

They stopped visiting the castle town after a year because they couldn't make up any more excuses for why the castle gates were closed. In The Royal Reunion, it's shown that Elsa and Anna's parents were shut-ins as well.When her depression worsens, even that becomes less and less common until Elsa never leaves her room. Her parents make it a rule for Elsa to eat outside her room three times a week, but she otherwise never leaves her room unless for studying reasons.

Darkness Burning expands upon Elsa's example from Frozen.Since he is, you know, a humanoid turtle mutant, Donatello has to attend the Science Expo through the use of a live-broadcasting camera with the explanation that he is a home-schooled shut-in with an overly-controlling parent. Prisoners in solitary tend to fall under Go Mad from the Isolation and/or Punishment Box. Prisoners and rare cases like Truman who are prisoners in wide-open spaces don't really count, as they still have interactions with peers of their social standing within their microcosm. Compare Convenient Coma and the like, where being a shut-in is merely a side effect of being unconscious and therefore completely incapable of going anywhere. NPC Scheduling, especially in older games, may make characters look like shut-ins, but that's just due to the simplistic AI. Compare and contrast You Are Grounded!, which is typically short and doesn't include school. Gilded Cage: Usually befalls a young person, almost Always Female, who is given a luxurious lifestyle but is otherwise denied any socializing outside of interactions with her servants.Ĭompare The Hermit, Reclusive Artist, and Crazy Survivalist.Madwoman in the Attic: The tragic, non-consensual form of this trope.Hikikomori: Although the word has connotations specific to Japan, as a trope it effectively covers agoraphobia as a whole.
