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* This is how Hell works in ''Series/{{Lucifer}}''. Everyone there is trapped by their own guilt, essentially punishing themselves for all eternity. They could leave any time by breaking the cycle and letting go of their guilt but no-one has ever done so. This may apply only to humans as Goddess (God's wife and the mother of the angels) was specifically mentioned to have been locked up in Hell with other doors shown to be sealed despite Lucifer's claim to the contrary.

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* This is how Hell works in ''Series/{{Lucifer}}''. Everyone there is trapped by their own guilt, essentially punishing themselves for all eternity. They could leave any time by breaking the cycle and letting go of their guilt but no-one no human has ever done so. This may apply only [[spoiler:In season five recurring criminal Lee "Mr. Said Out Bitch" Garner becomes the first person to humans as Goddess (God's wife process their guilt and the mother of the angels) was specifically mentioned gain access to have been locked up in Hell with other doors shown to be sealed despite Heaven.]] Goddess, Lucifer's claim to mother, claims that she never broke under Hell's tortures, because she doesn't believe she was "guilty" of anything beyond disagreeing with God.
-->'''Goddess:''' (''to Maze'') Hell gives
the contrary.damned what they deserve. I didn't deserve to be punished, and you know it.

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* [[DiscussedTrope Described]] in ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'' by Ginger: "The fences aren't just around the farm, they're up here, in your heads." While the chickens were very much physically imprisoned, they also had reached a point where many of them couldn't conceive of what life would be like outside of the farm and were close to giving up on escaping.



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Nothing was actually physically keeping Rapunzel in the tower, as she later proves by descending on her own hair. Mother Gothel built a staircase to the tower, but Rapunzel never knew about it. Her ''real'' prison was her messed-up psyche and lack of mental strength to stand up to her emotionally abusive WickedStepmother. Rapunzel's trip shows her that TheWorldIsJustAwesome, and that she is capable and brave... and yet, when asked by Flynn if she wants to return to her tower, she still doubts, declaring it's ''complicated''. Because Mother Gothel never kept Rapunzel physically in the tower, Rapunzel never realized she was a prisoner. So she never intended to escape, she only wanted to go to see the lamps. If not for Rapunzel realizing her kidnapping, she would have never left the tower.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Nothing was actually physically keeping Rapunzel in the tower, as she later proves by descending on her own hair. Mother Gothel built a staircase to the tower, but Rapunzel never knew about it. Her ''real'' prison was her messed-up psyche and lack of mental strength to stand up to her emotionally abusive WickedStepmother. Rapunzel's trip shows her that TheWorldIsJustAwesome, and that she is capable and brave... and yet, when asked by Flynn if she wants to return to her tower, she still doubts, declaring it's ''complicated''. Because Mother Gothel never kept Rapunzel physically in the tower, Rapunzel never realized she was a prisoner. So she never intended to escape, she only wanted to go to see the lamps. If not for Rapunzel realizing her kidnapping, she would have never left willingly returned to the tower.

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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has one in the form of the "Jerryboree", a daycare center in which the Ricks of the multiverses drop off their son-in-law Jerry if they ever end up unwitting tagging along. While the daycare is designed to fulfill Jerry's incredibly basic necessities, there's also nothing stopping them from leaving save for the fact that Jerrys are all typically gutless cowards who if they ever decide to leave will inevitably just come back due to not being able to deal with the weirdness of the cosmos.

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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has one in the form of the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'':
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"Jerryboree", a daycare center in which the Ricks of the multiverses drop off their son-in-law Jerry if they ever end up unwitting unwittingly tagging along. While the daycare is designed to fulfill Jerry's incredibly basic necessities, there's also nothing stopping them from leaving save for the fact that Jerrys are all typically gutless cowards who if they ever decide to leave will inevitably just come back due to not being able to deal with the weirdness of the cosmos.cosmos.
** "The Fear Hole" from the season 7 finale "Fear No Mort" is a PsychologicalTormentZone taking the form of an ominous pit in a Denny's bathroom that forces a person to overcome their greatest fear. [[spoiler:After Morty dives in and Rick seemingly goes in after him, Morty comes to realize that Rick was never there and he was being forced to face his fear of being abandoned by him.]]

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* In ''Film/WhatAboutBob'', Bob ''thinks'' that his therapist has put him in one of these. In reality, he's been [[spoiler:tied up by ropes and left next to a ridiculous amount of black powder on a short fuse... since his therapist can no longer stand him.]]

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* In ''Film/WhatAboutBob'', Bob ''thinks'' that his therapist has put him in one of these. In reality, he's been [[spoiler:tied [[spoiler:[[StrappedToABomb tied up by ropes and left next to a ridiculous amount of black powder on a short fuse...fuse]]... since his therapist can no longer stand him.]]]] Nonetheless, he manages to escape the experience in a much better mindset... [[spoiler:While driving his therapist into catatonia]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Nothing was actually physically keeping Rapunzel in the tower, as she later proves by descending on her own hair. Mother Gothel built a staircase to the tower, but Rapunzel never knew about it. Her ''real'' prison was her messed-up psyche and lack of mental strength to stand up to her emotionally abusive WickedStepmother. Rapunzel's trip shows her that TheWorldIsJustAwesome, and that she is capable and brave... and yet, when asked by Flynn if she wants to return to her tower, she still doubts, declaring it's ''complicated''. Because Mother Gothel never kept Rapunzel physically in the tower, Rapunzel never realized she was a prisoner. So she never intended to escape, she only wanted to go to see the lamps. If not for Rapunzel realizing her kidnapping, she would never left the tower.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Nothing was actually physically keeping Rapunzel in the tower, as she later proves by descending on her own hair. Mother Gothel built a staircase to the tower, but Rapunzel never knew about it. Her ''real'' prison was her messed-up psyche and lack of mental strength to stand up to her emotionally abusive WickedStepmother. Rapunzel's trip shows her that TheWorldIsJustAwesome, and that she is capable and brave... and yet, when asked by Flynn if she wants to return to her tower, she still doubts, declaring it's ''complicated''. Because Mother Gothel never kept Rapunzel physically in the tower, Rapunzel never realized she was a prisoner. So she never intended to escape, she only wanted to go to see the lamps. If not for Rapunzel realizing her kidnapping, she would have never left the tower.
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** At the end of ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', the villain's meddling with mirror magic ends up with both her and her opponent Esmerelda Weatherwax being separately trapped in a world of endless mirror images of themselves. Death informs each of them that they can only get out once they find the real one. The villain is seemingly trapped forever trying to find the real one among all the reflections. [[spoiler: Granny Weatherwax is freed immediately, because she points at herself instead of any reflection.]]

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