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To avoid [[Flame Bait]], [[No Real Life Examples, Please|please do not add any real life examples]]. The trope itself is a kind of [[Not Using the Z Word]].

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== [[Anime]] ==

* ''[[Transformers Energon]]'' was all about fighting over and using the titular [[Green Rocks]].

* ''[[Darker than Black]]'' had Heaven's War, a [[Melee a Trois]] in the backstory where pretty much ''everyone'' was trying to get control of [[Not of This Earth|Heaven's Gate]] in Brazil. It only ended when [[Throwaway Country|most of South America got]] replaced with big "unaccessible" circle on the map.

* Shortly before the events of the main series, the world of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' was subject to the "solar power wars". When advanced solar technologies were discovered, oil suddenly became relatively worthless, leading to a number of Middle Eastern countries continually splitting apart into new ones. To harness the technology, countries needed to build space elevators, and this lead to blocs of nations forming who jealously guarded their elevators and were constantly at the brink of war with the other blocs.

 

== [[Film]] ==

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''

** The same goes for many natural resources, from less common ores to Nephium (a toxic exotic substance with variety of uses, mined on some planetoids) - in ''[[Rogue Trader]]'' had two strongest dynasties come to blows over a rich source of the latter until they had to settle on division.

** The "Archeotech" (among the Human factions) and various [[Precursor|more ancient]] [[MacGuffin|artifacts]] (in general).