Dying as Yourself: Difference between revisions

* After one of their fights, the [[Animorphs]] demanded that a Yeerk leave a fatally-injured Controller, so that "he can live his last moments as a free man" - but the Yeerk ''can't'' due to the body's damaged state.

** Other Controllers ''do'' get this, at least, usually because the Yeerk is running for it in its natural form. Notably, this happens to {{spoiler|John Berryman, AKA Visser Four}}.

* One of the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Jedi Apprentice]]'' novels featured a world where [[Mind Rape|amnesia]] was a common punishment by the government. {{spoiler|It turns out [[The Dragon]] is the sister of two rebels who Obi-Wan teamed up with, only mindwiped and basically turned all-out evil. When she takes a blaster bolt, she suddenly regains her memory.}}

* Played with in the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Rebel Force]]'' series. A brainwashed assassin, X-7, finds that with extended time away from his master he's starting to feel emotion again, and flashes of memory, but he has no context and finds it all unsettling and disturbing. He does still want to find out who he was and so goes rogue to search, but time spent with the Rebel brother of who he (maybe) used to be, and exposure to old places and images, doesn't jog his memory. When X-7 is confronted again by his master the programming is reinforced; he believes he really is no more than a tool anymore, learning about his past is worthless, and he has to kill the brother and stop the Rebels. But X-7 fails - and while he does not suddenly recognize the brother when mortally wounded, he does beg to be called 'brother' again, to be told that he was someone, once. That he mattered to someone.