History PlayingWith / SealedGoodInACan

** The team's resident wizard brings the good guy back to life with stronger powers.

* '''Conversed''': "This is the part when they release the Spirit of LIfe from the mask."

*** The next BigBad [[PragmaticEvil realised what happened to the last guy and makes sure to put the big good in the dreamless sleep this time.]] Re-deconstruction?

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Straight''': A benevolent and powerful spirit is sealed away in a mystic mask

** The sealed good turns out to be not so good after all

** The team's resident wizard brings the good guy back to life with stronger powers.}
** Turns it it wasnt evil after all, [[GoodIsNotNice just scary and pragmatic in its methods]]

** The heroes can't beat the God of Evil, let the have a God of Good on their side.

* '''Invoked''': Unable to take down a powerful adversary, the BigBad formulates a plan to seal him/her away so he cannot longer bother his plans.
* '''Exploited''': Being GenreSavvy, our witty hero sets his quest to release as many seled goods as he can to overwhelm the BigBad rather than settign off to fight him personally.

* '''Discussed''': " You'd think they'd cram me inside a bigger can , but no! I have a killing 800-year neck strain right now!"

** The sealed good was imprisoned in a horrible nightmare world but has been spending the centuries fighting for his life day in and day out. As a result, the SealedGoodInACan is now [[TookALevelInBadass ten times as Powerful he was when he was sealed away]] from all that fighting and is now more than a match for the BigBad who put him in there.

* '''Enforced''': "These guys are too low powered to take on the BigBad. They'll need backup. Send them after it as a MacGuffin and let them do some LevelGrinding on the way."

* '''Double Subverted''': ...and then it turns out that the room the box was in is in itself a much stronger seal.

* '''Defied''': Just as the BigBad attempts to seal the good guy away, [[TheLancer a friend]] comes swooping in and pulls off a ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind.

* '''Implied''': The BigBad mentions a powerful rival and how he/she is no longer a problem to him where he/she is now. We never see said enitity nor his prison.

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** " You'd think they'd cram me inside a bigger box , but no! I have a killing 800-year neck strain right now!"

* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''':
** Just as the BigBad attempts to seal the good guy away, TheLancer comes swooping in and pulls off a ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind.

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

** The sealing put the hero in a ConvenientComa.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Exploited''':

* '''Straight''': A good guy gets sealed away.
* '''Exaggerated''': A legion of 777 noble and powerful angels, any one of which could resolve the conflict alone, are sealed away.
* '''Downplayed''': ???

** The BigBad was either not powerful enough to kill her, or otherwise doesn't have the power to do so, and so decided to do the next best thing: Seal the hero away and try to make sure that no one ever finds him/her.
** The hero realized that the bad guy had only been taken out temporarily, and would eventually return. So the hero seals him/herself away so he/she will still be around when the bad guy does return.
* '''Inverted''':
** SealedEvilInACan
** The BigBad sends the hero into exile, then builds a barrier to keep him ''out''

** The good guy sealed away discovers by accident that they could get out any time, but didn't realize the box wasn't locked.

** The team's resident wizard brings the good guy back to life with stronger powers.
* '''Parodied''': A five-year-old discovers a legendary hero trapped in one of those plastic containers you get from gum-ball machine-type dispensers.

* '''Averted''': There is no SealedGoodInACan
* '''Enforced''':
** "These guys are too low powered to take on the BigBad. They'll need backup. Send them after it as a MacGuffin and let them do some LevelGrinding on the way."

* '''Invoked''': "Let's seal away that righteous do-gooder in that trash can!"
* '''Exploited''': ???

** Anything evil enough to seal away this force of good would make sure it's not just a sort of peaceful eternal sleep. The force of good has been living in a nightmare world that would make Cthulhu wet himself in terror for the last thousand years, and has been severely traumatized as a result. When the heroes let it out, it [[TalkativeLoon babbles incoherently]] and [[TheGlomp hugs them]] before breaking down in tears.

* '''Justified''': The BigBad was either not powerful enough to kill her, or otherwise doesn't have the power to do so, and so decided to do the next best thing: Seal the hero away and try to make sure that no one ever finds him/her.

* '''Inverted''': SealedEvilInACan
** Alternatively: The BigBad sends the hero into exile, then builds a barrier to keep him ''out''
* '''Subverted''': The good guy sealed away discovers by accident that they could get out any time, but didn't realize the box wasn't locked.

* '''Parodied''': A five-year-old discovers a legendary hero trapped in one of those plastic containers you get from gumball machine-type dispensers.
* '''Deconstructed''': Anything evil enough to seal away this force of good would make sure it's not just a sort of peaceful eternal sleep. The force of good has been living in a nightmare world that would make Cthulhu wet himself in terror for the last thousand years, and has gone completely insane as a result. When the heroes do let it out, it [[ImAHumanitarian eats]] them and goes on a murderous rampage before realizing what it's done - and kills itself.
* '''Reconstructed''': Anything evil enough to seal away this force of good would make sure it's not just a sort of peaceful eternal sleep. The force of good has been living in a nightmare world that would make Cthulhu wet himself in terror for the last thousand years, and has been severely traumatized as a result. When the heroes let it out, it [[TalkativeLoon babbles incoherently]] and [[TheGlomp hugs them]] before breaking down in tears.
** Alternatively: The sealed good was imprisoned in a horrible nightmare world but has been spending the centuries fighting for his life day in and day out. As a result, the SealedGoodInACan is now [[TookALevelInBadass ten times as Powerful he was when he was sealed away]] from all that fighting and is now more than a match for the BigBad who put him in there.
** The sealing put the hero in a ConvenientComa.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The [[IncorruptiblePurePureness utterly benevolent entity]] was sealed inside the magical can because, unbeknownst to him/her, he/she is actually, ''matryoshka''-style, [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan the Person-Shaped Can]] [[SealedEvilInACan for some horrible evil]]. Specifically, something ''so'' abominable that ''[[NightmareFuel even the villain that sealed him/her in is scared of it]]''.

* '''Enforced''': "These guys are too low powered to take on the BigBad. They'll need backup. Send them after it as a MacGuffin and let them do some LevelGrinding on the way."

* '''Defied''': Just as the BigBad attempts to seal the good guy away, TheLancer comes swooping in and pulls off a ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': The [[IncorruptiblePurePureness utterly benevolent entity]] was sealed inside the magical can because, unbeknownst to him/her, he/she is actually, ''matryoshka''-style, [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan the Person-Shaped Can]] [[SealedEvilInACan for some horrible evil]]. Specifically, something ''so'' abominable that ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel even the villain that sealed him/her in is scared of it]]''.

* '''Exaggerated''': The one and only true holy god of all goodness gets sealed away.

* '''Deconstructed''': Anything evil enough to seal away this force of good would make sure it's not just a sort of peaceful eternal sleep. The force of good has been living in a nightmare world that would make Cthulhu wet himself in terror for the last thousand years, and has gone completely bat-shit insane as a result. When the heroes do let it out, it [[ImAHumanitarian eats]] them and goes on a murderous rampage before realizing what it's done - and kills itself.

** Alternatively: The sealed good was imprisoned in a horrible nightmare world but has been spending the centuries fighting for his life day in and day out. As a result, the SealedGoodInACan is now [[TookALevelInBadass ten times the Badass he was when he was sealed away]] from all that fighting and is now more than a match for the BigBad who put him in there.

* '''Averted''': The RagnarokProofing didn't work, and by the time the new heroes find it, the good that was sealed away is now dead and/or useless.

* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Subverted''': The good guy sealed away discoveres by accident that they could get out any time, but didn't realize the box wasn't locked.

* '''Deconstructed''': Anything evil enough to seal away this force of good would make sure it's not just a sort of peaceful eternal sleep. The force of good has been living in a nightmare world that would make Cthulhu wet himself in terror for the last thousand years, and has gone completely batshit insane as a result. When the heroes do let it out, it [[ImAHumanitarian eats]] them and goes on a murderous rampage before realizing what it's done - and kills itself.

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': The [[IncorruptiblePurePureness utterly benevolent entity]] was sealed inside the magical can because, unbeknownst to him/her, he/she is actually, matryoshka-style, [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan the Person-Shaped Can]] [[SealedEvilInACan for some horrible evil]]. Specifically, something ''so'' abominable that ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel even the villain that sealed him/her in is scared of it]]''.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The [[IncorruptiblePurePureness utterly benevolent entity]] was sealed inside the magical can because, unbeknownst to him/her, he/she is actually [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan the Person-Shaped Can]] [[SealedEvilInACan for some horrible evil]]. Specifically, something ''so'' abominable that ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel even the villain that sealed him/her in is scared of it]]''.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The benevolent entity was sealed inside the magical can because, unbeknownst to him/her, he/she is actually [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan the Person-Shaped Can]] [[SealedEvilInACan for some horrible evil]]. Specifically, something ''so'' abominable that ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel even the villain that sealed him/her in is scared of it]]''.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The sealed-in good guy was sealed in the magical can because, unbeknownst to him/her, he/she is, in-and-of-his/herself, [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan the Person-Shaped Can for some horrible evil]].

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???

*'''Reconstructed''': Anything evil enough to seal away this force of good would make sure it's not just a sort of peaceful eternal sleep. The force of good has been living in a nightmare world that would make Cthulhu wet himself in terror for the last thousand years, and has been severely traumatized as a result. When the heroes let it out, it [[TalkativeLoons babbles incoherently]] and [[TheGlomp hugs them]] before breaking down in tears.