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* In ''Film/{{Annie}}'', Daddy Warbucks claims that Miss Hannigan locks the orphans in the closet at her OrphanageOfFear.
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* The titular character in ''Literature/JaneEyre'' is locked in the Red Room after she fights off her bully of cousin. Said room is where her uncle died and not helping matters is Jane's active imagination, which goes into overdrive and leaves her panicking until the servants let her out.
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* ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'': One of Four's few fears is claustrophobia, represented in his fear landscape by the tiny closet his abusive father would lock him in as a punishment when he was younger.
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* The image for this page, ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac,'' has this happen in one of the newer endings that came out in its 3rd DLC, Repentance. After Isaac draws his Mom as a monster-ish version, she finds out. Outraged, she throws him in a closet and leaves to cry.
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* In the ''Series/CharliesAngels'' episode "The Seance," Kelly is hypnotized into remembering how Beamish, the abusive orphanage matron, used to lock her in the closet. The hypnotist takes advantage of this information to hypnotize her into thinking that Jill is Beamish so she'll kill her.
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* In ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers of Victory'', Sally Sonic was shut away in a cupboard during her stay in the OrphanageOfFear.
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* The Image image for this page, ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac,'' has this happen in one of the newer endings that came out in its 3rd DLC, Repentance. After Issac Isaac draws his Mom as a monster-ish version, she finds out. Outraged, she throws him in a closet and leaves to cry.
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* ''Film/Molly1983'': After Molly refuses to sing at an audition, Jones locks her in a closet in his apartment.
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* ''Film/TheWildChild'': When Victor misbehaves, Itard locks him in a closet for about a minute. He is careful not to overuse the punishment, or it will lose its effectiveness.
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* One killer on ''Series/{{Bones}}'' was repeatedly locked in a stall in the family stable, thus getting the claustrophobia with the addition of comparing her to an animal. She scratched so hard at the walls that, not only do the team find her finger impressions there thirty years later, she did permanent damage to her fingers (which Brennan is able to recognize from her bones) and messed up her ability to grow fingernails. It caused her to become a serial killer who harvested her victims' fingernails to replace her own.
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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Oe of the many things Garak's father did to him as a child. Garak developed a near crippling case of claustrophobia as a result. [[spoiler:His father was Enabran Tain, head of the Obsidian Order]].
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DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff, GoToYourRoom, TimeOut, and DunceCap are other childhood punishments. Compare LockedInARoom, where two or more characters are locked in a confined space and must spend the episode/chapter/etc. together, and PunishmentBox, for when people (usually prisoners) are put in a small enclosure. See also LockedInAFreezer, IronMaiden, and TenMinutesInTheCloset.
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DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff, GoToYourRoom, TimeOut, and DunceCap are other childhood punishments. Compare LockedInARoom, where two or more characters are locked in a confined space and must spend the episode/chapter/etc. together, and PunishmentBox, for when people (usually prisoners) are put in a small enclosure. See also LockedInAFreezer, AntiInterferenceLockUp, IronMaiden, and TenMinutesInTheCloset.
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* Strongly implied in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' when [[PsychopathicManchild Mr Teatime]]'s hired muscle start getting picked off by... ''something'' in the realm of the Tooth Fairy that's tapping into their PrimalFear and ugly childhood memories. Catseye's fear is of the dark, and basements, prompting this exchange:
--> '''Medium Dave''': "Our mum used to wallop us if we tried to go in the cellar. She'd got her still down there."
--> '''Catseye''': "Yeah? Well, ''our'' dad used to wallop us if we tried to get ''out''."
--> '''Medium Dave''': "Our mum used to wallop us if we tried to go in the cellar. She'd got her still down there."
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Blankets}}'', after complaining about sharing a bed with his older brother, Phil gets locked in the "cubby hole", a small unlit room hidden in the playroom that is covered in dust and filled with pests.
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* In ''Film/ATaleOfTwoSisters'', the EvilStepmother finds out that her pet bird has been killed. So she cruelly locks Su-yeon in the closet and refuses to free her [[OrderedApology until she apologises]].
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* In ''Literature/GoodnightMrTom'', Will's mother strips him to his underwear and locks him in the cupboard under the stairs after finding out that his friend, Zach, is Jewish, saying he has "been poisoned by the Devil". Will protests that "Zach says Jesus was a Jew", but this only makes her angrier. Some time later, she throws her baby daughter, Trudy, in the cupboard as well; she then abandons both children to their fate. "Mr Tom" eventually comes to the rescue, but by then Trudy has died from starvation and Will is deeply traumatised.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'': For his first ten years living with his abhorrent relatives the Dursleys, Harry was forced to sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. Sometimes he was locked in there during the day too as punishment for accidental magic.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'': For his first ten years living with his abhorrent relatives the Dursleys, Harry was forced to sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. Sometimes he was locked in there during the day too as punishment for accidental magic.
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* In ''Literature/GoodnightMrTom'', Will's mother strips him to his underwear and locks him in the cupboard under the stairs after finding out that his friend, Zach, is Jewish, saying he has "been poisoned by the Devil". Will protests that "Zach says Jesus was a Jew", but this only makes her angrier. Some time later, she throws her baby daughter, Trudy, in the cupboard as well; she then abandons both children to their fate. "Mr Tom" eventually comes to the rescue, but by then Trudy has died from starvation and Will is deeply traumatised.
* In ''Literature/GoodnightMrTom'', Will's mother strips him to his underwear and locks him in the cupboard under the stairs after finding out that his friend, Zach, is Jewish, saying he has "been poisoned by the Devil". Will protests that "Zach says Jesus was a Jew", but this only makes her angrier. Some time later, she throws her baby daughter, Trudy, in the cupboard as well; she then abandons both children to their fate. "Mr Tom" eventually comes to the rescue, but by then Trudy has died from starvation and Will is deeply traumatised.
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* In the first season of ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', [[CompellingVoice Kilgrave]] sends the children of a family whose house he is inhabiting into a closet not for having done anything wrong, but just because them being there annoys Kilgrave. This despite the fact that the girl remarks she has to use the bathroom. We don't hear of the poor children again.
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* In ''Film/SonRiseAMiracleOfLove'', Barry and Suzie visit a special needs school, thinking they might send Raun there. They see a girl dragged kicking and screaming into "TimeOut," which turns out to be in a locked cabinet. The girl screams and bangs on the walls while a guard sits calmly nearby. Barry and Suzie leave immediately after that.
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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Stephanie Brown's abusive father would lock her in the closet when she was younger.
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* ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'': Carrie's religious mother locks her in a closet and forces her to pray in it as punishment for starting her period, and thus in her eyes sinning.
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A stock way of implying an {{Abusive Parent|s}} is to have them lock their child in a closet as punishment. If not a closet then something similar like a cellar or attic also works. This trope is used by adults in general towards children, however it's most commonly done by parents.
The effectiveness of this as a punishment relies on childhood fears of ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight and the PrimalFear of small enclosures.
DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff, GoToYourRoom, TimeOut, and DunceCap are other childhood punishments. Compare LockedInARoom, where two or more characters are locked in a confined space and must spend the episode/chapter/etc. together, and PunishmentBox, for when people (usually prisoners) are put in a small enclosure. See also LockedInAFreezer, IronMaiden, and TenMinutesInTheCloset.
If you're thinking about ''that'' closet, see GetBackInTheCloset.
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* In a rare heroic example, one early episode of ''Manga/SazaeSan'' has the lead locking her son in a shed for several hours and outright forgetting he's there.
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Blankets}}'', after complaining about sharing a bed with his older brother, Phil gets locked in the "cubby hole", a small unlit room hidden in the playroom that is covered in dust and filled with pests.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Stephanie Brown's abusive father would lock her in the closet when she was younger.
* In ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers of Victory'', Sally Sonic was shut away in a cupboard during her stay in the OrphanageOfFear.
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* In ''Film/ATaleOfTwoSisters'', the EvilStepmother finds out that her pet bird has been killed. So she cruelly locks Su-yeon in the closet and refuses to free her [[OrderedApology until she apologises]].
* In ''Film/{{Annie}}'', Daddy Warbucks claims that Miss Hannigan locks the orphans in the closet at her OrphanageOfFear.
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* ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'': Carrie's religious mother locks her in a closet and forces her to pray in it as punishment for starting her period, and thus in her eyes sinning.
* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'' takes this UpToEleven with the "Chokey," a closet lined with spikes and shards of glass, thus like an IronMaiden, in which there is just barely enough room to stand. Putting children in there for even the slightest misdemeanor is a favorite torture technique of the cruel headmistress of Matilda's school.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'': For his first ten years living with his abhorrent relatives the Dursleys, Harry was forced to sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. Sometimes he was locked in there during the day too as punishment for accidental magic.
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* In the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Scavenger", serial killer Humphrey Becker's hatred of mothers stemmed from his own mother locking him in a closet for hours on end so that she could go to the movies, which caused him to develop claustrophobia. After learning about it, the detectives exploit this by locking him in a closet until he gives up the location of his latest victim.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Oe of the many things Garak's father did to him as a child. Garak developed a near crippling case of claustrophobia as a result. [[spoiler:His father was Enabran Tain, head of the Obsidian Order]].
* In the first season of ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', [[CompellingVoice Kilgrave]] sends the children of a family whose house he is inhabiting into a closet not for having done anything wrong, but just because them being there annoys Kilgrave. This despite the fact that the girl remarks she has to use the bathroom. We don't hear of the poor children again.
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* A flashback in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'' shows Karen's AlcoholicParent Gotz locking her in the wine cellar as a child. The protagonist, visiting his grandfather one summer, helps her out.
* In ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'', Touko explains that [[AbusiveParents her parents]] used to lock her in a closet for several days straight as punishment. Because of this, she's very afraid of the dark.
The effectiveness of this as a punishment relies on childhood fears of ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight and the PrimalFear of small enclosures.
DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff, GoToYourRoom, TimeOut, and DunceCap are other childhood punishments. Compare LockedInARoom, where two or more characters are locked in a confined space and must spend the episode/chapter/etc. together, and PunishmentBox, for when people (usually prisoners) are put in a small enclosure. See also LockedInAFreezer, IronMaiden, and TenMinutesInTheCloset.
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* In a rare heroic example, one early episode of ''Manga/SazaeSan'' has the lead locking her son in a shed for several hours and outright forgetting he's there.
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Blankets}}'', after complaining about sharing a bed with his older brother, Phil gets locked in the "cubby hole", a small unlit room hidden in the playroom that is covered in dust and filled with pests.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Stephanie Brown's abusive father would lock her in the closet when she was younger.
* In ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers of Victory'', Sally Sonic was shut away in a cupboard during her stay in the OrphanageOfFear.
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* In ''Film/ATaleOfTwoSisters'', the EvilStepmother finds out that her pet bird has been killed. So she cruelly locks Su-yeon in the closet and refuses to free her [[OrderedApology until she apologises]].
* In ''Film/{{Annie}}'', Daddy Warbucks claims that Miss Hannigan locks the orphans in the closet at her OrphanageOfFear.
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* ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'': Carrie's religious mother locks her in a closet and forces her to pray in it as punishment for starting her period, and thus in her eyes sinning.
* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'' takes this UpToEleven with the "Chokey," a closet lined with spikes and shards of glass, thus like an IronMaiden, in which there is just barely enough room to stand. Putting children in there for even the slightest misdemeanor is a favorite torture technique of the cruel headmistress of Matilda's school.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'': For his first ten years living with his abhorrent relatives the Dursleys, Harry was forced to sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. Sometimes he was locked in there during the day too as punishment for accidental magic.
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* In the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Scavenger", serial killer Humphrey Becker's hatred of mothers stemmed from his own mother locking him in a closet for hours on end so that she could go to the movies, which caused him to develop claustrophobia. After learning about it, the detectives exploit this by locking him in a closet until he gives up the location of his latest victim.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Oe of the many things Garak's father did to him as a child. Garak developed a near crippling case of claustrophobia as a result. [[spoiler:His father was Enabran Tain, head of the Obsidian Order]].
* In the first season of ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', [[CompellingVoice Kilgrave]] sends the children of a family whose house he is inhabiting into a closet not for having done anything wrong, but just because them being there annoys Kilgrave. This despite the fact that the girl remarks she has to use the bathroom. We don't hear of the poor children again.
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* Music/ModestMussorgsky's fragmentary piano suite ''Memories of Childhood'' has a second movement (unfinished by the composer) titled "First punishment: Nanny locks me in a dark room."
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* ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy''. When Bucky Katt has been particularly bad, Rob will order him to go to his closet and stay there for a while. He also sometimes locks him up in a pet cage, like the ones that are used to hold animals on airplane flights.
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* A flashback in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'' shows Karen's AlcoholicParent Gotz locking her in the wine cellar as a child. The protagonist, visiting his grandfather one summer, helps her out.
* In ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'', Touko explains that [[AbusiveParents her parents]] used to lock her in a closet for several days straight as punishment. Because of this, she's very afraid of the dark.