You’re an amnesiac girl-in-a-box with a terrible hidden power even you don’t understand. Where did they find you?
Floating naked in a tube of luminescent goo in a subterranean research facility
At the centre of a massive crater in what appears to be a small spacecraft
Neatly packed in a standard shipping crate in several ready-to-assemble pieces
Sealed in a sarcophagus in the ruins of a colossal pre-human structure
Growing like fruit in a fleshy pod produced by some invasive organic mass
Hooked via wires and tubes to a broken machine whose purpose you can’t explain
Filthy and malnourished in a locked basement room, with no sign of any caretaker
Trapped in non-physical form within a sinister puzzle box or forbidden book
Frozen inside a giant block of ice in some remote and inhospitable clime
Recovered from the remains of a giant robot or monster, presumably its pilot
Stuffed in a closet next to the vacuum cleaner, apparently asleep
Other (specify)
(For those unfamiliar with the trope, “girl in a box” is a conspicuously recurring motif in contemporary fantasy and sci-fi media whereby a mysterious character – typically young, typically female – is found in, and subsequently released from, a container of some kind by a third party; discovering who this character is and why she was in the box then forms the impetus of the plot. That this character has amnesia and possesses a terrible hidden power are customary but not obligatory.)
Bold choice to not include a box. I guess the crate qualifies, but I don’t care for the dismemberment vibes.
You know, I thought about it, but all of the examples involving literal cardboard boxes that I can think of are parodies of the trope, and I wanted to limit myself to a single obvious comedy option.
(Personally, my favourite girl-in-a-box parody is “crammed into an unclaimed suitcase on an airport luggage carousel”.)