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A mining operation unleashes the [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]. The [[Trope Namer]] is of course ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', and it seems this happens ''a lot'' with little variation because [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]. A mine filled with evil is one of the great traditional [[Dungeon Crawler|Dungeons]]. Also, evil from mines have so many themes. You've got [[Greed]] and it can be a [[Green Aesop]] too!
See also [[King in the Mountain]]
Can result in an [[Abandoned Mine]].
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** The same thing happened in the [[Space Marine]] novel "The Fall of Damos". The Adeptus Mechnicus dug up necron ruins, collected artifacts and did not tell anyone else about it. Some time later the awakened necrons slaughtered most of the human population and were only halted by the Ultramarines.
* Subverted in ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'', where a well-digger remarks that if they dig much deeper, they'll give an elephant a nasty surprise. The [[Discworld]], of course, is balanced on the backs of four huge turtle-riding elephants.
** In the same novel, an opal miner uncovers the
* In the [[Simon R. Green]] novel ''Blue Moon Rising'' the inhabitants of a mining town Dug Too Deep just as the [[Big Bad]] awakened. By the time the heros get there it is far, far too late for anything except revenge.
* ''Streams of Silver'' by R. A. Salvatore: manages to combine both [[The Lord of the Rings|Moria]] and ''[[The Hobbit]]'', because the dwarves dug too deep and thereby somehow allowed access to a shadow dragon that drove them from their home.
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit." The title of the latter should explain it all...
** A drill to tap a new fuel source in ''Inferno'' instead unleashes a substance that transforms people into bloodthirsty beasts, and the destruction of a parallel world the Doctor is trapped on for the duration of the serial.
** Subverted in the two-parter "The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood"
* On ''[[Lexx]]'', an [[Asteroid Miners|Asteroid Miner]] scouting a test shaft in a small planetoid is possessed by an alien essence, which proceeds to {{spoiler|[[Body Surf]] while building a 20,000-planet theocracy around itself.}}
* On ''[[Lost]]'', the group of scientists known as the Dharma Initiative {{spoiler|uncovered an electro-magnetic hot spot by drilling into the ground,}} causing a disaster that would {{spoiler|result in a hatch being built with a button that would have to be pushed every 108 minutes in order to keep things from going to crap, the failure to push said button eventually causing the crash of Oceanic flight 815}}.
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* The entire premise of third person shooter series ''[[Gears of War]]'' revolves around the government mining the crap out of resources and unleashing a horrible plague of locusts. The locusts in this case aren't small bugs that mercilessly devour crops: they're pale man-sized monsters. And in Gears of War 3 from the trailer we learn that there is something far worse than the locusts living underneath.
* ''[[Freelancer]]''. Explorers visiting the Omicron Major system awoke [[Durable Deathtrap|the]] [[Eldritch Abomination|Nomads]] which possessed them, hitched a ride to human space, and tried to exterminate us.
* ''[[Torchlight]]'''s [[Green Rocks|Ember]] miners dug into a whole maze of [[Beneath the Earth|buried civilizations]], [[Dem Bones|necropolises]] and [[Lost World
* ''[[Halo]]: Combat Evolved'' The Covenant are responsible for unleashing [[Sealed Evil in a Can|the Flood]] after exploring Halo's secrets. As the Monitor explains "their kind seems most persistent in accessing restricted areas". They do it again in ''Halo 2'', with even worse results.
* ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]''. Part of the game sees you access the abandoned [[Writing Around Trademarks|Morlia]] Mineshaft, recently discovered. {{spoiler|When you [[Timey-Wimey Ball|travel to the future]], you can access the end once more and go ''even further'', to the Dwarven Ruins--the game's optional dungeon.}}
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* This is how Doomsday is uncovered in ''[[Superman: Doomsday]]'' by Lex Corp. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice Job Breaking It Villain]].
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' had some episodes kicked off this way.
** It sequal series ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' was kicked of like this with the opening of a new subway tunnel unlocking new [[Eldritch Abomination
* In ''[[South Park]]'', BP (later DP) does this. Multiple times. We're sorry.
* A lighthearted throw-away gag version in the ''[[Donkey Kong Country (animation)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' cartoon. Kaptain Skurvy and his crew are digging for their treasure (in the wrong spot, thanks to Skurvy holding the map wrong), and Green Kroc comments, "If we digs any deeper, we'll sink the island."
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== Real Life ==
* The [[wikipedia:Deepwater Horizon#Massive oil spill|Deepwater Horizon oil rig]] happened to explode a couple months after it finished digging the world's deepest oil well? Coincidence? [[Epileptic Trees|I think not!]]
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*** How about [[James Cameron|a ocean-obsessed director]] of [[Epic Movie|Big]] [[Terminator|Effing]] [[Avatar (film)|Movies]] [http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2010/06/james-camerons-oil-spill-brainstorming-session-it-was-time-to-sound-the-horn.html and his environmental think-tank?] (BP didn't take his suggestion, but the device that finally capped the thing evidently looked ''very'' similar).
*** As of August 2010, it seems to be mostly cleaned up, despite being like the worst oil spill disaster in the country's history. ''Seems'' being the operating word. In reality, [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/dear-science/Content?oid=4040881 not so much.]
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* The [[wikipedia:Kola Superdeep Borehole|Kola Superdeep Borehole]] is ''twelve kilometers deep.'' There was an [[Urban Legend]] that they detected [http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/demonsscr.htm a sudden spike in temperature, together with sounds of people being tortured], having accidentally [[wikipedia:Well to Hell hoax|broken through the roof of Hell]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV8NLu36Sz0&feature=related This was the recording that had people fooled.]
** Was surpassed in early 2011 by the [[wikipedia:Sakhalin-I#World record wells|Odoptu OP-11 Borehole]], wich is almost a hundred metres deeper.
* The [[wikipedia:Sidoarjo mud flow|Sidoarjo Mud Flow.]] An Indonesian oil and gas company, PT Lapindo Brantas, in its search for natural gas in East Java, created a "Borehole" (a narrow shaft) into the Earth, digging more then 10,000 meters into the ground (a depth no natural gas has ever been found at before). Having ignored sensibility, they decided to ignore the law as well, not using the required protective equipment on the drill. The result? Running a giant drill next to fault lines has consequences, as the poor people of the surrounding villages learned when the drilling erupted a massive mud volcano, making 1.5 million people homeless. The eruption is still going on today, five years after the incident, spewing 88,000 cubic feet of mud every
* The [[wikipedia:Iron Mountain Mine|Iron Mountain Mine]] in Northern California. When this location was mined out, they discovered that in addition to rich iron deposits, the mine contained acidophilic archaea that lived off of the rich iron deposits, metabolizing them and producing sulfuric acid as waste. This created extremely toxic hot springs with a pH of less than 1, which drained into other water sources, making the mine one of the most toxic waste sites in the United States of America.
* [[wikipedia:Lake Peigneur|Lake Peigneur:]] [http://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom The Swirling Vortex of Doom]. It turns out drilling for oil in a lake that's directly over a salt mine is a ''[[Captain Obvious|really bad idea]]''.
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