Tailor-Made Prisons in Live-Action TV series.
- When the protagonists of Alphas are brought to Binghamton, they're put in custom-made cells too sturdy for Bill's Super-Strength and soundproofed and signal-proof to block the abilities of Rachel and Gary.
- In an episode of 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 has him locked in a box in the basement of Wolfram & Hart. 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 Pocket Dimension, inside a cube of fire suspended above the ground, guarded by the affable demon Skip. Angel gets him out as part of a Deal with the Devil, and ends up regretting it.
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel is essentially a tailor-made prison for his evil side Angelus.
- Doctor Who:
- In "The Impossible Planet"/"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 "The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang", 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 "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, 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 "Heaven Sent", with a monster taken out of his own personal childhood nightmares. 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 The Flash (2014), 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 Power Nullifier, so any cell will do.
- Building 26 in the eponymous Heroes episode has one of these for 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" has supercharged her powers in a weird form of Charles Atlas Superpower. 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.
- The Outer Limits (1995): The episode "The Sentence" features 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.
- Person of Interest: Finch locks Root up in a section of the library base where she'll have no access to any electronic devices, which 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, Finch turned the entire thing into a Faraday cage, so no signals would get in anyway. She ends up escaping rather easily anyway with some assistance from the Machine, which is ultimately revealed to be able to communicate with her in high-pitched Morse code, which the cell wouldn't be able to block out.
- The Slammer: Erica the Critic is kept with a special cell in solitary confinement that is chained shut from the outside.
- Supernatural, being a show that runs on Sealed Evil in a Can, 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 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 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 Genio from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (and his Power Rangers S.P.D. 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. 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.
- The Twilight Zone (1959)'': The episode "A Nice Place to Visit" features this as the Karmic Twist Ending. 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 Guardian Angel, 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 demonstrates he was a crook throughout his life, and decides not to worry about if "the guy upstairs" doesn't mind. However 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 "the other place," and Pip responds that Rocky is in "the other place," and the ending narration says that since Rocky got excitement from stealing what he wanted in life, he has to undergo an eternity of getting anything and everything he asks for.
- The Umbrella Academy (2019) has a soundproof cell underneath the Academy meant to hold Vanya. It fails. Very badly.
