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* ''Literature/ChillinInAnotherWorldWithLevelTwoCheatPowers'': Hiya the Djinn of the Wellspring of Light and Dark and Damalynas, Grand Magus of Midnight are both powerful and dangerous beings from the annals of history, and when they were sealed away, they were used to seal each other. The Golden-Haired hero freeing one results in the other being freed.
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* ''Literature/WarsOfTheRealm'': An interesting example of the evil being sealed on-screen and never being released during the story. In ''Rise of the Fallen'', the [[TheGreatFlood Great Purge]] ends with only four angels and four demons surviving the final battle. The four demons are chained at the bottom of the Euphrates River, to be released during the last judgment (based on the events described in Revelation 9:13-15 in TheBible).

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* ''Literature/WarsOfTheRealm'': An interesting example of the evil being sealed on-screen and never being released during the story. In ''Rise of the Fallen'', the [[TheGreatFlood Great Purge]] ends with only four angels and four demons surviving the final battle. The four demons are chained at the bottom of the Euphrates River, to be released during the last judgment (based on the events described in Revelation 9:13-15 in TheBible).Literature/TheBible).
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* ''Literature/WarsOfTheRealm'': An interesting example of the evil being sealed on-screen and never being released during the story. In ''Rise of the Fallen'', the [[TheGreatFlood Great Purge]] ends with only four angels and four demons surviving the final battle. The four demons are chained at the bottom of the Euphrates River, to be released during the last judgment (based on the events described in Revelation 9:13-15 in TheBible).

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* ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'' sees this happen several times. There's the ''Dithparu'' (essentially evil spirits), who are trapped by magnetic fields in an AncientTomb, [[Literature/StarTrekTheBraveAndTheBold Malkus the Mighty]], an immortal tyrant whose consciousness was sealed in a box, and The Eight, who got loose in the Literature/StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch, setting up a SequelHook.

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* ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'' sees this happen several times. times:
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There's the ''Dithparu'' (essentially evil spirits), who are trapped by magnetic fields in an AncientTomb, [[Literature/StarTrekTheBraveAndTheBold Malkus the Mighty]], an immortal tyrant whose consciousness was sealed in a box, and The Eight, who got loose in the Literature/StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch, setting up a SequelHook.SequelHook.
** The [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS]] novel "Demons" featured a textbook example left behind by NeglectfulPrecursors: PuppeteerParasite EnergyBeings that feed off [[HatePlague violence and sadism]] trapped in [[BeautyIsBad beautifully crafted]] SchmuckBait containers. When some are brought back to Vulcan for study, DemonicPossession and mass slaughter ensues.
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* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': Five hundred years ago, the mermaid Cecily imprisoned [[BigBad Tiamat]] in a hole at the bottom of the Marianas Trench that she closed off with molten metal. It took her until recently to break free.

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* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': ''Literature/Tempest2011'': Five hundred years ago, the mermaid Cecily imprisoned [[BigBad Tiamat]] in a hole at the bottom of the Marianas Trench that she closed off with molten metal. It took her until recently to break free.
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* ''Literature/TheSaltwaterChronicles'': The main villain [[spoiler: is a telepathic fungus monster that fell from the sky; it was created to destroy sentient lifeforms on the earth (but not, as it is painfully aware, underwater). Its heart was previously sealed under an ancient volcano by Mother.]]

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* ''Literature/TheSaltwaterChronicles'': The main villain [[spoiler: is a telepathic fungus monster that fell from the sky; it was created to destroy sentient all lifeforms on the surface of the earth (but not, as it is painfully aware, underwater).the fish). Its heart was previously sealed under an ancient volcano by Mother.]]
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* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': Five hundred years ago, the mermaid Cecily imprisoned [[BigBad Tiamat]] in a hole at the bottom of the Marianas Trench that she closed off with molten metal. It took her until recently to break free.
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* ''Literature/TheAfterward'': The Old God was banished from the world for centuries before his followers at last got him back in. He was banished again after this by the seven companions.
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* ''Literature/MythicMisadventures'' is loosely based on the Pandora myth. Pandora opens the can in the first book and spends the rest of the series trying to reseal it.
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** ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'': It turns out that the base on Yavin IV housed the essence of the ancient Dark Jedi Exar Kun. About 4,000 years before ''ANewHope'' Kun's body was destroyed and his spirit trapped by ancient Jedi who had banded together against him in the network of temples Kun forced the Massassi to build for him. Unable to manipulate non-Force sensitives, the presence of Force sensitives whose strength was increasing allowed him to directly influence some of the students and briefly incapacitate Luke Skywalker.

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** ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'': It turns out that the base on Yavin IV housed the essence of the ancient Dark Jedi Exar Kun. About 4,000 years before ''ANewHope'' ''Film/ANewHope'' Kun's body was destroyed and his spirit trapped by ancient Jedi who had banded together against him in the network of temples Kun forced the Massassi to build for him. Unable to manipulate non-Force sensitives, the presence of Force sensitives whose strength was increasing allowed him to directly influence some of the students and briefly incapacitate Luke Skywalker.
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* The ''Literature/ZonesOfThought'' novel ''A Fire Upon the Deep'' starts off with a cosmic menace called the Blight being woken by insufficiently paranoid humans.

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