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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:~~and_i_must_scream_5442~~and i must scream 5442.jpg\|link=I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream\|~~right~~frame\|[[Immortality\|Living forever]] is [[Who Wants to Live Forever?\|is a lot less fun when you're an immobile blob.]]]]▼ ~~<!-- %%Image revised per Image Pickin' thread: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1297584745051200100&page=1 -->~~ ~~<!-- %%Please do not change or remove without starting a new thread. -->~~ ▲[[File:and_i_must_scream_5442.jpg\|link=I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream\|right\|[[Immortality\|Living forever]] [[Who Wants to Live Forever?\|is a lot less fun when you're an immobile blob.]]] ] {{quote\|''He left my mind intact. I can dream, I can wonder, I can lament. Simply... [[Cruel Mercy\|he has taken his revenge.]] [[Title Drop\|I have no mouth.]] [[Trope Namer\|And I must scream.]]''~~\|'''Ted''', ''[[I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream]]''}}~~ \|'''Ted'''\|''[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]''}} A character suffers from a extremely horrifying [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. [[Mercy Kill\|Suicide]] is not an option: even death never comes to free him from it. He is immobilized or otherwise contained, unable to communicate with anyone, and unlikely to be removed from this ~~situation -- not~~situation—not even by ~~death -- anytime~~death—anytime in the foreseeable future. This is often a variation on [[Taken for Granite]] in which the victim remains conscious, and the worst-case scenario for tropes such as [[Sealed Room in ~~The~~the Middle of Nowhere]], [[Involuntary Transformation]], [[Phantom Zone Picture]], and [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]. Some other [[Cold-Blooded Torture\|torture]] ~~-- eternal~~—eternal pain, [[Forced to Watch\|seeing your]] [[Room 101\|worst fears]] forever, et ~~cetera -- may~~cetera—may be layered on top of it, but simply being stuck like that forever can be more than enough. Usually, when this arises, it is eternal unless he's freed by outside forces, but a "mere" years-long or centuries-long fate is possible. For instance, a robot with a 100-year battery life, buried underground. In fact, this is a very common sci-fi trope involving artificial intelligences who are potentially immortal due to being made of software. Sometimes appears as a [[Backstory]], if a [[Sealed Index in A Can\|Sealed Person In A Can]] was aware while sealed away. Can overlap with [[Go Mad From the Isolation]] if the character's separated from other people rather than among them but unable to interact. See also [[The Nothing After Death]] Generally used two ways, either for horror, or as a way to defeat immortal villains. {{examples on subpages}} * [[And I Must Scream/Anime\|Anime]] * [[And I Must Scream/Comic Books\|Comic Books]] * [[And I Must Scream/Film\|Film]] * [[And I Must Scream/Literature\|Literature]] * [[And I Must Scream/Live Action TV\|Live Action TV]] * [[And I Must Scream/New Media\|New Media]] * [[And I Must Scream/Tabletop Games\|Tabletop Games]] * [[And I Must Scream/Video Games\|Video Games]] * [[And I Must Scream/Web Comics\|Web Comics]] * [[And I Must Scream/Western Animation\|Western Animation]] * [[And I Must Scream/Other\|Other]] * [[And I Must Scream/Real Life\|Real Life]] {{reflist}} [[Category:Pothole Magnet]] ~~[[Category:Orphaned/Sandbox/Depressing Tropes]]~~ [[Category:Horror Tropes]] [[Category:Older Than Feudalism]] ~~[[Category:index]]~~ [[Category:And I Must Scream]] [[Category:~~Trope]][[Category:Pages~~Depressing ~~with comment tags~~Tropes]]