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* ''Film/ThorBloodAndThunder'': In Gorr's backstory, after discovering his god Rapu is a total Jerkass who lied about sending the souls of the worthy dead to paradise (they can [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]], for all he cares), Gorr grabs his sacred totem necklace of Rapu and tears it off while renouncing him. Rapu proceeds to choke-hold the neck that held the necklace.

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* ''Film/ThorBloodAndThunder'': ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'': In Gorr's backstory, after discovering his god Rapu is a total Jerkass who lied about sending the souls of the worthy dead to paradise (they can [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]], for all he cares), Gorr grabs his sacred totem necklace of Rapu and tears it off while renouncing him. Rapu proceeds to choke-hold the neck that held the necklace.
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* ''Film/ThorBloodAndThunder'': In Gorr's backstory, after discovering his god Rapu is a total Jerkass who lied about sending the souls of the worthy dead to paradise (they can [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]], for all he cares), Gorr grabs his sacred totem necklace of Rapu and tears it off while renouncing him. Rapu proceeds to choke-hold the neck that held the necklace.
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* In the novel ''Literature/NumberTheStars'', the Jewish Ellen is hiding with her Gentile friend Annemarie's family. When the Nazis show up the girls realize Ellen still has her Star of David necklace on, but she's worn it so long she can't figure out how the clasp works in her panicky state. Annemarie then grabs the necklace and rips it off, breaking the chain just as the soldiers enter the room. Note that the broken chain ''is'' addressed: When Annemarie finds the necklace at the end she asks her father to fix it, declaring that [[spoiler:she will wear it herself until Ellen comes back from hiding]]. And she does warn her first that it's going to hurt.

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* In the novel ''Literature/NumberTheStars'', the Jewish Ellen is hiding with her Gentile friend Annemarie's family. When the Nazis show up in the middle of the night, the girls realize Ellen still has her Star of David necklace on, but she's worn it so long she can't figure out how the clasp works in her panicky state. Annemarie then grabs the necklace and rips it off, breaking the chain just as the soldiers enter the room. Note that the broken chain ''is'' addressed: When when Annemarie finds the necklace at the end end, she asks her father to fix it, declaring that [[spoiler:she will wear it herself until Ellen comes back from hiding]]. And she does warn her Ellen first that it's going to hurt.
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* ''Blog/BetterBonesAU'': Firestar rips off Scourge's collar during their battle, symbolizing his defeat of the [=BloodClan=] leader without killing him.

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* In Creator/AlisonBechdel's graphic novel ''ComicBook/AreYouMyMother'', Helen tells how, as a little girl, she pretended to do this while play-acting a melodramatic scene with her sister. But she got excited at the drama, tried it again, and went a bit too hard and actually broke her necklace, leaving her crushed.

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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/CarryOnDick''. Dick Turpin is robbing a noblewoman and tells her to hand over her necklace.
-->"No, it's my only means of support!"
-->''(Dick tears off the necklace and her dress falls down around her ankles)''
-->"[[ExactWords I told you it was my only means of support!]]"

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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/CarryOnDick''. Dick Turpin is robbing a noblewoman Madame Desiree and tells her to hand over her necklace.
-->"No,
necklace - she tells him that it's my her only means of support!"
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support, but he rips it off the necklace and her dress falls neck anyways, causing her knickers to fall down around her ankles)''
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ankles, making her snap at him:
-->'''Madame Desiree''': [[ExactWords
I told you it was my only means of support!]]"support!]]
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* ''Film/UrbanLegend'': In the climax, [[spoiler:upon revealing herself as the killer]], Brenda confesses the [[FreudianExcuse real reason]] why she did the killing spree followed by removing her necklace[[note]]it's given by her late fiance -whom Natalie and her former friend, Michelle, accidentally killed- as an engagement ring substitute[[/note]].

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* ''Film/UrbanLegend'': In the climax, [[spoiler:upon revealing herself as the killer]], Brenda confesses the [[FreudianExcuse real reason]] why she did [[spoiler:did the killing spree spree]] followed by removing her necklace[[note]]it's necklace[[note]]which is given by her late fiance -whom (whom Natalie and her former friend, Michelle, accidentally killed- killed) as a substitute for an engagement ring substitute[[/note]].ring[[/note]].
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* ''Film/UrbanLegend'': [[spoiler:Upon revealing herself as the killer]], Brenda confesses the [[FreudianExcuse real reason]] why she did the killing spree followed by removing her necklace[[note]]it's given by her late fiance -whom Natalie and her former friend, Michelle, accidentally killed- as an engagement ring substitute[[/note]].

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* ''Film/UrbanLegend'': [[spoiler:Upon In the climax, [[spoiler:upon revealing herself as the killer]], Brenda confesses the [[FreudianExcuse real reason]] why she did the killing spree followed by removing her necklace[[note]]it's given by her late fiance -whom Natalie and her former friend, Michelle, accidentally killed- as an engagement ring substitute[[/note]].
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* ''Film/UrbanLegend'': [[spoiler:Upon revealing herself as the killer]], Brenda confesses the [[FreudianExcuse real reason]] why she did the killing spree followed by removing her necklace[[note]]it's given by her late fiance -whom Natalie and her former friend, Michelle, accidentally killed- as an engagement ring substitute[[/note]].
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* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. In "PK Tech Girl", a flashback to when Rygel, former Dominar of Hyneria, was in Peacekeeper hands showed Captain Durka ripping off his badge of office and punching Rygel in the face with it. Rygel finds the badge on the desk of his former tormenter, next to his corpse (or [[FakingTheDead so he thinks]]).

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* In ''Manga/InuYasha'', Kikyo protected the Jewel of Four Souls by wearing it on a necklace. What happens to it becomes the MacGuffin in the main plot.
** When Kagome wears the Shikon Shards around her neck, she's subjected to a similar treatment more than once.

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* In ''Manga/InuYasha'', ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', Kikyo protected the Jewel of Four Souls by wearing it on a necklace. What happens to it becomes the MacGuffin in the main plot.
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plot. When Kagome wears the Shikon Shards around her neck, she's subjected to a similar treatment more than once.



* In ''Manga/{{Yu Yu Hakusho}}'', Hiei's stone necklace from his mother is dramatically cut off, causing him to get the Jagan Eye just so he can find it.

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* In ''Manga/{{Yu Yu Hakusho}}'', ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Hiei's stone necklace from his mother is dramatically cut off, causing him to get the Jagan Eye just so he can find it.



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* In the ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]'' StoryArc "A Game of You", Franchise/{{Barbie}} is wearing a magic necklace which must not be taken off her; it's said to be the only thing keeping her alive. [[spoiler:In the dream-world, The Cuckoo later makes her take it off and smash it against a rock, which causes it to disappear in the "real" world as well.]]
* The various versions and adaptations of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' produced ever since ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' often have Joe Chill dramatically rip off Martha Wayne's pearls, complete with a SlowMotionDrop of said pearls before shooting her and Thomas dead.

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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': In the ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]'' StoryArc "A Game of You", Franchise/{{Barbie}} is wearing a magic necklace which must not be taken off her; it's said to be the only thing keeping her alive. [[spoiler:In the dream-world, The Cuckoo later makes her take it off and smash it against a rock, which causes it to disappear in the "real" world as well.]]
* The various versions and adaptations of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' produced ever since ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' often have Joe Chill dramatically rip off Martha Wayne's pearls, complete with a SlowMotionDrop of said pearls before shooting her and Thomas dead.



* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', Anastasia and Drizella destroy Cinderella's dress, starting with Drizella yanking her necklace from her neck.
* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', just right after the animals discover that Vanessa is actually Ursula in disguise, they all attack her during her wedding to Eric and first pull the necklace Vanessa/Ursula had trapped Ariel's voice in, then smash it.

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* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', Anastasia and Drizella destroy Cinderella's dress, starting with Drizella yanking her necklace from her neck.
* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', just right after the animals discover that Vanessa is actually Ursula in disguise, they all attack her during her wedding to Eric and first pull the necklace Vanessa/Ursula had trapped Ariel's voice in, then smash it.



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* In the 1995 movie version of ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' the SadistTeacher Miss Minchin takes Sara's locket from her this way, telling her that she can have her arrested for stealing things.

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* In the 1995 movie version of ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' ''Film/ALittlePrincess1995'', the SadistTeacher Miss Minchin takes Sara's locket from her this way, telling her that she can have her arrested for stealing things.
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* [[DefiedTrope Defied]] in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': Zummi's Gummi medallion is SelfGuardingPhlebotinum, so when enemies like Zorlok the wizard attempt this trope, they just get painfully zapped.
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* ''Film/HenryV1989'': During the arrests of the Earl of Cambridge, Lord Scrope, and Sir Thomas Grey in Act II, Scene 2, the Duke of Exeter yanks their [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livery_collar livery collars]] from their necks and throws them on the floor in the medieval European equivalent of an InsigniaRipOffRitual.
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* Played with in the ''Manga/DevilMayCry3'' manga. Dante's amulet ''is'' very important to the plot, and when the chain holding it breaks, his efforts at a quick fix don't work out very well.

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* Played with in the ''Manga/DevilMayCry3'' manga.manga adaptation of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening''. Dante's amulet ''is'' very important to the plot, and when the chain holding it breaks, his efforts at a quick fix don't work out very well.
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* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': When Prince Friedrich tries to propose to Daphne, she runs into the garden and tears off the diamond necklace he gave her.
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SuperTrope to RippingOffTheStringOfPearls.
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* Played with in the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3'' manga. Dante's amulet ''is'' very important to the plot, and when the chain holding it breaks, his efforts at a quick fix don't work out very well.

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* Played with in the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3'' ''Manga/DevilMayCry3'' manga. Dante's amulet ''is'' very important to the plot, and when the chain holding it breaks, his efforts at a quick fix don't work out very well.
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* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', in Manhattan when Emma Swan [[IncrediblyLamePun bumps into]] [[spoiler:Neal]], he asks her why she kept the swan necklace he gave her [[spoiler:[[TakingtheHeat after he set her up to take the fall for his crime]] and [[EtTuBrute abandoned her]].]] She tells him it was a reminder to never trust anyone again, then proceeds to yank the necklace from her neck, slam it onto the bar, and [[UnflinchingWalk walk out]].

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* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', in Manhattan when Emma Swan [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} bumps into]] [[spoiler:Neal]], he asks her why she kept the swan necklace he gave her [[spoiler:[[TakingtheHeat after he set her up to take the fall for his crime]] and [[EtTuBrute abandoned her]].]] She tells him it was a reminder to never trust anyone again, then proceeds to yank the necklace from her neck, slam it onto the bar, and [[UnflinchingWalk walk out]].
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* On ''WesternAnimation/PawPatrol'', the heroes' pup tags onntheir collars are howcthey communicate with Ryder, so the plot often requires they be ripped off accidentally ("Pups Save Skye") or by a villain ("Rocky Saves Himself").

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* On ''WesternAnimation/PawPatrol'', the heroes' pup tags onntheir on their collars are howcthey how they communicate with Ryder, so the plot often requires they be ripped off accidentally ("Pups Save Skye") or by a villain ("Rocky Saves Himself").
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* On ''WesternAnimation/PawPatrol'', the heroes' pup tags onntheir collars are howcthey communicate with Ryder, so the plot often requires they be ripped off accidentally ("Pups Save Skye") or by a villain ("Rocky Saves Himself").
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* In the ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]'' StoryArc "A Game of You", Barbie is wearing a magic necklace which must not be taken off her; it's said to be the only thing keeping her alive. [[spoiler:In the dream-world, The Cuckoo later makes her take it off and smash it against a rock, which causes it to disappear in the "real" world as well.]]

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* In the ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]'' StoryArc "A Game of You", Barbie Franchise/{{Barbie}} is wearing a magic necklace which must not be taken off her; it's said to be the only thing keeping her alive. [[spoiler:In the dream-world, The Cuckoo later makes her take it off and smash it against a rock, which causes it to disappear in the "real" world as well.]]
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A PlotCoupon takes the form of a necklace or talisman worn around the neck, and any prominent locket, pendant or other item that is worn in this fashion will either be a piece of AppliedPhlebotinum or just something with significant emotional baggage (or fodder for a later plot twist). Naturally, for such an item to be useful for the plot, it can't just stay there.

Thus there will inevitably come a time for said pendant to be removed. Maybe the wearer has decided ItsAllJunk. Maybe it's a power source that's been causing [[BlessedWithSuck undesirable side-effects]]. Maybe the evil ring MacGuffin needs to be thrown into the [[ChekhovsVolcano volcano]]. Maybe a baddie wants its [[MagicalAccessory Phlebotinous powers]] for himself. Maybe it's the symbol of LaResistance and an official of TheEmpire is nosing around. Or perhaps it's a PowerLimiter and it's time stop limiting that power.

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A PlotCoupon often takes the form of a necklace or talisman worn around the neck, and any prominent locket, pendant or other item that is worn in this fashion will either be a piece of AppliedPhlebotinum or just something with significant emotional baggage (or fodder for a later plot twist). Naturally, for such an item to be useful for the plot, it can't just stay there.

Thus there will inevitably come a time for said pendant to be removed. Maybe the wearer has decided ItsAllJunk. Maybe it's a power source that's been causing [[BlessedWithSuck undesirable side-effects]]. Maybe the evil ring MacGuffin needs to be thrown into the [[ChekhovsVolcano volcano]]. Maybe a baddie wants its [[MagicalAccessory Phlebotinous powers]] for himself. Maybe it's the symbol of LaResistance and an official of TheEmpire is nosing around. Or perhaps it's a PowerLimiter and it's time to stop limiting that power.

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