History Main / ExtranormalPrison

* The protagonists of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' stored captured [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals metahumans]] in a failed [[MagicalParticleAccelerator particle accelerator]] [[MacGyvering re-purposed]] to be a prison.

** Belle Reeve Penitentiary in Louisiana is used to hold metahuman criminals. It is also the headquarters of Task Force X (AKA the Suicide Squad), which allows prisoners to [[BoxedCrook perform dangerous missions in return for a reduction in their sentences]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'':

* General Zod and his cronies are banished to the Phantom Zone in the 1978 ''Film/{{Superman}}'' movie. The Phantom Zone is portrayed as an interdimensional wasteland with no hope of escape. Unless, of course, someone therein is needed by the plot, in which case, the Phantom Zone is a horrible vacation spot.
* In ''Film/MenInBlack 3'' there's a prison for alien criminals on the moon. The guards have futuristic technology, and the fact that escape means exposure to vacuum also helps.

* The protagonists of ''Series/TheFlash'' stored captured [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals metahumans]] in a failed [[MagicalParticleAccelerator particle accelerator]] [[MacGyvering re-purposed]] to be a prison.

* The protagonists of ''LiveActionTV/TheFlash'' stored captured [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals metahumans]] in a failed [[MagicalParticleAccelerator particle accelerator]] [[MacGyvering re-purposed]] to be a prison.

* The protagonists of ''LiveActionTV/TheFlash" stored captured [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals metahumans]] in a failed particle accelerated [[MacGyvering re-purposed]] to be a prison.

* {{MonsterSoup}}'s [[TheAlcatraz Oubliette Castle's]] facilities themselves have not yet shown any ability to keep the main cast- a zombie, a ghost, a vampire, a werewolf, and a gypsy with magical capability- from running. The [[OurGargoylesRock warden]], however, has declared himself up to the task

* Tartarus of ClassicalMythology, where the souls of the worst of humanity are tormented for eternity along with the monsters that have been banished there.

* ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' briefly featured a series of holding cells that combine this trope and TailorMadePrison. Each cells was made capable of holding their individual mutant occupant.

* In ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', whenever one of the obscenely powerful martial artists of YAMI are defeated and incarcerated, they're taken to the prison "Big Lock" to serve sentences. However, this is subverted into a CardboardPrison when the guards eventually realize that the prisoners could ''easily'' escape any time they want, but stay put as a matter of honor in having lost their fights. Once YAMI requires their services again, they break right out.

* OnePiece's great gaol Impel Down serves as this, as well as being a HellholePrison. It holds particularly notorious and dangerous criminals, with 5 different levels of hellish punishments. Meanwhile the secret level 6 qualifies more as a TailorMadePrison.

* The WebOriginal/SCPFoundation has a lot of {{Tailor Made Prison}}s, but the foundation also has standard cells if the SCP doesn't require any special containment procedures yet risks breaking the {{Masquerade}} if it is discovered.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Silverhawks}}'' had the Penal Planet (which actually looks to be a manmade space station). Since most of the escaped inmates that make up the show's RoguesGallery are powerful enough to require a team of cyborg lawmen to have any hope of recapturing them, calling it a supervillain prison seems reasonable.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': Belsavis, an entire planet used ny the Republic as a prison for the kinds of convicts and [=POWs=] that can't be kept in regular jail cells. The most slippery escape artist, the most brutal mass murderers, species with abilities that can't be contained, and all of it built on the ruins of an ancient prison built by the Rakata for a race they were terrified of. And that's not even the planet's [[TailorMadePrison tue purpose]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Silverhawks'' had the Penal Planet (which actually looks to be a manmade space station). Since most of the escaped inmates that make up the show's RoguesGallery are powerful enough to require a team of cyborg lawmen to have any hope of recapturing them, calling it a supervillain prison seems reasonable.

* Season One of ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' housed super-powered criminals such as Mallory Mastermind and the Sagittarius Stomper in the Acmetropolis Prison, miles below ground in a bedrock bunker. Season Two moved many of these criminals to a prison satellite in orbit, adding Otto the Odd and Massive to the inmate roster.

* Azkaban in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' universe is a prison for evil wizards, guarded by the soul-sucking demetors.

* Kholomi from ''Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho'', which was another Alcatraz for mages.

However, TheEmpire can also acquire the know-how to build this sort of prisons. In this case, they'll be used to contain heroic empowered individuals. However, Imperial extranormal prisons are characterized by shoddy construction and lax security, so they are still {{Cardboard Prison}}s for the heroes.

In most worlds where extranormal or paranormal powers exists, there are people who try to use them for personal gain, societal disruption or plain eeevil. These people should be isolated from society, but where exactly? A plain old Big House will be [[CardboardPrison too easy to escape]]. A TailorMadePrison is the most reliable option, but it's overkill and too expensive to build one for every petty evil mage, dark space knight or dastardly super.