Canister Of Evil

The original movie has the heroes create a sealed evil in a can out of the title menace by freezing the monster and transporting it to the North Pole. And now we have global warming But not sealed too tightly or else we wouldn't have a movie.

The remake ends with the apocalyptic town preacher who was scarred by the bigger Blob and apparently driven quite insane in the interim revealing that he has kept a small part of the Blob in a glass container, and will unleash it when God will tell him it's time.

In The Brass Teapot Dr. At the end of the movie he casts the Teapot into the bottom of the ocean. Josiah starts directly causing trouble in Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering when his physical body is mistakenly released from an old well by a thirsty drunk.

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Phoenix was thawed out of cryo-prison to take out people who don't like Cocteau. But he has his own agenda and plans to release every other criminal in the prison to create his own army. Ghostbusters In the first movie , the Ghostbusters seal all of their captured ghosts in a large containment unit that can only stay locked with the help of a power grid.

And it then gets unlocked. The Big Bad of the sequel is a 16th-century despot whose spirit inhabits his portrait. In the Goosebumps movie, every monster R. Stine ever wrote actually exists, locked away within their book's manuscript. Then someone unlocks one of the books Prosatanos is sealed inside his own tomb by Richard the Lionheart during the Crusades.

He's set free six hundred years later by two tomb raiders. The comic books as well as the movie adaption of Hellboy feature several such sealed-away monstrosities. In the movie, one demon was sealed in a consecrated urn, and the Ogdru Jahad, the Lovecraftian chaos gods of the Hellboy universe, lie imprisoned and waiting in the Void beyond the stars.

In Clive Barker 's Hellraiser , the Cenobites will not come after you unless you solve the puzzle of the Lament Configuration. The Sorcerer , the villain Kane and the other two evil immortals are trapped in a cave for centuries, only being released in the present to attack Connor once again. Another candidate for Most Egregious Example of All Time is the movie Hobgoblins , where a group of mischievous, killer, evil, mind-controlling, rapidly-nodding hobgoblin puppets are "sealed" inside a large, vault door, behind a barred gate, neither of which are, you know Worse yet, the man who's spent thirty years "guarding" these "sealed" horrors is a demolitions expert and always was.

He ends up blowing them up. Too bad that didn't occur to him, you know In Jumanji , the eponymous board game is buried underground for decades until it is unearthed by a construction team and found by Alan. An ancient monster has been trapped in a castle for centuries, until some Nazis awaken it.

Played with and subverted in Kung Fu Hustle. The Beast is locked up in an insane asylum — but only because he was bored from the lack of worthy opponents to duel and so checked himself in. When Sing is snuck in by the Axe Gang to break out the Beast for recruitment and picks his cell door open, the audience sees the Beast as a bald old man with a pair of spectacles in a wifebeater and boxers sitting on the john reading a newspaper. Relic of Cthulhu has the titular Cthulhu himself sealed by choice somewhere under the sea. The last remaining Lovecraft must guard the relic of Cthulhu to prevent it's awakening.

Living Hell , a recent horror movie, has sublevel 4, vault 12, on a military base, which the protagonist doesn't want disturbed. The military had completely missed the hidden door in the vault till the protagonist waltzed in and told them there was something there So, nice job there, hero. Marvel Cinematic Universe In the film Doctor Strange , the villain Dormammu is trapped in the Dark Dimension so that he cannot harm the main universe.

In the TV series Agents of S. See also the trope Hive Mind. In The Mighty Boosh Live , the Hitcher and his minions are introduced into the show when a box is opened. The Hitcher was apparently sealed in the box for years, for crimes against humanity. Including, but limited to raping a dolphin and driving contaminated swans to fights. The Mummy Trilogy In the version of The Mummy , it is the very act of Sealing Imhotep in a Can that bestows the apocalyptic abilities that he displays in the movie. Averted in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor , when the already incredibly powerful Chinese Emperor didn't gain anything from the curse that transformed him into a crumbling clay figure.

In fact, if it wasn't even the curse that revived him, but some miracle water. As a side effect, though, he has the ability to throw his face at people. The Movie , the shapeshifting Ivan Ooze had been trapped underground for 6, years until his containment chamber was accidentally unearthed by a construction crew and later opened by Lord Zedd.

A Power Rangers Movie , Maligore is freed from a volcano on an island that is sealed in another dimension. John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness had sealed evil in a can — The Anti-Christ, in fact, sealed in liquid form inside a giant glass and metal container in the basement of a church. In one of the sillier examples of this trope, the canister is designed in such a way that it can only be opened from the inside and the sole reason the son of Satan doesn't try to escape before the events of the film is that he was asleep. And then there's The Thing , sealed in a block of ice until some ill-advised Norwegians dig it out.

In Prometheus , the jars inside the structure, which can cause mutation or destruction to anything and everything that comes in contact with it. Later on, the expedition team discovers that the Engineer ship has a cargo hold full of these jars, along with a dormant Engineer who put himself in hypersleep, and intends to use the craft to destroy Earth via releasing the jars. Quatermass and the Pit has an ancient alien evil buried under London for millions of years, finally unearthed by building works.

Queen of the Damned: Akasha's bloodthirsty rule over humanity was stopped when she and her husband turned into statues and slept for centuries. Lestat briefly awakens her shortly after being turned and again draws her attention when he starts to live in the limelight as a rock star. In prehistoric times the Sami-folk of Lapland, tired of the tyranny of Santa Claus , lured him on weak ice, and he sank to the bottom of the lake, which subsequently froze through.

He was cut out and covered with tons of sawdust to keep him from melting, and then layers upon layers of dirt and stones over the centuries, until the Korvatunturi mountain on the border of modern Finland and Russia was formed. And this Christmas an obsessed American millionaire decides to dig him out. He is not happy. In The Return of the Living Dead and its first sequel , a brain-eating zombie and corpse-animating Trioxin gas are accidentally released from a sealed metal canister.

In the movie The Ruins , as well as in the book, the protagonists are attacked by a sentient, carnivorous, and parasitic vine living on an ancient pyramid or in a mine shaft, in the book. The vine is kept on the pyramid by a ring of deforested and salted land carved out of the jungle around it, and is effectively sealed up by a very stringent quarantine set up by the villagers living nearby. In the end of The Movie , one woman manages to escape, but it is hinted that the vine is living inside of her , and in one alternate ending, it is directly shown that she has taken the vine with her back to civilization, unsealing the evil and letting it go free.

The Syfy Channel Original Movie Scarecrow has the title creature, who was Buried Alive underneath a farm until accidentally being released. Justified, as the creature is literally impossible to kill and will simply regenerate from anything done to it, including being shredded to bits, so sealing it away is the only way to stop it. At the end, the main character traps it in a boat and sinks it, imprisoning it at the bottom of a river.

Seventh Son features an evil witch queen who was sealed in a pit until a Blood Moon re-empowered her and allowed her to escape. Played with in the film adaptation of The Shadow. A museum receives a silver sarcophagus from a mysterious source, with an inscription on it saying it's the coffin of Genghis Khan. When the security guard is left alone with it the coffin starts to shake around and eventually opens up to reveal a man in the dress of a Mongol warrior, who telepathically forces the security guard to shoot himself.

However, it turns out it's not actually Genghis Khan, but a modern-day descendant. Maxim Horvath in The Sorcerer's Apprentice. First, Balthazar traps him in the Grimhold. Later, they were both sealed in a Chinese vase. They both escape ten years later. The Wrath of Khan , when they're abandoned on Ceti Alpha V which the crew of the Reliant mistake for Ceti Alpha VI after a natural disaster alters its orbit and destroys its environment. He claimed to have been imprisoned on the planet in the center of the galaxy and wanted to "join" with the Enterprise so he could escape.

Nemesis , the Enterprise crew find B4 dissassembled and put him back together. It turns out he's part of an elaborate evil scheme by Shinzon. Khan; a former Evil Overlord accused of war crimes, and his crew of Augments were cryogenically frozen for centuries in a derelict ship He ends the film this way, too. The scientists investigating the Living Memory of a Screaming Woman imprinted into the stonework of a Haunted Castle accidentally 'erase' the scream.

They give up their research, thinking they've blown their chance, and refuse to listen to the sole member of the team who insists the scream was 'recorded' on top of a more ancient evil, which is now free. The Movie and Superman II both feature the Phantom Zone, but make it out to be a one-time prison for a specific set of three villains.

The Thief of Bagdad , directed by Alexander Korda, provides a classic example, lifted from the old Arabian Nights tale, "The Fisherman and the Bottle"; Abu the thief, stranded on an island by Jaffar, finds an old glass bottle and uncorks it, releasing a huge genie, who had vowed long ago to kill whoever released him from the bottle. Abu tricks the genie back into the bottle, prompting the genie to offer the prerequisite three wishes. He turns out to be a bit of a Literal Genie. Prequel comics for Transformers: When he gets out, he's ticked off. And there's Sentinel Prime , who's been locked in stasis on board the Ark, which crashed on the moon.

The Van Helsing movie has Dracula sealed inside his own part of the world, but circumventing it by developing wings, which he passed on to his other kin. Wishmaster is this trope. A powerful djinn sealed inside a fire opal since medieval times is awakened by the heroine who accidentally broke it. The monster will wreak havoc on earth as soon as the girl ask her proverbial 3 wishes. But she wont, 'cause that would be wrong. Over the course of the movie itself said prison is rapidly approaching the Earth until it crashes into the Moon, releasing its prisoner.

At the end of the movie he is sealed in a new can, Yamato Takeru's magical necklace, which is thrown into space as Susano-o explains Tsukuyomi will bring happiness instead of sorrow the next time he returns because that's just how gods are, apparently. Every Bal Sagoth song starts with " Oh shit , we just woke up Cthulhu. And then he ends up returning to cause some more destruction. The container itself is an unusual case, as it was created and given to her for no other reason than Zeus felt like being a dick. After seeing all the atrocities emanating from the box, Pandora quickly shut it, leaving only one thing inside — Hope.

As aforementioned, all according to Zeus' plan. In older versions Hope did escape The Titans were locked inside Tartarus, a dank, gloomy prison "as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the Earth", where they were guarded by their siblings the Hecatonchires. Note that the Ancient Greeks did not see the Titans as particularly evil Indeed, the period they ruled is the origin of the term "Golden Age" , but many later adaptation of the myths tend to portray the Titans - Cronus in particular, as evil forces as opposed to the Greek Gods.

Typhon was trapped beneath a mountain by Zeus. According to Islam, Dhu'l-Qarnayn, or "He of the Two Horns" a lesser prophet who appeared long before Muhammad encountered a race of monsters split into two tribes, the Yahjuj and Mahjuj , or Gog and Magog of Biblical fame that were harassing the people, so he built a giant wall to keep them enclosed. Norse Mythology Unbreakable magic chains kept Fenrir a gigantic wolf so massive that it must crouch down to avoid scraping against the dome of the sky bound, until he eventually breaks them.

Ironically, it is implied that binding him is what made him so pissed off at the gods in the first place. Well, that's the trouble with prophecies That kind of thing happens a lot in Norse mythology.

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The gods were so afraid that Loki and his monstrous children might turn against them that they imprisoned them all in various unpleasant ways Please note that the gods didn't just imprison Loki because they were scared Who do you think they are, greeks? Loki and his children had been around long before this, some were even benevolent read Sleipnir. The reason given in Lokasenna is that he was being a particularly big dick, and it's possible that the punishment was also for manipulating Hodr into killing Balder.

Jormungandr, Fenrir, Loki, the forces of Hel, Garm, etc. The legends of genies often fall under this trope. Not all genies are good, ya see, and the good ones will interpret wishes literally.

Sealed Evil in a Can

Since this has an evil spirit sealed in an actual can, this makes this trope Older Than Feudalism. This small silver bottle is in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. The old lady, living in a village near Hove, Sussex, by whom it was obtained about , remarked: Champions adventure The Blood and Dr.

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Azor an agent of some Eldritch Abominations was imprisoned by the Council of Nine but escapes during the course of the adventure. In Deadlands , a group of Native Americans sealed off "The Hunting Grounds" affecting all magic, good or ill , but ill vastly outnumbered good. Centuries later, another group unsealed it, looking for revenge on the white man for killing off their tribes. Unfortunately, said can is rather flimsy , and while it does a good job of holding Asmodeus, any infernalist worth his salt can create a temporary portal to it, allowing the devils to stream through and wreak havoc and contracts.

The seal wasn't made to save mortals from Asmodeus and his devils — but to save the other gods from him. Hence why mortals are free to poke holes at the seal and let devils come and do Faustian pacts. If you are dumb enough to do it, you deserve what's coming to you. You have grasped the entire concept wonderfully. Asmodeus will be pleased. Anyone with this class is this for their own unique destructive being that they call 'the monster within' which is constantly raging to get free from its host.

Ironically if the beast were to be released it would be promptly obliterated by about seven different gods at once, this won't ever happen though because plenty of greater deities have been left scratching their heads after failing to remove the beasts. This class cannot even use any of their abilities without provoking the beast and needing to make a will save or let it gain control for a few rounds of combat.

If you think that the Harrowed are justified in wanting to die, they aren't. They are stuck in a constant cycle of reincarnation after they die and they always come back as another Harrowed with exactly the same homicidal beast sealed inside them. They are such a tight can that not even death or the gods can crack them open. Scarred Lands setting In the Back Story the current gods sealed the evil gods that ruled before them, each in a different way befitting them and tailored so that their powers couldn't get them out.

For instance, Thulkas, the Iron Lord, was so strong that he couldn't be moved, so he was hammered into an arrow and shot into the sun. The Scarred Lands also has the Slarecians, psionic beings who challenged both the gods and the titans. The twist is that they sealed themselves into the can so they wouldn't be destroyed. In the published version of B3: Even the leakage of Arik's power which the gem emits is enough to petrify a royal court, trap its best defenders in a dimensional prison, and attract monsters and fanatical dark priests from hundreds of miles around. An important part of Eberron is that there are multiple Sealed Evils in various Cans, with sealants as strong as the plot demands of them.

There are three big ones, as well as a number of more localized ones: The Overlords of the Age of Demons, aka the Rakshasa Rajahs, are the closest thing to actual Physical Gods confirmed to exist in the setting. They were big-time Abusive Precursors and were eventually defeated after a war with the dragons and locked in prisons in Khyber , where they are kept in mostly suspended animation.

Releasing them would be a massive undertaking requiring very fine manipulation of specific prophesied events different for each Overlord to pop their can, as attested by the fact that they've had minions working on the problem for millennia and only managed to spring one and that one was re-sealed in a year. The quori mostly get around this by projecting themselves into mortal dreams and possessing people , since while their bodies can't leave Dal Quor, their minds can The Daelkyr were Humanoid Abominations and the generals of an army of creatures from the Realm of Madness that invaded the mortal world several millennia ago before the modern nations, but well after the dragon-demon war went down.

They lost and got sealed with most of their minions in Khyber, though unlike the Overlords they're still awake and can move around, so long as they don't come to the surface or try to go home, both of which they're prevented from doing by special druidic seals. They do still have a disturbing amount of leeway for Sealed Evils, though.

The massive Ptolus setting by Monte Cook is set on the world of Praemal, which exists as a giant can in which to seal evil. The city of Ptolus itself is built on top of a can or ten and has a giant, impossibly high spire in it where a cleric once, long ago, tried to seal all the evils of the world in a can. Then he became evil, and eventually his fortress atop the spire was itself sealed with the remains of his work and his remains within it.

It's a pretty can-heavy setting. Another notable example in the Nentir Vale setting is Torog, god of torture and imprisonment. The earth is his can. He's trapped in the underdark, actively crawling around down there, and occasionally reaches up from below the earth to pull whole cities down into his can with him.

In the Greyhawk setting: In the Midnight setting there is the evil god Izrador, who was sealed along with some other beings in the world of Aryth. Your characters live on Aryth and they're also sealed there. Not only is the evil in the can but you're in the can with it. Weakened severely over the millennia, it is later brought down by the return of the Shadovar, who then must team up with the Sharn and the peoples of Toril to drive the phaerimm back. The artifact known as the Acorn of Wo Mai holds an evil demigod called the Copper Tyrant of Tros that will try to trick anyone possessing the Acorn into letting it loose.

Most of the titular monsters in the 3. Fathe Llymic is a Far Realm entity that's sealed in a glacier, the Hulks of Zoretha are slumbering alien superweapons, the Leviathan is the chaos left over from creating the world given physical form and put to sleep at the bottom of the ocean, Pandorym is a phenomenally powerful entity whose mind and body have been separated and sealed away, Sertrous is a dead obyrith whose spirit is trapped in his skull, Kyuss is a would-be god who is sealed in an obelisk on an isolated island, and Zargon is the previous ruler of Baator, who was imprisoned by Asmodeus in a giant rock under a desert.

After the Champions of Rajaat realize that Rajaat's Cleansing Wars are actually attempted genocide, they seal him in a prison dimension.

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Evil gods upon evil gods implied to be the Dark Powers themselves in the 5th edition update sealed in giant blocks of amber. Of course, a temple filled with dark gods sounds like a perfect idea that'll never go wrong, doesn't it? In the prehistory of Exalted , the defeated Primordials were stitched into the twisted body of their god-king Malfeas and confined to another realm Being too big to die properly, they instead wrapped themselves up in giant sarcophagi spanning infinite distances as they resisted the pull of Oblivion.

Then the Solars decided to pop a few blocks open to learn Necromancy In the In Nomine universe, one of the prophecies for Armageddon is "An ancient evil breaks its bonds. In Iron Kingdoms the Skorne have Ancestral Guardians, which are statues empowered by the souls of fallen Skorne warriors. In the game Neuroshima there are a number of items scattered around the world which adventurers refer to as Pandora's boxes.

Each is a large metal canister that contains something nasty from a biological weapon to a very compact assassin droid. Everyone knows what they are but humans being humans, every once in a while someone opens one, either because of the Schmuck Bait involved or in some desperate gambit against his enemies. A common trope in Pathfinder ; Golarion has many hidden cans of evil, some of which are now breaking open due to the recent death of humanity's patron deity. The most notable can is that holding Rovagug, the "Rough Beast" and god of destruction.

He resembles a giant arthropod and seeks nothing more than to undo the works of the other gods and destroy creation itself. Faced with this foe, good and evil deities alike joined forces to destroy him, and many lost their lives. In the end it was Sarenrae and Asmodeus who managed to take him down, with Sarenrae battling him for long enough that Asmodeus was able to seal him within the world of Golarion with a special key. Rovagug is still there within the world, where his struggles are blamed for volcanoes and earthquakes.

The Pit of Gormuz a twenty-mile-wide chasm is a weak spot in his prison, and while Rovagug himself can't get out, he can periodically release some new Spawn on the world to continue his work the most famous of which is the Tarrasque. Numerous other examples dot the world. Runelords, ancient tyrannical wizard-kings, sealed themselves away to escape an ancient catastrophe. The elves trapped the plant-corrupting demon Treerazer in the portion of their nation he had already claimed.

The Whispering Tyrant, the world's most infamous lich , lies imprisoned by an entire nation of paladins. An island where an ancient Magocracy trapped its enemies and mistakes behind an impenetrable magical wall has been repurposed by a gold dragon and his allies into serving as a prison for fiends , Eldritch Abominations , evil wizards and other terrors. Many published modules and adventure paths involve the player characters stopping some sealed evil from being unleashed — "Realm of the Fellnight Queen," "Pact Stone Pyramid," and "From Shore to Sea" just to name a few.

Scion , by the same company as Exalted , uses the same logic surrounding the Titans. At the end of the Titanomachy, the gods bound them away in the Underworld — this was because the Titans were incarnations of things such as Light, Fire, Darkness, Life, and Water, and their death would screw with reality big time. This was proven when Ymir was killed Many examples from Warhammer 40, Daemon weapons contain bound daemons within them, giving them incredible power and just as incredible malevolence. However, the greatest threat isn't them escaping, but rather corrupting the weapon's wielder and twisting them to its will.

More powerful daemons, who couldn't at the time be banished back to the Warp , are often sealed in the Materium in some way that prevents them from killing everything at the moment, perhaps in the hope that they can be banished later. This being WH40K , not only does the sealing frequently make things worse, but most of the time those doing the sealing never tell anyone about it. Both literal and metaphorical in the case of the Necrons and their C'tan masters later retconned to have actually been shattered by the Necrons and chained , who sealed themselves deep beneath the surface of numerous worlds approximately sixty million years ago.

The new Necron superheavy unit, the Tesseract Vault, is essentially an attempt at weaponising this trope by taking a C'tan trapped in a high-tech device to keep it caged, and then having that device float around the battlefield dropping meteors on people. In an emergency, the Nemesors can disable the seals and let the C'tan loose.

During the Great Crusade, the Emperor sought to gain access to the Webway. In a top-secret chamber deep beneath his palace on Terra, he constructed a massive machine that allowed him to breach it. He had to put some heavy-duty psychic wards around the place to keep daemons from using the gate to enter Terra. Unfortunately, Magnus the Red broke those wards to tell him of Horus' betrayal. Since then, the Emperor has sat on the Golden Throne, using his psychic might and the might of thousands of daily psyker sacrifices to keep that gate closed. Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine: The Uktena from Werewolf: The Apocalypse make a trade of this; one of their camps, the Bane Tenders, possesses secretive rites that allow them to seal away Banes too powerful to kill, so that they can't get out and wreak havoc on the world.

This is also the grand view of the Wyrm , whose evil was not the cause of his sealing, but vice versa; the Weaver, herself a bit batshit at the time , decided to trap the Wyrm within her webs, driving it mad and shifting its purpose from "a blessed end to all things" to "reality cancer, forever and ever. Unfortunately, since those webs make up a good chunk of reality A literal but downplayed example comes from the Pentex Corporation of the Werewolf setting.

Makuta Teridax encased in a Toa Seal by the Toa Metru by their Elemental Powers , but much later they unintentionally released him with the same powers when they attacked Roodaka holding a piece of the Toa Seal. The Overlord of Evil is currently sealed in the Underworld Before that, he was sealed away in the Sky Dimension , because the angel guards had to seal the entire dimension away after Curien and Ethan created an irreversible dark rift there.

Melinda is currently sealed in a Blank White Void dimension Prince of Darkness was shot in Los Angeles , California in 30 days. Carpenter became inspired while researching theoretical physics and atomic theory. He recalled, "I thought it would be interesting to create some sort of ultimate evil and combine it with the notion of matter and anti-matter. Executive producer Shep Gordon was also manager to singer Alice Cooper , and suggested Cooper record a song for the film. Carpenter also cast Cooper as one of the homeless zombies.

Cooper allowed the "impaling device" from his stage show to be used in the film in the scene where Cooper's character kills Etchinson. It was Peter Jason's first film for Carpenter, and he would afterward become a Carpenter regular. The film was shot with wide-angle lenses, which combined with anamorphic format to create a lot of distortion.

Carpenter wrote the screenplay but was credited as "Martin Quatermass", which along with the name of Professor Birack's institution "Kneale University" was an homage to British film and television writer Nigel Kneale and his best-known character, Bernard Quatermass. The story features elements associated with Kneale, including a confrontation with ancient evil Quatermass and the Pit and The Quatermass Conclusion , messages from the future The Road , and the scientific investigation of the paranormal The Stone Tape.

Kneale was displeased with the homage, fearing that viewers might believe that he had something to do with the film. The poster for Prince of Darkness was created and designed by Henry Rosenthal, who worked for print production vendor Rod Dyer. In an interview with Michael Doyle in the November issue of Rue Morgue , John Carpenter revealed how he created the eerie dream sequences in Prince of Darkness that feature a shadowy figure emerging from a church doorway. Carpenter first shot the action of the figure played by actor Jessie Ferguson with a video camera and then "re-photographed it on a television set" in order to give the image a peculiar, dislocated feeling that also appeared as if it was being filmed live.

Doyle also reminded Carpenter that the director himself provided the disembodied voice that narrates each dream. Prince of Darkness was poorly received critically upon release. Carpenter, a director whose work is usually far more efficient and inventive. In , Jim Emerson wrote that Prince of Darkness was an undervalued horror film: Like most of Carpenter's films, Prince of Darkness went on to have a cult following. The dream sequence narrations were sampled by DJ Shadow on his album Endtroducing On September 24, , the film was released by Shout!

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