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| - A prisoner of war (often abbreviated as P.O.W.) is a military combatant that is taken into custody by the enemy. Captain Jack Bartlett was a POW before he escaped and joined the resistance during the Circum-Pacific War.
- A Prisoner of War (POW) is someone captured as an enemy combatant, usually a terrorist or a commie. POWs have no rights. They should be tortured until America gets what they want out of them, or shipped off to Egypt, Pakistan or one of our fine secret prisons over in the New Europe so that they can get what they want out of them and then tell America. It's like a big game of telephone, only with torture.
- A Prisoner Of War (POW) is a Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, or any military member who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. By international law and several mutually agreed conventions, prisoners of war are required to be treated humanely and diplomatically. However, nations vary in their dedication to following these laws. Nathaniel Teager was a POW during the Vietnam War who was kept there until 1997, despite the Department of Defense asserting that all POWs had been removed in 1973. (TXF: "Unrequited")
- After Naked Snake's capture at Volgin's hands upon the former's infiltration of Groznyj Grad, he was kept as a prisoner of war, and was then tortured at the latter's hands.
- "Prisoner of War" is the fifth episode of season five of the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
- Prisoner of War is the eighth and final young adult adaptation of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles published by Random House. Released in 1993, the book adapted the episodes "The Somme, August 1916" and "Germany August, 1916".
- A prisoner of war, or POW, was a person who was captured by an opposing group during a time of conflict. Such prisoners were held in prisoner of war camps. When confronting the USS Enterprise-D in orbit of Nelvana III in 2366, Commander Tomalak commanded the crew of the ship to surrender as prisoners of war. (TNG: "The Defector" ) Curiously, writer Ronald D. Moore wrote six months after this episode aired that "There are no Jem'Hadar POWs." (AOL chat, 1998 )
- A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW, enemy prisoner of war (EPW) or "Missing-Captured") is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase is dated 1660.
- A prisoner of war, or POW, was a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who was held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The People's Republic of Haven maintained a secret detention facility for prisoners of war as well as political prisoners on the planet Hades in the Cerberus System. The guards there did not respect the common rules of the Deneb Accords, regularly mistreating and abusing, even killing prisoners. (HH7)
- Even in the 26th Century, the UNSC continued to take prisoners of war in their conflict against the Covenant, often using them as manual labor to construct fortifications for defending against Covenant attack and digging graves for Covenant and UNSC dead. After the destruction of Alpha Halo, multiple Sangheili were recovered in their lifepods by a UNSC-requisitioned prison ship, the Mona Lisa and experimented on by an Office of Naval Intelligence medical officer seeking ways to harness the Flood, either to find a "cure" or to use it as a weapon against the Covenant. The last survivor of these, "Henry", assisted the other human prisoners on the ship and was one of only two survivors, with him and Rimmer joining a UNSC Marine squad to try and escape. For much of the war, the Covenant refused
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