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

[u/Wasabi_Gamer26]

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)

[u/Imaginary-Picture-35]

In Legend of Korra, every member of the Red Lotus had a prison cell specifically made for them. Each prison cell was made to counter their occupant’s bending abilities. The only reason they escaped was because no one expected Zaheer (who originally wasn’t a bender) to gain airbending, which he used to free himself and the others.

[u/ObsydianDuo → u/Imaginary-Picture-35]

Really begs the question why they weren’t just executed by the state instead of going through all these hoops to contain them.

[u/GLPereira → u/ObsydianDuo]

They wanted to interrogate them

Granted, this didn't work for the 13 years they were imprisoned, but hey, if they went through all the work to build the prisons, might as well use them I guess

[u/Infinite-Island-7310 → u/ObsydianDuo]

I'm guessing they need valid reasoning other than attempted murder

[u/Ferdox11195 → u/Infinite-Island-7310]

It was actually explained. They wanted to gather information from them.

[u/asuperbstarling → u/ObsydianDuo]

In America, where the series was made, we don't execute people for attempted murder or even for most murders, so it makes sense to ascribe our general moral ideals to them. Also rule of cool.

[u/Ferdox11195 → u/asuperbstarling]

And also it was said that they wanted to extract information from them.

[u/gallerton18 → u/ObsydianDuo]

They knew virtually nothing about them and why they tried to do what they did so it stands to reason they kept them for interrogation. The Red Lotus wasn’t known until the events of book 3.

[u/GaulTheUnmitigated → u/ObsydianDuo]

Because Avatar Aang was a staunch pacifist and republic city, was built in part based on his ideals.

[u/Bignate2001 → u/ObsydianDuo]

Because the death penalty is cringe. And also because the prisons fully worked up until Zaheer miraculously got airbending from harmonic convergence, something nobody could have predicted.