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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.
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}}
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