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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"I feel nothing... I AM nothing."''
|{{spoiler|'''Shadow Mitsuo'''}}, ''[[Persona 4]]''}}
This character is... barely a character. For a variety of reasons, he or she has gone past the [[Extreme Doormat]] and [[Stepford Smiler]] and become ''nothing.'' They aren't pushovers or empty of real personality, they are completely dead inside. They are this side of a [[Convenient Coma]] because there is still something there... they move, talk, eat, sleep, but they have no drive, ambition, or capacity for emotion. Basically, the body is an active biochemical machine, but the part that made him or her alive and human is gone.
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In [[Real Life]], the closest term for it is probably "catatonic". However, catatonia is as likely to result from the inability to initiate movement as it is from lack of consciousness; the individual could be anything from fully conscious to nearly comatose, and [[And I Must Scream|you could never tell]].
How did this happen? Here's a few ways: regular old [[Crapsack World]] induced trauma, psychological torture, [[Mind Control]], [[Mind Rape]], and high end uses of an [[Agony Beam]]. It can be done metaphysically by being drained of all their [[Liquid Assets]] or [[Life Energy]], or having their [[Our Souls Are Different|Soul]] or part of their [[Anatomy of the Soul|Soul Anatomy]] stolen. Then again, sufficiently radical body alterations can do this too, like being [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|"upgraded" into a machine body]] or a [[Came Back Wrong|less-than-successful]] attempt at [[Back
Sometimes it's curable, others it's a permanent [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. Expect these characters to be the preferred [[People Puppets]] for [[Telepath]]s and [[Demonic Possession|demons]] for being not so much [[Weak-Willed]] as ''No Willed.'' Contrast [[The Soulless]], who are like Empty Shells filled with drive and ambition, and lacking all moral restraint. Compare to [[Soulless Shell]]s, who died and were brought back without their souls.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': [[Mook|The Iron Masks and Iron Cross]] are cyborg [[Big Bad]] Dr. Hell fabricated with corpses, mechanizing their brains (actually their helmets are a replacement for his skulls) and programming them to obey him loyally and without question. They have no name, no identity, no personality (and they barely have half face left under their helmets) and no family. They don't feel hesitate or fear and they don't fear death. [http://www.mangareader.net/735-34819-157/mazinger-z/chapter-1.html And they don't mind].
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* In ''[[Vampire Princess Miyu]]'', those who either willingly [[Kiss of the Vampire|exchange blood with]] [[Dark Magical Girl|Miyu]] [[Kiss of the Vampire|or are bitten by her]] have their minds placed in a sort-of endless [[Lotus Eater Machine|dream]], while they act like eternally smiling and "happy" empty shells.
* In the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' first anime, {{spoiler|Tucker ends up creating one of these when he uses a Philosopher's Stone to recreate Nina's body. It's breathing and technically 'alive', but it has no mind and it has no soul.}}
** The league of failed potential rulers of Amestris ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130528194634/http://manga.animea.net/full-metal-alchemist-chapter-99-page-26.html seen here]) who became the puppet soldiers of the [[Complete Monster]] that is the golden-toothed doctor after being regarded as useless spares once Bradley accepted the Philosopher's Stone is very much implied to be this. They [https://web.archive.org/web/20130527225855/http://manga.animea.net/full-metal-alchemist-chapter-99-page-28.html attack the groups with single-minded efficiency], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130527225850/http://manga.animea.net/full-metal-alchemist-chapter-99-page-27.html demonstrate no outward emotions other than wide-eyed stern blankness], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130527223803/http://manga.animea.net/full-metal-alchemist-chapter-99-page-30.html and sacrificed themselves under a transmutation circle just so that Edward will be transported into the center of Father's country-wide one without a second thought].
** There's also [[Break the Cutie|what happened]] in the first anime to [[The Woobie|Ed's friend Rose Thomas]] as the show gradually slid away from the idealistic end of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|Sliding Scale]]. {{spoiler|She's left mute and pregnant after some soldiers who invaded her home town gang-raped her}}, ending up so empty that {{spoiler|she was used first as a figurehead of a [[Religion of Evil]], and then just as an Empty Shell for the [[Big Bad]] to possess. Miraculously, she gets better.}}.
* Going by the once-[[The Cutie|Cutie]] Yukari Hirai early on in ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]''. Actually, this happens to Torches as they gradually fade away from existence.
* Happens in ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' to dolls who lose their Rosa Mystica; they lose consciousness and become an ordinary doll (albeit with their eyes closed). It is implied though that their souls live on somewhere else, particularly in the manga.
* One of the story arcs in''[[
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'',
**
** Strings from the Battle City arc. According to the manga, he became catatonic after murdering his parents. This enabled Marik to use him like a puppet, and was safely able to use Slifer through Strings without risk of Strings being killed or rendered insane, a common problem when an "unworthy" duelist attempts to use a God Card.
* Henrietta at the start of, and well into, ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. Also after she gets reconditioned.
{{quote|'''Rico:''' Welcome back, Henrietta!
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* In ''[[Flame of Recca]]'', clone Aoi does this to [[Healing Hands|the local healer]] [[Damsel in Distress|Yanagi]] by erasing her memories and pushing back her thoughts, removing her consciousness so that the satanic monster resulting from the fusion of two [[Complete Monster]]s, Tendo Jigoku, can absorb her soul without being rebelled by healing powers. It takes the timely arrival of her lover Recca to bring her back to her senses.
* Happens to {{spoiler|Agnieszka}} in [[Kurobara Alice]]. {{spoiler|As the corollary to her [[Break the Cutie]] process, she stabs herself to death; a vampire named Maximilian, however, stabs her almost lifeless body with a magical blade, and renders her as this.}}
* {{spoiler|Yuu}}<ref>{{spoiler|The real one, that is.}}</ref> opt to become in the 2012 anime of ''[[
* In ''[[Ai no Kusabi]]'', this happened to {{spoiler|Kirie}} by forcefully being [[Brainwashed]] to be a Pet. AKA a [[Sex Slave]]. For him it was a [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Victims of the Anti-Life Equation in [[The DCU]] are turned into this. Forever and ever. And all it takes is to hear the Equation '''''once'''''.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
* Marty in ''[[No Antidote]]'', increasingly so because of his neural degeneration.▼
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▲* In [[Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality]], Harry becomes this for a few paragraphs due to prolonged exposure to a Dementor. He still acts and reacts, but his internal monologue is utterly mechanistic.
▲* Marty in [[No Antidote]], increasingly so because of his neural degeneration.
* Podling who have their essence drained in ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' become this, turning gray and empty eyed, shuffling from place to place. Happily, it was cured when the [[Mineral MacGuffin|Dark Crystal]] was healed.
* In the horror film ''Pulse'', ghosts drain the "will to live" from people, turning them into Empty Shells that just want to die.
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* Richardson threatens to do this to David in ''[[The Adjustment Bureau]]'', obliterating his mind so completely that there would in essence be nothing left of him.
▲== [[Literature]] ==
* This is the fate that befalls those [[Brown Note|who watch even a moment of the titular film]] in David Foster Wallace's ''[[Infinite Jest]]''.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
* In ''[[
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In
** Also in the (quite dark)
* In ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'', patients who are lobotomized become this.
* In ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', there are creatures known as Spectres that feed off of adults, turning them into Empty Shells.
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* Scott Tyler in ''[[The Power of Five]]'' is one of these at the end of Nightrise. Probably understandable, considering he spent most of the book being tortured, both physically and mentally.
* Some of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s robots became like this if they got stuck in the robot equivalent of a [[Heroic BSOD|really bad infinite loop]] (eg, by running into a [["Three Laws"-Compliant|Three Laws conflict]] that couldn't be resolved without hurting at least one human. The smarter ones found a solution that minimized human injury; simpler models just went insane.)
* Within the ''[[Gentleman Bastard Sequence]]'' series, this is the result of inhaling the smoke of wraithstone. It's commonly used on animals to "gentle" them, effectively removing all desire other than a mild desire to eat, sleep, and follow commands. It works on humans too...
* ''[[Battle Royale]]'' demonstrates why this can also be a bad thing for those ''around'' the Empty Shell. Kazuo Kiriyama was brain-damaged at birth, and his emotional responses are extremely limited. With no feeling of reward for accomplishment, he's been drifting through life, and with no sense of guilt, he has difficulty resolving moral dilemmas. When forced to kill his classmates to survive, he can't tell whether it would be better to fight it and potentially get himself killed too, or go along and ensure his own survival if nothing else. A coin flip resolves things in favor of going along, so he calmly, emotionlessly kills as many students as he can as fast as he can.
* In [[Robert Silverberg]]'s novel ''Recalled to Life'', a process is invented that can restore recently dead (i.e. within a day or so) people to life. (It doesn't actually heal whatever killed them, so it's mostly useful for drownings and the like.) One catch: there's about a one-in-six chance of restoring a mindless shell.
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** Possibly {{spoiler|the Isk, created by the Yoorts and together making up the Iskoort species}}.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Dollhouse]]'', the Actives are supposedly like this between missions, although evidence suggests that this may not be as complete as the characters believe.
** The characters know it, too. To wit: Topher's aversion to the Actives "grouping", or making basic friendships that endure through wipes. The same processes that creates the "grouping" effect can cause the chance of a "composite event", or the Active gaining access to all their previous personas at once, because it penetrates through the wipe.
* In Season 6 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Buffy sees herself as being this trope, stating multiple times that she can't feel anything {{spoiler|since she was brought back from the dead}}. This also constitutes the theme of most of her songs in the musical episode. She isn't really an empty shell though, and gets better by the end of the season.
* Played with on ''[[Angel]]'', in "Soul Purpose". Angel is coma-dreaming about Fred doing surgery on him and she tells him "There's nothing left, just a shell", an allusion to what Wolfram and Hart is doing to him. It's also irony since she became a literal shell for Illyria.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' examples:
* The [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]] episode "Life Support." Vedek Bareil dies and is then resurrected, but for him to survive, part of his brain had to be replaced with positronic implants (the same stuff Data's brain is made of). He is able to function but he is very different, almost emotionless, and describes his sensations as vague shadows of what he remembers. Eventually, when the rest of his brain starts to fail, Doctor Bashir allows him to die rather than replacing his entire brain with artificial implants. Also an example of [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]].▼
** Happens to Uhura briefly in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "The Changeling", after the probe Nomad erases her "knowledge banks" (ie, memories). They're able to bring her back to normal through a combination of the ship's technology and conventional tutoring to re-educate her at high-speed; in [[The Stinger|The Stinger,]] McCoy says she'll be back to normal in a week.
* In [[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]], acting as an archangel's vessel leaves you like this when said archangel leaves.▼
▲** The ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Life Support." Vedek Bareil dies and is then resurrected, but for him to survive, part of his brain had to be replaced with positronic implants (the same stuff Data's brain is made of). He is able to function but he is very different, almost emotionless, and describes his sensations as vague shadows of what he remembers. Eventually, when the rest of his brain starts to fail, Doctor Bashir allows him to die rather than replacing his entire brain with artificial implants. Also an example of [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]].
▲* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', acting as an archangel's vessel leaves you like this when said archangel leaves.
▲== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Except for [[The Pollyanna|Asok]], everyone in ''[[Dilbert]]'' has been reduced to this by the mindlessness of the workplace. [http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-02-16/ This] is what it looks like when it happens.
* This is a result of [[Our Souls Are Different|soul loss]] in the ''[[New World of Darkness]]''. Initially, the newly soulless person develops [[Somebody Else's Problem|the inability to care about others around him]] as his [[Karma Meter]] erodes to 1, but then his Willpower starts to vanish, and once ''that'' hits zero, they become what is basically this, so long as [[Demonic Possession|someone doesn't realize that the vacated meat puppet is a good body]]. If their soul—or someone else's -- is grafted back to them, they gradually return to normal.▼
▲== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* This is one of the ways to describe what happens when you lose all of your charisma (by being poisoned or subject to magical draining attacks, for example) in ''[[Dungeons
▲* This is a result of [[Our Souls Are Different|soul loss]] in the [[New World of Darkness]]. Initially, the newly soulless person develops [[Somebody Else's Problem|the inability to care about others around him]] as his [[Karma Meter]] erodes to 1, but then his Willpower starts to vanish, and once ''that'' hits zero, they become what is basically this, so long as [[Demonic Possession|someone doesn't realize that the vacated meat puppet is a good body]]. If their soul—or someone else's -- is grafted back to them, they gradually return to normal.
▲* This is one of the ways to describe what happens when you lose all of your charisma (by being poisoned or subject to magical draining attacks, for example) in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''. Losing all Wisdom—a measure of a character's mental balance, the base stat for Willpower—causes you to "fall into a nightmare-filled sleep." Losing all your points in any vital stat generally means you can't act at all and automatically fail checks based on that stat until you recover at least one point in it - the exception is Constitution, which measures your health, and if that falls to 0, you [[Death Is Cheap|simply die.]]
** This is what happens to people who stay too long in Hades, the lowest plane of the lower planes in the default cosmology. The idea presented is that pure evil is not torture or manipulation; it's the complete loss of hope.
** The upper plane of Elysium has an "entrapping" trait almost identical to Hades, except it operates through contentment rather than despair.
* This is the second-worst thing that can happen to someone in ''[[Don't Rest Your Head]]'', if the [[Dark World|Mad City]] completely breaks them.
* Waisen from [[
* In ''[[In Nomine]]'', this is what happens to angels and demons who lose all of their Celestial Forces; They become Remnants, wandering the Earth in whatever body they last used before they were killed, without the perception to remember what they were or the will to do much of anything. Angels and demons alike tend to consider them both sad and creepy.
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
* This is what happens to Kairi in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' when her Heart leaves her body {{spoiler|and enters Sora.}}
** Also of note are the Nobodies in the second game; the body of someone who has had their heart stolen in most cases the shell is transformed into a shapeless monster. They have no emotions of any kind, as they have no 'heart', but the Nobodies of people with particularly strong hearts retain their memories and human appearance. They know what it means to feel, but will never do so again, (sometimes) through no fault of their own. They want Sora to kill as many Heartless as possible so that they can build a Kingdom Hearts that can restore their lost hearts.
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{{quote|'''Canas:''' ...Unfortunately, the darkness took my brothers... They live...and breathe... their eyes open and close... But...they do not move. And they do not speak.}}
** And in the same game, Bramimond takes this just about as far, but no in the same way. He basically gave up his soul for the power to fight dragons and now he simply reflects the soul of whoever is in front of him. While [[Dark Is Not Evil|dark may not be evil]] it most certainly is [[Evil Is Not a Toy|not a toy]]
** ''[[Fire Emblem:
* The Horned Girl from ''[[Baroque (video game)|Baroque]]'' is an Empty Shell, who, lacking any thoughts of her own, instead repeats aloud the thoughts of those that try to speak to her.
* In ''[[Persona 4]]'', {{spoiler|Mitsuo Kubo's}} [[Shadow Archetype|Inner Shadow]] is a [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] Empty Shell. Since his Shadow is as much a "true self" as the shadows of your other party members were their own "true selves", it implies that {{spoiler|Mitsuo}} is driven by the subconscious fear that he is insignificant and will never amount to anything. As a first for the game, {{spoiler|Mitsuo is unable to see through his own delusions of grandeur and own up to his own insecurities, unlike your party members, and his Shadow simply dies as a result.}}
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** Happens to {{spoiler|Zelda}} in ''[[Twilight Princess]]'' after she sacrifices herself to save Midna. {{spoiler|Ganondorf possesses her body for the first of the [[Final Boss]] fights}}.
* In ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldurs Gate]] II: Shadows of Amn'', {{spoiler|Imoen}} becomes temporarily like this after having her soul mostly drained, with an additional aggressive streak. She gets better after having her soul returned.
* ''[[
** {{spoiler|Noel Vermilion}} was created as an Empty Shell. Her Murakumo unit "tempering" was interrupted, allowing her to develop a personality, albeit a [[Extreme Doormat|very weak and passive one.]]
* ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]''. {{spoiler|Shirou}} is revealed to be a borderline case in the Unlimited Blade Works scenario, due to losing his self-perception in a childhood trauma. He has no real desires or goals of his own, instead latching onto his savior's ideal of 'saving everybody', and is only able to feel happiness when someone else is happy. {{spoiler|He also uses this lack of self as both the concept and fuel for his [[Reality Warper|Reality Marble]]...[[Field of Blades|An empty field, surrounded by flames, with only himself and an infinite number of weapons]]}}
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* The end result of being a Zuul captive in ''[[Sword of the Stars]]''. The Zuul systematically [[Mind Rape]] their victims with their [[Psychic Powers]], ripping their knowledge, memories, thoughts, and eventually their very identities from the victims' minds and leaving them catatonic husks. Even partial exposure is often enough to cause either this trope or simply turning into a gibbering wreck with all of their memories and knowledge jumbled up and full of holes.
* In the bad ending of ''[[Shadow Hearts]] Covenant'', {{spoiler|Yuri ends up like this as a result of the Mistletoe curse finally devouring his soul and his memories. He is taken under Roger's care after that.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic|Knights of the Old Republic II]]'': The ''entire crew'' of [[Humanoid Abomination|Darth Nihilus']] flagship, ''The Ravager'' are like this from having their life energy, willpower and sense of self drained by Nihilus' presence. They are incapable of individual thought, speech or anything outside of their task on board the ship, which they perform like lifeless mechanical drones. On board the ship, your character encounters Colonel Tobin, the [[Smug Snake]] who shot down your freighter earlier in the game, this time as an eerie, [http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/7/77/TobinRavager.jpg zombie-like] man [[Go Mad
* ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'' has {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster|Dr. Bumby]]}} creating children out of this {{spoiler|for prostitution}}.
* Oichi in the third game of the ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' series verges between this and [[Extreme Doormat]]. Her mind appears to be mostly gone as she speaks entirely in [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]s and [[Word Salad]] which makes her sound like she's asleep, she has no opinions or drives any more apart from what she picks up from others, and she seems mostly unaware of her surroundings. If it hadn't been for the demonic hands dragging her body along like a puppet, she probably wouldn't even be ''mobile''.
* {{spoiler|The Twins}} in ''[[
* From the [[Touhou]] series we have Koishi Komeiji, a member of the mind-reading satori species. Having grown tired of the resentment people felt towards her, Koishi closed her mind-reading third eye, which had the unintended side-effect of sealing away her own conscious mind. Completely devoid of thought or emotion, she now spends her time wandering around in a trance-like stupor, acting on whatever unconscious impulse happens to strike her at the time.
* In ''[[Baten Kaitos]] Origins'', talking to NPCs in {{spoiler|Tarazed}} reveals that the trauma of losing your wings can lead to this.
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* In ''[[Dark Souls]]'' Undead that have lost all their humanity turn into mindless hollows, which usually come in two flavors; [[Ax Crazy]] or huddled in a corner crying. This is also the fate of {{spoiler|Gwyn, the Lord of Sunlight after a thousand years of burning alive in the Kiln.}}
* In ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', possession by a body snatcher aberration seems to result in the original person becoming this.▼
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* Recently{{when}}, {{spoiler|Nessiah}} has been like this in ''[[Dept Heaven Apocrypha]]''. It's not the straightest example, as the state was intentionally induced through a heavy cocktail of sedatives; the idea being that his massive mental trauma can only be repaired by slowly nursing him back to sanity as the drugs wear off.▼
▲* In [[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures|DMFA]], if a fae actually biologically has a child with any non-fae, the result is an empty husk that dies on their 21st birthday. This is because there can only be a certain number of fae at any one time, and to make a new fae an old one must decide to die.
▲* Recently, {{spoiler|Nessiah}} has been like this in ''[[Dept Heaven Apocrypha]]''. It's not the straightest example, as the state was intentionally induced through a heavy cocktail of sedatives; the idea being that his massive mental trauma can only be repaired by slowly nursing him back to sanity as the drugs wear off.
* Such is the fate of anyone who touches and then releases [[SCP Foundation|SCP-963]]. (Hanging onto the amulet just [[Body Surf|turns you into Dr. Bright]].)
* The children in ''[[Shell]]'' become "empty little egg shells" when they see the [[Eldritch Abomination]].
▲* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', possession by a body snatcher aberration seems to result in the original person becoming this.
* In M.C.A. Hogarth's ''Jokka'' stories, this is the inevitable fate of females. Jokka males and females risk "Mind Death" if they become overheated or stressed, losing all ability to reason. Males can avoid this by taking care to avoid pushing themselves, females ''can't'' avoid the stress of childbirth however. Every birth runs increasing risk of inducing further senility for the mother, until their mind is completely gone.
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s [[Heroic BSOD]]s are frequently going into this territory more and more as time goes on. He always manages to crawl his way out of it so he can continue life, but the implications are nasty considering how [[Hot-Blooded]] he usually is.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Zombunny of an early 1990s TV show ''[[
* The alternate universe of the Justice Lords in ''[[Justice League]]'' has [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] Superman using his heat vision to perform crude lobotomies on Batman's most dangerous criminals and, now barely above mindless zombies, placed in Arkham Asylums. It's truly disconcerting when the group meet the lobotomized Joker in an abnormally calm and docile state but heartbreaking when the Flash happens to encounter the lobotomized version of Poison Ivy, who now has no signs of her former ambitions and no longer cares what happens to the world and its plants. Even though they were villains, the ruthless lengths the alternate Superman was willing to go through to maintain order places him squarely in [[Moral Event Horizon]] territory (if he hadn't already crossed it in his first appearance already).
** This was what apparently happened to Gorilla Grodd in his first appearance after Flash "crossed a few wires" in his mind control helmet and tricked him into using it. This fried his brain and turns him into a brain dead vegetable. But Grodd not only recovered from this, but no longer needed the helmet to control minds.
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* In ''[[Drawn Together]]'', Spanky Ham justifies his and his housemates' killing of the staff of Entertainment Weekly by stating that working in cubicles has made them already "dead inside".
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
* Curiously averted in the concept of a ''philosophical zombie'', a creature in a thought experiment that has no soul/mind/internal experience but acts exactly as if it does, eg. exactly like a person. See also: [http://lesswrong.com/lw/pn/zombies_the_movie/ Zombies: The Movie].
* Some portrayals show modern office settings as this, essentially people becoming cogs in the machine and slowly losing emotion in their lives. Whether or not this is accurate is up to the individual.
* Prisoners can become like this after long periods of solitary confinement.
* Severe cases of [[Broken Bird]]s can end up as this.
* There are two types of [[Wild Child]]ren or feral kids: those who have lived isolated from human contact brought up by animals and those who live in complete isolation due to [[Abusive Parents]]. This becomes a major [[Tear Jerker]] because unlike the former, who at least have the care and attention of animals to keep them company, the latter are completely and totally isolated from any form of contact whatsoever, causing them to become
* If you lie in the bed, in dark, silence and deprived of any other stimulus for long enough, you can lose your sense of self.
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