History AndIMustScream / ComicBooks

* In 1994, the ''Disney Adventures Magazine'' ran a 5 part comic series titled ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfTheChaosGod'', where each chapter featured the characters of a different Disney Afternoon cartoon series (''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', ''ComicBook/DuckTales'', and finally ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck''), where they try to prevent an ancient sorcerer from escaping his crystal prison. Initially, the sorcerer is imprisoned in a ruby, fully conscious, while his magic powers are imprisoned within a gold setting where the ruby fits. The two are kept separate by being encased in a block of jade, but are taken out for examination. Eventually, through body possession, the sorcerer escapes, but is shortly put back in the Ruby. This time, he's buried at the bottom of Scrooge [=McDuck's=] Money Bin, "never to be opened, cataloged, only to be lost and forgotten, hopefully forever."
* ComicBook/{{Carnage}}, a rogue of Comicbook/SpiderMan, was turned by the Silver Surfer into a statue that still lives and thinks, but cannot move, in order to arrest the rapid encroachment of stomach cancer into his body without the symbiote.
* In ''The ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', Doctor Doom once turned ComicBook/{{Storm}} into an organic chrome statue. She could not move but could still think. This turned into a case of UnstoppableRage because she is severely claustrophobic, and being unable to move made her completely insane. And her mutant powers were still working, so the claustrophobia manifested as a deadly storm overhead. Which expanded until it was a hurricane covering roughly half the planet. (By that point, even after Storm was freed, it was too large for her to control.)
** Creator/JossWhedon concluded his run on ''Astonishing X-Men'' by [[spoiler:permanently fusing ComicBook/KittyPryde with a gigantic bullet made of alien metal, after she phased it through the Earth in a HeroicSacrifice. The first issue of ''S.W.O.R.D.'' reveals that, over a year later, she's still alive and conscious, and getting further and further from home at apparently superluminal speeds.]] Although eventually she did [[spoiler:get back to Earth thanks to the actions of Magneto.]] She still can't scream. [[spoiler: She Got Better.]]
* Done in Boom! Studios' ''ComicBook/FallOfCthulhu''. Nyarlathotep's servant Connor is selected to be "the vessel of Gith," which involves [[spoiler:removing his brain and eyes from his body.]] Due to Nyarlathotep's magic, Connor can survive this procedure, and as payment for his services, he will be [[spoiler:placed in a jar with a cloth over it, so he remains in a coma-like state during his [[IncrediblyLamePun out-of-body experience.]]]] Connor, unfortunately, has a moment of doubt and tries to duck out, which Nyarlathotep does not approve of. As punishment for his lack of faith, [[spoiler:he removes the cloth, and places Connor in front of a mirror, so he is forced to stare at his disembodied brain for years.]] As Nyarlathotep so evilly wonders aloud: "I wonder if you will have any semblance of sanity when you return."
** In the same series, a character is invited by the Harlot to live forever in a tiny wicker box. At the end of the story arc, after he has gone mad, [[spoiler:he accepts her offer, and the panel shows untold thousands of people living in an expanse of tiny wicker boxes that stretch to the horizon.]]
* In the last issue of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice,'' Slobo was transported to the 853rd century by Darkseid's Omega Beams, and [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] in the process, so he showed up in the "Young Justice Hall of Statues". The Future versions of Robin, ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and Impulse noticed the statue was new, and Robin said they would check it out after their mission. Slobo showed awareness when he thought "Oh frag," to himself. Luckily, Future Robin keep his promise and checked out the statue, used future tech to analyze it, saw that it was actually Slobo, and reversed his condition.

-->He won't have a gun. Trust me, Ashley... He won't have a gun. Trust me, Ashley... He won't have a gun. Trust me, Ashley... He won't have...
* ''[[http://www.kdingo.net/champ/pics/main.php?g2_itemId=2344 Idle Minds]]'' is a strip by Ian Samson, about a girl who ''volunteers'' to become a statue so that she can spy on the BigBad dictator Draco. But while she's standing there motionless the helplessness and boredom begin to prey upon her mind. Can she remain sane? ...And the question is answered: She goes completely apeshit crazy. And ''then''... [[spoiler:she is restored to sanity by an imaginary friend she created to try to relieve her boredom]]. Didn't see ''that'' one coming.

* The ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' villain Master of the World was a caveman dissected cell by cell by an alien LivingShip, and his mind trapped in the ship's computer for ''forty thousand years'', conscious the whole time, before he got control of the ship and had a new body grown.
* The short story "The Forever Box" in the fourth ''Flight'' anthology was about a girl who voluntarily did this to herself. After losing her family and everything she cared about, she locked herself in the eponymous magic safe where time completely stops for those inside. Unfortunately, she's buried under a landslide. Fortunately, she's rescued sometime in the distant future and finds love. [[spoiler:Unfortunately again, the final illustration reveals that [[KarmicTwistEnding she's just dreaming, and that possibly millions of years have gone by and the box is now several feet beneath the ruins of the former city.]]]]
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'''s sister Delirium condemns one man to forever feel the sensation of insects crawling all over his skin. He's seen later strapped to a bed in an asylum, not daring to scream because he does not want the spiders he can feel crawling on his lips to fall in. What makes all of this worse is this isn't some sociopath baddy that the series generally has in spades; it's just a random traffic cop who was [[DisproportionateRetribution unfortunate enough]] to be the one to pull Delirium over.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'', this is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:Thanos']] EvilPlan, on a galactic scale: [[spoiler:he wants to make death something only he is allowed to experience, leaving the rest of the universe in an AndIMustScream state.]]
* In the Elseworlds storyline, ''ComicBook/BatmanVampire,'' Batman fights {{Dracula}} and is turned into a vampire to be able to fight him on equal terms. [[spoiler:However, eventually Gordon and Alfred are forced to stake him, as he begins to become more and more monstrous. Because they failed to chop his head off, the staking only paralyzes him... Batman remains conscious and aware even while his body decomposes. Needless to say, he's not happy when they unstake him.]]
* In another recent Batman story arc, ComicBook/TheJoker does this to Dr. Hurt, who is immortal and has already pissed the Joker off on more than one occasion. Not only does Hurt accidentally slip on a banana peel and break his neck, Joker then injects him with Joker Venom and buries him alive. It gets even more disturbing when you remember precisely what Joker Venom ''does'' to its victims besides outright killing them. And since Hurt ''cannot'' die and the toxin presumably never wears off, he's stuck BuriedAlive while slowly going insane from the effects of Joker Venom, forced to laugh at himself for all eternity despite the pain he's in.
* This also happened to Basil Karlo, the original Clayface. During the ''Mud Pack'' storyline, he uses a formula made from the other villains who used the name Clayface, acquiring all their powers and becoming the Ultimate Clayface. At the end of the story, however, he loses control of his powers, and sinks into the earth, where he remains entombed for months. He eventually escapes, after odd energy from the gemstones in his tomb make him much stronger, reappearing during the ''No Man's Land'' storyline. Batman probably describes what happened to him best:
-->'''Batman:''' Your ordeal has obviously driven you ''insane'', Karlo. [[FromBadToWorse Not that you were exactly lucid to begin with!]]
* At one point in continuity, all MarvelUniverse Skrulls lose their shapeshifting ability... and are stuck in whatever form they have at that moment, even those squeezed inside ''really tiny cracks and crevices''... One sleeper agent was in the shape of a lamp when the weapon was activated.
* New character Greymalkin from ''Young Comicbook/XMen'' has this as his origin story. He was buried alive by his abusive father roughly 200 years ago. The trauma caused his [[{{Mutants}} mutant]] powers to appear, and it just so happens said powers are superstrength and invincibility except in total darkness. The poor guy was buried alive, immobile, for 200 years until he was freed. Beast comments that it's amazing he kept his sanity.

* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''
** After meeting Gert's time traveling parents in the distant past and revealing to them what happens to them and their daughter, Nico casts a spell on them that [[spoiler:renders them unable to speak about or act upon the knowledge they learned from the kids and then sends them back to the time they left from]]. She even highlights it with the quote:
-->"On the outside they will be their normal selves but on the inside they will never stop screaming."
** Later, Molly is attacked by a super villain who is getting revenge for something her parents did to him. It apparently was some sort of attack with their psychic powers, which left him completely paralyzed (unable to even blink) and lasted until they died. In other words, he spent seventeen years in a hospital, unable to move, and at the complete mercy of the hospital staff.
* In Creator/JackKirby's ''Fourth World'', aka the entire mythos surrounding {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} and the ComicBook/NewGods, anyone who attempts to penetrate the great wall that separates the universe from the Source [[spoiler:aka God]] is imprisoned on that wall as a hundred foot tall 'Promethean Giant'.
* The final fate of [[spoiler:Carrick Masterson]] in ''ComicBook/NoHero''. [[spoiler:He was dropped into space, [[SpaceIsCold where he freezes]] and was left there. Because he is immortal, he will float forever, and possibly feel never ending cold and suffer from starvation and suffocation]].
* Magus from ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet and ComicBook/AdamWarlock / ComicBook/{{Thanos}} fame / infamy ended as this. Due to reality altering energies being unleashed as he held the incomplete Gauntlet, he ended up as an intangible, invisible, inaudible apparation. He can see others but not interact with them. Scream, but never be heard. ...Until [[ComicBook/CaptainMarVell Genis]]-Vell with his [[SpiderSense cosmic senses]] comes along, and a TimeyWimeyBall gets involved.
* ''DC Universe''. One of the many and varied punishments of that comic book's Hell is being turned into building materials. Every chance you just might be the fifth brick from the left staring down the line of demon urinals for the next billion and a half years.
* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'': In addition to robotization, this is the fate of [[WellIntentionedExtremist Dimitri]], when Lien-Da [[KlingonPromotion usurps his position as Grand Master]]. She disables his ability to move, leaving only his robotic head, then sticks him in a box, gleefully telling him his battery will run down in a few months. He does eventually get rescued.
** In a later comic, it's revealed that this is how Dr. Eggman punishes [[YouHaveFailedMe robots and roboticized Mobians that fail him]]; he activates a failsafe in their cybernetics, leaving them paralysed but perfectly aware, and then locks them away in a pitch-black storage room. He intends to let them out once they've "learned their lesson"... in about fifty years or so.
* This happened to the Juggernaut at the end of ''Amazing Spider-Man #230'', when Franchise/SpiderMan buried him in tons of concrete.
* The fate of Kogenta in Creator/{{Dark Horse Comics}}'s ''[[ComicBook/{{Godzilla}} Godzilla Color Special]]''. After the Gekido-jin is killed, Kogenta's soul is doomed to an eternity of war with him.

* In GreenLantern #50, it is revealed that Sinestro could still think while imprisoned as pure energy in the central battery.
-->'''Sinestro''': Do you know what it was like inside the battery, Jordan? Reduced to less than a thought in that limbo? It's like having a maddening itch you can never scratch... Because there's nothing there. There's no you. That's what it was like, Jordan. And it wasn't... ''' very... ''' ''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis PLEASANT!]] '''
** Major Force, a minor GL villain and StuffedInTheFridge TropeNamer and enthusiast, gets this treatment. Since he is essentially immortal, Kyle puts him into a little green tennis ball and rackets him into the vastness of space.
--->'''Kyle Rayner''': Take it from me man, space is big. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Really. Really. BIG]]. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Service]].
** A Sinestro Corps member called Maash has three heads. Two are psychopaths while the third is innocent and resents the atrocities his brothers do. Unfortunately, the innocent head has no control over their body.
** Larfleeze, aka Agent Orange, gains his constructs by killing people. It's implied, and later confirmed that they're not just constructs in the victim's likeness, but their souls forced to do Larfleeze's bidding.
* In the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' storyline, this is the fate of [[spoiler:all the resurrected heroes who have been claimed by Nekron. They're trapped in their own bodies as the Black ring uses them as a puppet, forcing them to destroy their friends. And all the while, their living form is being slowly eaten away by the death energy, turning them into a Black Lantern for real]].
** [[spoiler:Nekron's ultimate fate also counts. With his link to the living world sundered and cut off from the Anti Monitor's power, he was once again banished to his limbo dimension as a powerless spirit shrieking in the void.]]
* DC megavillain Krona tends to end up this way after defeats. Given his godlike powers and utter indestructibility, there's not much else you can do with him.

* Zera, the formerly drop-dead angel from David Hine's ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'', was so loved by God that she could never die. She is later reduced to a floating head in a jar and then devoured by vicious dogs.

* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
** ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Sea of Lost Souls]] in "Killer Watt", [[spoiler:Torquemada getting at one point trapped in time loop where he is repeatedly burned to death]] and [[spoiler:possibly the final fate of Torquemada with or without Nemesis. Even when he escapes after a billion years, Nemesis crucifies him and sends him out to another trip around the cosmos for the rest of eternity]].
** In the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' story arc "The Day The Law Died," [[TheCaligula Judge Cal's]] method of getting rid of the "worry wrinkles" of his closest aide, Judge Slocum, involved injecting Slocum with a paralyzing agent and, while he's still conscious, [[FingerForcedSmile molding a permanent wide grin on his face]] before dropping him in a sealed vat of vinegar for preservation... and the whole time we get to read Slocum's thoughts of sheer horror being beset on him while seeing him with such a stupid, big smile on his face.
** ''ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks'': A pair of art thieves visit a gallery to find the most valuable piece to steal. They settle on a weird painting which is contained behind very thick bars. They saw through the bars to get at it, but instantly disappear. The next morning the curator takes a new group of tourists through the exposition, explaining that the painting is actually alive and the bars are not meant to protect the painting from people, but to protect people from the painting. The thieves are seen being tortured in Hell inside the painting.
** ''ComicBook/AndersonPsiDivision'':
*** The traiterous [[spoiler:Judge Fauster]] unleashes the Half-Life virus on Mega-City One so he can get access to immortality. After he's arrested for causing over a million deaths, he gloats that he'll still be there when the city has crumbled into dust. As punishment Chief Hershey orders him locked up for eternity and his mind placed in a computer-induced nightmare.
*** Some poor sap is used this way by the Sisters of Death to create a bridge to Mega City One. His body is already dead but thanks to a nearby psychic amplifier his ''mind is still active'', trapped inside it as he's tied to a cross with barb wire.
* ''ComicBook/TalesOfTelguuth'':
** After a DealWithTheDevil gone wrong, Morgath the Mage's soul is trapped inside the demon's necklace, who promises him that he'll murder everyone he has ever loved while he's {{forced to watch}}.
** In ''The Eternal Life of Emperor Ygg'', the ImmortalitySeeker gets more than he bargained for when the creature who grants him immortality lops off his limbs and shoves him into a bricked up compartment. The creature has countless other immortal victims trapped like his, and their screams are music to him.
* In the comic ''Comicbook/{{WITCH}}.'' the girls can produce astral drops which replace them when they need to transform and help people. [[spoiler:They start to have their own emotions and lives. Then one of them is shown crying, stuck in the heart surrounded by darkness. And this is when they're not being used, which is a lot]].

* DC Comics' ComicBook/{{Superboy}} is, surprisingly, responsible for one of these, in his first ongoing. After Amanda Spence killed his first love Tana Moon, Superboy struggled with his desire to kill her on several occasions. The last time they fought, Spence had been technologically and biologically augmented to essentially be completely indestructible, and now no longer even needed to breathe. After Spence killed a clone created with some of Tana's DNA, and told Kon that she planned to have an endless supply to kill just for kicks, Kon flipped out, and launched her out of the ship they were fighting on and into space at about mach eleventy billion. Given how ridiculously vast outer space is, and the sheer unlikelihood of Spence ever being found by anyone or coming into contact with anything, and the fact that she essentially can't die and that her biology might make it so she can't freeze, it means that she's probably still floating around in the cold, vast emptiness of space alone and might do so for all of eternity.
* The sixties weird-humor comic ''Plop!'' had an odd case. A ruthless gangster who [[KarmaHoudini never gets any punishments]] starts to think he can even weasel his way out of death, and hires a team of scientists to develop an immortality elixir. Some years in, they can only come up with a reincarnation elixir, which he takes, but tells them to keep working on the immortality. He eventually dies without them having completed it, and the reincarnation elixir takes effect, putting him into the body of a pig due to his lifetime of evil deeds. However, he ''still'' sees this as a triumph; pigs don't live long and it'll be easy to live a good life as one, so he'll be born again as a human in no time. [[spoiler: Then he feels the prick of a needle...and sees his own scientists congratulating each other in finally perfecting the immortality elixir.]]
* The 11th issue of ''Police Comics'' featured ComicBook/PlasticMan battling Cyrus Smythe, a seventeenth century British chemist who's brain was still alive and conscious after his death. By the story's present time in the 1940's, Smythe's brain ends up being placed in the head of an injured soldier named Tad Wilkins, and he proceeds to finish the growth serum he worked on when he was alive, enabling him to become a towering giant. Plastic Man manages to kill him, but the brain of Cyrus Smythe still lives and promises to return.
* Buzzard from Comicbook/TheGoon In Heaps of Ruination. Blowing his own brains out with a gun didn't work, so he went to go be alone for eternity. "And Buzzard crawled into the earth at the roots of the tree. And there he lay. And he lived...and lived...and lived."
* The barbarian hero Dax the Warrior from Warren Publishing's Eerie magazine suffered this fate. In his final story, wounded in battle, Dax encounters Death, but spurns him with his desire to keep living. It isn't until Death is gone that it is revealed that Dax has been left completely paralyzed by the blow he has suffered.

* Surprisingly, happens in the Franchise/{{Archie|Comics}} Comic "Afterlife With Archie", a horror/zombie take on the classic characters. [[spoiler: As punishment for stealing the Necronomicon, Sabrina is cast into an empty dimension by her aunts (here a pair of horrible wraith-witches) after having her mouth removed via magic for a year. [[FromBadToWorse But it turns out that her true fate is even worse than that.]]]]
* ''[[Series/{{Angel}} Angel & Faith]]'': During the first story arc, "Live Through This," it's revealed that, as a result of [[TheMagicGoesAway the end of magic]], the potency of Mohra Demon blood has gone out of control; any human who uses it to heal themselves will instead keep growing tissue and ultimately become [[BodyHorror giant tumorous things that barely resemble anything human]], all while in non-stop agony. Angel and Faith come across several victims of this and are forced to MercyKill them by [[OffWithHisHead chopping their heads off]].
* In ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'', necromancers whose powers are sealed by the Vigil fall into a zombie-like state where their memories are shattered. The deuteragonist can seal away their powers without the side-effect, which comes in very handy when she needs to get information out of her necromancer boyfriend.
* In ''ComicBook/{{PS238}}'', the front lawn of Excelsior Public School is 'haunted' by the ghost of a Native American metahuman who was cursed his tribe's medicine man for something bad he once did. The curse states he can't move from his location, his spirit can't pass on, nor can he remember anything he was proud of while alive (including his name, his own nature, or exactly what he did), and only performing an act of pure altruism that saves someone's life can free him. He's not exactly 'tormented' by it, but he is very resigned to his fate, very, ''very'' bored and would like nothing better than to atone.
* In Archie's new horror-based Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic, Sabrina's father is turned into a tree. It's currently unknown if he's lucid in this state or not.

* In ''[[ComicBook/AthenaVoltaire Athena Voltaire and the Isle of the Dead]]'', de Vargas tells the story of someone who was effectively immortal, but who was chained in the hold of a ship when it sank. He was down there for years.

* A temporary variation occurs in the first issue of the Creator/ECComics publication ComicBook/WeirdFantasy. Roger Harvey was in a car crash when two scientists stole his brain. He was just a brain in a jar for four months, which he thought was much longer and suffered during, until the scientists added a mechanical ear. Then eyes. Then a vocal addition. Eventually he has a fully mechanical, and functioning body.

* Multiple examples in ''ComicBook/{{Revival}}'' due to the revivers' healing factor. Jesse Blackdeer was resurrected during his own cremation, causing full-body burn scars that wrack him with pain at all times. Another character is submerged in ritual water that simultaneously drowns and revives him for weeks. In fact all of the revivers are listlessly lost since they no longer belong in the world, but are unable to move on.
* Demonic possessors in ''ComicBook/CleanRoom'' can shift the flesh of their host like clay. One named the Surgeon prides himself on his creativity when he showcases his Pony Man, a man with a horse's head. The Pony Man's SingleTear affirms to the audience that there is still a thinking, feeling person inside the abomination.

* ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'':
** This is Pariah's sad destiny, being teleported to various worlds as they are erased by the Anti-Monitor. He claims this is his penance for peering back into the beginning of time and causing his world to be destroyed and causing other worlds to be destroyed. [[spoiler:Turns out he's only responsible for the former - Anti-Monitor's been doing the others.]]
** The Anti-Monitor does this to Psycho Pirate, causing his face to temporarily disappear.

* In 1994, the ''Disney Adventures Magazine'' ran a 5 part comic series titled ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfTheChaosGod'', where each chapter featured the characters of a different Disney Afternoon cartoon series (''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', and finally ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck''), where they try to prevent an ancient sorcerer from escaping his crystal prison. Initially, the sorcerer is imprisoned in a ruby, fully conscious, while his magic powers are imprisoned within a gold setting where the ruby fits. The two are kept separate by being encased in a block of jade, but are taken out for examination. Eventually, through body possession, the sorcerer escapes, but is shortly put back in the Ruby. This time, he's buried at the bottom of Scrooge [=McDuck's=] Money Bin, "never to be opened, cataloged, only to be lost and forgotten, hopefully forever."

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'': In addition to robotization, this is the fate of [[WellIntentionedExtremist Dimitri]], when Lien-Da [[KlingonPromotion usurps his position as Grand Master]]. She disables his ability to move, leaving only his robotic head, then sticks him in a box, gleefully telling him his battery will run down in a few months. He does eventually get rescued.

* In the alternate Marvel Universe ''Ruins'', the Gamma Bomb that turned Bruce Banner into TheHulk instead turned him into [[spoiler:a huge mass of gigantic tumors and horrific maiming all over the body, which Rick Jones claims is still being kept alive in a CIA facility]].

--->'''Kyle Rayner''': Take it from me man, space is big. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Really. Really. BIG]]. [[MomentOfAwesome Service]].

* Magus from ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet and ComicBook/AdamWarlock / ComicBook/{{Thanos}} fame / infamy ended as this. Due to reality altering energies being unleashed as he held the incomplete Gauntlet, he ended up as an [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal intangible, invisible, inaudible]] apparation. He can see others but not interact with them. Scream, but never be heard. ...Until [[ComicBook/CaptainMarVell Genis]]-Vell with his [[SpiderSense cosmic senses]] comes along, and a TimeyWimeyBall gets involved.

** In the Post-Crisis universe, ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 2005}} Kara]]'' spent thirty years in suspended animation, curled-up in a tiny pod and trapped in Kryptonite which hurt her and poisoned her mind.

* Zera, the formerly drop-dead angel from David Hine's ''{{Spawn}}'', was so loved by God that she could never die. She is later reduced to a floating head in a jar and then devoured by vicious dogs.

** In ''The Eternal Life of Emperor Ygg'', the ImmortalitySeeker gets more than he bargained for when the creature who grants him immortality lops off his limbs and shoves him into bricked up compartment. The creature has countless other immortal victims trapped like his, and their screams are music to him.

* ''ComicBook/TalesOfTelguuth'': After a DealWithTheDevil gone wrong, Morgath the Mage's soul is trapped inside the demon's necklace, who promises him that he'll murder everyone he has ever loved while he's {{forced to watch}}.

** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInTheEightGrade'', super-villain Belinda Zee is turned into a crystal statue. She cannot talk or move but she is fully sentient and -worst of all- she can feel pain.

* ''JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':

* A stand-alone comic in the magazine ''Fantomen'' featured a young man who comes into possession of a watch that shows what time you will die down to the second, after its original owner is killed right on time. When the man finds that his own date of death is decades into the future (he'd be in his early 90's), he embarks on a career as a daredevil, confident in the knowledge that he cant die before his time. However, his careless stunts causes several fatalities, and a revenge-driven widower attacks him with a grenade, which ends up blowing off his limbs and renders him blind and mute, leaving him helpless, blind and immovable in a hospital bed with nothing to do but count the seconds for the rest of his life. To drive the irony in further, one of his doctors picks up the watch and his time turns out to be the next day at midnight, but the doctor has no idea of the clocks power.

-->''Nothing can stop the Juggernaut. And nothing ever will."

* Demonic possessors in ''ComicBook/CleanRoom'' can shift the flesh of their host like clay. Being demons, they most often use this to inflict bizarre injuries on the host, like tying someone in a HumanKnot or rearranging the skin of his face to put his eye holes where his mouth should be. One named the Surgeon prides himself on his creativity when he showcases his Pony Man, a man with a horse's head.

* Multiple examples in ''ComicBook/Revival'' due to the revivers' healing factor. Jesse Blackdeer was resurrected during his own cremation, causing full-body burn scars that wrack him with pain at all times. Another character is submerged in ritual water that simultaneously drowns and revives him for weeks. In fact all of the revivers are listlessly lost since they no longer belong in the world, but are unable to move on.

* In another recent Batman story arc, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker does this to Dr. Hurt, who is immortal and has already pissed the Joker off on more than one occasion. Not only does Hurt accidentally slip on a banana peel and break his neck, Joker then injects him with Joker Venom and buries him alive. It gets even more disturbing when you remember precisely what Joker Venom ''does'' to its victims besides outright killing them. And since Hurt ''cannot'' die and the toxin presumably never wears off, he's stuck BuriedAlive while slowly going insane from the effects of Joker Venom, forced to laugh at himself for all eternity despite the pain he's in.

* The Hideshi Hino graphic novel ''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.]]

** A temporary variation occurs in the first issue of the Creator/EC Comics publication ComicBook/WeirdFantasy. Roger Harvey was in a car crash when two scientists stole his brain. He was just a brain in a jar for four months, which he thought was much longer and suffered during, until the scientists added a mechanical ear. Then eyes. Then a vocal addition. Eventually he has a fully mechanical, and functioning body.

** A temporary variation occurs in the first issue of ComicBook/WeirdFantasy. Roger Harvey was in a car crash when two scientists stole his brain. He was just a brain in a jar for four months, which he thought was much longer and suffered during, until the scientists added a mechanical ear. Then eyes. Then a vocal addition. Eventually he has a fully mechanical, and functioning body.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog''. In addition to robotization, this is the fate of [[WellIntentionedExtremist Dimitri]], when Lien-Da [[KlingonPromotion usurps his position as Grand Master]]. She disables his ability to move, leaving only his robotic head, then sticks him in a box, gleefully telling him his battery will run down in a few months. He does eventually get rescued.