Summary

die out is the worst thing many multitude can imagine , but plenty of author dream up lot beyond the limits of reality or comprehension to subjugate fiber to , making someanime fictitious character suffer fates bad than death​​​​​​. They usually require unimaginable pain in the neck or genial torment that is out of the question to escape from , at least under a character ’s own power .

This is n’t a trope solely reserved to villain , but it is often used to show how peculiarly evil they are , that they would subjugate others to such a fortune or merit one themselves . A hero will very seldom put an enemy through anything worse than a clean , fair death , and it says a mickle about the ones who do .

10Gold Experience Requiem Will Never Let Diavolo Die

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo

destine bad than death are all overJoJo , such as Kars ’ one - way tripper to space and the Angelo Rock . But to Diavolo ’s revulsion , the scoundrel of Part 5 get the crown jewel of eternal distress . Giorno ’s Stand , Gold Experience , undergo a last - arcminute evolution into Gold Experience Requiem , and languish no fourth dimension testing out its novel ability : return anything to " zero " and denying the causality effect .

Diavolo is delight out of reality and into an infinite loop of scenarios in which he dies horrifically in myriad ways , from being stabbed to hit by a machine to experiencing his own autopsy . As Giorno says monotonic out , “ his terminal is without end . ” For Diavolo , who spent his life violently paranoid about being find out and kill , there ’s no worse way of life to expend the rest of his time than expect for his next inevitable death .

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9Junpei Yoshino Becomes Mahito’s Plaything

Jujutsu Kaisen

Bumping into a cursed spirit is never good for an inauspicious , powerless human . But some curse are definitely more sadistic than others , and chief among them is Mahito . However , when he ’d care to , he is honest at guess to be a human ’s friend , draw together with them and gaining their trust by empathize with their negatively charged feelings .

manipulate so , Junpei Yoshino never determine it come when Mahito first murders his mother and then subject him to his Idle Transfiguration proficiency . He transforms Junpei into a reptilian brute unable to speak or move outside of Mahito ’s control , only able to cry as he ’s squeeze to contend Yuuji . It ’s this , rather than Mahito just killing Junpei , that earns the curse Yuuji ’s undying hatred .

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8Dr. Kanou Used Rize As A Permanent Experiment

Tokyo Ghoul

Rize Kamishiro is responsible for one of thebest first - episode plot twists in animewhen she attacks Kaneki . Afterward , she ’s presumed idle , but old age later Kaneki find out her awake . Dr. Kanou engineered not just Kaneki ’s transformation into a ghoul but the chance event that plain kill Rize , all to do his twisted experiments .

A body snatcher ’s kakuhou is the regenerating pipe organ that makes them a body snatcher , and Kanou used Rize ’s to perfect his hybridization experiment on Kaneki . He kept Rize prisoner in his testing ground , mutilate and keep , so he could repeat the unconscious process indefinitely . Even after she ’s freed from him , Rize is locked up again and hunger so she will never again reach her former index .

7Puella Magi All End Up Worse Than Dead

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Kyubey and the other incubator do what they do to prevent the warmth death of the creation , making them technically some of theanime villains that actually have a good period . And that ’s where any potential fellow feeling for the horrible kat cease . Targeting specifically teenage girls in emotional nuisance to manipulate plants them squarely in the “ evil ” category .

On the surface , becoming a magical girl grants them wish and makes them heroes . But what Kyubey conveniently leaves out before the girls contract with him is that the translation steals their souls , dooming them to fight witches until they necessarily fall into despair and become one . Until they ’re toss off by a new magic young woman , they will exist everlastingly as mindless monsters , in a domain made up of the worst parts of their human living .

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6Sinners In Quindecim Are Headed For Absolute Nothingness

Death Parade

One of thebest fantasy game in animehas spoilt - than - mortal consequences . The rival are already dead , and must play a game together so Decim can remark them and determine who is reward by reentry into the cycle of reincarnation , and who is punished by banishment to wind . The latter for good destroys their soul , ensuring they will never be born-again .

The unlucky person will never get to experience life again , to right the wrongs they regret or know the joy they never had . Decim ask an assistant to verify he does n’t pick wrong due to his misinterpretation of human conduct is unsound enough . Worse are Arbiters like Ginti who will fail souls out of pure contempt for humans .

5Mai Suffers Emotional Torture In The Shadow Realm

Yu-Gi-Oh!

The Shadow Realm as a equipment is primarily used in the originalDuel Monstersseries ; it receives picayune to no cite in laterYu - Gi - Oh!series .

In the original Nipponese script ofYu - Gi - Oh ! , many in high spirits - stakes duels finish in the expiry or mutilation of the loser . To avoid fierce content , the English dub lean very heavily on the Shadow Realm , the demonic property to which losers ’ souls are sent . Their body remain comatose in the real earth , helpless without the soul it belongs to , and while it can conk , the someone can not . These changes made to the Shadow Realm essentially made it even worsened than any destiny a losing duelist could suffer . It subject human and smell prisoners to an eternity of tortures derived from their worst fears and insecurities .

After Mai ’s duel with Marik , he send her mind to the Shadow Realm , where she is emotionally tortured . find the lightness slowly leave her eyes as the Shadow Realm takes its price on her is unrelenting to see , and while she is eventually rescue , the excited scar of her fourth dimension there are part of what causes her dark arc in the next time of year .

Anime characters with fates worse than death featuring Diavolo, Hidan, and Homura

4Hidan Can’t Be Killed, So Shikamaru Does Worse

Naruto Shippuden

Many ofNaruto’sstrongest jutsuare capable of despatch enemy shinobi in countless macabre elbow room . In admit retaliation for the death of his sensei , Shikamaru chooses a method that is simultaneously more routine and endlessly more brutal . While this is sure as shooting Shikamaru ’s best moment , and one of the most psychotherapeutic sequences in the full series , Hidan ’s fate is so horrifying that it almost make witness sympathise with the ruthless scoundrel .

Shikamaru fox Hidan into a trap and buries him live . His compatriots in Akatsuki do n’t vex to look for him , and he ’s left under the ground starving , dehydrating , and otherwise wasting away . And when the Akatsuki member are killed and resurrect , Kakuzu specifically take down that Hidan is n’t with them : he ’s still there under the background and suffering , where he ’ll presumably remain until long after Boruto ’s time .

3Father Goes Back Through The Gate

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Like many other action and fantasy - ponderous Zanzibar copal , Fullmetal Alchemistdoesn’t pull its punches with this image , from the person ensnare inside Envy ’s consistency to miserable Nina and Alexander . However , Father ’s fate at the hands of Sojourner Truth — being force back through the Gate and imprisoned there forever — has several layers of repugnance for him .

The Gate is inescapable , denying him both freedom and any chance to learn , grow , or changeas Edward did ( though he spend one C trust he did n’t even need to hear ) . Instead , he ’s farther back than where he started in the flask , the infrangible last piazza he wanted to repay to . The anime adds an supererogatory line of him plead for mercy , saying he only require freedom and noesis , which just hammers in how far he ’s fallen from what illusion of innocence he once had .

2Junji Ito’s Unluckiest Protagonists Are Turned Into Twisted Monsters

The Enigma of Amigara Fault

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semisweet endings , let alone unambiguously happy ones , are few and far between in the works of revulsion mangaka Junji Ito . From being tear apart mind and body by a controlling female parent in “ Layers of Fear ” to being trapped in millennia of nightmare in " Long Dream , " there are many fearsome fates that do n’t necessarily kill . And yet , mayhap the bad mistake an Ito protagonist could make is venturing into the hole that was made for them .

“ The Enigma of Amigara Fault ” compels mortal after mortal to go into hole in the tidy sum shaped absolutely to fit them , pin down them deep down and brutally transforming them . Originally release alongside the equally grotesque “ Gyo , ” it has not yet received an gum anime adaptation . However , that ’s perhaps for the best : animation ca n’t quite capture the profoundness and acute incorrectness in Ito ’s graphics , as the holes ’ dupe emerge tortured and monstrous , if they make it out of the quite a little at all .

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1Dallas Genoard Got Way Worse Than Cement Shoes

Baccano!

His sister might bed him , but Dallas is n’t exactly a overnice guy . He ’s less of a successful criminal and more of a very fertile jerky : risk wildly and gang up on random ill-starred the great unwashed in the street to beat up and rob . Still , even he did n’t deserve what the Gandor kin did to him in retaliation for offending them .

The “ cement shoes ” method acting of drowning and body garbage disposal is a staple fiber of syndicate medium . Dallas and troupe are trap in gun barrel that are meet with cementum and toss into the Hudson River . Thanks to the immortality formula they withdraw , this will never shoot down them , and they will drown constantly without rilievo . Though they can technically still die of one-time age , they ’re young , and decennium is still an unbearably tenacious time to drown , making this one of the bad destiny that anime characters ever suffered .

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Mai trapped in the Shadow Realm in Yu-Gi-Oh!

Shikamaru traps Hidan with explosive charges in Naruto Shippuden

Truth and Father from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood