History Main / NotRareOverThere

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork 2'', one NPC asks to be paid in "Guard * chips". Talk to another NPC, and she'll give you 30 of them.

* [[spoiler:The Companion Cube]] in ''VideoGame/Portal2''.

* ''ComicBook/{{ArchieComics}}''

*** Even fruit and produce that could be grown in the region was like this in winter. If it was something that didn't last long without refrigeration, like most green vegetables, it was generally only available when it was in season, or in canned or (later on) frozen form during the times of the year when it wasn't in season.

* ''Literature/TheWitchesOfKarres'': There's a brief mention in the first book of a particularly rare liquor made from the fermented juices three particular fruits, each of which will grow on only one world of the Empire and must be imported specially... unless you're on friendly terms with the people of [[HiddenElfVillage Karres]], who have figured out how to cultivate all three on their homeworld. One of the trade goods they reward Pausert with for helping three Karresian children extract themselves from a bad situation is several hundred cases of that liquor, which (after getting into and then out of trouble a couple of times) he subsequently sells for a positively staggering amount of money.

* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', after returning to a [[TheMafia mafia]] Don who was part of a previous quest to get tickets for a trip on the [[CoolTrain Excess Express]] you need to find a PlotCoupon, you find him deathly ill. Turns out he's stick from worry over his daughter and son-in-law (who he exiled previously), so his goons offer you the tickets if you can get them to return. Upon recovering, he's furious when he learn they promised you a reward without his permission...until Mario says what it was, and he bursts into laughter before asking how many you want.

* Painite is seen as this in ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'', both the Wizarding World and Equestria place high value in Painite due to it being one of the best methods of enchanting Armor with as a PowerCrystal. The Goblins of Gringotts were willing to haggle Thousands of Galleons for a small fist-sized bag of Painite crystals in order to prevent it from being sold to a Muggle Jeweler; which made the sellers the 10th-largest Beneficiaries to Gringotts. Said bag of Painite was gathered by Harry Potter and the Cutie Mark Crusaders one evening right outside of Sweet Apple Acres, even Rarity [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how easy Painite is to come by in Equestria.

* There's an episode of ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' which uses this as the punchline to a ViolinScam: the boys raise a huge amount of money to buy a rare Hindu statue from one man, intending to sell it to another. Both men then disappear leaving them with the statue... and then they find an identical statue in an Indian restaurant, and the manager tells them he got it for a couple of pounds at a Portobello Road stall filled with them.

* ''Fanfic/NewStars'': The Union's scientists have figured out cloning, but cloning anything other than organs (in other words, creating fully-sentient clones) was deemed illegal by the Union with a unanimous vote. All representatives agreed that there existed few ethical reasons to create cloned people. Thus, clones in the Union are incredibly rare. So when Maxx tells the crew of the ''Orville'' about how clones are created to be soldiers for the Republic, they are shocked and horrified.

* Water in ''Literature/{{Dune}}''. Given that the planet is a [[SingleBiomePlanet desert world]], people in Arrakis conserve water no matter how small the amount. In contrast the Atreides homeworld of Caladan, water is practically everywhere as it's water planet.