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** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the mission "Caida Libre", Martin Madrazo tasks Michael De Santa and Trevor Phillips with assassinating his cousin Javier Madrazo before he reveals information about his cartel to the authorities with Trevor noticing how badly he treats his own wife Patricia Madrazo. At the end of the mission when Trevor wanted to be paid for the job but was refused, he chose to kidnap Patrica and takes her with them to his trailer in Sandy Shores, Blaine County. Because of this, Martin becomes infuriated by their actions and exiles both Michael and Trevor from Los Santos with an infinite number of his cartel members spawning if they try to return there as Michael and Trevor. [[Spoiler:He later allows them to return after the mission "Monkey Business" when they give him a golden Aztec statue and return Patricia to him, after Trevor rips off one of Martin's ears and threatening him with doing the same to the other if he mistreated Patricia ever again.]]

* The end of the first act of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', "The Green Sabre", has the leadership of the Grove Street Families decapitated [[spoiler:via a coup/ambush combo orchestrated by Big Smoke and Ryder at the behest of Officer Tenpenny]]. CJ finds himself chased out of Los Santos, and while he isn't physically barred from returning to his house on Grove Street he will be shot at as all of the territory held by the GSF by that point will flip to [[TheRival Ballas]] control and he will be shot at without hesitation if he passes through. As head of the Varrios Los Aztecas and allied with the GSF via being the boyfriend of CJ's sister Kendl, Cesar will similarly find himself chased out for similar reasons around the same time. Most of the rest of the game's plot is CJ's journey to regroup, recuperate, and rebuild a network throughout the rest of San Andreas to get back into Los Santos.

%%* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': A possible punishment in the ''Al-Qadim'' campaign setting.

* ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'': [[TheUsurper Prince Jewelius]] takes Equestria's throne for himself after [[ForWantOfANail Twilight has stopped the Changeling invasion with his help]]. Manipulating everypony into blaming the princesses as well as Twilight's brother and friends for the invasion, he sentences Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Spike to be driven outside of Equestria. Shining Armor and the Mane Five are also driven away, albeit by [[MadeASlave being sentenced to slavery]].

* ''VideoGame/PathOfExile''': All the player characters and many NPCs are residents of the island nation of Oriath that were exiled to the foresaken continent of [[DeathWorld Wraeclast]] for their crimes, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and a single provided weapon as a "mercy".

** Arastoo was exiled from Iran for his Farsi love poetry, which the officials saw as against the conservative Islamic society. He later learned though that the edict for his death was never actually released when someone threatens to make it happen if he doesn’t help solve a murder.

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* [[spoiler:[=SwaggerSouls=]]] is this prior to the start of ''WebVideo/EpicSMP'' Season 2, being sent into the Void as [[spoiler:punishment for altering the balence of the universe, and being denied the opportunity to return to the Overworld, until he manages to convince the Void to give him one more chance]].

** All Nightsisters from Dathomir.

* In [[UsefulNotes/{{Athens}} Ancient Athens]] politicians (and other prominent citizens, but usually politicians) could be "ostracized"[[note]]from ''ostrakon'', meaning "shard of broken pottery", since the vote was recorded by scratching or painting the name onto scraps of pottery[[/note]] by vote, or ordered to leave town for ten years. In this case it was not a punishment and did not necessarily imply social infamy. Nor did the victim have his property officially seized by the state (although if he didn't have friends or guards to keep an eye on it, it might be unofficially seized by his neighbors). It was usually simply a declaration that "UsefulNotes/{{Athens}} can't afford to have you in town right now and is frankly afraid that you will cause a bloody civil war. Leave for a few years and then come back and we'll see. NothingPersonal old chap."

** In ancient Greece it was also quite common when one faction of the local oligarchy (aristocracy) overcame the other that the winners would drive the losers out of the country (polis). Sometimes exiled politicians would stir up trouble abroad, as happened during the Persian Wars with former Athenian tyrant Hippias and deposed Spartan king Demaratos and with the Athenian Alcibiades during the Peloponnesian War.

* United Empire Loyalists were those who had supported the crown during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution but had to leave following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. At least 45,000 from the hitherto Thirteen Colonies relocated, mostly to New Brunswick (which was carved out of Nova Scotia to accommodate them) and Upper Canada (now Ontario) - many freed slaves and native tribes such as the Iroquois also followed. The mass influx of non-French into Canada, as well as the general suspicion towards the rather violenty-established "mob rule" that took hold in the United States guided the organization of Canada in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

** After the referendum choose for the republic, king Umberto II pointed out various irregularities, [[MyCountryRightOrWrong ordered his supporters to support the republic for the good of Italy]], and then left with wife and heir, preceding the ''constitutional exile'' for the "former kings, their consorts and male descendants". As the exile was always meant to end once the danger of civil war had expired, the constitution was amended in 2002 to allow the return of the exiles... At which point they proceeded to prove it may not have been such a good idea (and why Umberto II, even in exile, made sure to take down as many chances of the monarchy being restored as he could) when they sued the government for the exile (the lawsuit was since dropped).
* Since TheSixties Cubans that opposed Fidel Castro and the communist government following Castro's overthrow of the Batista regime in 1959 have fled and now live overseas: there are now over a million Cuban-Americans (Cuba's population in 2012 was 11.1 million) living in the United States alone, the vast majority in and around Miami and Tampa. The exile community's hostility to the Cuban government and their importance in elections (Florida is considered a swing state and has many electoral votes) is a major reason for the United States' continued embargo against Cuba (though that doesn't stop the US from being Cuba's 5th largest exporter). Castro himself was an exile before that, released from prison in 1955 and spending about 18 months in Mexico.

* Steve Yoo (Yoo Seung-Jin) was a popular K-pop singer in the late 1990s and into the early 2000s. He'd made many public statements saying he'd fuflill his mandatory military service but, instead, became a naturalized US citizen in 2002 just before he was supposed to be drafted. The South Korean government considered this an act of desertionand permanently banned him from re-entering the country since arrest at this point was legally impossible. He filed several lawsuits to have this ban overturned. South Korean courts upheld the ban until 2019, when the Supreme Court ruled in his favor. Even then, the government got back at Yoo by saying he's welcome to visit as a tourist instead of granting him any of the long-term visas available to ethnic Koreans.
* An unofficial version exists in 21st Century America. In some locales, after a convicted sex offender has served their sentence, they're still forbidden from living within a certain distance of schools, playgrounds, and other areas frequented by children. Depending on how large that distance is, and how many areas are designated as off-limits, a sex offender may find that there is literally no place in a given city where they're legally allowed to reside.
** The above can lead to very...shall we say ''unusual'' effects. A town in Iowa was shocked to find out how many sex offenders were living in and around their town and quickly passed laws that made it impossible for them to live there, so they packed up and went to the next town. The second town was then shocked to find out how many sex offenders were living in and around their town and quickly passed laws that made it impossible for them to live there, so they packed up and went to the next town. Then the third town down the road, and the fourth, and so forth and so on. The cumulative effect was a statewide east-to-west ''migration'' of those on the registry.
** For years the underside of the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami was where an impromptu shantytown of those on the sex offender registry existed, as strict limits meant the nearest place where a sex offender could live wasn't even in Miami-Dade County (they would have to move to Broward County). The camp had at its height about 140 people, plumbing, and electricity from generators; it also became an unofficial part of the Miami prison system, as a parole officer was sent there every night to make sure everyone was accounted for at curfew. The camp was dismantled shortly after newspapers publicized its existence, though trying to find a residence for those on the registry remains a major problem because every community is opposed to taking them in, many of them vehemently.
* In Scandinavia in the Iron Age and Early Medieval period, this was a standard punishment for more serious crimes. As states were weak or non-existent protection came mostly from one's family who would be bound by honor to avenge any harm against one of its members. Since this would lead to very destructive feuds the solution was that the offender would be put on trial at an assembly were the offender could be sentenced to be an outlaw - that is outside the law's protection for a certain period of time. This meant they could be killed with impunity and had to leave the land and the protection of their family.

* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'': Any noble who commits a crime heinous enough to merit this trope gets it ''enforced'' by having their name written in the Book of the Banished: if their name is in the book and they try to set for in Butterfly Kingdom territory again, magic will kill them instantly. It's implied in the [[https://www.deviantart.com/jgss0109/art/Elflyn-Nameless-Thing-Banishments-947692359 Q&A]] explaining this that three highborns committed serious enough crimes to be exiled: Swan Redbird, who committed BrotherSisterIncest, Umbra Butterfly (who attempted sororicide on Celena the Shy to become the new heir), and Fortuna Butterfly (unclear, but also implied to be BrotherSisterIncest). Eclipsa, Queen of Darkness, probably would have also been in the book as well had she not been crystallized [[spoiler:and then had all traces of her erased by her firstborn daughter Luna]]. [[note]]Her cheekmark is technically upside down, but Jon admitted that was an error on his part.[[/note]]

* Prominent in the [[ExcusePlot largely-irrelevant backstory]] to survival[=/=]city-building game ''VideoGame/{{Banished}}''. You start with a certain number of families who've been thrown out of their home village, [[NoodleIncident in circumstances which are left to the player's imagination]], plus whatever useful supplies they could grab on their way out and must guide them in their quest to build a new home for themselves.

* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'': Any noble who commits a crime heinous enough to merit this trope gets it ''enforced'' by having their name written in the Book of the Banished: if their name is in the book and they try to set for in Butterfly Kingdom territory again, magic will kill them instantly. It's implied in the [[https://www.deviantart.com/jgss0109/art/Elflyn-Nameless-Thing-Banishments-947692359 Q&A]] explaining this that three highborns committed serious enough crimes to be exiled: Swan Redbird, who committed BrotherSisterIncest, Umbra Butterfly (who attempted sororicide on Celena the Shy to become the new heir), and Fortuna Butterfly (unclear, but also implied to be BrotherSisterIncest). Eclipsa, Queen of Darkness, probably would have also been in the book as well had she not been crystallized [[spoiler:and then had all traces of her erased by her firstborn daughter Luna]].

* Every inhabitant of ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'''s Wraeclast that isn't a native or one of the Empire's Black Guard is one of these, including your player character.

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When a whole group has to become collective exiles they might decide to begin TheMigration. If the group in question was the original legitimate government they may become a GovernmentInExile. If this is RecycledInSpace exiles can become SpaceCossacks. If the exiled leaves on their own due to guilt, it would be SelfImposedExile.

Can be the fate of TheStateless.

** ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': The Witches are descendants of a rogue Jedi named Allya whom the Order exiled to Dathomir, hopeful that she would turn from the Dark Side. Dathomir had been a dumping ground for exiled criminals, as many war machine makers had been sent there as punishment too.

* A possible punishment in the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' ''Al-Qadim'' campaign setting.

** The mighty [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Bloodthirster]] Skarbrand [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Exiled One]], in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' was exiled from [[WarGod Khorne’s]] realm for being manipulated into attacking the Blood God himself. Since his exile Skarbrand has shed more blood and reaped more skulls than he did before his fall from grace, serving his god more faithfully than ever before.
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* Lyndess in ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached''. A god exiled her to Ketafa for not paying her debts.
* In ''Make a Wish'', Harry found Merlin's diary, which claimed that he was kicked out of Atlantis for being too "underpowered."
* ''FanFic/ThePowersOfHarmony'': This was the ultimate fate of [[TheAtoner Libra]] after the [[GreatOffscreenWar War of the Sun and Moon]], due to his breaking of the [[GodzillaThreshold Lifeforce taboo]]. He was banished from Equestria and traveled to [[DarkestAfrica the Zhevra Flatlands]], where he disappears from history.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''FanFic/NightmaresAreTragic'', the first chapter briefly portrays a thousand years of Nightmare Moon's Lunar exile.
* Another [=MLP=] fic, ''FanFic/TheChangelingOfTheGuard'', follows the adventures of Idol Hooves, a [[ShapeShifter change]][[BeePeople ling]] exiled from the hive by [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Chrysalis]] for questioning the established order of things.
* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', Empath Smurf and Polaris Psyche are considered this after they have separately left Psychelia. However, in Empath's case, he can return only on the grounds that he would willingly become the Psyche Master's successor, which isn't what Empath wants at all. In "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette," Papa Smurf, Smurfette, their child, and Polaris Psyche are exiled from the Smurf Village by Empath, who takes over as the new village leader. The Smurflings and Baby Smurf, realizing how cruel the adult Smurfs have become, chose to leave the village to join the exiles.
* In ''Fanfic/HeroTheGuardianSmurf'', Hero is exiled from the Smurf Village when as a young Smurfling he loses control of his Ki powers and beats Jokey to an inch of his life because he called Hero a "power-mad freak". Hero spent 100 years in the Other World learning how to use his powers wisely, returning only to rescue his fellow Smurfs from their first encounter with Gargamel, at which point he was allowed back in the village.
* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic ''Fanfic/TheBlackSheep'', Balthazar Smith-Rhodes serves a prison sentence in his native Howondaland for actively breaking quite a few of his country's laws. Unrepentant, he is then exiled to the faraway Central Continent, where he becomes adventurer "Howondaland Smith". (His family employ an Assassin-trained ninja attack lawyer to get him to drop the "Rhodes" bit from the name; he is permitted to remain a Smith as this is considered acceptably generic). The story covers part of his life as a con-man and eventual return home to Howondaland.
* ''FanFic/TheWandererOfTheNorth'': Nikóleva made a self-imposed exile after her botched raid to the nearest Diamond Dog base (which she was forbidden to do, too), so that her sister and guardian will never be harmed indirectly by her again.
* ''Fanfic/EchoingSilence'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic set in an AlternateUniverse wherein Celestia banished Twilight from Equestria for her actions during the Royal Wedding (Chrysalis here not revealing herself until later). Twilight ends up in the [[CrapsackWorld Dusklands]]; years later, after a severe TraumaCongaLine, she's been [[BreakTheCutie thoroughly broken]], and has built a new life for herself, now going by [[ThatManIsDead Diadem]]. And she will beat the living shit out of you if you call her "Twilight". Which makes things quite difficult for the former friends who have come looking for her help...
* In another ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'', an extended retelling of "A Canterlot Wedding", [[TheUsurper Prince Jewelius]] takes Equestria's throne for himself after [[ForWantOfANail Twilight has stopped the Changeling invasion with his help]]. Manipulating everypony into blaming the princesses as well as Twilight's brother and friends for the invasion, he sentences Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Spike to be driven outside of Equestria. Shining Armor and the Mane Five are also driven away, albeit by [[MadeASlave being sentenced to slavery]].
* In ''Fanfic/WarriorsRedux'', exile is the worst punishment a cat can get besides being executed. They're banned from the Clans with punishment of death, they lose the suffix of their name (or outright become "nameless"), and [[{{Unperson}} no cat talks about them again]].

** At the end of the story, [[spoiler: Renly and the key members of his coup against Cersei voluntarily go into exile outside Westeros at Lyonel's command, until such time as Tywin can no longer enact revenge.]]
* ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'': After her crimes are exposed, with executing her not being an option for a number of reasons, [[spoiler: Cersei Lannister]] is ultimately punished by being shipped off to a small island far off the coast of the Vale, with nothing there but a small holdfast. It doesn't even have its own ships, being reliant on outside shipping for supplies, which further cuts it off from the rest of the world.