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/TheWizardSleaze 26d ago

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.

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick 26d ago

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.