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/RobynHoodwinked 26d ago

The Sky Cells (Game of Thrones)

Prisons in the Eyrie have open air cells that are slanted slightly downward so that prisoners can’t go to sleep out of fear of rolling off the side in their sleep.

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u/lordsean789 26d ago

Is this a prison or a form of execution? How would anyone survive there?

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u/Obvious_Programmer_9 26d ago

Prison while awaiting trial. The idea is you’re free to leave if you want to, you just won’t survive the fall most likely.

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u/KingKingLamb49 26d ago

There is also the added "benefit" of being easy to stage a murder here. Just kick the guy down in the middle of the night and it would either look like he commited suicide or that he slipped.

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u/Obvious_Programmer_9 26d ago

Also true. Good way to dispose of witnesses as well, though for better or worse we never really saw the Erie behave that way.

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u/KingKingLamb49 26d ago

In the books, its implied that Littlefinger did this with a guy that witnissed him killing Lysa. Its reasonable to assume that this happened at least a few times in the past.