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* The Reapers from ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' do this as part of the 60 million year cycle that they're a part of. normally, the Reapers sit outside the galaxy in Dark Space, waiting for galactic civilization to arrive at a certain threshold. They then awaken, invade the galaxy, and wipe out every advanced race that's capable of spaceflight. The species currently in power in the galaxy that we meet over the course of the trilogy all were pre-historic at the time of the last cycle, and there's plenty of evidence of the Reapers wiping out many other species in the tens of millions of years before us across many different planets.
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* The Reapers from ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' do this as part of the 60 million fifty thousand year cycle that they're a part of. normally, Normally, the Reapers sit outside the galaxy in Dark Space, waiting for galactic civilization to arrive at a certain threshold. They then awaken, invade the galaxy, and wipe out every advanced race that's capable of spaceflight. The species currently in power in the galaxy that we meet over the course of the trilogy all were all pre-historic at the time of the last cycle, and there's plenty of evidence the discovery of the Reapers wiping Leviathan of Dis reveals that the cycle has repeated itself for [[TimeAbyss over a billion years]]. Each cycle they leave behind a vanguard that hibernates within the galaxy and awakes regularly to see if it's time for the invasion.
* The seven Old Gods in ''Franchise/DragonAge'' are titanic dragons that sleep deep beneath the earth in special prisons. According to legend, when the Old Gods convinced mankind to worship them instead of the Maker they were punished by being placed into an eternal sleep in special prisons. However, they were still able to reach outmany other species to their followers in dreams, eventually in their {{High Priest}}s invading [[{{Heaven}} the tens Golden City]] and creating the Darkspawn. Since then, the Darkspawn seek out the Old Gods and when they find one, they awaken it and corrupt it into an Archdemon and start a [[ApocalypseHow Blight]]. The series begins with the awakening of millions of years before us across many different planets.the fifth Archdemon. Some scholars in-universe speculate that the Old Gods where never sealed away, and are simply hibernating like a bear does in winter.
* The seven Old Gods in ''Franchise/DragonAge'' are titanic dragons that sleep deep beneath the earth in special prisons. According to legend, when the Old Gods convinced mankind to worship them instead of the Maker they were punished by being placed into an eternal sleep in special prisons. However, they were still able to reach out
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* ''Literature/TheHobbit'': The evil dragon Smaug spends most of his time sleeping on top of his DragonHoard after wrecking the dwarf kingdom to seize it. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero It's only after Bilbo wakes him up that he goes outside to spread death and destruction again]].
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* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': "ComicBook/TheCallOfCRusso" (a parody of the Cthulhu Mythos) revolves around an octopoid Eldritch Abomination sleeping in an ancient undersea city and dreaming the world into existence until someone wakes it up and causes the end of reality itself.
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->''"Somewhere in a city at the bottom of the sea\\
Ar-Finn lies dreaming about you and me."''
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Ar-Finn lies dreaming about you and me."''
-->-- '''Huey''', ''ComicBook/TheCallOfCRusso''
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* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'', [[OurVampiresAreDifferent the Pillar Men]] have been hibernating beneath the Colosseum ([[AndZoidberg and Santana]] beneath an Aztec temple) since the Roman era, but are awakened by ThoseWackyNazis [[{{Ghostapo}} in search of supernatural things to weaponize]].
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* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'', [[OurVampiresAreDifferent the Pillar Men]] have been hibernating beneath the Colosseum ([[AndZoidberg ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Santana]] beneath an Aztec temple) since the Roman era, but are awakened by ThoseWackyNazis [[{{Ghostapo}} in search of supernatural things to weaponize]].
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* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': All of the Gigas [[spoiler: except Plergoth]] are kept sealed away in various kinds of magical prisons across the world. Yeligar, however, was simply put to sleep beneath the Maw of Tartas. Unlike the others, it does not need to be activated with it's respective Moon Crystal, and wakes up on it's own when the heroes accidentally disturb it.
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* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': All of the Gigas [[spoiler: except Plergoth]] are kept sealed away in various kinds of magical prisons across the world. Yeligar, however, was simply put to sleep beneath the Maw of Tartas. Unlike the others, it does not need to be activated with it's its respective Moon Crystal, and wakes up on it's its own when the heroes accidentally disturb it.
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* The Reapers from ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' do this as part of the 60 million year cycle that they're a part of. normally, the Reapers sit outside the galaxy in Dark Space, waiting for galactic civilization to arrive at a certain threshold. They then awaken, invade the galaxy, and wipe out every advanced race that's capable of spaceflight. The species currently in power in the galaxy that we meet over the course of the trilogy all were pre-historic at the time of the last cycle, and there's plenty of evidence of the Reapers wiping out many other species in the tens of millions of years before us across many different planets.
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* The ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' Season 2 three-parter "The Wedding" starts off with Lord Zedd entering his Centennial Energy Recharge in which he undergoes a nap while being recharged with evil energy. However Rita Repulsa returns from the exile Zedd placed her in at the beginning of the season while he's asleep and replaces the evil energy with a LovePotion to force Zedd to fall in love with her as revenge.
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* Mantis from the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' does this to her foes on multiple occasions, most notably GeniusLoci Ego in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' and [[spoiler:almost succeeds against]] Thanos himself in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''
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* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the Endbringers spend most of their time between attacks in a dormant state. Unfortunately for everyone, they take these naps in the mantle or the mesosphere, so simply attacking them during this period isn't an option. As of the sequel ''Literature/{{Ward}}'', [[spoiler:they seem to be in this dormant state permanently, though the fear that they'll wake up remains a looming threat]].
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* The titular ''Literature/{{It}}'' of the Creator/StephenKing novel habitually slumbers for roughly 27 years before awakening, spending a few months feeding on the children of the small town of Derry, Maine, and returning to sleep.
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* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': After violently crash-landing on Earth in 65,000,000 B.C., Lavos burrows its way into the core of the planet and spends a very long time sleeping until he finally erupts in the Day of Lavos, 1999 A.D., an event which devastated the whole planet to the point where even Earth's ecosystem is dying.
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* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': After violently crash-landing on Earth in 65,000,000 B.C., Lavos burrows its way into the core of the planet and spends a very long time sleeping until he finally erupts in the Day of Lavos, 1999 A.D., an event which devastated the whole planet to the point where even Earth's ecosystem is dying. There are a few other points along the timeline when Lavos is awakened prematurely, and he is ''not'' happy about it.
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* ''Film/ReignOfFire'' has a London construction crew dig down to a hibernating dragon, which soon wakes, then roars, then barbecues everyone on site, then wrecks the place and goes flying off. This somehow awakens more dragons, until London gets turned into a scorched NoMansLand.
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The monster is restrained by its own inactivity, fallen into a hibernation, deep sleep, or even a coma. This can be magically enforced or brought about by severe injury, but in some cases it's self inflicted. In any case, the threat is contained so long as they remain asleep. The circumstances for their waking can vary from [[WhenThePlanetsAlign cosmic alignment]], certain circumstances being met, a spell being broken, their timer running out, or someone deliberately waking them up, and the results of such an awakening depend entirely on how quickly the heroes manage to react to their release, but if worse comes to worst, it could well mean [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world (or the solar system/galaxy/universe/multiverse/all of reality) as we know it]].
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The monster is restrained by its own inactivity, fallen into a hibernation, deep sleep, or even a coma. This can be magically enforced or brought about by severe injury, but in some cases it's self inflicted. In any case, the threat is contained so long as they remain asleep. The circumstances for their waking awakening can vary from [[WhenThePlanetsAlign cosmic alignment]], certain circumstances being met, a spell being broken, their timer running out, or someone deliberately waking them up, and the results of such an awakening depend entirely on how quickly the heroes manage to react to their release, but generally, it will result in bad things happening -- and if worse comes to worst, it could well mean [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world (or the solar system/galaxy/universe/multiverse/all of reality) as we know it]].
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* A common theme in the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''. Many Great Old Ones and assorted [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abominations]] are sleeping and bring ruin as they shift in their sleep. Another common theme is their inevitable awakening, which will bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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* A common theme in the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''. Many Great Old Ones and assorted [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abominations]] are sleeping and bring ruin as they shift in their sleep. Another common theme is their inevitable Their awakening, which is said to be inevitable, will bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, something that was barely, barely averted in "Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu" when the title monster awoke.
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The monster is restrained by its own inactivity, fallen into a hibernation, deep sleep, or even a coma. This can be magically enforced or brought about by severe injury, but in some cases it's self inflicted. In any case, the threat is contained so long as they remain asleep. The circumstances for their waking can vary from [[WhenThePlanetsAlign cosmic alignment]], certain circumstances being met, a spell being broken, their timer running out, or someone deliberately waking them up, and the results of such an awakening depend entirely on how quickly the heroes manage to react to their release.
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The monster is restrained by its own inactivity, fallen into a hibernation, deep sleep, or even a coma. This can be magically enforced or brought about by severe injury, but in some cases it's self inflicted. In any case, the threat is contained so long as they remain asleep. The circumstances for their waking can vary from [[WhenThePlanetsAlign cosmic alignment]], certain circumstances being met, a spell being broken, their timer running out, or someone deliberately waking them up, and the results of such an awakening depend entirely on how quickly the heroes manage to react to their release.
release, but if worse comes to worst, it could well mean [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world (or the solar system/galaxy/universe/multiverse/all of reality) as we know it]].
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* A common theme in the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''. Many Great Old Ones and assorted [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abominations]] are sleeping and bring ruin as they shift in their sleep. Their awakening will bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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* A common theme in the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''. Many Great Old Ones and assorted [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abominations]] are sleeping and bring ruin as they shift in their sleep. Their awakening Another common theme is their inevitable awakening, which will bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' Unicron is in stasis in the earth’s core, and pretty much has been for millions of years. This comes back to bite the Autobots and Decepticons alike in the butt at the end of season 1.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' Unicron is in stasis in the earth’s core, and pretty much has been for millions billions of years.years (in fact, the Earth actually formed around the slumbering Unicron). This comes back to bite the Autobots and Decepticons alike in the butt at the end of season 1.
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* ''VideoGame/TrillionGodOfDestruction'': The titular monster is first sent to sleep with Zeabolos's final strike. However, during the later parts of the game, either it managing to consume large parts of the Underworld or the player damaging it enough will make the monster go to sleep for weeks at a time, granting time to train and prepare for the next battle. It's also noted that Trillion releases a deadly miasma -- when sleeping it produces even more as a defense mechanism, hence trying to kill it during its slumber isn't viable.
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* The ''ComicBook/DonaldDuck'' comic "ComicBook/TheCallOfCRusso" (a parody of the Cthulhu Mythos) revolves around an octopoid Eldritch Abomination sleeping in an ancient undersea city and dreaming the world into existence until someone wakes it up and causes the end of reality itself.
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* The ''ComicBook/DonaldDuck'' comic ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': "ComicBook/TheCallOfCRusso" (a parody of the Cthulhu Mythos) revolves around an octopoid Eldritch Abomination sleeping in an ancient undersea city and dreaming the world into existence until someone wakes it up and causes the end of reality itself.
* ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'': At the end of "The Apokolips Agenda", ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} has suffered grievous wounds, and his power base has been destroyed by the heroes, so he places himself in a state of suspended animation and spends one thousand years sleeping while his body heals. When he awakens in the 31st century, his body and his power are fully recovered and his enemies are all gone.
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* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': After violently crash-landing on Earth in 65,000,000 B.C., Lavos burrows its way into the core of the planet and spends a very long time sleeping until he finally erupts in the Day of Lavos, 1999 A.D., an event which devastated the whole planet to the point where even Earth's ecosystem is dying.
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* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', dragons can enter a deep sleep to heal themselves of injuries. Because they are a race of TheAgeless, this sleep can last for decades or even centuries. The great wyrm Nidhogg's war against the Ishgardians is only ever interrupted when the wrathful creature is injured enough to need his rest. His last sleep lasted for twenty years before he renewed attacks for ''Heavensward''.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' Unicron is in stasis in the earth’s core, and pretty much has been for millions of years. This comes back to bite the Autobots and Decepticons alike in the butt at the end of season 1.
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* Zig-zagged in ''Anime/DigimonSavers'': Belphemon is a highly powerful Mega level Digimon with two modes: Sleep Mode and Rage Mode. In Sleep Mode, he looks like an oversized teddy bear, but is still capable of attacking. But when he awakens, he automatically transforms into the far more vicious and destructive Rage Mode.
* Zig-zagged in ''Anime/DigimonSavers'': Belphemon is a highly powerful Mega level Digimon with two modes: Sleep Mode and Rage Mode. In Sleep Mode, he looks like an oversized teddy bear, but is still capable of attacking. But when he awakens, he automatically transforms into the far more vicious and destructive Rage Mode.
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* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'', [[OurVampiresAreDifferent the Pillar Men]] have been hibernating beneath the Colosseum ([[AndZoidberg and Santana]] beneath an Aztec temple) since the Roman era, but are awakened by ThoseWackyNazis [[{{Ghostapo}} in search of supernatural things to weaponize]].
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* Similar to the Powerpuff Girls example, ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', (or rather, one of the ''Dial M for Monkey'' skits) had a plot of a giant lava monster being roused from his slumber by the noisy city above, only to be rocked to sleep by Monkey.
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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has SCP-169, a massive arthropod that is anywhere between 2,000 and 8,000 kilometers long. It's currently hibernating, but its awakening could mean TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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Sometimes a great evil needs a TailorMadePrison. Some need to be [[SealedEvilInACan trapped in a can]], maybe a [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan person-shaped one]], maybe [[SealedEvilInASixPack six]], or be [[SealedEvilInADuel stuck fighting another entity in some pocket dimension]]. And some... just need a good night's rest.
The monster is restrained by its own inactivity, fallen into a hibernation, deep sleep, or even a coma. This can be magically enforced or brought about by severe injury, but in some cases it's self inflicted. In any case, the threat is contained so long as they remain asleep. The circumstances for their waking can vary from [[WhenThePlanetsAlign cosmic alignment]], certain circumstances being met, a spell being broken, their timer running out, or someone deliberately waking them up, and the results of such an awakening depend entirely on how quickly the heroes manage to react to their release.
Often overlaps with SealedEvilInACan and TailorMadePrison, as such measures are more easily constructed when the target is already asleep and docile. See also RipVanWinkle for when a more mundane individual is trapped in such a sleep.
Compare DontWakeTheSleeper, which often involves the sleeper being the BigBad and/or one of his henchmen, who have captured the hero and/or his friends, and the rescuers have to get the keys to the cage to rescue their friend(s) without waking up the villain.
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* Zig-zagged in ''Anime/DigimonSavers'': Belphemon is a highly powerful Mega level Digimon with two modes: Sleep Mode and Rage Mode. In Sleep Mode, he looks like an oversized teddy bear, but is still capable of attacking. But when he awakens, he automatically transforms into the far more vicious and destructive Rage Mode.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'' and its adaptation in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', the main thing keeping God of Destruction Beerus from completely wrecking the cosmos is that he loves to nap for thousands of years at a time. Unfortunately, he had a prophetic dream about fighting a Super Saiyan God, which leads him on a trail to Earth.
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* In the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio drama ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho009TheSpectreOfLanyonMoor The Spectre Of Lanyon Moor]]'', the eponymous moor is secretly the resting place of a marooned Tregannan scout by the name of [[BigBad Sancreda]]. Though he's been comatose for [[TimeAbyss over eighteen thousand years]], his psychic powers make him extremely dangerous even in sleep: RAF radio operators stationed in the area were driven mad, farmers who tried to flatten Sancreda's tumulus to plant crops suffered catastrophic spates of bad luck, and some travelers have ended up dead courtesy of psychic projections. By the start of the story, Sancreda has become aware enough to reach out to the minds of others in the hopes of finding someone who can find his psychic amplifier and awaken him.
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* The ''ComicBook/DonaldDuck'' comic "ComicBook/TheCallOfCRusso" (a parody of the Cthulhu Mythos) revolves around an octopoid Eldritch Abomination sleeping in an ancient undersea city and dreaming the world into existence until someone wakes it up and causes the end of reality itself.
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* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': The dark god, Queen Metallia, is comatose due to the need to heal her injuries
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* Vincent the bear from ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'' is dozing in his cave as part of his winter hibernation. A desperate R.J. tries to raid Vincent's food stash, and almost gets away with it. However, R.J. made the mistake of opening a can of [[BlandNameProduct Spuddies]], which awakens Vincent. R.J. is given three days time to replace every crumb in Vincent's stash, or become Grizzly Chow.
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* This tends to be where ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' spends his time between movies. Many of his adversaries also appear after being awakened from a centuries old slumber.
* In ''Film/PansLabyrinth,'' the [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight Pale Man]] remains in a state of hibernation at the head of his banqueting table, not reacting even when Ofelia picks up the plate on which his eyeballs sit. However, the moment Ofelia dares to help herself to some of the food laid out, the Pale Man snaps awake and goes on the attack.
* ''Film/ReignOfFire'' has a London construction crew dig down to a hibernating dragon, which soon wakes, then roars, then barbecues everyone on site, then wrecks the place and goes flying off. This somehow awakens more dragons, until London gets turned into a scorched NoMansLand.
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* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', the evil god Torak spent centuries in a prolonged rest in order to recover from the effects of misusing the Orb of Aldur and splitting the world.
* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the Endbringers spend most of their time between attacks in a dormant state. Unfortunately for everyone, they take these naps in the mantle or the mesosphere, so simply attacking them during this period isn't an option. As of the sequel ''Literature/{{Ward}}'', [[spoiler:they seem to be in this dormant state permanently, though the ear that they'll wake up remains a looming threat]].
* A common theme in the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''. Many Great Old Ones and assorted [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abominations]] are sleeping and bring ruin as they shift in their sleep.
* Throughout ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', [[NatureIsNotNice Gaea]] the BigBad is slowly beginning to wake from her slumber, but she's still conscious enough to influence events and cause a lot of trouble for the heroes even while asleep. [[spoiler: In the end, Gaea is finally defeated when [[CompellingVoice Piper manages to charmspeak her]] into going back to sleep forever]].
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'': has the Shadows. They are in hiding while their agents are gathering. A human expedition to their world "wakes them up".
* A subversion in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The ''Enterprise'' crew manage to put the Borg into sleep (or, regenerative cycle), initially skirting this trope. Subverted when [[spoiler:the regenerative cycle in the Borg droids creates eventually a feedback loop and destroys the Borg Cube.]]
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* Depending on which versions of Myth/NorseMythology you're looking at, this is the case of Jormungandr rather than simply holding still so he doesn't fall off the world. In these myths, he's in a deep sleep as he continues to grow and his awakening is one of the triggers for Ragnarok.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* According to main ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' lore, the Tarrasque can hibernate for 50-100 years between its sojourns to the surface, where it consumes everything in its path until its hunger is sated and it returns to sleep.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', Tarrasque is in a hibernation within a sealed cave deep in the Darklands. This is a major concern because it's only asleep, while the other Spawn of Rovagug had to be torn to pieces before their defeat could be certain. Its location is a lost secret, meant to keep away those who would seek to awaken it, but consequently means additional measures can't be put in place to keep it there.
* According to the Baali clanbook in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade,'' Earth is secretly home to a race of ancient demigods known as [[EldritchAbomination the Children]]; a cabal of godlike beings native to the darkness prior to the creation of the world, they buried themselves deep beneath the ground to escape the light and have been sleeping there ever since. Unfortunately, primeval humans discovered their existence and have taken to using the power inherent in the [[IKnowYourTrueName true names]] of the Children to achieve dominance over the land... and in the process, [[EvilIsNotAToy ended up accidentally drawing them closer and closer to awakening them from slumber]]. Realizing the apocalyptic consequences of their ambitions, their worshippers were forced to commit atrocities gruesome enough to lull the Children back to sleep, eventually forming the basis of the modern Baalite clan: [[ALighterShadeOfBlack one group]] of Baali vampires are determined to carry on with these practices to keep the world safe, while [[ApocalypseCult another]] wants to wake up the Children and end everything.
* The tyranid Hive Fleet Hydra in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' fell into a hibernation due to lack of biomass to replenish the energy it was expending on its invasion. Luckily for it, a few millennia later a group of Dark Eldar happened across it and woke it up to continue its rampage.
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Krakanrok the Black, father of the Dragon-Ogres, is the size of a mountain but currently asleep (and slated to wake up once the world ends). Archaon, the Everchosen of Chaos, was tasked with retrieving a legendary sword under his claw, and one of his champions was (barely) able to lift it high enough to free the sword. To prevent the possessed sword from screaming and possibly waking Krakanrok up, Archaon killed his champion with it in order to escape safely.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': The Bohrok and Bohrok-Kal are mostly hibernating until they receive a signal to activate. Once the former awakes, they cause great devastation on the island of Mata Nui. Though later it turns out [[spoiler:they were never evil to begin with and were simply awakened too early for their mission]].
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheBannerSaga'', this is the main plan to defeat the immortal Bellower: since they can't kill him, they hypnotize him to believe he's already dead. [[spoiler: It doesn't work, as Bellower is able to subconsciously take over the mind of the leader of the group that's meant to ferry his body to a secure location, who then frees him from his slumber.]]
* In ''VideoGame/EverQuest'', the Sleeper's Tomb is a dungeon where the Dragons of Veeshan imprisoned the prismatic dragon, Kerafyrm. Kerafyrm's strength is unmatched, and he quickly proved to be mentally unstable. When he spoke of waging war against the other dragons, the goddess Veeshan herself stepped in and put him to sleep. The tomb was constructed around him, and the spell is maintained by four dragon wardens. Once all four wardens are killed, Kerafyrm would awaken from his slumber and rampage across Velious and take his revenge on the dragons. Many players were surprised to discover that his awakening only happened once per server, and Kerafyrm himself ended up becoming one of the major Big Bad characters who threatened the existence of Norrath itself.
* Combined with SealedEvilInACan in ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': throughout the setting, [[EldritchAbomination the Dreamers]] are kept lulled to sleep through the power of the [[CosmicKeystone Gaia Engines]] - essentially giant eldritch musical boxes playing a perpetual lullaby. The awakening of just ''one'' of the Dreamers is a [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 Class X4 Apocalypse event]], so agents are warned that the Engines must keep operating at all costs. Unfortunately, it seems like people just can't stop themselves from tampering with the damn things...
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': All of the Gigas [[spoiler: except Plergoth]] are kept sealed away in various kinds of magical prisons across the world. Yeligar, however, was simply put to sleep beneath the Maw of Tartas. Unlike the others, it does not need to be activated with it's respective Moon Crystal, and wakes up on it's own when the heroes accidentally disturb it.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has SCP-169, a massive arthropod that is anywhere between 2,000 and 8,000 kilometers long. It's currently hibernating, but its awakening could mean TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The Kaiju Monarchs in ''[[WesternAnimation/KaijudoRiseOfTheDuelMasters Kaijudo]]'' have been slumbering for centuries, with the duel masters regularly draining their mana to keep them too weak to awaken.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Boast Busters" features a gentler version: Twilight ends the rampage of a terrifying Ursa Major by lulling it into sleep by rocking it and offering it a makeshift bottle of milk. Justified as [[spoiler:the terrifying Ursa Major is actually just a ''baby Ursa Minor''.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' concerns a {{kaiju}} who is hibernating in a cave that happens to be directly beneath Townsville, and the noise of the city keeps waking him up. When the girls realize this is the case, they are able to stop his swath of destruction by singing a lullaby.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' Plasmus is only in his monstrous form while awake. To keep him contained, he's kept sedated and constantly asleep.
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The monster is restrained by its own inactivity, fallen into a hibernation, deep sleep, or even a coma. This can be magically enforced or brought about by severe injury, but in some cases it's self inflicted. In any case, the threat is contained so long as they remain asleep. The circumstances for their waking can vary from [[WhenThePlanetsAlign cosmic alignment]], certain circumstances being met, a spell being broken, their timer running out, or someone deliberately waking them up, and the results of such an awakening depend entirely on how quickly the heroes manage to react to their release.
Often overlaps with SealedEvilInACan and TailorMadePrison, as such measures are more easily constructed when the target is already asleep and docile. See also RipVanWinkle for when a more mundane individual is trapped in such a sleep.
Compare DontWakeTheSleeper, which often involves the sleeper being the BigBad and/or one of his henchmen, who have captured the hero and/or his friends, and the rescuers have to get the keys to the cage to rescue their friend(s) without waking up the villain.
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[[folder:Anime And Manga]]
* Zig-zagged in ''Anime/DigimonSavers'': Belphemon is a highly powerful Mega level Digimon with two modes: Sleep Mode and Rage Mode. In Sleep Mode, he looks like an oversized teddy bear, but is still capable of attacking. But when he awakens, he automatically transforms into the far more vicious and destructive Rage Mode.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'' and its adaptation in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', the main thing keeping God of Destruction Beerus from completely wrecking the cosmos is that he loves to nap for thousands of years at a time. Unfortunately, he had a prophetic dream about fighting a Super Saiyan God, which leads him on a trail to Earth.
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[[folder: Audio Plays]]
* In the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio drama ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho009TheSpectreOfLanyonMoor The Spectre Of Lanyon Moor]]'', the eponymous moor is secretly the resting place of a marooned Tregannan scout by the name of [[BigBad Sancreda]]. Though he's been comatose for [[TimeAbyss over eighteen thousand years]], his psychic powers make him extremely dangerous even in sleep: RAF radio operators stationed in the area were driven mad, farmers who tried to flatten Sancreda's tumulus to plant crops suffered catastrophic spates of bad luck, and some travelers have ended up dead courtesy of psychic projections. By the start of the story, Sancreda has become aware enough to reach out to the minds of others in the hopes of finding someone who can find his psychic amplifier and awaken him.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The ''ComicBook/DonaldDuck'' comic "ComicBook/TheCallOfCRusso" (a parody of the Cthulhu Mythos) revolves around an octopoid Eldritch Abomination sleeping in an ancient undersea city and dreaming the world into existence until someone wakes it up and causes the end of reality itself.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': The dark god, Queen Metallia, is comatose due to the need to heal her injuries
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[[folder:Films-Animated]]
* Vincent the bear from ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'' is dozing in his cave as part of his winter hibernation. A desperate R.J. tries to raid Vincent's food stash, and almost gets away with it. However, R.J. made the mistake of opening a can of [[BlandNameProduct Spuddies]], which awakens Vincent. R.J. is given three days time to replace every crumb in Vincent's stash, or become Grizzly Chow.
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[[folder:Film-Live Action]]
* This tends to be where ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' spends his time between movies. Many of his adversaries also appear after being awakened from a centuries old slumber.
* In ''Film/PansLabyrinth,'' the [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight Pale Man]] remains in a state of hibernation at the head of his banqueting table, not reacting even when Ofelia picks up the plate on which his eyeballs sit. However, the moment Ofelia dares to help herself to some of the food laid out, the Pale Man snaps awake and goes on the attack.
* ''Film/ReignOfFire'' has a London construction crew dig down to a hibernating dragon, which soon wakes, then roars, then barbecues everyone on site, then wrecks the place and goes flying off. This somehow awakens more dragons, until London gets turned into a scorched NoMansLand.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', the evil god Torak spent centuries in a prolonged rest in order to recover from the effects of misusing the Orb of Aldur and splitting the world.
* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the Endbringers spend most of their time between attacks in a dormant state. Unfortunately for everyone, they take these naps in the mantle or the mesosphere, so simply attacking them during this period isn't an option. As of the sequel ''Literature/{{Ward}}'', [[spoiler:they seem to be in this dormant state permanently, though the ear that they'll wake up remains a looming threat]].
* A common theme in the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''. Many Great Old Ones and assorted [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abominations]] are sleeping and bring ruin as they shift in their sleep.
* Throughout ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', [[NatureIsNotNice Gaea]] the BigBad is slowly beginning to wake from her slumber, but she's still conscious enough to influence events and cause a lot of trouble for the heroes even while asleep. [[spoiler: In the end, Gaea is finally defeated when [[CompellingVoice Piper manages to charmspeak her]] into going back to sleep forever]].
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/BabylonFive'': has the Shadows. They are in hiding while their agents are gathering. A human expedition to their world "wakes them up".
* A subversion in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The ''Enterprise'' crew manage to put the Borg into sleep (or, regenerative cycle), initially skirting this trope. Subverted when [[spoiler:the regenerative cycle in the Borg droids creates eventually a feedback loop and destroys the Borg Cube.]]
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[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
* Depending on which versions of Myth/NorseMythology you're looking at, this is the case of Jormungandr rather than simply holding still so he doesn't fall off the world. In these myths, he's in a deep sleep as he continues to grow and his awakening is one of the triggers for Ragnarok.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* According to main ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' lore, the Tarrasque can hibernate for 50-100 years between its sojourns to the surface, where it consumes everything in its path until its hunger is sated and it returns to sleep.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', Tarrasque is in a hibernation within a sealed cave deep in the Darklands. This is a major concern because it's only asleep, while the other Spawn of Rovagug had to be torn to pieces before their defeat could be certain. Its location is a lost secret, meant to keep away those who would seek to awaken it, but consequently means additional measures can't be put in place to keep it there.
* According to the Baali clanbook in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade,'' Earth is secretly home to a race of ancient demigods known as [[EldritchAbomination the Children]]; a cabal of godlike beings native to the darkness prior to the creation of the world, they buried themselves deep beneath the ground to escape the light and have been sleeping there ever since. Unfortunately, primeval humans discovered their existence and have taken to using the power inherent in the [[IKnowYourTrueName true names]] of the Children to achieve dominance over the land... and in the process, [[EvilIsNotAToy ended up accidentally drawing them closer and closer to awakening them from slumber]]. Realizing the apocalyptic consequences of their ambitions, their worshippers were forced to commit atrocities gruesome enough to lull the Children back to sleep, eventually forming the basis of the modern Baalite clan: [[ALighterShadeOfBlack one group]] of Baali vampires are determined to carry on with these practices to keep the world safe, while [[ApocalypseCult another]] wants to wake up the Children and end everything.
* The tyranid Hive Fleet Hydra in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' fell into a hibernation due to lack of biomass to replenish the energy it was expending on its invasion. Luckily for it, a few millennia later a group of Dark Eldar happened across it and woke it up to continue its rampage.
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Krakanrok the Black, father of the Dragon-Ogres, is the size of a mountain but currently asleep (and slated to wake up once the world ends). Archaon, the Everchosen of Chaos, was tasked with retrieving a legendary sword under his claw, and one of his champions was (barely) able to lift it high enough to free the sword. To prevent the possessed sword from screaming and possibly waking Krakanrok up, Archaon killed his champion with it in order to escape safely.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': The Bohrok and Bohrok-Kal are mostly hibernating until they receive a signal to activate. Once the former awakes, they cause great devastation on the island of Mata Nui. Though later it turns out [[spoiler:they were never evil to begin with and were simply awakened too early for their mission]].
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheBannerSaga'', this is the main plan to defeat the immortal Bellower: since they can't kill him, they hypnotize him to believe he's already dead. [[spoiler: It doesn't work, as Bellower is able to subconsciously take over the mind of the leader of the group that's meant to ferry his body to a secure location, who then frees him from his slumber.]]
* In ''VideoGame/EverQuest'', the Sleeper's Tomb is a dungeon where the Dragons of Veeshan imprisoned the prismatic dragon, Kerafyrm. Kerafyrm's strength is unmatched, and he quickly proved to be mentally unstable. When he spoke of waging war against the other dragons, the goddess Veeshan herself stepped in and put him to sleep. The tomb was constructed around him, and the spell is maintained by four dragon wardens. Once all four wardens are killed, Kerafyrm would awaken from his slumber and rampage across Velious and take his revenge on the dragons. Many players were surprised to discover that his awakening only happened once per server, and Kerafyrm himself ended up becoming one of the major Big Bad characters who threatened the existence of Norrath itself.
* Combined with SealedEvilInACan in ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': throughout the setting, [[EldritchAbomination the Dreamers]] are kept lulled to sleep through the power of the [[CosmicKeystone Gaia Engines]] - essentially giant eldritch musical boxes playing a perpetual lullaby. The awakening of just ''one'' of the Dreamers is a [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 Class X4 Apocalypse event]], so agents are warned that the Engines must keep operating at all costs. Unfortunately, it seems like people just can't stop themselves from tampering with the damn things...
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': All of the Gigas [[spoiler: except Plergoth]] are kept sealed away in various kinds of magical prisons across the world. Yeligar, however, was simply put to sleep beneath the Maw of Tartas. Unlike the others, it does not need to be activated with it's respective Moon Crystal, and wakes up on it's own when the heroes accidentally disturb it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has SCP-169, a massive arthropod that is anywhere between 2,000 and 8,000 kilometers long. It's currently hibernating, but its awakening could mean TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The Kaiju Monarchs in ''[[WesternAnimation/KaijudoRiseOfTheDuelMasters Kaijudo]]'' have been slumbering for centuries, with the duel masters regularly draining their mana to keep them too weak to awaken.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Boast Busters" features a gentler version: Twilight ends the rampage of a terrifying Ursa Major by lulling it into sleep by rocking it and offering it a makeshift bottle of milk. Justified as [[spoiler:the terrifying Ursa Major is actually just a ''baby Ursa Minor''.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' concerns a {{kaiju}} who is hibernating in a cave that happens to be directly beneath Townsville, and the noise of the city keeps waking him up. When the girls realize this is the case, they are able to stop his swath of destruction by singing a lullaby.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' Plasmus is only in his monstrous form while awake. To keep him contained, he's kept sedated and constantly asleep.
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