History AndIMustScream / LiveActionTV

* The very first episode (excluding the PoorlyDisguisedPilot) of ''CSINewYork'' involved the phenomenon of "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-In_syndrome Locked-In Syndrome]]." "Locked In Syndrome" was also used in an episode of ''{{Scrubs}}'' (See Real Life Examples.)

* Night Visions, a short-lived "Twilight Zone"-type series hosted by Luke Perry, had one particular half-episode called "Switch." In it, a woman seeing a psychiatrist to find her alternate personality and eliminate it found that [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie she WAS the alternate]], created by her child-like real self after her parents died when she was five. The real twist? [[spoiler: She murdered them.]] The episode ended with this woman - trapped in her mind, unable to speak, and unable to move - totally encased in eight big hollow bricks that spelled out "ETERNITY," with holes only for her forearms.

* In the ''DoctorWho'' episode "The Five Doctors", anyone who claims Rassilon's Gift is granted true immortality, as an unmoving (but still aware) stone carving on Rassilon's tomb.

** Never tick of a time Lord or this may happen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC0NuBaliLs&feature=related]]

--->'''Martian Manhunter''': Knox is immortal, Kal-El. You can't kill him.

* Night Visions, a short-lived "Twilight Zone"-type series hosted by Luke Perry, had one particular half-episode called "Switch." In it, a woman seeing a psychiatrist to find her alternate personality and eliminate it found that [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie she WAS the alternate]], created by her child-like real self after her parents died when she was five. The real twist? [[spoiler: She murdered them.]] The episode ended with this woman totally encased behind eight big bricks that spelled out "ETERNITY," with holes only for her trapped forearms.

* [[MarriedWithChildren Al Bundy]] is constantly begging for the sweet release of death. After selling LouisCypher his soul Al gets his wish, and finds Hell much nicer than his life.

* As with the ''{{Animorphs}}'' and ''TheHost'' examples, being possessed by a Goa'uld in ''{{Stargate SG1}}'' leaves the victim fully aware but with no control whatsoever over their body. What makes this particular case [[ItGotWorse even worse]] is that the host can be kept alive in this state for ''thousands'' of years.

* Misfits - Season 2, episode 6. [[spoiler: Nathan]]

* ''{{Torchwood}}'': In the season 2 finale, Jack Harkness is buried alive under Cardiff, constantly suffocating, reviving (painfully), and dying again... for 1874 years. He was buried in 27 CE then dug up in 1901, then cryogenically frozen (yes, in 1901, Torchwood could do that then) to bring him back to the present, paradox free.

** Although it's hard to feel pity for a literal pool of evil who kills for fun and really does have no redeeming qualities.

* In an ''[[TheXFiles X-Files]]'' episode, a corrupt army general learns the secret of voodoo immortality... just in time to be buried in a coffin before he revives.

** In "Fear Her", victims are [[PhantomZonePicture turned into drawings]] that are somewhat mobile while on the page (and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel pretty danged creepy]].) They ''can'' scream. Silently.

** In "The Mark of the Rani," some poor fool accidentally steps on a mine planted by the Rani, turning him into a tree. Initially this just looks stupid, but a few moments later one of the tree's branches suddenly moves to prevent Peri from standing on another mine, thus making it clear that the guy's mind still lives on inside the tree. In fact, a sarcastic comment by the Rani about how he's better off because trees live longer than humans makes things ''worse'', as he could end up tree-ified for decades, if not centuries.

** In "Fear Her," victims are [[PhantomZonePicture turned into drawings]] that are somewhat mobile while on the page (and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel pretty danged creepy]].) They ''can'' scream. Silently.
** The witches from "The Shakespeare Code" are trapped in their crystal ball. A recent episode has him taking the ball out as part of a RummageFail scene, and they can still be heard inside, shouting.

** In the new series, ''the Doctor'' did this in a different way to each member of the Family of Blood in the episode of the same name. (Moral of the story: never, ever piss off the Doctor.)
*** He throws the mother into the orbit of an event horizon of a black hole, to be trapped there forever. He wrapped the father in unbreakable chains. He trapped the sister in a mirror-- every mirror in existence. And he suspended the son in time, covering his face with a sack and sticking him upright as a scarecrow to watch over the fields of England.

*** Except he's freed within a few minutes, as shown at the beginning of the following episode.
** Not to mention Jack Harkness's predicament with The Master during the Year That Never Was.
*** In a way, the Master;s whole life might count. He's just too crazy at this point to care. Here come the drums . . .
** Episode 2x10, "Love & Monsters", [[spoiler: has the Abzorbaloff, which absorbs people whole, gaining their knowledge. But the process isn't instantaneous, leaving the absorbed person as a face on its body, which can still see and speak and is horrifically aware of what's happening. These faces remain independent and self-aware for days or more (all the people absorbed during the course of the episode were still present at the end, so we don't know how long total absorption takes.) When the monster was finally killed, all the absorbed people gained the blessed release of death...all but one. Ursula Blake was the last person to be absorbed and had feelings for Elton Pope, the final target of the Abzorbaloff. Elton tried desperately but failed to save her. When the monster was finally defeated and melted, The Doctor "saved" the now liquefied Ursula for Elton, by trapping her in a paving stone. She went from being a face temporarily on the body of an alien to being an unaging face trapped eternally on a concrete square. A true 'fate worse than death'. The squicky part is that Elton and Ursula still went on to have a relationship...a sexual relationship, which was revealed while Elton rested the concrete slab on his lap.]]

* ''AreYouAfraidOfTheDark: The Tale of the 13th Floor''. At the end, Karin [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting involuntarily shapeshifts]] back to faceless, mouthless alien form, and is stuck frozen on Earth for another ten years.

* On ''{{Charmed}}'', there was a magic school that was enchanted so that you can't die as long as any part of your body is on its grounds. You can be [[LosingYourHead beheaded]], and your still-conscious, talking head will stay alive, even outside the school, as long as your body remains at the school. Now, [[FridgeLogic think about what that means]] for that one guy Gideon blasted into a pile of ash while there.