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* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' has most of the kaiju cast dormant all around the world: Godzilla is in a hidden undersea temple in the Pacific Ocean, Mothra's egg is in the jungles of China, Rodan is imprisoned in a volcano in Isla del Mara, Mexico and King Ghidorah is frozen in a glacier in Antarctica. In total, there are 17 monsters in total, hidden dormant around the world, and all are awakened once Ghidorah gets loose and summons them to his bidding.

* In ''WebOriginal/AscensionAcademy'', The Darkness and his Four Generals are sealed within the Demiplane during the Desolation of Moontide Pass, a brutal battle that ended the Dark War. The Four Generals each are trapped within one of the Seals of the Door, with the Fivth Seal containing the Darkness itself.

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters'' has most of the kaiju cast dormant all around the world: Godzilla is in a hidden undersea temple in the Pacific Ocean, Mothra's egg is in the jungles of China, Rodan is imprisoned in a volcano in Isla del Mara, Mexico and King Ghidorah is frozen in a glacier in Antarctica. In total, there are 17 monsters in total, hidden dormant around the world, and all are awakened once Ghidorah gets loose and summons them to his bidding.

* All the main cast members in ''Anime/SailorMoon'' were killed in a great battle and reincarnated in the modern world. While they weren't actually "sealed" the show follows the same pattern of tracking them down and unsealing them. In universe it's more tracking their reincarnations down and awakening their dormant powers.
* This is what happens to the Anime/RoninWarriors, after the first episode.
* In Manga/DrStone, humanity has been petrified for 3000+ years. When the lead character develops a means to un-petrify people, this is the result.

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* The 2010 live-action film, ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'' had half the cast aside from the main character stored on an artifact. They emerged in a sort of Last-In-First-Out.
* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters'' has most of the kaiju cast dormant all around the world: Godzilla is in a hidden undersea temple in the Pacific Ocean, Mothra's egg is in the jungles of China, Rodan is imprisoned in a volcano in Isla del Mara, Mexico and King Ghidorah is frozen in a glacier in Antarctica. In total, there are 17 monsters in total, hidden dormant around the world, and all are awakened once Ghidorah gets loose and summons them to his bidding.

* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' the Dark One had a whole army of channelers under his command. The thirteen most powerful of them, called the Forsaken, were at the Bore when Lews Therin and his Hundred Companions sealed the Dark One's prison. The Forsaken were sealed as well and was freed only when the seal against the Dark One's prison weakened enough to allow it.

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* The final episodes of the second season of the new ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts "Army of Ghosts"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]]) feature "putting the band back together" and the freeing of two evil forces (which promptly go to war) and one of which is inadvertantly reinforced by the actions of one of the band that was put back together.

* ''Series/TheCharmings'' had a similar premise to the ''[[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]'' example listed above: the evil Witch put a spell on everyone (accidentally including herself) go to sleep and to wake up in 400 years.
* Subverted in ''Series/{{Angel}}''; Illyria was a SealedEvilInACan, and had an army waiting for her in some kind of pocket dimension. But when she found her way to this pocket dimension, she found that the army had died while waiting in its "can," and she despaired that she was all alone, [[LastOfHisKind the last of her kind]] with no chance of reviving her army or finding any other Old Ones living on Earth.

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'''s Toa Mata were SealedGoodInACan, but the sealed and then awakened Bohrok, Bohrok Va and Bohrok-Kal provided the creators with one and a half year's worth of enemy sets and plot-engines for a cheap price... [[CrackIsCheaper Not so much the collection completists.]] Subverted in all the Rahi species that escaped from their stasis tubes in the Onu-Metru Archives -- those weren't released as sets, and for the most part weren't even that important to the plot.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', when the Yozis and Neverborn broke open the Jade Prison to steal the trapped Solar exaltations, they only managed to take half of them. The other 150 immediately flew to Heaven and soon began exalting the first new Solar Exalted in hundreds of years. Whether this is a good thing for Creation is a matter of debate, but the Solars are the default player characters. Of course, those 150 stolen exaltations were warped into new kinds of Exalted, becoming a second sealed cast from the same multipack.
* The ''Innistrad'' storyline in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' features this. The Helvault, a giant silver mass, imprisons the legendary angel Avacyn, along with the demon she was fighting at the time, Griselbrand, and a whole host of other angels and demons. Needless to say, the Helvault eventually gets broken, in the expansion called ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Avacyn Restored]]''.

* VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft's ''Mists of Pandaria'' expansion introduces players to the [[EnemyMine Klaxxi]] [[EnemyCivilWar faction]] of the [[BeePeople mantid]] by having the player stumble upon and awaken one of their Paragons in the Dread Wastes. The Paragons are [[SealedBadassInACan ancient mantid heroes]] who were sealed in amber to be revived in times of crisis, and the player is tasked with reviving (or in a couple cases, killing corrupted ones) all twelve as they progress through the zone's storyline. Initially, [[SealedGoodInACan the Paragons are allies]], but once the player reaches Exalted reputation with the Klaxxi [[EvilAllAlong it is revealed that they worship the]] [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]]. This comes back at the end of the expansion when the nine surviving Paragons [[FaceHeelTurn ally with]] [[BigBad Garrosh Hellscream]], who is trying to revive their creator, the Old God Y'shaarj.

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* ''VideoGame/Skylanders'''s story begins with the titular heroes being immobilized into statue form by Kaos, being sent to Earth. However, the Portal Master can send them back to Skylands temporarily with the Portal of Power, if they have the figure.