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Line 5: 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. Line 12 ⟶ 10: 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. {{endingtrope}} {{examples}} == [[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. ~~== [[Comic Books]] ==~~ * In ''[[Asterix]] in Corsica'' it's established that the vast majority of the Romans stationed in the titular island were transferred there as a means of punishment. The only people there who don't fall into this category are the naive, over-eager and [[Meaningful Name\|aptly named]] Legionary Courtingdisastus (who volunteered to go to Corsica due to "good chances of promotion", an action which makes the men he's later given command of think he's completely insane), a Corsican that hit his head and joined the Roman Army and (probably), the governor's crack troops. == [[Film]] == Line 28 ⟶ 26: == [[Live-Action TV]] == * Seems to be the point of the Craggy Island parish in ''[[Father Ted]]''. * At the end of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode ''[[Star Trek/Recap/S1/E22 Space Seed\|Space Seed]]'' Kahn, his men and one traitor from the Enterprise's crew are exiled to an uninhabited planet. This sets up the movie ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]''.{{context}} ** How does this fit the trope as described? Who was Khan's boss? == [[Oral Tradition]], Myths and Legends == Line 38 ⟶ 34: == [[Video Games]] == * It is hinted in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]: Morrowind'''s Bloodmoon expansion that most or all of the soldiers stationed at Fort Frostmoth are there because of punishment. It's a freezing island filled with werewolves, naked barbarians, tree-women, and undead warriors. * 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. * There is somewhere worse than mainland Alaska in the U.S. Military. An island called [[wikipedia:Shemya\|Shemya]] in the Aleutians, a group of islands off the coast of the Alaskan Peninsula. According to legend, the wind never drops below 60 knots, the temperature never rises above -20 C and there's a 10-foot visibility fog 300 days of the year. Primary duty there is clearing the runway of obstructions. Every time someone left, they took a rock with them so someday there would be no more island and no would ever have to go back. Or so that legend goes. * 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. Line 55 ⟶ 49: [[Category:Beginning Tropes]] [[Category:Ending Tropes]] [[Category:Narrative Devices]] [[Category:This Index is Banned]]