History Main / AndImustScream

** As well as the [[spoiler:Ancient Elven Arcane Warrior frozen in the phylactery for centuries in the Elven Ruins of the Brecilian Forest. When the player character finds him/her, he/she is practically insane except for the knowledge of the Arcane Warrior.]]

* In ''Twilight Watch'' an uber-spell is mentioned, though never used, called "The sarcophagus of times". It is meant to encapsulate both the victim AND the caster in the said sarcophagus for all eternity.

* Marvin, the perpetually depressed android from ''[=~The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy~=]'' book series, experiences this a number of times during the books due to frequent abuse of TimeTravel on the part of his companions. The end result is shown in the penultimate book in the series, where he's several times older than the universe and profoundly bitter about it.

** In ''The Algebraist'', the Archimandrite Luciferous has the head of a particularly troublesome rebel leader removed, sustains it on life support, mounts it upside down on the ceiling of his office, and uses it as his personal punching bag forever after. A literal example of this trope too, as the warlord has the man's tongue removed after he grows tired of listening to it spit abuse and scream for release. Although it cries after particular long and hard boxing sessions, it is described as having long-since gone completely insane.

* The ''SuperMario'' games. Have you ever thought of what it would be like for a Koopa Mario sent bouncing between two pipes, back and forth, with nothing to stop it? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S82JIjo80 These guys did...]]

* [[spoiler: RoboCain]] from ''Robocop 2'' can only create an image of his face but is unable to speak. He truly has an AIMS moment when [[spoiler: his brain is smashed on pavement]]. The CG face appears, clearly in agony, but he can only make mechanical sounds to complain which aren't intelligible.
** This is also a problem with a ''Robocop'' 2 prototype who we see in agony but can only use pre-generated police phrases. [[spoiler: He succeeds in killing himself, however.]]

* Imohtep in both versions of ''TheMummy''. The novelization of the 1999 film explains that Imhotep's soul is locked in his body, even after it dies, and in the meantime, he's buried alive with flesh eating scarabs.

* ''{{Torchwood}}'': In the season 2 finale, Jack is buried alive under Cardiff, constantly suffocating, reviving (painfully), and dying again... for 1874 years. He was buried in 27 CE then dug up in 1901, then cryogenically frozen (yes, in 1901, Torchwood could do that then) to bring him back to the present, paradox free.
** Attempted by the villains in part 2 of ''Children of Earth'', as they try to contain Jack by [[spoiler:''encasing him in concrete''. Fortunately, he gets rescued by Gwen, Rhys and Ianto pretty quickly.]]

** Jonah, from the episode ''Adrift'', is a literal representation of this trope. [[spoiler: Among other things that left him disfigured, he returns home 40 years older and insane (because he looked at a Dark Star). Now he screams. For. Twenty. Hours. A. Day.]] Not to mention Jack's predicament with the Master during the Year That Never Was.

** Similarly, the Hierarchy in ''WraithTheOblivion'' does this to whoever causes too much trouble. Their ghostly corpus is "soulforged," boiled down and rendered into a permanent shape, be it a sword, a coin, or an ashtray. Those who carry weapons made through this process swear they can hear them weeping some times...

** This also happens to the Weeping Angels in "Blink". They turn to stone when looked at by any other being, including their own kind. They get tricked and end up standing facing each other, turning them to stone forever.
*** [[FridgeLogic Or until that lightbulb burns out...]]
**** Oh, dude, FUCK you... I hadn't thought of that...
**** Of course they CAN see in the dark...
**** Actually, some poor fellow could just stand between them..and blink
**** He wouldn't even have to blink. If he stands between them, he'll have his back to one of them, breaking their line of sight.
***** Of course, the newest Doctor mentions that the Angels in that episode were starving to death, which suggests that none of them have long to go anyway (although that makes it worse, being trapped as stone while ''starving'').

* in the Trigun manga Legato kills a bunch of thugs, by tuffing them in a container, that is too small to contain them all, they crush their bodies and stay there alive for who knows how much time until they die.

* {{Texhnolyze}} started off with this and then [[ItGotWorse it just goes downhill from there...]] ending in what could be referred to by some as BrainBleach.
* In SoulEater, what Shinigami does to [[spoiler:Asura]]. I mean really, the guy is an insane psychotic and a good way to deal with that is to peel off his skin and wrap his insides in it while he is still conscious? ''That'' couldn't possibly go horribly wrong...
* In {{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.]]

* In 1994, the Disney Adventures Magazine ran a 5 part comic series titled "TheLegendOfTheChaosGod", where each chapter featured the characters of a different Disney Afternoon cartoon series (TaleSpin, RescueRangers, GoofTroop, DuckTales, and finally 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."

* In the current Blackest Night storyline [[spoiler: this is the fate of 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. Thus far, Wonder Woman, Superboy, and Kid Flash have been able to escape, though, so it's not an absolute hold.]]

* In Mutopia X, two of Kaufman's henchmen are walking inside a warehouse belonging to one of Kaufman's deposed drug gang rivals. One of the henchmen is talking about the deposed drug lord. The other henchman says "What a terrible way to end your life." To which the other henchman replies "Who said anything about him being dead." [[spoiler:to which the victim is being suspended on top of the warehouse by chains, the poor victim letter gets horrific revenge on Kaufman in a method that is left to the reader's imagination]].
* 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 later devoured by vicious dogs.
* Subverted in Preacher, where Jesse Custer, in his final confrontation with the Meat Man WARNING: THE FOLLOWING SPOILER IS EXTREMELY DISTURBING [[spoiler:who is making out with a woman made of raw meat]] says that he has seen many f**ed up-things in his life. Custer then says [[spoiler:"If this is not a mercy killing, then I do not know what is."]].
* In the alternate Marvel Universe Ruins, the Gamma Bomb that turned Bruce Banner into the Hulk instead WARNING: EXTREMELY DISTURBING [[spoiler:A huge mass of gigantic tumors and horrific maiming all over the body, to which Rick Jones claims that he is still being kept alive in a CIA facility]].
* In a Ghost Rider annual written by Warren Ellis, the Scarecrow (not the Batman villain) creates a haunted house sown together with live human beings. Upon defeating the Scarecrow, WARNING: EXTREMELY DISTURBING[[spoiler: Ghost Rider breaks every bone in the Scarecrow's body. Ghost Rider then twists every bone in the Scarecrow's body so the bones will not heal properly, thus leaving the Scarecrow as a permanently paralyzed and disjointed mess.]] The Scarecrow later got better.
* In the Infinity Gauntlet mini-series, Thanos turns his daughter into a floating corpse who is an intermediate between life and death, not being allowed the luxury of death.

* Imohtep in both versions of TheMummy. The novelization of the 1999 film explains that Imhotep's soul is locked in his body, even after it dies, and in the meantime, he's buried alive with flesh eating scarabs.

*The second XMen film provides an example with Lady Deathstrike. Having regenerative abilities on par with Wolverine, she can't die. But being injected with the cooled Adamantium, she can't move anything. She if forced to live forever floating at the bottom of a tank in an abandonded military base.

* Subverted in Vampire novel Let The Right One In; Eli was about eleven when Vamp'd and mentally, still is...just with a few hundred years worth of memories. She plays with toys, has awkward friendships/relationships with boys her own age etc. And to be honest, this is about as accurate a depiction of a child vamp as you can get-adult minds develop from child and tween minds thanks to hormones as much as to experiences-hormones never produced by frozen in time Vamps. So while she is trapped as a child,she has the mind of a child...the Must Scream part comes from the fact that [[spoiler: at the end when she escapes with Oskar, we realise she must either turn him or suffer through watching him age and die. ]]

* In the first installment of the {{Enchanted Forest Chronicles}}, the cavern in which the Stone Prince is found is full of chunks of black rock, which are later revealed to be princes who've been turned to stone by using the dipper that they were told NOT to use. They have to stay there, as chunks of rock, until someone comes along who knows how to follow directions.

* In John Saul's The Homing, the result of a sting from a modified bee from a mad scientist/serial killer causes the character, Julia, to be trapped in her own body, as an insectoid presence forces her to lie to her parents and friends against her will so that it can continue transforming her into a humanoid queen bee of sorts and create drones by injecting swarms of tiny insects into her friends' mouths to infect their brains, who also experience the same fate. After the new queen and her minions depart to create more hives, one of the victims infected earlier is forced to run away from the hospital and continue going barefoot towards the direction of the new swarm until her body gives way and dies. The novel ends when the black swarm inhabiting her body infects a nearby coyote investigating the corpse.
* Not exactly an example because he does get to die, but in the {{Redwall}} book ''Lord Brocktree'', [[spoiler:the BigBad Ungatt Trunn gets his spine broken in the final battle. The good guys think he's dead and leave his body on the shore. He's not. And he lies there, paralysed and in severe pain, for the rest of the day and most of the night, until [[TheDogBitesBack his former slave Groddil shoves him into the sea]].]]

*In P.B. Kerr's Children of the Lamp, Dybukk's sister, whom he never met, lost blood while jumping between bodies. Because of this, her soul is incomplete, so she can no longer enter any living bodies, even her own. She spends her days roaming earth as an unsensed force.
*The fate of those devoured by a CosmicHorror in [[{{Illuminatus}} Illuminatus!]].

* From WizardsOfWaverlyPlace of all places! In one episode, Alex brings a mannequin to life to be her boyfriend. But when it becomes unmanageable, Alex has to turn it back. The mannequin is terrified of having its face turned back into a "featureless knob." After a few moments of life and mobility, his new life is cruelly snatched away and he is stuck as a frozen plastic doll in a store window.
* This is what "bronzing" is implied to do to people kept in Warehouse 13. According to [[spoiler:H.G. Wells]], they're fully aware, but immobile. [[spoiler:She]] seems to have come out of it fairly well, if more than a little angry.

* Dungeons & Dragons' {{Ravenloft}} setting has a monster known as the Wall of Flesh. It's created when the rage and fear of a person who has been imprisoned within a wall mixes with Ravenloft's special flavor of magic.

* One Dungeons&Dragons monster race, the Aboleth, are immortal abominations of the sea. Should they dehydrate, they don't die, but instead turn into an immobile shell, still aware but incapable of any sort of action. This is described in the Lords of Madness supplement as a FateWorseThanDeath.

* [[http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/3697/arkunefullzu6.jpg Arakune]] of BlazBlue has this on a few levels. Originally he was a scientist, researching the neitherworld of lost souls called the Boundery. As he learned more and more, he eventually fell into the Boundery, and now... he is a shapeless mass of insects, who lives only to pursue knowledge. You see that face-like white plate? That's not his face. He has no face. That's just a mask he stuck onto himself to try and make communicating easier. Also, while he thinks he's talking perfectly normal, h[[spoiler:is sp]]eec[[spoiler:h i]]s ac[[spoiler:tully f]]ragme[[spoiler:nted and i]]nco[[spoiler:mpr]]ehe[[spoiler:nsible.]] When his former love intrest, who is trying to save him, finally tracks him down,[[spoiler: he is able to remember her, and speak clearly for the first time in years, and tries to warn her that she is dangerously close to becoming like him; a warning which she doesn't heed.]]

* In BioShock 2, [[spoiler: Gilbert Alexander was experimented on by Sophia Lamb - her first test subject for what she plans to do with her daughter. He is reduced to a giant floating tentacled blob, his sanity long since dissappeared, howling in the dark at the splicers and calling himself Alex the Great. His last message to you begs you to kill him, to put him out of his misery. In a curious subversion that also manages to be a wallbanger, honouring his wishes and killing him is treated just as bad as killing the innocent little girls.]]

**There's another instance in Bioshock 2 that can be considered a good example of this - [[spoiler:when Lamb turns Sinclair into a Big Daddy, he [[DyingAsYourself begs with the last ounce of humanity in him for death]]. The player can use the fully upgraded version of Hypnotize to have Sinclair aid them in killing the Splicers around and to follow them, but every moment not spent wailing on the poor bastard is more time for him to brokenly plead for death.]]
* In SystemShock 2 the hosts of annelids worms, who eventually turn into hybrids, are forced to go through this.

* Implied in MassEffect 2 by the confused, yet relieved expression with which [[spoiler: the Collector General faces death after being released from Harbinger's control]]. Also, the FateWorseThanDeath of anybody who gets taken alive by the Collectors consists of suffering this [[spoiler:while waiting to be processed into pure genetic slurry and watching others endure the same agonizing fate]].

* (Incoming HighOctaneNightmareFuel!) A manga [[http://kdingo.net/champ/pics/main.php?g2_itemId=5259 link.]] It's from the artist who did the Idle Minds.

* [[http://www.legorobotcomics.com/?id=71 This LegoRobot comic]] is a haunting six page horror story about this trope.

* The horror inherent to this trope is part of what makes the SCPFoundation's SCP-231 one of the most horrifically disturbing things imaginable.

* RubyQuest: Could apply to several characters, but is most explicitly stated by [[spoiler:Bella]], who pleads for death:

* In an episode of the Legion of Superheroes, the wizard Mordru is [[spoiler:wrapped in a metal cocoon and sunken to the middle of the Planet. Pretty harsh when you consider his eyes were still moving as he was buried, and the planet probably has a molten core... so either he is buried alive or melted.]] Pretty harsh for a team that works with the police and United Planets.

* The ending of the [[ClassicDisneyShorts Silly Symphonies]] short ''Peculiar Penguins'', ends with the shark, whom was chasing the protagonists for half the picture, with a very large rock falling into his belly, trapping him at the bottom of the ocean to possibly starve to death.

* "Paralytic fluid" in the ''AeonFlux'' episode "Ether Drift Theory". The Habitat laboratory is submerged in a lake of said fluid, which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysInTheTitle paralyses those who fall in it]], with no hope of rescue. ''But they are still conscious.'' [[spoiler:This happens to Aeon herself at the end of the episode. The last scene of the episode is of Aeon, paralyzed in the fluid, as the two halves of the item that would neutralize the solution slowly float in front of her eyes, collide, and go in different directions.]]

* Anyone who ends up in the Fresnar in SpaceChimps.

* In ''[[TheInheritanceTrilogy Brisingr]]'', Oromis, Eragon's mentor, tells Eragon that dragons can store their consciousness inside a "heart of hearts", and live long after their body dies through this special body part. However, it's alluded to that this life is similar to this trope, as they are stuck in solid orbs and cannot move or speak (though they are still conscious and can therefore think and transmit thoughts, and that often dragons will beg other riders to destroy the heart that they're stuck in so that they can finally die.)

* In 1994, the Disney Adventures Magazine ran a 5 part comic series titled "The legend of the Chaos God", where each chapter featured the characters of a different Disney Afternoon cartoon series (TaleSpin, RescueRangers, GoofTroop, DuckTales, and finally 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."