History SealedEvilInACan / VideoGames

** ''VideoGame/ShiningSoul'' sees you seal away Dark Dragon for at least a 1000 years.

* The second installment of ''Franchise/FossilFighters'' has one of these as the BigBad. [[Spoiler: Pay CLOSE attention to the Foreshadowing of a certain AbsentMindedProfessor.]]

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' game ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' the evil [[CherryBlossoms cherry tree]], the Saigyou Ayakashi, is sealed up by the dead body of Yuyuko Saigyouji. At the same time, the tree seals ''her'', preventing her from reincarnating, so she wanders as a [[CuteGhostGirl ghost]]. In a wierd twist, Yuyuko eventually [[GhostAmnesia forgets her life as a human]], up to and including why she died or who is sealed beneath the Saigyou Ayakashi. This leads to her trying to ''undo' the seal that she placed in the first place, because she forgot she did it.

* [[spoiler:Maverick Zero]] of ''MegaManX'', with TheVirus originally coming from him. [[spoiler:He spends the rest of his life/lives [[TheAtoner atoning for it]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory 2'', mysterious earthquakes start happening about a third of the way into the game. Eventually, the character's child finds these are being caused by a SealedEvilInACan which is about to escape and destroy the world.

* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': The devastating Zarosian creature Nex ([[BilingualBonus Latin]] for "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast violent death]]") has been sealed into a enchanted, frozen sleep by the armies of Saradomin. [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Sliske]] tricked a band of peace-seeking Saradominists into performing a ritual they thought would wake [[AllPowerfulBystander Guthix]] from [[KingInTheMountain his slumber]], but instead released Nex.
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'', the original one, has an absolutely beautiful example. An ancient demon imprisoned in a stone manipulates Orks into attacking human cities on the planet. Space Marines come to the rescue and do what {{Space marine}}s do best - spill ungodly amounts of Orkish and human blood - just so at the end, the demon can reveal that [[spoiler: the entire planet had previously been converted into a blood altar for releasing him]]. Bonus points: most characters wanting to use demon or its power for their own end up badly.
** The Chaos Rising expansion to ''Dawn of War II'' also features a plot to unseal a demon trapped inside a planet that was lost in the Warp.
* In DarkMessiahOfMightAndMagic the Demon lord is locked in a prison under the city of Stonehelm, however the original prison is flawed and can be broken, the player can choose to get the good ending and seal him away forever by repairing the seal or get the bad ending by releasing him.

* Every game in the main ''VideoGame/TengaiMakyou'' series.
** Ziria has the Daimon Cult trying to revive Masakado.
** Manjimaru has the Root Clan trying to revive Yomi.
** Fuun Kabuki Den has the Daimon Cult trying to revive Garp.
** Fourth Apocalpyse has the Dark Society trying to revive their Absolute God.
* In ''VideoGame/TombRaider'' and the remake, ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary'', [[spoiler:Natla was locked in limbo for thousands of years after using her powers for evil.]]
* In ''{{Okage}}: Shadow King'', King Stan has been (purportedly) stuck in a bottle for the last 300 years, waiting for someone wimpy enough to let them possess his shadow. Additionally, while he was stuck in the bottle, a number of monsters stole portions of his evil power and became "Fake Evil Kings". He then drags the main character around to defeat them and get his powers back so he can take over the world.
* In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory 2'', mysterious earthquakes start happening about a third of the way into the game. Eventually, the character's child finds these are being caused by a SealedEvilInACan which is about to escape and destroy the world.
* In ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games, Ganon is often a sealed evil. Link must either re-seal him or stop him from fully unsealing himself or his power. The first time he is actually sealed away takes place at the end of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.
** So is Vaati, the baddie from the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords'' games. In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'', he starts wrecking havoc as a sorcerer and is sealed for the first time at the end of the game.
** Vaati also broke the seal on the monsters in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' by destroying the Picori Sword at the beginning of the game.
** And there was also Bongo Bongo, the Evil Shadow Spirit from ''Ocarina of Time' that was sealed in the Bottom of the Well.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' features demon king Malladus, who tyranized the land that would one day become New-Hyrule when Tetra and Link arrived. He was sealed by the ancient Lokomo spirits underneath vast chains that eventually developed into a railway-system.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', the GodOfEvil Demise was sealed by the goddess Hylia. His servant Ghirahim [[spoiler:who is actually Demise's sword]] seeks to free him [[spoiler:and succeeds. In the end, Link seals away Demise again within the newly forged Master Sword.]]
* In ''VideoGame/EvilZone'', the inhabitants of an island dimension sealed away an incarnation of a cosmic destroyer, but couldn't finish the job themselves, so they had to hire out heroes to finish the BigBad off.

* Orochi, from ''TheKingOfFighters '97''.
* The Dark One of SRMTHFG has nothing on the Profound Darkness in ''PhantasyStarIV''; the Precursors sealed it with a ''solar system''.

* Illidan Stormrage in ''Videogame/{{Warcraft}} III'', another Blizzard production, is imprisoned in a cage for 10,000 years for continuing to research arcane magic after the night elves had banned its use. Also a subversion in that Illidan is ''not'' evil at the time of his imprisonment, but has become [[ThePunishment obsessed with power and revenge]] by the time he is freed.
** Maybe Illidan wasn't evil, but he did kill people with a handwave who tried to stop him from corrupting a lake with the Well's water.
** In a continuation of this universe, a majority of raid bosses in WorldOfWarcraft are sealed evils. The quests to kill them generally go something like ''Go beat up these mildly bad dudes who have this Big Ancient Evil imprisoned, so that you can kill him too.'' One wonders why the player doesn't just say ''But, they're doing a fine job keeping him imprisoned! What happens if I manage to kill them but the Big Ancient Evil kills me?'' A variation goes ''Go beat up these mildly bad dudes who are trying to unseal this Big Ancient Evil before they succeed, then kill the half-unsealed form of the Big Ancient Evil,'' which makes a little more sense.
** ''Warcraft'''s universe also has the [[CosmicHorror Old Gods]], very similar to Lovecraft's Great Old Ones, sealed beneath the world and waiting to be freed. For the longest time, it was a total mystery why the god-esque Titans didn't just kill them all, considering they'd managed to off one. Recently it was revealed that the Old Gods are parasites who have bonded with the planet of Azeroth so that killing them will cause untold damage to it. And yet, the players continue killing them for loot...
** The fourth expansion to ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' (Cataclysm) involves the unleashing of Deathwing, the Earth Dragon who was slowly driven insane by the Old Gods and imprisoned in Deepholme, the elemental plane of earth. His emergence not only blows up parts of the world, but also opens up the elemental planes, which are full of Sealed Evil in a Can, including the elementals themselves (locked up because they were tearing the world apart with their wars)
** The ''Mists of Pandaria'' expansion features the sha - beings of pure hatred and other negative emotions - as this. It later emerges that [[spoiler: an artifact called the Divine Bell has the ability to control the sha, and Horde Warchief Garrosh Hellscream orders it stolen in an attempt to make super-soldiers with it. It misfires when the sha ends up controlling its test subjects instead of the other way round, and have to be slaughtered by adventurers]]. The sha are eventually revealed to be fragments of a slain Old God [[spoiler:whose still-living heart is removed from a Titan prison and used by Garrosh in another attempt to empower his loyal orcs]].
* Coincidentally, ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}: Cataclysm'' also involves a similar scenario. Somewhere around a million years ago, the extragalactic exploration vessel ''[[MeaningfulName Naggarok]]'' picked up a deadly technoorganic entity in hyperspace. Seeing no way to defeat it, the crew scuttled the engines, trapping the entity in deep space. However, they screwed up as the ship auto-launched az empty lifepod with a transmitter (and some Beast material) onboard. In the present, the Kiith Somtaaw mining ship ''Kuun-Lan'' finds the pod and opens it. Cue to a race with time to find both the ''Naggarok'' and the new Beast mothership and blow both to smithereens before the whole galaxy suffers a fate worse than death (ship crews aren't simply killed, they're broken down into biomass to function as a makeshift neural interface between ships and the Beast - and judging by the sound of it, it's not exactly painless).
--> '''Bentusi:''' We will NOT be bound!

* Dracula's castle in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series is eventually sealed this way after the Dark Lord's death. It's sealed inside the total solar eclipse of 1999. In the solar eclipse of 2035, it sucks in everyone present at the shrine where the sealing took place.
** Dracula, and Castlevania itself, were also sealed in the underworld throughout most of the series, both of them reappearing on Earth only once every hundred years. But Dracula found so many ways to circumvent that rule that it became more of a "sealed evil in a sieve".
* In the Expansion Pack of ''BaldursGate 2'', the BonusBoss is the avatar of a very powerful demon lord. You are asked to reseal him in his prison as he's about to break free. Alternatively, you can fight him in an epic battle. However, if you win, you realize that demon lords in ''DungeonsAndDragons'' come BackFromTheDead very, very quickly ''by definition.'' So it will happen, though not for the rest of the game. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Good going]].
** Well they don't actually die, destroying their physical form returns them to their home plane, in his case it frees his avatar back into the abyss to be reabsorbed by the real one.
** Kangaxx the demi-lich is another example. He dies very permanently after underestimating you, however.
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' has the sun god Solaris, forcibly split into two seperate forms due to an experiment acted upon it: Iblis and Mephiles. 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. Somewhere else, Mephiles is sealed away in the [[AncientArtifact Scepter]] [[ArtifactOfDoom of Darkness]] until an encounter with Eggman shatters it.
** Shadow the Hedgehog made [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 his first appearance]] as this, though being canned and going evil didn't happen at the same time: [[spoiler:his creator screwed with his memories after he was placed in stasis, leading to his whole 'humanity needs to die' outlook.]]
** ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' has [[CosmicHorror Dark Gaia]], who was sealed within the planet by his light counterpart [[spoiler:a.k.a. ''Chip'']] in a neverending cycle of planetary death and rebirth.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', the plan of the antagonists is to [[spoiler: summon the Shadow Queen, who can only be summoned into a princess (read Peach). Upon release, the Queen promptly reduces the head of the antagonists to, well, a head, and plans to conquer. Unluckily for her, Mario arrived at the same time.]]
** On the other hand, [[spoiler: she recognizes Mario's strength and offers him to work for her. The player is given a Yes or No choice, while the former leads to an instant NonstandardGameOver.]]
** In ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', Bonechill, a fallen Nimbi, was held in the area of the Underwhere in which the dead villains suffer for eternity among the game overed. He escapes due to an earthquake (often speculated to be the work of the BigBad, Count Bleck, who is known to be a dimension traveler) and wreaks havoc in the Overthere. Mario, Peach, Bowser, and Luigi fight him and easily destroy him.
** In ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'', Fawful infected the Mushroom Kingdom with blorbs to distract Mario and released the Dark Star in order to absorb its power.
** Antasma in VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam. About a thousand years ago he was sealed away in the Dream World by the Pi'illo people, who ended up getting turned to stone by his last act. And then, when everyone finds out Luigi can open Dream Portals by sleeping... he manages to capture Princess Peach, and then escape back to the real world just a short while later. Guess that can was ludicrously ineffective then...
* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', major ghosts that Luigi encountered were once imprisoned inside portraits, but were released by King Boo once E. Gadd captured Boolossus. Eventually they are recaptured by Luigi and put back in their portraits, including King Boo himself... although in the next game he has apparently been released to fight Mario. He is killed this time and next time he is fought (in this case by Peach).
* The Shadow Demons in ''VideoGame/MediEvil'' were sealed in the heart of the Enchanted Forest under an iron dome, locked with the Shadow Artifact. In order to get through the forest and to his next destination, Sir Dan Fortesque is forced to free them; he later makes up for it by trapping them in an abandoned castle and dropping it into lava, destroying them.
* In the ''Videogame/{{Halo}}'' series, the bad guys accidentally release the Flood, a race of alien parasites that were sealed in special facilities all over the galaxy at the end of a cataclysmic war between them and the Forerunners 100,000 years ago. This war ended with the extinction of all sentient life in the galaxy, so it's a wonder why the Forerunners left little pockets of Flood spores for nosey aliens to stumble across. The AI monitor of one of these facilities comments on this (while you're in the middle of fending off a large wave of rotting space-zombies), saying that specimens were kept over after the last outbreak "for study," and remarks that "this decision may have been in error." No shit...
** Done again in ''Videogame/{{Halo 4}}'' with [[spoiler:The Didact, who is most likely the last living Forerunner, being released by the [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Master Chief.]] ]]
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has a species of them, the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Spiritomb]]. Sure, sealing OneHundredAndEight souls into a single [[CosmicKeystone keystone]] makes economic sense, but by the time they get out, they've [[IAmLegion merged into a single, massively pissed off Pokémon]] whose Ghost-Dark typing means it has no natural weaknesses, and is pretty powerful to boot. [[CapturedSuperEntity You can catch one]], though to unseal it so you can fight it takes a [[GuideDangIt somewhat occluded]] SideQuest, and the place you release them [[NightmareFuel is a bit intentionally creepy]].
** Spiritomb could actually be SealedArmyInACan, due to its composition being 108 individual spirits that just happened to [[FusionDance fuse together]].
* [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination The Reapers]]]] in ''Franchise/MassEffect'' actually seal ''themselves'' after [[spoiler:their habitual galactic genocides]] in order to conserve energy. The only hand the [[{{Precursors}} Protheans]] had in dealing with them was tampering with the Citadel's mass relay after they'd already receded so that they couldn't get back out so easily.
** The DLC "The Arrival" reveals that [[spoiler:the Reapers]] left themselves another way in. A special mass relay at the edge of the galaxy that can access any other relay anywhere.
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' [[spoiler:are revealed to be more like Sealed WellIntentionedExtremist in a Can. Their true goal is to ''preserve'' organic life in the long run by "resetting" civilization to prevent the KillEmAll RobotWar that their creator the Catalyst believes is inevitable.]]
* The Grotesqueries in ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'', with a [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed twist]]. Also, no one knows the Sealed Evil in a Can exists except possibly the BigBad. They're concerned about some other thing that comes out when those seals are broken.
* In ''GuildWars'', Palawa Joko suffers this fate. Then there's Abaddon and everyone else locked in the Realm of Torment, including [[spoiler: the Titans from the first game]]. Ultimately, in an attempt to stop Varesh Ossa from opening a gate to the Realm of Torment, you have to let Palawa Joko out of his prison.
* In ''ShadowOfTheColossus'', except there are ''sixteen'' cans wandering throughout the area. Most notable with the final Colossus though. Besides having a name that literially means 'evil' in Latin, the only possible way you can reach it is to have killed all fifteen other Colossi ingame. [[spoiler:Might also apply to Dormin as well, if you're part of the group that [[WildMassGuessing thinks They really are evil.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' is fond of this one. In fact, every game following ''So You Want to Be a Hero'' centers around such a plot.
** Toward the end of ''Trial by Fire'', it is revealed that Ad Avis is trying to summon Iblis, a powerful and evil djinn.
** In ''Wages of War'', the Demon Sorcerer attempts to free the Demon Lord. (If he succeeds, the Demon Lord's first act is to cast Thermonuclear Blast on the immediate area. As it turns out, this is a legitimate spell, and can be learned in the fifth game.)
** In a minor twist, in ''Shadows of Darkness'', [[EldritchAbomination Avoozl]], the Dark One, wasn't quite sealed properly, and the surrounding countryside has suffered for it. Even as the two antagonists (one new, one old) try to release it, it is only through their actions that it can be put away for good.
** ''Dragon Fire'' has a twist of its own - there is a villain working behind the scenes and trying to unleash the Dragon of Doom, but by this point in the series, the hero (under extenuating circumstances) has become strong enough at this point to just ''kill'' the thing.
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIV'' had Pandora's Box show up. Opening it killed Rosella. There was also that infamous lamp in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestV''. The FanSequel ''VideoGame/TheSilverLining'' hints that Pandora's Box will play a part in its plot.
* ''A Mess O' Trouble'' (an excellent Mac [=WorldBuilder=] shareware AdventureGame) has two godlike creatures trapped inside time dilation bubbles in some ruins. You know from local historians (and abominations lying around in the ruins) that their civilization was practically constructed by a good creature and then fooled into nearly destroying itself by a bad creature. One is a beautiful [[EnergyBeings Energy Being]], the other a dull-looking lizard man. [[LightIsNotGood Guess which is which?]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', the "sealed evil" is [[spoiler:Nyx, a CosmicHorror and AnthropomorphicPersonification of death]] -- while the "can" just so happens to be [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror the main character]].]]
** In ''Persona 3: FES'', we find out that [[spoiler: said main character has become [[BarrierMaiden the seal]].]] And it's in place not to seal Nyx from attacking Earth. It's for sealing ''Earth'' from [[spoiler:summoning Nyx itself]].
* The Snow Queen Mask in ''Videogame/{{Persona}}'' is definitely one. It's kept in a gym storage room, in a box sealed with MAGIC TALISMANS, and after going on [[spoiler:ThatOneSidequest in which everyone warns you about the horrible past of said mask, you can just decide to open the box like nobody's business and walk off with it completely unpunished]].
* ''VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad'' plays with this one a little. What started as a hunt for stolen strawberry shortcake leads to Dedede getting smacked down on false suspicions, Kirby chasing all over the world to get his snack back from the titular menace [[spoiler:only for the chest allegedly supposed to hold the shortcake stolen away by [[TheRival Meta Knight]], and when HE gets smacked down, the Squeaks grab the chest and let loose [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Dark Nebula]]. For such a simple protagonist the plot for these can get quite complex, especially given Meta Knight grabbed the chest away just to prevent [[BigBad Dark Nebula]] from being released.]] The best part is that through all of this, you get the feeling that Kirby is still being motivated only to retrieve the cake.
** Possibly the only case in the Kirby series where opening the can isn't a case of NiceJobBreakingItHero takes place in the Meta Knightmare Ultra mode of ''Kirby Super Star Ultra'' where Meta Knight questions NOVA, a mechanical, wish granting comet, about an extremely powerful warrior named Galacta Knight who was sealed away because his powers were too great. Immediately after this [[{{Badass}} he orders NOVA to break the seal on this incredibly powerful evil just so he can kick its ass.]]
* ''{{Tomba}}'' has the titular main character being given the task of sealing away seven Evil Pigs (eight including "The Real Evil Pig" [[ManBehindTheMan who is their leader behind the scenes]]) in color-coordinated "Evil Pig Bags".
* ''VideoGame/{{Turok}} 2'': the objective is to stop the CosmicHorror Primagen from being unsealed from his can.
* Dhaos, the villain of ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', was sealed away by the protagonist's parents, but was released early on in the game by a minor villain he had been manipulating.
* ''VideoGame/{{Boktai}} 2: Solar Boy Django'' has a textbook example in its BigBad, Jormungandr.
** The Japan only sequel has a similar deal, except its cosmic horror, Vanargand, was sealed on the frickin' MOON.
* The world of ''VideoGame/TheMagicCandle'' was narrowly saved from the immortal demon lord Dreax when a few heroes managed to trap him in a candle flame. Keeping him there is the daily task of 44 mages... who have just disappeared. The seal is now critically weakened, leaving the player a set number of days to find out how to fix it.
** Somewhat unique in that the point of the game is to reactivate the seal, not simply to grind yourself to the point where you can just kill the damn thing (because doing so is impossible, at least by the terms of the game world).

* ''Videogame/DwarfFortress'' has what is popularly referred to in the community as "Hidden Fun Stuff". [[spoiler: If your dwarves [[DugTooDeep tunnel far down enough]], they may breach a secret chamber containing demons which are powerful enough to bring the fortress to its knees. It's possible to kill them, though.]]
** As of the latest update [[spoiler:there are now "Demonic Fortresses" which are a bit like the pits, but the pits have been replaced with ''[[PhysicalHell hell itself]]'', which you simply reach by digging far enough, implying ''most of the physical structure of the planet'' is a caverns made of an unmineable, indestructible, impossibly heavy {{Unobtainium}} who's exits are blocked by another {{Unobtanium}} which is very valuable, light, and hard. And every Demonic Fortress contains a hole straight to Hell, blocked by a [[SchmuckBait masterwork sword]] made of the latter type of {{Unobtainium}}. As for Hell itself, it contains so many demons that the game doesn't bother counting them.]]
* In ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'' the cyclops Gargarensis is on a mission to free Kronos from Tartarus in return for godhood. [[spoiler: He fails. Kronos gets out in the expansion, but gets buried right back in by Gaia.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime: Hunters'', "the ultimate power" broadcast in a telepathic message throughout the galaxy is actually [[spoiler: the sealed evil Gorea, originally a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Space Flea]] run amok and the presumed source of the message.]] This is one of the few cases where the good (the Alimbics) weren't strong enough to kill the evil, just entangle its energy with theirs in the Seal Sphere and hide it in a pocket dimension. [[spoiler: You arrive at the Seal Sphere only to see the other Hunters pounding away at it like idiots. They break it open, then stare as the core of the Seal Sphere (the Alimbics' energies) is snatched by Gorea, who proceeds to impale all of them with tentacles from the Sphere and steal their energies (weapons). You saw this coming, or at least you WOULD if you've scanned at least 25% of the Alimbic lore hanging around the place... Anyway, this leaves you to clean up the mess (kick Gorea's ass).]]
** The titular creature from the first ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' game was sealed within he impact crater. In the original version, the Space Pirates managed to free it by digging under the seal, although it later escaped from them and returned to the crater, and you have to open the seal to fight it. In the European release/Player's Choise version, it was never released.

* Averted and parodied in ''SepterraCore''. The game's intro movie and backstory tell about a great battle in which Marduk (the world's CrystalDragonJesus) defeated Gemma (the local {{Satan}} equivalent). In most {{RPG}}s, at some point towards the end Gemma would be resurrected and become the final boss. The main character even speculates that this is going to happen after hearing the tale about the battle between Marduk and Gemma. In response, TheObiWan remarks that such a plot twist would be rather silly, and only happens in stories. Sure enough, Gemma never comes back, and the final boss of the game is the character who's been the main villain from start to finish, the KnightTemplar EvilOverlord Lord Doskias.
* Gig from ''SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'' starts the game as an example of this... and in a subversion of this trope, unless you actively [[DealWithTheDevil start asking for his 'help']], he's [[TheImp rather harmless]], if a bit foul-mouthed.
* ''PhantomBrave'' features an example as the main antagonist, the demon Sulfur. Rather than the usual thousands of years of imprisonment though Sulfur is capable of coming back every 30 years, and during his imprisonment can extend enough influence into the world to wreak havoc.

* All games in the ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'' series use this trope, e.g. Darm in I and II (who was disguised as the Black Pearl, also an ArtifactOfDoom), Galbalan in III, the Ancient City and Arrem in IV, the lost city of Kefin and its king, Jabir, in V, and the Ark of Napishtim in VI.
* In the Creator/{{Infocom}} text game ''VideoGame/{{Enchanter}}'', your job is to defeat the evil enchanter Krill ''without'' disturbing the Cosmic Horror that's sealed below his castle. The tie-in novel by Robin Bailey takes the tack that your character accidentally did release the thing, and now it's up to the book's protagonist to stop it.
* The ''CityOfVillains'' is practically filled with these: [[spoiler: Bat'Zul under Cap Au Diable, the Leviathan under Sharkhead Isle, Shiva in Bloody Bay]]... and the CityOfHeroes isn't lacking in them either, as [[BigBoosHaunt Dark Astoria]] apparently houses the sleeping dread god of the Banished Pantheon, and the {{Kaiju}} that may still be in battle with [[SealedGoodInACan Talos]] underneath Talos Island... Also, both sides can get involved in the escape of the Reichsman, [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi with the power of the gods]].

* In ''PathwaysIntoDarkness'', the ''Marathon'' games predecessor, a modern-day Special Forces team must prevent a W'rkcacnter from escaping from its can.
* Speaking of Bungie, the main plot of ''VideoGame/{{Myth}}: The Fallen Lords'' is this, and it's reanimating corpses and whatnot. After you all but lose the war, you manage to kill it.
** A more literal example is The Watcher, a powerful Lich who was imprisoned in a cave by a charm on his hand that would turn him to stone if he tried to leave. [[LifeOrLimbDecision Ultimately, he chose to cut that hand off.]] He finally met his doom when an arrow was fashioned from the bone of the hand that was left behind and turned him to stone after striking him.
** They also smashed his stone form into rubble [[DeaderThanDead just to be sure]].
* In ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', the Marker seals the infection that turns corpses into horrific alien monsters ([[spoiler:it was actually a manmade knockoff of the real marker]]). Anyways, the Marker-Worshipping [[strike: Scientologists]] ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Unitologists]]'' discover the Marker in the midst of mining Aegis VII and move it off its pedestal. [[CaptainObvious Bad things occur]].
* The hook and most the line of ''{{Arcanum}}'''s plot involved the player character being a ChosenOne prophecied to defeat a BigBad, last known to be sealed in a can. Later it's revealed that many evils are sealed in that can, and by the time you finally wormhole your way inside, [[spoiler:the BigBad has done a HeelFaceTurn long ago, after having been overshadowed by an EvilOverlord you must defeat instead.]]

* ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' games have had a few cases of this, with ''VideoGame/WarioLand 3'' having Wario spend half the game trying to 'help' a mysterious figure trapped in the music box, who turns out to be [[MonsterClown Rudy the Clown]], which then tries to take over the world. ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'' had him accidentally unleash the sealed evil in a can at the very beginning, aka the Black Jewel, which was taken from some kind of treasure chest by Wario and his obsession with treasure, and that then turned his entire castle into a parallel dimension of sorts and what not.
* ''[[DarkForcesSaga Jedi Academy]]'': The sealed evil takes the form of an ancient Sith Lord, whom the game's big bad is naturally trying to resurrect, thinking she will be rewarded. The Sith Lord has other ideas.
* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': Giygas is first encountered in the Devil's Machine, which seals away his warped consciousness. Subverted in that Giygas can still damage Ness and his friends while sealed away, but played straight when [[RivalTurnedEvil Pokey]] unleashes Giygas' true form by turning the machine off.

* Well before the start of the ''{{Geneforge}}'' series, the Shapers discovered a startling new [[PsychoSerum technology]] that could imbue ordinary humans with incredible magical powers. When they discovered some of the side effects involved (such as SuicidalOverconfidence, a violent temper, and in extreme cases, outright BodyHorror), rather than take any steps to destroy this technology, they simply abandoned the remote island outpost where it was discovered, and declared it off limits under penalty of death. Fast forward a few hundred years: A band of explorers from across the seas happens upon the abandoned outpost and all its forbidden goods. Things go downhill from there.
** In fact, the Shapers do this constantly. Their laboratories, workshops, and schools are designed to be sealed up quickly should anything [[GoneHorriblyWrong Go Horribly Wrong]].
** Not just should. It's said at one point that more often than not something ''does'' go wrong.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' has Bjorn the Behemoose.
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' has Rhapthorne, with ''two'' cans: the scepter of Trodain to hold his soul, and [[spoiler:the statue of the Goddess on Neos]] to hold his body.

* Orochi in ''{{Okami}}'' is a definite example of this trope.

* In ''PhantasyStar I'', ''II'', and ''III'', you find the big bad end boss Dark Force/Dark Falz/Dark Phallus (depending on translation) in a literal Pandora's Box in the final dungeon.
** [[spoiler:In ''IV'', you discover that the Profound Darkness is one of these, and it has been creating Dark Force/Falz/Phallus for thousands of years (please note that there's a thousand year gap between ''I'' and ''II'', and between ''II'' and IV'')]].
* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', you learn early on that Dark Falz [[spoiler: (One of its incarnations, at least)]] was sealed beneath the surface of the planet Naberius a few decades before the game's story takes place. Unsurprisingly, it ends up being released sooner or later.
* ''[[{{Earth 2150}} Earth 2160]]'' has the traditional sealed-ancient-evil-alien-race-beneath-the-surface-of-Mars for the first half of the game. Then some Dutch nerd learns to control them, and it all ends badly(-er).
* Lavos in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''.
** A subversion, Lavos was an alien that burrowed into the earth and then unleashes the apocalypse many ages later as part of its natural life cycle. Essentially, it seals itself in the final can and breaks out when it wants. The villains of the game attempt to awaken him to harvest his power, with the apocalypse being a byproduct of this.
* In the LucasArts computer game ''VideoGame/{{LOOM}}'', Bishop Mandible unleashes Chaos by ripping open the fabric of the universe near a graveyard.
* The [[spoiler: Firstborn]] in ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersJericho''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', [[spoiler: Elizabeth Greene, the host of the Redlight Virus]] is sealed in the Genetek building. Badly. The protagonist might also count as a Sealed Evil In A Can, although in this case it's more like [[spoiler: Sealed Evil in a ''Vial'']].

* The Dark Star from ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''. It was imprisoned in Toad Tunnels until it is released by Fawful. [[spoiler: Its core is destroyed by the Mario Bros. and its main form is killed by Bowser.]]
** In ''MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'', [[spoiler: at the end it is revealed that Princess Peach seals Elder Princess Shroob, the leader of the Shroobs, inside the Cobalt Star. When the star is pieced back together, she is released, and fights the Mario Bros. She is defeated, and eventually killed when she possesses Bowser and the Mario Bros. trick him into hitting her with his fireballs while aiming for them.]]

* The demons in ''Videogame/{{Doom}} 3''. Sealed in a can until [[spoiler: [[BigBad Dr. Betruger]] teleports himself and the [[LostSuperWeapon Soul Cube]] into Hell]]. They were sealed back into the same can at the end, as well...
* Heinrich I, in ''ReturnToCastleWolfenstein''. Doubly so, given [[spoiler: what he does to Blavatsky]]. Earlier in the game, there's Olaric, who is accidentally unleashed by Helga von Bulow when she tries to take the Dagger of Warding.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', the Vault [[spoiler:only contains--as far as the player is concerned--a monster called The Destroyer who is "immortal in his own realm"]]. Sadly, [[spoiler:this final fight is easier than a single monster from the previous zone]]. The Vault also opens every 200 years, which raises the question of it really is a ''sealed'' can.
* Malefor, aka The Dark Master from ''[[SpyroTheDragon The Legend of Spyro]]'' series. [[spoiler:He was born as a purple dragon, like Spyro, some countless generations ago. He was taught how to master the elements, but kept gaining more power, resulting in the Elders banishing him to exile. He took on the title of The Dark Master, where his malice was so great that it split the Earth, creating the Mountain of Malefor, also known as the Well of Souls, where he was imprisoned. In ''A New Beginning'', he sends out Cynder to open the convexity portal to free his soul, which she succeeds in, though Spyro frees Cynder from his control, causing the portal to implode. In ''The Eternal Night'', Gaul uses the lunar eclipse of the celestial moons (that causes non-stop darkness for a short while) to seemingly resurrect Malefor. But it's revealed by Malefor in ''Dawn of the Dragon'' that this was merely all a ruse to get the real one to free him to the Well of Souls to do so, who was it? [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Poor Spyro]].]]
** Also, the Destroyer counts, as its sole purpose for existing is to destroy the world but it slept below a volcano until Malefor awakened it to destroy the world. A rare case of one Sealed Evil In A Can freeing another.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' game ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' the evil [[CherryBlossoms cherry tree]], the Saigyou Ayakashi, is sealed up by the dead body of Yuyuko Saigyouji. At the same time, the tree seals ''her'', preventing her from reincarnating, so she wanders as a [[CuteGhostGirl ghost]]. In a wierd twist, Yuyuko eventually [[GhostAmnesia forgets her life as a human]], up to and including why she died or who is sealed beneath the Saigyou Ayakashi. This leads to her trying to ''undo' the seal that she placed in the first place, because she forgot she did it.
** The player characters in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' think that the incident is releasing one of these, however Byakuren is very much a SealedGoodInACan.
** From the perspective of the Buddhists, the Taoists in ''Ten Desires'' are this, what with that whole religious war thing. As usual for ''Touhou'' [[GoodAllAlong they aren't evil]], but neither are they particularly good.
* seems to be the case with the [[spoiler: Kingdom of Sorrow]] in ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}} 2'': Lunatea's Veil. [[spoiler: As it turns out, it was sealed away because no one wanted to remember sorrow, and the King of Sorrow tried to undo the seal so everyone could remember sorrow.]]
* The ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series. Every. Single. Installment. ...except the fourth. That one just needed to be awakened rather than unsealed and at the end of the first one [[BigBad Mundus]] is resealed in the can..
* The draconic Old Gods of the Tevinter Imperium in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' were, according to the Chantry, banished to the depths of the earth by The Maker to slumber for all eternity. The Darkspawn are somehow able to hear the Old Gods' Call and devote centuries of effort tunneling through the earth in search of them. When they finally discover an Old God, the Darkspawn taint immediately corrupts the ancient dragon, turning it into an insane and twisted shell of its former self -- an Archdemon. The new Archdemon then commands the Darkspawn hordes in a bid to kill everything -- a Blight. By the time the game starts, the world has already suffered through four such Blights. [[spoiler: One of the biggest secrets that the higher-ups of the Grey Wardens keep from the rest of the Order is that they know where the Old Gods are buried]].
** In a DLC of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', [[PlayerCharacter Hawke]] finds an old Grey Warden fortress, which turns out to be a prison for [[spoiler:one of the original Darkspawn - a Tevinter mage who attempted to reach the Golden City and was cursed by the Maker. The magic seals have held for thousands of years, but are finally starting to give out.]]
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', the parasitic Las Plagas were sealed away for eight generations before the start of the game.
* ''ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' has the void, an alternate dimension where the Elven Council banished 5 Evil beings: A demon with insatiable hunger, the murderer who killed Arcanum's last dragon, a genocidal barbarian king, and two corrupt wizards. [[spoiler: The player character has to undergo banishment so they can destroy the BigBad, [[strike:Arronax]] Kerghan, before he can regain his freedom.]]
* Akron, the FinalBoss of ''EpicBattleFantasy'' ''3''. He notes in his BossBanter that he has been defeated and sealed away countless times through time immemorial -- but in the end, his enemies all succumbed to time while he always returns.
* {{Greed}}[[spoiler:,the content of the Golden Chest]] from ''{{Dubloon}}''.
* ''{{Shivers}}'' has the Ixupi, ancient soul-sucking {{Mayincatec}} demons who were sealed into pots with talismans. Millenia later, an itinerant archaeologist digs them up and puts them in a museum. Then two kids sneak in the museum and break them open.
* ''ReturnToKrondor'' presents the Dark God as this. The Dark God does not get released, but the ending makes it clear that the person trying to unseal it has not given up.

* The demon in ''{{Phantasmagoria}}''.
* A significant portion of the plot of ''BraveFencerMusashi'' revolves around this. The first major quest in the game involves Musashi being sent to collect Lumina, the legendary greatsword used to defeat the Wizard of Darkness; a significant portion of the rest of the game revolves around Musashi questing to recover the elemental Scrolls in order to power Lumina up enough to take out the Thirstquencher Empire. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it turns out the voice which set Musashi on this quest in the first place, a voice originating from Lumina itself, was actually the Wizard of Darkness himself, not destroyed but sealed within the sword. Guess what the only things holding him back are? If you guessed "the five Scrolls and the Crest Guardians they're connected to," you win the kewpie doll.]]
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has the [[spoiler: Holy Grail, which]] was corrupted as of the [[spoiler: third war]] by the AnthropomorphicPersonification of evil.
* ''VideoGame/LightningLegendDaigoNoDaibouken'' has Dragless, a legendary and all-powerful Demon King who rampaged through the Kingdom of Japone 450 years before the story's proper, destroying everything on his way. He ultimately was defeated and sealed away in the deepest ends of Mt. Ohsore by the young hero Taikei Raioh, but by the start of the game he has finally freed himself, and it's now up to the descendant of Taikei, Daigo, to defeat him for good.
* Played with in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''. [[spoiler: The Darkspawn seek out the seven ancient dragon gods buried within the earth, and when they find and awaken one it becomes the Archdemon and leads them in a massive invasion of the surface world - but the sealed gods were not necessarily evil until tainted by the darkspawn, making them more like SealedBadassInACan GoneHorriblyWrong.]]
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' Hawke can fight several powerful demons that were sealed away in and around Kirkwall. The "Legacy" {{DLC}} revolves around the Hawke family's connection to an ancient Sealed Evil In A Can [[spoiler:Corypheus one of the original Tevinter Magisters who brought the Darkspawn Taint to Thedas]] whose subconscious efforts to free itself have brought danger to Hawke's doorstep. There's also ANOTHER uber-monster sealed right outside the prison housing him, but that one's an optional BonusBoss.
* The Antarans from ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion 2: Battle at Antares''. They are an ancient and powerful race who were banished to another dimension by the Orion Empire. However, they learned how to break out of their prison and were able to warp raiding parties to attack colonized worlds while preventing others from invading their prison-turned-stronghold. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job breaking it, Orion]].
* The Dread Lords from ''GalacticCivilizations 2''. The Dread Lords had a pocket dimension which they had used as a base for their fleets. Their enemies, The Arnor, used this against them by sealing the last of their empire in the dimension. Later on, the Dregin found the lock to the Dread Lord prison. Thinking that is was an ancient weapon, they activate the device, allowing the Dread Lords to escape and wreak havoc across the galaxy. Upon seeing this, the Drengin realize their mistake and decide to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave the others for dead]].
* [[EldritchAbomination The Soulless Gods]] of ''{{Lusternia}}''. Originally a host of ''thousands'' of abominations, they're whittled down to a mere five before [[{{Precursors}} The Elder Gods]] fled to the Void. Rendered LoadBearingBoss[=es=] by devouring whole sections of reality, they're eventually sealed away by [[PrecursorHeroes the Council of the Nine]]. Unfortunately, the cans in question are ''legendarily'' insecure - one of the five breaks out [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed like clockwork]] every ''thirty years''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Valis}} II'', Cruel King Megas had been sealed away long ago, but was released when rebels battling the forces of the fallen Lord Rogles broke the seal and opened the Forbidden Door. The result was to turn Vecanty into HellOnEarth.
* The entire VideoGame/ArcTheLad series revolves around this trope with the [[BigBad Dark One]]. He starts every game being sealed, winds up being unsealed at some point, and then gets re-sealed by the end of the game.
* Ogre, Jinpachi, and Azazel of the ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' games.
* The demon of the first ''NinjaGaiden'' game, and the Archfiend of ''Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword''.
* Seems to be somewhat of a recurring theme in the ''Franchise/ShiningSeries''. Evil guys try to unseal something worse;
** In ''ShiningForce'', Darksol's evil plan is to unseal Dark Dragon.
** In ''Videogame/ShiningForceII'', evil Zeon is accidentally released by the good thief Slade who steals the crystals sealing him.
** ''Videogame/ShiningForceIII'''s overall plot is about a secret cult reactivating ancient weapons to create enough chaos to allow the Vandals to return.
** ''Videogame/ShiningTheHolyArk'' is all about how a group of low powered Vandals want to release one of the most powerful Vandals ever; so he can recreate the 1000 Year Kingdom.
** ''VideoGame/ShiningSoul'' sees you seal away Dark Dragon for at least a 1000 years.
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', an experiment with the Veronica virus on Alexander Ashford mutated him into a grotesque monster codenamed Nosferatu, who is imprisoned in Umbrella's Antarctic base until our heroes arrive. Alexia also counts somewhat.
* The Tyrant in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil', which is released by Wesker near the end of the game. In the [[MultipleEndings bad ending]], it escapes from the facility.
* In the ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' series, the fallen elder god Shinnok is sealed in the Netherworld. [[spoiler:The Realms themselves are actually the Can keeping the One Being sealed. Merging them would allow the One Being to return, which is why the elder gods resist any attempt at unification.]]
* The entire point of most the rituals in the FatalFrame series is to make sure the sealed evil (specifically Hell itself) stays that way, though naturally they always eventually fail and plunge the area into endless suffering,[[AnthropicPrinciple we'd have no game series otherwise]]
* In the final route of ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny'' instead of killing [[spoiler:Lobelia]] after she is beaten, her soul is trapped via alchemy when she tries body hopping.
* StarWarsTheOldRepublic has a few of these, mostly canned by the Rakata.
** The Imprisoned One on Tatooine.
** The Esh-Kha on Belsavis.
* ''VideoGame/TheBardsTale'', being a parody of fantasy RPG tropes in general, has two of these. The first is the Nuckelavee, which our hero accidentally releases. [[spoiler: The other is the "Princess" that he's supposed to be rescuing. Turns out that she's really a powerful demon, and the world gets progressively worse as her seal weakens.]]
** The Bard seems to make a habit of unsealing evils. There's also a dragon, which the Bard had apparently set free before the events of the game. One SideQuest brings him to the town that it ransacked, and the residents are none too happy.
* The Relic of Moirai in ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Contra: Shattered Soldier]]'', which is revealed to be [[spoiler: the mysterious force that the alien attackers in the previous ''Contra'' video games were trying to recover the whole time, after it was taken and hidden away by the [[BiggerBad Triumvirate]], according to Lance Bean.]]

* Dracula's castle in the ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' series is eventually sealed this way after the Dark Lord's death. It's sealed inside the total solar eclipse of 1999. In the solar eclipse of 2035, it sucks in everyone present at the shrine where the sealing took place.

* The Dark Star from ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''. It was imprisoned in Toad Tunnels (possibly due to the threat it posed when Smithy used it, lol, he uses an attack called Dark Star in ''Super Mario RPG'' that is the most devastating attack) until it is released by Fawful. [[spoiler: Its core is destroyed by the Mario Bros. and its main form is killed by Bowser.]]

** The ''Mists of Pandaria'' expansion features the sha - beings of pure hatred and other negative emotions - as this. It later emerges that [[spoiler: an artifact called the Divine Bell has the ability to control the sha, and Horde Warchief Garrosh Hellscream orders it stolen in an attempt to make super-soldiers with it. It misfires when the sha ends up controlling its test subjects instead of the other way round, and have to be slaughtered by adventurers]].

* In ''ShadowOfTheColossus'', except there are ''sixteen'' cans wandering throughout the area. Most notable with the final Colossus though. Besides having a name that literially means 'evil' in Latin, the only possible way you can reach it is to have killed all fifteen other Colossi ingame. [[spoiler:Might also apply to Dormin as well, if you're part of the group that [[WildMassGuessing thinks he really is evil.]]]]

** The player characters in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' think that the incident is releasing one of these, however Byakuren is [[TheMessiah very much]] a SealedGoodInACan.

* In ''TombRaider'' and the remake, Tomb Raider Anniversary, [[spoiler:Natla was locked in limbo for thousands of years after using her powers for evil.]]

** In fact, the Shapers do this constantly. Their laboratories, workshops, and schools are designed to be sealed up quickly should anything GoHorriblyWrong.

* The Grotesqueries in ''{{Drakengard}}'', with a [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed twist]]. Also, no one knows the Sealed Evil in a Can exists except possibly the BigBad. They're concerned about some other thing that comes out when those seals are broken.

** The Tonberry enemies in the ''FinalFantasy'' series also appear to be like this. Despite their [[NotSoHarmlessVillain goofy appearance]], their Grudge attacks suggest that they're like vessels for all the malice and wrath of slain monsters.
* In ''{{Persona 3}}'', the "sealed evil" is [[spoiler:Nyx, a CosmicHorror and AnthropomorphicPersonification of death]] -- while the "can" just so happens to be [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror the main character]].]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}} Squeak Squad'' plays with this one a little. What started as a hunt for stolen strawberry shortcake leads to Dedede getting smacked down on false suspicions, Kirby chasing all over the world to get his snack back from the titular menace [[spoiler:only for the chest allegedly supposed to hold the shortcake stolen away by [[TheRival Meta Knight]], and when HE gets smacked down, the Squeaks grab the chest and let loose [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Dark Nebula]]. For such a simple protagonist the plot for these can get quite complex, especially given Meta Knight grabbed the chest away just to prevent [[BigBad Dark Nebula]] from being released.]] The best part is that through all of this, you get the feeling that Kirby is still being motivated only to retrieve the cake.

** The ''Mists of Pandaria'' expansion features the sha - beings of pure hatred and other negative emotions - as this. It later emerges that [[an artifact called the Divine Bell has the ability to control the sha, and Horde Warchief Garrosh Hellscream orders it stolen in an attempt to make super-soldiers with it. It misfires when the sha ends up controlling its test subjects instead of the other way round, and have to be slaughtered by adventurers]].

* In ''PlanescapeTorment'', [[spoiler: the literal Sealed-Evil-In-A-Box]].

* [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination The Reapers]]]] in ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' actually seal ''themselves'' after [[spoiler:their habitual galactic genocides]] in order to conserve energy. The only hand the [[{{Precursors}} Protheans]] had in dealing with them was tampering with the Citadel's mass relay after they'd already receded so that they couldn't get back out so easily.

** Done again in ''Videogame/{{Halo 4}} with [[spoiler:The Didact, who is most likely the last living Forerunner, being released by the [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Master Chief.]] ]]

* ''Videogame/FireEmblem: Path of Radiance'' alone uses the trope straight, with the characters believing that Lehran's Medallion contained an evil god that flooded the entire world save Tellius. So at the end they not only the heroes fight Ashnard in order to liberate Crimea, but also to prevent him from unleashing a dark god. [[spoiler:However the true nature of the relic is revealed in the sequel Radiant Dawn, and the heroes are the ones who free Yune, the Goddess of Chaos, rather then letting the negative energies of war do it. As it turns out, Yune was actually SealedGoodInACan who just happened to mess up (the Great Flood); in fact, the BigBad is Ashera, the goddess everyone had been praying to throughout both games, who [[IceQueen purged her emotions]] (forming Yune) to avoid another Great Flood.]]
** Genealogy of the Holy War wins "strangest method of resurrecting", with 2 half siblings being [[AliensMadeThemDoIt brainwashed in order to breed a vassal]] for the dark god they are descended from.

* In ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'' the cyclops Gargarensis is on a mission to free Kronos from Tartarus in return for godhood. [[spoiler: He fails. Kronos gets out in the expansion, but gets killed by Gaia.]]