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Awakening the Sleeping Giant

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Awakening the Sleeping Giant	comment	Everyone knows about the Big Good and Big Bad, but what about the Even Bigger Neutral? In most conflicts, there are a variety of neutral parties. From the Precursors to the Retired Badass to the King in the Mountain to the Hidden Elf Village, they always exist, and there's usually one that can flatten both the other sides at the same time, using only a kitchen whisk and a sheet of tissue paper. But don't bother asking them for help, because they will refuse to get involved. That is, unless someone does something stupid or evil enough to piss them off. Whether it was the heroes or the villains, anyone who steps over some inexcusable line will invite their wrath, and this isn't the regular Neutral No Longer give-the-other-side-some-reinforcements wrath... this is the absolutely terrifying "Gee, I always wanted to see how my fresh army of perfectly-cloned Cthulhus can wipe stupid bastards off the face of the Earth, and I just found a volunteer!" kind of wrath. Expect the receiving end to crap pure diamonds down their pants if and when the former neutrals start whipping out the doomsday weapons. On the other hand, for the beleaguered side not subject to the proverbial giant's wrath, this is a moment of celebration as they gain a powerful ally and they will fight alone no more. There are two key points to look for before and after this trope comes into play. Before: There is an established conflict, of any sort, between any number of parties, with a prominent neutral party that wishes to remain uninvolved. After: When the neutral party enters the conflict, it drastically alters the balance of power. If the entity is an individual, then they won the Superpower Lottery, and it's likely they are a Martial Pacifist or that they don't see the conflict as something they need or want to get involved in. Sometimes an individual may be involved in the conflict but sees no reason to go all out to resolve it. This trope can often cross over with Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass if the character is extremely powerful but doesn't showcase their abilities unless the bad guy(s) set them off. Compare Sealed Badass in a Can, if the "sleeping" is in the character of an involuntary confinement and someone breaks the prison. If the neutral party is actually smaller than the two fighting powers, but still enough to alter the balance of power greatly, this overlaps with Kingmaker Scenario. A Sub-Trope of Neutral No Longer and related to Heroic Neutral. Compare Summon Bigger Fish, Create Your Own Hero, and Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard. If the giant was awakened by a "successful" attack on some of their territory or property, it was probably a Pyrrhic Victory. May serve as a Deus ex Machina and/or Story-Breaker Power (and/or Game-Breaker, if the work is a game) if the giant was an All-Powerful Bystander. If this occurs in video games during gameplay instead of the plot, see Savage Setpiece. For cases in which an evil character has been awakened, it's a Sister Trope of Evil Learns of Outside Context. Compare Bullying a Dragon and Default to Good.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_14494034	comment	Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Near the story's end, Mothra uses her Alpha Call to rally the other Titans around the world to war against Ghidorah.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_15d4bb1b	comment	The Equestrian Wind Mage: At one point during Season 2, Shining Armor reflects on his belief that Ganondorf and Majora have done this with their invasions of Equestria, for while the ponies are peaceful by nature, they will fight to protect what's theirs.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_1619d68e	comment	Tree of Aeons: Centuries after his rebirth, Aeon is far and away the greatest military power on the planet. His forces include most of the level 100+ individuals in the world, and his inner circle is comprised of demigods with levels over 150, while his hordes of giant beetles give him the numerical advantage. However, he has a longstanding policy of non-interference in other countries' business, so long as they don't attack him. He actually approves of conflict between them, since it results in rapidly gaining levels, which means more individuals strong enough to make a difference in a fight against an invading demon king, which is what he really cares about. But eventually, thanks to his efforts against the demons, the world has been safe from external attack long enough that the other continents' wars against each other can really escalate, and they start to stir up propaganda against him, to the point where a crusade is about to ignite, apparently having forgotten or never believed just what he's capable of. He starts out by kidnapping their leaders en masse, which they are helpless to prevent, and introducing them to the real war he's fighting; those who won't behave can be exiled to a demonic world permanently.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_1973b10a	comment	Sonic Unleashed — Despite being a horrifying Eldritch Abomination depicted nearly destroying the earth each millennia since time began, Dark Gaia is not so much evil as simply a force of nature (shown by the fact that whenever it tried to destroy the world upon awakening, it would be rebuilt by its other half, Light Gaia, and start the process all over again). It wasn't until Eggman tried to control the monster's power by firing his beam from space and woke Dark Gaia prematurely that he really put himself and the entire fate of the world in deep shit. Only Sonic and a formerly amnesiac Light Gaia make everything right again.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_1b7f85df	comment	In K, the first season's plot is the Green King's attempt to bring the immortal Silver King into the conflict after he has been an All-Powerful Bystander in his blimp for decades. This plan is kicked off with the Colorless King's murder of Tatara Totsuka... on the night of December 7th. The Silver King ends up uniting the Red and Blue clans in an alliance against the Green Clan and defeating them.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_1bdeba5a	comment	In the 1960s X-Men comics, this happened to Magneto when he tried to recruit the Stranger via intimidation.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_1dbe1afe	comment	In Watchers of the Throne, the Adeptus Custodes are seen as neutral in Terran politics, as an ancient edict forbids them from leaving the Imperial Palace. At the same time, they are the most powerful of the Imperium's Super-Soldier types,note apart from the Primarchs, but those have been gone for ten thousand years by this point and Curb Stomp pretty much every enemy they run into. As such, the plot of the first book revolves around "awakening" them by repealing the edict.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_1eb6c857	comment	Transformers: Fall of Cybertron — "Metroplex heeds the call of the last Prime." Literal and figurative. Before the energon shortage, there was plenty running through Iacon to have him take direct action well before, but he remained uninvolved, seeing no need. Right until the Ark was attacked.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_1f140feb	comment	In The Silmarillion, Eru IlÃºvatar. Specifically, in the AkallabÃªth, when the NÃºmenÃ³rians invaded Valinor: "But IlÃºvatar showed forth his power, and he changed the fashion of the world" — that is, IlÃºvatar changed the world from flat to round and, "incidentally", sank NÃºmenor beneath the sea in the process.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_2250e67e	comment	During the Xindi arc of Star Trek: Enterprise, the Aquatics are treated as this by Enterprise and the other four Xindi species. When the Reptilians and Insectoids take control of the weapon, the Primates and Arboreals are no match for them until the Aquatics join them to stop the weapon.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_247422c7	comment	During the early Honor Harrington novels, both the Manticorian and Havenite forces are very careful to avoid certain activities (such as planetary bombardment) that will attract the ire of the Solarian League, a star nation that comprises 80% of the human population in the galaxy. Later on, as conflict builds between Manticore and the Solarian League, it becomes obvious that the League, though huge, is no longer the military powerhouse it used to be: fifty years of Manticorian/Havenite conflict has left the massive League navy hopelessly outclassed. It is also made clear that if that was the only problem the League was facing, it would still be this trope — the League is still technologically sophisticated, it's just that it has mostly gone to civilian tech (which doesn't help the military) or the Frontier Fleet (which is severely lacking in larger warships, and the way battle works in the Honorverse means larger ships have a major advantage over smaller ships), and the League is so massive that it has the space and industry to buy time to upgrade their ships of the wall and then roll over Manticore. The real reason why it isn't is that this particular giant is beginning to collapse. Book 19, though, shows that the League is not yet down for the count and is not above violating its own laws (such as the Eridani Edict prohibiting Orbital Bombardment or the Deneb Accords prohibiting shooting at disabled ships or escape pods) to ensure its own survival. The League basically embarks on a campaign of terror and intimidation to force systems to stay in, despite the constitution permitting secession.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_247681c	comment	A Thin Veneer kicks off when the Federation and Klingon peace negotiations get interrupted by a group of refugees trying to escape the Earth/Minbari War. This wasn't sufficient to bring them into the war. The murder of twenty-five million beings from several major nations in a Pearl Harbor-style attack on a Federation colony, on the other hand, brings the Federation, Klingons, and Gorn into the Earth/Minbari War with a vengeance.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_24b673e7	comment	In Earth's Alien History, the Visitors destroying entire cities is described as this, as it forces Torchwood to dispense with secrecy and unveil hidden weapons emplacements in order to counterstrike and destroy them.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_2baca2eb	comment	The Love Bug: In Herbie Rides Again, although Grandma Steinmetz is threatened and harassed by Alonzo Hawk, she was initially fine to just let him and his men come and have Nicole send them off. That changes when Hawk decides to go even further and outright has his men steal every piece of furniture she owns. Once every piece is taken right back, Grandma becomes a true force to be reckoned with, culminating in redirecting the wrecking ball he was going to have knock down her firehouse so it goes to his home instead.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_2e80e66f	comment	A Diplomatic Visit: A completely unintentional version in the first sequel, Diplomat At Large. Years before, the hippogriffs had suddenly recalled all their people from around the world due to their kingdom being attacked by the Storm King as part of his plot to take over the world. When Twilight finds out the cause of this recall, she sends Celestia a letter about it... resulting in Equestria and its allies immediately gearing up for war with the Storm King.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_2f203125	comment	Shin Megami Tensei: As a general rule, in Megaten, The Great Will and Lucifer Are Both Jerks, and they're jerks with very specific and very differing ideas on how things should be run. Most if not all of the games revolve around them trying to get a leg up over the other and inevitably humanity gets involved, usually when the two factions decide to use our world as their latest battleground and us as food, cannon fodder, patsies, vessels, sacrifices, or worse. Unfortunately for them, the Neutral endings have them learn the hard way that there was, in fact, a giant sleeping amongst humanity, A giant who doesn't take kindly to the cosmic entities screwing with their world and the people they care about, a giant who turns the angels and demons to their own side and slaughters gods and demons with them before they're even at the midway point of the games, a giant who stares into the eyes of the gods of old and makes them blink. Who is this giant? You, who usually starts off as an Ordinary High-School Student just going about their life when Armageddon hits.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_3d22c14b	comment	This was Celestial Being's plan to achieve world peace in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. If a large-scale military conflict ever erupted, they would show up and decimate both sides. The idea is to discourage war by ensuring that everyone loses, and then to bring unity by becoming the common enemy of all military powers.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_3eecae56	comment	In Renegade, the Batarian Hegemony did this to the Global Defense Initiative by continuously supporting pirate and slaver raids into GDI territory in an effort to impede their colonization efforts. GDI expressed their disapproval quite violently. In addition, Word of God is that the Scrin are apparently trying to avoid doing this to the Reapers. GDI is outright called "An Awakened Giant" after the Turians woke GDI when they attacked Shanxi. Of course, the Giant was never really sleeping as much as unaware there were other aliens besides the Scrin, given that they have MARVs in fringe colonies.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty: Calling Evil Morty a "neutral" party might be a stretch, but he was content to simply lounge in his grandiose home outside the Central Finite Curve — until Rick's "fracking" of the Curve to find Rick Prime affected his home in episode "Unmortricken". He portals straight to Rick's lab to make his displeasure known, only assisting in the hunt for Rick Prime so that he'll be left alone.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Used in the books to explain why the various supernatural factions maintain the Masquerade despite their outward contempt of ordinary humanity: they fear what would happen if mortal humanity became aware of what else was out there — and Dresden notes that this fear does not take into account just how powerful mortal weaponry has become in the last century or so. Bringing mortal authority around into a supernatural argument is compared to the nuclear option. At least that's how it's explained in-universe to humans. Most factions have enough additional reasons it's hard to judge their real priority. Still, the big example of this having happened is the tale of how the Black Court of vampires used to be incredibly powerful with many members, until the White Court vampires arranged the publication of Dracula, making all their weaknesses public knowledge. They're not nearly so numerous nowadays. Battle Ground (2020) goes to prove it properly when a Fomorian army ends up invading Chicago. South Side gunmen alone end up keeping much of the invasion at bay, and after all is said and done the retreating army gets caught by the National Guard and smeared across the ground by a fleet of Apache helicopters.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Eve, the Mother of All Monsters, was satisfied with the natural order of things, where her children kill a few humans from time to time and in turn, a few humans hunt them back. Then Crowley, with the help of the Campbells, set up a base to torture Alphas, which pissed her off enough that she escaped from Purgatory intent on destroying all of mankind. Lucifer binds Death to his will in "Abandon All Hope...". Bad idea. Death was really annoyed by someone as powerful as himself being bound by "a bratty child throwing a temper tantrum" and gave the Winchesters his ring-the key to defeating Lucifer-in retribution. Metatron had withdrawn from the world, Heaven, and Hell to the point that he had not heard about the events of the Apocalypse, but at the end of Season 8, he's sought out and he decides to get back in the game. Not that that's a good thing.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_43d04978	comment	In Halo Wars 2, the humans need to get rid of the Banished supercarrier. They do so by boarding it and having Isabel activate its glassing canon, firing at the Arc installation. Formerly, the Forerunner defense system had been content to sit back and let the conflict unfold. Now, the supercarrier was a threat to the Arc.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_469b635d	comment	Or, if that's a bit flowery for you, there's the universal adage of the civilizations which have dealings with them; "Do not fuck with The Culture." See Consider Phlebas and Look to Windward for what happens when civilizations don't follow that advice. Someone phrased it as "The first rule of dealing with The Culture is that you do not fuck with The Culture. The second rule of dealing with The Culture is that you do not fuck with The Culture. The last rule is that you don't fuck with The godsdamned Culture!"
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_4771fb78	comment	The United States as per the final voice-over of the trope quote in Tora! Tora! Tora!. Maybe Yamamoto never said it — but he should have, and (as noted in the Real Life section below), he did at least hold similar sentiments.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama: Before her true nature was revealed, Julia wasn't the most helpful of the Frogs of Death, but she managed to float along because everyone liked her. Once MK reveals her true rotten nature and she becomes Hated by All as a result, Julia realizes she needs to put her A-Game into the challenges pronto or she's going home, eventually proving to be so competent at the challenges she becomes one of the most dangerous contestants in the game, reaching all the way to 4th place before Bowie votes her out.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_4937d0d9	comment	The Trade Order in Sins of a Solar Empire had no standing military to speak of. Just local planet-operated defense flotillas mainly consisting of frigates and cruisers in order to protect shipping lanes against Space Pirates. Then the Vasari invade with a massive fleet and thousands of years of technological advantage over the humans. They rapidly take a number of human colonies. Then the Trade Order gets reformed into the Trade Emergency Coalition, using its industrial and financial might to build an unprecedented number of warships, mostly using militarized versions of civilian ships. While the Vasari are still stronger in terms of technology and firepower, they can't possibly match the industrial capacity of the TEC. Even when the Advent join the conflict, the TEC are fully capable of waging a two-front war. Basically, We Have Reserves is in full effect for the TEC. And yet again after the TEC undergoes a civil war in the Rebellion Expansion Pack, the two halves are capable of fighting off each other and the xenos; the Loyalists through diplomatic maneuvering and superior defenses, while the Rebels crush everyone through expansionist warfare and alliances with SpacePirates and mercenaries.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_49a88442	comment	Among the Godlike Primals of Final Fantasy XIV, Ramuh is very passive, and would rather not be summoned by his Sylph followers unless their forest home is in danger. Fleeing a war of succession in the Garlean Empire, a new influx of refugees attempt to find shelter in the Twelveswood. Interpreting this as an invasion, the Sylphs summon the Lord of Levin to protect them. He's quick to agree to a truce when confronted by the Warrior of Light, but shows zero mercy for the Garlean Empire.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Word of God gave this as their reasoning for having the Horde destroy Theramore, as a way to bring the Alliance into the war against the Horde proper. Of course, the Alliance fans felt the sleeping giant should have already been awakened by the attacks on Southshore, Ashenvale, and Gilneas... In doing so, Horde Warchief Garrosh Hellscream has not only declared war on the Alliance but also the avowedly neutral Kirin Tor and the blue dragonflight. Perhaps the biggest "giant" in question regarding this attack was Lady Jaina Proudmoore. She was famous for being both an advocate for peace between the Alliance and Horde and also one of the most powerful mortal mages in recent history. One of the Forsaken in the Tides of War novel specifically point out how they shouldn't antagonize someone like that. Garrosh goes through with it, however, and the event scars Jaina for life, turning her from her peaceful ways into the person most vocal in crying out for Horde blood. She would have taken her revenge and wiped out all of Orgrimmar had Thrall and Kalec not talked her down. And on top of that, odds are fairly good that both the Alliance and the Horde will piss off the pandaren, most notably the Shado-Pan, whose leader is outspokenly against the faction hostilities brought to Pandaria's soil, dismissing it as a race war and calling the factions out for trying to pull the pandaren into it. Considering that Pandaria has a built-in defense mechanism called the Sha that react to and spawn from a variety of negative emotions, all of which both Red and Blue bring with them, and whose modus operandi is rampaging through the countryside until stopped, odds are increasingly in favor of Red and Blue getting a handy ass-kicking before this is all over. That is they'll be giving one considering that A) The sha have more or less been beaten down already, and B) Both sides are already studying them for further conflicts (And in the case of the horde, weaponizing).
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_4ce969a9	comment	Marathon 2: A large part of the game revolves around Durandal's comparatively paltry forces (made up of humans and S'pht) trying desperately to defeat a Pfhor fleet. Then the player succeeds in getting a message out to the long-lost S'pht'kr, a very powerful and advanced race of S'pht, about their brothers' plight, which leads to the curb-stomping of the Pfhor in the system (and plants the seeds for a decades-long conflict that eventually leads to the downfall of the entire Pfhor Empire at the hands of the S'pht'kr and humanity).
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_4d2d6ce4	comment	Narrowly averted in Tiberian Dawn, when Seth proposes an attack on the Pentagon as part of a Uriah Gambit to get rid of Nod's rising commander, but Kane intervenes and stops him. Looking at Nod's arsenal, it's clear that the Brotherhood gets most of their equipment (which includes the M2 Bradley, the Chenowth Desert Patrol Vehicle, the M-110 artillery, and even the Apache helicopter) from US arms dealers, so Kane had doubly good reason to leave the United States alone.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_4d8df5e8	comment	Battle Ground (2020) goes to prove it properly when a Fomorian army ends up invading Chicago. South Side gunmen alone end up keeping much of the invasion at bay, and after all is said and done the retreating army gets caught by the National Guard and smeared across the ground by a fleet of Apache helicopters.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_4f14e537	comment	The New Adventures of Invader Zim: Norlock was perfectly content to stay in his castle minding his own business. Then Dib accidentally blew his castle up, causing him to ally with Zim, upping the latter's threat level considerably.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_53b30902	comment	In Valkyria Chronicles, The Empire was hoping to use the neutral principality of Gallia as a staging ground and supply depot for their war against The Federation. Three guesses as to who sends them packing in the end.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_543bfacd	comment	Still, the big example of this having happened is the tale of how the Black Court of vampires used to be incredibly powerful with many members, until the White Court vampires arranged the publication of Dracula, making all their weaknesses public knowledge. They're not nearly so numerous nowadays.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_558b4c84	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy: The Sisterhood of the Badoon were content to stay on their homeworld while all the men went off into the universe to conquer and kill, only ever returning to procreate, take the kids and leave again. The Sisterhood didn't mind, since they weren't exactly interested in the outside universe, and assumed the Badoon men were generally peaceful. Once they found out from Starhawk this was not the case, they built a fleet to drag all the men back home for the ultimate time-out.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: In The Silmarillion, Eru IlÃºvatar. Specifically, in the AkallabÃªth, when the NÃºmenÃ³rians invaded Valinor: "But IlÃºvatar showed forth his power, and he changed the fashion of the world" — that is, IlÃºvatar changed the world from flat to round and, "incidentally", sank NÃºmenor beneath the sea in the process. The Lord of the Rings: The Ents curb stomp Saruman's fortress of Isengard after he cuts down their forest to burn it for fuel. In Peter Jackson's film adaptation, the ents decided not to intervene — until Merry and Pippin steered them toward the site where all the trees had been burned down. Other examples from the trilogy are the Dwarves of Erebor (whom Sauron turns into enemies with his Faux Affably Evil messenger) and the Rohirrim (whom Saruman almost had reduced to political paralysis until Gandalf revealed The Man Behind the Curtain).
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_5908ee91	comment	Given a rather blatant nod in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, in the seemingly quiet and inconsequential village of Riverwood. One of the few surviving Blades who are being hunted by the Thalmor is actually the proprietress of the aptly named Sleeping Giant Inn. Once the player character embraces their destiny as the Dragonborn, this character is essential to completing the main plot and defeating Alduin. One Jerkass Imperial officer's decision to execute a stranger caught merely crossing the border at the wrong place and time at the very start of the game can lead directly to that stranger (a legendary dragonslayer and Physical God) joining the Stormcloaks and booting the Imperial presence out of Skyrim in a matter of a couple of weeks. The Silver Hand is a band of people united under the common purpose of killing werewolves, no matter who or where they are. This drives them into conflict with the Companions, whose inner Circle is comprised exclusively of werewolves. While the Circle is not afraid of fighting the Silver Hand when they cross paths, their focus remains largely on gathering the missing fragments of Wuuthrad, and in Kodlak's case finding a cure for lycanthropy. This changes when the Silver Hand infiltrates Whiterun, attacks Jorrvaskr and kills Kodlak, while also stealing the fragments of Wuuthrad they had gathered thus far in order to lure the rest of the Circle out of hiding in order to kill them. With the help of Vilkas, the Dragonborn travels to their headquarters and wipes them out.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_59da62aa	comment	The Boomers from Fallout: New Vegas are descended from a faction that left Vault 34, whose armory was overstocked and couldn't be locked, after the Overseer tried to institute some form of arms control. This arsenal let the Boomers handily defeat the raiders that troubled them as they traveled across the Mojave Wasteland, and now they've taken up residence in Nellis Air Force Base, with a substantial supply of pre-War munitions including rockets and artillery. The Boomers aren't aggressive, but their violent first contact with surface-dwellers has made them intensely xenophobic, so their response to any would-be visitors, no matter their intentions, is to shell them with mortars. But if you're able to recruit them, they turn the Final Battle into a Curb-Stomp Battle by raining death upon an enemy that can do nothing to retaliate. If you don't recruit them, the game's various factions leave them alone out of fear, save for Caesar's Legion under Legate Lanius, who wipe out the Boomers but lose a ridiculous number of men, even by their standards, in doing so.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_5afbc0cb	comment	In Undertale, if you ride out the No Mercy route all the way to the end, your final opponent is Sans, the lazy, affable skeleton. He chides you for everything you've done, stating he "can't afford to not care anymore" and warns you that if you take another step "You're going to have a bad time", and he isn't lying.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_60425b68	comment	Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters: Archduchess Galiene Sebille was happily retried in an out of the way island... until the Sack of Torus Filney left her daughter and son-in-law prisoners of the Rebellion, which was enough to spur her to act against them.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_615a3895	comment	The My Little Pony Tales version of Chrysalis's attack on the Isle of Pony ends up resulting in that universe's previously hidden populations of Pegasi, Unicorns, Flutterponies, and Sea Ponies deciding they can't stand by doing nothing any longer and make themselves known on the Isle's behalf. They were planning to make First Contact anyway, but Chrysalis's actions resulted in them doing so decisively against her via military force.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_690590d3	comment	At the end of Princess Mononoke, Lady Eboshi decapitates the Shishigami, which nearly causes the destruction of the entire forest and nearby town.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	One-Punch Man: While not so much neutral as extremely lazy, Saitama is shown as largely uninterested in the finer points of heroism, finding it to be more of a casual hobby than a career. If he doesn't want to go out in search of heroics to perform, he won't do it. Anyone who does finally get his attention, however, tends to get obliterated. Just ask Boros, or the Sea King... or what's left of them, anyway.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_6c1d09b4	comment	The Minutemen from Fallout 4, should the player help rebuild them, become this. They are the only major faction in the Commonwealth that doesn't want to exterminate someone else. But should the Institute or the Brotherhood try to attack them, they will respond with overwhelming force.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_6cb2d709	comment	In Harry Potter, the motto of Hogwarts school is "never tickle a sleeping dragon" and would appear to be the wizarding equivalent of this saying. It turns out not to refer to Hogwarts itself as a superpower, but rather the fact that to attack Hogwarts is to put in danger nearly every wizarding child age 11 to 17. This has the rather egregious effect of pissing off every witch or wizard related to someone at the school, which is damn near all of wizarding Britain. Taken a bit further when Kreacher is able to turn the entire house-elf staff of Hogwarts to side with Harry rather than stay out of the fight. Not only do the elves have powerful magic, they are also small and carry very sharp knives, easy for attacking one's knees and shins.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_6d54a85c	comment	In An ordinary life the Noraneko Foyer is this. Izuku, after being expelled in the aftermath of the 3-A Fiasco, is completely uninterested in getting involved in the Front/League conflict. Thanks to having mastered One For All, he is also one if not the strongest person in Japan. And beside him, his students possess macro-scale Quirks or skills to compensate for their weaker Quirks and are fiercely loyal and protective of their beloved sensei Izuku. This trope is even referenced in the story by the name of the inn Aizawa, Toshinori, and Ochako stay at while visiting the city the Foyer is located for the first time: the Sleeping Giant Inn.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Begnion in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. There is a war between two similarly sized nations, immediately south and bordering both of them is one three times as big as the two put together. However, this is exactly what Ashnard wanted. He wanted the entire continent to be engulfed in war so that he could release the dark god from Lehran's Medallion. Invading Crimea without provocation was the start to get every Laguz nations and Begnion to intervene, and he had hoped to get the neutral Goldoa to act as he has their prince and heir warped into a Feral One. Had the war not ended sooner, Goldoa might have acted and awakened Yune. The Dragons count for the sequel Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn as well. Again, this is not a good thing as it "technically" count as the entire world is engulfed in war. The only reason things are much better than it sounds is that they were able to release Yune through the Galdr of Release, preventing Ashera's judgement from petrifying everyone.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_6f48e446	comment	Killian Qatar in Tiberium Wars disapproves of Nod's attack on GDI Blue Zones precisely for this reason, and even paraphrases the trope line. She's proven correct and Nod gets hammered hard in reprisal, though Kane was counting on a massive GDI counterattack to fulfill his master plan.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_70814599	comment	In the Stargate SG-1 pilot, Apophis thought he was just kidnapping a host from a human population, albeit one with rather noisy projectile weapons instead of swords and spears. Business as usual for the Goa'uld. As it turned out, he pissed off possibly the only civilization in the Milky Way with the exact combination of manpower, militarism, scientific knowledge, and insanity needed to end not only his own tyranny but that of his entire species. The Tau'ri are also guilty of this trope at least twice — first in Stargate Atlantis and the following year in Season 9 of SG-1, in both cases awakening a powerful alien race that rules an entire galaxy (the Wraith, then the Ori), becomes hell-bent on getting to the Milky Way, and at least in the Ori case, actually succeeding.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_72262aee	comment	Pissing off the Avatar in Avatar: The Last Airbender is probably the worst mistake you can do. Basically, imagine you have to fight against someone who has the knowledge of a thousand martial artists. Except the martial arts also come with Elemental Powers, so instead of just getting punched you can look forward to getting a giant ball of rock or fire in your face.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_7291539d	comment	In Batman: Arkham City, The Penguin was not Batman's target until Cobblepot decides to shoot a cop in front of him.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_72a9864b	comment	The concept of "awakening a sleeping giant" may have originated in the Indian epic Ramayana with the giant demon Kumbhakarana being the Ur-Example. Kumbhakarana was an immensely powerful asura who through a case of That Came Out Wrong got a boon of being able to sleep for six months, waking only to eat. When Ravana is facing defeat at the hands of Rama's invading army, he hopes that waking Kumbhakarana early, and thus enraging him will even the odds. In a rare subversion of this trope, it doesn't work. Rama is the good guy, Ravana is the Big Bad and is therefore destined to lose.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_73d7930f	comment	Sisko's efforts to get the Romulans into the Dominion War in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine end up turning the tide of the conflict. This is also a view of Starfleet and the Federation in general by other organizations — the Prime Directive tells them to keep out of the affairs of other species, which includes other space-faring races. However, when they are forced to be involved, they do everything they can to end the conflict. Sure, the Federation are the good guys, but when pushed... A specific example comes from Star Trek: The Next Generation — the Federation is determined to stay neutral in the Klingon Civil War, as it is a purely Klingon affair. But when the indications are that the Romulan Empire is involved, that gets Starfleet's attention. When they manage to intercept a group of cloaked warbirds on approach to Klingon space, the Romulans know better than to make their delivery — doing so would make the Federation have to get involved, and the Romulans don't want a war with them. The Romulans are actually something of an odd case, as they do want war with the Federation. However, they want to start it on their termsnote especially by avoiding a two-front war with the Federation and the Klingon Empire, hence all the subterfuge. They won't start a fight, but they will manipulate the Federation into giving them an excuse. Not just the Romulan involvement in the Dominion War. The entire Dominion War itself could be considered this from the Dominion's perspective, as they severely underestimated Federation technical prowess and industrial capacity, to the point that Federation engineers became an entire army of Shrouded in Myth badasses in the eyes of the Dominion, who witnessed the Federation turn just about anything they could get their hands on into a starship and cranking their industrial base up a notch, to the point that one Vorta claimed a Federation engineer could "turn rocks into replicators". Not to mention the original Dominion contingent had no idea how warlike humanity could become when the need arose. (Their Cardassian allies were considerably smarter in this regard, however). The Dominion were considerably more well-informed about the Federation than was believed. The Dominion had however achieved such a string of victories (going from their first attacks on Alpha Quadrant ships and colonies in 'The Jem'Hadar' to encounters throughout Season 5) against Federation ships that they 'knew' their technology was superior. They mainly underestimated the Federation's (i.e. human) resourcefulness to adapt so the Dominion's technological advantages slowly disappeared. Since Dominion tech was older (in terms of when it was developed), the Founders had settled into a pattern that held only so long as no 'equivalent' force could overcome their advantages (such as weapons that ignore shields, sensors that can detect cloaked ships, etc). The Dominion's goal prior to the war was to ensure Romulan, Federation, and Klingon separation, so that these three Alpha Quadrant powerhouses never formed a coalition against them. Those efforts mainly failed, and after the Romulans were tricked into joining the war, the Dominion faced an almost fully united Alpha Quadrant. The more traditional example was that the Dominion completely ignored the Prophets. The main Dominion armada was more than big enough to curbstomp the allies who were barely holding on against the advance force, and once the minefield blocking the wormhole was down they were coming with a vengeance. They forgot that the wormhole was controlled by the gods of Bajor, and once Sisko convinced the Prophets that Bajor itself was threatened that fleet got itself straight-up disappeared. This conclusively turned the tide of the war.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_74e8b407	comment	Midway (2019): Yamamoto quotes this trope word by word to his wife after listening to President Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech on the radio, realizing that the Americans are now out for their blood.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: In Halo Wars 2, the humans need to get rid of the Banished supercarrier. They do so by boarding it and having Isabel activate its glassing canon, firing at the Arc installation. Formerly, the Forerunner defense system had been content to sit back and let the conflict unfold. Now, the supercarrier was a threat to the Arc. The final post-credits scene of Halo Infinite suggests that now that Atriox has found the Endless, what's left of the Forerunners are activating their ultimate superweapon, the super-AI that coordinated the final battle against the Flood just before the Halos were fired: "Offensive Bias has been deployed."
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_755fadab	comment	Kyon of Haruhi Suzumiya plans to invoke this if Nagato's alien boss tries to harm her. Haruhi, everyone's favorite obnoxious Reality Warper, doesn't even know there is a conflict. But in Disappearance, Kyon determines a way to convince her aliens exist, and there's little doubt that she would effortlessly annihilate them if she knew they were after one of her club members. This comes dangerously close to happening in a later novel.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3 has another example. Not that they were exactly sleeping by this point, but Kai Leng stealing the data on the Catalyst out from under Shepard's nose finally pisses the Alliance off enough to focus their entire military might on Cerberus.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_76e764b0	comment	In Absolute Power Sucks Absolutely, Maxime is content to live something resembling a normal life while doing small favors for others through his Reality Warper powers. He doesn't want to join the Justice League but he also doesn't want The Light after him or anyone he cares about. He breaks his neutrality once he realizes that he could have prevented thousands of children from being killed if he had acted sooner during the Split World incident. That's when he decides to reveal himself to the United Nations and offers to resurrect every single one of the victims of the event.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_774aac31	comment	District 9: The South African government speculates that Christopher Johnson is going to be coming back to Earth one day to save his people, with heavily-armed help.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_780bfe03	comment	The final post-credits scene of Halo Infinite suggests that now that Atriox has found the Endless, what's left of the Forerunners are activating their ultimate superweapon, the super-AI that coordinated the final battle against the Flood just before the Halos were fired: "Offensive Bias has been deployed."
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_7988cb68	comment	In Mass Effect: Humanity are the galactic newcomers with comparatively little military to speak of, and very strange (to other races) military doctrinenote All other races have substantial planetary defense forces, while humans instead use Rapid Reaction Forces and minimal standing planetary defense. The Turians (the resident galactic police race) generally don't harbor a grudge over the First Contact War out of respect for the Battle of Shanxi, and the collective egg on their facesnote Not knowing about human military doctrine, the turians quickly and easily beat down the defender of Shanxi, and then got their butts handed to them when the aforementioned Rapid Reaction Force showed up to punch back hard. Galactic war was averted, but the turians remain impressed at being handed their only military defeat by an upstart spacefaring nation. However, most other races look at humans with general caution bordering on fear, realizing that the standing human military (about 3% of their population) can fight on pretty even terms (in the short term) against most other galactic races with larger standing forces and that if and when humans mobilize for an actual war, they will be a force to be reckoned withnote Something that is borne out in the third game, when the full might of Alliance military assets are far larger than any other individual race. Mass Effect 3 has another example. Not that they were exactly sleeping by this point, but Kai Leng stealing the data on the Catalyst out from under Shepard's nose finally pisses the Alliance off enough to focus their entire military might on Cerberus. Also, the Alliance almost invariably forms the bulk of Shepard's War Assets, with only the Geth and Krogan coming close to matching them (though adding the DLCs puts the miscellaneous alien groups over the top). Nothing like a Reaper invasion to get an entire species motivated. Being the only race that doesn't have to balance the attack and defending their own homeworld also helps.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan and Exile mutually grabbed the Idiot Ball and marched into the most obvious trap ever getting predictably stomped by [the Sith Emperor. Thanks to the two former protagonists and their firm grip on the idiot ball, no attempt was made to warn the Republic that the Sith Empire even existed. The Sith Empire merrily sat back and stockpiled everything it could muster for three centuries to strike back at the Republic, ostensibly for their Genocide Backfire a thousand years earlier. The Republic was caught with their pants down as the Empire waged a very successful shock and awe campaign, ending with the Treaty of Coruscant (which both sides knew was nearly worthless, and played right into the Emperor's bigger plan to destroy everything in the galaxy except himself). Predictably, as soon as the truce was declared, the Sith started infighting while the Republic stockpiled and threw everything they could muster at the Empire. The Empire, starting with fewer troops, fewer Force Users, an untenable reliance on slave labor, and the infrastructure of a Third World backwater finds itself in serious trouble by the Makeb story arc, with Darth Marr admitting they're pretty much screwed if their Hail Mary plan with Isotope 5 droids doesn't pan out. As of Knights of the Fallen Empire it's revealed that this was intentional on the Emperor's part; the war was intended to weaken both sides enough to be easy pickings for his other empire. The thousand-year history of the Sith Empire and the massive war with its layers of plots within plots (set up to be foiled by the Jedi so they think they're winning) was little more than a massive feint.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Ents curb stomp Saruman's fortress of Isengard after he cuts down their forest to burn it for fuel. In Peter Jackson's film adaptation, the ents decided not to intervene — until Merry and Pippin steered them toward the site where all the trees had been burned down. Other examples from the trilogy are the Dwarves of Erebor (whom Sauron turns into enemies with his Faux Affably Evil messenger) and the Rohirrim (whom Saruman almost had reduced to political paralysis until Gandalf revealed The Man Behind the Curtain).
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_81a005a3	comment	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has a literal example, when Puss's loud party and battle with the governor at the start of the film awakes the sleeping giant of Del Mar. It's also a figurative example: Puss dies for the eighth time at the end of the fight, and him not taking the fact he's on his last life seriously infuriates Death himself enough for him to go after the cat personally.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_824766fc	comment	Marinette Dupain-Cheng's Spite Playlist sees Marinette give up on trying to convince her classmates that Lila is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, transferring to another school and moving on with her life. Despite having "won", Lila refuses to let Marinette be, doing her best to try and provoke her into acting against her again. She finally succeeds at doing so by forcibly kissing Adrien at the museum... and in doing so, sets in motion her own downfall. All the more so because this incident also provokes Adrien himself into action. The Remix version changes things slightly in that it isn't any one thing that pushes Marinette to finally start taking decisive action but rather Lila taking any chance she can to continue to antagonize her. Marinette eventually hits her Rage Breaking Point simply because Lila won't let up despite pretty much getting what she wanted out of the whole mess. The Remix version also has Adrien actively working against Lila from the start. Marinette leaving made him realize that he's fallen into a Pacifism Backfire. His efforts are an uphill battle (owing to a mixture of Lila's manipulations, his own reluctance to use what he deems underhanded methods, and the class' refusal to believe him) but he does slowly start making inroads to dealing with Lila. Especially because his support helps Marinette deal with her complicated feelings about the whole mess.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape: The God Wars were a series of conflicts between powerful gods over thousands of years, resulting in mass extinction and great damage to the environment. This awoke Guthix from his sleep, the most powerful of the gods, who proceeded to establish a set of Edicts, which forbade the major gods from interfering in the balance of the world, otherwise Guthix would remake the world without mercy. Kerapac spends the duration of the quest "Desperate Measures" attempting to sacrifice Gielinor and destroy the Elder Gods. His actions eventually invoke the ire of the Elder God Jas, who awakens and decimates his laboratory in retaliation.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_84dfb5d5	comment	In the backstory to Galactic Civilizations, the evil Drengin Empire initially had a dismissive view toward humanity, since these galactic newcomers didn't even have a proper starfleet beyond some exploratory and mercantile vessels. So the Drengin secretly sponsored a minor galactic power as it attacked the humans... at which point the humans rapidly mobilized, built a military armada large enough to give the Drengin nightmares, and proceeded to lay waste to the aggressors until the Drengin were all but forced to covertly finish the race's genocide before they could reveal who had convinced them to attack the humans. In the war's aftermath, the humans promptly decommissioned their military and went back to trading and exploring, something which terrified the Drengin to no end, since they do not understand the lack of desire to use power: humanity mobilizing for a massive war and then reverting to peace just as quickly makes them seem insane to the Drengin. In the games proper, the Drengin force humanity to choose between risking annihilation to force the Drengin to fight an insanely powerful Precursor race, or to fight said Precursors anyway and let the Drengin freely attack the war-depleted races. The latter happens, the Drengin start their war, fight all the way to Earth (which they can't actually breach)... and then get beaten back by human remnants enough for said remnants to reach Earth, which has been building a massive fleet to fight the exact kind of war the Drengin had hoped to prevent in the first place.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_89703d00	comment	Wonder Woman: Let's just say that the nazi who shot Steve Trevor while the two were parachuting over Paradise Island did more to help the Allied cause than perhaps any single act in World War II.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_8aaeda7e	comment	MonsterVerse: This version of Godzilla is viewed by Serizawa as the embodiment of nature's ability to restore balance to itself when that balance is disrupted, and he's furthermore described by his film debut's director Gareth Edwards as only ever emerging to make things right when the world's natural balance goes wrong. Although he seemingly doesn't fight directly on humanity's behalf, whenever he shows up, he shifts the balance so that humanity's efforts against hostile Kaiju are no longer borderline futile, becoming a crucial ally by proxy.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_8ba43df	comment	John Wick was a force to be reckoned with in the criminal underworld, being a hired killer and Implacable Man who always got the job done, until he decided to walk away to settle down with the love of his life. Then cancer took his wife from him, but she left him with a parting gift: a puppy to care for. Then the son of a former associate killed his puppy in the commission of stealing his prized car. Three films later, the number of dead assassins and criminals is still climbing. John ends up on the wrong end of this trope as the series goes on and he continues enraging the High Table with his breaking of their rules and utter refusal to die. This trope finally reaches its apogee in the fourth film when the Table assumes wartime footing and grant full power to the Marquis with the order to get rid of John Wick once and for all. The Marquis promptly deploys the High Table's secret armies and goes full scorched Earth on anything and anybody who ever sheltered Wick. John finally accepts that the only way he is going to get out of this mess (and it's a very long shot) and save what friends he has remaining is to follow the High Table's rules and challenge the Marquis to a duel.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_8e560362	comment	The protagonist becomes the ultimate Even Bigger Neutral by the Third (and last) Part of Tranquilium. He has some very long-term plans in operation, but mostly he just sits there, confusing enemies and allies alike with his apparent inactivity. Then a cult kidnaps his son to either use him for or blackmail his father into working with their occult plans. The father arrives and dismantles the entire cult, dashing their last chance to carry out their scheme in the process and finishing with a (jaded) "Break Them by Talking".
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_8f165ac0	comment	In the backstory of Mass Effect: Human Revolution, the Moon colonists tried to take over Earth by carrying out guerilla superfighter attacks and demanding the feuding supranational blocs of Earth cede control. All that did was make the Earthnoids mad.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_90f18253	comment	In Battletech, the states of the Inner Sphere banded together to form a second Star League with the common goal of annihilating Clan Smoke Jaguar. The Clans were descendants of the original Star League's military, and a political schism existed with them between "Warden" (guides and protectors of the Inner Sphere) and "Crusader" (conquerors of the barbarians that play at recreating the Star League). Clan Smoke Jaguar was a particularly brutal Crusader clan; so much so that their response to one case of rampant insurgency in the Clan Invasion was to glass the city from orbit. When the fury of the entire Inner Sphere fell upon them, not even their fellow like-minded Crusader clans came to their aid, and Clan Smoke Jaguar was no more. The Second Star League first took back all the worlds they took in the Clan Invasion, and then followed Exodus Road all the way to the distant Clan worlds to finish the job; a potentiality that the Smoke Jaguars used to fearmonger the rest of the clans to go along with the invasion. The entire Clan Invasion was then repudiated with the "Great Refusal" immediately after the elimination of the Jaguars was effectively complete.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_92d63800	comment	Moloch from Aeon Natum Engel fits the trope, and it didn't end well for anybody, Moloch included.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_974ad78f	comment	Merlin is another potentially dangerous example. The first atomic bomb tests brought magic into the world, allowing for all sorts of Magitek in addition to the technology of modern-day Earth. Should the timeline's more fanatic America figuring out cross-world travel, it would not be pretty. They already have.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_97c681f2	comment	In Equestria: Across the Multiverse: The multiversal Storm Empire adheres to Pragmatic Villainy for this exact reason: they're far stronger than anything the Alliance has faced thus far, but are also aware much bigger fish than themselves are lurking out there in the multiverse and will wipe them out should they accidentally disturb them. As such, they stick to their own worlds they conquered and avoid actions that may tick off forces stronger than themselves. The My Little Pony Tales version of Chrysalis's attack on the Isle of Pony ends up resulting in that universe's previously hidden populations of Pegasi, Unicorns, Flutterponies, and Sea Ponies deciding they can't stand by doing nothing any longer and make themselves known on the Isle's behalf. They were planning to make First Contact anyway, but Chrysalis's actions resulted in them doing so decisively against her via military force.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_9a8bf274	comment	Command & Conquer: Narrowly averted in Tiberian Dawn, when Seth proposes an attack on the Pentagon as part of a Uriah Gambit to get rid of Nod's rising commander, but Kane intervenes and stops him. Looking at Nod's arsenal, it's clear that the Brotherhood gets most of their equipment (which includes the M2 Bradley, the Chenowth Desert Patrol Vehicle, the M-110 artillery, and even the Apache helicopter) from US arms dealers, so Kane had doubly good reason to leave the United States alone. Killian Qatar in Tiberium Wars disapproves of Nod's attack on GDI Blue Zones precisely for this reason, and even paraphrases the trope line. She's proven correct and Nod gets hammered hard in reprisal, though Kane was counting on a massive GDI counterattack to fulfill his master plan.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: We learn that the second half of the Grand Line, called the New World, is controlled by four pirates of immense power. These four are known as the Yonkou, or Four Emperors, and that giving one of them grief is basically an act of suicide; they have otherwise little reason to leave their respective slices of the world, and they have an unspoken mutual agreement with the marines of just not interacting at all. Following the Time Skip, the Worst Generation, made up of the super-rookie pirate crews that were on Sabaody the same time the Straw Hats were, is making waves by going after their belongings and lands, stirring them all into action; it's implied that this will eventually lead to all the awakened giants clashing against one another with world-shaking consequences. Whitebeard, The World's Strongest Man and former equal of the Pirate King Gold Roger, is acknowledged in-universe as a Cool Old Guy who just wants to chill on his ships with his crew/surrogate family. But when the World Government announces their intention to publicly execute one of his men, the world panics because Whitebeard is A Father to His Men and that the Government has basically declared war on a man who can create earthquakes at will, with an armada of powerful pirate crews at his beck and call. Red-Hair Shanks, Luffy's idol, appears at the Paramount War and declares that unless everyone stops fighting, he'll take them on. Everyone immediately drops what they're doing, and the most epic conflict of the series ends not on a bang, but a whimper. Caesar Clown tries to invoke this when Luffy's about to beat him, saying that attacking the scientist means bringing down the wrath of his Man Behind the Man, Donquixote Doflamingo, and by extension, Kaido, another Yonkou. After the Straw Hats succeed in bringing down Doflamingo's weapons running and Fake Devil Fruit factory, Kaidou becomes roaring mad and roaring for revenge. In Totto Land, if anyone defeats one of Big Mom's Sweet Commanders, Big Mom's retribution is to unleash all of her forces on the perpetrator. Later on, Brook succeeds in getting into the treasure room. Big Mom is so infuriated that she personally shows up to get him. After Luffy's gang escapes Totto Land, foiling Big Mom's Germa assassination, causing her palace to collapse, and beating another one of her Sweet Commanders, Big Mom decides to screw the Balance of Power and chase after Luffy into Wano... where Kaido is based. Kaido himself takes this about as literally as it gets. Almost all of his time is spent either getting or being drunk, but he's not called "the strongest creature in the world" for nothing. His and Luffy's first encounter kicks off with Luffy going Gear Fourth and sucker-punching a drunken Kaido, before pummeling the Emperor with everything he has. Not only is Kaido completely unaffected, the assault only served to sober him up. Luffy is nearly killed by a single swing of Kaido's kanabo, and Kaido immediately has Luffy captured and goes off to get drunk again. Perhaps a more literal example takes place at the climax of Luffy's rematch with Kaido, where a CP0 agent, under orders from the Five Elders, interferes in the fight so that Luffy can't defend himself from Kaido's strongest attack. As a result, not only does this fail to kill Luffy, he awakens his Devil Fruit, whose true name is revealed to be the Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika. That is, the Sun God Nika, the Warrior of Liberation and the antithesis of everything the World Government's oppressive regime stands for. This is the very outcome the Five Elders were trying to prevent, by the way; for reference, they believed going to war with a pissed-off Kaido was preferable.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: This is the usual result of waking up a Snorlax. Typically found snoozing comfortably in the middle of a route, passing them is only possible by using some means to awaken it, at which point it attacks in a "grumpy rage". They're one of the series' earliest examples of a Mighty Glacier, possessing solid defences and bulk, impressive physical might, and a selection of status moves making it even harder to defeat like Rest or Amnesia.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla: Godzilla (1954): During the testing of the atomic bomb, the blasts manage to awaken and irradiate a massive marine reptile, named Godzilla by Odo Island mythology, and spur it to attack Tokyo. Rodan: Not learning their lesson from Godzilla, a deep coal mining operation opens up a hollow cavity filled with giant insects and the eggs of two massive pterosaurs that prey on them. Ebirah, Horror of the Deep: Godzilla is not on any side of the conflict, and is just a neutral third party tucked away in a deep sleep on the island. Once he wakes up, everything goes absolutely haywire for the previously untouchable Red Bamboo as neither they nor their giant crab is equipped to handle the radioactive reptile. King Caesar mostly slumbers by being sealed within a cave, therefore to be awakened to battle an oncoming threat, only a descendant of the Azumi royal family can summon him by singing a song. MonsterVerse: This version of Godzilla is viewed by Serizawa as the embodiment of nature's ability to restore balance to itself when that balance is disrupted, and he's furthermore described by his film debut's director Gareth Edwards as only ever emerging to make things right when the world's natural balance goes wrong. Although he seemingly doesn't fight directly on humanity's behalf, whenever he shows up, he shifts the balance so that humanity's efforts against hostile Kaiju are no longer borderline futile, becoming a crucial ally by proxy.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_a479f075	comment	Ebirah, Horror of the Deep: Godzilla is not on any side of the conflict, and is just a neutral third party tucked away in a deep sleep on the island. Once he wakes up, everything goes absolutely haywire for the previously untouchable Red Bamboo as neither they nor their giant crab is equipped to handle the radioactive reptile.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project's setting of Gensokyo has too many Sleeping Giants for its own good. Yukari Yakumo is a powerful Reality Warper who's normally too lazy to get involved in anything, but if something is actively threatening Gensokyo, she won't hesitate to get involved, as Eientei learned in Imperishable Night or Tenshi found after destroying the Hakurei Shrine in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. It's also implied that should Reimu ever fail in protecting the border (which is saying a lot), the dragon of Gensokyo will swoop down to deal with whatever problem there is. And it's not your standard fire-breathing Western fantasy dragon either: this dragon, when he/she/it appeared once in the past, filled the entire sky with his/her/its body. His/her/its presence alone caused extreme rain, enough to flood the entire Gensokyo. The dragon might be Gensokyo itself.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_a8269bb	comment	In What About Witch Queen?, the Tampere Empire is the largest country on the continent, but generally it focuses more on the Far East than Inner Sea (the region where Arendelle and Weselton are). However, the Royal Council of Arendelle fears that if Drachner will manage to take over the entire Inner Sea region, Tampere will end up steamrolling them to stop this.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_ab60e67e	comment	For most of Origin Story, Alex Harris — a Kryptonian trapped in the Marvel Universe — is perfectly happy to keep her head down and not get involved in the "civil war" going on across the US between the superheroes. In fact, she only takes a side, finally, because she gets fed up with the fascistic pro-registration side constantly refusing to leave her and her partner Louise alone.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_ad622d64	comment	Caladan Brood's warhammer in Malazan Book of the Fallen, aptly named Burn's Hammer, is an implement she gave him, so he can awaken her if he so wishes. Luckily, he is aware of what him wielding the hammer will do and he treats his responsibility accordingly. Since Burn is the world itself, awakening this particular giant is generally a bad idea.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_b07d4abd	comment	The first and final books in The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy build up the Genius Loci within Mephetic castle as a truly ancient, truly badass threat too selfishly neutral to bother with the cast anywhere but on its own turf. For most of the plot, the spirit's only interest is the grudge it carries against Bek Ohmsford for stealing from it. In the final showdown with Big Bad the Morgwar, Bek tricks the spirit into believing the warlock is him, thus bringing all of its rage down upon the Morgwar and crushing him to death within its walls.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_b30ae4db	comment	In Game of Thrones, Khal Drogo really didn't care all that much about Westeros, until Robert tried to have Daenerys assassinated. Then he becomes hell-bent on vengeance. This was deliberately engineered by Varys, who sent the assassin. But then he dies of an infected wound and a blood magic ritual gone wrong (or right, depending on who you ask) and his horde falls apart.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_b315b9de	comment	In the backstory film, "In The Beginning," Londo is pressured to provide info on the mysterious Minbari for Earthforce so they could do an armed probe of their territory. Londo agrees, but pointedly warns them that the Minbari are not to be underestimated, and comments that "I hope you do not wake the Dragon." Of course, the Human force is led by a trigger-happy idiot who does precisely that, and suddenly Earth is in a crushing Hopeless War against an overwhelmingly superior foe on a genocidal crusade against Humanity. For a bit of backstory, humans have only recently entered the galactic stage and have shown their mettle by turning the tide in the Dilgar War. What they didn't understand was that the Dilgar were small potatoes compared to the ancient and powerful Minbari. Londo's suggestion to send a single ship is brushed aside, and they decide to send a commander with a poor First Contact track record.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_b61ade52	comment	Thor's aptly-named "Sleeping Giant"
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_b6d7b1e1	comment	In That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, the Kingdom of Farmus schemed against the Jura Tempest Federation, a country of monsters, because its growing prosperity made them a major threat to their trade monopoly. Thus, they sent a small group to incite an incident in Tempest so that they could invade with the Imperial Holy Church under the pretext of "subjugating the evil monsters", which would allow him to both eliminate a trade rival and claim their vast riches. However, their plan relied on the monsters being weakened by a magic barrier that would surround the country and their leader being a pushover who would bend the knee to them. Once Tempest gets their act together, not only do they demonstrate that they're an army of evolved monsters perfectly capable of kicking ass outside the barrier, but Rimuru demonstrates that Good Is Not Soft and singlehandedly massacres the entire twenty-thousand-strong invading army and uses their souls to become a True Demon Lord in order to send a message and act as a deterrent for future invasions.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_b70de397	comment	While the government was favorable to help the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, the Earth Alliance in The Dilgar War is initially neutral between the Dilgar and the League, save for a little tidbit: the Dilgar were to not invade the Markab and the Mentab. When the Warmaster Council vote to invade the Markab to reach the Vree (with Jha'dur saying that attacking the Markab was an immensely stupid act exactly because Earth protected them), the Dilgar curbstomps the Markab fleet only to meet Earthforce and a Macross Missile Massacre of nuclear weapons (about a dozen nukes for every ship the Dilgar had in that battle). The losses sustained in that single battle were more than anything the Dilgar had lost before in the entire war and cost them the war.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_b747108f	comment	David Weber's Out of the Dark: When the alien invaders are about to make the human race extinct, someone on Earth (Count Dracula) finally decides to come out of his self-imposed exile and show them what real monsters can do. The sequels reveal that all of humanity is this now. The Hegemony has been dominant in the galaxy for tens of thousands of years, and now there's a growing power that may shake the very foundation of galactic status quo. Of course, that was what the Hegemony was trying to avoid in the first place by quietly sending the Shongairi to take care of humanity before they became a threat.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_b8404ba7	comment	Domina: It goes both ways with the war between America and Domina. On the one hand, Domina is a very large independent city that greatly values its freedom, with millions of bio-augmented soldiers who are willing to fight to defend it — and they've been fighting each other for decades, so they're very experienced in killing. The American forces were expecting token resistance from criminal gangs, and instead find that they can barely make any headway at all. On the other hand, it is repeatedly pointed out that the only reason America is landing troops at all instead of just shelling the city is that they don't want to kill the entire city. The Dagonites sinking the boats and the unexpected city shield make shelling the city harder than expected, but America still has nukes while Domina doesn't. In total war, America would inevitably win. Luckily for Domina City, the American president didn't want a war in the first place, and was only convinced to when a Dominite exile told him it would be an easy liberation. Once the invasion stalls, he is willing to cut his losses and sue for peace.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_b962c879	comment	Done twice in Fairy Tail, by the same person, in the same story arc, and pretty much at the same time. While attempting to simultaneously capture Zeref and annihilate Fairy Tail, Grimoire Heart, and specifically their leader Hades, manage to piss Zeref off to the point where he stops doing his best to avoid all life forms and proceeds to track Hades down with the intent to kill him. It's then revealed that Hades has also managed to draw the attention of Acnologia, a murder-happy dragon capable of destroying continents.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_ba2ab0a2	comment	In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Ezio finally loses the desire for revenge after defeating Rodrigo Borgia, the man who had his father and brothers killed, and retires to his uncle's villa in Monteriggioni for a quiet life. Rodrigo, beaten and humbled, decides to focus on consolidating his family's and personal power in a manner that does not cross Ezio and the Assassins. His son Cesare, on the other hand, proceeds to assault and brutally sack the town, killing many people including Ezio's uncle, one of the few family he has left, destroying his surrogate home and kidnapping his love interest. Cesare assumes that this act will break Ezio and the Assassins, leaving him and his family free to continue their conquering ambitions. How wrong he is. All this act does is fill Ezio with renewed fury and vigor and prompt him to come to the very centre of Borgia influence and power, the city of Rome, where he immediately sets about rebuilding the Assassin Order with the express purpose of destroying everything the Borgia hold dear and plan to accomplish before going for the kill. Rodrigo himself actually calls his son out on his rank stupidity in directly attacking the Assassins when they had offered them mercy, pointing out that now they will not stop until the Borgia are all wiped out.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_ba91b0fa	comment	Rodan: Not learning their lesson from Godzilla, a deep coal mining operation opens up a hollow cavity filled with giant insects and the eggs of two massive pterosaurs that prey on them.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Tau Empire got hit by this when they first encountered the Imperium. The Tau were able to annex some Imperial border worlds without any difficulty, weren't impressed by the Planetary Defense Force troopers who tried to resist, and assumed that the Imperium was comparable in size to their own domain. Then they got hit by the Damocles Gulf Crusade, found themselves fighting the Imperial Guard and Space Marines, and realized that the Imperium of Man was a galaxy-spanning polity that had only allowed the Tau to survive this long because they had so many other enemies to deal with. The Tau were able to adapt to Imperial tactics enough to slow their advance, and the distraction of the Tyranid Hive Fleets convinced the Imperium to agree to a peace treaty, but ever since the Tau have had to time their expansion carefully, lest they provoke another overwhelming response from the Imperium. A weird mutual Awakening moment comes from the 6th edition Tyranids codex. The Tyranids attacked an Imperial world that turned out to be guarding a cursed relic from the Dark Age of Technology. After the Imperial defenders were slaughtered and the Tyranids got down to the business of consuming the world's biomass, the artifact created a Warp Portal that unleashed a horde of daemons, which were none too pleased that there were no more human souls to harvest or Imperial icons to desecrate, and so took out their aggression on the Tyranids. The Tyranids took heavy losses, their Hive Mind was forced to re-evaluate Chaos forces from "prey" to a predator of equal power to the Hive Fleets and shifted tactics to beat back the Chaos incursion with massed artillery biomorphs and overwhelming psychic power. The Chaos Daemons in turn came to understand the true threat of the Tyranids and began plotting their revenge. Up until this point, the two had almost entirely ignored each other; the Tyranids have no souls to steal and the Daemons have no biomass to consume. The Craftworld Eldar combine with Sealed Good in a Can. Maybe some simple planet miners or the Adeptus Mechanicus messed with something buried that should have been left to slumber, maybe Chaos is on the march, or maybe the Imperium themselves invaded a peaceful Exodite World. Whatever the case may be, when the Space Elves go to war, they bring their incredibly advanced technology and formidable psychic powers to crush their opposition and then leave once the threat is dealt with.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_c02a73bd	comment	Exit Fate plays with this to the point that you don't actually realise it's been in effect until the very end. Rather large spoilers ahoy. At the end of the first half of the game, Daniel Vinyard and his Elysium Army manage to defeat the State Union. Then, out of the blue, the Almenga Empire gets up and conquers the hell out of Daniel's homeland: the Kingdom of Kirgard for seemingly no reason. Since no one's quite sure what the Empire is up to, they're not sure why the giant awoke — so everyone from Elysium and the Union bands together and unites under Daniel to take them down... which is exactly what the Big Bad, Emperor Siegfried, wanted all along. You see, Sieg's a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wanted to put an end to war forever by creating the world's greatest leader using the Hand of Fate — a powerful demonic spirit capable of influencing destiny. Said spirit resides within the body of his son, who turns out to be none other than Daniel himself and, together, the Hand of Fate and Siegfried have been manipulating events to force the world to unite under Daniel's banner. The empire wasn't the sleeping giant — Daniel's own potential as a leader was. In Siegfried's own words, everything that has happened up until this point was to take away the leaders of the world so that they would be forced to unite under a new one — his son. The Elysium giant then goes on to completely dominate the crap out of Almenga and ends up assimilating it into the Elysium Republic in the ending... just as Siegfried planned.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_c290824a	comment	Black Sails: Before Charles Vane's execution by the British authorities on Nassau, a certain pirate captain was content to ply his 'trade' elsewhere, unconcerned by his fellows' determination to fight a war against them. Unfortunately, for the British, Charles Vane was like a son to him. So now everything is changed. The 'Giant' part of this trope refers to two things, the first that said pirate captain has a large fleet (including a fifty-gun Man o' War). The second? That said pirate captain's name is Blackbeard.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic novel-length story Without a Hive, this is what Queen Chrysalis does by (unsuccessfully!) attacking Canterlot, the capital of the strongest, most populous, and most technologically-advanced nation on its planet, led by a family of Physical Gods. Equestria now knows the Changelings are real, considers them extremely hostile, and begins a systematic attempt to uncover Changeling spies. Congratulations, Chrysalis, on breaking the Masquerade.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor of Doctor Who is almost never looking for trouble and is willing to negotiate wherever possible, but his hand is so often forced that he's probably racked up more kills than anything else in the universe. Despite this, he remains a Technical Pacifist at heart and only uses violence as a last resort. Unless you're the Daleks, in which case it's plans A-Z. The Time Lords did this to the Daleks, and the Daleks did this in turn. The Time Lords had spent most of their existence not getting involved and not bothering other species, but for a race of shut-ins, they managed to fight the Daleks for hundreds of years. And then the war went temporal. In "Face the Raven", this is narrowly averted when the Doctor learns Clara must be Killed Off for Real within minutes. He threatens to expose and destroy the trap street and its residents over this, even though there's nothing that will accomplish aside from Revenge, and only Clara can talk him down from it. When all is said and done, the Doctor holds a bitter grudge against the person whose plotting with an as-then-unknown Big Bad resulted in this disaster and warns them never to cross his path again. And Ashildr is a functionally immortal human, so she'll be living in fear until the end of time. As he says in "A Good Man Goes to War"...
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_c62995ba	comment	In Child of the Storm, there are several examples of this: HYDRA and Lucius Malfoy unwittingly did this when they let Gravemoss slaughter MI6 and decapitated MI13 — all it achieved was to leave the young, ambitious, and utterly ruthless Peter Wisdom in command of MI13 and in prime position to take control of, essentially, Britain's entire counter-intelligence apparatus and military response to HYDRA's threat. The result is a much leaner, more up-to-date, and more effective counter to HYDRA that plays a key role in its downfall, and as of the sequel, controls most of supernatural Britain, having the diminished Ministry largely at its mercy. HYDRA doing this again towards the finale proves to be key to their downfall. With careful preparation, they manage to divide and conquer the Avengers (plus a Reformed, but Not Tamed Loki), picking them off one by one, with only Clint and Natasha escaping. This causes Fury to activate the Shadow Initiative, a contingency group of much more ruthless and dangerous superheroes, who spearhead the counterattack which ends up bringing down HYDRA. The Avengers in general are increasingly recognised as this as time goes by — each is minimally a One-Man Army, with Thor clocking in at Physical God power levels, being backed by the Stark fortune they have vast resources, and they're led by a brilliant battlefield commander. Plus, if you do manage to take them down, as HYDRA briefly do, there's an increasingly large and powerful superhuman community of their friends and relations that will take this very badly. And as the series repeatedly demonstrates, they take attacks to themselves or their friends and family extremely personally. For instance, in the sequel, Loki's response to the resurrected Red Room — which is an effective peer of resident super-spy juggernaut SHIELD — kidnapping Harry and Carol, torturing the former and turning him into the Red Son, the sequel to the Winter Soldier is to quietly and methodically kill his way through the entire organisation. Asgard normally stays out of Earth politics, and indeed, politics of the mortal universe at large. However, this trope is the reason that its status as the universe's chief superpower is largely undisputed and most people leave Earth alone (Thanos excepted — and he's on Odin's hit list), is because when something happens that sufficiently pisses them off (like trespassing on Earth or screwing with humanity), they will not so much step in as step on. For example, see what they did to the Dheronians after they served as Thanos' pawns in destroying Krypton, those Kree briefly responsible for restarting the Terrigenesis experiments on Earth, and the Red Room after they kidnapped Harry, who, it is to be remembered, is Thor's son and thus a Prince in direct line to the throne. The answers are, respectively, near genocide, demanding the heads of those responsible and receiving them with grovelling apologies, and something that would have fit quite nicely in the Old Testament, plus Loki's methodical murder spree. And then there was the incident with the Skrulls...
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_c692db8d	comment	The Last Days of Krypton: Zor-El spends a long time as a neutral figure who tries to dwell on the positive aspects of Zod's rule. Then Zod kidnaps Tyr-Us, a dissident whom Zor-El granted Sacred Hospitality. The rebellion against Zod promptly gains a charismatic and dedicated leader, game-changing force field technology, scores of loyal recruits (the citizens of Zor-El's city), and an eventual source of information in Zod's inner circle.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_c6ebe632	comment	Two Letters is set in a world where Marinette retired, passing the Earrings on to a Sketchy Successor. However, while said successor happily abuses her newfound status as a "hero", she carefully avoids being blatantly, overtly evil, not wanting to risk unwanted attention from the United Heroez or other superpowered groups... or risk Marinette deciding that she's gone too far and needs to be stopped. Whatever Marinette did when she handed over the Earrings left one heck of an impression...
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_c72c2d06	comment	The Bendu from Star Wars Rebels is a literal sleeping giant — he's much larger than everyone else, and he prefers to keep to himself on Atollon while contemplating the Balance Between Good and Evil. When Grand Admiral Thrawn launches his attack on the nearby rebel base, Kanan rouses the Bendu to take action by calling him a coward. Unfortunately, the Bendu's response is to unleash his wrath on both sides. Also played with in that while the attack provides enough of a distraction for some of the Rebels to escape, the Bendu himself goes down pretty much immediately once the Imperials focus their attention on it.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_c832776	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, Durandal attempts to kill the retired Kira Yamato and Lacus Clyne so they don't get in the way of his plans. This alerts them to his evil intentions several months before anyone else on earth suspected a thing, causing them to take the Freedom, Archangel, and Eternal out of storage, which all become instrumental in his defeat. As a matter of fact, near the end of the series, Kira himself says "If not for that attack, we probably would have gone along with anything Durandal wanted."
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_cd8905f6	comment	The Flying Pussyfoot arc of Baccano!! would already have been a clusterfuck: A cult, a bunch of Ax-Crazy mafia goons, and a gang of delinquents were all planning to attack the train, which also happened to be carrying three immortals, the wife and daughter of an influential senator, and a surprisingly badass agent of The Daily Days. However, one of those mafia guys made a huge mistake: he killed the elderly conductor Tony, then tried to kill a younger conductor when he found out. Unfortunately for him, his would-be victim was Claire Stanfield, a nigh-unstoppable, Ax-Crazy Professional Killer and Torture Technician who did not appreciate someone murdering his mentor. Carnage ensues as the Rail Tracer makes its merry, blood-soaked way up the length of the train.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_cf82b152	comment	The Last Battle: Aslan the Lion awakens the giant Time to end the world of Narnia, or rather the shadowworld of Narnia. This Giant is mentioned in an earlier book as being an old king who went to sleep for ages until the end of the World, and is so huge that his shadow spans across the Narnia world and can squeeze the Sun. It is unknown what happens to Time after the door is closed and the ice takes over Narnia, but it's implied he stays there forever, possibly as being dead.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_cfb2d509	comment	The Mark of the Horse Lord: a Scottish chieftain has to prevent an enemy queen from drawing The Roman Empire into their tribal war.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_d3111230	comment	Monster Hunter: Rise will have your High-Rank quests populated with a sleeping Rajang. It just naps in one part of the map, then wakes up after a while and leaves the area. If you smack it with whatever oversized weapon you're carrying today, it will wake up early. Remember: it may be kind of cute when it's sleeping, but it's Rajang. Prepare to be violated. Of course, crafty and/or ballsy hunters can turn this to their advantage somewhat...
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_d37193a6	comment	In How the Light Gets In, Dean was happily a stay-at-home dad, (semi)content to leave the vigilante life to his wife Laurel. Then Damien Darhk murdered her. Dean then quickly demonstrated that angering a Winchester is the absolute last thing you should ever do; and not only destroyed Darhk's organization (with Nyssa's help) but let hell, particularly Alistair, back into his dead to properly punish Darhk for it.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_d51eae87	comment	In Axis & Allies the USA has the highest initial industrial capacity of any of the warring powers, but aside from a few cut-off units in China (which are almost guaranteed to fall to Japan), they're on the far side of an ocean from everyone else, limiting their early actions to building up units or airstrikes. However, if they manage to get a beachhead in Europe or Asia it's basically over for the Axis.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_d8a88a1f	comment	Firefox. Gant is infiltrating the Soviet Union as a common smuggler, in the hope that this will attract less attention from the KGB.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_d8b3ca2a	comment	In the WWE story, The Return-Remixed, Edge is shown as being friendly with the Divas and the members of DEAR when he first returns. When Ashley Massaro (who had been shamelessly throwing herself at him, trying to get a date with him) tried to take out his girlfriend, new Diva Kennedi Korklan, Edge firmly threw his weight behind the Divas, helping them become the Diva Army and bringing in Jazz to whip them into shape to fight DEAR.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_de8f6a97	comment	Godzilla (1954): During the testing of the atomic bomb, the blasts manage to awaken and irradiate a massive marine reptile, named Godzilla by Odo Island mythology, and spur it to attack Tokyo.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Quentin rallies the Watchers Council to fight the First Evil, seconds before a bomb goes off and kills off the entire Watchers Council.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_e4732abc	comment	The Tau'ri are also guilty of this trope at least twice — first in Stargate Atlantis and the following year in Season 9 of SG-1, in both cases awakening a powerful alien race that rules an entire galaxy (the Wraith, then the Ori), becomes hell-bent on getting to the Milky Way, and at least in the Ori case, actually succeeding.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_e6190a0a	comment	In The Dark is Rising series, in the novel Greenwitch, the Greenwitch is part of the Wild Magic, which is neutral between the Light and the Dark. She is not powerful enough to present a direct threat to either faction on her own (although Tethys is), but she does end up in a situation where she has something both sides desperately need and can't take without her consent.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_e67a7d6c	comment	After the tournament in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Cosmo Entelechia attacks the Governor's Ball where Negi is currently negotiating with the apparently villainous Kurt Godel, a third party with power on par with Negi or Fate. Jack Rakan, Negi's current teacher who has so far refused to become involved, is also attacked. As a result, both parties become hostile to Cosmo Entelechia since they didn't like them anyway though Jack Rakan is quickly eliminated and Kurt Godel already opposed them. What makes it even sillier is that there was no actual benefit to attacking like this: Cosmo Entelechia's goals did not require them to fight anyone at this point since they already had all the keys they needed to enact the Rewrite ritual to "destroy" the Magic World. Negi's group didn't even know that Asuna was gone!
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_e7a99c6f	comment	The God-Machine from Demon: The Descent is described as "slow to react but implacable when roused". It acts on such a massive scale that almost nothing you can do to it will make it see you as a threat; usually, it just gives up and finds another way to get what it wants. Emphasis on 'almost'; if you do somehow manage to convince it that you need to be dealt with, that will probably be the last thing you (and your party) ever do.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_ec9965ca	comment	The Culture, from the eponymous novel series, are Perfect Pacifist People... Until you make them angry. A quote from Use of Weapons: "You might call them soft, because they're very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they're soft the way the ocean is soft, and, well; ask any sea captain how puny and harmless the ocean can be." Or, if that's a bit flowery for you, there's the universal adage of the civilizations which have dealings with them; "Do not fuck with The Culture." See Consider Phlebas and Look to Windward for what happens when civilizations don't follow that advice. Someone phrased it as "The first rule of dealing with The Culture is that you do not fuck with The Culture. The second rule of dealing with The Culture is that you do not fuck with The Culture. The last rule is that you don't fuck with The godsdamned Culture!" However, the entire plot of Consider Phlebas is driven by the fact that the Culture and the Idirans have to tiptoe carefully around the Dra'Azon, a very powerful species who happen to have designed the planet they are fighting over as a sort of museum.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_f1bd343d	comment	The Raven Tower: The Strength and Patience of the Hill is a truly ancient god who makes no demands of its worshipers and rarely bothers to communicate, in contrast with the more active Patron Gods. Then its worshipers are attacked by a foreign god's people, and in one instant of Tranquil Fury, the Strength and Patience of the Hill kills the god with a word.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_f4a1d45b	comment	In the original Crisis on Infinite Earths, Darkseid is somewhat of a example of this.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_f5c28dbb	comment	By introducing late 20th-century technology and ideas in early 17th-century Europe, the time-traveling Americans of 1632 have awoken the interest of the Ottoman Empire: the mightiest military power of its time, ruled by a Sultan named Murad the Mad, who is, according to The Spymaster Francisco Nasi, as intelligent as he is insane and bloodthirsty.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: The neutral First Ones who do not deign to partake in the war between the Vorlons and Shadows turn out to be this. The Walkers of Sigma-597 are a prime example- by exploiting their old hatred of the Vorlons, Susan Ivanova manages to enroll them. During the climactic Battle of Coriana VI, the Walkers basically roll in and blast the Vorlon planet killer ship with ease. In the backstory film, "In The Beginning," Londo is pressured to provide info on the mysterious Minbari for Earthforce so they could do an armed probe of their territory. Londo agrees, but pointedly warns them that the Minbari are not to be underestimated, and comments that "I hope you do not wake the Dragon." Of course, the Human force is led by a trigger-happy idiot who does precisely that, and suddenly Earth is in a crushing Hopeless War against an overwhelmingly superior foe on a genocidal crusade against Humanity. For a bit of backstory, humans have only recently entered the galactic stage and have shown their mettle by turning the tide in the Dilgar War. What they didn't understand was that the Dilgar were small potatoes compared to the ancient and powerful Minbari. Londo's suggestion to send a single ship is brushed aside, and they decide to send a commander with a poor First Contact track record.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	The Dragons count for the sequel Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn as well. Again, this is not a good thing as it "technically" count as the entire world is engulfed in war. The only reason things are much better than it sounds is that they were able to release Yune through the Galdr of Release, preventing Ashera's judgement from petrifying everyone.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_f9fd68fc	comment	Sort of in Overlord II. The elves futilely try to stop the Overlord from clubbing baby seals. Due to these actions, the Overlord and his horde of Minions decide to kill some elves and knock down their Sanctuary. He then decides to enslave or destroy both the elves and The Empire.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_ff9ab17f	comment	A specific example comes from Star Trek: The Next Generation — the Federation is determined to stay neutral in the Klingon Civil War, as it is a purely Klingon affair. But when the indications are that the Romulan Empire is involved, that gets Starfleet's attention. When they manage to intercept a group of cloaked warbirds on approach to Klingon space, the Romulans know better than to make their delivery — doing so would make the Federation have to get involved, and the Romulans don't want a war with them.
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant / int_ffc4c2fe	comment	In Order in Chaos the Minbari are neutral to the war between the Centauri and the Orieni, and immediately warn both sides of respecting their neutrality. The governments are only too happy to obey, given they know just how more powerful the Minbari are... Then a group of Centauri raiders decide to try and make a quick buck by preying on Minbari shipping and steal technology to reverse-engineer, and Orieni explorers seeking to find some alternate routes to Centauri space accidentally violate Minbari territory. The governments find out only when couriers warn them that a Minbari fleet intruded a battle and crushed both fleets at the same time, and then have to convince two other Minbari fleets they had no idea of what had happened and they have no reason to flatten their homeworlds. The governments succeed. Those Centauri raiders... Not so much.
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Equestria: Across the Multiverse (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Fate Denied (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Mass Effect: End of Days (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Mass Effect: Human Revolution (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Mobile Suit Gundam Alpha (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Operation Forging Steel (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Renegade (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Renegade (Peptuck) (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Smart Adversaries AU (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Sudden Contact (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The New Adventures of Invader Zim (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
To Walk the Narrow Path (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
What About Witch Queen? (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Worm-in-Waiting (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
XSGCOM (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Yet again, with a little extra help (Fanfic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Carrie (1976) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Firefox / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Fist of Legend / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
In a Valley of Violence / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
John Wick / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Little Giants / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Midway (2019) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Patriots Day / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Senna / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Singham / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Tora! Tora! Tora! / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Marvel Universe (Franchise) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Durarara!! / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Rebuild World / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Akuyaku Reijou no Naka no Hito / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Ave Xia Rem Y / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Beesong Chronicles / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Durarara!! / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Emberverse / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Gate / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Katanagatari / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Malazan Book of the Fallen / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Out of the Dark / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Paraiso Street / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Rebuild World / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Sienkiewicz Trilogy / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
1632 / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
SporeWiki Fiction Universe / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Tales of Dunk and Egg / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The Dark is Rising / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The Demon Breed / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The Elric Saga / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The Mark of the Horse Lord / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The Universe Between / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The World Of M / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Tree of Aeons / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Watchers of the Throne / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Wings of Fire / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Arivne	seeAlso	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
AwakeningtheSleepingGiant	sameAs	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Ptitleeym5vv2h	seeAlso	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Basara (Manga) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Seventh Wonder (Music) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Dragon Haven (Roleplay) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Mass Effect Relinquish (Roleplay) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
NoPixel (Roleplay) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Super Robot Wars Unlimited Generation Alpha (Roleplay) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
WALL•E Forum Roleplay (Roleplay) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Black Lightning (2018) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Seconds from Disaster / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Ultraseven X / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
V (2009) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Why We Fight / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Wonder Woman (1975) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Castle Falkenstein (Tabletop Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Deathwatch (Tabletop Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Demon: The Descent (Tabletop Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
GURPS Alternate Earths (Tabletop Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Infinite Worlds (Tabletop Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Project Twilight (Tabletop Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Heathers (Theatre) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Heathers: The Musical (Theatre) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Caves of Qud (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Civilization (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Danmaku Amanojaku ~ Impossible Spell Card (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Equestria at War (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Final Fantasy VI (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Heroes of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Marathon (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Mass Effect (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Mortal Kombat 1 (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Mother 3 (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Sins of a Solar Empire (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Subnautica: Return of the Ancients (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (Video Game) / int_a553755d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Valkyria Chronicles (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Yakuza 0 (Video Game) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
History Matters (Web Animation) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Hermitcraft (Web Video) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
history of japan (Web Video) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
PBG Hardcore (Web Video) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Erfworld (Webcomic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
For Love Nor Money (Webcomic) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Avengers Assemble / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Dragon Tales / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Hilda and the Mountain King / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
The Exodite / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant

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