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* Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]" features this [[spoiler: as the KarmicTwistEnding]]. A criminal named Rocky gets killed by the police after a burglary gone wrong, and when he wakes up, an old man named Pip introduces himself as his "guide," which Rocky takes as a GuardianAngel, and who gives Rocky anything he wants, a stylish wardrobe, money, women, a nice car. When Rocky asks that he wants to hang out with his old friends, [[PersonalizedAfterlife Pip informs Rocky that the setting was made with him in mind, and him alone]]. When everything seems too good to be true, Rocky thinks someone made a mistake, and Pip shows him his life's record that demonstrates he was a crook throughout his life, and decides not to worry about if "the guy upstairs" doesn't mind. However [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction he starts getting bored because he wins every time]] and when he asks Pip for a chance to pull a heist where he may get away, Rocky shoots down that idea as well because he knows he's going to get away. Rocky says that he doesn't deserve to be in heaven and asks Pip to instead take him to "[[GoshDarnItToHeck the other place]]," and Pip responds [[spoiler: that Rocky is in "[[{{Hell}} the other place]]," and the ending narration says that since Rocky got excitement from stealing what he wanted in life, [[IronicHell he has to undergo an eternity of getting anything and everything he asks for]]]].
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* Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E28ANicePlaceToVisit "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]" features this [[spoiler: as the KarmicTwistEnding]]. A criminal named Rocky gets killed by the police after a burglary gone wrong, and when he wakes up, an old man named Pip introduces himself as his "guide," which Rocky takes as a GuardianAngel, and who gives Rocky anything he wants, a stylish wardrobe, money, women, a nice car. When Rocky asks that he wants to hang out with his old friends, [[PersonalizedAfterlife Pip informs Rocky that the setting was made with him in mind, and him alone]]. When everything seems too good to be true, Rocky thinks someone made a mistake, and Pip shows him his life's record that demonstrates he was a crook throughout his life, and decides not to worry about if "the guy upstairs" doesn't mind. However [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction he starts getting bored because he wins every time]] and when he asks Pip for a chance to pull a heist where he may get away, Rocky shoots down that idea as well because he knows he's going to get away. Rocky says that he doesn't deserve to be in heaven and asks Pip to instead take him to "[[GoshDarnItToHeck the other place]]," and Pip responds [[spoiler: that Rocky is in "[[{{Hell}} the other place]]," and the ending narration says that since Rocky got excitement from stealing what he wanted in life, [[IronicHell he has to undergo an eternity of getting anything and everything he asks for]]]].
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* Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]" features this [[spoiler: as the KarmicTwistEnding]]. A criminal named Rocky gets killed by the police after a burglary gone wrong, and when he wakes up, an old man named Pip introduces himself as his "guide," which Rocky takes as a GuardianAngel, and who gives Rocky anything he wants, a stylish wardrobe, money, women, a nice car. When Rocky asks that he wants to hang out with his old friends, Pip informs Rocky that the setting was made with him in mind, and him alone. When everything seems too good to be true, Rocky thinks someone made a mistake, and Pip shows him his life's record that he was a crook throughout his life, and decides not to worry about if "the guy upstairs" doesn't mind. However [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction he starts getting bored because he wins every time]] and when he asks Pip for a chance to pull a heist where he may get away, Rocky shoots down that idea because he knows he's going to get away. Rocky says that he doesn't deserve to be in heaven and asks Pip to instead take him to "[[GoshDarnItToHeck the other place]]," and Pip responds [[spoiler: that Rocky is in "[[{{Hell}} the other place]]," and the ending narration says that since Rocky got excitement from stealing what he wanted in life, [[IronicHell he has to undergo an eternity of getting anything he asks for]]]].
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* Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]" features this [[spoiler: as the KarmicTwistEnding]]. A criminal named Rocky gets killed by the police after a burglary gone wrong, and when he wakes up, an old man named Pip introduces himself as his "guide," which Rocky takes as a GuardianAngel, and who gives Rocky anything he wants, a stylish wardrobe, money, women, a nice car. When Rocky asks that he wants to hang out with his old friends, [[PersonalizedAfterlife Pip informs Rocky that the setting was made with him in mind, and him alone. alone]]. When everything seems too good to be true, Rocky thinks someone made a mistake, and Pip shows him his life's record that demonstrates he was a crook throughout his life, and decides not to worry about if "the guy upstairs" doesn't mind. However [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction he starts getting bored because he wins every time]] and when he asks Pip for a chance to pull a heist where he may get away, Rocky shoots down that idea as well because he knows he's going to get away. Rocky says that he doesn't deserve to be in heaven and asks Pip to instead take him to "[[GoshDarnItToHeck the other place]]," and Pip responds [[spoiler: that Rocky is in "[[{{Hell}} the other place]]," and the ending narration says that since Rocky got excitement from stealing what he wanted in life, [[IronicHell he has to undergo an eternity of getting anything and everything he asks for]]]].
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* Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]" features this [[spoiler: as the KarmicTwistEnding]]. A criminal named Rocky gets killed by the police after a burglary gone wrong, and when he wakes up, an old man named Pip introduces himself as his "guide," which Rocky takes as a GuardianAngel, and who gives Rocky anything he wants, a stylish wardrobe, money, women, a nice car. When Rocky asks that he wants to hang out with his old friends, Pip informs Rocky that the setting was made with him in mind, and him alone. When everything seems too good to be true, Rocky thinks someone made a mistake, and Pip shows him his life's record that he was a crook throughout his life, and decides not to worry about if "the guy upstairs" doesn't mind. However [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction he starts getting bored because he wins every time]] and when he asks Pip for a chance to pull a heist where he may get away, Rocky shoots down that idea because he knows he's going to get away. Rocky says that he doesn't deserve to be in heaven and asks Pip to instead take him to "[[GoshDarnItToHeck the other place]]," and Pip responds [[spoiler: that Rocky is in "[[{{Hell}} the other place]]," and the ending narration says that since Rocky got excitement from stealing what he wanted in life, [[IronicHell he has to undergo an eternity of getting anything he asks for]]]].
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* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' has [[spoiler:a soundproof cell underneath the Academy meant to hold [[ApocalypseMaiden Vanya]]]]. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero It fails]]. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Very badly]].
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* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'' has [[spoiler:a soundproof cell underneath the Academy meant to hold [[ApocalypseMaiden Vanya]]]]. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero It fails]]. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Very badly]].
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* The criminal alien Jeanio from ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' (and his ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' counterpart) gets this as his punishment; when he's first introduced, it's stated that he has the ability to escape into the reflection of any mirrored surface, so all mirrors are removed from his cell and anyone who meets with him uses black duct tape is used to cover anything metal (such as an SPD badge) on their clothing and wears black matte sunglasses over their eyes. He escaped by forcing one of the Rangers (whose family he killed) to cry and escaping in his tear's reflection. When he was recaptured in the next episode, they stepped up their security by transferring him to a prison on a planet devoid of any starlight, and no light means no reflections.
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* The criminal alien Jeanio Genio from ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' (and his ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' counterpart) counterpart, Mirloc) gets this as his punishment; when he's first introduced, it's stated that he has the ability to escape into the reflection of any mirrored surface, so all mirrors are removed from his cell and anyone who meets with him uses black duct tape is used to cover anything metal (such as an SPD badge) on their clothing and wears black matte sunglasses over their eyes. He escaped by forcing one of the Rangers (whose family he killed) to cry and escaping in his tear's reflection. When he While Genio was killed in battle, when Mirloc was recaptured in the next episode, they stepped up their security by transferring him to a prison on a planet devoid of any starlight, and no light means no reflections.
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[[TailorMadePrison Tailor-Made Prisons]] in LiveActionTV series.
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* When the protagonists of ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' are brought to Binghamton, they're put in custom-made cells too sturdy for Bill's SuperStrength and soundproofed and signal-proof to block the abilities of Rachel and Gary.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' the gang is plagued by a sadistic ghost named Pavayne who feeds other dead souls to hell in exchange for not going there himself. He tries to do this to Spike (a ghost at the time) but they stop him by corporealizing him. Since they cant kill him, which would put them back to square one, Angel [[SealedEvilInACan has him locked in a box in the basement of Wolfram & Hart]]. [[FateWorseThanDeath A coffin like box with a small window in which he can live "forever"]].
** Connor does this to Angel and drops him in the harbor for a couple of months, too.
** Billy is kept in a PocketDimension, inside a cube of fire suspended above the ground, guarded by the affable demon Skip. Angel gets him out as part of a DealWithTheDevil, and ends up regretting it.
* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Angel is essentially a tailor-made [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan prison]] for his [[EnemyWithin evil side]] Angelus.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]], the Tenth Doctor encounters one of these, designed for an entity known as the Beast. It was imprisoned at the bottom of a pit on a planet orbiting ''very'' close to a black hole, designed so that if a power source was destroyed, the planet would fall in.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], [[spoiler:one of these is constructed for the Doctor by a huge number of his enemies working together, to stop him from destroying the universe. The Doctor, through timeline wonkiness, literally ''lets himself out'' (as in, an Eleventh Doctor on the outside releases the one on the inside, albeit by proxy)]].
** The Eleventh Doctor gets stuck in another one during the opening of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon "Day of the Moon"]]. It's assembled around him (while he's chained and straitjacketed) from bricks of dwarf-star matter and is completely impregnable. This time, however, [[spoiler:it's part of his plan to get himself and his friends away from their enemies' eyes and ears — he's been sitting next to the cloaked TARDIS the whole time]].
** The Twelfth Doctor finds himself in a bespoke haunted castle prison in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent "Heaven Sent"]], with a monster taken out of his own personal childhood nightmares. [[spoiler:This becomes a major clue that the mountain of skulls under the surrounding sea are all ''his'' skull; there couldn't have been other previous prisoners in a prison designed just for him.]]
* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', Team Flash starts putting criminal metahumans into the Pipeline, the non-functional tunnel of the particle accelerator. Each cell is configured by Cisco to contain a specific type of metahuman (even though visually they're identical). For example, the cell of Kyle Nimbus (the Mist) is hermetically sealed, meaning he can't escape even through a tiny crack. Shawna Baez (Peek-a-Boo) is a teleporter, but her ability requires that she see her destination. So, her cell is entirely opaque from the inside. Later on, Cisco's expertise is used to design the special metahuman wing of Iron Heights Penitentiary, although later they upgrade the wing with a PowerNullifier, so any cell will do.
* Building 26 in the eponymous ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' episode has one of these for [[AnIcePerson Tracy Strauss]]: she's chained to a chair in an extremely hot room. Which turns out to be a ''really'' bad idea, as trying to "make ice in an oven" [[TrainingFromHell has supercharged her powers]] in a weird form of CharlesAtlasSuperpower. Level 5 is where the Company kept all the most dangerous super powered criminals, usually keeping them drugged. Flint's cell was fireproof, Echo was gagged, and Knox was kept in a straitjacket.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': The episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E22TheSentence The Sentence]]" features [[MentalPrison a mental version of these]]. People serve out their sentences within a day of real time, but in their minds, they experience their entire captivity in a prison like this.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Finch locks Root up in a section of the library base where she'll have no access to any electronic devices, which [[TheCracker are her biggest strengths]]. She also ends up wearing an ankle monitor, and just in case she somehow ends up smuggling a device into her cell, [[CrazyPrepared Finch turned the entire thing into a Faraday cage]], so no signals would get in anyway. She ends up escaping rather easily anyway [[spoiler:with some assistance from the Machine]], which is ultimately revealed to be able to communicate with her in [[spoiler:high-pitched Morse code]], which the cell wouldn't be able to block out.
* ''Series/TheSlammer'': Erica the Critic is kept with a special cell in solitary confinement that is chained shut from the outside.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', being a show that runs on SealedEvilInACan, has a few of these. In all cases escape requires extensive outside intervention.
** Lilith ''et al'' merely get out of the general Hell at the end of Season 2, and Dean goes there and is not considered a particular escape risk at the end of 3, but Season 4 revolves around keeping {{Satan}} in his, referred to as The Cage and locked with six hundred seals. And Season 5 winds up being about putting him back in it -- this time with his brother Michael, Sam, and Sam's half brother Adam. Sam gets out half a season later, but only with the help of [[DontFearTheReaper Death]].
** From Season 6 onwards there's Purgatory, which in this setting is the holding tank for non-human souls, apparently including vampires, however that works. It later turns out [[spoiler:to have originally been built to contain the Leviathan, a race of horrible unkillable shape-shifting black slime things God didn't know how to unmake and was worried would "consume the rest of creation"]].
* The criminal alien Jeanio from ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' (and his ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' counterpart) gets this as his punishment; when he's first introduced, it's stated that he has the ability to escape into the reflection of any mirrored surface, so all mirrors are removed from his cell and anyone who meets with him uses black duct tape is used to cover anything metal (such as an SPD badge) on their clothing and wears black matte sunglasses over their eyes. He escaped by forcing one of the Rangers (whose family he killed) to cry and escaping in his tear's reflection. When he was recaptured in the next episode, they stepped up their security by transferring him to a prison on a planet devoid of any starlight, and no light means no reflections.
* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' has [[spoiler:a soundproof cell underneath the Academy meant to hold [[ApocalypseMaiden Vanya]]]]. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero It fails]]. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Very badly]].
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[[TailorMadePrison Tailor-Made Prisons]] in LiveActionTV series.
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* When the protagonists of ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' are brought to Binghamton, they're put in custom-made cells too sturdy for Bill's SuperStrength and soundproofed and signal-proof to block the abilities of Rachel and Gary.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' the gang is plagued by a sadistic ghost named Pavayne who feeds other dead souls to hell in exchange for not going there himself. He tries to do this to Spike (a ghost at the time) but they stop him by corporealizing him. Since they cant kill him, which would put them back to square one, Angel [[SealedEvilInACan has him locked in a box in the basement of Wolfram & Hart]]. [[FateWorseThanDeath A coffin like box with a small window in which he can live "forever"]].
** Connor does this to Angel and drops him in the harbor for a couple of months, too.
** Billy is kept in a PocketDimension, inside a cube of fire suspended above the ground, guarded by the affable demon Skip. Angel gets him out as part of a DealWithTheDevil, and ends up regretting it.
* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Angel is essentially a tailor-made [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan prison]] for his [[EnemyWithin evil side]] Angelus.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]], the Tenth Doctor encounters one of these, designed for an entity known as the Beast. It was imprisoned at the bottom of a pit on a planet orbiting ''very'' close to a black hole, designed so that if a power source was destroyed, the planet would fall in.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], [[spoiler:one of these is constructed for the Doctor by a huge number of his enemies working together, to stop him from destroying the universe. The Doctor, through timeline wonkiness, literally ''lets himself out'' (as in, an Eleventh Doctor on the outside releases the one on the inside, albeit by proxy)]].
** The Eleventh Doctor gets stuck in another one during the opening of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon "Day of the Moon"]]. It's assembled around him (while he's chained and straitjacketed) from bricks of dwarf-star matter and is completely impregnable. This time, however, [[spoiler:it's part of his plan to get himself and his friends away from their enemies' eyes and ears — he's been sitting next to the cloaked TARDIS the whole time]].
** The Twelfth Doctor finds himself in a bespoke haunted castle prison in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent "Heaven Sent"]], with a monster taken out of his own personal childhood nightmares. [[spoiler:This becomes a major clue that the mountain of skulls under the surrounding sea are all ''his'' skull; there couldn't have been other previous prisoners in a prison designed just for him.]]
* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', Team Flash starts putting criminal metahumans into the Pipeline, the non-functional tunnel of the particle accelerator. Each cell is configured by Cisco to contain a specific type of metahuman (even though visually they're identical). For example, the cell of Kyle Nimbus (the Mist) is hermetically sealed, meaning he can't escape even through a tiny crack. Shawna Baez (Peek-a-Boo) is a teleporter, but her ability requires that she see her destination. So, her cell is entirely opaque from the inside. Later on, Cisco's expertise is used to design the special metahuman wing of Iron Heights Penitentiary, although later they upgrade the wing with a PowerNullifier, so any cell will do.
* Building 26 in the eponymous ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' episode has one of these for [[AnIcePerson Tracy Strauss]]: she's chained to a chair in an extremely hot room. Which turns out to be a ''really'' bad idea, as trying to "make ice in an oven" [[TrainingFromHell has supercharged her powers]] in a weird form of CharlesAtlasSuperpower. Level 5 is where the Company kept all the most dangerous super powered criminals, usually keeping them drugged. Flint's cell was fireproof, Echo was gagged, and Knox was kept in a straitjacket.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': The episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E22TheSentence The Sentence]]" features [[MentalPrison a mental version of these]]. People serve out their sentences within a day of real time, but in their minds, they experience their entire captivity in a prison like this.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Finch locks Root up in a section of the library base where she'll have no access to any electronic devices, which [[TheCracker are her biggest strengths]]. She also ends up wearing an ankle monitor, and just in case she somehow ends up smuggling a device into her cell, [[CrazyPrepared Finch turned the entire thing into a Faraday cage]], so no signals would get in anyway. She ends up escaping rather easily anyway [[spoiler:with some assistance from the Machine]], which is ultimately revealed to be able to communicate with her in [[spoiler:high-pitched Morse code]], which the cell wouldn't be able to block out.
* ''Series/TheSlammer'': Erica the Critic is kept with a special cell in solitary confinement that is chained shut from the outside.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', being a show that runs on SealedEvilInACan, has a few of these. In all cases escape requires extensive outside intervention.
** Lilith ''et al'' merely get out of the general Hell at the end of Season 2, and Dean goes there and is not considered a particular escape risk at the end of 3, but Season 4 revolves around keeping {{Satan}} in his, referred to as The Cage and locked with six hundred seals. And Season 5 winds up being about putting him back in it -- this time with his brother Michael, Sam, and Sam's half brother Adam. Sam gets out half a season later, but only with the help of [[DontFearTheReaper Death]].
** From Season 6 onwards there's Purgatory, which in this setting is the holding tank for non-human souls, apparently including vampires, however that works. It later turns out [[spoiler:to have originally been built to contain the Leviathan, a race of horrible unkillable shape-shifting black slime things God didn't know how to unmake and was worried would "consume the rest of creation"]].
* The criminal alien Jeanio from ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' (and his ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' counterpart) gets this as his punishment; when he's first introduced, it's stated that he has the ability to escape into the reflection of any mirrored surface, so all mirrors are removed from his cell and anyone who meets with him uses black duct tape is used to cover anything metal (such as an SPD badge) on their clothing and wears black matte sunglasses over their eyes. He escaped by forcing one of the Rangers (whose family he killed) to cry and escaping in his tear's reflection. When he was recaptured in the next episode, they stepped up their security by transferring him to a prison on a planet devoid of any starlight, and no light means no reflections.
* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' has [[spoiler:a soundproof cell underneath the Academy meant to hold [[ApocalypseMaiden Vanya]]]]. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero It fails]]. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Very badly]].
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