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Alternate Titles: TakeThis, ButThouMust TakeThis, JarOfDirt.

An uncommon variant on this is the giving character says, '''''"You'll need this more than I do."''''' - common amongst [[TheMentor elders]] who have [[IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacguffin advanced beyond the need for an item]]. Compare GrailInTheGarbage. Not to be confused with VendorTrash.

If the item turns out to have sentimental value, it is a MementoMacguffin.

An uncommon variant on this is the giving character says, ''"You'll need this more than I do."'' - common amongst [[TheMentor teacher]] characters who have [[IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacguffin advanced beyond the need for an item]]. Compare GrailInTheGarbage. Not to be confused with VendorTrash.

Common enough that subversions are notable when the item will in fact turn out to be [[RedHerring useless junk]]. Or [[TheCallTwinksYou immediately useful.]] Not to be confused with VendorTrash.

An uncommon variant on this is the giving character says; '''''"You'll need this more than I do."''''' - common amongst [[TheMentor teacher]] characters who have [[IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacguffin advanced beyond the need for an item]]. Compare GrailInTheGarbage.

Common enough that subversions are notable when the item will in fact turn out to be [[RedHerring useless junk]]. Or [[TheCallTwinksYou immediately and obviously useful.]] Not to be confused with VendorTrash.

Common enough that subversions are notable when the item will in fact turn out to be [[RedHerring useless junk]]. Or [[TheCallTwinksYou immediately and obviously useful.]]

** Every ''KingsQuest'' game has at least one Wizard Gift. The guide even says [[KleptomaniacHero "If it's not nailed down, take it. If it is nailed down, check for loose nails."]]

* [[YourMileageMayVary Arguably,]] Galadriel's little phial from ''The Lord of the Rings'' is this trope. The movie version implies that Galadriel knows it will be useful against Shelob, but the book, less so.

A character is handed (or idly picks up, or discovers in his possession) a seemingly useless piece of junk.

Common enough that subversions are notable when the item will in fact turn out to be [[RedHerring useless junk]].

[-[[IWannaBeTheGuy YOU JUMPED ONTO A CAT, YOU IDIOT!]]-]

[[caption-width:210:[[spoiler:[[IWannaBeTheGuy YOU JUMPED ONTO A CAT, YOU RETARD!]]]]]]

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*** My personal favourite is from ''SpaceQuest VI'':
---> "Also, you look like you could use this fish."
---> and later "HEEEEEEY! DON'T FORGET YOUR FISH!"
** Actually happens [[RunningGag repeatedly]] throughout that game. Guess it's a good thing that the fish [[spoiler: kills the FinalBoss.]]

* Alternate TropeNamer: in ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest'', Tia Dalma gives Jack a JarOfDirt.

* At one point in [[TheBeatles Revolution #9]], a voice says ''"Take this, brother, may it serve you well."'' ([[HeyItsThatGuy Is it Ringo?]] It sounds like him.)

* Played with a bit in Starcraft II's first campaign, which has protagonists [[TheHero Jim Raynor]] and [[TheLancer Tychus Findlay]] (along with their army) gathering seemingly benign [[ThePrecursors Xel'naga]] artifacts for the [[ArtifactCollectionAgency Moebius Foundation]] early on in the plot. While the fanatic [[TheFundamentalist Tel'darim]] put up quite a fight for it, and the [[CoolStarship Hyperion's]] resident scientist [[TheSmartGuy Egan Stettman]] detects some weird readings from them, none of them suspected that the artifacts were actually the [[spoiler: [[DismantledMacGuffin pieces]] of a [[LostSuperweapon lost super weapon]]]]

* Everything about [[ChronoTrigger Marle's pendant]]! It starts out as a maguffin to give you the option of time travel, but once you go to Zeal, it's ''very'' important.

* Standard policy for adventure games is that if it's not nailed down, take it, you'll need it. If it IS nailed down, ''[[EmptyRoomPsych find a way to remove the nails]]'' and take it. [[EmptyRoomPsych And take the nails too]]. Many, many early adventure games ''punished'' people for following this advice before realizing that it was a bad idea. For example, in ''Uninvited'', picking up a certain seemingly important gem results in being demonically possessed about three turns later. Whoops.

* The first [[LegendOfZelda Zelda]] game: "[[http://images.cafepress.com/product/98717187v6_240x240_F.jpg It's dangerous to go alone!]] [[http://i28.tinypic.com/11s1oi8.jpg Take this.]]" ([[MemeticMutation pictured]] [[{{Lolcats}} above]] -- well, [[IncrediblyLamePun sword of]])

* as she leaves for a boat trip, Martine of " Dolphin Song" is given a plant by the old woman who's been teaching her about bush magic. everyone teases her about it, until it proves to be the cure( the only cure on hand) for man o' war stings. the best part is, the woman told her later she just wanted it out of her garden.

* Done rather poorly in ''{{Troll 2}}'', when Grandpa Seth hands Joshua a [[JarOfDirt double-decker baloney sandwich]], saying "[[TakeThis take this]], and only use it [[YouWillKnowWhatToDo when you really need it]]". The last 5 minutes of the film is not a good time to introduce a vital ChekhovsGun.

* Every Infocom game includes at least one of these. The best is the piece of braided black string in ''Zork 2'', which seems completely useless at first, but turns out to be [[spoiler:the fuse necessary to make sure you can get away before the plastic explosive to blast open the locked box goes off, without which setting off the plastic explosive kills you automatically]].

* The first [[LegendOfZelda Zelda]] game: "[[http://i28.tinypic.com/11s1oi8.jpg It's dangerous to go alone!]] [[http://images.cafepress.com/product/98717187v6_240x240_F.jpg Take this.]]" ([[MemeticMutation pictured]] [[{{Lolcats}} above]] -- well, [[IncrediblyLamePun sword of]])

* The first [[LegendOfZelda Zelda]] game: "[[http://www.ihasaflavor.com/dangerous-to-go-alone It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.]]" ([[MemeticMutation pictured]] [[{{Lolcats}} above]] -- well, [[IncrediblyLamePun sword of]])