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{{quote|''"If [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]] and [[Friday the 13th (film)|Jason Voorhees]] got married and had a baby, your ring would be the baby!"''|'''Tristan''', ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''}}
 
The Artifact of Doom is somewhat an unusual villain in that it is a (seemingly) inanimate object. Nevertheless, it's pure evil; and is a threat of corrupting all to [[The Dark Side]]. It may also cause [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|Great Insanity]], not to mention [[Artifact of Death|death,]] or [[A Fate Worse Than Death|worse]].
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* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has the [[Evil Hand|Hand]] and [[Evil Eye|Eye]] of Vecna. One can give one's own eye and hand to use these artifacts, but you have to cut off your hand or gouge out your eye to use it, and [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]].
** Oh yeah, and both of the above artifacts ''will'' eventually result in you being absorbed into [[Evil Sorcerer|their original owner]].
** And there's a story about the [[The Head of Vecna]], which is supposedly used in the same way, but doesn't actually do what the user expects. It does, however, do ''[[Too Dumb to Live|exactly]]'' what anyone with an ounce of sense expects.
*** Even if it ''did'' work as advertised, it would still be a tremendously stupid idea to use it. His ''hand'' turns you evil, imagine what his ''brain'' would do.
** Evil-aligned artifacts in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' generally act like this; the ''Book of Vile Darkness'' [[Sourcebook]] lists some, and is named after a particular example.