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->''I am a Great Soft Jelly Thing. Smoothly rounded, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; bulks rounding down into legless humps of soft, slippery matter. Blotches of diseased, evil gray come and go on my surface, as though light is beamed from within. I have no mouth. And I must scream.''\\

->''I am a Great Soft Jelly Thing. Smoothly rounded, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; bulks rounding down into legless humps of soft, slippery matter. Blotches of diseased, evil gray come and go on my surface, as though light is beamed from within. [[IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream I have]] [[TitleDrop no mouth.]] [[TropeNamer And I must scream.]]''\\
-- '''HarlanEllison'''

[[IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/imustscreamkn4.jpg]]

->''I am a Great Soft Jelly Thing. Smoothly rounded, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; bulks rounding down into legless humps of soft, slippery matter. Blotches of diseased, evil gray come and go on my surface, as though light is beamed from within. [[IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream I have]] [[TitleDrop no mouth.]] [[TropeNamer And I must scream.]]''
--> -- '''HarlanEllison'''

* In ''{{Fallout}} 3'', [[spoiler:Vault 112 contains a set of pods that keep their occupants alive forever, their minds trapped in a VirtualReality simulation as the playthings of the sadistic Overseer Dr. Stanislaus Braun, who tortures, kills and revives them at his leisure. When the Lone Wanderer becomes trapped in the simulation with his/her dad, he/she can activate a hidden fail-safe that [[YourMindMakesItReal kills all of the Vault's residents]] except for Braun, leaving him trapped alone inside the simulation, presumably forever. And this is the ''"good" option!'']]

* In the GirlsLove VisualNovel ''AkaiIto'', [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Nozomi]] was trapped inside the [[MagicMirror Ryugetsu]] for... a long time. Even though in other characters' route she is always a villain, when you are in her route it's explained that she was a princess of some sort, and discarded her original body to obtain freedom from the deadly political game of her era. She then became a ghost that is [[GhostlyAnchor attached to the Ryugetsu]]. How did she accomplish this? By making deal with [[BigBad Nushi]]. When Nushi was defeated and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed]] by the onikiri, she became trapped in the mirror. As she wondered why Nushi never come for her, [[AndIMustScream her psyche crumbled]], and out of loneliness (and low self-esteem, she's really a messed-up person) she created another persona that act as her twin little sister. [[spoiler: But ItGotWorse: That little sister, Mikage, was really a part of [[OurSoulsAreDifferent Nushi's shattered soul]], and manipulates her into manipulating the owner of the mirror to do atrocious things, all to free Nushi.]]

* In the series finale of ''{{Alias}}'', BigBad Sloane finds the underground tomb of Rambaldi and uses his secret elixir to become immortal and invulnerable. Jack Bristow then proceeds to blow up the cave they're in, causing it to collapse on Sloane and leaving him to spend eternity buried under literal tons of rock, unable to move, all alone in the darkness, with only the stench of Jack's rotting corpse for company, while the rest of the world thinks he's dead.

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

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

* Possible example from ''HikarunoGo Hikaru no Go'': Sai was trapped inside a Go board for nigh on a thousand years. There is no indication that he is unconscious during any of this.

* Possible example from ''Hikaru no Go'': Sai was trapped inside a Go board for nigh on a thousand years. There is no indication that he is unconscious during any of this.

** Lambda-11's story mode in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift both plays it straight and combines it with [[MindRape Mind Rape]]. The former when she is [[spoiler: the subject of durability tests with high voltage (which the researchers note would fry most Murakumo units), but is only partially online so she cannot voice her agony or requests for help. Then later, Kokonoe acquires her and wipes her mind so she can be used as a combat drone. Lambda hears Kokonoe talking about mind-wiping her and panics, but again is not able to speak. Even her supposed "gag reel" has these elements present, making it more soul-crushingly depressing than funny.]]

** Lambda-11's story mode in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift both plays it straight and combines it with [[MindScrew Mind Screw]]. The former when she is [[spoiler: the subject of durability tests with high voltage (which the researchers note would fry most Murakumo units), but is only partially online so she cannot voice her agony or requests for help. Then later, Kokonoe acquires her and wipes her mind so she can be used as a combat drone. Lambda hears Kokonoe talking about mind-wiping her and panics, but again is not able to speak. Even her supposed "gag reel" has these elements present, making it more soul-crushingly depressing than funny.]]

* [[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 ''The Algebraist'', the Archimandrite Luseferous 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.
*** You forgot having his lips sewn shut so he couldn't spit...
** A protagonist in one of his Culture novels (I forget which) spends most of the novel trying to regain contact with his sister, who is a medic in a distant facility. Their other sister was killed by the BigBad, who then turned her into a chair. Her bones, mostly, but the seat was upholstered with her own skin, earning the nickname the Chairmaker. He's ultimately refused an interview with the surviving sister because [[spoiler: her brother did not recover from the fatal wound he received the night the other sister was killed. The man who believes he's her brother is in fact the BigBad himself, driven mad by his own actions. Ties in with this trope because his mind has locked that part of himself away where he can't hear it, replacing his persona with the dead man's, who has been wandering the galaxy trying to make up for what he's done by defeating other evil rebel warlords - without realising exactly why, even though he can't get the image of the chair made from a dead woman's bones out of his head... Perhaps the author came up with the idea while waiting for the dentist, who can say?]]

* ''TheTwilightZone'' had the famous "Time Enough Now", where, now that the rest of humanity has been destroyed, Burgess Meredith can finally read all he wants. Unfortunately, his coke-bottle glasses slip of his head, and shatter. "A Kind of Stopwatch" has a man discover a stop watch that literally stops time, and using it to rob banks, and things like that. Until it falls out of his pocket and breaks ''while the rest of the world (and presumably the universe) is still frozen''.