10 Movie Punishments Worse Than Death

This one feels like a very personalised hell, and seems to be somewhat similar to Senator Kelly's demise at his own hands - and like Kelly's lust for control, Red Skull wanted ultimate power. Instead, what he got was transported to another realm after touching the tesseract with his bare hands, doomed to be a wraith dubbed the Stonekeeper who advises to those that seek out the soul stone.

This payoff is a long one, with the transportation happening in Captain America: The First Avenger and his reappearance coming in Avengers: Infinity War 7 years later, which works out at 70 years in in-universe time.

The man who wanted to rule the world is instead made a slave to an inanimate object, unable to do anything other than continuously wait out his eternal sentence and guide those that would take the infinity stone from its resting place. It's a grim, thankless task that bars him from death and his ambitions alike, a role none would want to take on were they given an option.

It's perfect for a villain such as Red Skull, but still a pretty scary concept.