History AndIMustScream / LiveActionTV

** Krycek has just watched himself vomit a sentient black oil out of his mouth and eyes. He's also BurnedAlive in SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere... He did have to scream a lot. [[spoiler:He got better though.]]

* On ''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 ''[[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]''[='=]s incredible second episode we meet the 'Soul Hunters', a brotherhood who capture the spirits of the dying in little globes. Problem: They don't ask permission first. The Minbari at least consider this a fate MUCH worse than death.
** The Soul Hunters themselves view it as the highest compliment, as they believe souls die with the body without their attentions.
** The Soul Hunters' story goes to extremes in the TV-Movie ''Babylon 5: The River of Souls'', where they do it to ''a world.'' RealityEnsues when the entrapped population becomes SealedEvilInACan, because they weren't dying... ''[[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence they were evolving.]]''
** For much of season 4, [[spoiler: Garibaldi was under the influence of [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mental programming]] courtesy of [[SmugSnake Mr. Bester]] that causes repeated conflicts with his comrades, eventually drives him to resign and ultimately causes him to betray Sheridan. When Bester gives him TheReveal, he off-handedly says, "I can feel you, you know, the real you. Beating at the inside of your skull...screaming to get out." ]]

* Though probably more a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen, HarlanEllison's original script for the ''StarTrek'' episode "The City On The Edge Of Forever" climaxed with a drug-dealing, murdering ''Enterprise'' crew member called Beckwith leaping back into the vortex of the Guardians of Forever in a bid to escape Kirk and Spock (he'd beamed down to the planet after killing a colleague and gone back to the '30s, with our heroes in pursuit). The Guardians trap him in a time loop which ''sends him into the heart of an exploding sun, where he's there just long enough to die in agony before time turns back to his arriving inside the sun, so he'll be materialising and burning up over and over again forever''.

* A particularly ironic FateWorseThanDeath befalls an escaped Nazi war criminal in the PilotMovie for ''NightGallery'' (this was the third of the three stories it told). He discovers that he has the power to wish himself into paintings (or at least, into ''one'' particular painting at a local art gallery, which features a lone figure in a serene fishing scene). Near the end of the story, when he's on the run from the authorities, he escapes to the museum and tries to wish himself back into the painting-- only to discover that it has been replaced with a scene of the crucifixion of a death-camp inmate. He then gets to spend the rest of eternity trapped in the painting, undergoing perpetual torture as the figure of the inmate.

* A particularly ironic FateWorseThanDeath befalls an escaped Nazi war criminal in an episode of ''NightGallery''. He discovers that he has the power to wish himself into paintings (or at least, into ''one'' particular painting at a local art gallery, which features a lone figure in a serene fishing scene). Near the end of the story, when he's on the run from the authorities, he escapes to the museum and tries to wish himself back into the painting-- only to discover that it has been replaced with a scene of the crucifixion of a death-camp inmate. He then gets to spend the rest of eternity trapped in the painting, undergoing perpetual torture as the figure of the inmate.

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':

* On ''Series/{{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 you're 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.

** For much of season 4, [[spoiler: Garibaldi was under the influence of [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mental programming]] courtesy of [[SmugSnake Mr. Bester]] that causes repeated conflicts with his comrades, eventually drives him to resign and ultimately causes him to betray Sheridan. When Bester gives him TheReveal, he off-handedly says, "I can feel you you know, the real you. Beating at the inside of your skull...screaming to get out." ]]

* A particularly dark example was in ''CrossingJordan'', which, for those of you who didn't know, is a show about a coroner's office. The victim is shot and spends the most of the episode paralyzed. He used to be a prosecutor and Macy's friend, but underwent a FaceHeelTurn to AmoralAttorney when Macy refused to falsify evidence to put away a serial killer. He keeps pleading with Jordan and Macy not to autopsy him, promising he'll change. He's only saved when Macy digs the bullet out and realizes he's still bleeding. Turns out he and his two guests (who were killed) had improperly prepared [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu Fugu]], and his secretary shot him. On his way out of the hospital, Macy gives him a bell, and tells him that people used to be buried with strings attached to bells in case they were buried alive. The lawyer points out that Macy just effectively admitted the coroner's office is at fault, and he'll both be suing and representing to woman who shot him. [[LaserGuidedKarma Then he walks outside and gets hit by a bus]]. The last shots of the episode is the team looking down into his body bag, and their evaluator asking if they're ''sure'' he's dead. The bag is closed up, using the same POV shot from the lawyer's perspective as earlier, and then we hear a bell tinkling.

*** See the "Literature" section - Wyatt's "predecessor" Nick Chopper (the original one), really didn't fare any better. The 1939 movie {{Bowdlerized}} things big time.

** To say nothing of those that the Borg assimilate. As Picard implied shortly after being removed from the Collective in "The Best of Both Worlds", they're privvy to ''everything'' the Borg-them is doing, but are helpless to do anything about it. That Picard was able to break through his "Locutus of Borg" personality and tell Data how to defeat the Borg was nothing short of a miracle.

** In the serial "Planet of the Spiders," [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spiders from another planet]] [[PrimalFear sink their fangs into people's spinal cords]] in order to tap into their nervous systems and control them like [[MeatPuppet meat puppets]], while the victims' minds remain conscious as powerless prisoners. And this was [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids back when many people considered ''Doctor Who'' a children's show]].

* ''TheTwilightZone'' had the famous "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 of his head, and shatter. "A Kind of Stopwatch" has a man discover a stop watch 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''.

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

** In the same vein, the episode "Soft Light" has the MotW trapped in a government test lab because he's "lightning in a bottle".

* The pilot episode for the ''SwampThing'' TV series showed the title hero fusing the still-living body of one of the bad guys into a tree, leaving him a half-man, half-tree hybrid, in very much the same fashion as the ''Doctor Who'' example above - although in this case the effect is even more disturbing, as the bad guy's face is left frozen in a way that very much brings Munch's ''TheScream'' to mind.

** Gregor Framkin in "Smile Time", a children's entertainer on par with JimHensen. His DealWithTheDevil leaves him a human puppet, helpless, tortured and begging for death.

**** In another episode in Season 3 Hell is explained as 100 years passing in the space of a single day on Earth, [[spoiler:the characters that go missing for a day in said episode certainly support that sort of timescale]] and seeing as Buffy [[spoiler:ran away for a lot longer than 5 days (she ran away at the end of the school term and Angel returned just after the new one)]] that's a long time in Hell, I have no idea how long school holidays are in America but I'd imagine in amounts to several thousand years.
***** You seem to be forgetting one crucial detail - there is ''more'' than one Hell Dimension. The one that [[spoiler: Buffy went to in Season 3]] had the 100-years-per-day time difference, but there's no indication that [[spoiler: Angel]] ended up ''there'' in particular (and it's stated there's more than one Heavenly Dimension as well ...), but it's never out-ruled, either. He definitely spent quite some time there, though.

** Of course, it is worth noting that [[spoiler: the Wolfram and Hart building collapses in the series finale, meaning that he likely died when that occurred anyway.]]

*** He was thankfully saved...of course, because there had to be ''someone'' whose heart was ripped out by the demon every day...there had to be a replacement. And it was actually...[[CrowningMomentOfFunny the very demon himself]].

** Presumably, the "iron maiden" also provided full life support, possibly including muscle-toning since he can move easily even right out of the box. He's not even hungry or thirsty. It may be some form of stasis that does not shut down mental function. AWizardDidIt, quite literally.

** Lana Lang suffered a temporary case of this when Brainiac placed her in an "anasthesia 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 excrutiating 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. Of course, 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.

** Notably, the Soul Hunters themselves view it as the highest compliment, as they believe souls die with the body without their attentions.
** The Soul Hunters' story goes to extremes in the TV-Movie ''Babylon 5: The River of Souls'', where they do it to ''an entire world.'' RealityEnsues when the entrapped population becomes SealedEvilInACan, because they weren't dying... ''[[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence they were evolving.]]''

* ''TheTwilightZone'' had the famous "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 of his head, and shatter. "A Kind of Stopwatch" has a man discover a stop watch that literally 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''.

* ''Series/NightVisions'', a short-lived "Twilight Zone"-type series hosted by HenryRollins, 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 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 season seven episode, "Same Time, Same Place." Willow is trapped and paralyzed in a cave with the demon Knarl, who paralyzes his victims and then proceeds to ''eat their skin''. '''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel One strip at a time.]]'''

** In the serial "Planet of the Spiders," [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spiders from another planet]] [[PrimalFear sink their fangs into people's spinal cords]] in order to tap into their nervous systems and control them like [[MeatPuppet meat puppets]], while the victims' minds remain conscious as powerless prisoners. There's at least three NightmareFuel tropes going on here...and this was [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids back when many people considered ''Doctor Who'' a children's show]].

* In one of the later episodes of ''{{Dinosaurs}}'', Earl is struck by lightning, causing him to switch places with a tree. In an example of HighOctaneNightmareFuel, Earl's face is sticking out of the tree's trunk.

* 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 you're 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.

* ''{{Angel}}'' had a baddy ending 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. Forever.

** And later in Volume 5, Sylar asks Matt Parkman to remove his abilities so he can live normally, [[DisproportionateRetribution what he does instead is read his mind to discover his worst nightmare, which is being completely alone, and then trapping him in a telepathic illusion where one hour in the real world equals a year in the nightmare.]] Sylar is immortal, and there's a lot of hours in eternity. Matt even says "Enjoy Hell" to Sylar before vanishing into thin air.

* A recent episode of ''{{Fringe}}'' revealed that quarantine amber causes a state of semi-aware suspended animation for those encased inside, rather than death, as had been previously thought.

** The Soul Hunters' story goes to BeyondTheImpossible extremes in the TV-Movie ''Babylon 5: The River of Souls'', where they do it to ''an entire world.'' RealityEnsues when the entrapped population becomes SealedEvilInACan, because they weren't dying... ''[[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence they were evolving.]]''

** ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' took that theme BeyondTheImpossible, letting a character face such a fate '''twice'''. The first time, he'd been injected with an experimental anaesthetic by his medical-researcher brother, who knew the protagonist was still conscious and staged the "autopsy" as a prank (!), paying back how his sibling had picked on him for years. After being revived, the protagonist dies for real, and the episode ends with him -- consciousness prolonged by the residual drug in his system -- facing a second trip to the autopsy table, this time ''with'' the capacity to feel pain.

** The 1985 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.]]