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Grail in the Garbage

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Grail in the Garbage	comment	It's an artifact of earth-shaking power. Its value is immeasurable, its history is the stuff of legends. It's... being offered at a clearance price at the local thrift shop. Sometimes, priceless things can be found in the most unlikely places. Maybe the previous owner didn't realize what he had, maybe some higher power put it there for a reason, maybe it's just one of those unique chance encounters. For whatever reason, it's being treated as far less valuable than it really is, and it's ripe for the picking by an unsuspecting hero. If this sort of thing is actually the bread and butter of the place in question, then it's a Bazaar of the Bizarre or The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday. Compare It May Help You on Your Quest, Worthless Yellow Rocks, Priceless Paperweight, Excalibur in the Rust, and Commonplace Rare. See also Violin Scam, which is a form of The Con in which the Con Man makes the mark believe that the two of them have found a valuable item, when the item is actually worthless. Contrast MockGuffin.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_11b7db91	comment	In the Adventure Time episode "The Real You", Finn buys the magical, intelligence-enhancing Glasses of Nerdicon from Choose Goose, who is willing to part with them in exchange for hearing a funny joke. Of course, the glasses end up making Finn go temporarily insane, but while wearing them he also manages to concoct a Batman Gambit to impress Princess Bubblegum and make her science exposition a success.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_12ffd3e9	comment	In Megas XLR, the eponymous Humongous Mecha is left in a scrapyard for several years, before Coop buys it for two bucks. Which he never pays.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_13665790	comment	One of these forms the entire basis of the plot in Thud!. Dwarves have access to a number of fantastical items, including items simply called Cubes: small, nigh-indestructible boxes that are able to record sounds and play them back from ages past. Considered to be completely priceless, they are jealously held, and even the rumor of a Cube is able to launch a dwarven expedition to recover it. And one of the most important ones ever, containing the official words of peace between the kings of the Trolls and the Dwarves from the infamous Battle of Koom Valley, is found at the bottom of an old abandoned well under a heap of mud and rubbish.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_148f217e	comment	In â€œNancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Handâ€�, a museum assistant goes looking for a jade carving that is both financially and historically priceless. It turns out that a postmodern artist, not knowing what it was, covered it with shoe polish and incorporated it into an artwork of miscellaneous objects. When the assistant explains the situation to her, the artist readily agrees that they can â€œtakeâ€� the carving off the painting- as long as they leave something new in its place. The carvingâ€™s financial value, and her artworkâ€™s current form, donâ€™t matter to her.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_16fc4335	comment	In Oathbreakers, Kethry happens to find a useless-looking dull-bladed old sword on a frozen corpse in a mountain pass, with a bunch of empty sockets all over it where gems and gilding were removed. She and Tarma assume the body belonged to a thief or a minor noble with a decorative sword, and those decorations were all stripped off by previous travelers. A scornful Tarma tosses it aside saying it wouldn't cut butter, but Kethry, on an impulse, takes it along when they leave. It turns out to be the ancestral Sword that Sings, traditionally used to choose the proper ruler of the country of Rethwellan. Trust Your Instincts, a short story in the Valdemar anthology Pathways, reveals that it got there by psychically manipulating a minor noble to steal it and then perish in the mountains, keeping it out of the hands of someone who would have destroyed it.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_17fa5f0a	comment	Harry invokes this in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when he drops the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest without telling anyone where it was. Basically, an ancient and powerful magical relic made from a stone will stay hidden on the ground where most people don't go.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_190cc0e9	comment	In The Forbidden Kingdom, the golden staff of the legendary Monkey King is found in a Chinatown pawn shop specializing in Wuxia DVD's.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_1d45e6aa	comment	A frequent result of Gaia Online's economy system. Limited-release items such as Monthly Collectibles or subsidized advertisement freebies can become popular and explode in value long after most users who actually got them have stashed and forgotten them, or possibly even left the site.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_1f58bf72	comment	Pawn Stars often have customers selling artifacts they found in their attic or at a yard sale, making the owner Rick Harrison wonder why he can never find something like that in a yard sale.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_2126592a	comment	Girls und Panzer: This actually shows up quite a bit. The school's initial tanks don't qualify, but a powerful 7.5 cm KwK 40 cannon is found being used to hang clothes on, which provides the Panzer IV's Mid-Season Upgrade. Similarly, a rare and powerful Porche Tiger heavy tank is found deep inside the ship and a Type 3 Chi-Nu is sitting abandoned in a parking lot of all places. Aya of Rabbit Team even mentions that she'd thought the Chi-Nu must have been worthless because everyone had been ignoring it.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_227431b6	comment	Runaways: In the final issue of the series before the reboot, the team discovers that they had a hangar full of hover vehicles sitting under their house. Besides the obvious utility, Uncle Hunter points out that if they sold the things for scrap, they probably could have funded all their college educations several times over. The Vision (2015) reveals that the team had a piece of Vibranium — one of the most valuable materials in the Marvel Universe — lying around in their old hideout. Chase ended up throwing it away because he couldn't find a practical use for it.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_25a2ce80	comment	Tamamo-chanâ€™s a Fox!: When the girls go to a flea market Tenko offers some "old junk" for them to sell that includes the spotted tenmoku tea bowl, the kotenmyo hiragumo, and a crystal skull.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The episode "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" begins at a swap meet, in which Homer finds a treasure trove of such items in a 5Â¢ box. He dismisses them all: "Junk, junk, the airplane's upside down, Strad-di-who-vious?!..." In "Worst Episode Ever", Martin's mother tries selling some random stuff she found in his room to Comic Book Guy. Said "stuff" being the original handwritten script for Star Wars, "Princess Leia's anti-jiggle breast tape" and a film reel labeled "Alternate ending — Luke's father is Chewbacca". CBG tries to scam her by offering $5, only for Bart and Milhouse to inform her that it's worth thousands. Mrs. Prince replies "Well! If this is valuable, then back to the leaky basement it goes!" This enrages CBG, and Bart and Milhouse end up getting banned from his store. In "'Tis the Fifteenth Season", instead of a Christmas bonus Mr. Burns gives Homer a baseball card featuring Joe DiMaggio for Bart, not realising it's a vintage card worth a small fortune. In "Co-Dependent's Day", when Homer and Marge order wine at Moe's tavern, he finds the only bottle he has is Chateau Latour 1886, which he reasons is so old he can't sell it, but Homer and Marge decide it'll have to do. He only thinks to check if it was valuable after he's opened it and charged them a total of four dollars. He then proceeds to wipe his tears on the last copy of a lost Shakespeare play. "The War of Art" revolves around Homer and Marge purchasing a painting from the Van Houtens and discovering that it was worth $100,000. Only to turn around and find out that it was actually a bootleg copy worth nothing.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_28f21756	comment	In Petty's spinoff of Nuzlocke Comics, Barb the Nidoqueen collects pieces of paper she finds. At one point, trainer Locke is depressed over recent deaths, and Barb tries to cheer her up by sharing her collection... in which Locke finds the SS Ticket and the Bike Voucher. To most PokÃ©mon players and to Locke, these are priceless, but to Barb, they're just paper.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_2be70437	comment	Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders is the embodiment of this trope, and it even gets more trope-y when the Lord of Evil is in the form of a monkey cymbalist that's stolen and sold to a ratty toy shop.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_2cfe43cb	comment	In one episode of Adventures in Odyssey, some characters accidently discover that one of paintings they received in a donated collection of painting that were only supposed to be copies is actually the original of a famous lost painting. The characters contact the man who donated the paintings and he claims that his grandfather purchased the painting at a flea market at the turn of the century, but the characters get suspicious that he is lying because of his request that they don't tell anyone that the painting came from him, and the fact that the painting appears to have been deliberately modified to conceal its authenticity. So they decide to investigate the painting's history and discover that the last known owners of the painting had it several years after the turn of the century. They also find that one of the painting's previous owners is still alive. When confronted by the surviving owner, the donor confesses the truth. The painting was confiscated by the Nazis during the Holocaust because the owners were Jews. The donor's father was a Nazi deserter who took the painting with him when he fled to America to start a new life under a false name. The donor was deeply ashamed of this and used his father's money to start a charity.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_2ec1839d	comment	The Scrolls of Lodge 49, a set of priceless and mysterious ancient texts of great spiritual significance to the Order of the Lynx which have been used by a variety of people to acquire great wealth throughout history, are eventually located in a small-town auction down in Mexico, stored in a crappy old bowling bag. Apparently, the prior owner was storing them there temporarily, only for them to either die or simply lose them somehow and the lost bag to end up in the hands of auctioneers who had no idea what was inside.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony: In Season 7 episode "Uncommon Bond" of Friendship Is Magic, Sunburst purchases a "blind buy barrel" at an antique store. One of the books it contains happens to be the journal of Starswirl the Bearded, the most powerful unicorn archmage in history, and provides clues about his disappearance as well as those of other legendary figures collectively known as the Pillars of Equestria. This starts up the whole overarching plot of the season finale that occurs immediately next after this episode, "Shadow Play". In the future Equestria of Generation 5 starting with My Little Pony: A New Generation, while the Pegasus Crystal is the centerpiece of Queen Haven's crown, the Unicorn Crystal is found in a much more humble location: in Alphabittle's collection of odds and ends in a tea shop in Bridlewood. The Earth Pony crystal is also this; Argyle built it into Sunny's lamp, and there's no indication he had any idea how important it was.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_2f4f69f5	comment	In Farmer Giles of Ham, after Giles become a celebrity from shooting at the giant, the King sends him a sword as a gift, choosing a plain weapon which is out of fashion. It also happens to be a powerful magical sword meant to fight dragons.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_2fbe5c1b	comment	As a show starring an antiques dealing rogue, Lovejoy often featured this without the supernatural aspect. In one example a church is facing financial ruin, none of the fittings are suitable to raise anything like the money required and as they resign themselves to failure the priest stops to feed his dogs. Cue the priceless antique he uses as a dog bowl.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_30c1ffd0	comment	In Stardew Valley, the player can find valuable gems and metal bars in the trash cans around town. No wonder this place is having money troubles.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_334c4b70	comment	In An Untitled Story, one of the plot coupons can be found... in a shop in SkyTown. The shopkeeper charges about 500 crystals for it however.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_34caa86d	comment	Motive: The motive for the murder in "Framed". A woman purchased a painting from a thrift shop, not realising it was a lost masterpiece. She used the painting as a canvas and painted a cat painting over the top of it. A gallery worker saw the painting and identified what it really was, and bought the painting; planning to strip off the cat painting. When the woman discovered the truth, she attempted to reclaim the painting and ended up killing the gallery worker.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_3717ea4a	comment	DC Animated Universe: One episode of Batman: The Animated Series has the Clock King steal a priceless antique clock to test his time-warping device. Once satisfied it works, he nonchalantly tosses the clock in the trash and heads off to take out Mayor Hill. No-one ever said he was a profit-minded villain. A bizarre intentional example from Justice League Unlimited in which Grodd breaks Luthor out of prison so that he and a small group of other super-villains can break into a hidden island base and steal the fabled Spear of Longinus, which pierced the skin of Christ as he lay on the cross and supposedly would make whoever wielded it invincible. It's soon revealed that Grodd only arranged that heist as a test to see if Luthor could follow orders. Rather than wield the spear and attempt to conquer the world, or at the very least sell it to the highest bidder, Grodd intends to hang it on the wall of his office.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_38d60efe	comment	Never Had a Friend Like Me: Norm's lava lamp winds up in a second-hand junk store. It is sold for six dollars.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_39e3b5ff	comment	Zig-zagged in Kill Bill, when we discover Bill had commissioned Hattori Hanzo to craft a sword specifically for his younger brother Budd as a gift. Hanzo's swords are the greatest in the world, and Bill describes the one he had made for Budd as "Priceless". After Bill and Budd had a falling out, the latter pawned it for $250. Bill is visibly heartbroken when he hears this. Then subverted when it's revealed Budd kept the sword after all, showing he still had some love for his brother. Then played straight when it turns out he was keeping the sword in his golf bag with his clubs.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry helps Sirius throw out all of his family's relics that he doesn't want. Among them is an old locket that no-one is aware a) once belonged to Salazar Slytherin and b) contains a piece of Voldemort's soul. And again in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry hides the Prince's potions book in a version of the Room of Requirement which only appears when somebody needs a place to hide something and has been filled over the years with assorted things lots of other students (and teachers!) didn't want found. One, which Harry uses to mark the place where he hid the book, is the lost diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw, and another of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Harry invokes this in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when he drops the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest without telling anyone where it was. Basically, an ancient and powerful magical relic made from a stone will stay hidden on the ground where most people don't go.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_3c40c503	comment	Abdullah of Castle in the Air buys a plot-important flying carpet from a tattered, dirty traveling carpet salesman.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in the documentary Who The #$&% is Jackson Pollock, which is about a woman who bought a painting at a thrift shop, only to decide it was too big to fit anywhere. When she tried to sell it at a yard sale, a local art teacher theorized it might be the work of Jackson Pollock, which became a source of argument between art collectors (who insisted it was a fake) and artists (who theorized it might be one of Pollock's). The woman in question, Teri Horton, tried to sell it for no less than $50 million, and died without ever selling it.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: Some of the artifacts held by the Foundation were discovered in this manner. In fact, certain documents suggest that the Foundation's "standard channels" for discovering potential SCP objects take this as a rule rather than an exception, especially for mundane-looking objects with more subtle properties. In the Foundation story Spring Cleaning, a number of items which might have anomalous properties have been taken in, analyzed, and stored by the Janitors — and then, upon reflection, binned, irrespective of their historical value. You know, little unimportant cultural artifacts like the Muramasa, Caledfwlch, and the Holy Grail. They'd just been locked in a dusty proverbial attic the whole time.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_4332c616	comment	In the feature-length version of The Wizard of Speed and Time, since they have to raise the initial production money themselves, Mike Jittlov (and company) have a garage sale, with some of the items being Mike's comic books. When he has to leave, his friend Brian Lucas takes over, and says, "Ancient comics! Cover price!" The pile of rare (and valuable) ones instantly sells.
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The Wizard of Speed and Time	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_4332c616
Grail in the Garbage / int_468bebb0	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Wyrd Sisters has the witches hide the crown of the kingdom of Lancre in the prop box of a troupe of actors, among several fake crowns made of painted tin and glass jewels. The real crown goes unnoticed and ignored for years, because it is a simple and plain coronet, and the others look so much fancier. Variant. Harry King is in charge of all of Ankh-Morpork's sanitation and recycling, from chamber pots to dog muck to trash. He is constantly bewildered that people let him be in charge of all this. People pay him to take away their chamber pots and trash. He then sells this waste to anyone who needs it, from tanners to gardeners, then gets paid to take away their waste too, which he then sells to someone else. It barely takes him any time at all to become the richest man in the city, and all it cost him was his sense of smell. One of these forms the entire basis of the plot in Thud!. Dwarves have access to a number of fantastical items, including items simply called Cubes: small, nigh-indestructible boxes that are able to record sounds and play them back from ages past. Considered to be completely priceless, they are jealously held, and even the rumor of a Cube is able to launch a dwarven expedition to recover it. And one of the most important ones ever, containing the official words of peace between the kings of the Trolls and the Dwarves from the infamous Battle of Koom Valley, is found at the bottom of an old abandoned well under a heap of mud and rubbish.
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Discworld	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_468bebb0
Grail in the Garbage / int_4a2b34ad	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_4a2b34ad	comment	Character-based example: The seemingly mute dinosaur in Star Fox Adventures, located next to the underground caverns south of Thorntail Hollow is the fourth Gatekeeper, giving access to Dragon Rock.
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Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_4a2b34ad
Grail in the Garbage / int_4c3aa558	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_4c3aa558	comment	In Ys IV: Mask of the Sun, the Gold Pedestal that Adol sold to Pim's Trading Shop in the first game is the key to raise the Ancient City.
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Ys IV: Mask of the Sun (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_4c3aa558
Grail in the Garbage / int_4cce0d2	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_4cce0d2	comment	Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: In â€œMusic Is Universalâ€� Billie finds a small alien spaceship (which just so happens to look exactly like a disco ball) in the dumpster behind the House Of Jam.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_4e45b093	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_4e45b093	comment	In The Big Bang Theory, the geeks go to a yard sale and buy a box of grab bag items. One item turns out to be a missing prop from The Lord of the Rings movie — The One Ring (well, one of three copies of the One Ring used in the film). Hilarity ensues as they all struggle to possess this "precious".
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Grail in the Garbage / int_4fd9904a	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_4fd9904a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry helps Sirius throw out all of his family's relics that he doesn't want. Among them is an old locket that no-one is aware a) once belonged to Salazar Slytherin and b) contains a piece of Voldemort's soul.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_4fe34c74	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_4fe34c74	comment	Cheshire (Miraculous Ladybug): Marinette finds Plagg's ring in a mud ball.
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Cheshire (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_4fe34c74
Grail in the Garbage / int_505c4cdb	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_505c4cdb	comment	Three Thousand Years of Longing: Alithea finds the flask containing the djinn tucked away in a pile of worthless bottles in an Istanbul shop. She is instantly drawn to it and takes it home even if the shopkeeper tries to guide her towards more valuable wares.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_553051f	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern: The original origin story of the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, had him find an old railroad lantern while travelling by train (it was 1940, people did that), and only realize it was a powerful artifact when it kept him from being killed. Later tales established that the lantern had been on Earth for centuries, occasionally doing something odd, but mostly just being a lantern.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_56afadff	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_56afadff	comment	This kicks off the plot of Bedknobs and Broomsticks. A small-time con artist swindles a second-hand bookseller out of an old, tattered book that's falling apart (the con-man only takes half the book), which is actually an ancient spellbook filled with magic incantations. Not believing in magic, he winds up selling the spells to chumps by mail-order, claiming to be a magical professor running a correspondence school for apprentice witches. Imagine his surprise when one of his chump customers winds up actually learning the spells and becoming a full-fledged witch, who promptly teleports to his location one day to ask about learning a more advanced spell. This Trope is even highlighted in the lyrics to the song "Portobello Road," which is where the pair wind up going to try and track down the other half of the original spellbook.
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_56afadff
Grail in the Garbage / int_59da62aa	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_59da62aa	comment	In Fallout: New Vegas, there is a powerful Kill Sat, but the controller and targeting device is long lost... You find it in the hands of a street urchin in East Side, who's using it as a toy gun because... It looks like a toy gun. Good news; the system is down, meaning it is just a toy gun. Bad news; you can re-activate it. Without even meeting said urchin. Thankfully, when you acquire the targeting device, companion dialogue from Veronica suggests it has a safety, and has had the safety on the entire time.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_5a79ecef	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_5a79ecef	comment	In the future Equestria of Generation 5 starting with My Little Pony: A New Generation, while the Pegasus Crystal is the centerpiece of Queen Haven's crown, the Unicorn Crystal is found in a much more humble location: in Alphabittle's collection of odds and ends in a tea shop in Bridlewood. The Earth Pony crystal is also this; Argyle built it into Sunny's lamp, and there's no indication he had any idea how important it was.
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My Little Pony: A New Generation	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_5a79ecef
Grail in the Garbage / int_60f02ddb	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: In "Return of the Bling", Roger finds what is apparently the One Ring near the site of a plane crash... and then promptly throws it away. In the Omen parody, Roger is seen drinking eggnog out of a bejeweled chalice he calls his "pimp cup". It's eventually revealed to be the Holy Grail.
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American Dad!	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_60f02ddb
Grail in the Garbage / int_629cd094	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_629cd094	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins, Far Song, generally considered one of if not the best bow in the game, has apparently spent decades sitting buried in the stockroom of a tiny podunk blacksmith shop in Redcliffe. It's so well-buried that the only way to get it is to kill Owen, or get him to commit suicide by failing to find his daughter, and wait for his replacement to move in and go through his stuff. Evil Pays Better indeed...
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Grail in the Garbage / int_63e2f9e0	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_63e2f9e0	comment	In Auction Kings, When doing a pick, they never just take what they came for. Paul and Jon often find very valuable things in basements. Oftentimes, the owner didn't even know they had it.
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Auction Kings	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_63e2f9e0
Grail in the Garbage / int_66971d4e	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_66971d4e	comment	Invoked and lampshaded in The Adventure Zone: Amnesty. Beacon, a sentient Cool Sword intended to help Duck fulfill his destiny as The Chosen One is hidden away... in the back room of a tourist trap. Turns out to have been intentional on Duck's part; he was trying to refuse the call, and part of that was getting rid of his magical weapon. The fact that Beacon is extremely annoying, self-centered, and critical didn't help. He (probably correctly) figured no one who knew what Beacon was would think to look there, and any visitors to the tourist trap would just think the cool sword in the case was a replica or a prop.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_6744d821	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House: When we are first introduced to Eda the Owl Lady, she's rummaging through a bag of "Human Artefacts" that Owlbert has just recovered from the Human Realm. In order, she throws out: a functioning smart phone ("Garbage"), a golden ring with a huge diamond, complete with Audible Gleam ("Garbage"), and what is implied to be the actual Holy Grail, with Ethereal Choir ("Garbage").
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The Owl House	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_6744d821
Grail in the Garbage / int_69d15cc0	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: The TVA in Loki (2021) has numerous copies of the Infinity Stones, which they treat as worthless trinkets because they are powerless within the TVA. They even use them as paperweights, which is about all they're good for. Ms. Marvel (2022): A superpower-granting bracelet is kept in a box of random jewelry and other trinkets Kamala's grandmother sends over, which is dismissed as junk by Muneeba and stuffed in the attic.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_6c9193a1	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Brothers: Dr. Venture and Billy Quizboy find the ORB, an artifact which might have devastating consequences just sitting out in the open. It turns out it was broken for about a hundred years and completely useless. Subverted in another episode, when Monarch Henchmen #21 and #24 find what seems to be a working lightsaber at the Venture Compound garage sale, and use it to challenge Brock Samson. Unfortunately, it's just a prototype and can't actually cut anything, which they'd have known if they hadn't been too busy geeking out to listen to Rusty when they bought it. Fortunately, Brock was too busy and/or bemused to actually kill them over it. This trope is a recurring trend of The Venture Brothers, where items of indescribable power and fame inevitably wind up rusted and forgotten, gathering dust for one reason or another. In a later episode Dr. Venture is given a rare comic book worth half a million dollars that he casually hands off to one of his sons, who likewise is disappointed by the lack of Batman. It winds up being used as toilet paper and chewed up by a dog.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_6cd93a17	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_6cd93a17	comment	Reality shows like Auction Hunters and Storage Wars have these found in abandoned storage units, when the owner couldn't keep up with the fees. However, just as often, these end up being subversions when the buyers get very exciting about finding a valuable item among a ton of junk but the appraisers then tell them that it is actually worth very little. In one instance on Storage Wars, Barry convinced himself that he found a Stradivarius violin when it is fairly clear to the audience that it is a fake. An expert later confirmed that it was a Czech replica.
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Auction Hunters	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_6cd93a17
Grail in the Garbage / int_6d7c7f1c	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	In Something*Positive, Monette makes a collage using Fred's incredibly rare comic books, unaware of their true value. When she visits a vintage comic-book store to see if she can replace them, the owner is rendered speechless when she reveals that she cut up such valuable comic books.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_6d8311c4	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_6d8311c4	comment	Most games have the Leftovers, one of the most useful held items in the series, hidden in a trash can. It is just a small pile of half-eaten food... that just so happens to be able to regenerate itself, giving the PokÃ©mon an infinite supply of free health. It's even found in a trash can in PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver and PokÃ©mon Black and White.
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PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_6d8311c4
Grail in the Garbage / int_6f1dfbf0	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_6f1dfbf0	comment	Myth-Gotten Gains starts out with Aahz finding a talking sword in a shop's discount bin. The sword claims to be part of a legendary set, and it takes some effort to convince Aahz of this. It takes even more convincing to get Aahz to buy it, as Aahz is a total cheapskate and doesn't need a sword anyway.
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Myth Adventures	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_6f1dfbf0
Grail in the Garbage / int_701f0ece	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_701f0ece	comment	In Berserk, Griffith receives the Crimson Behelit, an Artifact of Doom that is the key to world domination, from an old gypsy trader; he couldn't have paid her much if anything for it, considering he was a penniless orphan at the time. Justified; those who give the Behelit its juice control causality itself and make sure it always ends up in the hands of one destined to use it.
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Berserk (Manga)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_701f0ece
Grail in the Garbage / int_7034f1f9	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_7034f1f9	comment	Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan: In an early sidequest, you are tasked with recovering an armor set that was used as collateral in a bargain; the merchant only agreed because the armor was said to have been created by a minor master. When retrieved, it's unusable, and the merchant will angrily bestow it upon you, thinking he's been cheated. Unfortunately for him, a quick visit to the local blacksmith will reveal that the armor was indeed created by said master, and it's repairable for free!
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Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_7034f1f9
Grail in the Garbage / int_70814599	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: The episode "Citizen Joe" features a random guy buying an Ancient communication device at a yard sale. Unlike a lot of these things, this is actually justified in-universe: unless you have the right (fairly rare) genetics, it's functionally equivalent to a glass paperweight. It happens that the guy DOES have the right genetics, though....
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Stargate SG-1	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_70814599
Grail in the Garbage / int_7362e6cc	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_7362e6cc	comment	Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors mysteriously appears in a plant vendor's inventory.
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Little Shop of Horrors	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_7362e6cc
Grail in the Garbage / int_73b74949	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_73b74949	comment	In Borderlands, you can sometimes find a really good gun when you open up a dumpster or dung pile. Borderlands 2 also does this with Eridium, which is the Unobtanium that drives the entire economy of the planet: you can find ingots, individually or in stacks, sitting around in lockers, dumpsters, and the refuse piles of wild beasts.
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Borderlands (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_73b74949
Grail in the Garbage / int_74fb542e	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_74fb542e	comment	A recurring sketch on That Mitchell and Webb Look involves a seller at a garage sale casually selling incredibly valuable artifacts for a low price. The Holy Grail itself, for instance, was sold for five pounds, as having already gained eternal life from drinking from it, he sees no reason to keep it around. And later, the wardrobe that's the entrance to Narnia, as now that he has a garden at his new house, he doesn't really need the extra space.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_767bd4d8	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_767bd4d8	comment	Cerebus the Aardvark: Happens at the end of the second book, High Society, where it turns out the priceless bird statue that Cerebus could have used earlier to unite the Church factions was given to him with a bunch of other random trash from a hobo who seemed to have Cerebus confused with someone else about a third of the way through the book. He destroys it, since he no longer has the political capital to make use of it himself. And it turns out to be a fake anyway.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_7884ec15	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld: In "The Soup Nazi", Elaine gets banned from the eponymous character's restaurant after annoying him while ordering. Later, the Soup Nazi gives away his old armoir to Kramer, who in turn, gives it to Elaine, where she finds the recipes for his soups. Later, she shows up to the restaurant, telling him that she's going to publicize the recipes, driving him out of business. In "The Merv Griffin Show", Kramer finds the set pieces from The Merv Griffin Show in a dumpster and moves them into his apartment. Hilarity Ensues.
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Seinfeld	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_7884ec15
Grail in the Garbage / int_795b35b6	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_795b35b6	comment	In J.H. Brennan's Saga of the Demonspawn series, the main character FireWolf... well the poor guy is a barbarian turned wealthy sorcerer-aristocrat yet in the 10 year span between the first and final book, he somehow never finds any armour until a decision in the last book. If FireWolf wasn't robbed of his coin pouch or he picked up 10 gold from fights in the city, he can go to a second-hand clothing store. There he finds a thin shirt which the shopkeeper charges at a whopping 80 gold. Fire*Wolf will haggle it down to 8 gold and the frustrated shopkeeper relents. He's disappointed at getting so little money because that shirt is made of Levenskin, a magical material. In the books, all it does is prevent damage from fireball spells but in the Visual Novel adaptation, Levenskin is as tough as leather armour. And this new armour shirt is good enough that it can actually change your chance of getting hurt in combat by a fair margin.
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GrailQuest	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_795b35b6
Grail in the Garbage / int_7acf57eb	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_7acf57eb	comment	A Dragon of the North: Jon Snow buys a rusty sword that he finds in a shop belonging to Petyr Baelish in Gulltown for a silver stag. It turns out to be Blackfyre, the sword of the Targaryen Kings. After learning the truth, Baelish spent the next two days getting drunk in one of his brothels, and later Renly begins to show him a broken ladle at random times, claiming it to be an artifact from the Doom of Valyria.
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A Dragon of the North (Roleplay)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_7acf57eb
Grail in the Garbage / int_7afbbdc2	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_7afbbdc2	comment	In How I Killed Your Master, Liu Wong pulls the governor's seal — which will grant its bearer a claim to rule the region — out of a random well when he goes to get a drink.
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How I Killed Your Master (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_7afbbdc2
Grail in the Garbage / int_7b228c12	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_7b228c12	comment	The Passion of Joan of Arc, one of cinema's greatest classics, was thought to have been lost until a nearly perfect print turned up in the closet of an insane asylum.
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The Passion of Joan of Arc	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_7b228c12
Grail in the Garbage / int_7de1376e	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_7de1376e	comment	Wyrd Sisters has the witches hide the crown of the kingdom of Lancre in the prop box of a troupe of actors, among several fake crowns made of painted tin and glass jewels. The real crown goes unnoticed and ignored for years, because it is a simple and plain coronet, and the others look so much fancier.
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Wyrd Sisters	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_7de1376e
Grail in the Garbage / int_7eceb06d	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_7eceb06d	comment	In Fable II, Murgo the merchant has the MacGuffin... he actually knows it's magic, but he has no idea what it can actually do. It is revealed in a DLC that it was given to him by your mentor, Theresa, which set the whole plot in motion.
Grail in the Garbage / int_7eceb06d	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_7eceb06d	featureConfidence	1.0
Fable II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_7eceb06d
Grail in the Garbage / int_7fc78282	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The One Ring. In The Hobbit (written first), Bilbo finds the ring on the ground, after Gollum misplaced it. So you have an ordinary ring owned by some deformed hobbit. (As the narration says, "It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.") Then Bilbo discovers it can make the wearer invisible. Then in The Lord of the Rings, we discover that Gollum's friend first found the ring many years ago just lying at the bottom of a river. So it seems like Bilbo has an "ordinary" ring of invisibility — until we learn it is far more than that. Gandalf thinks that Bilbo doesn't know the true value of the mithril mail shirt that Thorin give him, and that he left it as a mathom in the Shire. The truth is that Bilbo really knows its true value and gave it to Frodo. To a lesser extent, there is the small dagger that Bilbo finds in the troll's lair. He doesn't think much of it at the time; it's a useful blade to someone his size, but doesn't seem to be anything else. As it turns out, it's an elven blade forged in Gondolin during the First Age, just like Orcrist and Glamdring. (Bilbo later gives it the name "Sting".) Glamdring qualifies on its own, as it was once wielded by Turgon, King of Gondolin.
Grail in the Garbage / int_7fc78282	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_7fc78282	featureConfidence	1.0
The Lord of the Rings	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_7fc78282
Grail in the Garbage / int_7ff3e4ee	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_7ff3e4ee	comment	An episode of Modern Marvels about garbage reclamation showed a box of seemingly ordinary gray dust; then we're told that it's over $1000 worth of platinum.
Grail in the Garbage / int_7ff3e4ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_7ff3e4ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Modern Marvels	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_7ff3e4ee
Grail in the Garbage / int_8067b45b	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_8067b45b	comment	In My Science Project, a high-school student breaks into a government junkyard and finds the warp drive of a downed alien spacecraft. Since he's in danger of getting a "D" in science class, he decides to pass the "gizmo" off as his science project. Hilarity Ensues.
Grail in the Garbage / int_8067b45b	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_8067b45b	featureConfidence	1.0
My Science Project	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_8067b45b
Grail in the Garbage / int_819b8c9e	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_819b8c9e	comment	This is more or less the premise of Warehouse 13 — it's essentially a Grail in the Garbage of the Week show. Your mileage may vary as to whether the eponymous warehouse itself qualifies as an "unlikely place". The Warehouse is more of a holding place. The Artifacts themselves are frequently found in odd places, like garage sales or the like. One Artifact is found in an old collection in someone's attic because they collected doorknobs and happened to find one from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Grail in the Garbage / int_819b8c9e	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_819b8c9e	featureConfidence	1.0
Warehouse 13	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_819b8c9e
Grail in the Garbage / int_844b4f9e	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_844b4f9e	comment	The Mansion the brothers inherit in MouseHunt. Everyone initially considers it worthless since it's very dilapidated, but it turns out to be the lost work of a famed architect, worth millions.
Grail in the Garbage / int_844b4f9e	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_844b4f9e	featureConfidence	1.0
MouseHunt	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_844b4f9e
Grail in the Garbage / int_84a52c39	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_84a52c39	comment	In November '99, the WCW World Television title belt was thrown in the trash by Scott Hall after he decided he had no interest in defending it. It was randomly found in a dumpster by "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan a few months later, after which he claimed (and was recognized) as the new Television Champion. He was, in fact, the final champion, as the title itself was retired just two months later.
Grail in the Garbage / int_84a52c39	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_84a52c39	featureConfidence	1.0
Scott Hall (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_84a52c39
Grail in the Garbage / int_877eac68	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_877eac68	comment	Saito's talking sword in The Familiar of Zero was sold for dirt cheap in a weapon shop. Since Derflinger is actually the traditional weapon/partner of the Gandalfr, karma almost certainly arranged for him to be in the shop solely to end up in Saito's hands. In fact, Derflinger looks pretty crappy and likely handles poorly in the hands of anyone but Gandalfr. It's a good bet everyone else thought it was worthless junk.
Grail in the Garbage / int_877eac68	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_877eac68	featureConfidence	1.0
The Familiar of Zero	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_877eac68
Grail in the Garbage / int_87a4e420	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_87a4e420	comment	Before the events of Super Princess Peach, a merchant finds Perry — a boy who had been turned into an umbrella by an Evil Sorcerer — lying on the ground. Later, unable to sell it, he offers it to Toadsworth for free. In the actual game, Perry is an Empathic Weapon that Peach uses to rain destruction on enemies, rescue Mario and Luigi, and save the Mushroom Kingdom.
Grail in the Garbage / int_87a4e420	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_87a4e420	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Princess Peach (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_87a4e420
Grail in the Garbage / int_8966a34	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_8966a34	comment	The rare medal used by Metabee in Medabots was originally found by the riverbank. The first episode opens with the Phantom Renegade stealing the medal and evading the Rubberrobos, then accidentally dropping it into the river.
Grail in the Garbage / int_8966a34	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_8966a34	featureConfidence	1.0
Medabots (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_8966a34
Grail in the Garbage / int_8ba4613a	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note. Guy finds the Artifact of Doom on the ground in front of his school? Of course, in this case, it was deliberately dropped in the hope someone "interesting" would find it.
Grail in the Garbage / int_8ba4613a	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_8ba4613a	featureConfidence	1.0
Death Note (Manga)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_8ba4613a
Grail in the Garbage / int_8c87469c	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_8c87469c	comment	Happens often in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, not only because the involved items do seem unimportant, but also because Link is actually unable to carry them on his own. And very fittingly, the player doesn't happen to suspect about these items until Fi's dowsing ability indicates that they are indeed important: In the sacred spring behind Skyview Temple, there are several waterfalls adorning the place. One of them is spewing the Sacred Water Faron needs to heal her wounds. During the search for the Key fragments through Eldin Volcano to open the Earth Temple, Link gets past a seemingly out-of-place metallic pinwheel in a crag that houses a watchtower. This pinwheel is necessary to make one of the wrecked windmills work again in Skyloft, so a podium activates and Link can play the Song of the Goddess there to gain access to the Thunderhead. Also in Eldin Volcano, there is a crystal ball that adorns the entrance to the Earth Temple. A good replacement for Sparrot's crystal ball when it breaks. In Lanayru Desert, there is a color wheel in a hill southeast. This is the wheel Dodoh lost while he was preparing the last details for his flight minigame.
Grail in the Garbage / int_8c87469c	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_8c87469c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_8c87469c
Grail in the Garbage / int_8d86d735	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_8d86d735	comment	Double Subversion in one Saturday Supercade episode. (Donkey Kong Jr segment.) Junior and his friend win a teddy bear at a carnival game booth, and all of a sudden, two thugs are chasing them trying to get it. When they have a breather and try to figure out what's so special about the bear, they find out that it's just a plain old toy, but it's stuffed with money, and it doesn't take them long to figure out it's stolen money.
Grail in the Garbage / int_8d86d735	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_8d86d735	featureConfidence	1.0
Saturday Supercade	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_8d86d735
Grail in the Garbage / int_8e388bef	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_8e388bef	comment	The Red Violin: The object of the title is buried in someone's grave (until Grave Robbers take it out), played by gypsies (until a famous violinist notices it), and is kept in Shanghai at a shop of English goods for 30 years until someone buys it. This was also true of the real violin it was based on - a busker who owned it covered it with shoe polish to hide its worth.
Grail in the Garbage / int_8e388bef	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_8e388bef	featureConfidence	1.0
The Red Violin	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_8e388bef
Grail in the Garbage / int_90b916ba	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_90b916ba	comment	One episode of Batman: The Animated Series has the Clock King steal a priceless antique clock to test his time-warping device. Once satisfied it works, he nonchalantly tosses the clock in the trash and heads off to take out Mayor Hill. No-one ever said he was a profit-minded villain.
Grail in the Garbage / int_90b916ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_90b916ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman: The Animated Series	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_90b916ba
Grail in the Garbage / int_90c73dda	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: David was about to sell the morphing cube online before the Animorphs caught wind of it. Worse, he was about to unwittingly sell it to Visser Three, probably for way, way less than it would have been worth even if the Visser didn't intend on infesting David the moment he sold it. In another installment, the Helmacrons' spaceship gets lost in a toy store and Cassie has to find it.
Grail in the Garbage / int_90c73dda	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_90c73dda	featureConfidence	1.0
Animorphs	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_90c73dda
Grail in the Garbage / int_91684031	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_91684031	comment	PokÃ©mon Black and White have a rather literal example. Wild Trubbish and and their evolution Garbodor, which are garbage bags and piles come to life respectively, sometimes hold valuable gold Nuggets and Big Nuggets.
Grail in the Garbage / int_91684031	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_91684031	featureConfidence	1.0
PokÃ©mon Black and White (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_91684031
Grail in the Garbage / int_918c5a7e	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_918c5a7e	comment	Can be done deliberately in Evil Genius. You just stole The Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail? Eh, put it in the break room.
Grail in the Garbage / int_918c5a7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_918c5a7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Evil Genius (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_918c5a7e
Grail in the Garbage / int_91d7de0c	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_91d7de0c	comment	The Rise of Darth Vulcan: The protagonist Ted finds junk jewelry in a pawn shop, and adds it to his Halloween costume. It turns out he nabbed the Alicorn Amulet. He is brought to Equestria by it, and with it, becomes a mighty villain.
Grail in the Garbage / int_91d7de0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_91d7de0c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Rise of Darth Vulcan (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_91d7de0c
Grail in the Garbage / int_9989595b	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_9989595b	comment	W.I.T.C.H.: Hay Lin picks up the Horn of Hypnos out of the dumpster behind the Silver Dragon. She experimentally blows into it a few times, accidentally hypnotizes a few people (without noticing), and then cheerfully donates the mysterious golden horn to her school band. This doesn't end well, since Lord Cedric is looking for it. The next time the Horn of Hypnos turns up, it's at a camp in Meridian, where Blunk is trying to trade items. He recognizes the Horn and, knowing its value (and danger), quickly trades several items to obtain it from the man who had found it — who, incidentally, has no idea what it is.
Grail in the Garbage / int_9989595b	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_9989595b	featureConfidence	1.0
WITCH	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_9989595b
Grail in the Garbage / int_9a55a6a9	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_9a55a6a9	comment	In Aveyond: Rhen's Quest, Rhen finds Talia's Priestess Ring in a junk shop for 10 G because everyone thought it was a fake. The shopkeeper mentions that a real Priestess Ring would have been priceless.
Grail in the Garbage / int_9a55a6a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_9a55a6a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Aveyond (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_9a55a6a9
Grail in the Garbage / int_9b530c26	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_9b530c26	comment	Archie Comics. Double Subversion. Jughead finds an old violin in the trash bin outside the pawnshop. When a suspicious man tries to steal it from him, Archie believes that it's a Stradivarius violin. He and Jughead head off to a music shop to get it appraised, only to learn that the violin is no Stradivarius, just a complete piece of junk. On the other hand, it really is a lot more valuable than it seems, and not in the way that the gang thought it would be: the violin's bow is the cache for stolen diamonds.
Grail in the Garbage / int_9b530c26	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_9b530c26	featureConfidence	1.0
Archie Comics (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_9b530c26
Grail in the Garbage / int_9ce851a3	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_9ce851a3	comment	In one Malcolm in the Middle Cold Open, Reese accidentally breaks a cheap painting's frame. Before he glues the painting back down, he gets the chance to laugh at the name of the artist who painted the one framed beneath it: "Pic-ass-o".
Grail in the Garbage / int_9ce851a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_9ce851a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Malcolm in the Middle	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_9ce851a3
Grail in the Garbage / int_9d963831	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_9d963831	comment	The time-travelling Glass in Septimus Heap is found in a warehouse where everything else is random junk like sheep bones.
Grail in the Garbage / int_9d963831	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_9d963831	featureConfidence	1.0
Septimus Heap	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_9d963831
Grail in the Garbage / int_9e2f90f4	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In One Piece, one of Zoro's swords, which is cursed, but immensely powerful if it can be controlled, is found in the armory equivalent of a bargain bin, precisely because it is cursed. In fact, the store owner had no intention of selling it all, but witnessing Zoro's sheer guts changed his mind.
Grail in the Garbage / int_9e2f90f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_9e2f90f4	featureConfidence	1.0
One Piece (Manga)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_9e2f90f4
Grail in the Garbage / int_9f89a5f0	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Most games have the Leftovers, one of the most useful held items in the series, hidden in a trash can. It is just a small pile of half-eaten food... that just so happens to be able to regenerate itself, giving the PokÃ©mon an infinite supply of free health. It's even found in a trash can in PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver and PokÃ©mon Black and White. PokÃ©mon Black and White have a rather literal example. Wild Trubbish and and their evolution Garbodor, which are garbage bags and piles come to life respectively, sometimes hold valuable gold Nuggets and Big Nuggets. In PokÃ©mon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire one house in the Battle Resort belongs to a guy who says he in charge of picking up the trash around the resort and that the items in his house (which you're welcome to take) are just junk he picked up today. They actually contain one of each item that permanently raises a PokÃ©mon's stat, and a Gengarite.
Grail in the Garbage / int_9f89a5f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_9f89a5f0	featureConfidence	1.0
PokÃ©mon (Franchise)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_9f89a5f0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a04b0ca3	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin: In The Secret of the Unicorn, Tintin buys a model ship from a street vendor to give to Captain Haddock as a gift. It turns out the ship has a scroll concealed in the mast which, when combined with two others from identical ships, leads to a fortune in gold and jewels.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a04b0ca3	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a04b0ca3	featureConfidence	1.0
Tintin (Franchise)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a04b0ca3
Grail in the Garbage / int_a0ae46f	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a0ae46f	comment	Woody is revealed to be an incredibly rare antique in Toy Story 2: Al discovers him in a yard sale (accidentally; Mom doesn't think Woody should be thrown out) and rejoices that he's finally found his Holy Grail, as he's been collecting a full Woody's Roundup set to restore and sell to a toy museum in Japan and it's implied that an authentic hand-crafted Woody doll was the hardest piece for him to get a hold of. In particular, the museum would not accept the deal unless Woody himself was part of the set, largely because he's the mascot that most of the other paraphernalia is based off.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a0ae46f	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a0ae46f	featureConfidence	1.0
Toy Story 2	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a0ae46f
Grail in the Garbage / int_a183d57f	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a183d57f	comment	The Planet Express gang from Futurama witnesses an auction house sell The Milky Way to "the being of unimaginable horror." He's the only one who puts in a bid.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a183d57f	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a183d57f	featureConfidence	1.0
Futurama	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a183d57f
Grail in the Garbage / int_a2174d23	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a2174d23	comment	Rene Artois of 'Allo 'Allo! has an old painting in his cafe which Rene's mother-in-law accepted from a penniless Dutchman in return for "certain favours". He thinks it's worthless until the cultured General von Klinkerhoffern drops in and immediately realises who the penniless Dutchman actually was.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a2174d23	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a2174d23	featureConfidence	1.0
'Allo 'Allo!	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a2174d23
Grail in the Garbage / int_a29b0bea	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a29b0bea	comment	Ms. Marvel (2022): A superpower-granting bracelet is kept in a box of random jewelry and other trinkets Kamala's grandmother sends over, which is dismissed as junk by Muneeba and stuffed in the attic.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a29b0bea	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a29b0bea	featureConfidence	1.0
Ms. Marvel (2022)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a29b0bea
Grail in the Garbage / int_a413d7dd	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a413d7dd	comment	In The Adventures of Tintin (Secret of the Unicorn), Tintin buys a model of a three-masted sailing ship, the Unicorn, for a pound, but it is later discovered to contain a parchment scroll which has a map of buried treasure.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a413d7dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a413d7dd	featureConfidence	1.0
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a413d7dd
Grail in the Garbage / int_a485ad0f	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a485ad0f	comment	The Angry Video Game Nerd acquired a copy of the gold cover Nintendo World Championship, the absolutely rarest game in the world in a sale where the previous owner bundled it in with other other much more common games. The bundle contained two copies of the game, the other being a much more common reproduction.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a485ad0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a485ad0f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a485ad0f
Grail in the Garbage / int_a54538ec	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a54538ec	comment	The plot of The Affix was set into motion by the death of the gem's previous keeper, who left it in a storage unit away from the rest of her supernatural collection. Mike bought it at auction, and the Affix temporarily adopted him as its new keeper. This way of turning up in unlikely places is implied to be typical of the gem, which causes severe causality distortions that can also return it to its keeper.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a54538ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a54538ec	featureConfidence	1.0
The Affix	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a54538ec
Grail in the Garbage / int_a6543322	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a6543322	comment	In the Touhou Project printed side-story, Curiosities of Lotus Asia, one chapter revolved around Marisa asking Rinnosuke to reinforce her Mini-Hakkero with some of his rare Hihi'irokane so that it would never rust. In exchange, Rinnosuke asked for... the pile of scrap iron that Marisa obsessively collects for no reason. Why did he want Marisa's pile of junk? Rinnosuke had identified the Sword of Kusanagi amongst them.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a6543322	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a6543322	featureConfidence	1.0
Touhou Project (Franchise)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a6543322
Grail in the Garbage / int_a698aa86	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a698aa86	comment	Ghostbusters: In one episode of The Real Ghostbusters, Ray finds himself in possession of the shears belonging to the Three Fates, finding them on the ground just as he needs to cut something. He keeps them, forcing Clotho to chase him all over New York to try to (discreetly) get them back, because she's the one who dropped them in the first place. As far as he can tell, they're just a pair of scissors, but they're really awesome scissors.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a698aa86	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a698aa86	featureConfidence	1.0
Ghostbusters (Franchise)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a698aa86
Grail in the Garbage / int_a825da3e	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a825da3e	comment	The Magic: The Gathering card Fountain of Youth notes "The fountain had stood in the town square for centuries, but only the pigeons knew its secret." Presumably, not too many people drank from a public fountain that pigeons bathed in.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a825da3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a825da3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a825da3e
Grail in the Garbage / int_a8729c90	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a8729c90	comment	In The Fairly OddParents! episode "Beach Bummed!", Cosmo and Wanda lose their wands in the sand at the beach and try to find them. While digging, Cosmo finds a Honus Wagner baseball card, a magic lamp and Elvis Presley, but dismisses them.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a8729c90	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a8729c90	featureConfidence	1.0
The Fairly OddParents!	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a8729c90
Grail in the Garbage / int_a9f1e264	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_a9f1e264	comment	In Chobits, Chii, a rare advanced prototype Ridiculously Human Robot, is found in a dumpster.
Grail in the Garbage / int_a9f1e264	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_a9f1e264	featureConfidence	1.0
Chobits (Manga)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_a9f1e264
Grail in the Garbage / int_abfcff6a	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_abfcff6a	comment	In Rocky and Bullwinkle the Kerwood Derby, a hat that makes whoever wears it absurdly smart, is found in a store.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_abfcff6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Rocky and Bullwinkle	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_abfcff6a
Grail in the Garbage / int_afb9f15a	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_afb9f15a	comment	During the crossover between Jemjammer and The Fallen Gods, Mara explains how the Dragonlances were legendary artifacts that were all said to have been destroyed. Shortly after the combined parties discover that Finn the cook been using one as a spit in his kitchen.
Grail in the Garbage / int_afb9f15a	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_afb9f15a	featureConfidence	1.0
Jemjammer (Podcast)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_afb9f15a
Grail in the Garbage / int_b174f131	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_b174f131	comment	On NoPixel, Valentina Hops gets a Kevin toy from a Burger Shot meal, which she stuffs away, thinking it's some kind of ripoff toy. What she doesn't know is that it's super rare, and half the city — in particular, Sheriff Kyle Pred — are driving themselves crazy looking for it for their collections.
Grail in the Garbage / int_b174f131	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_b174f131	featureConfidence	1.0
NoPixel (Roleplay)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_b174f131
Grail in the Garbage / int_b2b8158	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_b2b8158	comment	Not quite priceless, but someone threw out the jackpot lottery ticket in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_b2b8158	featureConfidence	1.0
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (Manga)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_b2b8158
Grail in the Garbage / int_b565ccc5	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_b565ccc5	comment	The TVA in Loki (2021) has numerous copies of the Infinity Stones, which they treat as worthless trinkets because they are powerless within the TVA. They even use them as paperweights, which is about all they're good for.
Grail in the Garbage / int_b565ccc5	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_b565ccc5	featureConfidence	1.0
Loki (2021)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_b565ccc5
Grail in the Garbage / int_b5a2b326	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_b5a2b326	comment	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: There are ten ancient Dunmer strongholds dotted in a rough circle around the island of Vvardenfell. Each has been taken over by bandits, undead, or worse, though each has a working "Propylon Chamber" on the roof. If you have the proper Propylon Index, you can use the chamber to zap to one of the two adjacent strongholds. Unfortunately, the Indeces are scattered across the island with few clues in the vanilla game as to where to find them. Several characters are using them as bookends or paperweights, while another is found in a dark basement storage room with no other loot of value and that you have no plot/quest related reason to enter. A free DLC, Master Index, adds a quest with an NPC who will point you to them. Once you find them all, he'll create a "Master Index" for you which will allow you to use all of the chambers as well as travel from the Caldera Mages Guild to any of the chambers (which are all quite remote). Because of how isolated they are, there isn't much value in using them outside of two situations (a Tribunal Temple quest where you have to traverse the island after taking a vow of silence and as a vampire where all other fast travel options are not available). Two Swords of White Woe (Ebony Broadswords with a Drain Health enchantment) can be found in separate guard towers in Balmora and Suran. One (Balmora) is on top of a closet while the other (Suran) is tucked under a bed. Guards are present in both areas, but timing your thefts and utilizing their blind spots will allow you to swipe the swords freely. Both can be acquired quite early and will carry you into at least the mid-game before becoming outclassed (at which point they can be sold for a pretty penny).
Grail in the Garbage / int_b5a2b326	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_b5a2b326	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_b5a2b326
Grail in the Garbage / int_bae87f7f	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_bae87f7f	comment	The Vision (2015) reveals that the team had a piece of Vibranium — one of the most valuable materials in the Marvel Universe — lying around in their old hideout. Chase ended up throwing it away because he couldn't find a practical use for it.
Grail in the Garbage / int_bae87f7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_bae87f7f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Vision (2015) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_bae87f7f
Grail in the Garbage / int_bd184166	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_bd184166	comment	The eponymous book in The Neverending Story, which contains the entire world of Fantastica, is found in (or rather, stolen from) an unsuccessful antique bookstore.
Grail in the Garbage / int_bd184166	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_bd184166	featureConfidence	1.0
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_bd184166
Grail in the Garbage / int_bd447006	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_bd447006	comment	Sherlock Holmes: Holmes himself owns a Stradivarius that he bought from a pawn shop at a fraction of its actual value. Also, in The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, the riddle passed down by the Musgrave family turns out to be instructions to locating some ostensible treasure. Holmes (and previously, the butler Brunton) follows the clues, and discovers a sack full of broken dirty metal shards and colored glass. Holmes realizes the metal is gold and the glass are gems: the sack contains the pieces of King Charles I's crown.
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Sherlock Holmes (Franchise)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_bd447006
Grail in the Garbage / int_bf949aad	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_bf949aad	comment	In one episode of Superstore Glen brings a box of old stuff from his basement he'd been meaning to throw out to work and asks Mateo and Cheyanne if they think it might be worth anything. Looking through they find a Mickey Mantle baseball card which they conclude is probably worthless because it's from the first year he ever played and a copy of Action Comics #1 which Cheyanne rips a page from to spit out her gum. Later in the episode the woman from Human Resources who'd been called in due to the A-Plot noticed the baseball card in the bin and snuck it into her pocket.
Grail in the Garbage / int_bf949aad	featureApplicability	1.0
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Superstore	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_bf949aad
Grail in the Garbage / int_bfd7c6e0	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	Drowtales: Ariel ends up "purchasing" a random slave-girl. Said girl is possessed by the QUEEN; she was usurped and left to die, and used the slave Ragini as a living phylactery. Also, Ariel's friend Faen has some game-breaking empathy attacks, but she was banished because they killed someone by accident. Most of the cast, including herself, don't realize the level of power that lethal empathy overload or emotion-trading mind control have. Everyone recognizes that Kharlaggen is effectively the Drowtales equivalent of a Warhammer 40000 Chaos God, but for over ten in-universe years nobody realizes that her sister Kiel is possessed by a medium to the Drowtales forums, which gives her stupidly overpowered Genre Savvy that allows her to defy all logical reasoning and become the tyrant queen of a Wretched Hive of insane demons.
Grail in the Garbage / int_bfd7c6e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_bfd7c6e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Drowtales (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_bfd7c6e0
Grail in the Garbage / int_c0d295c4	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2 has a heavily hat-based in-game economy between the players, where some virtual hats can cost several hundreds of real life dollars. This also means that there are varying degrees of currency, including using other expensive hats as a large denomination of metal (the primary currency) to free up spaces in one's backpack. One of the common things newbies do is to trade away a pair of earbuds or a Bill's Hat for a bunch of weapons. Both are promotional items that seem worthless, but on the hat market are worth 40 and 20 real life money (or 40 and 20 in-game refined metal). By comparison, any given weapon in the game is worth 1/18th of a buck (18 weapons to make 1 refined metal).
Grail in the Garbage / int_c0d295c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_c0d295c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_c0d295c4
Grail in the Garbage / int_c1014736	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_c1014736	comment	Gaz Dreams of Genie: Invoked at the end, when the Swollen Eyeballs are storing the genie lamp in their secret warehouse, and they place it in a crate marked "Expired Cheese!" to make sure no one can find it and use it.
Grail in the Garbage / int_c1014736	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_c1014736	featureConfidence	1.0
Gaz Dreams of Genie (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_c1014736
Grail in the Garbage / int_c36d6987	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_c36d6987	comment	In the beginning of Fancy Lala, Miho first finds Pigu and Mogu at a toy store when they attach themselves to her book bag. The mysterious man who pops up throughout the series pays for them because the store clerk thinks she's stealing them.
Grail in the Garbage / int_c36d6987	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_c36d6987	featureConfidence	1.0
Fancy Lala	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_c36d6987
Grail in the Garbage / int_c43df4d8	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_c43df4d8	comment	One of the lost episodes of early Doctor Who was found in a church basement. Nine other episodes were also found in a Nigerian television relay station in Jos.
Grail in the Garbage / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_c43df4d8
Grail in the Garbage / int_c717e9ce	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_c717e9ce	comment	The 10th Kingdom: A magic mirror that will allow the heroes to go back to their own world is for sale dirt cheap, as no one knows what it is. When its true nature is discovered, however? Inverted when Wolf throws away Virginia's Shoes of Invisibility straight to the bottom of a large river (turns out that some people find valuable stuff there). The shoes were crazy-overpowered but also magically addictive, so this was the equivalent of discarding a Bong of Unlimited Magic Weed because the user was on the verge of losing their mind.
Grail in the Garbage / int_c717e9ce	featureApplicability	1.0
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The 10th Kingdom	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_c717e9ce
Grail in the Garbage / int_c75d67d	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_c75d67d	comment	On Person of Interest this is invoked by the Dirty Cops of HR and then by a conman stealing from them. The Russian Mob is paying HR a lot of money to protect its drug operations and HR uses an antique dealer to launder the money. A friend or relative of one of the cops pretends to find a valuable piece of sports memorabilia and puts it up for auction. A crooked auctioneer authenticates it as real and the antiques dealer then outbids everyone at auction and uses the mob money to buy the item supposedly for his personal collection. All the taxes and fees are properly paid and the government is unlikely to question the source of the money. The conman discovers the scheme and hacks the emails HR sends to the antique dealer. He instructs the dealer to buy an autographed baseball for 2 million dollars. The dealer complies and upon returning to his store he puts the baseball into a pile of other old sports junk. A kid walks in from the street and buys the ball for a few dollars. Turns out that the baseball was authentic and really worth millions. The conman paid the kid to buy the ball and bring it to him.
Grail in the Garbage / int_c75d67d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Person of Interest	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_c75d67d
Grail in the Garbage / int_c9d6c480	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_c9d6c480	comment	The Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral includes the character of Cora Lansquenet whose hobby is going to various yard sales and antique shops in order to buy paintings that she thinks might be valuable. She did find one of modest value once, but it was mostly luck, and her art dealer friend makes it clear that Cora didn't really have the eye for art that she thought she did. It turns out that one of the paintings she'd bought on her most recent buying spree was an original Vermeer, but she never recognized it for what it was.
Grail in the Garbage / int_c9d6c480	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_c9d6c480	featureConfidence	1.0
HerculePoirot	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_c9d6c480
Grail in the Garbage / int_ce50887e	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_ce50887e	comment	Early on in Dragon Ball, Goku travels to Master Roshi's island to borrow the Bansho Fan, the one thing that can extinguish the fire on Frypan Mountain, only to find out that Roshi was using it as a tablecloth... and he had thrown it out because he spilled soup on it! Fortunately Roshi manages to put out the fire another way: by... blowing up the mountain with a Kamehameha.
Grail in the Garbage / int_ce50887e	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_ce50887e	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Ball (Manga)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_ce50887e
Grail in the Garbage / int_cf3e7a82	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_cf3e7a82	comment	One of the illustrations on the back of a Reader's Digest, entitled "Treasure Hunt", has a man at a garage sale looking at a bust of Lincoln. If you look closely, you can see a copy of Action Comics #1 sitting in a box of old newspapers.
Grail in the Garbage / int_cf3e7a82	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_cf3e7a82	featureConfidence	1.0
Superman (Franchise)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_cf3e7a82
Grail in the Garbage / int_d0b0076	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_d0b0076	comment	In Icewind Dale, the best longsword in the game, Pale Justice, is found on the corpse of a hapless adventurer in Dorn's Deep. What's more is that its inventory icon is the same as any regular longsword (by the time you're using +3/+4 weapons) and shopkeepers will buy or sell it for a pittance.
Grail in the Garbage / int_d0b0076	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_d0b0076	featureConfidence	1.0
Icewind Dale (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_d0b0076
Grail in the Garbage / int_d3029198	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_d3029198	comment	In one episode of Antiques Roadshow, a man who was renovating a building that had, in the late 1700s, been a roadside inn into a house. In the attic he found a collection of old registers. Figuring they might be worth something to someone, he took them to be appraised without ever really checking them out. Turns out that the building had not only been an inn during most of the American revolution, but that the Founding Fathers of the United States apparently liked staying there and nearly all of them (including George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson) had signed the registers multiple times. Later the man admitted that he thought they might be worth a couple of hundred apiece when he brought them in; the average appraisal put them at over one hundred thousand dollars apiece, and there were nearly thirty of them.
Grail in the Garbage / int_d3029198	featureApplicability	1.0
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Antiques Roadshow	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_d3029198
Grail in the Garbage / int_d6e2146d	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_d6e2146d	comment	Diablo III: Regular demons and breakable objects have a small chance to contain Legendary items, top-tier gear whose true power can be unleashed by a nephalem. Justified by the lack of nephalem in the past millennium - in the hands of a mortal or demon, these items are still killing machines but don't show noticeable superpowers. Also, most of them are copies - superpower copies, but copies nonetheless.
Grail in the Garbage / int_d6e2146d	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_d6e2146d	featureConfidence	1.0
Diablo III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_d6e2146d
Grail in the Garbage / int_d99d1004	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_d99d1004	comment	In Yooka-Laylee, the Plot Coupons are Pagies, pages from a magical book. Many NPCs consider the Pagies garbage, and are willing to let Yooka and Laylee have the Pagies because they want nothing to do with them. For example, one Pagie is swirling around in a whirlwind in Tribalstack Tropics. One NPC demands Yooka and Laylee to clean up the "garbage" before his wife gets home and sees it.
Grail in the Garbage / int_d99d1004	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_d99d1004	featureConfidence	1.0
Yooka-Laylee (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_d99d1004
Grail in the Garbage / int_daff6a21	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_daff6a21	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Godwin had three of the cards for the eponymous 5 Dragons, and quietly released them to the public to let destiny take its course. Aki is given her Plant-based deck as a birthday present by her father. Besides the more often used effect, Black Rose Dragon also has an effect which works in tandem with Plants, so it seems likely that she got it then. Yusei and Jack probably would have found Stardust Dragon and Red Dragon Archfiend, respectively, in the trash, as the two lived in the Satellite slums and had to assemble their decks from discarded cards. They also might have gained their dragons during their 'Team Satisfaction' days, where they engaged in card-based turf wars until they had beaten everybody in Satellite, with the dragons perhaps taken as prizes. The cards wouldn't have been easily detected by others since they wouldn't be particularly special to anyone who doesn't have a Sign of the Crimson Dragon.
Grail in the Garbage / int_daff6a21	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_daff6a21	featureConfidence	1.0
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_daff6a21
Grail in the Garbage / int_dd3fe595	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_dd3fe595	comment	Atlas Shrugged has an anvilicious example, where Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden discover a prototype perpetual motion machine abandoned and decayed in the gutted ruins of the Twentieth Century Motor Company. John Galt actually abandoned the prototype, the plans and theoretical research that led to it because he designed it on the clock and they had a right to it - but more importantly, he knew that no-one capable of understanding it would ever work there again because civilization had ceased to value the original "perpetual motion machine" - the human mind.
Grail in the Garbage / int_dd3fe595	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_dd3fe595	featureConfidence	1.0
Atlas Shrugged	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_dd3fe595
Grail in the Garbage / int_e293455a	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: An orb that can restore people's souls is sold as a paperweight. Subversion here: Both the buyer and the seller are aware of its value, but it's worthless without the spell (which the buyer has) and very common. The seller admits that he sells them to people not in the know as paperweights because it's more profitable to sell as such. Becomes a Brick Joke in a later item when Giles knows all about the item by name alone, owns one, and sheepishly admits he uses his as a paperweight. For that matter, Giles once bought a magical talisman from a sorcerer, convinced it was a knock-off. Not only is it real, it's used as part of an apocalyptic ritual. Inversion: Giles accidentally sells a series of innocuous items to a seemingly ordinary shopper. Turns out those specific items are used in a powerful and dangerous ritual but have little value on their own. Also the woman he sold them to was actually the season's Big Bad.
Grail in the Garbage / int_e293455a	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_e293455a	featureConfidence	1.0
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_e293455a
Grail in the Garbage / int_e2aa3bec	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_e2aa3bec	comment	In Dead Island, the vendors will sometimes sell white, common weapons, which have much, much better stats than the rarer, colored weapons. For instance, you could see them selling a blue colored machete which does 500 damage, then the white colored machete right below it does 650 damage...
Grail in the Garbage / int_e2aa3bec	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_e2aa3bec	featureConfidence	1.0
Dead Island (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_e2aa3bec
Grail in the Garbage / int_e3ec6dd6	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_e3ec6dd6	comment	In L. Jagi Lamplighter's Prospero Lost, Miranda finds a chameleon cloak in a second-hand store. Both its presence and her discovery get explained later.
Grail in the Garbage / int_e3ec6dd6	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_e3ec6dd6	featureConfidence	1.0
Prospero's Daughter	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_e3ec6dd6
Grail in the Garbage / int_e4f2d161	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_e4f2d161	comment	In Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Barkley at one point visits Spalding Building, where he can find a character's Infinity +1 Sword in one of the trash cans. He also lampshades it when he finds a powerful healing item in another can: "It's B-Ball Juice! Who the hell throws B-Ball Juice away?"
Grail in the Garbage / int_e4f2d161	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_e4f2d161	featureConfidence	1.0
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_e4f2d161
Grail in the Garbage / int_e7a27429	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_e7a27429	comment	The Bridge: One of King Sombra's spell books is stolen from him and stashed away in a hollow tree because it can't be destroyed. Starlight Glimmer eventually finds it in a thrift store, though she doesn't know who it truly belongs to because Sombra signed it with his original name, Archmage Saros.
Grail in the Garbage / int_e7a27429	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_e7a27429	featureConfidence	1.0
TheBridge	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_e7a27429
Grail in the Garbage / int_e7eb67cd	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_e7eb67cd	comment	Witchblade: Seen in a spinoff, in which a medieval woman warrior called Katarina Godliffe (don't ask about the plausibility) discovers the Witchblade while shoveling manure in the year 1175.
Grail in the Garbage / int_e7eb67cd	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_e7eb67cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Witchblade (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_e7eb67cd
Grail in the Garbage / int_e8224f8c	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_e8224f8c	comment	In Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry, Sara finds a discarded doll in the scrapyard area of a ship while looking for a pendant someone stole from her locker. The doll is pretty dirty and seemingly abandoned, and when Sara sees EMLY imprinted on the back of the doll, she gives her the name Emily, and grows attached to the doll. Emily also allows her to control a Strain, a mecha that needs a specialized MacGuffin in order to activate (Sara's was destroyed in the first episode, so she was unable to control one again until this point).
Grail in the Garbage / int_e8224f8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_e8224f8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_e8224f8c
Grail in the Garbage / int_e9d7acf9	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_e9d7acf9	comment	Lone Wolf: In The Jungle of Horrors, Lone Wolf can visit a shop where the proprietor claims to be selling legendary artifacts. Lone Wolf easily recognizes most of them as fakes, but one is a genuine magic ring that can amplify his psychic powers.
Grail in the Garbage / int_e9d7acf9	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_e9d7acf9	featureConfidence	1.0
Lone Wolf	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_e9d7acf9
Grail in the Garbage / int_eda36d95	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_eda36d95	comment	High Fidelity: In a sequence inspired by the example in Jokes above, Rob goes to buy records from a woman selling off her husband's record collection. As soon as he looks through the records, he realizes he's struck the mother lode (rare records by Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, The Beatles, The Who, and Sex Pistols, among others), and it's worth about six or seven thousand pounds, which he doesn't have. The woman says he can have it for fifty pounds, because the man in question left her for a younger woman and told her to give him any money she got from selling the records. Rob can't bring himself to do this, and ends up only buying the Otis Redding record.
Grail in the Garbage / int_eda36d95	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_eda36d95	featureConfidence	1.0
High Fidelity	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_eda36d95
Grail in the Garbage / int_ef66f191	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_ef66f191	comment	Constellations: Sunny gets Taylor an old painting to hang in her shrine. What she does not know initially is that it is Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses, a Japanese national treasure that was thought lost when Leviathan sunk Kyushu. Lung and the baachans that visit the shrine later are very shocked when they see it.
Grail in the Garbage / int_ef66f191	featureApplicability	1.0
Grail in the Garbage / int_ef66f191	featureConfidence	1.0
Constellations (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_ef66f191
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Grail in the Garbage / int_f787db0c	comment	In the fourth and last book of the Shadow Grail series, the heroes find various items from Arthurian myth that they need (including the Grail) disguised as ordinary items in a junk box at the Goodwill store.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_f7c1b2d3	comment	In Only Fools and Horses, the Trotters become millionaires after the missing John Harrison Watch (which in real life, exists only as plans and may never have been built), ends up being found in their garage. Del likewise mentions he got it from an old woman who paid him to clear an attic.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_f91de837	comment	And again in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry hides the Prince's potions book in a version of the Room of Requirement which only appears when somebody needs a place to hide something and has been filled over the years with assorted things lots of other students (and teachers!) didn't want found. One, which Harry uses to mark the place where he hid the book, is the lost diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw, and another of Voldemort's Horcruxes.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_f99dc3ff	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_f99dc3ff	comment	Sleeping Lady with Black Vase, a Robert Bereny painting lost in the 1920s, was found when the set designer of Stuart Little brought it secondhand and used it as a prop in the movie.
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Stuart Little	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_f99dc3ff
Grail in the Garbage / int_fa00b130	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_fa00b130	comment	The Spongebob Squarepants episode "One Krabs Trash" has Mr. Krabs sell the contents of a nearby dumpster to SpongeBob and Patrick. One of the items is a soda-drinking hat, which he charges ten dollars for. Moments after SpongeBob leaves with his new hat in tow, a group of antiquarians show up and inform Krabs that the hat was actually an incredibly rare collector's item that they're willing to pay thousands or millions of dollars for. Unsurprisingly, Krabs spends the rest of the episode trying to get the hat back. This then gets subverted at the end of the episode, where it's revealed that while Krabs was tracking down the hat and fighting off a horde of undead to keep it, someone unearthed a warehouse full of the hats, and their value has plummeted to worthlessness as a result.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_fd0b756	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_fd0b756	comment	The One Ring. In The Hobbit (written first), Bilbo finds the ring on the ground, after Gollum misplaced it. So you have an ordinary ring owned by some deformed hobbit. (As the narration says, "It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.") Then Bilbo discovers it can make the wearer invisible.
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Grail in the Garbage / int_ff0bf83f	type	Grail in the Garbage
Grail in the Garbage / int_ff0bf83f	comment	A bizarre intentional example from Justice League Unlimited in which Grodd breaks Luthor out of prison so that he and a small group of other super-villains can break into a hidden island base and steal the fabled Spear of Longinus, which pierced the skin of Christ as he lay on the cross and supposedly would make whoever wielded it invincible. It's soon revealed that Grodd only arranged that heist as a test to see if Luthor could follow orders. Rather than wield the spear and attempt to conquer the world, or at the very least sell it to the highest bidder, Grodd intends to hang it on the wall of his office.
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Grail in the Garbage	processingCategory2	One Man's Trash Is Another's Treasure
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My Science Project / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
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Rebuild World / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
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Rebuild World / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
Return of the Runebound Professor / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
Shadow Grail / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
Shannara / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
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That is All / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
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Let's Make a Deal / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
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Miss Sherlock / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
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