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* The No Zone in ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' is pretty much made up of a typical prison for villains who prove to be a threat to TheMultiverse. There are even alternate doppelgangers who enforce that and wonky gravity to prevent the prisoners from escape!

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* The No Zone in ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' is pretty much made up of a typical prison for villains who prove to be a threat to TheMultiverse. There are even alternate doppelgangers who enforce that and wonky gravity to prevent the prisoners from escape!
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* In ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'', this is ultimately the fate of [[spoiler:the BigBad, Ranna, GoddessOfEvil. An army of the strongest mortal casters in the world gather most of the world's magical energy to create a PocketDimension so that they can banish and seal her there for the rest of eternity]].
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** The Monsterlands in ''Comicbook/{{Shazam}}'' (2018) are a vast dungeon complex where the Magical Lands send their worst criminals. Most of them are the Earth-Prime counterparts of classic Captain Marvl villians, but somehow Superboy-Prime ended up there as well.

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** The Monsterlands in ''Comicbook/{{Shazam}}'' (2018) are a vast dungeon complex where the Magical Lands send their worst criminals. Most of them are the Earth-Prime counterparts of classic Captain Marvl Marvel villians, but somehow Superboy-Prime ended up there as well.
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** The Monsterlands in ''Comicbook/{{Shazam}}'' (2018) are a vast dungeon complex where the Magical Lands send their worst criminals. Most of them are the Earth-Prime counterparts of classic Captain Marvl villians, but somehow Superboy-Prime ended up there as well.

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* ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' has the Phantom Zone. Like in ''Smallville'', it houses other types of alien criminals as well as Kryptonians. At the start of the first season, a prison SpaceStation leaves the zone and crashes into Earth, letting all the prisoners escape, the better to create many an early MonsterOfTheWeek.

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* *''Series/{{Arrowverse}}''
** Like its comic book counterpart, the Speed Force from ''Series/TheFlash2014'' is a PocketDimension that acts like a prison. Over the course of the show Savitar, Wally West, Jay Garrick and Barry Allen have took turns as prisoners within, and a speedster is actually ''needed'' to keep the energies of the Speed Force in check [[BarrierMaiden or else it will threaten]] TheMultiverse. The Speed Force can even send agents to capture anomalies (usually time-displaced speedsters) akin to a parole officer.
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''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' has the Phantom Zone. Like in ''Smallville'', it houses other types of alien criminals as well as Kryptonians. At the start of the first season, a prison SpaceStation leaves the zone and crashes into Earth, letting all the prisoners escape, the better to create many an early MonsterOfTheWeek.

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* ''Franchise/TheDCU'' has the Phantom Zone, where Krypton sent their condemned criminals.

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* ''Franchise/TheDCU'' has the ''Franchise/TheDCU''
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Phantom Zone, where Krypton sent their condemned criminals.criminals.
** The Speed Force from ''Franchise/TheFlash'' can be used as a prison. Its most notable prisoners include Superboy-Prime during the events of ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', and more tragically, ''ComicBook/WallyWest'' during the entirety of the ''ComicBook/New52''.
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* The No Zone in ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' is pretty much a regular prison for villains who prove to be a threat to TheMultiverse. There are even alternate doppelgangers who enforce that!

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* The No Zone in ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' is pretty much made up of a regular typical prison for villains who prove to be a threat to TheMultiverse. There are even alternate doppelgangers who enforce that!that and wonky gravity to prevent the prisoners from escape!
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* The No Zone in ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' is pretty much a prison for villains who prove to be a threat to TheMultiverse. There are even alternate doppelgangers who enforce that!

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* The No Zone in ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' is pretty much a regular prison for villains who prove to be a threat to TheMultiverse. There are even alternate doppelgangers who enforce that!
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* The No Zone in ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' is pretty much a prison for villains who prove to be a threat to TheMultiverse.

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* The No Zone in ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' is pretty much a prison for villains who prove to be a threat to TheMultiverse. There are even alternate doppelgangers who enforce that!
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* The Dead Zone from ''Anime/DragonballZ". As Garlic Jr. was one of the few villains who successfully became immortal, it was the only way to get rid of him.

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* The Dead Zone from ''Anime/DragonballZ".''Anime/DragonballZ''. As Garlic Jr. was one of the few villains who successfully became immortal, it was the only way to get rid of him.
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* In {{Sonic Forces}}, Sonic and the Avatar/Custom character are sent to Null Space, a dimensional prison of nothingness made by villains Eggman and Infinite. The eventually break out thanks to SuperSpeed, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator Determination]] and ThePowerOfFriendship.

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* In {{Sonic Forces}}, ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', Sonic and the Avatar/Custom character are sent to Null Space, a dimensional prison of nothingness made by villains Eggman and Infinite. The eventually break out thanks to SuperSpeed, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator Determination]] and ThePowerOfFriendship.
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* Sonic and the Avatar/Custom character are sent to Null Space, a dimensional prison of nothingness made by villains Eggman and Infinite. The eventually break out thanks to SuperSpeed, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator Determination]] and ThePowerOfFriendship.

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* In {{Sonic Forces}}, Sonic and the Avatar/Custom character are sent to Null Space, a dimensional prison of nothingness made by villains Eggman and Infinite. The eventually break out thanks to SuperSpeed, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator Determination]] and ThePowerOfFriendship.
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* Sonic and the Avatar/Custom character are sent to Null Space, a dimensional prison of nothingness made by villains Eggman and Infinite. The eventually break out thanks to SuperSpeed, [[Determinator Determination]] and ThePowerOfFriendship.

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* Sonic and the Avatar/Custom character are sent to Null Space, a dimensional prison of nothingness made by villains Eggman and Infinite. The eventually break out thanks to SuperSpeed, [[Determinator [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator Determination]] and ThePowerOfFriendship.
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** [[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]].

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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2701 SCP-2701]] is a prison cell that is a portal to a prison dimension where inhabitants of which are subjected to total sensory deprivation. And Not only that, but time passes much more slowly in the cell than in our dimension.dimension, and prisoners are essentially immortal. 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]].
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*In ''Myth/ClassicalMythology'', The classic example would have to be Tartarus, in which it was a deep abyss where it had torment and suffering for the gods.
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**Oh, it gets better. If the threat of Blastaar or Annihilus showing up isn't bad enough, simply being in the Negative Zone has mind-altering effects on those who stay too long. Super-powered beings all stuck in one facility in a place that ''starts slowly driving them mad from the time they enter?'' [[SarcasmMode What could possibly go wrong]]?



* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has its own twist on the Phantom Zone, in which it is typically only the very worst criminals (such as General Zod) who are reduced to phantoms.

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* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has its own twist on the Phantom Zone, in which it is typically only the very worst criminals (such as General Zod) who are reduced to phantoms. Most retain their physical form.



* ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' has the Phantom Zone. Like in ''Smallville'', it houses other types of alien criminals as well as Kryptonians. At the start of the first season, a prison SpaceStation leaves the zone and crashes into Earth, letting all the prisoners escape.

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* ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' has the Phantom Zone. Like in ''Smallville'', it houses other types of alien criminals as well as Kryptonians. At the start of the first season, a prison SpaceStation leaves the zone and crashes into Earth, letting all the prisoners escape.escape, the better to create many an early MonsterOfTheWeek.
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* ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' has the Phantom Zone. Like in ''Smallville'', it houses other types of alien criminals as well as Kryptonians. At the start of the first season, a prison SpaceStation leaves the zone and crashes into Earth, letting all the prisoners escape.

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* ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' has the Phantom Zone. Like in ''Smallville'', it houses other types of alien criminals as well as Kryptonians. At the start of the first season, a prison SpaceStation leaves the zone and crashes into Earth, letting all the prisoners escape.
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* The No Zone in ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' is pretty much a prison for villains who prove to be a threat to TheMultiverse.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** The Tarterian Depths of Carceri is home to the universe's traitors and exiles. It's not the worst of the Lower Planes (if you can survive the malice and backstabbing of its inhabitants), but while there are numerous portals linking to it, there are almost no ways ''out'' of the plane save for the River Styx, which is a dangerous route at best.
** Other planes aren't solely dedicated to imprisoning people, but have their own ways of sealing away problems. One layer of the Abyss is called the Wells of Darkness after the liquid-filled pits that imprison an assortment of godlings and demons, patrolled by undead that can kill with a gaze. The plane of Pandemonium consists of wind-blasted tunnels that grow narrower as one moves down through its layers, and it's rumored that various horrible creatures (or great treasures) have been sealed inside hidden vaults within the lowest layer's depths.

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Has shades of PocketDimension and TailorMadePrison. See also PhantomZone.

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Has shades of PocketDimension and TailorMadePrison. See also PhantomZone.
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* The Dead Zone from ''Anime/DragonballZ". As Garlic Jr. was one of the few villains who successfully became immortal, it was the only way to get rid of him.
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* ''TabletopGame/TheStrange'' has Homebound, a recursion where prisoners translate into armless, legless and eyeless versions of them selves and are wheeled into high-security cells, under both magical and technological wards, without the ability to interact with other prisoners.
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* The HiddenObjectGame ''Surface: The Pantheon'' is mostly set in a PrisonDimension: a hollow-world-style holding area in which a slave-trading race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens leave abducted humans, other aliens, and animals to fend for themselves until they're put up for sale.[[/folder]]

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* The HiddenObjectGame ''Surface: The Pantheon'' is mostly set in a PrisonDimension: a hollow-world-style holding area in which a slave-trading race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens leave abducted humans, other aliens, and animals to fend for themselves until they're put up for sale.sale.
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* ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' has the Phantom Zone. Like in ''Smallville'', it houses other types of alien criminals as well as Kryptonians. At the start of the first season, a prison SpaceStation leaves the zone and crashes into Earth, letting all the prisoners escape.
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* Concussion was banished to one in ''Film/ZoomAcademyForSuperheroes'' after going insane and killing his teammates.
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* The Isle of the Lost in {{Descendants}} is a prison dimension for all of the villains in the Franchise/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.

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* The Isle of the Lost in {{Descendants}} ''Film/{{Descendants}}'' is a prison dimension for all of the villains in the Franchise/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.

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* The Wiki/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]].

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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has at least one a few of these. these.
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[[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]].
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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 Franchise/SpiderMan discovered this, he promptly [[DefectorFromDecadence defects to Captain America's side]].

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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 Franchise/SpiderMan discovered this, he promptly [[DefectorFromDecadence defects to Captain America's side]]. Predictably to any readers familiar with [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the history of the Negative Zone]], in post-Civil War stories this choice of location backfires badly when the xenophobic Negative Zone natives discover the prison.
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** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2317 SCP-2317]] is slowly revealed over multiple entries to be one of these for a massive humanoid creature imprisoned in a spherical cavern beneath its desert landscape. [[spoiler:Turns out that six of the seven chains binding it are broken and it's all but guaranteed to break out and destroy the world inside of a century. The Foundation can't even re-imprison it because they'd need the bones of a similar entity to fashion new chains and they have no idea how to find one much less kill it.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has 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.]]

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

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* The HiddenObjectGame ''Surface: The Pantheon'' is mostly set in a PrisonDimension: a hollow-world-style holding area in which a slave-trading race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens leave abducted humans, other aliens, and animals to fend for themselves until they're put up for sale.[[/folder]]

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* The Wiki/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]].



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* The Wiki/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]].
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