Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: Difference between revisions

 

A Subtrope of [[Sealed Evil in a Can]], [[Sealed Good in a Can]], and [[Sealed Badass in a Can]]. Contrast [[Grand Theft Me]]. Compare [[Treasure Chest Cavity]].

 

== Anime And Manga ==

* ''[[Naruto]]'': The Jinchuriki are a people who have tailed demons sealed inside them. They include the title character, Naruto, Gaara of the Desert, and Killer Bee (who contain the Nine-tailed Fox, the One-Tailed Shukaku, and the Eight-Tailed Ox respectively.) It works as stated above: they can't get out without the host dying, and if the host dies normally they take the beast with them, though the Kyubi at least, and possibly the others, will eventually reincarnate some time later. As a result, the beasts grant their hosts supernatural power to ensure their survival.

* In ''[[Green Lantern|Green Lantern: Rebirth]]'', previous events involving Hal Jordan having gone kind of [[Ax Crazy]] over the loss of his hometown, killed most of the Green Lantern Corps, renamed himself Parallax, and eventually ending up as the host for [[The Spectre]] were [[retcon]]ned: according to the new telling, Parallax had always been an entity unto itself, and possessed Jordan to use his power and anger for its own purposes. The Spectre getting involved turned the whole situation into more of a person-shaped-can scenario, with Jordan as host for ''both'' of them but the Spectre serving to keep Parallax stuck within him and unable to escape or exert any real control.

* [[Marvel Comics]] has legendary [[Planet Eater]] [[Galactus]], who acts as the seal keeping the [[Eldritch Abomination]] Abraxas imprisoned and not destroying the multiverse. He only needs to eat planets in the first place because the seal is powered by his metabolism.