History Main / PossessiveParadise

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' special WesternAnimation/DestinationImagination, imaginary friend [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds World]] is anything and everything in the toy box Frankie opens, transferring to a new object, person or animal through moving his face to it, unless they have a face already. When Frankie discovers him, he tries to get her to stay as much as possible and does everything he can to stop her friends from reaching her. Initially, Frankie does want to stay due to how she's overworked in the real world, but World's desperation to escape loneliness ends up getting the better of him and at the end he undergoes a VillainousBreakdown, taking the world, and everyone else, with him. [[spoilers: He does end up undergoing a HeelFaceTurn with Frankie's help.]]

* Yivo, the titular ''Beast With A Billion Backs'' from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' proposes to and marries the entire population of Earth and brings them to shklerparadise of a home dimension... except for the robots. Yivo's one condition is that none of them are ever allowed to communicate with another universe ever again. It's treated as a cross between romantic jealousy and the First Commandment (Thou shalt not have any other gods before Me). [[spoiler:Fry gets everyone kicked out after he sends a letter to Bender, who wasn't invited]].

Compare LotusEaterMachine (where the place's tactics extend to [[PrefersTheIllusion making sure you don't]] ''[[PrefersTheIllusion want]]'' [[PrefersTheIllusion to leave]]), and GildedCage, which is a more mundane version, in which the obstacles to leaving come from the place's staff rather than the place itself.

* In Anime/{{One Piece}} this is one of the themes of one of the Four Emperors, Big Mom's, country. It is sweet and happy if you enter and stay, but if you leave, most likely you will die.

* Yivo, the titular ''Beast With A Billion Backs'' from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' proposes to and marries the entire population of earth and brings them to shkler paradise of a home dimension... except for the robots. Yivo's one condition is that none of them are ever allowed to communicate with another universe ever again. It's treated as a cross between romantic jealousy and the First Commandment (thou shall not have any other gods before Me). [[spoiler:Fry gets everyone kicked out after he sends a letter to Bender, who wasn't invited]].

So you've just parked up your spaceship on this new planet, and WOW! Everything is beautiful and sparkly, with [[PleasurePlanet every kind of pleasure available to satisfy you]].

However, there's no place like home, so you decide to make your merry way back to Earth, which is when the problems begin... You see, this place would rather like you to stay, ideally forever, and if it can't have you, no one can.

* The caves in ''The Lotus Caves'' by Creator/JohnChristopher.

Essentially, it's a [[GeniusLoci sentient setting]] with a possessive {{yandere}} complex for anyone unfortunate enough to visit. Or fortunate enough, if you fancy staying to enjoy the party. Sometimes, however, the party is just a build-up to you being the main course…

Compare LotusEaterMachine (where the place's tactics extend to [[PrefersTheIllusion making sure you don't]] ''[[PrefersTheIllusion want]]'' [[PrefersTheIllusion to leave]]), and GildedCage, which is deliberately set up like this.

Compare LotusEaterMachine (where the place's tactics extend to [[PrefersTheIllusion making sure you don't]] ''[[PrefersTheIllusion want]]'' [[PrefersTheIllusion to leave]]).

Compare LotusEaterMachine (where the place's tactics extend to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy making sure you don't *want* to leave]]).

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', this is the story.

* Reconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6263444/1/Transition Transition,]] [[GeniusLoci K'naa]] wants people to be able to leave because then they could tell others where she is,which means more visitors. The problem is she's at a location that is hard to find or reach and while she can teleport people to her everyone has to find their way back on their own. She uses her powers to abduct Raven because Ravens own teleportation powers mean she might be the first person to actually leave.

* Reconstructed in "WesternAnimation/TeenTitans" fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6263444/1/Transition Transition]],[[GeniusLoci K'naa]] wants people to be able to leave because then they could tell others where she is,which means more visitors. The problem is she's at a location that is hard to find or reach and while she can teleport people to her everyone has to find their way back on their own. She uses her powers to abduct Raven because Ravens own teleportation powers mean she might be the first person to actually leave.

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* Yivo, the titular ''Beast With A Billion Backs'' from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' proposes to and marries the entire population of earth and brings them to shkler paradise of a home dimension... except for the robots. Yivo's one condition is that none of them are ever allowed to communicate with another universe ever again. It's treated as a cross between romantic jealousy and the First Commandment (thou shall not have any other gods before Me).

* Justified on ''Series/ThePrisoner'', where the Village - despite resembling a quaint seaside resort - is essentially a prison/forced retirement home for spies.

* Reconstructed in "WesternAnimation/TeenTitans" fanfic Transition,[[GeniusLoci K'naa]] wants people to be able to leave because then they could tell others where she is,which means more visitors. The problem is she's at a location that is hard to find or reach and while she can teleport people to her everyone has to find their way back on their own. She uses her powers to abduct Raven because Ravens own teleportation powers mean she might be the first person to actually leave.

So you've just parked up your spaceship on this new planet, and WOW! Everything is beautiful and sparkly, with every kind of pleasure available to satisfy you.

Compare LotusEaterMachine (the trope namer for which is a mild example of this trope)

* "Rose In Paradise" by Music/WaylonJennings. A ravishingly beautiful young woman named Rose marries a rich banker, who promises her a rich, lavish, never-wanting-for-anything-ever-again lifestyle. It soon becomes a prison for her, as he reveals himself to be a jealous, possessive husband behind closed doors; he remains a soft-spoken, humble and respected man in public ... except when the conversation turns to Rose (''I would walk through Hell on Sunday/To keep my Rose in paradise''). He goes so far as to hire a gardener to keep an eye on her during his many extended business trips, and make sure she never leaves. Whether Rose escapes her predicament or dies is deliberately never made clear, as there are equal numbers of rumors circulating that they (Rose and the gardener) ran away together and never revealed to anyone their destination, or that Rose simply vanished without a trace. (In fact, several people close to Jennings have mentioned that he deliberately did not want a video made of the song, to leave Rose's disappearance ambiguous and to the imagination of the listener.)

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', this is the story.
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* "Rose In Paradise" by Music/WaylonJennings. A ravishingly beautiful young woman named Rose marries a rich banker, who promises her a rich, lavish, never-wanting-for-anything-ever-again lifestyle. It soon becomes a prison, and he reveals himself to be a jealous, possessive husband behind closed doors. He goes so far as to hire a gardener to keep an eye on her during his many extended business trips, and make sure she never leaves. Whether Rose escapes her predicament or dies is deliberately never made clear, as there are equal numbers of rumors circulating that they (Rose and the gardener) ran away together and never revealed to anyone their destination, or that Rose simply vanished without a trace.

* "Rose In Paradise" by Music/WaylonJennings. A ravishingly beautiful young woman named Rose marries a rich banker, who promises her a rich, lavish, never-wanting-for-anything-ever-again lifestyle. It soon becomes a prison, and he reveals himself to be a jealous, possessive husband behind closed doors. Whether she escapes her predicament -- the banker hires a gardener to keep watch over her while he's absent on his many business trips -- or dies is deliberately never made clear, as there are equal numbers of rumors circulating that Rose and the gardener ran away together and never revealed to anyone their destination, or that Rose simply vanished without a trace.