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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
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.
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== Web Comics ==
* Red Mage of ''[[8-Bit Theater
* 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").
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