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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All

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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All	comment	Sometimes the Big Bad is such a Manipulative Bastard that throwing them into prison isn't much of a hindrance to them. It's not necessarily that they're in a Cardboard Prison from which they can get out at any time, or that they're in a Luxury Prison Suite and thus might not even notice their circumstances. Rather, it's that while they're in prison, they are still capable of leading their organization and moving their schemes against the good guys forward. Prison is just a change of location for them, and won't slow down their evil plot to Take Over the World for one nanosecond. Even better, the villain is now in a secure location protected by high walls and armed men, and surrounded by fellow criminals who are easily manipulated thanks to their own lack of opportunities. It's like a made-to-order Supervillain Lair provided by the taxpayer! In fact, the greatest of chessmasters actually plan for their eventual imprisonment and make getting caught a part of their overall Evil Plan from the beginning. This way they benefit regardless of their plan's success or failure. Often combines with a Luxury Prison Suite in the worst cases. Compare Leaking Can of Evil for similar effects with supernatural evils. Compare Desires Prison Life, if they just don't want to live outside of prison.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_10b03dcf	comment	In Batman: Arkham Asylum, The Joker discovered that one of the doctors had plans to create a Venom-variant using Arkham inmates as test subjects with support from the Warden. Interested in the idea, he started using one of his many fake identities to fund her project. However, the doctor ended up backing out of the deal and Joker thus initiated a plan to get the formula by force. First by causing a fire that destroyed Blackgate prison so that his cronies will be temporarily transferred to Arkham, and then getting himself caught by Batman on purpose to infiltrate the Asylum, escape, and take over.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_114401d2	comment	Substitute "Insane Asylum" for "Prison" and you have Mona Vanderwaal's situation during the first part of Season 3 of Pretty Little Liars: Even while kept in Radley Sanitorium, she was able to freely issue instructions to the A-team and receive instructions from the leader. To hammer home just how little it matters whether or not she's in the asylum, she sneaks out during the Season 3 Halloween Episode, then promptly returns to her room at the end of it.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_12146ac8	comment	Line of Duty: Ian Buckels, who's revealed to be a high-level dirty cop working with an organized crime group, continues ordering hits and other crimes out of prison, since they also have guards in their employ giving him electronic devices to do this using them. It's also then revealed another crime boss ordered a murder while in prison too.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_14a0ad11	comment	Gang Related: The boss of the Metas Cartel, El Muzo, still runs them from inside of a maximum security California prison, attended there by guards who even serve him fine food like waiters.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index: A heroic, or at least antiheroic, version occurs in the third series, Genesis Testament. Accelerator takes over Academy City as General Superintendant... and immediately has himself thrown into prison as a way to atone for previously committed crimes, as well as send a message to the rest of Academy City's leadership that they are now going to be held accountable for their actions; no more sweeping things under the rug. Worth noting, Accelerator could break out of prison any time he wanted, and everyone knows it. He still runs Academy City from inside his cell, working to clean up the city's "dark side" as best he can.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_2212773a	comment	Angelus in two episodes of Season 4 of Angel. He was stuck in a cage but was still able to pit the team members against each other and manipulate his way out.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_22211d68	comment	An episode of Bones has one man have someone murdered while in prison.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_22e860f4	comment	Seemed to be the case in an episode of Psych, until the "boss" in question turned up as the next victim and it was revealed that he was never really running things at all.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_23c46139	comment	Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade: When Superman visits Luthor's cell to inform him that his scheme to blackmail the warden into letting him out has been busted, Lex smugly gloats he remains in prison because he is choosing to do so, and he will get out whenever he wants.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_2547d61f	comment	In the White Collar episode "Payback", Matthew Keller arranges the kidnapping of an FBI agent from his prison cell. He then uses the proceeds of his crime to escape before he can be transferred to a more effective prison.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In the episode "Realty Bites", Snake is in the prison yard and sees Homer driving by in his old car. Snake says "screw the honor system" and walks out through a door wait a "No Escaping Please" sign on it. Kearney shouts after him that he's ruining it for everybody else.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_28fe1376	comment	David Robert Jones of Fringe leads ZFT from prison and also orchestrates his own escape.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_292e4ce	comment	In one episode of Street Fighter, Bison is captured by a British team of super-agents (Cammy was a former member) and sent to prison. This turned out to be a distraction on Bison's part that allowed his agents to enact a scheme that threatened all of England. Bison then forces the British government to hand over a ransom of one billion pounds sterling — all while chilling in his cell and sipping tea.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_2a640f8c	comment	In Gunsmith Cats, Gray is able to keep control of his gang and even orchestrate his own escape from inside prison.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_2be435fb	comment	In Chronicles of Nick, Nick's father, Adarian Malachai is the ultimate evil. He was arrested for killing a multitude of people that he claimed were demons (which is later speculated to be true) and sentenced to multiple life sentences. He can break out at any point, and is virtually unbeatable to the point of guards shooting him with bullets didn't even phase him, but prefers to stay inside jail because human hate and malice power him up. of course while in jail he sets up as much as he can to get to his son.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_2c03343a	comment	In The Criminal, Frank Saffrion is regarded as the king of Cellblock A. He is in touch with various criminal bigwigs on the outside and is able to obtain almost any kind of contraband—for a price. Late in the movie, he orchestrates a Prison Riot, a transfer for Johnny, and for the prison van to get ambushed while it is on the road.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_2c15b0d3	comment	In one issue of Batgirl (2000), David Cain easily escapes from prison (where he'd been ever since the conclusion of Bruce Wayne: Fugitive) to deliver his daughter a knife as a birthday present, and then casually waltzes right back in during the middle of the investigation into how he did it.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_2c96ae0e	comment	In a variant on Hustle, Albert Stroller is kept hostage in a holding cell by a publicity-seeking detective, who forces his fellow con-artists to lure a bank robber into a trap. While he doesn't stay inside long enough to run a criminal empire, Albert quickly befriends the guards by (deliberately) losing poker games to them, then commits a series of crimes inside the gaol to dispose of the false evidence against his crew.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In the Justice League episode "Injustice for All", Batman allows himself to be captured by the Injustice Gang; he feigns helplessness in order to manipulate one of the Gang's members. He later reveals that he could have escaped at any time, but if he did, he wouldn't have had a resource "on the inside". In fact, the Joker is the only member to flat-out state they should just shoot him while they have the chance.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_2ee2a6b6	comment	Dumont, the recurring sociopath hacker from Jake 2.0, could manipulate events, hack computers, and even order hits from behind bars.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_31a8701b	comment	The Flash rogue Dr. Alchemy is in possession of a potent Philosopher's Stone, and police can never get it off of his person whenever he gets arrested. With the Stone, he can escape containment at any leisure; he just chooses to stay anyway because it's one place he can get peace and quiet for his reading.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_34d050c6	comment	The pilot episode of Darkwing Duck has its major villain, Taurus Bulba, running his operation from prison. He could escape at any time and choses to remain in prison because he feels that it's the perfect hideout for him, despite constantly having to deal with an annoying warden. He even had his cell converted into an office, complete with an outside phone line, and he can press a button to transform it back into a prison cell whenever the warden comes along. This culminates in an epic jailbreak, as he reveals he had the entire cell block he was in converted into a flying fortress, which launches, leaving behind the rest of the prison.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: During the Golden Age prior to her reformation, Paula has a Supervillain Lair right underneath her cell after she's caught by Wondy and Steve Trevor the first time, and has bribed the enough of the guards that she can leave anytime she pleases.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_3ca4a269	comment	Stalker x Stalker: Junko's dad tells Yukio that he got this treatment in prison: He only got 10 years for murdering two entire families (possibly thanks to Yunoâ€™s ties to the police), and what little we see of the prison staff implies that he was The Dreaded inside the walls. Even the warden outright says that he misses him being there, implying that he did something in prison to warrant such careful and lavish treatment. With the reveal that heâ€™s actually a former assassin who worked for a corrupt politician, itâ€™s likely that some bribes may have been taken to ensure that he was treated well.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_3deed61f	comment	Shot Caller: Even with being in prison and kept isolated, the heads of the AB chapter still run their operations outside, with guards on the payroll. Very much Truth in Television.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan: Eren is imprisoned for his insubordination during his attack on Marley, but he outright tells Hange that keeping him here in prison is useless. Granted, waits for a bit before using the newly-acquired War Hammer Titan to tunnel his way out en route to rendezvous with the Yeagerists.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_3f0b2024	comment	In X-Men Noir, Warden Halloway gives the prisoners at the Welfare Island Penitentiary free rein to do whatever they want — because crime lord inmate Sean Cassidy is running a heroin trade out of the joint and bought him off with the proceeds.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_43f52aa9	comment	In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the master trainer for Security, J'Baana, is currently locked up in the Imperial City's Legion compound. He still regularly participates in Thieves' Guild business, however, and a quick check of his inventory reveals that he holds the keys to every door in the compound, as well as thirty lockpicks, making the reason he even bothers to stay in the prison a mystery.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_4737c653	comment	Elementary: Midway through Season 3, a cartel boss that Watson helped take down in the season premiere manages to arrange an attempted revenge hit on Watson from her prison cell. Afterwards, the cartel boss is assassinated on the order of Moriarty, who is herself still in federal custody, for daring to go after one of her Worthy Opponents.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_4751247f	comment	In Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Baron Frankenstein takes over the asylum for the criminally insane to which he has been committed and uses it as a base from which to continue his fiendish experiments.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_4c300a8c	comment	In Lilo & Stitch: The Series, although the authorities think that HÃ¤msterviel is perpetually trapped in the ceiling of his holding cell unable to do anything destructive, he's actually somehow managed to trick out the dungeon cell with various gadgets, contacts Gantu frequently, and even has objects teleported between his cell and Gantu's ship... all while the prison guards aren't looking.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_4f6709cf	comment	Spider-Man (PS4) has the Kingpin arrested at the end of the very first mission, but it's eventually revealed that he's still able to communicate with his men on the outside and have them continue his operations. However, this gets shut down by Miles in Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern: Telepathic arch-villain Hector Hammond's body is imprisoned (he's serving multiple life sentences) and is supposedly under the effects of a psionic inhibitor... but Hammond's mind is so powerful that he can still telepathically control people hundreds or even thousands of miles away from the prison without ever leaving his cell.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_5b3f67f1	comment	In Psychic Squad, Kyosuke is the world's most powerful psychic. He is kept in a cell that is supposed to block all psychic powers. He has no difficulty leading his esper organization PANDRA from there (even going as far as having some of the members in the same cell without anyone knowing).
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_61750a5f	comment	"Genial" Harry Grout from Porridge wasn't necessarily shown to be running any business outside the prison, but he certainly was more in control of the prison itself than the governor was.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: The Kingpin zig-zags this trope. On the one hand, he is still fully capable of running a criminal enterprise from inside prison and once even tricked Iron Man into eliminating a competitor on the outside for him, able to do so because he still had enough information on the wider criminal underworld to make deals and manipulate the authorities. In a one-shot, an ex-con who had been in prison for years remarks that the Kingpin is still the number 1 crime boss in the city after all that time, despite Fisk being behind bars at that point. On the other hand, he's only in prison after Daredevil managed to bring down most of his old criminal empire so what he had was just a shadow of his former glory, and while in prison he had made enough enemies that a lot of guys — even some of his own men — made repeated attempts to kill him. It's blatantly clear from his numerous failed deals and escape attempts that he didn't want to be in prison, and Daredevil as well as the Feds took twisted pleasure in making sure he stayed there every time he thought he was about to get out. Eventually, he only does because his wife convinces Matt to be his lawyer and gets all charges dropped. At the end of Marvel's Damnation miniseries, Mephisto is dethroned from Hell and imprisoned in a cell of the Hotel Inferno he raised in Las Vegas. Aside from the loss of his throne and thus the blow to his ego, no visitors are actually barred from visiting him by mystical means, so he's still entirely free to cut deals with mortals as much as he likes. He's shown in multiple other titles after his imprisonment negotiating with clients with the only indication he's still imprisoned being one wall of the room being cell bars. The Daredevil villain Mr. Fear at the end of the "Hell to Pay" storyline, in addition to the above-mentioned Kingpin. Hell, most of Daredevil's higher-tier villains... An unusual version in Fantastic Four. The Mad Thinker spent several years of real time in an ordinary prison cell — but his brain implant enabled him to project his mind into android duplicates, enabling him to enjoy life and go on the occasional crime spree. The Punisher's higher-up criminals often do this in high-security prisons (given the Crapsack World nature of the legal system here), leading to Frank occasionally getting deliberately arrested and sent to the same prison so he can do some cleaning. One of the most notable examples is The Cell, which is set in the Punisher MAX continuity - in the depths of Rikers Island, there are five prisoners. A mob enforcer, a pair of twin hitmen, a high-ranking mob lieutenant and the former The Don himself, all who share a large, fairly luxurious cell. Sure, they still have to wear prison overalls, and it's still a prison cell rather than an apartment with iron bars, but they have comfortable furniture, TV's, alcohol, decent food, and conjugal visits (albeit by toothless, effeminate male prisoners), not to mention the prison guards are all on their payroll, so why would they want to leave? They sure as hell do when the Punisher comes after them, as they are the men responsible, directly and indirectly, for the death of his family. In X-Men Noir, Warden Halloway gives the prisoners at the Welfare Island Penitentiary free rein to do whatever they want — because crime lord inmate Sean Cassidy is running a heroin trade out of the joint and bought him off with the proceeds.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_6272adf3	comment	In The Shield Antoine Mitchell taunts Vic with this fact after Vic accuses him of having Lem murdered. He didn't; Shane killed him. He says he could have, but what would be the point, since he has practically everything he had on the outside in prison and killing a cop would blow all that. He punctuates this by giving orders to a nearby prison guard, who calls him "Mr. Mitchell" in response.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_694ab80	comment	Willy Watt in Batman Beyond is fully capable of exerting his telekinetic abilities to do whatever he wants wherever he pleases while still being in juvenile hall, though he admits that he does this on purpose because in a short time he will be let out legally and with all this power that no one is aware of. That all ends after his powers are exposed and Terry recaptures him. He's last seen shackled and wearing a Power Limiter helmet that negates his telekinesis... and he still doesn't get any visitors.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_6f045e9f	comment	Mr. Bridger from The Italian Job (1969) runs his gangland empire from his Luxury Prison Suite, to the point that when ex-con Charlie breaks back into prison to get his permission for a job, he complains to the governor about the lapse in security.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_6f734712	comment	A Smallville episode featured people buying strategic places in Metropolis in order to buy the city's natural water supply. Winslow Schott (the Toyman) masterminded the whole operation from inside his prison cell.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_749752a	comment	In Law Abiding Citizen, Clyde Shelton is a grieving husband and father whose Roaring Rampage of Revenge against everyone involved in the Philadelphia criminal justice system is not even slowed by incarceration in solitary confinement. Eventually, it's revealed that he has spent the past decade digging tunnels and installing secret doors into every solitary confinement cell in the prison. Getting sent to jail and solitary was all part of his Evil Plan.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_791fca45	comment	BioShock 2: The prequel novel BioShock: Rapture shows that Sofia Lamb was prepared for the possibility that Andrew Ryan would have declared her enough of a political and ideological threat to have her arrested for dissent, deeming it a necessary risk in the pursuit of a compassionate, unified Rapture. Once she was jailed, the warden, a "miserable" man became a member of her group; she later tells Simon Wales that he basically asked questions about himself during her interrogation, as if he wanted her to psychoanalyze and console his apparent pain. She spent her time strengthening her movement from the inside and biding time for a jailbreak that would not only release her, but all of the other prisoners as well, several of whom were on her side, whose overwhelming numbers would then overpower the guards and ensure that the prison was effectively hers. That time came when her anxiety about the wellbeing of her daughter Eleanor reached a point where it was unbearable since she had little way of making sure that whoever was taking care of her wasn't plying her with authoritarian propaganda.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: In The '70s, when the Joker had his own bi-monthly comic book, the writers had a conundrum. On one hand, the Comics Code Authority at the time required that villains never get away at the end of a story, to show that Justice Will Prevail. On the other hand, showing a new elaborate escape at the beginning of every issue would get tedious and take precious pages away from the story they wanted to tell. Their solution? Give the Joker a Supervillain Lair located directly beneath Arkham Asylum, called the "Ha-Hacienda". He even had a Secret Underground Passage in his cell. Apparently, nobody at the CCA tripped to the Fridge Logic of "punishing" someone by imprisoning him in a place he can walk out of at any time. Warren White, a.k.a. the Great White Shark, runs a profitable criminal empire (mostly catering to fellow members of Batman's Rogues Gallery) from inside Arkham Asylum. White was originally just a white-collar criminal who very stupidly used the Insanity Defense to avoid going to prison for committing the biggest fraud in U.S history — the judge chose to send him to Arkham, which was a hundred times worse. White only became a psychopathic crime boss after he was sent to Arkham and endured all the abuse and trauma and mutilation that came with it (with half the staff turning blind eye since White's crime touched them too) — he didn't even have a criminal empire before he went in! The Ratcatcher can control the massive number of rats in Gotham from inside of his prison cell.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_832b06b1	comment	In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, within Cidhna Mines, Madanach not only has a private cell with various accommodations but still holds power as the leader of the Forsworn, which Thonar Silver-Blood uses to get him to use them as his personal assassins.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_83d41855	comment	Gargoyles: David Xanatos spends a few of the early post-pilot episodes in prison for a Possession of Stolen Goods charge. It doesn't stop him from having the Manhattan Clan repeatedly attacked while he sits tight to run out his jail term for that relatively minor charge. As an added bonus, when he got out of prison, whenever someone brought up his criminal record, he would just respond that he paid his debt to society legally; and do they believe in the judicial/correctional system or not? Towards the end of the second season, Tony Dracon turns out to be just as good at running his crime syndicate from his prison cell as from his mansion. It's even implied that he could have ordered a breakout.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_880cfa15	comment	Hogan's Heroes: The main characters are operating an underground resistance movement out of a German POW camp. They also pretty much run that prison camp in everything but the official paperwork. They also have a habit of leaving whenever they feel like it.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_8982fd6a	comment	'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess: The only thing the Princess isn't allowed to do as a prisoner of the Hell-Horde is leave the palace unescorted. The "tortures" quickly devolve into ways to have fun with her. They don't even lock her cell.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_8a95c055	comment	Averted in Soon I Will Be Invincible, where Doctor Impossible notes the great lengths they go to to keep him from getting out or doing anything. Yet, it doesn't stop the heroes from thinking this trope is in play, such that even though he's been locked up for a year he's still the prime suspect in the disappearance of his Arch-Nemesis Core Fire.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_8d81f086	comment	Megalomaniac Dale Biderbeck is sent to prison in his first appearance in season one of Monk, but he still manages to orchestrate quite a bit of mayhem from behind bars, including an assassination attempt on the governor of California, which very nearly succeeds. In a post-show novel, Mr. Monk Gets Even, he even orchestrates an attempted escape using accomplices at a time when he's subject to bypass surgery to get himself down to a more normal weight.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Pre-Crisis, Lex Luthor regularly ran his criminal enterprises from the inside of his prison cell. Of course, it was basically understood, if not ever explicitly admitted, that Luthor was in prison only as long as Luthor wanted to be in prison. Post-Crisis, that is still true, but this time he'll usually just wait for his lawyers to get him out instead. In his first appearances in New 52 books, though he is kept in an unconscious state and monitored 24/7, Hector Hammond (see above) is able to exert his power enough to mess with Superman, and ultimately even take over his mind.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_91e45f5	comment	Played with in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Kristoph Gavin manages to poison two different people from behind bars, without seeing any of them for seven years... by complete coincidence, as he intended for the trap he set to kill them seven years prior. And, of course, he has Luxury Prison Suite.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_920bdb7c	comment	Kill Six Billion Demons: The King of All Devils, a creature known only as Himself, sits in the deepest pit in the darkest Hell, trapped in an iron box riddled with spears. While He insists on calling the Heretics Court His "captors", the truth is that He is still the ultimate authority on all devils, and knows absolutely everything they are doing at all times.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_95521c97	comment	Most of the villains of The Spectacular Spider-Man are like this. Doctor Octopus fakes a return to his old, harmless self and by pretending to have been insanenote well, he is insane, but he faked being legally insane/treatable is able to get himself into a psychiatric treatment center that's a lot less stringent than prison would be, and he starts running a criminal empire from there. Most of the other villains do their time in a maximum-security Cardboard Prison and go in knowing they only have to bide their time before their underworld connections break them out. Mysterio has a robot double doing time for him, so he literally isn't in prison at all.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_96ac047e	comment	Identity Thief: Julian and Marisol's boss Paolo is a prisoner who openly talks on a cell phone with them while a guard's watching (no doubt bribed to aid him), running his criminal business from behind bars apparently with impunity.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): Wilson Fisk is imprisoned after having to have his criminal operation exposed in Season 1, but as the following season shows, he still has people working for him while he is behind bars and begins building a jailhouse operation. After Frank Castle is also imprisoned, Fisk manages to play events so that Frank kills his competition, allowing Fisk to take over the prison and obtain a new source of funding. Through this funding, he buys a hotel and converts the penthouse suite into a Luxury Prison Suite that allows him to still control his criminal empire with ease, and to get himself transferred there, he performs a long-term manipulation con on Ray Nadeem. Even while under "house arrest", Fisk manages to create a massive extortion racket that collects protection money from other gangs, directs a riot back at the prison in an overly complex scheme to get rid of Matt, and turns Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter into his personal attack dog.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the master trainer for Security, J'Baana, is currently locked up in the Imperial City's Legion compound. He still regularly participates in Thieves' Guild business, however, and a quick check of his inventory reveals that he holds the keys to every door in the compound, as well as thirty lockpicks, making the reason he even bothers to stay in the prison a mystery. In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, within Cidhna Mines, Madanach not only has a private cell with various accommodations but still holds power as the leader of the Forsworn, which Thonar Silver-Blood uses to get him to use them as his personal assassins.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: In one issue of Batgirl (2000), David Cain easily escapes from prison (where he'd been ever since the conclusion of Bruce Wayne: Fugitive) to deliver his daughter a knife as a birthday present, and then casually waltzes right back in during the middle of the investigation into how he did it. Batman: In The '70s, when the Joker had his own bi-monthly comic book, the writers had a conundrum. On one hand, the Comics Code Authority at the time required that villains never get away at the end of a story, to show that Justice Will Prevail. On the other hand, showing a new elaborate escape at the beginning of every issue would get tedious and take precious pages away from the story they wanted to tell. Their solution? Give the Joker a Supervillain Lair located directly beneath Arkham Asylum, called the "Ha-Hacienda". He even had a Secret Underground Passage in his cell. Apparently, nobody at the CCA tripped to the Fridge Logic of "punishing" someone by imprisoning him in a place he can walk out of at any time. Warren White, a.k.a. the Great White Shark, runs a profitable criminal empire (mostly catering to fellow members of Batman's Rogues Gallery) from inside Arkham Asylum. White was originally just a white-collar criminal who very stupidly used the Insanity Defense to avoid going to prison for committing the biggest fraud in U.S history — the judge chose to send him to Arkham, which was a hundred times worse. White only became a psychopathic crime boss after he was sent to Arkham and endured all the abuse and trauma and mutilation that came with it (with half the staff turning blind eye since White's crime touched them too) — he didn't even have a criminal empire before he went in! The Ratcatcher can control the massive number of rats in Gotham from inside of his prison cell. The Flash rogue Dr. Alchemy is in possession of a potent Philosopher's Stone, and police can never get it off of his person whenever he gets arrested. With the Stone, he can escape containment at any leisure; he just chooses to stay anyway because it's one place he can get peace and quiet for his reading. Green Lantern: Telepathic arch-villain Hector Hammond's body is imprisoned (he's serving multiple life sentences) and is supposedly under the effects of a psionic inhibitor... but Hammond's mind is so powerful that he can still telepathically control people hundreds or even thousands of miles away from the prison without ever leaving his cell. Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade: When Superman visits Luthor's cell to inform him that his scheme to blackmail the warden into letting him out has been busted, Lex smugly gloats he remains in prison because he is choosing to do so, and he will get out whenever he wants. Superman: Pre-Crisis, Lex Luthor regularly ran his criminal enterprises from the inside of his prison cell. Of course, it was basically understood, if not ever explicitly admitted, that Luthor was in prison only as long as Luthor wanted to be in prison. Post-Crisis, that is still true, but this time he'll usually just wait for his lawyers to get him out instead. In his first appearances in New 52 books, though he is kept in an unconscious state and monitored 24/7, Hector Hammond (see above) is able to exert his power enough to mess with Superman, and ultimately even take over his mind. Wonder Woman: During the Golden Age prior to her reformation, Paula has a Supervillain Lair right underneath her cell after she's caught by Wondy and Steve Trevor the first time, and has bribed the enough of the guards that she can leave anytime she pleases.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_a32b6a64	comment	In an episode of The West Wing, some DEA agents are captured by a Colombian drug cartel, which demands that a Pablo Escobar stand-in be released from prison in exchange for their return. The Colombian government is willing to do it, leaving the White House to debate whether to give in to a terrorist demand, with Sam arguing (unsuccessfully) that because the guy has been able to order kidnappings and murders from his cell, it doesn't make any difference whether he's in prison or not.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_ad6a095e	comment	A rare heroic version in Princess: The Hopeful: when the Radiant Queens and their Courts were defeated by minions of the Darkness centuries ago, the latter tried to bypass their Born-Again Immortality by trapping their souls in the Dreamlands, a Lotus-Eater Machine realm where supernatural Wardens would use illusions to fool them into thinking they were still being active while the real world was being corrupted. This worked for centuries (long enough to make Earth a Crapsack World), but backfired spectacularly when the Queens did realize what was going on, as they promptly defeated the Wardens and took over a huge portion of the Dreamlands, essentially turning it into their home realm. Nowadays, they stay here by choice, as reincarnating would weaken them by forcing them to start back as Princesses- while staying allows them to support their Courts, who do reincarnate to take back the real world. And, because the Darkness doesn't have any means to travel to the Dreamlands, the Queens are now out of their reach.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_ad7480ec	comment	Fire with Fire: David Hagan mentions this, warning Jeremy that even if he's sent to prison, he'll still be the head of his gang from the inside and send assassins after him. Not only him, but also his loved ones. Indeed, he even started as a prison gang leader first.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_b083559a	comment	Batwoman (2019): In the back half of Season 1, Alice and Mouse are arrested and locked up in Arkham Asylum. By the end of the following episode, they've taken over the facility (thanks to Mouse pulling a Kill and Replace on the chief doctor with one of his flesh masks), and rather than escaping decide to shelter there from their enemies, consolidate their power and strike after everyone has forgotten them.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_b186aad	comment	Corsican mob leader CÃ©sar in Jacques Audiard's Un prophÃ¨te. His gang and the prison administration obey him; he helps the protagonist, Malik, get day leave so he can run his errands for him. (Well, for most of the film anyway...)
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_b67b702b	comment	In Baki the Grappler Biscuit Oliva aka Mr. Unchain has a personal library, is allowed to drink, smoke, and indulge in five-course meals on prison grounds. He basically treats the prison as a personal manor in exchange for capturing criminals for the police.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_b712435c	comment	Leverage: Season 4 Big Bad and former Mark Victor Dubenich, masterminds the entire eighteen episode arc from inside his prison cell, only escaping in the finale. He may not want to be in prison, but with some help from corrupt investor Jack Latimer, he doesn't let it hinder him at all.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_b8c3cc30	comment	In the very first episode of Young Justice (2010), the villains Captain Cold, Icicle Jr., Killer Frost, and Mister Freeze are captured by different heroes and their sidekicks in separate incidents on the same day. Batman doubts that this was a coincidence, and thought they all went down too easily, but they are all carted off to Belle Reve prison. A few episodes later, it turned out Icicle Sr., who was already in Belle Reve, arranged the whole thing and wanted them to get caught so they could help him and the other incarcerated villains stage a mass breakout, but this is foiled. Then in The Stinger, it was revealed the whole thing was an Evil Plan orchestrated by The Light to get Warden Amanda Waller fired and replaced by their man Hugo Strange, the prison psychiatrist, so that they could control the prison. Over the rest of the season, various prisoners such as Mad Scientist Professor Ivo are secretly broken out and returned to their cells, or simply asked for advice in other crimes, in order to help out the Light with their various criminal schemes, and they all seem comfortable there knowing that they secretly run the place and can leave when needed. By the penultimate episode, Batman has the proof he needs to shut the operation down, but if the matter is resolved it happens off-screen as we are never shown it.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_be7230d2	comment	In American Me, la Eme gradually takes control over the drug trade on the streets of East L.A. by leveraging their control over prison into influence out in the free world. Granted, this is Truth in Television, as the real la Eme did the same thing...
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_c0da5437	comment	The Punisher's higher-up criminals often do this in high-security prisons (given the Crapsack World nature of the legal system here), leading to Frank occasionally getting deliberately arrested and sent to the same prison so he can do some cleaning. One of the most notable examples is The Cell, which is set in the Punisher MAX continuity - in the depths of Rikers Island, there are five prisoners. A mob enforcer, a pair of twin hitmen, a high-ranking mob lieutenant and the former The Don himself, all who share a large, fairly luxurious cell. Sure, they still have to wear prison overalls, and it's still a prison cell rather than an apartment with iron bars, but they have comfortable furniture, TV's, alcohol, decent food, and conjugal visits (albeit by toothless, effeminate male prisoners), not to mention the prison guards are all on their payroll, so why would they want to leave? They sure as hell do when the Punisher comes after them, as they are the men responsible, directly and indirectly, for the death of his family.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_c39834ea	comment	Prison Life is Easy for a Villainess: Rachel, a young noble woman is accused of crimes she has never done, by her own fiance the prince, and now her engagement is broken and she is sent to a cell in the castle dungeon. All exactly as she expected. Much to the prince's dismay, Rachel has already transported all of her daily needs into the cell beforehand, and she treats her imprisonment more like a leisurely holiday. A more comedic take on the "Reborn as Villainess" Story, as the focus is Rachel's outrageous behaviors and the prince's comedic failures in harassing her.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who, River Song, aka Melody Pond spent her days in Stormcage Containment Facility (her nights, well, that's between her and the Doctor). She even lampshades it while returning one morning, telling the staff to shut off the alarm because, "I'm breaking in, not out!" and that she'll take breakfast "at the usual hour".
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_c5549725	comment	Maul: Lockdown: Incarcerated arms dealer Iram Radique builds his WMDs inside the prison itself and has an unspecified number of guards on his payroll.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest: The good news is that Carl Elias has been put in prison. The bad news is that his control over organized crime has not been affected. Subverted in a later season when his enemies have regained enough power that they can arrange for a prison transfer that will result in Elias being killed 'while escaping'. Suddenly prison is no longer so safe for him. This also could zigzag from good to bad. As on the good side, he is indebted to Team Machine and is always willing to use his underground connections to keep the various criminal organizations off their backs.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_ca08598f	comment	Avon Barksdale during Season 2 of The Wire. While locked up in prison, he still manages to maintain control of his business through outside correspondence with Stringer, take over the supply of drugs flowing into the prison, and spend his free time playing video games and eating KFC.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	The Daredevil villain Mr. Fear at the end of the "Hell to Pay" storyline, in addition to the above-mentioned Kingpin. Hell, most of Daredevil's higher-tier villains...
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_cd7111a7	comment	Polpo, the high-ranking mafia operative from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, stays in his cell for a couple of reasons. Partly, it's because he can still give orders to his men, he can get anything he wants in his Luxury Prison Suite and his Stand, Black Sabbath, is automatic and has nearly infinite range, so it can be summoned to pursue his enemies while he stays comfortably in his prison cell. However, the main reason for Polpo staying in prison is because he's so massive that getting him out would be a pain. Indeed, after Giorno Giovanna kills him and makes it look like a suicide, it is said that the coroner had trouble moving his corpse out of his cell.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_d1b9315b	comment	Hightown: Frankie Sr. Guards allow him time to use contraband cellphones to order hits, to meet with drug dealers, and have sex with Renee all in private rooms that they are guarding.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_d1bf110e	comment	Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle: Princess Syalis is technically the demon's prisoner, but she breaks out of her cell so easily and regularly that it's implied that they stopped locking the door after a while, because they know that she only leaves to seek entertainment for the day or something she can use for her latest sleep aid project, and will return voluntarily when she's done.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_d4fe0152	comment	Happens a lot in Oz: Many prisoners have abundant connections on the outside, which they use for everything from smuggling drugs to having others prisoners' family members killed. Discussed by the Governor during the riot as he reads over the prisoners' long list of demands. "Why don't they just ask to go free?" Warden Glynn counters that most of their demands are actually pretty reasonable.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_d77bd5a0	comment	The Apple Dumpling Gang: In the sequel, several prison inmates use a series of natural tunnels below their cells to make a Luxury Prison Suite and commit robberies while having a perfect alibi.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_d803ecde	comment	The Ben 10: Omniverse episode "It Was Them" has Rook mention a case where an alien criminal did this. We have yet to actually see said criminal, however.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_db96ded4	comment	In one episode of The Legend of Korra, Varrick is arrested. However, his prison cell is spacious with two desks, a king-sized bed, and chair and table. His assistant, Zhu Li, is also with him in the cell. He explains that since his company had built the prison, he designed the cell for himself, expecting to need it one day.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_dc72c82f	comment	In Fallen London, if you grind up 40 renown with the Criminals, and then manage to be sent to prison with 7 favors, you can spend the favors to meet the One Who Pulls The Strings. From then on, they can serve as your companion, boosting your Shadowy and Dreaded stats — despite not actually leaving the cell at any point.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_dd9f7e5f	comment	2666: Klaus gains so much power and media attention in prison that he takes a few steps in solving the investigation himself. He even has a cell phone to communicate to the outside world whenever he wants.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_ddd4b174	comment	In Monopoly, a late-game tactic is to stay in jail for as long as possible. While in jail, you're still free to conduct business as usual - collecting rent from, bidding on, or selling properties. Moving around the board has only two major advantages - collecting $200 for passing "Go" and having right of first refusal for landing on an unsold property. But since there are very few unsold properties in the late game and the $200 for passing "Go" is a pittance compared to landing on another player's developed property, Jail is actually the best place to be. For this reason, some players enact their own rules that rent on a jailed player's property is either free or goes towards that other popular House Rule, the "Free Parking" kitty.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_de6659ec	comment	On Once Upon a Time, Rumpelstiltskin is being kept by Snow White and Prince Charming in a magical prison inside a repurposed dwarven mine, but still manages to pull the strings anyway. (Admittedly, he's aided by the prison's Swiss-Cheese Security, which allows the Evil Queen to just stroll up to his cell for advice whenever she likes.) It's also later revealed that he could have walked out anytime he wanted, but he stayed because of his Xanatos Gambit.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_ded9acbd	comment	In No Time to Die, Ernst Stavro Blofeld has managed to run Spectre from his cell in the high-security prison of Belmarsh (where he was put after his arrest at the end of Spectre) using his electronic eye transmitting to another bionic eye worn by his henchman Cyclops, ruining James Bond's relationship with Madeleine Swann in Italy for five years and organizing his own special birthday party in Cuba among other things.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_e1ec0e62	comment	Grand Theft Auto IV subverts this with Gerald McReary. At one point, he gets sent to jail, something which he was counting on after his latest heist, and he still sends the main protagonist to do some jobs for him while on the inside, confident that he is getting out soon. However, a number of unfortunate factors beyond anyone's control completely derails McReary's plans as his plan to sell the diamonds is ruined by a Russian mook who spitefully throws them on the trash so that no one can get it. Gerald realizes that he is going to stay under as more evidence turns up to ensure his jailing, so he is pretty much resigned to his situation by the time you last meet him.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_e5124625	comment	Help I Am Being Held Prisoner: Obviously, the tunnel that everyone goes in and out of at will serves to this effect for the prisoners to sneak out to pull off crimes or just enjoy freedom.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_e7afca1f	comment	Infinite Space: The Krieos pirates are seemingly unaffected by the imprisonment of their leader. Turns out the warden murdered and impersonated him.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_ef7b3325	comment	An unusual version in Fantastic Four. The Mad Thinker spent several years of real time in an ordinary prison cell — but his brain implant enabled him to project his mind into android duplicates, enabling him to enjoy life and go on the occasional crime spree.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_f0c816fb	comment	Jimmy In And Out from Breaking Bad is a variation. Prison is nothing to him, not because of his capacity for scheming, but simply because he's been in and out of prison his whole life and is so institutionalized that it barely matters to him whether he's in prison or not. For this reason, he makes money by confessing to crimes committed by people who have more to fear from a prison stretch.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_f15f622e	comment	MacGyver (1985): Jack Dalton is moving around relatively freely in his barrack in prison in "Jack in the Box", is plotting his schemes, and is eating decent food.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_f215385e	comment	For Life: Cassius manages to contact his goons on the outside to do his dirty work, such as tying up and threatening the family of a guard.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_f2da188a	comment	The Batman: A plot point in the episode "Strange New World". Hugo Strange calls Batman to his cell and announces that, despite the minor inconvenience of being in prison, he's managed to release a zombie virus throughout Gotham; it's up to Batman to find where Strange's antidote is hidden and save the city. If you think this is far-fetched, you're right: Strange can only affect the area inside and immediately around his cell; when Batman shows up Strange exposes him to a hallucinogen that makes him see Gotham in ruins and its people as zombies, and the "antidote" Batman's seeking to spread is this same drug.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_f40b9420	comment	Teen Power Inc.: The returning villain of Dead End makes a plan to get doubles of the gang to commit crimes and then pretend to be runaways so no one will notice the kids are being are kidnapped. And that plan is prepared from inside a prison cell which the villain ultimately escapes from in order to watch the culmination of their revenge up close.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_f4a1d45b	comment	Pre-Crisis, Lex Luthor regularly ran his criminal enterprises from the inside of his prison cell. Of course, it was basically understood, if not ever explicitly admitted, that Luthor was in prison only as long as Luthor wanted to be in prison. Post-Crisis, that is still true, but this time he'll usually just wait for his lawyers to get him out instead.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_f53fe2fa	comment	Mission: Impossible: In "Reprisal", an inmate masterminds a scheme to take revenge on Jim Phelps from inside a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_f899ac74	comment	Ethan Harrow in Hard Time has the power to leave his body as an invisible force that can manipulate objects and people. He doesn't use this to commit crimes, but being able to more or less leave the prison freely at night goes a long way towards keeping him sane. He's serving 50 to life, he needs something to hold onto to keep him from losing his spirit.
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Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All / int_f9b89c6c	comment	The first episode of The Whistler features a prisoner who escapes with the intention of recovering his hidden loot. One of his fellow prisoners, his supposedly reformed cellmate, orchestrates a grab for that same loot, by getting two of his agents on the outside to pull off a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax.
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