Bottom Storage

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Bottom Storage is trope coined by t-gp on Tumblr, who describes it as such:

bottom storage = when your gay-coded villain is defeated but is too charismatic and important to the plot to actually be killed off and is also too interesting to be put in actual prison, but also needs to be accessible for talking to or possibly being a b-character in future movies with a different villain? he gets put, in Bottom Storage. which is a prison with no actual bars on it that instead looks like huge tupperware. and he goes in there.[1]

It may have started with The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal Lecter before becoming a semi-common trope.

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The trope was included in May Trope Mayhem 2024 by Duck Prints Press.[2]

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