History Main / ItsAllJunk

* ''Series/TheMusketeers'': At the end of the first season, after sparing Milady's life and telling her to leave Paris, Athos throws away the locket she gave him when they were married. However, this proves to be a SubvertedTrope - as the next season indicates, you can't [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome force closure by getting rid of a memento]], and Athos is still haunted by their past and hasn't remotely moved on.

* ''Series/MoneyHeist'': Invoked by the Professor in a flashback from the Season 2 premiere, when he explains to Berlin why he's burning sentimental photos and other paper objects with correlation to his father in the countryhouse's chimney furnace; they would [[DestroyTheEvidence become easy evidence]] leading to the Professor's own identity, not to mention that they could potentially make nostalgic mesmerizing get in his way during his occupation for the heists. Later in the episode, the ashes from the objects turn out to be important in the present, as forensic officer Alberto Vicuña figures that they're the only legitimate evidence correlating to the heist team among the OrgyOfEvidence the Professor had left in the countryhouse by that time.

* ''Series/MoneyHeist'': Invoked by the Professor in a flashback from the Season 2 premiere, when he explains to Berlin why he's burning sentimental photos and other objects with correlation to his father in the countryhouse's chimney furnace; they would [[DestroyTheEvidence become easy evidence]] leading to the Professor's own identity, not to mention that they could potentially make nostalgic mesmerizing get in his way during his occupation for the heists.

* ''Series/MoneyHeist'': Invoked by the Professor in a flashback from the Season 2 premiere, when he explains to Berlin why he's burning sentimental photos and other objects with correlation to his father in the countryhouse's chimney furnace; they would [[DestroyTheEvidence become potential evidence]] leading to the Professor's own identity, not to mention that they could potentially make nostalgic mesmerizing get in his way during his occupation for the heists.

* ''Series/MoneyHeist'': Invoked by the Professor in a flashback from the Season 2 premiere, when he explains to Berlin why he's burning sentimental photos and other objects with correlation to his father in the countryhouse's chimney furnace; they would become potential evidence leading to the Professor's own identity, not to mention that they could potentially make nostalgic mesmerizing get in his way during his occupation for the heists.

* A variation occurs in ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi''. When Aoi wants to know why Kaoru ran away from home, thus annulling their HappilyArrangedMarriage, he explains that he was the product of an affair between the son the head of the powerful Hanabishi family, and a common woman. When Kaoru's father died, his mother was forced by the Hanbishi family to hand him over to them to be groomed to be heir to the Hanabishi name, and he was ordered to have as little contact with his mother as possible. When she died, he went to their old home to get some mementos, only to find that his grandfather had burned anything that had belonged to his mother. When he takes a birth charm, the last thing that held a connection to his mother, Kaoru's grandfather orders him to burn it so that his mother can be wiped out from memory. When he refuses, Karou's grandfather beats him, and shortly after that, he runs away from home and renounces the Hanabishi name.

* [[Literature/TheBible The Apostle Paul]] in his [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+3%3A8&version=RSV letter to the Phillipians]]:

-->-- ''[[Literature/BookOfPhilippians Epistle to the Philippians]], ch. 3, v. 3''

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', Doc Hudson has three Piston Cups but considers them worthless, as after being injured in an accident the racing community abandoned him. It was the respect and friendship associated with them that really gave them any value. It's brought up again at the end where after Lightning [=McQueen=] loses the race in order to help The King to finish; Lightning is celebrated and cheered for stopping on the final lap to help the severely injured King cross the finish line, while all his hated rival has is an empty cup and the crowd's animosity for obviously causing the King's crash in order to win.