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** The season seven episode, "Same Time, Same Place." Willow is trapped and paralyzed in a cave with the demon Knarl, who paralyzes his victims and then proceeds to ''eat their skin''. '''One strip at a time.'''
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has a disturbingly large number of examples.
** In the serial "Planet of the Spiders," [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|spiders from another planet]] [[Primal Fear|sink their fangs into people's spinal cords]] in order to tap into their nervous systems and control them like [[Meat Puppet|meat puppets]], while the victims' minds remain conscious as powerless prisoners. And this was [[What Do You Mean
** The serial "Mawdryn Undead" features a group of scientists who attempted to steal the secret of regeneration from the Time Lords. Caught by the Time Lords, the scientists were condemned to perpetual regeneration while also being trapped on a ship that is almost completely isolated from the universe.
** In the serial "The Five Doctors," anyone who claims Rassilon's Gift is granted true immortality, as an unmoving (but still aware) stone carving on Rassilon's tomb.
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** The premise of season four of Torchwood, "Miracle Day," is that no-one dies or heals after what would have killed them, making this trope apply to everyone who had a particularly violent almost-death in that season. {{spoiler|Ellis Hartley Monroe}}'s fate at the end of episode four of 'Miracle Day' is merely one of the most extreme examples {{spoiler|(her car was crushed into a cube... while she was tied up in the back. The last shot of that episode is an extreme close up of her eye frantically looking around from inside the car cube...)}}, see also the 'survivor' of the explosion in the first episode {{spoiler|(who was still living after being at the centre of an explosion and having his head removed to see what would happen)}} and everyone who {{spoiler|was burned to ashes for being as good as dead in the overflow camps}}...
* ''[[CSI]]'' featured a serial killer that would pose his victims as they were dying so that rigor mortis would freeze them into "whimsical" poses. They found the last victim trapped in a complicated rig, just barely alive.
* The very first episode (excluding the [[Poorly
* ''[[Tin Man (TV)|Tin Man]]'': The eponymous lawman was trapped in an iron maiden and forced to watch a hologram of his family being tortured and killed until DG and Glitch let him out.
** Presumably, the "iron maiden" also provided full life support, possibly including muscle-toning since he can move easily even right out of the box. He's not even hungry or thirsty. It may be some form of stasis that does not shut down mental function. [[A Wizard Did It]].
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** There's an episode featuring a patient with Locked-In Syndrome. Most of the episode was shown [[POV Cam|from his perspective.]]
** In another episode of ''House'', one scene shows the patient of the week rendered unconscious by her ailment. House enters, frowns, and approaches her, putting his ear near her mouth to better hear the nearly inaudible, whispery gasps she is making. It is then that he leaps into action, revealing to the rest of the team that ''she has been screaming in agony the entire time'', only she was too weak to make much noise.
* A particularly dark example was in ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'', which, for those of you who didn't know, is a show about a coroner's office. The victim is shot and spends the most of the episode paralyzed. He used to be a prosecutor and Macy's friend, but underwent a [[Face Heel Turn]] to [[Amoral Attorney]] when Macy refused to falsify evidence to put away a serial killer. He keeps pleading with Jordan and Macy not to autopsy him, promising he'll change. He's only saved when Macy digs the bullet out and realizes he's still bleeding. Turns out he and his two guests (who were killed) had improperly prepared [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu Fugu], and his secretary shot him. On his way out of the hospital, Macy gives him a bell, and tells him that people used to be buried with strings attached to bells in case they were buried alive. The lawyer points out that Macy just effectively admitted the coroner's office is at fault, and he'll both be suing and representing to woman who shot him. [[Laser
* In part seven of ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King'', "Autopsy room four", the protagonist is bitten by a venomous snake and falls into a paralytic state extremely similar to death, except ''he's fully aware''. When he's taken to the hospital, the doctors prepare for an autopsy...
** ''[[Tales From the Crypt]]'' took that theme [[Up to Eleven]], letting a character face such a fate '''twice'''. The first time, he'd been injected with an experimental anaesthetic by his medical-researcher brother, who knew the protagonist was still conscious and staged the "autopsy" as a prank (!), paying back how his sibling had picked on him for years. After being revived, the protagonist dies for real, and the episode ends with him -- consciousness prolonged by the residual drug in his system -- facing a second trip to the autopsy table, this time ''with'' the capacity to feel pain.
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