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[[File:~~violin3_2577~~.jpg|link=Cracked.com|frame| Hey, are you throwing that Stradivarius out?]]

[[File:violin3 2577.jpg|link=Cracked.com|frame| Hey, are you throwing that Stradivarius out?]]

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* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix]]'', Harry helps Sirius throw out all of his family's relics that he doesn't want. Among them is an old locket that no one is aware {{spoiler|a) once belonged to Salazar Slytherin and b) [[Soul Jar|contains a piece of Voldemort's soul]].}}

** And again in ''[[Half Blood Prince]]'', Harry hides the Prince's potions book in a room where lots of other students (and teachers!) have hidden things they didn't want found over the years. One, which Harry uses to mark the place where he hid the book, is {{spoiler|the lost diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw, and another of Voldemort's Horcruxes.}}

* [[Follow the Leader|Mirroring]] ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', the eponymous ''Sword Of [[Shannara]]'' is found in the last place you'd expect ~~it--in~~ a bunch of junk that a looter picked up off a battlefield. Despite every legend about it saying it was embedded in a block of "Tre-stone" in the druids' castle. Subverted, though, when the looter knows that the battered, cheap sword with the gold paint peeling off it is the most valuable weapon in the world, even though the heroes don't, and refuses to let go of it.

* [[Follow the Leader|Mirroring]] ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', the eponymous ''Sword Of [[Shannara]]'' is found in the last place you'd expect it—in a bunch of junk that a looter picked up off a battlefield. Despite every legend about it saying it was embedded in a block of "Tre-stone" in the druids' castle. Subverted, though, when the looter knows that the battered, cheap sword with the gold paint peeling off it is the most valuable weapon in the world, even though the heroes don't, and refuses to let go of it.

* In ''The Serpent's Egg'' trilogy, [[Our Dragons Are Different|Typhoon]] gives a busted up crown to [[Bratty Half-Pint|Penelope]] as a reward for watching a very much alive and ready to hatch ''dragon egg'', which she was told was a rock. It was far bigger than her. {{spoiler|The dinky little thing turned out to be the [[MacGuffin|Crown]] they had been looking for the entire time, but didn't realize it till she placed it on the head... of the enemy. It proceeded to [[Good Hurts Evil|kill the ]][[Twist Ending|evil]]. Then, she put it on the Elf Prince's head, to no real effect.}} Notably, she tried to steal from Typhoon earlier, and had to clean his entire hoard with a bowl of... [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|spittle]]. Which was pretty stupid, seeing as he literally saved their lives from a damn army before that. {{spoiler|But maybe, Typhoon knew about it, being the leader of the Black Dragons.}}

* In ''The Serpent's Egg'' trilogy, [[Our Dragons Are Different|Typhoon]] gives a busted up crown to [[Bratty Half-Pint|Penelope]] as a reward for watching a very much alive and ready to hatch ''dragon egg'', which she was told was a rock. It was far bigger than her. {{spoiler|The dinky little thing turned out to be the [[MacGuffin|Crown]] they had been looking for the entire time, but didn't realize it till she placed it on the head... of the enemy. It proceeded to [[Good Hurts Evil|kill the]][[Twist Ending|evil]]. Then, she put it on the Elf Prince's head, to no real effect.}} Notably, she tried to steal from Typhoon earlier, and had to clean his entire hoard with a bowl of... [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|spittle]]. Which was pretty stupid, seeing as he literally saved their lives from a damn army before that. {{spoiler|But maybe, Typhoon knew about it, being the leader of the Black Dragons.}}

* In ''[[Heralds of Valdemar|Oathbreakers]]'', Kethry happens to find a useless-looking dull-bladed old sword abandoned in a cabin in the mountains; she and Tarma speculate that it must have been a decorative sword and the gems and gilding were all stripped off by previous travelers, leaving behind what was left as junk. Kethry, on an impulse, takes it along when they leave, and it turns out to be the ancestral Sword that Sings, traditionally used to choose the proper ruler of the country of Rethwellan.

* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Prospero's Daughter|Prospero Lost]]'', Miranda finds a chameleon cloak in a second-hand store. Both its presence and her discovery get explained later.

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* In ''[[Fable II]]'', Murgo the merchant has the [[MacGuffin]]...he actually knows it's magic, but he has no idea what it can actually do. It is revealed in a DLC that it was given to him by your mentor, {{spoiler|Theresa}}, which [[Batman Gambit|set the whole plot in motion]].

* In the ''[[Touhou]]'' [[All There in the Manual|printed side-story]], ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'', [http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia:_Chapter_06 one chapter] revolved around Marisa asking Rinnosuke to reinforce her [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome|Mini-Hakkero]] with some of the rare [[Thunderbolt Iron|Hihi'irokane/Crimson Ore]] he had some of so that it would never rust. In exchange, Rinnosuke asked for... the pile of scrap iron that Marisa obsessively collects for no reason. Why did he want Marisa's pile of junk? {{spoiler|Rinnosuke had identified the [[Public Domain Artifact|Sword of Kusanagi]] amongst them}}.

* In ''[[Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden]]'', Barkley at one point visits Spalding Building<ref>[[It Makes Sense in Context|don't]] [[wikipedia:Spalding (sports equipment)|ask]]</ref>, where he can find a character's [[Infinity+1 Sword]] in one of the trash cans. He also lampshades it when he finds a powerful healing item in another can: ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|"It's B-Ball Juice! Who the hell throws B-Ball Juice away?"]]''

* In ''[[Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden]]'', Barkley at one point visits Spalding Building,<ref>[[It Makes Sense in Context|don't]] [[wikipedia:Spalding (sports equipment)|ask]]</ref> where he can find a character's [[Infinity+1 Sword]] in one of the trash cans. He also lampshades it when he finds a powerful healing item in another can: ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|"It's B-Ball Juice! Who the hell throws B-Ball Juice away?"]]''

* In [[Dragon Age]], Far Song, generally considered one of if not the best bow in the game, has apparently spent decades sitting buried in the stockroom of a tiny podunk blacksmith shop in Redcliffe. {{spoiler|It's so well-buried that the only way to get it is to kill Owen, or get him to commit suicide by failing to find his daughter, and wait for his replacement to move in and go through his stuff.}}

* Most [[Pokémon]] games have the Leftovers, one of the most useful held items in the series, hidden in a trash can.