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== Anime & Manga ==
* In one episode of ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', [[MacGuffin Girl|Tomoyo]] has been trapped in a classroom as {{spoiler|Eriol messed with the floor plan as a test for Sakura}}. Sakura needs to find her, and Syaoran says he has a magical technique that can locate lost people, provided she has left an object behind. (Not unlike a dog using scent, except it works off auras/energy signatures.) Tomoyo ''did'' have an umbrella...but it's with her in the very classroom they're trying to locate.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Blå 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".
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', Vetinari plays mind games with condemned criminals--if they use the spoon they get with their gruel to try and dig a stone block out of the wall as part of an escape attempt (ruining the spoon in the process), they finally pull the block out only to find a little alcove behind with a shiny new spoon in it.
* A fairly standard situation in the [[Locked Room Mystery]] is for the police to have to break into the Locked Room, because the key is inside with the deceased.
* Subverted in a short story by [[Isaac Asimov]], where people are searching for an uranium asteroid an illegal miner found, and due to the miners dying in an accident, all they have is a statement by a silicon based alien that the coordinates are "on the asteroid" (the alien died right after saying that). {{spoiler|In the end it turns out that the alien wasn't good in astronomy, and the coordinates were actually ''on the ship'' - [[Hidden in Plain Sight|hidden among the registration codes of the equipment]]}}.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Happens in ''[[Corner Gas (TV)|Corner Gas]]''. Hank had a combination lock that stored the lock's combination.
** Then there was the time he locked his keys in his truck, and didn't notice that his passenger side window was down.
* That happens in an episode of ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' too, regarding the wall safe in the Chief's office.
{{quote| '''Chief:''' Have you got the new combination, Max?<br />
'''Max:''' ''New'' combination?<br />
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: aA Link Toto Thethe Past]]'', there's one locked treasure chest whose only key, you are told, is inside the chest, and you can never open it. Fortunately you can drag it with you until you find a master lockpicker.
** An [[Unwinnable Byby Insanity]] example in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: LinksLink's Awakening]]'', the door the [[Interchangeable Antimatter Key]] was meant to be used on has another behind it, but by making a tricky jump it could be used on a different door that didn't have a replacement behind it.
* In ''[[Adventure (Video1979 Gamevideo game)|Adventure]]'', on the hardest difficulty, the items were distributed in a kind-of-random manner, which occasionally resulted in the gold key being locked in the gold castle.
* In ''[[Zork: Grand Inquisitor]]'', there is a glass box ("In case of adventure, break glass") containing a spell scroll, a sword and a hammer. It can be easily opened, but the clamp holding the sword will not let go. The obvious solution is to {{spoiler|open the box, take the hammer, close the box, break glass. Then the clamp lets go and you can take the sword}}.
* In the NES port of ''[[Metal Gear 1987 (Video Game)|Metal Gear 1987]]'', the keycard required to enter Building No. 4 is inside the building itself. {{spoiler|This requires Snake to get captured on purpose in order to get inside said building.}}
** A similar situation occurs in ''[[Snakes Revenge]]'' when the player reaches the entrance of the first enemy base. Only this time {{spoiler|it's one of Snake's comrades who allows himself to get captured, so that Snake can sneak in undetected.}}
* The first level of ''[[Mystery of Time and Space]]'' has the key in the keyhole on the other side of the locked door. To get it, {{spoiler|you have to slide a poster underneath the door and then push something small enough through the keyhole to make the key drop onto the poster, which you can then retrieve}}.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in the [[Family Guy]] episode "Petarded", where a cutaway shows one incident where Peter locked his keys ''out'' of the car, trapping himself inside...wait, what?!
* In one version of the backstory for ''[[He-Man and Thethe Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He-Man and The Masters of Thethe Universe]]'', Prince Adam was questing with Teela for what would later become his magic sword. Wielding this sword was the only way to enter Castle Grayskull. And yes, the sword was inside the castle.
* In a cartoon episode of ''[[Lucky Luke]]'', the usual criminal Dalton Brothers were trying to be honest, and to have a honest work, they open their own bank. At one point Averell Dalton is commanded to open the safe, but he can't remember where the key is, so he opens the safe with dynamite. It turns out that the key is inside, and Averell closed it in there "for safety". Joe Dalton is not amused.
 
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