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*** It's probably not so bad at the end of Defiance; the soul reaver (and presumably Raziel as well) were purified at the spirit forge. It was a curse for the imperfect soul reaver, but perhaps the purified one isn't a tortured existence.

** Plus, after it was realised that not even {{spoiler|having his heart ripped out}} would stop Kain, the Elder God tried to collapse the ruins of the Vampire Citadel on top of him, burying the vampire for all eternity. {{spoiler|Tried being the operative word.}}

** In the intro to ''Soul Reaver'', Raziel is executed by being cast into The Lake of the Dead. Water burns like acid for vampires, but the Lake's waters operate so slowly that the official sentence is to "burn forever." As such, Raziel spends several hundred, if not ''thousand'', years burning alive before finally dissolving and awakening in the Underworld.

* In ''[[Lost Souls MUD]]'', the ''sun'' is [[Sealed Evil in a Can|the elder god Hyperion]] sealed in a crystal sphere, with its light and heat produced by his [[Go Mad From the Isolation|relentless battering at his prison]].

*** For perspective: Let's take 300 years, as it is the most oft-quoted figure. [[Shown Their Work|Taking into account the 72 leap days in 300 years (every 100 years a leap day is missed)]], [[G La DOS]] watched her own death ''78,891,840 times.'' And she could do nothing about it.

* The Lord of the Dead in ''[[King's Quest]] 6'' was once a man, but while still alive he was enslaved to the throne of the Underworld. Unable to free himself or move anything more than his hand, he was forced to witness every horror and tragedy when the spirits of the dead made their way to him. His humanity seeped away as he grew numb to the horror and became something else entirely. And he will never be free of what has been done to him.

* The mysterious Hag from ''[[Thief]]: Deadly Shadows'' skins her victims both to take their form as a disguise and to extend her life. One of the cutscenes show the many faces on her body move and blink, suggesting they're still alive as she wears them.

* The are several such opportunities for an immortal protagonist of ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' to "lose", despite being unkillable. If the character decides to {{spoiler|become the next Silent King}}, you arguably get a variant of this trope as you get stuck to the magical throne that comes with the job, unable to move until death claims you (which will be never). {{spoiler|Hargrimm and the rest of the Dead Nations will be keeping you company}}. The manual also states that The Nameless One can also be [[Buried Alive]] or eaten or in many other ways rendered incapable of moving or dying, making them potential examples that never happen.

* In ''[[The Seventh Guest]]'', the spirits of the children who died from [[The Plague]] were sealed in dolls. Also, Elinor Knox ends up being turned into a mannequin.

* [[Team Fortress 2]]: [[The Medic]] keeps a disembodied BLU spy head in his fridge along with his beer and monkey hearts. The spy in question is [http://youtu.be/36lSzUMBJnc far from happy about it].

'''Medic''': Later. }}

** [[Played for Laughs]] in that the spy's head seems more annoyed with his situation than horrified.