39,327
edits
Tragic Keepsake: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
m (Remove useless categories) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 2:
[[File:pulp_fiction_koons.jpg|link=Pulp Fiction (Film)|frame|"It was your birthright. And he'd be damned if they were going to take your birthright."]]
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
In order for him to never forget the reason he fights, he keeps a memento, often something that belonged to Alice, though it may just be something that reminds him of her. Sometimes, the 'something' may even be her [[Soul Jar]], and Bob is attempting to find a way to resurrect her.
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]].
{{examples
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
Line 21:
* The seashell in ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' given to Kohta by his [[Dead Little Sister]] eight years before the series. When Nyu sees it in the first episode, she deliberately crushes it, thinking it was making Kohta sad.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has Negi's staff. He got it from his father, who had been [[Disappeared Dad|missing and presumed dead]] since before Negi was born. The time when Negi received the staff is the one time he actually met his father, who disappeared again immediately afterwards. This all happened after a large-scale [[Taken for Granite|petrification]] of the village he grew up in; [[Snow Means Death|it was snowing]].
** One interesting case for {{spoiler|[[Anti
* 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 From Hell|works so hard,]] to prove that his magic wasn't worthless, and to realize his dream of being an Enforcer.}}
Line 40:
* 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 With Dignity|calmy facing his end]]. She keeps it for the rest of the series.}} A rare case of a hero having a [[Tragic Keepsake]] of a ''villain''.
* 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 With His Head|decapitated the government of the Fou Empire]] and destroyed much of it) is shown on his throne with his shishi/foo-dogs and Mami's bells.
** Mami's bells end up as a [[Tragic Keepsake]] (and in fact a legitimate Tragic [[Memento MacGuffin]]) a second time during the [[Battle in The Center of The Mind]] (that incorporates the "bad end" of the game). {{spoiler|Ryu confronts Fou-lu with Mami's bells, noting she's ''the'' counterexample to Fou-lu's arguments that [[Humans Are Bastards]]--even going so far as to explicitly point out that Mami's bells are Fou-lu's "most treasured possession". This triggers a failure of the [[Split Personality Merge]] (which leads up to the manga's rendering of the "good end" of ''IV'').}}
Line 51:
* {{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 From the Revelation|her minded fragmented]] as a result. Guts wants to avenge her the most, since [[Star
*** 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.}}
Line 130:
** Also, in the first ''[[Mega Man X]]'' game, failing to acquire the [[Arm Cannon|Mega Buster]] upgrade will lead to Zero giving his to X before expiring.
* In ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', the amulets and the swords Rebellion and Yamato given to Dante and Vergil respectively by their late father Sparda may count as this. Although the sons may not care too much about their demon heritage, they've shown quite a bit or respect for their father, although both for different reasons.
* ''[[Street Fighter]] II'''s Guile keeps his friend Charlie's dogtags with him throughout his quest to [[
** 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 ''[[Dragon Fable (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]'' is always followed by a floating purple crystal. {{spoiler|It's her older brother's [[Soul Jar]].}}
| |||