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For those who live in some universes, however, there's another reason: If you cut open its body, you can find a ruby as big as your fist (or even bigger) nestled in among its squishy bits. This is a [[Gem Heart]].
The creature the [[Gem Heart]] is in needn't be a dragon, so long as it's large and dangerous and has a massive precious stone in its body. Sometimes, the stone comes [[All
In more fantastical universes, this gem actually takes the place (and function) of a major internal organ. This is most often the heart, as the trope name would suggest, but finding gems within the brain isn't uncommon either. In works with a higher degree of biological verisimilitude, these stones are explained away as gizzard stones, used to help the creature break down its food for digestion.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In the ''[[
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