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* In ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', when Simba exiles Kovu, the various animals/courtiers persent sing a chant calling him "disgrace, an outrage! Desecrator! Agitator!" He is forced to run a gauntlet on the way out. The chants final verse states; "Let him run. Let him live. But do not forget what we cannot forgive. He is not one of us. He will never be one of us." It's undone later when Simba realizes he was wrong and Kovu is not a bad lion.

* In ''Franchise/StarTrek'', the Klingons have Discommendation, in which a Klingon is ceremonially shunned and reduced to an honorless pariah in their society. In the ceremony, the Klingons present cross their arms in front of the discommendee and turn their backs on him.
** In the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] episode "Sins of the Father", Worf was subjected to this as a result of the charges brought against his family by the Duras family. In "Reunion", Duras crossed his arms and turned away from Worf with a sneer when Worf challenged him for the Right of Vengeance.

* These show up in two ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novels:

--> "The Law speaks: You are cast out. I strip you of your names, you are un-dwarf!"

* [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece Ancient Athens]] had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism "ostracism"]], where every year a vote was held to banish one citizen for ten years. When the ten years were up, the banished person can come back with no further repercussions, unless they manage to get ostracized again.

* In ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', when Simba exiles Kovu, the various animals/courtiers persent sing a chant calling him "disgrace, an outrage! Desecrator! Agitator!" He is forced to run a gauntlet on the way out. The chants final verse states; "Let him run. Let him live. But do not forget what we cannot forgive. He is not one of us. He will never be one of us."

* [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece Ancient Athens]] had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism "ostracism,"]] where every year a vote was held to banish one citizen for ten years. When the ten years were up, the banished person can come back with no further repercussions, unless they manage to get ostracized again.

* [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece Ancient Athens]] had "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism ostracism]]", where every year a vote was held to banish one citizen for ten years. When the ten years were up, the banished person can come back with no further repercussions, unless they manage to get ostracized again.

* The ''Literature/PriestsOfMars'' trilogy features a lupine-themed "pack" of Titans accompanying the Mechanicus expedition the books revolve around. In the second book, the Warhound Titan ''Amarok'' is grievously damaged in a moment's lapse of attention by its Princeps, and as a punishment for the Titan's loss he is "made omega". As a proclamation of his banishment is made by the "pack" leader, his uniform insignia are torn off and his cheeks and throat are slashed just deeply enough to leave permanent scars. [[spoiler:He is later brought back into the pack when it's clear that his experience is needed to help fight off the antagonist's invasion.]]

* The ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novel ''Faith and Fire'' describes the ritual through which a Battle Sister chooses to be cast out of her Order and become a Sister Repentia. The Sister announces herself as bearing a great sin and desiring this fate as her means of absolution as her fellow Sisters strip her of her armor and weapons, clothe her in rags, and use a knife to cut off her hair, announcing their rejection of her until her sin is forgiven.

** ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' {{deconstruct|edTrope}}s this in the episode "Warzone", mission "The House Always Wins". Chancellor J'mpok orders Councillor Torg to be discommendated and the House of Torg dissolved for [[spoiler:conspiring with the Romulan Star Empire to destroy the rival House of Martok]]. The Klingons present ritually turn their backs on him, but Torg decides on TakingYouWithMe and attempts to {{backstab}} Worf. Worf's son Alexander jumps in front of the knife and bleeds out in Worf's arms.

* In the ''Literature/{{Rihannsu}}'' novels the ultimate form of dishonor for the Romulans is to have one's name thrice written and thrice burned by the Senate, after which one is considered an UnPerson and one's name may never be spoken again. This happens to Ael t'Rllaillieu after she teams up with the ''Enterprise'' against her own government in ''My Enemy, My Ally'', and many of the [[LaResistance Free Rihannsu rebels]] in the fifth book still refuse to speak her name despite her being a leading member of the rebellion. [[spoiler:It's undone after she becomes empress.]]

* ''Film/MaryPoppins'' shows [[spoiler:George Banks]] suffering one of these after being fired. It involves the top of his hat being punched in, his umbrella being turned inside out, and the flower in his buttonhole being ripped up.

* In Creator/HarryHarrison's [[Literature/WestOfEden Eden trilogy]], a Yilanè can be cast out of [[LadyLand her city]] with a simple but formalized denouncement, including being stripped of her name and place among the other Yilanè. Because their psychology is so tied to community and home, this is such a shock that, except for a few, swift death is inevitable.

* In Ruth Ozeki's "A Tale for the Time Being", Nao is subjected to repeated bullying by her classmates, which culminates in the bullies pretending she has died, to the extent of making a memorial video, putting up flyers and having an elaborate funeral rite in homeroom. After this, they ignore Nao with such completeness that principal believes she actually died.

** In the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] episode "Sins of the Father", Worf was subjected to this as a result of the charges brought against his family by the Duras family. In a later episode, Duras crossed his arms and turned away from Worf with a sneer when Worf challenged him for the Right of Vengeance.

** In the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] episode "Sins of the Father", Worf was subjected to this as a result of the charges brought against his family by the Duras family.
** ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' {{deconstruct|ed|trope}}s this in the episode "Warzone", mission "The House Always Wins". Chancellor J'mpok orders Councillor Torg to be discommendated and the House of Torg dissolved for [[spoiler:conspiring with the Romulan Star Empire to destroy the rival House of Martok]]. The Klingons present ritually turn their backs on him, but Torg decides on TakingYouWithMe and attempts to {{backstab}} Worf. Worf's son Alexander jumps in front of the knife and bleeds out in Worf's arms.

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** ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' {{deconstruct|ed}}s this in the episode "Warzone", mission "The House Always Wins". Chancellor J'mpok orders Councillor Torg to be discommendated and the House of Torg dissolved for [[spoiler:conspiring with the Romulan Star Empire to destroy the rival House of Martok]]. The Klingons present ritually turn their backs on him, but Torg decides on TakingYouWithMe and attempts to {{backstab}} Worf. Worf's son Alexander jumps in front of the knife and bleeds out in Worf's arms.

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* [[AncientGreece Ancient Athens]] had "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism ostracism]]", where every year a vote was held to banish one citizen for ten years. When the ten years were up, the banished person can come back with no further repercussions, unless they manage to get ostracized again.

* In ''Disney/TheLionKing II'', when Simba exiles Kovu, the various animals/courtiers persent sing a chant calling him "disgrace, an outrage! Desecrator! Agitator!" He is forced to run a gauntlet on the way out. The chants final verse states; "Let him run. Let him live. But do not forget what we cannot forgive. He is not one of us. He will never be one of us."

TheExile results directly from this; a PersonaNonGrata can also receive this treatment. InsigniaRipoffRitual is the job- or military-specific application of this.

* When Homer was kicked out of the secret organisation known as "The Stonecutters" in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', his punishment was to be stripped naked, shackled to a rock called the "stone of shame", and ordered to drag the rock with him as he walked home.

* In ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', retiring Judges who don't want to take a desk job are subjected to The Long Walk. It includes a ceremony with a gun salute, after which the ex-Judge is exiled into the Cursed Earth outside Mega City.