History Main / BanishingRitual

* Songstress Angel was exploited in ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' to summon a towering monster from another dimension. Free of TheVillain's MindControl, Angel stands her ground: "If I can sing it up, I can sing it back." This doesn't seem to work, as Mok snarks, "The girl can't sing it back; no one can." It turns out that once Omar joins Angel in a duet, the monster recoils as though sprayed with HollywoodAcid, and retreats into its hole, not to be seen again.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'''s backstory, a group of heroes were trying to wage war against [[BigBad Alduin]], but they didn't have the assistance of a Dragonborn, [[OnlyICanKillHim the only mortal who would stand a chance of defeating him]]. So they used an Elder Scroll to banish Alduin to a point in the distant future (the game's present-day), in the hope that a new Dragonborn would exist in that era who could defeat him for them.

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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'': The college students encounter numerous {{Summoning Artifact}}s for the various monsters that could have descended on the cabin, but only one actual Sealing Ritual is shown in the film when the monitors observe a group of Japanese schoolgirls using a chant to contain the spirit of a StringyHairedGhostGirl [[SealedEvilInATeddybear inside a frog]]. The observers are livid when they see this, since a human sacrifice is necessary to stop the world from ending.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' referred to this process as "vanquishing". The Halliwell sisters almost always had a spell to send demons away. In one episode, this was reversed, and in another, a demon threatens to manifest anyways and is told that there's "dead" and then there's [[DeaderThanDead Dead.]]

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* A variant in ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'' is the ritual the Akatsuki organization performed on any [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan Jinchuriki]] to extract the Biju sealed in them and then seal it in the Demonic Statue of the Other Path. The ritual takes three full days to perform with full member present.

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* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In the "Necropolis" storyline, Judge Dredd manages to save the city from the [[EldritchAbomination Sisters of Death]] by killing the Psi-Judge that they're using as a bridge to Mega City One, which banishes them back to Deadworld since they otherwise have no physical form in this dimension. The same doesn't apply to the Dark Judges however, who are occupying animated dead bodies that have to be separately destroyed.

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* Gandalf's invocation in ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'': "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor! The Dark Fire shall not avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the Shadow. You! Shall! Not! Pass!" is, apparently, an attempt of such an abjuration against the Balrog of Moria.

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* Early editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' had spells such as Banishment, Dismissal, Dispel Evil and Holy Word, all of which could send evil creatures back to their plane of origin.

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* It's stated early on in Roleplay/{{Alanna}} that all summoned creatures are vulnerable to a simple banishment spell. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted when the BigBad attempts to banish an empowered [[{{Familiar}} Franklin]], whom a god had just blessed with immunity to banishment.]]

** Another technique is the Dead Demon Consuming Justu, where the user summons and channels the {{shinigami}} to rip off the opponent's soul and seal it inside the shinigami's body. It's a DamgerousForbiddenTechnique, as the user will also have their soul ripped off and sealed once they're done.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Ganondorf was originally supposed to be executed by the sages, but he survived and started attacking the sages. So in a last-minute maneuver, they banished him to the Twilight realm.

See also HollywoodExorcism, where the Banishing Ritual is specifically used against DemonicPossession.

* In season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', the heroes had to find a seperate banishing ritual for each of the demon sorcerers.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' :
** Some exorcisms in work like this, though the majority just involve killing the daemon's corporeal form (much easier said than done for the more powerful ones).

* A variant in ''{{Naruto}}'' is the ritual the Akatsuki organization performed on any [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan Jinchuriki]] to extract the Biju sealed in them and then seal it in the Demonic Statue of the Other Path. The ritual takes three full days to perform with full member present.

See also HollywoodExorcism.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Demons can be removed from their host and sent back to hell with a Latin incantation (the Winchesters used this to deal with Demons before they acquired a demon-killing weapon), but there's also one for Angels (who also possess human hosts to manifest in Earth) in Enochian to send them back to Heaven. The only character who's ever seen attempting the latter is [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Alastair]], since Angels are far too powerful to be even be restrained by anything less.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Demons can be removed from their host and sent back to hell with a Latin incantation, but there's also one for Angels (who also possess human hosts to manifest in Earth) in Enochian to send them back to Heaven.

'''[[InternalSubtrope Sealing Ritual:]]''' A similar ritual that is used for sealing something, instead of banishing it to another place. The net effect is the same, although in the case of sealing, the something is still "around". Will lead to the whole SealedIndexInACan.

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In the "Necropolis" storyline, Judge Dredd manages to save the city from the Sisters of Death by killing the Psi-Judge that they're using as a bridge to Mega City One, which banishes them back to Deadworld since they otherwise have no physical form in this dimension. The same doesn't apply to the Dark Judges however, who are occupying animated dead bodies that have to be separately destroyed.

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* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''. Certain deities that can be summoned by a Call <Name> spell can also by sent back to their place of origin by a Dismiss <Name> spell. These include Arwassa, Azathoth, Cthugha, Ithaqua, Nyogtha, Shub-Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth.

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