Unishment: Difference between revisions

 

== Fan Works ==

* Towards the end of ''[[Past Sins]]'' the punishment faced by {{spoiler|Nyx is being released to the care of Twilight Sparkle, who is charged with seeing that she has a proper foalhood and never again becomes Nightmare Moon,}} to their absolute delight. Interestingly, there is some opposition to this from those who recognise it as not being any punishment at all.

 

== Film ==

* Trapper from ''[[M*A*S*H (film)|M*A*S*H]]'': "If I nail [[Hello, Nurse!|Hot Lips]] and slug Hawkeye do I get to go home too?" Arguably a subversion, since Burns '''was''' punished and went home in a straitjacket.

* Midway through ''[[Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans]]'', the main character has a complaint lodged against him for {{spoiler|committing an act of [[Police Brutality]] against an elderly woman}}. Until the complaint gets sorted out, he is put on modified assignment and placed in charge of the precinct's evidence room. Since he's a [[Functional Addict]] and the evidence room is where seized drugs are stored, this is the equivalent of punishing a small child by locking him inside a candy store.

* Given a passing mention in ''[[X Men First Class]]''. A prison guard where Alex Summers (Havoc) was staying at the beginning of the film remarks that he's "the only prisoner I've ever seen who actually ''prefers'' solitary." Sure enough, when we first see him, Alex is in solitary.

* In ''[[Coming to America]]'', King Jaffe Joffer is outraged with how Prince Akeem and his servant Semmi have been living in a squalid New York City apartment, and working for a local fast food restaurant. He tells Semmi "You have disgraced yourself, and you must be punished. You will confine yourself to our royal suite at the Waldorf-Astoria, [to Oha] see that he puts on some decent attire, [to female servants] and I want you to bathe him thoroughly.", making Semmi happily say "Oh, thank you, your majesty!", before shamefully lowering his head again.

* Done in ''[[National Security]]'', where a cop is accused of assaulting a black man (he was really swatting a bumblebee, which wasn't visible on a tourist's camcorder) and put in prison. As soon as he arrives in prison to serve his 6-month sentence, he sees every large black prisoner give him the "throat-cut" gesture. A guard holds him and warns him against trying anything, threatening the guy with solitary confinement. Seeing all the angry black prisoners, the guy elbows the guard in the face. Three months later, he is released from solitary. He immediately punches another guard, and goes right back inside.

* ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'': After the main foursome was caught for swearing in class, Mr. Mackey issued an order that anyone who is seen wearing “Terrance and Phillip” clothes is to be sent home, in hopes of having their clothes changed. However, the kids decided just to leave school anyways upon hearing that their clothing were banned.

 

== Folklore ==

* In ''Love From Your Friend Hannah'', the title character is punished for cursing at a bully on the school bus by being forbidden to ride the bus—which she hated doing in the first place.

* ''[[Brave New World]]'' Bernard Marx is threatened with being exiled for his actions, although Mustapha Mond explained it else wise. {{spoiler| Mond explains that his exile is actually to give him an opportunity to be himself rather than force free-thinkers to change.}} Helmholtz Watson also faced exile but given a chose where. {{spoiler| Watson opts for the Falkland Islands since the weather would help him with his writing.}}

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* In a ''[[Bloom County]]'' arc, Oliver hacks into the electric company's system and reduces his dad's bill to only a dollar. His dad scolds him, and tells him if he does it again, he'll have no glazed beets at dinner for a month. (''Then'' adds that if he does it to the phone bill, it will be ''two'' months.) Of course, he knows that glazed beets [[Stock Yuck| make Oliver throw up]], as his son quickly notes.

* In one series of ''[[Peanuts]]'' summer camp strips, Charlie Brown was called to the head counselor's office; he dreaded why, and hoped they wouldn't make him work in the kitchen and "clean out the grease trap". Instead, the staff said that his name was mentioned in the girl's camp when some commotion broke out; figuring Charlie Brown was a troublemaker, they sent him home early. To be honest, he was glad to leave early, seeing as he never liked camp, and flattered that his name had been mentioned in the girl's camp. "And best of all," he said on the bus home, [[Brick Joke| "I never had to clean out the grease trap!"]] {{spoiler| (In truth, he had never done anything wrong; the true troublemaker was Peppermint Patty, who saw the Little Red Haired Girl who he had a crush on, and felt jealous when she saw how pretty she was, presumably starting the altercation.)}}

 

== Stand-Up Comedy ==

== Web Original ==

* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', Mustang Sally (a member of the Texas Rangers superhero team) was convicted of aggravated assault on a very litigious (and technically innocent) supervillain. Her sentence was commuted to time served, probation, and a thousand hours of community service as a "civilian adjunct" to the Austin Police Department. In short, she was sentenced to serve as a superhero for the city... which was her job in the first place.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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