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Orphan's Plot Trinket
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Orphans get a disproportionate amount of attention from the plot of any given story, and is it any wonder why? Orphanhood is a plot gold mine. Right up there with a propensity to stare wistfully out windows, orphans collect an alarming number of plot-relevant knick-knacks. They will usually be a necklace or locket, and generally be a clue to the orphan's family, though they may have some other plot purpose, but they will always be inherited from the family in question. Mysterious swords and the like are very common. If the trinket saves the orphan's life by blocking an attack, it's also a Pocket Protector. If it wards off evil, it's a Protective Charm. If it grants powers, it's a Magical Accessory. If it's a stuffed animal, it may be a Sentimental Homemade Toy, and can overlap with Toy-Based Characterization to serve as a point of connection between them and their missing parent. Often used as a clue when Searching for the Lost Relative. Why living families are so lacking in portrait lockets and the like may forever remain a mystery. See Two Halves Make a Plot when the trinket has a counterpart. |
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Gosalyn's lullaby in the pilot for Darkwing Duck. | |
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Oliver! is an adaptation of Oliver Twist, so naturally this trope occurs in the musical. | |
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Likewise Annie's locket and the note her parents left with her. Though the locket turns out to be mass-produced and useless for finding her parents but the handwriting on the note does get identified, unfortunately her parents turn out to be dead. | |
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Carmen Sandiego has one in multiple continuities, such as a locket in Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? and a collection of dolls in Carmen Sandiego. | |
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The medallions in Sonic Underground. | |
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In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the same Captain Marvel trinket mentioned above is used, except here Billy seems to have had it long before he met his long-lost twin Mary. | |
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Anastasia: Zig-Zagged. In the prologue, the Dowager give young Anastasia a music box (rather than a necklace that opens the music box, like in the film) as a parting gift before she leaves for Paris. But Anastasia is unable to retrieve it before her family is captured and she loses her memory, subverting the trope, until Dmitry inadvertently reunites her with it years later. The fact that she is able to open it and remember the lullaby when no one else could later proves her identity to the Dowager. | |
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In the DuckTales (2017) episode "Louie's Eleven", Gabby McStabberson says that her dagger belonged to her mother and is her only clue to her true parentage. Since she's in the middle of a fight with Webby and is immediately knocked out we learn nothing more about this. | |
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Quasimodo's medallion in The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition includes the "Backgrounds" mechanic, in which what you were before you started adventuring grants you skills and equipment. The equipment granted by the "Urchin" background includes "a token to remember your parents by". | |
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Wonder Woman: Black and Gold: In "Memories of Hator" it turns out the entire reason Diana is visiting Badra is that she has recovered Badra's mother's crown. This is a rather significant trinket as the entire planet Badra originates from, and her family, were destroyed in a war long ago. | |
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Although she's technically only half an orphan (her father Hakoda is still alive, but off fighting a war in another part of the world), Katara's grandmother's necklace functions as this on a couple of occasions in Avatar: The Last Airbender: lost on a prison platform, found by Zuko, used to track the band by scent, retrieved by Aang; revealed Gran-Gran Kanna's history with the Northern Water Tribe and the man who becomes Katara's waterbending master, Master Pakku... who is actually the one who made that necklace with his own hands, as a gift for Kanna when they were arranged to be married.. | |
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In the Call of Cthulhu board game Arkham Horror, the character Wendy Adams, the Orphan, starts with an Elder Sign. The Elder Sign is a powerful item capable of permanently sealing gates to the other worlds and having six in play wins the game. | |
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Parodied in Guttersnipe, wherein Lil' Ragamuffin, the proud street urchin, admits to her pet rat that she wishes she could find her parents one day, and produces a locket with their pictures in it: her only clue to finding them. Rat then informs her that those are just the placeholder photos that come with the locket. | |
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Slightly Damned: The angel Darius Elexion found 3 abandoned demon children - Iratu, Sakido, and Buwaro - and put them under his care, effectively raising them as his own. He gave each of them one of his three magical pendants - the Moon Pendant to Iratu, the Sun Pendant to Sakido, and the Star Pendant to Buwaro. Around a year later, Darius left to confront Death, never to be seen again (or so it seems, at first), leaving the three to fend for themselves for the next 15 years. After Sakido's tragic death, Buwaro now has possession of her Sun Pendant. | |
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In Defenders of the Earth, Kshin was carrying part of a map to a lost city when Mandrake first met him. Unusually for this trope, this is not mentioned for most of the series and only becomes relevant when Kshin's grandfather (who feared his grandson was dead until he saw a picture of him with the other Defenders) turns up with the other half of the map. | |
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Agatha's locket in the webcomic Girl Genius has pictures of her missing parents, and also suppresses her hereditarily strong mad scientist abilities which would otherwise bring unwanted attention to her. More recently, the locket serves to suppress the mind control abilities of her not-so-dead mother, Lucrezia Mongfish. You have to wonder if that wasn't really what it was made for in the first place, and the other thing just a side effect. |
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Joanna insists on bringing her reticule with her when she an Antony plan to run away during the song "Kiss Me" in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He tells her he'll buy her a new one but she tells him it was "the only thing my mother gave me". | |
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In Futurama, the Warden of the Orphanarium has one belonging to Leela that he forgot about. It's simply a letter in an untranslatable alien language, but it serves a purpose beyond being a memento - it contributes to her parents' deception that Leela is a member of an unknown alien species rather than one of the persecuted sewer mutants from Earth. | |
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Muted: Camille's locket given to her by her late mother. The enchantment inside it was what saved her life from the fire. | |
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Medicated: The only thing Anne has from her birth parents is a blanket with her name embroidered on it. Hop Pop had initially assumed it belonged to whoever abandoned her there, but figures it might have been her birth mother after learning that Anne is still sapient in her human form on its own. | |
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Esteban's medallion in The Mysterious Cities of Gold. | |
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Superman's spaceship can serve as this, as it often has significant information programmed in (including messages from his birth parents). Also, in some modern versions, his cape is actually made from his baby blanket, which is a super-strong Kryptonian material that won't suffer Clothing Damage. | |
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The handbag in The Importance of Being Earnest. Also presumably in the film versions. | |
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Tally from The Weave owns a locket, one half of which contains a miniature map that marks her original home, the other half a photo of baby Tally with her parents, though her father's face is strangely blurry on it. | |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum has the gaggle-of-geese rings Erronius gave to his children before pirates kidnapped them as children. This comes from the Plautus and Terence plays A Funny Thing was based on, and they got it from the works of Menander and other Hellenistic comedies. | |
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Voltron: Legendary Defender: Keith's Marmora knife, which once belonged to his long-lost mother and serves as proof of his Galra lineage. | |
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