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Priceless Paperweight
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So there's this MacGuffin, right — perhaps one that The Hero and company must find in order to stop the The End of the World as We Know It, or maybe something that explains all they need to know to solve some problem at hand. Somebody goes searching for it, looking under every rock, solving every puzzle, and maybe even going all apeshit on someone who might know where the MacGuffin is. But eventually they find the MacGuffin, and discover that this priceless, important, amazing artifact/object/spear/war-souvenir/whatever is in the hands of someone perfectly willing to give it up. Because they're just using it as a paperweight. Priceless Paperweight, therefore, is when said important and/or priceless artifacts or other objects are being used for ridiculously mundane purposes, like paperweights, footstools, or a pretty decor for their bookshelf. Oftentimes this is Played for Laughs, usually by showing The Hero's or some other person seeing the usage's shocked reaction to such a stupid way of using something so valuable. Often used as a form of Conspicuous Consumption, especially in the hands of a villain; it's their way of saying that the object means nothing to them. Oddly enough, this is sometimes Truth in Television, as noted by some examples below. Compare with Grail in the Garbage, Hidden in Plain Sight, Mundane Utility, Useful Book, Plot Device All Along and Worthless Yellow Rocks. |
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In a relative example, one The Far Side comic features an elephant who had recently lost his foot to poachers. The elephant is understandably upset to learn that his foot had been turned into a novelty wastebasket. | |
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In Home (2015), Captain Smek silences other Boov by hitting them on the head with the rock on the end of his "shusher wand". We later discover that the "rock" contains the entire next generation of Gorg, which is the true reason the Gorg has been chasing the Boov. | |
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The Book of Darkness in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's is a powerful Artifact of Doom capable of granting world-destroying powers to any mage. When it landed in Hayate's possession, she took good care of it not because she knew what it was, but because it looked really pretty in her bookshelf. | |
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In the Old World of Darkness, there was a Villain Sue named Sam Haight who just got mightier and mightier, until he at last died in a Mage adventure. When people started speculating that Haight would come back as a wraith, the publishers declared that he DID become a wraith, but was captured by the evil soul-eating empire. They recycled his soul for raw material, and used that particular unit of soulsteel to make an ashtray for one of their bureaucrats. | |
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Played with in Monster, in which the mystical stone tablet responsible for creating the universe is used by its keeper as a literal paperweight, as well as a cutting board and nutcracker. She knows perfectly well that it is responsible for the universe's existence, she just knows it has Mundane Utility too. (Judy suggests that it could be used to prop up the short leg of a wobbly table as well, but apparently that use hasn't come up.) | |
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In Superhero League of Hoboken, a few missions have you tracking down priceless artifacts from the "Before-Time". These include a diet book (priceless pre-end of the world knowledge!) and a Frank Sinatra tape. Two of the artifacts, however, are being rather mundanely used: George Washington's Museum's Souvenir Rack, which is made of gold and being used as an ostentatious coat rack, and a VHS video tape, which is being used to stabilize a wobbly table. | |
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In an episode of Justice League, Gorilla Grodd tasks Lex Luthor with stealing the Spear of Longinus to prove he is worthy of membership into Grodd's supervillain organization. According to Grodd, the legend goes that whoever holds the spear will be able to rule the world unopposed. Once Luthor delivers it to Grodd, he asks if Grodd will use it to conquer the world. Grodd replies that he wanted it because it will look very nice on his mantlepiece. | |
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Invoked in Nobunaga no Chef where Nobunaga used a priceless vase that Matsunaga gifted him as a soup holder, to the latter's horror. He then pretends to fall and almost drops the vase to test how Matsunaga will react. | |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Because Captain Nemo and his crew are renegades who live outside society, they are only interested in using sunken treasure as ballast for the Nautilus, much to the consternation of Ned Land. | |
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From Cracked, 5 Pieces of Junk That Turned Out to be Invaluable Artifacts. | |
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Inverted in The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, where the main character takes genuinely mundane things for this. | |
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One of the early Power Rangers comics has Kimberly use her power coin as a coaster for her soda. She then forgot where she put it and nearly got the team killed for it when she couldn't show up for the Megazord activation. | |
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Iron Man 2: Tony Stark uses Captain America's prototype/unfinished shield to prop up what he is currently working on. | |
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus: After asking you to collect three logs to craft her a cutting board, Cogita gives you her old one, which is actually the Pixie Plate, one of the ancient artifacts associated with the Olympus Mons Arceus. She claims to have never realized what it was, but notes that in hindsight everything she cut on it tasted better. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, decoration is usually the destiny of many an artifact. The core of a Dwemer Centurion? A daedric Sigil Stone? The Space Core from Portal 2? All awesome mantelpiece mainstays for the player's house! | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: You've located a pre-War installation that controls a Kill Sat and figured out how to turn it on. But to make use of it, you need a handheld targeting device. Turns out some kid came across the device and is now using it as a toy gun. Good thing the safety was on. | |
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In The Dark Knight, in order to illustrate that "Some men just want to watch the world burn", Alfred Pennyworth tells the story of a Burmese bandit who stole precious stones and simply tossed them away afterwards. The butler found it out when he saw a clear example of this trope: a child mindlessly playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. | |
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American Dad!: | |
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One of the later story arcs of the anime Tsubasa Chronicle (after splitting off from the manga's storyline) involves a woman who has made a fan out of one of Princess Sakura's feathers, having found it on the street one day. She wasn't trying to make a powerful weapon of a fan, either — she just thought the feather was pretty and stuck it on. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In a Don Rosa story, "The Treasury of Croesus", Scrooge McDuck seeks to restore one of the lost Wonders of the Ancient World, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, in order to decipher the location of the treasure-trove of King Croesus (who bankrolled the construction of the temple) from writing scattered across the columns. Most of the pieces of the columns were scattered across the world when invading Goths tore down the temple and carted off the pieces as trophies. So, Scrooge travels all across the world, seeking out the lost pieces in a Montage — finding several of them being used in mundane ways. Another example from Rosa's stories is in "His Majesty McDuck", where Scrooge finds a plaque and a document that proves the hill his money bin stands on was never a part of the United States, having been given directly to the founder of Duckburg by the Spanish. He declares it a sovereign country but this ends up causing him a lot of trouble (the city cuts off his electricity and the Beagle Boys invade and take over since police jurisdiction does not extend to foreign countries). In the end, Scrooge joins his country back to US and uses the plaque as a tray for bird seed. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Basic adventure IM3 The Best of Intentions. One of the magical artifacts the PCs need to acquire is being used by a giant bacteria to shield its underside from unpleasant drafts. In the setting Scarred Lands, the pantheon of Gods managed to slay the titan Kadum (a.k.a. The Mountainshaker). The mighty titan's source of power was his heart, so the goddess Belsameth (a.k.a. The Slayer) ripped it out... and has since used it as a footstool. |
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Dwarf Fortress not only has artifact furniture, but lets you mount artifact weapons on furniture to make amazing dinner rooms. And since some artifacts are entirely mundane objects made and decorated fantastically well, it's perfectly possible for your stockpiles to have a heavily decorated gold bin engraved with historical events just lying around holding a big pile of axes, for example. | |
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Frequently in Bethesda games such as Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Find a shiny, unique new weapon? Aww, too bad you didn't invest in the skills needed to use it effectively. However, with the rudimentary house decorating methods, that one-of-a-kind, several-thousand-plus worth plasma canon or demonic warhammer will look mighty fine as a decoration. Not to mention rare ammo and food types. It seems like a waste to drink a Nuka Cola Victory and since they can't be turned into bombs so instead you will turn it into a night light. | |
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The Klaww Gang of Sly 2: Band of Thieves steals the disassembled pieces of Clockwerk, an immortal robotic owl whose body is composed of powerful metal that cannot break. Most of the members make use of the pieces in ways that directly benefit their operations: Dimitri uses the tail feathers as printing plates for his counterfeit cash operation, Jean Bison uses the lungs and stomach as engines for his shipment trains, and Rajan uses the heart as a pump for his spice production. However, Rajan also received the wings, and simply makes them a decorative centerpiece for the lavish party he's hosting. | |
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This trope happens all the time with Kryptonite on Smallville, whether it's necklaces or class rings. | |
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The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island has Gilligan using an energy-producing MacGuffin as a lamp. | |
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A recurring sketch in That Mitchell and Webb Look features an uninterested man at a jumble sale (Webb) selling such items as a wardrobe which functions as a gateway to Narnia and the Holy Grail. | |
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The Prince and the Pauper, the court officials keep asking the false Prince, Tom Canty, about the whereabouts of the Great Seal of England, hidden by the real Prince Edward Tudor just before their escapades began. Despite repeating question the disguised Tom has no idea what they're talking about. In the end, Edward returns and proves his true identity by at once pointing out what it was. Tom admits he'd been using every day as a nutcracker. | |
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The NES port of Ikari Warriors hangs an unintentional lampshade on this. A silver-colored Palette Swap of the hidden Gold item is named the "Paperweight". It's worth 5000 points just like the Gold. | |
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At the conclusion of the "Firewalker" mission in Mass Effect 2, Shepard and their crew come across an artifact: a metallic sphere implied to be a data storage device of some sort. After confirming the artifact is inert and harmless, Shepard uses it as an ornament for their coffee table on the Normandy. It doesn't return for Mass Effect 3; the Alliance presumably took issue with Shepard's less-than-appropriate usage of archeological finds and confiscated it. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: When the Council of Elrond meets to discuss what to do about the One Ring, Frodo suggests that they give it to Tom Bombadil, as the Ring's powers have absolutely no effect on him. Gandalf explains that Tom can't be trusted with the One Ring because it means so little to him—he'd view it as an interesting trinket at best and lose track of it. | |
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Twilight uses her Element of Magic, an incredibly magical artifact that has been used to save Equestria more than once, as a mundane crown a few times after her ascension to Alicorn. This bites her in the ass in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls as her treating it so carelessly, and leaving it on her bedside table while she sleeps, allows the Big Bad to steal it. | |
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The player character of RuneScape considers using The Stone of Jas as a centerpiece for their house's garden after obtaining it at the end of "Ritual of the Mahjarrat." | |
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In the Transformers: TransTech short story "I, Lowtech", the Corrupt Corporate Executive protagonist finds out his equally-corrupt rival keeps ridiculously powerful artifacts that have been both the start and end of dynasties and wars in multiple universes as decorations in his private office. Though the rival is well aware of how valuable it all is and does it precisely as an ostentatious show of his immense wealth. | |
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In Final Fantasy XV, Luna uses the Oracle's trident to heal fatal injuries, scorch an attacking Astral...and prop herself up on slippery ground. | |
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The McAuslan-series has the table service in the officers' mess, which consists of every valuable or interesting piece of swag a regiment's worth of larcenous Scots have picked up over the course of three centuries. As an example, the punch-bowl is in fact a solid silver chamberpot once owned by Napoleon's little brother Joseph. When a local resistance leader hands one of the lieutenants his knife as a token of surrender, it is immediately pressed into service as a cheese slicer. | |
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In Life, the Universe and Everything, the pieces of The Wikkit Gate have all been scattered throughout the galaxy and are mostly being used for mundane things. | |
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In Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure: When Zenigata finds the bronze bear statue lying around Lupin's apartment, he isn't sure what to make of it. So he uses it to weigh down the lid on his ramen noodles while they steam! He doesn't realize that statue is actually part of a set needed to unlock the fabled Harimao treasure. | |
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Red vs. Blue: Grif gets hold of a Brute Shot, an incredibly powerful piece of alien weaponry that belonged to the Meta prior to the end of Season 8. He uses it as a wall decoration and occasional snack platter. In season 13, we learn that the Chairman of the Oversight Committee has decorated his personal office with "souvenirs" from Project Freelancer. Among these items is the aforementioned Brute Shot (confiscated from Grif after Season 10) and the Monitor, an alien artifact that once housed Epsilon. |
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In an episode of Kim Possible (which ends up just being a dream), Ron finds an old book written during the founding days of Middleton being used to support a wobbly chair in his kitchen. The book ends up having (most of) the answers to the mystery of Kim's disgraced ancestor. | |
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Basically made into a game mechanic in Evil Genius. Stealing priceless treasures is an integral part of the game, because they generate an area-of-effect that regenerates your minions' loyalty statistic. This requires you to put them in the spots in your base where minions tend to congregate, which leads to you using the Ark of the Covenant and Excalibur as decorations in your employee break room and cafeteria. Averted by the second game, however, where stolen treasures have unique effects. | |
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Toward the end of Showa & Vampire one of the heroes learns he's descended from a samurai and agents of the organization he's going to be leading have found most of the pieces of this samurai's armor. The only time it's ever mentioned is when he wears the suit as a Halloween costume. | |
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Odd Squad: "Agent Oksana's Kitchen Nightmares" would reveal that the eponymous agent uses real diamonds in place of knives, for cutting food with. According to her, cutting with real diamonds creates the precision that only those jewels have — fake diamonds won't do the job. In "Odd Beginnings: Part 2", Oprah gives heaters to Arctic Mr. O at his request so he can provide his Headquarters and his agents with heat. Come "Teach a Man to Ice Fish" and it's revealed that the heaters are only merely serving as doorstoppers. Following the events of the mid-season 3 finale, "End of the Road", The Shadow's box of villain powers — created by her to hold all of the powers so she could spread them throughout the tube system as part of her Evil Plan — is revealed to be at the Big O's office. However, by "Box Trot", agents have started using it as a pinata, with the powers still inside of it. Because of this, Orpita has the Mobile Unit take the box and dispose of it, as well as the powers, at a black hole. In "Orla's Birthday", an ancient Odd Squad shield is used for nothing more than a decoration at Orla's 500th birthday party. Subverted in "End of the Road" where the shield becomes equipped by Orla herself for defense and is a mainstay weapon for her for the rest of the season. |
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game: One of the Cursed Artifacts is a clock that can tell the time at which its present owner will die. The flavor-text notes that the clock's hands spin out of control at GBHQ, because it's near the ghosts in the Containment Unit. "Peter uses it as a desk fan." | |
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The Modron Cube in Planescape: Torment is a device that acts as a portal to the Modron Maze, a bizarre location in Limbo. Since it appears to be a miniature Modron holding a sword, the Nameless One can play with it like an action figure. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has the Salvation Sphere. It is one of the pieces of the Legacy, a group of ancient artifacts that the Weatherlight crew must collect so they can save Dominaria from the Big Bad, Yawgmoth. Most players probably won't recognize it by its original name though, since it's more popularly known as, uhh... Squee's Toy. | |
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In Exterminatus Now, Eastwood swiped an object from Inquisition storage and uses it as a bookend. It turns out to be an ancient Soul Jar sought after by Morth and his patron god. And after all's done and solved he still wants his godsforsaken bookend, because the sickly-green light of all the ancient souls trapped within is simply perfect for his shelves' ambiance. | |
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The Flash Sentry Chronicles: It is revealed that the final piece of Princess Amore's statue, which when are all gathered back together will restore her to life, was found by a group of Earth Golems that live North of the Crystal Empire, and use it as a back-scratcher to scratch the moss off their backs. Thankfully though, they agree to trade it in exchange for Ruby Scarlet creating a much better and fancier back-scratcher out of crystal for them. | |
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In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Lord Girion's last Black Arrow is hanging from the rafters of Bard's kitchen. Bard hangs pots off of it. | |
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Loki (2021) has a literal example, with confiscated Infinity Stones from various timelines being so common that some Time Variance Authority bureaucrats use them as paperweights. This helps establish that the TVA is ridiculously above anything else that has previously appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. | |
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Leverage: In "The Ho, Ho, Ho Job", Parker decorates the office Christmas tree with several pieces of jewelry she's stolen over the years. | |
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In Zits, by sheer luck, Jeremy's dad ends up with a guitar pick used by the lead guitarist of the most famous in-universe band. At the time Jeremy finds out, his dad had been using it to clean out his ears. | |
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One guy in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles finds an abandoned Terminator head and decides to hold onto it, apparently just because it looks cool. But then its body comes back looking for it and, yeah. | |
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In Cassiopeia Quinn, the titular pirate and her cyborg boyfriend steal a robot control device from an actual, if staggeringly ineffectual, villainess. For some time, the galactic constabulary worry about what devious and horrifying purposes such a device could be put to in the hands of their enemy. The next panel shows Cassiopeia using it to balance out a table leg, ruining the remote permanently. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Twilight uses her Element of Magic, an incredibly magical artifact that has been used to save Equestria more than once, as a mundane crown a few times after her ascension to Alicorn. This bites her in the ass in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls as her treating it so carelessly, and leaving it on her bedside table while she sleeps, allows the Big Bad to steal it. In one episode Trixie accidentally teleports the Friendship Table — one of the most powerful magical items in Equestria — to an unknown location. When she and Starlight find it, it's being used as a massage table at the Ponyville Spa. |
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Child of the Storm: Loki sourly speculate in the sequel that Doctor Strange — time-travelling pack-rat, immortal manipulator, and gadfly extraordinaire — probably not only owns the original Excalibur (there were two), but is probably using it as a fireplace poker. Harry is resigned. Uhtred, a talented swordsmith, is horrified. In the same story, Steve Rogers occasionally used Mjölnir as a doorstop before the significance was explained to him. Apparently no-one had the heart to tell him that he's about the only person other than Thor who can pick it up at all. |
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This is the solution to one story in the Hercule Poirot collection The Labours of Hercules. A priceless Renaissance goblet is stolen and then disappears for ten years. Why has it not come back onto the market? Poirot finds it in a convent, being used as a chalice at Mass. | |
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The above Yu-Gi-Oh! example is lampshaded in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: | |
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In Heaven's Vault, various items you find over the course of the story appear as decor in your ship, but Aliya seems to have interesting ideas on how to store them. The Crown of the Empire, which Aliya describes as the greatest find of her life, can be found unceremoniously hanging on the back of a chair, and the iolite crystal from Maersi spends the rest of the game plunked in a coffee pot once you're done with it. It's also how Timor and Tapi managed to find things of value for you, since a lot of Elborethians don't know the value of what they actually have, given how many of those things are there on Elboreth. | |
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My Life as a Teenage Robot: One episode has Jenny, Brad, and Tuck looking for Jenny's robotic body parts being scattered around the world, most of which are being used as this trope. | |
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Legendarily Popular: Ash's smartphone is a tiny shiny Arceus. This actually helps his other Pokémon to stay motivated. | |
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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. | |
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In the Safehold series, the Wylsyn family has an artifact known as the Key, which was handed down to them by the Archangel Scheuler. It looks like a well-polished stone. Due to its unremarkable appearance, generations of Wylsyns have hidden the key by displaying it on their desk and using it as a paperweight. | |
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In the setting Scarred Lands, the pantheon of Gods managed to slay the titan Kadum (a.k.a. The Mountainshaker). The mighty titan's source of power was his heart, so the goddess Belsameth (a.k.a. The Slayer) ripped it out... and has since used it as a footstool. | |
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Infinity Beach takes place in a world of Absent Aliens. It turns out that a model spacecraft that a businessman is keeping in his office is an actual alien spacecraft used by a race of small aliens. | |
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In the South Park episode "Mecha-Streisand", Cartman and Kyle discover an Ancient Artifact capable of giving its user ultimate power. To them, however, it's a cool glowing triangle and they fight over the right to either let it sit on Kyle's dresser or in Cartman's shoe. | |
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Millennium (1996) did this with a chunk of the cross which once held Christ. A rival faction called Odessa had the priceless artifact in a beautiful glass case on a velvet cushion, with a Nazi flag behind it. When the Millennium Group proper gets a hold of it, the Old Man uses it as the other half of a bookends. | |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Jenny Calendar needed an Orb of Thesulah for a ritual to give Angel his soul back. A guy who sells magic supplies mentions to her that there isn't much call for them, since the rituals of the undead were lost, but he did sell a couple as new age paperweights last year. A few episodes later, Giles reveals that he has one in his office, where he's been using it as a paperweight. Apparently, he'd only just realized that it may, in fact, be a genuine Orb of Thesulah and not just a copy. Of course, in this case, without the rituals, it was just a paperweight. | |
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GURPS Warehouse 23 mentioned that one of the powers ascribed to The Ark of the Covenant was that it would shoot lightning to kill the vermin on the Israelites' path, thus making it the Bug Zapper of the Gods, and dared the GM to imagine a Secret Master decadent enough to use it only as such. | |
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A collectible in Gears of War 3 is a very fancy Locust ceremonial hammer found in the Savage Locust trenches that has been reduced to being used as a regular old mundane hammer, since the world is going to shit for both the COG and Locust at this point. | |
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In Nomads of Gor, the (last) egg of a male Priest-King is hidden amongst the Wagon Peoples. Kamchak of the Tuchuks uses it as a footstool. | |
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In Yahtzee Croshaw's novel Jam, Don is disgusted to find his hard-drive with the game that'll save his career on it being used as a drinks coaster. | |
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In P.C. Hodgell's Chronicles of the Kencyrath, Penari uses the giant uncut diamond he stole in impossible circumstances, the Eye of Abarraden, as a paperweight. | |
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Terraria: While you can repair the Broken Hero Sword into the mighty Terra Blade, you can also craft it into the utterly unnecessary Terra Toilet. The toilet's tooltip is appropriately displeased at this waste of a weapon of destiny. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hagrid's access to the Forbidden Forest and its magical creatures and his skill in handling them means he also has access to various very valuable ingredients and materials such as unicorn tail hair. Since Hagrid has little concept of their monetary worth, he simply uses them to maintain his hut. Horace Slughorn on the other hand does understand their monetary worth. He quickly realizes Hagrid is more or less sitting on a small fortune's worth of magical ingredients. | |
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A long-lost painting by avant-garde artist Robert Bereny was discovered being used as a prop in Stuart Little. | |
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