Ragnarok Proofing/Playing With

Basic Trope: A long-abandoned device or city is still in remarkably good shape despite the passage of time.
 * Straight: The Macguffomatic still works despite being lost for a thousand years.
 * Exaggerated: The Macguffomatic is fully functional even though it was carved out of rock and the last living creature to see it got a face full of dinosaur-exterminating asteroid just before dying.
 * Downplayed: The Macguffomatic is still functional when it's found, but it's in a very bad shape.
 * Justified: The Macguffomatic is an artifact Forged by the Gods.
 * Inverted: "Behold, the Macguffomatic! This thing is so foolproof, it'll still be running 2,000 years from n- uh oh. it was working this morning..."
 * Subverted: Turns out, the Macguffomatic is only cosmetically functional. It breaks the moment someone tries to use it
 * Double Subverted: The malfunction turns out to be part of the still-functioning security system.
 * Parodied: The Macguffomatic is revealed to be older than the universe itself. It still sparkles and a character comments that it has that new car smell.
 * Deconstructed: The 10,000 year old Macguffomatic could have saved the day for the heroes, if only they'd found it 7,000 years earlier.
 * Reconstructed: But there's enough of it left functional that it can possibly be reverse-engineered and a new one built.
 * Zig Zagged: The Macguffomatic looks functional, but breaks the moment it's used, but it's part of the security system, but the whole thing was actually being maintained by a secret legacy, but they abandoned it a long time ago.
 * Averted: None of the ancient artifacts encountered are technological enough that they'd be expected to have broken down.
 * Enforced: The writers want to have the characters in an Urban Fantasy story use a more contemporary method to defeat the 1000 year old Sealed Evil in a Can, but the editors believe equally old Lost Technology has more mystique.
 * Lampshaded: "They don't make things like they used to, huh?"
 * Invoked: "We don't need the trap to actually work - people will heed a DANGER sign long after any real security measure would have stopped working, just on the off chance."
 * Defied: "What are you scared of? It couldn't possibly still work."
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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