There ’s nothing cool than a test of wit and courage , and there ’s no greater test than an get away - proof prison . We ’re peach about a grown scary prison , with guards and security measure systems and uniform and formula and peradventure a few deathtrap . The form of Big House that requires a master plan to get out of , which test an enterprising hero ( or villain ) to his or her limits .
Here are the 10 most thrilling prison house breaks from science fiction or fantasy . And before anybody jumps in , we ’re only including proper prisons , with guards and an institutional setting — not just some cage somewhere . That said , we ’d love to try what your favorite daring escapes ! I especially like ones where the original programme fails , and then there ’s some desperate stand-in program that also fails , before the escape happen in some other ridiculous way .
10 ) Aeon Flux
As underwhelming as this film is broadly , it has some really dandy fiddling moments here and there — and this “ jailbreak ” scene is definitely one of them . Aeon Flux is locked in a prison cell , in a super - unassailable facility , until she come up a ton of lilliputian spheres to come and fall apart her out . This leads to a plenty of acrobatics and kung - fu guard smackdowns , before Aeon reaches exemption . Flux yeah . ( Sorry , could n’t resist . )
9 ) The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold
In this novelette , Miles Vorkosigan is sent to infiltrate a Cetagandan prison house camp to get out one important prisoner — Colonel Guy Tremont , who the Barrayarans go for will bulge out a newfangled resistance movement against the Cetagandans . There ’s just one job : the prison is cover with an impenetrable force dome . Okay , two problems : Tremont is die . presently enough , Vorkosigan isstripped nakedand his hand is broken — but he still manages to organise the anarchic prisoners into a merged chemical group , coiffure up a new food distribution system that is on the Q.T. aimed at preparing their leak architectural plan . In the destruction , he gets almost all the prisoner out of there .
- Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country
Kirk and McCoy are convicted of murdering Klingon Chancellor Gorbachev Gorkon , and commit to Rura Penthe , the most notorious Klingon prison where the inmates are shapechangers and freakazoids . The planet is freezing cold , there ’s a dilithium excavation quickness , and the other prisoner are savage killer . Their chances of survival : minimum . Except that they befriend one of those shapeshifters , who ’s believably Odo ’s befuddled first cousin , and she helps them get to the satellite ’s open — but only so she can have a stalking-horse to belt down the two of them . Kirk and McCoy manage to outwit her , and then they ’re scooped up by Spock and the Enterprise crew in the nick of time .
7 ) Avatar The Last Airbender , “ Boiling Rock ”
This is a classical “ everything goes incorrect ” tarradiddle — Sokka and Zuko fly a war balloon into the Boiling Rock prison house to rescue Sokka ’s male parent and the other inmate , but the balloon crash due to the steam from the volcanic lake . And then Sokka and Zuko are trapped in the prison , where they impersonate safeguard — until that proceed horribly ill-timed as well . At last , they create a prison house saturnalia and examine to use that as a top for their safety valve program , but that estimate , too , go South after Mai and Azula show up . At last , it ’s only thanks to Mai ’s help that the gang is able to get away from the Fire Nation prison .
6 ) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Azkaban is the ultimate escapism - proof wizard prison house — guarded by Dementors and environ by the North Sea . Sirius Black is locked up there for years , examine over and over to ruin out , until ultimately he becomes the first wizard to get out . He finallymanages to wrench himself into his cuspid Animagus variety , which is emaciated enough to slip through the bar and lift past the Dementors undetected . Then he swims across the North Sea , nearly dying in the attempt . At last , he catches up with Harry Potter — only to be distrust of wanting to kill him .
6 ) Futurama , “ Into the Wild Green Yonder ”
Leela ’s group of Feministas are sentenced to the Maxi - Padlock , an ultimate high surety woman ’s prison , with no promise of escape . They endeavor to expend a muck - sponger to tunnel through the wall , but this plan totally fails . In the destruction , it ’s only thanks to Bender that they get out — because Bender is trying to scorethe most felony institutionalize at once .
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5 ) Venture Bros. , “ Powerless in the Face of destruction ”
Poor Monarch — he ’s sent to prison , and it ’s for a offense he did n’t even really practice . It ’s all thanks to Phantom Limb , who wants The Monarch out of the manner so he can get together with Dr. Girlfriend . The Monarch assembles a crack team of yard bird for a daring flight scheme , but then the whole shebang fall aside completely . Just when everything feel hopeless , The Monarch is finally able to escape thanks to the Power of Love .
3 ) X - Men 2
Magneto is operate up in a all plastic prison house , to keep him from using his powers over alloy — but he gets Mystique to inject atomic number 26 into a sentry go ’s blood , so he can turn it into a weapon , in one of the coolest and most horrible prisonbreak scenes ever . This whole sequence may have given lift to the endless serial of “ Loki / John Harrison / Javier Bardem is lock in a plexiglass John Cage ” sequences in recent legal action / superhero movies , but it ’s still a classic for a reason .
2 ) watcher
Rorschach is locked up in a maximal security prison house , where he ’s doting of cue the other convict that they ’re locked in with him rather than the other way around . And by the time Nite Owl and Silk Spectre get there to rescue him , he ’s already in the middle of a prison riot , in his element , play havoc and dog down the offence boss Big Figure to finish scavenge up the sewage . Just awing .
1 ) elude from New York
Ca n’t really name “ with child leak ” stories without including the ultimate safety valve story — in which a whole urban center becomes a prison . Snake Plissken is send into the prison of Manhattan , with explosive injected into his carotid artery , and he has 24 hr to get the President out of there . It takes all of Snake ’s slyness , and some key friend , to get himself and the Prez out of there with a very important cassette taping .
Thanks to Rob , George , Annalee and Meredith for suggesting some of these . Also , I found a mates of these viaTVTropes .
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