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* In ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', Red Ranger Nick Russell is adopted, with no knowledge (initially) of who his birth parents are. The only thing he has as a memento is the red baby blanket he was found in. The blanket also serves as a MacGuffin to reveal a dual LukeIAmYourFather situation in which it is revealed team mentor Udonna and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Koragg/Leonbow]] are his biological parents
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{Intimate}}'': Actors Bruno and Oskar haven't learned their lines and try to get out of the day's shoot of their show by claiming Oskar's twin brother has died. Everyone is touched, and their co-star Roland Møller even gifts Oskar his late wife's necklace. Unfortunately, Oskar's still wearing it when Møller meets both him and his very alive brother later that day and flies into a rage.
--> '''Møller:''' ''[placing the necklace over Oskar's head]'' You can talk to the dead with it.\\
'''Oskar:''' Thanks, Roland. ''[fake crying, to Bruno]'' That'll help me a lot, won't it?\\
'''Bruno:''' ''[also fake crying]'' Sure, dude!

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* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Hawkins Fuller keeps a paperweight that was a gift from his FirstLove Kenneth Willard that the latter bought during their senior trip. Kenny died during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

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Hawkins Fuller keeps a paperweight that was a gift from his FirstLove Kenneth Willard that the latter bought during their senior trip. Kenny died during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
** The same paperweight also becomes a tragic keepsake representing Hawk and his SecondLove Timothy Laughlin's relationship. In 1957, as Tim sleeps in the love nest Hawk furnished for them, Hawk leaves the paperweight next to Tim and whispers "I'm sorry" before [[spoiler:reporting Tim to the M Unit for being gay and getting him permanently banned from working for the federal government]]. Tim keeps the paperweight until 29 years later, when he is "organizing his life" and sends it back to Hawk. The penultimate scene of the show ends with Hawk contemplating the paperweight that is now a memento of ''both'' of his lost loves.
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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' - Kate Beckett wears her murdered mother's wedding ring around her neck as a reminder of why she does what she does. Also inverted, in that she also wears her father's old watch as something of an Uplifting Keepsake; she helped him recover from her mother's death by helping him overcome the alcoholism he fell into afterward. Because it's more readily apparent (and unusual), Castle mistakes the latter for the former.

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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' - Kate Beckett wears her murdered mother's wedding ring around her neck as a reminder of why she does what she does. Also inverted, in that she also wears her father's old watch as something of an Uplifting Keepsake; she helped him recover from her mother's death by helping him overcome the alcoholism he fell into afterward. Because it's more readily apparent (and unusual), Castle mistakes the latter for the former.
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* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Hawkins Fuller keeps a paperweight that was a gift from his FirstLove Kenneth Willard that the latter bought during their senior trip. Kenny died during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': Jo Martinez wears her wedding ring on a chain around her neck. She tends to fiddle with it when thinking of her late husband, sometimes then pulling out a photo of him to contemplate.

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* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': In [[GeneralRipper Helena Cain's]] weapon cabinet there are guns, knives and a pitiful dinner-knife that she grabbed when she, just a child, tried to defend herself in the last day of the first Cylon War. The fact that she never put it down, but kept it, symbolized that she never stopped fighting that war.

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In [[GeneralRipper Helena Cain's]] weapon cabinet there are guns, knives and a pitiful dinner-knife that she grabbed when she, just a child, tried to defend herself in the last day of the first Cylon War. The fact that she never put it down, but kept it, symbolized that she never stopped fighting that war.war.
** Sharon Valerii has a pair of carved wooden elephants in her apartment on Caprica, a gift from her parents (who died in a [[ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory mining accident]]) to celebrate her joining the Colonial military. Except, as Sharon points out to Caprica Six, that whole backstory is a pack of lies because she was [[TomatoInTheMirror a Cylon the entire time]]. She still has the elephants because she hasn't been able to let go of her "human" identity.
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* In ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'', Janis Calavicci wears her late father Al's Navy ring. In the first episode, this is what allows the Project team to identify her as the person who helped Ben leap.
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* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': The only keepsake Cassian has from his childhood on the condemned Kenari, of which he is the only known survivor, is the blow gun he had when Maarva and Clem abducted him to save his life from Republic reprisals after they realized the LanguageBarrier prevented them from warning him. Later Maarva is seen holding it and sitting in Cassian's room as she realizes she'll likely not get to see her adopted son again before she succumbs to her illness.
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** Ziva wears a different necklaces as a TragicKeepsake in season 17. It's one Tali picked out at a market for Ziva to wear. She wears it to feel close her daughter, since she hasn't seen Tali since shortly after she sent Tali to the US in season 13. One season 17 episode stars InMediasRes of her having ''chopped off the fingers'' of a terrorist who had taken it from her. The necklace is still wrapped around the fingers.

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** Ziva wears a different necklaces as a TragicKeepsake in season 17. It's one Tali picked out at a market for Ziva to wear. She wears it to feel close her daughter, since as she hasn't seen Tali since shortly after she sent Tali her to the US in season 13. One season 17 episode stars InMediasRes of her having ''chopped off the fingers'' of a terrorist who had taken it from her. The necklace is still wrapped around the fingers.
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** Ziva's Star of David necklace becomes one. In season 11, it gets left behind in a safe house when Ziva is forced to evacuate it after being attacked. Mossad recovers it and gives it to Tony, who returns it when he finds her holed up in her childhood home. She decides to stay in Israel while Tony reluctantly returns to the US. He finds the necklace in the pocket of his suit jacket as his plane taxis down the runway. It's shown a few more times, stored safely in a box in his desk drawer at the Navy Yard. In season 13, her childhood home, where she is presumed to live, is bombed and it's unknown whether or not she survived. Tony carries the necklace to feel close to her while they wait for news. News comes: she is presumed dead, but Tony finds out they have a daughter together. He passes the necklace onto her.

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** Ziva's Star of David necklace becomes one. In season 11, it gets left behind in a safe house when Ziva is forced to evacuate it after being attacked. Mossad recovers it and gives it to Tony, who returns it when he finds her holed up in her childhood home. She decides to stay in Israel while Tony reluctantly returns to the US. He finds the necklace in the pocket of his suit jacket as his plane taxis down the runway. It's shown a few more times, stored safely in a box in his desk drawer at the Navy Yard. In season 13, her childhood home, where she is presumed to live, is bombed and it's unknown whether or not she survived. Tony carries the necklace to feel close to her while they wait for news. News comes: she is presumed dead, but Tony finds out they have a daughter together. He passes the necklace onto her.Tali.
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** Ziva wears a different necklaces as a TragicKeepsake in season 17. It's one Tali picked out at a market for Ziva to wear. She wears it to feel close her daughter, since she hasn't seen Tali since shortly after she sent Tali to the US in season 13. One season 17 episode stars InMediaRes of her having ''chopped off the fingers'' of a terrorist who had taken it from her. The necklace is still wrapped around the fingers.

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** Ziva wears a different necklaces as a TragicKeepsake in season 17. It's one Tali picked out at a market for Ziva to wear. She wears it to feel close her daughter, since she hasn't seen Tali since shortly after she sent Tali to the US in season 13. One season 17 episode stars InMediaRes InMediasRes of her having ''chopped off the fingers'' of a terrorist who had taken it from her. The necklace is still wrapped around the fingers.

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