History Main / InPrisonWithTheRogues

** In "Dreams in Darkness", Batman gets deemed insane and is incarcerated in Arkham Asylum, the very place where his RoguesGallery is held. It turns out Scarecrow orchestrated the whole thing by exposing Batman to his Fear Gas and having him appear delusional.
** "Trial" plays with this idea, by having the rogues intentionally orchestrate this and have Batman captured before the rogues hold a trial for him to determine whether or not he is guilty of making the rogues who they are, with D.A. Janet Van Dorn (who loathes Batman) being forced to act as his defense attorney. However Janet does brilliantly, having studied all of the rogues and manages to give convincing statements that it wasn't Batman who created the rogues, but the rogues who created Batman.
** In "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE17LockUp Lock-Up]]", where an overzealous Arkham warden is first fired for his methods, then becomes a vigilante, and at the end, goes to Arkham again, this time as an inmate. And is glad he can now once again keep an eye on the criminals.

This usually results in the inevitable breakout where the criminals escape confinement and the hero is forced to [[RunTheGauntlet face off against all of their jailed rogues]] at once. Though worth noting, sometimes there are instances where a hero [[RoguesGalleryTransplant isn't imprisoned with their PERSONAL rogues]], especially with cases of {{Knight Templar}}s who do not tend to let their criminals live long enough to be incarcerated.

This usually results in the inevitable breakout where the criminals escape confinement and the hero is forced to [[RunTheGauntlet face off against all of their jailed rogues]] at once. Though worth noting, sometimes there are instances where a hero [[RoguesGalleryTransplant isn't imprisoned with their ''personal'' rogues]], especially with cases of {{Knight Templar}}s who do not tend to let their criminals live long enough to be incarcerated.

This usually results in the inevitable breakout where the criminals escape confinement and the hero is forced to [[RunTheGauntlet face off against all of their jailed rogues]] at once. Though worth noting, sometimes there are instances where a hero [[RoguesGalleryTransplant isn't imprisoned with their PERSONAL rogues]], especially with cases of {{Knight Templar}}s who do not tend to let their criminals live long enough to be incarcerated.

->''"If you're thirsty for vengeance, you might wanna start with... ComicBook/TheFlash. Barry Allen is The Flash, the same man who put you behind bars, and who will no doubt recapture you after you escape. That was probably his plan all along."''
-->-- '''Warden Wolfe''', ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}''

* ComicBook/ThePunisher:

* Discussed in ''Film/{{Constantine}}''. Constantine's soul has been destined for Hell ever since [[SuicideIsShameful an attempted suicide in his childhood]], and he's trying to earn his way into Heaven by banishing demons that don't belong in the human world. However, he's very aware that if his plan doesn't work he'll be even more screwed than he would have been otherwise, since, as he tells a police officer he befriends: ''"What would you do if you were sentenced to a prison where half the inmates were put there by you?"''

* In ''Film/GhostRider'', Johnny gets wrongly accused of murders committed by Blackheart and gets thrown into a shared cell full of multiple thugs. After ganging up on him and beating him up together, Johnny transforms into Ghost Rider and blasts all of them away, steals one guy's jacket, then burns through the bars of the cell to escape prison.

* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}''

* In ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'', Season 2 had Frank Castle being apprehended and put into the same prison as Wilson Fisk, who had managed to take over the compound and was running it as his own personal kingdom. There Frank is tricked into a trap where Fisk unleashes a whole block of angry inmates on Frank. However [[BadassNormal Frank]] [[OneManArmy manages to kill every single one of them]] with nothing but his bare hands and a few weapons he managed to snatch off the criminals.

* In ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', a short arc of several episodes during season 4 has Barry ending up imprisoned in Iron Heights after being framed for the murder of [=DeVoe=]; the same prison where all of the metahumans he catches are incarcerated. Since nobody knows he's the Flash, he is initially put in a regular cell. Then warden Wolfe discovers he is the Flash and has him locked in the metahuman wing with power dampeners, where he's celled up with the bus meta rogues he had been rounding up in that season. They, however, don't know yet that he's the Flash. After Barry learns that Wolfe is EvilAllAlong and plans to sell all the metas to Amunet, he uses his [[ScienceHero scientific skill]] to break him and all the other metas out before Amunet arrives. The metas eventually confront Wolfe and since they had reached an area outside of the Power Dampener's range, they're all ready to take revenge. So to save his own skin, Wolfe reveals to the metas that Barry Allen is the Flash and he was the one who locked them all up, to begin with, causing the metas to all turn on him. Barry is only saved by [[TokenGoodTeammate Becky Sharpe]] who had a HeelRealization and turns against the other bus metas using her [[WindsOfDestinyChange luck manipulation]]. Unfortunately, the success is shortlived where [=DeVoe=] himself shows up and kills all of the bus metas by draining their powers, while [[GrandTheftMe taking Becky's body]] for himself.

* Inverted in ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'', where the titular character was incarcerated in Seagate prison ''before'' his superhero career and houses with Shades, a criminal who would go on to become one of his most notorious rogues when they are both released.

* Discussed in ''Film/{{Constantine}}''. Constantine's soul has been destined for Hell ever since [[SuicideIsShameful an attempted suicide in his childhood]], and he's trying to earn his way into Heaven by banishing demons that don't belong in the human world. However, he's very aware that if his plan doesn't work he'll be even more screwed than he would have been otherwise, since, as he tells a police officer he befriends: "You're a cop, how would you feel about being sent to a jail where you put away most of the inmates?"

* Booth in ''{{Series/Bones}}'' after being framed for murder. A lot of guys Booth arrested were in there with him, and the members of TheConspiracy seemed to hope Booth would die in there from being attacked. They weren’t counting on Brennan using {{blackmail}} on them to free him. Ah

** [[VigilanteMan While Frank rarely arrests criminals,]] many storylines have him end up in prison in the company of survivors or relatives of his victims, who come at him for revenge ([[MuggingTheMonster with predictable results]]). More often than not, he's in prison because he ''wants'' to be, usually in order to kill a crimelord who MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll (or in one case, as explained above, to protect Matt Murdock). It essentially just eliminates his commute.

* In one episode of ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'', Dr Mark Sloan is the victim of a {{Frameup}} and is sentenced to death row, where he meets a man who he helped to convict of murder in an earlier episode. The convict takes the chance to gloat that he's likely to be released soon, as Mark's conviction has thrown the charges against him into doubt.

Things are looking bad for TheHero. They've racked up a [[HeroWithBadPublicity bad reputation]] and are wanted by the cops, which eventually [[ArrestedForHeroism culminates in their arrest]]. So our hero is going to [[PrisonEpisode spend a while behind bars]], until they either escape or clear their name.

But it doesn't end there. What's the one thing worse than being locked up in prison? Being locked in prison with your RoguesGallery. For whatever reason, the authorities feel like it's a good idea to put the hero in the ''same'' prison that is housing criminals the hero previously helped locked up. Sometimes it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that the prison is required to have very high levels of security to contain the rogues and similar levels are deemed necessary to hold the hero. So now the hero is held in a compound with their worst enemies, all eager to tear them apart. As the hero is walked down the hallway, they pass by rows of cells with their rogues reaching out their arms and yelling scornfully at the do-gooder who put them in here.

This usually results in the inevitable breakout where the criminals escape confinement and the hero is forced to [[RunTheGauntlet face off against all of their jailed rogues]] at once. Though worth noting, sometimes there are instances where a hero [[RoguesGalleryTransplant isn't imprisoned with their PERSONAL rogues]], especially with cases of {{Knight Templar}}s who don't tend to let their criminals live long enough to be incarcerated.

This usually results in the inevitable breakout where the criminals escape confinement and the hero is forced to [[RunTheGauntlet face off against all of their jailed rogues]] at once.