It's well-deserved, however, after he turns Odette into a swan and various children into woodland animals against their will. In Barbieof Swan Lake, Rothbart is turned into the cuckoo bird in a cuckoo clock.Rapunzel does not have a lying heart, but Gothel does, so when Gothel is tricked into entering the portal to Rapunzel's tower she is trapped there forever. In Barbie as Rapunzel, Gothel puts a curse on the tower that if anyone with a lying heart is in it, they can never leave.can move on a cope with their disability and discover a new outlook on life rather than be doomed to despair. Additionally, a lot of people who suffer life-changing accidents like losing their sight, their voice, becoming paraplegic, losing a limb, etc. And that is not even mentioning using Mercy Kill as an excuse for choosing death for someone else against their will. While reality can often suck a lot, using this trope as an excuse for suicide (or simply choosing death when given a choice) is nearly always a wrong answer. It should also be noted that Do Not Try This at Home applies in full in this case. Not to be confused with A Fête Worse than Death, though the two can occasionally overlap. For extreme examples of this trope, see And I Must Scream. Contrast Cruel and Unusual Death, for when the victim instead gets a gruesome death that sucks beyond telling.Ĭompare Cruel Mercy, Empty Shell, To the Pain, The Punishment, Room 101, Tailor-Made Prison, and Cool and Unusual Punishment. Indeed, since all involve choosing death over a given fate, the characters often conclude that death is preferable to that fate. If the character can only beg for assisted suicide, I Cannot Self-Terminate occurs if they can act on their own, they are often Driven to Suicide. That is not to mention the tortures so horrible that death seems a mercy and a long-awaited release: Mercy Killings are common when heroes find anyone in this state. If the writer believes that a character deserves some Laser-Guided Karma, the fate might be a case of Be Careful What You Wish For. For characters who welcome dying (for example, to become martyrs and be posthumously considered heroes), one could invent a lot of ways to prevent their dream from coming true (and sometimes, just for added cruelty, kill them anyway). If the victim is immortal, this fate may even replace death, which might suck royally. The more fantastic the particular setting, the more creative villains (and sometimes heroes) usually get with this trope. It's also fairly commonly used as a warning to the hero against seeking forbidden power or knowledge, and consequently to foreshadow the particular Karmic Death the villain will suffer because of meddling with the universe's Cosmic Keystone. This phrase is usually used in a Just Between You and Me moment by the Evil Overlord as they boast about the agony-inducing Death Trap that awaits the hero for delaying their plans. So, they have to get creative with the fate bestowed upon their unfortunate character. Or maybe they have children as their intended audience (or a nosy censor) and can't kill off a villain or character. Originally, this phrase was used to mean the rape of virgins in Gibbon's 1781 work Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but now there's even worse than that. And more often than not, some unfortunate soul will experience it. There are several things much worse: torture, taxes, and tofu, to name but a few. Think death is the cruelest fate? Think again.
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