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* 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 to their followers in dreams, eventually in their {{High Priest}}s invading [[{{Heaven}} the 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 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 Necron race (with a few exceptions) has spent the past 60 million years sleeping off the aftershocks of a cataclysmic war in underground tomb-cities, planning to rise again and reconquer a galaxy unprepared for their return. Stories abound of hapless colonists digging too deep on an unassuming world and getting wiped out by annoyed Necrons. However, 60 million years is a long time even for immortal robots, and many of the reawakened Necrons plagued with all sorts of physical and mental degradations, if they could be woken up at all.

* 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.

** The dragon Smaug in the first two films like in the book, although it's {{discussed}} slightly more by the characters to emphasize how powerful and dangerous an antagonist Smaug is. In ''Film/TheDesolationOfSmaug'' (the same film in which Smaug wakes up), Bard calls out the Company because if they disturb Smaug from his long slumber, it could spell the doom of the people of Lake-town, who have for decades been able to live in relative safety in the Lonely Mountain's shadow.

* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': PlayedForLaughs when a scholar searches for a legendary tome in an ancient tomb and opens the sarcophagus of a vampire who isn't quite done slumbering.

* 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, which is said to be inevitable, will bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, something that was barely, barely averted in "Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu" when the title monster awoke.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-169 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.

* 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.

* ''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.
** Mojo Jojo is taking a nap in his lair when the girls burst in and accuse him of criminal doings he actually didn't commit. He, Him and Fuzzy Lumpkins are victimized by the Gangreen Gang making prank calls from the Mayor's phone.

* 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]].

* 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 ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'', [[OurVampiresAreDifferent the Pillar Men]] have been hibernating beneath the Colosseum ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Santana]] beneath an Aztec temple) since the Roman era, but are awakened by ThoseWackyNazis [[{{Ghostapo}} in search of supernatural things to weaponize]].

%%* 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''

''Vampire:''' Then fuck off.

* 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 its respective Moon Crystal, and wakes up on its own when the heroes accidentally disturb it.
* 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''.

* ''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.
* The Reapers from ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' do this as part of the fifty thousand 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 were all pre-historic at the time of the last cycle, and the discovery of the 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.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': "ComicBook/TheCallOfCRusso" (a parody of the Cthulhu Mythos) revolves around an octopoid EldritchAbomination sleeping in an ancient undersea city and dreaming the world into existence until someone wakes it up and causes the end of reality itself.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': has the Shadows. They are in hiding while their agents are gathering. A human expedition to their world "wakes them up".

* 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.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': The Wraith are a vampiric hive species who herd humans like cattle to feed on them, but their energy requirements are too much for any human population to sustain indefinitely, so the entire Wraith species spends centuries in hibernation to allow humans to recover for the next culling. The Atlantis expedition accidentally wake the Wraith early by killing the Guardian.

-->-- '''Huey''', ''ComicBook/TheCallOfCRusso''