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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Tarrlok's idea of a sane response to anti-bending revolutionaries is to impose curfews on every non-bender in Republic City. [[KickTheDog Taking this a step further]], he shuts off the electricity to a whole district just to goad them outside, where he can accuse them of breaking curfew and have them rounded up.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Tarrlok's (Amon's younger brother) idea of a sane response to anti-bending revolutionaries is to impose curfews on every non-bender in Republic City. [[KickTheDog Taking this a step further]], he shuts off the electricity to a whole district just to goad them outside, where he can accuse them of breaking curfew and have them rounded up.
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* ''Film/IRobot'': The RobotRevolution ''begins'' with a blaring introduction of curfews. The humans don't take it well.
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* ''Film/IRobot'': The RobotRevolution robot revolution ''begins'' with a blaring introduction of curfews. The humans don't take it well.
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** The story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]". The almost streets indicate that some sort of curfew in effect, and Happiness Patrol agents roam the streets looking for 'killjoys'.
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** The story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]". The almost empty streets indicate that some sort of curfew in effect, and Happiness Patrol agents roam the streets looking for 'killjoys'.
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* During the final chapter of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky FC'', [[spoiler:the Intelligence Division enact a curfew on Grancel as part of their coup. This becomes [[StealthBasedMission very inconvenient]] for Estelle and Joshua when Julia anonymously summons them to the cathedral to let them in on the true extent of what's going on.]]
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Apparently many writers' favorite way to show that a government is evil and oppressive is to have said government instill on its citizens a practice that many parents would instill on their children anyway. In the minds of many writers, a curfew is the piece of martial law no self-respecting dictatorship can go without. Specifically: the government legally forces everyone to stay inside past a certain hour at night and until a certain hour in the morning. While normally you'd expect the penalty for a rule like this to be a simple ticket or fine, the actual punishments you will find range from [[DisproportionateRetribution immediate jailtime]] at ''minimum'' to [[FelonyMisdemeanor summary execution]] at most. Narratively speaking, the authorities can say that [[FelonyMisdemeanor someone is a rebel just for being about]]; it also means [[DestructiveSavior characters can fight in major urban areas]] [[ConvenientlyEmptyBuildings without risking innocent lives]]. Sometimes the curfew isn't targeted at everyone but rather a certain group of people that the government believes is trouble or wants to oppress—and even nominal democracies built on repression of such groups can engage with this: White-controlled "sundown towns" in the United States in the era of Jim Crow, for example, imposed a sort of curfew where Black people could not enter, or had to leave, by sunset, lest they be chased out, arrested, assaulted or lynched, even.
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Apparently many writers' favorite way to show that a government is evil and oppressive is to have said government instill on its citizens a practice that many parents would instill on their children anyway. In the minds of many writers, a curfew is the piece of martial law no self-respecting dictatorship can go without. Specifically: the government legally forces everyone to stay inside past a certain hour at night and until a certain hour in the morning. While normally you'd expect the penalty for a rule like this to be a simple ticket or fine, the actual punishments you will find range from [[DisproportionateRetribution immediate jailtime]] at ''minimum'' to [[FelonyMisdemeanor summary execution]] at most.worst. Narratively speaking, the authorities can say that [[FelonyMisdemeanor someone is a rebel just for being about]]; it also means [[DestructiveSavior characters can fight in major urban areas]] [[ConvenientlyEmptyBuildings without risking innocent lives]]. Sometimes the curfew isn't targeted at everyone but rather a certain group of people that the government believes is trouble or wants to oppress—and even nominal democracies built on repression of such groups can engage with this: White-controlled "sundown towns" in the United States in the era of Jim Crow, for example, imposed a sort of curfew where Black people could not enter, or had to leave, by sunset, lest they be chased out, arrested, assaulted or lynched, even.
