Tailor-Made Prisons in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Child of the Storm:
- Book 1 mentions the Raft, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s new specially designed super-max for heavyweight superhumans, on a couple of occasions, comparing it to a purpose-built Azkaban (minus the Dementors) before revealing it in the sequel. It has specially designed cells for current inmates Count Nefaria, the Abomination, the Leader, the Absorbing Man, the Juggernaut. They also have special cells prepared for Lucius Malfoy, Arnim Zola, Baron Zemo, and — in case he pulls another Face–Heel Turn — Magneto. There's also one for The Incredible Hulk, at Bruce's own request, just in case. It also ends up temporarily holding Sabretooth and the Winter Guard. While the latter very quickly escape, it was part of a Batman Gambit by Nick Fury.
- Demonreach functions as this, as in The Dresden Files, with Doctor Strange mentioning that it was built by him and Merlin with notes cribbed from Agamotto's original design for the Rock of Eternity.
- As it turns out, Yggdrasil was a very carefully designed one for Surtur a.k.a. the original Dark Phoenix by the Alliance of Realms (the Nine Realms minus Helheim/Niflheim and Muspelheim, Surtur's own realm), reaching across multiple dimensions. It's also specifically designed to function as an energy siphon to drain power off him and enhance a champion (originally, Frey, the First King of Asgard) to take him on and stall him for long enough to lock him away, with the bearer of that power, now known as the Odinforce, taking the role of Chief Warden. Due to the nature of its construction, there are only two ways in or out: one is through Niflheim/Helheim, which as a Realm of the Dead siphons life and power off spirits in particular — something Surtur, an Energy Being, is particularly vulnerable to. The other, the only real flaw in the entire prison, is through a relatively small crack in Nidavaellir, which is covered by the Seal of Muspelheim. Despite numerous escape attempts, and Surtur's most powerful servants, the Great Captains, remaining at large, it's held for over a million years. Unfortunately, the events of Book 1 lead to the Seal being cracked, and a lot of Book 2 is spent trying to prevent it from cracking further (or at least, not until everyone's prepared to deal with the consequences).
- The Legend of Ruby: there is one introduced in an early chapter, built out of solid iron, since in the story proper metalbending has not been discovered. Sadly, it still doesn't quite seem to hold Roman Torchwick, but then again, he does have help from the outside.
- The Matrix Rewinds: While the Matrix was created by The Architect as a method of keeping the majority of blue-pilled humans in a dream state, Arcadia Bay is a specialized version created by The Artist (implied to be Mark Jefferson) to contain people whose psychological profile makes them most likely to become red-pills, separating them from the rest of the population.
- Absolute Trust: After parting ways with the Gaang in Chapter 25, Zuko asks Iroh about what would happen to them if they were captured. Hearing about what would happen to Aang is enough that Zuko resolves to stop hunting him:Iroh: There were plans drawn up for a prison designed specifically for the Avatar. It was a small cell, not even big enough to stand up or lie down in, and made entirely of metal to prevent earthbending. The Avatar was to have his hands and feet removed so he couldn't bend. Dry, cold air would be pumped in to prevent waterbending or firebending. Food would be dropped in from the roof and the Avatar would have to eat off the floor.
- Still Stand in the Sun: As in the show, the Fire Nation keeps imprisoned waterbenders in cages suspended off the ground, far away from water. And they are given only the bare minimum of food and water to survive.
- Queen of All Oni: When Lung captures Jade's astral form, he seals her inside a glass sphere that can't be broken from the inside, and rings it with industrial-strength lights, denying her any shadows to work with. (They also make handy torture devices.)
- There's also the cage Jade has prepared for if they ever capture a hero — held upside down by a chain, feet handcuffed together, wrapped in a straightjacket, neck tied to the floor to restrict any remaining movement.
- In the Character Blog Ask Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Blofeld is jailed in a pretty normal prison... except that the warden is James Bond.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Escape from the Moon: Doa's lunar station was designed as one for her.
- In The Great Alicorn Hunt, Apple Bloom figures out how to build one of these to contain Malfunziona, whose powers and nature drive him to break machines but mean that he literally can't fix anything. Apple Bloom takes advantage of this by building and locking him inside a complex clockwork container that stays locked because its intentionally flawed design means it's already broken, and any attempt to break it open will actually make it work better, which is anathema to Malfunziona.
- Chapter 8 of Vengeance of the Star reveals that Twilight herself set one up in the abandoned Diamond Dog mines, run by Starlight Glimmer. Said prison has various collars for certain criminals, as well as five separate levels for them depending on their crimes. Not only are the prisoners stripped of their Cuties Marks, but hey are also shackled with limiter collars (which keeps non-pony criminals in line as well). The prison itself is also practically inescapable, and trying to flee is a death sentence for Black Collars (who are on the death penalty anyway), as the Dazzlings who patrol the moat are allowed to eat the black collars if they ever try to. Any other color prisoners are immediately hypnotized by their songs and sent back to the prison. Past the moat is an entire forest full of plunder vines that will capture and ensnare prisoners (or rather anyone not wearing Royal Guard Armor) the moment they get too close, draining their magic and leaving them easy to capture when the guards make their rounds. Being a pegasus (or any flying creature) makes no difference since there are spiked clouds in the prison's airspace that are enchanted to gravitate towards prisoners, ensnaring them before shocking them into unconsciousness."It was like someone took everything that was lethal and menacing about Everfree and dropped it all into this one area."
- In What Costs Nothing
, it's revealed that the metal of Lord Tirek's cage in Tartarus is made of blessed iron. As Tirek is a demon, he can't so much as touch the bars without being badly burned.
- After being arrested, Sabrina in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines is locked up in a confinement cell designed specifically to block her Psychic Powers (and she's even forced to wear a device in her head to act as a Restraining Bolt for additional precaution).
- In Hellsister Trilogy, Satan Girl is shackled and locked up in a prison cube. The walls are made of inertron and her shackles contain traces of Kryptonite.Within her prison cube, Satan Girl seethed. Even at her full power, these metal walls would be proof against her. And, thanks to the trace of Kryptonite in her shackles, she was hardly at her full power.
- Alchemilla asylum is an interesting case in Bird, as it is not expressly a prison, and even among the violent patients, most are voluntary residents. There is a lot of specialized equipment left over from the early days of the parahuman initiative — in which Alchemilla was considered as an alternative to the Birdcage, but many low and medium security patients do not actually require heavily specialized containment procedures or equipment. That is, until the story moves down into the bowels of the asylum and the high and specialized security wings...
- With This Ring: Paul has some difficulty restraining the Zamaron Pirates, who are resistant to his constructs, and also to his ring scans, so he can't analyse their physiology to determine a safe sedative, and they all have enough Super-Strength and Super-Toughness to make short work of any mundane bindings. He does manage to take an alien locomotion suspension unit and augment it with multiple kinetic barriers, though, which works.Amalak: Where did you get the technology to do this?
Paul: Here and there.
- In Glass (Bellamy Taft), Kaiba's prison is truly inescapable and meant to drain his psyche, as everything he needs to live is only seen and accessed through the other side of the wall. Joey and Ryou Bakura have it even worse, being locked in the dungeons for months.
