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* In the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' series, this is called "Sealing": a procedure that renders pretty much any dangerous {{Magitek}} construct inert and harmless. Sealing [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots sentient constructs]], though, pretty much equates to murder, as the heroes learn in the [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs season two]] finale, where they have to seal [[spoiler:Reinforce Eins]] in order to stop the Book of Darkness for good.
* Anime/GhostStories runs wild with it, considering the MonsterOfTheWeek tends to be a rogue spirit recently awakened, which the heroes have to seal away.
** The antagonist for the first episode is a special case, since the ritual used required a specific sakura tree to exist. However, by the time Satsuki and friends attempt the ritual, the sakura tree had been cut down. As a result, Amanojaku was sealed away into the first thing it could, which just happened to be a cat. Ultimately, this meant he was around for the majority of the series and could even interact with the protagonists. However, being sealed in a cat meant he was no more dangerous than, well, a cat.
** Similarly, the Kutabe was sealed on a Jizo statue that had been destroyed. In order for it to not pull a Kaya and get it shoved into a random thing or animal, Satsuki actually had to superglue the statue's head back together.

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In the "Necropolis" storyline, Judge Dredd manages to save the city from the [[EldritchAbomination Sisters of Death]] by killing the Psi-Judge that they're using as a bridge to Mega City One, which banishes them back to Deadworld since they otherwise have no physical form in this dimension. The same doesn't apply to the Dark Judges, however, who are occupying animated dead bodies that have to be separately destroyed.

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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'': The college students encounter numerous {{Summoning Artifact}}s for the various monsters that could have descended on the cabin, but only one actual Sealing Ritual is shown in the film when the monitors observe a group of Japanese schoolgirls using a chant to contain the spirit of a StringyHairedGhostGirl [[SealedEvilInATeddyBear inside a frog]]. The observers are livid when they see this, since a human sacrifice is necessary to stop the world from ending.

* Tom Bombadil's song to banish the barrow-wight in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' results in the inner part of the barrow-chamber falling in, followed by a cry and a long trailing shriek. Afterwards, the treasures of the barrow are laid out on the grass with Tom bidding them lie there "free to all finders" and thus to be scattered as a ritual to break the spell of the barrow-mound so that no wight would ever return.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had one with a demon in the internet...it was trapped in a book until Willow scanned it. Jenny Calendar and Giles had to combine their skills to do a virtual binding ritual. It never returned to the book but got smashed in the robot body it had humans build.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has more than one mechanic that work like this. Summoned creature cards can be, for example, returned to their owner's hand or forced to be shuffled back into the deck. The most permanent one of these is the "exile" mechanic, that removes a card completely from the game. None of these mechanics are, however, limited to any certain type of creatures.
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''. Certain deities that can be summoned by a Call spell can also by sent back to their place of origin by a Dismiss spell. These include Arwassa, Azathoth, Cthugha, Ithaqua, Nyogtha, Shub-Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Toon}}'' supplement ''Tooniversal Tour Guide'', chapter "Crawl of Catchoolu". One type of spell available to Investigators is Banish, which allows you to send a Catchooloid creature back where it belongs. Each creature has a specific spell that affects it.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Ehdrigohr}}'' has the Rites of Tranquility: special rituals that have to be carried out by a group of heroes over the resting places of the slumbering [[{{Kaiju}} Woe]] just as they begin to awaken to [[DontWakeTheSleeper prevent them from waking up completely]].
* ''TabletopGame/Sorcerer2001'' has detailed rules for banishing summoned demons, as it is pretty much the only guaranteed way to regain [[SanityMeter Humanity]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Alternity}}'', ''Dark*Matter'' campaign setting. The Monotheism Faith FX skill Exorcism can remove a demon or evil spirit from the physical world and return it to its home dimension.
* The Exorcism attribute in ''TabletopGame/BigEyesSmallMouth'' has banishment back to an entity's own dimension as a possible outcome of reducing its Energy Points to zero by means of the attribute in question. Third Edition changed this to freeing someone from Mind Control.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'' adventure ''Terror in the Skies". A Horror tricks the PlayerCharacters into [[MacGuffinDeliveryService retrieving a book of rituals that can send Horrors back to their own plane of existence, then steals it from them]]. If the {{PC}}s can regain the book, they can use one of the rituals to banish the Horror.

* In the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Ford knows of a ritual that can send Bill Cipher back to his dimension, which requires all of the show's main characters to take part. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the ritual is interrupted by Stan's arguing with his brother, which results in Bill capturing them all.]]

* Galadriel banishing Sauron from Dol Guldur back to Mordor in ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies''.

* Tom Bombadil's song to banish the barrow-wight in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' results in the inner part of the barrow-chamber falling in, followed by a cry and a long trailing shriek. Afterwards, the treasures of the barrow is laid out on the grass and Tom bade them lie there "free to all finders" and thus be scattered as a ritual to break the spell of the barrow-mound so that no wight would ever return.

* Gandalf's invocation in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor! The Dark Fire shall not avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the Shadow. You! Shall! Not! Pass!" is, apparently, an attempt of such an abjuration against the Balrog of Moria.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Sorcerer}}'' has detailed rules for banishing summoned demons, as it is pretty much the only guaranteed way to regain [[SanityMeter Humanity]].

* The entire plot of ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow'' is trying to seal the correct [[Ancient EldritchAbomination]] god that is invading Great Britain and the world using the Ritual of Banishment.