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* 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}}.
* ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' - Commander Ivanova wears a single earring. Her brother died wearing the other half of the pair in the Minbari 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.
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* In the ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' fan favorite "The Inner Light", a probe downloads the experiences of an alien civilization into Picard. From his point of view, {{spoiler|he gets married, raises children, watches his friends pass away, and wakes up to discover that the civilization had been wiped out a thousand years ago}}. He gets a flute, and in a [[Continuity Nod]], the flute appears in later episodes.
* 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)|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.
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* 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 [
** Parodied in the first ''[[Black Adder]]'', in an episode where the main characters enter the church. Baldrick starts shifting job-lots of saints' relics.
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