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* ''WesternAnimation/Bionicle2LegendsOfMetruNui'': The Mask of Time is sought by both Turaga Dume and Makuta [[spoiler:, because they are the same person]]. Vakama was requested to create it, but without all of [[GottaCatchThemAll great Discs]] it just doesn't work out. Makuta remarks that it's not really needed for his EvilPlan, but building his empire after he wins would take much longer without it.
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* ''Film/{{Blood and Black Lace}}'': Everyone at the fashion house wants the diary belonging to the first victim, Isabella, because it exposes all of the shady stuff they've been up to, [[spoiler:including cocaine dealings and an abortion. It is destroyed by one of the models halfway through the film for that reason]].
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* ''Film/{{Blood and Black Lace}}'': ''Film/BloodAndBlackLace'': Everyone at the fashion house wants the diary belonging to the first victim, Isabella, because it exposes all of the shady stuff they've been up to, [[spoiler:including cocaine dealings and an abortion. It is destroyed by one of the models halfway through the film for that reason]].
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* ''Film/BlackLightning2009'': BigBad requires the Nanocatalyst to power his massive drill, which so happens to be the Black Lightning's power source.
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* The titular object from ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}''. It gets the characters together, pits them against each other, [[spoiler:but turns out to be worthless.]]
** In ''Satan Met a Lady'', an earlier movie adapted loosely from Dashiell Hammett's original novel featuring a young Creator/BetteDavis in the FemmeFatale role, the Falcon was replaced by Roland's trumpet, a legendary horn said to be filled with priceless jewels.
** In ''Satan Met a Lady'', an earlier movie adapted loosely from Dashiell Hammett's original novel featuring a young Creator/BetteDavis in the FemmeFatale role, the Falcon was replaced by Roland's trumpet, a legendary horn said to be filled with priceless jewels.
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* The titular object from ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}''. It gets the characters together, pits them against each other, [[spoiler:but turns out to be worthless.]]
**]] In ''Satan Met a Lady'', an earlier movie adapted loosely from Dashiell Hammett's original novel featuring a young Creator/BetteDavis in the FemmeFatale role, the Falcon was replaced by Roland's trumpet, a legendary horn said to be filled with priceless jewels.
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** The key to disable the [[AIIsACrapshoot Entity]] in ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoning''.
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** The list of NATO agent at the beginning of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''.
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* The thumb drive containing the incriminating files Aaron and Carmen need to prosecute Daniel Bailey, and which Alice is carrying when she goes missing on the hike through the wilderness in ''Film/ForceOfNatureTheDry2''.
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* In ''[[Film/AssassinsCreed2016 Assassin's Creed]]'', the Templars seek an Apple of Eden in Spain both at the time of the end of the UsefulNotes/SpanishReconquista (when they had members in UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition) and in the PresentDay. The Assassins, meanwhile, seek to protect the Apple at all cost in both eras. The Apple is actually sort of an ArtifactOfDoom in the wrong hands as seen in several video games of the [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed wider franchise]], though the Templars never have an opportunity of using it.
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* ''Film/HauntedMansion2023'': [[spoiler:Alistair Crump's hat is needed for a ritual to banish him to the underworld. Alistair Crump also wants the hat to keep the other characters from using it in the ritual.]]
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* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' is framed around the search for a diamond called Le CÂœur de la Mer (The Heart of the Sea/Ocean), which is quickly forgotten until the end of the story, [[spoiler:when its owner throws it overboard so no one can have it]].
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* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' is framed around the search for a diamond called Le CÂœur de la Mer (The Heart of the Sea/Ocean), which is quickly forgotten until Sea/Ocean) provides the end FramingDevice for Rose's story of her voyage on the ''Titanic''. Though the diamond itself barely appears in her story, [[spoiler:and after she finishes telling it she pulls the Heart of the story, [[spoiler:when its owner Sea out of her pocket and throws it overboard so no one can have it]].
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* Examples from TropeNamer Creator/AlfredHitchcock:
** The "government secrets" that motivate the action in ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' (1959). The audience only sees a quick shot of the microfilm, and we never have any idea what was on it in the first place, or why it was important.
** One of Hitch's earliest examples of a [=MacGuffin=] is the uranium sand that Creator/ClaudeRains was smuggling in wine bottles in ''Film/{{Notorious|1946}}'' ("A vintage sand" is what Creator/CaryGrant called it). When studio execs told Hitchcock that movie audiences wouldn't understand why the uranium sand was so important, Hitchcock answered, "Then we'll make it uncut industrial diamonds. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as the villains want it. That's the [=MacGuffin=], that's the motor that drives the plot."
** The stolen money in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. In reality, [[HalfwayPlotSwitch everything about the plot becomes irrelevant at the half-way point]].
** The "government secrets" that motivate the action in ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' (1959). The audience only sees a quick shot of the microfilm, and we never have any idea what was on it in the first place, or why it was important.
** One of Hitch's earliest examples of a [=MacGuffin=] is the uranium sand that Creator/ClaudeRains was smuggling in wine bottles in ''Film/{{Notorious|1946}}'' ("A vintage sand" is what Creator/CaryGrant called it). When studio execs told Hitchcock that movie audiences wouldn't understand why the uranium sand was so important, Hitchcock answered, "Then we'll make it uncut industrial diamonds. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as the villains want it. That's the [=MacGuffin=], that's the motor that drives the plot."
** The stolen money in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. In reality, [[HalfwayPlotSwitch everything about the plot becomes irrelevant at the half-way point]].
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* The "government secrets" that motivate the action in ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' (1959). The audience only sees a quick shot of the microfilm, and we never have any idea what was on it in the first place, or why it was important.
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* The gold in ''TheItalianJob''. Less so in the remake, if we go by the 'only counts if it's not spent' rule. Much is made about how various character plan to/do spend it.
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* The gold in ''TheItalianJob''. ''Film/TheItalianJob1969''. Less so in [[Film/TheItalianJob2003 the remake, remake]], if we go by the 'only counts if it's not spent' rule. Much is made about how various character plan to/do spend it.
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* The ShrinkRay, and later [[spoiler:the shrunken moon]] in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe''.
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* The ShrinkRay, and later [[spoiler:the shrunken moon]] in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe''.''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1''.
