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7	AndIMustScream in ComicBooks.
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9	!!The following have their own pages:
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15	* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
16	** ''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]].
17	** ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'':
18	*** In the early 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.
19	*** 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.
20	*** Sabbat the Necromancer has CompleteImmortality, so Dredd has to think up a way around this. [[spoiler:He decapitates Sabbat and sticks his head on the lodestone that gives him his powers, ensuring he never dies but can never free himself. "The sentence is life. No remission."]]
21	** ''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.
22	** ''ComicBook/AndersonPsiDivision'':
23	*** 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.
24	*** 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 (skeletal, in fact) 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.
25	** ''ComicBook/TalesOfTelguuth'':
26	*** 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}}.
27	*** 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.
28	* Surprisingly, happens in the Creator/{{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.]]]]
29	* ''[[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]].
30	* In ''ComicBook/AthenaVoltaire 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.
31	* ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'': In ''The Curse of the Thirty Denarii'', Judas is the Wandering Jew. God cursed him to wander the Earth with everyone shunning him. 200 years after Jesus' crucifixion, feeling his death is near, he confesses to a Christian priest who he really is. After his passing, the priest has him buried far away from his community. In the 20th century, Blake and Mortimer open his grave, but Judas is still flesh and blood. His body was actually too frail to move, talk or eat, meaning he was buried alive for nearly 2000 years!
32	* In Archie's new horror-based ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' comic, Sabrina's father is turned into a tree. It's currently unknown if he's lucid in this state or not.
33	* ''ComicBook/TheChroniclesOfWormwood'': The final fate of Pope Jacko by the end of the ''Last Battle'' miniseries, where he is stuck possessing the paralyzed body of Paul Carnovitz and tended to by a staff of doctors intent on ensuring his death is delayed for a good long time.
34	* 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.
35	* 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."
36	* 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 [[{{Pun}} 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."
37	** 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.]]
38	* 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.]]]]
39	* 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.
40	* 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."
41	* ''[[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.
42	* 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]].
43	* ''ComicBook/PeterCannonThunderbolt2019'': Thunderbolt's version of Sabu attempted to escape from his fate as the only other inhabitant of a dead world, alongside the insane Thunderbolt himself, by suicide. Thunderbolt punished him by transforming him into a robot who cannot harm himself. It's a borderline instance of the trope, in that Sabu can speak -- but the only person he gets to talk to is Thunderbolt.
44	* 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.]]
45	* 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.
46	* 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.
47	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': 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.
48	** 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.
49	* In ''ComicBook/SoulsearchersAndCompany'' #1, Grand Guignol is transformed into a plush toy when one of his spells backfires. He is then collected to be used as set dressing on one of the kiddie's TV programs that he hates so much.
50	* 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.
51	* The future society of ''ComicBook/{{Spiritus}}'' has done away with prisons, deeming them barbaric. Instead, convicts have their consciousness transferred into an android body and perform manual labor for the state, while their corpse is recycled into fertilizer.
52	* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'': Being one of the titular {{Super Soldier}}s means you are extremely strong and durable to damage. That doesn't mean you are invincible since [[NoKillLikeOverkill extreme damage]] is sufficient enough to cripple them and their powers keep them alive no matter how horrific the injuries they sustain. Blowing up half of your head will not kill you, neither having your body twisted or turned inside out. You will be in agony the whole time and attempts at euthanasia are ''extremely difficult''. Even [[spoiler:getting nuked point blank won't kill them either... But it will make them wish it did since they will be reduced to a gory melted stuff fused into the floor and its impossible to grant a MercyKill]].
53	* 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.
54	* 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.
55	* 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.]]
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