Behind bars

Specifically for the whumpee who is arrested and ends up inside some kind of jail.

Maybe they were framed, maybe hey had it coming, or maybe it's an undercover operation inside a prison... the important is that on the end of the day, the whumpee is locked behind bars, and oh, the potential!

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TV Shows
Andromeda


 * 1x09: Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) is at a council, trying to negotiate peace for the new Commonwealth, when is shocked unconscious and dropped into some sort of prison colony. It's an open space area, ruled by a small group, many of which, has been there since birth.

Carnival Row


 * 1x05/06: Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom) is arrested as suspect of murder, and spends some time behind bars, between the prejudice looks of the other cops and the bad attitude of the other inmates.

His Dark Materials


 * 2x03: Lee Scoresby (Lin-Manuel Miranda) is captured by the Magisterium, as someone who is looking for a "heretic", and is kept in shackles inside a cell. Each time we see him again, he has more bruises.

Merlin


 * 1x05: Lancelot (Santiago Cabrera) is arrested (with some manhandling from the guards) after the king finds out he lied about being a lord. Not much whump, but still.
 * 2x01: Merlin (Colin Morgan) tries to warn Arthur about the true intentions of his new servant, but instead of listening to him, the prince grabs Merlin and throws him inside a cell.

Sense8


 * 1x06: Sun Bak (Bae Doona) is arrested for stealing from her father's company, and is locked away at a female prison. She actually took the fall for her brother, to honor a promise she made to their mother.

The Boys


 * 2x07: Starlight (Erin Moriarty) is captured by Vought, and wakes up inside a special cell, where she can't use her power.

The Flemish Bandits


 * Ep 7: Jan de Lichte (Matteo Simoni) is sold out and captured. He is kept inside a cage before the torture session.

The OC


 * 1x03: Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie) is arrested for causing a fire at an empty house, and until the Cohen's get him out, he gets intimidated and injured by other prisioners.

Movies
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)


 * Edomond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) is imprisioned at the Châteu d'If for 21 years for a crime he didn't commit.

The Informer (2019)


 * Pete Koslow (Joel Kinnaman) is acting as an informant for the FBI, undercover inside a polish criminal organization, and in order to protect his cover and protect his family, he has to go back to prison and work deeper inside the drug scheme in there.

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)


 * John Kelly (Michael B.Jordan), on his pursue for vengeance, ends up in prison for killing a russian mobster. A prison - shocking! - full of the man's friends.

Dramas
W (2016)


 * Ep 4: Oh Yeon Joo (Han Hyo Joo) gets captured by the poilice as a suspect of the attack on Kang Chul two months earlier. Since she has no identity, no explanation whatsoever and refuses to answer any questions... well, she does look suspicious.