History Main / SealedEvilInAnotherWorld

* Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'': The main characters are faced with a choice after [[EldritchAbomination the Fears]] successfully [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt take over the world]] -- attempt a difficult BanishingRitual to eject the Fears into TheMultiverse, or [[TheNeedsOfTheMany sacrifice their own world to kill the Fears forever]]. In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:they banish them -- exactly as [[TheChessmaster one of the Fears wanted all along]], so it could spread to other worlds.]]

** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': It's revealed that the secret mission of the ''Axalon'' was to dump the immortal serial killer Protoform X onto some dead world, hoping his evil would be trapped there forever. Unfortunately, the ''Axalon'' is sidetracked due to trying to pursue the ''Darksyde'', and eventually Protoform X is forcibly recruited into the Predacons.

* ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'': [[spoiler:Has the true BigBad of the game, and GreaterScopeVillain of the franchise, the ThePowerOfTheVoid/All-Consuming Void known as THE END sealed away three times over in the parallel digital dimension known as Cyber Space. First by sealing it in the person shaped can known as the Titan SUPREME, then by locking SUPREME and most other Ancient technology into Cyber Space to ensure it can't get out through possessing SUPREME, and finally topping both off by not only building a wall around the dimension itself via six gargantuan towers that make skyscrapers look puny by comparison and are riddled with the most intense platforming challenges in the base game. But also having said wall powered by the Chaos Emeralds, which were relocated to a remote location who knows how far away! They REALLY didn't want this thing getting out.]]

* ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'': [[spoiler:Has the true BigBad of the game, and GreaterScopeVillain of the franchise, the [[PowerOfTheVoid/All-Consuming Void]] known as THE END sealed away three times over in the parallel digital dimension known as Cyber Space. First by sealing it in the person shaped can known as the Titan SUPREME, then by locking SUPREME and most other Ancient technology into Cyber Space to ensure it can't get out through possessing SUPREME, and finally topping both off by not only building a wall around the dimension itself via six gargantuan towers that make skyscrapers look puny by comparison and are riddled with the most intense platforming challenges in the base game. But also having said wall powered by the Chaos Emeralds, which were relocated to a remote location who knows how far away! They REALLY didn't want this thing getting out.]]

* ''VideoGame/RType'': this is what 26th Century humanity did to the Bydo, the psychotically evil living superweapon they created, which then turned on them. Unfortunately, the Bydo eventually figured out how to open a passage back... to the 23rd century, whereupon they resumed their attempt to murder their creators.

** In the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 continuity]], it's revealed that Krang was [[ReassignedToAntarctica banished to the 1987-iteration of Earth]] by his cousin [[TheDragon Kraang Sub-Prime]] because [[LethallyStupid he was dangerously inept]] to be anything other than a hindrance. The fact that his first appearance in the 2012 series has him nearly destroy ''3 entire dimensions'' speaks volumes.

SubTrope to SealedEvilInACan. Compare AndIMustScream, MageInManhattan, SealedArmyInACan and SealedEvilInADuel. See also TheExile and LeakingCanOfEvil.

** The BigBad of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Season 5 Glory used to rule over a hell dimension with two other gods, but grew too powerful, so the other gods banished her to Earth in the form of an UncannyValleyGirl, [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan forced to share the human body of Benjamin Wilkinson]].

* ''Webcomic/ATaleOfTwoRulers'': When an experiment in [[TeleportersAndTransporters dimensional portals]] creates an invincible AnimalisticAbomination in the lab, Vaati [[https://figmentforms.tumblr.com/post/628077816461885440/part-212-of-a-tale-of-two-rulers-sept-1-2020 traps it]] in a ContainmentField bubble and dumps it through the portal.

* In the ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' universe, Surtur's realm of Muspelheim is also his prison, having been locked within by the Alliance of Realms eons ago in order to stop his rampage across the universe [[spoiler: as the original Dark Phoenix]]. The [[GreaterScopeVillain looming threat]] starting in the second book is the seal is starting to weaken.
* In both ''Fanfic/HerShadowedRealm'' and its SpiritualSuccessor ''Fanfic/AgesOfShadow'', Jade's FaceHeelTurn and subsequent transformation into an unstoppable force of evil results in her family and friends having to banish her to the Shadow Realm, trapping her within it. In both fics, she eventually makes contact with an AlternateUniverse and tries to find a way to manipulate events via proxies so that she can escape her imprisonment.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': In the set March of the Machines, [[spoiler:thanks to Wrenn's sacrifice, the phased-out country of Zhalfir exchanges places with the corrupted plane of New Phyrexia, cutting it and its armies off from TheMultiverse while making Zhalfir an independent plane from Dominaria.]]

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' in the set March of the Machines [[spoiler: thanks to the sacarfice of Wrenn, the pahsed out country of Zhalfir exchanges places with the corrupted plane of New Phyrexia, cutting it off form the multiverse while making Zhalfir an independent plane from Dominaria]]

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders'' series: Sometime between ''Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic'' and ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders3'', the wizard kings of Athla began to explore [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds the astral sea]] through the last portal left by the defeated shadow demons, [[TheMultiverse finding endless worlds and strange new magics]]. However, the dark elf king Meandor eventually returned without warning and convened in secret with Queen Julia of the wood elves and Merlin, the leader of the Wizard's Circle. It's not known what was said, but it was enough for the trio to [[GodzillaThreshold decide that the last shadowgate had to be closed at any cost]], [[TheMagicGoesAway and the source of true magic on Athla was destroyed by Merlin to do it]]. This left the immortal, megalomaniacal wizard kings (and Meandor, who went back through the portal) stranded in the astral sea with no way to get back home. This state of affairs lasts until ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders4'', after [[spoiler:the BigBad of ''3'' successfully restores the shadowgate and removes the barrier between worlds]].

* In ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever'']], [[EvilOverlord Lord Foul the Despiser]] was originally a CosmicEntity who threatened the entire {{Multiverse}}, until their opposite number (a being called [[TheMaker "the Creator"]]) imprisoned them within the world of The Land. The fabric of reality holds Lord Foul prisoner there - however, if the Creator ever interferes with events in that world, it will break reality and set Foul free once more. Thus Foul is able to torment the people of the Land unopposed, though their ultimate goal is to destroy reality themself and take their evil back to the wider cosmos.

* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenantTheUnbeliever'', [[EvilOverlord Lord Foul the Despiser]] was originally a CosmicEntity who threatened the entire {{Multiverse}}, until their opposite number (a being called [[TheMaker "the Creator"]]) imprisoned them within the world of The Land. The fabric of reality holds Lord Foul prisoner there - however, if the Creator ever interferes with events in that world, it will break reality and set Foul free once more. Thus Foul is able to torment the people of the Land unopposed, though their ultimate goal is to destroy reality themself and take their evil back to the wider cosmos.