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* Voldemort's [[Soul Jar|horcruxes]] in the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' series are an odd example: obsessed with the idea of immortality, he intentionally [[Our Souls Are Different|tore his soul to pieces]] [[Murder Is the Best Solution|through multiple acts of murder]] so he could hide them safely away inside specially-chosen objects. Ultimately, doing so has given him a critical weakness: if he ''ever'' feels so much as a shred of genuine remorse for his actions, his shattered soul will recombine, [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|an experience so painful that it could well kill him.]] (This turns out to be the merciful option, as dying otherwise will condemn him to a [[Fate Worse Than Death]].)

* Zelazny's ''[[Chronicles of Amber]]'' brings this trope up a number of times, especially in the second half as it can then be tied into the concept of using raw power to cover for sloppiness and lack of forethought as habit-forming. Here using these stays as a viable if deprecated option.

* The vampires of 19th century fiction are commonly tied to something of significance to them. Dracula was forced to sleep in contact with his native soil, Carmilla had to sleep in a coffin filled with the blood of her victims, and the brothers Ténèbre revived from repeated deaths by regenerating from within their tombs.

 

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