Summary
Characters in anime often suffer fates worse than death, with unimaginable pain and mental torment. Villains are often the ones who push others into such fates, demonstrating their exceptionally evil nature. Heroes rarely subject their enemies to anything worse than a clean, just death, highlighting the importance of those who do.
Death is the worst thing many people can imagine, but many authors have dreamed up fates that exceed the limits of reality or the characters’ ability to understand, causing some to face the ultimate fate. die. Anime characters suffer fates worse than death. They often involve unimaginable pain or mental torment that cannot be escaped, at least under the character’s own power.
This is not a trope reserved only for villains, but it is often used to show how exceptionally evil they are, that they would subject others to such a fate or themselves. deserved such a fate. A hero will very rarely subject an enemy to anything worse than a clean, just death, and that says a lot about those who do it.
10 golden experience prayers will never let Diavolo die
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo
Fates worse than death await JoJo, such as Kars and Angelo Rock’s one-way trip into space. But to Diavolo’s horror, the Season 5 villain received the jewel of eternal torment. Giorno’s Stand, Gold Experience, undergoes a last-minute evolution into Gold Experience Requiem and wastes no time testing its new abilities: reverting everything to “zero” and negating causal effects .
Diavolo is taken out of reality and falls into an endless loop of scenarios in which he dies horribly in countless ways., from being stabbed to being hit by a car to experiencing his own autopsy. As Giorno bluntly puts it, “his end is without end.” For Diavolo, who has spent his entire life intensely paranoid about being found and killed, there is no worse way to spend his remaining time than waiting for his inevitable death. next.
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9 Junpei Yoshino became Mahito’s toy
Jujutsu Kaisen
Encountering a cursed spirit is never a good thing for an unfortunate, helpless human. But some curses are certainly more brutal than others, and chief among them is Mahito. However, when he wants to, he is very good at pretending to be friends with humans, bonding with them and gaining their trust by empathizing with their negative emotions.
Manipulated as he was, Junpei Yoshino never saw it coming when Mahito first killed his mother and then subjected him to his Idle Transformation technique. He turns Junpei into a reptilian creature that cannot speak or move beyond Mahito’s control., can only cry when forced to fight Yuuji. It was this, instead of Mahito just killing Junpei, that caused Yuuji to receive the curse of eternal hatred.
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8 Dr. Kanou used Rize as a long-term test
The vampire in Tokyo
Rize Kamishiro is responsible for one of the best plot twists in the first episode in the anime when she attacks Kaneki. She was then presumed dead, but years later Kaneki discovered she was alive. Dr. Kanou engineered not only Kaneki’s transformation into a vampire but also the accident that seemingly killed Rize, all in order to carry out his experiments gone wrong.
A ghoul’s kakuhou is the regeneration organ that allows them to become ghouls, and Kanou used Rize’s kakuhou to perfect his Kaneki breeding experiment. He keeps Rize prisoner in his laboratory, mutilated and imprisoned, so that he can repeat this process indefinitely.. Even after being freed from him, Rize was locked up and starved so she would never gain her former powers again.
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The 7 Puella Magi all have endings worse than death
Magical girl Magi Madokes
Kyubey and the other Incubators do what they do to prevent the heat death of the universe, making them technically one of the anime villains that actually has a good point. And that’s where any possible sympathy for terrible cats ends. Specifically targeting teenage girls experiencing emotional pain to manipulate them squarely into the “evil” category.
On the surface, being a magical girl grants them wishes and turns them into heroes. But what Kyubey conveniently left out before the girls signed a contract with him was that the transformation stole their souls, forcing them to fight the witch until they inevitably fell into despair and become a witch. Until they are killed by a new magical girl, they will exist forever as mindless monsters.in a domain made up of the worst parts of their human lives.
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The 6 sinners in Quindecim are heading towards absolute nothingness
Death march
One of the best fantasy games in anime has consequences worse than death. The opponents are all dead and must play a game together so that Decim can observe them and determine who is rewarded by returning to the cycle of rebirth and who is punished by being banished to nothingness. The latter will permanently destroy their souls, ensuring that they will never be reincarnated.
Unlucky people will never experience life again, correct mistakes they regret, or experience joys they never had. It’s bad enough that Decim needs an assistant to make sure he doesn’t make the wrong choice due to his misunderstanding of human behavior. Worse still are Arbiters like Ginti, who will disappoint souls with their contempt for humanity.
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5 Mai Are Emotionally Tortured in the Dark Realm
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Shadow Realm as a device was primarily used in the original Duel Monsters series; it is mentioned little or not in Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
In the original Japanese script of Yu-Gi-Oh!, many high-stakes duels end in the death or mutilation of the loser. To avoid violent content, the English dub leans heavily on the Dark Kingdom, the hellish dimension to which the souls of losers are sent. Their body remains comatose in the real world, helpless without the soul that belongs to it, and although it can die, the soul cannot. The changes made to the Dark Realm essentially make it even worse than any fate a losing duelist could suffer. It subjects human and spirit prisoners to eternal torture rooted in their worst fears and insecurities.
After Mai’s match with Marik, he sent her mind to the Dark Realm, where she was mentally tortured.. Seeing the light slowly leave her eyes as the Dark Kingdom took its toll on her was brutal, and though she was eventually rescued, the emotional scars of that time were a part of what caused her dark arc in the following season.
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4 Hidan can’t be killed so Shikamaru is even worse
Naruto Shippuden
Many of Naruto’s most powerful jutsu are capable of destroying enemy shinobi in countless gruesome ways. To avenge his teacher’s death, Shikamaru chooses a method that is both more mundane and much more brutal. While this is certainly Shikamaru’s finest moment and one of the most touching scenes in the entire series, Hidan’s fate is so terrible that it almost makes the viewer sympathize with the villain. cruel.
Shikamaru lured Hidan into a trap and buried him alive. His compatriots in Akatsuki did not bother to search for him, and he was left underground starving, dehydrated, and emaciated. And when the Akatsuki members were killed and revived, Kakuzu specifically noted that Hidan was not with them: he remained underground and suffering, where he would presumably remain until long after the time of Boruto.
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3 Fathers Return Through the Gate
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Like many action- and fantasy-heavy anime, Fullmetal Alchemist pulls no punches with this trope, from the souls trapped in Envy’s body to poor Nina and Alexander. However, Father’s fate at the hands of the Truth – forced back to the Gate and imprisoned there for eternity – brings him many layers of horror.
The gate is inescapable, denying him both freedom and any opportunity to learn, grow, or change. as Edward did (even though he spent centuries believing he didn’t even have to try). Instead, he retreated further from where he started in the urn, the last place he wanted to return to. The anime adds a bit of him begging for mercy, saying he only wants freedom and knowledge, which only shows how far he has fallen from the innocent exterior he once had. he had.
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Junji Ito’s 2 unluckiest main characters are turned into twisted monsters
The mystery of the Amigara fault
Junji Ito: Japanese Ghost Stories is streaming on Netflix, while The Junji Ito Collection is available on Crunchyroll.
Bittersweet endings, let alone clearly happy endings, are few and far between in the works of horror mangaka Junji Ito. From having your mind and body torn apart by your controlling mother in “Layers of Fear” to being trapped in millennia of nightmares in “Long Dream,” there are plenty of terrible fates that don’t necessarily require killing. . And yet, perhaps the worst mistake protagonist Ito could make is venturing into the hole created for them.
“The Mystery of the Amigara Bug” forced one person after another into holes in the mountain that were perfectly shaped to fit them, trapping them inside and brutally mutating them. Originally published alongside the equally ridiculous “Gyo,” it has yet to receive an anime adaptation. That’s probably for the best, though: the animation fails to capture the depth and intense wrongness of Ito’s art, as victims of the pits would be tortured and monstrous if they get out of the mountain.
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1 Dallas Genoard is worse than cement shoes
Noise!
His sister may love him, but Dallas isn’t exactly a nice guy. He’s less of a successful criminal and more of a bastard: gambling like crazy and gathering random unlucky people on the streets to beat and rob. However, even he did not deserve what the Gandor family did to him in revenge for insulting them.
The method of drowning and disposing of the body with “cement shoes” is the main method of the mass media. Dallas and his teammates were trapped in barrels filled with cement and thrown into the Hudson River. Thanks to the immortality formula they applied, this would never kill them and they would drown forever without being saved.. While they could still technically die of old age, they were young and decades was still an unbearably long time to drown, making this one of the worst fates that anime characters have had to endure.
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