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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Slayers]] NEXT'' has Auntie Aqua, a wizened old lady and avatar of the Water Dragon King who guards the secrets of the Clair Bible.
* Lilith from ''[[Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito]]''.
* At the end of the first season of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' {{spoiler|Aoi, AKA The Laughing Man, turns down Aramaki's offer to join Section 9}} so he can remain sort of one of these for a massive, mainly automated library, that still keeps printed books. Given his age and the advanced medicine of time, he could quite likely stay in that position for well over a century, if he wanted.
== Card Games ==▼
* In ''[[Magi Nation]]'', the Orothean (uh, he's a merman) Blu guards the Archive, just as his father did, and his father before him, and so on until, apparently, the beginning of time.▼
** In the video game, the main character comes and opens up Blu's Archive and discovers a pair of magic boots. Needless to say, Blu was pretty disappointed to learn his family spent ten generations guarding footware.▼
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* Perhaps the creepiest example occurs in the ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode, ''Elegy''. Three marooned astronauts stumble upon a world where people seem frozen in time. An Ancient Keeper shows up and reveals that it's actually a giant cemetery. {{spoiler|He then takes pains to ensure that the three astronauts become its next occupants.}}
* The librarian Mr. Atoz in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]] episode'' "All Our Yesterdays". He offered to help the Enterprise landing party go back in time the way the rest of the planetary population had. (Note: "Atoz" was a joking reference to "A to Z", a logical name for a librarian.)
* The creators of ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' has the Fisher king himself being the keeper in his castle. And asking for [[Mercy Kill]] when he has transmitted his knowledge.
▲* In ''[[Magi Nation]]'', the Orothean (uh, he's a merman) Blu guards the Archive, just as his father did, and his father before him, and so on until, apparently, the beginning of time.
▲** In the video game, the main character comes and opens up Blu's Archive and discovers a pair of magic boots. Needless to say, Blu was pretty disappointed to learn his family spent ten generations guarding footware.
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