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* In the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio play ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts Spare Parts]]'', the UndergroundCity of Mondas has a nightly curfew (there's no sun of course, so they just dim the lights). Turns out the reason isn't law and order, but because the authorities are secretly digging up graveyards at night so they can [[HumanResources crush up bones for the nutrients]].
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* In the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio play ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts Spare Parts]]'', the UndergroundCity of Mondas has a nightly curfew (there's no sun of course, so they just dim the lights). Turns out the reason isn't law and order, but because the authorities are secretly digging up graveyards at night so they can [[HumanResources crush up bones for the nutrients]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Tarrlok's idea of a sane response to anti-bending revolutionaries is to impose curfews on every non-bender in Republic City. [[KickTheDog Taking this a step further]], he shuts off the electricity to a whole district just to goad them outside, where he can accuse them of breaking curfew and have them rounded up.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Tarrlok's (Amon's younger brother) idea of a sane response to anti-bending revolutionaries is to impose curfews on every non-bender in Republic City. [[KickTheDog Taking this a step further]], he shuts off the electricity to a whole district just to goad them outside, where he can accuse them of breaking curfew and have them rounded up.
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* ''Film/IRobot'': The RobotRevolution ''begins'' with a blaring introduction of curfews. The humans don't take it well.
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* ''Film/IRobot'': The RobotRevolution robot revolution ''begins'' with a blaring introduction of curfews. The humans don't take it well.
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** The story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]". The almost streets indicate that some sort of curfew in effect, and Happiness Patrol agents roam the streets looking for 'killjoys'.
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** The story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]". The almost empty streets indicate that some sort of curfew in effect, and Happiness Patrol agents roam the streets looking for 'killjoys'.
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* During the final chapter of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky FC'', [[spoiler:the Intelligence Division enact a curfew on Grancel as part of their coup. This becomes [[StealthBasedMission very inconvenient]] for Estelle and Joshua when Julia anonymously summons them to the cathedral to let them in on the true extent of what's going on.]]
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Apparently many writers' favorite way to show that a government is evil and oppressive is to have said government instill on its citizens a practice that many parents would instill on their children anyway. In the minds of many writers, a curfew is the piece of martial law no self-respecting dictatorship can go without. Specifically: the government legally forces everyone to stay inside past a certain hour at night and until a certain hour in the morning. While normally you'd expect the penalty for a rule like this to be a simple ticket or fine, the actual punishments you will find range from [[DisproportionateRetribution immediate jailtime]] at ''minimum'' to [[FelonyMisdemeanor summary execution]] at most. Narratively speaking, the authorities can say that [[FelonyMisdemeanor someone is a rebel just for being about]]; it also means [[DestructiveSavior characters can fight in major urban areas]] [[ConvenientlyEmptyBuildings without risking innocent lives]]. Sometimes the curfew isn't targeted at everyone but rather a certain group of people that the government believes is trouble or wants to oppress—and even nominal democracies built on repression of such groups can engage with this: White-controlled "sundown towns" in the United States in the era of Jim Crow, for example, imposed a sort of curfew where Black people could not enter, or had to leave, by sunset, lest they be chased out, arrested, assaulted or lynched, even.
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Apparently many writers' favorite way to show that a government is evil and oppressive is to have said government instill on its citizens a practice that many parents would instill on their children anyway. In the minds of many writers, a curfew is the piece of martial law no self-respecting dictatorship can go without. Specifically: the government legally forces everyone to stay inside past a certain hour at night and until a certain hour in the morning. While normally you'd expect the penalty for a rule like this to be a simple ticket or fine, the actual punishments you will find range from [[DisproportionateRetribution immediate jailtime]] at ''minimum'' to [[FelonyMisdemeanor summary execution]] at most.worst. Narratively speaking, the authorities can say that [[FelonyMisdemeanor someone is a rebel just for being about]]; it also means [[DestructiveSavior characters can fight in major urban areas]] [[ConvenientlyEmptyBuildings without risking innocent lives]]. Sometimes the curfew isn't targeted at everyone but rather a certain group of people that the government believes is trouble or wants to oppress—and even nominal democracies built on repression of such groups can engage with this: White-controlled "sundown towns" in the United States in the era of Jim Crow, for example, imposed a sort of curfew where Black people could not enter, or had to leave, by sunset, lest they be chased out, arrested, assaulted or lynched, even.
