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Why an island? Islands are difficult to get to and difficult to leave, which means that people exiled there have much less influence than they had when they were on the mainland. Reporters are far less likely to hop on a boat and spend a large fraction of a day chasing after one person on an island when they could be spending the same amount of time interviewing more than one person on the mainland.
In fiction, this is often either [[backstory]] or a [[Beginning Tropes|Beginning Trope]]. Less often, it's an [[Ending Trope]]. It's rarely an event that takes place in the middle of a series.▼
Sci-fi stories can achieve the same effect with an exile to a far away, inhabited planet (preferably one whose biosphere resemble actual islands) - even though this doesn't have the same cultural impact that exile to an actual island does.
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Subtrope of [[Reassigned to Antarctica]], where the exile isn't necessarily to a literal island. Contrast with [[Punishment Detail]], where the exile is intended to be punishment for a crime instead of politically-motivated (or the equivalent). Not to be confused with [[Exiled to the Couch]].
▲In fiction, this is often either [[backstory]] or a [[Beginning Tropes|Beginning Trope]]. Less often, it's an [[Ending Trope]]. It's rarely an event that takes place in the middle of a series.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Sister Princess]]'' begins with Wataru Minakami being sent to Promise Island for high school instead of the high-status, high-pressure Tokyo high school that he expected to attend.
* In ''[[Code Geass]] R2'', Zero makes a deal with Britannia to let him be exiled to an island off of China instead of killed.
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Seems to be the point of the Craggy Island parish in ''[[Father Ted]]''.
== [[Oral Tradition]], Myths and Legends ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Isle of Despair in ''[[Arcanum]]'' is a [[Penal Colony]] that also happens to hold Maximillian, the true king of Cumbria, after he was deposed by his younger brother.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* This was a popular way for Japanese emperors to get rid of daimyo that had become politically dangerous - Japan has many, many islands.
* Celtic Saint Columba started his career as a Monk of noble birth. He was exiled from Ireland for embarrassing his superiors by taking part in a clan feud and set up shop on the island of Iona.
* [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] was subject to this ''twice''. First to Elba, which he escaped from, and then Saint Helena, which he did not and eventually died on.
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