History Main / ImprovisedImprisonment

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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': In ''The Capture'', Jake becomes infested by a Yeerk and the others decide to hold him captive for three days until the Yeerk dies of starvation. They initially tie him to a chair in an abandoned shack in the woods. The Yeerk easily gets out of the bonds using Jake's morphing powers, but each escape attempt ends with them being caught or driven back by wildlife and forced to return to the shed.

* ''Podcast/Wolf359'': Following retaking the station after [[spoiler: [[MadScientist Doctor Hilbert's]]]] betrays them and attempts to break Hera, kill Commander Minkowski and imprison Eiffel. Due to the [[StellarStation Hephaestus station]] not having a brig and their pleas for assistance being denied by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Cutter]] they resort to locking him in stations Skydeck, as its on the very edge of the station and only has one computer controlled door. Later in series they do the same with [[spoiler: Jacobi and Colonel Kepler]].

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}: Nobita and the Steel Troops'': The robot-girl, Riruru, has a HeelFaceTurn halfway into the film after realizing humans are capable of love and care, and decides to turn herself in to self-confinement as punishment for being a robot spy. But having become close friends with Doraemon and the gang, understandably none of them wants to inflict any sort of punishment for Riruru, so instead Doraemon uses his ShrinkRay to reduce Riruru's size to a doll and keep her in Shizuka's birdcage as an impromptu prison.

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** Though there are armed guards at the convent, when the head nun imprisons Zoe to stop her from disrupting the event, she does it by shoving her into a pantry while tied up and locking the door.

* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': An exiled Tinkerbell is brought before Captain Hook, where he proposes eliminating Wendy in return for Tink revealing Pan's secret base. Once Tink has indicated Hangman's Tree is the site, Hook traps her in a lantern. Hook has promised not to lay hand or hook on Peter in ExactWords. Nothing was said about bombs, however. Poor Tink can only beat futilely against the glass lenses.

Can overlap with TooDesperateToBePicky, if the situation is so dire that they need a quick solution, regardless of how well-thought-out it is. Compare and Contrast the AntiInterferenceLockUp, which can also involve characters being held up in random places, but with much different motivation and outcomes.

* ''ComicBook/TheBeano'': One special for the Bash Street Kids involves them discovering an ancient proclamation that declares Beano Town independent of England and whoever finds it the new monarch. This leads to [[{{TomBoy}} Toots]] becoming Queen and turning the school into her palace. Naturally [[DrunkOnPower power almost immediately goes to her head]] and she starts ordering anyone who opposes her (or annoys her) sent to the Tower. As attempts to explain to her Bash Street School doesn't have a Tower just makes her angry, they eventually resort to locking the prisoners in the school's water tower. By the end of the story, Toots has imprisoned everyone in the tower (even her friends for suggesting she might be going too far). However, due to it [[RealityEnsues not being designed to hold them, their combined weight makes the water tower collapse]]. Once freed, the masses immediately depose her and destroy the proclamation. The story ends with them locking her in an equally makeshift prison to teach her a lesson.

* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}: Nobita and the Steel Troops'': The robot-girl, Riruru, has a HeelFaceTurn halfway into the film after realizing humans are capable of love and care, and decides to turn herself in to self-confinement as punishment for being a robot spy. But having become close friends with Doraemon and the gang, understandably none of them wants to inflict any sort of punishment for Riruru, so instead Doraemon uses his ShrinkRay to reduce Riruru's size to a doll and keep her in Shizuka's birdcage as an impromptu prison.

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* In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' Kazuichi and Nekomaru tied up Nagito in order to prevent another murder from happening in Chapter 2. They have him chained up and kept in the lodge, where they regularly feed him meals to prevent him from starving.

* ''ComicBook/TheBeano'': One special for the Bash Street Kids involves them discovering an ancient proclamation that declares Beano Town independent of England and whoever finds it the new monarch. This leads to [[{{TomBoy}} Toots]] becoming Queen and turning the school into her palace. Naturally [[DrunkOnPower power almost immediately goes to her head]] and she starts ordering anyone who opposes her (or annoys her) sent to the Tower. As attempts to explain to her Bash Street School doesn't have a Tower just makes her angry, they eventually resort to locking the prisoners in the school's water tower. By the end of the story, Toots has imprisoned everyone in the tower (even her friends for suggesting she might be going to far). However, due to it [[RealityEnsues not being designed to hold them, their combined weight makes the water tower collapse]]. Once freed, the masses immediately depose her and destroy the proclamation. The story ends with them locking her in an equally makeshift prison to teach her a lesson.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}: Nobita And The Steel Troops'': The robot-girl, Riruru, had a HeelFaceTurn halfway into the film after realizing humans are capable of love and care, and decided toturn herself in to self-confinement as punishment for being a robot spy. But having became close friends with Doraemon and gang, understandably none of them wants to inflict any sort of punishment for Riruru, so instead Doraemon uses his ShrinkRay to reduce Riruru's size to a doll and keep her in Shizuka's birdcage as an impromptu prison.

* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'': when Ben murders his twin brother Billy, the group realize he's fully sociopathic and lock him in a van while they debate how to handle the situation. Unfortunately for Ben, Carl has no qualms about how to handle it; when the adults fall asleep, Carl sneaks into the van and coldly shoots Ben in the head.

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* ''Podcast/Wolf359'': Following retaking the station after [[spoiler: [[MadScientist Doctor Hilbert's]]]] betrays them and attempts to break Hera, kill Commander Minkowski and imprison Eiffel. Due to the [[StellarStation Hephaestus station]] not having a brig and their pleas for assistance being denied by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Cutter]] they resort to locking him in stations Skydeck, as its on the very edge of the station and only has one computer controlled door. Later in series they do the same with [[spoiler: Jacobi and Colonel Kepler]].

-->'''Brannigan:''' Throw her in the brig.
-->'''Fry:''' We don't have a brig.
-->'''Brannigan:''' Then throw her in the laundry room, which will hereafter be referred to as "the brig".

-->'''Castaspella:''' ''This'' is your prison?
-->'''Queen Angella:''' Well, ''technically'', it's the spare room, but it is more than adequate as a holding cell. We removed the cushions! ''[pause]'' Most of the cushions.

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