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[[File:automotive-locked-keys-in-car_7759.jpg|frame|"Not ''again!''"]]
 
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While this trope can be [[Played for Laughs]] with trivial situations such as locking your car keys in the car, many works that use it choose to employ it in a far more dramatic manner. The hero is on a quest to find the key, eventually finding some other way to reach what he needed the key for - and then he finds out that his initial quest was futile; the key was inside all along.
 
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[BlaBlå Tornet]]'', the Guardian has been sleeping on the High Altar for over a thousand years. There are a lot of prophecies about how a chosen one will one day wake him. In the meantime, one of the worst blasphemy someone can do is to touch The Guardians holy sleeping body. It turns out that they artifact needed to wake the Guardian is in fact inside the altar: Only a blasphemer can heal the horrible wrong that happened so long ago, and lead the civilization back on the quest the creators had originally intended.
* There's a recurring gag in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' about "opening the box with the crowbar you will find inside".
** Also, in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Jingo|Jingo]]'' the Bursar has locked himself in the Unseen University safe and taken the key with him. "It's not even as if there's a keyhole on the inside".
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