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'''Basic Trope''': A powerful entity is bound inside a person to prevent it influencing the world.

*'''Straight''':
** [[TheHero Alice]] has the EldritchAbomination C'thogus sealed inside her body by TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness to prevent it causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
** [[PrecursorHeroes Bob]] is [[SealedGoodInACan sealed]] inside Alice after being fatally wounded, turning him into a SpiritAdvisor-like entity guiding her against the BigBad.

*'''Exaggerated''':
** There are hundreds of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s sealed in people across the world; Alice and C'thogus are just one of many such pairs.
** Alice has several million demons, Eldritch entities, retired heroes, and assorted badasses sealed within her, all of which are fighting for dominance over her body.

* '''Averted''': C'thogus is sealed inside a jar or a statue rather than inside a person.

*'''Justified''':
** C'thogus, by its very nature, [[FightingAShadow can only be temporarily banished back to its home realm]]; sealing it inside Alice was the best TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness could do to prevent it returning in the future and causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
** Sealing C'thogus inside Alice was part of a long-term gambit to turn her into a SuperSoldier with {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s, intended to defeat ''other'' {{Eldritch Abomination}}s far more dangerous than C'thogus.

* '''Subverted''':
** Alice isn't actually the can for C'thogus -- the MacGuffin she's been carrying throughout her adventure is.
** TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness thinks they sealed C'thogus inside Alice, but in truth it tricked them and escaped before it could be sealed in her...

* '''DoubleSubverted''':
** After the original can is damaged during a battle, [[TheSmartGuy Charlie]] is forced to re-seal C'thogus inside Alice before it breaks free of its prison.
** ...Except a significant part of it was caught in their sealing ritual and is stuck inside Alice, essentially splitting C'thogus into a much-diminished 'free' half and the half in Alice.

* '''Parodied''': The one doing the sealing meant to trap C'thogus in a can, but as there wasn't one in hand's reach, they used a random baby as the can instead.

* '''Enforced''': "We need an explanation for why Alice can turn into a [[CaptainErsatz copyright-friendly]] Shoggoth, so she's got an EldritchAbomination inside her that [[LovecraftianSuperpower lets her become one]]."

* '''Discussed''': "We can't beat C'thogus and we're all out of cans, so we need to seal it in a person. Any volunteers?"

* '''Conversed''': "So, they're sealing a powerful and destructive entity into the body of an infant child in the hope they can make use of its power and fulfil an ancient prophecy? [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Hasn't this been done before?]]"

* '''Deconstructed''':
** C'thogus is successfully sealed inside Alice, but as she lacks the mental fortitude to contain it [[DemonicPossession it quickly takes over her body for its own ends]]. This allows C'thogus to impersonate her and fly under the heroes' radar, continuing its machinations without their knowledge until it's far too late to stop it.
** TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness' enemies and rivals discover Alice's existence, causing them to start summoning and binding similar cosmic entities into their own staff to try and create [[DemonicPossession possessed]] {{Super Soldier}}s of their own. This goes terribly wrong due to flawed bindings or unsuitable person-shaped cans, setting dozens of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and other questionably well-intentioned beings loose on an unsuspecting world, causing mass chaos.

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