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* FelixCastor, in the eponymous novels, has a friend that suffers from this.

* In ''HarryPotter'', [[spoiler: Harry's lightning bolt-shaped scar was a horcrux containing a small shard of Voldemort's soul.]]
** [[spoiler: Harry's scar isn't the horcrux, it's Harry in his entirety. Had it just been his scar, I'm sure Dumbledore could have figured a way to end Voldemort without Harry having to actually ''die''.]]

* In ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the Avatar is the personification of the world spirit sealed inside a human body, who gets reincarnated. The new host might not be all that happy about being the world's messiah.

* The Old One Illyria, God-King of the Primordium, is reincarnated in season 5 of ''{{Angel}}'' by [[DemonicPossession possessing the body]] of an ordinary human woman.

*** It might be said that it leaked both ways, since this is what caused Gaav to revolt against the other demon lords in the first place. A common fan theory goes that the gods knew HumanityIsInfectious, and chose to imprison defeated demons in familial lines of people [[XanatosGambit specifically as a failsafe]], so that the AlwaysChaoticEvil would be diluted out somewhat, as the generations passed, by the time they struggled free.

* In ''{{Sonic The Hedgehog}}'', Princess Elise served as Iblis' "can", with her control over her sorrow being the lid - if she cries, the can is opened and Iblis is unleashed upon the world once more. Her dying father sealed Iblis in Elise, a child, just before dying.

* Ancient Egyptian sorcerers in the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' ireversibly bound Nephthys, Goddess of Chaos and wife of the Jackal-God Set, in the body of a twelve-year-old girl and sealed her into a Pharaoh's tomb, to be imprisoned for all time. Little did they suspect that the goddess would find such treatment to only be a temporary inconvenience.

* In AvatarTheLastAirbender, the Avatar is the personification of the world spirit sealed inside a human body, who gets reincarnated. The new host might not be all that happy about being the world's messiah.

* [[spoilers:Rezo]] in ''TheSlayers'' whose [[spoiler:eyes]] are a can for Shabranigdo.

* Rezo in ''TheSlayers'' whose eyes are a can for Shabranigdo.

** In the series' backstory and novel series, Lei Magnus and Luke are also people-shaped cans for pieces of Shabranigdo. Since Shabby was split into seven pieces, we can assume that there are four others like them that we don't know about.

* In InuYasha TheMovie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking-Glass, Kohaku is revealed to [[spoiler: have Naraku sealed within a scar on his back]].

* in the ''{{Tales from the Darkside}}'' movie a man meets a woman after surviving a gargoyle attack. The Gargoyle doesn't kill him on the Promise not to tell anyone. Years later he tells the woman now happily his wife with children. it's revealed [[spoiler:the woman IS the Gargoyle who sadly kills him because he broke the promise and takes their children also gargoyles to live in sadness.]]

* In the first few {{Discworld}} books, Rincewind has one of the Eight Spells of Creation hidden inside his head. While probably not sentient, the spell is described as trying to escape, and it has filled his head to the point of him being unable to learn any other spells.
** Not sentient? In ''The Light Fantastic'', some of the spells of creation argue with each other.

* Etrigan the Demon is sealed by Merlin inside Jason Blood.
* In Green Lantern: Rebirth, previous events involving Hal Jordan having gone kind of AxCrazy over the loss of his hometown, killed most of the Green Lantern Corps, renamed himself Parallax, and eventually ending up as the host for the Spectre were [[RetCon RetConned]]: according to the new telling, Parallax had always been an entity unto itself, and possessed Jordan to use his power and anger for its own purposes. The Spectre getting involved turned the whole situation into more of a person-shaped-can scenario, with Jordan as host for ''both'' of them but the Spectre serving to keep Parallax stuck within him and unable to escape or exert any real control.

* in the ''{{Tales from the Darkside}}'' movie a man meets a woman after surviving a gargoyle attack. The Gargoyle doesn't kill him on the Promise not to tell anyone. Years later he tells the woman now happily his wife with children. it's revealed [[spoiler:the woman IS the Gargoyle who sadly kills him because he broke the promise and takes their children also gargoyles to live in saddness.]]

* [[Etrigan]] the demon is sealed by Merlin inside Jason Blood

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