My name is Earl: Earl decides to take the blame from the stolen truck and kidnapped guy just to keep the family of his cheating ex wife together, at the expense of his own personal growth.
The mentalist: Patrick jane is sent to prison, but that wouldn’t stop him from getting his way.
"As promised, we're surrendering ourselves to your authority. Where's Batman? Running late. The Batmobile, it lost a wheel. The Joker got away. (pause) That's what I heard."
They did the same thing in the much-better JLU cartoon many years earlier in the episode "Panic in the Sky". The officer in charge here though is a bit smarter than in "Man of Steel" and states "those won't be necessary", even though one of the soldiers state it was standard procedure. The officer correctly remarks, "I doubt they would have worked anyway...".
Honestly I know he’s an embodiment of flaws (hamartia, there’s your word for the day) but it still makes me kind of sad. Or like restless.
That’s how you know the catharsis works and they got the ending right. Felt more than I did from Walter's death and Jesse's escape and I like both of those endings too.
Kramer seems like he'd be popular with some but he's also likeliy to piss off a gaurd or convict with his Wheeling dealing then again he's likely to have connections on the outside like Numan who would make him powerful
Jerrys neuroses and wise ass nature is likely going to rub somebody the wrong way
George being a cheapskate and so tightly wound up would likely make him an easy target but then again he also is shown to be 100× smarter when he doesn't have to think about sex so he could pull some birdman of Alcatraz shit behind bars
Elaine might do well on her own but she usually has some level of rotten luck. She also chooses to be in worse situations where she can get away with more rather than hold herself to a higher standard. Then again it would also be hell of ironic if she found more female friends behind bars who actually agreed with her on most issues
Kramer will be fine until he starts yelling the n-word. Elaine will inexplicably be sent to the same prison, but everyone will assume she is a man and ignore her. George becomes king of the prison after his cellmate has a heart attack. Jerry is shivved on account of the whole fucking kids thing.
Holt and Terry visiting Rosa and getting an increasingly onerous list of favors to do, culminating in cancelling her cable, is terrific. The build up is spectacular.
At least he has people outside who want to visit him. Caleb’s family hasn’t visited him since his trial. He eats 9 people and suddenly people don’t know who he is anymore.
Cassian ending up in the Narkina 5 prison complex after a shoretrooper on Niamos intimidated and then subsequently accused him of participating in the Aldhani heist as part of a street sweep (Andor/Star Wars)
Which happened at the same time Barry went to jail in The Flash. Bad planning, CW! (Ollie's breakout was the one highlight of an otherwise piss poor seaon).
I always liked the subversion of the comparative non-issue that getting arrested is in the GTA games. Here the guy gets arrested, goes to jail for years and the outside world just keeps going on without him.
And the one who did manged to get so much style in 360flips/treflips even if he didn't create the trick ( that was Rodney Mullen) he had an impact on how it got popular
He gets framed for a crime he didn't commit and is in prison at the start of the movie.
At the end of the movie, he and all of his friends also go to turn themselves into the police because of all the crimes they committed in the pursuit of justice.
Whenever I think of My Name is Earl, my thoughts almost always end with Burt Chance punching that network executive and screams "That's for canceling My Name is Earl!"
"That was 2 executives ago! I loved My Name is Earl!"
Pictured is Kiryu Kazuma, who has spent around 11-15 years in prison (cant remember which is correct), but others who have spent time in prison are Ichiban Kasuga (10 years), and Taiga Saejima (25+ years)
Ichiban spent 18 years in prison. He was sentenced to 15, but they thought with good behavior he could get out in 10. But beating up three people, he instead got 3 years added.
Mistaken identity swap.
Evil doppelganger.
Execution survival.
Getting superpowers from something that should kill you.
Mirror match fight.
Actor playing more than one character.
I was wondering this myself. I mean maybe it doesn’t count since the premise of the movie is set in the jail mostly but I dunno. Felt like a natural example.
The MC in common side effects, interestingly enough his empathy and knowledge as an herbalist manages to win him some serious allies as big surprise even hardened criminals need health care
The Looney Tunes Show does this in 2 episodes. This one, Jailbird and Jailbunny, has Daffy litter in the Grand Canyon and refuse to pay the fine, landing him and Bugs in prison.
This one, Semper Lie, has Bugs trying to get out of going to the Peach Festival with Porky and lies to him so he doesn't break his heart. Bugs lies about having a sister and dresses up as her, but he ends up getting arrested at an Albanian prison due to the security guard thinking he's a spy.
In Chrono Trigger, Crono gets accused of kidnapping Marle, the Royal Princess, and depending on how much of an asshole you were during the fair at the start of the game you are found guilty or innocent.
Whatever the outcome Crono gets sent to jail and the evil Chancellor arranges for Crono's execution in three days regardless.
From that point, you have the option of either breaking out of jail yourself or waiting for the three days to pass, in which case you are dragged off for the execution and Lucca comes to your rescue.
Supernatural. Season 2, Episode 19 “Folsom Prison Blues”. After being on the run from the FBI most of the season, Sam and Dean let themselves be arrested so they can investigate murders at a prison.
This is found multiple times in the first Dark Souls game. You start in prison, you need to go back into said prison if you want to access the painted world, and if you want to defeat one of the great lords, Seath the Scaleless, you also end up in a different prison in the process. Also yes, technically its not a prison but an asylum, but we all know those are basically just prisons with a fancy name.
EDIT: also fun fact, throughout the game you gain access to teleportation in between bonfires. You cannot travel to every bonfire this way, but you can travel away from every bonfire... except the one in the prison. The only way to get out of that prison is to physically walk through the entire thing and then use a different bonfire. Very cool little interaction in my opinion.
At the end of season 3, a former client of his is found dead in the trunk of his car. Season 4 starts with him in prison while he's working on his own defense.
Tori becomes an international criminal and is put in another nation's jail after blinding the country's dictator. That's something that happens in this show.
In the season 3 finale of Crazy Ex Girlfriend, protagonist Rebecca Bunch decides to plead guilty to charges that she pushed her stalker off a roof instead of running away from consequences. The next season’s premiere shows the judge reject her guilty plea, but sentences Rebecca to six weeks in jail to await a hearing.
The Mighty Nein being sent to prison (Mighty Nein) after the circus incident, which most of them had contributed to. They soon break out to catch the main culprit, and it begins the process of turning them from a bunch of bickering strangers into a team.
Jungle juice - Suchan is framed for murder & cannibalism, and then spends several days repeatedly being mocked by a villain they captured a couple of arcs ago
Baki - Son of Ogre's prison arc revolves around Baki going into the most secure prison in America to meet and win against Biscuit Oliver, the second stronger man in the world
In the early stages of the game, you are framed for the assassination of the former president. You are then transferred to a penal unit, where you are for some reason still given unrestricted access to an experimental, highly advanced enemy X-02S Strike Wyvern prototype that was developed in top secret by the enemy (or whatever other planes you have unlocked).
(Gif is of Archange, the main enemy ace of the game)
Unbeatable’s second chapter takes place in a prison.
It’s infamous for being a filter point for a lot of players on account of being boring as shit. Granted, it’s prison, it’s not really meant to be a fun place, but something something artistic intent vs gameplay.
Still, it’s also home to probably the second best chapter ending in the game with the prison break and train music video (not that the other chapters are bad, but holy shit does chapter 2 go hard.) And most people that power through chapter 2’s monotony come out loving the game at that ending sequence.
The Machinist is a rare case where this is the happy ending for the protagonist. The film focuses on, well, a machinist named Trevor who is emaciated due to some form of insomnia. We eventually find out this is due to guilt over being in a hit-and-run accident that killed a boy. Him finally confronting his guilt and handing himself over to the police is meant to be at the very least on the 'sweet' side of a bittersweet ending. He's shown finally enjoying a moment of peace and potentially good sleep when in his prison cell.
During the "Hard Time" storyline (Hellblazer issues 146-150) John Constantine gets sent to jail for manslaughter (spoiler: actually a suicide that Constantine decided to take accountability for because he felt partially responsible). He ends up making life hell for everyone around him, unsurprisingly.
Ray Shoesmith in Mr Inbetween. Not for all the people he's killed as a hitman but when he twatted a bloke who knocked his car's wing mirror and the police saw it.
The funniest scene in Hannibal is the end of season one: Hannibal, a serial killer cannibal, is cheerfully standing outside the prison cell of the FBI agent who was tasked with putting him there. He's there as a doctor for Will even lol. Like how did that even happen lol
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