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(Clockwise from top left: [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Arkham Asylum]], [[Film/MinorityReport Halo Prison]], [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Azkaban Prison]], [[Film/{{Blindness}} Asylum Prison]]]]

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* MistakenForImprisonment: Mistaking situations for imprisonment.

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(Clockwise from top left: [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Arkham Asylum]], [[Film/MinortyReport Halo Prison]], [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Azkaban Prison]], [[Film/{{Blindness}} Asylum Prison]]]]

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(Clockwise from top left: [[VideoGame/ArkhamAsylum Arkham Asylum]], [[Film/MinortyReort Halo Prison]], [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Azkaban Prison]], [[Film/{{Blindness}} Asylum Prison]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Their methods vary, but their goal is the same: incarceration.\\
(Clockwise from top left: [[VideoGame/ArkhamAsylum Arkham Asylum]], [[Film/MinortyReort Halo Prison]], [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Azkaban Prison]], [[Film/{{Blindness}} Asylum Prison]]]]
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* AloneWithPrisonerPloy: The ReverseMole talks to an arrested ally by claiming they want to see the prisoner alone.

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* AloneWithPrisonerPloy: The ReverseMole TheMole talks to an arrested ally by claiming they want to see the prisoner alone.
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* MenagerieOfMisery: A collection of animals kept in accommodations that are more like a stressful prison than their natural habitat.

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* MenagerieOfMisery: A collection of An oppressive zoo that keeps wild animals kept held captive in accommodations conditions that are more like a stressful prison HellholePrison than their natural habitat.



* PetGetsTheKeys: Character breaks out of captivity by getting an animal to bring them an implement of escape, often keys.

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* PetGetsTheKeys: Character Someone breaks out of captivity by getting an animal to bring them an implement of escape, often keys.



* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: Pounds depicted as being the animal equivalent of a prison.

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* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: Pounds are depicted as being the domestic animal equivalent of a prison.



* StanfordPrisonExperiment: A psychology experiment where volunteers are split between pretending they're either guards or prisoners.

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* StanfordPrisonExperiment: A An infamous psychology experiment where volunteers are split between pretending they're either guards or prisoners.prisoners. [[EnforcedMethodActing Soon though they began acting like it was totally real]]...
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* MenagerieOfMisery: A collection of animals kept in accommodations that are more like a stressful prison than their natural habitat.
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* TimeLoopTrap: A character is deliberately trapped within a time loop.

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** PossessiveParadise: A luxurious place that actively prevents you from leaving.



* PossessiveParadise: A luxurious place that prevents you from leaving.
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* CryoPrison: Imprisoning people by freezing them with cryonics.

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* CryoPrison: Imprisoning people by [[HumanPopsicle freezing them with cryonics.cryonics]].
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* ImplicitPrison: A setting is treated like a prison, even if it explicably calls itself a prison.

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* ImplicitPrison: A setting is treated like a prison, even if it explicably calls itself it's not explicitly called a prison.

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* DeadlyEnvironmentPrison: Prison where the surrounding area is more dangerous and impassable than any guards or walls.

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* DeadlyEnvironmentPrison: Prison A prison where the surrounding area is more dangerous and impassable than any guards or walls.



* TheGulag: A type of prison camp that was once common in the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion.

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* TheGulag: A type of forced-labor prison camp that was once common in the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion.



* InPrisonWithTheRogues: TheHero is locked up in the same prison alongside vengeful criminals they previously put behind bars.



** SentencedToDownUnder: When colonial-era {{UsefulNotes/Australia}} was used as a penal colony by the UsefulNotes/BritishEmpire.



* PossessiveParadise: A place that prevents you from leaving.

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* PossessiveParadise: A luxurious place that prevents you from leaving.



** InPrisonWithTheRogues: The hero is locked up in the same prison alongside vengeful criminals they previously put behind bars.



* SentencedToDownUnder: When colonial-era {{UsefulNotes/Australia}} was used as a PenalColony by the UsefulNotes/BritishEmpire.

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** TradingBarsForStripes: A convicted criminal decides to serve in the military to avoid a prison sentence, or to earn their freedom.



* CardboardPrison: When an inmate escapes from jail with absurd ease.

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* CardboardPrison: When an inmate escapes inmates are able to escape from jail with absurd ease.



** WorkingOnTheChainGang: Convict laborers are chained together while doing work.



* TradingBarsForStripes: A convicted criminal decides to serve in the military to avoid a prison sentence, or to earn their freedom.



* WorkingOnTheChainGang: Convict laborers are chained together while doing work.
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* POWCamp: A military prison camp designed to hold captured enemy soldiers (AKA prisoners-of-war, or [=POWs=]). Also closely related to concentration/internment camps that are used by the military to detain non-combatant civilians during wartime.

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* POWCamp: A military prison camp designed to hold captured enemy soldiers (AKA prisoners-of-war, or [=POWs=]). Also closely related to concentration/internment internment/concentration camps that are used by the military to detain non-combatant civilians during wartime.
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I'm not sure how this trope is even relevant to this index.


* AlternativeTuringTest: A puzzle that a robot/android/etc must complete to prove it's sentient.
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* {{Hell}}: In many different religious mythologies, there's a special afterlife designed to trap the souls of dead sinners and punish them for their misdeeds in life, often for eternity (or at least a long time before they can be forgiven and allowed to move into another realm). This is essentially the spiritual version of a mortal penal facility.

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* ExtranormalPrison: A prison specialized to contain people/entities with special powers.

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* ExtranormalPrison: A prison specialized that is specially designed to contain people/entities with special powers.people or beings who have [[MagicAndPowers superhuman]] [[StockSuperpowers abilities]].



* LockDown: A location is isolated by means of locking every door/window/air vent/other entrance so that no one can get in or out.

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* LockDown: {{Lockdown}}: A building or other location is isolated by means of locking blocking access to every door/window/air vent/other single entrance or exit, so that no one can get in or out.



* PreferJailToTheProtagonist: The villain finds the protagonist so unbearable that they'd rather go to prison than endure them any longer.

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* PreferJailToTheProtagonist: The villain finds the protagonist hero to be so unbearable unbearable, that they'd rather go to prison than endure them any longer. longer.



* PrisonRape: When prisoners get sexually assaulted by fellow inmates (or sometimes by the guards or staff).

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* PrisonRape: When prisoners get sexually assaulted by fellow other inmates (or sometimes by the guards or staff).



* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: When the government enforces a very strict lockdown on an area (sometimes including ''entire cities''), in an attempt to stop the spread of [[ThePlague a very deadly disease]].



* TailorMadePrison: A prison is made specifically to hold a person who has powers that make it difficult or impossible to lock them up in any old jail.

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* TailorMadePrison: A prison cell that is made specifically specially designed to hold contain a single specific person who has powers that make it difficult or impossible to lock them cannot be locked up in by any old jail.normal means.


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* TrappedInContainment: When an area of a building gets put on lockdown to try and stop something dangerous from escaping or spreading out of control, someone is unlucky enough to get sealed inside with that threat.
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* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Prison inmates are shown exercising and bodybuilding to develop their muscles while in prison.

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* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Prison inmates are shown exercising and bodybuilding to develop their muscles while in prison.muscles.

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The Big House. The Slammer. The Pen. The Clink. The Hoosegow. The Pokey. The Calaboose.

Call it what you will, stories set in prisons have their own set of tropes attached to them.

See also EscapeTropes.

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The Big House. The Slammer. The Pen. The Clink. The Hoosegow. The Pokey. The Calaboose.

Calaboose. Call it what you will, stories set in prisons have their own set of tropes attached to them.

See also EscapeTropes.Also see EscapeTropes and SealedIndexInACan.



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* TheAlcatraz: A prison that is impossible to escape.

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* TheAlcatraz: A prison that is (supposedly) impossible to escape.



* {{Birdcaged}}: A villain traps TheHero inside a birdcage.

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* BedlamHouse: An oppressive psychiatric hospital that is effectively a HellholePrison for the patients, doing nothing to make them any less crazy. May sometimes be used to detain people who are "criminally insane" (they committed some sort of crime, but were found to be legally "not guilty" due to their mental illness).
* {{Birdcaged}}: A villain traps TheHero the hero inside a birdcage.



* CaptivityHarmonica: Someone plays the harmonica while incarcerated.
* CapturedOnPurpose: One or more members of a heroic or villainous side are captured as part of a plan.
* CardboardPrison: An imprisoned person escapes from jail with absurd ease.

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* CaptivityHarmonica: Someone plays the harmonica while incarcerated.
in jail.
* CapturedOnPurpose: One or more members of a heroic or villainous side are Someone allows themselves to be captured by the enemy as part of a plan.
* CardboardPrison: An imprisoned person When an inmate escapes from jail with absurd ease.



* GirlsBehindBars: Women being incarcerated for fanservice purposes.

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* GirlsBehindBars: Women being incarcerated Women's prisons are played for fanservice {{fanservice}} purposes.



* InPrisonWithTheRogues: TheHero is locked up in the same prison as criminals they previously put behind bars.

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* InPrisonWithTheRogues: TheHero is locked up in the same prison as alongside vengeful criminals they previously put behind bars.



* TheJailer: A VigilanteMan who illegally incarcerates criminals instead of executing them.

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* TheJailer: A VigilanteMan who illegally incarcerates criminals in extrajudicial detention, instead of executing them.[[VigilanteExecution killing them]] or handing them over to the actual authorities.



* MindPrison: Incarceration in a MentalWorld or VirtualReality.

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* MindPrison: Incarceration Imprisonment in a MentalWorld or VirtualReality.



* TheOldConvict: A prisoner who's been locked up for a very long time.
* PariahPrisoner: Prison inmates will have it in for prisoners who are incarcerated for certain serious offenses.

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* TheOldConvict: A An elderly prisoner who's been locked up for a very long time.
* PariahPrisoner: Prison inmates will have it in for A prison inmate who is strongly despised by many other prisoners who are incarcerated for certain serious offenses.various reasons.



* PlatonicCave (sort of, they are often depicted as chained to the walls)



* POWCamp: A military prison camp designed to hold captured enemy combatants (AKA prisoners-of-war, or [=POWs=]).

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* POWCamp: A military prison camp designed to hold captured enemy combatants soldiers (AKA prisoners-of-war, or [=POWs=]).[=POWs=]). Also closely related to concentration/internment camps that are used by the military to detain non-combatant civilians during wartime.



* PrisonDimension: Criminals are incarcerated in another dimension.

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* PrisonDimension: Criminals are incarcerated banished to and locked away in another dimension.



* PrisonRape: People in jail get raped by their cellmates.

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* PrisonRape: People in jail When prisoners get raped sexually assaulted by their cellmates.fellow inmates (or sometimes by the guards or staff).



* PrisonShip: A vessel designed to transport prisoners from one detention facility to another or hold them permanently.

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* PrisonShip: A vessel designed to transport prisoners from one detention facility to another another, or at least hold them permanently.indefinitely.



* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Incarcerated people are shown exercising to develop their muscles while in prison.

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* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Incarcerated people Prison inmates are shown exercising and bodybuilding to develop their muscles while in prison.



* ProtectorBehindBars: TheHero is locked in jail and can't protect anyone on the outside.

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* ProtectorBehindBars: TheHero is locked up in jail and can't protect anyone on the outside.



* SinisterShiv: An improvised dagger created by sharpening an item that's not normally able to be used as a weapon.

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* SinisterShiv: An improvised dagger blade weapon created by sharpening an item that's not normally able to be and used as a weapon.by prison inmates.



* StanfordPrisonExperiment: A psych experiment where volunteers are split between pretending they're either guards or prisoners.

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* StanfordPrisonExperiment: A psych psychology experiment where volunteers are split between pretending they're either guards or prisoners.



* VulnerableConvoy: A convoy transporting a prisoner that gets attacked.

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* VulnerableConvoy: A convoy of vehicles that are transporting a prisoner that gets attacked.prisoners get attacked en route.
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* PrisonShip: A vessel designed to transport prisoners from one detention facility to another.

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* PrisonShip: A vessel designed to transport prisoners from one detention facility to another.another or hold them permanently.
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Call it what you will, but stories set in prisons have their own set of tropes attached to them.

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Call it what you will, but stories set in prisons have their own set of tropes attached to them.them.

See also EscapeTropes.

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* JailbirdOfPanama: A character is arrested and sent to jail in a foreign country.
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sent back to TLP


* BooToTheZoo: A zoo portrayed as a prison for animals.

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