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Because WeCare about your safety, we have provided 24 hour, full week [[EliteMooks Elite]] [[FacelessMooks ninja bodyguard]] coverage, [[PalantirPloy camera]] [[SinisterSurveillance surveillance]] of every area, titanium reinforced walls and airlocks with Novichok gas dispensers, automated [[GatlingGood 30mm Gatling gun turrets]] mounted on walls, [[ColdSniper sniper-protected guard towers]], a fleet of aircraft ready to [[TakeOffEveryZIG scramble]] and ground to space missiles around the resort's perimeter. But don't let our ominous and imposing staff and defenses worry you, they will in no way inconvenience you. All our staff, from [[{{Meido}} maids]] to {{mooks}}, have been [[BrainWashed "re-trained"]] to never speak to you, and since you will never need it, there will be no news of the outside world.

Your room is the [[{{The President's Daughter}} Presidential Suite]], our most lavish accommodation. It comes with a fully stocked kitchen and team of chefs, entertainment rooms, library, indoor pool, solarium, [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe Swedish massage and spa]] room and bowling alley. The Gilded Cage resort itself also has a first class restaurant, the "MacGuffinGirl", where [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine you can dine with your patron and your fellow guest, Mr. Bond]]. We also boast [[DancesAndBalls a ballroom]], and regularly host the [[DamselInDistress Damsel Ball]] for guests who enjoy dancing.

As part of our care package you get a [[ImNotHungry fruit basket]], [[GoGoEnslavement evening wear]], and this matching gold chain and GPS tracking manacle which we ''insist'' you wear. For your safety, of course.

Your room is the [{{[The President's Daughter}} Presidential Suite]], our most lavish accommodation. It comes with a fully stocked kitchen and team of chefs, entertainment rooms, library, indoor pool, solarium, [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe Swedish massage and spa]] room and bowling alley. The Gilded Cage resort itself also has a first class restaurant, the "MacGuffinGirl", where [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine you can dine with your patron and your fellow guest, Mr. Bond]]. We also boast [[DancesAndBalls a ballroom]], and regularly host the [[DamselInDistress Damsel Ball]] for guests who enjoy dancing.

Your room is the [[=~ThePresidentsDaughter Presidential Suite~=]], our most lavish accommodation. It comes with a fully stocked kitchen and team of chefs, entertainment rooms, library, indoor pool, solarium, [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe Swedish massage and spa]] room and bowling alley. The Gilded Cage resort itself also has a first class restaurant, the "MacGuffinGirl", where [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine you can dine with your patron and your fellow guest, Mr. Bond]]. We also boast [[DancesAndBalls a ballroom]], and regularly host the [[DamselInDistress Damsel Ball]] for guests who enjoy dancing.

Your room is the [[ThePresidentsDaughter Presidential Suite]], our most lavish accommodation. It comes with a fully stocked kitchen and team of chefs, entertainment rooms, library, indoor pool, solarium, [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe Swedish massage and spa]] room and bowling alley. The Gilded Cage resort itself also has a first class restaurant, the "MacGuffinGirl", where [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine you can dine with your patron and your fellow guest, Mr. Bond]]. We also boast [[DancesAndBalls a ballroom]], and regularly host the [[DamselInDistress Damsel Ball]] for guests who enjoy dancing.

Because WeCare about your safety, we have provided 24 hour, full week [[EliteMooks Elite]] [[FacelessMooks ninja bodyguard]] coverage, [[PalantirPloy camera]] [[SinisterSurveillance surveillance]] of every area, titanium reinforced walls and airlocks with Novichok gas dispensers, automated [[GatlingGood 30mm Gatling gun turrets]] mounted on walls, [[ColdSniper sniper-protected guard towers, a fleet of aircraft ready to [[TakeOffEveryZIG scramble]] and ground to space missiles around the resort's perimeter. But don't let our ominous and imposing staff and defenses worry you, they will in no way inconvenience you. All our staff, from [[{{Meido}} maids]] to {{mooks}}, have been [[BrainWashed "re-trained"]] to never speak to you, and since you will never need it, there will be no news of the outside world.

Because WeCare about your safety, we have provided 24 hour, full week [[EliteMooks Elite]] [[FacelessMooks ninja bodyguard]] coverage, [[PalantirPloy camera]] [[SinisterSurveillance surveillance]] of every area, titanium reinforced walls and airlocks with cyanide gas dispensers, and ground to space missiles around the resort's perimeter. But don't let our ominous and imposing staff and defenses worry you, they will in no way inconvenience you. All our staff, from [[{{Meido}} maids]] to {{mooks}}, have been [[BrainWashed "re-trained"]] to never speak to you, and since you will never need it, there will be no news of the outside world.

* In the WheelOfTime, [[spoiler: Morgase]] stays as a 'guest' of [[spoiler: the Children of the Light]] for a time.

* Hyrule Castle is something like this for Princess Zelda in ''TheLegendOfZelda: TwilightPrincess''. She's still in her lavish childhood home, the interior of which remains untouched by the scourge of Twilight, and although she seems to prefer to remain in her tower, there's nothing to suggest she can't visit other parts of the building as well. But she can't ''leave''.

* In the SwordOfTruth series, the prophet Nathan Rahl is kept in one of these by the Sisters of the Light, and given every comfort, except wine, because a drunken prophet is bad news. Later in the series, Nathan Rahl escapes, and his Mord-Sith servants capture the Prelate, the leader of the Sisters of the Light. He then has her thrown in a grimy prison cell, refuses her requests to see him with the same answers she had refused him with over the years("I'm busy and can't be bothered to come down every time you clamor for me!"), and gives her all the wine she wants. Later, he shows up to meet with her, acts as if her prison cell is a GildedCage, and then makes a brief speech about how all prisons, regardless of how pretty or comfortable they are, are fundamentally the same.

* The doge (meaning duke in the venetian dialect) of Venice was rarely allowed to leave the lavish Palazzo Ducale for the nobles where keen on maintaining executive power out of their noses and to prevent the establishment of a hereditary monarchy (something which was repeatedly attempted in the 8th century), which would inevitably lead to the former. The real power resided with the Council of ten, an extraordinary body which was technically reserved for times of crisis, but in the end were the biggest decision-maker in the entire republic from the 13th century up to the destruction of the republic at the hands of Napoleon.

* In ''[[TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Horse And His Boy]]'', when [[SmugSnake Prince Rabadash]] is captured, the narrator notes the day afterwards that from the way he was carrying on, one would think that he had been thrown into a cold, wet cell for the night and given no food or water, but actually he was held in a GildedCage.

* [[spoiler: Athena Tellos]] from ''HayateTheCombatButler'' used to be a literal prisioner in her palace. [[spoiler: Hayate's brother Ikusa rescued her. Then, he disappeared.]]

* The doge (meaning duke in the venetian dialect) of Venice was rarely allowed to leave the lavish Palazzo Ducale for the nobles where keen on maintaning executive power out of their noses and to prevent the establishment of a hereditary monarchy (something which was repeatedly attempted in the 8th century), whish would inevitably lead to the former. The real power resided with the Council of ten, an extraordinary body which was technically reserved for times of crisis, but in the end were the biggest decision-maker in the entire republic from the 13th century up to the destruction of the republic at the hands of Napoleon.

* [[KnownSpace Sigmund Austerfeller]] is "invited" to be a permanent "guest" of the Hindmost in Destroyer of Worlds.

* In the movie {{Quills}}, Dr. Royer-Collard allows his young wife to decorate their home with whatever materials she likes, no matter how ornate or expensive they are...but instructs the architects to install doors that can only be locked from the outside. In his twisted mind, this apparently justifies his continued raping of a girl young enough to be his granddaughter every night.

* ''Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia'' by Samuel Johnson opens with the title character kept in a valley like all the princes who do not succeed to the throne, in the lap of luxury so they don't want to leave. Except that Rasselas finds himself inexplicably miserable. His tutor tells him that if he knew how miserable life was outside, he would appreciate the valley.\\