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* Marvel's ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' event revealed that Iron Man's pro-registration faction had a prison built in the Negative Zone to house those who refused to go along with the [[SuperRegistrationAct Superhuman Registration Act]]. When {{Spider-Man}} discovered this, he promptly [[DefectorFromDecadence defects to Captain America's side]].

* The Isle of the Lost in {{Descendants}} is a prison dimension for all of the villains in the DisneyAnimatedCanon. The moral dilemmas in such a plan begin with the fact that Mal and the other descendants are also living in exile even though they aren't guilty of their parents' crimes.

** A dimension where AxCrazy StrawMysogynist Billy Blim was trapped until Angel was {{blackmail}}ed by Wolfram & Hart into breaking him out.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has The Pixelator's WhiteVoidRoom, where he traps anyone he attacks via PhantomZonePicture. [[spoiler:A RealityBleed via [[TheLancer Cat Noir's]] [[MakeThemRot Cataclysm]] ends up being needed to free everyone.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has The Pixelator's WhiteVoidRoom, where he traps anyone he attacks via PhantomZonePicture. [[spoiler:A RealityBleed via [[TheLancer Cat Noir's]] [[ThePowerOfDestruction Cataclysm]] ends up being needed to free everyone.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' has the Netherworld, a dimension that the [[EvilSorcerer Demon Sorcerers]] were banished to by the [[Myth/ChineseMythology Eight Immortals]]. The Netherworld is a seemingly infinite void filled with floating rocks, which condemns the Demons to an eternity of boredom.

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* ''TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' uses the Negative Zone Prison idea from the comic book Civil War arc but instead casts it as the prison that Hank Pym, Tony Stark, and Reed Richards create after an unknown force breaks all the supervillians out of the old Super-prisons. Each inmate gets a 8x8 Cell and a personal Ultron Robot Warden. Many of the Avengers consider the idea morally questionable but don't have good answers when asked for a better idea.
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* The SCPFoundation has at least one of these. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2701 SCP-2701]] is a prison cell that is a portal to a dimension inhabitants of which are subjected to total sensory deprivation. And time passes more slowly in the cell than in our dimension. The prison warden, grief-stricken and angry after the murder of his daughter, eventually "sentences" all of his prisoners to the cell. [[AndIMustScream One isn't scheduled for release until the 34th century -- our time]].

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Purgatory mainly functions as the afterlife for all the monster souls in the universe. However, the Grim Reaper later reveals that it was originally build by God as a prison to prevent the primordial Leviathans, God's first beasts, from eating the rest of creation.

* ''Literature/Discworld'' has the Dungeon Dimensions, which are less than a shadow's width away. The things living there hate everything in the Discworlds dimension for being more real than them.

* The "trap books" in ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' work this way, designed to capture greedy interlopers. ''{{Riven}}'' explains that they are [[PortalBook Linking Books]] that seem to lead to another world, but have flaws in them that prevents the link from being completed, leaving the traveler trapped [[AndIMustScream in a featureless void]] with only the book's viewing panel to look out of, if they're so lucky that the book remains open. Anyone foolish enough to try the link after this would trade places with the trapped one. Later games {{retcon}}ned this so that the "trap books" were merely stable links to other worlds which contained no way back.

* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wiki/SCPFoundation The SCP Foundation]] has at least one of these. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2701 SCP-2701]] is a prison cell that is a portal to a dimension inhabitants of which are subjected to total sensory deprivation. The prison warden, grief-stricken and angry after the murder of his daughter, eventually "sentences" all of his prisoners to the cell. One isn't scheduled for release until the ''34th century''.

* ''Ben10'' has the Null Void, which was originally a penal colony created by the Galvan to house their own prisoners, but soon the rest of the universe, including [[SpacePolice the Plumbers]], found out and used it as well.

''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'': An ancient Evlen council used to dump the most powerful villains into dimension called the Void instead of [[KillHimAlready simply executing them]], since it is possible to return BackFromTheDead, but not from the Void. [[spoiler: The plot point is that one of the banished is going to return anyway...]]