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{{trope}}
[[File:LadysFavor.jpg|frame|The [[Knight in Shining Armor]] receives
The male lead is about to go off to fight the [[Big Bad]] (or, on occasion, just the bad guy of the week), and there is a very real possibility that he won't be coming back in one piece. Knowing this, his [[Love Interest|female love interest]] decides it would be a good idea to hand him an
▲The male lead is about to go off to fight the [[Big Bad]] (or, on occasion, just the bad guy of the week), and there is a very real possibility that he won't be coming back in one piece. Knowing this, his [[Love Interest|female love interest]] decides it would be a good idea to hand him an object -- some piece of jewelry, a trinket, a piece of clothing, a token of some sort -- that she claims is of great personal importance to her (how important it ''really'' is is arguable, but more often than not, it's really only valuable in the personal sense). She makes him promise that he will give it back to her, thereby creating a small bit of assurance that he will return from the battle alive. He invariably will, if for no other reason than he promised he would return her "most prized possession."
If the couple is still in [[Will They or Won't They?]] limbo, this is a sure sign that the scales are leaning more toward [[Official Couple]]. This is also a frequent possession of someone suffering under [[The Dulcinea Effect]].
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Compare [[Memento MacGuffin]], [[Knight in Shining Armor]].
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== Anime ==
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', Kaoru gives Kenshin her favorite hair ribbon before he sets off to find Jin'e. Then, when he goes to return it, she gets angry at him because he got blood on it. The fact that {{spoiler|it's ''his'' blood}} doesn't seem to bother her in the slightest
This story was still early enough in the series that Kenshin had a strong tendency toward mild snarking; it also codified the Kaoru-lambasting-Kenshin thing. Although the 'chase of rage' scenario seemed to be about 2/5ths Kaoru being nutty and 3/5ths their attempting to make it clear that everything was still normal between them after [[Technical Pacifist|he]] [[Unstoppable Rage|went into]] [[Tranquil Fury|a killing rage]] [[Berserk Button|on her behalf]] and [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies|she nearly died because of her connection to him]] and [[The Power of Love|she cared enough about him to break a powerful hypnosis]]...
* In ''[[Simoun]]'', Amuria gives Neviril one of her hair clips when the two become a pair.
* In ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'', Ashitaka's sister Kaya gives him her crystal dagger when he is banished, so he won't forget her. He ''gives it to another girl.''
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** Actually, she wasn't his sister. She was his bride-to-be and referred to as his "little sister".
* Played with, courtesy of [[Ship Tease]]: The ending of the third ([[Uncancelled|and final, at the time]]) season of the ''[[Slayers]]'' anime ends with a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]. During Zelgadis' montage, it's shown that he keeps one of Amelia's bracelets around a canteen he owns. Earlier in the episode, Amelia asks him to return to her kingdom with her, and he probably refused, so [[Will They or Won't They?|there's a lot of speculation about what happened in between.]]
* Inverted in ''[[Blood
* In ''[[Bastard!!]]'', Dark Schneider borrows 500 yen from Yoko. Even though he gets himself killed, he comes back from the dead, because Lucien always returns borrowed money.
* In the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga, Winry gives Ed some earrings to look after. It's actually for a logical reason, but it's clearly intended to hint at this trope.
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* Played with in ''[[Man of La Mancha]]''.
* Subverted in [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''Richard II'', with Prince Hal shows contempt for the celebration of his father's accession to the throne by jousting with a token from a common prostitute:
{{quote|His answer was -- he would unto [[Red Light District|the stews]];
And from [[Streetwalker|the commonest creature]] pluck a glove.
And wear it as a favor }}
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** In the secret ending of Birth by Sleep, Kairi gives her lucky charm to Sora AGAIN when he decided to leave Destiny Island after reading Mickey's letter.
* Appears in, of all things, the ''[[Rambo]]'' game for the NES, in which Co, Rambo's female companion, gives him a pendant to which she ascribes great personal value.
* Played with in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]''. Balthier the sky pirate actually ''demands'' payment from Ashe, and takes her engagement ring - the one she received from her now-dead husband. He tells her he'll give it back to her when he finds something more valuable. At the end of the game, {{spoiler|Balthier is believed dead in the wreck of the ''Bahamut'', but Vaan and Penelo discover his airship gone and an envelope containing the ring and a letter which explains he's found something more valuable (an allusion to the sequel, Revenant Wings). So a double subversion - the ring was important to an ''entirely different person'', and was never meant to act as
** He also inverts the trope near the beginning of the game, giving Penelo his handkerchief as a promise to bring Vaan back. (This leads directly to Penelo getting kidnapped by bounty hunters who are after Balthier's head, so... way to go there, leading man.)
* Invoked in ''[[Castlevania]]: Dawn of Sorrow'', where Arikado gives Soma a talisman from Mina. {{spoiler|Not wearing it at a certain point in the game will result in a [[Bad End]] - it actually helps slow the dark flow of Dracula's power long enough for Arikado to intervene (considering Soma is Dracula's reincarnation and is trying to avoid becoming him).}}
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== Webcomics ==
* Used in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20111227005346/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-03-19 here].
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