[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
->"Now, I'm sorry to do this right after you've woken up, but it's time for you to die again."
-->-- '''Lord Death''', ''Anime/SoulEater'' ("The Battle of the Gods - Death City on the Verge of Collapse?")
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
->Inside the magic flask, the thing writhes like smoke. I can feel it through the glass. It's hungry. It wants me. The funny thing is - ''I'' want it. I want to feel it inside me... scrabbling in my veins. But I resist. For once, ''I'' have the power. I trapped it, John. Trapped a demon... in a bottle.
->The high lasts until late at night - [[EvilIsNotAToy but the come-down is vicious]]. It chops the legs out from under me. Stark fear punches me in the gut. The demon talks to me. [[FliesEqualsEvil A million tiny, whining voices]] tell me its name: '''Mnemoth.''' I try to shut it out, but it keeps on and on. Pleading - threatening. It sings out in the night... and whispers in the dawn.
-->-- '''Gary Lester,''' ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}: Hunger''

->''""Oh, how I've waited for you, Jedi. Hundreds and hundreds of years trapped here, waiting for another Jedi."''
-->--'''Countess Rajine''', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars Adventures''
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
->''"For years I plotted in the dark places, awaiting the moment when I would emerge to make your world my own! Then my mother told me to get out of her basement and take a life."''
-->-- '''D'Ork of the Thorkoth''', ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''

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[[folder:Film]]
->''Moria. You fear to go into those mines. [[DugTooDeep The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep]]. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm... shadow and [[PlayingWithFire flame]].''
-->-- '''Saruman''', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing''

->''You locked me into your stuffy little hyper-lock chamber and tossed me away in the depths like yesterday's trash! Do you have any idea what it's like to be locked up in a rotten egg for 6,000 years? It's BORING. Not to mention I've had a Charley horse since the Renaissance...''
-->-- '''Ivan Ooze''', ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie''

->'''Freddy''': Hey, these things don't leak, do they?
->'''Frank''': [[TemptingFate Leak? Hell no, these things were made by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers!]] ''*slap*''
-->-- ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead''

->The tunnel had been closed up long ago for safety reasons, and no one had ventured inside for reasons. But it was sealed not to keep people out, but to keep [[EldritchAbomination something]] in. And that something has gotten lonely over the years... lonely and [[HorrorHunger hungry]]. And now it's coming to the surface to hunt... and to feed.
-->-- Summary of "The Breathing Tunnel," ''Film/InTheMouthOfMadness''

->''Guess what, Eggman? I'm not leaving Earth! [[TrappedInAnotherWorld YOU are!]]''
-->--''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020''

->'''Professor Trevor Bruttenholm''': A 16th-century statue was destroyed. Saint Dionysius the Areopagite.\\
'''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}''': Who wards off demons.\\
'''Bruttenholm''': The statue, however, was hollow.\\
'''Hellboy''': A reliquary?\\
'''Bruttenholm:''' A prison. The Vatican thought its occupant dangerous enough to include it on the list of Avignon, of which, by the way, we hold a copy.
-->--''Film/Hellboy2004''

->''"This is where we put all the vapors and entities and slimers that we trap. Quite simple really. Load a trap here, open, unlock the system. Insert the trap, release, close, lock the system. Set your entry grid, neutralize your field and... the light is green, the trap is clean! The ghost is incarcerated here in our custom-made storage facility."''
-->--'''Raymond Stantz''', ''Film/Ghostbusters1984''

->''"An ancient horror slept beneath the old haunted mansion... nothing could stop its escape!"''
-->--'''{{Tagline}}''' for ''Film/TheEvil''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]
->But in his arrogance and wrath, Immael allowed himself to be glimpsed for a moment in his [[OneWingedAngel true, blighted form]]. He was confronted by a Cistercian monk named Erdric from the monastery at Sedlec, and they fought above vats of molten silver in a great foundry. At last, Immael was cast down, caught in the moment of transformation from human to [[FallenAngel Other]], and he fell into the hot ore. Erdric called for the metal to be slowly cooled, and Immael was trapped in silver, [[AndIMustScream powerless to free himself]] [[SilverHasMysticPowers from this purest of prisons]].
->And Ashmael felt his pain and sought to free him, but the monks hid Immael well and kept him from those who would release him from his bonds. Yet Ashamel never stopped seeking his brother, and in time he was joined in his search by those [[AngelUnaware who shared his nature]], and by men corrupted by his promises...
-->-- ''[[Literature/CharlieParkerSeries The Black Angel]]''

->"''It is not a calling that can be made in an hour, or even in a day. There are many bars to be let down, sealed doors to be broken, locks to be opened for which the keys were thrown away. If we are to have help against [[BigGood Ardneh]] in time, I must begin now to call upon -- [[SpeakOfTheDevil the powers]] that are to help us.''"
-->-- '''Wood''', ''The Empire of the East''

->"''... they open doors to they know not what, they take down bars that were put up when they were wiser and more frightened.''"
-->-- '''Anita''', also from ''The Empire of the East'', on what Wood was doing.

->''The ninth was strong and fought with might,\\
But lone Orannis was put from the light.\\
Broken in two and buried under hill,\\
Forever to lie there, wishing us ill.''
-->-- ''Literature/{{Lirael}}''

->I do not need yellowed paper to recall [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the creature]] to mind. It stays with me, and it will always be thus. For sometimes, when I am in the church alone at night, I believe that I can hear it digging, patiently and intently, moving tiny stone after tiny stone, its progress infinitesimally slow, yet still progress for all that.
->It can wait.
->After all, it has eternity.
-->-- ''[[Creator/JohnConnolly Mr Pettinger's Daemon]]''

->Here I lay and for fifty years hated, and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge lusted for revenge]] on them that put me here. And for fifty more I desired only to be up and about my business, which is to put down my enemies. And then... then I thought me: but my murderers are no more. They are bones in graves of their own now, or dust blown on the winds. And in another hundred years... what of even the sons of my enemies then? Ah! Well might I ask! What of the legions who came up against these mountains in ages past and met my father's fathers waiting? What of the Lombard and the Bulgar, the Avar... and the Turk? Ah! [[WorthyOpponent A brave fighter in his time, the Turk]] - he was my enemy, but no more. And so five hundred years fleeting by, [[TheFogOfAges for I was forgetting the glories just as a grandfather forgets his own infancy]], until I ''had'' forgotten - almost. Until I ''was'' forgotten - almost! And what then, when there was nothing left of me but a word in a book, and when the book itself crumbled to dust? Why, then surely I would have no reason to be at all! And perhaps glad of it. And then you came, a mere boy, but a boy whose name... was... [[TheCorruptible Dragosaaaniiii]]....
-->-- '''Thibor Ferenczy,''' ''Literature/{{Necroscope}}''

->The humiliation of that night would be with him forever. They'd picked their season so carefully: high summer, and no rain in two months. [[KillItWithFire The undergrowth of the Wild Woods was tinder dry, even the living tree caught the flame easily]]. He had been flushed out of his fortress with streaming eyes, [[VillainousBreakdown confused and fearful]], to be met with spikes and nets on every side, and that... ''[[AchillesHeel thing]]'' they had, that sight that could subdue him.
->Of course they weren't courageous enough to kill him; they were too superstitious for that. Besides, didn't they recognize his authority, even as they wounded him, their terror a homage to it? So they [[BuriedAlive buried him alive]], and [[FateWorseThanDeath that was worse than death]]. Wasn't that the very worst? Because he could live an age, ages, and never die, not even locked in the earth. [[AndIMustScream Just left to wait a hundred years and suffer]], and another hundred and another, while the generations walked the ground above his head and lived and died and forgot him.
-->-- ''Literature/RawheadRex''

-> Across the opening to the great central chamber lay a huge circular stone. Emblazoned on it was a hideous human-headed spider, whose belly had become home to quite the collection of graffiti over the years.\\
Nearly every culture that had ever inhabited or invaded either [[UndergroundCity this ancient city]] or the modern one above it was represented. Though the highest were in languages unknown even to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Yulric]], the lower he read, the clearer the messages became. The last three warnings were obviously the most recent: in Arabic, '''May Allah protect against that which is inside and damn any who open it'''; in English, '''For the preservation of the Empire, sealed 1910 under orders of his Majesty by his humble servant Sir Henry Calibrey. May God preserve us'''; and in American, '''No seriously. Don't [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] open.'''
-->-- ''Literature/AnUnattractiveVampire'' by [=Jim McDoniel=]

->There's a blurry photograph of a concrete box inside the file, snapped from above by a high-flying U-2 during the autumn of '61. Three coffin-shaped lakes, bulking dark and gloomy beneath the arctic sun; a canal heading west, [[SovietSuperscience deep in the Soviet heartland]], surrounded by warning trefoils and armed guards. Deep waters saturated with calcium salts, concrete coffer-dams lined with gold and lead. A sleeping giant pointed at NATO, more terrifying than any nuclear weapon.
-->-- ''Literature/AColderWar'' by Creator/CharlesStross

->First I took revenge on my betrayers in the Light Council. It took them quite some time to realise what was happening. They'd kill [[DemonicPossession my wielder]], but then they'd take [[SoulJar the fateweaver]] for themselves, and of course [[HereWeGoAgain I'd start all over again]]. And yet even when the last few figured it out, they couldn't bear to destroy me. [[ArtifactOfPower All that power]], you see. So they built me this tomb and sealed me away, hoping to find a way to take my power for themselves. And eventually, they stopped coming and I was left to wait out the years, alone in the dark. And then ''you'' came.
-->--'''Abithriax,''' ''[[Literature/AlexVerus Fated]]''

->"People of Ravnica," the vampire said, "for ten thousand years you have kept me prisoner. Your guildmasters and your [[BindingAncientTreaty Guildpact]] have kept me from threatening your 'peace.' You are all complicit in this crime, and you shall all pay." He smiled and flashed silver teeth. "Needless to say, you will pay in blood.[…]"
-->--'''Szadek''', ''Literature/RavnicaCycle''
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
->''"[[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece The Ancient Greeks]] foretold of a terrible container in which were housed all the evils of the world. How prophetic they were. All they got wrong was the name - they called it [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Pandoras Box]], when of course they meant... [[BumblingSidekick Baldrick's]] [[ThePigpen trousers.]]"''
-->-- '''Edmund Blackadder''', ''Series/{{Blackadder}} the Third''

->''You weren't there. In the final days of [[GreatOffscreenWar the war]]. You never saw what was born. But if the Time Lock's broken then everything's coming through, not just the Daleks, but [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Skaro Degradations!]] [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse The Horde of Travesties!]] [[EldritchAbomination The Nightmare Child!]] [[ParadoxPerson The Could-Have-Been-King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-Weres!]] [[WarIsHell The war turned into HELL!]] And that's what you've opened. [[ApocalypseHow Right above the Earth]]. '''HELL IS DESCENDING!'''''
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The End of Time - Part 2"

->"''Ahh! After 10,000 years I'm free! It's time to conquer Earth!"''
-->-- '''Rita Repulsa''', ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' (opening theme)
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]
->For an eternity I\\
Have slept and dreamt as I lie\\
But when the lullaby ends\\
You'll find [[TheDeathOfDeath that death may die]]
-->-- '''Andrea Storm Kaden as [[spoiler:Cthylla]]''', ''Music/JTMusic'', "[[VideoGame/TheSinkingCity Dreaming Of Me]]"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Radio]]
->'''"Peggy":''' [[GroundhogDayLoop After a hundred years]]...
->'''"Albert":''' [[ImmortalityHurts After ten thousand deaths]]...
->'''"Peggy":''' We are free!
->'''Both:''' FREE '''AT LAST!'''
-->-- ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho162ProtectAndSurvive Protect And Survive]]''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
-> '''Teysa''': Hello, Pazapatru. How are you?\\
'''Pazapatru''': Teysa. I am well and look forward to my freedom [[LudicrousPrecision in precisely 2,281 years, nine months, eleven days, two hours, forty-four minutes, and... ten seconds]]. On that day I will destroy you all.\\
'''Teysa''': I don't doubt you will, but I hope to be a ghost by then.\\
'''Pazapatru''': That would be wise.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering: Guildpact''

->''"You've begun to understand the [[SinisterGeometry hedrons']] true purpose," said Ugin. "[[EldritchAbomination The Eldrazi]] can be imprisoned."\\
"[[DeadpanSnarker And how did that work out last time?]]" asked Jace.''
-->-- '''[[http://mythicspoiler.com/bfz/cards/hedronarchive.html Hedron Archive]]''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

->'''[[MultipleEndings The Thing At The Bottom:]]'''
->Eventually, the waters of [[EldritchLocation the quarry]] are drained. Despite the legends, the hole is not bottomless. If [[MegaCorp Veridian]] succeeds and the townsfolk don't destroy each other, what happens then? ''Something'' had to etch that poem on the shadowy stone of the cave. In this story, that "something" awaits at the bottom of the pit, where it has existed since before the town was built. What is the thing? Is it some [[TheFairFolk fey creature, cruel in its whimsy and alien in its desires]]? Or is it [[SnakesAreSinister some slumbering serpent]], coiled and very, very hungry? The thing could be anything - an [[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortal man chained and cursed to live a painful eternity]], a wretched [[OurGeniesAreDifferent djinn like those found in the]] ''Arabian Nights,'' or even the [[{{Satan}} Devil]] himself.
-->-- "The Swimming Hole," ''[[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness Mysterious Places]]''

->Belatedly, the acolytes of [[EldritchAbomination the Children]] did the only thing they could: they hid [[IKnowYourTrueName the accursed names]] within their thoughts, [[TheScottishTrope never daring to speak them]], to breathe power into them, [[SpeakOfTheDevil to tempt the Children closer to consciousness]]. This act served its purpose - barely; deprived of a steady stream of sustenance, the Children remained teetering on the border between dream and waking. Fortunately, the sleepers did not know they still slept; they lived in their dreams, ruling a shadow world that existed only in their fevered imaginations.
->But to keep the Children trapped in these fever dreams took power, as much power as had been wasted over the centuries in [[EvilIsNotAToy calling the Children closer to wakefulness]]. To keep the Children asleep, the first tribe tortured their brethren, raped their own children, mutilated themselves, devoured the weak in cannibalistic orgies and walled in filth and degradation. [[ShootTheDog Sacrificing what shreds of morality remained to them]], they filled the dreams of these monsters with the sounds of anguish and misery, keeping them asleep with a murderer's lullaby. As long as their was sufficient rapine in the monsters' dream-worlds, they would not stir to seek it elsewhere.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Baali''

->''For seventeen long centuries have I remained in this blade, confined within these metal walls. During all my imprisonment you are the first I have seen who is worthy to bear me into battle. Come, take my hilt, and I will serve you in the manner of my kind, drawing the blood of your enemies, protecting you in the midst of the fight, bringing you safe home again. Now draw me from the scabbard and test the fitness of my balance. See how easily I swing, how my keen edge cleaves the air. A good choice, am I not?''
->''[[EvilIsNotAToy Willingly you picked me up. Your first mistake. Willingly you drew me. Your second mistake.]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness I do not allow my servants to make three mistakes, foolish mortal...]]''
-->-- '''Antinichus''', Daemon of the Bloody Blade, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''
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[[folder:Theatre]]
->''We try not think about the scariest one of them all. The gigantic, half dragon, half octopus, half humanoid Great Old One himself: Cthulhu! Waiting to return from his city beneath the sea!\\
Who day & night must slumber in R'lyeh?\\
Wave his tentacles, having nasty dreams\\
And who has the might, as master of R'lyeh\\
To drive humanity insane?\\
CTHULHU!!! Cthulhu!\\
Tentacles!\\
'''CTHULHU'''!!! Cthulhu!\\
'''TENTACLES'''!!!''
-->-- ''Theatre/AShoggothOnTheRoof''
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[[folder:Video Games]]
->When the [[DarkIsEvil Darkness]] and [[LightIsNotGood Angelus]] re-emerged during World War II, [[FallenHero the Brotherhood]] was waiting for them. Don't ask me how, 'cause I sure as hell got no idea, but the Brotherhood defeated the Angelus, trapping her inside the Prism, where according to legend, she remains today... But here's the thing, Jackie: I'm looking at this Prism right now and I'm not picking up a thing. No holy essence, no dark magic, nothing. [[OhCrap The Angelus]] ''[[OhCrap is not inside the Prism]].'' In fact, it never even ''touched it.'' If I can be honest, this scares the living fuck outta me.
->The Angelus has not been seen on our world in seventy years. We thought it was because she was trapped - in ''this!'' But she's not, Jackie. She's still out there.
->[[ChekhovMIA Where the fuck is she?]]
-->-- '''Johnny Powell''', ''VideoGame/TheDarkness II''

->''"Be bound here for eternity, Hunger stilled, Rage smothered, Desire dampened, Pride crushed. In the name of the Maker, so let it be."''
-->-- '''Malcolm Hawke''', ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII Legacy''

->''Seals are meant to be broken.''
-->-- '''Sage Ghido''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''

->"''An Ancient Evil Awakens...''"
-->-- ''VideoGame/Halo4'' trailer slogan

->After a terrible struggle they subdued Xerath, but they could not destroy his ascended form. Instead they trapped him within an enchanted sarcophagus and sealed him in an underground tomb. Eons passed, civilizations rose and fell, and Xerath's imprisonment was lost to memory. For centuries, Xerath's vast power tore away at the sarcophagus and weakened its spell. Finally, he willed forth a burst of magic that shattered his prison, but its core remained, containing Xerath and his power within its broken pieces.
-->-- ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''

->''"Since time immemorial I have languished here. The locks are broken. [[OmnicidalManiac Now I shall tear down the walls between dimensions and consume all.]]"''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:The End]]''', ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers''

->''And there are [[EldritchAbomination those]] who slumber in the spaces between. They hum their own nighted songs: "[[IronicNurseryTune When the blazing sun is gone... When the nothing shines upon...]]" The Dreamers! Do not think of them too directly, sweetling. They'll hear you. The Sleeping Ones! Gaia's music boxes must play their lullabies forever. [[DontWakeTheSleeper They must not wake]]. They idly tongue craters in moons, dreaming of [[SpacetimeEater the bigger feast]]...''
-->-- '''The Buzzing,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->"''The Adephagos disappeared into the void. Yeah well, guess that they didn't really say they destroyed that thing. They just went of and left this piece of crap remnant behind.''"
-->-- '''Yuri Lowell''', ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia''

->''You have discovered an unusual volcanic wall [[EerilyOutOfPlaceObject studded with gems]].''
->''[[OurDemonsAreDifferent Something evil]] is emerging from [[DugTooDeep this newly exposed pocket!]][=/=]We have unleashed [[FallenAngel the echo of a forgotten divine retribution]]!''
-->-- ''Videogame/DwarfFortress'' event

->''"Bonds of familial duty, turned instead to chains. Most voracious of appetites, curbed and contained. Most infectious of ideas cut off and cauterised before given chance to rot and spread. Cruel, verily. Alas, what other recourse was given? How does one kill Death? ... One cannot."''
-->--'''Haro''', ''Videogame/CultOfTheLamb''
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
-> '''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Beitus]]''': AGGGGH
-> '''[[BigBad Beitus]]''': WHAT IS THIS?
-> '''Nohmyt''': A containment box
-> '''Nohmyt''': So you can pay attention
-->-- {{WebComic/Hackbent}}, [[http://mspfanventures.com/?s=2810&p=587 here]].
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[[folder:Web Original]]
->''I'm just saying, the forces of good have this nasty problem of shoving evil inside of a box, writing 'DO NOT OPEN' on it, and then expecting that to be the end of it!''
-->-- '''Linkara''', ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers''

->''This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!\\
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.\\
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.\\
What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.\\
The danger is in a particular location... it increases toward a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.\\
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.\\
The danger is to the body, and it can kill.''
-->-- [[http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=160 "This Place Is Not a Place of Honor,"]] from Damn Interesting

->At the end of every season, we get to hear about the Snitch, a scary bad guy who spends 5 seasons FROZEN IN SYRUP!! Oooooooh, spooky.
-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/WelcomeTo JelloApocalypse]]''', ''WebAnimation/SoThisIsBasically WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]
->''And so, once again, we find that the evil of the past seeps into the present like salad dressing through cheap waxed paper!''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''

->''"If an alien race possessed the technology to trap that thing and use Earth as their personal toilet, they did so for one reason...they couldn't kill it."''
-->-- '''Lex Luthor''', from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday''.
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