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* One of the many plots in ''[[The X-Files]]''.

* This was the essential plot of the [[Pilot]] of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', "Encounter at Farpoint." Here, the Enterprise is sent to investigate a mysterious base offered by a population who obviously do not have the engineering skill to build it, and where anything you want seems to mysteriously appear. It turns out that the base is actually a giant creature enslaved by the population, and its mate arrives to retaliate. Fortunately, the Enterprise figures out the situation and frees the creature to resolve the crisis.

* This was the purpose of the Initiative in [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]].

 

* This happens with the [[Genie in a Bottle|genies]] of [[Our Genies Are Different|Arabic mythology]]. Djinn were essentially free ethereal spirits with magical talents summoned and bounded to an object, such as a bottle or oil lamp, and had to serve (if they are in a good mood) whoever is currently in possession of the object or summons them via object.

** The part you're supposed to be impressed about, however, lies less in the fact that the hero (for certain loose definitions of hero) comes into the possession of such an object, but rather that there was a human sorcerer powerful enough to force and bind one of these proto-Angels into servitude.

 

 

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Hereti-Corp has done this with both Aylee and Oasis.

 

 

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