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A [[Herald|minor character]] has a [[MacGuffin]] and [[Pursued Protagonist|is being pursued]] by some [[Mook
A good way to keep the true story a mystery (and to keep the audience interested) is to have the main character be an [[Unlikely Hero]] that has NO idea what's going on or who to trust.
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* In the ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' episode Sympathy for the Devil, a dying bounty head gives Spike a ring and tell him that he's the only one who can save "him" now. Cue the crew spending the rest of the episode figuring out what the guy meant and what they're supposed to do with the ring.
** ''Gateway Shuffle'' starts off with this, with Faye finding a fatally wounded police officer drifting through space. He tells her to take a briefcase to the I.S.S.P, and tells her not to open it. She does neither, and the object in the briefcase is sought after by the antagonist of that episode. She manages to steal it back and pocket it, only for it to come back into play at the very end of the episode to ruin her plans.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'': It's revealed that Yusei's dying father gave the 3 Signer Dragon cards he had to Rex Godwin (a
* In ''[[Metal Armor Dragonar]]'', the [[Power Trio]] comes across a badly wounded man carrying the discs needed to activate the titular [[Humongous Mecha]]. In a subversion, he begs them to give the discs to [[The Empire|Giganos]], obviously not realizing that the boys are [[The Federation|Federation]] trainees.
* [[One Piece]] has a rather interesting variation of this. The former Pirate King Gold Roger, well aware of his impending death due to disease, turns himself in. He then challenges everyone to find his [[MacGuffin]] and proclaims that whoever finds it can have it. Made even more interesting by the fact that nobody knows for sure whether it really exists, much less what it actually might be.
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* In ''[[The Net]]'', Dale sends Angela a disk and later flies down in his Cessna to meet her. The bad guys mess with the radar, causing Dale to the crash his plane.
* In ''[[Casablanca]]'', Ugarte entrusts the letters of transit to Rick, only to be taken into custody and killed later that night.
* ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' hits the viewer hard with this trope. Everyone is after the titular bird (which is insanely valuable [[Pirate Booty]] but has been covered in lead to hide the value). For the first half of the movie the police (who don't know about the bird) suspect the main character of unrelated murders ({{spoiler|which were actually committed by the [[Big Bad]] while looking for the bird}}). Then, about forty minutes into the film, the bird has only been discussed up until now and nobody knows where the thing actually is or who's hiding it. The body count is mounting and people start saying the bird might be cursed because of all of the people who get the bird die right afterward. Then {{spoiler|[[The Ghost]]}} suddenly bursts into the room, riddled with gunshots, carrying the bird, then dies at the protagonist's feet without any explanation. Now the main character not only has the statue that a bunch of violent people are after but also has ''yet another dead body'' to explain to the police, {{spoiler|this time of a guy he's been going around town asking people about}}. This plot is a weird case of
* ''[[Men with Brooms]]'' has Donald Foley arranging to have his ashes placed in the last of the [[Mineral MacGuffin|Magellan Stones]], and his will is basically him [[Thanatos Gambit|guilt-tripping his old curling team]] into reuniting and trying to win the Golden Broom.
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean|Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End]]'', while Elizabeth Swann is on Sao Feng's boat, they get attacked. Sao Feng gets stabbed by a giant piece of wood and [[It May Help You on Your Quest|hands over a seemingly useless trinket]] which later turns out to be one of the Pieces of Eight needed for the meeting, and for {{spoiler|releasing Calypso from Tia Dalma}}.
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