Foiled
Foiled adjective - Disappointingly unsuccessful.
Release
Release verb - To set free (from a state of being held in check).
Both words in one sentence
- In the series proper he is a Sealed Evil in a Can who only briefly appears as gigantic cloudlike apparition during an attempt to release him only to fade away once the attempt is foiled.
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At the end of Babylon 5: A Call to Arms, after the Drakh's plan to destroy the Earth is foiled, they release a Shadow engineered virus into the Earth's atmosphere that will kill all life on the planet in 5 years, which is explicitly compared to the Roman practice of poisoning wells.
Source: Salt the Earth
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