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[[File:Eye-of-Sauron-port cropped 7055.jpg|link=The Lord of the Rings|frame|Oooh, shiny! <ref>[[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope|WARNING: Tampering with the One Ring]] [[Side Effects Include|may result in]] [[Invisibility]], [[Evil Feels Good|rushes of euphoria]], [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|seeing the ghostly images of the]] [[Black Cloak|Nazgûl]], [[Hearing Voices|voices in your head that]] [[Sentient Phlebotinum|may or may not belong to the Ring]], [[Clingy MacGuffin|complete and utter]] [[Amulet of Dependency|dependence on the Ring]], [[This Is Your Brain on Evil|loss of clear thought]] [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|and sanity]], [[Artifact of Death|and eventual death]]. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Do not swallow.]]</ref> <small>Illustration: [http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/details.php?image_id=1885 John Howe]</small> ]]

 

{{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]]''}}

 

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== Anime & Manga ==

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': The Jewel of Four Souls, which was formed when a powerful miko locked her own soul into an endless battle with a multitude of demons in order to contain them after her death. Initially regarded as a [[Dismantled MacGuffin]], a single shard of the Jewel gives demons [[Amplifier Artifact|enormous power]]. Even those with good intentions are [[This Is Your Brain on Evil|inevitably corrupted]] by shard use. {{spoiler|Then it's revealed to have a [[Sentient Phlebotinum|malevolent will]] of its own, making it not only the [[Man Behind the Man|Man Behind The]] [[Big Bad]] but, in fact, the [[Ultimate Evil]].}}