The Jailer

Anime andManga

InKanokon, Yatsuka-sensei and the other nonhuman monsters' job is to make sure the nonhuman students stay put and don't breakThe Masquerade until they've figured out how to fit in with humans.

Oldboy features a prison for people who need to get rid of someone but don't have the skills or the will to kill. The main character, in Chapter 1, is dumped back into the real world after fifteen years.

Comic Books

Locksmith in theMarvel Universe who used to imprison super-humans.

The Hangman, anotherMarvel Universe vigilante, would murder male evildoers but imprison female ones to 'protect them from corruption'. Unfortunately, he had a nasty habit of forgetting about them, leaving them without food or water...

In theMarvel 2099 universe, the Punisher (2099 version) had his own private prison. Of course, in hisCyberpunk Dystopia Crapsack World, anyone who could shell out the fine could get away withany crime, including murder. This made him - relatively speaking - as much an extremist in his world as the original Punisher (who just shoots everybody) was in his. Possibly more so; his prison came with a torture chamber. By the way, he reserved his prison for offenders whose crimes he felt didn't quite deserve the lethal approach - this was actually his idea of mercy!

Rayek inElf Quest, who never wanted to kill Winnowill (partly because he loves her, but mostly because if she dies her evil soul will be free to wreak havoc), and in the end becomes her living jailer,keeping her spirit within his own body as he tries to teach her to love.

Faora Hu-Ul was a Phantom Zone villain introduced inAction Comics #471. She was a beautiful Kryptonian woman whose unexplained hatred for men led her to torture and kill 23 men at a secret concentration camp in her home.

Lyle Bolton, alias Lock-Up, fromBatman.

The Master Jailer fromSuperman comics is a sort of example, except he's an out and out villain who just likes the power trips provided by his powers. And of course he's an unusual example because he actually has powers to facilitate his fascination with incarceration. Also of note is the fact that he was the architect who designed the supermax prison in Metropolis, Stryker's Island.

Mr Smyth fromSecret Six, a slave trader who was building what he hoped would be the world's biggest and only prison.

Grimbor the Chainsman fromThe Legion of Super Heroes.

The Batman of the future inDC One Million runs the Solar System's hypermax prison facility, deep within Pluto.

Literature

A borderline case occurs in theYoung Bond novelHurricane Gold by Charlie Higson. The main villain El Hurrican runs an island hideaway for criminals on the run. Once on the island, they can never leave. While their money lasts, they live a life of luxury, but once their money runs out, he puts them to work as a slave labour force. El Hurrican does confide to a youthfulJames Bond that he regards himself as the jailer of these criminals.

InSoon I Will Be Invincible, major supervillain Baron Ether lives out his twilight years under house arrest in his mansion, with his nemesis The Mechanist as his jailer.

Although he's not doing a great job. While Baron Ether never tries to break out, people keep breakingin to see him.

Live-Action TV

Kim Jang-hyun from the Korean seriesStrong Girl Bong-soon keeps the women he's kidnapped in a homebrew cellblock deep under the junkyard he owns and operates.

Another example of a Jailer who is himself the jail, Tire Org from thePower Rangers Wild Force episode "Ancient Awakening" can turn intoa fast-moving giant tire, and hold a prisoner inside himself. Given that heDrives Like Crazy, it's little wonder that poor Princess Shayla seems carsick when the Rangers finally break her out.

Tabletop Games

Dungeons & Dragons: Torog, Evil God of the Underdark. Patron of Jailors and Torturers.

TheMutants and MastermindsFreedom City villain Warden is one of these. He worked on making prisons asnon-cardboardy as possible, and got a bit fed up with people making that task harder by telling him that the prisoners have rights; didn't they forfeit those when they ended up in prison? His current goal is to overthrow "soft and corrupt" law and replace it with something altogether more draconian.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel sets haveDian Keto the Security Master; given that she has a riding crop and is shown arresting and restraining Sparkhearts Girl and Whispering Fairy inPretty☆Witch Imprisonment andLast Day of the Pretty☆Witch (monsters used by the protagonist) show she's not the most benign corrections officer. There are also her cohorts,Karen the Warden Mistress andEnguarding Mermaid.

This is emphasized by the way the Solid Vision system interprets the effects of Mimi's cards inYu-Gi-Oh!: SEVENS in her duel with Roa, which takes place in a large stadium. The Field Spell she uses ("Prison Island Ane Go Rock") places them on platforms in a lake in the center of a prison, puttingthe spectators in the cells (including her allies from the Goha Corporation, one of whom even says she's getting a little carried away) while Dian Keto's effect (which sends a monster in Roa's hand to the Graveyard) is illustrated by Dian Keto putting the unfortunate monster in another cell. This all seems sort of entertaining, but takes ahorrific turn when the Goya Drone she's wearing decides to get serious and not only use Mimi as aBrainwashed and Crazy slave, but use a monster that does the same to Dian Keto.

Toys

Hydraxon fromBionicle. To be fair, it is his job description, and he's hunting escapees in a place where he can expect tofind only escapees, but he's still a little too quick to assume that everyone he meets is an escaped criminal. Botar, in charge of prisoner apprehension and transport, also liked his job a bit too much.

Web Original

Der Fallensteller ("The Trapper") is a German superhero from theGlobal Guardians PBEM Universe. He is aGadgeteer Genius who specializes in traps and bonds.

SCP Foundation has, well, the Foundation. "SCP" stands for "Secure, Contain, Protect", meaning they Contain abnormalities in order to Protect the public from them (and in many cases, they do it to protect abnormalitiesfrom the public). Usually, this means capturing and jailing them. (Unlike their rivals the Global Occult Coalition, who usuallyhave a more permanent solution in mind.) In fact, their enemies theSerpent's Hand calls them "The Jailers".

Western Animation

Lock-Up fromBatman: The Animated Series (andCanon Immigrant to theBatman comics). In the animated series, Lyle Bolton was once the new Head of Security at Arkham Asylum, but whose methods were so harsh and extreme that everyone at the asylum was afraid of him, particularly Scarecrow. After being relieved of his post, he would go on to "arrest" those who he deemed to be at the root of Gotham's problems, including the mayor, Commissioner Gordon, reporter Summer Gleeson and the chief doctor of Arkham (coincidentally the very same people who exposed his abuse of power and had him fired) before being stopped by Batman and Robin.

Rumour fromThe Batman is similar.

Danny Phantom has Walker, the obsessive sheriff type.

One episode ofGargoyles turns Goliath into this when he uses Odin's Eye to become aPhysical God. The best way to"protect his friends" is to seal them in a cave for the rest of time. Nothing can get to them there.

Mr Moss fromStorm Hawks.

The Warden ofSuperjail It's not like he's trying to uphold the law or anything. It's mostly because he loves incarcerationthat freaking much.

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Hama.

Played with inReBoot when Megabyte imprisons Hexadecimal when he's not exploiting her power. When thefirewall goes up imprisoning Megabyte, Hexadecimal remarks "now it is the jailer who has been jailed."

Kampe, the jailer of Tartarus inClass of the Titans. Cronus was the only prisoner to have ever escaped under her watch. She hopes to correct this, even if it means sacrificing others to do so.

The first villain inThe Owl House is Warden Wrath, a fiendish creature who captures and locks up folks who he deems "weird". (As in, he thinks social non-conformity is a crime.) Fortunately, he proves easily subdued after Luz frees his prisoners and gives them a much needed pep-talk.

Parasite inSuperman: The Animated Series. His ability to drain a victim of memories, skills, and super-powers is temporary, so he tends to hold them hostage so he can use them to "recharge" periodically. Unfortunately for him,Superman isn't exactly a cooperative prisoner.

Demongo from theSamurai Jack episode "Jack versus Demongo the Soul Collector" is a unique example; not only is he a jailer (his victims being enemies of Aku) buthis body is the jail, and he can command the imprisoned souls to fight for him. Until, that is, Jack busts them out.

Castle Captive, who appeared on an episode ofThe Smurfs, was another villain who was both the Jailer and the jail. A living, intelligent castle, it appeared in the human world once every hundred years, its appearance luring travelers to it, only to trap them inside and after 24 hours, carry them to whatever realm it called home, for...well, some reason known only to himself but he did seem to be a cruel creature who liked seeing victims suffer. Escaping it was almost impossible, because it could control every part of itself, doors, furniture, even items as small as silverware, and use them against anyone who caused trouble. One prisoner was Nanny Smurf, who was rescued after the Castle appeared a century after being kidnapped.

InStatic Shock, Leech is a "bang baby" metahuman who can steal the powers of other metahumans; much like Parasite, this is temporary, so he kidnaps them and holds them prisoner. After capturing Hotstreak, Ebon, and Talon (three recurring villains) he goes after Static but makes the (rather stupid) mistake of grabbingLil' Romeo, who is cosplaying as the hero. It goes downhill for him from there.

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