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* Mostly subverted in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. {{spoiler|The whole series is essentially the protagonists trying to keep the Angels from reuniting with Lilith. Partial in that a few of the "protagonists" secretly actually WANT an Angel to reunite with Lilith, only on their timetable.}}
* Inverted and then played straight on all sides in ''[[Ronin Warriors]]''. Originally, the Ancient [[Fling a Light Into The Future|defeated Talpa, and divided his armor into 9 parts, which were then separated]]. However, Talpa managed to survive and recover 4 of them. The Ronin Warriors were given the other 5, which they had to recover. Eventually, the Ronin Warriors gain all 5 armors and combine them into the Inferno armor, however this is where the trope gets averted (or played straight on the other side) as this merely puts all 5 armors in one place for Talpa to get ahold of. Finally played straight when the Ronin Warriors AND Talpa's evil henchmen give him exactly what he wants, and overpowers him with the rejuvenated force of all 9 armors, thus defeating him permanently.
* Subverted / [[Played for Laughs]] in the book/manga version of ''[[Van Von Hunter]]'', when Van Von Hunter accidentally tricks The Flaming Prince into crushing the Ebon Eye ("Or as I like to call it, 'The Blarble'!"). Van then wonders aloud if they're going to have 'to spend the next half of a century searching for the dark shards of that thing' (which could be a possible [[Shout
* in [[D Gray Man]], all the innocence were {{spoiler|originally one giant powerul innocence that was split after the earl was defeated for the first time.}}
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', we eventually find out {{spoiler|the tailed beast}} were split apart from {{spoiler|The Ten-Tailed Jubi, one giant [[Eldritch Abomination]].}}
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== Live Action TV ==
* Inversion seen on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episodes "Surprise" and "Innocence", where the split MacGuffin ''is'' the ultimate evil and the bad guys have to assemble it. The good guys take it out with a single shot.
* In the ''[[
** "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 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.
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* ''[[Devil May Cry (Video Game)|Devil May Cry]]'': after having sealed off the underworld from the mortal realm, Sparda split the key (an amulet) in half and handed both down to his sons (along with [[Ancestral Weapon|two swords he owned]]) and made sure only his own blood and the maiden whose blood he sacrificed could re-open it. Down in the deepest pits of hell was the sword he sealed all his power away in (he was frightened of the terrible degree and scale of his own strength). The sword could only be grasped and fully wielded by (yes, you guessed it) either of the two sons he left behind (the ones who owned the two sides of the amulet). Naturally, Dante gained the blade in the end, and when the ultimate evil rose again (''[[Satan|Demon Emperor Mundus]] himself''), Dante defeated and re-sealed him, warning, "Give my regards to my son."
* ''The Pandora Directive,'' the most ambitious entry in the [[Tex Murphy]] series, featured one of these. The titular directive had to track down the pieces.
* ''Zelda'' employs this trope in practically every game. ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' does this twice by itself!
** Three times, actually. The boss key of the second dungeon is split up as well, and when assembled, it gives you access to another piece of a bigger and even more dismantled [[MacGuffin]]. Not to mention the ludicrous number of pieces of heart in the game.
** There's even one with ''a song'' where one character only remembers the first few notes, and the rest must be learned from someone else.
** The second half of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' and the entirety of ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' revolve around Ganondorf's attempts to reassemble the Triforce after he unintentionally split it (leaving him with the Triforce of Power) when he first tried to claim it.
* Knuckles' storyline in ''[[Sonic Adventure (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure]]'', as well as the main reason for the plot's existance, is because the Master Emerald shattered due to heavily implied interference by Robotnik. He proceeds to collect the shards to restore it, which somehow scattered from the island into a casino, an underground temple, and one of Robotnik's bases.
** This plot point returns with less influence in ''Sonic Adventure 2''. But now there's ''two'' characters collecting the pieces.
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