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moved the "punishment" examples to Punishment Detail; deleted the Star Trek example and the question asking how it matches this trope
(moved the "punishment" examples to Punishment Detail; deleted the Star Trek example and the question asking how it matches this trope)
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* ''[[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]] ==
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== [[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 ==
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== [[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.
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