These trope names contain the word "MacGuffin".
This is a potential source of confusion. For example, listing X as a Dismantled MacGuffin may cause someone to think that X is a MacGuffin, even if X is really not a MacGuffin. A MacGuffin must be a device that does nothing except drive the plot. The Dismantled MacGuffin trope doesn't care whether X did something more than drive the plot.
"MacGuffin" can appear in a trope name for different reasons:
- The trope really does require a MacGuffin.
- The trope frequently happens with a MacGuffin, but also works with Plot Devices that aren't MacGuffins.
- The trope uses "MacGuffin" as a fancy word for any important object, which doesn't match the rigorous definition on the MacGuffin page.
Tropes:
- Accidentally Broke the MacGuffin
- A MacGuffin Full of Money
- Clingy MacGuffin
- Dismantled MacGuffin
- Egg MacGuffin
- Fakin' MacGuffin
- Fatal MacGuffin
- Hostage for MacGuffin
- Hostage MacGuffin
- I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin
- Living MacGuffin
- MacGuffin
- MacGuffin Delivery Service
- MacGuffin Escort Mission
- MacGuffin Guardian
- MacGuffin Location
- MacGuffin Melee
- MacGuffin-Person Reveal
- MacGuffin Super-Person
- MacGuffin Title
- MacGuffin Turned Human
- Memento MacGuffin
- Mineral MacGuffin
- Mundane MacGuffin Person
- No MacGuffin, No Winner
- Slippery MacGuffin
- Stolen MacGuffin Reveal
- Timeline-Altering MacGuffin
