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The male lead is about to go off to fight the [[Big Bad]] (or, on occasion, just the bad guy of the week), and there is a very real possibility that he won't be coming back in one piece. Knowing this, his [[Love Interest|female love interest]] decides it would be a good idea to hand him an object—some piece of jewelry, a trinket, a piece of clothing, a token of some sort—that she claims is of great personal importance to her (how important it ''really'' is is arguable, but more often than not, it's really only valuable in the personal sense). She makes him promise that he will give it back to her, thereby creating a small bit of assurance that he will return from the battle alive. He invariably will, if for no other reason than he promised he would return her "most prized possession."

 

Compare [[Memento MacGuffin]], [[Knight in Shining Armor]].

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== Anime ==

* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', Kaoru gives Kenshin her favorite hair ribbon before he sets off to find Jin'e. Then, when he goes to return it, she gets angry at him because he got blood on it. The fact that {{spoiler|it's ''his'' blood}} doesn't seem to bother her in the slightest.

** Actually, she wasn't his sister. She was his bride-to-be and referred to as his "little sister".

* Played with, courtesy of [[Ship Tease]]: The ending of the third ([[Uncancelled|and final, at the time]]) season of the ''[[Slayers]]'' anime ends with a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]. During Zelgadis' montage, it's shown that he keeps one of Amelia's bracelets around a canteen he owns. Earlier in the episode, Amelia asks him to return to her kingdom with her, and he probably refused, so [[Will They or Won't They?|there's a lot of speculation about what happened in between.]]

* In ''[[Bastard!!]]'', Dark Schneider borrows 500 yen from Yoko. Even though he gets himself killed, he comes back from the dead, because Lucien always returns borrowed money.

* In the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga, Winry gives Ed some earrings to look after. It's actually for a logical reason, but it's clearly intended to hint at this trope.

* Played with in ''[[Man of La Mancha]]''.

* Subverted in [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''Richard II'', with Prince Hal shows contempt for the celebration of his father's accession to the throne by jousting with a token from a common prostitute:

And wear it as a favor }}

 

 

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