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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.

 

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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.

== [[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]] ==

* 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 ==

* [[Greek Mythology]] has Philoctetes, who was either bitten by a serpent or accidentally scratched by one of Heracles's Hydra-venom-tipped arrows before the siege of Troy. Philoctetes was not caused pain by the scratch, but the never-healing wound stank like a mountain of corpses, which was unbearable during a prolonged siege, as there was no way to escape it. Philoctetes was exiled to an island, taking the quiver of Hydra-venom-tipped arrows with him (they were his property, having been a gift from Heracles). When the gods tell the Greeks that the only way the [[Trojan War]] can be won is with his bow, the Greeks swallow their pride and beg Philoctetes to return.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* The West End Games ''[[Star Wars]]'' roleplaying game stated that the Rebel Alliance did this to their prisoners by dumping them on unpopulated (but habitable) worlds with the materials to make a self-sufficient agricultural society. It was impossible for the prisoners to be detected and rescued by fellow Imperials (scanners detected modern energy signatures or much larger populations) and freed the Rebels from actually having to support them.

 

== [[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]] ==