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Holy-Hand-Grenade
" Holy Hand Grenade. How much did THAT cost? "
–Shoto/Akihide/Zhou

The Holy Hand Grenade is an explosive artifact that is supposedly very expensive, but was on sale when Parzival bought it from Avatar Outfitters for 24,000 coins, something he was able to do thanks to the 100,000 coins he got when he won the Copper Key.

During the final battle, Wade uses it to zero out dozens of Sixers and destroy all but one of their portals.

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  • The hand grenade acts as an example of the dramatic principle known as Chekhov's Gun. This can be summarised as "every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed; elements should not appear to make "false promises" by never coming into play."
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