History AndIMustScream / LiveActionTV

* In the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictims'' episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS7E7Name Name]]", the team encounters a woman named Anna who has so much brain damage from long-term drug abuse that she struggles to communicate and can't focus on anything for an extended period of time. It's made even worse when it's revealed later in the episode that she became an addict because when she was a teen, her stepfather used to force her to take drugs so that she couldn't fight back when he would sexually abuse her.

** ComicBook/LanaLang suffered a temporary case of this when ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} placed her in an "anesthesia awareness" state during the last few episodes of Season 7. According to what Brainiac told Clark, Lana was fully aware of her surroundings and in a constant state of excruciating pain, but she was also fully paralyzed so that she could do nothing to try to ease her pain or communicate with anybody else in any way. She was left in this condition for over a month until Clark finally defeated Brainiac and freed her. Brainiac could have been claiming this just to emotionally torture Clark as Lana did not seem to be suffering any psychological aftereffects from the experience when she returned as a SpecialGuestStar the following season.

** "Forever" features this trope with the MonsterOfTheWeek, whose touch can turn people to wax. They clearly remain conscious during this, though, as the camera shows their eyes still moving. ''Shattering'' the wax statue, however, is implied to be fatal.
** Implied to be the fate of another immortal:

** Lana Lang suffered a temporary case of this when Brainiac placed her in an "anesthesia awareness" state during the last few episodes of Season 7. According to what Brainiac told Clark, Lana was fully aware of her surroundings and in a constant state of excruciating pain, but she was also fully paralyzed so that she could do nothing to try to ease her pain or communicate with anybody else in any way. She was left in this condition for over a month until Clark finally defeated Brainiac and freed her. Brainiac could have been claiming this just to emotionally torture Clark as Lana did not seem to be suffering any psychological aftereffects from the experience when she returned as a guest star the following season.

* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': In "Mona Lisa's Revenge", the Mona Lisa emerges from her painting and traps gallery visitors into numerous different paintings, including Sarah Jane Smith. She is later freed at the end of the episode and mentions that she was conscious the whole time.

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' actually manages to play even ''this'' trope for laughs: three AdventurerArchaeologist muppets find a hidden chamber in an Egyptian tomb in one sketch while singing "Night and Day", and the sarcophaguses and mummies inside the chamber take over the song. At first, the archaeologists are terrified, until one of them notices that the sarcophaguses and mummies seem glad to see the archaeologists, and one of the sarcophaguses confirms it: "When you've been stood up for 4000 years, you're glad to see ''anybody''!"

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E20Villains Villains]]", Warren gets strung up by [[spoiler:Willow]], [[MouthStitchedShut his mouth sewn shut]] and tortured with a bullet slowly being driven into him.

* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': If you become a victim of Kilgrave, you want to do what ''he'' wants you to do, whether or not it's what ''you'' want to do. When his victims talk about their ordeal afterward, Jessica herself included, many mention how they were hating inside their minds all the while.
** Here's one example: An ambulance driver who picked up Kilgrave was forced to give him both of his kidneys, and as a result suffered a severe stroke that gave him extensive brain damage. When Jessica finds him, he is stuck in a wheelchair and being cared for by his somewhat creepy mother. He manages to get enough control over himself to ask Jessica to put him out of his misery.

** Villainous example: [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Angelus]] describes his existence like this. He is forced to spend eternity looking out through Angel's eyes: unable to harm anyone, unable to taste human blood, forced to watch as Angel saves the world and helps the helpless, listening to the endless brooding and angst. [[FauxHorrific And the Barry Manilow concerts]].

** Ampata was imprisoned in her own corpse.

** There's a baddy who ended up like this. After he'd died, his ghost survived by sending other people to Hell in his place. After using [[AppliedPhlebotinum phlebotinum]] to bring him back to mortal life, and realizing they can't kill him without starting the whole thing over again, the heroes instead imprisoned him in a life-extending "cell": a locked closet in an empty basement hallway. He will be kept alive, unable to move, unable to blink, and unable to scream Forever.

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

** Also happens to Angel himself, when Connor, believing Angel killed his adoptive father Holtz, decides that death is too good for him. So he seals Angel in a metal box and drops him in the ocean, knowing that hunger won't kill him, but it will torment him endlessly. He was rescued a few months later.

** Warren gets strung up by [[spoiler:Willow]], [[MouthStitchedShut his mouth sewn shut]] and tortured with a bullet slowly being driven into him.

* In ''Series/Dracula2020'', the Count's victims who don't manage to die, and are instead locked in boxes, conscious but rotting.

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

** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': There are a few examples. A monster called Pineoctopus (who could disguise himself as a [[MonsterClown clown]]) had the ability to turn people into cardboard cutouts, the Rangers were turned into pachinko balls on one occasion and bricks on another.

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** Somewhat subverted at first. Sam [[had doubts about the hunter life ever since he learned about the supernatural]], and the only person he talked to about it when he was young was his imaginary friend [[who turns out to be a creature called a 'Zarla', a benevolent species tasked with keeping young children company until the child is no longer in need of an imaginary friend]]. After shutting the imaginary friend out in hopeful pursuit of the family business, he [[once again lost interest]], which left him with the same situation and nobody to talk to, which started the lonely path to where adult sam is in season 1 episode 1. For a long time, Sam still won't talk about it. The trope is finally completely averted when Sam begrudgingly accepts the life he was raised into [[for the good of all]]

** In another episode, "The Long Morrow", an astronaut is sent into space for forty years. He is to be put into suspended animation, so he will be the same age when he returns, and won't have to deal with the loneliness of space. However, he releases himself from suspended animation early in the flight, so that he will be the same age as his girlfriend when he gets back. After forty lonely years in space, he returns, only to find that she froze herself to wait for him, and she is still young.

** "De-Coffinated": The Haitian man was paralyzed by his brother through a witch doctor's toxic dust and buried alive.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'':

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': The remake was "A Little Peace and Quiet" in which an overstressed homemaker can stop time to escape the pressures of everyday life, until [[spoiler:she freezes time during a Soviet nuclear attack on the United States, and she can see an inbound missile frozen over her own town. She's stuck with the choice of either living forever frozen in time, or unfreezing time and dying instantly.]]