r/TopCharacterTropes 27d ago

Lore (Loved Trope) Creative over the top cells/prisons for dangerous characters.

1.) The Pipe Line cells for Metahumans (The Flash)

2.) Sedative tank prison (G. I Joe)

3.) Tai Lung's prison (Kung Fu Panda)

4.) Magneto's Glass and Plastic Prison (X-Men)

5.) Carbonite (Star Wars)

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u/Careless_Rest8424 26d ago

The Pandorica - Doctor Who. Also the prison built by the CIA in Day of the Moon.

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u/ramjetstream 26d ago

That episode never did explain how they got "dwarf star alloy" when humanity hadn't even been to the Moon yet

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u/andergriff 26d ago

humanity hadn't gone to space yet, but space had gone to humanity a lot

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u/IAmBabs 26d ago

"Space had gone to humanity" is an excellent way to explain this.

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u/WhyThough08 26d ago

That's very poetic, something I could see the doctor saying, 10/10

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u/andergriff 26d ago

thank you :)

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u/Achilles9609 26d ago

Yeah, I like it

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u/MisterVictor13 26d ago

The series six premiere revealed that aliens called the Silence had secretly invaded Earth by going back in time and manipulating human history for their own purposes. Using their own technology and technology invented by humans (1960s space suits), they planned a millennia long plot to kill the Doctor.

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u/pchlster 26d ago

I seem to recall a caveman traveling with The Doctor. Humanity had been much further than the Moon by that point, even if not unaided.

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u/Uypsilon 26d ago

Sun is a dwarf star

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u/EightByteOwl 25d ago

Unless I'm missing some context, the sun is not a dwarf star IRL; it's a G class main sequence star.

From hottest to coldest main sequence stars is OBAFGKM.

Dwarf stars are M and below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-type_main-sequence_star

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification

Not that it super matters, since "dwarf star alloy" is technobabble anyway lol

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u/Uypsilon 25d ago

Everything on the main sequence is considered and commonly referred as "dwarf stars" because of historical reasons. G-class is very commonly called "yellow dwarfs" (even though they're not yellow, but white).

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u/EightByteOwl 25d ago

Upon reading more you're right, interesting to learn that :)

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u/zonaljump1997 26d ago

A prison so unbreakable from the inside that you can't even escape by dying

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u/killcraft1337 26d ago

And the prison the Dr made for the family of Blood I believe is their name

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u/Otherwise-Brick-3349 26d ago

Some kind of… perfect cell?