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See also [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]], [[Take Up My Sword]], [[Death Notification]], [[It Was a Gift]], and [[Memento MacGuffin]]. When Bob is feeling particularly sad over Alice, he may hold the keepsake in a [[Cradle of Loneliness]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Nagi in [[Deadman Wonderland]] wears a scarf {{spoiler|that belonged to his dead wife}}, as well as a locket. {{spoiler|He believes it contains a picture of his infant son, but in actuality there is nothing inside the locket; his child was cut out of his wife's belly and the body preserved in a jar.}}
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* In the [[Tear Jerker|tragic]] ''[[Elf Quest]]'' story "[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/HY/HY05/DisplayHY05.html Starfall, Starrise]" one of the human boys whose actions lead to the untimely deaths of {{spoiler|Shale, Eyes High and his own brother}} keeps the hair ornament worn by {{spoiler|Eyes High}} as a mark of his shame. many years later he is found by {{spoiler|Shale and Eyes High's son Skywise, who was born shortly before his mother's death}}, who forcibly retrieves the ornament but spares the human's life.
** Also in ''[[Elf Quest]]'' Cutter keeps his late father Bearclaw's wolf-head necklace but doesn't have time to take it with him when humans set fire to the Holt. Returning to the spot some years later he finds its melted remains.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the [[Backstory]] of the ''[[Ranma ½]]/[[Sailor Moon]]'' crossover fic ''[[Heir to the Empire]]'', the Ginzuishou -- the powerful crystalline magic focus that supercharges Sailor Moon -- began this way, as a lump of slag Queen Serenity took from the surface of a planet nuked into oblivion by a xenophobic enemy of the Silver Millennium.
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* In Season 3 of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', {{spoiler|reformed}} Future Sylar keeps the broken wristwatch {{spoiler|which gave him his name}} as a reminder {{spoiler|of the terrible things he did before he reformed}}.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' - Commander Ivanova wears a single earring. Her brother died wearing the other half of the pair in the Minbari War.
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* ''[[Burn Notice]]'' - In the Season 2 Finale we find out Victor kept pictures of his family as a tragic keepsake to spur him on to wipe out the shady company that burns spies and then recruits them for black ops missions.
* ''[[Castle]]'' - Kate Beckett wears her murdered mother's wedding ring around her neck as a reminder of why she does what she does. Also inverted, in that she also wears her father's old watch as something of an Uplifting Keepsake; she helped him recover from her mother's death by helping him overcome the alcoholism he fell into afterwards. Because it's more readily apparent (and unusual), Castle mistakes the latter for the former.
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