Batman: Black and White: "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.The final page shows the Batplane battling German fighters during the Blitz. At the end of the story, the dying Batman is enchanted to sleep and awaken at the hour of Britain's greatest need. The Elseworlds story Batman: Dark Knight of the Round Table re-imagined Batman as a knight in King Arthur's court.The bard under the mountain specifically name-checks Barbarossa and Arthur, among others. When they ask which king, they're told he's all of them. In The Books of Magic, Tim Hunter and Doctor Occult encounter The King Under The Mountain.He returns after 851,000 years and brings New Krypton into our solar system. In 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.King Arthur does indeed return in the hour of England's greatest need: an alien invasion in the year 3000. Camelot 3000 takes the Arthurian Legend and runs with it.Only due to genetic engineering and such Arthur was literally reborn to two Yuppie Britons and so is a spoiled young brat. In an Iron Man story featuring Doctor Doom and Time Travel, Stark 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).Captain America, who slept for X note Sliding timescale means that X=the amount of time between 1945 and about ten to fifteen years ago years until our greatest need.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. 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.Yhwach reveals the last stanza of the legend is that 9 days after he regains his power, he'll regain the world. The Final Arc takes place during the year he regains his power and plunges everyone into a war he started a thousand years ago. 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. Bleach: The Quincies have ancient folklore speaking of a Sealed King.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. Saya in Blood+, until a couple years before the first episode, and then again in the epilogue.Nakiami becomes this in the ending of Xam'd: Lost Memories.In Phantom Dreams, the Gekka family have a "sleeping king." Probably Sealed Evil in a Can for once.Unfortunately, the current Big Bad learned about her and sought her out, planning to use her and her undead army to terrorize Mid-Childa. Intended to never wake up despite all the text that spoke of her return since she was sick of all the fighting. Was sleeping in the underwater ruins uncovered during the construction of the Marine Gardens. The Dark King Ixpellia in StrikerS Sound Stage X of Lyrical Nanoha.Compare Present Absence, Rip Van Winkle, Year Outside, Hour Inside, and Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard. 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. 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. 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. 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. He will come again in his country's hour of need to play Big Damn Heroes. At any rate, somewhere difficult to access. Islands and a Magical Land are other possibilities. Usually, but not necessarily, under a mountain. A legendary form of Faux Death: the Long-Dead Badass is not really dead, but asleep.
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