# Jewelry of the Comic, Television, Movie and Book Gods **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 5, 2026, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600 "2026-10-05T17:48:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/61 "2026-10-06T14:51:52Z")
Also the amulet from E.E.Nesbitt’s _Story of the Amulet_, which four of the five children from Five Children and It use to travel through time. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/62 "2026-10-06T14:51:56Z")
Not according to the man himself, I think he said that the only thing both rings have in common is that they are both round or words to that effect. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/63 "2026-10-06T14:52:59Z")
Mentioned in the first reply as Fafnir’s Ring recovered by Sigurd. The Ring in question is not actually named The Ring of the Nibelung. Tolkien was more inspired by the Ring of Gyges which I also mentioned in that post. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/64 "2026-10-06T14:59:47Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It only now occurs to me that the OP was specifically wanting jewelry that had some type of power and not just plays a visible role in the story. No. I asked him for clarification. He said any jewelry is wanted. Non-magic is fine. > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Clarification required. @Czarcasm, do you want only items with magic powers, or will any famous fictional item do? > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Famous fictional jewelry. Although, note, he wants jewelry, not gemstones. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/65 "2026-10-06T15:17:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It only now occurs to me that the OP was specifically wanting jewelry that had some type of power and not just plays a visible role in the story. As stated before, not true. The necklace that plays a pivotable role in the movie _Titanic_ qualifies, for example. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/66 "2026-10-06T15:18:38Z")
Books certainly qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/67 "2026-10-06T15:22:43Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > On a completely unrelated note, there were the Power Pasties, worn by Amora, high priestess of the goddess Yoni, in the movie _Flesh Gordon_. Let someone else start a “Do pasties count as jewelry, clothing, both or neither?” thread, because my little ghostie buddy “Not Me” advises me to skip this one. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/68 "2026-10-06T16:15:41Z")
The Secret Scouts Rings from the TV Cartoon Dinosaucers. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/69 "2026-10-06T16:29:33Z")
> [@Quondam\_Mechanic](#): > > The jewel on Orion the cat’s belt in _Men In Black_. OK, sorta, kinda. That was the second thing that came to my mind… > [@Alessan](#): > > In the _Dresden Files_ books, the wizard Harry Dresden carries a variety of jewelry as tools of his trade: a pentagram amulet he uses as a symbol and occasional flashlight, a shield bracelet (a charm bracelet with shields) that can be used to create force fields to protect him from attacks, and rings that store kinetic energy every time he moves his arms, which can be released all at once in case of emergencies. …and this was the first. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/70 "2026-10-06T17:57:49Z")
Another terrible Saturday morning cartoon: the ring that give the Mighty Hercules his powers. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U3RqV2I71V8/hqdefault.jpg "Hercules putting on the ring") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3RqV2I71V8) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/71 "2026-10-06T18:08:12Z")
Terrible animation, but…Oh! That music! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/72 "2026-10-06T18:11:51Z")
In the film _The Abyss_, the titanium wedding ring worn by Bud Brigman (Ed Harris) serves as a plot point, as it prevents his hand from being crushed when he keeps an emergency door on the drilling rig from closing. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/73 "2026-10-06T19:00:55Z")
Julian May’s _Saga of the Exiles_ includes a range of potent torcs, some of which confer psychic powers on the wearer. Others are just tools for enslavement. The most powerful are the Golden Torcs, which amplify the wearer’s ‘metapsychic’ powers significantly. Torcs turn up in a few other fictional contexts, including the _Thunderbolt Jaxon_ comics, which also describe Thor’s Magic Belt. This last artefact also turns up in the Marvel universe, where it doubles the strength of the wearer ( a characteristic it shares with the original mythological belt, apparently). Is a belt jewellery? Depends how ornate it is, I expect. [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/2/2c/Valkyries_%28Earth-616%29_and_Megingjord_from_Journey_Into_Mystery_Vol_1_91_0001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20191202032341) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/2/2c/Valkyries_%28Earth-616%29_and_Megingjord_from_Journey_Into_Mystery_Vol_1_91_0001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20191202032341) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/74 "2026-10-06T19:12:12Z")
I have not seen _A Christmas Story_. Question for those who have: Was the “secret decoder pin” ornate enough to qualify as jewelry? Might a small child wear one simply as a decoration? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/75 "2026-10-06T19:15:37Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > There is no way this will count, but I’ll mention it in passing and maybe someone will have a larf: when Moon Zappa sings (talks through) “Valley Girl,” she mentions her history teacher who is “Mr. Bufu” — that’s _Lord, God, King Bufu_ and he plays with all his rings. I am sure! I did. Oh _migod_! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/76 "2026-10-06T19:19:26Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Was the “secret decoder pin” ornate enough to qualify as jewelry? Might a small child wear one simply as a decoration? As far as I can remember, Ralphie didn’t wear it as a pin in the movie; we only see it when he opens it up (after it _finally_ arrives in the mail), and as he uses it to decode Annie’s secret message, which led to his profound disappointment: the message was “be sure to drink your Ovaltine.” In these two screenshots from the film, it does look like there is a pin on the back of the thing (in the lower picture, right under his finger, and above “1940”). [![](https://preview.redd.it/i-found-ralphies-1940-orphan-annies-secret-society-decoder-v0-s9twvu5jtg4e1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9c7be006e72e7d2eab42db750c4dbf2929c53e8f) ](https://preview.redd.it/i-found-ralphies-1940-orphan-annies-secret-society-decoder-v0-s9twvu5jtg4e1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9c7be006e72e7d2eab42db750c4dbf2929c53e8f) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/77 "2026-10-06T19:19:58Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I have not seen _A Christmas Story_. Question for those who have: > > Was the “secret decoder pin” ornate enough to qualify as jewelry? Might a small child wear one simply as a decoration? Yeah, one certainly could and i imagine some kids did. > **[Little Orphan Annie](https://www.radioarchives.com/Little_Orphan_Annie_p/ra005.htm)** > > Little Orphan Annie ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/78 "2026-10-07T02:45:16Z")
_If_ (big “if”) a belt buckle can be considered jewelry, then we have yet another lousy cartoon with **Sinbad the Sailor** , who pulls his belt really tight and instead of passing out like I would he becomes super strong and fences with multiple pirates at once. With Salty the Parrot by his side, they are a fearless crew. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/79 "2026-10-07T04:34:40Z")
I actually considered that cartoon…but the belt is not just a magical trinket, it also holds up his pants. Sorry about that- it is clothing. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600/80 "2026-10-07T11:38:09Z")
Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn books feature a complex metal-based magic system, one aspect of which involves spikes inserted into a living body. Without getting into spoilers, the hero of the first trilogy, Vin, has a copper earring given to her by her mother that ends up having a major impact on the story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-of-the-comic-television-movie-and-book-gods/1033600.md?page=5)