History Main / SealedCastInAMultipack

* The 2010 live-action film, ''TheSorcerersApprentice'' had half the cast aside from the main character stored on an artifact. They emerged in a sort of Last-In-First-Out.

** ''[[Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick Pitch Black]]'' features a starship on a very long journey carrying the passengers and crew this way. When the ship detects a hazard in its path, in this case, a passing comet trailing debris, it automatically wakes the crew. Unfortunately, it does this just in time for the ship to collide with the debris while the crew is still trying to wake up. The passengers end up waking up during the crash, and the plot kicks off when it is discovered that one of them, a multiple-murderer, is no longer in his pod...

* In ''TheWheelOfTime'' the Dark One had a whole army of channelers under his command. The thirteen most powerful of them, called the Forsaken, were at the Bore when Lews Therin and his Hundred Companions sealed the Dark One's prison. The Forsaken were sealed as well and was freed only when the seal against the Dark One's prison weakened enough to allow it.
* In ''TheKaneChronicles'', the Gods of Ancient Egypt

* The final episodes of the second season of the new ''Series/DoctorWho'' (Army of Ghosts, Doomsday) feature "putting the band back together" and the freeing of two evil forces (which promptly go to war) and one of which is inadvertantly reinforced by the actions of one of the band that was put back together.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': on more than one occasion Sam & Dean have accidentally released scores of demons from Hell and have to go kill them.

* If you play co-op, this is how both players begin the game in ''HaloCombatEvolved''. Otherwise it is simply SealedBadassInACan.
* Much of the Klaxxi bug-guys storyline in WoW's Mists of Pandaria expansion is locating and uncanning paragons, who were packed away sealed in amber for thousands of years as a defense / backup against an empress going insane.

* In ''TheThirteenGhostsOfScoobyDoo'', ScoobyDoo opens up a box and unleashes thirteen malicious ghosts onto the world, and must get them all back.

* In ''{{Thundercats}}'', this is how the 'Cats arrive on Earth.
* ''{{Transformers}}'' has this ''in spades''. Since [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers G1]], 'bots have been sealed and unsealed time and time again. And the introduction of stasis pods in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' only served to make this even easier.

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* In TheKaneChronicles, the Gods of Ancient Egypt

* Much of the Klaxxi bug-guys storyline in WoW's Mists of Pandaria expansion is locating and uncanning paragons, who were packed away sealed in amber for thousands of years as a defense / backup against an empress going insane.

* ''{{Transformers}}'' has this ''in spades''. Since [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers G1]], 'bots have been sealed and unsealed time and time again. And the introduction of stasis pods in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWsrs'' only served to make this even easier.

* ''{{Transformers}}'' has this ''in spades''. Since [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers G1]], 'bots have been sealed and unsealed time and time again.

* The recent live-action ''TheSorcerersApprentice'' had half the cast aside from the main character stored on an artifact. They emerged in a sort of Last-In-First-Out.

* How you gain new characters in ''ValkyrieProfileSilmeria''.

* ''{{Smallville}}'': The HalfArcSeason for season 6 was assorted Kryptonian baddies being accidentally released from the PhantomZone and Clark & Kira having to round them up.
* ''{{Supernatural}}'': on more than one occasion Sam & Dean have accidentally released scores of demons from Hell and have to go kill them.

Many thousands of years ago, [[BigGood Alice]] [[AliceAndBob and]] [[BigBad Bob]] were sealed away (possibly [[SealedEvilInADuel to fight for all eternity]]). Cue modern times and they have, of course, been released by [[NiceJobBreakingItHero some idiot]] starting the conflict anew. However all those millenia ago, Alice and Bob weren't the only game in town. There's an entire casts worth of characters for both sides ranging from [[TheDragon Dragons]] to {{mook}}s and [[TheLancer Lancers]] to {{Redshirt}}s. Well then idiot, would you mind [[GottaCatchEmAll freeing Alice's forces]] while [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption preventing]] Bob from [[OffScreenVillainDarkMatter bolstering his army]]? [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive Jolly good]], [[SinkOrSwimMentor off you go!]]

Welcome to the opportunity of a lifetime, writers, this is when rather than having just one count of SealedGoodInACan and/or SealedEvilInACan you have LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters worth of cast members trapped and preserved by the same means, all waiting to be released when the plot calls for them. Perfect for fleshing out your cast while making big savings on introductions and origins! ButWaitTheresMore This exciting offer comes with hundreds of packages to choose from. Pick our mixed pack and have the villains and heroes scramble to track down their allies! Pick up our all evil pack and have the heroes fight a new MonsterOfTheWeek, or pick up our all hero pack and introduce a new member of the TrueCompanions per episode! Or try our new WildCard pack; each "canned" character will pledge their allegence to whoever released them!

* The recent live-action ''TheSorcerersApprentice'' had half the cast aside from the main character stored on an artifact. They emerged in a sort of Last-In-First-Out [[ItGotWorse It Gets Worse]].

* Subverted in {{Angel}}; Illyria was a SealedEvilInACan, and had an army waiting for her in some kind of pocket dimension. But when she found her way to this pocket dimension, she found that the army had died while waiting in its "can," and she despaired that she was all alone, [[LastOfHisKind the last of her kind]] with no chance of reviving her army or finding any other Old Ones living on Earth.

* [[{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and all his supporting cast, including villains, were put in suspended animation for 20 years thanks to one of [[MadScientist Dr. Sivana]]'s experiments GoneHorriblyWrong. (This was how [[DCComics DC]] explained the characters' twenty-year absence from publication.)

* ''TheCharmings'' had a similar premise to the [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] example listed above: the evil Witch put a spell on everyone (accidentally including herself) go to sleep and to wake up in 400 years.

* ''TheCharmings'' had a similar premise to the CaptainMarvel example listed above: the evil Witch put a spell on everyone (accidentally including herself) go to sleep and to wake up in 400 years.

* ''PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' had a few of these. One All Good pack, one All Evil Pack, and one WildCard pack. The WildCard pack was an interesting example in that, although the villians beat the heroes to every one, it overlapped with a [[EnemyCivilWar power struggle in the enemy ranks]], so each villain was fighting for personal control as well as group dominance.
** ''PowerRangersWildForce'' also had the Power Animals. The ones who gave the five main Rangers their powers were still on the [[FloatingIsland Animarium]], but there were plenty of others sealed away in different places on the surface world. The same is probably true of the ''Gaoranger'' source material...
** The same is true of the zords in ''PowerRangersSamurai'', with new ones being discovered and tamed as the plot demands.

Welcome to the opportunity of a lifetime, writers, this is when rather than having just one count of SealedGoodInACan and/or SealedEvilInACan you have LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters worth of cast members trapped and preserved by the same means, all waiting to be released when the plot calls for them. Perfect for fleshing out your cast while making big savings on introductions and origins! ButWaitTheresMore This exciting offer comes with hundreds of packages to choose from. Pick our mixed pack and have the villains and heroes scramble to track down their allies! Pick up our all evil pack and have the heroes fight a new MonsterOfTheWeek, or pick up our all hero pack and introduce a new member of the {{nakama}} per episode! Or try our new WildCard pack; each "canned" character will pledge their allegence to whoever released them!

* Ubiquitous in ''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'', [[TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness old]] and [[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness new]].

* OlderThanFeudalism: The [[ClassicalMythology Greek myth]] of Pandora's Box, in {{Hesiod}}'s ''{{Theogony}}''.

* ''{{Transformers}}'' has this ''in spades''. Since [[Series/TheTransformers G1]], 'bots have been sealed and unsealed time and time again.

* Ubiquitous in ''WorldOfDarkness'', old and new.
** In ''VampireTheRequiem'', these is usually some kind of elder vampire in a torpor. The awakening of just one of them is enough to change power dynamic in a town.
** In ''PrometheanTheCreated'', these are the Pandorans, failed Promethean creations that lay dormant until a Promethean gets near them. [[BodyHorror They are not nice]]. They are less characters and more like (extremely nasty) forces of un-nature.
* In {{Exalted}}, when the Yozis and Neverborn broke open the Jade Prison to steal the trapped Solar exaltations, they only managed to take half of them. The other 150 immediately flew to Heaven and soon began exalting the first new Solar Exalted in hundreds of years. Whether this is a good thing for Creation is a matter of debate, but the Solars are the default player characters. Of course, those 150 stolen exaltations were warped into new kinds of Exalted, becoming a second sealed cast from the same multipack.

* In Exalted, when the Yozis and Neverborn broke open the Jade Prison to steal the trapped Solar exaltations, they only managed to take half of them. The other 150 immediately flew to Heaven and soon began exalting the first new Solar Exalted in hundreds of years. Whether this is a good thing for Creation is a matter of debate, but the Solars are the default player characters. Of course, those 150 stolen exaltations were warped into new kinds of Exalted, becoming a second sealed cast from the same multipack.

* [[GreekMythology Pandora's Box]], in {{Hesiod}}'s ''{{Theogony}}'', makes this OlderThanDirt.

* [[ClassicalMythology Pandora's Box]] makes this OlderThanDirt.

Many thousands of years ago, [[BigGood Alice]] and [[BigBad Bob]] were sealed away (possibly [[SealedEvilInADuel to fight for all eternity]]). Cue modern times and they have, of course, been released by [[NiceJobBreakingItHero some idiot]] starting the conflict anew. However all those millenia ago, Alice and Bob weren't the only game in town. There's an entire casts worth of characters for both sides ranging from [[TheDragon Dragons]] to {{mook}}s and [[TheLancer Lancers]] to {{Redshirt}}s. Well then idiot, would you mind [[GottaCatchEmAll freeing Alice's forces]] while [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption preventing]] Bob from [[OffScreenVillainDarkMatter bolstering his army]]? [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive Jolly good]], [[SinkOrSwimMentor off you go!]]