Basic Trope: A character needs to talk to or rescue someone in jail, so they get in trouble to get into jail with them.
- Straight: Alice is in prison, and has some vital information. Bob commits a minor crime to get in and asks Alice his question during his time.
- Exaggerated: Bob frames himself for multiple murders, knowing that he will get a Longer-Than-Life Sentence in The Alcatraz. He has a plan to escape with Alice.
- Downplayed: Bob was on the tail end of his parole already - he asks to be let back into jail under the pretense that he is worried about slipping up. He talks to Alice inside and waits out a few weeks for his sentence to be served.
- Justified: This is the most convenient way to get in to talk to her.
- Inverted: Bob is in jail and has to escape to talk to Alice.
- Subverted:
- Bob has to talk to Alice, who is in prison, but decides to sneak in instead.
- Bob ends up in a different prison because his crime wasn't severe enough to wind up with Alice, an accused murderer.
- The plan fails because Bob is sent to a different prison - it turns out there is no guarantee that one will get sent to the same place.
- Double Subverted:
- It turns out his real plan was to get caught trying to sneak in so that he can talk to Alice when he gets incarcerated there out of convenience.
- However he ends up transferred there after beating up a prison guard.
- Parodied: Alice is in detention. Bob skips class to get into detention with her, only to remember that he needed her to give him the answer sheet to a test in the class he blew off.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob finds another way to talk to Alice.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Do any of your plans not involve getting thrown into prison?"
- Invoked: Knowing that the prison is watched too closely to get in undetected and that the guards are under orders to shoot Alice on a prison break attempt from the outside Bob gets imprisoned first under a lower profile to ensure that he can secure her before signaling for the attack.
- Exploited: Evulz expected this move, and prepares trumped-up charges to keep him in prison longer than expected.
- Defied: Bob simply waits for Alice to escape or be released.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Laughs: Alice is being kept in a minimum-security prison, and Bob could have just gone for a normal visit, if not for his Complexity Addiction.
- Played For Drama: Bob angsts excessively about needing to commit a crime serious enough to get imprisoned.
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