I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: Difference between revisions

* 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).

* 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.