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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is able to continue some activities, but not others.

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Bob is able to continue some activities, but not others.
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** Bob is always allowed to continue operating - however he is being monitored and used as the perfect mole - one who doesn't know that he is being monitored. He keeps on organizing more operations though - but that is because Bob is being used as a Judas Goat for organized crime.
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** The courts decides to sentence Bob to death in order to cut off Bob's criminal activity for good.

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** The courts decides to sentence Bob to death in order to cut off Bob's criminal activity activities for good.

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* '''Defied''': The police, knowing that Bob's gang is still on the loose, cuts off Bob's communications with the outside world to prevent him from operating from behind bars. They also put his wife, Alice, on their watchlist, just in case she is involved in Bob's criminal activities and would take over for him.

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The police, knowing that Bob's gang is still on the loose, cuts off Bob's communications with the outside world to prevent him from operating from behind bars. They also put his wife, Alice, on their watchlist, just in case she is involved in Bob's criminal activities and would take over for him.him.
** The courts decides to sentence Bob to death in order to cut off Bob's criminal activity for good.
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* '''Invoked''': Bob, an influential drug lord, is sent to prison.

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* '''Invoked''': Bob, an influential drug lord, is sent Bob bribes the prison guards to prison.turn a blind eye to his activities while he's serving in prison, so that he could continue to run his crimes via phone call or other means.



* '''Defied''': Bob is unable to continue "business" from inside prison.

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* '''Defied''': Bob The police, knowing that Bob's gang is unable still on the loose, cuts off Bob's communications with the outside world to continue "business" prevent him from inside prison. operating from behind bars. They also put his wife, Alice, on their watchlist, just in case she is involved in Bob's criminal activities and would take over for him.



* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Conversed''': ???"Are the guards stupid? How can they not notice Bob contacting his gang?"
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** Bob is in prison, not for gang affiliation, but for embezzlement.
** Bob is placed under house arrest, not sent to prison.



** When he gets out, he does it again.



** While under house arrest, he is still committing all kinds of credit card fraud.

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* '''Justified''': [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster Bob was so influential]] that he is able to get people to do his dirty work for him, both inside and outside the prison walls. He may have even [[CrazyPrepared planned this ahead of time]].

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[[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster Bob was so influential]] that he is able to get people to do his dirty work for him, both inside and outside the prison walls. He may have even [[CrazyPrepared planned this ahead of time]].



* '''Subverted''': Bob is heavily supervised, and is losing his connections.

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Bob is heavily supervised, and is losing his connections.



* '''Double Subverted''': His wife, Alice, is able to continue his drug business until he gets out.

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His wife, Alice, is able to continue his drug business until he gets out.



*** Or, he has someone funneling ill-gotten money into his account.

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*** Or, he ** He has someone funneling ill-gotten money into his account.
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* '''Basic Trope''': An incarcerated criminal is able to continue conducting criminal activities from {{Prison}}.

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* '''Basic Trope''': An incarcerated criminal is able to continue conducting criminal activities from {{Prison}}.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob is is kept current on the news, and the business runs on, but it would be fine without him.



* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Bob is able to continue some activities, but not others.



* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???The author thinks their country's prison system is too lax.

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* '''Justified''': [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangsta Bob was so influential]] that he is able to get people to do his dirty work for him, both inside and outside the prison walls. He may have even [[CrazyPrepared planned this ahead of time]].

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* '''Justified''': [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangsta [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster Bob was so influential]] that he is able to get people to do his dirty work for him, both inside and outside the prison walls. He may have even [[CrazyPrepared planned this ahead of time]].



** Bob is placed under house arrest, not sent to prison.
** Bob is placed in a "supermax" prison. He is [[GoMadFromTheIsolation alone in his cell for 23 hours a day]], and is not allowed to receive or send mail or have visitors.



** He prepared ahead of time, and has someone on the outside taking care of things for him. Also, he makes good use of the one hour he ''does'' have outside of his cell, and communicates secretly with other inmates while in his cell.



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* '''Invoked''': ???
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* '''Lampshaded''': ???
"While I'm in prison, I want you to keep my business afloat."
* '''Invoked''': ???
Bob, an influential drug lord, is sent to prison.
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'''Exploited''': TheStarscream uses the opportunity to take over Bob's position.
* '''Defied''': ???Bob is unable to continue "business" from inside prison.
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*'''Basic Trope''': An incarcerated criminal is able to continue conducting criminal activities from {{Prison}}.
*'''Straight''': Bob, a notorious [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer drug lord]], is imprisoned. He has various {{Mook}}s and {{Elite Mook}}s on the outside continuing to sell drugs and conduct "business" on the outside, and place a percentage of the earnings into his commissary account, as well as taking care of his wife and keeping her in the lifestyle that she's accustomed to.
*'''Exaggerated''': Not only that, but Bob is selling his "products" to his fellow prisoners as well. Sometimes in exchange for commissary money, sometimes in exchange for sex or material goods. His crappy prison cell is now a LuxuryPrisonSuite. Oh, and did we mention that this is in a maximum security prison?
*'''Downplayed''': ???
*'''Justified''': [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangsta Bob was so influential]] that he is able to get people to do his dirty work for him, both inside and outside the prison walls. He may have even [[CrazyPrepared planned this ahead of time]].
** Bob is in prison for a WhiteCollarCrime, and was sent to a minimum security prison, which has a lot of luxuries and resources available, and less supervision from guards/staff.
** Bob is placed under "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_arrest house arrest]]," rather than being sent to prison.
*'''Inverted''': After Bob is arrested and sent to prison, his gang undergoes a SuccessionCrisis, stops making the sales on the drugs, and eventually falls apart.
*'''Subverted''': Bob is heavily supervised, and is losing his connections.
** Bob is in prison, not for gang affiliation, but for embezzlement.
*'''Double Subverted''': His wife, Alice, is able to continue his drug business until he gets out.
** When he gets out, he does it again.
*** Or, he has someone funneling ill-gotten money into his account.
** While under house arrest, he is still committing all kinds of credit card fraud.
*'''Parodied''': Bob is in a CardboardPrison.
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*'''Averted''': Bob is not in prison.
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*'''Lampshaded''': ???
*'''Invoked''': ???
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*'''Defied''': ???
*'''Discussed''': ???
*'''Conversed''': ???

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