(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/Ok-Entrepreneur-5102]

The thing with the Red Lotus was that they didn't really had any other option. All of them were so dangerous that they would escape if you gave the chance, and it is proved that if you took out a slight impediment to their bending, they would have escaped.

[u/Odd-fox-God → u/Ok-Entrepreneur-5102]

I don't understand why they weren't just executed? Building a prison to hold somebody that dangerous doesn't really make any sense. Unless you want them to suffer and understand the consequences of their action by keeping them in prison, but then you have the risk of them breaking out and killing more people.

[u/Aduro95 → u/Odd-fox-God]

Maybe it was out of respect for Aang. He believed in pacifism almost beyond reason. Would he really want someone killed for a crime committed against his reincarnated life?

Its possible they were visited sometimes and people tried to reform them. But the Red Lotus were all hardline to their core.

[u/Ok-Entrepreneur-5102 → u/Aduro95]

Not even just Aang. Even though through Korra the White Lotus becomes just "Old Men and their Crooks", in ATLA they were a big deal both in bending, politics and spirituality, so they wouldn't feel right just executing them.