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== Live Action TV ==
* The 1978-1979 series of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' revolved around the Doctor's needing to gather and assemble the pieces of "The Key to Time", [[San Dimas Time|scattered across space and time, before]] an evil power could get its hands on it. The villain had a particularly clever plot, too; {{spoiler|his agent located the final piece of the Key and settled down nearby to wait for the Doctor to bring all the other pieces there along with him when he came for it.}}
** Altogether an inversion, The Key To Time is used to restore the universe's balance, which apparently gets upset ''all the time''.
** 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.]]
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** It's very much like that as well in ''[[Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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 (Franchise)|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 (Video Game)|Zelda II the Adventure of Link]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]''), and during the timeskip of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|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 -- exactly what Ganondorf wants.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|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 -- small suns that return Dark creatures to their original, more peaceful forms.
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|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 Sa Ga]]'' 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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