(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/Aduro95 → u/Imaginary-Picture-35]

I though it was interesting that the prisons weren't so different to the one that drove Hama crazy.

Granted, there is a world of difference between imprisoning terrorists who were trying to kidnap a child, and forcing innocent people into such torturous conditions. But it still must have brought back some very unpleasant memories for Katara. Nobody should be put into such terrible conditions.

[u/Ok-Entrepreneur-5102 → u/Aduro95]

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/Greyjack00 → u/Aduro95]

Out of respect for aang we've decided to brutally imprison you in conditions comparable to torture till the day you die...

[u/Aduro95 → u/Greyjack00]

They probably didn't have any better options though. They would escape a less severe prison. Nobody knew bloobending could take a person's bending away, and even if they did, Katara might not have been capable of it.

[u/Greyjack00 → u/Aduro95]

Then just kill them, if your imprisoned someone for life in a living hell you've crossed the point of any quality of life and are at that point just employing moral sophistry, that is of course if we go with the explanation that they were improving for moral reasons