized, he actually looked rather smug, meaning it probably wasn't that bad as the name implies.]]
** Later in the main series, upon realizing that even after Goten and Trunks have mastered the FusionDance that their fused form Gotenks isn't a match for [[BigBad Super Buu]], Piccolo decides to invoke this trope by destroying the entrance to the [[YearInsideHourOutside Room of Spirit and Time]], where Gotenks and Piccolo were fighting Buu. [[TemptingFate He even spells it out to Buu in order to get the last laugh.]] Buu then [[VillainousBreakdown freaks the hell out at the idea of not being able to eat any more sweets, ever again]] and his screams of pure rage actually manage to rip open a hole between dimensions which he uses to escape and continue his rampage. The hole closes after Buu gets out, leaving Piccolo and Gotenks trapped inside, unable to save their friends and families from Buu's fury. [[spoiler:Fortunately Gotenks has a trick up his sleeve: he manages to turn Super Saiyan 3, and scream loud enough to create another hole between dimensions.]]
** As we learn in ''Resurrection 'F''' this is Frieza's fate after he dies. In Hell, he is trapped to a tree for the rest of eternity unable to move while angels and toy-like creatures sing and dance around him. Much harsher than the free roaming Hell from the ''Z'' fillers and ''GT''.
* In one scene in the ''Manga/ElfenLied'' manga, there's a diclonius who is not much more than a head and a chest within a completely enclosed metal box. The head is covered by the same helmet and mask as the dicloni in the lab. The diclonius' only purpose is to use its telepathic abilities to sense others of its kind and serves as a biological detector device.
** Not only that, but a device is connected to the girl's spine to make her experience continuous pain in order to prevent her from lashing out at her tormentors.
** He also stated that after raping her (before cutting her in half), he cut out her vocal cords. This series doesn't have enough generosity to its characters to do it in a clean way, so you must use your imaginations on how that went.
** Because that isn't enough, her psychic projection of herself is nothing but a scarred upper-body with a faceless, misshapen head uttering only "It hurts", "Kill me" and "Run" over and over.
* Used for a KarmicDeath in ''Manga/FrankenFran''. An old, rich woman was seeking to have her youth restored, and had her servants murder any doctor that couldn't come up with a permanent answer. [[spoiler:She's also had herself mass-cloned, only to murder her clones one by one and drink a solution made from their eggs, one of the partially-successful treatments]]. She hires Fran, who comes up with a treatment that seems to have results... then has her men cut Fran's head off afterwards. Unfortunately for the old woman, Fran is an ArtificialHuman, capable of stitching her own head back into place. She confronts the old woman afterwards, and notes an unusual rash on her arm... [[spoiler:Turns out, as aging is caused by programmed cell death, Fran had adjusted the woman's cells to be the one type of cell that is not pre-programmed to die... cancer cells. As she says it, the old woman collapses into a giant pile of cancerous cells. And then [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Fran tells her that, theoretically, she'll now live forever]].]]
** This is a case of TruthInTelevision as there is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa line of immortal human cells born from the cancer cells of a human]]. Granted, the human they were born from died from the cancer.
** Though cancer cells can go into spontaneous remission and if she doesn't die from that, it's pretty unlikely a pile of cancer cells can just survive out in open air forever like that.
** Most of Fran's patients wind up in this boat, really.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', this happens to [[spoiler:any poor soul who's put into a Philosopher's Stone to be used as an alchemy amplifier. The victims ''can'' scream, but because there is no one to get them out of there, they are ''always'' screaming, with no plausible hope of ever getting out of the stone other than being used to fuel an alchemic transmutation, wherein they effectively die]]. On the plus side, [[spoiler:Van Hohenheim, who in essence ''is'' a walking Philosopher's Stone, took the time over the many centuries he was alive to talk to and calm down ''every single soul inside him''...all 536,329 of them]].
** Also, at the very end of the climax, [[spoiler:Father is dragged back into the Gate of Truth, screaming in abject horror before it shuts, locking him away in a hell he had desperately tried to evade]].
** Greed found himself in this situation in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], sealed in a skull stuck in a wall for hundreds of years. [[spoiler:He chose death in favor of letting it happen to him again.]]
* The monk Gyroz in ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'' deliberately had his mind put into a robot body that is blind, deaf, and dumb in order to escape from worldly distractions. (It's equipped with telepathy for communication and radar for navigation.) When events lead him to doubt his own enlightenment he has his limbs melted down to make false teeth for the protagonist (ItMakesSenseInContext) and his now immobile head and torso bolted to the edge of a cliff. The prospect of spending centuries there pondering his doctrinal errors makes him positively giddy with excitement. (Gyroz is notably the only person in the series who doesn't go mad as a result of getting robotified, as the madness comes from trying to satisfy human desires while in robot form, whereas Gyroz became a robot in order to escape from them.)
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' uses it on occasions.
** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' might give the idea of Kamille being thrown into one of those (though probably only lifelong) situation at the end, but he gets better in the sequel, ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]''. Villains like [[spoiler:Katejina]] from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory Gundam]]'' or [[spoiler:Shagia Frost]] from ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' end up at least in one way or the other crippled ([[spoiler:Katejina]] is blinded and amnesiac, [[spoiler:Shagia]] is wheelchair-bound -- Gundam's not that far into mysticism, so no punishment beyond life so far). Though, ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' has [[spoiler:Lucille Lilliant]] a.k.a. Lorelei (a good minor character) being put in a forced coma and locked in a capsule for 15 years or so, mostly cut off from the real world. [[spoiler: She manages to contact her ex-pupil Jamil through the body of a fellow Newtype, Jamil's protegée Tiffa, and is saved.]])
** Anyone who is infected with DG Cells in ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]''. You either become a zombie used to power the Dark Army, or slowly go insane/rabid.
* Yuki in the Endless Eight arc of the LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya series is forced to [[GroundhogDayLoop relive the same two weeks over and over again]] for nearly ''600 years''. And while she's the only one of the SOS Brigade to remember it all (while the others just get an odd sense of deja vu,) she's unable to do anything about it because her orders forbid her from directly interfering.
* In ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'', Chaos is defeated the first time when Ikaros sends her to the bottom of the ocean. Chaos is immortal, but the water pressure is so great that she's pinned. She eventually escapes.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'':
** The Shikon no Tama is formed through a miko and a combination of youkai being locked in a battle. The souls of the youkai and Midoriko still battle endlessly inside the jewel, for the 500 years or so of its existence. Near the end of the series, [[spoiler:The Shikon no Tama tells Kagome that she was born to keep the battle inside the jewel going on, that she was born to be trapped inside the jewel and battle inside it forever, that there is no right wish to make, and that it can't ever be destroyed. Thank god that's not exactly true.]]
** Kagome ends up going through this herself in the [[Anime/InuYashaTheMovieAffectionsTouchingAcrossTime first movie]]. To clarify, she's {{brainwashed|AndCrazy}} by the BigBad and forced to attack Inuyasha with the intent to kill. Throughout the entire experience, Kagome is fully conscious of what she's doing and ''unable to control her own body''.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has multiple examples. Creator/HirohikoAraki has a real thing for this trope.
** In Part 2 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', the BigBad Kars becomes perfectly immortal and gains an auto-evolution ability, protecting him from all means of harm and immunity from his race's weakness to the sun. In his final battle with TheHero Joseph Joestar, Kars is thrown out of the Earth's atmosphere due to a volcanic eruption created by what would have been his death blow to Joseph that was blocked by the very mystical artifact that gave him his powers. As he tries to reenter the Earth's atmosphere, his body slowly freezes up and turns to stone to keep him alive. This is his final fate, or as the narration puts it:
--->''Kars... was never able to go back to Earth... Becoming a life form between organic and mineral, he wandered for eternity into the endless void known as space. Being unable to die even though he wished for it, Kars eventually stopped thinking.''
** In Part 3 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', the [[LivingWeapon sword stand]] Anubis gets half of his blade destroyed, and the other half falls into the Nile River. Since it can only [[DemonicPossession possess]] people that actually touch it, Anubis is trapped at the bottom of the river until it rusts away into nothing. A process that could take centuries.
** Josuke Higashikata, the hero of Part 4 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond Is Unbreakable]]'', inflicts this punishment to multiple villains, because [[ThouShaltNotKill he refuses to kill anyone]]. He first does this to the serial killer Angelo, fusing the man's body to a large ornamental rock in the middle of town, and then transfiguring both to simply being a rock with a face (and for kicks, he puts up a sign instructing people to let their dogs poop near the rock, as Angelo hates dog poop). He later traps Akira Otoishi's Stand Red Hot Chili Pepper in a rubber tire, which is then hurled into the sea (although the Stand is only a visualization of the user's psychic powers so it's not exactly an un-death). One of his final uses of this tactic is against Terunosuke Miyamoto, trapping him in the book he was using to activate his Stand Enigma and turning him into an urban legend in the town.
** In Parte 5 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'', Giorno Giovanna uses [[spoiler:the newly boosted powers of]] his Stand Gold Experience [[spoiler:Requiem]] on TheDon Diavolo, with his ability to speed up the human mind to the point that the body cannot catch up [[spoiler:powered up to the point that it makes Diavolo experience an eternity of different deaths in his mind, leaving his body seemingly comatose]].
** In Part 7 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', Magent Magent's Stand 20th Century Boy makes him impervious and functionally immortal so long as he crouches down so his hands touch the ground. [[spoiler:The heroes wrap him in wires and throw him into the Delaware River, and he can move just enough to activate 20th Century Boy to keep himself from drowning. He waits for his ally Diego Brando to rescue him, but in a CallBack to the ultimate fate of Kars:]]
--->''[[spoiler:The water of the Delaware kept up its constant rhythm as it flowed past the river bottom... and as time passed, Magent Magent...]]''\\
''[[spoiler:Stopped waiting...]]''\\
''[[spoiler:And stopped thinking.]]''
* ''Anime/{{Kakurenbo}}'':
** While we cannot be sure how aware they are, the children captured by the demons [[spoiler:are used as living batteries, like ''Film/TheMatrix'' but without the potentially cheerful virtual reality]]. It gets worse at the very end, [[spoiler:as the numbers of child-batteries are revealed, each hooked up with a light above them. And then we see a little boy, whose light flickers, and then goes out.]]
** The "winner" of the game [[spoiler:is possessed by the demon fox and lures the next group of children. Made worse by the fact that the fox goes from possessing a young girl to taking over the brother who came only to save her]].
* In ''Manga/LifeIsMoney'', the characters play "The Nightmare Game," in which they must roll a die every day to determine which of their senses will be restricted. Depending on their roll, they will either be blindfolded, nose-plugged, forced to wear soundproof headphones, gagged, or paralyzed from the neck down.[[note]]The sixth possible outcome, "Spirit," removes all current afflictions.[[/note]] The rolls are accumulative; a player may have all five restrictions at once. Additionally, a player dies whenever they suffer a DespairEventHorizon, and being alone in one's mind is considered one of the worst ways to reach this.
* What happened to [[spoiler:Kate's father]] in ''Manga/LoveIsInTheBag'', specifically [[spoiler:being stuck as a portrait of himself for ''fifteen years''. And it's implied that it'll happen to Kate as well]].
* In ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', this is the eventual fate of someone who tries to resist the [[HorrorHunger insatiable hunger given by the Eclipse infection]]. Its HealingFactor will go out of control, and eventually, the infected will be reduced to a lump of flesh similar to those brain-like things in the Abandoned Lab that Lily came from.
* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', this is the final fate of [[spoiler:nearly all of the [[ArtificialHuman puppets]] of the Lifemaker]]. Being annoyingly hard to keep dead and protected by several layers of barriers, [[spoiler:Evangeline]] devised a spell that completely froze their surroundings instead, keeping them trapped yet conscious for all eternity.
* In ''Manga/MermaidSaga'', it's unclear whether [[spoiler: Akiko from "Mermaid's Gaze"]] died or was left petrified and conscious for a hundred years. All that we do know is that her eyes still work. Mana claims that [[spoiler:Akiko]] was dead all along, but it's clear she's just trying to make Yuta feel better.
* Several truly chilling instances in ''Anime/MouryouNoHako'', the most awful being the fate of [[spoiler:Yuzuki Kanako. She would have been better off had she died the night she was run over by that train. Instead of that happening, however, her [[IncestIsRelative mother/sister]] took her to an experimental 'hospital', where her [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan ex-Unit 731]] dad/grandpa proceeded to cut off all four of her shattered limbs and keep her hooked up to a warehouse-sized room full of life support machines. Then she's stuffed into a box by a man who loves her, and dies one hour later. ''All while being aware and awake.'']]
** There's also [[spoiler:Kubo Shunkou, the disturbed perpetrator of the severed-limb murders. Almost religiously obsessed with boxes and closed spaces since childhood, he ends up offering himself to Kanako's dad/grandpa as another guinea pig. When Mimasaka and Youko decide to escape with him (now nothing more than an upper torso and head) in a box, he somehow ''escapes'' from the box and kills Mimasaka by chewing his neck. Kubo seemed happier in the box than outside of it. He was still insane, though.]]
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** [[spoiler:Hidan]]'s fate. He gets blown into pieces, and buried in a hole... but he's immortal, and his severed head continues to curse Shikamaru right until he's covered over while rotting slowly away from the lack of nourishment. According to the second fanbook he is going to die ''eventually''.
** [[spoiler:Itachi traps Orochimaru into a previously thought to be inescapable genjutsu that was meant to go on for eternity. Takes a few hundred chapters, but Orochimaru eventually gets out. Itachi later traps Nagato in the same genjutsu after both of them are revived by Kabuto.]]
** This was revealed to happen to [[spoiler: those brought back by Kabuto's Edo Tensei spell who are under direct control of Kabuto]].
** Quite [[LaserGuidedKarma fittingly]] this is also [[spoiler: Kabuto's fate, forced to repeat an endless GroundhogDayLoop within Itachi's genjutsu for eternity...or at least until he admits his mistakes and tries to achieve greatness on his own and stop copying other people.]]
** This is also the case for every sealed Bijuu.
** During ''Naruto 5: Blood Prison'', Muku (The son of the [[BigBad Big Bad, Mui]] ) was trapped in the Box of Ultimate Bliss for ten years after attempting to open it for his Village. The first thing he does is to stab his dad in the chest, and morphs into [[EldritchAbomination Satori]], going on a destructive rampage. The fact that the Box was indestructible from the inside didn't help. But was eventually freed when he incinerated himself.
** [[spoiler:Might Guy's 8th gate is kept intact by Naruto, keeping Guy from succumbing to its final result. Despite the [[HeroicRROD otherwise instantly fatal damage]] his body sustained.]]
** [[spoiler:Kaguya]] gets this ''twice.'' The second time it happened, [[spoiler: it was done in a different dimension that only she could access, with no hope of being unsealed. And since she is immortal, there's no chance of death being an escape for her.]]
* In ''Manga/NightmareInspector'', [[spoiler:while Hiruko was still Chitose Kurosu, his masters broke all of his limbs. All he could do was scream.]]
* ''Anime/NinjaScroll'': The immortal, regenerating bad guy gets encased in molten gold, gold which he had schemed and murdered to claim, no less, and sank to the bottom of a lake.
** Though it's implied his regeneration/immortality is a technique of his will and therefore something he can control. More than likely, he can choose to die once he realizes he really can't get out.
* In the classic Nickelodeon anime ''Anime/TheNoozles'', the soul of Sandy's grandfather is doomed to spend the rest of eternity trapped inside a crystalline orb in another dimension.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', this is the fate of anyone who loses in the Colosseum of Dressrosa. They are dumped into a pit and turned into toys. While they maintain their memories, are unable to do anything but the bidding of the Donquixote Family and are, for the most part, unable to say anything about it. Also, almost everyone else the toy-people ever met forget the toys ever existed as humans.
** [[spoiler:Jack the Drought]] seems to be suffering a fate like this. Like any Devil Fruit user, he's utterly paralyzed when entering seawater, unable to even move. ''Unlike'' most Devil Fruit users, he can still breathe down there, perhaps due to Fishman heritage. Since the circumstances in which he sunk make a rescue unlikely, he's going to be stuck there at the bottom for the foreseeable future, perfectly alive and aware beneath miles of sea but unable to lift a single finger.
* In ''Manga/PandoraHearts,'' [[spoiler:this is the backstory and sin of Oz Vessalius. Oz, originally a LivingToy, was made into a [[SympatheticSentientWeapon Chain]] called B-Rabbit and tricked into contracting with an OmnicidalManiac under the impression that he was simply going to guide the man to visit his lonely friend. He was subsequently stripped of free will and forced to slaughter and destroy the human city he had lived in as a plush rabbit, including people he recognized and loved, while still being mentally himself and all too aware of what was happening around him. Then his owner and {{Platonic Life Partner|s}}, Alice, ''committed suicide in front of him'' to stop this. This event was so traumatic that reminders cause him to have incredibly destructive {{Freak Out}}s, even while suffering from TraumaInducedAmnesia and living under the impression that he's a fifteen-year-old human.]]
* The Hideshi Hino manga ''Manga/PanoramaOfHell'' featured the Narrator's older brother, a "fight freak" gangster who becomes comatose and later becomes a mewling, "moving bag of flesh". [[spoiler:The book ends with the Narrator killing his family to save them from hell. They all turn out to be dolls and puppets -- except for the brother, who is the corpse of a pig.]]
* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'': Queen Felia -TheHero's mother- was captured by the BigBad, frozen alive, framed and set in [[BigBad Marder's]] private chambers to adorn them like a strange blend of living painting and statue. She is aware, but she can't move, talk or even blink.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** This was the punishment dealt to Team Rocket (temporarily, thanks to a between-episodes ResetButton) in one of the earlier episodes.
** Sabrina's dolls. While they couldn't move or actually talk, it was pretty clear they were conscious. Good thing Ash found a way to beat her.
** Hunter J captures Pokémon by turning them into statues.
** A relatively early episode of ''Diamond and Pearl'' featured the cast searching for a Sandshrew that was trapped in its Poké Ball, inside a locker at the bottom of a flooded town. Pokémon are ''completely aware of the outside world'' while in their balls.
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':
** In the manga's FRLG arc, Silver [[TakenForGranite gets turned into stone]] along with four other Dex Holders and he alone ''stays conscious throughout the series'' until he gets unfrozen along with the rest of them.
** The BW arc ends with [[spoiler: Black sealed into the Light Stone, and he stays trapped for an entire two year TimeSkip.]]
* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':
** Michiru and Kaoru Kiryuu spend nearly half of ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' [[FateWorseThanDeath paralyzed at the bottom of a lake]]
** At the start of ''Anime/YesPrecure5'', Nuts was trapped inside the then-unopenable Dream Collet.
* Art teacher Hitomi Ishigami enjoys doing this to her students in the ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' manga, for the sake of "{{true art|IsIncomprehensible}}". She picks out girls to be her "models", then [[TakenForGranite Takes Them for Granite]] and lets them cry as much as they want (their tears stream down their stone faces to get this across).
* What happened to Kaoru in an early mini-arc in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', thanks to Kurogasa. An extremely AxCrazy swordsman and hypnotist who wants to fight male lead Kenshin and kidnaps her to force him to, as soon as Kenshin reaches for them Kurogasa hypnotizes the poor girl into complete paralysis. This means, not only she can't move her limbs or talk... but is slowly, painfully and inexorably ''asphyxiating'', since her whole respiratory system is under paralysis too. ''And she's fully conscious'', helplessly watching how Kurogasa and Kenshin fight it out and Kenshin is reverting to his KnightTemplar Battousai side only to save her, since the only way to break that "spell" is to kill Kurogasa himself before she kicks it... [[spoiler: There's another way, though: to have Kaoru overpowering the hypnosis with a strong will to live. And she does it in the nick of time. Kurogasa still committed suicide in the end.]]
* ''Manga/SailorMoon'':
** Queen Beryl doomed Jadeite to "eternal restless sleep" [[YouHaveFailedMe after his repeated failures]]. Which meant trapping him in a giant crystal and sealing him away somewhere. It's a very popular starting point for FanFiction. And lest you think this is an example of NeverSayDie, Beryl had no qualms with outright ''killing'' her failed henchman, leaving this punishment as particularly gruesome in retrospect.
** Later on, another villain, Mimete, is transferred into energy in order to enter a computer where her power is amplified... only for a backstabbing cohort to pull the plug on the computer, leaving her trapped as energy inside the computer, falling into an endless void ''for all eternity''.
* In ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', Cancer Deathmask binds the faces and souls of those he kills to the walls, ceiling and floor of his Temple, where they stay as proof of his blood lust. The faces are seen silently screaming, trapped between this world and the next one, always feeling the pain of their sort-of "imprisonment"; Seiya ''freaks the Hell out'' when he and Shiryu realize this, and [[NightmareFuel/SaintSeiya no one can blame them]]. [[spoiler: And once Deathmask is defeated and killed, the Temple's walls/floors/ceiling are completely empty and clean, meaning his victims have been released and can now pass on to the afterlife.]]
** [[spoiler: Not that this is any better when you know what the Underworld looks like and WHO rules it...]]
* In ''Manga/ShamanKing'', Yomi's Hole is a cave where you lose all senses: you can't see or hear anything, and you enter some kind of existential panic; we actually see what it's like when Ryu enters it for just a minute. It has been mentioned that many young shamans wanting to enhance their furyoku lost their sense of direction inside and stayed the rest of their lives in there.
* The Mazoku from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' have Raugnut Rushauvna [[SpellMyNameWithAnS (or however you spell that)]], a very, very nasty curse that makes its victim completely immortal... while also turning their body inside out and causing it to continually devour itself and regenerate, over and over and over again, for all eternity.
* ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}'' started off with this and then [[FromBadToWorse it just goes downhill from there]]... ending in what could be referred to by some as BrainBleach.
* The manga ''Manga/TokyoCrazyParadise'' has a scene in which exhibits on display in cabinets turn out to be human beings, posed like famous works of art. The cabinets contain machinery that keeps their occupants alive and immobile. They are intended for sale to rich collectors who are perfectly aware that the exhibits are alive and helpless, and quite happy to leave them that way. The heroine Tsukasa attempts to free them, but is caught and ends up frozen in a cabinet herself. [[spoiler:Fortunately for all of them, the auction is raided and the exhibits are set free.]]
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', this is what ''really'' happened to Rize. While reportedly killed in the accident, she was actually imprisoned in a secret laboratory by Dr. Kanou and used for his experiments. For nearly eight months, Dr. Kanou kept her heavily restrained and harvested her kakuhou '''1200''' times to use in his experiments, forcing her to endure an endlessly cycle of removal and regrowth. By the time she's rescued by Yomo, the torture and starvation have driven her completely insane. The once-proud FemmeFatale is reduced to a husk of a person, constantly screaming and begging for food and kept in restraints for her own good. Kaneki is speechless in horror when he sees what has become of her.
* Any of the folks changed into puppets and used to build skyscrapers in ''Anime/UnicoInTheIslandOfMagic''.
* Near the end of ''VisualNovel/{{Utawarerumono}}'', the main characters enter a partially-technological dungeon and find it infested with standard-issue [[BlobMonster Slimes]], which they soon get bogged down fighting - swords and arrows don't seem to do much to impede them, but on the other hand, they don't seem able to do much to harm the heroes, either. In the next episode, however, it turns out that those blobs of reddish goo are actually [[spoiler: the previous occupants of that 'dungeon' - actually an underground laboratory from [[AfterTheEnd Before the End]]]], and that they were transformed by the titular demon-god as punishment for [[spoiler: ''dissecting'' his lover in an effort to find a way to strengthen their bodies so that they can return to the by-then poisonous surface]]. So, in the true spirit of an [[JackassGenie Utterly Pissed-Off Genie]], he decides to fulfill their wish for a 'body that will never die'. And they've been there ever since. For what must be several thousand years by the time the story takes place. They deserved it, but still...
* Episode two of ''Anime/VampirePrincessMiyu'', "At The Next Station". This is the fate of the women who fall prey to the temptation of the Shinma Rho-Ah, and take him up on his offer of enhanced beauty... only to end up frozen in time, like beautiful mannequins dressed in expensive clothes, never to age or decay... at the end, even the one who got decapitated during the battle between Rho-Ah and Miyu is still alive, just like the rest of them -- whimpering and sobbing quietly through paralyzed lips.
** In the second {{OAV}}, it's downright stated that [[UncannyValleyGirl Ranka's]] victims end up in a similar state, transformed into bare and listless mannequins that she keeps into her school's warehouse. She even uses one of them as a shield during her fight with Miyu, and Miyu is horrified when Larva accidentally hits the doll with his RazorFloss and not only it emits a whimper of pain, but it bleeds. This is lampshaded earlier, in this conversation that takes place during Ranka and Miyu's first encounter:
--->'''Ranka:''' (pets her newest doll, erm, victim): No longer will you age or grow decrepit. You can live forever, looking the way you do now...\\
'''Miyu:''' (steps in) And thus... will the life energy that you emit become my sustenance...!
* In ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'' we have [[CastingAShadow Dark the Darkness Demon]] who can use his Delta Zone and [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Super Delta Zone]] attacks to engulf his opponents into a dark pyramid and send them into another dimension forever. The victims include [[spoiler:two {{Mooks}}, Ryujin the Dragon God [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and Dark himself]]]].
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
** Characters frequently get their souls taken from them and imprisoned in cards or in the [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment Shadow Realm]]. No idea what they can feel while they're inside either one.
** According to the WordOfGod, Yami was ''aware'' of time passing when he was sealed in the puzzle for three thousand years. There's a ''reason'' he was not entirely sane when he first awakened.
** Demonstrated quite nicely in Season Zero; he had a tendency of inflicting punishments like this to those who cheated in his...games. And there are very few who didn't cheat.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': The vampire Camula did this to herself voluntarily, sealing herself in her coffin to save herself from being killed in the genocidal war that killed the other vampires. She was found by [[BigBad Kagemaru]] in the present day, who offered her a choice of staying there forever or working for him. She chose the latter, but her final fate, after falling victim to her own rigged Shadow Duel [[YourSoulIsMine may have been much worse...]]
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'':
** Kurama traps [[spoiler:Elder Toguro]] in a plant that drains the energy of its victims until they die, while showing them a hallucination of their worst fear... but since the latter can't die, he's stuck seeing his worst fears for ''eternity''.
** Mukuro's father met a similar fate thanks to a conjoined effort by Kurama and Hiei, the latter of which donated him to Mukuro as a gift. The parasitic plant binds him completely, but also sustains him so long as his head remains intact. So, all he has to do to get out of it is convince her to break his skull open... [[KarmicDeath good luck with that]].
** During the "Chapter Black" saga, Koenma threatens [[BigBad Shinobu Sensui]] with this fate using his Mafukan, a special weapon that can generate a force field capable of trapping even the most powerful demons. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
--->'''Koenma:''' If I engage this Mafuken, it will first seal the precious tunnel that you've poured your life into creating. Then I'll trap you inside the net, and you'll never move again.
* In ''Manga/ZatchBell'' during the previous tournament a demon by the name of Goren had [[TakenForGranite sealed most of his competitors into stone]], being completely aware of this. With most of them being children going as young as six, mind you. They are only freed a thousand years later by [[ManipulativeBastard Zofis]], who uses them as minions.
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* ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'' has a doubly terrifying version revealed towards the end. [[spoiler:The most powerful angel, Adam Kadamon, said to be mother/father of all angels, was imprisoned for probably thousands of years by God because he was afraid of its power and was slowly taken apart to be fed to its children the angels. Yes, you got it right, the cute little angels are fed their mom/dad; no wonder most of them are [[LightIsNotGood not so pure]]. By the events of the books only a deformed head is left which is still conscious and able to talk, but gets finally released by the good guys.]]
* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', the true nature of the [[HumanoidAbomination Ti]][[ImAHumanitarian tans]] is revealed to be this. They were all [[spoiler:once humans who were somehow transformed into Titans a century earlier. Unable to control their new forms, they're only driven by their basic instincts to feed. With at least some form of awareness left.]] Many of the characters are [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone understandably horrified]] by of the implications of this discovery. What's worse is that [[spoiler:it's not even clear ''how'' it occurs, but that it could happen to anyone. As Connie found out [[TearJerker the hard way]].]]
* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' has a lot of immortal characters, and a couple of them end up like this. Perhaps the most clear-cut case is [[spoiler:Dallas Genoard]], who ''really'' annoyed the Gandor mafia family, overconfidently assuming that since he could regenerate from any wound, they couldn't hurt him. So they did what the mafia does best and gave him CementShoes, leaving him to eternally drown at the bottom of the Hudson River until he either got dredged up or died of old age[[note]]Most immortals in the series had CompleteImmortality, but he only had FromASingleCell regeneration so he still aged and would die from it[[/note]].
* In ''Manga/{{Bakugan}}'', this was intended to be the fate of [[spoiler:Emperor Barodius]] by Code Eve, the god of the Bakugan, as punishment for [[spoiler:attempting to destroy a peaceful planet in persuit of power]]. And she was quite thorough about it. [[spoiler:She imprisoned him in armor [[MadeOfEvil crafted from his own evil]], [[SealedEvilInACan sealed him in another universe]], and [[OrcusOnHisThrone left him tied to his throne]] for all eternity with only his own madness and his equally insane guardian Bakugan to keep him company. By the time we actually see him again, he's gone ''completely insane'', [[ThatManIsDead declared his old self dead]], and invented a new persona for himself called Mag Mel. Unfortunately, he had a PsychicLink to [[TheHero Dan]] that let him absorb Chaos Energy to escape, but if it weren't for that it'd be a rather [[KarmicDeath karmic end]]]].
** Bakugan sent to the doom dimension suffer from this. The place is so inhospitable that they are forced into a dormant state where all they can do is think about how much they hate their situation, except for Reaper who stays conscious but gets hideously wounded.
* Griffith from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' suffers a non-supernatural, realistic version of this: [[spoiler:after sleeping with Princess Charlotte out of grief, he is imprisoned by the Midland King and tortured for a year. By the time Guts, Casca and the other come to rescue him, he's horribly emaciated; his tendons have been severed, preventing him from holding a sword or even standing up right; and [[TongueTrauma his tongue has been cut out]]. All the while he was conscious of it, and speculates whether or not he's still sane... all of this pushes him to both the {{Despair|EventHorizon}} and {{Moral Event Horizon}}s to escape from it.]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** The end of the fight between Mayuri Kurotsuchi and the Espada Szayel Aporro Granz. [[spoiler:Due to implanting an egg of himself into Nemu to resurrect himself, Szayel ingests a massive dose of a drug that grants superhuman senses, speeding up his perception of time. With seconds seemingly taking centuries for him, and his body unable to keep up, he is utterly incapacitated. Kurotsuchi then stabs him through the hand and chest, not quite piercing his heart. While in real time he died only a couple seconds after the drug took effect, to him it felt like being stuck in place for several hundred years.]]
** The comic in UNMASKED reveals that [[spoiler:Ulquiorra]] was unable to hear, speak, smell, feel, eat, or sleep due to [[spoiler:his mask covering everything but his eyes]]. He ''was'' able to move, but since he lived in [[CrapsackWorld Hueco Mundo]], it didn't matter where he went; each pile of sand was exactly like the one before it.
** [[spoiler:The Vandenreich Emperor Yhwach]] was born blind, deaf, mute, and paralyzed. However, by transplanting portions of his soul into others and then absorbing their souls when they die, he was able to cure himself. He must constantly absorb souls or else he will revert to his previous state.
* The manga ''Manga/BloodAlone'' has a killer who can [[GrandTheftMe jump to other bodies when he dies]]. Unfortunately, the last people he fights are a vampire and rather savvy human. She turns him; and then he breaks his neck just as he turns into a vampire. The killer is now frozen in the body of an permanently broken necked vampire. They lock him up in a room in the basement of a hospital.
* In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', the electronic 'uploading' cult SCRATCH turns out to be led by [[spoiler:a teenaged hacker with [[DigitizedHacker a unique form of surfing-induced brain damage. His mind no longer has any connection over his body, leaving him a vegetable with a functioning mind that can only exist on the internet]]. In the end Jet pulls his connection to cyberspace and traps his mind in his non-functional body, alive and on life support but unable to interact with the outside world for the rest of the 70+ years he's got left of his life.]]
* Light Yagami from ''Manga/DeathNote'' is implied to have this in the film version ''Visions of a God''. He has eternal life as a shinigami (God of death) with his precious Death Note - everything he wanted. The problem is a shinigami's life is eternal monotony and meaningless existence. All the excitement and power Light once wielded is gone forever, although it's implied that he travels to the human world to relive Ryuk's interesting experience with him with another human.
* One [[KarmicDeath sinner]] from ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' is BoundAndGagged, and then placed inside a slowly filling bathtub.
* [[MonsterClown Piedmon]] suffers this fate near the end of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', when he's thrown into [=MagnaAngemon=]'s Gate of Destiny, which according to WordOfGod leads to a pocket dimension from which there's no escape. And since Digimon are functionally immortal, barring being killed by someone else... this was a well-earned {{Karmic|Death}} FateWorseThanDeath.
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ''
** In the first "Z" movie, Garlic Jr. wishes for immortality which he gains, [[spoiler:he then attempts to try and trap Goku in a dimension called Dead Zone which is averted by Gohan pushing Garlic Jr. into his own trap. It's bad enough being trapped in a place called the Dead Zone but it's even worse when you're immortal thus trapped for all eternity, though in the main series he escaped only to be trapped yet again though when he returned he didn't seem traumatized, he actually looked rather smug, meaning it probably wasn't that bad as the name implies.]]
** Later in the main series, upon realizing that even after Goten and Trunks have mastered the FusionDance that their fused form Gotenks isn't a match for [[BigBad Super Buu]], Piccolo decides to invoke this trope by destroying the entrance to the [[YearInsideHourOutside Room of Spirit and Time]], where Gotenks and Piccolo were fighting Buu. [[TemptingFate He even spells it out to Buu in order to get the last laugh.]] Buu then [[VillainousBreakdown freaks the hell out at the idea of not being able to eat any more sweets, ever again]] and his screams of pure rage actually manage to rip open a hole between dimensions which he uses to escape and continue his rampage. The hole closes after Buu gets out, leaving Piccolo and Gotenks trapped inside, unable to save their friends and families from Buu's fury. [[spoiler:Fortunately Gotenks has a trick up his sleeve: he manages to turn Super Saiyan 3, and scream loud enough to create another hole between dimensions.]]
** As we learn in ''Resurrection 'F''' this is Frieza's fate after he dies. In Hell, he is trapped to a tree for the rest of eternity unable to move while angels and toy-like creatures sing and dance around him. Much harsher than the free roaming Hell from the ''Z'' fillers and ''GT''.
* In one scene in the ''Manga/ElfenLied'' manga, there's a diclonius who is not much more than a head and a chest within a completely enclosed metal box. The head is covered by the same helmet and mask as the dicloni in the lab. The diclonius' only purpose is to use its telepathic abilities to sense others of its kind and serves as a biological detector device.
** Not only that, but a device is connected to the girl's spine to make her experience continuous pain in order to prevent her from lashing out at her tormentors.
** He also stated that after raping her (before cutting her in half), he cut out her vocal cords. This series doesn't have enough generosity to its characters to do it in a clean way, so you must use your imaginations on how that went.
** Because that isn't enough, her psychic projection of herself is nothing but a scarred upper-body with a faceless, misshapen head uttering only "It hurts", "Kill me" and "Run" over and over.
* Used for a KarmicDeath in ''Manga/FrankenFran''. An old, rich woman was seeking to have her youth restored, and had her servants murder any doctor that couldn't come up with a permanent answer. [[spoiler:She's also had herself mass-cloned, only to murder her clones one by one and drink a solution made from their eggs, one of the partially-successful treatments]]. She hires Fran, who comes up with a treatment that seems to have results... then has her men cut Fran's head off afterwards. Unfortunately for the old woman, Fran is an ArtificialHuman, capable of stitching her own head back into place. She confronts the old woman afterwards, and notes an unusual rash on her arm... [[spoiler:Turns out, as aging is caused by programmed cell death, Fran had adjusted the woman's cells to be the one type of cell that is not pre-programmed to die... cancer cells. As she says it, the old woman collapses into a giant pile of cancerous cells. And then [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Fran tells her that, theoretically, she'll now live forever]].]]
** This is a case of TruthInTelevision as there is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa line of immortal human cells born from the cancer cells of a human]]. Granted, the human they were born from died from the cancer.
** Though cancer cells can go into spontaneous remission and if she doesn't die from that, it's pretty unlikely a pile of cancer cells can just survive out in open air forever like that.
** Most of Fran's patients wind up in this boat, really.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', this happens to [[spoiler:any poor soul who's put into a Philosopher's Stone to be used as an alchemy amplifier. The victims ''can'' scream, but because there is no one to get them out of there, they are ''always'' screaming, with no plausible hope of ever getting out of the stone other than being used to fuel an alchemic transmutation, wherein they effectively die]]. On the plus side, [[spoiler:Van Hohenheim, who in essence ''is'' a walking Philosopher's Stone, took the time over the many centuries he was alive to talk to and calm down ''every single soul inside him''...all 536,329 of them]].
** Also, at the very end of the climax, [[spoiler:Father is dragged back into the Gate of Truth, screaming in abject horror before it shuts, locking him away in a hell he had desperately tried to evade]].
** Greed found himself in this situation in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], sealed in a skull stuck in a wall for hundreds of years. [[spoiler:He chose death in favor of letting it happen to him again.]]
* The monk Gyroz in ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'' deliberately had his mind put into a robot body that is blind, deaf, and dumb in order to escape from worldly distractions. (It's equipped with telepathy for communication and radar for navigation.) When events lead him to doubt his own enlightenment he has his limbs melted down to make false teeth for the protagonist (ItMakesSenseInContext) and his now immobile head and torso bolted to the edge of a cliff. The prospect of spending centuries there pondering his doctrinal errors makes him positively giddy with excitement. (Gyroz is notably the only person in the series who doesn't go mad as a result of getting robotified, as the madness comes from trying to satisfy human desires while in robot form, whereas Gyroz became a robot in order to escape from them.)
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' uses it on occasions.
** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' might give the idea of Kamille being thrown into one of those (though probably only lifelong) situation at the end, but he gets better in the sequel, ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]''. Villains like [[spoiler:Katejina]] from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory Gundam]]'' or [[spoiler:Shagia Frost]] from ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' end up at least in one way or the other crippled ([[spoiler:Katejina]] is blinded and amnesiac, [[spoiler:Shagia]] is wheelchair-bound -- Gundam's not that far into mysticism, so no punishment beyond life so far). Though, ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' has [[spoiler:Lucille Lilliant]] a.k.a. Lorelei (a good minor character) being put in a forced coma and locked in a capsule for 15 years or so, mostly cut off from the real world. [[spoiler: She manages to contact her ex-pupil Jamil through the body of a fellow Newtype, Jamil's protegée Tiffa, and is saved.]])
** Anyone who is infected with DG Cells in ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]''. You either become a zombie used to power the Dark Army, or slowly go insane/rabid.
* Yuki in the Endless Eight arc of the LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya series is forced to [[GroundhogDayLoop relive the same two weeks over and over again]] for nearly ''600 years''. And while she's the only one of the SOS Brigade to remember it all (while the others just get an odd sense of deja vu,) she's unable to do anything about it because her orders forbid her from directly interfering.
* In ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'', Chaos is defeated the first time when Ikaros sends her to the bottom of the ocean. Chaos is immortal, but the water pressure is so great that she's pinned. She eventually escapes.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'':
** The Shikon no Tama is formed through a miko and a combination of youkai being locked in a battle. The souls of the youkai and Midoriko still battle endlessly inside the jewel, for the 500 years or so of its existence. Near the end of the series, [[spoiler:The Shikon no Tama tells Kagome that she was born to keep the battle inside the jewel going on, that she was born to be trapped inside the jewel and battle inside it forever, that there is no right wish to make, and that it can't ever be destroyed. Thank god that's not exactly true.]]
** Kagome ends up going through this herself in the [[Anime/InuYashaTheMovieAffectionsTouchingAcrossTime first movie]]. To clarify, she's {{brainwashed|AndCrazy}} by the BigBad and forced to attack Inuyasha with the intent to kill. Throughout the entire experience, Kagome is fully conscious of what she's doing and ''unable to control her own body''.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has multiple examples. Creator/HirohikoAraki has a real thing for this trope.
** In Part 2 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', the BigBad Kars becomes perfectly immortal and gains an auto-evolution ability, protecting him from all means of harm and immunity from his race's weakness to the sun. In his final battle with TheHero Joseph Joestar, Kars is thrown out of the Earth's atmosphere due to a volcanic eruption created by what would have been his death blow to Joseph that was blocked by the very mystical artifact that gave him his powers. As he tries to reenter the Earth's atmosphere, his body slowly freezes up and turns to stone to keep him alive. This is his final fate, or as the narration puts it:
--->''Kars... was never able to go back to Earth... Becoming a life form between organic and mineral, he wandered for eternity into the endless void known as space. Being unable to die even though he wished for it, Kars eventually stopped thinking.''
** In Part 3 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', the [[LivingWeapon sword stand]] Anubis gets half of his blade destroyed, and the other half falls into the Nile River. Since it can only [[DemonicPossession possess]] people that actually touch it, Anubis is trapped at the bottom of the river until it rusts away into nothing. A process that could take centuries.
** Josuke Higashikata, the hero of Part 4 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond Is Unbreakable]]'', inflicts this punishment to multiple villains, because [[ThouShaltNotKill he refuses to kill anyone]]. He first does this to the serial killer Angelo, fusing the man's body to a large ornamental rock in the middle of town, and then transfiguring both to simply being a rock with a face (and for kicks, he puts up a sign instructing people to let their dogs poop near the rock, as Angelo hates dog poop). He later traps Akira Otoishi's Stand Red Hot Chili Pepper in a rubber tire, which is then hurled into the sea (although the Stand is only a visualization of the user's psychic powers so it's not exactly an un-death). One of his final uses of this tactic is against Terunosuke Miyamoto, trapping him in the book he was using to activate his Stand Enigma and turning him into an urban legend in the town.
** In Parte 5 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'', Giorno Giovanna uses [[spoiler:the newly boosted powers of]] his Stand Gold Experience [[spoiler:Requiem]] on TheDon Diavolo, with his ability to speed up the human mind to the point that the body cannot catch up [[spoiler:powered up to the point that it makes Diavolo experience an eternity of different deaths in his mind, leaving his body seemingly comatose]].
** In Part 7 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', Magent Magent's Stand 20th Century Boy makes him impervious and functionally immortal so long as he crouches down so his hands touch the ground. [[spoiler:The heroes wrap him in wires and throw him into the Delaware River, and he can move just enough to activate 20th Century Boy to keep himself from drowning. He waits for his ally Diego Brando to rescue him, but in a CallBack to the ultimate fate of Kars:]]
--->''[[spoiler:The water of the Delaware kept up its constant rhythm as it flowed past the river bottom... and as time passed, Magent Magent...]]''\\
''[[spoiler:Stopped waiting...]]''\\
''[[spoiler:And stopped thinking.]]''
* ''Anime/{{Kakurenbo}}'':
** While we cannot be sure how aware they are, the children captured by the demons [[spoiler:are used as living batteries, like ''Film/TheMatrix'' but without the potentially cheerful virtual reality]]. It gets worse at the very end, [[spoiler:as the numbers of child-batteries are revealed, each hooked up with a light above them. And then we see a little boy, whose light flickers, and then goes out.]]
** The "winner" of the game [[spoiler:is possessed by the demon fox and lures the next group of children. Made worse by the fact that the fox goes from possessing a young girl to taking over the brother who came only to save her]].
* In ''Manga/LifeIsMoney'', the characters play "The Nightmare Game," in which they must roll a die every day to determine which of their senses will be restricted. Depending on their roll, they will either be blindfolded, nose-plugged, forced to wear soundproof headphones, gagged, or paralyzed from the neck down.[[note]]The sixth possible outcome, "Spirit," removes all current afflictions.[[/note]] The rolls are accumulative; a player may have all five restrictions at once. Additionally, a player dies whenever they suffer a DespairEventHorizon, and being alone in one's mind is considered one of the worst ways to reach this.
* What happened to [[spoiler:Kate's father]] in ''Manga/LoveIsInTheBag'', specifically [[spoiler:being stuck as a portrait of himself for ''fifteen years''. And it's implied that it'll happen to Kate as well]].
* In ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', this is the eventual fate of someone who tries to resist the [[HorrorHunger insatiable hunger given by the Eclipse infection]]. Its HealingFactor will go out of control, and eventually, the infected will be reduced to a lump of flesh similar to those brain-like things in the Abandoned Lab that Lily came from.
* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', this is the final fate of [[spoiler:nearly all of the [[ArtificialHuman puppets]] of the Lifemaker]]. Being annoyingly hard to keep dead and protected by several layers of barriers, [[spoiler:Evangeline]] devised a spell that completely froze their surroundings instead, keeping them trapped yet conscious for all eternity.
* In ''Manga/MermaidSaga'', it's unclear whether [[spoiler: Akiko from "Mermaid's Gaze"]] died or was left petrified and conscious for a hundred years. All that we do know is that her eyes still work. Mana claims that [[spoiler:Akiko]] was dead all along, but it's clear she's just trying to make Yuta feel better.
* Several truly chilling instances in ''Anime/MouryouNoHako'', the most awful being the fate of [[spoiler:Yuzuki Kanako. She would have been better off had she died the night she was run over by that train. Instead of that happening, however, her [[IncestIsRelative mother/sister]] took her to an experimental 'hospital', where her [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan ex-Unit 731]] dad/grandpa proceeded to cut off all four of her shattered limbs and keep her hooked up to a warehouse-sized room full of life support machines. Then she's stuffed into a box by a man who loves her, and dies one hour later. ''All while being aware and awake.'']]
** There's also [[spoiler:Kubo Shunkou, the disturbed perpetrator of the severed-limb murders. Almost religiously obsessed with boxes and closed spaces since childhood, he ends up offering himself to Kanako's dad/grandpa as another guinea pig. When Mimasaka and Youko decide to escape with him (now nothing more than an upper torso and head) in a box, he somehow ''escapes'' from the box and kills Mimasaka by chewing his neck. Kubo seemed happier in the box than outside of it. He was still insane, though.]]
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** [[spoiler:Hidan]]'s fate. He gets blown into pieces, and buried in a hole... but he's immortal, and his severed head continues to curse Shikamaru right until he's covered over while rotting slowly away from the lack of nourishment. According to the second fanbook he is going to die ''eventually''.
** [[spoiler:Itachi traps Orochimaru into a previously thought to be inescapable genjutsu that was meant to go on for eternity. Takes a few hundred chapters, but Orochimaru eventually gets out. Itachi later traps Nagato in the same genjutsu after both of them are revived by Kabuto.]]
** This was revealed to happen to [[spoiler: those brought back by Kabuto's Edo Tensei spell who are under direct control of Kabuto]].
** Quite [[LaserGuidedKarma fittingly]] this is also [[spoiler: Kabuto's fate, forced to repeat an endless GroundhogDayLoop within Itachi's genjutsu for eternity...or at least until he admits his mistakes and tries to achieve greatness on his own and stop copying other people.]]
** This is also the case for every sealed Bijuu.
** During ''Naruto 5: Blood Prison'', Muku (The son of the [[BigBad Big Bad, Mui]] ) was trapped in the Box of Ultimate Bliss for ten years after attempting to open it for his Village. The first thing he does is to stab his dad in the chest, and morphs into [[EldritchAbomination Satori]], going on a destructive rampage. The fact that the Box was indestructible from the inside didn't help. But was eventually freed when he incinerated himself.
** [[spoiler:Might Guy's 8th gate is kept intact by Naruto, keeping Guy from succumbing to its final result. Despite the [[HeroicRROD otherwise instantly fatal damage]] his body sustained.]]
** [[spoiler:Kaguya]] gets this ''twice.'' The second time it happened, [[spoiler: it was done in a different dimension that only she could access, with no hope of being unsealed. And since she is immortal, there's no chance of death being an escape for her.]]
* In ''Manga/NightmareInspector'', [[spoiler:while Hiruko was still Chitose Kurosu, his masters broke all of his limbs. All he could do was scream.]]
* ''Anime/NinjaScroll'': The immortal, regenerating bad guy gets encased in molten gold, gold which he had schemed and murdered to claim, no less, and sank to the bottom of a lake.
** Though it's implied his regeneration/immortality is a technique of his will and therefore something he can control. More than likely, he can choose to die once he realizes he really can't get out.
* In the classic Nickelodeon anime ''Anime/TheNoozles'', the soul of Sandy's grandfather is doomed to spend the rest of eternity trapped inside a crystalline orb in another dimension.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', this is the fate of anyone who loses in the Colosseum of Dressrosa. They are dumped into a pit and turned into toys. While they maintain their memories, are unable to do anything but the bidding of the Donquixote Family and are, for the most part, unable to say anything about it. Also, almost everyone else the toy-people ever met forget the toys ever existed as humans.
** [[spoiler:Jack the Drought]] seems to be suffering a fate like this. Like any Devil Fruit user, he's utterly paralyzed when entering seawater, unable to even move. ''Unlike'' most Devil Fruit users, he can still breathe down there, perhaps due to Fishman heritage. Since the circumstances in which he sunk make a rescue unlikely, he's going to be stuck there at the bottom for the foreseeable future, perfectly alive and aware beneath miles of sea but unable to lift a single finger.
* In ''Manga/PandoraHearts,'' [[spoiler:this is the backstory and sin of Oz Vessalius. Oz, originally a LivingToy, was made into a [[SympatheticSentientWeapon Chain]] called B-Rabbit and tricked into contracting with an OmnicidalManiac under the impression that he was simply going to guide the man to visit his lonely friend. He was subsequently stripped of free will and forced to slaughter and destroy the human city he had lived in as a plush rabbit, including people he recognized and loved, while still being mentally himself and all too aware of what was happening around him. Then his owner and {{Platonic Life Partner|s}}, Alice, ''committed suicide in front of him'' to stop this. This event was so traumatic that reminders cause him to have incredibly destructive {{Freak Out}}s, even while suffering from TraumaInducedAmnesia and living under the impression that he's a fifteen-year-old human.]]
* The Hideshi Hino manga ''Manga/PanoramaOfHell'' featured the Narrator's older brother, a "fight freak" gangster who becomes comatose and later becomes a mewling, "moving bag of flesh". [[spoiler:The book ends with the Narrator killing his family to save them from hell. They all turn out to be dolls and puppets -- except for the brother, who is the corpse of a pig.]]
* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'': Queen Felia -TheHero's mother- was captured by the BigBad, frozen alive, framed and set in [[BigBad Marder's]] private chambers to adorn them like a strange blend of living painting and statue. She is aware, but she can't move, talk or even blink.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** This was the punishment dealt to Team Rocket (temporarily, thanks to a between-episodes ResetButton) in one of the earlier episodes.
** Sabrina's dolls. While they couldn't move or actually talk, it was pretty clear they were conscious. Good thing Ash found a way to beat her.
** Hunter J captures Pokémon by turning them into statues.
** A relatively early episode of ''Diamond and Pearl'' featured the cast searching for a Sandshrew that was trapped in its Poké Ball, inside a locker at the bottom of a flooded town. Pokémon are ''completely aware of the outside world'' while in their balls.
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':
** In the manga's FRLG arc, Silver [[TakenForGranite gets turned into stone]] along with four other Dex Holders and he alone ''stays conscious throughout the series'' until he gets unfrozen along with the rest of them.
** The BW arc ends with [[spoiler: Black sealed into the Light Stone, and he stays trapped for an entire two year TimeSkip.]]
* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':
** Michiru and Kaoru Kiryuu spend nearly half of ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' [[FateWorseThanDeath paralyzed at the bottom of a lake]]
** At the start of ''Anime/YesPrecure5'', Nuts was trapped inside the then-unopenable Dream Collet.
* Art teacher Hitomi Ishigami enjoys doing this to her students in the ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' manga, for the sake of "{{true art|IsIncomprehensible}}". She picks out girls to be her "models", then [[TakenForGranite Takes Them for Granite]] and lets them cry as much as they want (their tears stream down their stone faces to get this across).
* What happened to Kaoru in an early mini-arc in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', thanks to Kurogasa. An extremely AxCrazy swordsman and hypnotist who wants to fight male lead Kenshin and kidnaps her to force him to, as soon as Kenshin reaches for them Kurogasa hypnotizes the poor girl into complete paralysis. This means, not only she can't move her limbs or talk... but is slowly, painfully and inexorably ''asphyxiating'', since her whole respiratory system is under paralysis too. ''And she's fully conscious'', helplessly watching how Kurogasa and Kenshin fight it out and Kenshin is reverting to his KnightTemplar Battousai side only to save her, since the only way to break that "spell" is to kill Kurogasa himself before she kicks it... [[spoiler: There's another way, though: to have Kaoru overpowering the hypnosis with a strong will to live. And she does it in the nick of time. Kurogasa still committed suicide in the end.]]
* ''Manga/SailorMoon'':
** Queen Beryl doomed Jadeite to "eternal restless sleep" [[YouHaveFailedMe after his repeated failures]]. Which meant trapping him in a giant crystal and sealing him away somewhere. It's a very popular starting point for FanFiction. And lest you think this is an example of NeverSayDie, Beryl had no qualms with outright ''killing'' her failed henchman, leaving this punishment as particularly gruesome in retrospect.
** Later on, another villain, Mimete, is transferred into energy in order to enter a computer where her power is amplified... only for a backstabbing cohort to pull the plug on the computer, leaving her trapped as energy inside the computer, falling into an endless void ''for all eternity''.
* In ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', Cancer Deathmask binds the faces and souls of those he kills to the walls, ceiling and floor of his Temple, where they stay as proof of his blood lust. The faces are seen silently screaming, trapped between this world and the next one, always feeling the pain of their sort-of "imprisonment"; Seiya ''freaks the Hell out'' when he and Shiryu realize this, and [[NightmareFuel/SaintSeiya no one can blame them]]. [[spoiler: And once Deathmask is defeated and killed, the Temple's walls/floors/ceiling are completely empty and clean, meaning his victims have been released and can now pass on to the afterlife.]]
** [[spoiler: Not that this is any better when you know what the Underworld looks like and WHO rules it...]]
* In ''Manga/ShamanKing'', Yomi's Hole is a cave where you lose all senses: you can't see or hear anything, and you enter some kind of existential panic; we actually see what it's like when Ryu enters it for just a minute. It has been mentioned that many young shamans wanting to enhance their furyoku lost their sense of direction inside and stayed the rest of their lives in there.
* The Mazoku from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' have Raugnut Rushauvna [[SpellMyNameWithAnS (or however you spell that)]], a very, very nasty curse that makes its victim completely immortal... while also turning their body inside out and causing it to continually devour itself and regenerate, over and over and over again, for all eternity.
* ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}'' started off with this and then [[FromBadToWorse it just goes downhill from there]]... ending in what could be referred to by some as BrainBleach.
* The manga ''Manga/TokyoCrazyParadise'' has a scene in which exhibits on display in cabinets turn out to be human beings, posed like famous works of art. The cabinets contain machinery that keeps their occupants alive and immobile. They are intended for sale to rich collectors who are perfectly aware that the exhibits are alive and helpless, and quite happy to leave them that way. The heroine Tsukasa attempts to free them, but is caught and ends up frozen in a cabinet herself. [[spoiler:Fortunately for all of them, the auction is raided and the exhibits are set free.]]
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', this is what ''really'' happened to Rize. While reportedly killed in the accident, she was actually imprisoned in a secret laboratory by Dr. Kanou and used for his experiments. For nearly eight months, Dr. Kanou kept her heavily restrained and harvested her kakuhou '''1200''' times to use in his experiments, forcing her to endure an endlessly cycle of removal and regrowth. By the time she's rescued by Yomo, the torture and starvation have driven her completely insane. The once-proud FemmeFatale is reduced to a husk of a person, constantly screaming and begging for food and kept in restraints for her own good. Kaneki is speechless in horror when he sees what has become of her.
* Any of the folks changed into puppets and used to build skyscrapers in ''Anime/UnicoInTheIslandOfMagic''.
* Near the end of ''VisualNovel/{{Utawarerumono}}'', the main characters enter a partially-technological dungeon and find it infested with standard-issue [[BlobMonster Slimes]], which they soon get bogged down fighting - swords and arrows don't seem to do much to impede them, but on the other hand, they don't seem able to do much to harm the heroes, either. In the next episode, however, it turns out that those blobs of reddish goo are actually [[spoiler: the previous occupants of that 'dungeon' - actually an underground laboratory from [[AfterTheEnd Before the End]]]], and that they were transformed by the titular demon-god as punishment for [[spoiler: ''dissecting'' his lover in an effort to find a way to strengthen their bodies so that they can return to the by-then poisonous surface]]. So, in the true spirit of an [[JackassGenie Utterly Pissed-Off Genie]], he decides to fulfill their wish for a 'body that will never die'. And they've been there ever since. For what must be several thousand years by the time the story takes place. They deserved it, but still...
* Episode two of ''Anime/VampirePrincessMiyu'', "At The Next Station". This is the fate of the women who fall prey to the temptation of the Shinma Rho-Ah, and take him up on his offer of enhanced beauty... only to end up frozen in time, like beautiful mannequins dressed in expensive clothes, never to age or decay... at the end, even the one who got decapitated during the battle between Rho-Ah and Miyu is still alive, just like the rest of them -- whimpering and sobbing quietly through paralyzed lips.
** In the second {{OAV}}, it's downright stated that [[UncannyValleyGirl Ranka's]] victims end up in a similar state, transformed into bare and listless mannequins that she keeps into her school's warehouse. She even uses one of them as a shield during her fight with Miyu, and Miyu is horrified when Larva accidentally hits the doll with his RazorFloss and not only it emits a whimper of pain, but it bleeds. This is lampshaded earlier, in this conversation that takes place during Ranka and Miyu's first encounter:
--->'''Ranka:''' (pets her newest doll, erm, victim): No longer will you age or grow decrepit. You can live forever, looking the way you do now...\\
'''Miyu:''' (steps in) And thus... will the life energy that you emit become my sustenance...!
* In ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'' we have [[CastingAShadow Dark the Darkness Demon]] who can use his Delta Zone and [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Super Delta Zone]] attacks to engulf his opponents into a dark pyramid and send them into another dimension forever. The victims include [[spoiler:two {{Mooks}}, Ryujin the Dragon God [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and Dark himself]]]].
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
** Characters frequently get their souls taken from them and imprisoned in cards or in the [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment Shadow Realm]]. No idea what they can feel while they're inside either one.
** According to the WordOfGod, Yami was ''aware'' of time passing when he was sealed in the puzzle for three thousand years. There's a ''reason'' he was not entirely sane when he first awakened.
** Demonstrated quite nicely in Season Zero; he had a tendency of inflicting punishments like this to those who cheated in his...games. And there are very few who didn't cheat.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': The vampire Camula did this to herself voluntarily, sealing herself in her coffin to save herself from being killed in the genocidal war that killed the other vampires. She was found by [[BigBad Kagemaru]] in the present day, who offered her a choice of staying there forever or working for him. She chose the latter, but her final fate, after falling victim to her own rigged Shadow Duel [[YourSoulIsMine may have been much worse...]]
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'':
** Kurama traps [[spoiler:Elder Toguro]] in a plant that drains the energy of its victims until they die, while showing them a hallucination of their worst fear... but since the latter can't die, he's stuck seeing his worst fears for ''eternity''.
** Mukuro's father met a similar fate thanks to a conjoined effort by Kurama and Hiei, the latter of which donated him to Mukuro as a gift. The parasitic plant binds him completely, but also sustains him so long as his head remains intact. So, all he has to do to get out of it is convince her to break his skull open... [[KarmicDeath good luck with that]].
** During the "Chapter Black" saga, Koenma threatens [[BigBad Shinobu Sensui]] with this fate using his Mafukan, a special weapon that can generate a force field capable of trapping even the most powerful demons. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
--->'''Koenma:''' If I engage this Mafuken, it will first seal the precious tunnel that you've poured your life into creating. Then I'll trap you inside the net, and you'll never move again.
* In ''Manga/ZatchBell'' during the previous tournament a demon by the name of Goren had [[TakenForGranite sealed most of his competitors into stone]], being completely aware of this. With most of them being children going as young as six, mind you. They are only freed a thousand years later by [[ManipulativeBastard Zofis]], who uses them as minions.
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