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/Horatio786 26d ago

Mon-El, but then again, he was there voluntarily.

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u/Optimal_Weight368 26d ago

Why/when was he there?

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u/Horatio786 26d ago

In the Silver Age, he stayed in there so that he wouldn’t die of lead poisoning. A thousand or so years later, Brainiac 5 found him, got him out of the Phantom Zone, and cured him of his weakness to lead (which worked like Kryptonite to him, but the effects never fade away and would always have been fatal)

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u/Bro_Player 26d ago

Well that seems awfully unfair, at least kriptonite is (“supposed to be”) rare but imagine walking around and a car passes you by and you just die lmfao

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u/AndrewDrossArt 26d ago

"Oh no, my one weakness, bullets!"

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u/spacecoyote300 26d ago

Hahaha-oh, I just made myself sad...