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* ''[[Banjo Kazooie]]'' has Jigsaw Pieces as Mac Guffins. They are required to complete magical pictures that open the levels they portray. Who tells the title characters about this? ''[[Live Item|The first Jigsaw Piece]]'', of course.

* Largely averted in ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' games, where Link has to traverse through a dungeon and other places before gaining the first of the [[Plot Coupon]] items. However, there are a few exceptions:

** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|Ocarina of Time]]'', after Ganondorf takes over Hyrule and Link wakes up from his seven-year slumber, the first Sage tells him that all others have to be awaken so they can together capture and seal Ganondorf. He also gives him the first Sage Medallion, Light.

** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|Ocarina of Time]]'', after Ganondorf takes over Hyrule and Link wakes up from his seven-year slumber, the first Sage tells him that all others have to be awaken so they can together capture and seal Ganondorf. He also gives him the first Sage Medallion, Light.

** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (Video Game)|Twilight Princess]]'', Link and Midna must reunite the four fragments of the Mirror of Twilight in order to enter Zant's whereabouts. The first fragment, luckily, is still in the Mirror when they find it broken, so they only have to look for three more.

** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|Twilight Princess]]'', Link and Midna must reunite the four fragments of the Mirror of Twilight in order to enter Zant's whereabouts. The first fragment, luckily, is still in the Mirror when they find it broken, so they only have to look for three more.

** Also in ''Twilight Princess'', Midna is already wearing the first piece of the four Fused Shadows when the player meets her.

** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|Skyward Sword]]'', the first Ancient Tablet is already given to him by Fi in Skyloft, allowing him to gain access to the first area of the Surface, Faron Woods. The trope is inverted in the Song of the Hero quest, as Levias is the character that tells Link about the song and the parts of it that were taught separately to him and the three Dragons guarding the areas of the Surface, but he won't teach him his part until all others are learned.

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* ''[[Mass Effect 1 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 1]]'', Shepard accidentally finds a Prothean beacon in the end of the tutorial level. It proves to be the first in line of [[MacGuffin|Mac Guffins]] you have to collect before you can beat the Big Bad, namely, {{spoiler|the Prothean Cipher that allows to decode the beacon's message, the [[MacGuffin Girl]] Liara who does the actual decoding, and the coordinates of the [[Point of No Return]] kept by the Rachni Queen}}.

* In ''[[King's Quest Mask of Eternity]]'' the entire reason why Connor is the hero is because he picked up a piece of the Mask (one of five plot-necessary Mac Guffins) before the spell that turned everyone else to stone could hit. Everyone acts as though he's the destined hero, but if that's true then Destiny must've aimed that mask piece directly at him.

* In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Mario gets the first Pure Heart handed to him before the player even officially has control of him. Hilariously, you can avert [[But Thou Must]] by refusing multiple times to accept the first [[Plot Coupon]], eventually leading to the giver just giving up and a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] before the game even begins.

* In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Mario gets the first Pure Heart handed to him before the player even officially has control of him. Hilariously, you can avert [[But Thou Must!]] by refusing multiple times to accept the first [[Plot Coupon]], eventually leading to the giver just giving up and a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] before the game even begins.

* Mario's goal in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]'' is to retrieve the Grand Stars that fuel the Comet Observatory built by Rosalina. Luckily for him, the first of these Stars is the only one that isn't guarded by any of the bosses, in fact its power hasn't been fully used yet. Also a case of [[Back From the Brink]].

* ''[[Okami (Video Game)|Okami]]'' has a sidequest-based example: In Shinshu field, a priest asks Amaterasu to hunt down five criminal demons, each marked with a sacred arrow. As soon as the titular wolf exits the priest's house to start the search, night falls and the first criminal demon challenges her to a fight.

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