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* ''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, many, Jessica herself included, mention how they were hating inside their minds all the while.
** In an example not directly related to (though still caused by) Kilgrave's mind control, 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.

* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'':
** In "[[Recap/LegionS3E7Chapter26 Chapter 26]]", Charles Xavier is horrified to discover through his telepathy that the consciousness of the king that Amahl Farouk had deposed is trapped inside the mind of Farouk's ''caged pet monkey''! That means at least some of the monkey's shrieks are the former monarch's anguished cries to be freed from the animal's head.
--->'''Ex-king''': Please. Please, you have to help me. I was a king. A king, you hear. I was a kiiiiiing!
** The next day, Charles is approached by Habiba, who is constantly tormented by the yelling of the people who are imprisoned within her own psyche.
--->'''Habiba''': Can you make them stop screaming? They're all inside of me. I can't sleep.\\
'''Charles''': Who?\\
'''Habiba''': Every tyrant has his supporters.\\
''(Charles reads her mind)''\\
'''Ex-king's subjects''': Help us! Release us! He was our king!

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E21Forever Forever]]" features this trope with the MonsterOfTheWeek, whose touch can [[TakenForGranite turn people to wax]]. They clearly remain conscious during this, though, as the camera shows their [[CanOnlyMoveTheEyes eyes still moving]]. ''[[LiterallyShatteredLives Shattering]]'' the wax statue, however, is implied to be fatal.
** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS07E04Cure Cure]]": Implied to be the fate of the immortal doctor Knox (an {{Expy}} of [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]]).
--->'''Clark:''' What'd you do with Knox?\\
'''Martian Manhunter:''' Your father and I had a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it came to crime and punishment. I suggest we abide by the same rules.\\
'''Clark:''' You didn't kill him, did you?\\
'''Martian Manhunter:''' Knox is immortal, Kal-El. You can't kill him.
** 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 SpecialGuest the following season.

* ''Series/WandaVision'':
** Everybody who was in the town of Westview when [[Characters/MCUWandaMaximoff Wanda Maximoff]] created [[EldritchLocation the Hex]] was subjected to her [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] magic, and had their personality overwritten to become "characters" in her sitcom fantasy. [[spoiler:Underneath, they are fully aware that they are Wanda's puppets and are absolutely miserable and terrified, as Norm reveals in episode five upon being briefly freed from the brainwashing. Monica, who was brainwashed upon entering Westview only to be ejected and freed from it later, adds that they're also all feeling Wanda's overwhelming grief at Vision's death thanks to her psychic influence. When the Hex is undone in the finale and Westview is brought back to normal, every one of them is ''pissed off'' at Wanda for what she did to them.]]
** This is also how Wanda [[spoiler:punishes the BigBad Agatha Harkness after defeating and depowering her, forcing her to become "Agnes the NosyNeighbor", the character she disguised herself as while in the Hex, for real. Given what Agatha saw Wanda do to the rest of Westview, she is horrified by her fate.]]
* This is what "bronzing" is implied to do to people kept in ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}''. According to [[spoiler:H.G. Wells]] who was bronzed for over 100 years, they're fully aware but immobile. She seems to have come out of it fairly well if more than a little angry. If anything, she just used to the time to perfect her plan.
** In the second season finale, [[spoiler:H.G. Wells is captured after attempting to destroy the world and is taken away by government agents. Her fate is unspecified, but it is said that it will be even worse than "bronzing".]] The actual reveal in Season 3 is debatable on whether it is worse as [[spoiler: it is her entire persona is downloaded into a coin whilst her body is given a new personality. It's not stated if her normal personality is aware of being in the coin.]]

* In "Stiff", a Season 10 episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'', a woman is found comatose because her husband has been injecting her with near-overdoses of insulin (with her consent) in their sex games to render her immobile but conscious. It turns out that [[spoiler:she's not comatose at all: her daughter has replaced the insulin with a drug that permanently puts her into a locked-in state. ''Permanently.'']]

* On ''Series/DeadLikeMe'', George, the main character, is a Reaper who must take people's souls out of their bodies at specific times. On an early episode, she decides to not show up to take a soul. It then shows the person trapped in their dead body receiving an autopsy and screaming in horror.

* In the ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}'' episode "If You Were a Tree", Earl gets struck by lightning, causing his soul to get transferred into a tree. Earl's face is sticking out of the tree's trunk, however, he is unable to interact with the other dinosaurs.

** At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent "Heaven Sent"]], it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Doctor has been stuck inside a never-ending loop for billions of years, forced to endure, survive and figure everything out ''each and every'' time the loop starts over! And that's not even going into the details: like that each loop takes at least three weeks to finish; which includes solitary confinement and being hunted by an EldritchAbomination, which eventually kills you each time. And when it finally kills him at the only way out which is blocked by a substance '''400 times harder''' than diamond, he's forced to ''crawl back to the start'' as he can't regenerate! And THIS process takes at least a '''day and a half''' in his state! And then there's the fact that he has to come to terms with Clara's death each time the loop starts over as he always forgets what's happened when he's "revived". And in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", it's revealed that it wasn't two billion years he was stuck in there as originally perceived... Oh no, he was in there for '''twice that long''', for a whopping FOUR AND A HALF BILLION YEARS!!! What really drives this home is the moat inside the castle is filled with MILLIONS of skulls... '''''that all belong to him!''''']]

** At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent "Heaven Sent"]], it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Doctor has been stuck inside a never-ending loop for billions of years, forced to endure, survive and figure everything out ''each and every'' time the loop starts over! And that's not even going into the details: like that each loop takes at least three weeks to finish; which includes solitary confinement and being hunted by an EldritchAbomination, which eventually kills you each time. And when it finally kills him at the only way out which is blocked by a substance '''400 times harder''' than diamond, he's forced to ''crawl back to the start'' as he can't regenerate! And THIS process takes at least a '''day and a half''' in his state! And then there's the fact that he has to come to terms with Clara's death each time the loop starts over as he always forgets what's happened when he's "revived". And in "Hell Bent", it's revealed that it wasn't two billion years he was stuck in there as originally perceived... Oh no, he was in there for '''twice that long''', for a whopping FOUR AND A HALF BILLION YEARS!!! What really drives this home is the moat inside the castle is filled with MILLIONS of skulls... '''''that all belong to him!''''']]

--->''"We wanted to live forever... [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor so the Doctor made sure we did]]."''

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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]: At the end, the Doctor gives one of these fates to every one of the titular Family. (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 wraps the father in unbreakable chains. He traps the sister in a mirror -- every mirror in existence. And he suspends the son in time, covering his face with a sack and sticking him upright as a scarecrow to watch over the fields of England.

** [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]: [[spoiler:The Toymaker turns some UNIT soldiers into balloons, which are seen to have the soldiers' screaming faces trapped inside. After the Toymaker's banishment from reality, it is unclear if the soldiers were able to pass away or if they remain trapped in balloon form.]]

* ''Series/Goosebumps1995'', episode "[[Recap/Goosebumps1995S3E5Click Click]]": When Kevin tries to take the remote from Seth by force, Seth tries to use the Power button on him in frustration. The world disappears and Seth is left trapped in a featureless void with no way out.

** [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Demerzel]] literally ''cannot'' act against her programming, even if she wants to — her body will act against her will if necessary. This is best exemplified in the first season finale by [[spoiler: her killing Cleon XIV to uphold the purity of the genetic dynasty, despite her genuine love for him.]]

** Everybody who was in the town of Westview when [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Wanda Maximoff]] created [[EldritchLocation the Hex]] was subjected to her [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] magic, and had their personality overwritten to become "characters" in her sitcom fantasy. [[spoiler:Underneath, they are fully aware that they are Wanda's puppets and are absolutely miserable and terrified, as Norm reveals in episode five upon being briefly freed from the brainwashing. Monica, who was brainwashed upon entering Westview only to be ejected and freed from it later, adds that they're also all feeling Wanda's overwhelming grief at Vision's death thanks to her psychic influence. When the Hex is undone in the finale and Westview is brought back to normal, every one of them is ''pissed off'' at Wanda for what she did to them.]]

** The famous episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough at Last]]", where, now that the rest of humanity has been destroyed, Burgess Meredith can finally read all he wants. Unfortunately, his coke-bottle glasses slip off his head and shatter.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E61TheSilence The Silence]]", Jamie Tennyson wins the bet that he made with Colonel Archie Taylor to remain silent for a year in exchange for $500,000. However, Taylor does not have the money. Tennyson then reveals that he had the nerves to his vocal cords severed, leaving him not only unable to speak or scream but near bankrupt.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E124AKindOfAStopwatch A Kind of Stopwatch]]" has a man discover a stopwatch that stops time, and using it to rob banks and things like that. Until it falls out of his pocket and breaks ''while the rest of the world (and presumably the universe) is still frozen'' (unless this is just his ''point of view'').
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E135TheLongMorrow 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.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "A Little Peace and Quiet", 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.]]

* In the series finale of ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'', Henry is forced into a showdown with fellow immortal Adam. Unwilling to kill the old bastard, Henry resorts to [[spoiler:jabbing a syringe full of air into Adam's bloodstream, causing an embolism that leaves him with "locked-in" syndrome. Adam is left alive, but unable to move, and thus unable to kill himself and regenerate. Henry ensures that Adam is hooked up to life-sustaining machines and promises to Adam that he'll stay alive for a ''very long time''.]]

* In the Canadian TV show ''Series/TheCollector'', a woman tries to evade death and eternal damnation by placing her mind into the body of a robot. The transfer was a success. The only problem is there is a malfunction, causing the robot to be stuck in place. She can see and think but is stuck forever. The devil notes that she is the first client to create her own personal hell. In admiration, he decides to keep her running for the next millennia but seals off the door so no one can ever find her. It ends with showing her robot body endlessly chanting "I will move now. I will move now. I will move now."

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': The very first episode (excluding the PoorlyDisguisedPilot) 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.)