History Main / AnotherMansTerror

* Played with in ''Film/{{Dark City|1998}}''. John Murdoch [[spoiler:was implanted with the memories of a murderer]] as part of an experiment to see whether he will then [[spoiler:proceed to commit further murders]]. Will being out in another's position lead him to react the same way?

* Played with in ''Film/DarkCity''. John Murdoch [[spoiler:was implanted with the memories of a murderer]] as part of an experiment to see whether he will then [[spoiler:proceed to commit further murders]]. Will being out in another's position lead him to react the same way?

* In ''Blake's 7'', Season 3, Episode 12, "Death-Watch" Tarrant's brother takes part in a "Combat by Champion" battle, whose rules allows those watching the battle on-screen to participate by wearing small discs on their foreheads that psychically link them with the combatants. Poor Del has to personally experience his brother's last moments.

* In ''Blake's 7'', Season 3, Episode 12, "Death-Watch" Tarrant's brother takes part in a "Combat by Champion" battle, which involves viewers on both sides to wear small discs on their foreheads that psychically link them with the combatants. Thus they get to view the fight from within the champions' heads. Poor Del has to personally experience his brother's last moments.

* In ''Blake's 7'', Season 3, Episode 12, "Death-Watch" Tarrant's brother takes part in a "Combat by Champion" situation, which involves viewers to wear small discs on their foreheads that psychically link them with the combatants. Thus they get to view the fight from within the champions' heads. Poor Del has to personally experience his brother's last moments.

* In ''Series/Blake's 7'', Season 3, Episode 12, "Death-Watch" Tarrant's brother takes part in a "Combat by Champion" situation, which involves viewers to wear small discs on their foreheads that psychically link them with the combatants. Thus they get to view the fight from within the champions' heads. Poor Del has to personally experience his brother's last moments.

* ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000'': Cassandra Cain was [[TykeBomb raised to be the perfect killing machine]]. As a child, she never realized what it meant or what death even was -- until the first time she kills and her ability to read people's body language means that she experiences the man's death as if it were her own. She then proceeds to become a PhlebotinumRebel, finally becoming [[TheAtoner Batgirl]].
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' graphic novel ''ComicBook/GhoulGoblin'', Harry soulgazes a dying man to learn what he knows and feels death beginning to suck him down too. The victim's last thoughts warn him to remain behind and protect his surviving siblings.
* The very weird comic, ''ComicBook/TheUpturnedStone'' by Scott Hampton, features a group of boys who, [[HalloweenEpisode on Halloween]], eat a pumpkin pie made from a pumpkin that grew out of the grave of a murdered child. They all begin to dream of his murder -- as if experiencing it! Worse, they know who the killer was, but who would believe it?

* ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'' ends with the protagonist viewing a recording of a woman's natural death, and nearly gets dragged down into the afterlife himself.

* In ''Literature/TheCurseOfChalion'', Cazaril prays for a death miracle. If it succeeds, it will kill [[CastFromLifespan both himself and his target]]. After he completes the ritual, he hallucinates that he is his victim, who chokes to death on his own tongue. The next morning Cazaril is disappointed to wake up, until he learns that Dondo did indeed miraculously die at that moment, in the way Cazaril dreamed. [[spoiler:However, every night thereafter he is haunted by Dondo's ghost, as a second miracle has kept both Cazaril and Dondo in this world.]]

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', touching a stone of an ancient, ruined temple causes Ward to briefly see through the eyes of one of the last priests of that temple. [[spoiler:His sister Ciarra gets to be possessed by what is implied to be the ''god'' of that temple later on.]] There is also Oreg, who is immortal, but still able to make his traumatic memories real. It hurts no one but himself, but Ward is pretty horrified when he hears the sound of a whip and sees Oreg's clothes and then skin being ripped apart. It is explicitly said that the punishment would have killed Oreg if it had been done to him by the one person who ''could'' kill him.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': ''Literature/WhiteNight'' plays with this. When Harry gets someone to magically witness a murder victim's last moments, it turns out she was killed by [[SuccubiAndIncubi a White Court vampire]], and the viewer got [[OutWithABang a rather different impression from "terror"]]. Dresden, considering the kind of things ''he'' tends to see, considers this terribly unfair.

* In Creator/EmmaBull's ''[[Literature/{{Bordertown}} Finder]]'', psychically gifted Orient discovers that laying hands on a murder victim's body enables him to dream their deaths.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E10JudgementNight Judgment Night]]", a Nazi U-boat captain is forced to experience being on a ship that he torpedoed for all eternity.

* ''VideoGame/TheDarkEye'' (not to be confused with ''Drakensang: The Dark Eye'') is an obscure horror game based on the works of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. In it, you not only are living through a tale worthy of Poe -- you're also subject to experiencing three Poe tales ("Literature/TheTellTaleHeart", "Berenice", and "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado") through both the eyes of the killer... and their unlucky victim. Enjoy watching yourself [[spoiler:get [[VorpalPillow smothered]] and chopped up by someone who is driven mad by your eye, getting BuriedAlive and then having your fiancée [[TheToothHurts pull all your teeth out]], and getting [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere slowly bricked into a grotto]] while you're forced to watch]].

* In ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', the Master Chief watches a helmet-cam recording of [[spoiler: Sgt Johnson's squad being overrun by the Flood -- immediately before they attack you, naturally]].

* ''VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn'': This is how the PlayerCharacter uncovers the fate of the ship's crew. The mysterious watch allows them to see and hear the moment of each character's death.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has Vault 106, where the lone wanderer has hallucinations throughout the vault.
** There's a lot of this in ''Fallout 3''. Most of the vaults have logs and computers which tell you you're going through the same thing the occupants experienced, as well as the Dunwich Building, which has logs scattered throughout chronicling one man's descent into madness as he encounters exactly what you encounter.

* In ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', the Master Chief watches a helmet-cam recording of [[spoiler: Sgt Johnson's squad being overrun by the Flood. Immediately before they attack you, naturally]].

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', touching a stone of an ancient, ruined temple causes Ward to briefly see through the eyes of one of the last priests of that temple. [[spoiler:His sister Ciarra gets to be possessed by what is implied to be the ''god'' of that temple later on.]] There is also Oreg, who is immortal, but still able to make his traumatic memories real. It hurts no one but himself, but Ward is pretty horrified when he hears the sound of the whip and sees Oreg's clothes and then skin be ripped apart. It is explicitly said that this thing would have killed Oreg if it had been done to him by the one person who ''can'' kill him.

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* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' graphic novel ''Ghoul Goblin'', Harry soulgazes a dying man to learn what he knows and feels death beginning to suck him down too. The victim's last thoughts warn him to remain behind and protect his surviving siblings.
* The very weird comic, ''The Upturned Stone'' by Scott Hampton, features a group of boys who, [[HalloweenEpisode on Halloween]], eat a pumpkin pie made from a pumpkin that grew out of the grave of a murdered child. They all begin to dream of his murder -- as if experiencing it! Worse, they know who the killer was, but who would believe it?

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* In ''Film/StrangeDays'', a [[TransferableMemory full-sensory recording]] of a thrill-seeker's stunt ends in his (unintended) death. A dealer in black-market sensations views it, gets to the finish, and then rips the playback-cap off his head in revulsion, yelling at the would-be seller that he doesn't deal in {{snuff|Film}}.

* Played with in ''Film/DarkCity''. John Murdoch [[spoiler:was implanted with the memories of a murderer]] as part of an experiment to see whether he will then [[spoiler:proceed to commit further murders]]. Will being out in another's position lead him to react the same way?

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': ''White Night'' plays with this. When Harry gets someone to magically witness a murder victim's last moments, it turns out she was killed by [[SuccubiAndIncubi a White Court vampire]], and the viewer got [[OutWithABang a rather different impression from "terror"]]. Dresden, considering the kind of things ''he'' tends to see, considers this terribly unfair.
* In ''Literature/TheCurseOfChalion'', Cazaril prays for a death miracle. If it succeeds, it will kill [[CastFromLifespan both himself and his target]]. After he completes the ritual, he hallucinates that he is his victim, who chokes to death on his own tongue. The next morning Cazaril is disappointed to wake up, until he learns that Dondo did indeed miraculously die at that moment, in the way Cazaril dreamed. [[spoiler:However, every night thereafter he is haunted by Dondo's ghost, as a second miracle has kept both Cazaril and Dondo in this world.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'', Orlando has used VR simulations that play out fatal accidents or other forms of death. There's an urban legend that they're made by monitoring someone's actual death, but this is dismissed as ridiculous as someone would have to be loaded up with expensive recording devices in advance. He has [[YourDaysAreNumbered reason]] to be preoccupied with the experience.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/TheTruth'', Mr. Tulip is given what amounts to post-life therapy by [[TheGrimReaper Death]], who shows him the last moments of the numerous people he killed.
** In ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', Glenda Sugarbean is shown a vision of the last moments of a soldier who was slain in battle by an [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orc]]. She manages to see enough to notice that [[spoiler:the orcs were being driven into battle by men with whips, which means they aren't ''naturally'' vicious like people have come to think they are]].
* In Creator/EmmaBull's ''[[Literature/{{Bordertown}} Finder]]'', psychically gifted Orient discovers that laying hands on a murder victim's body enables him to dream their deaths.
* ''The Skins of Dead Men'' has this right in the title -- a particular medicine, together with skin grafts, brings dreams of what happened to the skin's previous owners.

* In ''Literature/{{Excession}}'', the GCU ''Grey Area'' uses this as karmic punishment for a retired soldier who was involved in a genocidal campaign, by making him relive the agonizing deaths of his victims until the stress kills him.

* In ''Series/StargateSG1'', Colonel Mitchell is drugged and has FakeMemories of committing the murder placed in his head, and then left at the scene of the crime.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has Vault 106, where the lone wanderer has hallucinations throughout the vault.
** There's a lot of this in ''Fallout 3''. Most of the vaults have logs and computers which tell you you're going through the same thing the occupants experienced, as well as the Dunwich Building, which has logs scattered throughout chronicling one man's descent into madness as he encounters exactly what you encounter.

* Part of the premise of ''VideoGame/SoulHackers'' is this. By doing so, you learn vital clues that help you solve the present-day mystery. For example, during one such "Vision Quest" you play a character who sets a password that your present-day self can then use.
* In ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', the Master Chief watches a helmet-cam recording of [[spoiler: Sgt Johnson's squad being overrun by the Flood. Immediately before they attack you, naturally]].

* Alex Mercer of ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' is a [[LovecraftianSuperpower horrific]] AntiHero who [[EatBrainForMemories gains the memories of the people that he consumes]]. He comments on this now and then (apparently not finding it pleasant) and in the ending narration, he describes seeing the dying moments of his thousands of victims every time he closes his eyes.

* ''VideoGame/{{Cryostasis}}'' has this as a regular gameplay mechanic whenever you walk up to a corpse that isn't a zombie. In a subtle variation of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, you need to complete whatever task the dead man was trying to do in order to clear the BrokenBridge in front of you. Also, this somehow saves the dead man's soul from whatever entity is taking over the ship.
* ''The Dark Eye'' (not to be confused with ''Drakensang: The Dark Eye'') is an obscure horror game based on the works of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. In it, you not only are living through a tale worthy of Poe -- you're also subject to experiencing three Poe tales ("Literature/TheTellTaleHeart", "Berenice", and "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado") through both the eyes of the killer... and their unlucky victim. Enjoy watching yourself [[spoiler:get [[VorpalPillow smothered]] and chopped up by someone who is driven mad by your eye, getting BuriedAlive and then having your fiancée [[TheToothHurts pull all your teeth out]], and getting [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere slowly bricked into a grotto]] while you're forced to watch]].

** The crew encounters a race that punishes murderers by implanting the final memories of the victim (which they also use as evidence) into the convict for him to experience at regular intervals. Then Tom Paris gets framed for murder.

'''[[Characters/BatmanLadyShiva Lady Shiva]]:''' So? You mean to tell me -- Ah. Your ''gift''. Reading your opponents' intentions. You saw him die... as he saw it.\\

* In ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', you encounter a dying man who fought his way through the ship. He gives you a note and then dies. You have to finish what he started, scary beasts chasing you and all.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': ''White Night'' plays with this. When Harry gets someone to magically witness a murder victim's last moments, it turns out she was killed by [[HornyDevils a White Court vampire]], and the viewer got [[OutWithABang a rather different impression from "terror"]]. Dresden, considering the kind of things ''he'' tends to see, considers this terribly unfair.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', this comes up a few times. In one sidequest, you come across two corpses and one scared Adventurer who all have notes speaking of the same fabled treasure. Obviously, all except the extremely freaked survivor met with gruesome ends. You can finish the quest by confronting the author of the notes... who turns out to be an {{expy}} of the lich Kanggaxx from ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII''. His name: Gaxkang.

->'''Cassandra:''' I watched...him die.\\
'''ComicBook/LadyShiva:''' So? You mean to tell me--Ah. Your ''gift''. Reading your opponents' intentions. You saw him die...as he saw it.\\
'''Cassandra:''' Terror then...nothing.
-->--''ComicBook/Batgirl2000''

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* During one arc of ''Manga/GhostHunt'', main character Mai, who is a sensitive, undergoes a psychic dream where she is forced to experience the last moments of a maid who was murdered in the house her group is investigating. She is woken up at the last possible instant, and it is likely that she would have really died otherwise.
* Hidan in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' is an immortal who uses a technique that causes a target to suffer any wounds inflicted upon Hidan. He usually tortures them by slowly hurting himself before delivering a fatal blow which he, being immortal, survives. The link causes him to experience the full pain and terror of their final moments. Though [[CombatSadomasochist he actually enjoys the experience]].

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* [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Cassandra Cain]], the second Batgirl, was raised to be the [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower perfect]] killing machine. As a child, she never realised what it meant or what death even was--until the first time she kills and her ability to read people's body language means that she experiences the man's death as if it were her own. She then proceeds to become a PhlebotinumRebel, finally becoming [[TheAtoner Batgirl]].
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' graphic novel ''Ghoul Goblin'', Harry soulgazes a dying man to learn what he knows, and feels death beginning to suck him down too. The victim's last thoughts warn him to remain behind and protect his surviving siblings.
* The very weird comic ''The Upturned Stone'' by Scott Hampton features a group of boys who[[HalloweenEpisode ,on Halloween,]] eat a pumpkin pie made from a pumpkin that grew out of the grave of a murdered child. They all begin to dream of his murder--as if experiencing it! Worse, they know who the killer was, but who would believe it?

[[folder: Film ]]

* In ''Film/StrangeDays'', a full-sensory recording of a thrill-seeker's stunt ends in his (unintended) death. A dealer in black-market sensations views it, gets to the finish, and then rips the playback-cap off his head in revulsion, yelling at the would-be seller that he doesn't deal in snuff.
* The earlier film ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'' ends with the protagonist viewing a similar recording of a woman's natural death, and nearly gets dragged down into the afterlife himself.

[[folder: Literature ]]

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', touching a stone of an ancient ruined temple causes Ward to briefly see through the eyes of one of the last priests of that temple. [[spoiler: His sister Ciarra gets to be possessed by what is implied to be the ''god'' of that temple later on.]] And there is also Oreg ... who is immortal, but still able to make his traumatic memories real. It hurts no one but himself, but Ward is pretty horrified when he hears the sound of the whip and sees Oreg's clothes and then skin be ripped apart. It is explicitly said that this thing would have killed Oreg if it had been done to him by the one person who ''can'' kill him.

** In ''The Return Of The King'', after Denethor burns himself to death while holding the [[PalantirPloy Palantír]] of Minas Tirith, normally the only thing it will ever show someone trying to use it is Denethor's [[{{Squick}} burning hands]]. The text states that it takes incredible effort of will and focus to force it to reveal anything else.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' book ''White Night'' plays with this: When Harry gets someone to magically witness a murder victim's last moments, it turns out she was killed by [[HornyDevils a White Court vampire]], and the viewer got [[OutWithABang a rather different impression from "terror."]] Dresden, considering the kind of things ''he'' tends to see, considers this terribly unfair.

* In ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'' Orlando has used VR simulations that play out fatal accidents or other forms of death. There's an urban legend that they're made by monitoring someone's actual death, but this is dismissed as ridiculous as someone would have to be loaded up with expensive recording devices in advance. He has [[YourDaysAreNumbered reason]] to be preoccupied with the experience.

** In ''Literature/TheTruth'', Mr. Tulip is given what amounts to post-life therapy by Death, who shows him the last moments of the numerous people he killed.
** In ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', Glenda Sugarbean is shown a vision of the last moments of a soldier who was slain in battle by an orc. She manages to see enough to notice [[spoiler:the orcs were being driven into battle by men with whips, which means they aren't ''naturally'' vicious like people have come to think they are]].

* ''The Skins of Dead Men'' has this right in the title--a particular medicine, together with skin grafts, brings dreams of what happened to the skin's previous owners.

* In ''Literature/{{Excession}}'', the GCU ''Grey Area'' uses this as karmic punishment for a retired soldier who was involved in a genocidal campaign, by making him relive the agonising deaths of his victims until the stress kills him.
* ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr''. When Ted joins the Telepathy Corps, he runs taped experiences of other telepaths including the many possible deaths you can experience, from dying in plane crashes to being EatenAlive by a Chtorran worm.

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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''

** In "Flesh and Blood", some holograms used for HuntingTheMostDangerousGame put the Doctor through a simulated hunt so he can know what it felt like.
* A similar episode to the Voyager example occurs on ''Series/StargateSG1'', when Colonel Mitchell is drugged, has false memories of committing the murder placed in his head, and then left at the scene of the crime.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E10JudgementNight Judgment Night]]", a Nazi U-boat captain is forced to experience being on a ship that he torpedoed for all eternity.

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* The title necklace in Music/KingDiamond's ''The Eye'' has this effect, as its wearer gets to go through its last owner's demise. The latest person to try this gets to know how being burned at the stake feels like.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has Vault 106, where the lone wanderer has hallucinations throughout the vault.
** There's a lot of this in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''. Most of the vaults have logs and computers which tell you you're going through the same thing the occupants experienced, as well as the Dunwich Building, which has logs scattered throughout chronicling one man's descent into madness as he encounters exactly what you encounter.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', this comes up a few times. In one sidequest, you come across two corpses and one scared Adventurer who all have notes speaking of the same fabled treasure. Obviously, all except the extremely freaked survivor met with gruesome ends. You can finish the quest by confronting the author of the notes...who turns out to be an {{expy}} of the lich Kanggaxx from ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII''. His name? Gaxkang.

* Anyone who reads the [[VideoGame/EternalDarkness Tome of Eternal Darkness]] experiences every previous reader's interactions with the book. Reading the tome doesn't typically end well so the player plays through many people's last moments.
* The entire point of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'''s Missions. The party has the option of completing the [[MissionFromGod Focuses]] of other, failed [[TheChosenOne l'Cie]], who have been transformed into [[AndIMustScream Cie'th Stones]], doomed to eternal suffering and pleading for someone to help them, to kill the demons they were tasked with destroying yet could not. ([[BlessedWithSuck Being a l'Cie really sucks]]).
* Alex Mercer of ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' is a [[LovecraftianSuperpower horrific]] AntiHero who [[BrainFood gains the memories]] of the people he [[IAmAHumanitarian consumes]]. He comments on this now and then (apparently not finding it pleasant) and in the ending narration, he describes seeing the dying moments of his thousands of victims every time he closes his eyes.
* The job of [[Creator/RutgerHauer Daniel Lazarski]] in ''VideoGame/{{Observer}}'' is this, by [[BrainComputerInterface plugging himself into the minds]] of citizens and scour their memories for information. Dan's perspective of this often plays back in a glitchy, disjointed manner, showing their worst memories and negative feelings. One such example is a citizen who spent time in an abusive prison for selling [[FantasticDrug Feed]].

* ''The Dark Eye'' (not to be confused with ''Drakensang: The Dark Eye'') is an obscure horror game based on the works of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. In it, you not only are living through a tale worthy of Poe - you're also subject to experiencing three Poe tales (The Tell-Tale Heart, Berenice, and "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado") through both the eyes of the killer... and their unlucky victim. So enjoy watching yourself [[spoiler: get smothered and chopped up by someone who is driven mad by your eye, getting buried alive and then having your fiancee pull all your teeth out, and getting slowly bricked into a grotto while you're forced to watch]].
* In the beginning of ''[[VideoGame/{{Penumbra}} Penumbra: Black Plague]]'', you can listen to a tape of someone talking about the Tuurngait, only for it to turn into screaming as one of them attacks him. Shortly after, you encounter the same one...

* The very weird comic ''The Upturned Stone'' by Scott Hampton features a group of boys who, on [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween]] eat a pumpkin pie made from a pumpkin that grew out of the grave of a murdered child. They all begin to dream of his murder--as if experiencing it! Worse, they know who the killer was, but who would believe it?

[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

'''ComicBook/LadyShiva:''' So? You mean to tell me-- Ah. Your ''gift''. Reading your opponents' intentions. You saw him die...as he saw it.\\

->'''Cassandra:''' I watched... him die.\\
'''ComicBook/LadyShiva:''' So? You mean to tell me-- Ah. Your ''gift''. Reading your opponents' intentions. You saw him die... as he saw it.\\
'''Cassandra:''' Terror then... nothing.

* Hidan in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' is an immortal who uses a technique that causes a target to suffer any wounds inflicted upon Hidan. He usually tortures them by slowly hurting himself before delivering a fatal blow which he, being immortal, survives. The link causes him to experience the full pain and terror of their final moments. Though [[CombatSadomasochist he actually enjoys the experience]]