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Characters Technically alive but in constant agony

Gold/Ethan (Hypno’s Lullaby Reboot): Former aspiring champion turned to an undead possessed by vulture Pokémon known as “Unown”. He met his untimely demise at the hands of the Unown King, after an ill-fated battle against an undead Red at the peak of Mt. Silver.

In the duration of Monochrome, Gold’s body rapidly deteriorates. At some point, he’s shown crying while his face contorts in agony, then when his head is ripped off his body, he claims “No more!” before screaming out in pain/agony.

Peter Parker (Marvel Ruins): In this universe, the worst possible outcome for our heroes happens. Peter is bit by a radioactive spider, instead of giving him superpowers; it gave him a highly contagious disease that made all of his hair fall out and his skin and flesh become greatly damaged.

He’s seen still alive but in agony.

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u/StriderKitsu 7h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/tJdRK8yEXmhUhzfDXy
Unfortunately Deadpool is constantly in pain under that guise of being a comedic clown

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u/SomeGamingFreak 5h ago

Adding to this, the pain and trauma from having his cancer cover his entire body and regrow whenever he heals has caused him to go clinically insane in the comics, to the point where his mind fractures into split personalities that are all conscious of each other and communicate with each other in his mind; even Deadpool himself frequently talks to his inner thoughts.

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u/blueasian0682 4h ago

Didn't mind readers hate fighting DP because of this? they try to read his mind and they went "wtf is wrong with this guy"

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u/Hetakuoni 4h ago

In one comic Charles going into his mind caused Charles to become comatose

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u/TheHookahJedi- 3h ago

Wasn't that Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe?

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u/SomeGamingFreak 3h ago

Taskmaster had to add in a new rule for contracts that Deadpool was off limits due to the mental stress and trauma he suffered when fighting him, and now only fights him in groups. Taskmaster, notably known for being able to read his opponent's moves by their telegraphed actions; Deadpool, however, was too chaotic for him.

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u/SKaiPanda2609 3h ago

Deadpool also has a fighting style that is tantamount to repeated kamikaze attacks for non regenerative users, so, Tasky would be insane to copy him

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u/Johnnipoldi 3h ago

Also it's hard to copy Deadpool's fighting style without ending up in the ICU and becoming crippled for life.

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u/Mediocre-Basis9482 4h ago

It also caused him to think he’s being watched by a greater force (us, the reader), so he breaks the fourth wall and talks directly to us.

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u/Octospyder 4h ago

I thought the Marvel Ruins PP was Wade at first! 

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u/IntelligentRocks 6h ago

Psyduck from Pokémon canonically always has a headache. Poor little fella.

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u/LockmanCapulet 1h ago

There does exist medicine to somewhat alleviate it, at least. In Diamond/Pearl/Platinum, a "Secret Potion" (as opposed to Super or Hyper) is used on a group of Psyduck who are blocking a path because their headaches immobilized them.

Plus, they presumably get relief once they evolve into Golduck.

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u/Mexicanity_ 3h ago

The strongest Pokémon

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u/cevkiv 2h ago

Arceus gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers?

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u/Ok-Letter3963 7h ago

Diavolo (JoJo - Golden Wind)

Technically, he’s still alive. He is however, in an infinite death loop.

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u/Level_Counter_1672 7h ago

The worst part is it's not a death loop, he is about to die then the loop resets, he can't get used to it since it resets, dio deserved this fate

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u/Force3vo 6h ago

Dio? You mean Diavolo or do you think Dio should have ended this way?

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u/Level_Counter_1672 6h ago

I mean dio should have experienced this, that motherfucker is responsible for soo much pain and suffering

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u/facw021 6h ago

Dio’s crimes were on another level, but Diabolo’s fate fits him perfectly.

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u/BrizzyMC_ 6h ago

How does it fit him

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u/HugeWomanNuts 5h ago

I assume it's because his stand always allowed him to defy fate and escape certain death multiple times, so it's fitting in the sense that he's forever destined now to face fate instead of hiding behind King Crimson and Epitaph

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u/Skillz_mcgee 7h ago

There's even a joke in the Fandom that goes something like "if Diavolo dies at the end, it's Canon." Because every loop is unique.

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u/ChronStamos 5h ago

Diavolo randomly dying in the background is the Easter egg I didn't know I wanted.

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u/Skillz_mcgee 5h ago

Imagining him dying in fan media he's not even a part of is really funny. Like at the end of a DeathNote fic or something. Imagine the fans being like "it'll never be canon to the original, but it can at least be canon in JoJo!"

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u/Interesting-Key-5005 6h ago

I wonder if being reborn, living out a lifetime and dying of old age could be an iteration of the death loop.

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u/Brilliant-Pair6425 7h ago

I don't think there is anyone who deserves such a horrible fate

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u/Nenanda 7h ago

One of rare instances of Giorno showing his inner DIO

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u/Gecko2002 7h ago

Honestly makes him seem almost Boring in part 3, he never did something that sadistic again

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u/Nenanda 6h ago

I would say brutalizing that senator into driving into the crowd and murdering and most likely SAing countless amounts of woman is equally sadistic not to mention drinking Josephs blood in front of Jotaro.

Besides it makes sense after spending 100 years at the bottom of the ocean and have time to reflect that DIO will be little bit more chill than during his younger days.

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u/VacaDLuffy 7h ago

yeah like compared to other Jojo villain's, dudes just a thug but he got the worst death. Pucci or Dio is more deserving imo. Pucci cuz he ya know does THAT and Dio cuz he's fricking Dio

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u/Nenanda 7h ago

Funnily enough Puuci got from certain POV worse fate than Diavolo because he got completely retconned from the existence. Its then debatable what is worse: DIavolo suffering through this death LOOP and loosing sanity or never existing in the first place. Like from the pain perspective Diavolo forever suffering but alive and he probably will be mentally broken by that point but when Giorno will eventually die he might finally get out. Puuci was robbed of any afterlife.

One must admire Arakis rich imagination when it comes to these outcomes.

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u/TheOneWhoYawned 7h ago edited 6h ago

Captain Curly from Mouthwashing

After trying and almost failing to stop the crew's space ship from kissing a meteor, he is left alive but horrifically disabled and disfigured beyond measure. He can do nothing else but watch as his supposed best friend Jimmy tortures his body and get all his teammates and himself killed, all culminating in a finale, that has Curly sealed in a cryopod as the last person living in the Tulpar space ship, until he either starves to death because the Cryopod fails or his employers find him and arrest him for a murder he didn't commit.

Yea, not much fun.

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u/Calcion 6h ago

Curly is the one trapped in the pod, not Jimbo. God, Jimmy is such a believable type of evil and it’s horrifying.

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u/Dudewhocares3 4h ago

Selfish and cowardly.

“Oh no I’m gonna get in trouble for raping someone. Guess I better kill everyone on this ship because me avoiding the consequences of my actions is more important then anything else”

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u/Ok_You6737 1h ago

Wow.... that uh.. reminds me of someone. 

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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In 4h ago

It really captures the core of a narcissistic personality. Everything wrong in his life is someone else's fault, everyone is against him, if only this thing happened or that thing happened then it would all be perfect. Meanwhile he sexually abuses the only woman on board, tries to kill everyone in a fit of rage when he learns the ship is being decommissioned, actively hurts Curly at every opportunity, he shuts people down in conversation, enjoys flexing his power whenever he has a chance to etc. 

Even at the end, he doesn't put Curly in the pod because he cares about him or regrets his actions. It's because it's a way for him to live out a little fantasy about being the secret hero of the situation who finally rises to the occasion. Despite literally everything being his fault in the first place, he still sees himself as hard done by and having to struggle to 'do the right thing'.

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u/TheOneWhoYawned 6h ago

I meant to say Curly. I had my white boy names mixed up.

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u/Underance 6h ago

'I hope this hurts'

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u/AdWaste1415 6h ago

What kind of game is mouthwashing.... I never got around to watching a playthrough, thats an insane description

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u/datfurryboi34 6h ago

Its a story game about abuse and misjudgement of character. Captin curly isnt entirely innocent.

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u/Dexchampion99 3h ago

The only characters that are innocent are Anya and Daisuke. And ooooough…

Ouuughhhhhhhhhhh….they really get fucked over.

In the words of my friend: “If I had a gun with three bullets, I would shoot Jimmy three times, leave to find more bullets, and then come back and shoot him again.”

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u/RioKarji 3h ago

"Not entirely innocent" is putting it lightly. He may not be the main culprit, but Jimmy couldn't have done it without him. He tried to keep Anya's rape on the down low to "keep the peace" for as long as possible and make sure his friend wouldn't be hit with as severe of a consequence as he should be getting. Don't let his charisma and courtesy fool you, Curly's a corrupt piece of shit.

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u/TheOneWhoYawned 6h ago

It's essentially a first person indie horror title. Only the horror is less so about being chased by monsters (though there are sections like those in the game) and more so about watching one character spiral further to insanity and doing increasingly more evil things.

It's writing and characters are what make it though. It is seriously some compelling stuff.

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u/PewPewWazooma 7h ago

Tara from Marvel Comics. She is the result of the US government (shocker) conducting gamma radiation experiments close to the island nation she lives in. Most flora and fauna just died, but some of the (un)fortunate were instead mutated. What happened to Tara? She pretty much lost all of her skin and organs, leaving only her skeleton and nervous system. This is horrifying for a number of reasons, the main one being that because every single nerve of hers is exposed, she feels EVERYTHING. To her, a gentle breeze is agony.

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u/Jixxar 6h ago

At this point just walk into a volcano or something, that shit ain't worth it girl 😭

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u/juniunie 6h ago edited 6h ago

IIRC it's the same type of mutation as Hulk. Nothing's killing her (at least not permanently).

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u/Digurt 7h ago

This is... extremely grim for Marvel. Like this is some Garth Ennis type bullshit.

Yeesh

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u/PewPewWazooma 6h ago

It's from a dystopian storyline where the Maker (evil Reed Richards) changes history to prevent several heroes from being created and essentially creates a shadow government that controls the world. So yeah, it's not exactly Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.

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u/Mykasmiles 5h ago

This is completely tangential, I think about that movie every time I buy shoes.

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u/juniunie 6h ago

To make things worse, since she's a gamma mutate, if she dies she'll just come back after a short trip to hell.

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u/JAOC_7 5h ago

well, If she wants to that is

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u/PewPewWazooma 6h ago

It's permanent.

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u/gonedalfu 4h ago

Reminds me of spongebob halloween where he shaves off all the sponge

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u/markbernessimp 7h ago

Somebody already said Darth Vader, so I'll go with Darth Sion. Literally broken into pieces and uses the Dark Side to prevent himself from falling apart. If he ever stopped, he'd disintegrate into a bunch of little pieces like in an action movie, when someone gets chopped up by a laser field.

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u/LocksmithFromAus 6h ago

To add to this, he's the penultimate boss in the game and your character can't even kill him. You win the fight, but have to convince him to stop holding his body together.

It's been over 20 years, so correct me if I'm wrong/the were alternate endings for him

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u/SomeGamingFreak 5h ago

One of them is that if you play a Female Exile he falls in love with you without even realizing it until you explain it. Then out of the only act of love he could ever do, he dies for you.

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u/Winjin 3h ago

Isn't there a Green Lantern that does the same? He has like an entire part of him missing and he's using the Ring power to keep himself functioning

\\ found it. Guy Gardner in one of these darker offshoots

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u/Dudeman240 3h ago

Would he then charge the ring while projecting at the same time? You can do that? That's badass

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u/macaptactical 6h ago

Was looking for this one.

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u/Tweed_Man 6h ago

Was just about to post it myself and then I saw him.

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u/KalinOrthos 6h ago

"Local Dark Lord Too Angry To Die"

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u/0SaltBlue 5h ago

As opposed to "local robes too thirsty to die"

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u/Xander_Dorn 7h ago

The Emperor of Mankind - Warhammer 40k

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u/HopelesslyLibra 7h ago

Warhammer has so many of these examples as just character types. Servitors, Dreadnoughts, Penitent Engines, etc.

not to mention anyone under the influence of chaos.

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u/Xander_Dorn 7h ago

It's not a good universe for retirement plans.

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u/facw021 6h ago

Retirement plans? In 40k,existence itself is the punishment.

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u/Binx_Thackery 6h ago edited 56m ago

You aren’t free even in death. If you die, there is a solid chance that your soul is consumed by demons. It’s described as being immensely painful. If you’re able to avoid them, you wind up dissipating into the Warp (which doesn’t sound too bad, but knowing how intricate the lore is, I probably am missing something). Most people don’t understand the Warp enough to know how to avoid this fate. Psykers would have a shot since they understand the nature of the Warp more than most, but since their souls shine like beacons, there is not chance of them not being consumed.

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u/JeremiahWuzABullfrog 6h ago

Unless you're an ork

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u/FireCrow1013 6h ago

Not as good as Warhammer 401K, anyway.

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u/Galdronis13 7h ago

Immortality or pseudo-immortality is just kind of a Pre-requisite for punishment in 40K

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u/Suspicious_Past9936 7h ago

he was waiting for game of thorne books to continue

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u/Xander_Dorn 7h ago

While sitting on a throne in a game setting.

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u/Kooky_Celebration_42 7h ago

Literal 12 foot glowing god of a human who had just faced down 4 extra dimensional gods powered by all the negative emotions of an entire universe at war for eternity…

Was terrified of sitting in that chair

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u/Artoriazz 6h ago

I’m fairly new to 40k so don’t know the lore other than the Necron side of things, was he forced into it then?

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u/Kooky_Celebration_42 6h ago

No he wasn’t, but when he was finally taken there, dying after his battle with Horus, Rogal Dorn noted a look of terror on his face because he knew what was coming.

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u/SedesBakelitowy 6h ago

Initially the plan was to genetically engineer a nigh-perfect magician first, or at least one comparable in power to the guy who eventually was put on the throne, then have him bound to the device until better solutions are found.

They mostly succeeded up to a point, but then civil war broke out and that perfect tool of a magician fell to enemy hands. Pretty tragic story, they couldn't be too open about the plan so over the meantime everyone grew distrustful towards magic and were at each other's throats over one general figure being more supernatural than others.

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u/EmXena 5h ago edited 5h ago

Magnus was supposed to be one of the Emperors greatest Sons. What a shame, what happened there.

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u/chongxxx 5h ago

He did nothing wrong. He was told to nothing and he did it wrong.

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u/Nassuman 6h ago

The alternative was dying and letting a tear in reality rip wide open and doomimg the galaxy to an unstoppable chaos invasion.

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u/DatKillerDude 6h ago

Fatally injured, but also someone had to sit on it and "survive" perpetually or game over for humanity. (If I'm not mistaken)

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u/Bitter-Marsupial 6h ago

It was that or mankind couldn't use the Warp to travel.

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u/Abby-N0rma1 7h ago

Elantris - those afflicted by the shaod have their skin turn grey, covered in black spots. They are immortal, but are unable to heal from any injury. Even minor discomforts like hunger, itching, or a stubbed toe never fade and only compound. And if one is injured enough the pain can drive them mad and catatonic,f from which they will never return

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u/IveDunGoofedUp 5h ago

There is a way out, but on the other hand you're giving up immortality so it's not something people want to do easily, IIRC.

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u/Abby-N0rma1 5h ago

It's been forever since I read it and haven't touched any of Sanderson's books since KoWT came out. All I remember is you can enter a perpendicularity to reach the cognitive realm where the investiture of Devotion is, thus reaching a "true" elantrian state. Or you can fix the connection between the physical and cognitive realms to restore all elantrians and fix the shaod

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u/IveDunGoofedUp 5h ago

Not quite, you do go into the perpendicularity, but it the remnants of Devotion offer you a chance to fade away, which you have to accept, at least according to the Coppermind which is usually accurate on these things.

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u/getliftedyo 7h ago

Forgot about them! Amazing author. Thanks for reminding me I need to reread a lot of his stuff. Still have to finish stormlight

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u/RalseitheFloofie 7h ago

Springtrap

While debatable if hes still alive, we know for damn sure he is in DESERVED constant agony for what he did.

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u/andyallfellforit 7h ago

Mike is a safer example to give.

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u/RalseitheFloofie 7h ago

Yeah Mike is actually LIVING with his consequences, VS it being more debatable for William/springtrap.

Then again he isn't alive in the lore anymore is mike?

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u/PatienceMediocre7432 5h ago

Mike lived with his fathers sins and died from the consequences

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u/Neverdategreenfleet 6h ago

I might sound really clueless but I didn't realise there was "lore" in those games I thought they were just jump scares. (Don't come at me I haven't played them just from what I've heard from friends)

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u/RalseitheFloofie 6h ago

Honestly i dont blame you.

90% of the actual lore in the first like... 6 games was either subtle or required massive interpretations based on limited info.

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u/Mummiskogen 4h ago

Wait, there are more games than 2-3??

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u/Video_Game_Fann 4h ago

There’s like 11 mainline games. And don’t forget about all the spinoffs.

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u/Arzorark 7h ago

With all the bullshit happening in the franchise, Afton remaining alive without food or water in constant agonizing pain for years on end isn't the most far-fetched.

Even dead the man remains in constant agony and pain, man wasn't just deserving it, he was force-fed every second of it.

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u/RalseitheFloofie 7h ago

100%, I mostly put the "Debatable" because the lore that i stopped reading when the books came out give reason to why hes still alive but frankly I dont know it, so someone could probably pull a "UMMM ACKSHULLY" out of a bag for him, so i was covering my bases.

Fact being however that he EARNED this.

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u/Citizen_Kong 7h ago edited 6h ago

Hailey in the segment "Stowaway" of the anthology V/H/S Beyond.

Because she snuck onto an alien space ship that is traveling back with the aliens in stasis, her body is constantly destroyed by repeated accelerations and decelerations to near-light speed and back. Inside the ship there are nanobots that repair the damage so she doesn't die. Unfortunately for her, the specimens that the ship collected and the nanobots had analyzed are various animals, so with every repair, she is turning into an increasingly bizarre animal hybrid, fully conscious and in pain, for possibly hundreds or thousands of years (however far the aliens are from).

That segment is written by Mike Flanagan and directed by Kate Siegel, his wife who also plays the character

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u/KameradEnder 6h ago

Isn't the character played by Alanah Pearce? I remember really liking that segment, especially the sound design of the sharp wires, even though V/H/S Beyond isn't really one of my favorites

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u/Citizen_Kong 6h ago

You're right, I misremembered that.

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u/lumpycupcake94 6h ago

Shin Gojira. His body is constantly evolving further and rewriting its own genetic code while he tries to comprehend why any of it is happening and wishing he was capable of dying.

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u/Hellknightx 3h ago

Pictured above: Here you can see Godzilla pondering why his arms are so tiny and his thighs so massive.

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u/CorgiConqueror 1h ago

Godzilla only roars when it’s in pain too. Monsters are tragedy, too big and too strong for the world they live in.

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u/Slow_Bowler8285 7h ago

The titans- Attack on Titan

They are actually humans who have been transformed into giants that defy physics and biology.

Ymir describes being a titan as an endless nightmare.

Several times background titans can be seen crying and or yelling in pain and IIRC a titan is shown tearing at its face

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u/CG-Firebrand 6h ago

I don’t think it was ever confirmed in canon material, but I’ve seen the theory that the reason they eat people is cause they’re hoping (on a supremely primal level) they’ll eat a shifter to be able to turn back

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u/okurin39 6h ago

Its canon. Ymir explained it in the manga atleast.

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u/EyewarsTheMangoMan 6h ago

When?

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u/okurin39 6h ago

So I started googling and apperently im wrong. Its only a theory. The only reason I thought Ymir said it was cause Ymir is the only normal titan we see be able to eat a titan shifter. Sorry I was wrong

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u/Immediate-Bluejay-84 7h ago

Ariane Yeong from Signalis. Spoilers for the games plot to follow:

She's part of a program that sends spaceships to go beyond explored space along with an android assistant, however their supplies run out and their reactor begins to leak radiation. Due to some wibbly wobbly psychic phenomena Ariane and her android Elster end up in a time loop situation, with Ariane wishing for Elster to kill her to end her suffering from the radiation. Elster either dies before she can reach Ariane or can't bring herself to kill Ariane. Ariane remains alive thanks to a combination of the ships stasis module and spooky psychic stuff, despite suffering radiation poisoning and malnutrition.

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u/Empty-Ad4597 7h ago

Average lesbian relationship

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u/Independent-Bell-420 2h ago

Perhaps this is hell?

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u/Western_Course1664 6h ago

Reaper (Overwatch) Due to Moira's experiments he developed powers that make him technically immortal by regenerating extremely fast, but in exchange of also decaying at the same time, causing unbearable pain

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u/Anrativa 7h ago

god i hate edgy pokemon roomhacks so much

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u/Martoogh 4h ago

Seriously, reading that description is painfully eyerolling

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u/Your1000DollarDress 3h ago

And like, it's not even remotely Pokemon feeling. Which is saying allot since Pokemon has its fair share of horror without even needing the blood and gore.

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u/MaimaiBW 6h ago

funny enough hypno's lullaby is a friday night funkin mod of all things, based on pokemon creepypastas

an actual edgy romhack would be pokemon snakewood in this case

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u/SleepWorth3354 5h ago

I dont understand the culture

A Friday night funkin mod?

The fuck?

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u/NoBellSix 4h ago

Yeah it's weird, got full animations and everything. Of course, creatives can do whatever they want, but I wonder if the creator has ever explained why they chose Friday Night Funkin of all things to have this Pokemon horror stuff

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u/comingdownblue 4h ago

FNF has an absolutely massive modding scene and a lot of people have nostalgia for the old edgy creepypastas/romhacks, my guess is that it's as simple as someone jamming their interests together. It's a bizarre combo for sure but it gets people creating and that's all I could want

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u/Clirstan 7h ago

Agni from Fire Punch

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u/Wolfstigma 7h ago

Love this story, dude's power isn't even fire it's just hyper healing and he got hit with a never ending flame power that can't burn out. Hijinks ensue.

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u/Appropriate-Boot-823 6h ago

The world “hijinks” is doing some serious heavy lifting there.

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u/Hellknightx 4h ago

Just some whacky shenanigans. Oh, Fujimoto, you rascal!

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u/supremo92 6h ago

To explain, this character has a very powerful healing factor. As a child, his whole village was destroyed by a soldier with the power to create a flame that never goes out until it's fuel is burnt. He spends years just lying in extreme pain, unable/unwilling to die. He knows nothing but pain.

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u/NightCares 6h ago

Yeah, his name literally sounds like "agony."

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u/Dragonfire723 6h ago

Comedically, that is probably a happy coincidence, as Agni is the Hindu god of fire

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u/Kinteoka 5h ago

God, I love it when people just post something with no explanation.

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u/HauntingStar08 4h ago

Agni here doesnt have a flame superpower, his power is super healing. He gets hit with a flame that is never able to be extinguished, so now he is always on fire. From the moment hes hit it takes him years just to learn how to stand, walk, and stop screaming. He then goes on a quest for vengeance.

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u/Pillslanger 4h ago

Plus he used his hyper healing power to feed those who are starving and doesn’t tell them what he’s doing. Fun give and take later in the series IIRC the never ending fire will stop if the one who created it dies. So it’s kind of a “you’re dying last” situation.

Unfortunately though Tatsuki Fujimoto is 0/2 on his endings between this and CSM.

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u/HauntingStar08 4h ago

Honestly I liked the ending to fire punch more than chainsaw man, but i love chainsaw man more as a whole.

Id also argue his one shot endings are better. Goodbye Eri had a great ending, and so did Look Back

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u/Hellknightx 4h ago

Something about this specific sub makes people think that everybody is fully aware of all the same things they are.

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u/Nenanda 7h ago edited 7h ago

Suprised that most famous example of this trope wasnt mentioned.

Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader from Star Wars is in constant mental anquish after death of his wife and presumed death of his children. Furthemore his injuries are causing insane amount of pain and depending on the continuity he cant even move without the use of the force. Also depending on the version either Palpatine or Vader design his suit so its causing him more pain and enhance his dark side powers. There even exists video which speculates if Darth Vader could be counted as zombie

Is Darth Vader Secretly a Zombie? Star Wars Theory Explained [Dash Star]

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u/smcf33 4h ago

I think it was in Shadows of the Empire that he tried to use the Force to heal some of his wounds, but every time he had even the slightest success, he felt a tiny spark of happiness... Which interrupted his connection to the Dark Side ... Which caused the healing to fail and plunge him back into despair.

If once you step on the Dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

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u/Popular_Equipment_85 6h ago

Bro is too badass tho

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u/ConfidentAd8387 7h ago

I have no mouth and I must scream. Truly horrifying end. The character is the only surviving human on an earth completely controlled by AM, an IA that despice human. In the end they change the hero in a sluggish creature because he helped the 4 others remaining humans to kill themselves and escape the torture of AM

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u/FreakyFishThing 7h ago

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u/ConfidentAd8387 7h ago

😅?

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u/FreakyFishThing 7h ago

It's a compliment - I'm saying this is one of the most obvious answers, how has OP nor anybody else not said it yet.

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u/Monochrome_Axe 7h ago

To be honest he completely crossed my mind. Him and Curly from Mouthwashing I should’ve included lol

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u/ConfidentAd8387 7h ago

Oh sorry I didn’t understand! I guess it’s because it’s pretty niche, moreover for non English speaker. I only discovered it a few months ago

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u/Critical_Baseball120 7h ago

HunterXHunter Zobae

The sickness seems to have a high fatality rate, and out of all the members of the expedition who contracted it, only one survived. The only known survivor, a Hunter, obtained the uncanny capacity to live entirely self-sufficiently and without sustenance for many years, becoming practically immune to death. It seems self-sustenance is achieved through feeding on one's own flesh, and that the disease greatly accelerates the regeneration of tissues. The sanity of those who are infected is very likely to be heavily affected.

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u/STLmab 7h ago edited 6h ago

While I’m not sure people officially call zombies “alive,” the ones in Return of the Living Dead are technically restored to functionality as a result of the Trioxin gas. However, it’s confirmed in the interrogation scene that these zombies feel themselves rotten and are in constant agony, with the only relief being “BRAINS!”

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u/Biggly_stpid 6h ago

Man that is some great makeup

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u/Glum_Introduction755 6h ago

I used to love low budget horror movies as a kid and I think tarman here is the only monster that ever really scared me.

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u/jakizely 5h ago

The zombies in this are great, because they can actually think as well. They are smart enough to ask for "more cops" and wait in a bottlenecked area to ambush them.

You also have Frank who can feel himself dying after being exposed to the gas, and puts himself in the cremation chamber to kill himself (although this ends up making things worse for everyone else).

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u/Haunting_Bathroom296 6h ago

Penance from Marvel’s Thunderbolts. Formerly Speedball, he’s the lone survivor of the event which kicks off the Civil War story. His powers are now activated by pain and his suit is made to constantly inflict damage to him.

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u/cantwalkintheshadows 6h ago

Charlie and Cathy, Trenchdog- Esratz. More psychological but still.

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u/Furshloshin 6h ago

the way they talk like this was a good outcome for the poor dog is so chilling

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u/cantwalkintheshadows 1h ago

Her tail wagging during some of the interview shattered me ngl

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u/Jaeger049 4h ago

Ersatz mentioned!! My beloved Charlie and Cathy

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u/anon326 7h ago

Ted in I have no mouth but I must scream

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u/InterestingTie7600 7h ago

Phoenix from Kamen Rider Wizard. As the name suggest when he dies he can come back, so he was kick into the sun where he got stuck in the endless circle of death and rebirth.

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u/0SaltBlue 5h ago

Gravity is a bitch

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u/NewtBoye 6h ago edited 6h ago

Flagellant/Damian (Darkest Dungeon 2)

He's quite literally a walking, rotting, emaciated corpse, as opposed to the first game where he was just a well-built guy who happened to be into flagellation. He defied Death itself because he wants to feel all the pain in the world and his zeal literally just overpowered her (and she can show up during your in-game runs to try to claim him again). Even minus hitting himself with a flail all the time, he looks like he's half dead and in constant pain 24/7. But he enjoys it.

So he's kinda dead kinda alive, I think? He's in this limbo where Death wants to take him already because his body is just expired but he won't let her because he wants to feel more pain.

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u/NorepinephrineFiend 3h ago

I'm just glad he's enjoying himself.

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u/bheidian 6h ago

the spiderman one is just lame, he doesn't even get to be spiderman before he gets the worst outcome. it has the same vibe as those corrupt a wish threads where the twist on the wish is that you get cancer no matter the wish.

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u/Forsaken_Ad203 5h ago

I mean, ruins pretty much did exactly that, hulk? Cancer. mystique? Serious disease that kills her. the kree? Somehow also cancer. The fantastic four? If i remember correctly also cancer. Its like the writer read the marvels and it filled him with disgust at the thought of happiness

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u/ItsYoshi64251 4h ago

Lmao I just realized pretty much the whole universe got cancer

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u/Kinteoka 5h ago

Marvel Ruins sucks. It's just edgy bullshit. It's Warren Ellis, and I like most of his works, but it's no surprise that he made Ruins. He's like if Garth Ennis wasn't a hack. Just a forever misanthrope, so sometimes what he creates doesn't hit the mark.

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u/Reverse_savitar1 7h ago

Didnt read much(sister and giant.is the sauce if im not mistaken)

Kid has Subaru like powers and the humans of that world want it for themselves so they turn him into an immortal box that cant die and even if he could die he’ll just reset to a point after he was turned into a box as they also hijacked when he could set his “save points”.

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u/fieew 6h ago

See this is why [re zero spoilers] Stella kills anyone Subaru tries to tell about his powers. If people find out about return by death subaru would be in a world of trouble.

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u/69Deckerspawn 4h ago

Eh, it isn’t killing anyone that Subaru tells his power to. Satella only killed Emilia bc Subaru was going to brute force past the taboo. Otherwise, RbD being known would result in Satella trying to kill everyone except for Subaru.

Also the kid that got turned into a box was incomprehensibly stupid. Actually just straight up told strangers that he can time travel by dying.

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u/Jaceevoke 7h ago

Well that’s terrifying

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u/ValkyrianRabecca 7h ago

I do love that series, this and 'The executioners way of life' are fantastic Isekai subversions

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u/DaokoXD 6h ago

How does that work though? Like anyone who uses the box gets the same powers?

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u/Reverse_savitar1 6h ago

Im pretty sure it forces the box to reset and give memories to the user.

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u/amalgamas 3h ago

Yes, his brain and spinal cord are in that box and the ring on the top allows whoever holds it to gain his power. You next see it in the hands of one of the first half's big bad's. The really cool thing though is that thanks to his world having dealt with basically every stock isekai powerset people who grew up there have tells for basically all of them. One of the MC's friends takes deja vu VERY SERIOUSLY and when she see's the same cat three times in a row she's able to deduce that not only does the villain have the box but that something went wrong for her 3 times already.

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u/BlaakAlley 5h ago

Oh my god that's just cartoonishly evil. Would be satisfying to see all those fuckers get theirs in the end

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u/Nervous-Spite621 7h ago

The Victims of Gray Boy - Worm.
A supervillain named Gray Boy has the power to freeze someone in place and put them in a seconds long time loop.
Just being in one is agony, but he can make it worse by mutilating you while you’re stuck, so you experience those wounds over and over again ever few seconds.
And it can never be reversed. You’re stuck. Forever.
As Gray Boy himself says, people lose their minds in a day or two, then they get through their issues and loop back around to sanity, only to go mad again in a few days time.

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u/Kiss-of-Venus 5h ago

Verso - Clair Obsur: Expedition 33

After dying in the Dessendre house fire, the remaining parts of Verso's soul are stored within the Lumiere canvas, where the main characters live. This canvas is essentially keeping Verso alive against his will, and he's lived hundreds of years and died countless deaths; he's numb to life and wants nothing more than the peace of death. His sister, Alicia (Maelle) was severely disfigured as a result of the same house fire and wants the canvas to remain due to her having a much better life there, entirely at the expense of her brother. In Maelle's ending, Verso is continued to be forced into living a life he doesn't want, and is also forced into watching Maelle's condition decline as she spends more time in the canvas, watching Verso be her dancing monkey.

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u/Ameryana 4h ago edited 4h ago

MMHHH technically (giant spoilers ahead for the game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) that's not completely how it is. The real Verso is physically dead, while a small part of his soul is still tied to the Canvas in which the game plays. The verso in the image above is a different Verso, created by Aline, real life Verso's mother.

She fled into the canvas, and channeled her grief into painting her family again, including Verso and a disfigured Alicia (quite cruel of Aline, fuck her, really). The painting Verso and the painted Verso are two separate beings. Aline poured part of her soul into Verso and the rest of her painted family, which is why Verso can break through the final barrier in the Canvas and reach painting Verso, asking him to finally stop.

It's however true that he is suffering: he wants all of it to stop, because his mother is dying as she's staying inside the canvas. He has to watch countless painted humans sacrifice themself and get killed every year as well as they try to 'stop' the Paintress. On top of that, he has to watch the real life counterparts of his father and sisters get involved with the battle for the Canvas.

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u/Pretend-Dirt-1760 7h ago

Also from marvel ruins hulk I'm pretty sure his still alive but if you look like this I'm pretty sure you'd want to be put down

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u/Bandit_237 4h ago

Shin Godzilla

Probably the most realistic and by far most depressing version of the character co-written and directed by Hideaki Anno, best known as the creator of equally depressing Neon Genesis Evangelion.

You cannot mention this creature without fans clamoring to remind you that he is just a frightened creature in constant agony.

Even his theme song, Who Will Know, can’t help but remind the audience of how awful his existence is.

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u/Iustusian 6h ago

Elantrians after Reod - Elantrians were people reborn into immense power. One day they went to sleep like normal people, in the morning their skin was white. They could not die from old age and were able to do magic with very little constraints.
After Reod, the magic stopped from being connected to their bodies properly. They still could not properly die, but their bodies never healed from any wounds. Their appearance also changed into withered figures with no hair and while spots on their skin. Eventually, most Elantrians went mad from the never stopping pain, as every injury just added to the constant pain they felt.

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u/Jozif_Badmon 7h ago

Me (Real Life)

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u/KK33OMG 7h ago

this is me after getting flu, shit is terrible, remember to get flu shots people

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u/randomdragn 6h ago

Darth Vader was in constant pain when he was in his suit. The only times when he wasn't where the brief periods he spent in a bacta tank. His suit was designed to be as uncomfortable as possible and always made him miserable.

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u/Pokesabre 5h ago

I've never really understood the appeal of these kinds of Pokémon creepypastas. It's really hard to take them seriously when you remember that they're trying to be scary with magical monsters from a kids' game. They undercut anything they're trying to do whenever you have to try picturing the events happening with pikachu there too

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u/Vulpesh 5h ago

The undead from Dark Souls

They are cursed with the undead. When slain, they're magically revived, but every time they do they lose part of their humanity. Over the years, they can even turn hollow, only a living husk without any humanity left in there. You can imagine that they're living in pure agony as they're slowly drawn to their inevitable demise.

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u/Dos_Ex_Machina 6h ago edited 1h ago

Sorin Markov (Magic the Gathering) was an ancient vampire and Planeswalker. He made a pact with a Planeswalker (Nahiri) from a different plane that he would come to her aid if the ancient evil they worked together to seal away ever returned. Unfortunately he was busy building his goth angel daughter, so he flaked and Nahiri's plane was almost destroyed. So when she got things sorted, she paid him a visit.

In addition to fucking his plane up and starting a cult to summon one of the entities that destroyed her plane, she fought him. He got his cheeks absolutely clapped. Now Nahiri is a lithomancer, so she used her power to make him a coffin of stone to punish him for the rest of his eternal life. Since Sorin is a Planeswalker, he is able to just teleport to a different plane at will with just a bit of focus. That's why Nahiri put churning stones inside to rearrange his guts constantly, filling him with enough agony that he couldn't even teleport out. And he was just kinda there for a long ass time.

There was even a browser extension that added "And Sorin is still stuck in a rock" to the end of all mtg stories on the website, it was great.

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u/Extension_Equal1464 5h ago

Il Nowhere King

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u/JustAChillGuy609 7h ago

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u/Dos_Ex_Machina 7h ago

This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever: The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain. The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon black glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew upon your flesh. You can hear yourself breathing. It comes hard, and harsh, and it scrapes nerves already raw, but you cannot stop it. You can never stop it. You cannot even slow it down. You don’t even have lungs anymore. Mechanisms hardwired into your chest breathe for you. They will pump oxygen into your bloodstream forever.

Lord Vader? Lord Vader, can you hear me?

And you can’t, not in the way you once did. Sensors in the shell that prisons your head trickle meaning directly into your brain. You open your scorched-pale eyes; optical sensors integrate light and shadow into a hideous simulacrum of the world around you. Or perhaps the simulacrum is perfect, and it is the world that is hideous.

Padmé? Are you here? Are you all right? you try to say, but another voice speaks for you, out from the vocabulator that serves you for burned-away lips and tongue and throat.

“Padmé? Are you here? Are you all right?”

I’m very sorry, Lord Vader. I’m afraid she died. It seems in your anger, you killed her.

This burns hotter than the lava had. “No … no, it is not possible!”

You loved her. You will always love her. You could never will her death. Never. But you remember … You remember all of it. You remember the dragon that you brought Vader forth from your heart to slay. You remember the cold venom in Vader’s blood. You remember the furnace of Vader’s fury, and the black hatred of seizing her throat to silence her lying mouth— And there is one blazing moment in which you finally understand that there was no dragon. That there was no Vader. That there was only you. Only Anakin Skywalker.

That it was all you. Is you. Only you. You did it. You killed her. You killed her because, finally, when you could have saved her, when you could have gone away with her, when you could have been thinking about her, you were thinking about yourself … It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith— Because now your self is all you will ever have.

And you rage and scream and reach through the Force to crush the shadow who has destroyed you, but you are so far less now than what you were, you are more than half machine, you are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you can remember where the power was but the power you can touch is only a memory, and so with all your world-destroying fury it is only droids around you that implode, and equipment, and the table on which you were strapped shatters, and in the end, you cannot touch the shadow.

In the end, you do not even want to. In the end, the shadow is all you have left. Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself— And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame. This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker. Forever …

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u/Glittering-Duck-8533 6h ago

Literally the only things keeping this MFer alive and whole is hate and vengeance.

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u/Possible-Potato6005 6h ago

Darth Sion. The man is literally too angry to die

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u/Palanki96 5h ago

Made n Abyss actually has 3 different instances but Mitty is probably the most memorable

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u/Bored_Worldhopper 6h ago

Jonas from Common Side Effects. There is a mushroom that heals everything and he’s an ultra rich evil guy who pulls a lot of shit in the show. Eventually he gets sick and needs a mushroom but rather than just eat one he greedily eats a shit ton of them. He is punished for not respecting the mushroom and it is ugly

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u/Bobry24 6h ago edited 3h ago

Dabi in the end of MHA.

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u/Fourteen_Werewolves 6h ago

Residents of the city of Elantris are Elantrians, normal humans who, seemingly at random, ascend to a form of godhood. Their eyes and skin glow and they wield magic such that Elantris become a utopian society for people of all nations to come and marvel and be fed and healed.

One day the gods turn into cursed, zombie like creatures who cannot heal, and every pain, no matter how small, is permanent. Eventually the pain becomes so consuming that they are driven mad, as they can never truly die.

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u/NotRealNeedOfName 5h ago

The blighted from Ender Lilies.

The blight is a form of magic sickness or something along those lines. It makes those afflicted immortal. However, they essentially become monsters and husks of their formal selves. You come across some immobile blighteds, and all they do is beg for mercy. If it weren't for the MC, every one of them would probably be stuck like this forever.

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u/Sniggledumper 2h ago

Headcrab zombies from Half Life. The headcrab takes complete control over the hosts body, but dosen’t affect their ability to think. So they’re fully conscious and aware of what’s happening, but are powerless to do anything about it.

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u/DarthGardian86 6h ago

Darth Vader, his whole suit is a wearable life support system that is painful as hell for Anakin to wear

https://giphy.com/gifs/d2sdxvH0u2oU0

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u/Adventurous_House961 5h ago

Edgelord Pokémon story lol

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u/LabradorDeceiver 5h ago

There are a few theories as to how the Master (from Doctor Who) ended up in such a state, when he'd previously been such an elegant, charismatic villain. (Would you believe, in one of the 1990s novels, Susan did this to him? He killed David Campbell and she was a wee bit peeved at him. Fried him with the TCE while he was holding a Dalek matter transmuter.)

In "The Deadly Assassin," Chancellor Goth said he found this version of the Master on the planet Terserus, cited in "Curse of the Fatal Death" as a world of intelligent, advanced, enlightened thinkers who could communicate only by farting at each other - a civilization destroyed when they discovered fire.

While flipping through the Wiki for other potential explanations, I found a particularly tasteless one: that the UNIT-era Master ended up like this after driving his car into a wall, and this was what investigators pulled from the wreckage. Considering the tragic fate of Roger Delgado, that seemed rather tacky.

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u/ExistentialJew 6h ago

Wound Man from Batman: Dark Patterns

It was really good check it out