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* This is the fate of a character in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' whom one will only ever know about if they modify the game's files (or, after a later update, get lucky): that being [[spoiler:previous Royal Scientist Dr. W. D. Gaster. After falling into one of his own creations, he was shattered across time and space (and the game's files), resulting in [[RetGone all records of him being erased from existence]]. Anyone who knew him well suffered his fate as well, while everyone else forgot about him and attributed his creations (which remained) to others. Gaster is still able to see the universe he left behind, though, and unlike your typical ItsAWonderfulPlot, it functions perfectly fine even without him]]. Even worse, [[spoiler:what is implied to be the machine he initially fell in has been [[WordOfGod stated by Toby Fox]] to be unfixable, meaning that Gaster is likely staying shattered for good.[[labelnote:*]]Then again, the update that randomly allows players to see Gaster's followers without needing to fiddle with the files may suggest Gaster is attempting to put himself back in the game, though who knows how successful he'll be if that's the case.case.
**also [[spoiler: asriel who is turned into a soulless flower unable to feel compassion , and in the pascifist ending after getting to be himself again for a while , refuses to go back to the surface because he will turn back into flowey]]
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**also [[spoiler: asriel who is turned into a soulless flower unable to feel compassion , and in the pascifist ending after getting to be himself again for a while , refuses to go back to the surface because he will turn back into flowey]]
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** VideoGame/Dishonored2 is generally more merciful with its non-lethal solutions, but some are still frightening. Need to keep a wicked inventor from building an army of mechanical soldiers? Lobotomize him with his own electroshock chair. Need to depose the corrupt Duke who led the coup to overthrow you? Convince his body double to replace him and have him declared a madman to be confined in an asylum.
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** VideoGame/Dishonored2 ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' is generally more merciful with its non-lethal solutions, but some are still frightening. Need to keep a wicked inventor from building an army of mechanical soldiers? Lobotomize him with his own electroshock chair. Need to depose the corrupt Duke who led the coup to overthrow you? Convince his body double to replace him and have him declared a madman to be confined in an asylum.
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** VideoGame/Dishonored2 is generally more merciful with its non-lethal solutions, but some are still frightening. Need to keep a wicked inventor from building an army of mechanical soldiers? Lobotomize him with his own electroshock chair. Need to depose the corrupt Duke who led the coup to overthrow you? Convince his body double to replace him and have him declared a madman to be confined in an asylum.
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** And things only get worse in the ''Knife of Dunwall'' and ''Brigmore Witches'' DLC. Need to get rid of a sadistic slaughterhouse boss after he reels you what you want? Nail him inside a crate headed out to the coldest regions of the world. Need a corrupt barrister removed? Swap his immunity documents with a search-and-seizure letter for his own house and dump some unidentified smelly contents into the air system, making the house smell like a plague nest. Need to stop a witch from possessing the future Empress? Swap the painting in her ritual with another so that she instead gets trapped in the Void.
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** And things only get worse in the ''Knife of Dunwall'' and ''Brigmore Witches'' DLC. Need to get rid of a sadistic slaughterhouse boss after he reels tells you what you want? Nail him inside a crate headed out to the coldest regions of the world. Need a corrupt barrister removed? Swap his immunity documents with a search-and-seizure letter for his own house and dump some unidentified smelly contents into the air system, making the house smell like a plague nest. Need to stop a witch from possessing the future Empress? Swap the painting in her ritual with another so that she instead gets trapped in the Void.
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* In ''JakIIRenegade'', [[EvilOverlord Baron Praxis]] can occasionally be heard addressing [[PhlebotinumRebel Jak]] over speakers normally reserved for spewing propaganda. The Baron promises a quick and painless death if Jak turns himself in, because the [[TheCorruption Dark Eco]] inside him will eventually do much, much worse. And if he ''doesn't'' turn himself in and Praxis finds him instead, he promises Jak he'll wish he died in prison.
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* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': So you have a ghost who has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]], and you really, ''really'' don't want him coming after you after the fact. What do you do? Why, leave him in a flooding submarine at the bottom of the sea, completely alone, launch the room containing his body as far away as possible in a random direction, allow said room to collapse due to the water pressure, mangling the body beyond repair and all but ensuring TimeTravel doesn't come into play, blow up the submarine with a torpedo, and make sure no possible path of escape remains. And since he's already dead...
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* The ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' series, with the exception of the first game, feature a cybernetic alien race called the Strogg, who build their ranks by capturing their enemies and putting them through a horrific process, referred to by the human soldiers in [[VideoGame/QuakeIV the fourth game]] as "Stroggification". This process not only involves having several body parts sliced off and crudely replaced with cybernetic parts (without '''any''' anesthetic whatsoever), but also involves having a chip implanted into the brain of the unfortunate victim, which is then activated by a machine, so that the victim can be controlled by the Nexus, a giant brain that has control over all other Strogg soldiers (it is unknown if there are any original, pureblood Strogg who possess free will). Watch it [[http://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3clVvh5gbGE com/watch?v=CJwyjWpP4XA here]]! Worst of all, is that the victims still retain their humanity for a short while after the chip activation but they are unable to control their actions. [[spoiler:This is seen in the fourth game, when Scott Voss is transformed into a huge, hulking cyborg, and yells at Matthew Kane to run away and that "I can't control it!", shortly before going beserk and attacking Kane.]] Sometimes, the process fails, resulting in the victims becoming shambling, zombie-like creatures (the "Failed transfers" and "Slimy transfers") who are then transported to a dumping ground.
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* ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'': The game's manual describes that the Entity, the godlike creature that the killers sacrifice the survivors to, has trapped the group in a GroundhogDayLoop. If a person manages to escape, they'll find themselves back at the campfire. If a person is killed, part of their soul will be eaten before they'll find themselves back at the campfire. This all happens over and over again; the humans being a mere CosmicPlaything at the Entity's mercy.
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**And things only get worse in the ''Knife of Dunwall'' and ''Brigmore Witches'' DLC. Need to get rid of a sadistic slaughterhouse boss after he reels you what you want? Nail him inside a crate headed out to the coldest regions of the world. Need a corrupt barrister removed? Swap his immunity documents with a search-and-seizure letter for his own house and dump some unidentified smelly contents into the air system, making the house smell like a plague nest. Need to stop a witch from possessing the future Empress? Swap the painting in her ritual with another so that she instead gets trapped in the Void.
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* ''BaldursGate'' (and the [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons source world]]) has the "Imprisonment" Spell, in which the victim is instantly trapped deep within the earth, and magically kept alive forever, unable to escape until someone casts "Freedom" at where the Imprisonment is held. In ''Shadows of Amn'', the main character is threatened with this by [[KnightTemplar a particularly hard-lined Harper]], and could optionally fight against a high-powered wizard that was driven ''insane'' by the experience.
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* ''BaldursGate'' ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' (and the [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons source world]]) has the "Imprisonment" Spell, in which the victim is instantly trapped deep within the earth, and magically kept alive forever, unable to escape until someone casts "Freedom" at where the Imprisonment is held. In ''Shadows of Amn'', the main character is threatened with this by [[KnightTemplar a particularly hard-lined Harper]], and could optionally fight against a high-powered wizard that was driven ''insane'' by the experience.
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* In ''ZorkGrandInquisitor'', [[AllCrimesAreEqual all crimes]] under the rule of Inquisitor Yannick are punishable by being "totemized", having your body painfully transfigured into an immobile totem for all eternity. {{Justified|Trope}} in that this is part of Yannick's plot to eliminate magic from the land of Zork: if a person is totemized instead of killed, their body's natural supplies of magical energy aren't released and the overall level of magic in the world drops slightly.
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** In ''PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon,'' [[spoiler: you and most of the main cast are turned to stone, sending your souls to a hellish dimension called the Voidlands, with seemingly no way out.]] To make matters worse, this eventually happens to [[spoiler: EVERYONE ON THE ENTIRE PLANET except you and your partner.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite2'' In terms of the human cast, [[spoiler: Ghetsis]] gets hit right in the face with this at the end of the second game, [[spoiler: going so insane that he's reduced to a catatonic vegetable]]. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.
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* ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'' provides an incredibly literal example: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Porky Minch]]]] hides inside the Absolutely Safe Capsule when things start falling apart for him. [[spoiler:Dr. Andonuts]] tells the heroes that it's "absolutely safe" in an incredible literal way: [[spoiler:Porky can't be harmed at all in it nor can it be destroyed, and as he's permanently locked inside with no escape at all. Porky can't die of old age, as his time travel abuse made him immortal. Therefore Porky, a frail and decrepit old man (if with a child's mind) is condemned to living forever locked inside the tiny Absolutely Safe Capsule.]] Incredibly, the ending implies that [[SubvertedTrope he's actually totally fine with this]].
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* This is the fate of a character in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' whom one will only ever know about if they modify the game's files (or, after a later update, get lucky): that being [[spoiler:previous Royal Scientist Dr. W. D. Gaster. After falling into one of his own creations, he was shattered across time and space (and the game's files), resulting in [[RetGone all records of him being erased from existence]]. Anyone who knew him well suffered his fate as well, while everyone else forgot about him and attributed his creations (which remained) to others. Gaster is still able to see the universe he left behind, though, and unlike your typical ItsAWonderfulPlot, it functions perfectly fine even without him]]. Even worse, [[spoiler:what is implied to be the machine he initially fell in has been [[WordOfGod stated by Toby Fox]] to be unfixable, meaning that Gaster is likely staying shattered for good.[[labelnote:*]]Then again, the update that randomly allows players to see Gaster's followers without needing to fiddle with the files may suggest Gaster is attempting to put himself back in the game, though who knows how successful he'll be if that's the case.[[/labelnote]]]]
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' a Mage Inquisitor has the option to punish [[SmugSnake Livius Erimond]] for working with the BigBad by making him Tranquil. All other options including execution don't faze him at all, but if sentenced to Tranquility he will begin to panic at the idea of "losing himself". A few mages protest the Inquisitor's judgement and claim it overly cruel, but it's not really encountered outside the war table.
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**[[spoiler: Wheatley's fate at the end of this game would qualify as one, as he was shown to be stuck floating through space for an undetermined amount of time, with Space Core by him to make matters worse.]]
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** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX''.[[spoiler:In the ending, Dark!Raiden said this word for word to the new Netherrealm rulers, Liu Kang and Kitana, upon giving them Shinnok's decapitated head.]]
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* Comes up in ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', if you're attempting a PacifistRun. Need a couple of slavers "gone"? Have them disfigured and sent to be worked to death in their own mines. Need a member of the aristocracy taken out of the picture? [[spoiler: Knock her unconscious and give her to a creepy admirer, who assures you she won't die but will "never be heard from again."]] Need the corrupt leader of a religious order removed? Brand him as a heretic, condemning him to spend the rest of his life as an outcast [[spoiler:eventually falling victim to the Rat plague and becoming a Weeper.]]
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* Comes up in ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', if you're attempting a PacifistRun. Need a couple of slavers "gone"? Have them disfigured and sent to be worked to death in their own mines. Need a member of the aristocracy taken out of the picture? [[spoiler: Knock her unconcious and give her to a creepy admirer, who assures you she won't die but will "never be heard from again."]] Need the corrupt leader of a religious order removed? Brand him as a heretic, condemning him to spend the rest of his life as an outcast [[spoiler:eventually falling victim to the Rat plague and becoming a Weeper.]]
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i mean i wouldn\'t be but it\'s not my opinion that\'s relevant here :v
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* [[BigBad Malefor]] gives the Apes one of these in ''TheLegendOfSpyro: Dawn Of The Dragon''. He turns them into skeletons that are forever cursed to remain in the shadows, hungry for the energy of others but never able to be full. This fate is so terrible that Spyro and Cynder are visibly horrified by it.
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* In ''[[HeroesOfMightAndMagic Might and Magic: Heroes VI]]'', TheNecrocracy of Heresh punishes its worst criminals by transforming them into [[OurGhoulsAreDifferent ghouls]]. Because most citizens of Heresh are devout worshippers of Asha who are fully aware of the reincarnation cycle that governs the world, the threat of being permanently removed from that cycle by becoming a non-sentient undead is a horrifying prospect.
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* ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'': If you die in Heavenly Host Elementary, you feel the pain you felt at the moment of your death for all eternity.
* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': So you have a ghost who has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]], and you really, ''really'' don't want him coming after you after the fact. What do you do? Why, leave him in a flooding submarine at the bottom of the sea, completely alone, launch the room containing his body as far away as possible in a random direction, allow said room to collapse due to the water pressure, mangling the body beyond repair and all but ensuring TimeTravel doesn't come into play, blow up the submarine with a torpedo, and make sure no possible path of escape remains. And since he's already dead...
* ''Videogame/TeamFortress2'': The disembodied head of the BLU Spy in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc "Meet the Medic"]] [[SupplementalMaterial/TeamFortress2 video]], somehow permanently Übercharged and now spends [[BlessedWithSuck his invulnerable days]] mostly [[VisualPun having a smoke break and chillin']] in RED Medic's fridge. Spy seems rather calm about it though, especially compared to [[LosingYourHead his initial reaction]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', a [[BlessedWithSuck l'Cie]] who fails to complete their [[MissionFromGod Focus]] is doomed to become a Cie'th; a crystalline monster that wanders the world in sorrow, until it eventually fossilizes into a Cie'th Stone [[AndIMustScream while still alive, awake, and suffering sorrow and regret, forever]]. The fate for those who complete their Focus isn't much better..becoming an immortal servant of the fal'Cie. And spending most of the time [[TakenForGranite as a crystal statue,]] except when they want you for something. The fal'Cie are [[JerkassGods jerks.]]
* ''Franchise/StarCraft'': [[TheVirus Zerg infestation]] usually alters your mind into conformity with the collective will of the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Swarm]] and its [[HiveMind Overmind]]. However, ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' shows that this is not always the case. Some infestees end up ''fully aware'' of their miserable condition, and only have enough control over their bodies to ''beg'' other people to kill them.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sorcerer}}'':
** Dallying in the prologue area will result in a NonStandardGameOver where the game's villain condemns the protagonist to an eternity in the Chamber of Living Death, wherein victims are perpetually (and painfully) eaten alive by plagues of parasites.
** Dallying too long in the final room without acting will get the protagonist sent to the Hall of Eternal Pain, where they will spend eternity as a powerless disembodied mentality, being tormented telepathically.
** In the ''next''-to-last room, there are three doors. Two of them lead to the Chamber of Living Death and the Hall of Eternal Pain. Try to find which one is the third one. Try ''hard''.
** Failure to obtain (or, for that matter, use) the correct spell before the final confrontation results in a demon possessing the protagonist and using this new body to enslave the entire world. (In the demon's own words, "Now begins an epoch of evil transcending even your worst nightmares; a reign of terror that will last a thousand thousand years!") The kicker? He keeps the protagonist's mind [[AndIMustScream alive and aware]], so the protagonist is ForcedToWatch helplessly as his controlled body sacrifices babies, forces slaves to build massive idols - with his face - and generally creates a literal Hell on Earth.
* {{Infocom}} was at it again in ''VideoGame/TheLurkingHorror''. Don't kill the final monster fast enough and one of its formerly human slaves grabs you and throws you into it, which by this point you know is how it makes humans into former humans. [[NonstandardGameOver Instead of the standard]] "You have died" message, you see the far more chilling "You have changed", followed by "Sometimes, during your future existence, you remember your old life. At these times, you wish you had died instead."
* In ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'', the AntiHero defeats the CreepyChild BigBad. [[ICannotSelfTerminate She begs him to kill her]], but he decides that instead [[spoiler:he's going to drag her around the world, forcing her to see the devastation she has caused. He's going to make her take responsibility for everything, a child's nightmare]]. This turns out to have been an effective punishment; she's a playable character in the second game, and she has repressed all the memories of her being the BigBad and the punishment the protagonist of the first game inflicted on her. This becomes obvious when the AntiHero of the first game shows up as an AntiVillain in the second, and the mere sight of him makes her [[FreakOut go crazy.]] [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind She gets better]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'':
** Played for laughs when the boys "accidentally" spend too long in the hot spring, until after it switches from boys-only to girls-only. When Mitsuru and the rest of the girls enter, Akihiko freaks out and with good reason: if Mitsuru detects the boys in the ensuing minigame, she "executes" them; a fate [[NoodleIncident not seen]] but referred to as "hell on earth".
** A more serious example in the [[FridgeHorror underlying implications]] of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Fall]]: with the coming of [[spoiler:Nyx, the [[EveryoneHatesHades incarnation of Death itself]]]], every single living thing will be consumed from the inside out by its own desire for destruction. Thus everything, everywhere, will lose all sense of self and become a mindless, soulless shell that can only moan and whimper, completely unaware of its own death. Should the protagonists choose to challenge this fate, [[spoiler:the Appraiser/Nyx Avatar]] warns them that they will suffer more than they could possibly imagine, ''then'' die. It'll be even worse for Aigis, who's a robot, and thus most likely won't be affected by the Fall. Instead, she'll get to watch her friends turn into shambling shells of their former selves, and then spent the rest of her life in a lifeless wasteland until her body mercifully breaks down.
* In ''PlanescapeTorment'', when you explain to the Mercykiller Vhailor how your immortality works, he moves to punish you [[spoiler:as each time you die and regenerate, someone else dies in your place]]... but you can get him to back off by explaining the ''downside''. Vhailor, thought of even by other Mercykillers as a fanatic who'll scrag someone without evidence, decides that you are suffering punishment enough.
* In the add-on to ''DungeonSiege II'' called ''Broken World'', anyone caught by the Familiar Surgeons is horribly mutilated, fused with parts of other bodies or weapons, and transformed into an insane "bound creature". Fortunately, this cannot happen to player characters.
* In the backstory of ''{{Utawarerumono}}'', Witsarnemitea [[spoiler:reduced the scientists who studied him to immortal slimes]] not unlike the ''I Have No Mouth'' example above.
* ''LostKingdoms'' has the Runestones. In the first gave, they weren't alluded to much, but when the second game came around, you find out that [[spoiler:a Runestone is a soul that one of the three gods ''sucked out of a living person'' and turned into one]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
** One of the Scourge's {{Evil Plan}}s is to spread the plagued grains in Stratholme, so people who ate from that will turn into zombies, and their souls will be taken by Mal'Ganis and transferred to the Lich King. Arthas, having learned this, makes a drastic decision to purge the entire city, thinking that such fates are something worse than death. Poor chap didn't know (at the time) that it's not the Stratholme citizens the Lich King is after. It's his soul.
** Most of what the Scourge does is this. For instance, one of their bosses in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is Thaddius, a Literature/{{Frankenstein}}-lookalike who's described as: "..built from the flesh of women and children, it is said that their souls are fused together - eternally bound within that foul prison of flesh." Add that some of his [[VoiceOfTheLegion voice]] sounds like a child. When your raid finally defeats him, his last action is to thank you.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'':
** [[PersonalSpaceInvader Headcrabs]] are small (about the size of a domesticated cat), aggressive aliens that attach themselves to a viable host and [[PuppeteerParasite commandeer its nervous system]], creating what are cheerfully named Headcrab Zombies. Said host is ''still alive'' and ''[[AndIMustScream still aware]]'' even as its body rots, it ''tears off all of its skin'' (Fast Zombies) and/or is injected with so much neurotoxin it bloats to about twice its width (Poison Zombies). It's become an infamous fact that when you reverse a Headcrab Zombie's cry, you can hear the human screaming for mercy.
** ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' has the less commonly seen Stalkers - humans surgically altered by the Combine and forced into slavery. They more or less look like emaciated humans with [[BodyHorror most of their internal organs, muscle, and fat removed, and their limbs replaced with metal stumps]]. Alyx, quite reasonably, hopes they don't remember who they used to be.
* Reaching the end of the [[BonusLevelOfHell Fourth Kalpa]] in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' reveals that [[spoiler:Hijiri]] has been condemned to an eternity of life, death and rebirth without hope of reincarnation. He will be forced to witness the Conception and the creation of the new world over and over again until the end of time, but will never be allowed to influence its outcome himself. He received this punishment from {{God}} for committing "the ultimate sin" in a previous life; because of this, many suspect that he is a reincarnation of [[spoiler:Aleph from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'', who committed ''deicide'' at the end of the game by killing {{God}}. That's right, {{God}}]].
* ''Plundered Hearts'', another {{Infocom}} title, uses this to get around having to state upfront that people want to rape or have raped the main character. This makes more sense when you realize that the game is [[InteractiveFiction an interactive version]] of a cheesy RomanceNovel.
* In ''ZorkGrandInquisitor'', [[AllCrimesAreEqual all crimes]] under the rule of Inquisitor Yannick are punishable by being "totemized", having your body painfully transfigured into an immobile totem for all eternity. {{Justified|Trope}} in that this is part of Yannick's plot to eliminate magic from the land of Zork: if a person is totemized instead of killed, their body's natural supplies of magical energy aren't released and the overall level of magic in the world drops slightly.
* ''BaldursGate'' (and the [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons source world]]) has the "Imprisonment" Spell, in which the victim is instantly trapped deep within the earth, and magically kept alive forever, unable to escape until someone casts "Freedom" at where the Imprisonment is held. In ''Shadows of Amn'', the main character is threatened with this by [[KnightTemplar a particularly hard-lined Harper]], and could optionally fight against a high-powered wizard that was driven ''insane'' by the experience.
* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'':
** Both Tal Rasha and the player-character from the first game make the unwise decision to insert a soulstone with a demon into their bodies. The results for both of them are not pretty.
** In ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', [[spoiler:Adria, in the cruelest betrayal of the series, does this to her own daughter Leah, using the Black Soulstone to turn her into the vessel for Diablo to be reborn as the Prime Evil]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' series, with the exception of the first game, feature a cybernetic alien race called the Strogg, who build their ranks by capturing their enemies and putting them through a horrific process, referred to by the human soldiers in [[VideoGame/QuakeIV the fourth game]] as "Stroggification". This process not only involves having several body parts sliced off and crudely replaced with cybernetic parts (without '''any''' anesthetic whatsoever), but also involves having a chip implanted into the brain of the unfortunate victim, which is then activated by a machine, so that the victim can be controlled by the Nexus, a giant brain that has control over all other Strogg soldiers (it is unknown if there are any original, pureblood Strogg who possess free will). Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3clVvh5gbGE here]]! Worst of all, is that the victims still retain their humanity for a short while after the chip activation but they are unable to control their actions. [[spoiler:This is seen in the fourth game, when Scott Voss is transformed into a huge, hulking cyborg, and yells at Matthew Kane to run away and that "I can't control it!", shortly before going beserk and attacking Kane.]] Sometimes, the process fails, resulting in the victims becoming shambling, zombie-like creatures (the "Failed transfers" and "Slimy transfers") who are then transported to a dumping ground.
* Since nearly every major character in ''GrimFandango'' is [[DeadToBeginWith already dead]] by virtue of the setting, these are the only things that are real threats. Examples include being made into a dam by demon beavers, and being "sprouted" -- having plants grow from your body until you become a patch of flowery meadow.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'':
** The good end to the "Tranquility Lane" quest has you [[spoiler:condemning Braun to be trapped in his vault with no possible way to leave or interact with the outside world]]. Rather fitting.
** [[spoiler:Harold]]. When you find him, he's been [[spoiler:turned into a tree and cannot grow or die]]. He, naturally, [[MercyKill begs you to kill him]].
** On a more humorous note, Liberty Prime believes that "death is a preferable alternative to communism".
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
** The option is given of doing this to [[spoiler:Mr House, if you release him from his life-support unit]]. Even though exposing him to the outside world ensures his eventual death, his longevity treatments will keep him alive for, he estimates, about a year.
** The Marked Men from the ''Lonesome Road'' DLC, who were created by the nuclear explosions that destroyed the Divide. Sandstorms have torn the skin from their bodies, and the radiation from the nukes has mutated them into ghouls, making them immortal. Ulysses tells you that if there's no way to save them (there probably isn't), then it's [[MercyKill "mercy, not murder"]] to kill them.
** [[spoiler: [[ColdSniper Craig Boone]]]] views what would have happened to his wife at the hand of the legion as this. [[NoWomansLand He may not be that far off]]. So he [[spoiler:[[MercyKill took the shot]].]]
** Joshua "Burned Man" Graham, former Legate to Caesar, [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat was set on fire and thrown into the Grand Canyon]], but unfortunately survived, is in constant pain exacerbated by the daily changing of his bandages, and {{immune to drugs}}.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' gives us the Abyss Beyond Time. [[spoiler:Whenever a world's timeline is changed, the world, and everyone in it, are instantly transported to a dark, empty void to make room for the new, altered world. ''TimeTravel causes billions of innocent people to become trapped in an endless void for all eternity everytime its used.'']]
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** Being turned into a Nobody. Firstly, your heart is either stolen or corrupted, turning you into [[TheHeartless a mindless heart-collecting creature]]. Then ''what's left behind of you'' starts to move around on its own will. Not only will you technically ''not exist'', you'll also have no emotions, and when you eventually get done in with [[ImprobableWeaponUser a giant key]], you'll [[EverythingFades leave nothing behind to show that you ever existed]].
** There is a few times when they talk about being turned into a [[CannonFodder Dusk]] as a punishment. Only once is death ever threatened, and that was more implying that it hurt the talker more than the victim.
** All three protagonists of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' get their own tailor-made Fate Worse Than Death in the DownerEnding. Not for nothing does the ending drive ''MickeyMouse'' into a HeroicBSOD for his failure to save them.
* From ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', Naoya [[spoiler:AKA Cain, as in the biblical CainAndAbel, has been cursed to remember every single memory from all of his previous reincarnations, including the first one where he murdered his brother, resulting in him living non-stop for thousands of years constantly tormented by far too much information for one brain, never being allowed to forget his greatest sin]]. What makes it so sad is that he could get out of this; [[spoiler:God didn't 'curse' him, this was a genuine attempt to give him time to reflect on his sin and repent. All he has to do to be forgiven is to admit he was wrong and sincerely apologize for the fratricide]]... but by this point, he's ''far'' too bitter to even consider that.
* [[spoiler:Lezard]] from ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile2Silmeria'' threatens your party with this if you die against him (the only way you can actually get a Game Over in the game):
-->"I will not slay you. From now and forever, no matter how much you entreat me, how pitifully you lament, you shall not die!"
-->"I grant you the rights accorded to an enemy of the gods: You will live from now and forever, in an endless cycle of rebirth, condemned in each life to be hated, feared, scorned, punished and obliterated!"
-->"Live always with the screech of insects buzzing within your skull, ants gnawing at your eyeballs forever and ever!"
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** Dying whilst under the effects of a soul trap spell will condemn the being's soul to spend eternity in the Soul Cairn. The Soul Cairn is a desolate place; lightning strikes are common, odd, somewhat frightening rock formations dot the landscape and the Cairn's overlords feed on wandering souls via large crystals. Souls of sentient beings in the Cairn often remark on how they have spent countless years wandering the Soul Cairn, wishing for a proper death that will never be theirs.
** [[BigBad Mankar Camoran's]] followers are subjected to one of these if killed: His followers are made immortal and condemned to slavery for eternity, working under Daedra. The new inductees in Paradise are dipped into lava.
** From ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', this is what the [[CorruptChurch Tribunal Temple]] considers Vampirism. It's why they consider death as the only "cure" for the disease, regardless of what the vampires themselves might believe.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** [[AbusivePrecursors The Reapers]] possess the ability to subtly brainwash sentient beings, slowly altering their thoughts so that they eventually override their will entirely, creating willing slaves that follow their orders without hesitation. The downside is that too much use of this ability turns them into mindless husks, incapable of doing anything without an order from their controller. Shepard encounters ''many'' people at varying stages of this "indoctrination", and has the option of performing a MercyKill. It can be even worse to people with strong mind and psychic talents; [[spoiler:Matriarch Benezia]] sealed a part of her consciousness away out of sense of duty to use her free will in some critical moment, and was effectively trapped in her body in the meantime, unable to prevent herself from committing heinous acts under [[spoiler:Sovereign]]'s control.
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' this is revealed to be the fate of not only [[spoiler:the entire Prothean species]], but indeed [[spoiler:''all'' of the species the Reapers have harvested, converting them into new Reapers.]]
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' off-handedly mentions a human colony world that was about to be attacked by the Reapers with no hope of evacuation. So the colony nuked itself, reasoning that that would be a better fate than what the Reapers had in store for them.
* Somewhat based on the relevant mythology, ''VideoGame/GodOfWar II'' features Prometheus in his liver-consuming fate. Instead of being freed by Hercules, however, he is freed by being dropped into the Fires of Olympus by Kratos. Kratos is then awarded with Rage of the Titans.
* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'':
** The [[EldritchAbomination Spirit Beast]] locks a group of ghosts into its own plane of existence, where it slowly feeds on their souls. Erik Bonde, one of the unfortunate fellows to have this fate, said that for the first twenty days, they couldn't do anything but scream. At the beginning of the second quest it is revealed it's trying to enter the REAL world, which means that EVERYONE would share this fate.
** What happened to the hero Arrav after his HeroicSacrifice to save the city of Varrock from Zemouregal hundreds of years ago. Zemoreugal brought him back to life as a special kind of zombie that still had his consciousness trapped inside his body but having no control at all over his actions except for talking when Zemouregal wasn't focusing on him. During the quest The Curse of Arrav you go on a mission to recover his heart so that you can save him from this fate without killing him and you finally free him during the final battle of the quest Ritual of the Mahjarrat allowing him to turn on and attack Zemouregal, but after the quest his body turns to dust when you talk to him due to his body no longer being preserved.
** The souls that were eaten by the queen black dragon. When you battle her she uses them as unwilling weapons against you, they can talk to you but can't control their actions. Similarly, getting turned into a wright and enslaved by Sliske is probably this too. Finally, during the quest Missing Presumed Death, when Death gets kidnapped and imprisoned by Sliske, dead souls all over the world became unable to properly separate from their bodies, leaving them in an agonizing state of half death.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
** The Darkspawn Blood Taint. Essentially, drinking darkspawn blood (sometimes even coming into contact with it) will usually kill you very ''very'' painfully, if you are ''lucky''. Otherwise, you will slowly turn into one of them. And that is still better than the treatment they have for the ''women'': [[spoiler:they are implied to be raped (''everywhere'') before being forced into devouring their own [[IAmAHumanitarian kin]] and slowly turned into immobile betentacled Broodmothers, the purpose of which is to give birth to more Darkspawn]].
** In ''Awakening'', some of the "Awakened" Darkspawn consider their "freedom" to be this. Bereft of the Call of the Old Gods, they find the silence unbearable. All of the Mother's actions are driven by her desire for revenge against the Architect who cut her off from the music. In the FinalBattle, she actually looks forward to dying in battle, hoping to hear the Song again in death.
** Mages are prone to demonic possession. The exact effects vary but it generally seems to be pretty bad. As a way to "protect" vulnerable mages from possession, Templars sometimes perform a process that severs their connection to magic - and also destroys their ability to feel emotion or dream. These "Tranquil" mages don't seem to mind, at least not after the fact... [[spoiler: There was one case of a tranquil mage being temporarily cured by direct exposure to a Fade spirit. He begged his friend to kill him rather than be allowed to become tranquil again.]]
* How ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' got the ''Explorer'' games to have an E rating, the world will never know. In the BadFuture, time never passes, meaning that if you die, you will be stuck in that dying state forever. To make matters worse, shortly after arriving there, [[spoiler:you and your partner are to be executed by Sableye, by means of their razor-sharp claws. Imagine an eternity of being cut to shreds...]]
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite2'' In terms of the human cast, [[spoiler: Ghetsis]] gets hit right in the face with this at the end of the second game, [[spoiler: going so insane that he's reduced to a catatonic vegetable]]. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.
* [[spoiler:Grissom]] in ''VagrantStory''. Having been killed by Ashley, his soul seeks out a new vessel, and winds up bound to his old corpse.
* ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'' provides an incredibly literal example: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Porky Minch]]]] hides inside the Absolutely Safe Capsule when things start falling apart for him. [[spoiler:Dr. Andonuts]] tells the heroes that it's "absolutely safe" in an incredible literal way: [[spoiler:Porky can't be harmed at all in it nor can it be destroyed, and as he's permanently locked inside with no escape at all. Porky can't die of old age, as his time travel abuse made him immortal. Therefore Porky, a frail and decrepit old man (if with a child's mind) is condemned to living forever locked inside the tiny Absolutely Safe Capsule.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', when you finally find the man who betrayed Niko years ago he has a heavy drug addiction and is ridden with guilt, and begs you to kill him. Here you are given the option of killing him or letting him live with the guilt. [[spoiler:Niko finds more satisfaction in letting him live.]]
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'':
** Raziel doesn't have one of these. He has ''three''. At the start of ''Soul Reaver'' on seeing his new misshapen body he claims "Death would be a release from this travesty" and "I would choose oblivion over this existence". At the end of ''Soul Reaver 2'' he learns his fate is to have [[spoiler:his soul imprisoned in a sword where he would be reduced to a mindless hunger devouring the souls of those the sword is used on, trapped for thousands of years]]. Finally at the end of ''Defiance'' he is left trapped in a room with no way for him to escape, and the only thing to look at is a mural showing not only is he [[spoiler:not TheChosenOne, but that he killed the real Chosen One shortly before getting trapped]]. Said [[spoiler:Chosen One]] turns out to be NotQuiteDead, and (accidentally) allows Raziel to escape the room - at which point Raziel finally ends up [[spoiler:imprisoned in the sword]].
** The Hylden race collectively suffers one of these as their war with the Ancients ends with [[spoiler:their banishment in the demon dimension, which keeps them immortal, but deforms their bodies and drives them insane]]. The Ancients themselves suffer similarly when the Hylden [[spoiler:retaliate by cursing them with vampirism, which ends up severing their connection to their god]]. Most chose to kill themselves rather than live on like that.
** Janos Audron, the last living Ancient, when [[spoiler:the Hylden [[BodySurf hijack his body]] and imprison him for 400 years to feed their machinery]]. At the end of ''Blood Omen 2'' he [[spoiler:ends up trapped in the demon dimension with the Hylden.]]
* What happens to Galen, your character, in the DarkSide ending of ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed''. He's nearly crushed to death by a spaceship, reconstructed by the Emperor (Galen is conscious the whole time) to barely be human anymore and then he's forced to live out the rest of his life as the Emperor's pawn. So the [[PlotParallel mirror-image of Darth Vader]].
* Dr. Weil, from the ''Videogame/MegaManZero'' series was given this before the series even started (approximately 100 years prior, give or take). As a result of his war crimes and instigating the Elf Wars, everyone in Neo Arcadia decided to get revenge on Weil or inflict justice (depending on how you view it) by killing his body, turning his memories and psyche into program data, and placing it in a carbon-mechanical cyborg body that prevents him from dying ever, and then he is exiled from Neo Arcadia into the wastelands of the world that he was responsible for ruining.
* This trope is almost mundane in the ''SilentHill'' series, as although it only occurs ''after'' death the victims tend not to ''stay'' dead, the [[GeniusLoci eponymous town]] consuming and imprisoning them. This definitely happened to [[spoiler:Lisa, Kaufman, Walter and his victims, and Alex in one of the endings]], and probably happened to [[spoiler:Dahlia, James in one of the endings, and Claudia]].
* This is what happens to [[spoiler:Kirie and Mafuyu]] in ''FatalFrame's'' canon ending. They're going to be spending the ''rest of eternity'' at the Hell Gate deep underground, with [[spoiler:Kirie]] making sure that the gate stays closed, and [[spoiler:Mafuyu]] staying with her so that she won't have to suffer all alone.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'':
** Raogrimm [[spoiler:a.k.a the Shadowlord]] is forced to watch over Dynamis until hatred no longer exists.
** [[spoiler:Lilisette]] has no other choice but to leave her world behind, and replace her EvilCounterpart in her own world in order to close Atomos's maws and allow the two futures to survive. [[spoiler:And her actions during the Crystal War are RetGone, which means that only you remember her.]]
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Fate Route. What happened to the other survivors of the fire ten years ago. On a [[BlatantLies completely unrelated note]] [[SchmuckBait I wonder what's]] [[BodyHorror under the]] [[AndIMustScream church]]... Makes it worse that you HAVE to visit it unless you want [[HaveANiceDeath to get storyline killed.]]
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon''. Mileena's ending. [[spoiler:Mileena, the half deformed [[EvilKnockoff clone]] of Kitana, manages to swap her body with her original. Kitana, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld the former ageless princess of her kingdom, still considered a young girl at the tender age 10,000 years]], is now trapped in Mileena's private dungeon, kept in a dark, isolated cell.]]
* Chimera in ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}''. The first game even has a level titled "Fates Worse than Death."
* One of the antagonists of ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'', despite being (likely) the worst character in the game survives, while the ones that weren't as bad as [[spoiler: him]] were brutally killed. It turns out that [[spoiler: Akane's plan was to have him be exposed publicly for his crimes, something that he, Ace, deems A Fate Worse Than Death.]]
* [[BigBad Malefor]] gives the Apes one of these in ''TheLegendOfSpyro: Dawn Of The Dragon''. He turns them into skeletons that are forever cursed to remain in the shadows, hungry for the energy of others but never able to be full. This fate is so terrible that Spyro and Cynder are visibly horrified by it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'':
** [=GLaDOS=] states that after her "death" at the end of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', this was inflicted on her.
-->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': You know the biggest lesson I learned from what you did? I discovered I have a sort of black box quicksave feature. In the event of a catastrophic failure, the last two minutes of my life are preserved forever for analysis. I was able - well, forced really - ''to relive you killing me again and again''. '''''Forever.'''''
** [=GLaDOS=] threatens this to P-body and Atlas, who as robots can be brought back again and again.
-->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': Don't disappoint me... or I'll make you ''wish'' you could die.
** At one point [=GLaDOS=] says that death is too good for Wheatley, and she muses about all the things she could do to them. One of them includes locking him away for ten years in a room where "all the robots scream at you".
* In ''JakIIRenegade'', [[EvilOverlord Baron Praxis]] can occasionally be heard addressing [[PhlebotinumRebel Jak]] over speakers normally reserved for spewing propaganda. The Baron promises a quick and painless death if Jak turns himself in, because the [[TheCorruption Dark Eco]] inside him will eventually do much, much worse. And if he ''doesn't'' turn himself in and Praxis finds him instead, he promises Jak he'll wish he died in prison.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' has a ''lot'' of this. Most of the enemies are tragic monsters. There is horrible BodyHorror, being imprisoned while effectively immortal, becoming a [[EmptyShell hollow]] and [[spoiler: Linking the Flame leaves you burning alive, forever until someone puts you out of your misery.]]
* In ''[[HeroesOfMightAndMagic Might and Magic: Heroes VI]]'', TheNecrocracy of Heresh punishes its worst criminals by transforming them into [[OurGhoulsAreDifferent ghouls]]. Because most citizens of Heresh are devout worshippers of Asha who are fully aware of the reincarnation cycle that governs the world, the threat of being permanently removed from that cycle by becoming a non-sentient undead is a horrifying prospect.
* Comes up in ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', if you're attempting a PacifistRun. Need a couple of slavers "gone"? Have them disfigured and sent to be worked to death in their own mines. Need a member of the aristocracy taken out of the picture? [[spoiler: Knock her unconcious and give her to a creepy admirer, who assures you she won't die but will "never be heard from again."]] Need the corrupt leader of a religious order removed? Brand him as a heretic, condemning him to spend the rest of his life as an outcast [[spoiler:eventually falling victim to the Rat plague and becoming a Weeper.]]
* Saiki and Ash Crimson at the end of TheKingOfFighters XIII, as the two are erased from existence due to a time paradox.
-->'''Saiki''': Do you realize what you have just done? You have condemned us both to a fate worse than death!
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** The Lich King is either being forced to spend eternity keeping the undead in check [[spoiler:like what happened to Bolvar Fordragon]] or finally dying and moving on to a fate like this. Arthas Menethil dies as the Lich King and ends up in a Purgatory-like area where he is reduced to a sobbing, crying, tormented child. Sylvanas almost pities him for the monstrous fate he was doomed to. Sylvanas' primary motivation after Arthas' demise is to avoid the same fate.
** Sindragosa. She knows what she's doing as a {{Dracolich}} and as she is finally dying, she admits that she is relieved to be free of the Lich King at long last.
** The trio of Rook Stonetoe, He Softfoot, and Sun Whisperwind in the first quarter of the Siege of Orgrimmar raid. They were destroyed by the blast of energy unleashed from the Vale of Eternal Blossoms being scarred and their souls are bound to the tainted land, dooming them to eternally suffer for their inability to prevent such a tragedy. Lorewalker Cho describes their predicament as this verbatim upon seeing them.
** [[spoiler:Garrosh Hellscream]], instead of being killed off by Varian or Thrall, is instead taken back to Pandaria by Taran Zhu to be tried for his war crimes. For Orcs, death on the battlefield is glorious, [[spoiler:but for Garrosh, there is no glory for where he's going.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', [[spoiler:Alicia]] is trapped in an Exsphere upon her death. After explaining how [[spoiler:Regal]] was forced to kill her after the Exsphere turned her into a monster, she pleads with the party to kill her because being existing in the Exsphere for eternity would be "true hell". [[spoiler:Regal and Presea agree, and Lloyd shatters the Exsphere.]]
* Invoked by Saavedro in ''VideoGame/MystIIIExile''. In one of his rants to Atrus, he mentions how Sirrus and Achenar destroyed his civilization and separated him from his family, concluding that "It would have been better if I had died."
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* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': So you have a ghost who has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]], and you really, ''really'' don't want him coming after you after the fact. What do you do? Why, leave him in a flooding submarine at the bottom of the sea, completely alone, launch the room containing his body as far away as possible in a random direction, allow said room to collapse due to the water pressure, mangling the body beyond repair and all but ensuring TimeTravel doesn't come into play, blow up the submarine with a torpedo, and make sure no possible path of escape remains. And since he's already dead...
* ''Videogame/TeamFortress2'': The disembodied head of the BLU Spy in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc "Meet the Medic"]] [[SupplementalMaterial/TeamFortress2 video]], somehow permanently Übercharged and now spends [[BlessedWithSuck his invulnerable days]] mostly [[VisualPun having a smoke break and chillin']] in RED Medic's fridge. Spy seems rather calm about it though, especially compared to [[LosingYourHead his initial reaction]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', a [[BlessedWithSuck l'Cie]] who fails to complete their [[MissionFromGod Focus]] is doomed to become a Cie'th; a crystalline monster that wanders the world in sorrow, until it eventually fossilizes into a Cie'th Stone [[AndIMustScream while still alive, awake, and suffering sorrow and regret, forever]]. The fate for those who complete their Focus isn't much better..becoming an immortal servant of the fal'Cie. And spending most of the time [[TakenForGranite as a crystal statue,]] except when they want you for something. The fal'Cie are [[JerkassGods jerks.]]
* ''Franchise/StarCraft'': [[TheVirus Zerg infestation]] usually alters your mind into conformity with the collective will of the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Swarm]] and its [[HiveMind Overmind]]. However, ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' shows that this is not always the case. Some infestees end up ''fully aware'' of their miserable condition, and only have enough control over their bodies to ''beg'' other people to kill them.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sorcerer}}'':
** Dallying in the prologue area will result in a NonStandardGameOver where the game's villain condemns the protagonist to an eternity in the Chamber of Living Death, wherein victims are perpetually (and painfully) eaten alive by plagues of parasites.
** Dallying too long in the final room without acting will get the protagonist sent to the Hall of Eternal Pain, where they will spend eternity as a powerless disembodied mentality, being tormented telepathically.
** In the ''next''-to-last room, there are three doors. Two of them lead to the Chamber of Living Death and the Hall of Eternal Pain. Try to find which one is the third one. Try ''hard''.
** Failure to obtain (or, for that matter, use) the correct spell before the final confrontation results in a demon possessing the protagonist and using this new body to enslave the entire world. (In the demon's own words, "Now begins an epoch of evil transcending even your worst nightmares; a reign of terror that will last a thousand thousand years!") The kicker? He keeps the protagonist's mind [[AndIMustScream alive and aware]], so the protagonist is ForcedToWatch helplessly as his controlled body sacrifices babies, forces slaves to build massive idols - with his face - and generally creates a literal Hell on Earth.
* {{Infocom}} was at it again in ''VideoGame/TheLurkingHorror''. Don't kill the final monster fast enough and one of its formerly human slaves grabs you and throws you into it, which by this point you know is how it makes humans into former humans. [[NonstandardGameOver Instead of the standard]] "You have died" message, you see the far more chilling "You have changed", followed by "Sometimes, during your future existence, you remember your old life. At these times, you wish you had died instead."
* In ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'', the AntiHero defeats the CreepyChild BigBad. [[ICannotSelfTerminate She begs him to kill her]], but he decides that instead [[spoiler:he's going to drag her around the world, forcing her to see the devastation she has caused. He's going to make her take responsibility for everything, a child's nightmare]]. This turns out to have been an effective punishment; she's a playable character in the second game, and she has repressed all the memories of her being the BigBad and the punishment the protagonist of the first game inflicted on her. This becomes obvious when the AntiHero of the first game shows up as an AntiVillain in the second, and the mere sight of him makes her [[FreakOut go crazy.]] [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind She gets better]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'':
** Played for laughs when the boys "accidentally" spend too long in the hot spring, until after it switches from boys-only to girls-only. When Mitsuru and the rest of the girls enter, Akihiko freaks out and with good reason: if Mitsuru detects the boys in the ensuing minigame, she "executes" them; a fate [[NoodleIncident not seen]] but referred to as "hell on earth".
** A more serious example in the [[FridgeHorror underlying implications]] of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Fall]]: with the coming of [[spoiler:Nyx, the [[EveryoneHatesHades incarnation of Death itself]]]], every single living thing will be consumed from the inside out by its own desire for destruction. Thus everything, everywhere, will lose all sense of self and become a mindless, soulless shell that can only moan and whimper, completely unaware of its own death. Should the protagonists choose to challenge this fate, [[spoiler:the Appraiser/Nyx Avatar]] warns them that they will suffer more than they could possibly imagine, ''then'' die. It'll be even worse for Aigis, who's a robot, and thus most likely won't be affected by the Fall. Instead, she'll get to watch her friends turn into shambling shells of their former selves, and then spent the rest of her life in a lifeless wasteland until her body mercifully breaks down.
* In ''PlanescapeTorment'', when you explain to the Mercykiller Vhailor how your immortality works, he moves to punish you [[spoiler:as each time you die and regenerate, someone else dies in your place]]... but you can get him to back off by explaining the ''downside''. Vhailor, thought of even by other Mercykillers as a fanatic who'll scrag someone without evidence, decides that you are suffering punishment enough.
* In the add-on to ''DungeonSiege II'' called ''Broken World'', anyone caught by the Familiar Surgeons is horribly mutilated, fused with parts of other bodies or weapons, and transformed into an insane "bound creature". Fortunately, this cannot happen to player characters.
* In the backstory of ''{{Utawarerumono}}'', Witsarnemitea [[spoiler:reduced the scientists who studied him to immortal slimes]] not unlike the ''I Have No Mouth'' example above.
* ''LostKingdoms'' has the Runestones. In the first gave, they weren't alluded to much, but when the second game came around, you find out that [[spoiler:a Runestone is a soul that one of the three gods ''sucked out of a living person'' and turned into one]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
** One of the Scourge's {{Evil Plan}}s is to spread the plagued grains in Stratholme, so people who ate from that will turn into zombies, and their souls will be taken by Mal'Ganis and transferred to the Lich King. Arthas, having learned this, makes a drastic decision to purge the entire city, thinking that such fates are something worse than death. Poor chap didn't know (at the time) that it's not the Stratholme citizens the Lich King is after. It's his soul.
** Most of what the Scourge does is this. For instance, one of their bosses in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is Thaddius, a Literature/{{Frankenstein}}-lookalike who's described as: "..built from the flesh of women and children, it is said that their souls are fused together - eternally bound within that foul prison of flesh." Add that some of his [[VoiceOfTheLegion voice]] sounds like a child. When your raid finally defeats him, his last action is to thank you.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'':
** [[PersonalSpaceInvader Headcrabs]] are small (about the size of a domesticated cat), aggressive aliens that attach themselves to a viable host and [[PuppeteerParasite commandeer its nervous system]], creating what are cheerfully named Headcrab Zombies. Said host is ''still alive'' and ''[[AndIMustScream still aware]]'' even as its body rots, it ''tears off all of its skin'' (Fast Zombies) and/or is injected with so much neurotoxin it bloats to about twice its width (Poison Zombies). It's become an infamous fact that when you reverse a Headcrab Zombie's cry, you can hear the human screaming for mercy.
** ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' has the less commonly seen Stalkers - humans surgically altered by the Combine and forced into slavery. They more or less look like emaciated humans with [[BodyHorror most of their internal organs, muscle, and fat removed, and their limbs replaced with metal stumps]]. Alyx, quite reasonably, hopes they don't remember who they used to be.
* Reaching the end of the [[BonusLevelOfHell Fourth Kalpa]] in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' reveals that [[spoiler:Hijiri]] has been condemned to an eternity of life, death and rebirth without hope of reincarnation. He will be forced to witness the Conception and the creation of the new world over and over again until the end of time, but will never be allowed to influence its outcome himself. He received this punishment from {{God}} for committing "the ultimate sin" in a previous life; because of this, many suspect that he is a reincarnation of [[spoiler:Aleph from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'', who committed ''deicide'' at the end of the game by killing {{God}}. That's right, {{God}}]].
* ''Plundered Hearts'', another {{Infocom}} title, uses this to get around having to state upfront that people want to rape or have raped the main character. This makes more sense when you realize that the game is [[InteractiveFiction an interactive version]] of a cheesy RomanceNovel.
* In ''ZorkGrandInquisitor'', [[AllCrimesAreEqual all crimes]] under the rule of Inquisitor Yannick are punishable by being "totemized", having your body painfully transfigured into an immobile totem for all eternity. {{Justified|Trope}} in that this is part of Yannick's plot to eliminate magic from the land of Zork: if a person is totemized instead of killed, their body's natural supplies of magical energy aren't released and the overall level of magic in the world drops slightly.
* ''BaldursGate'' (and the [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons source world]]) has the "Imprisonment" Spell, in which the victim is instantly trapped deep within the earth, and magically kept alive forever, unable to escape until someone casts "Freedom" at where the Imprisonment is held. In ''Shadows of Amn'', the main character is threatened with this by [[KnightTemplar a particularly hard-lined Harper]], and could optionally fight against a high-powered wizard that was driven ''insane'' by the experience.
* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'':
** Both Tal Rasha and the player-character from the first game make the unwise decision to insert a soulstone with a demon into their bodies. The results for both of them are not pretty.
** In ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', [[spoiler:Adria, in the cruelest betrayal of the series, does this to her own daughter Leah, using the Black Soulstone to turn her into the vessel for Diablo to be reborn as the Prime Evil]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' series, with the exception of the first game, feature a cybernetic alien race called the Strogg, who build their ranks by capturing their enemies and putting them through a horrific process, referred to by the human soldiers in [[VideoGame/QuakeIV the fourth game]] as "Stroggification". This process not only involves having several body parts sliced off and crudely replaced with cybernetic parts (without '''any''' anesthetic whatsoever), but also involves having a chip implanted into the brain of the unfortunate victim, which is then activated by a machine, so that the victim can be controlled by the Nexus, a giant brain that has control over all other Strogg soldiers (it is unknown if there are any original, pureblood Strogg who possess free will). Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3clVvh5gbGE here]]! Worst of all, is that the victims still retain their humanity for a short while after the chip activation but they are unable to control their actions. [[spoiler:This is seen in the fourth game, when Scott Voss is transformed into a huge, hulking cyborg, and yells at Matthew Kane to run away and that "I can't control it!", shortly before going beserk and attacking Kane.]] Sometimes, the process fails, resulting in the victims becoming shambling, zombie-like creatures (the "Failed transfers" and "Slimy transfers") who are then transported to a dumping ground.
* Since nearly every major character in ''GrimFandango'' is [[DeadToBeginWith already dead]] by virtue of the setting, these are the only things that are real threats. Examples include being made into a dam by demon beavers, and being "sprouted" -- having plants grow from your body until you become a patch of flowery meadow.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'':
** The good end to the "Tranquility Lane" quest has you [[spoiler:condemning Braun to be trapped in his vault with no possible way to leave or interact with the outside world]]. Rather fitting.
** [[spoiler:Harold]]. When you find him, he's been [[spoiler:turned into a tree and cannot grow or die]]. He, naturally, [[MercyKill begs you to kill him]].
** On a more humorous note, Liberty Prime believes that "death is a preferable alternative to communism".
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
** The option is given of doing this to [[spoiler:Mr House, if you release him from his life-support unit]]. Even though exposing him to the outside world ensures his eventual death, his longevity treatments will keep him alive for, he estimates, about a year.
** The Marked Men from the ''Lonesome Road'' DLC, who were created by the nuclear explosions that destroyed the Divide. Sandstorms have torn the skin from their bodies, and the radiation from the nukes has mutated them into ghouls, making them immortal. Ulysses tells you that if there's no way to save them (there probably isn't), then it's [[MercyKill "mercy, not murder"]] to kill them.
** [[spoiler: [[ColdSniper Craig Boone]]]] views what would have happened to his wife at the hand of the legion as this. [[NoWomansLand He may not be that far off]]. So he [[spoiler:[[MercyKill took the shot]].]]
** Joshua "Burned Man" Graham, former Legate to Caesar, [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat was set on fire and thrown into the Grand Canyon]], but unfortunately survived, is in constant pain exacerbated by the daily changing of his bandages, and {{immune to drugs}}.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' gives us the Abyss Beyond Time. [[spoiler:Whenever a world's timeline is changed, the world, and everyone in it, are instantly transported to a dark, empty void to make room for the new, altered world. ''TimeTravel causes billions of innocent people to become trapped in an endless void for all eternity everytime its used.'']]
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** Being turned into a Nobody. Firstly, your heart is either stolen or corrupted, turning you into [[TheHeartless a mindless heart-collecting creature]]. Then ''what's left behind of you'' starts to move around on its own will. Not only will you technically ''not exist'', you'll also have no emotions, and when you eventually get done in with [[ImprobableWeaponUser a giant key]], you'll [[EverythingFades leave nothing behind to show that you ever existed]].
** There is a few times when they talk about being turned into a [[CannonFodder Dusk]] as a punishment. Only once is death ever threatened, and that was more implying that it hurt the talker more than the victim.
** All three protagonists of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' get their own tailor-made Fate Worse Than Death in the DownerEnding. Not for nothing does the ending drive ''MickeyMouse'' into a HeroicBSOD for his failure to save them.
* From ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', Naoya [[spoiler:AKA Cain, as in the biblical CainAndAbel, has been cursed to remember every single memory from all of his previous reincarnations, including the first one where he murdered his brother, resulting in him living non-stop for thousands of years constantly tormented by far too much information for one brain, never being allowed to forget his greatest sin]]. What makes it so sad is that he could get out of this; [[spoiler:God didn't 'curse' him, this was a genuine attempt to give him time to reflect on his sin and repent. All he has to do to be forgiven is to admit he was wrong and sincerely apologize for the fratricide]]... but by this point, he's ''far'' too bitter to even consider that.
* [[spoiler:Lezard]] from ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile2Silmeria'' threatens your party with this if you die against him (the only way you can actually get a Game Over in the game):
-->"I will not slay you. From now and forever, no matter how much you entreat me, how pitifully you lament, you shall not die!"
-->"I grant you the rights accorded to an enemy of the gods: You will live from now and forever, in an endless cycle of rebirth, condemned in each life to be hated, feared, scorned, punished and obliterated!"
-->"Live always with the screech of insects buzzing within your skull, ants gnawing at your eyeballs forever and ever!"
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** Dying whilst under the effects of a soul trap spell will condemn the being's soul to spend eternity in the Soul Cairn. The Soul Cairn is a desolate place; lightning strikes are common, odd, somewhat frightening rock formations dot the landscape and the Cairn's overlords feed on wandering souls via large crystals. Souls of sentient beings in the Cairn often remark on how they have spent countless years wandering the Soul Cairn, wishing for a proper death that will never be theirs.
** [[BigBad Mankar Camoran's]] followers are subjected to one of these if killed: His followers are made immortal and condemned to slavery for eternity, working under Daedra. The new inductees in Paradise are dipped into lava.
** From ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', this is what the [[CorruptChurch Tribunal Temple]] considers Vampirism. It's why they consider death as the only "cure" for the disease, regardless of what the vampires themselves might believe.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** [[AbusivePrecursors The Reapers]] possess the ability to subtly brainwash sentient beings, slowly altering their thoughts so that they eventually override their will entirely, creating willing slaves that follow their orders without hesitation. The downside is that too much use of this ability turns them into mindless husks, incapable of doing anything without an order from their controller. Shepard encounters ''many'' people at varying stages of this "indoctrination", and has the option of performing a MercyKill. It can be even worse to people with strong mind and psychic talents; [[spoiler:Matriarch Benezia]] sealed a part of her consciousness away out of sense of duty to use her free will in some critical moment, and was effectively trapped in her body in the meantime, unable to prevent herself from committing heinous acts under [[spoiler:Sovereign]]'s control.
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' this is revealed to be the fate of not only [[spoiler:the entire Prothean species]], but indeed [[spoiler:''all'' of the species the Reapers have harvested, converting them into new Reapers.]]
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' off-handedly mentions a human colony world that was about to be attacked by the Reapers with no hope of evacuation. So the colony nuked itself, reasoning that that would be a better fate than what the Reapers had in store for them.
* Somewhat based on the relevant mythology, ''VideoGame/GodOfWar II'' features Prometheus in his liver-consuming fate. Instead of being freed by Hercules, however, he is freed by being dropped into the Fires of Olympus by Kratos. Kratos is then awarded with Rage of the Titans.
* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'':
** The [[EldritchAbomination Spirit Beast]] locks a group of ghosts into its own plane of existence, where it slowly feeds on their souls. Erik Bonde, one of the unfortunate fellows to have this fate, said that for the first twenty days, they couldn't do anything but scream. At the beginning of the second quest it is revealed it's trying to enter the REAL world, which means that EVERYONE would share this fate.
** What happened to the hero Arrav after his HeroicSacrifice to save the city of Varrock from Zemouregal hundreds of years ago. Zemoreugal brought him back to life as a special kind of zombie that still had his consciousness trapped inside his body but having no control at all over his actions except for talking when Zemouregal wasn't focusing on him. During the quest The Curse of Arrav you go on a mission to recover his heart so that you can save him from this fate without killing him and you finally free him during the final battle of the quest Ritual of the Mahjarrat allowing him to turn on and attack Zemouregal, but after the quest his body turns to dust when you talk to him due to his body no longer being preserved.
** The souls that were eaten by the queen black dragon. When you battle her she uses them as unwilling weapons against you, they can talk to you but can't control their actions. Similarly, getting turned into a wright and enslaved by Sliske is probably this too. Finally, during the quest Missing Presumed Death, when Death gets kidnapped and imprisoned by Sliske, dead souls all over the world became unable to properly separate from their bodies, leaving them in an agonizing state of half death.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
** The Darkspawn Blood Taint. Essentially, drinking darkspawn blood (sometimes even coming into contact with it) will usually kill you very ''very'' painfully, if you are ''lucky''. Otherwise, you will slowly turn into one of them. And that is still better than the treatment they have for the ''women'': [[spoiler:they are implied to be raped (''everywhere'') before being forced into devouring their own [[IAmAHumanitarian kin]] and slowly turned into immobile betentacled Broodmothers, the purpose of which is to give birth to more Darkspawn]].
** In ''Awakening'', some of the "Awakened" Darkspawn consider their "freedom" to be this. Bereft of the Call of the Old Gods, they find the silence unbearable. All of the Mother's actions are driven by her desire for revenge against the Architect who cut her off from the music. In the FinalBattle, she actually looks forward to dying in battle, hoping to hear the Song again in death.
** Mages are prone to demonic possession. The exact effects vary but it generally seems to be pretty bad. As a way to "protect" vulnerable mages from possession, Templars sometimes perform a process that severs their connection to magic - and also destroys their ability to feel emotion or dream. These "Tranquil" mages don't seem to mind, at least not after the fact... [[spoiler: There was one case of a tranquil mage being temporarily cured by direct exposure to a Fade spirit. He begged his friend to kill him rather than be allowed to become tranquil again.]]
* How ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' got the ''Explorer'' games to have an E rating, the world will never know. In the BadFuture, time never passes, meaning that if you die, you will be stuck in that dying state forever. To make matters worse, shortly after arriving there, [[spoiler:you and your partner are to be executed by Sableye, by means of their razor-sharp claws. Imagine an eternity of being cut to shreds...]]
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite2'' In terms of the human cast, [[spoiler: Ghetsis]] gets hit right in the face with this at the end of the second game, [[spoiler: going so insane that he's reduced to a catatonic vegetable]]. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.
* [[spoiler:Grissom]] in ''VagrantStory''. Having been killed by Ashley, his soul seeks out a new vessel, and winds up bound to his old corpse.
* ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'' provides an incredibly literal example: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Porky Minch]]]] hides inside the Absolutely Safe Capsule when things start falling apart for him. [[spoiler:Dr. Andonuts]] tells the heroes that it's "absolutely safe" in an incredible literal way: [[spoiler:Porky can't be harmed at all in it nor can it be destroyed, and as he's permanently locked inside with no escape at all. Porky can't die of old age, as his time travel abuse made him immortal. Therefore Porky, a frail and decrepit old man (if with a child's mind) is condemned to living forever locked inside the tiny Absolutely Safe Capsule.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', when you finally find the man who betrayed Niko years ago he has a heavy drug addiction and is ridden with guilt, and begs you to kill him. Here you are given the option of killing him or letting him live with the guilt. [[spoiler:Niko finds more satisfaction in letting him live.]]
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'':
** Raziel doesn't have one of these. He has ''three''. At the start of ''Soul Reaver'' on seeing his new misshapen body he claims "Death would be a release from this travesty" and "I would choose oblivion over this existence". At the end of ''Soul Reaver 2'' he learns his fate is to have [[spoiler:his soul imprisoned in a sword where he would be reduced to a mindless hunger devouring the souls of those the sword is used on, trapped for thousands of years]]. Finally at the end of ''Defiance'' he is left trapped in a room with no way for him to escape, and the only thing to look at is a mural showing not only is he [[spoiler:not TheChosenOne, but that he killed the real Chosen One shortly before getting trapped]]. Said [[spoiler:Chosen One]] turns out to be NotQuiteDead, and (accidentally) allows Raziel to escape the room - at which point Raziel finally ends up [[spoiler:imprisoned in the sword]].
** The Hylden race collectively suffers one of these as their war with the Ancients ends with [[spoiler:their banishment in the demon dimension, which keeps them immortal, but deforms their bodies and drives them insane]]. The Ancients themselves suffer similarly when the Hylden [[spoiler:retaliate by cursing them with vampirism, which ends up severing their connection to their god]]. Most chose to kill themselves rather than live on like that.
** Janos Audron, the last living Ancient, when [[spoiler:the Hylden [[BodySurf hijack his body]] and imprison him for 400 years to feed their machinery]]. At the end of ''Blood Omen 2'' he [[spoiler:ends up trapped in the demon dimension with the Hylden.]]
* What happens to Galen, your character, in the DarkSide ending of ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed''. He's nearly crushed to death by a spaceship, reconstructed by the Emperor (Galen is conscious the whole time) to barely be human anymore and then he's forced to live out the rest of his life as the Emperor's pawn. So the [[PlotParallel mirror-image of Darth Vader]].
* Dr. Weil, from the ''Videogame/MegaManZero'' series was given this before the series even started (approximately 100 years prior, give or take). As a result of his war crimes and instigating the Elf Wars, everyone in Neo Arcadia decided to get revenge on Weil or inflict justice (depending on how you view it) by killing his body, turning his memories and psyche into program data, and placing it in a carbon-mechanical cyborg body that prevents him from dying ever, and then he is exiled from Neo Arcadia into the wastelands of the world that he was responsible for ruining.
* This trope is almost mundane in the ''SilentHill'' series, as although it only occurs ''after'' death the victims tend not to ''stay'' dead, the [[GeniusLoci eponymous town]] consuming and imprisoning them. This definitely happened to [[spoiler:Lisa, Kaufman, Walter and his victims, and Alex in one of the endings]], and probably happened to [[spoiler:Dahlia, James in one of the endings, and Claudia]].
* This is what happens to [[spoiler:Kirie and Mafuyu]] in ''FatalFrame's'' canon ending. They're going to be spending the ''rest of eternity'' at the Hell Gate deep underground, with [[spoiler:Kirie]] making sure that the gate stays closed, and [[spoiler:Mafuyu]] staying with her so that she won't have to suffer all alone.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'':
** Raogrimm [[spoiler:a.k.a the Shadowlord]] is forced to watch over Dynamis until hatred no longer exists.
** [[spoiler:Lilisette]] has no other choice but to leave her world behind, and replace her EvilCounterpart in her own world in order to close Atomos's maws and allow the two futures to survive. [[spoiler:And her actions during the Crystal War are RetGone, which means that only you remember her.]]
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Fate Route. What happened to the other survivors of the fire ten years ago. On a [[BlatantLies completely unrelated note]] [[SchmuckBait I wonder what's]] [[BodyHorror under the]] [[AndIMustScream church]]... Makes it worse that you HAVE to visit it unless you want [[HaveANiceDeath to get storyline killed.]]
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon''. Mileena's ending. [[spoiler:Mileena, the half deformed [[EvilKnockoff clone]] of Kitana, manages to swap her body with her original. Kitana, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld the former ageless princess of her kingdom, still considered a young girl at the tender age 10,000 years]], is now trapped in Mileena's private dungeon, kept in a dark, isolated cell.]]
* Chimera in ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}''. The first game even has a level titled "Fates Worse than Death."
* One of the antagonists of ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'', despite being (likely) the worst character in the game survives, while the ones that weren't as bad as [[spoiler: him]] were brutally killed. It turns out that [[spoiler: Akane's plan was to have him be exposed publicly for his crimes, something that he, Ace, deems A Fate Worse Than Death.]]
* [[BigBad Malefor]] gives the Apes one of these in ''TheLegendOfSpyro: Dawn Of The Dragon''. He turns them into skeletons that are forever cursed to remain in the shadows, hungry for the energy of others but never able to be full. This fate is so terrible that Spyro and Cynder are visibly horrified by it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'':
** [=GLaDOS=] states that after her "death" at the end of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', this was inflicted on her.
-->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': You know the biggest lesson I learned from what you did? I discovered I have a sort of black box quicksave feature. In the event of a catastrophic failure, the last two minutes of my life are preserved forever for analysis. I was able - well, forced really - ''to relive you killing me again and again''. '''''Forever.'''''
** [=GLaDOS=] threatens this to P-body and Atlas, who as robots can be brought back again and again.
-->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': Don't disappoint me... or I'll make you ''wish'' you could die.
** At one point [=GLaDOS=] says that death is too good for Wheatley, and she muses about all the things she could do to them. One of them includes locking him away for ten years in a room where "all the robots scream at you".
* In ''JakIIRenegade'', [[EvilOverlord Baron Praxis]] can occasionally be heard addressing [[PhlebotinumRebel Jak]] over speakers normally reserved for spewing propaganda. The Baron promises a quick and painless death if Jak turns himself in, because the [[TheCorruption Dark Eco]] inside him will eventually do much, much worse. And if he ''doesn't'' turn himself in and Praxis finds him instead, he promises Jak he'll wish he died in prison.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' has a ''lot'' of this. Most of the enemies are tragic monsters. There is horrible BodyHorror, being imprisoned while effectively immortal, becoming a [[EmptyShell hollow]] and [[spoiler: Linking the Flame leaves you burning alive, forever until someone puts you out of your misery.]]
* In ''[[HeroesOfMightAndMagic Might and Magic: Heroes VI]]'', TheNecrocracy of Heresh punishes its worst criminals by transforming them into [[OurGhoulsAreDifferent ghouls]]. Because most citizens of Heresh are devout worshippers of Asha who are fully aware of the reincarnation cycle that governs the world, the threat of being permanently removed from that cycle by becoming a non-sentient undead is a horrifying prospect.
* Comes up in ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', if you're attempting a PacifistRun. Need a couple of slavers "gone"? Have them disfigured and sent to be worked to death in their own mines. Need a member of the aristocracy taken out of the picture? [[spoiler: Knock her unconcious and give her to a creepy admirer, who assures you she won't die but will "never be heard from again."]] Need the corrupt leader of a religious order removed? Brand him as a heretic, condemning him to spend the rest of his life as an outcast [[spoiler:eventually falling victim to the Rat plague and becoming a Weeper.]]
* Saiki and Ash Crimson at the end of TheKingOfFighters XIII, as the two are erased from existence due to a time paradox.
-->'''Saiki''': Do you realize what you have just done? You have condemned us both to a fate worse than death!
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** The Lich King is either being forced to spend eternity keeping the undead in check [[spoiler:like what happened to Bolvar Fordragon]] or finally dying and moving on to a fate like this. Arthas Menethil dies as the Lich King and ends up in a Purgatory-like area where he is reduced to a sobbing, crying, tormented child. Sylvanas almost pities him for the monstrous fate he was doomed to. Sylvanas' primary motivation after Arthas' demise is to avoid the same fate.
** Sindragosa. She knows what she's doing as a {{Dracolich}} and as she is finally dying, she admits that she is relieved to be free of the Lich King at long last.
** The trio of Rook Stonetoe, He Softfoot, and Sun Whisperwind in the first quarter of the Siege of Orgrimmar raid. They were destroyed by the blast of energy unleashed from the Vale of Eternal Blossoms being scarred and their souls are bound to the tainted land, dooming them to eternally suffer for their inability to prevent such a tragedy. Lorewalker Cho describes their predicament as this verbatim upon seeing them.
** [[spoiler:Garrosh Hellscream]], instead of being killed off by Varian or Thrall, is instead taken back to Pandaria by Taran Zhu to be tried for his war crimes. For Orcs, death on the battlefield is glorious, [[spoiler:but for Garrosh, there is no glory for where he's going.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', [[spoiler:Alicia]] is trapped in an Exsphere upon her death. After explaining how [[spoiler:Regal]] was forced to kill her after the Exsphere turned her into a monster, she pleads with the party to kill her because being existing in the Exsphere for eternity would be "true hell". [[spoiler:Regal and Presea agree, and Lloyd shatters the Exsphere.]]
* Invoked by Saavedro in ''VideoGame/MystIIIExile''. In one of his rants to Atrus, he mentions how Sirrus and Achenar destroyed his civilization and separated him from his family, concluding that "It would have been better if I had died."
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