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If the artifact is a wearable item that refuses to come off (or you will [[Mind Control|never want or think about]] taking it off), then it's also a [[Clingy MacGuffin]]. If it's a [[Dismantled MacGuffin]], then reassembling it is required to get the [[Full Set Bonus]].
[[Tome of Eldritch Lore]] and [[Evil Weapon]] are [[Sub
Not to be confused with the Artifact of ''[[Doom]] 3''. Completely unrelated to [[The Artifact]].
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Friday the
* They have a strange habit of being in Sunnydale in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Tthe best one is the Hellmouth, but there's others as well.
* In ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', the {{spoiler|evil law firm}} that Angel is given at the end of season four (not technically an inanimate artifact, but hey). It's a powerful weapon that will do whatever he commands, but it's always working to corrupt his thinking so that he will give it the commands it wants. The dare-to-use-it/get-rid-of-it argument keeps cropping up, too.
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== Video Games ==
* {{spoiler|The Apple, aka one of the [[Lost Technology|Pieces of Eden]]}} from the ''[[Assassin's Creed (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed]]'' series. As observed by {{spoiler|Altaïr}} in the {{spoiler|Codex}}, where he states {{spoiler|"I freed myself. But now I wonder... Did I really? For here I sit – desperate to understand that which I swore to destroy."}}.
** Also reportedly observed by Ezio at the beginning of ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'', who ends up in a similar situation.
** Other Pieces are even worse. The Shroud tries to get people to use it to heal themselves or others with a [[Compelling Voice]], but it is either actively malevolent or just very, very broken. The results range from [[Body Horror]] to [[Came Back Wrong]]. Occasionally, it will actually heal someone.
** Subverted since the true purpose of the Pieces of Eden (at least seen in the games) {{spoiler|is to avert global destruction in the near future.}}
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** Also to some degree the Eluvian, though it was originally a perfectly normal artifact before the Darkspawn got to it.
* The ''[[The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]''. To put it in perspective; everything wrong in Termina when you get there? All of it was done either directly or indirectly by the Skull Kid wearing the Mask. And on top of ruing everyone's lives, he's planning to drop the [[Colony Drop|frickin']] ''moon'', destroying the entire land of Termina. And he ''can do it''. Oh, and it's not just a power-up artifact of doom: {{spoiler|the mask is intelligent, and is possessing the Skull Kid. And when Majora decides he's outlived his usefulness, the mask discards the kid like an old pair of socks.}}
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' has the Fused Shadows, which are hyped up to be an [[Artifact of Doom]] by the Light Spirits that Link rescues throughout the game. However, they all agree that, despite the potential for evil the Shadows hold, Link needs to collect them in order to have a chance of challenging [[Big Bad|Zant's]] power. Their power is proven when Link fights the creatures that possess them, which have grown into horrific beasts of great power: a Deku Baba, one of the least dangerous monsters in the game, became an enormous two-headed creature that could swallow a man whole when it grabbed a Shadow. We never do see them exert a corrupting power over Link or Midna, though... presumably they were too pure-hearted to be affected ({{spoiler|and Midna is eventually revealed to be the rightful possessor of their power anyway, so it makes sense it wouldn't affect her}}).
*** The Mirror of Twilight from the same game turns demure, unassuming Yeta into the crazy ice-monster Blizzeta.
{{quote| '''''"NOT TAKE MIRROR!"'''''}}
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== Real Life ==
* 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, [
* 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 and Dragons]] are particularly popular targets). [[The Moral Substitute]] may or may not be allowed.
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