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** Warren. Dear god, Warren. But then she gets bored.
** The season seven episode, "Same Time, Same Place." Willow is trapped and paralyzed in a cave with the demon Knarl, who paralyzes his victims and then proceeds to ''eat their skin''. '''One strip at a time.'''
* ''[[
** In the serial "Planet of the Spiders," [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|spiders from another planet]] [[Primal Fear|sink their fangs into people's spinal cords]] in order to tap into their nervous systems and control them like [[Meat Puppet|meat puppets]], while the victims' minds remain conscious as powerless prisoners. And this was [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|back when many people considered ''Doctor Who'' a children's show]].
** The serial "Mawdryn Undead" features a group of scientists who attempted to steal the secret of regeneration from the Time Lords. Caught by the Time Lords, the scientists were condemned to perpetual regeneration while also being trapped on a ship that is almost completely isolated from the universe.
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** The premise of season four of Torchwood, "Miracle Day," is that no-one dies or heals after what would have killed them, making this trope apply to everyone who had a particularly violent almost-death in that season. {{spoiler|Ellis Hartley Monroe}}'s fate at the end of episode four of 'Miracle Day' is merely one of the most extreme examples {{spoiler|(her car was crushed into a cube... while she was tied up in the back. The last shot of that episode is an extreme close up of her eye frantically looking around from inside the car cube...)}}, see also the 'survivor' of the explosion in the first episode {{spoiler|(who was still living after being at the centre of an explosion and having his head removed to see what would happen)}} and everyone who {{spoiler|was burned to ashes for being as good as dead in the overflow camps}}...
* ''[[CSI]]'' featured a serial killer that would pose his victims as they were dying so that rigor mortis would freeze them into "whimsical" poses. They found the last victim trapped in a complicated rig, just barely alive.
* The very first episode (excluding the [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]) of ''[[CSI New York]]'' involved the phenomenon of "[
* ''[[Tin Man (TV)|Tin Man]]'': The eponymous lawman was trapped in an iron maiden and forced to watch a hologram of his family being tortured and killed until DG and Glitch let him out.
** Presumably, the "iron maiden" also provided full life support, possibly including muscle-toning since he can move easily even right out of the box. He's not even hungry or thirsty. It may be some form of stasis that does not shut down mental function. [[A Wizard Did It]].
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* ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'':
** Sam and Dean bury Doc Benton (who's immortal) alive, chained up in a refrigerator. Another thing to consider: although he can't die, his body parts wear out, so eventually he'll rot away into a sentient and forever conscious pile of dirt.
** The episode "The Rapture", in a slight subversion, has the good guys bestow this kind of fate upon another good person. Jimmy, the vessel for angel Castiel, begs Castiel to [[Take Me Instead!|possess him to save his daughter from having a similar fate]]. It's essentially the fate for every human possessed by an angel or demon. Even the "good guy" angels like Castiel, Anna and Gabriel have been pulling this stunt for countless millennia.
** Also intentionally given by the good guys to the H.H. Holmes, the USA's first recognized serial killer. They left the ghost underground, encircled by rock salt. And barricaded the place. And for good measure, sealed the entrance up with concrete [[Crazy Prepared|in case of earthquakes.]] That ghost is NOT going anywhere anytime soon.
** In the fifth season finale, {{spoiler|Sam actually volunteers to trap Satan by allowing himself to be possessed by Satan and then jumping into an inescapable cage at the bottom of Hell. Because being locked up for all eternity with a very pissed-off fallen angel who has nothing to do but take out his frustration on Sam}} was the only way they could think of to prevent a global apocalypse. {{spoiler|Downplayed because his body gets set free by Castiel not long after, and his soul a year later by Death.}}
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** There's an episode featuring a patient with Locked-In Syndrome. Most of the episode was shown [[POV Cam|from his perspective.]]
** In another episode of ''House'', one scene shows the patient of the week rendered unconscious by her ailment. House enters, frowns, and approaches her, putting his ear near her mouth to better hear the nearly inaudible, whispery gasps she is making. It is then that he leaps into action, revealing to the rest of the team that ''she has been screaming in agony the entire time'', only she was too weak to make much noise.
* A particularly dark example was in ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'', which, for those of you who didn't know, is a show about a coroner's office. The victim is shot and spends the most of the episode paralyzed. He used to be a prosecutor and Macy's friend, but underwent a [[Face Heel Turn]] to [[Amoral Attorney]] when Macy refused to falsify evidence to put away a serial killer. He keeps pleading with Jordan and Macy not to autopsy him, promising he'll change. He's only saved when Macy digs the bullet out and realizes he's still bleeding. Turns out he and his two guests (who were killed) had improperly prepared [
* In part seven of ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King'', "Autopsy room four", the protagonist is bitten by a venomous snake and falls into a paralytic state extremely similar to death, except ''he's fully aware''. When he's taken to the hospital, the doctors prepare for an autopsy...
** ''[[Tales From the Crypt]]'' took that theme [[Up to Eleven]], letting a character face such a fate '''twice'''. The first time, he'd been injected with an experimental anaesthetic by his medical-researcher brother, who knew the protagonist was still conscious and staged the "autopsy" as a prank (!), paying back how his sibling had picked on him for years. After being revived, the protagonist dies for real, and the episode ends with him -- consciousness prolonged by the residual drug in his system -- facing a second trip to the autopsy table, this time ''with'' the capacity to feel pain.
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** In "Chinese Water Torture," being shackled to a board and unable to move more than an inch drove Kari to the brink of her composure, causing her to burst into tears at least once on camera, and abort the test in less than an hour (both due to the emotional distress, and due to near-fatal physical stress levels).
*** Conversely, Adam, who was simultaneously undergoing the same test sans restraints and in a rather comfy recliner, was hardly bothered at all; the worst he had to endure was the water drops keeping him from taking a nap.
** In "Bamboo Torture," they tested a myth of a WWII torture technique in which [
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' had the famous "Time Enough At Last", where, now that the rest of humanity has been destroyed, Burgess Meredith can finally read all he wants. Unfortunately, his coke-bottle glasses slip of his head, and shatter. "A Kind of Stopwatch" has a man discover a stop watch that stops time, and using it to rob banks, and things like that. Until it falls out of his pocket and breaks ''while the rest of the world (and presumably the universe) is still frozen''.
** The 1985 remake was "A Little Peace and Quiet" in which an overstressed homemaker can stop time to escape the pressures of everyday life, until {{spoiler|she freezes time during a Soviet nuclear attack on the United States, and she can see an inbound missile frozen over her own town. She's stuck with the choice of either living forever frozen in time, or unfreezing time and dying instantly.}}
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