History AndIMustScream / AnimeAndManga

* ''Anime/MouryouNoHako'' has several truly chilling instances, 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.'']]

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': In the climax of the Alicization arc, Kirito subjects [=PoH=] to this. [=PoH=] fully expects Kirito to just kill him in-game, remarking that he'll just keep coming after Kirito and Asuna again and again until he finally kills them in real life. This is the final nail in his coffin; rather than kill him, Kirito declares that [=PoH=] will ''never'' log out of the Soul Translator, instead trapping him in a tree and leaving him to rot in Underworld forever. It's made even worse by the fact that time in Underworld runs on YearInsideHourOutside; years can pass in-game while mere days pass in the real world.

* ''Manga/{{Ayashimon}}'' are unable to die in the natural sense. Their bodies can be destroyed, but their spirits will manifest another one using years in 99 years. As such, [[MadArtist Chairman Doppo]] punishes his enemies having them dismembered and turned into living art for his collection.

-->'''Narrator:''' ''So ended Kars, last and greatest of the Pillar Men... His body hard as rock and he floated through space for the rest of time never to return. He wished for death, but there was nothing out there to kill him. The spark of thought within him went dim...and then, silent.''

-->'''Kars:''' NO! AUUUGH! NOOOOO!!! Don't panic! Just find the Earth! ''(sprouts air jets to try and push himself toward Earth)'' I'll use air to change my trajectory. Once I'm back on solid ground, I will tear that boy apart! ''(begins to freeze over)'' NO! It's not working! I'm freezing! The air is freezing around me! The moment it comes out the chest, it turns to ice! ''(attempts to use his wings, which also immediately freeze)'' I-I can't change my path! '''''[[VillainousBreakdown I CAN'T MOVE!!! NNNNNNOOOOOOUUUUUUAAAAAAUUUURRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!]]'''''

-->'''Kars:''' NO! AUUUGH! NOOOOO!!! Don't panic! Just find the Earth! ''(sprouts air jets to try and push himself toward Earth)'' I'll use air to change my trajectory. Once I'm back on solid ground, I will tear that boy apart! ''(begins to freeze over)'' NO! It's not working! I'm freezing! The air is freezing around me! The moment it comes out the chest, it turns to ice! ''(attempts to use his wings, which also immediately freeze)'' I-I can't change my path! '''''I CAN'T MOVE!!! NNNNNNOOOOOOUUUUUUAAAAAAUUUURRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!'''''

** Josuke Higashikata, the hero of Part 4 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'', inflicts this punishment to multiple villains. [[ThouShaltNotKill He refuses to kill his enemies]], but instead, he makes them wish that he had.

** Played with on several different occasions in Part 5 ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]''.

*** The Stand Notorious B.I.G. is [[NighInvulnerability practically indestructible]], as its user's death activates it and makes it impossible to kill. It automatically attacks our heroes on an airplane they stole and goes after whatever is the fastest moving thing in the area. How do they escape? By crashing the plane into the ocean and dropping Notorious B.I.G to the bottom of the Tyrrhenian Sea where it remains to this day, driven mad by the constant movement of the tides. Unlike the other examples, this does not render it entirely helpless as it can still attack any ships that come too close to it and it becomes a local legend among the fishermen.

** 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.

** 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. 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:

-->'''Kars:''' NO! AUUUGH! NOOOOO!!! ''(sprouts air jets to try and push himself toward Earth)'' I'll use air to change my trajectory. Once I'm back on solid ground, I will tear that boy apart! ''(begins to freeze over)'' NO! It's not working! I'm freezing! The air is freezing around me! The moment it comes out the chest, it turns to ice! ''(attempts to use his wings, which also immediately freeze)'' I-I can't change my path! '''''I CAN'T MOVE!!! NNNNNNOOOOOOUUUUUUAAAAAAUUUURRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!'''''

-->'''Kars:''' RRRRRRRRYEEEEEEEEE!! I'm in outer space?! ''(sprouts air jets to try and push himself toward Earth)'' I'll use air to change my trajectory. Once I'm back on solid ground, I will tear that boy apart! ''(begins to freeze over)'' NO! It's not working! I'm freezing! The air is freezing around me! The moment it comes out the chest, it turns to ice! ''(attempts to use his wings, which also immediately freeze)'' I-I can't change my path! '''''I CAN'T MOVE!!!'''''

** 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]].

*** When Josuke and Jotaro are fighting Yoshihiro Kira, the ghost of [[BigBad Yoshikage Kira]]'s father, they're boxed in early on, as Yoshihiro lives on in photographs, and used a special camera to photograph himself with Josuke and Jotaro, letting him attack them with impunity. However, Jotaro eventually takes a photograph of only Yoshihiro in the photo, leaving him and Josuke out of the frame, smashes the camera, folds and tapes the now-photo-trapped Yoshihiro shut, and pins him to a wall.

** Another example from ''Diamond is Unbreakable'' 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. The Nijimura brothers' plan in creating Stand users in the town was to find someone with the power to put their father out of his apparent misery. [[spoiler:Fans believe that person happens to be the BigBad serial killer Yoshikage Kira.]]

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': One [[KarmicDeath sinner]] from is BoundAndGagged, and then placed inside a slowly filling bathtub.

-->'''Kars:''' RRRRRRRRYEEEEEEEEE!! I'm in outer space?! ''(sprouts air jets to try and push himself toward Earth)'' I'll use jets of air to change my trajectory and return to Earth! ''(begins to freeze over)'' I-It's not working! I-I'm freezing! The air is freezing around me! It turns to ice the moment it comes out of me! ''(attempts to use his wings, which also immediately freeze)'' I-I can't change my direction! '''''I CAN'T GO BACK!!!'''''
-->'''Narrator:''' ''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.''

-->'''Diavolo:''' H-How many times am I going die?! Wh-When am I going to be attacked next, and from where?! ''(to a little girl)'' S-Stay back! Stay away! S-Stay... '''''STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM MEEEEEE!!!!!!'''''

** Most of Fran's patients wind up in this boat, really.

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

*** The Stand Notorious B.I.G. is [[NighInvulnerability practically indestructible]], as its user's death activates it and makes it impossible to kill. It automatically attacks our heroes on an airplane they stole and goes after whatever is the fastest moving thing in the area. How do they escape? Crashing the plane into the ocean and dropping Notorious B.I.G to the bottom of the Tyrrhenian Sea where it remains to this day, driven mad by the constant movement of the tides. Unlike the other examples, this does not render it helpless as it can still attack any ships that come close to it and it becomes an urban legend.

* In ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'', one of Mahito's--the humanoid curse--powers is killing people by contorting their bodies and keeping their consciousness intact while they act as a personal attack dog for him.

* ''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.

** [[spoiler: Killer]] is revealed to have been force-fed a dud SMILE fruit, which causes him to constantly laugh and express no other expression other than smiling. For [[spoiler: Killer]] who never laughs due to despising the way he laughs and even wears a mask to hide his face, this is pure torture as he now can't ''do anything but laugh''.

* ''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.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Utawarerumono}}'': Near the end, 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...

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'': The art teacher Hitomi Ishigami enjoys doing this to her students, 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).

-->'''Kars:''' RRRRRRRRYEEEEEEEEE!! I'm in outer space?! ''(sprouts air jets to try and push himself toward Earth)'' I'll use jets of air to change my trajectory and return to Earth! ''(begins to freeze over)'' REEEEAUUUUUUGGGHHH!!! I-It's not working! I-I'm freezing! The air is freezing around me! It turns to ice the moment it comes out of me! ''(attempts to use his wings, which also immediately freeze)'' I-I can't change my direction! '''''I CAN'T GO BACK!!!'''''

* 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]].

** [[spoiler:Over the course of years, humans trapped in the Infinite Tsukuyomi slowly lose their personalities and defining features before they are transformed into White Zetsu soldiers.]]
** [[spoiler:Kaguya Otsutsuki]] 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.]]

-->'''Kars:''' RRRRRRRRYEEEEEEEEE!! I'm in outer space?! ''(sprouts air jets to try and push himself toward Earth)'' I'll use jets of air to change my trajectory and return to Earth! ''(begins to freeze over)'' REEEEAUUUUUUGGGHHH!!! I-It's not working! I-I'm freezing! The air is freezing around me! It turns to ice the moment it comes out of me! ''(attempts to use his wings, which also immediately freeze)'' I-I can't change my direction! '''''I CAN'T GO BACK!!! AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!'''''

* 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.

--->''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.''

** 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.]]