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{{quote|'''Sulu''': It would have looked nice in some museum.
{{quote|'''Sulu''': It would have looked nice in some museum.
'''Spock''': It never would have reached a museum, Lieutenant. There was too much power in that one setting. If not the Kzinti, the Klingons or some other species would have tried to possess it. }}
'''Spock''': It never would have reached a museum, Lieutenant. There was too much power in that one setting. If not the Kzinti, the Klingons or some other species would have tried to possess it. }}
* In the conclusion of [[Justice League|A Knight of Shadows]], J'onn destroys the [[MacGuffin]] because "the price was too great" to give in to temptation to use it or hand it over to the episode's [[Big Bad]].
* In the conclusion of [[Justice League (animation)|A Knight of Shadows]], J'onn destroys the [[MacGuffin]] because "the price was too great" to give in to temptation to use it or hand it over to the episode's [[Big Bad]].
* Done unintentionally in the ''[[Transformers Generation 1|Transformers]]'' episode "The Golden Lagoon". The [[MacGuffin]] is a lake that makes any Transformer who bathes in it temporarily invincible. By the time the Autobots and Decepticons finish battling over it, both the lake and the entire area in which the lake is located have been destroyed. Beachcomber, who had originally found the lake, looks at the devastation and [[Pyrrhic Victory|bitterly declares that they had won]].
* Done unintentionally in the ''[[Transformers Generation 1|Transformers]]'' episode "The Golden Lagoon". The [[MacGuffin]] is a lake that makes any Transformer who bathes in it temporarily invincible. By the time the Autobots and Decepticons finish battling over it, both the lake and the entire area in which the lake is located have been destroyed. Beachcomber, who had originally found the lake, looks at the devastation and [[Pyrrhic Victory|bitterly declares that they had won]].
* The Encryptor Chip from ''[[Cyberchase]]''. Because the original Chip has been destroyed by The Hacker's virus on Mother Board, Dr. Marbles has since been desperate in search for a new one. Unfortunately, whenever a new Encryptor Chip shows up, it's always destroyed in the end.
* The Encryptor Chip from ''[[Cyberchase]]''. Because the original Chip has been destroyed by The Hacker's virus on Mother Board, Dr. Marbles has since been desperate in search for a new one. Unfortunately, whenever a new Encryptor Chip shows up, it's always destroyed in the end.