MikeRosoft
Since: Jan, 2001
Aug 15th 2010 at 10:12:24 AM
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Non-examples:
- The cursed pieces of eight from the first Pirates Of The Caribbean movie; the nine pieces of eight in the third movie might count too.
- It doesn't count because the whole point of the nine pieces was not to collect them but to let everyone have only one.
- The Ghostbusters have to collect all ghosts in New York.
- Three Gotta Catch Them All with a twist that made them Gotta Kill Them All:
- Battle Royale counts as a kill all characters.
- In Gremlins, if you didn't collect(=kill) all gremlins, the survivor(s) would make more of themselves.
- Kill Bill is this.
- In The Fifth Element you had to get all elements together to save the universe.
- But you get the first four as a box set, and the fifth falls into your taxi at the beginning of the movie.
- Thinking about it again, Leeloo doesn't really fit the description of MacGuffin Girl - is there some other trope that's a better match?
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Swap main title and redirect, started by Ackbar96 on Jul 8th 2011 at 9:58:27 PM
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