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[[File:TriforceALttP.jpg|link=The Legend of Zelda|frame|[-In a realm beyond sight<br />The sky shines gold, not blue<br />There, the Triforce's might<br />Makes mortal dreams come true.-] ]]
{{quote|"Who designed this campaign setting? Why would you include four points of such catastrophic weakness that tampering with any of them results in the destruction of the global ecosystem? It makes no sense! A kind and loving creator would never have done this, and a cruel one would simply have made the air out of acid. And it wouldn't have evolved on its own, as there's no advantage to living in a world poised on the brink of annihilation!"|'''Red Mage''', ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'', "[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/02/28/episode-390-a-deal-with-the-devil/ A Deal with the Devil]"}}
 
Oh no! The world is in danger! Happiness, sunshine, puppies and ice cream will cease to exist! Why, you ask? Well, it seems that the villains have stolen, corrupted, or destroyed the [[Mineral MacGuffin|Four Orbs of Fate]], the [[Plot Coupon|Pillars of Reality]], the [[Tomes of Prophecy and Fate]] or [[The Lifestream]]. The loss of even ''one'' of these is enough to [[World-Wrecking Wave|make the world spiral]] into a [[Mordor|hellscape of torment]] that would make [[Satan]] weep molten tears of envy and pride. It seems that for some unfathomable reason the [[Powers That Be]] or [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]] who created the universe saw fit to make its continued healthy existence contingent on these [[MacGuffin|poorly guarded, easily found, delicate, carry-on-luggage sized objects.]] Obviously they never heard of redundant systems and [[Failsafe Failure|failsafes]]. These are also poorly designed, allowing less than scrupulous individuals to abuse them for personal gain.
 
Sometimes justified if the world/universe was once healthy and self sustaining but due to some catastrophe was broken requiring the hasty creation of a [['''Cosmic Keystone]]''' by a [[Benevolent Precursors|benevolent precursor]] as a ''patch'' of sorts to hold the world together.
 
If the villain ever gets the cosmic keystone, expect him to try and use it to destroy and/or remake the world in [[Utopia Justifies the Means|his own twisted image to rule over.]] If he even realizes the reality-central nature of the item. Sometimes the villain has a smaller goal in mind for its power; he just doesn't believe it'll destroy everything if something goes wrong, or else has an overinflated opinion on his ability to prevent that from happening. If he doesn't have it he'll [[MacGuffin Delivery Service|tail the hero, let him do the hard work of finding it, and snatch it from the heroes' grasp]] at ''just'' the last second, only to fly away cackling. One would think they'd know better than to tamper with the underpinnings of reality, but [[Sanity Has Advantages|villains aren't the sanest lot]]. When the changes [[World-Healing Wave|can be easily reversed]], there is obviously [[No Ontological Inertia]] in that cosmos.
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* In the ''[[Pokémon: The Movie 2000|Pokémon 2000]]'' movie, three of the Legendary Birds maintained the balance of the world's climates. Capturing just one quickly threw the whole thing out of whack, turning a tropical area downright arctic. This is a massive change of theme from the [[Gotta Catch Them All]] mindset of the games; More like "Catch 'em all... except these three!" It's unknown whether this applies ''just'' to those specific three, or whether the capture of ANY Legendary Bird would have the same effect (or whether it would make a difference if the Bird went willingly).
** When Ash meets one of the Frontier Brains, him and the others tell the Brain how impressive it is that he caught Articuno (although he didn't), showing that, at the very least, one CAN catch the birds as long as they aren't from the three islands. Either that, or Ash suffered from amnesia after that movie.
*** Considering the fact that later tournaments have competors packing ''Full Legendaries'' {{spoiler|i.e. Heatran, Latios, and Darkrai, and this isn't the first appearance of the last}},<ref>{{spoiler|nor of the others if you count the Movies (''and'' time travel for the first)}}</ref>, it seems that the former is the case. Granted, however, the events in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'' mentioned in the Video Game section below also occurred in the Anime;<ref>as did the [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire|Ruby-Sapphire]] one, [[Off-Model|to an]] [[They Just Didn't Care|extent]]</ref>; making this a case of "[[Depending on the Writer|depending on the Legendary]]."
** One could make a very valid argument that except for the first, none of the movies obey the continuity of the show. The first movie had a lot of setup in the show, and is partially based on a plotline from the game, so it has to be canon. Plus it would get around the "how can Ash keep saving the world and yet nobody knows who he is" question.
*** One could make an argument, if it hadn't been Jossed by [[Word of God]] many, many times.
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** Most of the gods (and I mean Cosmic gods, not the local ones like Thor) are this as well, which is why they can't just kill Galactus or a Celestial. It's eventually shown exactly ''why'' killing Galactus would be a very bad thing, when somebody manages to actually do it: the [[Nigh Omnipotent]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]] Abraxas is unleashed. Galactus gets restored to life afterward.
* In ''[[Bone]]'', the Crown of Horns is the balancing point of both the physical world and the dreaming-world.
* In the ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'' comics God himself is the [[Cosmic Keystone]], and his abdication leads to reality beginning to unravel ([[Omniscient Morality License|Though he had a plan to address this).]]
* Nowadays in the [[DC Universe]], the whole of the multiverse (fifty one universes to be exact) rest on top of the main Universe-0 (the fifty-second), more specifically on Earth due to all of the massive [[Crisis Crossover|Crisis Crossovers]]s. Should Earth-0 ever be destroyed, all of the multiverse would be destroyed (this was the goal of the Anti-Monitor in the Sinestro Corps War arc).
** In the limited series "Trinity", the Big Three (Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman) are cosmic keystones ''of'' the cosmic keystone earth.
** As of ''[[Blackest Night]]'' the [[DC Universe]] got a new one: the Life Entity. As its name suggests, it is the source of all life in existence. In ''[[Brightest Day]]'' the Entity reveals to [[Deadman (Comic Book)|Boston Brand]] {{spoiler|that it's dying and needs to be replaced before it takes all life in the universe with it.}}
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== Literature ==
* White gold in the ''[[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'' is a cosmic keystone that is conveniently located outside of the cosmos it affects... until the start of the story anyway. The One Tree is another cosmic keystone, but with protections far surpassing the typical keystone. (Subverts the usual pattern further in that the [[Dark Lord]] never got his hands on them -- theythem—they were used by the good guys instead.)
** Well, not really {{spoiler|The Big Bad DOES get his hands on the white gold at the end of the Second trilogy. At that point, however, the hero has realized the true nature of the power of the white gold, and is able to trick the Big Bad into wasting his one shot at its use.}}
** The white gold itself isn't precisely a [[Cosmic Keystone]]; it's just a way to draw power from the real [[Cosmic Keystone]], the Arch of Time. If the white gold is destroyed, nothing happens. If the Arch of Time is destroyed, reality (if you can call it that) will crumble.
* ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' in the series of the same name. It manifests in all worlds, but only in one does it appear as an actual tower -- whichtower—which is held up by six radiating Beams that span the sky in twelve directions from it. In most worlds, it takes the form of a rose, though it has also been known to appear as a tiger, a dog, or a talisman. One might question how a structure that is supposed to be the sustainer, or container, of all space-time can be threatened from ''inside'' the passage of time, but, you know, [[MST3K Mantra|whatever]].
** Think endoskeleton.
*** According to Roland's palaver with the man in black at the end of the first book, there are infinite universes, and each one is a mere fundamental particle inside another, which is a mere fundamental particle inside another, ad infinitum. Each fundamental particle in each universe also contains another universe, and so on, forever and ever. Since each universe contains a physical manifestation of the Tower, that means that, as you expand beyond the billions of universes that your own is stacked inside (like Russian dolls), you're eventually going to discover that your own universe is a fundamental particle ''inside'' another universe's version of the Tower. Meaning that if the Tower gets destroyed, all of the infinite universes get destroyed too... because they're all, ultimately, within an infinite number of different versions of it. For example, Mid-World is inside a fundamental particle in the rose in Keystone Earth. The Tower is inside an infinite number of itself, it contains an infinite number of itself, each universe contains an infinite number of universes and is contained within an infinite number of other universes... everything is connected, and the destruction of one [[Cosmic Keystone]] is all it takes to bring everything down.
** In an interesting twist, two ''entire universes'' function as Cosmic Keystones for [[The Multiverse]]. One the world in which the Tower exists as a real tower, and most of the characters' adventures take place. The other is (''almost'') our world, in which their adventures are described in a series of books by Stephen King -- actuallyKing—actually referred to as the "Keystone World", and the only one for which time travel is impossible. Destroying the Tower in either of these universes would lead to all of God's (er, "Gan's") creation being unraveled.
** One fascinating aspect of the ''[[Dark Tower]]'' series is its metafictional nature. The many fictional universes that were created by [[Stephen King]] are explicitly stated to revolve around the Tower, and it's directly implied that other fictional universes, including the [[Marvel Universe]], the ''[[Star Wars]]'' universe, and the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' universe, are also connected to the Tower. The broader implication is that EVERY fictional universe is connected to King's creation, that the creator gods referred to in fictional works are ALL different aspects of Gan, the god of ''[[The Dark Tower]]'', and that the Tower itself has a manifestation in EVERY fictional Verse. For example, by King's logic, the One-Above-All who appears in the Marvel comics would be an aspect of Gan, and the Triforce would be ''Zelda'' universe's manifestation of the Tower.
* Susan Cooper's ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' series revolves around this.
* The Boxes of Orden in the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series fit the trope, as using them incorrectly can let the Keeper, the local equivalent of Satan, into the world of the living. The Pillars of Creation are living versions.
* The <s>Holy Grail</s> Lightstone is the [[Cosmic Keystone]] of the ''[[Ea Cycle]]''. One would think something with that level of potential for abuse would have been guarded better.
* The ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series has ''The Book of Night with Moon'', a book which describes the entirety of existence and which must be read from periodically by wizards in order to remind Reality what it's supposed to be like. It's indestructible and can't be used by the [[Big Bad]], but simply keeping it out of the hands of the good guys for long enough will result in reality slowly unraveling.
* Played sort of straight in Robert Jordan's ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' series with the 'invincible' ''cuendillar'' seals containing The Dark One being the key to his release and the apocalypse that would ensue as he rewrote the Pattern in his image.
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== Religion and Mythology ==
* One interpretation of the [[The Bible|biblical]] story of Adam and Eve holds that the [[Forbidden Fruit]] of the tree of knowledge essentially acted as a [[Cosmic Keystone]]. The [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|serpent]], who is [[Retcon|supposed to represent]] [[Satan]], tricks them into partaking of the forbidden fruit. The result, of course, is the fall of man and the ruin of God's perfect creation. Some believe that this is the reason why we have natural disasters, diseases, wars, famine, and death in the world today.
** Interestingly, Revelation 5-6 and 8:1 speak of a scroll that is believed by scholars to be the title deed to the Earth. Now to whom could it belong? {{spoiler|[[Captain Obvious|It's Jesus.]]}}
* In [[Greek Mythology]], anyone who burns the entrails of the Ophiotaurus would gain the power to defeat the gods.
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** The new series also features an equation that can "solve" the universe, and somehow rewrite it to suit the solver's needs. The Doctor has to decide whether or not to use it to bring back the Time Lords and stop the Time War from happening. [[Status Quo Is God|He]] [[The Woobie|didn't.]]
** 'Logopolis', the final Tom Baker episode, features the titular planet which was itself a universal keystone. The people were bringing energy into the universe as a way to fight off entropy. When the Master decides to stop activity there for a little while (admittedly, not really understanding what they were doing) large chunks of reality were destroyed before the problem could be fixed. Even then, there was no reset button.
* ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'' has the five jewels of the Crown of the Gods, each of which has a complicated series of [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]]s as clues to its whereabouts.
* In Season 5 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'', we get "The Key" (note the capital K), a device which can destroy the barrier between realities and turn southern California into Hell on Earth.
** ...How would anyone know the difference?
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In many fantasy RPGs is a common plot device used by [[Game Master|Game Masters]]s. Have the heroes find the [[Cosmic Keystone]] before the [[Big Bad]] can get to it and destroy it. Very much a form of stock plot.
* Used very literally in the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' adventure module ''The Apocalypse Stone''. The ''Stone of Corbinet'' (which must always be italicised) is the Cosmic Keystone used by the gods to create whichever world you choose to set the campaign in, and which connects it to the other planes. As long as it stays in Castle Pescheour, the Axis Mundi, everything's fine. The castle is watched over and kept secret by the Pescheour family and their servants. The [[Big Bad]] is an exiled prince of the family whose brother was chosen to rule the castle in his stead, and who doesn't even know what the ''Stone'' really does, but wants to steal it so he can play king himself. He sets the player characters up in an elaborate [[Batman Gambit|Batman]]/XanatosGambit to have them steal it in his stead with no idea what they're actually doing. As the world starts to [[Endofthe World As We Know It|fall apart]] gradually as a result and the heroes eventually find out what they've done, they must hurry to undo their mistake -- themistake—the [[Big Bad]] certainly isn't going to that, being evil enough to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|let the world be reduced to nothing]] if he can't have his way with things.
* ''[[Exalted]]'' has a few examples, most notably the Elemental Poles and the Loom of Fate. Differ from most in that the Poles are incredibly durable and malleable (the four that exist at the edge of the world can adjust themselves to how far the edge happens to be), and the Loom is probably the best defended thing in the world.
 
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* The Pillars of Nosgoth in ''Blood Omen: [[Legacy of Kain]]'', though there it's subverted because the [[Anti-Hero]] protagonist decides to destroy the pillars completely and rule as an evil vampire king.
** The Pillars are technically more of a representation of the state of Nosgoth as a whole, and they are maintained by their nine guardians, whose states of mind the pillars reflect. Alternatively, the player can choose to save the pillars by killing himself (him being, unknowlingly, the last pillar guardian), but canon says that he chose not to, condemning the pillars to eternal ruination.
*** Later games reveal that {{spoiler|Kain killing himself would have doomed Nosgoth anyway. As the last true vampire, Kain's existence is connected to the Pillars since they were originally created by the vampires prior to their corruption. This makes ''Kain himself'' a [[Cosmic Keystone]].}}
* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series has many of these.
** ''[[Final Fantasy I|The original]]'' has the Four Orbs, one for each [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors|classical element]]. Their loss is what's slowly destroying the world. They were only called "Orbs" because "Crystals" wouldn't fit in the space allotted.
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*** According to the Esper legend, the Warring Triad came to realize the horror they had brought upon the world, and voluntarily sealed themselves away. However, the raw magic that emanates from them is so powerful, they ''need'' to be sealed in a precise alignment to nullify each other, and prevent their mere existence from causing further damage.
** ''[[Final Fantasy Mystic Quest]]'' had four Crystals very similar to the Orbs in the first Final Fantasy. Additionally, there was a Crystal of Light, but its significance to the world was never well-established.
** In something of a reversal, ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' had the protagonist going around ''destroying'' Ivalice's [[Cosmic Keystone]] set to turn the world back to normal. {{spoiler|This is subverted when, after all of the keystones are destroyed, ''nothing'' changes - the world is still held together by [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|Mewt's desire to live there]], and the only way to unravel it is to convince him to give it up}}.
** In ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', the Crystal is indeed a very ''[[Cosmic Keystone|Cosmic]]'' [[Cosmic Keystone|Keystone]], as all life, everywhere, comes from and is sustained by it.
** It's very much like that as well in ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'', as the Mothercrystal is the basis for all of Vana'diel. It was also absurdly hard to get to, originally, but when the thing trying to destroy it is a [[Cosmic Horror]], that kinda doesn't matter.
** In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', {{spoiler|the Cocoon Fal'Cie Orphan}} is the keystone that holds Cocoon together. Without it, all of Cocoon's Fal'Cie would die and Cocoon along with them. {{spoiler|The Fal'Cie ''want'' this to happen. They miss their creator and hate working for humans that much.}}
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series features the Triforce which, while it cannot have such a powerful effect upon the normal world, will turn The Golden Land in which it usually resides into a [[Fisher King|reflection of the bearer's whim.]] The Triforce has canonically only been used directly a handful of times to grant wishes (''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|Zelda II the Adventure of Link]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]''), and during the timeskip of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', [[Big Bad]] Ganondorf uses it to warp the Golden Land into [[Mordor]].
** In ''Ocarina of Time'', Ganondorf makes a grab for the Triforce (whole) and it shatters: Power is given to Ganondorf, Wisdom goes to Zelda, and Courage goes to Link. The ''real'' Ganondorf has been with Power in almost every other game (''A Link to the Past'' is a notable exception since the Triforce is actually all in one place for once), while Link is often on quests to retrieve Courage and Zelda almost always has Wisdom innately (with the original game being exception for both).
*** Which in turn explains his incessant desire to kill or otherwise "deal with" Link and Zelda, since the death of either will release their part of the Triforce, making it up for grabs -- exactlygrabs—exactly what Ganondorf wants.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' changes up the mythos a bit: the Triforce is notably backgrounded, and new Light Spirits are added; without the Light Spirits, the Twilight Realm takes over the world. And the Twilight Realm has its own -- smallown—small suns that return Dark creatures to their original, more peaceful forms.
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' has [[The World Tree|the Mana Tree]], which in a subversion, has already been destroyed for the past thousand years or so. The entire point of the game is to create a new one.
* ''[[Romancing SaGa]]'' pulls something more out of this, The legendary Artifacts; Fatestones, if not collected will be used to power up the Final Boss, you can even power him up intentionally for a greater challenge if you wish after clearing the game one time.
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** And this makes more sense if you take into consideration [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: Ray Line = ''[[Ley Line]]''. Indeed, it was translated as Leyline in the [[Video Game Remake|remake]].
* In ''[[Mother 3]]'', the {{spoiler|Seven Needles sealing away the [[Sealed Evil in a Can|Dark Dragon]], although subverted somewhat by the fact that not just anyone can pull it - you have to have a certain special PSI power. It also helps that if a good-hearted person pulls the Needles, the Dragon wouldn't so much ''destroy'' the world as ''upgrade'' it.}}
* In ''[[Vagrant Story]]'', the city you fight in is the [[Cosmic Keystone]]. Yes, drawing on its power irrevocably damns your soul, and sometimes you can't even stop yourself from using it. Yes, it also unravels that pesky [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] (''OR DOES IT?''). And yes, everyone and their grandmother has designs on the bloody place, including that [[Corrupt Church]]. All to the point where you don't know who might have the right idea up. Until the end, where it becomes a case of who's the last man standing.
** Said [[Cosmic Keystone]], named 'The Gran Grimoire', is the source of all magical energy in the world. And, in the Final Fantasy games that tie in with Vagrant Story, normally manifests as a book that created, and is holding together, the entire world.
* The [[Infocom]] [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''Spellbreaker'' has its protagonist traveling the world in search of its Cosmic Keystones, which in a borderline subversion manifest as featureless white cubes that are utterly indistinguishable from one another (but can be written on to differentiate them; this was considered a neat feature when the game first came out). {{spoiler|It turns out that this is all part of a [[Xanatos Gambit]] executed by the protagonist's evil magical doppelganger: you've been playing [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]] for him all along, and once you unwittingly bring all the cubes to him, he magically paralyzes you and uses the cubes to build a tesseract - a ''hyper''cube - at the center of which is the Cube of Magic. Once he enters the hypercube, reality will reconfigure itself around him - essentially [[A God Am I|turning him into a god]] - but the protagonist can use his [[Heroic Resolve]] to shake off the doppelganger's spell just in time to replace the Cube of Magic with something nonmagical, erasing your evil twin from existence... [[The Magic Goes Away|as well as magic,]] unfortunately.}}
* ''[[Xenogears]]'' and ''[[Xenosaga]]'' both have the Zohar Modifier, an object that has existed since the beginning of the universe.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' and ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' have a few of these -- thethese—the Time Egg (the "Chrono Trigger"), the Frozen Flame and the Chrono Cross. In the [[Fan Game]] ''[[Crimson Echoes]]'', the Frozen Flame is the prominent [[Cosmic Keystone]], while the Time Eggs have become more easily manufactured and used (with both Balthasar ''and'' Lucca constructing them), suffering [[Badass Decay|Keystone Decay]] by virtue of this.
* The Seven Seals in ''[[Darksiders]]'' are essentially a countdown to Armageddon. Breaking the Seventh is the signal for everybody to engage in the massive cosmic winner-take-all power struggle that is the Endwar, with the Horsemen ready to clean up the mess when everything is resolved.
* Valerian Scarlet's Arc in ''[[Champions Online]]'' has you collect a collection of artifacts that have the potential to jump start the apocalypse. You know, so she can seal them? {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|You poor gullible fool...]]}}
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* The five Gates in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' are somewhat more reasonably founded than most examples: they were placed over flaws in space-time in order to keep the Snarl, the local [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] [[Containment Field|canned]]. And the gods could indeed fix it, in the same way you can fix a horribly screwed-up computer by formatting and reinstalling... (which is to say, by [[The End of the World as We Know It|starting over with a fresh world]]). The gods would do that if the Snarl is ever freed, so the protagonists are working to prevent it from being freed in the first place, for obvious reasons.
* In ''[[Emergency Exit]]'' the main cast was assigned to collect "artifacts" in order to save someone's world from destruction, but it turns out to be a flat out lie and now nobody seems to know what they are for. It is shown that each artifact has a minor power, but implied that they do something far more spectacular when put together (hence an alternative collective name for them, "The Puzzle").
* In ''[[City of Reality]]'', the Aura Stones appear to be this for the various [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]]s. Each world has a master stone which allows its particular "reality" to exist, and removing or destroying this stone may have catastrophic consequences.
* ''[[Cucumber Quest]]'' has the Disaster Stones, which, if all gathered, can be used to resurrect the Nightmare Knight.
 
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* One episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' featured a box containing the universe. Played for laughs, as even with warnings that it had to be treated as dearly as life itself, the box is shaken to listen for anything rattling inside (causing a small earthquake) and sat on (stretching out the picture horizontally).
* The plot of ''[[Barbie and the Diamond Castle]]'' involves the [[The Hero|heroines]] trying to keep the [[Location Mac Guffin|titular castle]] and the instruments in it out of the [[Vain Sorceress|villain]]'s hands, lest the world turn to "shadows and sorrow." The villain's actual goal in gaining the castle is to solidify her position as the only muse and rule all music, but those side effects will occur, apparently.
* The ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' Special ''[[Turtles Forever]]'' has {{spoiler|an entire dimension and group of the eponymous Turtles}} as a [[Cosmic Keystone]] for the entire Multiverse. Called "Turtles Prime", it is, basically, {{spoiler|issue #1 of the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|original Mirage comic book series]] and its native TMNT}}. Destroy it, and the [[The Multiverse|Turtles Multiverse]] will ''literally'' be ''erased'' from reality.
 
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