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* The gauntlet in Karen Miller's ''[[Godspeaker Trilogy]]'' which is made from a [[Power Crystal]] and fashioned by Hekat for her son Zandakar. It [[Stuff Blowing Up|destroys buildings]] and [[Kill It with Fire|fries people where they stand]]. It also makes his hair turn blue. Zandakar later abandons it as he find it too destructive, his brother Dmmitak uses the gauntlet and never takes it off, even when he has sex. The knife which {{spoiler|Vortka gives Zandakar}} is also an example of this.
* Stormbringer, the black blade, in ''[[The Elric Saga]]'' novels, {{spoiler|forces Elric to kill everyone he loves}}, brings about [[The End of the World as We Know It]], and ultimately survives the destruction and re-creation of the universe to spread its evil anew.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** [[Terry Pratchett]] created a device called the Gonne in
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* Crenshinibon, the Crystal Shard, in R.A. Salvatore's ''[[The Icewind Dale Trilogy|Icewind Dale Trilogy]]'', is considered by many readers to be an homage to One Ring (if not an outright ripoff).
* The Horcruxes in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. Like the One Ring they primarily function as [[Soul Jar]]s for Voldemort, but can exert a corrupting influence to defend themselves, never mind that the creation of them is an act of evil (and requires the wizard to commit murder as part of the ritual).
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* Many people believe that nuclear weapons are the real life version of this trope, since knowledge of nuclear weapons and the logic of [[Cold War|Mutually Assured Destruction]] is self-perpetuating. In a classic [[Catch-22]], it would take a [[Apocalypse How|civilization-ending]] event to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle (or in the best case, terminal global economic decline) and then it would become [[Sealed Evil in a Can]].
* Two Manhattan Project physicists, [[wikipedia:Demon core|Henry K. Daghlian Jr. and Louis Slotin]], died from radiation poisoning in two separate criticality accidents in 1945 and 1946 involving the same plutonium bomb core assembly. Said device became known as the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|"Demon Core"]].
* Some fundamentalist Christians seem to feel this way about practically any form of entertainment that is not perceived to be biblical ([[The New Rock and Roll|rock music]] and ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' are particularly popular targets). [[The Moral Substitute]] may or may not be allowed.
* A common joke in Hollywood is that [[Academy Award| the Oscar statuette is cursed]], and that winning it means the recipient's career is likely to go downhill. This would be funny if not for the fact that this happens to a ''lot'' of Oscar winners. To give two examples in recent history, [[Nicholas Cage]] has starred in a lot of garbage since winning Best Actor for ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]''; [[Geena Davis]] won Best Supporting Actress for ''[[The Accidental Tourist]]'', but would later be known for ''[[Cutthroat Island]]'', one of the biggest [[Box Office Bomb]]s of all time.
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