History Main / GlassyPrison

* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': The BigBad, John Harrison (Cumberbatch) is seen quite smug he's sporting this look in the latest trailer.

So a character has been busted, [[BoobyTrap caught]], kidnapped, jailed ... Whatever. It's not uncommon for characters to be captured, in fact its par for the course for most villains. But the situation does call for a character to be contained somewhere and what appears to be better than a transparent cell where your captors can trace your every move, expression. Maybe if they're feeling generous a little conversation wouldn't go amiss.

However to be imprisoned in such a manner where you are displayed in the same style as [[PeopleZoo an exhibit]] can either be an riveting or a demeaning moment for our characters. Possibly could be a side effect if the character falls victim to TheCollector, or could overlap into HumanPopsicle stage if taken to a sinister extreme.

However to be imprisoned in such a manner where you are displayed in the same style as [[PeopleZoo an exhibit]] can either be an riveting or a demeaning moment for our characters. Possibly could be a side effect if the character falls victim to TheCollector, or could overap into HumanPopsicle stage if taken to a sinister extreme.

* Snow of ''Manga/{{MAR}}'' interestingly averts this trope, as she encases herself in ice when she first appears though its made quite clear that she can only stay in her ice prison for a couple of hours before she frrezes to death.

* TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack has Alex and her family trapped in one of these.

* ''Film/TheAvengers'': The SHIELD Helicarrier contains one as a TailorMadePrison for the Hulk but they are using it to hold ComicBook/{{Loki}} that can be dropped 30,000-odd feet out of the bottom of the ship at the push of a button. [[spoiler:He escapes (surprise, surprise) and traps Thor in it, who escapes by smashing his hammer through the glass.]]

* One episode of Creator/{{Hanna-Barbera}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' has a MadScientist called The Raven imprisoned in a glass cube. Nonetheless, The Raven is able to construct a lifelike robot duplicate of himself and escape.

* Although not made out of glass, [[spoiler: Magneto]] is imprisoned within a plastic, transparent prison at the end of ''Film/XMen1''.

* ''Film/XMen1'': Although not made out of glass, [[spoiler: Magneto]] is imprisoned within a plastic, transparent prison at the end of the film.

* ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': Loki makes a guest appearance for this trope in the new trailer.

* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' Clayface is in one and in ''BatmanArkhamCity'' Calendar Man is in another.

* In ''BatmanArkhamAsylum'' Clayface is in one and in ''BatmanArkhamCity'' Calendar Man is in another.

* ''Film/TheAvengers'': The SHIELD Helicarrier contains one as a TailorMadePrison for ComicBook/{{Loki}} that can be dropped 30,000-odd feet out of the bottom of the ship at the push of a button. [[spoiler:He escapes (surprise, surprise) and traps Thor in it, who escapes by smashing his hammer through the glass.]]

* Series/Alias: Irina Dereveko is held in one of these by the CIA.

* TheSecretAdventuresOfAlexMack has Alex and her family trapped in one of these.

* TheSecretAdevnturesOfAlexMack has Alex and her family trapped in one of these.

* One episode of Creator/{{Hanna-Barbera}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperfriends'' has a MadScientist called The Raven imprisoned in a glass cube. Nonetheless, The Raven is able to construct a lifelike robot duplicate of himself and escape.
* The Archons of ''The Sleeping Planet'' believe that ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats In Outer Space'' have stolen their Robotron, and imprison them in a huge transparent bubble.
* The most secure cells in the below-ground Acmetropolis Prison are an isolated circular platform with a transparent dome. The Sagittarius Stomper was put in one, alongside his mother. Likewise for Mallory Mastermind. And for four of the six WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed.

'''Also See;''' CardboardPrison and CrystalPrison for examples similar.

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* ''{{Naruto}}''; The Water Prison Technique fits this trope perfectly. Once trapped within one, the target is unable to move due to the sheer heaviness of water.
* Snow of ''{{MAR}}'' interestingly averts this trope, as she encases herself in ice when she first appears though its made quite clear that she can only stay in her ice prison for a couple of hours before she frrezes to death.
* ''{{Pokemon}}''; Team Rocket put Pikachu in one of these in the Best Wishes episode "The Name's N".
* ''PuellaMagiKazumiMagica''; The Pleiades Saints, Kazumi's team mates are horrifically doing this to [[spoiler: other magical girls after harvesting their soul gems]] effectively turning them into [[HumanPopsicle human popsciles]].
* ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle''; [[spoiler:R!]]Sakura and [[spoiler:R!]]Syaoran voluntarily enter one of these, where they are separated from each other for a long period of time as their [[spoiler:price for one of Yuuko's wishes]].

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* The blue canine-like alien Stitch, of LiloAndStitch is firstly introduced to the audience in a holding cell of this variety. He's not happy to be in one to put it lightly.

* ''Film/{{Species}}''; The young Sil is held inside a confinement area with glass walls. When the project director decides to kill her with poison gas, she breaks through the glass and escapes the laboratory.
* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''; The BigBad, John Harrison (Cumberbatch) is seen quite smug he's sporting this look in the latest trailer.
* ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''; Hannibal Lecter goes through a number of glass cages, from a glass-fronted cell in the beginning to a glass-on-all-sides enclosure he eventually escapes from.
* ''Film/TheAvengers''; [[spoiler: Loki]] when finally captured by his sibling spends a fair while baiting someone to get him out of one these. [[spoiler: Surprise surprise, he escapes]].
* ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''; Loki makes a guest appearance for this trope in the new trailer.
* ''TitanAE''; features Cale Tucker being held in the brig of the Drej mothership. The door to his cell is a transparent energy barrier.
* ''Film/XMen1''; Although not made out of glass, [[spoiler: Magneto]] is imprisoned within a plastic, transparent prison at the end of the film.
* In ''Clockstoppers'', the corporation responsible for creating the hypertime watch keep an accomplice who attempted to escape earlier in a prison cell made of glass in the center of the lab floor. He was in hyper-time, meaning that the onlookers couldn't see him, but he wrote disdainful messages on the walls of his cell that could be seen after spending a week in hypertime and aging prematurely.

[[AC:Literature]]
* In HisDarkMaterials; [[spoiler:The Authority]] is shown to have been imprisoned in a glass box by his henchman, [[spoiler:Metatron]].

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[[AC:Western Animation]]
* One episode of HannaBarbera's ''TheSuperfriends'' has a MadScientist called The Raven imprisoned in a glass cube. Nonetheless, The Raven is able to construct a lifelike robot duplicate of himself and escape.
* The Archons of ''The Sleeping Planet'' believe that ''JosieAndThePussyCatsInOuterSpace'' have stolen their Robotron, and imprison them in a huge transparent bubble.
* The most secure cells in the below-ground Acmetropolis Prison are an isolated circular platform with a transparent dome. The Sagittarius Stomper was put in one, alongside his mother. Likewise for Mallory Mastermind. And for four of the six LoonaticsUnleashed.

* [[spoiler: Professor Pericles]] in ''ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' is imprisoned in a see-through cage.

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* InjusticeGodsAmongUs; At the end of the game [[spoiler:evil]] superman appears to have been placed in one of these.
* SpyroSeasonOfIce; Has all the faeries encased in ice due to an evil sorcerer Grendor

* The cells in Arkham Asylum in ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' have one wall that is made out of glass.