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You've just done something incredibly embarrassing – not embarrassing to you, but to the higher-ups. And you're too important or visible to be fired (or, in earlier centuries, killed). What happens? You're '''Exiled to an Island''' in order to get you out of the way, out of the limelight, and out of the higher-ups' hair.
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.
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