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Bob's [[Dead Little Sister|little sister]] Alice was killed in what he would later call [[My Greatest Failure|his greatest failure.]] He continues to fight for her, trying to 'fix' the world so that no one else ever has to go through this, or just seeking to [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|take vengeance upon her killers]]. Though doing so may make him a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] or [[He Who Fights Monsters|go completely mad]], it's [[Was It Really Worth It?|all worth it]] to him.
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See also [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]], [[Take Up My Sword]], [[Death Notification]], [[It Was a Gift]], and [[Memento MacGuffin]]. When Bob is feeling particularly sad over Alice, he may hold the keepsake in a [[Cradle of Loneliness]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Nagi in [[Deadman Wonderland]] wears a scarf {{spoiler|that belonged to his dead wife}}, as well as a locket. {{spoiler|He believes it contains a picture of his infant son, but in actuality there is nothing inside the locket; his child was cut out of his wife's belly and the body preserved in a jar.}}
* In a dark example, in ''[[
* In ''[[Trigun]]'', Vash The Stampede's red [[Badass Longcoat]] was made by Rem, a girl {{spoiler|who's later killed by Knives,}} in the floating SEED colony, and when it's mostly destroyed during the Auguste incident, another girl in the same colony makes him a new one. However, the red color of it is a reference to Rem's favorite flower, a flower whose name means 'determination'.
* Jing from ''[[King of Bandit Jing]]'' carries his mother's soul in a crystal, making it the [[Soul Jar]] variety.
* Though it serves as a reminder, rather than having belonged to the person, in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Edward's pocketwatch is engraved with 'Never Forget' and the date he and Al burned their house down to prevent themselves from returning home.
* [[The Captain|Murrue Ramius]] in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam
** Shinn from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam
** For a while, Kira had the paper origami flower given to him by the little girl on the doomed shuttle.
* After his little sister Aya is hit by a car and left in a coma on her birthday, Ran Fujimiya in ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' not only starts wearing an earring from the pair he'd bought for her present, he also starts using her name.
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** One interesting case for {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain|Fate Averruncus]] (Tertium)}} is {{spoiler|[[Trademark Favorite Food|coffee]]. Shiori's sister made him some apparently good coffee, he went back to work and had some terrible coffee and then when visiting her again found her wounded. She got Rewritten, he avenged her and noted that [[Tear Jerker|he won't be able to drink it anymore]].}}
* Hayate's [[Creepy Cool Crosses|Schwertkreuz]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', which was all that remained of {{spoiler|the first Reinforce}} after her [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
** [[Badass Normal|Teana Lanster's]] toy pistol also counts: {{spoiler|It was from her older brother, Tiida, a captain in the TSAB Air Force, who raised her when their parents died. He died injuring a wanted mage, but was unable to apprehend him, leaving him in disgrace and deemed worthless. This is why she [[Training
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Wado Ichimonji was a sword that was once owned by Zoro's friend Kuina's family, but after she died he took it as a reminder to fulfill their promise for one of them to become the world's greatest swordsman.
* Slightly subverted in ''[[Bleach]]''. Orihime's brother Sora gave her hairclips that she thought were too childish, and after a fight, Sora leaves without [[Never Got to Say Goodbye|Orihime saying goodbye]]. After he dies that day in a tragic accident, Orihime wears the hairclips every single day... and they become a sort-of [[MacGuffin]] that allows her to channel her powers when they awake.
* Part of the title character's face in ''[[
* Depending on the slightly different characterization in the manga, it's movie adaptation, and the anime series, the Major from ''[[Ghost in
** In the anime she got it after resizing into her final body after a childhood spent in over half a dozen different ones. Batou knows this and goes out of his way to retrieve it while {{spoiler|being hunted by the government during the climax of season one.}}
* Not sure if it counts, since it's not something tangible, but Fai from ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' {{spoiler|isn't actually his name. Turns out that Fai was actually his dead twin brother's name, and since he's trying to being said brother back from the dead, he's taken to using his name to remind himself.}} Thank you, Clamp, for making him more confusing than he already is.
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* In [[Sorcerer Stabber Orphen]], the Tower of Fangs pendant that the male lead carries actually belongs to his best friend/mother figure Azalie and not to him. Since Azalie turned herself into a dragon in an experiment and Orphen left the Tower to try search for a cure, well...
* Tsunade from ''[[Naruto]]'' kept a necklace that was given to her by the First Hokage (her grandfather). She later gave it to her younger brother, who died. After that, she gave it to her lover, who also died. After all that, she eventually gives it to Naruto after he wins a bet with her.
** Kakashi's sharingan was given to him by {{spoiler|Obito Uchiha, his best friend who died saving him from getting crushed under a rock. The scene is very [[Crowning Moment of Sadness|heart wrenching]]}} he also kept his father's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130627000958/http://www.samurai-swords-for-sale.com/store/images/P/japanese-swords-samurai-swords-tanto-cold-steel.jpg tanto] after Sakumo {{spoiler|committed suicide.}}
** Naruto keeps the scratched headband Sasuke left behind for a good while. It's unclear if he still has it.
* ''[[
** Later, in a similar manner, {{spoiler|Yusei keeps Bruno's [[Cool Shades]] after Bruno is killed. Bruno ''doesn't'' get better.}}
* Suzaku from ''[[Code Geass]]'' hangs onto his late father's pocketwatch throughout most of the first season. At first blush it seems to be a standard keepsake, but as the season progresses and we learn that {{spoiler|Suzaku killed his father, which was the direct cause of Japan's surrender}}, so the watch represents his own ties to the past and his attempts to make up for that incident. At the very end of the season, he leaves the watch with what will become another symbol of his being shackled to the past: {{spoiler|the corpse of Euphemia, the woman he loved}}.
* In ''[[Kyou Kara Maou]]'', when Yuuri first arrives in Shin Makoku, Conrad gives him a pendant. A flashback reveals that Conrad's close friend Julia first gave it to him years ago, before she died, and that Conrad's been wearing it ever since. {{spoiler|His passing it on to Yuuri is especially significant, since he knows (and we later find out) that Yuuri is Julia's reincarnation.}}
* At the end of the Dark Tournament saga of ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] Sakyou gives Shizuru a gold plated lighter just before [[Face Death
* In the [[Comic Book Adaptation]] of ''[[Breath of Fire]] IV'', Fou-lu explicitly keeps Mami's bells around {{spoiler|after Mami was used as the literal [[Human Resources|warhead]] in a [[Fantastic Nuke]] in [[The Empire]]'s attempt to kill him. It's literally all he has left of one of exactly ''three'' people who show him decency, and Mami's bells falling from the sky is the clue that she was used as the warhead (and what quite blatantly turns him into a full-blown [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]).}}
** This is in turn based on material from the official artbook in which Fou-lu (after he's gone into a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] that has literally [[Off
** Mami's bells end up as a
* {{spoiler|Tsubaki}} from ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' once had a toy ball given to her by her deceased mother. {{spoiler|Becomes a [[Chekhov's Gun]] when Yukiteru finds it and uses it to distract Tsubaki and kill her.}}
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' slightly subverts this with Edward's pocketwatch, which is issued to every State Alchemist employed by the Amestris Government as a form of identification (so it didn't come from anybody who died). However, the date when Edward and Alphonse burned down their house (3.Oct.10, although "10" as a year is not established) was carved on the inside of the lid, to serve as a reminder to Ed and Al that they must move forward because they have no more home to return to.
* The title character from ''[[
* ''[[Cyborg 009]]'': Albert Heinrich has the ring that belonged to his [[Death
* {{spoiler|Madoka's hair ribbons}} in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''.
* In the series finale of ''[[Sonic X]]'' Tails recieves {{spoiler|What's left of Cosmo in the form of a seed from Sonic after both he and Super Shadow attempted to save her with their Chaos Regeneration. Tails later cultivates this seed in a plant pot inside his workshop where at the very end of the episode it is seen sprouting}}
* {{spoiler|A piece of Baron's headband}} in ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]''.
* Guts from ''[[Berserk]]'' wears {{spoiler|a throwing knife strap}} after [[It Got Worse|The Eclipse]] in memory of {{spoiler|Judeau and all the other members of the Hawks who perished.}}
** Deconstructed with Casca, who is a living tragic keepsake. She was the only other survivor of the Eclipse, but went through, much, MUCH worse and had [[Go Mad
*** But it also reconstructed in that Guts knows that Casca is the only person that he has of value in the world, and [[Morality Chain|without her presence]], he would have gone off the deep end long ago. That, and Casca is the only living testament of the very few good and pleasant things that have happened in [[Dark and Troubled Past|Guts' life]]. And with the possibility of seeing her cured of her insanity, Casca is really the last window of optimism that Guts has left to see in this world.
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': {{spoiler|Kamina found his signature [[Badass Cape]] worn by his father's corpse.}} In ''[[The Movie|Lagann-hen]]'', {{spoiler|Simon wears Nia's wedding ring as a necklace after her death.}}
* ''[[Togainu no Chi]]'': In the anime, Keisuke's tag.
* In '[[
* Several in ''[[Oniisama
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the [[Tear Jerker|tragic]] ''[[Elf Quest]]'' story "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140913202510/http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/HY/HY05/DisplayHY05.html Starfall, Starrise]" one of the human boys whose actions lead to the untimely deaths of {{spoiler|Shale, Eyes High and his own brother}} keeps the hair ornament worn by {{spoiler|Eyes High}} as a mark of his shame. many years later he is found by {{spoiler|Shale and Eyes High's son Skywise, who was born shortly before his mother's death}}, who forcibly retrieves the ornament but spares the human's life.
** Also in ''[[Elf Quest]]'' Cutter keeps his late father Bearclaw's wolf-head necklace but doesn't have time to take it with him when humans set fire to the Holt. Returning to the spot some years later he finds its melted remains.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the [[Backstory]] of the ''[[Ranma ½]]/[[Sailor Moon]]'' crossover fic ''[[Heir to the Empire]]'', the Ginzuishou -- the powerful crystalline magic focus that supercharges Sailor Moon -- began this way, as a lump of slag Queen Serenity took from the surface of a planet [[Apocalypse How/Class 6|nuked into oblivion]] by a xenophobic enemy of the Silver Millennium.
== [[Film]] ==
* Pictured above: Christopher Walken keeps his buddy's watch ''up his ass'' in a POW camp in Vietnam for two years so he could give it to (the child) Butch in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''.
* Inigo Montoya of ''[[The Princess Bride (
* Eric Draven from ''[[The Crow]]'' wears Shelly's engagement ring on a chain around his neck.
* Colonel Mortimer from ''[[For a Few Dollars More]]'' has a pocketwatch given to him by his sister. There's another pocketwatch that once belonged to the sister in question, but was taken by Indio {{spoiler|following her suicide as he was raping her.}}
* When [[James Bond]] went on his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] in the movie ''[[
* Topper Harley from ''[[Hot Shots]]'' has his father's eyes. Literally. As in, in a little jewelry case.
* William Wallace in ''[[Braveheart]]'' keeps Maron's handkerchief with him until it falls from his grasp at his death. Then we see Sir Robert [[De Bruce]] with it when he leads the reckless charge against the remaining English forces at the end.
* In ''[[Up]]'', Carl Frederickson's house and practically everything in it are a keepsake of his departed wife Ellie and the childhood promise he made to her.
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', Davy Jones keeps the locket of his love Calypso - the woman who broke his heart.
* [[Complete Monster|Captain Vidal's]] pocketwatch in ''[[
* Maverick keeps Goose's dogtags in ''[[Top Gun]]''
* In ''[[Law Abiding Citizen]]'' Clyde keeps his daughter's charm bracelet. The same one she was seen making for her mother at the very beginning of the movie.
* In ''[[Captain America: Civil War (film)|Captain America: Civil War]]'', {{spoiler|from time to time Zemo calls his family. Eventually, it's revealed that they're dead and all he's doing is listening to the last recording he has of their voices.}}
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* Will Parry (''[[His Dark Materials]]'') grew up hearing tales about his brave father, the explorer, and was told by his mother that he would grow up to "take on his father's mantle." He does this quite literally. (However, it's not made explicit how long he keeps or wears the mantle itself. Hmmm....)
* From ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Deathly Hallows'', the fake Horcrux Harry and Dumbledore had gone to such great lengths to retrieve from the cave:
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** This is also an example of the hero not keeping the keepsake; it ends up being a [[Chekhov's Gun]] instead, when Harry gives it to Kreacher, an act that results in the house-elf that had loathed Harry and his friends becoming one of his most loyal allies.
* In ''[[False Memory]]'' by Dean Koontz, Dr. Ahriman has {{spoiler|his fathers eyes in a jar. Not as a reminder of some past wrong, however, but rather because he is a [[Complete Monster]] who killed his father and stole his father's eyes in an attempt to understand his own inability to cry and subsequent fetish for tears}}
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' series, there is a troll watchman named Detritus who is very slow, as his silicon brain works slower in higher
* In ''[[The X
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In Season 3 of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', {{spoiler|reformed}} Future Sylar keeps the broken wristwatch {{spoiler|which gave him his name}} as a reminder {{spoiler|of the terrible things he did before he reformed}}.▼
▲* In ''[[The X Files]]'', Scully always wears a small gold cross necklace. When she's [[Alien Abduction|abducted]] near the beginning of season 2, it's torn off, and Mulder wears it himself for the three months she's missing. It shows up a few more times when they're separated as a symbol of their bond.
* ''[[
▲* In Season 3 of ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'', {{spoiler|reformed}} Future Sylar keeps the broken wristwatch {{spoiler|which gave him his name}} as a reminder {{spoiler|of the terrible things he did before he reformed}}.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
▲* ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' - Commander Ivanova wears a single earring. Her brother died wearing the other half of the pair in the Minbari War.
▲* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' - In [[General Ripper|Helena Cain's]] weapon cabinet there is guns, knives and a pitful dinner-knife that she grabbed when she, just a child, tried to defend herself in the last day of the first Cylon War. The fact that she never put it down, but kept it, symbolized that she never stopped fighting that war.
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'' - In the Season 2 Finale we find out Victor kept pictures of his family as a tragic keepsake to spur him on to wipe out the shady company that burns spies and then recruits them for black ops missions.
* ''[[Castle]]'' - Kate Beckett wears her murdered mother's wedding ring around her neck as a reminder of why she does what she does. Also inverted, in that she also wears her father's old watch as something of an Uplifting Keepsake; she helped him recover from her mother's death by helping him overcome the alcoholism he fell into afterwards. Because it's more readily apparent (and unusual), Castle mistakes the latter for the former.
* On ''[[
* ''[[NCIS]]'' - Ziva keeps a Day-Glo orange stocking cap as a keepsake from Lt. Roy Sanders, the young man she connects with while he is dying of radiation poisoning in "Dead Man Walking."
* ''[[Smallville]]'' Lana Lang wore a piece of the meteor that killed her parents as a pendant. That's right, she wore as jewelry ''a piece of the meteor that killed her parents''. And since the audience needs to understand that it's kryptonite, she just ''won't stop talking about it''...
** It makes one wonder just why they haven't, in a series where Kryptonite can do almost anything under the right conditions, done the one other thing that normal green Kryptonite does: gives humans cancer after long-term exposure. Hell, in the normal DC ''and'' DCAU continuties, Lex Luthor got cancer by having a kryptonite ring around. Or even turn her into a meteor freak.
* ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'' - The king of hearts (Nathan) has a locket with a voice recording of his girlfriend (fiance?) that was given to him just before they were forced to part ways (she had to catch a rocket to space).
* In Japanese drama ''[[Shokojo Sera]]'', the necklace main protagonist Seira gave her father before he left was given back to her upon his death. And when she would later run away from the school, it was the only thing she brought with her.
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
* In the "Year Of Hell" two part episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', the villain keeps a lock of the hair of the wife he accidentally erased from time in a special container that shields it from dissipating into nothing because it can't exist in the world he created.
* Amy's engagement ring in ''[[
* ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' Revealed villain Helena Wells, a person who had just escaped from over a century in the [[And I Must Scream]]-prison where history's most evil masterminds are bronzed for all eternity, breaks into the place where they stored her personal belongings. She only takes one thing: A locket. Cue massive speculation what kind of artifact that locket must be. Then a couple of episodes later we learn what kind of locket it is: The normal kind. The locket contained the only remaining picture of her daughter. [[Affably Evil]] doesn't even begin to describe it.
* ''[[Nikita (TV series)|Nikita]]'' features a metaphorical example. Owen, another rogue operative, made drawings reminding him of the people he killed. He eventually has them tattooed on himself.
* Mac Taylor on ''[[CSI: NY]]'' keeps a beach ball from his last vacation with his wife before her death on 9/11. He can't bring himself to let it go as it has her breath in it, the only phsyical(ish) thing he still has of her. (Unless you count her son Reed.)
** He also had opera tickets that he eventually let wash away into the ocean in the episode that aired around the
* In ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'', woe betide the man who dares steal Mr. Gold's chipped
* In a ''[[Law
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Scion]]'' signature character Horace Farrow carries a .45 revolver with him. His uncle Seth used it to kill Horace's (step)father and shoot out Horace's eye, but dropped it when Horace nailed him in the groin with a shotgun. It's heavily implied Horace carries it so that one day he can put a bullet from it through Seth's head.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In another dark example, Mr. Grimm of ''[[Twisted Metal|Twisted Metal Black]]'' is
* ''[[Ace Attorney]]:'' Apollo Justice's bracelet {{spoiler|used to belong to his mother. She probably left it with him when she abandoned him.}} Similarly, after {{spoiler|Trucy's mother disappeared,}} her father gave her a locket {{spoiler|with her mom's picture in it.}} Naturally, {{spoiler|Trucy and Apollo actually have the same mother. Guess Thalassa isn't too great at sticking around her children.}} Both cases are a subversion since {{spoiler|their mother is alive.}}
** In ''Trials and Tribulations'', {{spoiler|The Master's Talisman that Misty Fey was obligated to wear around her neck for as long as she lived contained a picture of Maya and Mia, so they would always be with her until the day she died. Subverted in that Maya and Mia weren't dead; Misty had, in fact, abandoned them.}}
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' parodies this with the "Dead Guy's Memento," which is obtained by combining a Dead Guy's Pocketwatch and a Picture Of A Dead Guy's Girlfriend.
* Cubones from ''[[Pokémon]]'' are notable for wearing their dead mother's skull on their heads. They wail for said mothers often.
** Every single cubone ever in the
*** Maybe they die after laying the egg... like some insects...
*** They were Dittos...
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* ''[[Street Fighter]] II'''s Guile keeps his friend Charlie's dogtags with him throughout his quest to [[It's Personal|bring Bison down]].
** Dhalsim from the same game wears a collar made of skulls. These belong to a group of children who died of illness in his village, and he wears them to honor the their memory.
* The Necromantress in ''[[
* Dart from ''[[The Legend of Dragoon]]'' keeps a gem his father once had before he and his mother were killed by the Black Monster. {{spoiler|This is later revealed to be the Dragoon Spirit of the Red-Eyed Dragon, which allows him to go into Dragoon form.}}
* ''[[Persona 3]]'' has a couple of these. Mamoru, the Star Social Link, carries his father's car keys (from the car he died driving); when you max out the link, {{spoiler|he decides to take responsibility for his family by working in a factory; as a sign he's moved past his father's death, he leaves the car keys with you.}} The Sun social link has what could be called a subverted one, the notebook Akinari wrote his story in {{spoiler|before he died from his disease; in the epilogue, you offer it to his mother, but she asks you to keep it so that she can hear the story from Akinari himself in the afterlife.}}
** FES has Elizabeth [[Lampshade]] this an interesting way during one of her quests. She asks for a fruit knife (which you get from Shinjiro, as he loves cooking). However, like her other fetch quests she won't take it as she notices how well taken care of it is, saying it's probably very important to the owner (the engraving on it hints that has to do with orphanage he grew up in.) In the end though, {{spoiler|after the events of October 4, you will still have it in your inventory, making it more or less ''your'' keepsake of Shinjiro.}}
** The girl's route in the remake also shows a few. Ken, who is a social link, keeps the key to his house (which was destroyed and left him without a home and a family). {{spoiler|When he overcomes the regrets of losing his mom and realizes he suppressed all of the loving memories with her for the sake of revenge, he gives the protagonist that key, representing how he moved on, along with she is just as important him as those memories.}} Koromaru also has the collar that he used to wear on his walks with his late master, and Shinjiro also has pocket watch which he cherishes, and as he's an orphan also, it's likely it was from a family member. There's also Ryoji, who gives you a ring {{spoiler|as proof that he was once human, before going on to cause the Fall.}}
* In ''[[
* ''[[Halo: Reach]]'': Just before {{spoiler|Jorge}} makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], he gives Noble Six his dogtags, who keeps him for the remainder of the game.
* In ''[[Night Trap]]'', Tony has a locket with a picture of his former girlfriend (who looks just like Ashley, one of the girls at the sleepover) in it. We never find out what happened to her.
* ''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]'' has these in the form of collectible [[Meaningful Name|"mementos"]].
* In ''[[Honkai Impact 3rd]]'', the aptly-named "Burden" item is a piece of flame-frozen flame from {{spoiler|Kevin Kaslana's}} first use of the [[Flaming Sword]] Judgment of Shamash, which destroyed all the Honkai beasts it was used on [[Destructive Saviour|but also the city and people they were attacking.]] Notwithstanding that the city wouldn't have made it anyway if he hadn't, he still holds onto it as a reminder of the price of failure.
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', James Eglamore keeps a knife that was a present from his old flame, the recently-deceased Surma. ▼
* [[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]: In the End of Act 5, after {{spoiler|the Exiles are massacred, Serenity, WV's firefly companion, hangs around PM}}.▼
== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* In ''[[
▲* [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[
* Also of a similar vein, Katara from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' wears her deceased mother's necklace.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Though it's usually not to remind us why we're on our [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], in [[Real Life]], people will often keep and wear/use things belonging to relatives who've passed on.
** The key that Rapper/Actress/Singer Dana Owens, a.k.a. Queen Latifah, often wears around her neck goes to the motorcycle her brother was riding when he died.
* As a matter of fact, several religions keep a whole collection and record of these things. The most famous ones are [
** As a bonus, during medieval ages there was a whole ''black market'' of relics, where diverse Catholic groups would steal them and either sell or smuggle them to other places. An example would be [
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