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Tailor-Made Prison
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A personal Alcatraz made with special precautions to stop this one person from escaping. If they have a super power, then it likely incorporates either a Power Nullifier or mechanisms that are power-proof. More likely to use a Logical Weakness than a Kryptonite Factor. Eventually the villain will break out, but to be fair to the prison's designer, they usually can't escape on their own. They might get some help from their henchmen, some Unwitting Pawn, or an ill-advised upstart villain exploiting the prison's Fantastic Fragility. Since such prisons are designed for one occupant, they may be ineffective against the powers of another, leading to a variant on the Opponent Switch. The purpose of the Tailor-Made Prison in a story is usually one to give a villain street cred: they must be really bad to merit it. Also, a previous Big Bad can be considered to be Commuting on a Bus when in the prison. They’re being kept around with a plausible reason to be cooling their heels instead of raising hell and can be sprung out when dramatically convenient. Considering that any villain who merits such attention very likely has Joker Immunity in a world of Cardboard Prisons, the builders of the place may be fully aware that this is a temporary solution but hope it will give them, at least, a few months of peace. There are generally skeletons — Back Story Red Shirts — hanging about to indicate that this is not a normally escapable place. Sometimes this is the purpose of the Phantom Zone. Compare Sealed Evil in a Can for those immortal villains who can't be held by a mere custom-designed prison but can overlap if their can is custom made. Compare also Shipped in Shackles, which is the mobile version of this trope. For added psychological trauma, may be paired with The Aloner. Sometimes combined with Gilded Cage. See also Crystal Prison for a common cage. Cardboard Prisons occur when these are circumvented way too often and way too easily. Usually becomes a case of Crippling Overspecialization when someone else becomes an inmate of that prison. |
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Worm's sequel Ward features a lack of such a prison as a plot point: what exactly do you do with superpowered criminals when you don't have the resources to build a tailor-made prison? They eventually arrive at the solution of dumping criminals in uninhabited alternate dimensions, isolated and alone, but with regular supply drops to ensure they have the tools they need to survive. Everyone's aware that this isn't a very humane or sustainable solution, but they simply don't have the ability to construct a second Birdcage. | |
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The web novel Worm features the Birdcage, a prison designed to hold supervillians on life sentences. It is designed to counter a huge variety of superpowers through both active and passive measures, most of which are spectacularly lethal to those who attempt to escape. An escape is eventually effected with the aid of an individual on the outside who has the ability to create dimensional portals, but even that required cooperation from the prison's controllers. Worm's sequel Ward features a lack of such a prison as a plot point: what exactly do you do with superpowered criminals when you don't have the resources to build a tailor-made prison? They eventually arrive at the solution of dumping criminals in uninhabited alternate dimensions, isolated and alone, but with regular supply drops to ensure they have the tools they need to survive. Everyone's aware that this isn't a very humane or sustainable solution, but they simply don't have the ability to construct a second Birdcage. |
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Disney's Hercules sees Zeus imprison the Titans in an undersea vault in the prologue; the vault only becomes visible and vulnerable when the planets align, and even then, only another god could release the seal. | |
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return: When he captures the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion, the Jester places them in individualized containment that would be the worst for them to experience. Scarecrow is on a spinning wheel surrounded by magical flames that flare up at whim. The Tin Man is in a clear box filled to the top with water so that he would continue to rust. And the Lion is in a cage the tends to shrink and squeeze him whenever the Jester feels like it. | |
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In The Dementia of Magic, Marzos was imprisoned by other mages, but escaped. | |
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The whole point of the SCP Foundation (which stands for "Special Containment Procedures) is to find ways to contain anomalous objects, creatures, and phenomena; some of which would threaten humanity if allowed to go free, and others which are less dangerous but would break the Masquerade. The prisons can range from as extreme as keeping a regenerating Omnicidal Maniac immersed in a vat of concentrated hydrochloric acid, to as minor as fencing off areas where weird stuff happens. | |
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In the Whateley Universe, there are a few of these for the really high-class super-powered individuals, from Roxbury C (around Boston) to the Thunder Mountain Penitentiary, which is specially prepared for bricks and ragers. The biggest of all we've seen so far is the Arkham Research Consortiate's, at that Arkham, where they don't just keep the most demented Reality Warpers on ice, but a number of Eldritch Abominations as well. | |
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Incredibles 2: When she gets captured by Evelyn, Elastigirl is held inside a cell chilled to well below freezing, so not only can she not stretch very far, if she tries, as her captor puts it, she'll break. | |
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Kung Fu Panda: Tai Lung's prison Chor Ghom was built specifically to hold him and no other prisoners. Built into a mountain, it consisted of multiple levels with the bottom level holding the evil snow leopard with some sort of acupuncture needles paralyzing him and his front paws held by iron chains fastened to massive boulders hanging over the chasm. The upper layers included pulley elevators, ballistae, dynamite tied to huge stalactites, and 1000 rhino guards (several hundred of them archers). He got out by using a fallen feather to pick the lock on his restraints — a feather from a duck sent there specifically to make sure that Tai Lung didn't escape. He then uses everything that was used to imprison him to pull off an elaborate escape. | |
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Tech Infantry has the Federation (and later Imperial) Prison in the R45 system, a Death World with orbiting warships and magical fields to prevent escape or rescue, where the most dangerous supernatural criminals are sent. The more mundane version of the trope is seen when Andrea Treschi kidnaps Xavier Pollos and holds him prisoner in a deep pit to force him to carry out an assassination on Treschi's behalf. | |
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In Roza, old Gil. | |
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In Grrl Power, some of the supervillains from the "brawl" are shown in prison cells specifically designed to inhibit their powers (since there is no such thing as a universal power suppressant, this is necessary for anyone whose powers might be useful in staging a breakout). One who could create portals is put in a pressurized cell so that opening a portal would cause explosive decompression, while the violence-powered guy who started the whole thing is kept in solitary confinement with cute video games, My Little Pony posters, and a constant stream of marijuana smoke. | |
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Lok's prison in Juathuur. He still gets visits, sort of. | |
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The Incredibles has Syndrome put the family into special restraints that involve a large metal ball around each hand and foot and the balls are then suspended by electricity, preventing most movement. This is shown to have two flaws. One, when it's just holding Mr. Incredible, he still has enough leeway for movement to lunge, grab, and super-strength-bear-hug anyone who gets too close. Two, it has no contingency for Violet's force fields, which she can simply put around herself to block the electricity and free herself from the device, which allows her to deactivate the rest of the restraints. | |
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In Hero Oh Hero, three of the four "Special Prisoners" in the Baron's castle (Moe the Shifter, Ariara, and "Magic Shoes") were kept in these. | |
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Lilo & Stitch: When being transported, Stitch is restrained in a prison with a gun specifically designed to fire at him and only him by locking on to anything containing his DNA. He escapes this by spitting on a guard which makes the gun fire at the spit and cause chaos. He then lands on an unintentional one, Hawaii. Due to not being able to swim, and due to the fact that his primary function is destroying stuff like large cities is unlikely to create a mode of transportation, he's trapped on the island where he is eventually reformed by Lilo. | |
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