History Main / PutOnAPrisonBus

* ''WesternAnimation/Hoodwinked!: [[spoiler:Boingo and his ski team henchmen]] are shown being sent flying towards a police car after Red and Granny use parachutes to escape from them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'', the last episode Milton Midas appears in is "[[Recap/TheRaccoonsS5E12TheOneThatGotAway The One That Got Away!]]", where his last scene involves him getting arrested for hiring the Pigs to dump toxic waste into a lake.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': [[spoiler: Bellwether]] ends up getting caught and arrested by the ZPD after being [[spoiler: [[EngineeredPublicConfession tricked into revealing herself as the mastermind behind the Night Howlers conspiracy]]]] by Nick and Judy, and is last seen unhappily in prison watching the DancePartyEnding.

JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith RoleEndingMisdemeanor, in which a RealLife arrest leads to an actor or other creator disappearing from the public eye. Related to PutOnABusToHell.

* In Volume 10 of ''LightNovel/MagikaSwordsmanAndSummoner'', tabloid journalist Turtle Oota is preemptively captured by the Knight Order and put in "protective custody".

* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', [[spoiler:Callahan]] gets arrested after taking on the identity of the BigBad. He is seen in a couple of episodes of ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'', still in prison and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone remorseful of his actions]].

** According to a 2015 interview with author Creator/JKRowling, Dolores Umbridge was taken to [[TheAlkatraz Azkaban]] for her war crimes after the end of ''Deathly Hallows''.

* According to a 2015 interview with ''Literature/HarryPotter'' author Creator/JKRowling, Dolores Umbridge was taken to Azkaban for her war crimes after the end of ''Deathly Hallows''.

Sometimes, this may be followed by a quick scene of the villain in jail. This makes for a good TheStinger scene. However, we will usually see nothing more than that. The character's trial and other events leading up to their imprisonment will almost never be shown due to LawOfConservationOfDetail.

* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenaceInCruiseControl'', Kraigor is last seen being sent to the dungeon for high treason against the kingdom of Mimosa after Dennis, Joey, Margaret, Ruff and Mr. Wilson rescue Princess Liana and foil his plan to take over the kingdom.

** "WesternAnimation/CornOnTheCop" has Daffy and Porky, playing the roles of incompetent policemen, chasing after a bank robber [[DisguisedInDrag disguised as Granny]] on [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween]], and try to arrest either her or the real robber. At the end of the short, the real robber is arrested after Granny, annoyed with him and the two incompetent cops, gives him a ComedicSpanking, just before dragging Porky and Daffy back to their precinct by their ears.

** "WesternAnimation/CornOnTheCop" has incompetent policemen chasing after a bank robber [[DisguisedInDrag disguised as Granny]] on [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween]], and try to arrest either her or the real robber. At the end of the short, the real robber is arrested after Granny, annoyed with him and the two incompetent cops, gives him a ComedicSpanking, just before dragging Porky and Daffy back to their precinct by their ears.

** In "WesternAnimation/TwoScentsWorth", a burglar uses a cat named Fifi to help him rob a bank. The idea was to paint Fifi's back to make her look like a skunk, drop her into the bank and scare off the customers, where he is free to rob it. After the robbery, he encounters Pepé, thinking it's Fifi, but by then, he realizes it's not Fifi after smelling Pepé, at which point [[PreferJailToTheProtagonist he races over to the city prison and intentionally imprisons himself]].

** In "WesternAnimation/TwoScentsWorth", a burglar uses a cat named Fifi to help him rob a bank. The idea was to paint Fifi's back to make her look like a skunk, drop her into the bank and scare off the customers, where he is free to rob it. After the robbery, he encounters Pepé, thinking it's Fifi, but by then, he realizes it's not Fifi after smelling Pepé, at which point he races over to the city prison and intentionally imprisons himself.

** In "WesternAnimation/TheLoneStrangerAndPorky", the Stranger is called to save Porky from a bandit who kidnapped and robbed him. The bandit seems to have the upper-hand during the final fight, but Stranger recovers and defeats him, giving him a good punch that causes him to fly into a giant boulder. After the bandit collides with said boulder, it converts into a jailhouse, where he is last seen crying in defeat.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': "Dripper" follows the titular sealasaurus almost being kidnapped by an unknown criminal mastermind by the name of "Mrs. Big", because [[BumblingHenchmenDuo her two incompetent henchmen, Blinky and Muscles]], end up kidnapping Barney by mistake. When Dripper follows the henchmen to their hideout and calls the police for the kidnapped Barney, he is caught, as well, just moments before the police arrive to arrest their captors. Moments after Blinky and Muscles are arrested and Fred (who rode along with the officers) rescues Barney and Dripper, [[spoiler:"Mrs. Big" is later unmasked to be Dripper's own trainer, who was jealous of the latter's fame and plotted to remove him from the limelight, at which point he, too, is arrested.]]

* ''Franchise/HomeAlone'':

** The Wet Bandits are arrested by the police after their defeat at the end of ''Film/HomeAlone''. There was originally going to be a scene showing them in jail, but it was cut. They do come back for ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'', then get arrested a second time.

* ''Series/CobraKai'': After the West Valley Brawl in season 2, Stingray is briefly seen amongst the Cobra Kai students who've sided with Kreese...but by the season 3 premiere two weeks later, he's been arrested and placed on probation, and can no longer come within 500 feet of minors, so can't attend the dojo anymore.