And I Must Scream/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|...I got a]] [[Peanuts|rock?]]

* [[Wild Kratts]] has Donita Donata who specializes in "living jewelry", i.e. living animals frozen in suspended animation and attached to horrendous fashion. And yep, they're still conscious.

{{quote|'''Paradox:''' I went mad, of course. But I got [[Bored with Insanity|bored with that after a while]], and went sane. ''Very'' sane.}}

* In an episode of ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'', "U.F.Foe", Darkwing finds his brain taken out by aliens and his body controlled by remote. Although he has no mouth (or beak) and we "hear" his screaming thoughts, amazingly he can still kick ass as he destroys the computer brain and saves Launchpad from the same fate!

* ''The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury'' has the eponymous hero go up against a madwoman who "collects" criminals and keeps them awake but practically frozen in artistic poses as part of a grotesque, living gallery. She created a type of stasis that slows their bodies down to a crawl but lets their minds be fully functional. It takes them a day and some excruciating pain to even blink their eyes.

* In ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'', it is eventually revealed that everything a child wishes for are put into "storage" in giant lockers. This includes any wishes that result in sentient creatures. And since they are immortal, they are stuck in a small, dark area ''forever''. The fact that no one bats an eye at this [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|says something]].

* In ''[[Trollz]]'', {{spoiler|Zirconia}} was turned into a {{spoiler|tree}} for 3,000 years. It's a bit more complicated than that, though; at first, she was simply imprisoned within the {{spoiler|tree}}. As time passed, she became ''part'' of it. ''She was conscious the entire time''.

** {{spoiler|Spinell, her husband}}, was trapped in the form of a {{spoiler|dragon}}. That couldn't talk.

* In ''[[Gargoyles]]'', the Gargoyles whose bodies composed the Cyborg Coldstone are given a moment of freedom by a spell that allows them to possess the bodies of their living brethren in the clan. Coldstone and his mate briefly contemplate keeping the bodies, but eventually give them back up shortly after it's discovered that the Gargoyles they're possessing are still conscious in their bodies. Fortunately, this was part of Puck and Xanatos' plan to transfer two of consciousness' into new android bodies, leaving Coldstone in sole control of his own.

** There have been fanfics written that try to describe what her isolation must have been like, {{spoiler|especially considering that the reason she turned evil in the first place was because she was lonely.}} Some of these fics imply that Celestia offered her an early release if she reformed; others aren't so generous.

** Discord [[Angst? What Angst?|offhandedly]] mentions that "it's quite lonely being [[Taken for Granite|encased in stone]]." Unlike Luna, there's considerably less sympathy to be had for him considering he's a [[Manipulative Bastard]] who desires nothing more [[Dystopia Justifies the Means|ruling Equestria in never-ending chaos, tormenting everypony for his own amusement.]]

** Also, it's possible that Discord had the ability to at least observe the outside world. Not the most consoling thing to someone in that situation, but most people would welcome ''anything'' to relieve the tedium.

* In the original ''[[My Little Pony]]'', ponies were at various times turned to glass, turned to stone, and frozen in ice.

* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', Grant Walker, a sociopathic millionaire, has Mr. Freeze build a duplicate cyrogenic suit for him and has him undergo the same chemical process that happened to him in order to obtain immortality. At the end of the episode {{spoiler|Walker is frozen in an iceberg, sinking towards the bottom of ocean, condemned there for eternity}}.

** After coming back their first experience with the time machine, {{spoiler|they bring back a T-Rex which tries to eat Candace only to be hit by Dr. Doofenshmirtz's freeze ray turning it into a living statue.}} He wanted to use the same ray on Perry the Platypus and other secret agent animals.

** In the [[Bad Future|alternate dystopian future]] seen in "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo", kids are ''kept in [[People Jars]]'' until adulthood "for their own safety".

* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': First off, it's implied that the other members of the Heinous family are still conscious in their [[Human Popsicle]] state. There's also a throw-away joke about a gnome being completely encased in gold while still conscious.

* At the end of the ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Action Figures", the android Metallo is left encased in lava underneath a volcano. His [[Inner Monologue]] reveals that he is unable to see or hear anything (in addition to the loss of taste, touch, and smell from being a robot in the first place). To keep himself sane, he gives us this chilling thought:

{{quote|I am Metallo, I am Metallo, I am Metallo...}}

* Anyone who ends up in the Fresnar in ''[[Space Chimps]]''.

* In ''[[Beast Wars]]'', after being killed by Galvatron (again), Starscream spent countless centuries as a disembodied spark, before finding a way to go back in time.

* Near the end of [[Pixar Shorts|''Monster Truck Mater'']], Tormentor ([[Cars|Mater's]] monster truck wrestler alter ego) actually traps Paddy O'Concrete (an Irish modified cement mixer monster truck) in his own cement.

** ...in the middle of the street, and the townspeople think she's trying to commit suicide.

* The genie in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' was stuck in his lamp for ''10,000 years''! But he [[Angst? What Angst?|doesn't seem too traumatized]] by the experience. Though he is a genie. For all we know, that's standard fare for them, if somewhat undesirable.

** The Medusa Bug episode, which proceeds to turn everything in Mainframe into stone.

* This is the terrible fate [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Van Kleiss]] suffers in ''[[Generator Rex]]''. His attempt to control time misfires when {{spoiler|Breach interferes}}, knocking him through a vortex that sends him all the way back to Egyptian civilzation. In order to get back to the present, he constructs a "hibernation" chamber that uses his Nanites to halt the aging of his body while ''staying'' '''''fully''''' ''conscious for'' '''''4,000 years.''''' Worse, he's forced to recreate the chamber each time it cops out too soon all the way up to the present, ''painstakingly'' waiting through era after era for his exodus. If that wasn't bad enough, a spectral entity is chasing him {{spoiler|though it's revealed to be a mutated Breach being dragged along each time he sits in dormancy}}. Eventually, it takes so much of a toll on Van Kleiss, nearly all of his Nanites have died and the [[Go Mad From the Isolation|isolation drives him to insanity]], causing him to forget his own identity and purpose. When he ''finally'' makes it back to present day, he manages to recover his sanity little by little after Black Knight meets with him and tells him to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|get a hold of himself]].

* In the finale of ''[[Action Man]]'', this fate befalls {{spoiler|Dr. X, the [[Big Bad]]}}. He's gained superhuman abilities, [[The Needless|doesn't need food or air any longer]], and becomes [[Nigh Invulnerable]]... and then Action Man traps him on an empty rock floating in the immense vastness of space with no means of escape. He actually does scream Action Man's name one last time as the rock drifts away from earth.

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