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* This trope is basically how ''[[Animorphs]]'' begins---Elfangor, an alien from the ([[Anti-Hero|more-or-less]]) good Andalite species, crash-lands on Earth in front of five kids, warning them that the ([[Anti-Villain|more-or-less]]) evil alien Yeerks are invading and giving them the morphing power to fight them. In this case, though the [[MacGuffin]] is just information/a power rather than an object. {{spoiler|But then, they manage to ''retrieve'' an object---the device that gives the morphing power---from David later...}}
* In ''[[Green Rider]]'', Karigan comes upon a mortally wounded Rider in the forest and is given a two-part MacGuffin: the message he was supposed to deliver, and his Rider brooch (which, as she later finds out, comes with magical powers).
* ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' has a pretty revelatory one towards the end. {{spoiler|Snape, whose [[Double Agent|loyalties]] were a matter of some debate, has his throat ripped out by [[Big Bad|Voldemort's]] pet snake Nagini, but lives just long enough to give Harry a jarful of memories that reveal Snape's back story, motive, status as [[The Atoner]], and also that [[The Chessmaster|Dumbledore's]] plan hinges on Harry [[Heroic Sacrifice|willingly giving himself up to Voldemort]].}} Ack.
* One of [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s Lythande stories begins with Lythande comforting a dying woman, and getting stuck with the task of returning a magical artifact to the woman's people. (She isn't very enthusiastic about this, but it [[Clingy MacGuffin|won't leave her alone until she does]]...)
* At the beginning of ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'', the crown prince and crown of the recently murdered king are given to the three witches by a royal servant who dies just as he stumbles in. The witches try to get both off their hands ASAP.
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