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Since this trope can be traced back to Greek mythology, it's [[Older Than Feudalism]]. Notice that it is exactly the same, without the mystical magical mumbo-jumbo, as any plot where a horrible criminal escapes from or is released from prison.

Polar opposite of [[Sealed Good in a Can]]. [[Sealed Badass in a Can]] is a neutral variant. See [[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can]] when the evil is imprisoned inside a living being, [[Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear]] when said person shaped can is The Team Pet, [[Sealed Army in a Can]] when the makers were low on cash and had to make do with a single can for multiple Evils, and [[Sealed Evil in a Six Pack]] when it's sealed within multiple things. Sometimes requires [[Sealed Evil in a Duel]]. Compare [[Tailor-Made Prison]], when the current generation makes its own can to ([[Cardboard Prison|temporarily]]) imprison evildoers. Compare [[Pointless Doomsday Device]]. For cases where a particularly powerful Sealed Evil overshadows a setting but never manages to affect the plot directly enough to be a [[Big Bad]], see [[Bigger Bad]].

Polar opposite of [[Sealed Good in a Can]]. [[Sealed Badass in a Can]] is a neutral variant. See [[Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can]] when the evil is imprisoned inside a living being, [[Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear]] when said person shaped can is The Team Pet, [[Sealed Army in a Can]] when the makers were low on cash and had to make do with a single can for multiple Evils, and [[Sealed Evil in a Six Pack]] when it's sealed within multiple things. Sometimes requires [[Sealed Evil in a Duel]]. Compare [[Tailor-Made Prison]], when the current generation makes its own can to ([[Cardboard Prison|temporarily]]) imprison evildoers. Compare [[Pointless Doomsday Device]]. For cases where a particularly powerful Sealed Evil overshadows a setting but never manages to affect the plot directly enough to be a [[Big Bad]], see [[Bigger Bad]].

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* In ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'', the [[Big Bad]] sealed himself inside the ring of Zeus. {{spoiler|In the anime, it's implied that [[Big Good|Kujyou Kazuto]] [[Sealed Good in a Can|sealed himself or part of himself]] in the ring he gave Micchi, so he'd be able to help if/when Karasuma awakened.}}

* In ''[[Bleach]]'', {{spoiler|this is [[Big Bad]] Aizen's final fate, as he's put in jail for 20,000 years.}}

* Tailed Beasts in ''[[Naruto]]'' are generally [[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can]] because it lets people use their power, there are a couple cases where they've been sealed inside objects: Shukaku was said to have been sealed in a teapot, the 8-tails was sealed in a giant jar (which can seal people in it as well), and {{spoiler|after removing the Ten Tails chakra the Sage of the Six Paths sealed it in stone and put it in the sky, creating the moon.}}

* Tailed Beasts in ''[[Naruto]]'' are generally [[Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can]] because it lets people use their power, there are a couple cases where they've been sealed inside objects: Shukaku was said to have been sealed in a teapot, the 8-tails was sealed in a giant jar (which can seal people in it as well), and {{spoiler|after removing the Ten Tails chakra the Sage of the Six Paths sealed it in stone and put it in the sky, creating the moon.}}

* In ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'', [[Big Bad|Lucemon]] was sealed away in the Digital World's core. {{spoiler|Some time later, he ends up using the Royal Knights to scan the entire Digital World and its three moons, effectively vaporizing them, to break free. }}

* {{spoiler|Zeref}} of ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' is revealed to be this right after someone wastes their life trying to raise him from the dead.

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== Film - Animated ==

* The Titans in Disney's ''[[Hercules (~~Disney~~ film)|Hercules]]'' film. Zeus imprisons them all beneath the ocean with lightning bolts, but when the planets align, Hades is able to release them. {{spoiler|Hercules uses the Tornado Titan to suck the other Titans in, then throws them all into space where they explode.}}

* The Titans in Disney's ''[[Hercules (1997 film)||Hercules]]'' film. Zeus imprisons them all beneath the ocean with lightning bolts, but when the planets align, Hades is able to release them. {{spoiler|Hercules uses the Tornado Titan to suck the other Titans in, then throws them all into space where they explode.}}

* Jafar in Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' and (of course) ''The Return of Jafar''.

* The villain Hexxus in ''[[Fern Gully]]'', who for ages was sealed into a tree, and was released when the tree was cut down.

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== Gamebooks ==

* A ridiculous number of these show up as non-Darklord threats to harass poor ''[[Lone Wolf]]''. In a slight subversion, one of these sealed evils, {{spoiler|namely Darklord Vashna, the most powerful Darklord of them all, who even tried to play [[The Starscream]] to [[Big Bad]] Naar in the [[Backstory]],}} is already dead. Not sealed alive in a prison somewhere, but ''dead''. The goal of two of the books in the series {{spoiler|(''The Chasm of Doom'' and ''The Legacy of Vashna'')}} is to prevent him from [[Back ~~From~~ the Dead|coming back]].

* A ridiculous number of these show up as non-Darklord threats to harass poor ''[[Lone Wolf]]''. In a slight subversion, one of these sealed evils, {{spoiler|namely Darklord Vashna, the most powerful Darklord of them all, who even tried to play [[The Starscream]] to [[Big Bad]] Naar in the [[Backstory]],}} is already dead. Not sealed alive in a prison somewhere, but ''dead''. The goal of two of the books in the series {{spoiler|(''The Chasm of Doom'' and ''The Legacy of Vashna'')}} is to prevent him from [[Back from the Dead|coming back]].

** Lord Zahda in ''Castle Death'' is another interesting example: he's definitely a powerful evil who had been sealed away, but not so much in a can as in a castle on an island which he ruled over, where he had subjects of his own. So a much larger, more comfortable can, at least.

** Of course, at the end of book 3, ''The Caverns of Kalte'', you are the one doing the sealing, when you exile Vonotar the Traitor to the Daziarn Plane by pushing him through a shadow gate. Of course, the Daziarn is a whole dimension of its own, not really a can, and, of course, you would eventually see Vonotar again.

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{{quote|This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are not under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.}}

** Pratchett also explores this theme in ''[[Discworld/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', where, in a time when Death is non-existant, Evil returns in the form of dinky little snow-globes that people want to love and cherish, since as you pick them up and shake them, snow appears to fall around models of city landmarks, and look, they'e even labelled ''A Present From Ankh-Morpork'', how cool is ''that''? But the globes are seeds of a potent and cruel ancestral evil that peys upon and kills cities....

* Peter F. Hamilton does this in at least two series: in ''[[The ~~Nights~~ Dawn Trilogy]]'' Series, a wandering alien accidentally opens a portal to the afterlife, and in ''Pandora's Star'' and ''Judas Unchained'', an alien menace is released by its hidden enemy (who has {{spoiler|arranged a long-term "[[Let's You and Him Fight]]" situation between the menace and humanity}}).

* Peter F. Hamilton does this in at least two series: in ''[[The Night's Dawn Trilogy]]'' Series, a wandering alien accidentally opens a portal to the afterlife, and in ''Pandora's Star'' and ''Judas Unchained'', an alien menace is released by its hidden enemy (who has {{spoiler|arranged a long-term "[[Let's You and Him Fight]]" situation between the menace and humanity}}).

* Subverted in [[Matthew Tobin Anderson|M. T. Anderson]]'s book ''[[Thirsty]]'', in which a group of vampires are trying to free the Sealed Evil, the god of vampires, and one character pretends to be trying to kill the vampire god in order to protect humanity, but in reality is assisting the god in committing suicide.

* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets]]'', the titular chamber contains {{spoiler|Slytherin's monster, an enormous basilisk}}.

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** In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Harry Potter]]'', it's implied that Voldemort's [[Fate Worse Than Death|final fate]] is to remain in a sort of limbo (specifically, {{spoiler|the netherworld where Harry met Dumbledore after he died}}) forever, incapable of harming anyone ever again.

* In James Alan Gardner's ''[[The League of Peoples Verse|Hunted]]'', the [[Humanoid Aliens|Mandasars]] have queens who are very smart, very large, very strong, can persuade other Mandasars to do just about anything by emitting the right pheromones, and are physiologically hardwired so that each queen believes that ''she'' is the most competent person around and ''should'' be in charge. Having more than about four of them on the planet tends to mean endless power struggles; having that few risks having them all die. The solution implemented is to have a bunch of queens in [[Human Popsicle|cryonic storage]]. While they aren't evil per se, waking them all up at once is still [[Civil War|really, really bad]].

* In William King's ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~]] [[Space Wolf]]'' novel ''Ragnor's Claw'', Botchulaz.

* In William King's ''[[Warhammer 40,000]] [[Space Wolf]]'' novel ''Ragnor's Claw'', Botchulaz.

* In Garth Nix's ''[[Old Kingdom]]'' trilogy, the latter two books lead up to the release of Orannis the Destroyer, the [[Big Bad]], from his "can".

* Quite a few of John Connolly's short stories involve Sealed Evil in a Can: the Daemon buried under the church in "Mr Pettinger's Daemon"; the [[The Fair Folk|Fairies]] trapped inside their fort in "The New Daughter"; the monster chained up at the bottom of the lake in "Deep Dark Green"; the nest of hibernating giant spiders in "The Wakeford Abyss"...

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{{quote|'''[[Monster Clown|Gonko]]:''' You come get your chuckles whenever you're ready, 'cause if they ain't lettin' ''me'' go, they ain't lettin' ''you'' go. Best believe that. Show's down but not out, mark my words. We'll be back in town, my pretty, and I don't recall offering you a severance package.}}

* While not a single character, the Mijaki were confined to the borders of their lands in Karen Miller's ''[[Godspeaker Trilogy]]'' because they made the '''world''' evil. [[God Save Us From the Queen|Hekat]] then decides to change things.

* In Mitchell Scalon's ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~]] [[Horus Heresy]]'' novel ''Descent of Angels'', Lion (with Luther's help) [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|unites Caliban to exterminate its horrific monsters, despite warnings that this might ruin Caliban]]. In Mike Lee's ''Fallen Angels'', it is revealed that the monsters stemmed from Chaos taint, and so kept the people untainted, since they would avoid the monsters; killing them unleashed the taint.

* In Mitchell Scalon's ''[[Warhammer 40,000]] [[Horus Heresy]]'' novel ''Descent of Angels'', Lion (with Luther's help) [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|unites Caliban to exterminate its horrific monsters, despite warnings that this might ruin Caliban]]. In Mike Lee's ''Fallen Angels'', it is revealed that the monsters stemmed from Chaos taint, and so kept the people untainted, since they would avoid the monsters; killing them unleashed the taint.

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~]]'' novel ''[[Brothers of the Snake]]'', the [[Requisite Royal Regalia]] were keeping a Chaos force in check. When they were removed for a coronation, [[Weather Dissonance]] broke out, to be followed by more serious Chaos monstrosities, and an Inquisitor and a squad of [[Space Marine|space marines]] had to return the regalia to stop it.

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' novel ''[[Brothers of the Snake]]'', the [[Requisite Royal Regalia]] were keeping a Chaos force in check. When they were removed for a coronation, [[Weather Dissonance]] broke out, to be followed by more serious Chaos monstrosities, and an Inquisitor and a squad of [[Space Marine|space marines]] had to return the regalia to stop it.

* In the [[Stephen King]] novel ''[[wikipedia:Duma Key|Duma Key]]'', the villain, Perse, is an evil doll/creature who is literally sealed in a keg which was dropped down a well. Unfortunately, the keg had been leaking for some time and by the time the main character finds it, it's almost empty. He eventually ends up {{spoiler|sealing Perse in a flashlight filled with water (her weakness) and eventually creates a tight, silver container to hold that it and throws it into a lake.}}

** Another king example is the short story "The Crate", later adapted as one of the segments of ''[[Creepshow]]'', where a crate containing a terrible monster is opened by a janitor.

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== Tabletop Games ==

* In ''[[~~Dungeons and Dragons|~~Dungeons & Dragons]]'' 4th Edition, the ''entire plane'' of Baator is like this, being created by a divine curse to imprison the [[Magnificent Bastard]] Asmodeus and the [[The Legions of Hell|devils]]. Unfortunately, said can is rather ''flimsy'', and while it does a good job of holding Asmodeus, any infernalist worth his salt can create a temporary portal to it, allowing the devils to stream through and wreak havoc and [[Deal with the Devil|contracts]].

* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' 4th Edition, the ''entire plane'' of Baator is like this, being created by a divine curse to imprison the [[Magnificent Bastard]] Asmodeus and the [[The Legions of Hell|devils]]. Unfortunately, said can is rather ''flimsy'', and while it does a good job of holding Asmodeus, any infernalist worth his salt can create a temporary portal to it, allowing the devils to stream through and wreak havoc and [[Deal with the Devil|contracts]].

** Of course, the seal wasn't made to save mortals from Asmodeus and his devils—but to save the other gods from him. Hence why mortals are free to poke holes at the seal and let devils come and do Faustian pacts. Of course, if you are dumb enough to do it, you deserve what's coming to you.

*** ''{{color|Red|You have grasped the entire concept wonderfully. Asmodeus will be pleased.}}''

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** In the [[Greyhawk]] setting: Zuggtmoy (in the Temple of Elemental Evil), Iuz and Fraz-Urb-Iuu (in Castle Greyhawk) and Tharizdun (in his Forgotten Temple).

** In the [[Midnight]] setting there is the evil god Izrador, who was sealed (along with some other beings) in the world of Aryth. The bad part ? Your characters live on Aryth and they're also sealed there. Not only is the evil in the can but you're in the can with it. [[Crapsack World]] indeed.

* Many examples from ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~]]'':

* Many examples from ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'':

** Daemon weapons contain bound daemons within them, giving them incredible power and just as incredible malevolence. However, the greatest threat isn't them escaping, but rather [[The Corruption|corrupting]] the weapon's wielder and [[More Than Mind Control|twisting them to its will]].

** More powerful daemons, who couldn't at the time be banished back to [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|the Warp]], are often sealed in the Materium in some way that prevents them from killyfying everything at the moment, perhaps in the hope that they can be banished later. [[Crapsack World|This being WH40K]], not only does the sealing frequently make things worse, but most of the time those doing the sealing ''never tell anyone about it''.

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* Dracula's castle in the ''[[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 ''[[Baldur's Gate]] 2'', the [[Bonus Boss]] 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 ''[[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons]]'' come [[Back ~~From~~ the Dead]] very, very quickly ''by definition.'' So it will happen, though not for the rest of the game. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Good going]].

* In the Expansion Pack of ''[[Baldur's Gate]] 2'', the [[Bonus Boss]] 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 ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' come [[Back from the Dead]] very, very quickly ''by definition.'' So it will happen, though not for the rest of the game. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|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.

* Doctor Robotnik/Eggman of the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series has unsealed so many evils from their cans in attempts to achieve world domination, that you wonder why he doesn't just go back to trying to take over the world in the old-fashioned way: i.e. by imprisoning all the animals in robots ([[Sealed Good in a Can]]?).

** He thankfully did, just replace "animals" with "[[Starfish Alien]]s called Wisps" and that's the plot of ''[[Sonic Colors]]''.

** In a case entirely unrelated to Eggman (and despite how people are [[Fanon Discontinuity|trying so goddamn hard to forget about the sucky game connected to it]]), [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (video game)|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 [[Ancient Artifact|Scepter]] [[Artifact of Doom|of Darkness]], at least until Eggman interferes. This is a double seal, as Iblis is but one half of Solaris, and [[Big Bad|Mephiles]] is the other. Three guesses to how Mephiles plans to reunite with Iblis; all guesses after the first don't count.

** In a case entirely unrelated to Eggman (and despite how people are [[Fanon Discontinuity|trying so goddamn hard to forget about the sucky game connected to it]]), [[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)||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 [[Ancient Artifact|Scepter]] [[Artifact of Doom|of Darkness]], at least until Eggman interferes. This is a double seal, as Iblis is but one half of Solaris, and [[Big Bad|Mephiles]] is the other. Three guesses to how Mephiles plans to reunite with Iblis; all guesses after the first don't count.

** Shadow made [[Sonic Adventure 2|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.}}

** ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'' has [[Cosmic Horror|Dark Gaia]] who was sealed within the planet by his light counterpart {{spoiler|(read: CHIP)}} in a neverending cycle of planetary death and rebirth. Like any [[Cosmic Horror]] worth its salt, the mere act of Dark Gaia waking up spells [[The End of the World as We Know It]], which thankfully didn't happen this time around. {{spoiler|You can blame Eggman for opening the pl- er, can ahead of schedule for THAT.}}

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* ''[[Wario Land]]'' games have had a few cases of this, with ''[[Wario Land]] 3'' having Wario spend half the game trying to 'help' a mysterious figure trapped in the music box, who turns out to be [[Monster Clown|Rudy the Clown]], which then tries to take over the world. ''[[Wario World]]'' 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.

* ''[[Dark Forces Saga|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.

* ''[[~~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 [[Rival Turned Evil|Pokey]] unleashes Giygas' true form by turning the machine off.

* ''[[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 [[Rival Turned Evil|Pokey]] unleashes Giygas' true form by turning the machine off.

* ''[[Mother 3]]'': When his mech runs out of power, {{spoiler|Pokey/Porky retreats into his Absolutely Safe Capsule -- which can't be opened from the inside or outside}}.

* In what is possibly the worst-sealed can ''ever'', ''[[Pac-Man]]''. He kills the ghost, sealing it in the little box in the center of the screen. Three minutes later, it escapes again, and poor Pac must kill it over again. Perhaps he'd have better luck if he gave his little ghostbox a lid.

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* Lavos in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''.

** 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 [[~~Lucas Arts~~]] computer game LOOM, Bishop Mandible unleashes Chaos by ripping open the fabric of the universe near a graveyard.

* In the [[LucasArts]] computer game LOOM, Bishop Mandible unleashes Chaos by ripping open the fabric of the universe near a graveyard.

* The {{spoiler|Firstborn}} in ''[[Clive Barker's Jericho]]''.

* In ''[[Prototype (video game)|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''}}.

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** The three servants of Seth.

* Hades, Greek God of the Underworld, in ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]''. Released by Felix Faust in the hopes that Hades will grant him "ultimate knowledge" in return. Hades naturally betrays Faust by {{spoiler|causing him to instantly age to an old man since "Ultimately, pain and suffering are all humans will ever know."}}

* The 13 Ghosts from the Chest of Demons in ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo]]''.

* The 13 Ghosts from the Chest of Demons in ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo]]''.

* In the prequel episode of ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', we discover that the dormant Supercomputer was basically sealing XANA for ten years. It is Jérémie, by turning it back on, who unleashed the malevolent program (plus his future girlfriend) on the world.

* ''[[The Care Bears Movie]]'' had the Evil Spirit, whose can was a locked book of magic spells a young boy, Nicholas, opened. The spirit is powerful but, since it's confined to the book, needs Nicholas to cast its spells; he becomes progressively more evil in the process. [[The Power of Friendship]] helps him come to his senses and he helps close and relock the book, ending the threat.

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** For 4 million years, the ''Ark'' held the Decepticons and Autobots in stasis, under a volcano... until volcanic activity shook things up and woke up the evil Decepticons.

** In ''Cosmic Rust'', there's a [[Ghost Planet|dead planet]] with radio beacons warning travelers to stay away or die horribly. The Decepticons plunder it, and in the process, catch the metal-eating plague called Cosmic Rust.

*** [[The Starscream|Starscream]] shows signs of [[Tabletop RPG]] [[Genre Savvy]] in this episode: when confronted with [[Ancient Tomb|a sealed crypt]] with a curse warning on it, he proclaims that "a curse on the door means treasure behind the door" and breaks in. Unfortunately, he's in a Transformers cartoon, not a [[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons|D&D game]], making it a near-fatal case of [[Wrong Genre Savvy]].

*** [[The Starscream|Starscream]] shows signs of [[Tabletop RPG]] [[Genre Savvy]] in this episode: when confronted with [[Ancient Tomb|a sealed crypt]] with a curse warning on it, he proclaims that "a curse on the door means treasure behind the door" and breaks in. Unfortunately, he's in a Transformers cartoon, not a [[Dungeons & Dragons|D&D game]], making it a near-fatal case of [[Wrong Genre Savvy]].

** In ''Return of Optimus Prime'', the [[Hate Plague]] spores were sealed ''inside a star'' after their last outbreak. Unfortunately, the star went nova.

** [[The Starscream|Starscream]] himself could be considered Sealed Evil in a Can in the episode ''Starscream's Ghost''; his ghost first appears after Octane tumbles into the Decepticon crypt and knocks over the ruins of Starscream's grave marker.

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* Taken literally with Barom Mordo in ''[[The Superhero Squad Show]]'', where he is sealed within a ''soda'' can... that Thor opens when raiding Dr. Strange's refrigerator for a late-night snack.

* In an episode of ''[[Sonic Sat AM|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Robotnik steals a computer of magic spells from the [[Heel Face Turn|formerly evil]] wizard Lazar, and Sonic attempts to get it back. When asked why he can't just destroy the computer, Lazar says that would release all the evil it contains.

* Norm the Genie in ''[[The Fairly ~~Odd Parents~~]]''.

* Norm the Genie in ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]''.

* Valtor from ''[[Winx Club]]'' may count as sealed evil in a block of ice, until the Trix released him in the beginning of season three.

* The position of [[Evil Overlord|Phobos]] and several of his most powerful minions for most of the second season of ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'' {{spoiler|until he gets released by the heroines}}. [[Big Bad|Nerissa]] was also once a Sealed Evil In A Can, but she escaped several decades before the series begins.

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