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The key trait of a MacGuffin is that it can be anything and whatever qualities it has are irrelevant to the story. Lots of people ignore that and focus on the fact that it drives the story, or even add items people fight over, when fighting over something has nothing to do with the definition.
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\\\"The key trait of a MacGuffin is that it can be anything and whatever qualities it has are irrelevant to the story. Lots of people ignore that and focus on the fact that it drives the story, or even add items people fight over, when fighting over something has nothing to do with the definition.\\\"
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...what? This definition seems to imply that the trope means \
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...what? This definition seems to imply that the trope means \\\"a thing whose qualities are irrelevant\\\" \\\'\\\'more\\\'\\\' than it means \\\"an object which drives the plot\\\". They\\\'re both important aspects of the definition, but the second is far more central. By this definition, [[PulpFiction the little kangaroo Butch\\\'s watch was hanging on]] is just as much a {{Macguffin}} as the watch itself.
