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Line 1: {{trope}} Hmm, what's this? Want to [[Take Over the World]]? Cause mayhem? Have you considered the [['''Sealed Army in a Can]]'''? Guaranteed to provide decades of destructive entertainment, try it today! The [['''Sealed Army in a Can]]''' is an army that was so powerful that it was impossible to destroy them and the best that could be hoped for was sealing them away, usually at great cost. With works that employ this trope you can invariably expect that the [[Big Bad]]'s master plan will revolve around awakening this army to do his bidding whether it be to [[Take Over the World]] or just break things. Often times you will get the [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] thrown in with them as a nice bonus. Like the [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] the fact that they were sealed away may have weakened them to the point they can be destroyed or technology has advanced to the point where it can get the job done. [[Immune to Bullets\|Or not.]] Unlike a real army that is composed of individuals, the sealed in a can variety don't seem to have any sentience and will often mindlessly follow whoever freed them. Line 24: * ''[[The Mummy Trilogy]]'': In the second movie the mummy returns and attempts to gain control of the Army of Anubis. {{spoiler\|Cutting off their heads is the only way to kill them, not that it helps since more will show up anyway.}} They can only be sealed away, not destroyed. The Dragon Emperor's Army in the third movie, {{spoiler\|although the heroes get access to ''another'' [[Sealed Army in a Can]] in the form of his many dead slaves. They aren't exactly superior combatants, but they hold their own.}} * The Golden Army from ''[[Hellboy II]]''. An army of 4900 (More accurately, 70 times 70 soldiers) invincible, untireable, clockwork warriors, to be precise. They're controlled by a [[MacGuffin]] that was split into three pieces to prevent it from ever being used again. * The buried alien army in ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' remake. Line 71: * The Darkspawn from ''[[Dragon Age]]'' are another example as they show up every few years and just start killing their way through the kingdom. {{spoiler\|Turns out that they emerge whenever they manage to corrupt a dragon and stay until said dragon is destroyed.}} In the meantime they just stay in the Deep Roads fighting the dwarves and rarely going to the surface. * The Myrkridia, a terrifying race of [[Exclusively Evil]] humanoid monsters in the universe of [[Myth]] and its sequels, were sealed in a small artifact call the Tain. Various plotlines involved Myrkridia getting out of and/or the protagonists (and their armies) being trapped in it. * ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' has an entire [[Sealed Army in a Can]] in ''The Forgotten Sands''. * It's heavily implied that this happens to the [[Evil Army\|Iron Legion]] of Xylvania in ''[[Battalion Wars]]'' when the Solar Empire uses its [[Kill Sat\|super weapon]] to defeat them. ** Confirmed in the last leg of the game in which {{spoiler\|you have to fight the ressurected Iron legion with a battalion of somewhat more modern troops}}

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