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| 10 | * In Chapter 69 of ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:Ignis is still conscious in her Detonator form, but is unable to enact her own will while Relius controls her, leaving her a prisoner in her own body. Only when her body takes severe damage is she able to briefly assert a sliver of control, but such instances are slim and said control is easily stolen as quickly as she receives it]]. |
| 11 | * ''Fanfic/TheBridgeMLP'': Monster X spent about 72253 days, or 198 years, entombed within the giant asteroid Gorath, with only his own voice and nightmares for company. He didn't go insane, but by the time he was released, he had lost all his memories. His SuperPoweredEvilSide Kaizer Ghidorah has it even worse. Whenever he's not in control, he's trapped inside a cage deep within X's mindscape, but aware of everything. |
| 12 | * ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'': The fate Moriarty intends for Literature/SherlockHolmes after his "rebellion" in the final episode is to be LockedInTheDungeon, submitted to ColdBloodedTorture, and, every now and then, ForcedToWatch [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath Beth's death]] on video. And he can do it until Time itself ends, since [[TimeStandsStill Time has broken and no one can age]]. |
| 13 | * ''Crazy Irken and ?'' (''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''-based crossover fic anthology by Creator/DRissing and Creator/{{nightmaster000}}. [[note]]Unable to link due to violating Content Policy, but it can be found on their Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn pages.[[/note]]): The form of MindControl used by Zim and Courtney during their conquest of the world in the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' chapter means that they can make Gwen and Duncan completely aware of the fact that they’re being controlled, but unable to resist in any way. [[WomanScorned Which is just perfect for Courtney's revenge.]] |
| 14 | * ''Fanfic/ADevilAmongstWorms'': Leviathan's ultimate fate, as not only is he trapped on Mercury by Makima's finger blasts with no way off, the fact that he can only sense things through water combined with the fact that Mercury and space in general have virtually no water, means he's stranded while being completely blind and deaf, forever. |
| 15 | * ''Fanfic/DivineBlood'': The people whose minds [[TheVirus Kodachi Kuno]] devours in order to take over their body as part of her collective are eventually shown as having fragmented pieces of their mental identity remaining in her collective mind as well as their entire souls enslaved to her will. When she manifests in a mindscape shortly before finally being exterminated, the mouths of the multitude of people she'd devoured are shown to be either gagged, [[MouthStitchedShut sewn shut with needle and thread]], ripped out, or simply not there. |
| 16 | * ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Queen Beryl's final punishment for her minions' failures is Eternal Sleep, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin eternal]] imprisonment in a [[CrystalPrison crystal]] that provides perfect isolation from the outside world. Meaning, the prisoner is completely immobilised and suffers from total sensory deprivation. Sooner or later everyone goes insane. While Jadeite, Mareki, and Umbra were saved in time, poor Tiger unfortunately wasn't. |
| 17 | * ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'': |
| 18 | ** [[EldritchAbomination The Smooze]] admits his every moment of existence is pain, only kept to "manageable" levels by medicine produced by Grogar. The only thing stronger is his [[{{Determinator}} iron-clad will]] to push through and ''keep existing'' because he wants to experience the small pleasures of life others take for granted because they're ''not'' soul-destroying agony. [[spoiler:It's why he decides to swear loyalty to Fluttershy after she manages to heal him as no one else ever had.]] |
| 19 | ** [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree was reduced to a barely sentient warped soul trapped in the depths of the Everfree Forest by Chrysalis to the point the ability to ''think'' wasn't something available to her for varying periods of time, only holding on by ThePowerOfHate.]] |
| 20 | * ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'': This happens to [[DesignatedVictim Twilight Sparkle]] and Fluttershy during the [[SugarApocalypse apocalypse]]. [[spoiler:Twilight is [[CannibalismSuperpower absorbed]] by the nascent [[PhysicalGod Goddess!Trixie]], who has been mutated into an EldritchAbomination by a massive overdose of [[PsychoSerum Impelled Metamorphosis Potion]], becoming [[AssimilationPlot part]] of her subservient HiveMind. Fluttershy survives the initial [[FantasticNuke megaspell exchange]], only to stumble upon a field of mutated [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Poison Joke]] that transforms her into [[ForcedTransformation a sentient tree]], forcing her to [[ForcedToWatch watch her world suffer, wither, and die.]]]] |
| 21 | * ''Fanfic/HerShadowedRealm'': Yù (the AlternateUniverse version of [[WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures Jade]] who had FaceHeelTurn) only avoided being [[GoMadFromTheIsolation driven insane by the isolation]] of her [[SealedEvilInACan banishment to the Shadow Realm]] by meditating. A lot. |
| 22 | * ''Fanfic/HorseshoesAndHandGrenades'': In ''A Month of Sundays'', Quetzalcoatl states that he was trapped underneath the remains of an ancient Aztec Temple for 500 years, screaming and begging for someone to help him. |
| 23 | * ''Fanfic/InkyFuture'': Professor Gaudile discovers from examining the genetic ooze created by Kamabo Corporation that the ooze is ''alive'', but unlike in normal {{Franchise/Splatoon}} canon, describes ''how'' to X - the victims are forcibly stuck in a forced semi-transformed state and the mixing with other individuals on top of the trauma of getting blended scrambles their minds too much to maintain individuality and sense of self. This ends up happening to [[spoiler:Agents 3 to 8 when Tartar in Quint's body successfully blends them, but their close bonds and willpower allow them to each regain their sense of self and perform a FusionDance to save X.]] |
| 24 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11567521/18/Is-Your-Great-Aunt-an-AI Is Your Great-Aunt an AI?]]'': Voldemort's consciousness [[ItMakesSenseInContext is put into a potato]]. |
| 25 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' You have a mouth, and I'm sure you must scream. But nobody is going to help you. |
| 26 | * ''Fanfic/LordOfTheCastle'': [[spoiler: [[NightmareWeaver Dr. Destiny's]] punishment at the end of the "Only A Dream" arc is worsened beyond being trapped in a coma, and very fitting for this trope. Alucard and the Librarian bind a Nightmare, a [[EmotionEater being that feeds on positive emotions]] to trap the victim in horrible nightmares, to him, and then carves a spell that allows him to draw on the positive experiences of others, thus trapping him in an everlasting nightmare, with the villain being reduced to begging and apologizing.]] |
| 27 | * ''Fanfic/LulusBizarreRebellion'': C.C.'s immortality already caused her quite a bit of suffering in canon, but here she ends up being used as a reusable blood bag by a group of vampires for centuries before being freed by a Hamon master. |
| 28 | * In ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'', this happens to victims of [[spoiler:First Quarter]] when she [[GrandTheftMe steals their bodies]] for her own use: they are unable to escape, move, or make their calls for help heard, and are left to die in a sea of her memories over the course of a day or two. |
| 29 | * ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'': Old Nan's stories state that the souls of people raised as wights by the White Walkers are still trapped inside their decaying corpses, unable to do anything as their bodies kill their loved ones. [[spoiler: Judging by Tyrion's dreams and Bran's visions, this is also the fate being suffered by Sansa now that she's been [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by the Night's Queen.]] |
| 30 | * ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': If the citizens of Rad are not killed during Shamuhaza's [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]], then this would be the fate they are subjected to. [[TakenForGranite Petrified]], [[EldritchTransformation transformed]] into [[BodyHorror horrific]] {{mutants}}, [[MixAndMatchCritters amalgamated]] into a hulking BodyOfBodies... all with a hint of awareness of their predicament. At least they are eventually [[MercyKill released from their fate]] when the [[HunterOfMonsters hunters]] arrive. |
| 31 | * ''Fanfic/OutOfTheCornerOfTheEye'': Francis White was rendered immortal by Nyarlathotep, and then flayed. While insanity has helped him cope with the pain, one of his [[ApocalypticLog journal entries]] reveals just how much constant agony he's trapped in. |
| 32 | * ''Fanfic/OldLightStillSlantsThrough'': Izuku ends up putting the Sludge Villain who attacked him on ice with Zero Point Breakthrough: First Edition. Due to having no memory of the incident after Tsuna took temporary control, the Sludge Villain spent three months unmoving as a frozen statue, leaving Izuku wracked with guilt and making him go back to free him despite the Sludge Villain's attempt (and subsequent attempt) to murder him afterward. |
| 33 | * ''Fanfic/OpeningDangerousGates'': A tengu removes all five senses from the party. Lucy almost goes insane but realizes she can still move and her keys must still be on her belt even if she can't see or feel them. With a bit of effort, she manages to grab the white key and summon Ulquiorra, and the sheer reiatsu released by his arrival dispels the effect. |
| 34 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17242514/ Pokemon vs. Digimon: When Worlds Collide]]'' sees Ash, Misty, and Brock assist the second generation Digidestined against the restored Devimon, who boosts his powers even further by merging with Ash's old Fearow nemesis to become [=FearDevimon=], possessing the ability to use Fearow's attacks as well as his own. Unable to destroy [=FearDevimon=] directly, Ash ultimately [[spoiler:captures him in a prototype Master Ball, which lacks the environment stimulator of normal Poke Balls and will leave [=FearDevimon=] essentially trapped in a dark nothingness, the Digidestined leaving the Ball in Gennai's custody]]. |
| 35 | * ''Fanfic/RemnantInferisDOOM'': This is revealed to be the fate that befell the humans killed during the God of Darkness' genocide. Their fractured souls were trapped in a state of endless suffering, where a single moment of pain seemed infinite and they fell for what seemed to be eternity until it finally stopped and left them trapped in an endless void. [[spoiler:Their pain and rage would shape the void they were trapped in, and Hell was born from the anger of the Slaves of Doom.]] |
| 36 | * ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShag'': [[spoiler:Mickey Mouse]] intended to go into Containment 1 in suspended animation. Instead, [[spoiler:Velma]] locked him in there awake, consigning him to fifteen years in utter isolation in a confined space with absolutely nothing but the Voices for company. |
| 37 | * ''Fanfic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'': |
| 38 | ** The story opens with a different perspective on the final battle of ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure''. We see [[VillainousHarlequin Joker]] alive and conscious after being absorbed into [[BigBad Pierrot's]] body, and he is unable to do anything to stop his emperor's destruction. He subsequently feels the pain of them ''both'' as the Miracle Rainbow Burst hits. That experience and [[VillainousBreakdown the shattering of his faith in Pierrot]] drive him insane... well, more insane than he was already. |
| 39 | ** The captive magical girls grafted to Joker's [[SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom Merry-Go-Round]] are subjected to constant, unending agony until their collective desire to "Make it stop!" causes an [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Omniversal Metaphysical Negation]]. |
| 40 | ** [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Fortune]] briefly suffers this after being [[TheAssimilator assimilated]] by the upgraded [[Anime/SailorMoon Droid Jamanen]] and transformed into a SlimeGirl. Jamanen takes total control of her new body and forces her to attack Cure Black before completing her subjugation. |
| 41 | * ''Fanfic/SnugglesTheSymbiote'': Bonesaw hooks the reanimated head of a clone of Maximus the Mad up to some spare organs and then [[spoiler:locks him in a glass case just to see how long it will take him to die]]. |
| 42 | * ''Fanfic/AStormOfChaosADoctorWhoovesAdventure'' features both a pre-Season 3 Discord and a [[spoiler: post ''Five Doctors'' Borusa]]. A little bit of a theme, yeah. |
| 43 | * ''Fanfic/SuperSentaiVsPowerRangersTheLiveblog'': [[Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman Radiguet]] has the Scouts' souls trapped in the elemental stones of the fallen monsters, and the energies from it make the heroes vessels for the new souls, turning them into the Fallen Scouts. Every time a Fallen Scout uses a powerful attack, a part of the original Scout's soul vanishes, much to the horror of the All-Stars. The Scouts can do nothing but watch as they are forced to fight their friends and transform into hideous beasts, but they later gain the strength to break the spell. |
| 44 | * ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': |
| 45 | ** Gendo and all SEELE's members fates: [[spoiler:Their souls were ripped from their bodies and embedded in the walls of the properly named Hall of Torment, where they'd remain trapped for all eternity.]] |
| 46 | --->He was at the Hall of Torment.\ |
| 47 | The senior members of SEELE and his father were embedded in the walls, ceiling, and floor of this place, screaming in agony, their souls trying to claw their way out of membranes of unreality that would trap them for all eternity. |
| 48 | ** Later on, [[spoiler:the Chaos Gods]] would use this same method to punish child abusers and human traffickers. |
| 49 | * ''Fanfic/WakingNightmares'': Celestia does this to the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zompony]] Grey Hoof. Not only was he imprisoned in the ruins of his home, Sunnytown, but a fear spell was placed on the land, one that causes all forms of life (including plant life), to flee in fear and become too afraid to approach. In addition to this, the town itself was shifted into a pocket dimension, ''and'' he was rendered unable to go insane. He's cursed to be alone forever, with no escape... |
| 50 | * In ''[[Fanfic/YuGiOhTheThousandYearDoor Yu-Gi-Oh The Thousand Year Door, Redux]]'', the Shadow Queen spent the first few three centuries or so of her millennium-long imprisonment like this; she was manacled tightly in a very small, dark cell, unable to move a muscle, fully awake and aware. For much of the fic, the readers - and the protagonists - are led to believe that the Three Heroes mercilessly sentenced her to this fate, and never intended to release her. [[spoiler:The truth comes out much later. The same magic that made her a prisoner was supposed to administer therapy to nurture her mind so that hopefully, once all her crimes were forgotten over ten centuries, she could be released after accepting redemption. She was even offered a chance to sleep through it. [[RedemptionRejection She rejected both]], and fought to free herself of the chains until she succeeded, and then spend centuries plotting revenge.]] |
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| 52 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'']] |
| 53 | * In ''Fanfic/DontDrinkUnlabelledPotions'', the LovePotion she imbibes causes Marcy to fall madly and completely in love with Anne, to the point that her psyche is completely consumed, rendering her completely obsessive. Not even ''sleeping'' offers any respite. |
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| 55 | [[AC:''Manga/{{Bleach}}'']] |
| 56 | * Kenpachi's [[TalkingWeapon zanpakutou]] in ''Fanfic/{{Sight}}'' is described as being in constant agony and is screaming with no one able to save him and his wielder can't save him because he can't hear him. The zanpakutou disturbs Ichigo greatly, but he can't do anything about it. |
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| 58 | [[AC:''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'']] |
| 59 | * In ''[[Fanfic/WorldsApartBuffy Worlds Apart]]'', Angel and Wesley each all-but-explicitly state that this applies to Angelus's current existence, trapped within Angel and only able to watch as Angel does good and protects humans. In the sequel, [[spoiler:Angel experiences this from the other side when Angelus takes control of his body during Gachnar's near-escape at the haunted frat house, trapping Angel under Angelus rather than their usual dynamic]]. |
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| 61 | [[AC:''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'']] |
| 62 | * ''Fanfic/TheCalvinverse'': |
| 63 | ** ''Fanfic/RetroChill'': Inflicted by the ''heroes'' -- their final plan is to trap Rupert, Earl, and Retro in paused time forever. [[spoiler:It works.]] |
| 64 | ** ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'': Implied. The MTM defies this by refusing to teleport in an area with high electromagnetism, as it could trap the protagonists in some sort of void forever. |
| 65 | ** Long before this, Calvin himself defies this when Hobbes attempts to initiate a StableTimeLoop. |
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| 67 | [[AC:''Franchise/TheDCU'']] |
| 68 | * In ''Fanfic/DaughterOfFireAndSteel'', General Zod's coup fails, and he and his followers are put into individual fluid-filled pods, where they will be "reconditioned" for their sentence's duration, and then sent into the Phantom Zone. Zod irately states that nobody will release them because Krypton will be destroyed, so they are being condemned to remain frozen inside sarcophagi and floating in a black nothingness forever. |
| 69 | -->'''Dru-Zod:''' ''(scoffing)'' "Krypton is dying and you respond by clinging to protocol. The Phantom Zone isn't even a death sentence! Who will be left to release us when our ''conditioning'' is finished?"\ |
| 70 | '''Lor-Em:''' "We are here to discuss your punishment today Zod. Not your release."\ |
| 71 | '''Dru-Zod:''' "You won't kill us but you'll damn us to a black hole for eternity so you won't sully your hands." |
| 72 | * In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Wildfire]] spends one thousand years turned into an anti-matter star floating in space -after his containment suit is destroyed as fighting the Anti-Monitor-, unable to make contact with someone or escape. Mon-El -who spent one thousand years trapped in the PhantomZone- empathizes with him right away. |
| 73 | -->'''Wildfire:''' Well, Dawny, it's kind of--ah, how long have I been away?\ |
| 74 | '''Cosmic Boy:''' About a thousand years, give or take a few.\ |
| 75 | '''Wildfire:''' Oh, hell. I've been playing mumblety-peg with myself for a thousand years. I can't believe I spent all that time in that star and still stayed sane.\ |
| 76 | '''Mon-El:''' I know the feeling. |
| 77 | * In ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'', ComicBook/LexLuthor manages to trap Franchise/{{Superman}} into a tank containing the Parasite's body, turned into a gelatinous mass of goo. Superman spends over one month immersed into living sentient jelly, unable to speak, move or feel anything except for his life force being slowly drained off, and a hostile mind reading every thought and memory of his. |
| 78 | * In the series ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8700173/1/Lex-Luthor-Triumphant Lex Luthor Triumphant]]'', Lex Luthor [[spoiler:traps Superman, keeping him powerless with a combination of red sun rays and brain surgery]]. He develops an interface that allows him to [[spoiler:control Superman's body and has him kill Lois Lane after she finds out he captured, lobotomized, and skinned Superman, and that selling his eyes, skin, teeth, and fingernails]] has made Luthor even richer than before. |
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| 80 | [[AC:''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'']] |
| 81 | * Actually avoided in the fic “[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27012940 A Doll’s Life]]”, when a curse turns Andy into a doll; she is apparently only conscious and aware of her surroundings when nobody is in the same room as her, as she is able to move when alone. The rest of the time she is just a standard toy doll, so while the experience of being so small is disconcerting she doesn’t have much interaction with other people in this state. |
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| 83 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'']] |
| 84 | * In ''Fanfic/Digimon02TheStoryWeNeverTold'', Oikawa forcibly fuses Arukenimon and Mummymon into a single being, which is left in constant agony from the resulting BodyHorror. After sending it after the Digidestined, the resulting fight sees it thrown still alive out into the VoidBetweenTheWorlds. |
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| 86 | [[AC:Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon]] |
| 87 | * ''WebVideo/DisneyVillainSongsLydiaTheBard'' "Ariel's Villain Song": Ariel spent ''three years'' stuck as a polyp as a result of her deal with Ursula before her father freed her. Is it really any wonder that she became so unhinged when she finally got her original form back? |
| 88 | * ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'': [[spoiler:The immortal cub Shocker is buried alive by the Interceptor, stuck in an endless cycle of death and rebirth]]. |
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| 90 | [[AC:''Manga/DeathNote'']] |
| 91 | * ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/428612?view_adult=true Plaything of the Gods]]'' focuses on this happening to Light. He learns that the Shinigami King has come to Earth and he's told by Ryuk that the King is looking for him. Light sets up the stage so that he can meet the King and become more powerful. What Ryuk failed to mention was that the King will violate his body. Multiple times. He spends weeks being drugged and raped by the King and is practically begging for someone to help him. What truly makes this horrifying is that he gets sealed in by the task force and is going to spend ''years'' as the King's sex toy. But hey, at least he'll be powerful like he [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wanted]]. |
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| 93 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'']] |
| 94 | * ''Fanfic/NeverHadAFriendLikeMe'': [[spoiler:When the Pixies and the Anti-Fairies attempts to kill Timmy and Amanda, Norm who was watching and has grown attached to Amanda, [[PapaWolf does not take it well]]. After Amanda wishes that the Pixies and Anti-Fairies couldn't try to do this again, Norm traps them in a pocket dimension indefinitely. Of course, Norm ''might'' come around and ask for a favor from them for good behavior, but it fits.]] |
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| 96 | [[AC:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'']] |
| 97 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/465623/1/The-Terra-Episode The Terra Episode]]'' details Tina Branford's life before the events of the game. [[spoiler:Faced with neurological death by the Slave Crown, Tina begs the Guardian - a stranger she worked for on the promise of secrets revealed - for an alternate option. The Guardian offers to try and preserve Tina's consciousness instead, but her body will still be under her captors' control. Tina invokes this trope shortly afterwards.]]: |
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| 99 | [[AC:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'']] |
| 100 | * In ''Fanfic/EirsTommorrow'', during the ApocalypseHow and death of his original timeline, Cloud cannot die and has to watch everyone he loves, his home and the world die and he could do nothing to change anything. |
| 101 | * In ''[[http://ff.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=544199653 Need for Control]]'', [[spoiler:Hojo had put Vincent through this as a method of torture that left him unable to function as a 'free' human being]]: |
| 102 | -->'''Vincent''': [[spoiler:"After my arm was removed, I was rendered unconscious again. When I awoke, I had no idea where I was. I found myself in the dark, unable to move. I couldn’t feel my body or hear anything. Even the air around me seemed to lack any type of smell whatsoever. At first, I found this to be a relief, thinking that if nothing else, that I wasn’t being tortured. However, that complete lack of external stimulation began to do something to me. Time seemed to have stopped, and I had no idea of how long I had been in there. I began to wonder if I was even alive… Not being able to feel, see, or hear anything does something to you after a time. I began to long for the torture. At least when that had been happening to me, I knew that I was alive."]] |
| 103 | ** However, that's not even the worst of it, as it's stated that [[spoiler:all the time that Vincent was in the coffin before you find him? He's in that state. Twenty-seven to thirty years of it.]] |
| 104 | --->'''Vincent''': [[spoiler:"He put me back in the dark…I never even knew what it was that I’d done wrong… He just put me back in the dark and forgot about me… Twenty-seven years, Cid… I was in there for as long as I had been alive before Hojo had put me in there…"]] |
| 105 | * In ''Fanfic/OffTheLine'', Vincent is trapped in a [[InsideAComputerSystem virtual reality game]] for 15 years where he can never sleep or let his guard down without risking being killed by players or the game's moderator and no one until Rainstorm had ever realized that he was a person. As a consequence, his mind is a wreck and he can't remember anything outside of his own name because he never had the chance to rest, thus he couldn't properly process his memories. |
| 106 | |
| 107 | [[AC:''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'']] |
| 108 | * In ''Fanfic/AtGatesEdge'' when Edward died and became a ghost, he has been trapped in an office, unable to look outside and unable to be seen or heard by anyone for seven years. But this changes when Roy is able to see him. |
| 109 | |
| 110 | [[AC:''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'']] |
| 111 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35474176 Powdered Snow and Gound Chalk]]'' has Albedo being caught in an avalanche and buried under several feet of snow. As an homonculus, he doesn't need to breathe or eat and has a very long lifespan, so he could easily stay buried for weeks, decades or centuries in the dark, barely able to wiggle his toes and slowly freezing. Fortunately, he's rescued after two days and a half -- and proceeds to have a FreakOut in Kaeya's arms. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'']] |
| 114 | * ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': While frozen in the Antarctic ice from millennia, [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonKingGhidorah Ghidorah]]'s heads were on a dreamlike level aware of what was happening around the glacier but they couldn't do a damned thing except watch, listen, and pour off [[BrownNote malignant psychic waves]]. For San, it wasn't so bad when humans came along and built a research facility around the glacier due to his curiosity; but for Ni and ''especially'' Ichi, it was absolute hell to be constantly surrounded by human scientists and unable to kill them, especially since the scenario brought back [[FreudianExcuse bad memories]] for Ichi. |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[AC:''Franchise/HarryPotter'']] |
| 117 | * ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': Voldemort's Horcrux network gave him CompleteImmortality but kept him trapped inside the Horcruxes for ''several years'', unable to do anything. |
| 118 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4632698/7/The-Prince-Of-Gryffindor The Prince of Gryffindor]]'' Harry turns Voldemort into a jellyish goo and traps him in an unbreakable, unopenable jar, then throws it through the Veil of Death. |
| 119 | * ''Fanfic/NoCompetition'': After the Dursleys tested the Dark Community's patience one too many times, according to Harry's silent analysis on the runework on the Dursleys, the Lich deliberately didn't destroy their souls because that would have left them brain-dead. Instead the Lich removed the Dursleys' souls without destroying them so that their minds would be trapped and gibbering inside their heads. |
| 120 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3759227 The TriSchool Tournament]]'': Harry sabotages Voldemort's rebirth ritual by throwing all kinds of random trash like paper and moss into the cauldron. The result... |
| 121 | -->They found some kind of revolting ritual site, just as Harry had described. But instead of a liquid inside the cauldron, they found a solid substance, fleshy, warm to the touch, a heart beat even. That disgusting flesh perfectly filled the entirety of the cauldron. It seemed alive somehow, but it didn't register as exactly human. It had no mouth. Because Harry had kept the word "Voldemort" out of his story – just explaining that Pettigrew had intended to use Harry in some kind of ritual, which Harry spoiled after Pettigrew died – no one ever knew what it was. Flesh that couldn't die, couldn't move, couldn't speak, couldn't eat, couldn't access magic. It was immortal and yet perfectly useless.\ |
| 122 | The Department of Mysteries would end up devoting three hundred years' worth of study to the disgusting lump molded inside the cauldron. They would never come to any firm conclusions, other than that the thing should only be examined in a well-ventilated space as it was quite foul-smelling. |
| 123 | * Voldemort's ultimate fate in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12511998/18/Wind-Shear Wind Shear]]'' is to have his spirit trapped in a crystal with no senses or means of movement forever. Harry even notes that within half a day, Voldemort will be begging for death. |
| 124 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13302812/1/The-Gods-Themselves-Cannot-Recall-Their-Gifts The Gods Themselves Cannot Recall Their Gifts]]'', this winds up happening to Voldemort, who creates horcruxes without realizing that a soul is inviolable and can't be split fully, and since the very principle of horcruxes depends on that, by creating more than one, when he is killed, the main part of his soul can't go to any of his horcruxes because it's being pulled by the others at the same time. |
| 125 | -->Lord Voldemort, greatest and wisest and most glorious of wizards, screamed and screamed and screamed, and not a soul heard him. Not even his own. |
| 126 | -->The wild horses ran forever.\ |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[AC:''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'']] |
| 129 | * In ''Fanfic/YouGotHaruhiRolled'', if Haruhi had been found guilty during the court case arc, she would have been sentenced to the same fate as [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Prometheus]]. |
| 130 | |
| 131 | [[AC:''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'']] |
| 132 | * Not all the Nations who died in the ''Fanfic/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsdayStories'' passed on right away when the bombs fell. Some managed to stay alive for some years after, though as a BodyHorror that's slowly falling apart. |
| 133 | * In ''Fanfic/HumanCuriosity'', it's theorized that [[spoiler:the [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] nations]] are experiencing this, leading to Liechtenstein wanting to speak to [[spoiler:Switzerland's body.]] Subverted in that [[spoiler:when France recovers from having been frozen, he could not remember any of that time.]] |
| 134 | * The fate of [[spoiler:Sweden]] in the HighSchoolAU ''Fanfic/{{Outcast}}'' if the spirit of [[spoiler:Ancient Scandinavia]] takes control of his body for good. [[spoiler:Normally Ancient Scandinavia can subdue Sweden's consciousness completely, but Finland's involvement has given Sweden the strength to fight back and stay awake during these bouts of possession. Not that it makes much of a difference against an ancient and extremely powerful spirit hell-bent on vengeance. Ancient Scandinavia teases Finland by saying that Sweden]] is like "a mouse trapped in a glass cage" at the back of his own mind -- conscious of everything the malevolent ghost doing with his body, but unable to do anything to stop it. |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[AC:''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'']] |
| 137 | * The Kin of ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'' are the ghosts of trolls tortured to death by the Grand Highblood, trapped in a metaphysical dark room for thousands of years and potentially forever. They still carry the wounds of their death, which may still hurt, and the Highblood can come in and make more use of them any time he feels like it. |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[AC:''Literature/InheritanceCycle'']] |
| 140 | * In the ''A dance of Shadow and Light'' series by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3779251/Ocadioan Ocadioan]], it is revealed at the end of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9998018/1/Phoenix-fire Phoenix-fire]]'' to be the ultimate fate of [[spoiler:[[DeathSeeker Mercury]]]]. To be more precise, [[spoiler:[[TailorMadePrison his soul is bound to the core of the earth for (possibly) all eternity]], after his story-long ThanatosGambit finally plays out]]. |
| 141 | |
| 142 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'']] |
| 143 | * In ''Fanfic/BecomingATrueInvader'', [[BigBad the Employer's]] ultimate fate is to be [[spoiler: sucked into an empty interdimensional void]], with the functional immortality of his robotic body meaning he'll be stuck there forever. |
| 144 | * In ''Fanfic/GazDreamsOfGenie'', Gaz accidentally frees the genie Azie when she breaks her bottle. After wasting the first two wishes she gets from this, she wishes for the ability to grant her own wishes, thinking it's a case of LoopholeAbuse. Instead, the poor wording leads to Gaz and Azie [[BecomingTheGenie switching lives]], leaving Gaz trapped in the restored bottle until someone else rubs it, with nothing to do but nap and plot how she'll get her life back. [[spoiler:Which will never happen, as the last scene shows the bottle being locked away in a SecretGovernmentWarehouse.]] |
| 145 | * The works of [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/954964/HeCallsMeHisChild HeCallsMeHisChild]] feature a species of shapeshifting, blob-like predators called Morflar, which feed on Irkens. Once absorbed, the Irkens are robbed of movement and every sense except tactile feeling, which means they can't even scream as all they feel is themselves being ''digested'' (and due to the Irkens' HealingFactor, this process takes about a ''century''). In two different continuities, this fate befalls [[spoiler: Tallest Red]]. |
| 146 | * In ''Fanfic/InvaderZimTheSeries'', this is the final fate of [[MadScientist Zoburg]], crucified to a rocket and shot into orbit, but with his pressurized armor keeping him alive indefinitely. |
| 147 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11586089/1/The-Karma-Circle-Virtual-Reality-Real-Terror The Karma Circle: Virtual Reality, Real Terror]]'', a group of students and teachers -- sick of Gaz's constant bullying (which she [[KarmaHoudini gets away with]] because of her father) -- hire an entity known as the Exile to deal with her. It does this by [[spoiler:absorbing her into itself, wherein she's kept alive indefinitely, but unable to move or speak (or, in keeping with this trope, even scream), and forced to experience first-person recreations of every act of violence she's ever committed against anyone else]]. |
| 148 | * In ''[[Fanfic/MadWorldInvaderZim Mad World]]'', [=PAKs=] store the minds of Irkens and can be transferred into new bodies, but Defectives are blocked from this, leaving them aware but totally sightless and immobile forever if their bodies die. [[spoiler: Zim's was modified by the Tallest to trap his mind in a recreation of his worst moment (learning of his exile to Earth) on loop. By the time Dib saves him, he's been practically broken.]] |
| 149 | * At the end of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8661062/1/Night-of-the-Mannequins Night of the Mannequins]]'', Gaz sneaks into the mall at night to be first in line for the release of the new Game Slave 3 the next day. That night turns out to be the night of the Harvest Moon, and its magic causes the store mannequins to come to life and transform her into a mannequin, leaving her completely immobile, but fully aware of her surroundings. And to rub salt into the wound, she's put in a window display right across from the store selling the Game Slaves, forced to watch everyone else buy them. However, the narration implies that she will turn back to normal on the next Harvest Moon night...which will be next year. Or maybe the year after that. Or even later. Who knows. Have fun, Gaz! |
| 150 | ** In an alternate ending posted by the author, Gaz instead has a mental breakdown that causes her to see everyone around her as living mannequins. She goes insane and is eventually locked up in the Crazy House. |
| 151 | * ''Fanfic/RubyPair'': At the end of "Gaols & Ghouls", Zim uses his mind control spores to order the [[DimensionLord Gaol Master]] to bash himself against a wall for eternity, which he is last seen preparing to do. |
| 152 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9809359/1/The-Karma-Circle-Sister-Dearest The Karma Circle: Sister Dearest]]'', Gaz is forced to switch places with the ghost of the girl that lives in Emmett Lake, becoming trapped while the girl [[GrandTheftMe inhabits her body and assumes her identity]]. She's much nicer than the real Gaz, and Dib, GIR, and Tak decide that they like her better. When Dib visits the lake again two years later, Gaz emerges and desperately promises that she'll do anything if he frees her, but he refuses, says goodbye to her for the last time, and never visits the lake again. |
| 153 | * In ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/saintheartwing/art/Tales-of-Terror-Who-WANTS-to-Live-Forever-991076692 Tales of Terror: Who WANTS to Live Forever?]]'', Zim steals a formula that grants the user CompleteImmortality. Unfortunately for him, shortly after this Skoodge decides to [[TheDogBitesBack pay him back for years of mistreatment]] by throwing him into the newly-laid foundation of a building that's undergoing construction. As such, Zim ends up entombed in concrete, immobilized and unable to do anything except pray for death. |
| 154 | * ''Fanfic/TheVioletDemon'': When a slave's [[SlaveCollar control collar]] is active, they lose all control of their body except for [[CanOnlyMoveTheEyes their eyes]], leaving them as PeoplePuppets unable to do anything but follow orders, all while still being self-aware but unable to resist in any form. |
| 155 | |
| 156 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'']] |
| 157 | * In ''Fanfic/AgesOfShadow'', Jade -- having become a FallenHero -- is [[SealedEvilInACan permanently banished to the Shadow Realm]], where she is left entirely alone. By the time the story starts, she's already been in there for ''centuries'' ([[TimeAbyss if not longer]]), and it goes on even longer before she reencounters people (specifically, from an AlternateUniverse) again. By this point, she's gone past the point of insanity, become something of a CrazyCatLady with her shadow serpents (case in point, she's convinced herself that her [[TalkingToThemself conversations with herself]] are actually with them) and [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget forgotten key chunks of her past life]]. |
| 158 | * In ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'', [[spoiler: after [[VillainProtagonist Jade]] transforms and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes]] Viper into [[TheDragon Hebi]], the latter explains that Viper is trapped in her own mind and unable to stop her new persona. A scene in the seventh interlude shows this from her perspective, and it's a never-ending nightmare of being crushed and bound, with no sense of self or time, with only the briefest glimpses of what's happening outside.]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[AC:''Anime/KillLaKill'']] |
| 161 | * In ''Fanfic/NaturalSelection'', any student wearing one of Nui's Goku Uniforms is subjected to this. They can do battle at a higher level than usual, but when they get hurt beyond the point a normal person would drop out of a fight, they are compelled to keep on going. Students are described as fighting on with broken limbs, tears welling up on expressions fixed in hate. |
| 162 | * Happens to Ryuuko in a silent PhotoComic series titled ''Stasis''. One caption mentions that, while in her 3-week-long deep sleep, she's aware of what's happening around her and another caption mentions that she also knows she can't wake up or do anything until her stasis ends, [[SingleTear except cry]]. Adding insult to injury, according to ''Stasis'', she can't control how often or when her hibernation spells happen, and she knows she is aware she can't help it either. |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[AC:''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'']] |
| 165 | * ''[[http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_ch.php?id=19769&cid=49552&submit=View The Legend of Link: Lucky Number 13]]'' has a love affair with this trope. |
| 166 | ** [[spoiler:Link Sr]] was sealed alone in [[spoiler:the Fierce Deity mask]] for almost a century. He describes the ordeal as [[AngstWhatAngst "goddamn annoying"]]. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the fact that he ''can'' [[spoiler:and does]] free himself without help, it just takes time. |
| 167 | ** Magi is considerably less fortunate. As punishment for [[spoiler:ordering Link's people and family murdered ''just to get to him'']], he is chained in a SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere for roughly a decade while insects devour his honey-covered, disembodied heart over and over again. |
| 168 | ** The goddesses are implied to suffer this [[spoiler:after Link awakens as the God of Fear]] and chains them to [[spoiler:Fate and Destiny's]] former throne, but no details are given. |
| 169 | ** Link himself suffers this during his four seven-year naps when [[spoiler:the goddesses see fit to send his mind through the Ocarina of Time adventure "about 3,500 times give or take a few hundred, each year, and in each timeline" for a total of 98,000 times over 28 years]] all for the purpose of refining his instincts to create as powerful a warrior as possible. They even had to [[spoiler:tinker with his mind by building a "wall" around those instincts]] to contain them. |
| 170 | * In ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTimeDragonRand100'' Link sees horrifying visions during his journey, from the dead remains of his allies and innocent civilians, to the sight of blood on the corpses of fallen victims, to the horrors experienced during visions and the perils found within the temples and dungeons he and Navi must traverse. [[spoiler:Not to mention, he loses an eye while conscious.]] |
| 171 | |
| 172 | [[AC:''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'']] |
| 173 | * In the fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Left}}'', Frodo regains consciousness after being stung by Shelob, but is unable to move or to tell Sam he's still alive. |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[AC:''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'']] |
| 176 | * ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'': As ComicBook/CarolDanvers remained under Marcus Immortus' influence her conscience was trapped inside her own body, struggling to break out, which was not possible until Marcus passed away. |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[AC:''Franchise/MassEffect]]'' |
| 179 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8688354/1/Crucible Crucible]]'': |
| 180 | ** The bare-faced turian a.k.a. the GrimReaper, [[spoiler:who turned out to be [[Franchise/MassEffect Shepard]]'s father]], gave one to the doctor who destroyed his wife and daughter's life by creating an accident that left the man totally paralyzed. According to him, he would have to lay there immobile, imprisoned in his own body until its withered away to nothing until Sol burned the sky away and nothing else remained... but even then he may still survive since his tormentor still hadn't decided about it yet. |
| 181 | ** General Marius, a racist, child-molesting (two of his victims were [[ParentalIncest his daughter and nephew]]) turian was subjected to a similar fate but in his case, it was much faster. [[PapaWolf Garrus's dad]], Avitus, poisoned him with a drug that left him paralyzed but still fully aware of his surroundings, then ripped his heart out of his body while he was in that state. |
| 182 | ** Tali in the BadFuture, meanwhile, was forced by [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Gaius]] to see him kill her daughter. Then he tied her to a pillar with her own guts, keeping her alive with nanomachines, to make her watch him destroy Rannoch and push the whole Quarian race to extinction. |
| 183 | ** [[SealedEvilInACan Makerm was sealed away by his wife]] to prevent him from massacring everyone outside the North. Just like all examples above, he still has full awareness. Unfortunately, because of that, he constantly tried to possess his descendants to escape, leading to Garrus's grandfather's death before the series's start. |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'']] |
| 186 | * ''Fanfic/{{Couturiere}}'': |
| 187 | ** The titular akuma has the ability to turn victims into PeoplePuppets by dressing them in her specialized outfits. They're completely aware of what's happening to them, and just as equally powerless to stop themselves. |
| 188 | ** She also intends to inflict this fate upon Lila by [[spoiler:sewing her mouth shut]], all while insisting that there won't be any [[WorldHealingWave Miraculous Cure]] to [[ResetButton wipe away the damage]] this time... |
| 189 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25474393/chapters/61793125 Divergent Points: ML Salt]]'' uses this trope to demonstrate how much the characters are twisted in different [[AccusationFic Salt fics]]. The first three chapters have Marinette, Adrien, and Alya trapped in their own bodies acting out the twisted roles (Marinette as a stalking ControlFreak, Adrien as an [[EntitledToHaveYou entitled]] uncaring bastard, Alya as Lila's SycophanticServant) and even forced to feel the emotions their Salt!selves are meant to have. When they reunite with each other and Nino in the fifth chapter, they are greatly traumatized, with Alya scrambling to get away from Marinette out of fear that she herself will be forced to be a bully toward her best friend. |
| 190 | * Happens in the story ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/7046752 Tender Words]]'' when Marinette is akumatized into Seamstress, though Chat Noir is able to free her from it. Whereas most akuma-possessed victims are BrainwashedAndCrazy but fairly autonomous and [[MoreThanMindControl acting on their own desires]] unless Hawkmoth [[VillainOverride steps in]], Marinette is completely under Hawkmoth's control from the start and is visibly distressed by what's she's forced to do (which is still connected to what caused him to target her, namely Chloe humiliating her when she confessed her feelings to Adrien), and unlike presumably all victims in the show, she remembers every detail when it's over. The reason for this disparity is that she actually [[ShutUpHannibal refused]] Hawkmoth's DealWithTheDevil only for him to override her, to the point of sewing her mouth shut during her transformation. |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[AC:''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'']] |
| 193 | * In ''Fanfic/FearNoEvil'', Humarise locks Izuku into a float tank and leaves him in a complete state of sensory deprivation for days. |
| 194 | * ''Fanfic/OyasumiMidoriya'': Six, being a fragment of Izuku, is technically incorporeal and immortal. As a result of this, after he goads All Might into trying to kill him, he ends up BuriedAlive at Dagobah Beach after All Might tries to [[DisposingOfABody hide what he did]]. By the time he reappears, he had decayed nearly-beyond recognition: |
| 195 | -->''All heads turned to a rotted, blistered claw, grasping on to a rock, pulling itself up, followed by a rotting torso, sand embedded into its skin, skeletal legs, and slimy, disgusting, poisoned blood dripping on to the ground, months of rotting in hot sand apparent. The face of the thing wearing Midoriya's rotted skull smiled, eyes falling out of its skull.'' |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'']] |
| 198 | * Plenty to go around in ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum''. |
| 199 | ** Due to it being a [[DeconstructorFleet Deconstructive]] HateFic to the TCB genre (especially the works of [[Creator/JenniferDianeReitz Chatoyance]]), it's a given that [[ForcedTransformation ponification]] is this. The author Redskin 122004, however, went ''above and beyond'' in making it horrifying though, and they're frequently referred to as [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul perpetually smiling zombies]] on the tropes page and among the fans. The single crowning moment of NightmareFuel for them, however, has to be [[spoiler: the fact that the human converts' souls are literally ''broken to pieces'' and bound to Queen Celestia and Tirek's will. Even worse, according to the Zebra shaman Quagga, it is utterly ''impossible'' to repair said souls; only death will make the newfoals' souls whole again. Meaning even if the Queen and the bag are defeated, only [[MercyKill mass euthanasia]] will set their souls free.]] |
| 200 | --> Marcus (describing the potion): "Rewrites a person into a pony... changes their body, their mind, binds their soul in chains... takes them away from you." |
| 201 | ** The WhamEpisode chapter ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' reveals [[spoiler:that this is also the case for the TCB Universe's Mane Six. When Canon!Luna [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind fishes around in TCB!Twilight's mind]] to gather some information, she discovers that Queen Celestia personally {{Mind Rape}}d each of the girls by imprisoning them in their own minds and then implanting evil new personalities to drive their bodies around to carry out her will. All the TCB!Mane Six could do over the three long years of the war was helplessly watch on as their controlled bodies commit MoralEventHorizon grade acts against the humans and other species of Equis. TCB!Twilight herself is reduced to a horribly [[BreakTheCutie broken]] and [[InelegantBlubbering sobbing]] wreck who desperately begs Luna to kill her already and stop the madness]]. |
| 202 | * In ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/301241/1/a-crazed-gleam/providing-immoral-support A Crazed Gleam]],'' sequel to ''Fanfic/AMadGlimmer,'' Discord shows Starlight Glimmer a BadFuture resulting from her actions (or so he says), where the changelings conquered all of Equestria and modified the pony race to serve as their food and power sources, which they accomplished by using magical genetic engineering to reduce the ponies to a race of identical mass-produced, fetus-like creatures called "generators" incapable of feeling anything but love. After a final HannibalLecture, Discord punishes Starlight by transforming her into a love generator and inserting her into the timeline to be used as a living power source for the changelings, with her mind completely intact. It also counts as IronicHell for her, since she is now trapped in a world where everypony is equal, happy, and contributes exactly the same to society--the utopia she aimed to create, just not the way she wanted it. |
| 203 | * In one alternate ending to the infamous fanfic ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'' [[spoiler:Pinkie Pie, unable to cope with the guilt of what she did under the influence of a Parasprite, voluntarily submitted herself to this via TakenForGranite]]. |
| 204 | * In ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfFriendship'', [[spoiler:Trixie's soul is half devoured by the Alicorn Amulet at the end of ''Book IS'', leaving it trapped inside her comatose body, begging for death]]. |
| 205 | * ''Fanfic/TheImmortalGame'': |
| 206 | ** Twilight Sparkle spends the first portion of the story trapped in her own mind, forced to watch as her SuperpoweredEvilSide, Nihilus, repeatedly tries to kill her friends. |
| 207 | ** Nihilus in turn does this to Rainbow Dash, subjecting her to a MindRape spell called the Insanity, which changes her into an insane, nigh-amnesiac berserker who serves as Nihilus' [[TheDragon Dragon]], with Dash stuck inside and tortured if she tries to fight back. |
| 208 | ** A flashback shows [[BigBad Titan]] apparently subjecting [[EvilVersusEvil Discord]] to this (we only get vague details about it) after Discord [[spoiler:caused the death of Titan's son]]. It's strongly implied that Celestia and Luna's defeat of Titan is [[NiceJobBreakingItHero what allowed Discord to escape]]. Though to be fair, Discord is considered the LesserOfTwoEvils between him and Titan [[spoiler:to the point the heroes actually ''free him'' to form an EnemyMine against Titan]]. |
| 209 | * ''Fanfic/TheLunarGuardsman'': Luna's stay on the moon is suspected to be this. A thousand years infused with the moon, with no body to control, alone and with nothing else but her own voice in her head screaming for help. She has constant nightmares that she's still there unless Raegdan is close to keep the fear away, and tried to commit suicide when she scared herself that her sister might send her back again someday. |
| 210 | * ''Fanfic/{{Marionettes}}'': |
| 211 | ** Trixie has a nightmare where she's unable to move, speak, or scream while Gear Shift, Cover Story, and a mysterious stranger order her chest cut open with a machine right out of an alien abduction story. [[spoiler:She eventually guesses that it wasn't a dream, but a memory.]] Later, Lightning Dust admits she had the same nightmare. |
| 212 | ** Gear Shift and Cover Story brainwash Lightning Dust into a minion. When the Mane Six and Trixie manage to free her from the control, she reveals she was aware the whole time, a prisoner in her own body. |
| 213 | * ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/15860/my-maker My Maker]]'': Smarty Pants is (for unknown reasons) fully sapient and aware, but can't move or speak, and can only see the world around her when Twilight is playing with her. |
| 214 | * In ''Fanfic/PagesOfHarmony'', after [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle]] kills [[spoiler:the other Elements of Harmony]], they don't move on to the afterlife. Instead, they're [[spoiler:trapped in a limbo-like state where they can see and hear Twilight, but she can only hear them. And ''their [[MindRape Mind Raped]] personalities are still intact even after they die'']]. |
| 215 | * ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': [[spoiler:The final fate of the soul that had been the Nightmare -- dropped into a pit of monsters that were sealed away before time began and would remain there until time ended without any power and unable to die or defend itself.]] |
| 216 | * ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': |
| 217 | ** Dinky's fate in the BadFuture was to be turned into a filly-shaped muffin. When she's restored by the Elements of Harmony a thousand years later, it's revealed that ''she was completely aware of everything the entire time''. |
| 218 | ** Also in the BadFuture, it turns out this was Fluttershy's fate as well. [[spoiler:Fluttercruel, like in the main timeline, is a separate entity from Fluttershy who was granted control of their body. Unlike in the main POV verse, however, Dark World Fluttercruel remained in control and was raised by Discord instead of Fluttershy, becoming an even bigger monster than him, while Fluttershy was forced to watch all the horrible things she did. And on top of that, it turns out Fluttercruel liked to ''torture'' Fluttershy in their mindscape [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Fortunately, Cadence's spirit eventually managed to save Fluttershy's soul, though only after five hundred years of all this.]] |
| 219 | ** [[spoiler:Turns out, even ''Discord himself'' was subjected to this in Dark World. [[KnightTemplar Nightmare Paradox]] has kept him trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop that always ends in the deaths of his daughter and himself for somewhere in the equivalent of ''a few hundred million years''. It's so bad that when he gets DraggedOffToHell and horribly killed by his family for his crimes over ''a billion times'', he doesn't mind in the least, as it's ''relaxing'' compared to what Paradox put him through.]] |
| 220 | *** To put this in perspective, according to a LooseCanon RecursiveFanfiction, [[spoiler:[[TheStarscream the Valeyard]] considers his fate less horrific than what Paradox did to Discord. The Valeyard is saying this while in ''{{Hell}}'']]. |
| 221 | ** Sweetheart's little sister Cream ended up suffering this in Sweetheart's ''7 Dreams/Nightmares'' story. The shock from the explosion that [[ApocalypseHow/Class2 destroyed G2 society]] ended up "locking her in", meaning her body was paralyzed to the point she couldn't even speak (worse, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome this is a real condition]]), but she was completely aware and conscious of everything. [[spoiler: Including being [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath dragged off and torn apart by mutants created by the explosion]], taking this trope literally in that she literally ''couldn't'' scream. Worse in that because of her condition, they may simply have gone straight to eating her alive. Thankfully, during a CosmicRetcon that Applebloom does after [[EndOfTheWorldSpecial hijacking the Rumors and using them to fix the timeline]], Sweetheart now gained HealingHands powers from the disaster, which she used to heal her, avoiding this awful fate.]] |
| 222 | ** In the Shining Armor Arc, it turns out that [[spoiler:[[BigBad Makarov's]] [[CoDragons Alicorn Cyborgs]] were all ponies he abducted and forcibly transformed. Now they're trapped in their own twisted bodies, unable to stop themselves from killing at his whim]]. |
| 223 | ** In ''Character Rerailment'', Silver Spoon becomes trapped in a nightmare where she's forced to live through the events of the episode "One Bad Apple", unable to control her body and forced to watch and listen as herself, Diamond Tiara, and Babs Seed make the Cutie Mark Crusaders (who had become her friends earlier) suffer. She eventually finds the strength to break free. |
| 224 | -->'''Silver Spoon's thoughts''': Daddy! Something's wrong with me!... Listen to me, daddy! Please! I'm not happy! I'm ''scared''! Can't you see that?!\ |
| 225 | '''Silver Spoon's thoughts''': I want to cry...But I just keep smiling... |
| 226 | ** At the end of the Wedding Arc, [[spoiler:Cadence -- now the Queen of the Changelings -- does this to Kabuto, Chrysalis' sociopathic MadScientist. As punishment for his countless crimes, she has him [[SealedEvilInACan sealed inside]] ''the sun'', completely aware and in agony, for a length of time no less than the number of years equal to those his victims might have lived. He'll be there for several generations, at least]]. |
| 227 | ** Ironically, in the same arc [[spoiler:Fluttershy reinstates to the interviewers that this is what Celestia would've done to Fluttershy in a fit of rage had the Nightmare Whisper fiasco ended with the deaths of thousands of unborn foals]]. |
| 228 | * Played with in ''Fanfic/ThePowersOfHarmony'': [[spoiler:Horizon's conscious mind was destroyed when [[WickedWitch Zemblani]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild used his lifeforce to force open the Gate of Tartarus]]. However, his subconscious (which, by now, is basically a separate entity) survived, and is now stuck in virtual limbo, in constant agony and only able to experience life through the eyes of the Echoes attached to Horizon's remaining lifeforce.]] |
| 229 | * ''Fanfic/PrincessTrixieSparkle'': The BigBad and [[spoiler:[[LongLostRelative Celestia and Luna's older sister]]]] Astelle is revealed to have been trapped in a tapestry for most the time prior to the events of the story. |
| 230 | * ''Fanfic/{{Progress}}'' has Luna trapping Discord in a dream-world and turning his mental self to stone. Since his physical body also suffered this fate, Discord is effectively sentenced to [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 Eternal Waking.]] |
| 231 | * ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse:'' The long-term effect of dark magic use is that the user's personality is subsumed, usually becoming a creature of pure id. |
| 232 | ** This is part of the reason Corona is just as nuts coming out of the sun as she was going in. The last thing she saw before getting sent up there was Nightmare Moon, so in addition to her already present insanity, she thought her littler sister had been corrupted by the darkness and taken over Equestria, and she was powerless to do anything about it. |
| 233 | ** One fic, ''The Hero of Oaton'', shows a pony just starting to get corrupted. [[spoiler:Her real personality is buried under the corruption's madness, begging for it to stop.]] |
| 234 | ** The non-canon fic ''Nightmares Yet to Come'' has a group of ponies turn up who've apparently all been brainwashed/corrupted by some of Tirek's magic. Another character states that if (''if'') there's anything left of their original personalities left, they'd be "beating against the insides of their heads". [[spoiler:There's some evidence that the character saying this is speaking from personal experience.]] |
| 235 | * In ''Fanfic/TheSweetieChroniclesFragments'', Twilight Sparkle was [[TakenForGranite turned into a crystal statue]], [[LiterallyShatteredLives split into a large number of fragments]], and thrown across TheMultiverse. She's still conscious within the fragments. |
| 236 | * Some of the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Mane Cast]] in ''[[Fanfic/SweetiesMansion Sweetie's Mansion]]'' is this when they temporarily become Sweetie's SpiritAdvisor to help her defeat their ghostly selves whenever she takes a picture of one. [[spoiler:Luna on the other hand is well aware that her spirit is under the control of Specter but she can't stop herself from attacking Sweetie Belle, Luna can only warn her what her ghostly self is about to do like the mane cast who became [[SpiritAdvisor Spirit Advisors]] for Sweetie.]] |
| 237 | * ''Fanfic/UnderTheNorthernLights'': Wiglek the Wicked spent about a millennium as an immortal undead frozen within the Everfrost Glacier, with nothing to do but constantly relive the moment of his son's death. |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[AC:''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'']] |
| 240 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35244817/chapters/87831442 Trapped in My Skin]]'': The original Maria Campbell has this fate in the Otome Game ''Fortune Lover'', forced to watch as a {{player|character}} uses her body to romance the male love interests while she has no control of her own. This is in spite of the fact she has to overhear the slanders about her puppetmaster's actions[[note]]The game having two betrothed romantic options means Maria can reasonably be seen as an AttemptedHomewrecker.[[/note]], seeing her body cause turmoil and pain to girls like Mary and [[AlasPoorVillain Katarina]], while using Sophia just to get to Nicol; and made to be with men that terrify her like the Black Prince Geordo or [[spoiler:the manipulated dark mage Raphael]]. The only solace she has is [[spoiler:dying and being reincarnated into the canon Monkey Girl[[note]]The girl who would have been reincarnated into Katarina in the Light Novel[[/note]]]]. |
| 241 | |
| 242 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'']] |
| 243 | * In ''Fanfic/EchoesKagaseo'', Orochimaru suffers such a fate when he's [[spoiler:erased from existence, with pieces of his consciousness gradually being stripped away and unravelling into oblivion, bit by bit]]. |
| 244 | * One can almost pity Madara in ''Fanfic/AGrowingAffection''. [[spoiler:Hinata's Singularity Rasangan atomizes him, and according to the description seems to slow down time like a real black hole. Due to his immortality being tied to his eyes, he doesn't die until they are consumed. And fittingly, he tries to scream in pain but the sound cannot escape.]] |
| 245 | * In the fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8650546/1/Two-Moons Two Moons]]'', Deidara's soul is removed from his body during a fight with Orochimaru, and takes up residence in the back of Itachi's head. Fittingly, Deidara isn't pleased (he actually does scream for quite a bit), and is completely incapable of getting even ''Itachi'' to realize he's there. He is also incapable of sleeping, and has to experience every thought and every bit of sensory input that Itachi does. The author admits that writing a chapter sometimes makes her head hurt as much as the readers'. |
| 246 | |
| 247 | [[AC:''Franchise/NeonGenesisEvangelion'']] |
| 248 | * ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': Don Barceló’s fate, a blood-thirsty tyrant that ruled Buenos Aires. Psychic soldiers put him into a mental loop where he relived every torture, rape, and murder he had ever committed - including sensory feeds- from the victim’s point of view. And there were hundreds of victims! A medical clip also prevented him from passing out and dehydrating. It was agreed to leave him like that for a while and then hang him. |
| 249 | * ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': [[spoiler:Gendo]]'s fate. He [[spoiler:falls into a coma. Later he becomes kind of aware, but his whole body is completely paralyzed and he can't communicate with anybody]]. He wonders if this is his punishment since he [[spoiler:can't even kill himself to try and see Yui again.]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[AC:''Film/OmenIVTheAwakening'']] |
| 252 | * ''Fanfic/AlwaysVisible'': Delia's father has a difficult life - first his daughter is disgraced by a neighbor, and then, two years later, he has an accident, due to which he loses the ability to speak intelligently. At least the work does not say whether he died or not. |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[AC:''Series/OddSquad'']] |
| 255 | * In ''Fanfic/OlivesLastPartner'', the act of Olive being [[TakenForGranite turned into a stone statue]] in "Dance Like Nobody's Watching" is mentioned. After she is freed by Oscar (who initially feels regret that she has suffered the same fate as Otto's shoe considering the Scientist forgot the disabling codes for the booby traps), she is asked if she was aware of her surroundings when she was in statue form, to which she replies that she wasn't really. It's good news for Oscar since he gave her a peck on the cheek before promising her that the booby traps would be disabled, but it's still quite horrifying. |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[AC:''Manga/OnePiece'']] |
| 258 | * In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', this is quoted in full by Dragon [[spoiler:as he witnesses the BodyHorror of the Straw Hats stuck in Lily Carnation]]. |
| 259 | ** Played for laughs; Spandam somehow remains conscious through all of Franky and Robin's [[BattleDiscretionShot graphic]] retribution - although it doesn't quite count, since he still can scream. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[AC: ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'']] |
| 262 | * ''Fanfic/BoilingIslesAndBeyond'': While in their Owl Beast form, Eda reveals one is forced to relive the worst moments of their life over and over until they’re pulled out. Lilith can attest to this, seeing as she took the Owl Beast part of Eda’s curse. |
| 263 | |
| 264 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'']] |
| 265 | * ''Fanfic/PokeWars'' has two particular instances of this: |
| 266 | ** [[spoiler: Mewtwo's]] fate at the hands of Ho-oh, who turned him into a conscious puppet that can't take any action, even self-defense, without some sort of command. |
| 267 | ** [[spoiler: Manaphy]] gets frozen in a pyramid of ice by [[OlympusMons Kyogre]]. |
| 268 | |
| 269 | [[AC:''Franchise/PowerRangers'']] |
| 270 | * Much like in ''Anime/SailorMoon'', Jadeite's {{Expy}} Phaedos gets the same [[HumanPopsicle freezing]] treatment in ''Fanfic/PowerRangersGPX''. |
| 271 | |
| 272 | [[AC:''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'']] |
| 273 | * ''Song of the Phoenix''. The souls of certain victims of Jusenkyo --the ones who originally drowned in the springs to create the curses in the first place-- are trapped in the waters. Some of them "sleep" in blissful oblivion... others exist in absolute, endless darkness as nothing but thinking souls, for however many thousands of years it takes for someone to fall in the spring and, if they're exceedingly lucky, hitch a ride in their body. They can only watch from ''within'' the body, unable to interact, until the cursed person dies and the other soul is allowed to manifest briefly. And then they go right back into the spring, and the darkness... It is explicitly stated that the soul of the Drowned Girl from the spring that cursed Ranma went through this for 1500 years, to the other characters' horror. |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[AC:''Franchise/SilentHill'']] |
| 276 | * ''Praying in Vain'': Over the course of the story, the protagonist finds and frees the victim/s and the murderer/s of several killings throughout the town's history, trapped in its DarkWorld ''ever since they were killed'' and continually experiencing their moment of death (including but not limited to bleeding to death, dismemberment and immolation). It's heavily implied that ''every single person'' killed there is in a similar state, forever tortured to sustain the town's GeniusLoci and at the end, though pissed at the loss of its food, the personification of the aforementioned loci assures the protagonist that she has accomplished nothing, and that ''there is plenty more where they came from''. |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'']] |
| 279 | * The oneshot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10691747/1/An-Empty-Meaningless-Void An Empty, Meaningless Void]]'' goes into depth on a gag in the show. Maude Flanders was a very religious Christian woman but, upon dying, learns that there is no heaven. She's just a lone ghost aimlessly floating around for seemingly all eternity. It's an unbearable existence. She tries to warn her husband about it, but the devout Ned simply believes that Maude is stuck in purgatory for some sin she must have committed. Maude still holds onto the slim belief that this is true and maybe her family can make it to heaven, even though she didn't. |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[AC:''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'']] |
| 282 | * ''Fanfic/RediscoveredFrontiers'': |
| 283 | ** Nicole gets stranded in the wilderness while [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck in her PDA form]], spending several months stuck out there with no way of moving. Making matters worse, her battery runs low enough to force her into standby mode, trapping her consciousness inside a black void. She barely manages to hang onto her sanity long enough to be found. |
| 284 | ** Poor, poor Mecha-Sally. While [[UnwillingRoboticisation Robians]] already used the cognitive minds of their original selves in place of ArtificialIntelligence, with Robotnik using special coding to prevent them from regaining control, he went the extra mile with Sally. Not only did he design programming that would theoretically render it completely impossible for her to regain control of her body even if she became fully aware of everything she was doing, he had all of her original limbs removed and replaced with brand new ones, having the original parts smelted down to remove any possibility of her being de-roboticized. |
| 285 | * ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'': |
| 286 | ** This is the result of [[MindRape hearing the voice of]] [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] or [[spoiler:being killed by him]]. He completely hijacks their bodies while the victim is aware and ForcedToWatch the whole time. And then, when they die, he takes their souls and assimilates them into his own, [[FateWorseThanDeath using their screams of eternal torment as conduits of Dark Chaos Energy]]. Both [[spoiler: Venus the Seedrian]] and [[spoiler:Trinity]] suffer this fate. |
| 287 | ** If you're a woman in the Emirate of Mecca, the Muslims turn you into a living broodmother and force you to constantly give birth after being raped by impregnation machines - and make you nearly immortal so you won't die in childbirth. |
| 288 | ** [[spoiler:Tails]] ends up in this fate during the final battle. Dark Tails possessed him and rapidly mutates his body, causing his limbs and body parts to start rotting off. Then they begin to regrow and fall off again and again and again. And for bonus points his jaw falls off, leaving him unable to even scream. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Cosmo gives him a MercyKill]]. |
| 289 | ** Interestingly, this trope could describe Maledict himself; he's a HumanoidAbomination trapped in a decaying physical body for the past five hundred trillion years, slowly watching his empire and the universe come to ruin - and if he dies, it'll spell the end of everything he's worked for. |
| 290 | ** Tsali's body never physically accepted his [[spoiler:UnwillingRoboticisation]]; his remaining biological parts are completely infected and gangrenous, keeping him in constant agony. He never grows or ages either, and he's nearly impossible to destroy. Of course, this simply causes him to [[AxCrazy unleash his terrible pain and rage upon others instead]]. |
| 291 | *** The Episode 71 rewrite reveals he was awake and aware the entire time during his [[spoiler:roboticisation by the Seedrians]]. No wonder he [[spoiler:[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge murdered the entire Seedrian race]] when he finally freed himself]]... |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[AC:''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'']] |
| 294 | * In ''Fanfic/SummerCrowns'', this is Rodrik Greyjoy's fate. He was captured by Tywin's forces during the Greyjoys' failed attack on Lannisport. Last we heard, Tywin was sending him home piece by piece until Balon withdrew from Lannister territory. [[FridgeHorror And seeing as Balon never met Tywin's demands...]] |
| 295 | |
| 296 | [[AC:''Manga/SoulEater'']] |
| 297 | * Remember Vajra, [[BigBad Kishin Asura's]] weapon partner who was [[CannibalismSuperpower eaten by Asura?]] In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10235207/1/Mad-Love Mad Love]]'', it turns out that he was EatenAlive and is ''still living and conscious inside Asura's body,'' and was [[FateWorseThanDeath imprisoned for eight hundred years along with him.]] He can still hear what's going on outside, but he can't see, move, or transform back to human form. |
| 298 | -->''Thinking of all they have lost and all that they can never be again, Vajra feels as if Shinigami ripped him apart too, and he wishes so badly it'' hurts ''that he could still scream.'' |
| 299 | |
| 300 | [[AC:''Franchise/StarTrek'']] |
| 301 | * The {{MST}} of the ''Fanfic/MarissaPicard'' fanfic ''Falling into Command'': A briefer and more thankfully resolved example; Crow's attempt at sunbathing on the SOL goes horribly wrong. |
| 302 | -->''[He] moves his mouth as if to speak, but no words come out. He tries to sit up, but his back stretches like taffy and he is pulled back to a lying position.''. |
| 303 | * In the fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12776943/1/Transcendence Transcendence]]'', we see the last day in the life of a Lumuran named Celia, before the Borg invade her world and she, along with her entire species, are assimilated. However, the Lumuran mind reacts with the Collective in a unique way. The Lumurans retain the ability to have individual thoughts within the hive mind, but this doesn't help them much, as their minds are still part of the Collective, and their bodies are still under the control of the Borg. Essentially, Celia is still fully conscious within the mind of Eight of Ten, her assimilated self, and is forced to continue to watch the atrocities the drone commits at the Collective's will. To make matters worse, the Borg Queen is aware of this but is leaving it alone, as the individuals are not affecting the efficiency of the drones. All Celia can do is continue to watch and pray that one day, she will be either liberated or killed. |
| 304 | |
| 305 | [[AC:''Franchise/StarWars'']] |
| 306 | * ''Fanfic/DiscoveryMarvelouswrites'': [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Ahsoka Tano]] is just conscious enough while frozen in carbonite to know that she has been frozen for a ''very'' long time ([[FishOutOfTemporalWater 43 years, to be precise]]). All that time, she has been weakly trying to use the Force, despite her state of frozen hibernation, to cry for help, only for no one to reply. And when a Jedi (Kyle Katarn) finally finds her and responds to her Force call, Ahsoka, either not conscious enough to sense him, or ''desperate'' to get out of the carbonite at that point, still cries for help in the Force. |
| 307 | * ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsParanormalitiesTrilogy Paranormalities]]'': |
| 308 | ** This is the fate of anyone who is subject to [[PuppeteerParasite Forceless possession]]. Not only can Forceless completely hijack the host's body, they can [[BodyHorror physically shape (read: mutilate) it to their desire]], make them [[WhoWantsToLiveForever functionally immortal]], the victim is [[ForcedToWatch consciously aware of what is happening to him/her]] and only those with Force Sensitivity can tell of their predicament. Because there initially isn't any apparent way to have them un-possessed, killing them is usually considered one of the most merciful things that can be done for them (a fact that the Forceless Collective exploits for psychological warfare, especially against Jedi). So far, the only exceptions to this rule are those who willingly serve the Forceless Collective (Emperor Valkor prefers it this way, especially since only Force users can consciously control their own powers), and beings that have developed immunities to possession over generations, such as the Vaelor bloodline. Beings in the latter category are often targeted for extermination if Valkor knows about them (Maesterus/Seferin avoided being marked because early generations can be possessed and Valkor learned too late), because not only can he not control them, the later generations, such as Zolph, [[spoiler:are capable of feeding on Forceless for a power boost, making him even more of a threat than just being immune]]. [[spoiler: However, it's later revealed that killing hosts doesn't always free them from the Collective's grasp. Instead of becoming one with the Force, anyone who dies while possessed can have their body consumed by the symbiote and then their consciousness imprisoned in the [[Room101 Pool of Souls]], until Valkor decides he wants to resurrect them for his own use. Sometimes, these resurrections come with some strings attached, such as their new body being made entirely out of [[OminousObsidianOoze Black Matter]], and they can be sent back to the Pool of Souls any time they slip up.]] |
| 309 | ** Balos Oiren (AKA Armogeist) had his body destroyed and his essence transferred to an immobile, wooden figurine by his sadistic former Sith master Masochus after both were exiled from the Sith Empire. While in this state, Masochus was free to torture his apprentice even further without killing him. When they made it to the Valkoran Empire, Balos was freed from this torment when Maesterus [[spoiler:and Grein]] transferred his life force to a much more mobile suit of armor. While [[AnimatedArmor this state]] is undeniably an improvement over the figurine, it still feels like an empty existence to him since he's basically a poltergeist, and Valkor deemed him too valuable to let him become one with the Force. |
| 310 | ** This trope is the core reason Grein refuses to teach Zolph how to use [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Force liquefaction]]: This ability requires awareness of every molecule in the body, how to deconstruct and reconstruct them, and how to move them, and this ability demands mastery. Those who fail to master it can potentially be stuck as immobile but conscious water puddles until they either master it, evaporate to death, or get absorbed into soil. [[spoiler:Valkor taught Grein this ability as a way to torture her, and she was stuck in puddle form for weeks, with Valkor adding water to her to keep her alive.]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[AC:''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'']] |
| 313 | * In Part 2 of ''Fanfic/ClashOfTheElements'', this is [[spoiler:Cackletta's final fate, in which her 'Second Life' spell in combination with Alpha's nanomachines will leave her in a perpetual state of life and death until the spell runs out]]. |
| 314 | |
| 315 | [[AC:''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'']] |
| 316 | * [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Marx's]] BossBattle becomes one of these for him in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13109744/4/Smile-for-the-Sake-of-Everyone Smile for the Sake Of Everyone]]''. Dharkon is in complete control of his body and forces him to attack his friends, while all he can do is beg for help in his mind. As soon as he is freed, Marx says that all he wanted to do was scream. |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[AC:''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'']] |
| 319 | * ''WebAnimation/EmesisBlue'': The mercs suffer this through the Respawn Machine, which leaves them in what feels like eternity whenever they die before coming back. The BLU Scout, Jeremy, has suffered from respawn failures to the point where he suffers from ''brain atrophy'', and that is still a better outcome compared to most of the RED team, who are mentally damaged to the point of being not much more than feral ghouls. |
| 320 | * ''Fanfic/WithApologiesToHarlanEllison'' is a horrific reimagining of the TropeNamer with the RED Team being tortured for 113 years by The Administrator, who in this setting is essentially an unholy fusion of AM and [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]]. |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[AC:''ComicBook/TeenTitans'']] |
| 323 | * There is a bit of controversy in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' fandom over whether the fate of [[spoiler:Terra]], who was [[TakenForGranite transformed into stone]] at the end of season two [[spoiler:and ''possibly'' revived in the series finale]], involved this or not. Creepily, a few particularly [[DieForOurShip vindictive]] fanfic writers have her remain conscious during her stone imprisonment, going against the [[{{Fanon}} fan consensus]] that she is[[spoiler:/was]] probably unconscious or in a death-like state. Those who see her as TheWoobie sometimes do this as well to portray her in a [[TrueArtIsAngsty more sympathetic and tragic light]]. |
| 324 | * In the ''Fanfic/TeenTitansSaga'', this is [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Veneficus]]' ultimate fate, as he is [[spoiler:trapped in the void between dimensions with no means of escape. And since demons appear to be immortal barring being killed by someone else...]] |
| 325 | |
| 326 | [[AC:''Franchise/TouhouProject'']] |
| 327 | * Up until the first chapter of ''Fanfic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'', [[spoiler:Rin Satsuki]] had spent years as a [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed]] WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds [[SealedGoodInACan In A Can]]. |
| 328 | |
| 329 | [[AC:''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'']] |
| 330 | * ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheUndiscoveredSwords'': Konotegashiwa has a flashback of his [[TruthInTelevision historically being burned as an inanimate sword in the Great Kantō Earthquake]]. |
| 331 | -->"Swallowed in flames with no way out, trapped in hellish, searing heat that drove every single inch of him insane, feeling his unique beauty melting away bit by bit, then left forgotten by the world for gods knew how long." |
| 332 | |
| 333 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'']] |
| 334 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/26819719 Numb]]'' portrays Megatron as being fully aware that he is being experimented on during [[Film/Transformers2007 his time in stasis]], but unable to do anything about it. |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Tron}}'']] |
| 337 | * ''TRON'' {{Fanon}} holds that [[BrainwashedAndCrazy rectification]] is like this, the poor Program intermittently conscious and aware of the horrible things s/he is doing to serve their "masters," but unable to stop themselves from carrying it out. |
| 338 | |
| 339 | [[AC:''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'']] |
| 340 | * ''Fanfic/{{Luminosity}}'': |
| 341 | ** Carlisle once tries using morphine to anesthetize the [[PainfulTransformation vampire transformation]]. ''Once.'' [[HopeSpot It looked promising at first]], as the patient appeared to be blissfully unconscious -- but the moment the morphine wore off, the patient reports that the morphine actually just paralyzed them and didn't do a thing about the pain. |
| 342 | ** It's possible to imprison a vampire by [[ImmortalityHurts breaking them into so many pieces]] that they can't reassemble of their own accord and keeping them that way. In ''Radiance'', it's revealed that the Volturi have been keeping a number of vampires in this state, some for many years. |
| 343 | * In ''Through Her Eyes'', Jacob Black- now an insane rapist indirectly responsible for Bella being turned into a vampire because he delivered a serious beating to her that she could never have survived otherwise- is punished for his final attack by Bella using her powers to completely shut down Jacob's senses; he is still alive but has been rendered blind, deaf, and dumb, totally unaware of anything around him, with his wolf status meaning that he could theoretically stay in that state forever depending on his potential lifespan. |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[AC:''Literature/WarriorCats'']] |
| 346 | * In ''Fanfic/SpottedleafsPlot'', Cinderpelt's reincarnation isn't true reincarnation. Instead, Cinderpelt becomes trapped in Cinderkit's body. She has no control over the body and instead acts as a sort-of subconscious instead. |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[AC:''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'']] |
| 349 | * Early in a ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' fan fic, the main character suffers sleep paralysis ''in his bathtub'' and wakes up right before drowning. As if that wasn't horrifying enough, the character is later kidnapped by the villains and forcefully possessed by an evil spirit. He likens it to the episode he suffered earlier, ''except he actually drowns''. |
| 350 | |
| 351 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'']] |
| 352 | * In ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'', Michel Siskin was one of the psychics used to create Terror Thing, only his soul was trapped inside and couldn't get out again. |
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