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** Michiru and Kaoru Kiryuu spend nearly half of ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star]]'' [[Fate Worse Than Death|paralyzed at the bottom of a lake]]

** At the start of ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'', Nuts was trapped inside the then-unopenable Dream Collet.

** Later on, another villain, Mimmete, is transferred into energy in order to enter a computer where her power is amplified...only for a backstabbing cohort to pull the plug on the computer, leaving her trapped as energy inside the computer system ''forever''.

* {{spoiler|Hidan}}'s fate in ''[[Naruto]]''. He gets blown into pieces, and buried in a hole... but he's immortal, and his severed head continues to curse Shikamaru right until he's covered over while rotting slowly away from the lack of nourishment. According to the second fanbook he is {{spoiler|going to die ''eventually''.}}

** This was revealed to happen to {{spoiler|those brought back by Kabuto's Edo Tensei spell who are under direct control of Kabuto.}}

** This is also the case for every sealed Bijuu.

** The "winner" of the game {{spoiler|is possessed by the demon fox and lures the next group of children. Made worse by the fact that the fox goes from possessing a young girl to taking over the brother who came only to save her}}.

** In the second [[OAV]], it's downright stated that [[Uncanny Valley Girl|Ranka's]] victims end up in a similar state, transformed into bare and listless mannequins that she keeps into her school's warehouse. She even uses one of them as a shield during her fight with Miyu, and Miyu is horrified when Larva accidentally hits the doll with his [[Razor Floss]] and not only it emits a whimper of pain, but it bleeds. This is lampshaded earlier, in this conversation that takes place during Ranka and Miyu's first encounter:

{{quote|'''Ranka:''' (pets her newest doll, erm, victim): No longer will you age or grow decrepit. You can live forever, looking the way you do now...

* The Mazoku from ''[[Slayers]]'' have Raugnut Rushauvna [[Spell My Name with an "S"|(or however you spell that)]], a very, very nasty curse that makes its victim completely immortal... while also turning their body inside out and causing it to continually devour itself and regenerate, over and over and over again, for all eternity.

* ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'' has a doubly terrifying version revealed towards the end. {{spoiler|The most powerful angel, Adam Kadamon, said to be mother/father of all angels, was imprisoned for probably thousands of years by God because he was afraid of its power and was slowly taken apart to be fed to its children the angels. Yes, you got it right, the cute little angels are fed their mom/dad; no wonder most of them are [[Light Is Evil|not so pure]]. By the events of the books only a deformed head is left which is still conscious and able to talk, but gets finally released by the good guys.}}

** Anyone who is infected with DG Cells in ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|G Gundam]]''. You either become a zombie used to power the Dark Army, or slowly go insane/rabid.

* The manga ''[[Blood Alone]]'' has a killer who can [[Grand Theft Me|jump to other bodies when he dies]]. Unfortunately, the last people he fights are a vampire and rather savvy human. She turns him; and then he breaks his neck just as he turns into a vampire. The killer is now frozen in the body of an permanently broken necked vampire. They lock him up in a room in the basement of a hospital.

** He also stated that after raping her (before cutting her in half), he cut out her vocal cords. This series doesn't have enough generosity to its characters to do it in a clean way, so you must use your imaginations on how that went.

** Because that isn't enough, her psychic projection of herself is nothing but a scarred upper-body with a faceless, missphapen head uttering only "It hurts", "Kill me" and "Run" over and over.

** In the manga and ''Brotherhood'', this happens to {{spoiler|any poor soul who's put into a Philosopher's Stone to be used as an alchemy amplifier. The victims ''can'' scream, but because there is no one to get them out of there, ''they are always screaming, with no plausible hope of ever getting out of the stone, where they can only beg to die''}}.

** In truth, all of these examples are largely temporary. as {{spoiler|the Philosopher's Stones use the life of the ones inside as energy, so which each use a few will be "consumed",and can be released if the Philosopher's Stone is destroyed.}}. But one example at the very end of the manga and Brotherhood is a permanent version. {{spoiler|Father is dragged back into the Gate of Truth, screaming in abject horror before it shuts, locking him away in a hell he had desperately tried to evade}}.

* Several truly chilling instances in [[Mouryou no Hako]], the most awful being the fate of {{spoiler|Yuzuki Kanako. She would have been better off had she died the night she was run over by that train. Instead of that happening, however, her [[Incest Is Relative|mother/sister]] took her to an experimental 'hospital', where her [[Imperial Japan|ex-Unit 731]] dad/grandpa proceeded to cut off all four of her shattered limbs and keep her hooked up to a warehouse-sized room full of life support machines. Then she's stuffed into a box by a man who loves her, and dies one hour later. ''All while being aware and awake.''}}

** There's also {{spoiler|Kubo Shunkou, the disturbed perpetrator of the severed-limb murders. Almost religiously obsessed with boxes and closed spaces since childhood, he ends up offering himself to Kanako's dad/grandpa as another guinea pig. When Mimasaka and Youko decide to escape with him (now nothing more than an upper torso and head) in a box, he somehow ''escapes'' from the box and kills Mimasaka by chewing his neck. Kubo seemed happier in the box than outside of it. He was still insane, though.}}

* What happened to {{spoiler|Kate's father}} in ''[[Love is in the Bag]]'', specifically {{spoiler|being stuck as a portrait of himself for ''fifteen years''. And it's implied that it'll happen to Kate as well.}}

* What happened to Kaoru in an early mini-arc in [[Rurouni Kenshin]], thanks to [[Complete Monster]] Kurogasa. An extremely [[Ax Crazy]] swordsman and hypnotist who wants to fight male lead Kenshin and kidnaps her to force him to, as soon as Kenshin reaches for them Kurogasa hypnotizes the poor girl into complete paralysis. This means, not only she can't move her limbs or talk... but is slowly, painfully and inexorably ''asphixiating'', since her whole respiratory system is under paralysis too. ''And she's fully conscious'', helplessly watching how Kurogasa and Kenshin fight it out and Kenshin is reverting to his [[Knight Templar]] Battousai side only to save her, since the only way to break that "spell" is to kill Kurogasa himself before she kicks it... {{spoiler|There's another way, though: to have Kaoru overpowering the hypnosis with a strong will to live. And she does it in the nick of time. Kurogasa still committed suicide in the end.}}

* In [[Mermaid Saga]], it's unclear whether {{spoiler|Akiko from "Mermaid's Gaze"}} died or was left petrified and conscious for a hundred years. All that we do know is that her eyes still work. Mana claims that {{spoiler|Akiko}} was dead all along, but it's clear she's just trying to make Yuta feel better.

* [[Monster Clown|Piedmon]] suffers this fate near the end of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', when he's thrown into MagnaAngemon's Gate of Destiny, which according to [[Word of God]] leads to a pocket dimension from which there's no escape. And since Digimon are functionally immortal, barring being killed by someone else... since Piedmon was a [[Complete Monster]], this was a well-earned [[Karmic Death|Karmic]] [[Fate Worse Than Death]].

* In ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', the electronic 'uploading' cult SCRATCH turns out to be led by {{spoiler|a teenaged hacker with [[Digitized Hacker|a unique form of surfing-induced brain damage. His mind no longer has any connection over his body, leaving him a vegetable with a functioning mind that can only exist on the internet]]. In the end Jet pulls his connection to cyberspace and traps his mind in his non-functional body, alive and on life support but unable to interact with the outside world for the rest of the 70+ years he's got left of his life.}}

* In ''[[Shaman King]]'', Yomi's Hole is a cave where you lose all senses: you can't see or hear anything, and you enter some kind of existential panic; we actually see what it's like when Ryu enters it for just a minute. It has been mentioned that many young shamans wanting to enhance their furyoku lost their sense of direction inside and stayed the rest of their lives in there.

* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', this is the final fate of {{spoiler|nearly all of the [[Artificial Human|puppets]] of the Lifemaker}}. Being annoyingly hard to keep dead and protected by several layers of barriers, {{spoiler|Evangeline}} devised a spell that completely froze their surroundings instead, keeping them trapped yet conscious for all eternity.

* Near the end of ''[[Utawarerumono]]'', the main characters enter a partially-technological dungeon and find it infested with standard-issue [[Blob Monster|Slimes]], which they soon get bogged down fighting - swords and arrows don't seem to do much to impede them, but on the other hand, they don't seem able to do much to harm the heroes, either. In the next episode, however, it turns out that those blobs of reddish goo are actually {{spoiler|the previous occupants of that 'dungeon' - actually an underground laboratory from [[After the End|Before The End]] }}, and that they were transformed by the titular demon-god as punishment for {{spoiler|''dissecting'' his lover in an effort to find a way to strengthen their bodies so that they can return to the by-then poisonous surface.}} So, in the true spirit of an [[Jerkass Genie|Utterly Pissed-Off Genie]], he decides to fulfill their wish for a 'body that will never die'. And they've been there ever since. For what must be several thousand years by the time the story takes place. They deserved it, but still...

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