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* This happens a few times in ''Anime/DigimonTamers''. When facing the tiger Deva, Takato passes out from feeling Guilmon's pain. Later, when facing the D-Reaper, each of the [[PowerTrio trio]] slides back in pain after their Digimon get hit by attacks. Calumon has this when his SentientPhelbotinum powers result in him powering up Guilmon's SuperPoweredEvilSide.

* This happens a few times in ''Anime/DigimonTamers''. When facing the tiger Deva, Takato passes out from feeling Guilmon's pain. Later, when facing the D-Reaper, each of the [[PowerTrio trio]] slides back in pain after their Digimon get hit by attacks.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27736435 Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash]]'': At some point in her past, the part-time dragon Bahija experienced a CurbStompBattle at the hands of [[BeastMan Callista]]. Her recollection of the battle is so strong that while watching one of Callista's fights across town years later, her entire body becomes engulfed by all the pain she experienced down to the tiniest detail. Bahija shortly thereafter recovers when she realizes that Callista's opponent made the same mistake of infuriating her that ''she'' did, though.

* The dragons from ''Manga/AkatsukiNoYona'' after meeting Yona, their "master". Upon first contact with her, they feel a nebulous, searing internal pain that compels them to obey her.

* The eponymous Negi of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' starts experiencing these once [[spoiler:the "encroachment" of his [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Magia Erebia]]]] starts kicking in. It's later clarified as being "similar to acute magical poisoning", and even later revealed to be merely a symptom of [[spoiler:''turning into a demon'']].

* Ash, Brock and Dawn in ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' get spikes of pain when the Lake Trio are kidnapped, because they had [[{{Synchronization}} been linked to them previously]].

* Another less-than-kid-friendly variant occurs with the Brand of Sacrifice in ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'', which inflicts this upon those who bear it in the presence of demons. The more powerful demons can inflict even worse pain on someone with the Brand, with the Godhand being the worst of them all, and intense enough pain inflicted this way can even kill them. [[spoiler:Guts could only get within about Dragon Slayer distance from Femto before being almost completely overwhelmed by the pain, and the fact that Casca was even closer than that when she got raped by Femto (and was thus in ''utterly excruciating agony'') was probably a big contributing factor to her [[GoMadFromTheRevelation loss of sanity following the Eclipse]]]].

** Indeed, it's quite common for Newtypes in the other Franchise/{{Gundam}} series. (Which ''may'' indicate that Quatre is a Newtype, but it's never confirmed in-series.)

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[FanFic/BlackQueenRedKing Black Queen, Red King]],'' John has his soul crushed to the point where it implodes. He's screaming the whole time, but as his current body[[note]] an emerald[[/note]] has no way to perceive pain, this is the only kind of pain he can feel.

* In Fanfic/TalesOfAResetMind, [[spoiler: Mania tortures Nico this way, for ''hours'']]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9227752/1/Two-Halves-Make-A-Whole Two Halves Make A Whole]], Phineas and Isabella get their souls intermixed, as do Perry and Vanessa, making it hurt to be more than 5 feet away.

* In ''FanFic/TowardABrightFuture'', this is a major drawback of Y/N's Quirk; if she manages to change the future and butterfly away injuries she [[{{Seers}} foresees]] someone taking in her important visions, all the pain from those injuries are instead inflicted onto her at the time of their occurrence (though no actual damage). The combined pain from broken limbs, injured spines, and even [[spoiler: the pain of having one's Quirk removed]] has laid her out multiple times.

* TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen has this with Thralls: By entering into a [[DealWithTheDevil Pact]] with a mortal, a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demon]] is able to strip Faith (the mana of the game line) from the soul of the mortal, giving her horrific nightmares and hallucinations as well as excruciating pains with no source. It stops being this trope when the Demon sucks more Faith than the mortal can spare, leading to stigmata or vomiting blood, etc.

** ''Videogame/FinalFantasyXIV'': In the Shadowbringers expansion, the Warrior of Light absorbs all of the primordial light of the defeated Lightwardens in order to bring the night back to an otherwise endless day in Norvrandt. They're fine after the first couple victories, but they soon begin to suffer from pangs due to the stress this is causing their soul, to the point that it's on the verge of shattering by the last one.

** And once again to [[spoiler: Sora]] during the final fight of [=KH2=], where the BigBad catches him with [[AgonyBeam Agony Beams]].

* In ''{{WebComic/Sonichu}}'', after Chris-Chan curses Jerkhief with permanent bad luck, Jerkhief comments that his soul hurts.

->''"Owwww... My ''Soul!'' No, seriously, this is actually making my soul hurt. I don't know ''how'' it's possible, but apparently it is."''

* All of the Entropy spells in ''VideoGame/DragonAge'', and most of the offensive Spirit ones. Spirit Bolt is actually pretty much punching someone in the soul long distance.

* In ‘’Liturature/TheHollows’’, certain Inderlanders can cause this type of damage to one’s aura. Undead vampires and Banshies literally feed on them, though the more civilized ones only take a few nibbles from each creature they feed off for a net harm of zero. Also, familiars experience excruciating agony if too much ley line energy is pulled through them at once.

* All of the Entropy spells in Dragon Age, and most of the offensive Spirit ones. Spirit Bolt is actually pretty much punching someone in the soul long distance.

* Hellfire -- which is exactly what it sounds like -- is used by some Franchise/MarvelUniverse characters such as ComicBook/GhostRider; it causes damage to the soul rather than the body. If used long enough, it can actually render a target literally soulless.

* ''Film/StarWars'':

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's novel ''Literature/SecondFoundation''. Foundation scientists create a device to use against the members of the Second Foundation; it causes intense mental agony in anyone with telepathic ability.

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* Freder in the Fritz Lang film ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' clutches his chest for half the movie.

* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Westley is tortured to [[OnlyMostlyDead (only mostly)]] death with a machine that drains years of life out of his body.

-->'''Spike:''' They put the spark in me, and all it does, is burn.
* Examples abound in ''Series/DoctorWho''. Take the opening sequences of "The Five Doctors": the Doctor's [[TheNthDoctor fifth incarnation]] experiences this trope at length, complete with ambiguous chest pains. He puts this down to "a twinge of cosmic angst", chunks of his past "detaching themselves like melting icebergs", "being diminished - whittled away piece by piece", and "being sucked into a time vortex". Staggering around, repeatedly fainting, and eighties special effects ensue.

** The new series episode "Planet of the Ood" pulls this with the Doctor hearing the Ood singing in his head (the pain there was more from the fact that the Ood song of captivity is just ''that'' frakking depressing - he lets Donna hear it for a few moments and she almost begs him to take it away again. It's pretty depressing in RealLife too, actually).
* Occurs every so often on Franchise/PowerRangers when someone's powers are on the fritz. Sometimes the source is running out (Tommy as Green in Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers), sometimes its deharmonizing with their body (Jason as Gold in Series/PowerRangersZeo), sometimes its the powers being taken away...
** Plus one non-power related incident in Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue, when Ryan was cursed with a snake tattoo. Every time he morphed the tattoo would come closer to killing him, making each morphing painful.
* Played with in Series/{{Suits}} when Louis tries to get Donna to fill in for his vacationing secretary.She turns his wording into objectifying her and her work, invoking this with "That just makes my soul hurt." Of course, she is kidding and just feels like messing with Louis and making sure he won't ask again or try to convince her.

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* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Frodo had a Burning Scar that was inflicted upon him by a Morgul blade during his second encounter with the Nazgûl, but also suffered from the evil presence of Sauron himself, especially after he entered Mordor. The book described him to be waving his hand feebly as if trying to ward off a blow. He often collapsed and eventually had to have Sam carry him up to Mount Doom. It might be a case of Giving In To Spirit Pain or Evil Induced Adrenaline when Frodo's actually at Mount Doom and all his energy returns ten-fold in a frenzied attempt to save the ring. It also could be that the One Ring was sapping him like it did to Gollum, and was trying harder and harder to sap his strength away to keep itself away from Mount Doom. Then, being there, It decided "hey, This STR-sapping thing just isn't working, let's try full on Dominate Creature effect..."
** After the adventure was over, he continued to feel the effects of the wound once a year, on the anniversary of the day he received it, even after the Ring was destroyed. The Ring itself apparently left its mark too, since he left Middle-Earth for Valinor in hope of healing his Soul Pain.

* Possible variant: The Gentle Fist technique used by the Hyuuga clan in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' can leave its targets crippled, chakra-wise, without leaving a mark on them.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': Pictured is Lightning, experiencing some intense pain caused by her Eidolon's first summoning. Other Eidolon hosts appear to feel some discomfort with their initial summonings as well, with Hope outright losing consciousness. Later summonings do not seem to cause any discomfort at all, however.

* Heather from ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' has what can be best described as "uteral contractions of the soul". [[spoiler:She removes them by taking a "demon-god-abortion pill."]]