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Author: Tacitus

Jul 15th 2009 at 9:22:21 PM

Huh, so this is the "Neutral" third option between the Sealed ___s in a Can?  They aren't a Big Bad/Good being stuffed somewhere because they're too powerful to drop, they're characters awaiting their moment to shine, regardless of alignment.  Is that what we're going for?
* The recent ''StarCraft 2'' trailer suggests this is what happens to the Terran Marines between missions: cryogenic storage.  Not surprising, since they're mostly a bunch of "[[RestrainingBolt rehabilitated]]" criminals.
* "[[HalfLife The, right man in the...wrong place can make all the dif-fer-ence, in, the world.]]"
* The [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldar]] of ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' use a weird variant of this trope by sealing the badass ''inside their own head''.  The Eldar travel different "Paths" of life at a time, focusing on one skill to the exclusion of all others, mastering it, and moving on.  So an Eldar who walks the Path of the Warrior to become a specialized Aspect Warrior on the battlefield will set those skills aside when they're finished, until the time for war is nigh.  They effectively cultivate multiple personality disorder to help control the bloodlust the Eldar race lives in constant denial of.