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{{trope
[[File:Double Header.png|350px|thumb|right|But the important thing is you're alive and you have each other.<ref>Source: Western Animation Ending to the [[Ren and Stimpy]] episode, "Double Header." </ref>]]
{{quote|''"Those who break the rules shall be subjected to a fate worse than death."''
|'''Freed Justine''' from ''[[Fairy Tail]]''}}
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This is often a useful plot device in a story where the implied threat is so serious that the only satisfying conclusion might be a character's death (either as the [[Asshole Victim|only fitting punishment]] for the villain or requiring a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by the hero) but the character just has too much [[Plot Armor]] to be [[Killed Off for Real]], or the having him turn up alive because they [[Never Found the Body]] would simply cheapen then story. This way, the conclusion truly means something but the character is potentially recoverable.
See also: [[Empty Shell]], [[To the Pain]], [[Promethean Punishment]], and
{{noreallife|despite the redefinition of the trope, this is still a [[:Category:Rape Tropes|rape trope]], and All The Tropes does not care to [[squick]] its readers.}}
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Another ironic punishment: the greedy, thoroughly evil and immortal Gemma from ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' gets encased in gold and sunk to the bottom of the pacific ocean—where he'll presumably remain, conscious and immobile forever.
* The ultimate fate of {{spoiler|Father}} in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' is heavily implied to be this. {{spoiler|Having been defeated and Truth freed, he is dragged into the Gate of Truth, begging that he not be sent back in there}}. He is last seen screaming in terror.
** Worse still may be the fate of those
*** Well, in fact, Ed did not use a philosopher's stone. A philosopher's stone is made of {{spoiler|souls}}, while
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', {{spoiler|Toguro the Elder}} suffers such a fate. It's dealt by Kurama, who {{spoiler|plants a parasitic tree on him that uses hallucinations to catch and trap prey until it has drained all of their life energy and killed them, at which point it discards the corpse.}} Since technically {{spoiler|[[Catch-22|Toguro the Elder]]}} can't die, he is doomed to eternal frustration in the form of trying to kill an illusory Kurama, who not only won't die no matter what {{spoiler|Toguro}} does to him, but doesn't fight back, or even show signs of feeling pain, and tops it off by ''smiling'' when injured. Kurama lampshades the trope by saying afterward that death was too good for him anyway.
** What King Yomi did to the demon who [[Eye Scream|blinded him]], can we? {{spoiler|Yomi ''nailed'' the guy to a ''wall'' for five hundred years, then finally killed him in one hit by ''stomping on his face'' so hard that ''his head exploded''.}}
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*** ''And'' {{spoiler|Suzaku}} is now known to the world as the man who {{spoiler|killed the woman Suzaku loved}}. On the other hand, having to spend the rest of his life as the ''most beloved and admired person in the history of mankind'', kinda takes the edge off. In fact, since {{spoiler|Suzaku}} has always hated himself anyway, being reborn as someone else is almost a gift really, especially considering who he gets to be.
** And to another extent, Schneizel el Brittania, whose final fate is becoming geassed by Lelouch rather than dying an honorable death. As Lelouch steals THE "honorable" death for himself later, it is clear that Schneizel is destined to remain mind-controlled by Zero forever.
* {{spoiler|Diavolo}} gets this punishment in ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' after being killed by {{spoiler|Giorno's Golden Experience Requiem
** This fate also befalls {{spoiler|Cars}} in Part 2. Having turned himself into a boulder to avoid the effects of a volcanic blast, he's launched into space, unable to change his trajectory. The solitude eventually causes him to stop thinking completely.
* A more humorous example would be Russia's kolkolkol chant in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' which he uses to threaten his fellow nations, most notably [[Chew Toy|Lithuania]].
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* Even ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' has done this. At the end of the Team Galactic arc, {{spoiler|Cyrus creates a new universe... and walks into it. The portal closes behind him and is then destroyed.}} Fans argue if he can survive, but the nature of the series and some past canon indicate that he can. However, this means {{spoiler|that he's going to drift in empty space for the rest of his life, unable to do anything but watch his creation, and unable to stop himself from aging. Bear in mind that he's not even thirty. He could live for another century in what amounts to a void, all alone and powerless}}. A world with no emotion is what he wanted, so it could be paradise for him.
* What happens to {{spoiler|Princess Ixquic}} in ''[[Cyborg 009]]''. {{spoiler|She can't die since she's a [[Robot Girl]] with a [[Good Thing You Can Heal|huge healing factor.]] She can't interact with the outer world unless some conditions are met. And after said conditions are broken in such a way that they won't ever be met again, she's stranded in time and space... forever.}}
* Many of the [[Serial Killer
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' had the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Mind Rape]]. Yes, it does count because of who was the recipient. If [[The Fighting Narcissist]] [[Fiery Redhead]] [[Tsundere]] gets reduced to a sobbing wreck in a minute, exposing her tragic [[Freudian Excuse]], something's seriously messed up. Granted, to some she might have had it coming but still! Her [[Cruel and Unusual Death]] in ''End of Evangelion'' doesn't help things either.
** And then Anno goes and does it '''again''' in ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'': Asuka gets to be [[Body Horror|the test pilot of the Angel-infested Unit 03]]...
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]
* Arguably done with the [[Magical Girl]] anime ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' where {{spoiler|becoming a magical girl is a [[Deal with the Devil]]. Every time a magical girl uses magic or suffers negative emotions, her Soul Gem becomes more and more corrupted. The only way to keep the corruption at bay is by killing witches, horrible [[Eldritch Abomination]]s that can and will kill you horribly if you make even the slightest mistake, and using their Grief Seeds to cleanse the corruption from the gem. But this is a stopgap measure at best, because sooner or later, no matter what the magical girl does, the gem will darken completely and become a Grief Seed itself, and [[And Then John Was a Zombie|she will become the very thing that she is fighting]].}}
* The second ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' movie does this to {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Wannabe|Grace]], and (possibly) [[Break the Cutie|Sheryl]]. The former, a cyborg, is reduced to a sentient torso and interrogated for a '''long''' time. The latter gets cured from her [[Ill Girl|illness]], but by then she is in coma after watching her [[Love Interest]] disappear. It is then stated that she will wake up only when(if) said [[Love Interest]] comes back, and the chances for that are zero, so she is [[Fridge Horror|condemned to spend the rest of her life in coma]]. Ouch.}}
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* All this way and nothing about ''[[Slayers]]'', how sad. The Raugnut Rushavna curse is a VERY horrible curse, as it makes the victim immortal until the one who cast the curse is killed. It doesn't sound so bad until the horror of the curse sets in.
{{quote|Lina: "I was staring at an enormous lump of flesh. It was writhing---the arrangement of its internal organs and the pulsing of its veins fully visible."
"As we watched, a
"Those that fall victim to this ritual are cursed to die over and over until the demon that cast the curse is destroyed." }}
* Happens to {{spoiler|Piedmon}} in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]''. Most Digimon villains are [[Killed Off for Real]] (though Digimon are normally reborn, so its possible, but some lose their memories in the process), he's not so lucky. {{spoiler|1=Piedmon is thrown into MagnaAngemon's Gate of Destiny. While the series doesn't explain what this does to him, its said elsewhere that the Gate of Destiny leads to subspace, a dimension from which there is no escape. Digimon are effectively immortal barring being killed outright, so this means he'll spend eternity there.}} Naturally, [[Complete Monster|he's one of the few Digimon villains deserving of such a fate.]]
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* In the anime version of ''[[Pita-Ten]]'' failure to pass the angel exam or devil exam (for people from Heaven or Hell respectively) results in the otherwise immortal person to be deleted from existence and all memories of their existence expunged.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
* In one of the issues of ''[[The Walking Dead (comics)|The Walking Dead]]''
▲== Comic Books ==
▲* In one of the issues of ''[[The Walking Dead (comics)|The Walking Dead]]'' {{spoiler|Michonne goes through this at the hands of the insane, sadistic "Governor" of a small human settlement, who keeps her tied spread-eagle in a warehouse and routinely rapes/beats/tortures her for days before she is freed.}} However, {{spoiler|she gets her own back after she tracks him to his apartment, breaks in, tortures the ever-loving hell out of him (including spoon-raping and amputating some of his limbs) and leaves him for dead (he survives).}}
* Episode #66 of ''[[Dylan Dog]]'' ends with {{spoiler|Harvey Burton being condemned to spend the whole eternity in a void limbo because he cheated the Grim Reaper}}.
* One storyline in ''[[Hellblazer]]'' discussed the possibility of a "Third Place" that souls could go to which was neither Heaven nor Hell. The Third Place was a blank, neutral landscape that numbed the soul and removed all emotion. The characters believed that an eternity of empty nothingness was too horrible to contemplate. In the end, {{spoiler|a human takes the place of the realm's supernatural resident for all eternity,}} thereby suffering a fate worse than death.
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* From ''[[Cracked.com|Cracked]]'', we have a list of [http://www.cracked.com/article_19736_6-psychotic-punishments-doled-out-by-famous-superheroes.html 6 Psychotic Punishments Doled Out by Famous Superheroes].
* The Weapon-X program that [[Wolverine]] was subjected to where admantium was bonded to his skeleton. How this procedure worked is not detailed much and is often subject to [[Retcon]], but whatever the case, he considers it to be this, and does not wish it upon any other, to the point where he made a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save three kids from experiencing it. (He got better later.)
** In fact, one could argue Wolverine’s ''entire life'' (which, incidentally, has been far longer than that of most humans due to his mutant genes; he is over a hundred years old in current continuity) has been a hellish Fate Worse than Death. [[Spider-Man]] has endured the deaths of many of his family and friends, Bruce Banner is cursed with [[The Hulk| a monstrous alter ego with uncontrollable rage]], and [[Batman]] has lived with survivor's guilt over his parents’ deaths, but all of them are living an endless birthday party compared to Wolverine. [[Amnesiac Hero| Losing his memory]] during the Weapon-X fiasco seemed like a blessing when he recovered those memories; when his mutant powers first manifested, he [[Self-Made Orphan|accidentally killed his father]], an act that [[Driven to Suicide|drove his mother to suicide]]. Shortly after, he accidentally killed Rose, the first woman he loved. The Weapon-X program turned him into a mindless, feral beast, and while his time with the X-Men helped him recover, it only got worse. He’s been crucified, nuked, had the adamantium ripped out of him by Magento, and ripped in half and had some of his flesh eaten by the Hulk. His enemies have tormented him by kidnapping his teammates, murdering his loved ones, brainwashing his son, turning his clone into a killing machine, and tricked him into slaughtering his teammates and his own family. (And ''that'' is all just in mainstream Marvel, never mind alternate reality versions.) All while being the target of bigotry and hatred all mutants are subject to. While some consider Wolvie to be a violent sociopath, one has to wonder just how [[Heroic Willpower|he managed to stay as sane as he has]].
* Longtime fans of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' know Rita Repulsa’s origin - she first invaded Earth 10,000 years ago, but was defeated by Zordon and first of his proteges, the first [[Recruit Teenagers with Attitude| Teenagers With Attitude]] who would become known as the [[Power Rangers]], and imprisoned in a “dumpster” on the moon. But a comic book adaptation shows that the dumpster was more than a prison cell. Rita would spend the next ten millennia living the lifetimes of all her previous victims, causing her continuous agony as she experienced the terror and despair of every being on every world she had invaded and destroyed. One can hardly blame her for having such a temper when she finally escaped.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[Pattycakes]]'': Some readers have commented that they'd rather be [[Cupcakes|cupcaked]] - i.e. ''killed and eaten'' - than [[Mind Rape|end up like Dash]].
== [[Film]] ==
* One of the few good lines from the ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' sequel is the Genie Jafar's response to being reminded of his inability to kill: "You'd be surprised what you can live through."
** The times it's used optimistically (following a [[Not Quite Dead|revival]], for example) just makes Jafar's use of it as a threat that much creepier.
** Jafar also uses this trope's title, saying "There are things so much worse than death."
* For toys in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', it is a terrible fate to be forgotten by children, left alone and abandoned without no one to love them. Even getting shelved, like what happened to Woody and Wheezer in the second movie, is almost as bad. [[Pixar]] rectifies this in the next movie, thankfully - plus, considering they are "abandoned" with all of their good friends, they're hardly alone with no-one to love them.
** Even worse is to be tossed into the garbage, and, as [[Kelsey Grammer|Stinky Pete]] says, "spending eternity rotting in some landfill." Conscious the entire time, until finally all your plastic parts degrade into a puddle of goo...
** In ''[[Toy Story 3]]'', {{spoiler|the murderous Lotso, after leaving Andy's toys to die in the incinerator (they survive) winds up tied to the front of a garbage truck by a truck driver who had a Lotso-Hugging-Bear as a kid, with other, decayed toys strapped to the truck to show Lotso what's ultimately in store for him.}} Previous [[Big Bad]]s, Sid and Stinky Pete, received [[Humiliation Conga|crushing defeats]] but ultimately wound up better off - but this guy was so [[Complete Monster|extra evil]] that he was given this fate instead.
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* Anakin Skywalker of ''[[Star Wars]]'' is, according to [[Word of God]], a man who made a [[Deal with the Devil]]... and lost. After the events of ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'', where he becomes Darth Vader, he is condemned to a life of constant emotional and physical pain, until the very end of ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''.
* Budd from ''[[Kill Bill]]'' decided that only a Fate Worse Than Death was a fitting punishment for the Bride after she broke his brother Bill's heart. So he shoots her with rock salt, ties her up, puts her in a coffin, and [[Buried Alive|buries her alive]]. {{spoiler|She still escapes}}.
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* What the creatures in ''[[Deep Rising]]'' do to their "food". Their victims are swallowed up, have their liquids effectively drained and whatever's left of the body being spit back out. Oh, and did we mention that you're still alive when you get spit out? Dying afterwards is a mercy.
* By the end of ''[[Cube|Cube Zero]]'', staying in or around the cube becomes this to Wynn. He actually tries to get himself executed by making it clear that he chooses death over the cube, but he doesn't get a choice in the matter - he already waived this right a long time ago, which he simply doesn't remember. He's lobotomized by the villains and thrown back in.
* At the End of [[Coco]], Ernesto Del la Cruz is exposed as a fraud and a murderer and left hated in both the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead. Even if he gets out of the bell, he won't be welcomed anywhere unless his mansion is still standing and even then he'll have nobody to admire or respect him. And because of his movies and his role in Hector's death, he'll be remembered for a long time in the Land of the Living so he won't even experience the [[Final Death]] to end his suffering for a very long time. And even when he does finally fade away, [[Word of God]] says there's a place souls go to after the Final Death so it's a good guess where he'll end up.
* If Art the Clown from the ''[[Terrifier]]'' movies and ''[[All Hallows' Eve]]'' and the [[Short Film]]s he's featured in leaves you alive, chances are it's because of this.
** In ''All Hallows Eve'', he severs a woman's limbs and seals the wounds leaving her alive while leaving misogynistic slurs over her body just because she witnesses him murder a gas station attendant.
** In ''Terrifier'', he eats Victoria's face off but commits suicide before he kills her, leaving her heavily disfigured and driven insane.
** In ''Terrifier 2'', he slices open Allie's eye, scalps her with a pair of scissors, flays her back, tears off her arm and splits the other in half, slashes her repeatedly, pours bleach and salt on her wounds, and tears off half her face. By the time her mother gets home, he's cutting chunks of flesh off her legs and '''she's still alive.''' It's likely she finally dies offscreen which becomes a mercy. What did she do to deserve this? [[Disproportionate Retribution|She wouldn't give him candy.]]
* {{spoiler|Kaecilius}} and {{Spoiler|his mooks}} in [[Doctor Strange (2016 film)|Doctor Strange]]. They {{spoiler|[[Be Careful What You Wish For|get the immortality they wanted]], but have to spend it in the Dark Dimension}}.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* In Tom Deitz' "David Sullivan" Series, the Sidhe are vulnerable to iron, which contains "the fires of the world's first making". The "Death of Iron" that the Sidhe suffer is said to leave a permanent mark on the soul of the weaker willed, causing the spirit, and any replacement body the Sidhe might build, to constantly burn and reheal for eternity, without any hope of recovery.
** In the second book of this series, Fireshaper's Doom, we are introduced to the Horn of Annwyn, a weapon which summons otherworldly hounds, which consume not only the body but the soul. In addition to being incredibly painful, this death not only prevents the Sidhe from returning to life, but also denies mortals an afterlife. {{spoiler|The Horn brings about the Karmic Death of Fionna, Ailill's twin sister when she tries to use it to avenge Ailill's humiliation at the hands of the protagonist (which took place at the end of the first book}}.
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* In ''[[The Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'', getting stuck in Anomander Rake's sword is the definition of this Trope. You spend eternity pulling a giant wagon while being pursued by a storm of pure chaos. No breaks, no mercy. Insanity is for the lucky. Until it gets broken, screwing with everything. That's how many people were trapped in it, some for more than 300 000 years.
* Dementors in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' have the power to steal a person's soul (via a sort-of [[Kiss of Death]]) without killing them, turning them into an empty shell forever. [[Word of God]] has it that they're an allegorical monster representing clinical depression.
** Hermione Granger in ''[[
{{quote|"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled."}}
:: Considering that those expelled from Hogwarts have their wands broken and are forbidden to use magic in a world where magic-users rule and those without it (Squibs/Muggles) are treated as second-class ''at best'', and the best possible outcome is re-integrating into Muggle Society all the while *knowing* that there's a magic world that you can never access again...Hermione likely has the right of it.
** Aside from [[Cold-Blooded Torture|agonizing pain]], overuse of the Cruciatus curse can lead to ''severe'' psychological trauma. The Aurors Frank and Alice Longbottom, Neville's parents, were driven permanently and irretrievably insane by prolonged exposure to Cruciatus.
** Though he doesn't experience this trope directly, it's eventually learned that Voldemort's greatest weakness is that he cannot conceive of a worse fate than death, meaning his obsession with becoming immortal renders him vulnerable to other, equally or more unpleasant fates; {{spoiler|see the "King's Cross" chapter of ''Deathly Hallows'' for the one that he fell prey to after his death.}} At the end of the fifth book, Dumbledore fires a very powerful spell. It is blocked, and we never see what it does, but when Voldemort mocks Dumbledore for not seeking to kill him, Dumbledore merely responds, "We both know there are other ways of destroying a man, [[First-Name Basis|Tom]]." This is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Harry Potter himself... [[Wise Beyond Their Years|in the first book.]] "If you're going to be cursed forever, death's better, isn't it?"
* Lady Lilith of ''[[
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': When Jaime thinks a prisoner is lying to him, he mentions, "We have oubliettes beneath the Casterly Rock that fit a man as tight as a suit of armor. You can’t turn in them, or sit, or reach down to your feet when the rats start gnawing at your toes. Would you care to reconsider that answer?”
** What's become of {{spoiler|Theon Greyjoy}} in ''[[A Dance With Dragons]].'' Could also be a case of [[Be Careful What You Wish For]] for the fans: how many of them wanted to {{spoiler|see Theon suffer horribly after he sacked Winterfell and murdered two children to trick Westeros into thinking he's killed Bran and Rickon Stark}}.
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* Jean-Paul Satre's ''[[No Exit]]'' sticks three unrelated individuals in a room without [[Title Drop|any means of escape.]] They are {{spoiler|not only dead, but each has a personality that psychologically leaves another feeling tortured while being capable of torturing another his/herself. Hence, they will drive each other mad for all eternity.}}
* In the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' novel 'Dragons of Spring Dawning' after [[Dark Action Girl]] Kitiara finally captures her romantic rival, Laurana, she decides to {{spoiler|torture Laurana to death and then have her soul given to the [[Black Knight|Death Knight]], Lord Soth, so the innocent Laurana will suffer in undeath for all eternity}}.
* In ''[[Rainbow Six]]'', Clark orders the
* Dematerialisation (the process of having your physical body destroyed while within the Twilight, either as a consequence of being killed within it or spending too long in it so that it drains all of your energy) in the ''[[Night Watch]]'' series is implied to be worse than regular death. Whereas the Others are unsure of what becomes of regular humans after death, they do know that dematerilised Others are forced to linger in the Twilight as impotent and possibly mindless shades, and meeting such a shade is traditionally accompanied by wishing that they may eventually find peace. The "worse than death" part comes from the fact that a sentence of being hanged is considered preferable to dematerialisation, implying that Others killed through regular means don't linger in the Twilight, and that this is considered better. [[Nightmare Fuel|And since it appears that all Others can live practically forever without succumbing to age or disease, and are virtually immune to natural weapons, that the ultimate fate of all of them is to dematerialise.]]
* Harlan Coben novel ''Gone For Good'' features an ex-pimp named Louis Castman; when hearing that one of his girls is going to run away and elope with a client she has fallen in love with, he brutally disfigures her (and as repeatedly mentioned, [[Squick|not just her face]]) so that her fiance won't want to be with her anymore. It works, but before the guy sees the poor girl he shoots Castman in the spine, rendering him unable to move anything below his neck. The girl, now broken and miserable, keeps Castman alive for as long as possible in a room sealed with cork, with nothing to do ''at all'', just stare at pictures of her when she was pretty. He comes to wait longingly for ex-girls of his to come over and humiliate him, because it's better than lying immobilized in a cot and soiling yourself, with no one to hear you scream.
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* Or rather 'undeath' in [[The Witch Watch]]'s case. An abomination could have there head cut off and buried underground and you 'could dig his head up today and still find him screaming for release.'
** Also the people who crossed Lord Mordaunt were also threatened with a fate worse than death.
* The {{spoiler|protagonist}} in [[Poul Anderson]]'s "Duel on Syrtis" ends up {{Spoiler|paralysed and hidden in a remote cave, with his life artificially extended for centuries, during which he will be fully conscious but have nothing to do but stare at the roof.}}
* The ''premise'' of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''.
{{quote|'''Crow:''' ''(despairing)'' To be dead, to be nothing... to watch ''[[Invasion of the Neptune Men|Neptune Men]]'' no more...}}
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** In "The Family of Blood", all four of the eponymous family are inflicted with a custom-made version of this trope, in the process learning why you never, ever, ''ever'' [[Beware the Nice Ones|make the Doctor mad]].
** "Planet of the Ood" has a ruthless CEO personally market the peaceful, squid-like Ood as slaves worldwide. The CEO's fate? {{spoiler|He gets turned into one of the very creatures he's been mistreating}}.
** While making the Doctor angry may be the worst mistake one could make, making the TARDIS angry is a close second. With full control over entrances and exists within its near-infinite interior, it has been known to use parts of itself as a prison, keeping those who annoy it there, ''forever.''
* In the ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode ''Children of Earth'', Jack got {{spoiler|trapped in cement}} until his boy toy came to the rescue. Then the show proceeds to painfully remind us why [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|being immortal sucks]]. Like {{spoiler|watching your love die in his arms, knowing he himself can never die permanently}}. Really, this show has worked hard to assure viewers that Jack's brand of immortality would be utterly ''agonizing''.
** Before his {{spoiler|entombment}}, Jack underwent the prolonged and (judging from the screams) extremely painful process of {{spoiler|regrowing his body}} after being {{spoiler|blown up by a bomb implanted in his lower torso}}. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when a witness to this resurrection comments that he'd have been better off staying dead.
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* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise, being assimilated by the Borg and converted into one of their drones is considered this. Captain Picard explicitly says in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' that the Enterprise crew will be doing their assimilated colleagues a favor by killing them.
** In the original series, there was the ending of "The Alternative Factor", which left the matter and anti-matter Lazaruses trapped between universes, at each other's throats for eternity. It's compounded by [[Fridge Logic]] when you realize they really just had to imprison the insane Lazarus and destroy his ship to protect the two universes.
* Vic Mackey of ''[[The Shield]]'' ... Oh, dear, Vic Mackey. Specifically: He cuts a deal with the feds - specifically, I.C.E. - that he helps bring in a major drug lord in exchange for immunity for past crimes (And Vic has A LOT of them) just as Claudette and the LAPD were about to close in on him. Looks like he's pulled a [[Karma Houdini]] and is about to start his dream job with Homeland Security. {{spoiler|But then, best-friend turned fugitive Shane kills himself and his family, and leaves a suicide note blaming everything on Vic. Claudette reads the letter to the dumb-struck Vic. Then, while he's still reeling from that, arrests the last remaining Strike Team member, Ronnie, for all the stuff Vic had already copped to. Vic had lied to him about including him in the deal with the Feds. Ronnie proceeds to let the entire Barn know exactly what kind of bastard Vic was. And he screwed over Ronnie for nothing. Part of the deal was protection for Vic's estranged wife, Corrine. But she'd cut a deal with Claudette to try and snare Vic. So she was never in danger.
* ''[[Kings]]'': Silas decides to spare {{spoiler|his gay son Jack}} because he's already found a better punishment for him. As Thomasina explains {{spoiler|when she brings Jack's wife to his room: "Your father wants for you a living death. To brick you into a wall with someone who loves you, who you can't stand the sight of... until you produce an heir whom Silas will take and raise right this time."}} When {{spoiler|Jack}} begs her for mercy, she twists the knife: {{spoiler|it's not so bad, all he has to do is close his eyes and think of his dead lover}}.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'''s version of Hell. You're tortured, daily, in unimaginable ways, for decades on end, unless you agree to do the same to others. {{spoiler|Main character Dean is able to hold out for thirty years before giving in.}} Although {{spoiler|his dad, John, held out for one hundred years, and never gave any sign of giving in}}. "Stuff legends are made of," indeed. {{spoiler|John ''might'' have had the benefit of knowing the purpose of his incarceration. Once he or Dean were to give in, the first seal is broken on Lucifer being able to walk free.}}
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* Discussed in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', as noted in the page quote. Wilson notes that a Fate Worse Than Death for House would be the loss of his rational faculties.
* On [[The Vampire Diaries]], vampires mummify when deprived of blood for an extended period of time, but until that happens they are in an extreme state of hunger and agony.
* In ''[[The River]]
* In the movie ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'', Data is believed to have been killed, [[Heroic Sacrifice| sacrificing himself to save the rest of the crew]], but in ''[[Star Trek: Picard]]'', it is revealed that, while his body was destroyed, his consciousness has been downloaded into a quantum simulation crafted by Maddox, meaning that for years, he's been completely alone and [[I Cannot Self-Terminate| unable to shut the program down]]. Eventually, when Picard himself dies (his mind transferred to a golem created by Dr. Altan Soong) he finally meets his old friend and the two have a brief time to talk and reminisce. Unfortunately, that's all they can do, and Data pleads with Picard to terminate the simulation on his way out. [[Mercy Kill| Which Picard sadly does.]]
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' zigzags this in the episode "Deja Q", where Q is punished by the Q-Continuum for his irresponsibility by having to live one day as a mortal. Q does not consider ''this'' to be "worse than death", but being mortal means he could actually die, something he is ''terrified'' of. In fact, they let him choose what form he had to spend the day as (so long as it was mortal) and he chose human because he felt he'd be safe on ''The Enterprise'' with humans he was familiar with.
* Discussed and [[Played For Laughs]] in an episode of [[Power Rangers SPD]] where Piggy (a lowlife criminal [[Information Broker]]) is trying to figure out how to handle the colossal mess he's gotten himself into:
{{quote|'''Piggy:''' Oh, this is no good at all. If Gruumm finds out I had S.P.D. technology and didn't give it to him, well, he'll vaporize me. If Broodwing finds out I'm working for Gruumm, well, ''he'll'' vaporize me. And if Gruumm finds out I'm working for Broodwing, [[Morton's Fork| well then, he'll vaporize me]]. If the Rangers find out I'm working for Gruumm ''or'' Broodwing, well, they'll vaporize me. Oh, no, wait. They don't vaporize. They stick guys like me into [[Phantom Zone Picture| those little, teeny cards]]. Ohh, I'd rather be vaporized.}}
* One particularly nasty [[Monster of the Week|unsub]] from ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' seems to be a [[Karma Houdini]] at first glance, until you realize how grim things are looking for him at the end of his episode. Shane Wyland from "Into The Woods" manages to slip out from between the BAU's fingers and return to the Appalachian Trail, his hunting grounds and a place that he knows like the back of his hand. While it seems like he'll be able to kidnap, rape, and murder children with impunity for the rest of his life, his face, name, and modus operandi are known to law enforcement, which will force him to keep a low profile. This also means he can't return to civilization and buy the medication needed to treat the painful degenerative disease he suffers from. It's safe to say that he's doomed to die a slow, agonizing death in the wilderness, [[Asshole Victim|which is the ''perfect'' fate for a disgusting pedophile like him.]]
* Hector Salamanca from ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' was once a proud, dangerous crime lord, until a stroke crippled him for life. He's spent a number of years living a truly degrading and humiliating existence, where condescending staff at his nursing home treat him like a toddler while his arch nemesis Gus Fring regularly torments him with the knowledge that he's slowly, methodically wiping out his family and tearing down the criminal empire he had spent years building up.
== [[Music]] ==
* A song called "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye", tells about a soldier (named Johnny), who came home alive from a war, but is so horribly disfigured and crippled that even his family could not recognize him. Since he can no longer walk or use his arms and hands, they decided to have him beg on the streets ("Ye're an armless, boneless, chickenless egg
* The song "One" by [[Metallica]] details the life of a soldier, after he loses all his limbs, his sight, his speech, and his hearing due to a landmine. He has machines that breathe for him, and so he's unable to die. His mind functions perfectly, leaving him a prisoner in his own body.
{{quote|Darkness, imprisoning me! All I see, absolute horror! I cannot live, I cannot die! Trapped in myself, body my holding cell!}}
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''Be prepared for a fate worse than death!"}}
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* [[Hell]]. Without even getting into the specifics of Hell itself, a simple logical deduction demonstrates that it is far, ''far'' worse than a [[Cessation of Existence]].
* This is [[Older Than Feudalism]]: Prometheus was chained to a rock to forever have his ever-regrowing liver eaten by an eagle. Since he was a god, he could not die. Fortunately, he was later freed by Heracles, who took pity on his plight.
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* While any version of Hell is bad in [[Buddhism]], they are supposed to be places of purification as well as punishment, and damned souls can at least hope to be reborn again someday. However, Buddhism has a special one called Avichi, which is for souls that are so evil, they're kicked out of the reincarnation cycle completely. That only happens to those who commit one of [[This Is Unforgivable!| the Five Grave Offenses]] which is limited to killing an Arhat (an enlightened being), shedding the blood of the Buddha, creating a schism within the Sangha, (a community of [[Actual Pacifist| pacifist Buddhist monks and nuns]]), or murdering one of your parents. Most Buddhist monks consider it taboo to publicly condemn a man to Avichi, as it would be making a judgment mortals have no right to make; even the will of gods cannot condemn a man to this Hell. Buddhist dogma specifically states that [[Self-Inflicted Hell| a sinner forges his own path here.]]
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* ''[[MAD]]'' magazine #200 has "Rime of the Modern Skateboarder", a parody of ''[[Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]''; in this case, the narrator is a young skateboarder who lived through something similar to the Ancient Mariner, with a gopher in place of the albatross. His audience falls asleep, given how boring the poem supposedly is (though anyone who finds the original poem boring might laugh at this version), and the Skateboarder explains why his Fate (much like the Mariner's) is worse than death:
{{quote|''For though I've lived through my ordeal and ditched the gopher too,
''And have the finest skateboard known, one thing still makes me blue.
''I'm doomed through life to tell my tale, so ghastly and unreal...
''If you've been bored to hear it once, just think how I must feel.''}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' has almost everyone who serves Chaos, eventually mutating into a mindless beast. But a particularly notable instance is Count Mordrek the Damned. As he's a chaos warrior, "the Damned" would usually be redundant. He constantly and violently mutates within his unremovable armor suit, and every time he dies the [[Cosmic Horror|chaos gods]] bring him back to life. And unlike most people they do things like this to, he still appears to be sane and thinking, and remorseful over what they make him do.
* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', this happens to ''everyone'', one way or another, who runs afoul of [[The Corruption|Chaos]], whether it's being consumed by its [[The Heartless|endless hordes of daemons]], a "mishap" while [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|traveling though the Warp]] or going anywhere near one of its [[Negative Space Wedgie]]s. (Unless you're an Ork, in which case it's the best afterlife ''[[Warrior Heaven|ever]]''.) Even its servants don't avoid it, as their final fate is either dying (and then a daemon or five comes to collect on [[Deal with the Devil|its contracts]]), transforming into a mindless, deformed Chaos Spawn, or achieving immortality as a [[One-Winged Angel|Daemon Prince]], only to spend the rest of eternity fighting the Endless Game between the Chaos Gods.
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** This is even more true in the EDH (or "Commander") format. Commanders in that format that are killed or exiled are returned to the command zone and can be played again for a cost increase. Completely locking the commander down however does ''not'' return it to the command zone.
== [[Video
* ''[[Ghost Trick]]'': So you have a ghost who has [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|outlived his usefulness]], and you really, ''really'' don't want him coming after you after the fact. What do you do? Why, leave him in a flooding submarine at the bottom of the sea, completely alone, launch the room containing his body as far away as possible in a random direction, allow said room to collapse due to the water pressure, mangling the body beyond repair and all but ensuring [[Time Travel]] doesn't come into play, blow up the submarine with a torpedo, and make sure no possible path of escape remains. And since he's already dead...
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'':
** The disembodied head of the
** [[Word of God|According to]] [http://www.tf2.com/post.php?id=5816 the outtakes], BLU Spy's severed head got somehow permanently Übercharged, and now spends [[Blessed with Suck|his invulnerable days]] mostly [[Visual Pun|having a smoke break and chillin']] [[Fridge Horror|in RED Medic's fridge]].
* In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', a l'Cie who fails to complete their focus is doomed to become a Cie'th
* In ''[[StarCraft
* In the [[Infocom]] game ''Sorcerer'', dallying in the prologue area will result in a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] where the game's villain condemns the protagonist to an eternity in the Chamber of Living Death, wherein victims are perpetually (and painfully) eaten alive by plagues of parasites.
** Also, dallying too long in the final room without acting will get the protagonist sent to the Hall of Eternal Pain, where they will spend eternity as a powerless disembodied mentality, being tormented telepathically.
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* In ''[[Jak II Renegade]]'', [[Evil Overlord|Baron Praxis]] can occasionally be heard addressing [[Phlebotinum Rebel|Jak]] over speakers normally reserved for spewing propaganda. The Baron promises a quick and painless death if Jak turns himself in, because the [[The Corruption|Dark Eco]] inside him will eventually do much, much worse. And if he ''doesn't'' turn himself in and Praxis finds him instead, he promises Jak he'll wish he died in prison.
* ''[[Dark Souls]]'' has a ''lot'' of this. Most of the enemies are tragic monsters. There is horrible [[Body Horror]], being imprisoned while effectively immortal, becoming a [[Empty Shell|hollow]] and {{spoiler|Linking the Flame leaves you burning alive, forever until someone puts you out of your misery.}}
* What happens to {{spoiler|Mihaly}} in ''[[Ace Combat]] 7: Skies Unknown'' as a result of the final boss fight with him. {{spoiler|He survives the destruction of his plane, but the injuries sustained leave him unable to fly again - a horrible way to go for an [[Ace Pilot]].}}
* The Miller in ''[[Darkest Dungeon]]'' (''The Color of Madness'' DLC) has been enthralled by an [[Eldritch Abomination]] {{spoiler|with control over space and time who won't let him die}}, and if the encounter with his similarly enthralled but non-agressive wife and his reaction of mad grief upon seeing an adventurer bearing her locket (and his subsequent inability to deal any damage to the bearer) are any indication, his mind is still mostly intact and [[And I Must Scream|he is fully aware of his hopeless situation]].
* ''[[Wolfenstein: The New Order]]'' gives us a truly heartbreaking example in {{spoiler|either Fergus or Wyatt, whose brain has been painfully removed from their body and converted into a [[Wetware CPU]] that controls one of General Deathshead's war machines. The victim has been fully aware of what's happened to him for years, and during his boss fight he can only beg for BJ to kill him since he can't stop his body from following the mad doctor's orders.}}
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* Spoofed in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/671.html strip #671], where Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs is demoted into the Fate department, as A Fate Worse Than Death. He has no idea on how to go about it.
** Also, in [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1954.html strip #1954], "a pirate curse can be a thousand times worse than death".
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** Alt-Rammer: "And she'd be dead now if not for the machines keeping her breathing ... She cannot be fixed. She cannot survive off of those machines. Too fragile for morphine. Her few conscious hours are spent screaming from the pain of the nerves that will never heal." [[Cerebus Syndrome|Damn.]]
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]--'' For Fructose Riboflavin, a fate worse than death is [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110201.html having his terrifying reputation destroyed because the world has learned his tragic origin story]—now people feel ''sorry'' for him. He responds with a big ol' screaming [[Big No]].
* In ''[[Homestuck]]''
* In Dave Hopkins' ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'', fates worse than death are commonplace, if not standard - not surprising, since the main character is the Grim Reaper and the setting is usually Hell. A few specific examples include:
** Silverblue, a girl who has to relive the same rotten day in Hell - during which she gets tentacle raped, eviscerated, eaten alive, watches her only friend get torn to pieces and finally cuts her own wrists - over and over and over again for what is apparently over 150 years, merely because she committed suicide.
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** A particularly interesting example is Todd, who was a soldier in an equivalent of World War I; when his commanding officer ordered him to machine gun the children of a village so they would not grow up into enemies, he obediently complied. Home on bereavement leave, he discovers his wife has hanged herself, and commits suicide to be with her. In Hell, he doesn't miss an opportunity to claim it was all out of his hands; all is down to fate, he is responsible for nothing. And sure enough, he ends up as a character in a comic book written by the Devil hirself...
* In ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'' [http://nonadventures.com/2012/12/29/ill-be-doom-for-xmas/ this] happens to Santa Claus.
* From ''[[Eerie Cuties]]''; this is Discussed and [[Played For Laughs]] (well, [[Black Comedy]]) and Subverted in one short arc where Tiffany thinks Layla fed on her and converted her (Layla ''did'' feed on her, but didn't convert her; Tiffany is something of a ditz) and at first thinks she's doomed to what is a [[Vampire Hunter]]'s worst nightmare, especially when she has to explain it to her parents, who are both experienced hunters. Then, however, she wonders if her parents might try to stake her, making her realize death in such a case might be ''much'' worse.
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* ''[[ARCHON]]'' implies this for undead. Overlaps with [[And I Must Scream]].
* Oran's speech to the defeated scumbag Mars in Chapter 19 Act 3: "I have seen you scum--staked to the ground at night--belly and manhood split wide, wailing as jagged beaks tear and peck--as a million insect jaws carve the pulp. And when morning comes, I am standing over your seeping husk. You cannot turn from the horror. You cannot stop the rising sun that burns you into blindness. You cannot close your eyes... '''''for I am feasting on their lids.'''''
** The best part is that Raimi immediately chimes in afterward, saying that would be too kind. What does ''he'' have to say to Mars? See the ''[[Broken Saints]]'' entry in [[Prison Rape]].
* In the web-novel ''[http://www.fictionpress.com/secure/story/story_preview.php?storyid=2718227&chapter=1 Fragile]'',{{Dead link}}
* The [[SCP Foundation]] uses this quite a lot. For example: [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-145 SCP-145].
** [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 SCP-231-7] is ''legendary'' for its use of this trope, not only for the victim herself but for those ''forced to keep her alive'', as allowing her to die would probably lead to [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Not to mention the operatives who have to administer the treatment; ''nobody'' who has done so has ''not'' wanted amnesiac treatment afterwards.
*** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQdiyT4PabU That kind of depends on who you believe.] {{spoiler|(Yep, if this version is true, the Foundation is - or was - waging a disinformation campaign against their world's version of Satan himself and ''winning.'' Whatever the case, it seems SCP-231 was finally allowed to bear her child, the result being [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-999 SCP-999].}}
** The unfortunate researchers, staff, and other SCPs who fell into the clutches of [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1765 SCP-1765], "the Sisters". The Foundation was unable to properly contain this powerful trio of witches (for lack of a better term) and they proceeded to take over the facility; [[Faux Affably Evil|feigning gratitude and admiration for the Foundation]], they decided to continue the "research", using the inhabitants as subjects. Meaning they've been brutally and endlessly torturing them ever since using their potent [[Reality Warping]] powers. (Well, maybe not ''endlessly''; [[Cruel Mercy|each "experiment" includes a "control group"]], and whoever is put there is safe until the current "experiment" is concluded.) The Foundation has made no attempt at rescue, seeing as this activity keeps SCP-1765 occupied and prevents them from harming civilians; in effect, they have "contained" themselves. (Far from the only morally questionable decision they have made.) At very least, the victims might take some consolation in the fact that they are regarded as heroes by the rest of the Foundation for this unintentional sacrifice on their part.
* ''[[Suburban Knights]]'' [[Big Bad]] Malachite. The end looked like he was destroyed by Ma-Ti, but an additional video revealed a worst fate... working in a Wisconsin coffee shop. Any attempts at villainy are met with a [[Dope Slap]] from his boss and escape is impossible.
* The transformation into {{spoiler|Salem's Hound}} suffered by an unidentified silver-eyed man in ''[[RWBY]]''. {{spoiler|Yang and Ruby speculate that Salem turned their [[Missing Mom]] Summer Rose into such a creature -- and that it's why she wants Ruby captured alive.}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Subverted in the very first episode of ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'':
{{quote|'''Psycrow''': If Earthworm Jim doesn't cough up his Super Suit in the next 20 minutes, you will face a fate worse than death!
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'''Psycrow''': ''(not expecting the question)'' Huh? Oh, I don't... you know... something really awful, with pointy... and it'll chafe and stuff.
'''Princess What's-Her-Name''': Fate worse than death. Uh, big talker. }}
* ''[[Futurama]]''
**
** Played straight at the start of the re-relaunch of the series.
{{quote|'''Fry:''' Are they dead?
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** Many fans believe that taking Ozai's firebending can't be called mercy, as it was shown that benders are extremely emotionally and spiritually attached to their element.
** The first time Zhao captures Aang, he has him chained up so that he can barely move, and he says that he can't kill him because he would just be reincarnated again, so he's going to keep him barely alive.
* In ''[[Batman: The Brave
** It's later revealed that Gentleman Ghost was doing this as revenge for {{spoiler|his own fate worse than death. Even though Batman actually tried to ''save'' him from his own self-destructive actions which truly caused it. Due to [[Time Travel]], Batman knew exactly how the whole thing would turn out, but the soon-to-be Ghost refused to listen to him.}}
* [[Evil Counterpart|Dark Danny]] of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' may have survived outside of his now non-existent time period, but he is forever trapped in that Fenton Thermos. The last shots are of him struggling to get out. He would have, too, if not for [[Executive Meddling]], but he's stuck there for the rest of his afterlife.
* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]] Unlimited''. "The Once and Future Thing". Chronos' final fate. {{spoiler|Doomed to live through the same moments of being harangued by his wife that prompted him to start the whole shebang to begin with, after Batman and Green Lantern messed with his time belt.}}
** In "Kids' Stuff", Mordred ends up as the most powerful magical being on Earth, and ends up using his newfound powers to [[What an Idiot!|break the spell of Eternal Youth cast on himself]]. The result of this leaves Mordred {{spoiler|with only Eternal Life, causing him to degrade rapidly to his true age of a man of several hundred years. Thus, he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity as a decrepit vegetable in the care of his obsessively
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'':
** [[Monster Clown|
** One sociopathic millionaire has Mr. Freeze construct a duplicate cyrogenic suit for him in order to obtain immortality. At the end of the episode {{spoiler|the sociopathic millionaire is immobilized towards the bottom of the ocean, condemned there for eternity}}.
** Mr. Freeze, then known as Victor Fries, was attempting to commence an experiment involving cryogenetics to cure his dying wife, but then his boss, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Ferris Boyle]] shut down the project without even caring if shutting it down would also kill his wife. Disaster ensues, and Fries' body is altered to become incapable of surviving a sub-zero environment, forcing him to don a mechanical suit that lets him endure a sub-zero environment. Much later in life, it was later revealed that the very same accident also resulted in most of his body deteriorating to the point that his head was the only part of his human self that remained intact, meaning he can't even live a normal life with Nora Fries, his wife, who was revived and cured. {{spoiler|Even worse, the technology to cure him (by cloning him) is invented ''fifty years later'', meaning that his wife is an old woman if not already dead and thus robbing him of the only reason he really wanted to be cured. When they finally use it on the poor guy, it works and he begins to live a normal life - for about a week, after which it starts failing, condemning him to the same fate as before. Since there's nothing that can be done, Derek Powers's company, who performed the cloning, ''tries to kill him''. Understandably he gets angry and tries to kill [[Complete Monster|Powers]], and finally blows himself up to both spare himself the emotional agony of a ''second'' [[And I Must Scream]] scenario and to prevent himself from hurting anyone else.}}
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* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' has this trope parodied when Zurg tried to hit Buzz with a hyper death ray to give Buzz a fate "worse than death: hyper-death".
* Discord of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', as punishment for [[The Dark Times]] he inflicted on Equestria, was turned into [[Taken for Granite|an immobile stone statue]] for more than one thousand years. [[Angst? What Angst?|He didn't seem to mind much]], but it is ''very'' telling that two of the literal handful of times he loses his cool was insulting Celestia for her part in his imprisonment ("It's quite lonely being imprisoned in stone, but you wouldn't know that, would you, because ''I don't turn ponies into stone''."), and then later {{spoiler|when he's turned back into stone and his facial expression is one of unrestrained horror.}}
* At the end of the ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' episode, "Double Header" Ursa Minor crashes onto Ren and Stimpy forcing the doctor to sew what's left of Ren onto Stimpy's backside. Stimpy is then given his favorite food, barbecued Boston baked beans. See the page image for what that means for Ren.
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