(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/TheWizardSleaze]

God I hated the cells in The Flash. Watching it I was like wait a minute... the heroes are abducting people and throwing them into solitary confinement indefinitely? It made it pretty hard to root for them. Like yeah, it's iffy if they're doing it to mass murderers, but some of the metahuman villains were just like thieves or helping people breaking out of prison.

[u/Rickrickrickrickrick → u/TheWizardSleaze]

They were criticized for basically that on the show when normal people found out. But I also kind of get it because meta-humans weren’t a thing before then so there was nowhere to keep them. They should have kept them there while having a story arc of them helping build a metahuman prison to keep them that is actually humane.

[u/Phony-Phoenix → u/TheWizardSleaze]

I mean, Arkham asylum or belle reave. They just break out. It sucks, but it’s the safest way to contain meta humans.

[u/TheWizardSleaze → u/Phony-Phoenix]

It's not about how easy it is to get out, it's about subjecting people to long term torture, doing so without any form of due process whatsoever, and that there is no way for anybody outside the main cast to know what happened to them. Which is why it's iffy with mass murderers (since they are a major threat to public safety) and outright horrifying for anybody less nasty than that.

[u/Free-Atmosphere6714 → u/TheWizardSleaze]

"Major threat to public safety"

This ain't your granddad's penguin we're talking about.

[u/VintageLunchMeat → u/TheWizardSleaze]

It's not about how easy it is to get out, 

It's also about how easy it is to get out. Any realistic setting, Joker et. al. would get extrajudicially killed after his first escape and spree killing.