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* Lunagel (Rin) from ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'' is the gatekeeper whose body and life keeps the evil monsters imprisoned in Infershia. Clare serves as her US counterpart in ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'', though unlike previous gatekeepers, she nonsensically gets to stay alive when the gate is inevitably broken.

** A bit different in both versions. In Magiranger, her life force maintains the seal, so if she is killed, the gate will open. (The wheel thing above her head while she was captive, there in both versions, was to break the protection spell that normally makes this impossible.) In Mystic Force, the title of Gatekeeper is passed down, but fully sealing the gate killed Clare's mother, so it's said that opening it will kill Clare. The wheel thing was designed to tap that power. (She should ''still'' have died, though, and there wasn't even a [[Hand Wave]]. Rin, on the other hand, is in the clear, as it's not operating the gate that would kill her, but the other way around.)

* {{spoiler|Princess Astra}} in the ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' serial "The Armageddon Factor."

* {{spoiler|Princess Astra}} in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "The Armageddon Factor."

** The Keeper of Traken from the serial of the same name is quite possibly the inspiration for the ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' example. The Keeper has great pwoer, but having to focus that power to maintain the Traken Union has to get [[And I Must Scream]]-y after having to do it and nothing else for years and years and years, but that's not the plot point that it is in ''Rayearth.'' Also, like ''Rayearth,'' there are still those who want to take the position despite knowing this.

* In ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'' we get {{spoiler|Lilith, the devil's right-hand man -- er, woman, I mean, demon -- }}who is the final seal holding Lucifer in his cell. Once she's dead, he's free to bring the apocalypse. Interestingly, there's a completely separate (male) character serving as the [[Apocalypse Maiden]].

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* Bastila Shan in [[Knights of the Old Republic]], though this is due to her incredible skill with [[Informed Ability|battle meditation]] and her {{spoiler|telepathic link with a former Dark Lord of the Sith}}, so she is much more of an [[Action Girl]] than most Barrier Maidens.

* In the ''[[Seiken Densetsu]]'', aka ''[[Mana]]'', game series, {{spoiler|The [[World Tree]]}} is ''not'' the same Mana Goddess that created the world as legend says, but is {{spoiler|a person of some variety who became the new Mana Goddess/Tree the last time the world needed a new one}}. This is played to particularly devastating effect in ''[[Sword of Mana]]'', the remake of the first game, in which {{spoiler|the female protagonist plays this role}}. It's particularly devastating in {{spoiler|Sumo's}} route since {{spoiler|she's also the [[Love Interest]] of the main character there}}.

* In the ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]]'' games, the main character [[Miko|Reimu Hakurei]] maintains the barrier between Gensokyou (a sealed-off [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]) and the rest of the world. She's also [[Hard Work Hardly Works|very lazy]], but she has a ''lot'' of innate power. [[Intangible Man|"If [danmaku combat] wasn't just for play, no one could defeat her with any method."]] In fact, [[Non Lethal Warfare|the Spell Card rules that turns combat into something more like a game for spectators to watch]] was created more for the sake of the youkai than for Reimu, since it allows them to win without killing Reimu and subsequently dooming the [[Magical Land]] they live in.

* In the ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]]'' games, the main character [[Miko|Reimu Hakurei]] maintains the barrier between Gensokyou (a sealed-off [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]) and the rest of the world. She's also [[Hard Work Hardly Works|very lazy]], but she has a ''lot'' of innate power. [[Intangible Man|"If [danmaku combat] wasn't just for play, no one could defeat her with any method."]] In fact, [[Non-Lethal Warfare|the Spell Card rules that turns combat into something more like a game for spectators to watch]] was created more for the sake of the youkai than for Reimu, since it allows them to win without killing Reimu and subsequently dooming the [[Magical Land]] they live in.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'' has seven of these (successors to the seven Sages in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|Ocarina of Time]]'') maintaining the seal on the Dark World. Princess Zelda also takes on this role voluntarily in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]],'' first when she {{spoiler|surrenders to the Twilight King Zant in order to save her people from being massacred}}, and again later when she {{spoiler|transfers her powers into Midna, to stop the imp from dying, and appears to die herself in the process.}}

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'' has seven of these (successors to the seven Sages in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|Ocarina of Time]]'') maintaining the seal on the Dark World. Princess Zelda also takes on this role voluntarily in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]],'' first when she {{spoiler|surrenders to the Twilight King Zant in order to save her people from being massacred}}, and again later when she {{spoiler|transfers her powers into Midna, to stop the imp from dying, and appears to die herself in the process.}}

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' does it again with {{spoiler|Zelda, revealed to be the mortal reincarnation of the goddess Hylia. After you beat the sixth dungeon and meet up with her in the past, she reveals her identity and puts herself to sleep in the Sealed Temple to keep the seal on [[Big Bad|Demise]] intact. [[The End of the World As We Know It|That's why if you manage to let The Imprisoned reach the temple even once...]]}}

* Likewise, ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'' featured seven descendants of the ancient seven sages who sealed Rhapthorne in the Godbird Sceptre, and who Rhapthorne had to kill (using others as pawns) to restore his corporeal form. The fate of these descendants [[You Can't Thwart Stage One|is obvious]].

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