My family has a recipe we call "Take Over The World Cookies." They are minty and chocolately, and people have done insane things to try to acquire the recipe after having just a bite or two. You could use them to conquer the world, people love them that much. Of course, no one in my family likes them that much, so we joke that the Council of Ancients appointed us the official guardians of the recipe for Take Over The World Cookies, because we alone could resist their minty temptation. My family is a bunch of nerds.

A running joke with my friends is that my alienware desktop is 3 sorting algorithms short of becoming sentient and destroying the Earth.

May not be on subject but This troper recalls one Phoenix in {{Second Life}} who carries a medallion which turns Her to stone and is toggled by passer by's, meaning She's frozen until someone is actually nice enough to touch it again thus un-freezing Her so, that wouldnt matter anyway because soon someone might trigger the curse On Her again.

The Aelgach is a plot point in one of my RPs at first, an artifact that can grant any of your wishes. Problem 1: Its a JackassGenie, asking for wealth, for example, will have it turn you into a golden golem. Problem 2: It rather likes granting wishes, and will frequently whisper to and essentially torment you with Hannibal Lectures and Reason You Suck Speeches until you make a wish. Problem 3: every time you make a wish, the "soul" of the wish victim is trapped in a page and used to cast bigger, nastier wish spells. It has 500000 pages currently, and still expanding. Despite this, it looks like the usual door stopper rather than a monstrously huge book. Final problem, you are not in a wishing mood? No problemmo, it will just manipulate your subconscious mind. Aelgach is the BigBad for a reason.

In a StarWars fanfiction this troper has been writing, the centerpiece is a Sith artifact that is one part SoulJar, one part {{Magitek}} nuke, and one part {{TheVirus}}. It can (temporarily) raise the dead, destroy stuff with blasts of Force energy, manipulate nature, and destroy armies. But it needs a host and '''it will find one'''. If it is safely encountered, be very afraid. It wants to be found, and the spirit inside of it, the soul of a Sith Lord, wants a Jedi host. Fourteen separate Jedi Masters were strong enough not to fall prey to it, but could never destroy it (one even tried to send it down a black hole - didn't work), only seal it away. Anyone unfortunate enough to fall prey to it is subjected to MoreThanMindControl, so his or her allies aren't really sure, at the end, whether the shit he spouts is his own or the artifact's, and because it slowly worms its way into the victim's mind, the GenreSavvy allies are never quite sure when they will turn. This becomes really important because the heroes are KnightTemplar ex-Jedi fighting for their lives against an onslaught of Sith troops during the Legacy era. Any one of them would be a perfect target.

This troper wears a black knee length jacket and it's rumored that it's bigger on the inside, has a time dilation field, can only be worn by those touched by the old gods and is actually a hyperspace arsenal waiting to be triggered.