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A legendary form of Faux Death: the Long-Dead Badass is not really dead, but asleep. Usually, but not necessarily, under a mountain. Islands and a Magical Land are other possibilities. At any rate, somewhere difficult to access. He will come again in his country's hour of need to play Big Damn Heroes. The original folkloric motif generally referred the hero's awakening to The End of the World as We Know It; the rise of nationalism altered the focus from the entire world to merely the nation. The implicit power is such that this trope is usually not played out to the end; the king is alluded to, or seen asleep, but seldom wakened during the course of a story. See also Awakening the Sleeping Giant, which comes into play when it does happen; while not technically neutral, they are effectively so because they are not in the fray. Sister Trope to Sealed Good in a Can and Sealed Badass in a Can; they overlap in those rare stories where the king does wake. Compare Sealed Evil in a Can. Compare Present Absence, Rip Van Winkle, Year Outside, Hour Inside, and Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard. Sub-Trope of Eternal Hero. |
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A legend in The Court of the Air. At the climax, someone exploits this belief with smoke figures. | |
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In the Moth and Cobweb book Green Knight's Squire, King Arthur appears, sleeping, but still capable of accepting Gil's homage. | |
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Realm of the Elderlings: In the Farseer trilogy, legends state that King Wisdom awakened the Elderlings to defend the Six Dutchies. He vanished afterwards, but will return again to save the land. After King Verity does the same to end the Red Ship war, the same legends form around him. | |
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Bleach: The Quincies have ancient folklore speaking of a Sealed King. The legend states that 900 years after he is sealed, he will regain his heartbeat; 90 years after that, he'll regain his intellect; 9 years after that, he'll regain his power. The Final Arc takes place during the year he regains his power and plunges everyone into a war he started a thousand years ago. Yhwach reveals the last stanza of the legend is that 9 days after he regains his power, he'll regain the world. | |
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Suur Toll, being an animation of the myth of Toell the Great, has his decapitated head announce that he will one day return to protect Saaremaa, but without those troublesome kids mucking it up. | |
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In The Silmarillion (or more precisely the Akallabêth), the evil last king of Númenor, Ar-Pharazôn, set sail with his armies to conquer the holy lands of Valinor from the Valar (god-like angelic demiurges). The Valar prevented the heresy, and possible slaughter of resident elves, by burying him and his armies under a mountain. Supposedly, he will only be freed to fight in the final battle with the Dark Lord. Rather ominously, the legend doesn't specify which side he'll be fighting on. | |
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Dark Souls III: When the link of the fire is threatened, all the lords of Cinder that have ever ruled rise from their graves to avoid the end of the Age of Fire. It is the player's task to hunt down those of them who refused the call. | |
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Leif & Thorn: Variation in which Ceannis' Arthurian national hero Rhódon is dead — but reincarnation is a known thing, and she has come back several times. It's believed she will reincarnate again if and when the nation needs her. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The Link in this game unsuccessfully first battled Ganon 100 years ago, and was left mortally wounded. He was then taken to the Shrine of Resurrection on the Great Plateau so slowly he could regenerate, which ended up taking a century. While he wakes up at the start of the game to try once again to save Hyrule, there's a lot of lore written while he was asleep wondering when he's going to wake up, treating him as his trope. Furthermore, Princess Zelda has long since faded into legend, with the vast majority of Hyrule is unaware that she is still alive and fighting to keep Ganon contained in Hyrule Castle. | |
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In The Sleeper Awakes, a man previously in a coma for two centuries happens to awaken to find himself in a bleak, dystopian London of the future. Not only that, but upon first entering his trance-like coma two hundred years prior, his money had been placed into a Trust which had managed his money for him in his name; this money accumulated into a vast quantity over the centuries, due to the compound interest compiling steadily for so long, and the stewards of that Trust eventually put all this wealth to establishing a global political and economic conglomeration. The effects of all this boil down to the Sleeper now finding himself the richest man in the world, as well as effective leader of the world seeing that this political and economic entity had been created in his name. He proceeds to assume the role of the "Hero" in an attempt to restore London from this grim present and free the oppressed populace. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Big Boss becomes the prophesied founding father of modern-day Private Forces who would eventually return to rock the world and lead mercenaries to victory, which he does after nine years in a coma. Except the player character is not Big Boss but Venom Snake, the true apprentice of Big Boss and the final boss of Metal Gear, distracting the world so that Big Boss could build Outer Heaven. | |
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The Simpsons: Invoked at the end of "Goo Goo Gai Pan". As the Simpsons are leaving China, a trio of dragons — which Homer had first glimpsed in a drug-and-alcohol-induced hallucination — appear and one sings a prediction: | |
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According to the epic Kalevipoeg, Estonia's mythic king Kalevipoeg will one day return. | |
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In the Philippines, Tagalog folk hero Bernardo Carpio is chained up hand and foot within the mountains of Montalban, and also caught between two boulders trying to crush him. He is often said to be the reason for the earthquakes in the area. The legend states that he was a Herculean man who fought against the Spanish occupiers, and so they enlisted a local sorcerer to trap him in the mountains. When his final chain breaks, so the tale goes, "the enslavement and oppression of the Filipino race will be replaced with freedom and happiness". This was mentioned in the novel El Filibusterismo by Philippine national hero José Rizal. Intriguingly, the figure originated in a Spanish Chivalric Romance as a knight named Bernardo del Carpio. It's unclear how the Filipino tale started, or whether his name was grafted onto an original Filipino figure. | |
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Breath of Fire IV subverts this to the point of deconstruction with Fou-lu. He was meant to be this trope if things went as planned, if the Fou Empire (which he founded) wasn't corrupted to the point of wanting him dead. Instead, Fou-lu's entire storyline in the game can be best described as what happens when a country's government sees the return of its King in the Mountain as an Unwanted Revival. It goes poorly for all involved. | |
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Cthulhu of the Cthulhu Mythos. Awaits dead and dreaming? Check. Resides in his strange and otherworldly city? Check. Will return one day in connection to the apocalypse? Check, check, and triple check. | |
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The Batman: Black and White story "Legend" is set in 'the far future', where a woman tells her child a bedtime story about how the great warrior Batman finally banished evil from the world, then went to sleep in the Batcave, having promised to awaken if evil ever returned. Then she starts crying, because the world they live in is beset by evil apparently victorious. The final panels show a malefactor looking around in surprise and then alarm as a familiar pointy-eared shadow falls over him... | |
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In Highlander, Duncan became this in his hometown after his first fight as an immortal where he "killed" the immortal Kanwulf who was attacking his clan. These events started a legend that Duncan Macleod would return whenever his hometown, Glenfinnan was in trouble. When Kanwulf returns some time later, Duncan kills him off for real. | |
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In Magic, Metahumans, Martians and Mushroom Clouds: An Alternate Cold War, Frederick Barbarossa, as per a contingency plan drawn up by Heinrich Himmler, is sought out and awakened after WWII by a group of remaining Nazis led by Otto Skorzeny to liberate Germany from Allied and Soviet occupation and establish a Fourth Reich. Despite initial success thanks to shock and awe, the fact that Barbarossa's knights are not inherently supernatural (other than the magic that let them slumber for centuries) means that they're soon overwhelmed by modern weapons and wiped out. | |
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Half-Life: After stopping the Xen Invasion, Gordon Freeman spends 20 years floating in space-time limbo courtesy of the G-Man, and as a result misses out on the subjugation of Earth by the Combine Empire. In the meantime, word of this Free Man's deeds have grown to mythic proportions, to the point that news of his return is enough to spark humanity's uprising against the Combine. | |
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This happens to Mendanbar between the third and fourth Enchanted Forest Chronicles books (ironically, the fourth book was written first, with this trope being central to the quest). | |
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Forest Kingdom: In book 4 (Beyond the Blue Moon), this is the final fate of King John IV. After he confesses to the murder of his son Harald, his wife Queen Eleanor, whose spirit has now become the Lady of the Lake, comes to judge him and sentences him to sleep in the Land until he is needed once more, in order to redeem himself and the Land. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-4918 is a collection of these that all became active during World War I; specifically, King Arthur, Fion Mac Cumhaill, Väinämöinen, and Frederick Barbarossa. An interview with the latter implies that someone went out of their way to wake them all up earlier than intended, and also that those four are just the ones that the Foundation is aware of (naming Sir Francis Drake as one of the ones that the Foundation missed). | |
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BattleTech Expanded Universe: A variant of this occurs in the Warrior trilogy with Morgan Kell, the famous founder of the Kell Hounds mercenary unit. As the story opens, it's been years since he's disbanded half his unit and retreated to a monastery after a fight against one Yorinaga Kurita (who likewise hasn't been seen in action since) for reasons unknown to the others, and it takes his old enemy's return onto the battlefield and the death of his brother, though he didn't plan for that to happen to bring him out of his retreat and have him take the reins again. A more classic example from the same setting: the legend that General Alexander Kerensky and his troops were still out there, somewhere beyond the Periphery, and would one day return to save the Inner Sphere in its hour of need. Well — their descendants did eventually return, all right... |
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Discworld inevitably plays with this as it does all other folklore tropes: In Lords and Ladies, we catch a glimpse of an old king and his warriors in a cavern under the Long Man. Some old wizard put them in a magical sleep from which they're supposed to wake up in time for some final battle when a wolf eats the sun. You can wake them up prematurely by banging a nearby bell, though they'll be pretty cranky about it. Haven't had a wink of sleep for 200 years. A somewhat more sinister example would be the Elf king, who waits beneath the Long Man for a time when "The iron in the head has rusted", which is to say, when there are no humans left capable of opposing him, at which time he'll take over the world. "Big Fido" is a version of this for dogs found in Men at Arms. The members of the Dog Guild assure themselves that when Big Fido comes back down from the mountain, he'll come and he'll bring all the knowledge of the wolves with him and then, then the revolution will start. This would be a good trick, since Gaspode saw Foul Ol' Ron sell what was left of Fido to a furriers, but if you're going to worry about what actually happened, what's the point of having a legend? |
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X-Men: Evolution: Captain America's role as a King in the Mountain is made even more explicit. Instead of being accidentally frozen in an iceberg and presumed dead for years, he's intentionally placed in cryogenic sleep when it turns out that the super-soldier serum is slowly killing him. The implication is that he will be revived to fight again when S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists find a way to cure him. | |
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The 'beard growing around table' imagery of this trope is also used in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for the Good Telmarine Lords who made it as far as the Island of the Star. | |
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In War of the Dreaming, it's the King in Exile and his sleeping warriors who await the time of their triumphant return — but it's been a very long wait, and some of them are getting impatient... | |
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Nakiami becomes this in the ending of Xam'd: Lost Memories. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: The Army of the Dead in The Lord of the Rings — deserters cursed to guard the tunnels under the White Mountains (the Paths of the Dead), until they fulfill their promise to protect Gondor. In The Silmarillion (or more precisely the Akallabêth), the evil last king of Númenor, Ar-Pharazôn, set sail with his armies to conquer the holy lands of Valinor from the Valar (god-like angelic demiurges). The Valar prevented the heresy, and possible slaughter of resident elves, by burying him and his armies under a mountain. Supposedly, he will only be freed to fight in the final battle with the Dark Lord. Rather ominously, the legend doesn't specify which side he'll be fighting on. Invoked in the fate of the legendary father of the Dwarves, Durin the Deathless. The Song of Durin even ends with the line, "...till Durin wakes again from sleep." |
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Metal Gear: Big Boss, as we learn in The Reveal at the very end of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Though Snake thought he killed him, he was actually locked away and kept in suspended animation by the Patriots after failing to break away from their grasp with the Outer Heaven uprising. Throughout the course of the entire series, his surviving comrades — including EVA and Ocelot — were actually trying to uphold his legacy by bringing down the Patriots and freeing him. In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Big Boss becomes the prophesied founding father of modern-day Private Forces who would eventually return to rock the world and lead mercenaries to victory, which he does after nine years in a coma. Except the player character is not Big Boss but Venom Snake, the true apprentice of Big Boss and the final boss of Metal Gear, distracting the world so that Big Boss could build Outer Heaven. |
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Metal Gear (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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King in the Mountain / int_5bfa9c98 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_5bfa9c98 | comment |
In Warframe, the Tenno and their One-Man Army Warframes are awoken from cryosleep by the Lotus (after some unknown time) to once again bring peace and balance to the solar system during a time of great war between the Grineer and Corpus superpowers and a Technocyte pandemic known as the "Infestation". | |
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Warframe (Video Game) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_5bfa9c98 | |
King in the Mountain / int_5d354f8 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_5d354f8 | comment |
In Red Dwarf, when Lister goes into stasis. The cat religion that builds up around him says he was frozen in time and will come back to lead them someday. | |
King in the Mountain / int_5d354f8 | featureApplicability |
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Red Dwarf | hasFeature |
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King in the Mountain / int_5d44346b | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_5d44346b | comment |
Artus in Campione! is a God who only descends to eliminate Campiones who have begun wreaking havoc in the world, sleeping in solitude the rest of the time. As the in-universe basis of King Arthur's legend, this is why Arthur is said to be waiting in Avalon for the day England needs him. | |
King in the Mountain / int_5d44346b | featureApplicability |
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Campione! | hasFeature |
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King in the Mountain / int_5ef424cf | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_5ef424cf | comment |
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic: There is a prophecy that King Eric I of Drostardy would rise from his grave to defeat the ultimate evil in the world's darkest hour. This is exactly what happens, full-resurrection while Ranna breathes. | |
King in the Mountain / int_5ef424cf | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_5ef424cf | featureConfidence |
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Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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King in the Mountain / int_62aa95a6 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_62aa95a6 | comment |
In The Lost Fleet, the story is that the legendary naval commander John "Black Jack" Geary will come to save the people of the Alliance and win the Forever War. This makes it rather awkward for Geary when he actually shows up as a Human Popsicle with a bad case of culture shock. Especially after he does save the Alliance and win (or at least end) the Forever War, because everyone is now unshakeably convinced that he's some sort of Messiah who enjoys the guidance and favour of the powers that be... which, the narrative keeps broadly hinting, might actually be true. | |
King in the Mountain / int_62aa95a6 | featureApplicability |
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The Lost Fleet | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_62aa95a6 | |
King in the Mountain / int_63409895 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_63409895 | comment |
Sofia the First and its spin-off Elena of Avalor have the case of Princess (later Queen) Elena, who was magically sealed inside Sofia's amulet for almost 40 years, until the later manages to expose Shuriki's usurpation of the Throne of Avalor and helps Elena to retake her rightful kingdom. | |
King in the Mountain / int_63409895 | featureApplicability |
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Sofia the First | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_63409895 | |
King in the Mountain / int_6572f71e | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_6572f71e | comment |
In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, residents of Yorkshire and other northerners in England treat the Raven King as this. That said, nobody thinks he's asleep, just... that he's gone somewhere else for a while. | |
King in the Mountain / int_6572f71e | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_6572f71e | featureConfidence |
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_6572f71e | |
King in the Mountain / int_66fd2e30 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_66fd2e30 | comment |
By the era of Wax and Wayne, the Church of the Survivor believes that the Survivor returned from death centuries ago, and will come again when the world needs him. At least one person is skeptical about this legend; namely, what was he doing when the world was being destroyed in Hero of Ages? The church may be right; he showed up alive sixteen years after his death, on a different continent, saving a different dying civilization. | |
King in the Mountain / int_66fd2e30 | featureApplicability |
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Wax and Wayne | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_66fd2e30 | |
King in the Mountain / int_6a4bddd6 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_6a4bddd6 | comment |
In an Iron Man story featuring Doctor Doom and Time Travel, Iron Man and Doom find themselves in a future England (this was a sequel to an earlier storyline that had seen the same two characters go back to Arthurian times). Merlin is back, as is Arthur... only due to genetic engineering and such, Arthur was literally reborn to two Yuppie Britons and so is a spoiled young brat. Guess who has to take his place? | |
King in the Mountain / int_6a4bddd6 | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_6a4bddd6 | featureConfidence |
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Iron Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_6a4bddd6 | |
King in the Mountain / int_6bdc1b01 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_6bdc1b01 | comment |
In both DC One Million and All-Star Superman, our Superman goes into the sun in order to rebuild its heart and leaves the superheroing to his many descendants who he blesses with extra-extraordinary powers. He returns after 83,000 years and brings New Krypton into our solar system. | |
King in the Mountain / int_6bdc1b01 | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_6bdc1b01 | featureConfidence |
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DC One Million (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_6bdc1b01 | |
King in the Mountain / int_6fb3c581 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_6fb3c581 | comment |
In The Books of Magic, Tim Hunter and Doctor Occult encounter the King Under the Mountain. When they ask which king, they're told that he's all of them. The bard under the mountain specifically name-checks Barbarossa and Arthur, among others. | |
King in the Mountain / int_6fb3c581 | featureApplicability |
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The Books of Magic (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_6fb3c581 | |
King in the Mountain / int_70a86caa | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_70a86caa | comment |
Played with in The Five Star Stories. The legendary warrior king Colus III really is dead, but his Humongous Mecha and Artificial Human partner Clotho are sealed away waiting for a worthy descendant of the king to use them in his nation's time of need. | |
King in the Mountain / int_70a86caa | featureApplicability |
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The Five Star Stories (Manga) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_70a86caa | |
King in the Mountain / int_72262aee | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_72262aee | comment |
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Avatar Aang accidentally seals himself and Appa, his flying bison, in ice for a hundred years. He does indeed return to save the world, although judging by what Zuko says in the first episode, everyone probably expected an old man in hiding rather than a Keet Cheerful Child. | |
King in the Mountain / int_72262aee | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_72262aee | featureConfidence |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_72262aee | |
King in the Mountain / int_74f7210c | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_74f7210c | comment |
The Legend of Zelda: In Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, there's a Princess Zeldanote the ancestor of the Zelda you saved in the first game who has been asleep for years. At the beginning of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, it's implied that the reason why Old Hyrule fell is because they were expecting this trope: the Hero had saved them from Ganon once before, and now he was failing to do it. Because someone decided that the hero needed to spend some more time on his childhood and sent him back to his other timeline at the end of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Way to go, Zelda. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The Link in this game unsuccessfully first battled Ganon 100 years ago, and was left mortally wounded. He was then taken to the Shrine of Resurrection on the Great Plateau so slowly he could regenerate, which ended up taking a century. While he wakes up at the start of the game to try once again to save Hyrule, there's a lot of lore written while he was asleep wondering when he's going to wake up, treating him as his trope. Furthermore, Princess Zelda has long since faded into legend, with the vast majority of Hyrule is unaware that she is still alive and fighting to keep Ganon contained in Hyrule Castle. Mineru, the Sage of Spirit, is this for Link and the Sages in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Whenever the four Sages touch their secret stones, their ancient predecessors give them exposition about how the first Sages fought the Imprisoning War against Ganondorf. After they help Link fight Phantom Ganon in Hyrule Castle and discuss the situation with Purah, they realize that there was a fifth Sage in images of that ancient battle who does not have a modern counterpart. Link investigates the matter further and eventually finds out that Mineru, after receiving mortal wounds in the Imprisoning War, transferred her spirit into the Purah Pad. She has Link put together a Construct body for her to inhabit so she can fight alongside him and the modern Sages. |
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King in the Mountain / int_74f7210c | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_74f7210c | featureConfidence |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_74f7210c | |
King in the Mountain / int_76686539 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_76686539 | comment |
Commander Shepard in between Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, having spent over two years being brought back to life by the Lazarus Project. | |
King in the Mountain / int_76686539 | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_76686539 | featureConfidence |
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Mass Effect (Video Game) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_76686539 | |
King in the Mountain / int_78d3baef | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_78d3baef | comment |
In Spirit of the North, the titular guardian of the Northern Lights had abandoned its duties and slept in an ice cave atop a mountain. When it is awoken by the player fox, the civilization who worshiped it is long dead, leaving murals of them dying to a plague while it slept in its hidden sanctuary. | |
King in the Mountain / int_78d3baef | featureApplicability |
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Spirit of the North (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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King in the Mountain / int_7988cb68 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_7988cb68 | comment |
Mass Effect: Commander Shepard in between Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, having spent over two years being brought back to life by the Lazarus Project. This is what Javik was intended to be. Of course, he's more The Conqueror than The Good King... |
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King in the Mountain / int_7988cb68 | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_7988cb68 | featureConfidence |
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Mass Effect (Franchise) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_7988cb68 | |
King in the Mountain / int_79d9b538 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_79d9b538 | comment |
The Palaververse: The Bullwaldas of Bovaland and their most trusted housecarls are interred after death in an enchanted cairn, so that on Bovaland’s hour of greatest need the current monarch can awaken their remains to defend the nation. | |
King in the Mountain / int_79d9b538 | featureApplicability |
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The Palaververse / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_79d9b538 | |
King in the Mountain / int_7a8eea7e | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_7a8eea7e | comment |
The Scholomance: The Seventh Sage of Beijing, the founder of the Beijing enclave. He never actually died but instead disappeared into the ether, occasionally reappearing to other wizards whenever the Beijing enclave is in some kind of crisis and needs his help. By the time the protagonists meet him in the last book, nobody has seen him in centuries. | |
King in the Mountain / int_7a8eea7e | featureApplicability |
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The Scholomance | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_7a8eea7e | |
King in the Mountain / int_7aaf9e41 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_7aaf9e41 | comment |
Batman: The Elseworld story Batman: Dark Knight of the Round Table re-imagines Batman as a knight in King Arthur's court. At the end of the story, the dying Batman is enchanted to sleep and awaken at the hour of Britain's greatest need. The final page shows the Batplane battling German fighters during the Blitz. The Batman: Black and White story "Legend" is set in 'the far future', where a woman tells her child a bedtime story about how the great warrior Batman finally banished evil from the world, then went to sleep in the Batcave, having promised to awaken if evil ever returned. Then she starts crying, because the world they live in is beset by evil apparently victorious. The final panels show a malefactor looking around in surprise and then alarm as a familiar pointy-eared shadow falls over him... |
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King in the Mountain / int_7aaf9e41 | featureApplicability |
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Batman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_7aaf9e41 | |
King in the Mountain / int_7d5e591c | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_7d5e591c | comment |
Camelot 3000 takes the Arthurian Legend and runs with it. King Arthur does indeed return in the hour of England's greatest need: an alien invasion in the year 3000. | |
King in the Mountain / int_7d5e591c | featureApplicability |
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Camelot 3000 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_7d5e591c | |
King in the Mountain / int_7fc78282 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_7fc78282 | comment |
The Army of the Dead in The Lord of the Rings — deserters cursed to guard the tunnels under the White Mountains (the Paths of the Dead), until they fulfill their promise to protect Gondor. | |
King in the Mountain / int_7fc78282 | featureApplicability |
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The Lord of the Rings | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_7fc78282 | |
King in the Mountain / int_83d41855 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_83d41855 | comment |
Gargoyles: As with the original legend, this happens to King Arthur. When King Arthur came out, the Magus replaced him after using so much magic without a channel like the grimoire. | |
King in the Mountain / int_83d41855 | featureApplicability |
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Gargoyles | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_83d41855 | |
King in the Mountain / int_83f8495b | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_83f8495b | comment |
In Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, there's a Princess Zeldanote the ancestor of the Zelda you saved in the first game who has been asleep for years. | |
King in the Mountain / int_83f8495b | featureApplicability |
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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Video Game) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_83f8495b | |
King in the Mountain / int_86814ea1 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_86814ea1 | comment |
At the end of Final Fantasy XV, Noctis, which is the heir of the kingdom of Lucis, spends 10 years sleeping in the Crystal for accumulating enough power to defeat the Big Bad and then save the world. | |
King in the Mountain / int_86814ea1 | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_86814ea1 | featureConfidence |
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Final Fantasy XV (Video Game) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_86814ea1 | |
King in the Mountain / int_89147048 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_89147048 | comment |
The Field Guide to Evil: At the end of "What Ever Happened to Paganus the Pagan?", Paganus is shown seated asleep and covered in cobwebs in 'The World Below'. | |
King in the Mountain / int_89147048 | featureApplicability |
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The Field Guide to Evil | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_89147048 | |
King in the Mountain / int_8da301a6 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_8da301a6 | comment |
Chasing Dragons: After dying at the Second Battle of Ghoyan Drohe and his body disappearing afterwards, Ned Stark is mythologized as merely being in hiding healing from his wounds, and will return when the Kingdom of Myr needs him the most. | |
King in the Mountain / int_8da301a6 | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_8da301a6 | featureConfidence |
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Chasing Dragons (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_8da301a6 | |
King in the Mountain / int_90304058 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_90304058 | comment |
That Hideous Strength: The fact that Merlin is resting beneath Bragdon Wood is a major plot point, and both factions wish to recruit the reawakened wizard to their side. | |
King in the Mountain / int_90304058 | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_90304058 | featureConfidence |
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That Hideous Strength | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_90304058 | |
King in the Mountain / int_90e2f673 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_90e2f673 | comment |
Toyed with in BattleTech with Devlin Stone: he ruled the Republic of the Sphere for several decades of relative peace in the Inner Sphere, before stepping down, promising to return if needed, and vanishing. The Inner Sphere almost immediately descends into chaos. It was later revealed that he had been placed into cryogenic suspension to presumably invoke this trope and had intended to be thawed out fifty years later, not the fifteen that wound up happening. This trope is then subverted, as his impact after his return is minimal and does little to stop the Republic of the Sphere from crumbling. | |
King in the Mountain / int_90e2f673 | featureApplicability |
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King in the Mountain / int_90e2f673 | featureConfidence |
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BattleTech (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_90e2f673 | |
King in the Mountain / int_960c7564 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_960c7564 | comment |
The graveyard in The Graveyard Book was built over the tomb of a king like this; he never actually wakes up, but the spirit guarding him plays a crucial role in the plot. | |
King in the Mountain / int_960c7564 | featureApplicability |
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The Graveyard Book | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_960c7564 | |
King in the Mountain / int_9696c53b | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_9696c53b | comment |
In the director's cut of Army of Darkness, Ash does this, complete with his car and boomstick, but wakes up 100 years later than planned and misses humanity's demise. | |
King in the Mountain / int_9696c53b | featureApplicability |
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Army of Darkness | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_9696c53b | |
King in the Mountain / int_974ad78f | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_974ad78f | comment |
GURPS Technomancer: Stalin turned out to be this for the Soviet Union. He awoke after the fall of the USSR and tried to Make the Bear Angry Again. | |
King in the Mountain / int_974ad78f | featureApplicability |
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GURPS Technomancer (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_974ad78f | |
King in the Mountain / int_99c003af | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_99c003af | comment |
The Boondocks: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is revealed to be this, awakening from a coma 40-odd years after being shot. In a pretty dark subversion of the trope, he turns out to be pretty disappointed with the direction that African-American culture has gone in his absence. | |
King in the Mountain / int_99c003af | featureApplicability |
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The Boondocks | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_99c003af | |
King in the Mountain / int_9aac0273 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_9aac0273 | comment |
"Big Fido" is a version of this for dogs found in Men at Arms. The members of the Dog Guild assure themselves that when Big Fido comes back down from the mountain, he'll come and he'll bring all the knowledge of the wolves with him and then, then the revolution will start. This would be a good trick, since Gaspode saw Foul Ol' Ron sell what was left of Fido to a furriers, but if you're going to worry about what actually happened, what's the point of having a legend? | |
King in the Mountain / int_9aac0273 | featureApplicability |
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Men at Arms | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_9aac0273 | |
King in the Mountain / int_9acdda28 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_9acdda28 | comment |
Watership Down: General Woundwort ends up this way because they Never Found the Body after he launched a suicidal attack on a large dog. Such is his influence over the rabbits he both inspired and terrorised as their dictator that his followers insist that he went away to start a warren from more worthy rabbits. Long after the Efrafan rabbits have become assimilated into the Watership Down warren, Woundwort is remembered as either the boogeyman, or as a giant rabbit dwelling somewhere over the downs who shall one day return to fight for those who honor his name. | |
King in the Mountain / int_9acdda28 | featureApplicability |
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Watership Down | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_9acdda28 | |
King in the Mountain / int_9b20c46e | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_9b20c46e | comment |
In Lords and Ladies, we catch a glimpse of an old king and his warriors in a cavern under the Long Man. Some old wizard put them in a magical sleep from which they're supposed to wake up in time for some final battle when a wolf eats the sun. You can wake them up prematurely by banging a nearby bell, though they'll be pretty cranky about it. Haven't had a wink of sleep for 200 years. | |
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Lords and Ladies | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_9b20c46e | |
King in the Mountain / int_9f89a5f0 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_9f89a5f0 | comment |
Pokémon: Arceus is one of these in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, having fallen into a deep slumber after creating the Pokémon world. The player needs to awaken him using the Azure Flute before they can enter the Hall of Origin to fight him. A number of Legendary Pokémon fulfil their region's local version of 'disappears for centuries at a time, to reappear in the hour of dire need'. Examples include Rayquaza for Hoenn, Zygarde for Kalos and Zacian and Zamazenta for Galar. |
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Pokémon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_9f89a5f0 | |
King in the Mountain / int_a216bc3f | type |
King in the Mountain | |
King in the Mountain / int_a216bc3f | comment |
An issue of Rom Spaceknight has Rom stumble upon the suspended form of King Arthur in a subterranean chamber. Not being familiar with Earth's legends, Rom doesn't understand what he's found, but as a noble Knight in Shining Armor himself, he feels a strange kinship with the slumbering figure and an instinctive sense that he shouldn't be disturbed just now. | |
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ROM: Space Knight (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
King in the Mountain / int_a216bc3f | |
King in the Mountain / int_a2c37f38 | type |
King in the Mountain | |
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Planescape: Torment: The Silent King of the Dead Nations sits frozen on the throne, a little more dead than The Undead citizens. Except during the game, he's actually completely dead, which Hargrimm is covering up. The Nameless One may choose to replace him, or give the position to a previously treacherous diplomat. | |
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At the beginning of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, it's implied that the reason why Old Hyrule fell is because they were expecting this trope: the Hero had saved them from Ganon once before, and now he was failing to do it. Because someone decided that the hero needed to spend some more time on his childhood and sent him back to his other timeline at the end of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Way to go, Zelda. | |
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The Venture Bros.: Lampshaded in how Nazis are simply obsessed with cloning or resurrecting Hitler in one way or another. As mentioned in the Real Life section below, this may count as an evil version of the trope. | |
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The Dreamland Chronicles: Keeping King Arthur alive but out of the way is crucial to Nicodemus. | |
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In Book of the New Sun, Severian accidentally awakens a former Autarch in a mountain redoubt during his travels through vague "sciency" methods (this is during a time when much science was forgotten and is now referred to in near magical terms). This Autarch once ruled a galaxy spanning empire, which is currently been reduced to part of one continent on a single planet. While the Commonwealth is indeed threatened, its due to a cooling sun and having its natural resources all used up. In the end, Severian realizes this Autarch is just another despotic and totalitarian figure and promptly kills him. | |
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A Tale of Time City uses this trope with the sleeping Faber John inside Time City. | |
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In Trollhunters part 3, it is revealed that Merlin, creator of the Trollhunter armor and amulet is not actually dead but has been asleep for centuries in a crypt in a cave actually in a mountain. He is awoken by the heroes and joins the team. | |
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In Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament, Frederick Barbarossa re-awakens. Subverted since he's a Knight Templar who, when elected President of the USA, plunges the country into a dark age of tyranny, economic depression and civil war. | |
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: Nerevar, the long-dead Chimeri/Dunmeri Founder of the Kingdom. He finally returns in Morrowind's hour of need as the player, who is his reincarnation. Nerevar is known as a great leader who united the Dunmer and brought peace and prosperity to Resdayn, and they have been divided since his death. The Ashlanders eagerly await his return so that their people can know prosperity again. Big Bad Dagoth Ur is a villainous version. He was thought to have been vanquished, but having already attained godhood, his defeat was only temporary, and he regained his power over several millennia, leading up to the events of the game. |
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Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are all suddenly yanked into Narnia at the beginning of Prince Caspian and discover over the course of the story that they are the Kings in the Mountain who were awakened by someone else. | |
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In Darkship Thieves, Thena characterizes her welcome back to the lair as this. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The God-Emperor of Mankind has been confined to the arcane life-support systems of the Golden Throne for ten thousand years, and there's a number of theories and heresies about the circumstances of his possible revival. Some believe he will rise again one day to begin a new Great Crusade, while others hold that if everyone would just let his ruined husk die, the Emperor could reincarnate into a healthy new form. The Inquisitor rulebook mentions a theory that the Emperor could have been recalled to his body as early as a year after being placed on the Throne, but those ruling in his place prevented it to preserve their own power and the stability of the Imperium. Of course, the complicating factor is that the Golden Throne is part of the psychic beacon called the Astronomicon, without which it would be impossible to navigate through the Warp, leading to the collapse of galactic civilization... The loyalist Primarchs, the Emperor's sons, all either died, dissapeared, or left for parts unknown after the end of the Horus Heresy. Many of them have legends around them claiming they'll return one day under various circumstances. So far, two of them have, and many are waiting to see who comes next. In Henry Zhou's novel Emperor's Mercy, the ancient xenos artifact the Old Kings is supposed to produce the Star Kings at some point. |
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Shadowrun: There are rumors that one of the effects of the Awakening and the return of magic was the return of the legendary German emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who had been in an enchanted sleep waiting for Germany's hour of greatest need. According to some accounts, he was the real identity of a German general who was instrumental in safeguarding southern Germany during a series of wars between the European and Middle Eastern nations. According to others, he had apparently been a carrier of the genes that cause goblinization, and when he stepped out of his tomb as a troll he was promptly murdered by neo-Nazis. | |
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The God-Emperor of Mankind has been confined to the arcane life-support systems of the Golden Throne for ten thousand years, and there's a number of theories and heresies about the circumstances of his possible revival. Some believe he will rise again one day to begin a new Great Crusade, while others hold that if everyone would just let his ruined husk die, the Emperor could reincarnate into a healthy new form. The Inquisitor rulebook mentions a theory that the Emperor could have been recalled to his body as early as a year after being placed on the Throne, but those ruling in his place prevented it to preserve their own power and the stability of the Imperium. Of course, the complicating factor is that the Golden Throne is part of the psychic beacon called the Astronomicon, without which it would be impossible to navigate through the Warp, leading to the collapse of galactic civilization... | |
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In the backstory of Drowtales, Queen Sharess made a promise to the Dark Elves that she would return and lead them back to the Surface from the Underworld once it was safe again after demonic wars had made it uninhabitable, before she departed into the Netherworld to seal the gates. After 1000 years there are no signs of her returning, and the Dark Elves and those who believe in her are largely extinct outside of the Kyorl'solenurn clan. However, Sha'sana actually has been keeping Sharess' body alive the entire time, and has her own plans to bring her back to unite the clans. The prophecy is eventually given a twist when Diva transfers her soul into Sharess' body for the final battle, and afterword assumes her identity to unite the Underworld and command an exodus to the surface, bringing an end to the Moonless Age. Word of God says that Sharess herself was never going to come back on her own, making the ancient promise empty. | |
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Warhammer: The dwarfs believe that their ancestor gods Grugni and Valaya disappeared into the heart of the mountains, to return when needed. Likewise, High King Snorri Whitebeard, the first ruler of the dwarfs, vowed on his deathbed that he would return one day when the dwarfs' foes would be at their gates. Many dwarfs believe that the enigmatic dwarf hero Grombrindal, who appears sporadically to lead dwarf armies to victory over dangerous foes, is in fact Snorri himself, returned to fulfill his promise. Dragons also have a habit of hibernating for centuries at a time (they're not adapting to the planet's changing climate well), and can only be roused by powerful mages. Hence why High Elf "dragon princes" ride into battle on horses with dragon-themed barding these days. Gilles le Breton, being Warhammer's King Arthur, was taken to a ship on his death that sent him to the Lady of the Lake, and it is said that he will return in Bretonnia's time of need. A lot of people in-universe speculate that the Green Knight, a mysterious warrior who challenges Questing Knights and occasionally appears to aid Bretonnian armies when they need help, is actually Gilles. And they're right. It's rather darkly subverted in the Grand Finale; by the time he returns Bretonnia is beyond saving, and all he can do is lead a doomed Last Stand off-screen while the real battle for the fate of the world happens elsewhere. Sigmar, the first ruler of the Empire, gave up the throne and went into the mountains to the east, never to be heard from again. He is said to have ascended to godhood. Which he actually did, and in The End Times, he comes back too. Though not in the way you'd think. The orcs and goblins have a version of this concerning the legendary goblin warlord Grom the Paunch, who vanished after his invasion of the high elven homeland was defeated. Among the numerous theories on his eventual fate is the rumor that Grom will one day return and lead the greenskins to great victory over the other races. |
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Viva Zapata! ends with the counterrevolutionary government putting Zapata's dead body on display to crush the spirits of the peasants. It doesn't work. The peasants who see Zapata's mangled corpse refuse to believe that he is dead. They say that it isn't him, that "he's in the mountains", and that if the people ever need him, he'll come back again. | |
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Väinämöinen. He's apparently not sealed in any single location, but wanders between the stars ("higher earths, lower skies") until he's needed again. Parodied in a Finnish comic book when Väinämöinen visits Avalon. He meets King Arthur, mentioned above, and they briefly discuss this trope. Arthur reveals that he did in fact return once, during World War II, before adding that it took him two years to escape that asylum. | |
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Doctor Who: Subverted in "Battlefield". It's implied that the King Arthur of a parallel universe is doing this on the main Whoniverse Earth, but it turns out that he was dead all along and the story that he would return was just propaganda. For a good deal of the series, Ur-Time Lord Rassilon is sealed in his tomb/tower. Unfortunately, when he woke up to lead the Time Lords in their hour of greatest need, he turned out to be a Knight Templar Omnicidal Maniac. |
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Bendigeidfran (or Brân the Blessed, not to be confused with BRIAN BLESSED!!!!!), giant and King of Britain. His severed, still living head was buried under the White Hill in London, facing France, to protect the Island of the Mighty from invasion. A jealous King Arthur dug it up, claiming his strength alone was enough to safeguard Britain. | |
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In TRON 2.0, Programs have this idea about Tron himself. He vanished shortly after his victory over Master Control, and they believe that he would return in the system's darkest cycle. In the game itself, it's played a bit sideways; at best, the game's protagonist could be called a half-brother (he's the human son of Alan and Lora). Played completely straight in the sequel Killer App, in which Alan did put Tron in stasis after all, and sends him out with modern upgrades to fight a menace to Encom. | |
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In The Longing, you play as a Shade who serves one such king. The King has expended his powers and must rest, tasking the Shade to wake him up once 400 real-time days have passed. | |
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Beast Wars: The original Optimus Prime (in stasis lock) sits in his command chair in the Autobot ark, which crash-landed and buried itself under a dormant volcano, awaiting a revival millions of years in the future. | |
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In Halo 3, Master Chief winds up adrift in space, with no communications available. He enters a stasis tube with the final words "Wake me when you need me." | |
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In the Spiral Arm novel The January Dancer, Hugh sneaks off planet with the promise to return again. Later, the Fudir speaks of the legends of Stonewall and how they correspond to many King in the Mountain legends. | |
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In The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, the wizard, Cadellin, is the guardian of the Cave of The Sleepers; wherein Arthur and his knights sleep, awaiting the Final Battle or some time of great need. | |
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In Wicked, some people believe that the Wizard couldn't bring himself to kill Ozma and put her into a magical stasis, and they she may come back to rule Oz someday. | |
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South Park: The Knights of Standards and Practices were a Medieval organization formed to guard against the excessive use of profanity. In the episode "It Hits the Fan", they're awakened from an enchanted slumber when one particular word becomes mainstream (so much so that the episode has a counter on the screen to track how many times it's used). | |
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A Wizard in Rhyme: In the first book, Her Majesty's Wizard, Matt is taken to a cave in the mountains where the legendary emperor Hardishane and his knights are waiting for the time when they will need to save the world from evil. They don't come back just yet; Matt just needs to be there for a special knighting ceremony. However, there is an example of Waking the Sleeping Giant. Hardishane is specifically mentioned to be Charlemagne's counterpart in the Merovence universe, so it's sort of inevitable that something that was a myth about Charlemagne in our world literally applies to his counterpart in a world where magic exists. | |
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The Promethean Age: In Blood and Iron, King Arthur is actually awakened. | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are all suddenly yanked into Narnia at the beginning of Prince Caspian and discover over the course of the story that they are the Kings in the Mountain who were awakened by someone else. The 'beard growing around table' imagery of this trope is also used in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for the Good Telmarine Lords who made it as far as the Island of the Star. In The Silver Chair, we meet the Giant Time, who is lying asleep underground. This one's a subversion, though, as when he wakes up in The Last Battle it's a sign of the end of the world. "When he slept he was called Time. Now he is awake he will have another name." |
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The Dark is Rising: In The Grey King, to fulfill a prophecy of the Light, Will Stanton plays a golden harp and summons the Six Sleepers from their resting place beneath a mountain so they can ride against the Dark. King Arthur comes 'back' to fight the Dark later in the series, but he's nowhere as specific, physical, or dull as under a mountain. |
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Alluded to (with a twist) in Lammas Night. The novel is set during the Battle of Britain, and one character points out that the planes defending England are powered by Merlin engines. | |
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In the Count to the Eschaton book The Hermetic Millennia, this legend accumulates about Menelaus's "Tombs" or cryogenic chamber, including names from many legends. | |
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In The Silver Chair, we meet the Giant Time, who is lying asleep underground. This one's a subversion, though, as when he wakes up in The Last Battle it's a sign of the end of the world. "When he slept he was called Time. Now he is awake he will have another name." | |
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Mega Man: Both X and Zero during the time between their respective series. Zero at one point learns that he's the Typhoid Mary of the Maverick Virus. Fearing that he might be subconsciously spreading the virus as long as he walks, he asked to be put to sleep and surrendered his body for study. X however, sought out his help once more for the Elf Wars, but immediately after putting an end to that, Zero asked to be sealed again, this time, for eternity. X, meanwhile, can be a literal example, since by this point, he's now the ruler of Last Bastion Neo Arcadia, yet he used his body to imprison the Dark Elf (the cause of the Elf Wars). X's absence resulted in Neo Arcadia commissioning an El Cid Ploy with a clone called Copy-X that has Gone Horribly Wrong. | |
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Gor: In Marauders of Gor, Torvald, legendary founder of Torvaldsland, is said to sleep in his mountain, awaiting someone to wake him to defend Torvaldsland. Ivar Forkbeard goes there and discovers that it's only true in a metaphorical sense. | |
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A number of Legendary Pokémon fulfil their region's local version of 'disappears for centuries at a time, to reappear in the hour of dire need'. Examples include Rayquaza for Hoenn, Zygarde for Kalos and Zacian and Zamazenta for Galar. | |
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The subject of the trope page quote itself is used in The Raven Cycle, with the plot centered around the main characters trying to find and wake the sleeping Welsh king. Gansey in particular is obsessed with the man. | |
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Mineru, the Sage of Spirit, is this for Link and the Sages in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Whenever the four Sages touch their secret stones, their ancient predecessors give them exposition about how the first Sages fought the Imprisoning War against Ganondorf. After they help Link fight Phantom Ganon in Hyrule Castle and discuss the situation with Purah, they realize that there was a fifth Sage in images of that ancient battle who does not have a modern counterpart. Link investigates the matter further and eventually finds out that Mineru, after receiving mortal wounds in the Imprisoning War, transferred her spirit into the Purah Pad. She has Link put together a Construct body for her to inhabit so she can fight alongside him and the modern Sages. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts, Sora is sent into a deep sleep along with his companions, so that Namine can piece his shattered memory back together. In the year this process takes, much conflict ensues over the sleeping Sora. Between DiZ who seeks a tool for his revenge in Sora, and Organization XIII who seeks to steal Sora's power and stop him from ever waking. | |
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In the Red Mars Trilogy, this comes close to being the hat of Mars. Over the two centuries or so the series spans Mars sees a lot of political movements rise and fall, and it's just so damn easy to get away from it all and hide if things no longer go your way. The trope is pioneered by Hiroko Ai shortly after the first landing, and following her lead, the number of important people disappearing only to emerge out of some off-the-records settlement decades later is impressive. On top of this, there's a whole lot of important people whose fate is unknown to the public, so for each person actually hiding there's probably two that are rumored to be. | |
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Babylon 5: Sheridan disappears at the end of the Grand Finale. Some of the Minbari believe that he'll return someday. Subverted in the case of David MacIntyre from "A Late Delivery from Avalon", who's just a delusional man driven by his guilt to believe that he's King Arthur. The possibility that he is the real deal is raised (the Vorlons have been known to abduct and preserve humans in stasis) but immediately shot down; a real person from that time period would not have been fluent in anything resembling 23rd century English. |
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Transformers: Most versions of Primus, the god of Transformers, are asleep, and have been for several billion years, sworn only to revive when "all are one". So, given the nature of Transformers, he's not waking up any time soon. It usually takes something pretty drastic to get Primus directly involved (like, say, shooting him in the face). Of course, there is a pretty good reason for his long nap: If he wakes up, Unicron will instantly know where he is and make a beeline straight for him. And Primus has a pretty bad track record with regards to fighting his nemesis... | |
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The nameless protagonist in Crystalis is essentially this, as is Mesia. | |
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This is a plot point in Deep Secret with the Koryfonic Empire; the emperor in question disappeared rather than being buried under a mountain, and reappears at the end of the book. It's also evoked in the sequel, The Merlin Conspiracy, although in this case, Arthur 'The Count of Britain' is just one of several forces invoked and doesn't stick around after the upset any more than The Wild Hunt does, apart from scolding the current king. | |
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Gravity Falls: Quentin Trembley may be the most bizarre example of this ever written. He is the founder of Gravity Falls and 8 1/2th President of the United States, and disappeared after riding his horse over the edge of a ravine, backwards. It eventually transpires that he preserved himself in peanut brittle, believing it could sustain his life, and hid himself away in a secret chamber, leaving a series of cryptic and nonsensical clues as to how to find him. He is finally awoken, after a couple of centuries, when the protagonists have need of him. | |
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Captain America, who slept for Xnote Sliding timescale means that X = the amount of time between 1945 and about ten to fifteen years ago years until our greatest need... | |
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In Star Trek: The Next Generation, there's a legend like this surrounding the Klingon imperial founder Kahless. In "Rightful Heir", a group of monks make a clone of him and claim that he's returned in an attempted power grab. | |
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In the Captain Future novel Planets in Peril by Edmond Hamilton, the Captain is convinced to go into a parallel universe and impersonate an ancient hero who promised to come back when needed. In the end, it is revealed that he didn't go into a parallel universe, but his own twenty billion years in the future, and he was the hero he impersonated. | |
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