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* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1/E05 The Keys of Marinus|The Keys of Marinus]]'', the Doctor and companions are sent to collect the Keys (scattered throughout the planet Marinus) that control the Conscience Machine, which made everyone peaceful on the planet till it malfunctioned.
** "Last of the Time Lords" parodies the trope by revealing Martha's search for the four pieces of an anti-regeneration gun to be just a smokescreen for her real mission. She laughs at the Master for actually buying it. Apparently, the Doctor had never brought up...
** ...the [[Doctor Who/Recap/S16|Key to Time arc]], in which the titular device could stop time throughout the universe once its six parts were transmuted back into their original forms and reassembled.
** Inverted in "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End." The twenty-seven planets the Daleks needed weren't pieces in and of themselves; they ''stole'' those planets and formed an intricate superweapon with them.
* In the third season of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', they broke the [[Mineral MacGuffin|Zeo Crystal]] into five pieces, and ''threw them into unstable time portals'', so the five pieces were literally scattered throughout space and time, their locations unknown even to the Rangers. Not such a good idea, as they ended up needing it again [[Power Rangers Zeo|less than a year later]].
* The Cup Of Ankh in ''[[House of Anubis]]''. According to Fabian's book on Egyptian mythology, Amneris took the Cup and hid it inside the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen. Anubis was angered by this and split the Cup into seven pieces, preventing it's use. Rufus later explains that Anubis and Amneris reached an agreement whereby the Cup could be put together once every twenty five years at a certain hour, but only by a member of Amneris's bloodline.
* A number of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episodes revolved around re-assembling some piece of phlebotinum scattered throughout the galaxy. The most notable are ''Gambit'', which involves finding the components for an ancient Vulcan weapon, and ''The Chase'', revolving around a search for a secret message hidden within the genomes of life forms from dozens of different planets.
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