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* In ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', there is a rumor that the seven Dragon Balls used to be one big 28-star ball. [[Averted Trope|Turns out that Kami, the creator of the Dragon Balls, made them as seven separate MacGuffins in the first place.]]
* Same goes for the shards of the Shikon Jewel in ''[[Inuyasha]]''.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' the Silver Crystal split into the the seven Rainbow Crystals after Queen Serenity used it to send her daughter and the Sailor Senshi and Prince Endymion's souls to Earth for reincarnation. The Rainbow Crystals had to be found by those wishing to reassemble them into the Silver
* Done in the second season of ''[[Sonic X]]'' by Super Sonic to prevent the Chaos Emeralds from being used for evil.
* Inverted in ''[[Voltron|Voltron: Defender of the Universe]]'': it is the bad guys who originally dismantle Voltron because he/it is too powerful for them, and the pilot is spent trying to get the robot to reassemble.
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* In the ''[[Black Trillium]]'' novel and its sequels, the [[Neglectful Precursors]] left behind the disassembled Scepter of Power which the three heroines have to reassemble to beat the [[Big Bad]].
* CIRCE from Timothy Zahn's Conqueror trilogy. [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] {{spoiler|in that CIRCE never actually existed.}}
* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' novel ''[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Thornhold Thornhold]'' features
* The Krikkit Key in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Life, The Universe and Everything]]''
* In a sense, Orannis the Destroyer in Garth Nix's ''Old Kingdom'' trilogy. "Broken in two and buried under hill, forever to lie there, wishing us ill."
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Nox]]'' had the player reassemble the Staff of Oblivion, a [[Game Breaker]] weapon that was story-wise wielded by a single man to defeat an entire army of necromancers. The said man later disassembled the staff to prevent anyone from using it for evil deeds. It is a perfectly usable weapon (mostly for warrior, because two other classes are [[Squishy Wizard
* The original ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' game, ''Arena'', similarly had the Staff of Chaos, which was split and its parts spread across eight provinces of Tamriel.
* Inverted in ''[[Grandia II]]'': the [[Ultimate Evil|evil god Valmar]] was split into several parts and the heroes travel the world to ''destroy'' his parts. {{spoiler|However, it turns out that by "killing" the parts, they were actually manipulated to collect them within Millenia/Elena, whom the [[Big Bad]] than uses to fully resurrect Valmar.}}
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** ''Superstar Saga'' has the Beanstar Cackletta is looking for and ''Bowser's Inside Story'' has the Miracle Cure, which is the only thing that can cure the blorbs. They sure do love this trope.
* ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' has Star Chips (used to form Launch Stars) and Silver Stars (used to form Power Stars).
* Cap'n Hawk's treasure map in ''[[Ultima VI]]'' is split into nine parts. Somewhat subverted in that it's possible to [[Sequence Breaking|skip the entire quest]]
* The [[The Precursors|Xel'naga]] artifacts in Starcraft II count, since they form a {{spoiler|[[Lost Superweapon]]}} when combined.
* [[World of Warcraft]] loves this trope with regards to it's Legendary Weapons. You have to collect numerous pieces of the weapon from raid bosses, ''then'' complete additional quests (for example, doing something unusual during boss fights). Sometimes you would also need a big pile of cash for buyable materials. And in the end you get yourself a nice, flashy weapon that will last you for a couple of content patches at most and end as a [[Bragging Rights Reward]] later.
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