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Personal Seals
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A person receives a package or is filling out a contract. However, there's a delay, because they can't find their Personal Seal. No, not an animal. In Chinese and Japanese law, one needs a stamp to "sign" documents in one's name—"signatures" as Europeans know them are an impossibility as the Chinese script is much different than the Latin one. Also called a "chop", one's stamp must be registered with the authorities before it is officially recognized. These stamps, referred to (by the Japanese) as hanko, or inkan, are used with red ink to mark a document. The inability to locate one's inkan can be a delaying action to build tension or comedy, as appropriate. Alternatively, a person can accidentally stamp a document far more easily than they might sign one, leading to unintended results. The practice was once common among European nobility and royalty (who at some points in history could have been illiterate, so could not literally sign documents, and as such needed some other way to give them their "seal of approval"), specifically through the use of signet rings to impress a personal seal into wax bindings on messages. (Wearing your personal seal on a ring also prevents the usual application of this trope, conveniently enough.) While wax seals with signet imprints are a good precaution against a forged document, they are not foolproof. The signet may have been copied, the ruler may have been forced to make the impression, or an official (or a spy) may have used the signet without the owner's permission. In Real Life, the last tactic was used in Japan by adult children of elderly people, who used their dead parent's chop to sign for the parent and defraud their estate. May be used for the notarization of documents in applicable jurisdictions, which in fiction, can lead to Notary Nonsense. Examples |
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In Trelane's backstory in the Mage Storms Trilogy, he once made a perfect copy of the Emperor's personal seal, and stored it in a booby-trapped desk. He would eventually use it to forge orders to allow him to strip an Imperial supply depot of everything his men could carry while the Gate remained stable after the Storms made communication and transportation with the Empire highly unreliable, allowing them to secure the resources needed to survive the winter. | |
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Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City: The Guile Hero protagonist steals the Great Seal of the Empire from the invalid Emperor so he can pretend to have been granted emergency powers during The Siege. No sooner does he show it off and start drafting orders than he's mugged in an alleyway for pocket change and the Seal lost, complicating his efforts to Maintain the Lie. | |
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Attila. When Flavius Aetius is restored to power by the mother of the Emperor, he insists she give him her seal to let others know that he's acting on her authority and is not still in disgrace. He then arranges for an assassin to kill the Emperor, using the seal to convince the assassin that she's arranged it, and even giving him the seal as a "Get Out of Jail Free" Card in case he's captured. Aetius then kills the assassin just as he's about to strike, earning the Emperor's gratitude and sowing distrust when he finds his mother's seal on the assassin's body. | |
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In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the letter to the King of England is sealed with Claudius's seal. When Rosencrantz breaks it open pretending to be the King, Guildenstern says they won't notice the broken seal if they're anything like the impersonation. (In the movie, Guildenstern is shown carefully resealing the letter, and faking the seal with a coin.) | |
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Hand Maid May: Kazuya Saotome receives a package from the Cyberdyne Company, he needs to go look for his seal. When he turns around, however, the delivery person is nowhere to be found. | |
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Excel♡Saga: The Cold Opening for every episode, often has a scene of Rikdo Koshi's personal seal being used to signify his 'approval' of the contents of the episode, whether this is a Dating Sim, action movie, science-fiction movie, or whatever Nabeshin and company came up for that week. It also features probably the most over-the-top usage of a stamp in anime: in one of the openings, we see a huge meteorite destroying an entire city and carving an enormous crater... and the meteorite turns out to be a building-sized version of Rikdo Koshi's stamp. Another episode has the production crew forge the stamp so they can do an episode that Koshi didn't approve. |
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Despite driving like a maniac for her driving tests, Natsumi in You're Under Arrest! gets a driving licence anyway, since the examiner passed out during the test, conveniently letting the stamp fall on the requisite box on the form. | |
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Discworld: In the events of Making Money, it is revealed that Lord Vetinari's signet ring is made of a special metal, possibly an alloy, that has the unique property of absorbing light and turning it into an intense heat. He stores it in a little wooden box when not stamping paperwork with it. While one of the villains who is obsessed with imitating him has an exact replica of the ring made and wears it all the time under a glove and since it's too small for him his finger turns gangrenous, fortunately Moist talks him into stepping outside into the sunlight without the glove, so the heat is intense enough to amputate and cauterize. Vetinari's personal seal is as plain and simple as it gets - a single sans-serif "V" stamped into black wax. That's it. No elaboration. This in itself is a psychological tool - that he is confident in using such an absurdly simple and easily forged mark demonstrates that he knows nobody would ever dare to forge it.note The one man who did, Cosmo Lavish, was also certifiably insane. It makes the statement - I alone run this city. |
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Judge Dee: In "The Chinese Bell Murders", the Big Bad's guilt is partially proven when he's mugged by a beggar for his jacket that contained his seal. | |
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I, Claudius brings us this in Ancient Rome. Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso has been receiving letters from Livia, with her late husband Augustus' Imperial Seal on them. She still has free use of that seal, and notes with annoyance that Tiberius (with good reason) never shares his seal with her. | |
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In one episode of Occult Academy, Maya refuses to approve Fumiaki's proposal to allow Mikaze's shop to sell bread at the school. In fact, she throws her official seal at his head hard enough to leave a mark and enough ink for him to transfer to the paper. | |
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In A Taxing Woman tax evaders use all sorts tricks to hide the extra personal seals associated with their hidden bank accounts. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice: Inga Karkhuul Khura'in carries his around at all times like it was a cigar. And as it turns out he does need it at all times, because the man has a tendency to sign execution orders in bulk and at any time, any place. | |
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In Dune, the signet ring of House Atreides is brought up in multiple places. It is one of the things that Yueh makes sure heir Paul Atreides has with him when he's sent into hiding, and is considered to be of equal or greater importance than the launch and arming codes to House Atreides atomic weapons. | |
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The Prince and the Pauper. The prince hides the Great Seal of England before "temporarily" swapping clothes with a Street Urchin. | |
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The Beverly Hillbillies: In "Jed, Incorporated", a running gag has Miss Hathaway use her notary seal to "mistakenly crinkle" corporate documents (or, so saith the hillbillies). | |
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Several show up in James Clavell's Asian Saga: Dirk Struan's chop is seen, and is stated to read "Green-eyed devil, dagger of the sea.", referencing his nature as a foreigner, a seaman and a man not to be crossed, as well as a Pun on his name. A sub-plot in Noble House involves Paul Choy stealing his father's chop to perform a business deal he knows to be profitable and good for his family, but his very traditional and conservative father disapproves of. |
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Please Teacher!: Kei Kusanagi is filling out forms to officially marry Mizuho, ostensibly to protect themselves from reprisals from his school. He is very hesitant about whether this is right to do, but a distraction takes the decision out of his hands, causing him to accidentally put his stamp on the paper. | |
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While he's certainly not illiterate, Clothahump of Spellsinger uses a signet ring to sign documents. It looks like a letter C in a turtle shell. | |
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In My Hero Academia, Sir Nighteye has one such seal. He tells Midoriya, whom he doesn't think much of, that he'll only approve Midoriya's request to intern under him if Midoriya takes his seal, then uses his Quirk of Foresight to dodge all of Midoriya's attacks. Midoriya fails, but Nighteye is impressed at how Midoriya is able to avoid stepping on the All Might merhandise around Nighteye's office, and says that he'd actually approved Midoriya from the start. In battle, Nighteye throws extremely heavy personal seals at his enemies. | |
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The Bible: In the Book of Genesis, when Pharaoh appoints Joseph as his Number Two, he gives Joseph his signet ring. This is a big deal, as it gives Joseph the power to sign documents in Pharaoh's name. | |
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Unsounded: When Duane breaks into Lori's office looking for the missing waterwomen he finds that Lori has carefully worked to preserve the queen's personal seal from several messages from the queen, though the messages themselves she burned. He wonders if she kept them as insurance or as souvenirs. | |
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A package being delivered, and the subsequent search for the seal, takes the place of the opening sequence in the first episode of Seven of Seven. It also allows us to see the deliveryman get totally freaked out, and prove that voice actors can count to seven and deliver Title Drops at the same time. | |
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Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two feature the ducal signet ring of House Atreides. Paul Atreides/Muad'Dib inherits it after the death of his father Duke Leto. He uses it to send a clear message to Emperor Shaddam IV to lure him to Arrakis as well as to invoke the memory of his dead father to the assembly of all the Fremen leaders when becoming their Dark Messiah. | |
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Zeniba's golden seal in Spirited Away turns out to be a major plot point, and in one DVD special the English staff talk about the addition of the word "golden" to keep the mostly young audience from mistaking it for the other type of seal that barks and dives underwater, viewers being morons and all that. And since the seal is in essence Zeniba's name, her sister's theft of it is not just robbery, but an attempt to gain magical power over her. |
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